Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Federal Court of Dallas, Tex., has decided that the Star Insur. nee Company must pay 55,C00 for the destruction of the Endy Hotel at Greenville during a cyclone in 1883. Payment was resisted on the ground that the structure blew down. A square of buildings were burned at Wellsburg, W. Va., entailing a loss of over 5100,000. Tliaddeus Louis Poniatowski herded cows recently for Dr. Patterson, in Baltimore County, Md., but disappeared after It was discovered that he was a Polish Prince and a grandson of King Stanislaus. He is said to be graceful and accomplished, and offer.ed himself In marringc to a young woman in the district, but was rejected because of his occupation. Lafayette Melton, who four years ago was captain of a band of Ku Klux which murdered Franklin Hale at Corning, Ark., has just paid tho penalty on the gallows. Mrs. J. M. Pearl, a teacher in a seminary at Louisville, was burned to death, evidently from allowing a newspaper in her hands to take fire at the grate. Gen. Jas. Chestnut, who was United States Senator from South Carolina at the breaking out of the rebellion, has just died at Camden, S. C.