Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-07-04
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REPORTS from the north state that
frost occurred Sunday in the States
bordering on the great lakes.
ROBERT GATES has been appoint
ed Assistant Commissioner Of Agri-
culture for West Tennessee and the
Western half Of Middle Tennessee.
IN the johnson trial at Greenville,
which we noted last week, the de-
fendent, Johnson, was acquitted. The
verdict meets with general approval.
THE Georgia watermelon crop is
reported very fine this year, with an
increased acreage. Shipments to the
North have commenced.
If the cholera should visit the
United States this year the Republi-
cans will attribute it solely to the fact
of the country passing undera Dem
ocratic administration.
TULLAHOMA has a whole family of
bob-tailed dogs. These CANNES have
not been relieved Of their caudal APP
pendages in the usual way, but were
born in the usual way without any.
THE Creamery at Lebanon com
menced operations on the odd ult.
Mr.. MuldenhaWer, who cOrrespnded
with parties here with the view Of
establishing a creamery at this place
is the manager at Lebanon.
THE editor of the Valley Herald
Jasper, Tenn, breaches all over two
or three counties, makes periodical
visits to all the public schools in the
county, and then finds time to get VI
anewsy little paper. The human
machine is susceptible of wonderful
expansion.
THE United States govelnmen
buys nearly quarter Of a million
pounds of tobacco for the army anC
navy departments annually. Thu
IIOrillardS have had the contract 0
furnishing it for four years, and have
lust been awarded it for the fiftl
year.
COMMISSION merchants from Gin
cinnati and other northern cities hav,
been in Sumner county buying VI
the Irish potato crop. The Tennes
sean advises the potato growers t.
organize into a club for cooperation
in the sale of their crops, and thus Sc
cure the most remunerative figures
IN the last mum Der of the NatiOna
Review zone Of the gang" give
some teese, spirited pen sketches of
number of prominent Tennessee jOul
nalists, and promises more in the III
ture. These sketches ars quite inter
esting to the younger members Ofth
profession, and we hope the write
will give us all of the old "gang" be
fore he quits.
THE BLADE, of Toledo, Ohio, Mas
by's paper, is perhaps the stronges
prohibition paper in the Unite
States, outside Of the papers devote
exclusively to prohibition. The Blad
gives considerable of its editori3
space every week to prohibition al
gument, and it pounds the liquc
traffic mercilessly under the ringin
motto of "Pulverize therum power.
THE extension period on bOnde