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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-01-12
"THEY SAY"

4" hey say" is common liar,
And she goeth up and down,
And her tongue is tongue of fire
In the homes of all the town
Alike in hoyel and palace,
And on the broad highway,
To our lips poisoned chalice
She lifts by night and day.
What falsehOod coins she utters!
Her breast, tbs SANDERS seat;
And goSsip's filthy cutters
Are tracked by her vagrant feet
over lives as pure and blameless
And white rs the winter SHOWS.
Suspicion unnamed and nameless,
Her passing shadow throws.
10! Where is feeble brother,
Borne down in the deadlystrife
That we wage with one another?
With stab she seeks his life.
And where one sits lone and lonely
As the widowed years go by,
She cometh, but cometh only
To beguilc, and then belle.
The fame that virtue prizes,
The wrench that honor wears,
She soils with her dark surmiseS,
With her tainted fingers tears.
Then curse me the cruel liar
Who goeth her evil way,
And curse me the tongue of fire
That blasts with a breath "They Say
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-01-12
Counterfeiters in China.

Two coppersmiths out of employ
ment in Hankow privately formed "
little company to make copper cash,
and began their operations for some
reason by melting down about eight
pounds Of imperial copper coins. The
band had made but little progress in
their secret trade having only
manufactured altogether some ten
thousand coins, equivalent to little
more than three pounds, when they
were captured, tried and condemned.
According to the report, the ringleader
was sentenced to immediate decapita-
ton for melting down coin of the
realm; the next, who had assisted in
the work of coming, was sentenced to
decapitation after imprisonment: while
two others, who had polished the
spurious coins, and the last. who acted
as book-keeper were treated not MS
principals but as accessories liable to
importation to Turkcstan and employ
ment as slaves to the troops therc-a
fate believed to be worse than immedi-
ate decapitation. Some other men,
who seem to have nothing to do with
the coming itself but acted as domestic
servants to the principals, received
sentences of three years Punishment
and hundred blows each. -Pebm CO.
zettC.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-01-12
Persian Horsemanship.

The Persians are good riders. and
an English naval officer. ''who had
gone ashore at Abusheher, and was
there mounted on Il spirited horse,
afforded no small entertainment to the
Persians by his bad Craftsmanship. "
He was greatly mortified at this, and
an English-speaking native, with whom
he had some slight acquaintance, en-
deavOred 10 comfort him on the follow
ing day in these words: Don't be
ashamed, sir; nobody knows you Bad
rider? | tell them you, like all En-
glish, ride well, but that time
they see YOU, You very drunk. >
The worthy Persian thought that
it would have been reproach for a
man of wallike nation not to ride
well, but nom for d. European to get
drunk. Some mounted Arabs endeav-
Ored to entertain Mr.. Layard, the ex-
piorer OF Nineyah, They would gall
lop of to "A distance, put their lances
at rest, and then make deliberately for
his head. The compliment consisted
in stopping the charger suddenly short
so that the spear point would just
touch his face. He naively adds that
his life would have been sacrificed if
the well-trained Steeds had made the
slightest false step, or by any inequality
in the ground disappointed the expec-
tations of their masters. - Saturd"'
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-01-12

THAT HACKING. COUGH can be
quickly cured by shiloh's Cure. We guar
antee It. Sold by W, II. Fleming.
SHILOH'S VITALIZER is what you ne ed
for Constipation, Loss Of Appetite Dizziness
and all symptoms of Dyspepsia. Price 10
and 70 cents per bottle. Sold by W. II.
Fleming
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-01-12

A trading establishment in the
Congo recently sent an order to En-
gland for consignment of rum. And
very appropriately it was added in q
postscript Send moro handouts. ="
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-01-12
p1cKrrr LOUISIANA NV. IL Is

MEssRS. At. SHAILENBEEGEE h Co.
Rochester, Pa. Geats-The sample bottle Of
pills you sent me last April gave to a
neighbOr lady, and it cured her. of a very
obstinate ease Of third day ch;llS, which
every other remedy failed to do. Truly
ours. JOHN PICKETT.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-01-12

GROUP, WHOOPING COUGH aud
Bronchitis Immediately relieved by Shiloh's
Cure. Sold by W. II. Fleming.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-01-12

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, made miserable
by that terrible cough. Shiloh's Cure is the
ermedy fer You. Sold by W. II. Fleming. =
The Iola register., 1889-08-23
Emperor William, who is naturally of

Emperor William, who is naturally Of
an excitable and nervous temperament
never loses an opportunity of schooling
himself to prevent any display Of feeling.
Recently he gave an exhibit on Of absolute
self.control and even cold. bloodedness.
During the State performance at the
Royal opera in honor of the marriage of
the Princess sister to Prince Frederick
Leopold the dress of the premiere danseuse
caught fire from the gas jet in the wings,
and in a moment she was wrapped from
head to foot in q sheet Of fame. With
great presenc ce of mind the principal basso,
who was standing near by, draped in Ro-
man ioga and waiting to ''go on" dashed
her to the ground, and tearing the toga
from his shoulders enveloped her in its
capacious folds, thereby extinguishing
the flames. She was, however. SO badly
burned that during three days her life
was despaired Of Her rescuer was also
badly burned. The incident, although
concealed from the major portion of the
audience, was plainly visible from begin.
ming to end to the Emperor, who was seat.
cd in one of the stage boxes. Notwith.
standing the exciting nature Of the scene.
he neither raised hand nor even moved his
chair, but remained apparently indiffer.
ent and unconcerned, coldly gsxng o.
the poor girl battling with the cruel
flames. Only ct the conclusion Of the act
did hs send one Of his aide. .de-camp to
make inquiries - to the condition OF the
su6ersra-Bsrlin Letter.
The Iola register., 1889-08-23
ATOMS OF ASTRONOMY,

IT has been calculated that not less than
20.0OO.0O0 Of meteors, each large enough to
be visible as a shooting star" enter our
atmosphere daily.
THE bright star Canopus emits more than
one thousand five hundred times the light Of
our sun. Sirius is at such distance that
its light occupies nearly nine years in reach
ing us, and its real brightness is that Of
sixty three suns.
AFTER careful investigation NJ. Ligner,
the Austrian meteorologist, has become as
sured that the moon affects the magnetic
needle The disturbance is especially no
ticeable when the moon is near the earth,
when she is passing TO first or last quarter,
reaches its maximum when the moon is in
the plane of the equator, and is greater
during the southern than during the north
ern declination-
FROM an exhaustive study Of the large
collection of meteorites at Harvard College
the conclusion has been arrived at that
many of the masses of meteoric iron now
known are cleavage crystals, broken on
probably by the impact OF the mass against
the atmosphere. 1t is found that these
masses show cleavings parallel to the planes
Of all the three fundamental forms OF the
isometric or regular system. From all that
appears, the theory has come to be enter
tanned that the masses Of meteorites were
thrown OF from sun among the fixed stars,
and that they were slowly cooled while re.
volving in zone Of intense heat
The Iola register., 1889-08-23
FARMERS CONFEDERATION.
Call For a Convention To Meet In st. Lo uis
October 23.

Call For q Convention to Meet In st. Lo uis
October 23.
TOPEKA Kan, Aug. 1.-THE Farmers
Confederation of the Mississippi Valley
has issued a call for a convention to be
held in st. Louis, October % The cause
and purpose of the proposed convention
are shown in the following resolutions:
WHEREAS. BY reason OF new systems in busi-
ness and the combinations against us, we are
not. as an agricultural class enjoying equal
privileges with the manufacturing and CONNER
cial classes. and from the inequality OF eX-
change have for the past ten years been sorely
oppressed by the low prices Of farm products;
and.
condition OF the wheat market and the conflict
ing reports Of the worlds supply OF this cereal,
be it. therefore.
Res0tred. BY the charter members and stock
holders Of the Farmers Federation. that n con-
vention of wheat growers of the Mississippi
valley be, and is her by called, to meet in st.
Louis on Wednesday, the 23d of October, 1889,
for the purpose of discussing measures for relief
and to form a wheat growers association.
ResoiUed. That the appointment OF representa-
tives of said convention be one delegate from
each county in the respective States and Terri
tories included in the Mississippi valley. and
that the primaries to appoint delegates to said
convention be held at the county seats on
Tuesday, October /. 1859, and that we request
that the proceedings OF said primaries be i'm
mediately forwarded to this office, Topeka.
Kan
Resoired, That any farmer in the United
States or Territories. who has grown so or
more bushels Of wheat the past year. and shall
certify the fact to the president before the
meeting OF the said st. Louis convention may
be admitted as delegate to said convention.
Resolced That we advise the farmers OF the
Northwestern States and Territories to hold
their wheat of the market until after the meet
ing of the st. Louis convention of wheat grow
ers. unless such prices shall be offered as will
justify a reasonable profit over and above the
cost of productioG.
The Iola register., 1889-08-23
THE LATEST.

CLEARING house returns for the week
ended August Il showed au average in
crease of 81 compared with the CORE.
sponding week of last year. In New
York the increase was l05
CONGRESSMAN LAIRD. of Nebraska, died
at Hastings on the lI.h.
The floods having su bs;ded in the vari.
Gus districts of Japan, fairly accurate es-
Inmates of the damage done is obtained.
Niue hundred and thirty houses were de-
stroyed. Forty-one persons are known to
have lost their lives.
SULLIVAN, the pugilist, was sentenced
at Purvis, Miss, to one years imprison.
ment
The North Dakota Constitutional con-
vention completed its work on the 18th
and adjourned sine die. The delegates
were treated to farewell banquet at the
Sheridan House at Bismarck.
THE Prince of Wales has been presented
with 10000 by an unknown admirer
W. c. PERRY. the aeronaut who sus-
tanned severe injuries by falling from a
balloon 200 feet high at Mount Holly fair,
near Charlotte n. c., a few days ago,
died later from internal injuries. Perry
left a wife and two children.
A TERRIFIC hurricane swept over the
southern part of Spain on the 18th. caus.
ing immense damage to property. A
number of houses and churcte in Granada
were wrecked and part of the dome of the
famous church of San Felipe was blown
down.
The District Commissioners have issued
an order prohibit the crying Of news
papers in Washington before seven g. m. or
after 10:3) a IN. on Sundays Heretofore
the residence sections of the city have
been made noisy all through Sunday by
the newsboys
The examination of the premises where
ths recent fatal gas explosion occurred in
New York shows that it was planned. A
plug had been removed from a 1k-inch
gag pipe, probably just before the closing
OF the crockery store.
The Overland China Mail learns July 6
that the rioters in Fohien province of
China had fed before the approaching
troops. Before leaving, however, they
burned Their boats. The attack on the
Chin-Chu villages 10 confirmed For the
loss of four or five Of their countrymen
last year the rioters revenged themselves
by slaughtering between four and five
hundred inhabitants of Chin. Chu villages,
including women and children.
DISPATCHES from the scene Of operations
in the Soudan state thas the friendly
tribes have catured Singal.
The Solicitor Of the Treasury has re-
fused to give an opinion as to whether q
duty would be imposed in case electricity
developed in Canada at Niagara Falls
were sent across the river into the United
States. The refusal is based upon the
ground that the department can not prop.
srly answer BY Hypothetical questions,
the plants not yet having been put in
operation.
The Iola register., 1889-08-23

DEPUTY WELLER, Of the internal reve.
nue.. was shot dead by John n. Brownell,
Q moonshiner. at Northwestville. near
Jacksonville, Fla, recently. Browneli es'
capped.
AN attempt to wreck an excursion train
near Cambridge, Nd, recently, failed be.
cause the engineer was running slowly at
the time.
In The United States Court at Austin,
Tex. Gus Wilke and Abner Taylor pleaded
guilty recently to the importation OF
skilled laborers from Europe to work on
the new capitol, and were fined 81 600 and
costs in each of sixty-four cases.
WILLIAM SPRY. a Mormon Elder. has
been arrested at Chattanooga, Tenn, on
bench warrant issued by the United States
Court, charging him With bigamy and
adultery. Spry was in charge of the Nor.
mon prosecuting in the South.
SULLIVAN. the pugilst was found
guilty at Purvis, Miss, on the 10th.
The Iola register., 1889-08-23
Cherokee Con ference Postponed.

MUsKo&EE. l. T., Aug. 17.-Negotiations
with the Indian tribes of the Territory
have ceased until the first part Of October.
1t is the aim of the Commission to give
the Cherokees one more chance before
making terms or treaties with other
tribes, as their acceptance of III, Govern.
ment's offer would simplify the work.
The Commissioners will therefore be pre-
sent at Tahequah at the meeting of the
Council in October.
Should the Governments offers be again
rejected the work before the Commission
will probably be the settlement of tribes
on the Strip according to the treaty OF
1866. whereby each Indian will be allotted
100 acres of land. After this allotment
there will be about 1900, 600 acres to be
thrown open 10 settlement. The lands,
now occupied by the various tribes would
then be rendered vacant and would like
wise be thrown open to settlement. The
proba biIity is therefore that millions of
acres will be opened some time next year.
The Iola register., 1889-08-23
Purely q Canard.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 1L-There is
considerable indignation among the in
tellIgent colored people Of this city and
Bessemer on account Of sensational fake
sent abroad by the Associated Press The
fake described how three negroes at Bes-
semer entered a furnace wLile it was in
full blast at the command of a colored man
who styled himself Daniel the Prophet" I"
The story had no foundation whatever
and was not manufactured in this city or
B"ssemer, as the manager of the telegraph
Office SAYS no such story was sent from
this offics. The canard says the colored
people Of this section were unusually
ignorant and extremely superstitiouA
while the reverse is true
The Iola register., 1889-08-23
RESULT OF FAST LIVING.

A Defaulting Railroad President Given Q
Severe Sentence-An ExtravaGant wife
Led Him to Ruin.
NEw YORK. Aug. 1i.-Eben 8. Allen,
the defaulting ex-president of the Forty.
second and Grand Street Ferry Railroad
Company. who pleaded guilty to two in
dictments charging him with overissue of
over 500, 600 worth Of the stock of the
company, was sentenced by Judge Glider.
sleeves yesterday to seven years impris-
onment at hard labor on each Indictment,
the maximum penalty for the offense.
The court room was crowded when
Judge Gildersleeve entered court When
he was asked what he had to say why
sentence should not be pronounced upon
him. Allen turned and looked at his coun-
sci but did not utter syllable. Mr.. Eus-
tis, after some deliberation, said there
was nothing to add to what had already
been presented in regard to the previous
good character of the prisoner.
Judge Gildersleeve. then addressing
Allen. said: Mr.. Allen, you pleaded
guilty to two indictments. am informed
by the district attorney that, although
other charges could be preferred against
you. none other than those to which you
have pleaded will be preferred. l have
received letters from a number of friends
of yours. and many persons have been 10
see me with regard to your case. but after
very careful consideration of the
whole matter, taking into consid-
GRAFTON that punishment could be
inflicted on you for the charges
which are not pressed, 1 see no reason
why l should not impose the maximum
penalty. The sentence of the court is that
you be confined in State prison at hard
labor for seven years on this indictment
which hold in my hand. and under the
other indictment that you be also confined
at hard labor for the period of seven years
to begin at the expiration Of the first
term"
Allen turned sickly pale as he was led
back to the pen. He looked around the
court room. None of his friends except
his brother was present. Even his wife,
whose extravagance is said.to be the cause
of her husbands ruin, failed to come to
court
Before he married her Mr.. Aliens wife
was an actress. After their marriage she
was unwilling ogive up the stage ard in
duced her husband to furnish the money
for theatrical venture at one Of
of New York's second-class theaters.
Mrs. Allen distributed her hus-
bands money with a lavish hand; she
bought every thing she wanted or thought
she wanted and every thing that any one
ese thought she wanted. The dressing
rooms of the theater were fitted up with q
luxurious elegance that would have taken
the breath away from the average actress.
The furnishings were of as costly a char.
acter as could be found in New York.
The Iola register., 1889-08-23
The Pre.ident.. Return to Wa.hinrto,

The Presidents Return to washingto,
FALL RIVER. Mass. Aug. 16-Fron.
Concord to Fall River the Presidential
trip was a series of ovations, the numbe
being limited only by the stops that wer>
made and each having a peculiar charac-
teristic OF its own
Nashua was the one city where, after
Concord, the President left the train. Ac-
companied by Governor Goodeli and ,ther
prominent mer he was driven thror sh v-e
city, from one depot to the other. unde.
the escort of the Grand Army posts an
militia amid the usual demonstrations
At Lowell an immense throng crowde
the depot and buildings and walls adjoin-
ing. Here he was presented to Congress-
nan Allen. Postmaster Hagett and Mayor
Palmer and after a brief stop the train
proceeded over the Framingham division
Of the Old Colony road. Stops were made
at Medfield. South Framingham, Framing
ham, Foxboro, Mansfe and Taunton
and at each Of them crowds greeted him.
The Iola register., 1889-08-23
ELIXIR HORRORS.
Blood Poisoning and Big Lumps Appear in
Patients ENperimented Upon.

Blood Poisoning and Big Lumps Appear in
Patients Experimented Upon.
CINCINNATI, Aug. ia man named
Steele, who was a few days ago subjected
to treatment by the Brown-Sequard
method is suffering from blood poisoning
as result of the test. He will sue for
$1,000 damages. Fielden Wier, the first
man experlmented on here aud whose
wonderful cure was telegraphed broad
cast is in bed again. Great hard
Jumps appear where the incisions were
made and he is delirious. DR.. Long
fellow. who made the first experiments,
in a published statement F,iday night
says hs has lost faith in the ''elixir." He
says that a local paper paid all the ex-
penses Of his experiments for the sake of
the first news. DR.. Langenbeck. the
chemist who prepares nineteenth of all the
''elixir" used here, says it is dangerous if
used after an hour and rank poison after
two hours. The scare amounts 10 a craze.
There are reports that the workhouSe
physicians have exrerim 'nted indiscrim-
inately with frightful results.
The Iola register., 1889-08-23
The Johnstown Fund.

JoHNsTowN Pa, Aug. 17.-At q confer
ence of the local committees a report was
agreed upon by the members Of the
State commission which are now here
and will be presented to the full commits
sion at their next meeting. 1t provides
for the distribution, which from data at
band will amount to 81, 149, 900. in addition
to the $500. 900 previously appropriated
Those in classes l, and 8 will bs paid of
In full, receiving respectively $1,000. 800
and $500 each. This will require $435 900.
Glasses 4, 5 and 6 are to receive 80. % and
Is per cent respectively and the sums to
each will be $45s, 36l. $3.50, 900 and $3C6 go
respectively. This will not exhaust the
relief funds by about 800, 200.
The Iola register., 1889-08-23
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.


Nor a bid was received for the construc-
wrapped steel rifle for the army, though
the War Department was to have fur
nished the principal parts.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ap-
pointed John McMackin, of New York
City, 10 be special inspector of customs
for duty at New York. Mr.. McMackin is
q warm friend of DIR. McGlynn.
A SPECIAL passport, such as are issued
to distinguished citizens intending TO go
abroad, has been signed at the State De-
partment for Senator Evarts, of New
York. The Senator will visit Europe it is
said, to consult specialists on the Conti-
nent about his eyes, their condition being
such as to give him much concern.
The Secretary of Agriculture has issued
q circular to railroads calling attention to
the necessity for disinfecting cars which
have carried Texas cattle and asking that
this be done before they are furnished for
reloading of cattle
The Navy Department has been notified
that Admiral Kimberly, commander of
the United States fleet which was de-
stroyed at Samoa last spring, has left
Samoa for home and will arrive at San
Francisco in September on a steamer from
Honolulu.
ACTING SECRETARY CHANDLER, of the
Interior Department, has taken up the re-
rating case of Senator Henderson, of Ne
braska, which was allowed by Commits
sioner Tanner several weeks ago and will
render a decision in few days
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has issued a circular prohibiting the refill
ing at distilleries Of casks or packages
previously used at the same distillery.
THE light offerings of bonds have re-
suited in a steady increase of the treasury
surplus, which, according to the Treasur-
er's statement, now amounts to $40, 30O, 900
being the highest point reached since
October last The pension payments for
August are estimated at $13, ,000, 900 and the
surplus will be reduced accordingly.
1t is the theory of those about the
United States marshaPs Office that Mrs.
Terry when she threw herself upon her
husbands body when he was shot by
Deputy Marshal Nagle, took a weapon
from him, as when the body was searched
no weapon was found. Both Judge Field
and Judge Sawyer continue to be care.
fully guarded. as Mrs. Terry, it was feared.
would seek vengeance for the killing of
Judge Terry.
PRESIDENT HARRISON returned to Wash.
ing.on from his Bar Harbor trip on the
18th.
QUITE q stir has been caused in the Pen.
sion Office by the discovery that the
amount of the appropriation for clerks at
the pension agencies is $4,000 less than
last year. 1t is feared that the amount is
not sufficient TO keep them running until
Congress meets.
The Iola register., 1889-08-23
sullivan Convicted.

PURvIs, Miss, Aug. 17.-John L. Sulli.
vans case was argued yesterday and SUBJ
nitted to the jury. and after being out
over one hour, the jury returned with a
verdict of guilty. Sullivan will probably
be sentenced to-day. Referee Fitzpatrick
will be tried to-day and will probably
plead guilty. The grand jury will indie.
Mitchell to-day. A petition by the grand
and petit jurors and others will be sent to
the judge asking that Sullivan be fined
and not imprisoned, and in that event he
will pay the fine aud leave at once for
New York
The Iola register., 1889-08-23
Carlisle in NIeYicO.

CITY OF MEXICO. Aug. 1S-A reception
was given in honor of Hon. John G. Car.
Isle by the joint permanent committee of
Congress at the Chamber of Deputies
Thursday night. At eight O'Clock Mr..
Carlisle was met by the committee and
escorted through the brilliantly illumin-
ated chamber to President Diak Mr..
Carlisle spoke for half an hour.