Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

An express train on the Kentucky Central Railroad was wrecked near Lexington, Kentucky, the engineer and fireman being killed and many passengers injured. A controversy between E. R. Murray, editor of the Anderson Intelligencer , and State Senator Moore culminated •in a personal encounter in the streets of Anderson, S. C. Each fired about five times. Senator Moore was 6light!y wounded in the right hip. The difficulty .originated in a difference of opinion on the prohibition question, which led Editor Murray to denounco in his paper Senator Moore as a liar. Louisville celebrated last week the sale of the one hundred thousandth hogshead of tobacco this season by a grand processional display of tho varied interests, the tobacco industry being given prominence in the pageant. The procession was eight miles in length, and after reaching the Exposition Building the selected hogshead, weighing 1,190 pounds, was sold to Finzer Brothers, of Louisville, for $2,023. There were 50,000 visitors in the city, and the assemblage at the Exposition was the largest in its history.

A coal barge was wrecked near Galveston, Texas, two of the lifeboat's crew and the crew of five on board tho barge perishing. Miss Sallie McDonald, of Boyle County, Kentucky, claims to have been cured of an obstinate spinal complaint through the prayers and laying on of bands of a Cincinnati parson. Nicholas Snowden, a negro who recently outraged a little colored girl, was taken from jail at Ellicott City, Maryland, and hanged, by a mob composed of members of his own race.