Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-18
JoTs AND DOTS.

uleu ldoI lueSuay, leaving Il lOTtune
of 100000.
A writer in the New York Sun fig
ures that national campaign costs
about $2O,0OO,0OO.
The President has issued an order
placing Maj. Gen. Scofield in COM
mand of the army.
Hon. f. M. Wilson has been nomi-
mated by the Democrats of Minneso-
ia for governor.
The Catholic Church of Chattanoo-
ga will be paid a war claim Of $751;
729,OO by the Government.
The first annual session of the Ten
nessee State Farmers Alliance met
in the capitol at Nashville Tuesday.
Barn burners are making trouble in
Franklin county. Two large barns
have recently been fired near Marble
Hill.
The surplus in the United States
Treasury now amounts to $130,000,-
600, and is being increased at the rate
of 100000 per month.
The Secretary of State is now en-
gagged in preparing the 3,70O new
commissions to the magistrates elect
ed on the first Thursday.
Part of the main tower of the In
sane Asylum at Boliver, Tenn, fell
Tuesday morning, killing carpenter
who was at work below.
An escaped convict shot and killed
a man named Waultlaw and his IA
year old son, at South Pittsburg Mon
day night.
The citizens of Bledsoe are confer
ring with President Thomas for the
extension of the railroad from Dun
lap to Pikeville.
The City Board of Health of Nash
vile has declined to quarantine
against the yellow fever refugees
from Jacksonville.
A reunion of the 18th, 23d, and 41st
Tennessee (Confederate) Regiments
will be held at Shelbyville on the
first Thursday in October.
Col. Josiah Patterson, elector fol-
the State at large, will fill list of APP
pointments through east Tennessee
covering the remainder of this
month.
Alfred Smart shot and killed hi
brother-in-law, Samuel Strambler, a
Tullahoma, Tuesday morning. Boil
are negroes. The murderer was ar
rested soon after the crime.
A Hebrew wedding party, includ
ing the bridal couple, were put in thu
lock up at Fall River, Mass. las
Sunday night, for engaging in a Sun
day dance.
The unprecedented number of 16,
795 bills have SO far been introduced
in the House this session, against II,
206 for the two sessions of the las
Congress. a
Maxwell, who murdered Preller il
the Southern hotel at st. Louis abou
three years ago, was finally hanged
for his crime in that city last Friday
morning. "I'
A freight train ran into the rear 0
another freight on the Nashville 4
Chattanooga road last Sunday after
noon, wrecking five or six box cars
and injuring a number of others. N,
one was hurt.
The convent of the Sacred Heart
New York city, the largest institu
tion of the kind in the country, burn
ed Monday night. There were near
, ly two hundred inmates occupyin;
the building, but all escaped.
The Alabama Commissioner of Ag
riculture and a party of gentlemen
from different towns of that Stat
have gone North with special ca
loaded with specimens of Alabam
products. The object Of the trip is t
advertise the resources of the Stat
through the North.
Manchester Times: Messrs. j. G
Wilkinson and Andy Willis hav'
about $500 bushels of oats less thai
they did one week ago. They had
steam thresher at work on their Oat
last Friday, when spark got among
some straw, and before the fire coul
be eXtinguished some 800 bushels c
oats were burned. e.. 90.
The following from a Gallatin lei
ter to the American is anything bu
encouraging: 1.-THE drouth is terribl
, in this section and corn will be short
The usual large yield of late potatoe
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