Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Government Directors of the Union Pacific Road report its gross debt at $30,99)1,090; stato that without the branch system tho line would be bankrupt, and recommend Congressional action on the principle of the Hoar bill, the period being fixed at eighty years.

Chattanooga, (Tenn.) special: “The killing of George and Frank Taylor at Oakdale Junction, Tenn., on suspicion that they were burglars, creates tlio most intonse excitement It develops that tho doceased were nephews of Cot Blackburn, one of the leading criminal lawyers of Cincinnati, and steps are now being taken to prosecute their murderers to tho full extent of tho law. The evidence is now clear that the young men were merely traveling through the country, and wero innocent of any crime.”

Ur. C. Whittier, of California, has purchased 70,(K0 acres of land in Swain Comity, North Carolina, and will open a vast cattle ranch and build a new town.

At New Castle, Delaware, with the mercury in the neighborhood of zero, five thieves were lashed on their hare hacks and a forger was placed in tlio pillory for an hour.

During a heavy fog at New Orleans the British steamship Castle Craig refused to obey her rudder and collided with several other vessels, doing about $70,000 worth of damage.