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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-05-02
Washington Letter.
April Goth,

Last week has seen about the first
smile of spring that Washington has
enjoyed since the peculiar vernal
weather that favored President Cleve-
lands Inauguration. The parks,
lawns and shade trees have resumed
their garb of green and the capital
city never looked fresher and brighter
than it does now. Since many thou
sands of shade trees have grown to
an outrageous height, Washington
has much improved as a summer
residence, and it is well it has, for the
indications are that it will be, for the
next four years at least, the enforced
home of many who have been in the
habit Of spending the hot season in
the mountains or by the sea. Here
tofore Government clerks have been
given an absence of thirty days with
pay, with the privilege frequently of
thirty days more without pay. 1t
has been their custom to leave their
desks for this long period no matter
how much their work was behind.
In this way the public business has
been neglected. A long summer va
cation, and perennial systematic lazi-
ness has had the effect to place the
public service in such laggard con-
dition thatit is now necessary to work
of nights in order to catch up.
1t is said that the new administra.
ton will curtail the customary sum.
mer vacation, or deny it altogether
to those in offices and bureaus that
are behind with their work. The
President proposes to spend the sum.
mer in the city. He will live in the
presidential cottage at Soldiers Home
which is about three miles from the
White House, and he will drive in
every morning. His new horses have
just been received from New York
they are an excellent pair, and, it il
said, can trOt mile in three minutes
think society is doomed to bC
much disappointed in Presiden
Cleveland. Society has piped to him
but he will not dance. He politely
parties all their mealy-mouthed over
lures. Last night box was reserved
for him at an amateur operate per
Torrance, in which a large numbe
of young society people took part
The President was expected, but h,
did not appear. Had he been sen
for he would have been found in hi
office in his shirt sleeves before a pill,
of papers. He has been expected at
number of places, but has invariabl!
disappointed those who expected
him. In this respect he is quite diff
ferent from his predecessors. Lin
coin, Grant, Hayes and Arthur wer
frequently seen at the theatre, and a
both private and public entertain
ments. The President has made bu
one call, that upon w. w. COrcoran
Esq, since he has been in Washing
ton.
The new Administration has gon
to work in a practical, thorough, com
prehensive way to make such change
in the management Of the publ
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-05-02
NASHVILLE MARKET REPORT.

Corrected from the Nashville Union every
Thursday evening.
The general trade was moderately
good today. A fair increase in orders
was reported by various dealers.
The grain and flour markets were
firm at quotation. The feeling among
holders is generally growing stronger.
Groceries were in fair request and
prices steady.
In country produce good demand
was reported for all classes of market
ing and stronger market, but with
no quotable change. For particulars
we refer to weekly report.
Millet seed were firm and active at
the advance. Our quotations give
the range for fair to strictly choice
grades.
WEEKLY SUMMARY OF THE MARK EFT.
Business for the week has been in
the main dull and inactive. The I'M
certainty prevailing in the public
mind in regard to the probabilities of
war between England and Russia has
had tendency to injure the trade by
the do@bt thrown over the whole
mattel While the tenor Of the in
formation received leans toward war,
yet it is not sufficient to induce active
speculation, in fact it is more or less
paralizing to trade by unsettling val
ues in all the leading products of the
country.
No change has occurred in the flour
market. Slight improvement in the
Southern demand has taken place
but the trade upon the whole has been
quiet. Prices continue steady.
Wheat has been held steady, but
with nominal transactions. The un
certainty prevailing in regard to wal
rumOrs has prevented either buyer Of
seller from coming to terms.
Corn has been firm and tending up
ward. A steady demand has pre-
vailed.
Oats are also firmer and fractionally
higher.
Bran and hay have ruled steady a
a slight advance on the latter.
In provisions the trade has beer
quiet, and prices are shade lower
Groceries have ruled steady. Sugar
are very firm at an advance Of ! to 4
at the Eastern refineries, though n,
change in quotations has been mad,
here. Salt continues firm with al
upward tendency.
Country produce has been quiet a
aslight decline in several articles
Eggs have ruled steady at 3 cts from
first hands. Poultry.-The receipt
have been large and the prices are
shade lower. Butter has been veal
and tending down, although the de
cline has been less than was anticipa
ted. Feathers remain dull but I'm
changed, the receipts being nominal
Country bacon.-Thedemand is LIGHT
but very little is coming in, farmer
being unwilling to accept presen
prices. Hides continue in good de
mand at full quotations.
Wool.-The receipts continue yer
light and the demand is weak. 1
dull market and low prices are antic
pated for the season.
Wheat, from wagons, good dry, 95@1 or.
Corn-frOm wagons 60 to Co.
Corn Meal G2l%toG5
Oats-44 to 46
Hay, prime timothy, per ton, SlG.OOto $17.j
Feathers-prime, . As.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-05-02
GammrrriaL
MEANWHILE PRODUCE MARKET.
Corrected weekly by'Nlead 4 Ritchey

Corrected weekly byMead 4 Ritchey.
OFFICE SOUTHERN STANDARD,
McMinnyille, May 2, 1885,
No material change in wheat. The
unsettled condition of the country, on
account of the war news from Europe
makes the future of grain very UNI
certain. Buyers and sellers are far
apart, one afraid it will drop back
and the other that it will go higher.
Millers are purchasing only what
they need for immediate use.
Corn has advanced few cents, and
is very firm at the advance.
No change in other products.
Country bacon moves slowly at
present prices, which the farmers dc
not like to take.
Dried fruit normal.
Eggs are unchanged.
WHEAT 9O@1 90 % blu.
CoRN-white Toto rs,
FLoUR-new, $2.5O@S3 90 p 100 ibs
MEAL % blu. 7O@75c.
OATs-59 blu. 50@55
CHICKENs-Hens &c p 10
BUTTER-79 ID. II to 20
EGGs-R doz 6to &c.
GINsENG-fR ID, 100 to
BEEswAx-59 ID. zoe.
FEATHERs-R III. 40to
TALLow-R ID. SIC.
Green hides 5@6c. Grubby = Of
LABD-R ID. &c.
BACON
Shoulders 6H
Hams 8
Sides So
Hog round
Wool, unwashed, 14@1Sc
tub washed, 20 to &c
Turkeys, &c per pound
Stock peas, to %
DRIED APPLEs-8 ID. to 1Mc.
Peaches to
Blacberries 6 to c.
Homestead Fertilizer, . 25to $50 u 100
Irish potatoes cts. u bu.
Green Apples, to 90 per bushel.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-05-02

Beeswax-choice, to 25.
Rags-well assorted, 81 60 to
Genseng-dry, to
Butter Is to %
Eggs-to
Chickens-frying 15@1Sc; hens, 23@25.
Tallow-choice, 6.
Wool--unwashed, 10 to H..
tub washed. % to 81.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-05-02

Who has not known some specimen
of "the bold yeomanry, their country's
pride" who carried Buckeye in his
pocket, although ignorant that 1t con.
tanned virtues which have been util-
lied by DR.. Tabler, in his Buckeye
Pile Ointment, an excellent remedy
for Piles or Hemorrhoids.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
Is There n Cure for CousumptIous

=. we answer unreservedly, yesl II tho pa
tient commences in time the use Of DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and
exercises proper care. If allowed to run its
course too long all medicine is powerless to
stay it. Dr. Pierce never deceives a patient
by holding out false hope for the sake of
pecuniary gain. The Golden Medical Dis
covery" has cured thousands of patients when
nothing else seemed to avail. Your drug
gist has it. Send two stamps for Dr. Pierce's
complete treatise on consumption with nu-
merous testimonials. Address Worlds Dis
pensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
IT is estimated that there are 90, 900 electric
lights going every night in this country.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

A royal elephant fight in Burmah is
thus described: There were fifteen ele-
plants on a side. A pair of them are
never started alone at a fight The
fights are always arranged for the amuse
ment of the mobiles, and arc great events.
The battle is terrific. The elephants are
given toddy, made out of the fermented
juice of the palm, which they drink out
of buckets. Jersey lightning is like water
compared to the stuff. 1t makes the
elephants reel and scramble about like
drunken men. They snort and trumpet
and create terrible racket. In the fight
at Theyatmo the mahouts or drivers
straddle their nccks and urge them on.
The beasts had been maddened by prod
ding and beating, and rushed at each
other like mad. There were some that
wheeled around and ran away, but those
that kept on made the earth shake when
they came together. They ran right into
each other. They locked tusks, and gored
and dashed one another with their trunks.
Tusks were run into elephant shoulders
six or eight inches. The fights in India
are the same, of course. In Burmah
fights take place between elephants and
tigers. King Thcbau has men fight
tigers. The Burmese in power are cruel.
One king used to make the people lie
down for his pony to walk over.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
Constipation!

There is no medium through which
disease SO often attacks the system as
by Constipation and there is no other
i'll flesh is heir to more apt to be neg
leoted, from the fact material inconven-
fence may not be Immediately felt from
irregular action of the bowels. When
there is not regular action the retention
of decayed and effete matter with it's
poisonous gases, soon poisons the whole
system by being absorbed into it. caus-
ing piles, fstula. headache, impure blood
and many other serious affections.
BURDoCK BLOOD BITTERS will i'm.
mediately relieve and one bottle posi-
lively cure or relieve any case of Con-
stipation.
WAS troubled for a year with tor
pid liver and indigestion, and after
trying everything imaginable used
BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS The
first bottle revived me and the second
cured me entirely."-J. S. Williamson,
Rochester, N. z.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
AN Explanation or Many Accidents
TO Railway Bridges.

For fourteen years State Goologist Col
lett of indianapolis Ind, has been exper-
imenting upon a belief that the best of
iron, when subjected to continuous
strain, would undergo changes in its
structure, which would, after time,
render its use dangerous, and that in
these structural changes was the ex-
PLANTATION of many otherwise unexplained
accidents, particularly to railway bridges.
He has lately undertaken systematic
investigation, which has resulted in
confirmation of his theory. For expert
ment he took from the Wabash dam
at Delphia number of bolts and spikes,
which were, when the dam was con-
structed, the best quality of malable
bar iron, as is shown by the battering
of the heads when they were put into
the structures. He found that 10 per
cent. of the whole number were as
weak as cast-iron, while 90 per cent.
of those which were near the bottom of
the dam were worthless. OF those which
were rotten the tips, when broken,
showed polished ends to the connecting
fibers, indicating that the continued vi
brations of many years had polished and
rounded the points of tibrous structure.
A similar effect is found in the "part-
ings" or "horseback" in coal mines,
which become polished and striated by
the continuous culver and motion of the
crust of the earth DR.. Collet saws that
all car axles, after a reasonable run, be-
come crystallized two thirds of the length
from the hub, and one third from the
outside extremity, rendering them
worthless. On one Indiana railway
bridge he found that the bottom parts
of the vertical strain pieces were crystal
lied from two to four feet in length, and.
as precaution against what would inev-
itably have caused great catastrophe,
they were replaced. The matter is one
of great interest to railways, and the
specimens which DR.. Collet has collected
in his experiments are to be sent to
Stephens archaeological Institute, where
an investigation of the subject has been
in progress for several years by scicn
fist connected with the institute.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
A Bushy Head of Hair.

Abundant hair says the London Ian
Get, Is not sign of bodily or mental
strength, the story of Samson having
given rise to the notion that hairy men
are strong physically, while the fact is
that the Chinese, who are the most en-
during of all races, are nearly bald; and,
as to the supposition that long and
thick hair is a sign or token of intellec-
tuality, all antiquity, all madhouses, and
all common observations are against it.
The easily wheedled Esau was hairy
the mighty Caesar was bald. Long
haired men are generally weak and
fanatical, and men with scant hair are
the philosophers and soldiers and states
men of the world.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
Tanned Snake ana Frog SkIns.

Even the delicate skin of frog can
be tanned. An opera glass covered with
the handsomely marked skin of garter
or u small water snake will soon become
fashionable. Card cases, small books
and little bed room clocks are some of
the articles in the manufacture of which
they are used. The surface of the skin
is thickly glazed and in such things it
takes a long time before the scales be-
gin to stand up. The upper portion of
slippers and shoes and even dressing
cases are made from the larger snakes.
Nearly all of them come Africa, but a
good many arc also obtained from Brazil
and other parts of South America. 1t is
a singular fact that the skins have to be
taken to France to be tanned. -Ne,o York
Nail and Express.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
CHANCES.

Like one who hears with sudden throb Of
sadness
The lingering cadence of an old refrain
Which wakes the echoes of some vanished
gladness
With tender pride.
So stand l now with mingled pain and
pleasure,
After long absence. at a well-known door
Which guarded once my darling, my hearts
treasure
In days of yore.
Still bloom the roses with their old-time
sweetness
Round this dear cottage in my native land ;
Trimmed is the hedge with all its wonted
neatness
The old elms stand.
Still slopes the lawn in beautiful graduation,
Like soft carpet Of the richest green
Still leaps the fountain with its light pulsa
Frightening the scene
Years have not changed it; now as then the
Winds in the distance like silver stream;
Through the old orchard still the sunbeams
culver
And brightly CLEAN.
All but no voice of sweetest modulation
Nor ripping laughter greets my listening
ear;
All the bright scene but breathes in desola-
ton,
"She is not herer
- Not herel not herel" the murmuring elm
trees sigh it,
The rustling grass repeats it meath my
feet,
her cherished roses mournfully reply it
In odors sweet.
DER the soft lawn the shadows westward
creeping
Darkly enfold me at the rose-Sirt door.
In deeper shadows lies my dear love sleeping,
To wake no more!
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
A Pointed Epitaph.

Genius, eccentrcity or an ambition tc
be heard from after death puts some sin
gular inscriptions upon the grave stones
in almost every churchyard OF the land.
In New Jersey the following is found
upon the headstone of a grabbed old mar
who did not care very much for mankind
when he was living
Beader, pass on-don't waste your time
On bad biography and bitter rhyme;
For what | am this crumblng clay insures,
And what was is no affair OF yours!
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06
American Hat Manufacture.

In 1868 it is recorded that Virginia
offered premium of ten pounds of to-
bacco for every good hat made of wool
or fur within her bounds. We made so
many hats in America 100 years ago that
the Felt Makers company of London,
pctitioncd parliament to prohibit all ex-
portations of hats from the American
colonies, on the ground that New Eng
land alone was turning 10, 900 hats year.
Parliament "graciously acceeded" to
the request.
Danbury, Conn, was making hats 104
years ago. AS late as 1915 all the hats
were made out of real skins. The poor
old beaver disappeared from the globe
in order to furnish mems brains with a
false dome. Next the nutria had to
sacrifice himself, and the gentle muskrat
was called into requisition and the rab-
bit was drafted. The,Danbury hat folks
imported rabbits to breed them artitici-
ally, but the free-minded rabbit died or
jumped over the fence.
1t seems to be conceded that tho
Chinese were the first to make silk hats.
A Frenchman in Paris stole the idea,
and the manufacture of silk hats began
in this country in 1885.
In nearly all the English books the
American hat is referred to as marvel
of lightness and style, yet it has become
the habit of that class of young men who
cannot eat dinner up an alley without a
dress coat to buy all their hats of Eng
fish make, as if they might import with
the hat some corresponding brain. Kos
suth had great influence in United
States to introduce here the wide
brimmed soft wool hat.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

nET Dior working people. Send 10 cents pos
IxGxI1 tage and we will mail you free, a royal,
valuable sample box Of goods that will put you in
IN way OF making more money in few days than
You thought poss bic at any business. Capital not
required. You can live at home and work in spare
time only or all the time. All OF both sexes, of oil
ages, giandy successful so cents to IS easily
earned every evening. That all who want work
may test the business, we make this unparalleled
offer: To all who not well satisfied we will send
ulars, directions, etc, sent free. Immense pay alb
solutely sure for all who start at once Don't delay.
Address STlNsoS & Co., Por jland, Maine.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

Some one has told you that your catarrh is
incurable. 1t is not so. DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy will cure it. It is pleasant to use
and it always does its work thoroughly. We
have yet to hear of case in which it did not
accomplish a euro when faithfully used Ca
tarrh is disease which it is dangerous to
neglect A certain remedy is at your COM
mand. Avail yourself of it before the COM
plant assumes more serious form. All
druggists.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

THE NoLTAIC BELT Co., OF Marshall,
Mich, offer to send their celebrated ELECTRO
NoLTAIC BELT and other ELECTRIC APRIL
ANCEs on trial for thirty days, to men young
or old afflicted with nervous debility loss Of
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Also orrheumatism, neuralgia, paralysis, and
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risk is incurred as thirty days trial is allowed
Write them at once for illustrated pamphlet
free
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

Clears out rats, mice reaches, flies, ants. bed
bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers. ljc. Drgts.
The Indian of falcon glance and lion bear
ing, the theme Of the touching ballad is gone
but the petroleum they discovered, now made
into Carboline, the Natural Hair Restorer
will live forever
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

Ask for Wells Rough on Corns. "15c. Com
plete cure. Hard or soft corns, warts bunions
FOR DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, depression ofspir-
its and general debility in their various forms,
also as pre-, entive against fever and ague and
otherintermittent fevers, the Ferro-Phosphor-
ated Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell,
Hazard q Co., New York, and sold by all Drug
gists, is the best tonic and for patients recover
ing from fever or other sickness it has no equal
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

The business of cutting and exporting
the mahogany of Honduras is in the
hands of monopoly, which has such
valuable concessions from the govern
ment that competition is impossible.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

When you visit or leave New York city baggage
e1pressage and SO carriage hire and stop the Grand
Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central depot.
Coz elegan rooms. lifted up a Of on. million
dollars, 81 and upward per day. European plan Ele
vator Restaurant supplied with the best Horse clrs
stages and elevated railroad to all dep1ts. Families
can live better Tor less money tho Grand Union
Hotel than at other irstclass hotel in the city
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

W. f. Gladstone, the premier, has an
elder brother who has no less than thir-
teen farms on his hands. He also owns
over As, 900 acres in Kincardineshire.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

A happy combination of best grape brandy,
smart weed, Jamaica ginger and canphor
water, as found in DIR. Pierce's Compound
Extract of Smart-weed, cures cholera morbus.
diarrhGa, dysentery or bloody-fiux, collie or
cramps in stomach, and breaks up colds, fevers
and lnflammatory attacks.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

The best test OF a human life is the amount
Of good it has been and done to others Mrs
Lydia E. Pinkham may be given seat Of
honor among those who have helped to
change sickness into health and to transform
the darkness of suffering into the sunshine Of
rest and hope.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

Bad treatment or structure often compli-
Gates the disease and makes it difficult of
cure The worst and most inveterate cases
speedily yield to our new and improved
methods. Pamphlet, references and terms
sent for two three-ceat stamps. Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, n. Y.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

PARIS holds her next worlds exhibition
five years hence.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

Quick, complete cure, all Kidney, Bladder
and Urinary Diseases, Scalding, Irritation,
Stone, Gravel, Catarrh of bladder 81 Druggists.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

The recent census of Paris shows that it
has =, 1922 inhapitants
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

WHAT part Of speech is most distasteful to
lovers9 The third person.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

WHEN may a chair be said to dislike youl
When it can't bear you
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

THE curiosity Of River Fork, Ga, is a
milk white blackbird.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

The first iron steamship was built in
1880.