Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Nearly 300 children in Guilford county, N. C., have died from diphtheria. Mrs. David Moses, nee Blanche Gray, the fat girl, who weighed 517 pounds, died suddenly in Baltimore. She was married a few weeks ago in New York, and was 17 years old. Maj. Burke, Director General of the World’s exposition at New Orleans, offers a premium of SI,OOO for tho best plan for a, building to embrace 1,000,000 square feet and cost $250,000. An unsuccessful attempt was made, at Baltimore, to resurrect the corpse of Mrs. Moses, the fat woman. In the Banks county (Ga.) Ku-klux cases eight of the accused were found guilty. Judge McCoy’s charge to the jury severely condemned outrages upon negroes. Tho convicted persons, who belonged to leading families, broke down when the verdiot was rendered, which created a sensation, as aoquittal was expected.