Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The result,of the recent temperance election at Atlanta was carried to the Federal Court, where Judge McCoy decided against the liquor interest, but pronounced unconstitutional a proviso in favor of Georgia wines and excluding those from other States. Fire at Jacksonville, Fla., destroyed several structures, including the Abell Block and the Herald newspaper building, entailing a loss of about S4SO,(XX), upon wh : ch thero is an insurance amounting to $350,000. Falling walls killed a colored fireman and badly injured three others. Eigth Chinamen at El Paso, Tex., took out naturalization papers, and it is alleged to bo the purpose of the 200 Chinese in that town to become American citizens. Milton Young, of Lexington, Ky., sold twenty-three thoroughbred horses, for which he realized $50,200. A movement is now on foot in Baltimore to procure the passage by the Legislature of a stringent law against the opium joints in that city. C. L. Green & Co., in their annual cotton crop circular, estimate the yield at 6,1100,000 bales for the crop of 1885-80.