Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

John Crawford, Auditor of Arkansas, finding his accounts short, handed the President of the Senate a mortgage on his real estate, running two years. Rev. Dr. Kirkes, a leading Episcopalian of Baltimore, created a breeze by denouncing Sunday and liquor laws as contrary to the spirit of the age and inimical to individual liberty. A gang of seventy-five Arkansas convicts, working on the levee below Helena, mutinied. They killed the contractor, J. H. Gant, and seventeen of the party made their escape. It %as been ascertained that Louisville’s loss by the tax frauds amounts to $147,20250. Myers Bros.’ tobacco manufactory, at Lynchburg, Va, containing a large amount of manufactured tobacco, was burned, involving a loss of $120,00(1 Loiqsville has commenced ’ laying foundations for a cotton exposition building covering fifteen acres, to be completed in July