Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A club has been organized by the Republicans of Baltimore to secure the nomination of Senator Logan for Presi dent. The fence-cutters in Burnet county, Tex., are destroying fences by the wholesale, and threaten personal violence If put up again. The British Cabinet councils are engaged in settling upon a draft for a reform bill. Its general scope will be an extension of the franchise, in which Ireland will be included. The property qualification will be swept away, and some means will be found to deal with the franchise so as to establish suffrage on a national liberal basis identical In the three kingdoms. A hurricane in Great Britain did vast damage and caused great loss of life. Telegraph communication with the continent and by the Atlantic cables was Interrupted for several hours. In Paris railway travel was stopped In all directions and many persons injured in the streets. the notorious desperado, James Foley, known as “Billy the Kid,” was shot and killed at Fort Worth, Texas, by a farmer named Hittoon, a relative of the J ames troys. The parties quarreled in a saloon over a game of dice, and the farmer “got the drop” on the Western terror. Ex-Gov. Foster is authority for the statement that President Arthur could not carry Ohio. Ex-Secretary Evarts Is reported to have said that the candidate most likely to carry New York is some one outside of that State, although he believes the real battle is to be fought in that Commonwealth.