Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A sea eaptain reported at Jacksonville, Fia., that he passed sevt ral vessels which bad been totally dismasted In the recent hurricane, and also found the Charleston lifeboat John Stoddard dismasted and

full of water, but no person on board. He believes the entire crew perished. A passenger train on the Natchez, Jackson and Columbus Railroad ran off a bridge in a bayou near Jackson, Miss., the engineer, fireman, and one brakeman being killed and eight men injured, two of them dangerously. Three pilot-boats and fourteen members of their crews were lost off Beaufort, S. C., during the reoent hurricane. A Charleston dispatch says “the revised estimate of the losses by the storm is $1,690,000, including $400,000 along the wharves and $550,000 of private property. The remainder includes losses to shipping, $2:0,000; oa Sullivan’s Island, $100,000; cotton-presses $85,000; city property, churches, railroads, and phosphate-mills, sso,oooeach; miscellaneous, $155,0 0. The work of reparation is so active that all business now offering Is fully accommodated, and in the next ten days the facilities will be as good as ever.” Dr. D. H. Gregg, of King William County, Virginia, who was found dead in bed at a Richmond hotel, left charitable bequests to the amount of $50,000. A 1 Lockie, who murdered six persons recently, including his daughter, brother, sister in-law, and another relative, was taken from jail at B anco, Tex., and hanged. Lockie confessed his crimes, and said that he intended to kill all the members of three or four families, but his cartridges gave out. The mysterious epidemic in Clay County, West Virginia, is increasing. The symptoms very strongly resemble those of cholera. Outlaws operating in the vicinity of Calhoun, Ga., after robbing a store, blew it up with gunpowder, destroying the postoifice and other buildings. Seven men have been arrested.