Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Mrs. Judge P. B. Muir, a prominent society lady of LouisvlTe, Ky., was burned to death by her clothes taking fire while standing near the stove. About a thousand negros have within the past year emigrated to Arkansas from Laurens County, South Carolina. Two men recently walked back the entire distance. The Exchange National Bank and the Franklin Savings Bank, at Norfolk, Va., and Bain Brothers’ Bank, at Portsmouth, Va., have failed. The people of South Carolina are driving away Arkansas emigration agents, who seek to have the negroes break their planting contracts. Between $400,000 and $500,000 of Government funds (revenue collections) were on deposit in the Exchange National Bank of Norfolk, Va., which failed the other day.