Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

live negroes, three men and two women, returning home from a frolic at I). J. Smith’s plantation, iin York County, South Carolina, attempted to cross Broad Kiver in a canoe. The boat filled and sunk, and two of the men were drowned. Tho third man was rescued hy persons on the bank. Gen. W. C. Wickham has succeeded Senator Malione in tiro executive management of the Chesapeake and Ohio RailroadMayor Heed, of Louisville, Ky., pleaded guilty to fighting in tho street over an election bet, and was fined twenty dollars, which lie paid. Proceedings have been commenced to contest the recent elections at Atlanta, where tho Prohibitionists carried the day. The sa-loon-keepers take tho ground that the act adopted is unconstitutional in that it allows the sale of Goorgia wine, and prohibits wine from other States; then, again, it is held to bo unconstitutional because it allows elections in “wet” counties but not in “dry” counties, thus failing.to bo uniform throughout the State. Several days will be consumed iu the arguments.