Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1886 — SOUTHERN, [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN,

A panther which lor six weeks had alarmed the citizens of Clayton, Ga., attacked and overcame George Groenleaf, who was walking up a hill with his wife. Tho latter cut tho beast’s throat. Painter, Tongue & Co., wholesale dry goods and notions at Baltimore, failed with heavy liabilities. The property of the Richmond Whig, which last month suspended publication, has been sold for $5,000 to some Democratic journalists. The firm of Painter, Tongue & Co., wholesale dry-goods and notion dealers of Baltimore, Md., suspended as the result of extensive embezzlements by a bookkeeper. Sixteen convicts employed in the mines at Coal Hill, Arkansas, escaped by tunneling tliirty-fivo feet, on which work they spent three weeks. Bloodhounds are pursuing them to Indian Territory. A warehouse in Louisville, Ky., filled with cotton, tobacco, molasses, and dry goods, collapsed, and a fire breaking out, tho greater portion of the contents were destroyed. A colored porter, H. M. Wright, manager, and J. B. Balmsforth, ono of the proprietors, were caught in the debris and cannot bo found. The financial loss is heavy. Charles Williams (colored) was hanged for outrage at Cambridge, Md. When urged by the ministers to prepare for eternity, he said, “It is too late. ” Five railroad laborers were drowned while crossing from the Arkansas shoro of the Mississippi to Memphis in a rowboat