Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

E. De Merolla, wine merchant and Italian and Turkish Consul at Baltimore, is missing, and owes $30,000. A child in Baltimore, suffering from diphtheria, recently, coughed infected matter into the face of Dr. Melville Taylor, the result being the death of the latter. The remains of Brig. Gen. B. H. Helm, of the Confederate array, who was killed at Chickamauga, have been disinterred at Atlanta and removed to Elizabethtown, Ky. He was a brother-in-law of Abraham Lincoln. At Frankfort, Ky., John Simmons, a colored boy, whipped Morgan Browner, aged 16, when Browner procured a gun and shot the negro dead. Henry A. Frellsen, a New Orleans merchant, who, when a subject of Denmark, took an active part in Greece's struggle for freedom, and there became intimate with Lord Byron, has just died at the age of 84. A. M. Scales, Democratic candidate for Governor of North Carolina, escaped death on Cowee Mountain by the antics of his horse, which fell down a precipice of one hundred feet. Scales caught in a tree, and was rescued and sent homo to Greensboro. The outlook for the fall and winter trade in all sections of the South Is reported to be favorable. Harry Clay, a well-known lawyer of LKiisville, and a grandson of the great Henry Clay, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded by Andy Wepler. Clay took offense at his friend Wepler because tho latter would not lend him as much money as he wanted to buy whisky with. Recent reports of damage to the rice crop In the South by floods were grossly exaggerated, anl the loss will bo small compared with the total yield.