Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The death of Gen. James R. Herbert, Brigadier General of the Maryland militia and Police Commissioner of Baltimore, is announced. The dry-goods house of J. A. Lewis, at Augusta, Ga., was damaged by fire to the amount of $75,000. A Southern dispatch states that “5,000 veterans of the Union and Confederate armies are encamped at Dallas, Texas. A special train was tendered to Jefferson Davis, who contented himself with a lengthy letter, his wife accompanying it with a statement that the physical condition of the ex-President prevented him from meeting his former comrades. Mr. Davis complains that the veterans of the war with Mexico have been the subjects of special discrimination.” In the Memphis district, embracing sections of Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Alabama, the cotton plant is in good condition, and with favorable weather the yield will be greater than that of 1883. The corn crop also promises to be abundant. While going to camp meeting, Sam Faulkner and Henry Allen accosted the two Woodall brothers, near Fredonia, Texas. Firing began, Allen being shot dead, the Woodalls being mortally hurt, and Faulkner may possibly recover. The latter and one of the Woodalls had a desperate conflict with bowie knives. The Grand Jury at Petersburg, Va., indicted the officers and several employes of the wrecked Planters’ Bank for misdemeanor or for felony, All the cotton factories at Petersburg, Va., have shut down because of dull trade. An iron firm of Louisville has sent circulars throughout the country urging that all furnaces be banked for four w’eeks, with a hope of increasing prices. By the falling in of some walls during the progress of a fire at Catlettsburg, Ky., three men were killed and a number of others were seriously wounded. The damage to property amounted to $78,000. At Arlington, Texas, R. A. Lindsay entered the house of his step-father, James A. Wright, and shot him dead in bed. Then he killed his step-sister, Fannie, fired several ineffective shots at his fleeing sister, and escaped to the woods. The cause for the murders is a mystery.