Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-08-31

N STANDARD-Mcl
THE Murfreesboro papers are agi-
tating the question of new railroad
for that town with a great deal of
energy.
THE Guardian is trying to stir Tul-
lahoma up to the importance of water
works. Manchester has set a good |
example Tor both Tullohoma and
to follow.
PROCTOR KNOTT, the famous Ten
nessee horse, won a race Wednesday
He has lost favor now, as well as
much cash for his hackers, and his
races don't create as much enthusi-
asm as they did few months ago.
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A CONGRESS of representatives of
all the governments of North, South,
and Central America will be held in
Washington in October. At the con-
clusion of the meeting the delegates
will be taken on a general excursion
of the United States, covering a
period of five or six weeks.
MALONE was nominated by accla-
nation for governor of Virginia by
the Republican state convention last
week. He is probably the strongest,as
well as the most corrupt, man the Re-
publicans have in Virginia. He will
give his Democratic opponent warm
race, but it is to be hoped that Billy
Malone as governor will never blot
the fair lame of Virginia.
THE work of getting voters to
register in Nashville is proving up
hill work. The registration books
were opened last Friday, and only
about 600 registered the first day. Ev-
cry other place in the state will like
ly experience the same trouble when
the work is undertaken. This is one
of the new things which does not
take very rapidly.
THE Treasury Department at
Washington has ordered that the
United States flag shall be displayed
over all buildings under its control
during business hours, except in
stormy weather. Wouldn't the stars
and stripes be good sign for every
country postoffice TO display at its
door? We can see but one difficulty
about it. If a fellow had too much
tangle-foot aboard he might mistake
it for the regulation sign of barber
shop.
THE first regular train to pass ovel
the new Knoxville, Cumberland GAP
& Louisville Railroad, on Thursday
of last week, was wrecked twenty.
two miles from Knoxville, the real
coach going through trestle. Only
one man in the coach escaped unin
jured. The train was loaded with
prominent representative business
men of Knoxville, three of whom
were killed, and nearly forty wound
ed. Two others have since died 0
their injuries, and it is feared still
others can not recover.
THE National Editorial Association
is in session at Detroit, Mich, thi
week. From three to five hundred
men who are intimately connected
with all public affairs of the countr,
are gathered there, but the associates
press dispatches contain not a lin
about the meeting. The American
did very magnanimously devote tw
lines at the bottom of a column to j
Wednesday. If two prize fighter
had engaged in a tilt anywhere in tn
United States, it would have bee
, telegraphed to every daily paper j
E the country. Editors seem to
rather small potatoes as subjects {
news.
D AN agent of Mexican mining con
>, panies has been in Alabama for fe'
weeks employing negroes to 60
Mexico and work in the mines. II
y has sent on one squad of a hundre
. and if they are pleased they will r.
port to their friends and several hui
dred Others will follow. Some of OF