Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Returns to the Department of Agriculture at Washington show an Increased area of cotton planted amounting to 504,000 acres. The average condition of the crop Is low, however, being 86 per cent against 89 In June of last year, which figures were the lowest for many yearn The aphis and caterpillar have made their appearance in sections of Alabama and Texas earlier than ever before recorded. The Texas, cattle-drive. this season exceeds I 'expectations hy about 200, ()00 head. A cyclone swept through the country near McKinney, Teas, destroying considerable farm property. Fire at Havre de Grace, Md., de-

stroyed a large saw and planing mill and considerable lumber, the loss being #225,000 rnd the insurance #25,000, At a railroad camp near East Atritchie, Mina, sixty colored laborers attacked several white men for chastising one of their number. The negroes captured one of the white men and beat him to death. During a race riot Fulton, Ky., a white man and a negro were killed and four men dangerously wounded. Fine rains in North Carolina and Virginia have materially benefited crops of all kinds. Jordan Corbin, a negro, without provocation killed Benjamin (burden and his wife and son at Rockford, Ga. A. C. Jordan died near Chattanooga, Teen., at the age of 107 Six members of the Barnett gang, whom a mob attempted to take from jail at Monnt Sterling, Ky., recently, to hang, were permitted to enter a plea of guilty of the murder of Vaughan Hilton, and the court sentenced them to imprisonment for Jife. Aaron Harris, a colored boy who murdered a white peddler at Enterprise, Miss, was taken from jail by a mob and lynched. He had confessed his guilt. Ex-Gov. Charles J. Jenkins, of Georgia, is dead.