Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Sanitary Council of the Mississippi Valley has petitioned President Cleveland to convene the National Board of Health at once, and to authorize the use of so much of the epidemic contingent fund as may be necessary to enforce a vigorous system of preventive measures. The yacht Atalanta took Jay Gould and family from Havana to Charleston in forty hours. The loss sustained by Texas cattlemen during the Winter is placed at 3 to 5 per cent, of the herds. At least 150,000 head wandered southward, and their recovery will require much time and a heavy outlay. The ranges are said to be overstocked, and the throwing of the surplus upon the market will reduce the price of beef. From six to ten inches of snow fell in Virginia and North Carolina on the 18th inst. E. Jeffords, of Issaquena County, Mississippi, lately Representative in Congress of the “Shoestring” District, died suddenly, of heart disease. A building at Emmittsburgh, Md., Occupied by the Sisters of Charity, valued at $50,000, was destroyed by lire. Six white convicts made their escape from jail in Grimes County, Texas, but two were shot down by the guard. The extent of the destitution in Wirt and Pleasant Counties, West Virglana, has, it is said, reached the point that unless aid is at once given deaths from hunger must result. Crime has become so infrequent in the Parish of Cameron, in the southwestern corner of Louisiana, that the parish jail is used as a corn-crib.