Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Louisiana State Board of Health recommend that the Governor by proclamation close tbe waters of tbe State against all points infected with contagious diseases Richard Diver, a planter near New Albany, Miss., and Sylvia Lambert, his housekeeper, are in jail sot an attempt to poison Mrs. Diver by cooking the head of a moccasin snake in her coffee. The wronged wife discovered the plot before it was put into practice. George Kane, Harry Suffer and Worthington McCullough, while rowing on the Potomac at Cumberland, Md., capsized their boat and were all drowned. Col. J. M. King sold a mammoth ranch near San Antonio, Texas, to an association of British capitalists for #4,000,000, It is stated that under a large tree in Liana county, Texas, was recently found a oar riage with the skeletons of three adults and two children. The belief prevails that they were English tourists, and were struck by lightning at least a year ago. Ex-Gov. Thomas Swann, of Maryland, is dead. A fire on Shelby street, Memphis, Tenn., among grocery and commission' 1 houses, destroyed about $200,000 Worth ofproperty. Eight colored persons were drowned at Claremont, Va., while attempting to cross the James river to attend a prayer-meeting. Miss Walker and eight other young ladies of Huntsville, Ala, challenged a male nine to a game of base-ball and beat them by 20 to 11. To the surprise of people at home and abroad, the jury trying Polk, the defaulting State Treasurer of Tennesse, found Mm guilty and gave him the heaviest possible penalty—a term of twenty years in the penitentiary and a fine equivalent to the known extent of his theft—viz.: $366,540.10. Polk took his sentence as coolly as he took the State’s money last New Year's.