Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

While celebrating the inauguration of Cleveland, the people of Hopkinsville, Ky., thought they saw a meteor that looked like a burning cabin, which exploded with the noise of a dozen cannon. The safe in the postoffice at Ozark, Ark., was blown open and robbed of SBOO. The steamer Wave’s boiler exploded at Wilmington, N. C., blowing into the river three persons, who were drowned, and badly injuring several others. The boat was completely wrecked. Lee Blatter (colored) was taken from jail at Monroe, N. C., by a mob and hanged. The Newcomb-Buchanan distilleries at Louisville covering thirteen acres, were sold at public auction, the sum realized being $162,000. Three persons were killed and a dozen injured eight miles south of Grenada, Miss., on the Illinois Central Road by a collision between a mail-train- and an express train. Both were running at full speed, and the engines, two baggage-cars, one mail-car, and a smoker were wrecked. A young woman of Nashville, Tenn., has been miraculously restored to health by the “faith cure” after four months of lingering illness.