Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Knights of Labor in Texas are preparing to boycott the granite contractors for the new Capitol, on account of the employment of convict labor in the quarries near Burnet. Five hundred masons are employed on the building.

A fire which gained headway with great rapidity in the City Hospital at Louisville, Ky., caused much excitement, but the helpless patients were speedily removed, and the flames were got under control Kennon & Hill, grocers at Columbus, Ga., and Salem, Ala., failed for $67,000. It is threatened by the Knights of Labor in Texas that the Chicago syndicate engaged in constructing the new State Capitol will be boycotted if stone quarried by convicts is used in the construction of the building. The boycott, it is declared, will go into effect as soon as the first carload of granite is landed on the Capitol grounds. A jury at Sparta, Georgia, sustained the will of David Dickson, leaving $500,000 to his colored mistress and child, and disinheriting his heirs. The Governor of North Carolina has respited to Dec. 7 four men under sentence to hang for the crime of burglary.

L. B. Jones, a young blood of Richmond, was fined one cent and imprisoned for an hour on a jury verdict for sending a, challenge to fight a duel. This is the second instance since the war where punishment was inflicted for violating the dueling law.