Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A reign of terror exists in portions of Btenvillo Parish, Louisiana, resulting from a neighborhood feud pf several years’ standing. Two men have been dangerously wounded, and several others, both black and white, have been beaten nearly to death by masked men. It is reported thnt several of the miscreants have been arrested. Excitement has been caused in Louisville by the exposure of an alleged scheme, to which the Mayor and other municipal officers are said to be parties, to rush an ordinance through the Council giving a subsidy of $1,000,000 to the Louisville Southern Railroad, without submitting tho question to a popular vote or complying with the gene ra charter. Gen. William Howard Irvin, a veteran officer of two wars, has become hopelessly deranged, and has been placed in an asylum at Louisville. A - one-armed man, giving the name of Charles Bennington, broke a window in a jewelry store at Louisville, about midnight, and waited for a policeman, to whom he said that he desired a home in the penitentiary for a few years, having suffered sufficiently frem hunger. In the vicinity of Somerville, Ala., after a quarrel In regard to the division of property, Wesley Hopper wound his left arm around James Edmonson, and deliberately cut his throat four times from ear to ear. The death is reported from Baltimore of Capt. Alexander Haley, the only colored man who ever commanded a vessel in tho ocean trade of this country. He was eightysix years of age. The fourteen Southern States report the expenditure of $52,386,000 within the present year in organizing mining and manufacturing enterprises, or enlarging old plants.