Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Kentucky Methodist Conference indorsed the withdrawal of Sunday trains by the Louisville road, and resolved that camp-meetings shall be abolished unless unnecessary traffic on the grounds is stopped during the Sabbath H. A. Ramsey, of the Vulcan Iron

Works, at Baltimore, Md., has made an assignment. In Sumter county, 8. C., citizens took a negro who had assaulted a 12-year-old girl, tied him to a tree, shot him, and then beat the corpse into a jelly. Five men were killed by the explosion of a steamboat boiler at Shreveport, La. , Fire destroyed the Oxmoor iron furnaces at Birmingham, Ala., causing a loss of $500,000. Miss . Bailie Johnson, a handsome Baltimore girl, hanged herself on the staircase by rope, from grief at the insanity of a companion. CoL R. 8. Strader, a leading horseman of Lexington, Ky., had an affray with a colored employe, killing him with a shotgun.