Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A vein of petroleum, flowing two hundred barrels per day, haw been developed at Lake Charles, Louisiana, Reports from fruit-shipping points in the South indicate a backward season, hut vegetable prospects are equal to those of former years. Lato spring frosts may materially reduce the Southern peach supply. A fire which broke out iu the San Carlos Theater, at Key West, Florida, was nut extinguished until lato in the 'afternoon, tho principal portion of tho city being destroyed. Fifteen or twenty persons were injured by falling walls. Tlio financial Joss is placed at $1,500,000, on winch there is insurance of but SIOO,OOO. John Baxter, District Judge at Knoxville, Tennessee, died of Congestive lover at Hot Springs, Ark., in his sixty-eighth year. The merchants of Key West, Fla., have issued an appeal to the benevolent citizens of the United States for subscriptions in aid of those left destitute by the recent conflagration there. Before the Grand Jury at New Orleans two women named McMahon and Smythe made a full confession of their part in a scheme of perjury designed to secure the acquittal of the assassins of Captain Murphy. On one of a number of bench warrants Dr. Emanuel E. Dreyfus was sent to the parish prison in default of $29,0-0 bail. Judge Thomas Ford, tlio chief of the band of assassins, is Commissary of tho Louisiana penitentiary, and has never been compelled to wear the uniform. The great railway strike has culminated in bloodshed at Fort Worth, Texas, A posse of deputies from the Sheriff’s office were detailed to protect a train which was pulled out of the Missouri Pacific yards. They were fired upon from ambush by the strikers and one of tho officers was killed, two were mortally wounded, and ouo of tho strikers was hurt. It was rumored that tlio strikers threatened to burn the town. The Governor ordered out the State troops.