Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-04-18
TANDARD- MEANWHILE TENNESSEE SATURDAY. APR 49, 1885
IRVING COLLEGE.
The Weekly Budget of News from a
Standard Reporter.

are uOIle pldnllIS corn, SOME are
planting, and there are still others
who are going to plant-when they
get ready. Those who are behind
with their planting console them
selves by arguing that corn never
does any good planted in the winter.
Conundrum: In what particular are
the last winter and the Tennessee
Legislature similar to each other?
Give it up? Of courseyou do. Well,
the time is up, and both are in such a
"John-Brown of fix" that they
can't now close with any credit
to themselves.
The outcome in wheat has been
little beyond expectation, but the
yield will unquestionably be far be-
low an average crop. | do not know
whether to attribute it to a supersti-
tious fancy or a kind of necessity,
but anyway, about one-half Of our
good people have got to carrying a
new kind of life-preserver. If the
preserver Ire empty the owner lives
on hope; but if it be full, he conf
IDENTIFY defes the ''grim monster" of
"horrid kind" Now, if carrying
such preservers be not a superstition,
l would not for my life, wrong Uncle
Isaac Rhea by insinuating that he is
more superstitious than other men,
but the fact is, heseldOm leaves home
without his. For the benefit of those
who may desire to obtain one of these
workers, | will say, they, l know,
are obtainable at j. j.. Meadows d
Co.'S, at the astonishingly low price of
30 cents; that they hold Iabout three
bushels and are regularly called meal
bags.
Jas. S. Ford is about completing a
new shop near the store of Geo. w.
Parks. He expects to work both
wood and iron, and being a first-rate
workman deserves a liberal share of
patronage. Mr.. Ford has also repair
ed Hebron Church, and made it look
almost new by touching it with the
painters brush.
The Sunday school, which has been
suspended during the winter, was
reorganiZed at Hebron a short time
since with DR.. j. Barnes as superin-
tendent. 1t is to be hoped that the
people will bestow such attention up
on the Sunday school as it merits, as
the moral equilibrium of commu-
nifty cannot be preserved unless the
proper attention be given such things.
Miss Hattie Barnes, of Livingston,
Tenn, is visiting her Aunt Miss Lii
lie Barnes, the accomplished music
teacher at this place. And if it be
true that "men lose their souls
through their eyes," ere she returns,
there will be some lost souls in this
part of the moral vineyard.
j. j. Meadows came very near hav-
ing the honor Of trying a rather sinu-
lar lawsuit a few days since, but was
cheated out of tie honor because of a
compromise. The circumstances are
as follows: The dogs Of Eli Wood
lee, colored, distracted the tail of a
com belonging to Thos. Cunning
ham, Jr. A suit of damages was in
stituted, but acompromise was agreed
upon on this basis: The plaintiff
and defendant were to select each an
arbiler, and these two third, which
arbiters should value the COW before
and after her misfortune and the diff.
ference in said valuations should be
paid to the plaintiff. But just here
the question revolves itself into per-
plexity. AT first thought it seems
that the valuations should be made
at the time of the catastrophe; but or
the other hand, it's manifestly clean
that, this appendage is of no particu'
lar benefit at this time of the year,
yet as fly-time approaches, it be.
comes the most important member
of the whole body, hence the Difficult
ty of rendering justice in the case.
M. M. Smith, who operates steam
saw-mill near this place, had the
misfortune to have one of his arms
broken last Saturday. He was oiling
the shaft of the top saw while the
mill was in motion, and a set-screW
caught his coat sleeve, twisting his
arm around so as.to break it at the
wrist and elbow. 1t is an unfortu
nate affair and further illustrates thar
no time is gained by tightening nuts
or oiling machinery while in motion
Greer Woodlee, one of the larges
free-holders and fruit-grOwers of Col
Inns River, is dangerously ill. Blu
LITTLE hone is entertained of his re