Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A fire at Jacksonville, Tex., burned property of the estimated value of SIOO,OOO. Benjamin Bates, grand-nephew of Edward Bates, Attorney General under President Lincoln, committed suicide at Richmond, Va. An inter-State military prize drill will take place at New Orleans next May, and all regularly-organized military companies are invited to participate. Tke Nashville publication house of the Baltimore Conference of the M. E. Church South is so deeply embarrassed that a sinking fund must be provided to pay its debts. Off Baltimore two oyster-boats came in collision, one sinking. Four persons were drowned, and of two men who had lashed themselves to the rigging one was frozen to death. A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark., reports that near Booneville, Logan county, Sheriff Grady and posse attacked four men supposed to be the Little Rock and Fort Smith train-robbers. A running fight followed, and one of the fugitives was fatally wounded. Capt Ellington, of the Sheriff’s posse, was wounded. The scoundrels who captured a train on the Little Rook and Fort Smith railroad and killed the conductor have been jailed and have confessed their crime. According to their story the murder of the conductor Was all a mistake, the thieves having agreed not to kill anybody unless it became necessary in crder to effect their escape. But one of their number “became excited” and the conductor fell a victim. The burning of the Fontaine cotton warehouse at Columbus, Ga, entailed aloes of $190,000. Richard Crowley, a Texan lunatic, escaped from the San Antonio Asylum, went to ids mother’s house and brained her with an ax . •