Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Fire destroyed the wholesale drug house of Howard <fc Candler, at Atlanta, G&, valued at $40,000.

Ervin Ferguson, of Pickens county, « n. wiui. <biuxmg water a few weeks ago, lodged a lizard in a false membrane of his throat, and the other day dislodged its skeleton by taking an emetic. Rear Admiral Joshua Sands, on the retired list of the United States, navy, died at Baltimore, aged 7L A dispatch from Natchitoches, La., reports a frightful affair in that parish. A crowd of colored men quarrelled in a saloon and a pitched battle with dirks ensued. James Hand stabbed Isaac Robinson to death; then a son 'of Robinson shot Hand dead. Ezra Robinson shot and killed two others, and before the melee was over six were dead and four fatally wounded. At a negro card-party in the same parish, Ned Bradford won all the money. As he refused to surrender it, his companions held him over a brisk log *fire until be was fatally burned, and he soon died in the greatest agony. Justice Miller, of the United States Court, at Little Rock, decided that Arkansas rafiroad aid bonds are not a lien on the roads. The issue Is nearly #6,000,000. The price of 7 per cents, dropped In New York from 42 to 12. The dry-goods store of B. Loewenstein & Brothers, on Main street, Memphis, was totally destroyed by fire, the loss being #300,000. John Goode, formerly member of Congress from the Norfolk district of Virginia, publishes an address to the people, in which he brands Senator Mahone as a liar. A blaze at Dallas, Texas, originating in Howard & Co’s elevator, spread in three directions, consuming a cotton-yard, the electric light works, and many frame houses. The loss is estimated at #750,000.