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Commercial.
MEANWHILE PRODUCE MARKET.
Corrected weekly by Mead & Ritchey.
OFFICE SOUTHERN STANDARD.

Corrected weekly by Mead & Ritchey.
OFFICE SOUTHERN STANDARD,
McMinnville, Jan. ], 1886. =:
The new year brings with it no ma
terial improvement in country pro-
duce. Business of almost every kind
is inactive and dull. The only i'm
provement we have to report is in
the mule trade. During the last two
weeks quite a number of mules have
been sold at this place at fair prices.
Those who have mules for market
should have them fat and in good
condition. Poor mules are not want
ed.
In grain their is no change and very
little doing.
No improvement in eggs. Should
the weather remain pleasant the pro-
duction will increase and prices like.
ly to go lower.
Dried fruit very dull and unsala-
BILE.
Green apples move slowly with
very little if any improvement. The
markets North and South seem to be
well supplied and prices unusually
low.
Butter is dull and slow sale, especi
ally low grades.
Feathers dull and slightly lower.
In other articles no mateial changes
toreport.
WHEAT 75@ So p bu.
CoRN-new 80 to
FLoUR-new, $2.5o@s3 90 . 100 TBS.
MEAL p Blu. 40@50c.
OATs-B blu. "a 80
CHICKENs-Hens 4c p ID
BUTTER-a9 III, 10 to 10
EGGs-R doz to 15c.
GINsENG-P ID. 1.25 to
BEEswAx-P ID. 1Sc.
FEATHERs-Sa ID. 40to
TALLow-7R b. 4c.
Green hides 5@6c. Grubby e Of
LARD-Sa ID. &c.
BACON
Shoulders 6K
Hams So %.
Sides ~
Hog round
Wool, unwashed, 14@1Sc
" tub washed, 90 to 27c
Turkeys, sc per pound
Stock peas. 70 go
DRIED APPLEs-P ID. Ito 1Hc.
Peaches-Hs, ~ to 1Ac; rs, 2to24t
Blacberries to &c.
Homestead Fertilizer, 225to $50 p 10t
Irish potatoes cts. p blu.
Green Apples. % to 80 per bushel
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NONRESIDENT Notice.
In the County Go,at Of Grmdy county,
Rancy Ross ct al VS. George Picket at al

Rancy Ross ct al VS. George Picket at AL
In this cause it appearing 10 the satisfac
ton of the unders' gned clerk that some of
the defendants in this cause viz: Samuel
Brown and wife, NJ. J. Brown, are non-resi.
dents Of the State OF Tennessee, so that the
ordinary process OF law cannot he served on
them. tits therefore ordered that publica-
ton be made for four consecutive weeks in
the Southern Standard, newspaper pub
lished at McMinnvile, Tenn, commanding
said nonresident defendants TO appear at
the next quarterly term of this court to be
held at the courthouse in Altamont, Gruhdy
county. Tenn, or the first Monday in Janu-
airy next, and plead answer or demur TO
conplainants' bin, or the same viii be taken
Tor confessed as TO them and set for hearing
eNpartc. This Dee. LIST, 1885.
I. b. RODDN, Clerk
BY VI. J.. Nearn. Il. G.
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Petition for Divorce.
Mary Goble VS.. Robert Goble.

IN this cause it appearing from complain
i ants bill, which is sworn to, that Robert
Goble is a nonresident of the State of Ten
nessee, so that the ordinary process of law
cannot he served on him, 1t is therefore or
dered that publication be made in the
Southern Standard, a newspaper published
in the town of McMinuville, for four con.
secutive weeks. commanding the said Robt.
Goble to appear before the Judge OF on
next Circuit Court 10 be held at McMinn-
vile Tennessee on the Isl Tuesday after the
9TH Monday in January, 1856, then al there
to plead, answer or demur 10 complainant
bill, or the same will be taken for confessed
and set for hearing ex partc as to hiin
This December Is, 1855.
a. +. Curl. Ciefi..
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ANNOUNCER ENTS.
For Circuit Judge.

We are authorized to announce ...
NJ. d. SMALLMAN, .H.
as candidate for Judge of the Sixth Judi
cial Circuit of Tennessee, composed of the
counties of VanBuren, Grundy, Franklin,
Coffee, Warren, Moore, Lincoln, DeKalb
and White. Election Thursday, August 9th,
1886.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-02-11
DromiOs at the Capital.

A Washington correspondent writes:
There are six pairs of dromios in Wash
ington this winter, and the curious mis-
takes which are daily occurring are the
gossip of society and the hotels. Tom
Reed, the leader of the republican side
of the house, has counterpart in the
leading photographer of Washington,
and the joke is that the general air and
voice of the two are precisely alike. The
other night Stanley Matthews and fel-
low-congressman of Reeds saw this
photographer at the theater and took
him sor Reed. They went over to him
and addressed him, but he knew nothing
of the subjects on which they asked to
be posted, and it was some time before
they discovered that they were inter-
viewing the wrong man. Two other
dromios are Wellborn, Of Texas, and the
frowsy-headed fellow who writes cards
in the lobby of the house. Wellborn
has been taken for the card-writer time
and again, and he grows angry, it is
said, every time such a mistake occurs.
The likeness of Gay, the sugar million
aire of Louisiana, to Senator Sherman
is very striking, and Cleveland and
Manning are sometimes taken for one
another. l have told you stories of how
O'Donnel, of Michigan, has been mixed
up time and again with Assistant Post
master General Stephenson, and there
is an ex-member of the Pennsylvania
legislature here, who is noted for having
sold his railroad pass for an overcoat,
who looks exactly like the angular OBJ
jector, Holman, of Indiana.
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A Boy Who Understands EN-.

The other morning boy about IA
years of age knocked at the door of
house on Brush street and asked the
woman if she didn't want the snow
cleaned off the walk.
''How much?" she cautiously inquired.
Thirty cents"
II won't pay it. Ifyou want to do the
work for 10 cents you can 60 ahead"
He leaned on the handle of his snow
shovel and looked thoughtful, and she
finally quered:
"Well, what do you sayP"
'1t's just as that woman around the
corner told me-" he replied. II shovel
ed off her snow and she gave me SO
cents. | told her l was coming to ask
you, and she said"
II don't know her. What business is
it to her?"
''Yes, but"
s'What did she sayp"
''She said I'd get left. She said that
any woman who wore a plush sacque
and passed it off for $500 sealskin
would be mean enough to 60 out nights
and shovel her own snow"
''Boyr' whispered the woman, as she
turned white clear around her neck, II
want you to clean off the snow. When
you are through I'll give you silver
dollar, and | want you to 90 around and
tell that woman that any one who buys
and wears dollar store jewelry and IA
shilling shoes hasn't got sense enough
to fall off bob-tailed carr'-Detr0H
Free Press.
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In the Long Evenings.

True independence consists in the
possession and improvement of resources
within ones own self. There is a sense
in which selt-Suficiency is laudable
trait of character. 1t is far different
from self-assertion, which may be Ish-
maelltlsh, turning the hand against
every man. And it is just as far re-
moved from that weak dependence upon
others which leads one to look for aid at
all times, and for constant society and
companionship in occupation and in
amusement. Social intercourse and con-
versation are part, and very large
part, of all our lives. Both improve
ment and pleasure depend upon our
well-selected friendships. Still, he is a
poor companion for others who can do
nothing for himself He who has moth
ing in him has nothing to impart to his
friends. He has no capital to 60 upon
in the social exchange which promotes
the intelligent life of man.
The long winter evenings are now at
hand. The caterers for amusement arc
preparing their bills of fare. The at
fractions of society are presenting them
selves, and plans are everywhere form
ing for the round of entertainments
But we have something more to do in this
world than the passive employment of
being amused. Among all beaefaetors
of the race of man, those well deserve
the gratitude of human kind who minis
ter to the independent intellectual for
nation of character The book, the
magazine, and the journal are benefits
which, by their very abundance. seem
to be underrated, and are certainly not
utilized to anything like their full adj
vantage. It is flattering and common
assumption that Americans are read
ing people; but when the results of
their reading are looked for, it is some
what humiliating to discover how SUI
perticial is much of the knowledge
gained by it.
1t is not to be supposed that news
paper article, or that dissertations in all
the newspapers, will make reality out
of this semblance of knowledge. But
every man can act for himself ANY
man or woman can determine that leis-
ure shall be spent, and that time shall
be found for the culture of the mind.
Under favoring circumstances, we can
get help from others. But he is best
SClNCu WIN cClNtS LlillStll he Only Is
independent who can vary his social
intercourse by the society of books.
Reading is pleasure within the reach
of all save the few who cannot read,
and those few could find no better en-
ployment than learning. 1t is the best
occupation, and is, withal, the cheap
est. In the winter arrangements,
liberal space for reading should be set
apart, and something like regular
plan determined on. Yet even desultory
reading is better than none. The
young, especially, should acquire
habit which will make their homes
pleasant, and save them from some
temptations to folly, or worse. OF all
house furnishing, books pay the best
profit. And of all evening entertain
ments, they furnish that which is the
safest to 60 to bed upon. There follows
no morning dullness or headache, no
rebuke of conscience, and no beggarly
account of empty pockets. Philadelphia
LedOer
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-02-11
Pot Calls Kettle Black.

1t is the regulation thing to laugh at
an Englishman's accent A traveller of
a statistical turn of mind, who has Just
been all over this country, ASSERT that
he found at least fifty fully developed
dialects. 1--WE smile," he said, sat the
Britishers' nahsty' and 'cahnt' and for
get the 'wa-ar that the Delawarean says
when he means well. fancy it is an
other case of six versus half dozen. 1t
is a common occurrence in western
towns to say 'kehf' for cafe 'Keow'
for cow happens every day. Well
educated people say moo for new.
The affected drawl, which is supposed
to be peculiar to the Englishman, can
be heard almost anywhere. 1t is gen.
orally used by people making dogmatic
statements of whose truth they are not
quite certain. Phikadelphia Press.
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The Same as Ours,

There is mother who, working at
the problem how to provide the daily
meals for large family, in such way
as not to 60 beyond the sum the father
can afford each week, yet finds time
amid her multiplicity of duties. to take
down the dainty cup and fill it with the
milk that her little Sarah is to drink at
breakfast.
at takes twice as much time to wash
that thin china and put it carefully
away" said grandmother on one occa-
sion. ''Give the child a cup the same
as ours"
'.No, mother" said the home maker,
gently, nothing / could possibly say
would teach Sarah the good manners
desire her to learn SO much as the use
of this dainty cup. l rather take a
thousand times more trouble, if neces-
sary, in its care than not to give it to
her." And the grandmother stared,
and to this day doesn't see what her
daughter meant.-Nargaret Sidney, in
Good Housekeeping.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-02-11
The Poetry and Prose of Drink.

This danger of rapid drinking is
very important one to note. Granted
that the liquid is all right, the time for
taking it right, and our body in the
proper condition to receive it, the habit
of swallowing as fast as we can, is a
most pernicious one. 1t is disagreeable,
vulgar, and smacks of low life; more
over it robs the cup that is emptied, of
half its charm. What an aroma is lost;
what delicate flavor, by all this un-
seemly haste! Take, oh friend, we beg,
a few lessons in the art of drinking
Observe the gentle woman minister to
her palate at the family meal. 1t is a
poem to be read by all,-her fine-man-
nered deftness, and her self-control. No
wonder that this vulgar habit is un-
healthful. Christian manners bring
their reward, while an outraged stom-
ach takes it own method of revenge
Margaret Sidney, IN Good HouSekeep-
i321
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-02-11
Spiritual Prea ching the Cure for
MercantiIiSm.

The Rev. Edward Hungerford, in an
essay entitled Spiritual Preaching for
our Times" in the January Century,
says: Science has grandly stimulated
industry by increasing its rewards. The
prizes of enterprising labor are great,
often glittering. The power of wealth
is fascinating. The successful producer
or dealer of to-day is prince. The in
dustrious laborer is rich. And the re-
suit of all this is that laziness is ceasing
to be fashionable: the nobility of En-
gland are learning to make themselves
useful. Science sets the world astir
The goal of its motion is gain. The
race is eager. Hence mammon-wor-
ship. Hence mercantilism, the inordi-
nate estimate of wealth; the grading Of
all things at a value in cash; society
graded on cash basis; ideality sacri-
feed to material good; virtue, patriotism,
heroism, manhood counting for less,
money counting for more; votes, office,
justice having their price This is mer-
cantilism, the great danger to society;
greater because more subtle than nihi-
Gsm. 1t creeps into literature, science,
art, politics, the State, the church; and
here arises the demand for that spiritual
teaching which fell from the lips of
Jesus, the antidote for inordinate world
ly care and worldly striving; the lofty
view of a life which is more than meat;
God coming in among the elements of
this world, clothing lilies, feeding birds,
summoning man to the glory of an ideal
kingdom and to the attainment first
and foremost of character, rooted in
God and Gods righteousness. The cure
for the mercantile spirit is not ethics,
but faith. 1t is not a moral code but
the divine Fatherhood. 1t is not even
the golden rule, except as the golden
rule is formulated out of the spirit of
Christian brotherhood -
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-02-11
WHOLE NO. 1882.
Wagner's Views On Art.

In the Italian and French operas,
which, until Wagner's day, had been
played throughout Germany, the whole
stress is laid on the arias which the
various artists are to sing. People 60
to such an opera to be amused, and,
after hearing it, give no thought to the
libretto nor to the composer, but talk
only of the singers voices; the opera
itself is OF little consequences; the people
are only concerned with the singers.
The artists themselves look upon the
operas simply as opportunities to show
their voices to the best possible advant-
age. Wagner believed that an opera
should have noble aim So in every
thing he has given US, there is some
divine struggle going on between the
characters of right and wrong, in which
the right triumphs. As the contest pro-
crosses, we ourselves are lost in the
characters before us, our noblest feel
ings are aroused and strengthened.
Wagner believed, furthermore, that the
subject and words of an opera were not
less important than the music; and he
has expended as much of his own spirit
in writing the librettos of his operas as
he has poured into his music. No note
OF the music is for show; every one in
terprets some word or idea that is in the
words; and every thought and act of the
character is interpreted in the music,
even if it be so Insignificant a circum-
stance as jumping up a bank or running
down flight of steps. The performers,
too, are expected to love their work,
and to sink themselves in their parts;
they must cease to be themselves and he
the characters they represent So that
in one of Wagner's operas, every one,
down to the smallest person connected
with it, is necessary to its production;
poet, musician, artists. orchestra,
are great, for each can say, ''but for me
this could not be"-St. Nicholas.
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utter bewilderment; they did not under
stand what he said-his words and his
behavior were alike strange to them.
This he soon perceived, for he added:
You were going to Kilburn to Patrick
Sullivan; you are already there. | am
your uncle; and now that know that
you are the children of my brother Mar
tin make you welcome"
The children's tears quickly changed
into smiles, and the meal which Biddy
just put on the table for them made
them forget their grief
Patrick Sullivan had taken this farm
near kilburn about a year before. A
kind Providence had directed the child
ren's steps to him; but if the dog had
not taught him lesson of kindness,
who knows what might. after all, have
become of the poor orphans? But He
who is the Father of the fatherless
would assuredly not have forsaken
them
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-02-11

Mr.. Ruskin writes to the Pail Mall
Gazette on the Irish question the follow
ing characteristic letter: would it not
be well to take some account of the fol-
lowing ineradicable virtues of the irish
race in our schemes for their manage
ment: First they are an artistic peo-
pie. and can design beautiful things
and execute them with indefatigab,e in
dustry. Secondly, they are witty peo-
pie and can by no means be governed
by witiess ones. Thirdly. they are an
affectionate people, and can by no
means be governed ON scientific princi.
pies by heartless persons. Permit me
to observe further that. as Scott is III
thority for Scotch character, .1aria
Edgeworth is authority for Irish. and
that her three stories of 'Ormond.' En-
nui, and The Absentee contain more
essential truths about Ireland than can
be learned from any other sources
whatsoever
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-02-11

-. Randolph Tucker, who was here
at the merchants dinner" says the
Boston Post, ''is charming converse
tionalist and most renowned story
teller. He and Blackburn used to d.
vide the honors of raconteurship. One
evening they had been at dinner at
Wormley's and capped each others
stories for several hours The next day
Mr.. Tucker went to q member of the
House and said: '1've got good one
on Joe. When came out of the hotel
last night Smith came to me and said:
"Well, we've had pleasant evening;
but what an old bore Blackburn isn
'Inueedr answered the member; Smith
said the same thing about you, Tucker
Did hep replied Tucker Il always
knew Smith was an unappreciative old
idiot"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-02-11
William Was HeadstroEg.

A father at Sedalia, Mo-, discovered,
few days ago, that his only daughter
was in love with New York drummer,
and that the wedding-day had been set.
He had scarcely seen the man, and his
consent had neither been asked nor
given. He at once put his foot down
and demanded:
what do you know about this man,
anyhow"
''Why, father, he gets salary of 800
per month and can beat the firm in ex-
pense account so as to bring it up to
1925. He is just as nice as can be-
''But he may have wife already.
Have you ever asked the question:"
81 never thought of its
'.Well, I've heard he had one at St.
Joseph, and I'm going to see. No man
can play bigamy on my family if this
court knows herself"
In due time he reached st. Joseph
and began his inquiries, and in few
hours was directed to a woman who
acknowledged she was Mrs. Blank
Married for sure, and got a certif-
catep" he asked.
80 yes. We have been married most
a year.
"And do you know that he is engaged
to my daughter and wants to marry her
next month";
No, l did not" was the reply. II
never seek to pry into his affairs"
"Weil, I'm telling you facts. The in
fernal scoundrel wants to marry my
daughter! Just think of his cheek!'
Eyes, William was always singular, :"
she remarked
singular! Why. now can you take
his conduct so coolly? l expected to see
you faint dead away. You don't seem
to care much about it,
''Well, to be frank with you," she re-
piled, "William had wife in Kansas
City and another in Chicago when he
married me, and | have no right to
complain. l think he means well, but
is rather headstrong"
''And you won't do ANYTHING to pre-
vent this new marriage?"
81 can't under the circumstances, as
l have concluded to leave him and
marry a Philadelphia drummer and 90
east with him. will write to William
and advise him not to marry your
daughter, but he is very headstrong."
''Great heavensr' gasped the father.
'.Please don't. / have a headache,
and you might upset my nerves. AS I
was saying, l will write to him, but I
presume you will 60 home to find that
she has already eloped with and married
him. William prefers elopements to all
other styles, and l presume that was
what he wanted of the last $25 l sent
him."
The old man rushed to the telegraph
office and wired home the inquiry: .'Is
Mary home?' In about half an hour,
as he walked up and down with the
sweat gluing his undershirt to his spine,
the answer came back:
'Slid with the drummer two hours
agon'-M. Y Star.
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SiniIitudes.

1t is surprising what a pleasure we
take in an apt similitude. Not only
does it enter largely into our enjoyment
of poetry, but it gives zest to all bright
colloquial talk. The voluble center of
any group of listeners-on the street or
in the drawing-room-is sure to be
heard spicing his narration with the
.'like" and .'as'' of the frequent simile.
Ii were novelist Gas do not at all
thank Heaven | am no) would keep
lists of good similitudes; not only those
of my own invention, / should
not expect to be prosperous those
picked up by the wayside in actual
speech. 1t is not so much that they
adorn the expression of thought as that
they illuminate it. Or if they adorn, it
is as the modern jewelry, set with the
electric spark. 1t used to be supposed
that in poetry for instance, figures OF
speech were for mere ornamentatlon.
Now we know that in good poetry they
are chiefly used for throwing light So
in colloquial speech: the reason we en-
JOY them seems to be that they hit out
the idea like flash. There is nothing
the mind enjoys, after all, like getting
an idea, and getting it quick,-which is
only giving, in nutshell, the gist of
Herbert Spencer's admirable essay on
Style. A friend was telling me the
other day that he had new cook. He
said Che is small man), 81 am afraid
of her. She is as big as bonded ware
house" l saw in the paper lately that
somebody expressed himself as being
"dry as covered bridge" And how
can we declare the ineness of anything
so well as by saying it is fine as a fid-
de? The ALTERATION, no doubt, helps,
but It does not count for very much.
You could not substitute fish, or feather,
or fife, or famingo, though each is fine
after fashion. Nothing will serve but
the fiddle" with its preternatural shine
of varnish, its perky angles and curves,
pointed like saucy nose,-with per-
haps (but this is venturing into deep
psychological water) a suggestion, sub
conscious, of the jaunty fiddler with his
airs and graces, dressed as if just out of
bandbox. Lively as flea" seems
good and lively, but an old sea-captain
of mine used to say che flew around
like flea in a hot skillet" Like a
bumble-bee in a bass-drum" describes
the activity of different sort of tenn
permanent. February atlantic.