Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Scott Madkins, a youth of 19, was married to Annie Ingersoll, his 12-year-old step-sister, at Snowhill, Md. Mitchell & Scruggs, extensive agricultural implement dealers at Dallas, Texas, have failed. A branch house at Fort Worth has also been closed. John H. Flynn, President of the American Association of Master Mechanics, died at Atlanta, Ga. The will of the late John W. Garrett, of Baltimore, gives his entire estate, valued at $20,000,000, to his two sons and daughter, and provides that $5,000 shall be given annuallv for the relief of the poor of Baltimore, and that out of the net income $50,000 shall be expended yearly for benevolent and educational purposes. A caisson of the railway bridge at Frenchtown, Md., sank with seven men under it. Air was forced into the chamber by two pumps, and the sufferers were rescued after a confinement of five hours, and taken to Havre de Grace in a tug. The shops of the Alabama and Great Southern Railway at Meridian, Miss., were destroyed by fire. Loss, $250,000. So desperate has been the hog disease in Maryland that the State Veterinarian asks the Governor to quarantine against five counties. It is stated that infected animals have been slaughtered in Frederick County and shipped to Baltimore. A parter in a bucket-shot at Austin, Texas, disappeared with SII,OOO, forcing the concern to close its doors. . Wash Fletcher (colored) was hanged for murder at Paducah, Ky, He declared his innocence to the last, and made a rambling speech of an hour’s duration, and named four other men as the guilty parties; He prayed for gamblers and whisky drinkers before the drop fell. An iron company at Chattanooga has closed a contract for 13,000 tons of metal for car-wheels at $23.50 per ton.