Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Citizens of El Paso', Texas, desiring to secure the presence and seethe sluggingmatchof Messrs. Slade and Mitchell, have raised SSOO and sent a committee to invite the pugilists to fight their battle at Paso del Norte, Mexico, a convenient resort near byConsiderable excitement has been caused in political circles at Baltimore by the Grand Jury finding true bills of indictment against Thomas W. Campbell, Charles B. Stingluff, Samuel Hannah, BartE. Smith, J. Frank Morrison and Samuel W. Register, members of the late Board of Fire Commissioners of that city, for malfeasarfbe in office and defrauding the City Government The New Orleans Grand Jury suggests to the health authorities that a crematory be established in which to burn the bodies of persons who die of contagious diseases. A negro murderer named Esau Smith, who was sentenced to death in 1875, escaped and remained at large until recently, has just expiated his crime on the gallows at St Joseph, La. There is bad blood between colored people and the whites of Marshall, Texas. Some shots have been exchanged. Great excitement prevails, and threats are freely indulged in.