Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

John Thompson, a murderer, was aken from jail at Kingston Tenn., and hangedt by a mob. The Governor of Arkansas has grown weary of having prisoners cremated by mobs in Pike County, and has offered rewards for the capture of the persons who have twice burned the wooden jaiL The wholesale and retail grocery business at Augusta, Ga., having been monopolized by Chinamen, the citizens are petitioning the Council to devise means to stop the yellow tide of immigration. The assignment of Jacob Kuhn, manufacturer and wholesale dealer in jeans clothing at Louisville, is announced, with liabilities of about $60,000. A rainstorm of eighteen hours’ duration caused Hoods in the Shenandoah Valley, Va., more water falling than in the two previous years. Near Lexington a trestle collapsed under a train, the engineer and fireman being killed, but the passengers escaped Washouts on the Baltimore and Ohio Road interfered with the passage of trains. The Kanawha River rose to an unexpected height, sweeping away fifty coal barges stationed at Charlestown, W. Va., and damaging property valued at $150,000.