Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

In Dinwiddie and adjacent counties in Virginia forest fires have destroyed valuable timber, and in some instances wheat fields have been consumed Fire at Fort Smith, Ark., destroyed $75,000 worth of property in the business section A State Convention of Tennessee farmers, held at Nashville, adopted a resolution declaring it to be the duty of Congress to constitute the Agricultural Bureau of the Government a separate Department of Agriculture with the rank and position of a Cabinet office. Another resolution asks Congress to pass laws to prevent the spread of contagious diseases to which live stock are liable. A further resolution asks the next Legislature to enact a law allowing any freeholder to kill dogs found on his land Maj. Hurlock, a mill-owner of Trinity, Texas, and his young son were mortally wounded in an affray with an employe named Roseman. Drought has destroyed the peanut crop in Virginia, entailing a loss of $200,000.

In some sections enough will be raised for seed next year. Judge Mayo, of Westmoreland county, himself dead while on board the steamer Virginia, near Fortress Monroe. He told a clergyman who accompanied him about his political disagreements with hi* sons, one of whom is a member of Congress elect, and said he felt like ending his troubles by blowing out his brains.