Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Gas has for three years been supplied to the people of Baltimore at JI per thousand feet, but the rival companies have formed a pool and advanced the price to Si. 75. Capt Waddell, of the Confederate cruiser Shenandßoh, has been given oom-

mand of a new steamer In the oyster navy of Maryland, patterned after the Federal revenue cutters. The Illinois Central Road has ordered the survey of a line from Yazoo City to Memphis, to tap the territory tributary to the Mississippi and Tennessee Road, which recently passed into the hands of a rival company. Joseph Webster, of Nashville, Tenn., drove to an undertaking establishment, selected a costly coffin, had the inscription “Rest in Peace’, inscribed on it, went home, took laudanum and rat poison and died. A barrel of whisky exploded at Canton, Miss., the liquid immediately taking fire, though there was neither light nor fire in the room. ! Louis G. Shafer, proprietor of two billiard halls in Baltimore, was run over and killed by a Baltimore and Ohio train. The extensive snuff factory of A. J. Campbell &Co., in the suburbs of Petersburg, Va., valued at $20,000, was destroyed by fire.