Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Special reports covering the entire South, from Virginia to Texas, show that the prospects for crops and the outiook for business in that -section are highly encouraging. The acreage of cotton, corn, and tobacco is the largest on record, and the yield of these and all other crops excepting wheat will be tbe heaviest ever known. Many new railroad and manufacturing enterprises are being projected, and the fall and winter trado promises to be better than for many years. A mob of masked men visited a number of disreputable houses in Dalton, Ga., late at night, beating the occupants and killing a man named Thomas Turner, who offered resistance. The affair is described as an effort to rid the town of bad characters of both colors and sexes. The Sheriff of Peeves County, Texas, died with his boots on and threa bullets in his body, after killing one man and wounding another who attempted to arrest him for drunkenness. A fire destroyed the most important buildings in Texarkana, on tbe Arkansas side, and two squares on tho Texas side, the loss aggregating $163,C00. Seven convicts escaped from the Penitentiary at Little Rock, Ark. The convicts secured, somehow, a number of guns and forced their way past the guards. During the week 199 business failures were reported in the United States and Canada, an increaso of six over the number for tho corresponding period of last year, 11Jacob Graup, owner of a mill near Morgantown, W. Va., was returning home from camp-meeting in a carriage, in which were also his wife and two grandchildren, when the horses ran away, dashing the vehicle to pieces, and all four of tho occupants were seriously injured. Secretary of State Bayard has applied to the President of Mexico for the extradition of Auldemorte, tho embezzling clerk of the New Orleans Sub-Treasury, now under arrest at Monterey.