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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-11
Newspaper Men.

1t is hard to tell, from this distance,
whether you are fitted for the hard
life of newspaper writer or not.
That is the only question to be
decided, for qualification is quite
immaterial. You must be prepared
to rise from your bed as early as ten
a. m, in order that you may have
finished reading your private mail by
noon. Lunch is always paid for by
the Office, but you have got to
accustom yourself to but five courses
and only two kinds of wine-some
papers stand three, including
champagne, but they are the ex-
ceptions rather than the rule. At
two p. M, you are expected to read
the morning papers, and if you are
not too much exhausted by the effort
you can have a game of billiards, for
no well-regulated newspaper office is
without well-appointed billiard
room.
Atseven p. M, you are expected
to tell the city editor where you will
spend the evening, so that he can
send for you in case your friends call,
and you can go to the theatre, opera,
ball or dogfight, to which tickets and
a carriage will be provided. If you
think you can stand such labOrious
work come on and we will see what
we can do with you; but you must
understand that there is none of the
luxury to which you have been
accustomed in a newspaper Office.
Plain velvet carpets are good enough
for this class of laborers; lounging
chairs are, of course, indispensable,
but they are upholstered in plain
satin, with no tides. Only one roll
top desk and four gold pens are
furnished by the office if you need
any more you will be expected to
buy them yourself. Only one sofa
and one silver drinking cup are
allowed each man, so you can see
there are some discomforts to be put
up with.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-11
Removing Surplus Flesh.

One of the handsomest mon in town,
u prominent officer of the Louisville
& Nashville railroad, told a reporter
of a remedy for reducing flesh, which,
he says, is really wonderful. 1t is the
same that Bismarck, the German
Chancellor, has subjected himself to,
and from which his avoirdupois was
decreased sixty pounds. The first
thing man must do upon rising in
the morning, my friend says, is to
drink gobletful of cool, not cold
water. In quarter of an hour re-
peat it, and just before breakfast
drink the third glass. When you first
try this you will feel as if whole
watermelon has been disposed of. but
after morning OF two this 'swelled"
feeling will have disappeared. Con-
tinue this water course for several
weeks and your surplus flesh will be
gone, and the fear of bursting ves-
buttons over. am sure it is great
remedy, and recommended it to my
friends who are afflicted with obesity.
The effect that this stomach bath has
had upon my informant is surprising.
He is twenty pounds lighter than two
months ago. Chattanooga Times.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-11
Growing Fodder Corn.

Many farmers do not attach rs
much value to fodder corn as it is
entitled to. When cut early and
properly cured, it is a valuable fod-
der, and is, year by year, becoming
more highly valued, especially in the
Middle and Eastern States, where
many farmers plant piece especial
ly to cut for fodder. The practice Of
sowing it broadcast has been aban-
doned largely, and now most farm
ers sow it in drills, though some
plant in hills and l like this method
best, planting sixteen to thirty six
inches apart. When planted in this
way l believe it is of more value than
when it is planted thicker, as it will
have more nubbins on it. My method
of raising this crop is to plow and
harrow thoroughly piece of ground
about the first of June, and mark the
rows off three feet apart; then, with
the Macomber hand planter, the seed
is quickly and well put in. With one
of these planters man can plant
four acres day, and do it in a better
manner than in the old way of drop
ping by hand and covering it with
the hoe, as many persons still do.
Labor-saving implements are pay
ing Investment on the farm, and the
best ones should be chosen. - Western
PloUmaa.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-11
Going to be a Smash.

CINCINNATI, Aug. 1.-Dr. Ernst
Weissenbauer, Professor of Geology
in Heidelburg University, Germany,
is here for few days, after visit of
scientific inspection to the natural gas
wells at Findlay, O. The Professor
says that he found the vastness of the
gas deposits under Findlay greatly
underestimated, and that underneath
the town at great depth lay a mighty
cavern filled with highly inflamma-
BILE gas under tremendous pressure.
BY means of experiments with deli
cate instruments, the Professor has
come to the conclusion that at a dis
lance of only one mile between the
great gas cavity, which lies under
Findlay, fire is raging at tempera-
ture of nearly $500 degrees. Not
satisfied with the observations at one
point, he took several wells within a
radious of three miles, and claims his
first observations were completely
confirmed. He says that about 1920
feet below the city of Findlay lies an
immense cavern. 1t is several miles
long, and in some places more than
a half mile deep. This is crowded
full of gas which is under a pressure
almost inconceivable. Then come
several strata of rock, perhaps mile
in thickness, and then this great in
ternal fire at temperature of over
5000 degrees. The last of the layers
which lies directly over the fires is
melting away. About ten miles from
Findlay on either side it is of great
thickness, but as it nears the town it
grows thinner, the furnace beneath
disintegrating it and ever lessening
the barrier between itself and the gas
wells.
From the tremendous cracking
which is to be heard by the sound
instrument it is almost certain that
the disintegration is going on with
great rapidity, and the professor
seems to think an early catastrophe
not only possible but probable.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-11
To Build a Chimney.

To build chimney that will draw
forever and not fill up with SCOT, you
must build it large enough-siXteen
inches square; use good brick, and
clay instead of lime up to the comb;
plaster it inside with clay mixed
with salt; for chimney tops use the
very best of brick, wet them in &C.
ment mortar. The chimney should
not be built tight to beams and raft
ers there is where the cracks in
your chimneys come, and where most
of the fires originate, as the chimney
sometimes gets red hot. A chimney
built from cellar up is better and less
dangerous than one hung on the
wall. Don't get your stovepipe hole
too close to the ceiling eighteen
inches from it.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-11

ing against this window from the
outside. Did he want to get within ?
Apparently so, and yet he would now
and then pause in his demonstrations,
alight in the frame of the broken
pane, look intently within and after
a moment resume his assault upon
the window. The people who saw
the actions of the bird were at loss
how to interpret them. But | could
see at once what was the matter. The
bird saw its image in the mirror of
the glass (the dark interior helped
the refection) and was making war
as he supposed upon rival. Only
the unyielding glass kept him from
tweaking out every saucy blue feather
upon the spot! Then he would peep
in through the vacant pane and try
to determine where his rival had so
suddenly disappeared. How it must
have puzzled this little poll And he
learned nothing from experience.
Hundreds of times did he perch in
the broken pane and sharply eye the
interior. And for two months there
did not seem to be an hour when he
was not assaulting the window. He
never lost faith in the reality of the
bird within, and he never abated one
jot his enmity toward him. If the
glass had been a rough surface he
would certainly have worn his beak
and claws and wings to mere stubs.
The incident shows the pugnacious
disposition of the bluebird, and it
shows how shallow a birds wit is
when new problems or conditions
confrot it.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-11
SHIPPING POULTRY.
A Few Hints Concerning tho Construction
of Suitable COOps.

of Suitable CoOps.
Never ship fowls in wooden box,
as the purchaser has 10 pay just the
same per pound for coop as for tho
fowls, and when we come to pay
double tirst-class rates on an old wood
en- box that is worthless only as
kindling wood, it does not make us
love the shipper l have had some ex-
perience in that line myself A friend
of mine and l correspondent with
breeder in regard to fowls. we both
wanting to purchase some good stock
for our own use. Answer came back,
can furnish you good breeding stock.
We sent cash for four cockerels and in
due time we received by express four
little cockerels. the four weighing
sixteen pounds, in wooden box
weighing eighteen pounds. Another
time / purchased at a good price q
cock of a breeder at quite
q distance from me. When
he came he weighed six
pounds and the coop weighed ten
pounds. 1t was canvass-covered
coop, but not properly made; the cor
ner posts were in an inch from the
canvass, thereby leaving an open
space behind the posts, in which the
birds wing and tail feathers had got
and were badly broken. The express
on cock and coop was one dollar and
forty cents, being about nine cents
per pound, making ninety cents for
coop and fifty cents for cock.
Now l will give my mode of making
shipping coops: For coop for single
bird, take four pieces one inch square
and eighteen inches long, nail three
boards, one-half inch thick, and six
inches wide and eighteen inches long
to two of inch strips, setting strips in
three-eighths of an inch from end of
bottom boards. Then cut lath two feet
long for corner posts. nail one at each
corner outside of inch strips. then nall
the other two-inch strips at top of
corner posts, inside of posts;
now cut lath eighteen inches long for.
top of coop. When they are on you
have the frame ready for covering.
Take muslin and tack on with six
ounce tacks, but before putting the
muslin sew on feed pocket about
four inches from bottom of coop, leave
pocket little loose so it will stay
open. If the bird is 10 60 over one
hundred miles always. put in water
cup. Such coop, if made of dry
lumber, will not weigh over five
pounds Coops for trios and half
dozen fowls are made the same way,
except for half dozen they should be
5raced on the sides with lath, but put
braces on the outside of muslin. Coops
made in this way, for trios, weigh
about nine pounds, for half dozen
birds. about twelve pounds. Bottom
of coop may be made of thinner lum-
Der if you have it. l have made q
coop for single bird that only
weighed three pounds. Cor Ameri-
can Poultry Journal
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-11

THE PRIDE OF KENTUCKY-Mam-
moth Cave-is beyond the descrip-
ton of tongue or pen, one of those in
describable things that can only be
appreciated when seen. The grand
eur of the pits and domes, the mar
bic purity of Martha Washington's
statue, illusion of the Star Chamber,
wonderful reverberations and echoes
of Echo River, and the interesting
blind white fish peculiar to the Nam
moth Cave. The temperature in the
caverns never varies. The cave and
Hotel are open all the year. Now is
the time to visit it.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-11
A Puzzled Bluebird.
Wide Awake for July.

Wide Awake for July.
| have spoken of nature as a stage
whereon the play, more or less inter-
rupted and indirect, constantly goes
on. One amusing actor upon that
stage one season upon my own premi-
ses, was a certain male bluebird.
To the spectator it was a comedy, but
to the actor himself | imagine it was
quite serious business. The bird and
his mate had a nest in box upon an
clubhouse. In this clubhouse was a
window with a pane broken out. At
almost any hour in the day from
spring to early summer, the male
bird could be seen fluttering and peck
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-11

New Jerseys largest truck farm is
in Independence township, Warren
County; has 1000 acres, of which but
800 are yet in filth, yet will produce
this year 7OO,0 900 bushels of onions for
New York and Philadelphia. AS
they will be worth over a dollar a
bushel, the value of halfa million dol
lars set upon the farm must be rich
and abnormally low.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-11

Sickness comes unlimited and
strong men and women are forced to
employ means to restore their health
and strength. The most successful
of all known remedies for weakness,
the origin of all disease, is Dr. j. II.
McLean's Strengthening Cordial and
Blood Purifier. Sold by Fleming.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-11

The tonic Alternative properties of
Ayers Sarsaparilla are too well
known to require the specious aid of
any exaggerated or fictitious certifi-
cate. Witnesses of the marvellous
cures effected by this preparation are
today living in every city and ham
tet of the land.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-11

English SPAWN Liniment removes
all Hard, Soft, or Calloused Lumps
and Blemishes from horses, Blood
SPAWN, Curbs, Splints, Sweeney,
!RRlng-bone, Stiles, Sprains, all Swollen
Threats, Coughs, Etc. Save $50 by
use Of one bottle. Warranted. Sold
by j. b. Ritchey, McMinnville.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-09
CUT HIS HEAD OFF.
A Negro Decapitates White Man a,
Lexington.

LExiNuroS, Ky, April IA bloody nur-
der occurred In this city about . o'clock this
evening NJ the corner OF broadway and High
streets Tom Waltz, oolord, assaulted a
white man named Leroy Smith and cut his
h,nd on with razor or pruning knife.
There had been trouble between the
parties for week or moro aud sew
rml fights also, ia which Smith had
thmshed Waltz. The trouble originally
grew ont II Waltz interfering with Smith In
tle arrest OF n colord hog thief They met
~ Lexington today aud had words. but no
fight until Smith started for homo this
evening with his brother and brother.inlaw.
They stopped nj the corner mentioned and
the brother aud hrother.in-law got out To
buy some groceries. leaving Smith In
the vehicle. Waltz came up and the
trouble was renewed. smith got out
II tho the mskaway and hcgnn beating
Walt with a buggy whip, when the negro
seized him by the collar aud cut his head oil.
The murderer escaped though the excite
ment hero Il intense and large posse has
gone after him. smith leaves a wife and
rhild. Waltz has served q term in the pcni-
ientiary for hog stealing and is very tough
riflyru
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HIS BRAINS CRUSHED OUT.
The Horrible Death OF Andrew Taylor
at Hopefield, Yesterday.

at Hopeheld, Yesterday.
There was horrible and fatal accident
over at HopeRcld, Ark, yesterday morn
ing about o'clock. The wcst-bound pas
senger train had just been transferred from
this side, and was being attached prepare
tory for starting on It's course, when An
drew Taylor, colorcd, brakeman on the
train, was standing at his post in a stoop-
ing position between two OF tho heavy
coaches to connect the air hose used In
connection with the brakes. Either from
inadvertencc ON his part, or the backing
coach was suddenly prccipiiated against
the one he stood nearest snot known, but
IL is painful fact that while the faithful
employe of the road stood waiting 10 do
his duty, the approaching coach rushed
with sufficient force and rapidity to catch
the poor negro's head between Il and the
other coach and mash the skull and face
into almos, an unrccognizablo mass. In q
moment more the train moved and Taylor
fell dead upon the track Az the coaches
were not fully attached the rear coach did
not pass over his already lifclcss form 10
mangle il still more. The remains were
picked up, taken TO HOUSE near by. and
will DO properly buried by the railroad
company. Taylor was about thirty years
old, has been married, but for the past
year or two has not lived with his wife,
who resides at Argenta, Ark.
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DRU N K EN- NESS
Or tho 1.isuer Habit. Positively Cared
BIZ Admiulstering Dr. IIaincsf
f3oldeu Nperlnc.

~ can ~ rl,cn ~ cup VI cnncc ~ tea wlthnu
i the knowledge IL the pcrtuu taking IL ntsah.
H,luicli harmlsss. sud viii efcCt permanent and
fieidr Vufr, Nhtthrf ihe patient u muirritc
dfiukcf uf nn alcoholic Wrfk Thousands II
dunkaris have hsru made temperate men who
have taken Nulhcn rfntifr IN thclf cnntr without
ihrif Lngwlrigc and TO-DAY believe thry quit drlut.
ing II their urn ire Will ~ NfNfR fAttS
The tysicm onoe lmpurnninl with the spcrlnr ID
hsuriu nn utter ifnpfslblllty iof The liquor apps.
tie 10 exist luf sale ~
A. RINKEEr a 90. qis Malnd.
a. J. HESTER - Malnu
Aemuhls Tenn.
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korr Az. AddltIon--26o Lots.

On high land Dummy Line runs through the
addition. liandsomest property around Memphis
Gndcd and fenced, ready for building. Price and
terms most reasonable. Call aud sec IL before pur
chasing elsewhere
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planting s~.., Potatoes.


Nothing is gained 10y very early plant.
ing 81 sweet potatoes exccp, to Insure u
larger area irom a giycn-si1cd bed 10y
drawing and setting the hrsi slire that ap.
pear and getting them out OF the way "
the next crop. Slp- planted out IN April
r'pnirc more cultivation and rarely mo.
aucc W well ~ those planted In May and
June. The ground lor the first and SUE.
rvs-lvc planting should be kept In mellow
condition 10y occasional blowing and nv.
bedding. by no means should slips be VET
PIT after n rain until the beds have been
itshcned by rcbcddinr, or at lcas, lit.
NJ. Slips sct in n so,ldcn bed rarely 10
acll But moc next month on this sub.
Icrt.
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FOR SALE BY
r. L. COVER & co.
NO. "a MADISON STREET.

FOR sIc $500 Rsybqm lsSx,6a well improved
FOR 800 city
Woodstock, c. D. as W. RR
all
desaty located having
No iio Msy repair stable
house and carriage
Georgia
TWO DOUBLE COTTAGES Frays
treetpe
with desirable convenience lot 40xl75
THAT vALUA BILE PROPERTY
Carrolay
breadth
balance desirable residences
Memphis
BRICK Of
street lot Madison street through Marshall
and
condition besides
places Tor TWO together admirably
NO 9i THIRD STREET
comfort Elegantly
cold
business center and convenient schools
appreciated
NO 2T DUNLAP STREET
houses 0rooms each; rents for SS per month Price, $500
NO go ALABAMA STREET 1856 feet Alabama
with brick residence
-
VACANT
with the
Of Vance 800
In addition the above
he pleased TO show those desiring purchase
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u.w to eat. s,ssn aud strength.

tT-c after each neal Scotts Emulsion with
iiypophosphites II is a. palatable ~ milk.
tnd easily dig,sied The npidity with
which delicate people improve with It's use
J. wonderful Use u and Try your weight
A. a rcrncdy for Consumption, Throat alice.
lions aud Bronchitis. " IL unequalod
Please read; II usod Scots Emulsion In a
slild eight months old with good results
lie gnincd four pounds In very short
lime. Tho. PAM, NJ ~, Alabama
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" You make u rule to flavor al your
TOLD drinks with ten Ia fifteen drop. NJ
hnr".tura hiiicfs You will Keep free from
MALARIA and hnminsr Diseases and have your
uigesllve organs Ia good order. But be cure
Tuu get tie gcnuno article, manufactured
Ily by Dr. J q. u sicFcrt a Sons
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FOR SALE.
BARTON & LAMB,
5 Monroe st.
Offer the following very desira-
BILE Real Estate
Rayburn Az. Addltlon--i6 Lots.
Sold on very easy terms Flint class property
Call and sec IL
Residences.

Two new seven room Houses on Dummy Line
beautifully located, finished In FIST class style
small cash payment. balance monthly Splendid
opportunity to get homes
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A MAN OF A THOUSAND.


When death wus hourly expected. IN rcrnesiicl
having lailC,i. ami ~ ~ lance was experiment
ink with the many hrfla ~ calcutta De- arritluut.
alii made rrrrautnu which vuui BIZ only child
~ Consumption. llis child l. nov in this clun.
tp and enjoying the lHvi oi health. lic has pp,vrd
a. The world that tonsumptiun ,nn d. pusityolI
aud permanently gufrt The nuri0f now rltps this
iuiie inc. nuly asking two gcrnt stamtr 90 POS
uKla'usis This Herb nlsn runs Might Nwrais Nau.
sca IT thr sinmach. aud will hrak upa ifsh Cold In
iwcuti iuuf hnurt. AddWw trAnfntk 4 a.. insl
i,arr strct Philadelphia unminr this paper u
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Ordor of Publication.

No =-- Rn.-in the Chauccry Court ~ shelby
County, Tenn b. Elllaleih Jane liamsf II al ~
John Nafwn Matthews II VI.
II Appearing frim the afldayii on Gle hcncln that
the defundtnts Martha iiaincf. Mamie Davis aud
lanuir slinmous. aW residents ~ the state u Mis-
tisippi, Walter ieake strickland, Joseph Mat
ihcws. Man Matthews Christina Matthew. Cahita
Matthew James Matthews and Eddie Matthews
are RESIDENT Of the state IL IeNas aud all non.
nsidfnis ~ the state ~ tennessee
n u thrruioW ufdeusi. That they male their an
ncannfe hrfuln ~ the cuuri .hnuse " shelby cnun
w ~ the city ~ Memphis. nov TAXING District Of
Shelby county, Tenn., on the nnt Monday Ia
NAV, is,A and plead, answer OF demuf W com.
plaluants hlll or the nme viii ~ taken inf cnn.
fssrd a. ~ hrtn and vi fuf hearing On parte and
that n copy NJ this order h. published oncc week
This 10Th day ot March, iSns
A true c0py--A Attest 4 T. MCDOWELL.
CLERK and Master.
nyT. n caldwell. Deputy CLERK aud Master
lisiSa
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Nine. sarmnie, nee Garhcs, doctor Of
acdioinc, has been appointed assistant
hcdical attendant NJ the Rational (Frcnchl
Iheaicr Of The Opera by ministerial decree
81 January 20.
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10 Acres.

Suitable Tor subdivision or large manufacturing
establishment 600 feet frontage on railroad J. mile
from city limits Bargain.
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i7s Acres. on Poplar Street.
Sold In Eve ten and u acre incts Very reasonable
terms Call aud sco H.
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The popular blood purifier, Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla, Is having tremendous sale this seaso
kcarly eYerybOdy iakes H. Try II yonrsclf
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THE FARMERS, ASSOCIATION.
Can for a Meeting In Columbia on 'Novsm
u g 1855. 51si ;iylse Der IA. i=4

10 The Farmers of South Carolina. Two
years ago last April there assembled in
Columbia the first Farmers Convention.
1T WAS composed of representative men
from nearly every county, and demanded
certain reforms in our educational system
and in the management Of our State Gov.
zzernment. The Novemb er following
another Farmers' Convention met and
entered into 8 permanent organization
under the name Of the g Farmers Associa-
:tion of South Carolina" This Associa-
:tion then and there reiterated the de-:
5mands Of the first Convention as to the
need Of agricultural education in this
State and pressed other reforms in the
Government: some of which have been
granted and others refused.
That the agitation inaugurated BY this
movement has been of vast benefit to the
agricultural interests of our State no one
will deny, and q continuance ofthe agita.
stion is only necessary to crown our efforts
with success. Therefore, in issuing this
call to our brother farmers TO meet again,
we feel that We can point with satistac.
stiong to what we have accomplished as an
earnest Of what we hope to accomplish in
the future by united and combined efforts.
The next meeting of the Farmers
Association will be held in Columbia, in
Agricultural Hall, Wednesday night,
November IA, at 8 o'clock P. NJ. Each
county is entitled to send five delegates,
and the executive committee urgently
request that full delegations from every
county be present,
By order of the executive committee.
-. -. B. RI. TILLMAN, Chairman.