Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

All the gambling establishments at Hot Springe, Ark., have been closed, and the sporting fraternity have evacuated the town. The Manufacturers' Record, of Baltimore, publishes a statement showing that during January and February the capital invested In Southern manufacturing and mining enterprises increased $28,200,000. Kentucky shows the largest aggregate—so,Bsl,ooo: Alabama second, with $5,210,000. Gen. Grant is a guest at the Hygeia Hotel at Fortress Monroe. Noah Jackson was executed at Lake Providence, La., for the murder of his wife. Harrison Williams was hanged at Corsicana, Tex., for killing his sister-in-law. David M. McClain was executed for murder at Folkston, go. A New Orleans dispatch reports a serious break in the Mississippi levee above that city. The waters were pouring through in torrent*, and all efforts to mend it had proved unavailing. Small breaks had appeared at other points. The Tennessee River at Chattanooga had overflowed and railroad traffic in that vicinity was interrupted. El Paso (Tex.) telegram: “News has reached here of an accident at the Prieteus mines, Sonora. It is said that twenty men lie buried in one of the shafts, which caved in without a moment’s warning. None of the bodies have yet been recovered. There is no hope sustained that any of the miners at work in the shaft at the time of the accident are alive.” The Chief Constable of South Carolina and his armed force captured Col. E. B. Cash by leveling their rifles at him, but Bogan Cash escaped to the swamp. A strong guard was placed around the mansion, and the prisoner was sent to Chesterfield Jail. A largo force of men familiar with the swamp was summoned from Cheraw to run down the murderer.