Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-12-21
DR.. j. b. Ritchey, Agricultural Editor.
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possible.
AFTER three weeks of ardu0uS
labor Congress has taken a rest until
the 9th of January.
THE authorities of New York are
cutting down the electric light wires
of that city.
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JUST 1000 new bills were introduce
ed on a call of the States in Congress
Wednesday.
THE Senate on Wednesday ratified
the nomination of Brewer as a
Supreme Court Justice.
RUSSIAN influenza is attacking the
people of New York and Boston, and
fears are expressed that it may be-
come epidemic.
IT Is announced that Mrs. Jefferson
Davis will complete the antobiOg>
raphy begun by her husband a
year ago, from materials left in her
hands by Mr.. Davis.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has trans
mitted to, the Senate new eXtradi-
ton treaty with England, which, il
ratified, will make Canada no longer
a refuge for embezzlers from this
country.
THE Cronin trial at Chicago is al
an end, and the jury rendered YER
dict Monday. Three of the prison.
ers get life sentences and one goes uE
for three years. Chicago has but one
sensation now-its scramble for the
worlds fair.
JAKE KILRAIN has been fined $2OC
and sentenced to two months impris'
onment for his participation i'll the
Sullivan-Kilrain prize fight in Mis-
sssippi some months ago. He ap
pcaled the case, and has been admit
ted to bail in the sum of $1,000. Hi
hacker advised him, however, to pay
the fine and serve out the sentence.
ACCORDING to news which is leak
ing out through various sources, ev
erything isn't as serene and lovely il
the new republic of Brazil as at frs
reported. Late reports say that mucl
discomfort is being manifested ameni
soldiers, sailors and people, and tina
the new government is resorting t
some desperate means to sustain tn
new order of things.
EVERY Nashville daily paper tina
has been issued for a week has ha
something to say of speech on
Mr.. J. M. Dickinson of that city
made in Chicago the other day. W
Judge from the comments that h
plastered Nashville over about foe
thick with tatfy. 1t is now in Ordt
for Mr.. Dickinson to be "mentiOr
cd'' for governor.
WASHINGTON news dispatches col
tain the information that Mr.. Blair
will certainly be candidate for tt
Republican presidential nominate
in 1892, and that his friends are no
laying the pipes to that end. III
Democrats will be very well please
to give Grover Cleveland the hont
Of retiring the magnetic statesman
to private life again.
TOUCHING our comment last wee
on an article from the Tullahon
Guardian, regarding the public rO'
question, Hon. B. NJ. Hord, Commi
,iOner of Agriculture, ETC., writes
that though not one of the duties {
rectly imposed upon his departmer
he has set on foot certain investig
tiOns of the very important matter
public roads which he hopes will !
suit in substantial good TO the whC