Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A negro named Perry was lynched at Sulphur Spring-.?, Texas, for the murder of farmer Jones and his wife, robbery being* his motive. Tho Georgia Legislature passed a resolution empowering the Clerk of the House to employ women to perform clerical work. In the debato the opening of every avenue of labor to women was fully indorsed. Fourteen bovs escaped from the House of Refuge at Louisville, Ky., by means of a rope made of Bhcets and blankets. In a dispute about a small sum at Neckesville, Texas, L. V. Simpson and Dr. Calhoun Lawrence shot each othor to death. The Senate of Alabama last ■week adopted a resolution favoring large appropriations for the schools of the Stats, and

solemnly expresoing the purpose of the white people to aid in tho education of colored children. Hill, Fontaine & Co., of Memphis, Tenn., estimate the cotton crop of this year at 5,683,000 bales. The frost of Oct. 24 resulted in a loss of ful y 100,000 bales. Masked robbers boarded a railroad train near Little Rock, Ark., and secured $6 ,000 in cash and valuables. Bloodhounds were put on the trail of the robbers, and six men were soon captured in the city. Three of them were Identified. The plague in Wise County, Va., which swept off nearly three hundred persons, is decreasing in intensity. Fire swept away the business portion of the village of West Randolph, Va. The loss is estimated at $65,003, with $45,000 insurance,