Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-06-01

will take all interest with his brother
in the farm and the mercantile bust
ness. Frank has been in bushes in
Sparta for some time, and has maAy
friends, who greatly regret his de-
parture. He has a most excellent
family.
Mrs. Sallie Thomas and her
daughter, Miss Blanche Tarwater, of
Townsville, Ga, arrived one day
last week and are at River Cliff, the
home of Mrs. Thomas mother, to re-
main for several weeks. Mrs.
Thomas has been dangerously ill for
sometime, but is now slowly recover
ing.
The Board of Mayor and Alder
men are the first tenants of Houchin's
new building. They have rented one
of the Office rooms in the Sec
ond story and fitted it up in hand
some style for their business meet
ings. This is the first time the
Board has ever had permanent quar-
tiers. 1t looks like business and prog
ress, and we congratulate the MEM
bers on the move.
"A sudden attack of sickness last
week prevented us from reading the
proof of the last forms of the paper,
and some rather ridiculous errors APP
peared. In the personal notice OF
DIR. jolly the institutions from which
he graduated should have read the
New York "Polyclinic" and the
New Orleans "Polyclinic" instead of
Polytechnic" as it appeared in both
instances.
One of our young business men,
who lives several blocks from the
square, came to town horse back one
night last week. The horse was
hitched to rack, and after attending
to some business matters his owner
footed it home and retired. About
three O'Clock in the morning he
woke up aud inquired of his wife if
he had walked or ridden home from
town that night. We must not for
get to tell you that the gentleman is
strictly temperate, and uses no intoxi-
cants whatever. The horse was
found early the next morning where
he had been left.
Prof. Jas. G. Meadors, Superin-
tendent of the Wartrace High School,
was here from noon last Saturday to
Monday morning, and left an appli-
cation for the position of Superinten-
dent of our City Schools. He is a
graduate Of Washington and Lee
University, Lexington, Va, and he
presents to the Board of Education
some very fiattering testimonials of
his ability and qualifications as an
organizer, instructor and disciplin-
arian. He is just such an ''all
around" man as our schools need,
and the town will be very fortunate
to secure him. Should the choice Of
the Board fall upon Prof. Meadors,
we believe the schools will take on
new life and vigor next fall, and be
made more efficient than ever before.
Would it not be good idea for
the County Court to take some steps
toward securing work house for
Warren county? At every session of
the Circuit Court one or more evil
doors are given work-house sem
tence, and for want of such an insti-
tuition they are simply confined in
the county Jail few days and releas-
ed. This is an expense to the county
and no punishment to that class of
offenders. To be supported in idle
ness is as good thing as they want.
1t does seem that the County Court
might devise some means by which
they could be made to work out their
fines in some kind of labor which
would at least renumerate the coun-
ty for the expense of their board. In
many cases they could be put in the
custody of road overseerS, and re-
quired to work out their fineson pub
lie roads.
DIR. A. B. Ramsey and family
will leave sometime next week for
Tacoma in the new State of Washing
ton, on the Pacific coast, first going to
East Tennessee to spend q few days.
The Doctor having been born and
reared here, and having achieved the
fullest measure of success in his pro.
fession at home, no one who knows
him doubts that he will rapidly rise
to prominence and great usefulness
in his new Western home. He is
heightened christian gentleman, and