Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Gov. Knott, of Kentucky, pardoned the prisoners Bradley and Cunningham who recently tried to prevent a gang of desperadoes from breaking jail at Frankfort. Cunningham was serving out a sentence for having shot a person who had seduced his sister. The launch Daphne, employed at the Government works at Memphis, Tenn., exploded her boiler, killing Paymaster N. Gooden, seriously scalding Engineer A. Graham, Pilot C. D. Ryan, and two others. The Fifth Georgia Regiment, of the Confederate Army, held a reunion at Macon, nine companies being represented. L. C. Young, formerly of the Fifty-sixth New York Volunteers, restored the flag of the Fifth Rigiment, which was captured at the battle est Coosawhatchie in 1864. The affair drew tears from the veterans. Gen. Leroy Pope Walker, the first Secretary of War in Jefferson Davis’ Confederate Cabinet, and who gave the order for firing on Fort Sumter, died at his home in Huntsville, Ala., after a brief illness. A small cyclone struck Dallas, Texas, tearing a deep hole, and carrying a column of sand two feet in diameter to a height of 500 feet.