Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

An investigation ordered by the Governor of South Carolina develops a shocking condition of affairs in the convict camps of that State, the prisoners having been systematically overworked, underfed, and cruolly punished. Tho next Legislature will probably abolish the system of farming out conuiets to railroad companies and mining operators. The mob which lynched the two negroes at Grenada, Mississippi, completed its work by taking Bartley James from his home and hanging him to a tree and killing John Campbell, for whom a similar fate had been reserved, but who was on his guard and refused to be taken alive. Prof. Barnard, of the Vanderbilt University Observatory, of Nashville, has discovered a small comet, having a daily motion of 25 minutes south west. Thirty thousand cattle which were being driven north from Texas have been stopped on the “ neutral strip.” The New Orleans Board of Health officially denies that there is any yellow lover in that city. Reports that yellow fever had appeared at New Orleans are oificially denied at Washington. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has absorbed the last road in Delaware, and now practically owns all that are in or pass through the State.