Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Mississippi, levee has broken at Austin, Miss., causing the inundation of at least two counties in the State. Capt. Alfred H. Brotherton, of the brig O. B. Stillman* was convicted at Baltimore of conspiracy to wreck the vessel. Many survivors of the steamer Sultana horror held a reunion at Toledo, Ohio, last Near Memphis, on the morning of

the 27th of April, 1855, the boilers of the vessel exploded, and 2.141 persons perished The gross earnings of the Northern Pacific Company for the month of March were $858,116; the operating expenses $449,055, and the net earnings $409,061. The capital of Alabama was beautifully decorated on the 28th ult. in honor of Jefferson Davis, who delivered an address to a vast multitude in aid of the Confederate soldiers’ monument about to bo erected From the dome of the State-house floated the national flag. The orator was escorted to tho grounds by a procession half a mile in length, and greeted by military salutes. A mysterious and fatal disease lias broken out in Bowelsburg, W. Va., and physicians are powerless so far to save the lives of any attacked The victims are first seized with a severe pain in the head and are dead within twelve hours. After death the bodies become spotted. The corner-stone of the monument to be erected in honor of Alabama’s Confederate soldiers was laid at Montgomery, Ala., on the 29tli ult Tho central figure of the occasion was Jeff Davis, who delivered the oration. The unhappy old man took occasion, as is his custom whenever such opportunities present themselves, to reaffirm his old doctrines of .State rights and secession. Said he: “That the South did not anticipate, much less desire, war is shown by the absence of preparation for it, as well as by the efforts made to securing a peaceful separation, The successful party always hold the defeated responsible for the war, but when passion shall have subsided and reason shall have resumed her dominion, it must be decided that the General Government had no constitutional right to coerce a State, and that a State had the right to repel invasion. Itw'as a national and constitutional right.” S>. W. Floss & Co.’s notions and white goods establishment at Baltimore was gutted by fir?, and adjoining buildings were badly damaged. The total losses will aggregate S6OO,(XX), with insurance in excess of $400,000.

Jeff Davis was given a grand ovation at Atlanta, Ga. Ho was greeted by thirty thousand people, the occasion being tho unveiling of a statue of the lato Senator Hill. Davis’ trip from Atlanta to Savannah was a continuous ovation. At every station along tho route crowds collected, and when stops were made Mr. Davis was called upon for a speech. Upon the arrival of tho party at Savannah they wore received by fifteen military companies and a vast coueourse of enthusiastic citizens. At Judsonia, Arkansas, many horses and cattle have been choked to death by inhal ing buffalo gnats. Memphis dispatches state that the floods in the South along the Mississippi showed signs of abatement, but reports showed that plantations on both sides of tho river had bsen overflowed already,. and tho crops destroyed. The levees in tho vicinity of Helena, Arkansas, were patrolled day and night to prevent the negroes cutting holes through them.