Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A train on the Memphis and Little Rock road broke through a trestle near Forest City, Ark., by which three persons were killed and fifteen injured. Representatives of every colony of Cherokees east of the Mississippi met recently in Swain county, North Carolina, and reported a population of 3,000. A chief w.ill soon be elected, and delegates will be sent to Washington to secure $8,000,000 allowed the tribe by a late act of Congress. H. J. Kimball, of Chicago, will rebuild the Kimball House, at Atlanta, at a cost of $500,000. A yellow fever panic prevails at Pensacola, and the people are seeking safety in flight The newest avocation in South Carolina is the destruction of illicit stills for a Government reward of SSO each. It is freely charged that the moonshiners axe in collusion with the raiders in putting up cheap distilleries in remote localities, to be captured and credited. Walter F. Pool, Congressman-elect for the First North Carolina district, died at Elizabeth City, N. C., after a long illness. Ex-Chancellor James P. Carroll, of South Carolina, died at Caesar’s Head, S. C. He was one of the most distinguished jurists of the Palmetto State.