Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A bank ledger which was expected to furnish evidence for the conviction of Marsh T. Polk has been stolen from the office of the State Treasurer at Nashville, and a reward of >250 is offered for its return. The iron propellor Niagara, which cost >850,000, took fire off the coast of Florida Her passengers and mails were sent on board the Oommandery, after which the Niagara was run ashore off Indian key. The Irqp Mountain train-robbers who eecaned from the convict sramr at Cane Hill, Ark., returned to the stockade, having nearly starved in wandering about the woods. Two negroes fought a duel near Helena, Ark, one having a musket and the other a rifle They fired with fatal effect, and both died during the night The heat in New Orleans last week was so oppressive that horses and mules dropped dead in the street Roland Swain, of Nashville, Tenn., has confessed taking the bank ledger from the State Treasurer’s office to the residence of Col Polk, the defaulter, for which he was given |175, on the following day, by a third P*rty.