Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-06-27


handsome new delivery wagon on
the streets. They are determined to
keep up with the procession in enter
prising business schemes. They keep
a first class stock Of family groceries
and make deliveries inside the cor
poration free of charge.
Mrs. Betsie Long and daughter,
Miss Wave, left on Tuesday last for
Spring Creek, Pa, where they will .
spend the summer months among
old friends and relatives. During
their residence in McMinnville they
have made many friends here who
wish them a pleasant visit to their
old home in the North, and will well
come their return to our midst
Mrs. j. II. Mahaffey and son
John, of Union county, Ohio, have
been looking through our county for
a few days in search Of a home. They
went home Wednesday, expressing
themselves well pleased with what
they saw, and expect to return in the
fall to become permanent citizens.
Mr.. Mahaffey is a breeder Of blOoded
stock, and, if he comes to Warren
county, will enter largely into that
business. To all such enterprises the
STANDARD extends a hearty well
come.
The second monthly meeting of
the McMinnville Building AssOcia-
tion will occur in the courtroom one
week from next Monday morning at
s o'clock to consider questions of inn
pOrtance. An opportunity will be Of
fered for making the first loan of two
hundred dollars. Any person wish
ing to secure this loan should have
his application ready. 1t is impor-
tant that every member of the Or
ganizatiOn should be present at the
meeting.
We have received the first num-
Der Of the Southern Bivouac, of Louis
vile, KY, under its new manage
ment. 1t is now published by B. F.
Avery Il Sons, and edited by Basil
w. Duke and Richard w. Knott. AS
claimed in their salutatory is dis
tinctively Southern Magazine,
dealing with Southern life and South
ern history, and should have the lib.
eral support of the Southern people
which its excellence as a first elias,
literary magazine richly merits
Both in typographical appearance
and literary merit it is the equal O.
any magazine in the country, and it.
low subscription price of $500 pei
annum should place it in the house
of every lover of good literature. The
first number contains several articles
Of striking interest, and can be pro
, cured from neWsdealers for 20 cents
Miss Emma Stubblefield, of Vic
/ la, brought to DR.. Black one day this
= week, a bundle of very interesting
relics in the way of lot of fragment
= ola human skeleton, which were
found in a cave somewhere in the vi
: cinity of Viola. The bones are easi
ly recognizable as those of of a hu
1 man being, although some of then
I have a crystalized rock formation
| around them from One-siXteenth t
r One-half an inch thick. One of tn,
I bones shows the teeth prints of mice
but there is no means of telling hov
many hundreds or thousands Of year
; ago the flesh was knawed from ii
The specimens furnish abundant evi
dence that human beings OccupiCt
- this country at time of which W
have no record whatever.
r Joe Hutchinson, young cOlOre,
preacher had his matrimonial aspira
tions nipped in the bud in rather a
unceremOnious manner on Wednes
day afternoon. The license had bee
procured and he was to claim hi
u dusky bride on Wednesday night
=, but few hours previous to the az
u pointed time for this interesting cere
: mony the strong arm of the law wa
y laid heavily upon the gay groom
and he was placed behind the bars {
the county Jail to mediate upo
g "what might have been" 1t seem
a that this young divine, with an ey
IS to the immediate future and real
II zation Of the responsibilities about t
d fall upon him Of providing for two
e sureptitiously entered the house {
l. Mr.. Rams Martin, near Increase, o
II Tuesday night and helped himself t
r, several dollars in cash and a goodl
r. supply Of bacon, all the lawful prol
is erty of Mr.. Martin. When brOugl