Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A six-days’ walking match at Baltimore was won by Hughes, “the topper,” who closed with 553 miles to his credit Noremac was second with 516 miles. Mormon missionaries are working assiduously In North Carolina, and are having considerable success among the more Ignorant class of the rural districts, and especially among the women. The rites practiced by the missionaries are such as to prompt husbands lealous of their wives’ good names to go a-gonnlng for the former. Mrs. Haynes,of Iberia parish, La.,was hilled by lightning while throwing clothes over a wire line fastened to trees The Grand Jury at Austin has indicted forty members of the Texas Legislature for gambling. A number of those so caught left the money with counsel to pay the minimum fine rather than go to trial. Some one entered the County Clerk’s office the other night and stole all the Indictments, including those against the Legislators. Sid Combs was taken from jail at Whitesburg, Ky., and hanged to an elm tree by a mob, for the murder of W. A Polly. Two Mexican horse thieves were being oonveyed from Gonzales to fian Diego, Texas, when twenty-five men overpowered the officers. An execution followed in short order A fight between negroes in the suburbs of Wilmington, DeL, resulted in the fatal injury of three of the participants. The Georgia wool clip this year is one of the largest ever known. The death is announced of Mr. Charles 0. Fulton, the editor and proprietor of the Baltimore American. He was bom in Philadelphia in 1816, and after leaving school was apprenticed to the printing trade. He be came connected with the American in 1853 and nine years later its sole proprietor. At a fijpe in Santa Clara, Mexico, five ■ little girls were burned to death. John Jarrett, President of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, has given it to be understood that he does not desire a re-election at the hands of the convention that meets in August