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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-10-26
1T is ASTONISHING.
The Idea of Giving Away One Thcu-
sand Building Louis.

The CHATTANOOGA WEEKLY
TIMES has fairly paralized all efforts
of American journalism in the way
of liberal premium offer to its SUBJ
scribers. We have never heard
anything to equal it before. This is
the offer: On July /, 1890, the
WEEKLY TIMES will distribute en-
tirely free among its subscribers one
thousand beautiful building lots in
gainesville" each lot being 2jx140
feet. "Timesville,' is located on
the Cumberland table land, or pla-
teau of Walden's Ridge, $3.50 feet
above the sea, and Overlooks the
beautiful Tennessee valley, the City
Of Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain,
Mission Ridge and all of those battle
fields so famed in song and history.
Property in the vicinity of Chatta-
nooga is valuable and is rapidly in
creaSlng IN worth the population of
the city has increased about $1,000 in
nine years and from this the demand
for desirable property has greatly in
creased. Hence we cannot fully
understand how the WEEKLY TIMES
can to give away among its subscribe
er5 1000 buildings lots; but the repu-
tation Of the paper isSuch as to make
it positive that every promise will be
carried out. The price Of the WEEK
LY TIMES is $l.00 per year and every
subscriber receive, "a numbered tick
ct emitting the holder 70 partici
pate in this grand distribution. The
WEEKLY TIMES, Chattanooga
Tenn, wants agents everywhere.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-10-26
Wonderful Popularity

The fact that the sale Of DR., Pierce's Pleas.
ant Purgative Pellets exceeds that of any
other pill in the market, be it great or small
is on account Of the fact that they are tiny,
little sugar.coated granules, and that in
most cases one little "Pelet" is sufficient
fora dose; that they are purely vegetable
and perfectly harmless; and for constipation,
biliousness, sick heaoache, and all diseases
arising from arrangement of the liver, stom.
ach or bowels, they are absolutely a specific
\ gentle laxative or active c5thauic, ac'
cording To size of dose.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-10-26
ARp-McMINNVILLE TENNESSEE SATURDAY,-oCT %, 1885,
The Raisin Industry of California.


Scientific American.
Fresno County, the geographical
center Of the fertile and extensive
San Joaquine Valley, is the head
quarters Of this rapidly growing in~
FAINT industry. The soil and climate
prove so well adapted to the growth
and curing Of the fruit that the prG-
duction has increased from $4,000
twenty-pomd boxes, three years
ago, to over 800 OO0 boxes the current
year. New acreage has recently been
added to such an extent that it is
estimated the crop Of 1890 will eX-
coed two and one-half million boxes.
The muScatel, Of Alexandria, and
the muS"at, Of Gorda Blanca, are the
two varieties grown. The average
yield is three tons of fruit per acre,
which is dried for ten days on trays
in the vineyard, and hauled in large
shallow boxes to packing houses at
the railroad, and placed in sweating
rooms to complete the curing process.
They are then sorted by the nimble
fingers ofgirls. The fine large punches
on the stems are selected for the first
quality, and called London layers.
These are worth $40 per box. The
remainder are run through a large
machine similar tn a flaming mill
used by farmers for . ... ming small
grain. This detaches the scattering
raisins from the stems, blows away
the refuse, runs the fruit over screens
and sorts it into two additional
grades, called loose. Muscatels are
worth from 40 to $l.7j per box OF
20 h., according to quality.
The farmer is paid from five to six
cents per pound for the fruit in its
roughly dried state. Three and one
half pounds Of green grapes make
one pound of raisins.
Al the present prices Of fruit, the
farmer receives an average of SIZE
net per acre. The gross receipts OF
one small vineyard of two acres, this
year, was $3.50, out of which.$l0O was
paid for labor.
The land is irrigated, the water
being brought long distances, in
canals, by water companies, and costs
the farmer about so per acre pei
annum. So lucrative is the business
that it is attracting general attention
Large tracts are being subdivided
into twenty acre lots, and sold al
500 per acre and upward, that three
years ago could have been had fol
so per acre.
The combination requisite to sue
cess in the business, viz, a suitable
soil, prolonged hot and exceeding
ly dry. atmosphere, bright, sunny
days, and an abundance of water fol
irrigation, is here obtained to per
lection and the industry has re
ceived an impetus that threatens t.
absorb all the available land il
Fresno, Tulare,and MERGED Counties
an acreage exceeding that of New
England.
An average of ten car loads O
; raisins.are now going forward dali,
to the Eastern States from Fresh
County alone.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-10-26
A Northern View OF the Negro,

The following extract from the
Journal of Commerce shows that this
high authority is disposed to treat
great question fairly in the moral
fact Of it as a'thing of history. Says
the Journal
"Whatever yearning the slave had
for change Of condition were, of
course, wholly repressed. He must
be content with his lot, and accept
the yoke whether it CALLED or not,
and the more he chafed the worse
was the bondage. In general he was
happy and contcnted. We do not
believe there were 50 many millions
Of t0ilers in any field the world over
who had 50 little care or anxiety or
personal suffering, put all their ills
together, as the negro slaves before
the war. Their lot was bright be-
You'd all measure, compared with
Others Of like hue on any continent.
Paint the horrors of the "middle
passage" as black as we can, and the
negro from the wilds of Africa who
reached better home and more
comfortable lot, under the average
Southern master, could not complain
of the change. To him it was a boon
in all that compensates for a life of
service"
That is just the point. Every in
telligent man who is familiar with
the management of Southern
plantation knows that the negro
slaves were all members of the house
hold, and that the discipline, except
in rare exceptions, was kindly. The
behavior of the negroes during the
civil war is sufficient proof of this,
for they were often virtually in con-
troll of vast areas of country, where
there were only few old men amp
boys to protect the white families.
The tradition Of the negro slave
was that he had been brought from
savage state into a pleasant climate
and put under the influences O
Christianity and civilization.
The work he did was much easier
to him than it would have been to {
white man, and as a general thing
he was happy. He worked all day
and picked the banjo and danced al
night, hunted the coon and opossum
and when he stole the watermelon
his master laughed at the lark anC
protected him from the constable. |
F is in vain, however, to paint thi
picture for the Northern spectator.
The Northern people do not under
stand that the negro under kindly
control is a good worker and a gooC
citizen, but when made master be
comes a barbarian.
We may prate as we may about tn
"problem," but all there is to it is t.
let the Southern States have tn
3 rights that Northern States have t
| manage their own affairs. Whel
. that is done the negro will quietl,
and happily take up his estate accord
ing to his color and inferior position
and the intelligence of the countr
will do for him better than he can d
for himself.-Richmond Times.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-10-26
The Office of Vegetation.

y. L. Farmer
There is no chance to doubt the
salutary effect of vegetation, includ-
ing even the most noXious and
troublesome weeds, in not only
freeing the soil of decayed matter
that would furnish a basis for disease
germs, but also in purifying the air.
Weeds are generally considered an
evil but in wa ste places as well as
around sink drains and cesspools
oftentimes, they thus become bless
ing. Rainy, wet weather would, in
my opinion, prove much more I'M
healthy if it were not for the vegeta-
ton springing up so luXuriantly dur
ing such periods. Vegetation aids
greatly in disposing of any surplus
dampness in the atmosphere the
tendency of which if allowed to acs
cumulate buyond certain limit is to
terminate disease.
If there was no vegetable life to
consume decayed and putrid matter,
it would never be safe to spread such
matter, or any fertilizing material
whatever, upon the soil in proximity
to dwellings or people.
Vegetation, therefore, fills a much
larger office, performs aservice much
greater than simply that of furnish
ing food for living things, for, while
it is developing, it is remedial in its
effects, undoubtedly destroying by
absorption many incipient germs of
disease.
Thus do elements injurious become
health-promOtmg. Thus does the
economy of nature change our enc.
mics to most valuable friends. The
whole process of nature is round OF
life and death,-life from death and
death from life, and the transfOrma-
tiOns always seem remedialas well as
progressive. \. p. REED.
Bsg" English SPAWN Liniment re-
moves all Hard, Soft OF Callouset
Lumps and BlemiShes from horses
Blood SPAWN, Curbs, Splints, Sween
ey, STILES, Sprains Sore and Swoller
rhrOt, Coughs, etc. Save $50 by
use of one bottle. Sold by Ritchel
~ BoStick, Druggists, NcNIinnvillc.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-10-26
Lite In Japan.

From an article in the September
Century, by the artist WOreS, we
duote the following: "In Japan,
women have always held higher
position than in other Asiatic coun-
tries. They go about freely wherev-
er they please, and the seclusion Of
the Chinese is wholly unknown to
them. The schools receive as many
girls as boys: and as result Of my
observations l can safely, without
idle compliment, say that the former
are brighter the latter.
"By degrees, and under these fav-
orable conditions for general obserVa-
ton, some of the causes of the peo-
pies happy spirit of independence
began to be revealed to me. The
simplicity of their lives, in which en-
tiers no selfish rivolry to Guido one
another, accounts in large measure
for this enviable result. Regarding
one another very much as belonging
to one family, their msde of life is
more or less on the same plane, and
consequently spirit of great har-
mony prevails. A very small in~
come is sufficient to supply the ordi>
nary necessities of life, and every
thing else is secured with but little
effort. Household effects are few
and inexpensive; and should every
thing be destroyed by fire or lost in
any way, tits not an irreparable cal
amity. All can be replaced at a
small outlay, and life go on as before.
"The tenant upon renting house is
but to little eXpence to furnish it ;
indeed, he requires absolutely no
furniture at all. The clean, finely
woven mats which cover the floor,
serve as table, chair and bed; and
as it is the universal custom to re-
move the Shoes before entering Il
house, there is no danger of ones
bringing with him the dirt from the
streets.
"His bedding consists of cotton
quilts, which are spread out on the
floor at night, rolled together in the
morning, and stored away in closet
during the day. A few picturs (kake
n,Ona) and specimens of beautiful
script decorate the walls, a few vases
containing sprays of flowers, and (
number of cushions on the floor
complete the furnishing of a room
Yet it does not seem empty or cheer
less; for the general arrangement o
harmonious colors, the differen
woods employed in its visible con
struction, and the beauty Of the fin
ished workmanship, make a mos
harmonious and pleasing compina
ton. Paint is never used to cove
the wood, much less to substitute {
false grain"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-10-26
Insolvent Notice.

The insolvency of the estate of Jas. Gun.
bingham, deed, having been suggested to
the honorable County Court of Warren
County all persons having claims against
said estate are hereby notified to file same,
duly authenticated, with the undersigned
on or before the first day of April, 1890, or
the same will be forever barred, both in law
and equity.
Ibis Sept. Is, 1889.
S. l.. CUNNINGHAM. Admir-
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-10-26
PHOTOGRAPHIC

When you visit Nashville don't lailto call
at The elegantly fitted Ground Floor Photo
yruh Gallery Of MessrS. Staples Il Co.,
GuG Caurrh st. oppn>ire Watkins Institute,
aud lou viii see the finest specimens of
Photographs made in the South They are
ptcially prepared to make Crayon Portraits
Copiry from old pictures, ETC., also carry a
han t>.1ur Hnruf Frames. Mouldngs, etc
Hts, ph"'ugrarhs q successful specially
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-10-26

There is nothing in existence that
will equal Salvation Oil in curing
pain in the joint, and muscles, or spi-
nal affections. Price - cents.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-10-26

Why is a baby like wheat? Because
it is first Graded, then thrashed
and finally becomes the flower of the
family, thanks to DIR. Bulls Baby
Syrup.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-02
THB LETTER.
Nv Dear Sir and Brother:

Ny Dear Sir and Brother:
The pending campaign is, the
,mostimportant one which has con-
'nted our people for many years.
Sitl victory it is the conSumma
/ion and rounding up of the politi-
cal results of last year.
A ticket has been presented
which the past demonstrates is not
unfriendly to our race. The only
cry left the Democratic party is
the stale one of NEGRO domina-
tion,n i'll which we all know there
lis nothing. The negro cannot be
trnthfnlly charged with amy desire
for supremacy in the administra
Iration of public affairs. All we
want and ask are our rights before
the law aud Il fair chance unhlnd
cred by. political nlayevolence III
tile race of life. We continue in
belief that this can best be done
through the medium of the Pepnb
lican party, and we urge upon you
to do all in your power to instruct
our people and to help TO elect the
tlcket-Mahone, Slemp, and Lurty.
Richmond Dispatch.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-02
Frprlnei, Of Ace M c, do yop

~ {
Frprmel Of acc, IN. c, do you.
want II ,'fsrfN G .yo, RI belty,,you
civilization, Your schools, your.
white otlirrls. -yonrhonor and.good
name? Tfycn do, vote for Phil w.
Mckinney and the whole Demo.
cratic ticket.
DO you want toretain Virginia's
Circuit Judges selected by Viz
ginia's white rep esentatiyes? If
you do, votethe Democratic ticket.
Do you want to select yonrcoun-
ty Judge, to fill the vacancy oc-
casioned by the resignation of
Judge Garrison?, Ifyou do, vote
the Democratic ticket. Look. at
the leaders arrayed against you in
the county of Accomac and answer
if You are willing 10 put the con-
troll of vourinterestsin their hands.
If you are not. then vote the Dem
ocratic ticket.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-02
The rrohibition-Republican COM

The neutrality-suspicious. CON-
bipa ton candidates for the Gener-
al Assembly in this county have
had printed and are circulating a
hogns Democratic ticke1 with
which they evidently hopeto catch
the votes of The ignorant and un
suspecting 1t is headed "Demo-
cratic ticbetnin bold letters, and
contains the names Of the Demo
cratic candidates for State offices
and the Republican Prohibition
candidates for the Senate and
House of Delegates, This is IL
characteristic Malone Republican
trick. bnt it lacks the element of
shrewdncss that generally charact-
erizes the work ofthe Little Tyrant,
unless forsooth the miSSpellinS of
Captain Philip w. McKinney;'s
name on this bogus ticket is to be
taken an evidence ofthe political
sagacity as well as the learning Of
its authors.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-02

Don't throw yOuI vote away by
voting the Observation-Disclosures
combination ticket. Vote for men
who are not afraid or ashamed ia
sail under their own colors, and he
sure that you do NOT vote for men
who put their names on ticket
where they do not belong. Don't
vote for men who though nomi-
mated by frohibitionists and snip
ported by Republicans lesorv to
the Questional method of putting
their names on a ticket which they
are distributing as a "Democratic
ticket" to catch gnllihle and unsus
pecting voters. Don't vote the
Sickly green bogus ticket which
the Prohlb;tioniSrs and Repnhli-
cans have gotten up TO draw votes
from the Democratic party. Vote
an honest. manly. straight Demo
cratic ticket. Don't soil your hands
by handling a ticket that was got.
ten up to deceive the people.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-02

DO yon want Your administrator
appointed by Malone and your
family deprived of tho right of Sc
lecion9 1t yondo, vote for Malone.
Do you want a@newspaper os
tablislled in your county supported
by forced contributions from souf
lfyon do, vote fol. Mahone.
10 yon want.Maholie's satraps
appointed in Richmond to sell all
the lands decread.to be sold byy>sastte
courts? Ifyou do, vote Tor Malone.
DO You want 10 ask permission
of Mahone's henchmen before you
can be notary public? Ifyou do,
vote for Malone.
Do You want federal appointees
backed by federal soldiers TO con-
troll your eleciionsq II yon do, vote
for Malone.
Do oh want mixed schools? If.
you do, vote for Malone.
DO You wanl mixed marriagesF
If you do, vnte f'r Malone.
Do you want Virginia robbed of
her public property, as she was OF
her six millions OF dollars invested
in the Atlantic and Mississippi r.
RI If yon do. vote for Mahone.-
Where did the money go7 Echo
answers where; Malone had charge
of it aud from poverty became a
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS lost all,
DO you want negro trustees TO
control and govern your schools as
was the case in Richmond under
the Cameron administration? If
You do, vote for Malone.
Do You want 10000 of Mahone's
appointees in office and the rail
roads to lord it over you2 Ifyou
do, vote tor Malone.
All these things and many more.
he attempted when in power in
1882 SIS and would have fixed upon
yon but for Massey aud the four
honest men WHO backed him in the
revolt.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-02
PREACHERS APPEAL.
Negro Pastors issue DECENTRALIZATION
OIL Behalf Of MahOae.
Democrats. Won must awaken!

Democrats, You must awaken!
Apathy. Indifference, or negli-
gence will bring defeat upon yon.
The negroes are organizing more
Solidly than ever before.
They have their walking" and
sridlng Bosses" they have their
midnight conclaves, and, What Is
more potential with them than
anything else. they have their
chulch-meetings. where lle women
unite with the preachers TO inaamc
and influence them. All their
work is done silently, secretly, and
Systematically, and this with the
lptoIerant feeling produced by in
cendiary white orators will result
in tie entire negro voting popula
tion going to the polls with a
unanimity and fxity Of purpose
never before paralleled.
Malone has been specially or
ganizing the colore,l pas ors TO ex-
ert their vast leverage Of influence
upon the black vote. Hero is u
letter, never intended to get into
the newspapers, they have sent
forth, and the meaning OF It is that
the color line is to be so tightly
drawn that no colored man who
wishes to vote The Democratic
ticket will he allowed to do so if
spying eycs,race prejudice, and the
power OF the Church can prevent
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-02
AN OUTRAGE.
The Arrest Of the Charlotte Judges Of
Election.

81. -
Souri, BOSTON. Va, October
.2G-The arrest of the judges Of
election at Aspinwall precinct, in
Charlotte county, by n United
States deputy marshal has caused
much talk and stir here in Demo-
cratic circles. Great Indignation
liz expressed and manifested and
our people are becoming highly
wrought up by such methods Of
retty persecution and attempted
Intimidation. The Sonth Boston
Democratic Clubs this evening is.
ancd the following address to the
people Of Halifax:
Rooms SOUTH BOSTON DEMo-)
CRATIC CLUBS. SOUTH Bos :.
TON. October &c, 1889.
Intelligence has reached us to
Cay that II United States marshal
acting under the direction of Will
Iliam Malone, the Republican can
didate for Governor of Virginia,
has arrested and taken 10 lynch
I-hnrg for trial before a United
States commissioners the judges f
election at Aspinwall precinc',
Charlotte county. This attempt
to drag the judicial ermine into
the mire and filth of party politics
for personal ends only shows the
i desperate straits to which MAJ
|.hone's canvass is reduced, and that
lie will resort TO any means. how
ever base, and wnnll even trample
1.-THE liberties of the people under
foot to elect himself Governor. IT.
is well known that the people Of
Halifax and Charlotte counties are
tile special objects of his hatred,
and If placed in power over them
he will wreak his vengeance. This
may he bnt the beginning of
series of diabolical acts to lntimi
date the judges Of election and
prevent them from performing
their duties on election day. Let
the people of Halifax take warning
from this. It's the fight o! the
people againsta tyrant and lnspor.
Let every man lay aside his pr
vate business and work from now
until the polls close OH election.
day, and rehukn this tyranncal
usnrper Of power by giving he
largest Democratic majority, Hall
fax has ever given. II we will be
true to ourselves and he men we
need not fear The result. Arise III
your majesty aud might aud bnry
forever the political hopes ofthis
Virginia outcaSt.-Riclnnond Dis
patch.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-02
f the Democrats of the Eastern


If The Democrats of the Eastern
Shore will tnrn out next Tuesday
aud do their duty, these Republic
Prohibition candidates will be
buried beneath an avalanche Of
Totes and consigned with Boss Ma
hone to the shades of private life.
And yet the overwhelming defeat
that awaits them will not he an
unmixed evil to them, if 1T teaches
them to have n more modest esti-
mate Of their capacities as states
men and to spell Philip with only
one !.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-02

There were more than three
hundred thousand votes cast in
Virginia in the Presidential cleo.
tion last fall, and the Democrats
carried the State by only fifteen
hundred majority. A change OF
eight men in every comfy would
have gwen The State to the Re-
publicans; or if 1G Democrats i'll
every county had voted for tile
Prohibition candidates the vote of
tie State would have been cast for
Harrison. The Prohibition move
ment here j., in the interest Of the
Malone party. Their candidates
for the General Assembly will re.
ceive the Republican vote, and a
vote cast for them is a vote for
Malone. Democrats, let them
alone.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-02
The Malignant Sonth-haters and

The malignant Sonth-haterS and
bloody-shirt wavers of the North
are giving Malone all the aid thcv
can in his canvass. Burrows the
advocate of mixed schools and 9TH
err hypocritical South hating Radi
Gals from the North have been i'm.
ported'into this State by Malone
to teach the eople how to vote in
this election. Let the people of
Virginia rebuke he impudence of
these rascals IN such Il way as to
send them back bowling to their
dens.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-02

White men of Accomac, read
carefully the negro preachers cir
cular and the address ofthe Demo
cratic club of South Boston, pub
lisIed in another column, and then
determine whether or not you are
willing TO vote for Malone.