Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A cattle-raiser of Texas, who has just made a tour of the stock region, estimates the drive for the season at half a million head. Mr. E. G. Peyton, Chancellor of the Ninth District of Mississippi, has decided that the railroad law in the ca:e of the Natchez, Jackson and Columbus Railroad vs. The State recently passed by tho Legislature of Mississippi is unconstitutional. The law sought to interfere with the assumed right of tho company to fix passenger and freight rates. MrPeyton thinks that this is contrary to tho law as laid down in the celebrated Dartmouth College case. The legislative charter to the railroad, he says, is a contract which cannot be abrogated or amended by subsequent leg islation. Thomas H. Smith, 72 years old, deacon in tho Faca Street Christian Church at Baltimore, has been expelled from membership for filching a dollar from tho contribution tox. H. C. Blanchard, of Kichmond, Va., a coffee merchant, has failed. The failure is due to heavy dealings in futures. Tho liabilities aro placed at $223,(4)0. Col, Wm. Spence, formerly United States Marshal for the middle district of Tennessee, who shot and killed his son-in-law, Col. Edward S. Wheat, his successor, in Nashville, March 11 last, was recently convicted of murder in the first degree. A motion for a new trial was overruled, last week, Judge Allen sentencing Spcnco to be hanged in the jail-yard, July 18.