Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Encke’s comet, on its return trip, was • discovered, on the 2d of January, at Nashville, by E. E. Barnard, of the Vanderbilt University Observatory. Cotton-mill proprietors at Baltimore feel buoyant over future prospects, and all factories will soon be to full operation. Bobbers entered Widow Rooney’s house at Wilmington, Del., believing that she

had $3,000 concealed; and upon denials that she had any such sum, beat her brutally and departed with S3O. It is believed that the woman’s injuries will prove fatal.

A Baltimore dispatch reports that a train which left that city over the Baltimore Central Railroad for Oxford, Pa., was boarded at Rising Sun, Cecil County, Md., by two men, who, by threats of violence, compelled the passengers to surrender their money, watches, and other valuables. The men then jumped from the train, which was running at full speed. The Norwegian bark L6na was wrecked off Hog Island, Va., eight persons losing their lives. Jn a fierce storm and freezing weather the crew clung to the doomed craft for twenty-four hours, but Anally dropped off one by one. The two survivors floated ashore by the aid of some planks. An earthquake shock was felt in the southern portion of Frederick County, Maryland. James G. Scrugham, .teller and assistant cashier of the Lexington City National Bank, Ky., defaulted for S4J,OJO, and fled to Canada. Detectives at Grafton, W. Va., ascertained that the recent wrecking of a passenger train was the work of Mrs. M. Blake, who sought revenge for the arrest of her husband on charge of robbing cars. She confessed her crime.

D. L. Moody has opened revival meetings at Richmond, Va., being rewarded with large congregations. He denies that he ever cherished or expressed sentiments as to Lee and Jackson other than of high respect. The charge originated with a citizen of Richmond named R. D. Core.

News is received from Dallas, Tex., of the sale of the Munsen ranch in the PanHandle and its stock of 75,000 cattle to W. W. Ewing, of Kansas City, for SBOO,OOO.