Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Illinois day was observed at the New Orleans Exposition by ceremonies in Music Hall. The exhibit made by tho Prairie Slate is a highly creditable one, and is In thorough order. At a mass meeting of the Kentucky distillers at Lexington it was resolved for tho balance of the season to restrict production to actual demand. Mose Harris, the Hot Springs editor who was expelled from the town last year by a citizens' committee, brought suit in the Federal Court for SIOO,OOO damages. A jury has just awarded him $1,250. A tornado at Gadsden, Ala., blew ever a mill, giving three persons fatal injuries. A colored man named Jordan was lynched at Tuscumbia, Ala., for an outrage on a farmer's daughter. The interstate drill at Mobile closed with a lively sham battle between sixteen companies. The prize of SIOO for the best drilled soldier was awarded to Corporal Talbot, of tho Chickasaw Guards, of Memphis. The Houston (Texas) Light Guards took first honors in the free-for-all contest.