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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-10-27
A Convincing Argument.

"Know dat onreligious niggah 'Lias
Snodgrass?"
'-Sho' huff"
.tGot converted de odder day."
"You doan meanlt! Who done it?"
"Absalom Jenkins. Then 'Lias got
ter argifyin', an 'Lias he says dar
want no truf in de bible, and Abs om
he say dey were, an finally Abs'l om
convinced i'm"
"Well, we'll! Ef dat doan beat all.
Ter think of 'Lias Snodgrass bein con-
verted! How did Absalom vince 'im?"
vivid a razzer. Merchant Traveller,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

price, nothing short of inefficiency in
the. work and negligence in forward
ing returns can be expected, Let the
Legislature require the County Courts
to pay clerks and judges of elections
what the work is worth. Then let
Sheriffs appoint none but thoroughly
competent men for the duties, and
require them to make prompt re-
turns. BY this means every civil
district in the State could be reported
to the County Court Clerks inside of
twenty-four hours after polls close,
and the report of every county could
be made up and forwarded to the
Secretary of State within the next
twelve hours.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20
A NAMELESS CASE.

My case has been very curious one for
about thirteen years. At intervals of about
one week weuld be attacked with spells
of severe and most eXcruciating pain, nj.
ways commencing in the region of my kid
neys. The pain would then 60 upwards and
affect my body and head and seemed to
penetrate my very eye.balls, creating the
most intense suffering, lasting about eight
hours each spell.
resorted to all kinds of medicine with.
out benefit. Several doctors treated my
case, but none gave relief. l finally used
b. b. b. as an experiment, and to my utter
establishment all pain and suffering vanished
after using three doses. To the present
time have used three bottles, and not
pain has ever returned. | do not know
what was the matter, neither could my
physician name the complaint. The B. B.
B. acted finely and powerfully upon my kid.
neys; my appetite has been splendid and
my constitution built up rapidly ae
.f...t.l..t..t.. r. THOMAS,
Constitution, Ca, May 8, 1886.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20
Uninpeached Integrity.

am SO. Droke down twelve years ago
and have not been able to work since. Have
lost proper action of my hips and legs For
five year scrofulous sores have appeared on
my scalp, and nose, and at same time nv
eyesight began to fail, and for three years
been comparatively blind. Have been
treated by eminent physicians of different
schoolswithout cure. | have taken five bot.
ties of B. B. B. (made at Atlanta Ga.), and
all scrofulous sores are gradually healing.
Inflammation about my eyes has disappear.
ed and there is some improvement in my
vision. Am very much benefited and re.
lieved and begin to feel like boy again
feel good. My strength and actively are
returning in my legs and hips. The B. B.
B. acts vigorously upon my kidneys, and
the great quantity of matter that has been
forced out through the skin is utterly in.
credible, often so offensive in odor as to
produce nausea. refer to all bushes men
of LAGRANGE, Ga.
P. PROPHILL.
LAGRANGE, Ga, January 10, 1885.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20


"When the next Legislature meets
one thing it should not fail to look
after is the passage of more stringent
laws to secure the prompt sending in
of election returns. After every
gubernatOrial election there are al
ways a number of counties whose re-
turns are held back for days and
sometimes weeks before being offici-
ally reported or any reliable Informal
ton received concerning them. This
sort of negligence should be visited
with heavy penalty."-Nashville
American.
Not only should all officers be re-
quired to send in returns promptly,
but provision should be made for
properly compensating clerks and
judges of elections. In this county,
land we suppose it is the same all
over the State), clerks and judges do
not receive one cent for this work,
and no funds are provided for adver-
Using the legal announcement of an
election. We can't see how the State
can expect men to work all day hold
ing an election, then quite frequently
all night counting out the votes, just
for the fun of the thing. A good
many of the affairs of the grand .old
State of Tennessee are run upon a
plan entirely too economical for eff
cheney. The State is amply able to
pay for having its work done, and it
will never be well done until it is
paid for. The Legislature cannot
very consistently affiX penalty to
the non-performance of public service
to which no adequate compensation
attaches. There is much wisdom in
the Oft-quoted addage, "beggars
should not be choosers." When the
State puts itself in the position of a
beggar, by asking men to hold its
elections without money and without
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20
Rheumatism.

Although q practitioner of near twenty
years, my mother influenced me to procure
B. B. B. for her. She had been confined to
her bed several months with Rheumatism,
which had stubbornly resisted all the usual
remedies. Within twenty four hours after
commencing B. B. B, observed marked
relief. She has just commenced her third
bottle and is nearly as active as ever, and
has been to the front yard with "rake in
hand" cleaning up. Her improvement is
truly wonderfully and immensely gratifying.
c. II. MONTGOMERY, NJ. d.
Jacksonville, Ala, May Is, 1885.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

The Pulaski Citizen claims to be
the only Thursday morning paper in
Tennessee which printed the full re-
turns of its county of the election on
the previous Tuesday. The second
day after an election is rather slow
time, Bro. McCord. The STANDARD
always has a tabulated statement of
the vote of Warren county in less
than twenty-four hours after the polls
close. The August election occurred
on Thursday, and a tabulated state
ment of the official vote of the county
was published in the STANDARD the
afternoon of the following day. In
the last election our table of returns
was complete at noon on the follow
ing day.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20
Death of Ex-President Arthur.

The daily papers of today { friday
cantain the announcement of the
death of ex-President Chester A. Ar
thur, which occurred at his home in
New York early Thursday morning.
His death was rather sudden, but
peaceful and painless. The funeral
will take place at Albany, N. Y.
Monday, and will be attended by
President Cleveland and several
members of his cabinet.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

New York Star: We believe that
the remedies for such grievances as
American labor has to complain of
are to be found in the future, as they
have been found in the past, in the
warm sympathy Of the American De-
mocracy. We point to the labor re-
forms effected through Democratic
agency during recent years as the
best guarantee ofwhat further reform
atoms will be effected in the near fu-
ture, and we believe that no line of
action could be taken calculated to
infict greater injury upon the cause
oflabor than to seek to defeat and dis
rupt the Democratic party.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

ONE by one the papers over the
State are falling into line on the ques-
ton of constitutional convention. 1t
will in all probability take some def
mite shape in the Legislature thiswin-
ter, and next year being an off year
in political matters, it will be a
very opportune time to discuss the
frame work and subject matter of a
new constitution.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

THE official vote of this Congress.
sional district, which we publish in
this issue, shows the election Of Hon.
John R. Neal, Democrat, to Congress
by majority of 348 votes, while in
the same counties ALI Taylor, the Re-
pablican candidate for Governor, has
a majority of four votes. Wilder
ran 20S votes behind the Republican
candidate for Governor, while Neal
ran 14l ahead of the Democratic Gu
bernatorial candidate. Ifthe vote for
governor is TO be taken as indicative
of the relative strength of the two
parties, the relation is about as close
as that existing between the two can
didateS for Governor. If the vote for
Congressman is the true test of party
strength in the district, why this thus
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

Carthage Record: Did you ever
think what great apostles ofbrother-
hood the railroads are, with their
cheap rates North, South, East and
West? They bring people together
to clasp hands, look into each others
eyes and traffic and talk in friendly
fellowship. Men who are great and
monstrous at a distance, become to be
fellow-men and counterparts of our
selves. They are fast obliterating
sectional lines and our people will
never again be as narrow as they
have been.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20
The Good Old Times.

Murfreesboro News.
1t may interest the readers of the
News to know what the first tax
levied in this county was. In 1904
the County Court levied the first tax
as follows: st cents on each 100 acres
of land, 124 cents on each town lot,
81 cents on each free poll or indent-
ured servant, and 123 cents on
each slave. Times have changed
wonderfully since then.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20
Proclain1s Aloud.

We have case under our immediate
observation of Rheumatism which has been
cured by the use of B. B. B. Sam. Simpson
(col) was almost helpless when we put him
on B. B. B. He has taken about s bottles
and says he is well, and to all appearances
is WELL He is now our regular porter and
does all the work heavy and light and pro.
claims aloud the virtues OF B. B. r.
DUNAwAY & Co., Druggist.
Arkansas City, Ark, April 80, 1886.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20
DR.. ]. b. Ritchey, Agricultural Editor.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.
OUR AGENTS.

We do not publish anonymous commu-
nications under any circumstances, The
real name of the author must accompany
every communication, or else it will be con-
signed to the waste basket. We do not pub.
lish the names of correspondents, but want
them simply as guarantee of good faith.
All calls on candidates, obituaries, trib'
utes of respect, ETC., are charged for as ad.
vertising matter. Simple announcements OF
deaths, marriages, etc., will be published
without charge, and our friends all over the
county will confer favor by furnishing us
with such as soon after their occurrence as
possible
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

THE Harper party of artists and
writers are making their tour of the
South too hurriedly to gather much
information of real value. One to
two days in such cities as Knoxville,
Chattanooga and Nashville, and a
large portion of that spentin bombas-
tic receptions and dinners, will give
the party very superficial idea of
the true resources and industrial en-
terprises of the South. The party
seems to be making more of a pleas
ure excursion than a business like re-
view of the South's natural resources
and possibilities.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

THE authorities of Chattanooga
have arrested and are now prosecu-
ting one illegal Republican voter,
who made a full confession of his
guilt. The colored Republican Rep
resentative to the Legislature was
elected by majority of only eight
votes, and he is now beginning to
feel very uneasy for fear that an in
vestigation will lose him the honor
of a seat in the next Tennessee House
of Representative
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20
Demonstrated Merit.
SPARTA, Ga, May Is, 1886.

SPARTA, Ga, May Is, 1886.
Blood Balm Co.: I.sr
Yon will please ship us per first freight
one gross B. B. B.
1t gives us pleasure to report good trade
for this preparation. Indeed it has far
eclipsed all other blood remedies, both in
demonstrated merit and rapid sale with us.
RoZIER & VARDRMRN.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

The Chattanooga Times, with all
of its boosted enterprise, has never
yet published the full vote of this
congressional district. The Times
published a table of majorities, which
contained several errors, but the
table printed in the STANDARD today
is the first publication of the full vote
we have seen.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20
McNllNNVILLE, TENNEssEEsATURDAY NOV 90 1886

THE great strike in the meat pack
ing establishments of Chicago has
been declared off, and the strikers are
going back to work as fast as the
packers will take them. The strikers
lost $50, 900 day and gained moth
ing. In seven out of every ten strikes
the strikers are the greater losers.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

"Tammany does not regard with
any marked signs of approval the
proposition to renominate Mr.. Cleve-
land. Tammany may yet succeed in
giving the presidency to the republic
cans in 1888. NASHVILLE Banner.
Which, we judge, would be very
gratifying to all such "independent"
newspapers as the Banner.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

NASHVILLE has had something
new this week in the way of a chrys-
anthemum show. Nearly one thou
sand plants, embracing over six hun
bred varities, were shown.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20
A Book of Wonders. Free.

All who desire full information about the
cause and cure of Blood Poisons, Scrofula
and Screfulous Swellings, Ulcers, Sores,
Rheumatism, Kidney Complaints, Catarrh,
etc., can secure by mail, free, a copy of our
80 page illustrated Book of Wonders, filed
with the most wonderful and startling proof
ever before known. Address,
BLOOD BALM Co.,
Atlanta, Ga,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

ness in the Governors race? Weare
satisfied that on full vote the dis
trict is Democratic by al full two thous-
and majority, but if the Democrats
don't wake up to the Importance of
doing their whole duty at the polls,
the Republicans will yet capture the
district yet.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

THE Nashville American is the
handsomest daily paper in the State
or anywhere else that we know about.
Each issue presents splendid typo
graphical appearance, and it is just as
newsy as it is handsome. Its entire
get up is a credit to Tennesseejournal:
ism.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

DIR. THOMAS, president of Burritt
College, at Spencer, is negotiating
with the people of Tullahoma for the
establishment of a college of high
grade at that place.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

EX-PREsIDENT HAYES spent last
sunday in Chattanooga, the guest of
Hon. d. NJ. Key, who was Postmas-
ter General under Hayes.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

THEN Tennessee Senate will be
composed of twenty-one Democrats
and twelve Republicans, and the
House of Representatives sixty-three
Democrats and thirty-siX Republicans
giving Democratic majority of thir-
ty-six on joint ballot.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

THE canvass for the Presidential
nominations of 1883 will actively be-
gin this winter, in fact Mr.. Blaine
has been quite active for two or three
months already in laying his plans
for the Republican nomination.
There is little doubt that Cleveland
will be the Democratic nominee.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

OUR old friend of the Tullahoma
Guardian not only publishes one of
the neatest and most readable papers
which comes to our table, but he is a
very effectual balance wheel in equal
izing the sensationalism to which
that progressive place seems to be
given. The Guardian always chroni-
cles any solid advancement of Tulla-
homa's interests, but it never loses its
head over any windy schemes with
nothing but buster for foundation.
The Tullahoma correspondents have
been writing to the Nashville dailies
regular hair-raising stories of the dep
relations of big black bear roaming
around that town through the still
hours of the night, and now the Guar
dian comes along and cruelty destroys
all the sensationalism these cores
pondents had been diligently work.
ing up for week by saying the old
black sow had been put in the fatten-
ing pen.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

THE Athens Post suggests that the
new governor elect appointhis broth
er ALT to the position of Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction. The
Post says "such an act by the newly
elected Governor would certainly be
a most fitting and handsome finale of
the fraternal contest which lately
elected so much attention and inter-
est throughout the Union"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

OFFICIAL returns of the State cleo
ton from ninety-three counties give
R. l.. Taylor 125, 2O7, and A. A. Tay-
lor 1O5,60S. r. L. Taylor's majority
1889. The remaining counties will
probably reduce this majority to about
$4,000.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

Hon. w. w. FAIRBANKS, the Sena-
tor elect from Warren, is likely to be
the most distinguished man in our
next Senate. We think he is the only
member of that honorable body who
has not been suggested for Speaker.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

WE will be excused for again quot
ing the New York Star on the subject
of a constitutional convention. The
argument it offers is as applicable to
Tennessee as to New York. The Star
says:
"The period of twenty years is long
enough to be allowed to pass without
a full revision of the fundamental
law by representatives of the people
chosen for that specific purpose, and
the fact that such a revision may be
periodically ordered by the sovereign
power without any INTERPRETATION
on the part of legislative or other SUBJ
ordinate authority in itself consti-
tutes a great conservative feature in
the State government. With the de-
fined right to make an absolutelynew
constitution once in twenty years,
supplemented by the opportunity to
amend it through legislative inter-
mediation from time to time, there
remains little chance either for the
administration of State affairs to be-
come seriously partial or oppressive,
or for the perpetuation of erroneous
doctrines or mistakes into which the
representatives of the majority might
chance to be led in attempting to give
expression and force to sound opin-
ions"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

THE Rutherford Democrat reap
pears this week, not in quiet so neat
a garb, but as bright and sparkling in
contents as ever.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

THE Murfreesboro News has picto-
rial aspirations, and illustrates its
local and news columns with trade
cuts.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

HEAVY Snow storms are reported
throughout the Northwest this week,
and the railroads are blockaded.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

DURHAM. N. c., one of the largest
tobacco centers in the United States,
had a fire last Tuesday morning in
volving a loss of halfa million dol
lars. Fifteen hundred thousand
pounds of tobacco was destroyed in
the flames. This was mammoth
pipe full to smoke up at one time.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

THE National Review, the leading
Republican paper of the State, comes
out in strong advocacy of a Constitu-
tional Convention, and gives the fol-
lowing as some of the reasons for its
faith: uHil 1s .1'lH-
"The judicial system is sadly in
need of reorganization. The county
courts ought to be speedily abolished.
The number of members in the legis-
lature ought to be cut down about
two-thirds, and the members of the
House ought to be elected for four
years, with salary instead of q per
diem compensation, and the Senators
should be elected for six years on the
same principle as United States Sen
ators. Provisions should be made
for the election ola Lieutenant Gov
ernor on the ticket with the Cover
nor"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

SNOW fell in Nashville Wednesday
night.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20
Attention Debtors.

All persons indebted to f. G.. Smart 4
Co., Smartts Sta, Tenn, either on store &C.
count, or for service of horse or jacks, are
hereby notified to make settlement by the
25th day of Dec, or we will place accounts
in hand, of officers for collection. Settle at
once ami save costs.
+. &. SMART Il Co.
. Smart Tenn.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

AS cold weather approaches anum-
Der of our State exchanges come to us
miserably printed. There is no eX-
cuse for this whatever. A fresh set
of rollers can be had for a small sum,
and a little extra work in keeping
type clean and the press warm will
insure neatly printed paper if the
printer has any knowledge of his
business whatever. We don't see
how many of our exchanges can ex-
pect to hold the patronage of either
subscribers or advertisers when week
after week their papers are printed in
a manner that half of the matter can
not be read at all. The neat appear
ance of a paper has as much or more
to do with building up patronage as
the matter it contains.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20
The "Evegette. I"

The popular New York Ladies' Hat for
Fall and Winter. A full line in several
materials and many styles OF trimming.
Various prices. Unusually becoming and
highly commended. Call and examine be.
fore buying your Fall or Winter Hat
You'll not regret it.
Also, many other styles of Hats and Bon.
nets. A good assortment of Fancy Feath.
ers, Plumes, Tips, Trimming Goods, and
Fall and Winter Millinery generally. All
direct from New York the latest styles and
satisfactory prices.
HOODENPYL Bros,
Potts Block, McMinnville, Tenn.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20

THE Memphis Avalanche closes
some remarks concerning Col. Savage
with the following:
GAS to his views on the necessity
for constitutional convention, while
we do not agree as to what may be
necessary to be done as to all
things, we do as to many things,
and absolutely as to the necessity
there is for revising constitution
which was a makeshift that followed
the Brownlow rule. Any labor Col.
Savage may perform towards that
end in the present legislature will be
work done for the good of the state"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20
DEAFNESS , It, I'd ' :, , sss

own home, by one who was deaf for twenty.
eight years. Treated by most Of the noted
specialists without benefit. Cured htaseifin
three months, and since then hundreds Of
Others. Full particulars sent on application.
T. s. PAGE, No. Al West Slst ST. New York
City.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-11-20
The Mountain City Nurseries,

r. H. TlTTSWoRTH, Pro'pr.,
McMtnnuiIIe, Tennessee.
This Nursery is prepared to supply all kinds
of Fruit and Ornamental Trees
Shrubbery, ETC., Of the very best varieties,
selected with the greatest care as to their
adsptability to this section. Mr.. - Puck
EFT, my agent, is now canvassing Warren
county in Me interest of this nursery for
the November delivery, 1885. Parties wish.
ing trees will consult their own interests by
waiting till my agent calls, who viii take all
orders at nursery prices, which are as low as
any frst.class nursery in the South.
We, the undersigned citizens Of Smith.
vile, take pleasure in recommending 3. II.
Tittswsrth az an honest, upright citizen,
a man of integrity, who will fulfill his prom.
ises promptly. Signed, T. w. Shields, Cir.
CT elk; 2. P. Lee, Co. CT Cpk; l.. j. Mag.
ness, L. J. Potter, Smith Bros, g. Z. Smith
4 Sou, B. B. West, T. b. Potter, msrehants,
W. G. Crowly, Chancellor, Elder J. M. Kid.
well, W. B. Carnes. editor Index. At Ne.
Minnville, W. H. Magness, President Ma.
Gonal Bank, N. D. Smallmsn ,ex.etate Sena.
Ter, and DIR. ], 8. Harrison.