Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Taken as a ■whole, crops in Texas are reported better than last year. It is rumored that a syndicate is being formed in Kentucky the object of which ia to buy up all the whiskies of the crop of 1884. Advices from the growing cotton in eix Statea show that east of the Mississippi Eiver there is likely to bo a decrease of from 15 to 35 pe. - cent, from the yield of last. year. The best reports come from Arkansas and Texas, where the crop bids fair to bo large. Gov. Ireland, of Texas, has written to Secretary Bayard informing him of the murder by Mexican authorities of Francisco Arresures, a naturalized American, and saying: “A demand will be made in the name of the State and its peop'e that tin's wrong by Mexico be atoned for and punished. If this State and her people must depend upon themselves for protection, the necessary redress can and will be obtained” Meetings in approval of this action of the Governor have been held in various parts of Texas. In Dallas, a. fife and drnm Band, followed by a crowd bearing the

United States flag, paraded Hie streets. Thousands of men, white and black, turned out, and for nearly an hour the city presented the appearance of being in the hands of a mob. At night inflammatory speeches were delivered by the Mayor and half a dozen others. Whatever may be the merits of the case, a point is nearing at which it may require the use of the United States army to prevent the invasion of Mexico from the Texas border. A letter was exhibited at Dallas from a well-known exConfederate officer, who says that he only awaits the moral backing of Governor Ireland before taking the field with a force which he believes can in a few days be swelled to 10,000. A dispatch from Corpus Christi states that preliminary steps have been taken there to organize companies for active service in avenging the murder of American citizens in Mexico. The Democratic Congressional Convention at San Antonio passed resolutions calling on the President to demand of Mexico the release of Cutting and the punishment of the murderers of Arresures, and full satisfaction and indemnity to be paid to his family. William J. Hooper & Son, Baltimore, dealers in twines and nets, failed. The nominal assets are estimated at $503,000, and the liabilities atslso,ooo. William J. Hooperowna a controlling interest in the Morning Herald of Baltimore.