Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Reports from Northern Texas state cotton is well advanced, but Will be greatly retarded should rain not fall within a few daya There will be an average yield of wheat The Sheriff’s posse which was routed byabandof outlaws they were hunting in Yell county, Ark., with the loss of two men killed, caught and hanged a farmer named Coker, who led them into the deadly ambush. The buildings of the Nashville Cotton Compress and sheds,at Nashville, Tenn., were destroyed by fire, together with 400 bales cotton and a large amount of hay and grain. Loss, #65,000; fully insured The Southern Exposition at Louisville was formally opened by President Arthur, on the Ist of August. The ceremonies passed off with great eclat. The Louisvfile Legion escorted the Presidential party to the Exposition buildiDg, where the dense crowds sent up a cheer of welcorire. Gov. Blackburn introduced the Chief Mag-' istrate of the country, who spoke briefly. As he closed his remarks he reached um and, amid the deafening cheers of the crowd, pulled a silken cord, which dangled above the stand, thereby opening the throttle of the great Beynolds Corliss engine, putting in motion all the engines to the machinery department A white man aged 65 years was (lynched at Maryville, Miss. He had been

guilty of a villainous assault on a white girL G. EL Lee was executed at Richmond, Ta, for the murder of Daniel Miller. A prolonged prayer-meeting was held in his cell in the forenoon. After the hanging the Sheriff took up a collection to enable Lee’s parents to remove the body to their home. At Deep Creek, near Norfolk, Va., John & Simmons, a prominent citizen, quarreled with his wife, whom he fatally shot, and then killed himself.