Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-03-20
DIBRELL.
Personal Points and Pithy Paragraphs
From North Warren.

To the Standard:
1t was my pleasure as well as priv
ilege to solemnize the rites of matri-
mony between Mr.. w. c. Potter and
Miss Zonia Dawson last Thursday
evening. Everything went off pleas
antly, and we trust their pathway
through life will be streWed with
flowers of the rarest odor.
John Vanhooser is at Dibrell today.
John is familiar to many of the old
18th Tennessee as "Broke-ranks''-
that is, his name was the last on the
list at roll call.
Charles Keaton made our Sunday
school lecture of ten minutes last
Sunday upon the subject of drink
ing whisky and chewing tobac-
GO. Charley endeavored to show men
up in their true light who were adj
dicted to these bad habits. Now,
Charley, your lecture was timely and
certainly in the right direction and it
would be onice for you to begin right
now to practice what you preach.
That's the way to prove your faith.
This is my religion.
Mr.. Shela Ware was here today
selling goods for Fite, Porter, Lyles
q Co., Nashville. Shela is splendid
drummer.
Mr.. Thomas West, from Smithyille,
was here today with sick horse.
Mr.. Cam. Gribble and others went
by today with lot Of goods, chattels
and household goods for John JOSS.
John likes his old town.
Mr.. j. NJ. Moss, formerly of Nc
Minnville, was united in Marriage to
Miss Amanda Ferrill at the Christian
church near here last Sunday after
the services in the presence of the
congregation. May the union prove
to be one of joy and happiness.
Mr.. S. T. West is off to McMinn-
Vile today, and will bring in a few
more goods we are continually re-
ceiving. New and cheap goods for
cash or barter.
Miss Malah Davis, Meta Bass,
Dovey and Belle Webb were all here
yesterday evening, most of them get
ting good news from a far country,
and oh, how glad the girls must have
been! / really felt glad for them.
Girls, come again; | enjoy your pres
once.
We had beautiful day last Sun
day, and the people turned out to
church like birds let out of cage
SITTER long confinement. We are glad
to see these bright days, and to see
such an interest manifested in oul
Eunday-school work. We have q
large field of work in that line, and
ere doing everything we can to in
terest and benefit the community in
which we circulate. All are invited
Remember, every Sunday morning
at $50.
People are getting older and wiser
every day. Something new is turn
ing up. We realize the evils of vice
ignorance and intemperance. W.
iearn to hate them and turn away
from them, and oh, what reforma
ton is needed in these things. Wher
Is the father or guardian that has tn,
nerve to point out these evels, as wei
rs many Others, to their sons, and i'm
hlore them to abandon them. Life i
what we make it. How much bette
to make a good character than bat
one. There are so many advantage
offered to the man of truth, to maj
that is prompt, to the man of higl
morals. Children should be laugh
at home the woes and disappoint
ments that await the liar and drunk
ard, the impious, and everyone tina
lives in and encourages sin in an
form. The wages of such is sure t
come. My young friends, do 20
want life and enjoyment, do 70
want quiet conscience, do you wis
to live long and happy? Ifso, choos
the right and refrain from the wron
and happiness is yours here and here
after. Don't keep company with tn
wicked, 90 not in the way of sinner
don't sit in the seat of the scornfu
Tut always be found in the path {
the righteous. p.