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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-01-26
Town Topics
Local and Personal Briefs,

-ollldItt lUT DtSl lODuCCO,
--Smartt's for canned goods
-Smartt's for fresh groceries.
--Smartt's for choice smoke.
-Smartt's for the best of every
thing in groceries, CONNECTIONS, cigars
and tobaccos.
Go to Vests for country produce.
Timothy and Red Top Seeds for
sale by Ritchy and Bostick.
Miss Angie Paine left Tuesday
fora short visit to Jasper.
Onion sets and garden seeds are
beginning to be displayed in the
stores.
20 Bags Fresh Glover Seed re-
ceived and for sale by Ritchey &
Bostick.
Everything fresh and choice in
the grocery line will be found at
Smart & Co.'S.
All of the new shapes and pretty
designs in box papers at Ritchey &
Bostick's.
The Warren House register
shows another long list of CONNER
cial tourists this week.
-Landreth's Fresh Garden Seeds
in Bulk and papers just received by
Ritchey q Bostick.
Miss Maggie Biles is spending
the week with Miss Belle Smart at
Smartt's Station.
Mrs. Fanny Bellamy of Carks-
vile, is visiting her mother, Mrs.
Biles, on Smithville street.
Miss MuSa Stone returned home
Monday, after pleasant visit to
friends and relatives in this place.
Mr.. w. w. Hoodenpyl, who has
been residing at Woodbury. for sever
al months, was here on a visit one
day this week.
Mr.. Thos. MadduX is fencing in
his lot in the Creamery addition, and
will begin work on his building in
about two weeks.
"A lecture will be given to the
Finger Chapel Sunday school at II
o'clock on Sunday morning, the 26tf
inst, subject, 1.-THE Brave Scholar. ,
Houston Durley, col, living neal
SMART station, had the misfortune tC
lose valuable mare few days ago
In running over frozen ground, shC
fell and killed herself.
--Messrs. Mitchell & Clements have
retired from the New Era and thu
former editor and publisher, Mr.. w
W. Wallace, assumed control of tn,
paper again this week.
Choice lot in Creamery addition
for sale. a house of five rooms t
rent on Park Street. Rooms on Mali
street for small family.
w. a. JOHNSON, Agt.
The STANDARD Office will re
ceive another big stock of stationer.
next week, some of the pretties
goods we have ever handled. Civ
US your orders if you want artist
job work.
The Creamery here has susper
ded operations, being unable to secur
enough milk to run. There is
probability of the machinery bein
sold and the building converted int
some other kind of enterprise.
Merchants are mere middlemel
They don't create any business and
matters not whether a town has
dozen or hundred firms. Manufa
tories and productive industries al
the things to build up town. The
make the merchants as well as Il
town.
-Messrs. J. NJ. Shofner and Il.
Green were here a day or two tn
week on business with Capt. Ruthe
ford. They have several saw mil
at work in western Kentecky ,cuttir
lum"er for the Singer Manufacture
Company,and are both as clever gel
tlemen as ever measured logs.
The Nashville American has c
thanks for copy of the Cumberlar
Almanac for 1889. 1t contains maj
useful tables relative to Tenness
elections and other matters. 1t
sent as premium toevery subscrib
m fbc Wanlylv America,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-01-26
Collars and Cuffs.

Leave your laundry at Humans
store on Mondays or Tuesdays.
Elegantly Numbered and returned on
Saturdays.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-01-26
The Latest Styles.

Not in hats, bonnets, or dresses,
but in new and elegant box papers
will be found at Ritchey & Bostick's.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-01-26
Important An ounce nt-Ne 10
Firm.

The well known growth of our
trade,and the hope of its continuance,
have induced us to make consider
able changes in our business, SO that
we will not be found deficient in the
future in placing upon our counters,
in necessary quantities, perfect line
of good, novel, and cheap goods,
which will in every way supply the
demand of our many customers. Our
store room will at once be extensively
repaired in connection with utilizing
the second floor. The improvement
that will interest the trade more es-
pecially, will be seen and appreciat-
ed with the opening of our spring
stock, which we are determined to
make as perfect in every respect as
possible. Ike Thurman has returned
after long absence to renew his &C.
quaintance with the people of War
rem. VIM. Thurman has also taken
a partnership, which strikes out the
existence of o. NJ. Thurman d Sons,
With these additions, and no sub.
fractions, to the old firm, we can fee
perfectly safe in the change, as we
are made stronger in capital ond ex'
perience. We feel no hesitancy in
asking a favorable consideration Of
those who appreciate the value of 6
dollar, and want good goods or none
Yours Truly,
THURMAN Bros. & Co.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-01-26
LIST OF LETTERS

Remaining in the Postofice at McMinn.
vile, Tenn, for the week ending Jan. "a,
which will be forwarded to the Dead Letter
office if not called for in so days.
Bonas, Geo Milstead, Margret
Brown, Betty Myers, Betty
Clark, VIM MetEger, VIM
Gordon, Mrs Mary Poplin, JEFF
Hurd, Henry Pennington, VIM
Huchins, Chesley Savage, ii
Hutchinson, Nj Webb, Il
By order of P. o. Department, One Cent
must be collected on all advertised letters.
Parties calling for any OF these letters
will please say " Advertised
ED. j. WOOD, p NJ.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to rob an express car on the Cincin-
natl Southern railroad last Tuesday
night. The messenger got the drop
on the would-be robber and blufied
him out of the car with revolver.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-01-26
II. RAIN,
II. c. LIND,
TIIOS. BLACK.
Committee.
Subscriptions Paid.

The following persons have pai' the
amounts given on subscriptions to tbs STAN
DARD for one week ending thursday,
Tan OF 1850
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-12-14

Furnished rooms to rent on reason
able terms at 288 Rush street, Mrs.
Knuckles.
IT you have anything to say to the
Colored people of Chicago, insert it in
The APPEAL.
You can get delicious meals for rs
cents each, at Mrs. II. Pumpfrey's $40
State street Sd fiat.
If anything has been said or done by
the Colored people of Chicago you can
get full particulars in The APPEAL.
Messrs. Pope and Smith, 121 Lake St.
will clean and repair your clothing and
make it as good as new. Give them q
trial. ~
You can get the best meal in the city
at Mrs. J. H.. Hunters, POI Third ave.
Try one and you'll eat there all the
time.
Have you tried the meals at Mr.. R.K.
Jones' No. 2l1 Third ave. third fiat? No.
Well, try them and you will not eat any
where else.
If you are looking for first class rooms
and meals try Mrs. Lucy Brown, Ne.
LOOT Third ave. near Polk street. Tran
sients accommodated.
Subscribers who wish to receive the
paper regularly should notify us when
they move. Send postal card to The
APPEAL, 1926 Dearborn street, Chicago,
giving full name, and both old and new
addresses. ..-
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A Scrap of Paper .

A scrap of paper, lying in the office
wastebasket or blown along the street,
is an insignificant thing, and no one
gives it thought. Yet upon such a
small bit of paper may depend life and
death, Kingdoms and crowns, health
and disease, comfort or annoyance, plea
sure or pain. The death warrant of the
Queen of Scots was but small piece of
paper; Magma Charta was but sheet of
it; the Declaration of Independence
was but scrap of paper; but how great
was their Influence for veal or woe. A
"scrap of paper" is not much, and yet
it may mean all the difference in the
world to us. A twenty or fifty dollar
bill is only scrap of paper, but it will
buy another scrad of paper-a ticket
over ''The Rurlington'' to Chicago, St.
Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Cheyenne,
and fifty more thriving places, assuring
you pleasant, safe, speedy and COM
Portable journey. For tickets time
tables, etc., apply to local agent, or to
w. j. G. Kenyon, Gen, Pass. Agent, G.
B. & N, R. R.. st. Paul, MINI.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-12-14
Financial Cards.

The Importance of keeping lodge &C.
counts in an orderly and systematic
manner cannot be over-estimated. The
Welle Financial Card. or Ready Receipt
for Dues and Assessments, is just the
thing to save trouble and annoyance.
The card enables member to see his
financial standing at a glance, without
troubling the Receiving Officer, and as
every payment is entered on the card it is
perfect receipt, showing when and by
whom the payments were received,
there can be no misunderstanding or
dispute,
They are single and double, and are
furnished printed to order with name of
lodge. Samples and price-lists of these
cards will he sent to any address upon
application to Welle & Co., 312 w. JEFF
ferson street, Louisville, KY.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-12-14
ern business. You avoid delays,
changes, re.checking of baggage, and
purchasing local tickets. by taking the
through line, 1.-THE Burlington" Its
own track to all leading cities.
United Christians Directory.

Chicago Dec. 1889.
We the undersigned. pastors of the
following churches, do hereby highly
recommend the book known as the
United Christians Directory of Chicago,
We have much need Of q work of this
kind. twill be useful to us in enabling
us to locate members in case of sickness
etc. 1t will obviate many difficulties
we now encounter. We hope the mem
bers and their friends will give the au-
thor, Mr.. Washington, their kind and
hearty cooperation, We are faithfully
your Pastors R. Knight, P. E.;J. B.
Dawson. Ebenezer, Evanston; J. T. Jen-
ifer, Quinn Chapel; L. A. Joplin, Pull
man; A. R. Ward, st. Paul's Mission; J.
S. Wood, Evanston; L. H. Reynolds, St.
Stephens; M. H. Jackson, Grace Presby-
terrain; J. E.. Thompson, St. Thomas;
Jordan Chavis, Bethesda; Geo. W.
Gaines, Bethel; J. F. Thomas, Olivet;
Thos. L. johnson, Providence. ..--
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Where to Get THE APPEAL.

Where to Get THE APPEAL.
For the benefit of persons who are no
regular subscribers, The APPEAL is o,
sale in Chicago at the following place
every week:
Chas. Landre, Ill Harrison street.
R. S. Bryan, 446 State street.
F. A. Chinn, 1888 Thirtieth street.
w. H. Monroe, 400 State street.
W. Nelson, l79 Walnut street.
CIV. Henderson, 1884 State street.
I. B. Walters, 1922 State street.
Thomas Buck, 753 Harrison street.
c. Tracy, ITO Harrison street.
G. w. Richardson, 6O36 Halsted street
]. c. Cranshaw, 456 Seth street.
Edward Quinn, Psi Goth Street.
Harry Curtis, 26ll State street.
H. w. Nelson, PA w. Randolph.
Barney Moore, 2646 State street.
Jacob Dozier, 294l State street.
AL Hackley, 2542 State street.
Thos. J. Birchler, 1924 State street.
Mrs. E. Williams 1916 State street.
S. McLain 179 18th street.
Edward VIM 1854 State street.
E. p. Cooke 2l3 10Th STREE.
Mrs 7. Swan, 314 10Th street.
w. H. Britton 1928 State street
L. Magee, Oakley & Austin.
Mrs. w. Morrison, 203 2lst.
Chicago Office, 325 Dearborn street.
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The Coming Carnival.

1t is to be hoped that nothing will
happen this timeto prevent the success
full run of the carnival and ice-palace
festivities, which, although peculiar to
St. Paul, are nevertheless advantageous
features of Minnesota. The postpone
ment last year was a disappointment
keenly felt by all, and every one is now
looking forward hopefully to the reign
Of Borealis Rex. And if the carnival
should be held, the public may depend
upon getting the lowest rates from the
Saint Paul & Duluth Railroad, which is
decidedly the Short line from st. Paul
and Minneapolis to Duluth, West Su-
perior, Saltwater and other points. AL
ways take the Duluth Short Line. A.
B. Plough, General Passenger Agent, St..
Paul, MINI.
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FRENCH SECRET AGENTS.

The Character and Methods of the Spies
Employed by the Government.
The secret agents of police in Paris
are provided with cards which, in cases
of danger, will insure them the protec-
ton of the regular police. They fire.
quent clubs and other meetings, the
wine-shops of the exterior boulevards,
and also attend at the Senate and Cham
Der of Deputies during the Parliament
airy session. In the morning they pre-
pare their reports, generally speaking,
at the Prefecture, in the archives of
which are to be found detailed accounts
Of the career and character of hundreds
OF thousands of individuals in France.
These records form colossal pyramids in
the lumber rooms, and are alpha betically
arranged according to the names of the
persons whose histories they chronicle,
so that when any one comes suddenly to
the front, or is compromised in any
criminal affair, the librarians can have
no difficulty in laying their hands on the
official summary of his or her antece-
dents. So complete is the collection
that the name of the most obscure rag
picker of Paris has it's chronicle as we'll
as that of the President of the Republic.
Paris detectives are divided into two
classes. The Agents de la Surete, who
are the detectives as we know them tn
England, very plucky, respectable and
self-sacrificing body of chosen police
men in plain clothing; and the Agents
de la Police Secrete, mean and con-
| temptible, but fearfully clever lot. The
Partisan nickname for the second-class
is Mouchard,. than which there is no
more odious epithet in the French Ian.
guage. The mouchard may be Door
beggar with not more than ECO wear,
or be a man or woman of high rank. fire.
quenting and receiving the best society.
Sardou's ''Dora" was female mouchard.
The business of the mouchard high or
low is to listen to conversations on the
governments doings and sayings, and
| report them to the Project of Police.
who communicates them to the Minister
of the Interior. They are, in fact. no.
litical spies, and frequently great inn
posters and liars.-Philadelphia Times
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uTERED At Pos7oFFJcE As SECOND CLASS IAT1EB
SATURDAY, DECEMBER IL, 1889.
POPULARITY OF PROTECTION,

The natural impulse of our people is
for Protection. Every election in which
the issue has been distinctly made be-
tween free foreign trade and protection
for domestic industries has proven that
the demand for the former is the voice
Of minority, and that maintenance of
the latter is the fixed determination of
the majority Of American voters. Even
that branch of the fftieth congress
which, under the guidence of self lead
ers, suicided by passing the Mills bill,
went up from the people with majority
committed to Protection. A knowledge
Of these facts will account for the incon-
sistent pleas of those who still find it for
their interest to join with foreigners in
the demand for lowering the barriers to
the importation of foreign products.
Ignoring the fact that larger fortunes
have been made in this country by those
who distribute goods than by those who
manufacture, these free trade attorneys
seek to incite prejudice against the lat
ter and gain votes for policy intended
to enlarge the profits of manufacturers
in other lands. The inconsistency, the
outrageous injustice of this, voters are
expected to overlook n their anxiety to
get cheaper goods-cheaper because
made where labor can be had for less
money thsn it costs here.
Protection discriminates in favor of
the American manufacturer who gives
employment to domestic workmen and
keeps the profit from his business in this
country where it is made to contribute
to the public good. Free trade discrim-
mates in favor of the alien manufacturer
who employs alien labor, the profits
from which 60 to the enrichment of a
foreign nation. Which is most directly
in line with patriotism and sound bust
ness principles?
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edo tie IA IN their respective posi-
tions, and in the absence of the princi.
pals, their assistants shall serve in regu-
lar succession.
Sec. 5. Immediately after the election
of the members of the executive COM
mittee they shall meet and organic, by
the election of a chairman and secre-
tary and shall notify the League of their
action. Gee $3.50 r.. zsa- L -
Sec. &. The executive committee shall
be empowered to take recognizance
ard have control, in the first instance.
of any and all matters, arising under,
orr by virtue of Article II of the
constitution, and it shall advise
the League from time to time of
it's action, or of the necessity of any &C.
ton therein. or hereunder; and, for the
purpose of carrying into effect the pow
ers herein conferred, the chairman of
the committee shall draw upon the
treasury of the League for such sums as
may be necessary.
Sec. Z. 1t shall be the duty of the ex-
ecutive committee to issue an annual
address to the public upon such topics
as may be deemed beneficial to the OBJ
jects of the League, which shall be sub
United 10 the League for it's approval.
Sec. 8. NJ person holding an Office in
the League shall be eligible to member
ship on the executive committee excep-
ting the president, the secretary and
the treasurer, who shall be ex.officio
members. j. -.-... s..a
Sec. 8. The secretary and treasurer
OF the League must qualify by giving
bond and security of five hundred dol
lars each, s... III
Sec. 10. When two points of order
have been sustained against member
on any question he shall no lenger be
entitled to the floor.
Sec. II, When any member of the
League shall be in arrears in any dues
or assessments to the amount of one
dollar, he shall be debarred from any
participation in the proceedings of the
League, and when such arrearages shall
not be liQuidated within sixty days after
notice from the secretary the name of
such a member shall be stricken from
the rolls of the League.
Sec. -. Order of bushes:
Opening with devotional. exercises
Calling roll and reading minutes
Reports of committees and communi-
cations
Unfinished business
New business.
Sec. -. Roberts Rules of Order shall
be authority on all questions of parlia-
mentary nature.
See. IA. This League shall be subject
to the laws hereafter made by the Ma
tional Afro-American League.
A vote of thanks was rendered to the
church officers for the use of the church.
The next meeting will be held at st..
James A. M. E. church next Tuesday
evening at s o'clock. All good citizens
who are interested in the welfare of the
race are urged to attend.
The members of the executive COM
mittee are requested to meet at the
Office of The APPEAL next Monday after
noon at o'clock sharp.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-12-14

convict to give Miller 245 lashes on the
bare back with a heavy wagon trace.
Miller tainted after the FIRST fifty lashes,
and when he was dressed and after
wards great pieces of flesh were torn
from his back. Miller says that other
convicts are terribly beaten and inhu.
manly treated. That such things should
occur in civilized country almost pas
ses belief. Is there no remedy?
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Brilliant Entertainment,

A committee of ladies assisted by fifty
young ladies will receive New Years at
Bethel church from II o'clock noon to 12
O'Clock r. N. There will be grand con-
cert, Thursday evening January 2. The
ladies having this in charge will make it
the most brilliant entertainment ever
given in Bethel churh.
Rev. Geo. w. Gaines, pastor.
Mrs. A. P. Ford, president.
Miss Eva Duncan, secretary.
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The Worlds Fair of 1892.

Is the bone of contention among the
big cities of the country. Chicago and
st. Louis are both making tremendous
efforts to secure it. The route for all
people in the Mississippi Valley to either
city is via ''The Burlington" An ad-
ditional train to st. Louis has just been
put on, giving two trains per day to each
CITY.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-12-14

George w. Cable, in his book on the
Convict League System, has given a vi
vid feature OF the terrible brutalities to
which the convicts of the South, mainly
Colored, are subjected. Convicted of
some trivial offense these Colored con-
yicts are leased to some fiend in human
form, who endeavors to get as much
work as possible out of them. They are
worked from early morn till late at night
subsisting on the plainest kind of food.
The horrors of the system have again
been brought to public notice by the
case of William Miller an ex.convict,
who was admitted to the New Orleans
charity hospital few days ago. When
the surgeons examined Miller, they
found that that the skin and portions of
the flesh had been terribly lacerated
from the middle of his back down to his
knees. He had been logged until his
flesh hung in shreds. It was found that
he could not lie on or support covering
on his back, and it was necessary to
place a wooden rack over him to pre-
vent the sheets from touching his flesh.
Miller stated that he had been convict
ed of petty larceny and sentenced to 10
months hard labor at Sanchez's camp
Before the expiration of his term he in
CURED the enmity of another man, who
told Sanchez Miller had threatened to
kill him, and Sanchez ordered another
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-12-14
For RentCheaD.

A couple of very fine desirable 4 and
room new modern brick flats on Both
street, northeast corner of Butterfeld.
Only SO, $40 and $l3 to good prompt
paying and respectable tenants. Keys
at 454 Seth street, LIST flat. Inquire of J.
R. Walsh ia and l16 State street,
Pardridge's Dry Goods store. Apply in
the afternoon.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-12-14

stands in his pulpit and pleads with the
wandering sons Of other parents to
come to Jesus. And here in st, Paul,
thank God, stands his son at the door of
the church, waiting to enter in. God
bless you, Rufus Carson; your father in
the flesh is my father in the gospel
Come in" Mrs. Gazaway united as a
seeker at the same time. Let everybody
come Sabbath. At night the subject
will be "Hell."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-12-14
The Ideal SOcials.

The dancing school of the Ideal So
cial takes place every Tuesday evening
at Central Hall. Those who wish to
learn must come early. The big affair
of the season will be the Ideals Christ
mas Party. The invitations are now out
and former patrons can obtain invita-
tons by addressing w. D. Gains, 1915
Wabash avenue or i. Coleman 2l17
Dearborn.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-12-14

The National Educational Association
will meet at St. Paul in July 1890. We
guarantee the Colored members will get
better treatment in the flee Northwest
than they received at tho last meeting
in Nashville, where they are subject to
all sorts of indignities. -s-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-12-14
st. Thomas Concert.

The st. Thomas Sunday school will
give grand Musical and Literary con-
cert at Lincoln Hall, 31st near Michigan
avenue. Monday evening Dec. IL, 1889.
Admission rs cents. Among the pro-
auctions will be one by Chicago's favor
tie vocalist, Miss Zoe Ball.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-12-14
What the Eaito- s.,a

He was tall, thin and hungry LOOKING.
and when he told the editor he voa =
poet, the editor didn't say disputatorv
word. But ne didn't get his poetry in
the paper, just the same, and the man
with blue pencil and the preoccupied
air made several remarks.
Poets are born, STRIP he said, hauphti-
~, as he rolled up his manuscript.
And I'm doggoned sorry for it. - said
the ed1tor.-Merchant TrAvAle-