Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

By the explosion of the boilers of a sugar-house at Bayou Bceuff, La., three men were instantly killed, their bodies being blown to atoms. Mr. Andrew McLean, aged 116 years, was married at Blithwood, S. C., to Mrs. Martha Wilson, aged 27 years. A loss of $200,000 was sustained by tho burning of the Ashland iron- mills, at Lexington, Ky. D. R. Allen was murdered in the theater at Vicksburg by Frank E. Starke, whom he had discharged from the position of advance agent. At a wedding in Carrituck, N. C., liquor at the supper table led to a difficulty in which several guests participated. Six shots were fired in one minute, clearing the room. The groom’s best man was killed, and another groomsman received a mortal wound. The corpse was removed to an upper room, and the young married couple sat up all night with the disabled man. A fire at Rusk, Tex., destroyed buildings on the public square valued at $60,000. Two extensive freight warehouses at Norfolk, Va., containing several thousand bales of cotton and a large quantity of lumber, were reduced to ashes, causing a loss estimated at $500,000. Mrs. John W. Garrett, wife of the President of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, died at Montebello, Md., from the effects of Injuries received in a runaway accident. Fire at Sumter, S. C., destroyed several structures, Involving a loss of $lO,000. Henry Hanson, a colored man 112 years of age, was buried at Boston. He aided in rebuilding Fort McHenry, at Baltimore, in 1814. A colored man Darned John Smith, was executed at Oakland, Md., for the murder of Josiah Hardin. Perry Jeter was executed for arson at Union, S. C. At Harrisburg, Ky., half a square of buildings were burned, the loss being placed at $50,000. The steamer S. H. Parish, from New Orleans, was burned on the Mississippi, eight miles above Natchez. Its cargo consisted of 3,654 bales of cotton, 1,300 sacks of oil-cake and 500 barrels of oil. Tho loss is estimated at $250,000. Two deck-hands perished in the flames and one was drowned.