Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Paymaster Mason, of the United * States army, was robbed of his valise, contain ng $20,000, destined for paying the troops on the Rio Grande, as he was riding from Fort Worth to Big Springs, on the Texas Pacific railroad. The Grand Jury at Harrodsburg, Ky., returned an indictment of murder against Phil B. Thompson, Jr., for killing Walter EL Davis, April 27. In Franklin county, Miss., a colored man named Amos Bailey, who killed a farmer, was taken from the Sheriff’s custody by an armed mob and hanged to a tree A St. Louis dispatch says that reports of the growing crops in Texas are unusually favorable Wheat, though late, lookswell, as does hay and corn. Cotton has not all been planted, but some is already up, and the stands are in good shape. The plant this year will be light because of the low prices and the scarcity of labor. The crop of millet will be large. The season is about twenty days late, but recent rains have given hopes of an abundant yield. An explosion of gas in an oil-mill at Vicksburg, Misa, killed one person and fatally Injured two others. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has secured another judgment against the city of New Orleans for $1,925,667. Considerable apprehension is felt on the Lower Rio Orande in regard to yellow fever, against which it is proposed to quarantine. New Orleans continues its policy of rigid exclusion of vessels from presumably infected ports, even though the result of such action is the withdrawal of regular lines of steamers