Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-01-16
IRVING COLLEGE.
The Weekly Budget of News from
Standard Reporter.

1t has not been my custom to intro
duce myself by comment upon the
weather, but upon this particular oc-
casion, perhaps, few words are not
out Of place.
Beginning with Friday the 8th
inst, for five mornings in succession,
the mercury ranged from Il to 150
below zero, which makes the longest
severe cold spell within the memory
Of this scribe. cannot account for
such spell of weather, but it would
be very convenient way of dispOs-
ing of the matter, land in fact quite
as sensible as great many other
charges), to charge it to a democratic
administration of the government.
Because Of the intense cold, Capt.
". G. Etter has lot of chickens that
could be purchased cheap. He found
ten frozen to death. have heard of
40 other damages resulting from the
cold. Those who dared brave the
cold have had quite time hunting
rabbits and birds. Nothing makes
poor hunter a successful hunter faster
than to find lot of game semi-tOrpid
condition because of hunger and cold.
Your correspondent took some game,
hut he spent most of his time turning
round before the fire, somebody's
fire, for he hadn't much fuel at home,)
in an endeavor to keep warm on all
sides. And in the "wee sma" hours
Of the night he wondered many times
if it were q zero-winter, and that poet
were a bachelor who gave expression
TO the thought solitude too has its
charms"
S. R. Safely is the only one of our
neighbors fully equipped for all kinds
of weather. He has q new "gum-
elastic'' coat which he wears rain or
shine, hot or cold.
We have had other cattle buyers
among us this week, but do not think
they found any suitable for market.
1t is supposed that great deal of
the green fruit is frozen. A number
of reports are to the effect that the
surfaces of the piles are frozen, but to
what depth is not known.
Miss Myrth Moffitt, daughter of G.
2. Moffitt, is quite sick with pneumO-
mia. Her many friends wish her
speedy and perfect restoration to
health.
Lon Safely was seen out one cold
day this week without any coat on,
while his neighbors were compelled
to wear two coats apiece. Lon salts
tactorily explained the matter by an
aouncing that there were two boys at
his house and to one of them he had
to lend his coat till further provisions
could be made.
George Willis went to hunt rabbits
one day this week and found as he
thought rabbit under log. George
IS one of these practical fellows who
believes that "a bird in the hand i
worth two in the bush," so he die
not scare the rabbit to satisfy himsel
that it was rabbit, but he settled
the question by firing upon it. Wher
he advanced to get the rabbit, he go
instead last years mushroom.
Irving Lodge, F. & A. M, meet'
Tuesday night, the 10th. A full at
tendance ofthe resident members il
desired.
AS the weather is moderating to
day, those parties "laid over" from
Christmas will now be taken up anC
gone through with every other nigh
so long as the weather will admit.
A fellow up here, who attended on
County Court first Monday, wants m,
to ask if the J. P's. have the exclu
sive right of assessing the taxes, Blu
am not going to do it.
RETTE.