Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Mrs. Dr. Ridley, daughter of the late Senator Hill, Jumped from a runaway buggy at Atlanta, da., and was fatally hurt Jay Gould is said to be desirous of acquiring the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad, which will furnish his railway system with a seaport outlet in the South. A family feud in St. Helena parish resulted in the killing of Guion and Pierce Lainer, brothers, and William Curley. Gen. J. R. Chalmers, of Mississippi, and Col. Matt Galloway, of the Memphis Appeal , who were to fight a duel, were arrested at Memphis and held jn SI,OOO bonds to keep the peace A bloodless duel was fought near New Orleans between David Todd, son of a Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and Josepb»Levesy, publisher of the Mascot, in consequence of a paragraph in Levesy’s paper reflecting on Judge Todd ' Fifty men of the Macon (Ga.l Volunteers, organized in 1825, will leave their native city Jane 10 to visit several'Western cities, Including Chicago and Cincinnati. Snow fell on the 23d of May, a foot deep between Lynchburg, Va., and Clifton Forge. The weather was exceedingly cold, and considerable damage was done to crops. Tuc press of Georgia is commenting upon the increase Qf lunacy ip that State,

especially among the colored people, and the lack of facilities for the proper oare and treatment of insane persona