Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

All cases on the Federal docket at Charleston, S. C., for violation of the national election laws have been discontinued upon motion of the District Attorney, tho latter claiming that in the present state of public sentiment convictions were impossible. A Southern paper reports great scarcity of food in Marion, S. C., owing to tho shortage of last year’s crops, and fears that unless liberal assistance is immediately given deaths from hunger will result. Dispatches from Atlanta, Ga., give meager accounts of the destruction wrought by another cyclone which passed over a section of that State last week. It was first heard from in Harris County, and moved from southwest to northeast. Forty-six houses were completely blown away, eight personß killed, an! many injured. Striking into Merriwether County, wholesale dostruc. tion of property took place, the damage being fully 5200,000. The, Powell place, one of the most noted in the State, was utterly swept away, and Mr. Powell, Sr., lus grandson, Ben Powell, and four negroes were killed outright, while five other persons are so mangled that some of them wi.l die. Several negro children had been blown away and have not since been heard from. Farther on, it struck the house of Pete Tplson, destroying everything, killing mules and breaking the thigh of a negro man. A negro girl was killed. On Dr. Beasley s farm, near Sandtown, terrible wreck was made. Six colored people are known to have been killed on one plantation and four on another. Many persons were fatally Injured in the country adjacent to Logansville, several houses destroyed, and barns burnl up.