Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Somebody at Chattanooga has met the mid sn mm er demand for a oave by discovering a half-mile hole under Lookout mountain, with waterfalls 150 feet in height The schooner A. G. Irwin has been seized at Richmond for violation of the neutrality laws. She has on board two cannon, boxes of ammunition, and large numbers of oarbines and pistols. One of the crew state that for two days at sea she lay to and signaled another vessel, which failed to appear. The cotton-factory of E. L. & A. Gerst, the tobacco warehouse of S. H. Holland <t Co., the tobacco-factory of Hale, Hickey <fc Oyer, the tobacco-factory of W. F. Low, and several outhouses were burned at Danville, Va Loss estimated at <150,000; insurance, <116,000. Three blocks of tenements and residences were burned at Meridian, Miss. The loss is <50,000. Crops in Virginia are suffering from drought, and in some sections corn is burned up. The yield will be far below that of last year. The schooner Sarah Lavinia was run down off Point Lookout, Md, by the steamer William Lawrence, and the Captain, his wife, two children and the cook were drowned. A Jackson (Miss.) telegram reports that “at Slay’s railroad camp, Amite county, three negroes who supplied the contractors with hands and then caused them to desert, were caught and hanged to trees.” Atlanta has suffered a loss of $1,000,000 by the burning of the Kimball House. The flames appeared in a rear building about daylight, giving time to arouse the guests, all of whom were safely removed! H. L Kimball spent $600,000 on the house, and Robert Toombs was one of its latest owners. The cotton crop in various districts of the South is suffering from want of rain and the attacks of the cotton-worm. In Miller county, Ga., Joseph’ Fulford, with the aid of a negro, beat- his wife to death and sunk the body in the creek. A mob totted a confession from the colored accomplice and then hanged both to a tree near the jail at Colquitt