Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Later accounts of the Southern cyclone materially Increase the list of casualties. The track of the tornado is marked by death and desolation from the Mississippi River to the eastern border of Nor.th Carolina. In some cases whole towns were demolished, the nutnber of killed and wounded is very large, and the destruction of property is immense. Postmaster General Gresham, reports a Washington dispatch, is likely to get the Circuit Judgshlp which is to be made vacant when the venerable Judge Drummond retires. It is said Mr. Gresham will leave the Cabinet with regret. A fight between a United States Deputy Marshal’s posse and moonshiners, In Mitcheli County, North Carolina, resulted in the killing of three of the latter. The monument to Gen. Lee the figure being sixteen feet high, standing upon a white marble column sixty-six feet high resting on a base of Georgia granite twelve feet high—was unveiled at New Orleans on Washington's birthday. W. B. Cash, of Cher aw, S. C., a son of the famous duelist, killed Marshal Richards and mortally wounded James Coward. Ben Thompson, the famous desperado of Austin, Tex., held a passenger train at the city limits with a revolver for some minutes, shot a hole through an organ being ground near his residence, and fired a salute of six shots after Gov. Ireland and party at the rock quarry. A negro boy 16 years old, arrested in Franklin, La., for criminal assault upon a white girl, was taken from jail and hanged by a mob.