Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Tlie remains of the late Alexander Stephens were removed last week from At-

lanta to Crawfordvllle, Ga., and interred at Liberty Hall, the old Stephens homestead. Gen. Robert Toombs delivered an ad Iress. During the progress of a negro camp meeting at Mount Zion Church, in York County, S. C., a bloody battle was fought between a crowd of country and Yorkville negroes. Cheap pistols, razors, knives, and whisky bottles were the Implements of warfare, and a rivalry between the town and country negoes the eause. Whisky encouraged the fight. One negro was killed, and two latally and not less than a score seriously wounded. The country negroes had warned their town countrymen to keep away from the meeting, and when the fight ended the town negroes were in full retreat. The tunnel on the Cincinnati Southern Road, 100 miles above Chattanooga, Tenn., co.lapsed as a construction train was pussing through. Six men are reported killed and twenty others seriously if not fatally injured. The Randleman cotton-factory in Randolph County, North Carolina, was burned. Seven hundred hands were thrown out. of employment. The-loss is estimated at $150,000. Alonzo Fuget, a skillful and noted counterfeiter, was arrested at Versailles, Ky. He is 65 years old, and was once the head of the Crabtree gang. The wife of William E. Montgomery (Mattie Falmor) began suit at Louisville, Ky., to have their marriage set aside, alleging that she wedded defendant thinking that he was a white man, hut has discovered that African blood flows in his veins. She also petitions for the custody of their children. Southwest Virginia is threatened with famine The corn supply is almost exhausted, and the wheat crop is 60 meager that it will give little relief. The entire Chinese collection at the New Orleans Exposition has been presented to the University of Michigan. President Angell, of the university, wa3 Minister to China several years ago.