Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The grand jury at Danville, Va., after a two days’ investigation of the November election riot, reported with no indictments. A passenger train on the Memphis and Little Rock road found a switch displaced about twenty-five miles from Memphis, and came to a sudden stop. Four armed men mounted the platform to rob the train, but shots from the express messengers drove them away. Chattanooga has the finest jail in the South, but fourteen inmates sawed their way out with steel shanks taken from their shoes. In Columbia county, Ga., three negro children, locked in a cabin while their parents were at church, were burned to death. A severe earthquake shock was felt at Rouenden Springs, Ark., which lasted for forty seconds. The building which is to be erected in New Orleans for the World’s exposition will be 1,500 feet long and 900 feet wide, with over 1,000,000 square feet of floor space. Four Mexicans, charged with murdering Domingo Polingo near Fort Davis, Tex., were taken from the authorities and lynched. • The Directors of the Louisville exposition have decided to give another show next year. James M. Underwood was hanged Friday at Dardanelle, Ark., for murdering Robert J. Pendergrast, a wealthy planter. Underwood claimed on the scaffold that the wiles of his victim’s wife led to the tragedy. A railroad bridge is to be built across the Arkansas river at Little Rock, which will be completed in about a year. Wesley Posey, the negro who caused the recent riotous demonstration at Birmingham, Ala., has been convicted of rape and been sentenced to die Jan. 11. It required four companies of troops to escort him to jail at Montgomery.