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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31
State Press Notes and Comment.

CrOssville Sentinel: The Tracy City
News boldly comes out for the NOM
ination of Hill against Cleveland.
Mr.. Cleveland will certainly have
the discretion to withdraw after this.
GAINESVILLE LeafChronicle: Gov.
Buchanan was elected as a Democrat.
He talks Democracy, acts Democrat
ic, and looks Democratic, and we
hardly suppose he will appoint any
man to an Office who does not claim
to be a Simon pure Democrat.
John w. Norwood, of Marion
county, while on bear hunt with a
party few days ago, killed four
bears with four shots from his gun,
the mother and three cubs, the cubs
weighing so pounds each. That's
hard to beat.-Sparta Expositor.
Tullahoma Guardian: That arch
destroyer of the bodies and souls of
men-the demon whisky-is getting
in its terrible work all over our COM
monwealth and yet there are men
who demand that the few barriers
we have against its appointments,
shall be pulled down in order that
they may have little more of profit
in the accused traffic. See the reso>
luton of the Warren County Farm
er's Alliance published in this issue
of the Guardian.
The Memphis Appeal-Avalanche
in showing up some of the incongru-
vialities of official salaries, PRESENTS
these cases among others:
1.-The Treasurer of the State receives
$1,000 per year, the Supreme Judges
each $500, the Governor of the
great State of Tennessee 81, 900, while
the Register of Shelby county, it is
estimated, takes in the snug sum Of
$40, 900 year.
Chancellor Estes, admitted to be
one of the most eminent iurists in the
whole country, receives a salary of
$1,000. His clerk, for writing up his
minutes, processes, etc, receives, it is
estimated, at least $4,000. Do the
people approve of such a system ?"
Liberty Herald: We like to see the
farmers organize for their own bene~
fit but the Warren County Union has
"played the wild" and passed a reso-
luton favoring a repeal of the pres
ent four mile law and has accordingS
ly instructed its representatives in
the legislature to vote for its repeal.
Now see here, dear farmer brothers,
something has got you. Your orgau>
ization will get knocked into cock
ed hat before fly>time if you don't
divest yourselves of such nonsense.
Some of the things you advocate and
want are all right, but you might
just as we'll try to move the capitol
to one of your Warren county still
houses as to try to get Tennessee
legislature to repeal that law. Its
zoo good thing to try to get along
without.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31
New Officers.

Gov. Buchanan's first appointments
were sent to the Senate last Monday
and were all Immediately confirmed.
They were as follows:
Eth. B. Wade, of Rutherford coun>
ty, Superintendent Of State Prisons,
w. R. Garrett, of Davidson county,
Superintendent of Public Schools.
DR.. Goodwin, of Shelby county,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
These are all excellent appoint
ments, and while these gentlemen
are congratulated upon their good
luck, the Governor is also commend
ed upon all sides for calling such
men to his aid in sailing the good
ship of state.
j. NJ. Bittick Of Obion county, has
been appointed Superintendent of the
Capitol, to succeed Mr.. r. T. Quarles.
The following appointments have
also been made: Robt. Blevins OF
Hawkins, Warder of Main Prison;
Charles Patterson, of Gibson, Deputy
Warden, and DIR. II. p. Williams, OF
Franklin, Prison Physician.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

action. 1t also gives the members
the opportunity of mingling with
their constituents, and finding out
the feeling Of the people with regard
to legislation which has been propos-
ed. Looking at it from this stand
point, it appears to us that the peo-
pies interests would be conserved by
a recess, and the public business IA
ciliated.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

THE Senate and House of the Ten
nessee Assembly have so far failed to
agree on date for a recess, and a
good many newspapers of the state
are opposing any recess at all. 1t has
been customary fog many years, and
for all time so far as we know, for
the Assembly to take a recess Of about
ten days at the end of its first month,
and we see no reason why this As.
sembly should not follow the prece-
dent. The recess will give the COM
mittees time to digest their work and
get it in proper shape for legislative
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

A BILL has passed two readings in
the Senate extending the four mile
law to incorporate towns Of 1000 pop
ulation and under. There must be
some mistake about this business.
Those abominabie Senators have got
the thing backwards. The Warren
County f. & L. Union wants the
privilege the incorporated towns
have of selling whisky extended to
the county deestricts.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

DIR. GOODWIN, the new Commissions
er of Agriculture, has a various lot of
initials. The Nashville American
gives them as D. g., the Banner as
J. r., and the Memphis Commercial
as r. D. Should we find out what are
really the new officials initials by
next week, we will take pleasure in
printing them correctly.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

THE Legislatures of Arkansas, Tex
as, Indiana, Illinois, New York, New
Jersey, and a number of other States
have joined with Alabama and Ten.
nessee during the last week in pass
ing resolutions to withhold action
on appropriations for exhibits at the
Worlds Fair until the fate of the
force bill is determined. The force
bill and cloture resolution are now
both believed to be dead beyond all
power of Senators HOar, Aldrich Il
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

We do not publish anonymous commu-
nications under any circumstances. The
real name of the author must accompany
every communication, or else it will be con-
signed to the waste basket. We do not pub
lish the names of correspondents, but want
them simply as guarantee of COED faith.
All calls on candidates, obituaries, trib-
dtes of respect, ETC., are charged for as ad.
vertising matter. Simple announcements Of
deaths, marriages, etc., will be published
without charge, and our friends all over the
county will confer favor by furnishing us
with such as soon after their occurrence as
possible.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

JOHN JAMES INGALLS,, the meteor
ic Republican Senator from Kansas,
will retire to private life after the 4th
of March, the Alliance Legislature Of
that State having elected Judge w.
\. PETER as his successor.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

A RESOLUTION was adopted by the
Legislature one day this week favor
ing the election of U. S. Senators by
a direct vote of the people.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

EX.GOv. TAYLOR is now private
citizen of Chattanooga, and was in
Nashville one day this week with a
delegation of ChattanOogans rolling
logs with the solons for legislation in
which Chattanooga has a special in
terest.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

Col. WIN. F. Villas, Cleveland's
Secretary of the Interior, was elected
to the United States Senate from
Wisconsin last Wednesday.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

THAT supplement which we allud-
ed to last week we learn will not be
issued until Gov. Buchanan's message
to the Legislature is presented to that
body, which will probably be about
the middle of February. We regret
the delay, but being a matter over
which we had no control we could
not avoid it. Had we understood al
the time, however, that the supple
ments were to be held up for this
message, we would have given por-
tions of Gov. Taylor's message and
Gov. Buchanan's inaugural address,
while they were fresh.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

Hon. VIM. WINDOW, Secretary of
the Treasury, died suddenly of heart
disease at a banquet in New York on
Thursday. He had just finished an
elaborate speech to the assembled
guests and taken his seat. Another
speaker had scarcely more than be-
gun when Secretary Window fell
from his chair. He was removed
to an adjoining room and expired a
few moments afterWard.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

DEMOCRATIC brains VS., a Republi-
can majority was the style of the
force bill case before the Senate.
Brains won, of course.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

THE raking over the Goals which
Senator Woodlee gave editor Nc,
Dowell seems to have brought him
to realization of the fact that he
don't tote the whole Assembly around
in his vest pocket. The following
item from this weeks Toiler shows
a genuine meekness Of spirit: "Lots
of members who said positively they
were going 10 vote for Bro. Crews
were changed over by some means,
we suppose satisfactory to them. We
will not question their motives, know
ing that each man should be his own
Judge as to his votes in the legisla-
ture."
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

THE cloture resolution and force
bill are both dead, and the Republic
can party is left in the soup.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

On LAST Monday the General AS.
sembly in joint session, reelected
Mr.. ]. Walter Allen as Comptroller,
and Mr.. Mans. F. House as State
Treasurer. These two gentlemen
have made the State faithful and eff
ficient officers for the last two years,
and their retention for another term
was in the line of a good and wise
policy. AS another Alliance state
was demolished in the reelection of
Mr.. Allen, Mc.Toiler-Dowell is not
happy, but Democrats are generally
happiest when Mc.T-D. is not.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

MCDOWELL has given out that he
will be appointed Coal Oil Inspector
at Nashville, so the Nashville cores
pendent of the Chattanooga Times re-
ports to that paper. We don't re-
member to have ever heard Mr.. Me-
Dowells competency to fill the posi-
ton called into question. The Office
is sinecure with salary of from
$4,000 to $4,000 year. All the In
spector has to do is to collect his sal
airy and pay an assistant a thousand
dollars a year Of the amount for doing
what little work there is connected
with the job. But we believe it is a
pretty generally accepted political
axiom that ''to the victors belong the
spoils." Gov. Buchanan claims to
be a Democrat, and boosted during
the campaign that he was nominated
by Democratic convention, that he
was running as a Democrat, on a
Democrat platform, and would adj
minister the Office of Governor on the
lines of Democratic policy. Mr.. Nc
Dowell has recently declared through
the columns of his paper, The Toiler,
that he is not Democrat. He is
classed by all parties as a mugwump
Of the superlative order. He has
fought every interest of the Demo-
cratic party in the State with all his
might and main for years past, and
has done absolutely everything in his
feeble power against Democratic har-
mony and organization. True he
worked valiantly as he thought for
Mr.. Buchanan's election, but he did
it as an Alliancer, and not as a Dem.
ocrat. While he was beating the
bushes for votes for Buchanan he was
fighting the Democratic party be-
tween every lick, and he succeeded
in disgusting thousands of Democrats
and in reducing Buchanan's majority
by thousands of votes. These are in
disputable facts, and judged upon his
record, his true character, and his rea
merit, we doubt if there is a more
unfit or unworthy applicant for Office
in the State today. How the Gov
ernor can, consi5tly with his PROBES
sons of Democracy, and consistently
with his oath of office, elevate such {
man to public place, we are unable It
discern. But if Mcdowell must have
an Office, better place could not bC
found for him than the coal oil in
spectorship. The salary is sufficien
to crafty his cupidity, it requires alb
solutely no ability, and he will have
nothing at all to do with the State'
business affairs. He will probably
do less harm there than he woulC
with no Office at all.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

Kenny Porter, who shot and killed
Will Edmunds at Paris, Tenn, in
1888, was acquitted last Wednesday
morning after the third trial of the
case.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

Pennsylvania had another mine
horror last Tuesday. By an explo-
sion in the Mammoth mine over one
hundred men lost their lives. Not a
single man who was in the mine
escaped alive, The explosion is sup
posed to have been caused by an un~
expected flow of gas.
The snow storm of last Saturday
was one of unusual severity in New
York city. Electric wires and poles
of all kinds were blown down all over
the city, and all traffic was blockaded
in many Of the streets. The damage
to the telegraph, telephone and elec~
trio light companies is estimated at
over half million dollars.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

WHILE the U. S. Senate was con-
sideling the cloture rule last Monday,
Senator Wolcott, Republican who
is opposed to the force bill, made a
motion that the Senate proceed to the
consideration of the apportiOnment
bill. The motion was carried by a
vote of 50 to "a, six Republican Sena-
tors voting with the Democrats.
They were Messrs. Jones Of Nevada,
Cameron, Stewart, Teller, WASH
burne and Wolcott. 1t is confidently
believed by prominent politicians on
both sides that this action effectually
shelves the cloture rule and the force
bill. The present Congress only has
twenty-five more working days after
this week, and that time is all too
brief for the consideration of many
important measures which must be
pushed through to avoid an extra
session. The whole of this broad
country, but the South in particular,
has great cause for rejoicing over the
death of the force bill. Had that
measure passed it would have unset
tied and demoralized every class o.
business interests in the South, and
our industrial progress would have
been very seriously retarded. AND
all this without giving the Republi
cans one iota of political advantage ir
the South. This is a white man:
country, and white men are going tC
control it, force bills or no force bills
A CONVENTIONAL rate of interest
bill is again before the Legislature fol
consideration, but is likely to go thu
way of its sundry predecessors of like
character, to defeat. Many newspa
pers and individuals oppose TIT
measure, but we have never We
heard an argument advanced to sus
tain the opposition. We cannot SCI
any more justice in the law limiting
the interest on money to per cent
? than there would be in limiting tn,
price of corn to % cents per bushel
The value of money fluctuates a
frequently as the value of any othe
commodity, and it is governed b!
the same laws Of supply and demand
as control all other articles. Bushes
of all kinds in Tennessee is in a reas
Onably prosperous condition, and tn
greater part of the borrowed none.
used in carrying on this business
loaned at a greater rate than 6 pc
: cent. We believe that the time ha
come when the legal rate of interes
in Tennessee should be fixed at les
than per cent, yet if money vii
command higher rate, the citizen
of the state should have the privileg
of loaning and borrowing at its mar
! ket value without having to resol
t to circumvention and violation {
state laws to do so. We have neve
S yet been able to discover any tenabl
ground for opposing a conventions
1 rate of interest, and we view the ma
5 ter from the standpoint of a borrow
er, as we have been in that unfortu
nate position during all of our bus
ness career.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31
Legislative Notes.
Nashville Ameaiea n.

Nashville Ameai,an.
The condition of the Capitol is most
alarming. Gov. Buchanan, in his
message, will recommend liberal
appropriation to save it from utter
decay.
A bill will be presented before the
Legislature soon to form a new coun>
ty,cutting off parts of Sullivan, Wash
ington, Greenland Hawkins counties,
with Fall Branch as the county seat.
A petition signed by all the men,
bers of the GAINESVILLE bar will at once
be sent to the Legislature of Tennes-
see urging upon that honorable body
the necessity of passing a bill requir-
ing the registration Of all births,
deaths and marriages.
The baldest man in the House is
Wyatt, of Humphreys; the longest
haired, Ledgerwood, of Knox; the
reddest head, Davis, of Shelby, with
Collins close up; the blackest.haired,
Upton, of Upton; the member with
most whiskers, Lashlee, of Benton;
the most dignifed, Brown, of Sulli-
van; the shortest, Wyatt, of Hum
phreys; the tallest, Bowman, of
Washington; the youngest, Bean, of
Moore; the ugliest, Hall, of David
son; the most ubiquitous, Davis; the
oldest, Yokely, of Giles; the quietest,
Linton, of Davidson; the handsom-
est, Looney, of Shelby; the loftiest,
Speaker Myers, and the most
patriarchical, Chenault, of Sumner.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-01-31

Co., to resurrect them, and this action
on the part ofthe several state legis>
latures had much to do in bringing
about the sudden demise of these in
iquitous measures. If President Har-
rison, Messrs. HOar, Aldrich, Reed,
and few other rank partisans of
their stripe had the power they would
push the force bill through regardless
of this protest of the States, and re-
CARELESS of all consequences, realizing
as they do that in some such revolu-
tionary measure lies the Republican
party's only hope of perpetuating its
power, but there are other Republic
cans in the Senate who dared not
brave the consequences of such step.
The passage of the force bill would
reduce the Worlds Fair to an igno-
minious farce not one-half the States
of the union would be represented by
exhibits, and in that instance of
course foreign exhibits would be very
scarce. Very few newspapers sanc>
toned the move, and the several
legislatures were severely criticised
for few days, but this was one time
the papers got left. The STANDARD
was one of the few papers which COM
mended the action.
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The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1891-08-08

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must work at politics ~ well aS AT
pr duc.ng s0fn, cotton, wheat, &c.
aud so III y W II hereafter, Instead
If lITing p ,lilics alone, make il
one of le things they will cult
vate with walcIiul care.
have 4 meighbor who comes
nearer being lie k'nduf man Memo
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he Il III is such ma exists. il he
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wOnlln't have carr age, buggy,
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cotton planter OF other labor say
ing inplemement If you would give
them to hIm. He wo ~ USE COM
merci Il tert liz rs. or 4 plow not
ma,ie al hOm He wears honi :
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flint aud steel gun, weodcn axle
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stea Is held tagetln ~ chords. He
has alw .ys ma'le it pO nj to raise
hogs, cattle, horses, sheep, and
poultry, and 10 prou el tile cotton,
and plenty OF corn an ! Q her food
crops. This man sprh5 til 3 day with
me a few Sundays ago aud being
a man OF intelligence, though old
fashio e !, conycrsed tre ~ upon
The topics Of the day, among v Inch
WAS the Suh-treaSu y plan, and the
move the iarme S had started for
tinancia rel rf. In our conN ersa-
ton he remarked that wi i ali his
work. care and economy, he had
been going down kill tintncially
for years and was poorer than he
had ever been in his life. Ther.
must be something besides lazi-
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ing to the paths daddy pursued
aif, citing tins III IN. Memo will
doub less say smoking to acoo
is what's the matter with him" /"
POLK TALBERT.
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