Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A train was wrecked near Marshall, Texas, and the railway bridge, spanning Fossil Creek, near Fort Worth, was partially destroyed by fire, the structure having first been soaked with coal oil. Tho strikers are charged with the crimes. “Old Sorrel,” the aged war-horse of Stonewall Jackson, died at the Virginia Military Institute last week. His skeleton will be prepared for the Southern Soldiers’ Home at Richmond. A telegram from Carrollton, Miss., says that while thirteen negroes wore awaiting trial for an attempt to kill a white man a mob of about fifty persons entered- tho court house and began firing on the prisoners. Ten were killed and the other three mortally wounded. A bill has been introduced in the Maryland Legislature which, if passed, will prohibit the sale of Western dressed meat in Baltimore. It provides for an inspector, to be named by the Governor and paid by the corporations, who shall inspect all live stock intended for slaughter; and all meat offered for sale in Baltimore City or within five miles of the city must be inspected prior to slaughter. The party of white men who last fall left New Orleans to work on the Panama Canal have returned, and complain that Consul General Adamson gave them no assistance. Within two weeks nearly twenty-five hundred negroes will be shipped to the Isthmus. A conflagration at Helena, Ark., originating in the Eagle Block, destroyed the opera house, the postofiice, the dry goods store of 8. Seelig, and numerous other establishments. The loss is estimated at 5225,000.

The will of Thomas S. Surell, Orleans, has just been admitted to probate. It developed the fact that the deceased left a fortune of over $8,000,000 to two daughters, one of them Mrs. Richard D. Kerby. The estate includes some valuable property in Chicago.