Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The vigilance committee at Hot Springs has banished about two dozen undesirable citizens. S. A. Doran and bis confederates have been transferred to the State Penitentiary at Little Rock for safe keeping. The citizens of Medina County, Texas, have hunted down and lodged in jail thirty-nine fence-cutters. Marsh T. Polk, the defaulting State Treasurer of Tennessee, died of heart disease at his home in Nashville, last week. He had been sentenced to imprisonment for thirteen years, but was released on bail to await a hearing of his case by the Supreme Court, Mrs. Adolph Morath, better known as Laura Lavarnie, “the tattooed woman,” gave birth, iu Baltimore, to a baby, whose skin is marked with exactly the same figures and colors as seen on its mother’s body. Mrs. Morath has been tattooed within nine months. The Federal Court at Nashville, on the petition of the railroad companies of Tennessee, enjoined the State Railroad Commission from interfering with the business of the roads. The judges hold that the act of the Legislature creating the commission is in conflict with the State and Federal Constitutions. A delegation of the law and order citizens of Hot Springs, Ark., waited upon Mose Harris, editor of the Daily Horseshoe, and notified him that his immediate departure from that city would contribute to its welfare. Harris stood not upon the order of his going, but went at once. Harris’ offense was a too close alliance with one of the rival factions of gamblers that have been slaughtering each other, and by an occasional poor shot now and then winging an innocent spectator. Harris has led an adventurous career, having figured in numerous shooting and cutting affrays in Arkansas and Texas.