Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Heavy snow has failed in Eastern and Central Texas, nnd stock are suifeiing from the unusual oold weather. Six masked men entered Wood's ambling-house at San Antonio, Texas, gagged the employes, broke open the safe, and escape! with $4,0C0 in greenbacks and gold coin. The employes have been arrested for complicity in tho robbery. The train to which Pierre Lorillard’s special car, containing liimsoif and family, was attached, was warned to stop near Chattanooga, Tenn., by two boys. It was found that a bridge had been washed away, and, if the train had gone a few rode further, it would have plunged into a river. To the purse made up for the lads, Lorlllard contributed $5.

After an appeal by Director Gen. Burke, members of tho Now Orleans Cotton Exchange subscribed $60,000 to meet current expenses of the World’s Exhibition. Matilda Chase, who was burned to death at Annapolis, Md., by her dross taking fire at the grate, was a lineal descendant of one of the signers of tho Declaration of Independence. Capt. Bankhead, a civil engineer, while in bed at Philippi, W. Va., was strangled by his false teeth becoming loose. Roswell Grant, 85 years old, uncle of Gen. Grant, died at St. Albans, W. Va. Job Jackson, a notorious outlaw in North Alabama, was captured after a desperate struggle during which a woman was killed, and Jackson shot eight times. Jackson is charged with seven murders. • At Newport, Ky., Mrs. Carrie L. Winslow while Insane killed her two children, then committed suicide by cutting her own throut.