Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The strange disease reported as prevailing in Virginia also exists in Kentucky and West Virginia, where whole families have been swept away, and thirty or more new graves are seen in a small cemetery. The people call it cholera, for want of a better name, and the malady upholds the dreadful title, victims, upon being seized, seldom living longer than twenty-four hours. It is said the scourge affected majorities in some precincts at the recent cleclion. Numerous corpses have been left unburied, and the stench from the decaying carcasses of animals pollutes the air. Flour, corn, and meal are needed to succor the starving population, and, unless rain falls, annihilation may be anticipated. The Comptroller of Texas has just completed the assessment lists, showing the total tangible value of all kinds of propertyin the State to be $603,000,000, which i 3 an increase of $75,000,000 over last year. The assessed value of land is $106,000,000; houses, $1,154,000; head of cattle, f 6,517,(00; head of sheep, $4,001,000; head of hogs, 51,103,000. Total value of live stock, $03,900,000. The Increase of the taxable value of property in Texas for the year 1883 over the year 1882 was $100,000,000, showing that the increase for the present year falls $25,000,030 short of the previous year's increase. Acute typhoid-dysentery is the medical name given to the fatal scourge which has recently broken out in the western portions of Virginia. One hundred and fifty deaths have occurred in Wise County alone. San Antonio (Tex.) dispatch: Lient Eggleston, who was ordered in pursuit of the Apaches who raided Presidio County, telegraphed the result of his scouting to Gen. Stanley. Farmer Petty was shot three times in the bead, and hfs wife had been outraged and murdered. Three children were found butchered. The Indians were trailed to where they crossed the Rio Grande Into Mexico. Eggleston gave up the pursuit at tbo river, as the reciprocal treaty for the crossing of troops has expired. W. A. Pledger, Chairman, has issuod a call for a meeting of the Colored National Committee to convene at New Orleans Dee. 17 to consider the situation of the colored people under the Democratic party.