Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

V Fifty-three citizens of Barnesville, Ga., have brought suits against the Central Railroad for the destruction of property caused by sparks from a passing locomotive. A grandson of Davy Crockett has just been lodged in the penitentiary of Texas, to serve two years for burglary. Sixty indictments for gambling have been returned by the Grand Jury at Wheeling, W. Va. Among those involved are an ex-Govornor, a member of tho City Council, and leading merchants and manufacturers. The mother of the Confederate General John H. Morgan, now residing at Lexington, Ky., has inherited $1,000,000 by the death of tho Baroness de Fauremberg at Cannes, France.

The Governor of Louisiana has issued a proclamation of quarantine against the leading ports of Mexico, Central, and South America, and tho West Indian Islands, to take effect May 10.

Lynchers attacked the jail at Forsyth, Mo., and, taking out Frank and Jubal Taylor and Elijah Sublette, hung them for making a murderous assault on Postmaster IMckerson and his wife.