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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-02-23
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

The conventional rate of interest
bill was defeated in the Senate We'd
nesday.
The Senate rejected the bill author
izing payment to the Bank of Tennes-
see depositOrs, Mr.. Burns being the
only member voting for it.
The Senate re-considered the bill
closing the barber shops on Sunday,
and now the tonsorial artists can con-
tinue business seven days in the
week.
The penitentiary committees have
submitted both majority and minori-
~ reports in the Senate and House.
The minority reports are not very
sweet on our present prisons and
their management.
The bill making it misdemeanOr
To take from any persons inClOsure
or premises stock for use without con-
sent of the owner, has become a law
by the Governors signature being at.
tached. The American very perth
nently remarks that the law former.
~ made this offence horse or cattle
stealing.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-02-23

j. c. BILES, Receiver.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-02-23
Receivers Sale.
In Chancery at McMinnville, Tenn

Anderson, Green q Co., and Others, vs..
A. NJ. st. John.
HAVING been appointed Receiver to take
Z charge of the stock of goods and other
property of Defendant A. NJ. st. John, at
Viola, Tenn, notice is hereby given that !
will receive sealed bids until FRIDAY, THE
lSt DAY OF MARCH,, 1889, at my office
for the stock OF goods and fixtures in the
store house at Viola, Tenn, formerly occu-
pied by 4. VI. ST. John. The party making
the highest bid to give note and good secu-
rity due in six months. Persons wishing to
examine said goods can do so by calling on
Milton Gwyn at the store. The right 10 re.
iect any and all bids is reserved. All per.
sons indebted to A. NJ. ST. John, either by
note or account, are notified TO come for.
ward and settle same with me in 80 days.
This Feb. 18th, 1889.
j. c. BILES, Receiver.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-02-23

An unknown and fatal disease has
broken out among the people of
Webster county, KY, which battles
the skill of the physicians. Fifty
five deaths have resulted from it
since the first of January.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-02-23
NASHVILLE MARKET REPORT.
McMinnville. Feb, % 1889.

Corrected from the Nashville AmericGn
every THURSDAY evening.
The tone of the general market
was active, that is, there was con-
siderable activity in some Of the lead
ing departments. In groceries, how
ever, only a moderate business
characterized the trade. Prices are
unchanged in any particular. Sugar
is steady and coffee firm. Provisions
in moderate demand. Country pro-
duce prices are unchanged from yes
terday. Flour shows an advance Of
10 cents per barrel in all grades.
Wheat is firm at quotations. Feed
stuffs are in only moderate demand.
Wheat, from wagons, good dry,new, % to 50
Corn, from Wagons. ............,.35 TO 80
Corn Meal....". ................'..'.'.....'' 90
Oats .............. neutrality-suspicious.. ~ to 80
Hay, prime timothy, per ton.....Sl5,5O TO 10
Drid Apples.."............,.."..".....,..... "a
EvapOrated Apples. .........,......
Dried Peaches, halves. .........,...... IA
quarters..."..""..""., "a
Dried Blackberrles ............ ..".,...5 TO 514
Feathers, prime ........ ...".. ...."..4413 10 10
Beeswax, choice. ................ ....""".
Rags, well assorted........ ....".....".
Ginseng, dry....... ."..". ..'......l'9O TO 2'lJ
Butter. ...lO 10 u
Eggs...,....... va
Chickens, frying. ............".l2 "a Il
hens Observation-Disclosures. u
rallow, choice ...... 81
Irish Potatoes, per bbl................75t to ,Ot
Wool, unwashed.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS"
tub washed ............,......,..,....
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-02-23
How " &C. Ga" CURED

By taking Hoods Sarsaparilla, which, by
the remarkable cures it has accomplished,
often when other medicines have failed, has
proven itself to be q potent and peculiar
medicine for this disease. Some of these
cures are really wonderful. II you suffer from
scrofula, be sure to try Hoods Sarsaparilla.
"Every spring my wife and children have
been troubled with scrofula, sores breaking
out on them in various places. My little boy,
three years old, has been terrible sufferer.
Last spring he was one mass Of sores from head
to feet. Twas advised to use Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla, and we have all taken 1t. The result
is that all have been cured Of the scrofula,
my little boy being entirely free from sores,
and all four Of my children look bright and
healthy" W. B. ATHERToN, Passaic City, NJ.
Hoods Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists, 81; six fors5 Prepared only
by c. /. HOOD q CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-02-23

\ fire in Nashville last Friday
afternoon consumed all the buildings
Of the Union Stock Yards, the
Traders West End Hotel, and a
dozea other buildings. Loss esti.
mated ut 5000.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-02-23
wz $780,. IS
sCROFULA

1t is that impurity in the blood, which, ac.
cumulating in the glands Of the neck, pro-
duces unsightly Jumps or swellings; which
causes painful running sores on the arms,
legs, or feet; which develOpes ulcers in the
eyes, ears, or nose, often causing blindness or
deafness; which is the origin Of pimples, can
cerous growths, or the many other manifesto
tons usually ascrlbed to "humorsi" which,
fastening upon the lungs, causes consumption
and death. Being the most ancient, it is the
most general of all diseases or affections, for
very few persons are entirely free from it.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15

to give up those forms of exercise, and, as is well known, to confne himself mainly to cutting down trees, which he does habitual- ly. He also was 8 great walker, and not more than fifteen years ago he walked thir- ty-fve miles over the hills in Scotland. In
 my opinion, he is still good for a twenty mile tramp. He always attached the great est importance to physical recreation, and he
 lost no opportunity of encouraging us in
 them. He has proved their benefits and l
 think is not 8 bad specimen of their value. But it was only in manly sports and games,
 in rational recrestions, that he stimulated and
 led us. What did he do aa regards myselfa
 He sent me to Eton, and everyone must be
 pretty well satisfied that lad at Eton would get enough physical recreation.
 Attention has lately been called to the pe- culiarly corrosive, and consequently destruo- tive effect of the creosote of wood soot upon chimneys, owing to the fact that the creosote thus formed from the slow combustion of wood contains so large proportion of pyro- ligneous vinegar or crude acetio acid; this acid being formed in large quantities when the combustion of wood is slow, many quarts, in fact being condensed in cold weather, where large wood fire is very much checked, only few hours being required for such condensation. The acid in question dissolves lime readily, carrying it away in solution, and in this manner the mortar is frequently entirely removed from the tops of chimneys in the country, ,nsw ones suffering in the same way as the old, instances being numerous where the top courses of brick in chimneys only two years old have become entirely without support other than that afforded by the sand with which the lime was mixed.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15
The Hangchow ssBore.o


 Capt. Moore of H. NJ. s. Rambler lately described in paper read before the China Branch of the Royal Asiatio Society the ap- pearance and effects of the remarkable "bore'' which often occurs in Hangchow Bay. This dangerous visitor is the result of the struggle between the advancing tide in the great estuary and the current of the river. Capt. Moore and his officers on sever al occasions observed the progress of the wave, and their investigations are summar- ized as follows: The rate at which the bore travels varies from ten to about thirteen miles per hour. The height of the bore rarely exceeds twelve or fourteen feet, and broken water, in which no small boat could live, follows it for some distance. With the l passing of the wave the tide rises many feet 1 in few secoads; in one instance, observed ! by Capt. Moore, it rose from 9 feet inches below to feet inches above mean level. The rush of the bore was SO strong that the force of the waves breaking against the broadside of the Rambler sent the water in- to the mizzen chains and the spray on to the poop. The junks in that region are pro- ! tected by platforms with narrow steps cut l in the sides. To the north of the estuary is great sea wall, built to protect the sur l rounding country from being flooded by these great tidal waves. It is thirty-five miles long, and 1t is strengthened, where the ! bore strikes most strongly. by an elliptical stone buttress, 253 feet long by 63 feet wide. Behind this the junks are drawn up ! for shelter.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15
ATRAvELING MOUNTAIN.
One That Might Have Saved Mah0m
 fha Trouble of R I0urnaY.

the Trouble of a Journey.
 Such a mountain is found at the Cascades
 of the Columbia, Oregon. It is 8 huge tri
 pie peaked mass of dark brown basalt, six
 or eight miles in length, where it fronts the
 river and rises to height of almost two
 thousand feet above the water.
 That it is in motion is the last thought
 which would be likely to suggest itself to the mind of any one passing it; yet 1t is 6
 well established fact that this entire noun tain is moving slowly but steadily toward the river, as if it had deliberate purpose some time in the future to dam the Colum- bia and form great lake from the cascades to the Dalleg. The Indian traditions indicate immense movements of the mountains here abouts long before white men came to Ore gon; and the early settlers, immigrants many of them from New England, gave the above described mountainous ridge the name of ''traveling mountain" or "sliding moun' tain."
 In its forward and downward movement the forests along the base of the ridge have become submerged in the river. Large tree stubs can be seen standing deep in the water on this shore. The railway engineers and the trackmen find that the line of the rail- road which skirts the foot of the mountain is being continually forced out of place. At certain points the roadbed and rails have been pushed eight or ten feet out of line in the course of few years.
 The mountain ia manifestly moving upon the river, and it is stated in the Chicago Herald that gsologists attribute this strange phenomenon to the fact that the basalt which constitutes the bulk of the mountain rests on & substratum of conglomerate, or of soft sandstone. which the deep, swift cur rent of the mighty river is constantly wear ing away; that this softer subrock is of itself yielding, at great depths, to the enor- nous weight of the harder material abovs it. A ship canal and 8 series of very expen- sive locks for facilitating navigation on the Columbia have been determined on at the Cascades abreast of this ridge, and large ap- propriations of money from the national treasury have been made for the work by Congress. It remains to be seen how "trav- cling mountain" will affect the heavy mason ry of these structures.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15
MCINTYRE, MAGl|RI < GO.
Hamburg Fl0unCes.

THE GREATEST VALUE ON RECORD.
 25c for 45 inch Swiss Flounce, 27 inch needlework. Compare with any sold at 5Oc.
 29c up to $1, we show line of Hamburg and Swiss Flounces. For work, quality and 1owness of price they are without exception the marvel of the age. No house can expect to compete against such enormous values- it isn't possible at this stage of the game.
 $1.OO, we offer 45 inch Hemstitched Flounces, with an actual work of 3S inches. It is impossible for any lady to appreciate our values without seeing them; therefore, we earnestly and politely invite every lady to look at our Hamburg and Flounce show ing. Our designs will be admired, and we are sure our values will be enthusiast tically pronounced superb.
 17c to $1.00, we show a line of IS to 27 inch Flounces, both in Swiss, Nainsook and Cambric, hemstitched goods; from soc up splendid values.
 1Oc and 121Sc for RuchinR, such as usual ly sold at 2Oc and 25c yard. In introduc- ing these goods we claim and justly, too, that no concern in this country, matters little how big, can match them under 200 and 25c yard.
 19c and 25c yard, we offer manufac- turer's stock of short lengths. The price is just half what same goods cost if bought in 12 yard pieces.
 Lord Fauntleroy sets, in plain Linen and Embroidered, at lowest prices.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15
Lace Department.

Opportunities like these occur only when we by good luck procure lots far below mar ket price.
 59c for 40 inch Black Spanish Guipure Flouncing is price unheard of where qual- ity is looked at; only at S711c can you buy as good.
 $1.OO for 42 inch Black Spanish Guipure Flounce, one of the latest designs; 1t looks much the same in effect as the pieces sold by us so readily at $500.
 fer 42 inch Black Chantilly Flounce; we have lower grades and in good value, but to offer pattern such as this one is at $1.19 is to give our patrons the greatest bargain ever shown under $1. 50.
 $1.29 and up to $3.5O, 25 pieces special values in Chantilly Flounces. Magnificent goods, we'll worth examining, as they are cheap.
 $1.00 for Black Tosca Net, same as sold at $1.371s.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15
Wednesday, May IS, 1889.
THE PROsPKRITW OF FRANCE.

THE PROSPERGTX OF FRANCE.
 The centennial celebrations that are now taking place in France have brought out much that is interesting concerning the changes that have taken place in the country during the last one hundred years. In popu- lation the increase has not been very striking. in 1886 the census puts the number at 39,- 900, ,000, showing gain of only about 40 per cent. in eighty-fve years. But in 1789 the government income was $135, ,000, ,0eO; it is now more than $6OO,00O,OOO. Yet the cost of collecting this income in 17S9 was $22,- 50O, 900, while the cost of collecting a na- tional revenue more than four times as large is at present only about $35, ,0e0,000. The value of personal property in France cen- tury ago was estimated at $60, 0,000,0 ,000, an amount SO small that it suggests undervalua- tion; the present estimate is $1 SOC, ,000, ,000. There were no savings banks in 17S9, but those that now exist have deposits exceeding $500, 100000.
 In 1789 the general trade of France was about $20O, ,00o, ,O0O per annum, of which $115, ,000,0 900 was imports and $s5, ,000, 900 e4pOrts III Ieceut years the SouoIhl tra0o Ol France has reached s1 ,s70, ,00O, 900 per annum of which s1, ,02o, ,00o, ,O0e has been imports and $850, ,000, 900 exports, the proportion between imports and exports being much the same as it was 8 century ago. The value of land has also increased in striking way. The avsr- age price @ century ago is set at $40 per acre; it is now $135 and has been higher than this. In 17s9 there were 10000, 900 acres under wheat, yielding 11O, ,00o, 900 bushels, or eleven bushels to the acre; now the average acreage in wheat is F, 800, 900 and the yield 2s4 ,0o0,- 900 bushels, ,or eighteen bushels an acre. But in spite of the improvement in farming, the price of bread remains much the same. A four-pound loaf, which cost eighteen cents in 1900, now sells for seventeen cents. The price for this standard loaf went as high as twenty-four cents in 1S47 and ss low as twelve cents in 1863. Wages in all classes of employment have risen enormously in the last hundred years, for in 1799 the agricultural laborer did not receive more than twelve cents day, while the average wage of the farm laborer at the present time is fully fifty cents day.
 This is a cheerful showing. And if France can keep out of war there is no reason why she cannot continue to prosper.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15

Crock.
 From the Jewellers Weeklyl
 Every ieweler has doubtless met with many curious incidents in his business career, but
 | worth relating. Shortly after the holidays
 | there came into my place a pleasant man.
 l nered young man who expressed desire to
 look at some gold necklaces. It is needless
 l to say that sold him one. It was fourteen
 | carat and very pretty. Two days later the door was flung open and in rushed the same young man boiling with rage. He threw the necklace on the counter, demanded the re- turn of his money and threatened to expose
 me as g swindler. It took half an hour to
 learn his story.
 It seems that after presenting the necklace
 ! to his lady love he had taken her to a recsp-
 | tion, ornamented with his present. After
 ! the first dance there was commotion in one
 ! corner of the room, and the rivals of our
 ! customers best girl were twittering among | themselves and whispering about her.
 The young lady looked in the glass and
 | almost tainted at the sight. Her beautiful neck was almost black from the friction of
 ! the necklace. She changed her mind about
 | fainting, returned home with her brother | and sent the necklace back to her young
 man with note that she did not like his
 brass.
 tested the necklace in his presence and proved to him that it was full fourteen ca- rats. About that time young physician called to purchase scarf pin. He had over heard part of the story and asked to hear the balance, as he believed he could throw some light on the subject. "Why, sir, the trouble is with your girl and not with the necklace She has too much sulphdr, iron, mercury, salt or acid in her blood, and as any of these substances has an affinity for gold the expla- nation is clear. I have patients for whom mercurial medicines have been prescribed, ard the result is that their fingers upon ! which rings are worn diseolor at once." My ! customer cooled of and carried his purchase away.
 In connection with this subject a good ! story Is told at the expense of Maiden lane dealer. He gave his sister an eighteen carat ring as a present. He is 8 practical joker and she asked him if the ring was gold. He replied that it was. That evening the young lady had occasion to remove the ring from her finger, and she noticed that the skin was greatly discolored. "Jim has carried his jokes too far," she exclaimed, and, opening the window, threw the trinket into the street. Some gamin picked it up. When my friend learned of it he came to me for consolation, and explained my own experience. His sister is sorry for her haste.
 "All is not gold that glitters," nor is eve- ing fourteen carat ring on one finger and ten carat on another may have noticed that the finger with the higher carat will be dis colored and the other one not. The reason is that the ring of the lower carat fits snug1y and the other is rather loose, thus causing friction.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15
Lace Caps.

Customers must not suppose because we do not keep Millinery department that we do not keep Lace Caps. We keep them and in larger variety than Millinery stores. We wish to draw your attention to our line of Caps at the following prices:
 19c for Infants and Children's Caps; 6 fine line of styles and equal to any sold at double the money.
 25c to soc, special line of Caps in 10 diff ferent styles. The majority of these are the same as sold in this city at 50c to $1.00.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15
VOL. LVII.
9r1y 8nnds.
Howe & StetSOn
HOW IS THIS

Two cases of full yard wide Printed Batiste, handsome styles on ecrue and white grounds, at the low price of sc per yard. We have the exclusive sale of these remarkable goods. Usual price is 12Hc.
 GLOVES, HANDKERCHIEFS.
 Bargain seekers will find spe- cial values on our Gloves and Handkerchiefs counter during this week. We offer a fine Poster Lacing" Kid at 5oc; the usual $I.oo quality.
 The Great Selling Kid Gloves are our popular 5 button Gloves at 7oc. We have just received a choice assortment of the new French Greys in these goods.
 New shades and new styles in Taffeta and Silk Gloves from 25c to $1.oo per pair.
 Our Kid Tipped Silk Gloves will please ladies looking for comfort and durability,
 Special Bargain in Lisle Gloves at I3c per pair.
 Just for this week we shall sell our 25c White Hemstitched Handkerchiefs at 18c, also our POO quality at I2Hc.
 Black Grenadine, Pure Silk, at CSC per yard. These goods have never been sold less than $1. While at this counter ask to see our Silk Warp Black Hen riettas at 8oc.
 One case, double width, Cream Danish Cloths 12Hc yard; same as we sold last Summer at I7c.
 Extra drives in Children's White Muslin and Lace Caps at 1oc and 25c each.
 Special Bargains in Fancy Parasols at $2.48 each; regular $3.25 and $3.5o goods-only a small lot.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15
HandkerChiefs.

Our assortment just right. Ladies or Gentlemen can have their Handkerchiefs at less than import prices.
 25c for 3, Ladies' H. s. all Linen Hand kerchiefs. The quality is what makes the price cheap; look at them, you never bought same value under 121ac each.
 19c and 25c, Ladies' Embroidered (French) all Linen H. s. and scalloped edge Handker- chiefs; the best value we ever offered.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15

disgust changed to admiration. In making change he took closer look az the bill and on the back he found the stamp "Suspsnded 1884. Free Press.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15
SDeCiaI introduction,

39c and 49c, 50 pieces 45 inch Chambray Flouuces, needlework embroidery 36 inches deep. These come in Light Pink, Light Blue and Cardinal. Impossible to match them in America under 100 to $1.25 yard.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15
Gents Handkerchiefs,

From 5c each to 25c, we show a line of plain and colored bordered Handkerchiefs seldom seen in any dry goods store. The values will please you.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15
k CURE GAN BE EFFECTED.

Any Truss or Supporter which is not com fortable and does not accomplish the object for which it is worn is worse than useless and should be discarded.
 With an experience of more than twenty years in the treatment of Hernia, Weakness es and Deformities requiring mechanical support, we are warranted in the statement that satisfaction will be guaranteed in ev- cry case entrusted to our care.
 All appliances ars made especially for our own fitting, and often expressly for the in- dividual case at hand, and carefully adjusted.
 All our Elastic Goods, Stockings, Knee Caps, Anklets. Wristlets and Abdominal Supporters for varicose veins, weak or sprained joints. corpulency, etc., are woven on our own looms and warranted fresh and we'll made of the very best material.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15

District of New Haven, ss., Probate Court, UPSTATE of CHARLES MORRIS, late of New H Haven, in said district, deceased. The Court of Probate for the district of New Ha- ven hath appointed Samuel A. York and Isaac Wolfe, both of New Haven, commissioners to re- ceive and examine the claims heretofore presented to the administrator on said estate.
 Certified by
 TIMOTHY E. CALLAHAN Clerk. The subscribers give notice that they shall meet at No 157 Church street in said New Haven, on the 20th day of May 1S99 at 10 o'clock in the forenoon on said day, for the purpose of attending on the business of said appointment.
 SAMUEL A. YORK, -.k-< ISAAC WOLFE,
 Commissioners. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to rn14 3td HENRY e. GOODWIN, Administrator,
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15
WITH A SUITABLE
 TRUSS,

Properly adjusted, every person with Her mia, or Rupture, may be made safe and comfortable, and often
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15
GIRLS AND GOLD.

It Is Sometimes One and Sometimes the Other That Makes JeWelfy Crock.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A Boston girl has married a Chinaman China and Boston are both very literary.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-15
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 New Haven. Conn.