Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Early Dawn, a mare which won the 5-year-old stake iu Chicago last summer, was poisoned by arsonic in St Louis, and died in Kentucky. She was owned by W. L Simmons, was valued at $25,000, and in tho past two years won purses aggregating $15,C00. A gentleman in Chattanooga desires to find the rightful owner of a cane cut by Andrew Jacksoa and presented by him to a friend named Mullenbrink. The relic was found on the battlefield of Lookout Mountain.

Fire at Artesia, Miss., destroyed every store in the place. Mrs. Lucinda Helm, widow of the late Governor John Helm, of Kentucky, died at Elizabethtown, Ky., aged seventy-six years.