Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Atlanta’s City Fathers have ‘weakened prohibition. The City Council has passed • resolution permitting breweries to deliver beer at private residences. J. Juvenet, of New Orleans, sent a

bale of ramie to the Cotton Exchange, and a bale of jute to the Produce Exchange, with letters stating that they were the first bales of these products ever grown in the United States. By tlie explosion of the steamer Mascotte, near Cape Girardeau, Mo., six of the crew were burned to death by escaping steam; sixteen persons are known to have been drowned, and five deckhands and one passenger were fatally burned. It is' feared that others perished whose bodies have not been recovered. The city of Charleston will ask the State for a loan of $5,0)0,000 to assist in rebuilding.