Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At New Orleans, Boyd Abadie, colored, killed Lizzie Laundry, his quadroon mistress, with a razor, and then cut his own throat. Thirteen gashes were found on the body of the woman. A large crowd assembled from Appomattox Court House, Virginia, and draped in mourning the house in which Gens. Grant and Lee signed the terms of surrender in 1885. The draping will remain thirty days out of respect to Gen. Grant. Gov. Ireland, of Texas, has written a letter to Attorney General Templeton, inviting bis attention to negotiations said to be in progress for the consolidation of certain competing railway lines in that State, in violation of its constitution and laws. The Attorney General is requested to take prompt action against the oilending corporations. A mob of disguised men made an attack on the Pike Count? Jail, Arkansas, and attempted to kill two brothers named Polk, under sentence for murdering a peddler, whose body they afterward burned. After firing on the prisoners, and supposing them to be dead, the mob left. Notwithstanding the ravages of caterpillars and cotton-worms in some parts of the South, the cotton crop of 1885 will be the largest gathered in many years. In Ar-

kansas the yield of both cotton and corn promises to be extraordinary. The oats crop in Central Illinois will be heavy, most fields averaging fifty bushels an acre. A splendid crop of hay has been harvested, and corn is in excellent condition. The first bale of new cotton was received at St. Louis last week, and brought fifteen cents a pound. It was from Bryan, Tex., and graded middling. Three murderers, two of them negroes, were hanged at Fayettville, N. C. At New Orleans a colored man died on the scaffold for the murder of one of his own race. Judge James Garland, said to be the oldest Judge in the world, and it is believed the oldest member of the Masonic fraternity in the United States, died at Lynchburg, Va., aged 95.