Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The conduct of Lieutenant Greene, of the signal corps, and other members of tho recent court-martial at Fort Myer, Virginia, was such as to draw from tho Secretary of War an expression of the stem condemnation of the abuso of counsel for the accused and of enlisted men serving as witnesses. While passing through Georgia, Thomas A Edison, tho electrician, conceived tho plan of a machine for picking cotton, and showed sketches of his new invention to persons in a hotel at Atlanta. The Houston (Tex.) Savings Bank has failed, with liabilities approximating $500,000. The suspension caused great excitement in the city, and was wholly unexpected in business circles. As the news spread through the town several hundred anxious depositors gathered about tho bank, excitedly discussing the causes leading to the suspension. A receiver has been appointed. Sam Ennis, a brother of the Sheriff of Baldwin County, Ga., shot and killed Deputy Sheriff C. N. Haywood. The trouble grew out of Haywood, who is a Prohibitionist, criticising an anti-prohibition speech made by a brother of Ennis. The Louisiana Board of Pardons has refused to interfere in the cases of Pat Ford and John Murphy, the murderers of T. J. Murphy, and they must hang. A petition of commutation of sentence was signed by 24,000 porsons.