Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

No news can be received from Biloxi, Miss., as to the progress or decrease of the yellow fever epidemic supposed to exist there. It is believed that the correspondents of newspapers liavo been bulldozed into silence by the inhabitants of the place. Atlanta has no saloon within her limits, but the police picked up twenty-two drunken men on Saturday and Sunday. Editor Cutting, now at El Paso, Texas, is said to bo endeavoring to enlist 10,000 men, for the purpose of conquering three Mexican States. The recent dynamite explosion in the house of Commissioner Collins, at Cartersville, Ga., has been followed by the indictment for attempt to murder of Dr. Thomas H. Baker, one of the foremost citizens, an l his brother Gus. A killing frost occurred in Mississippi on the night of Oct. 28, and a light frost was reported along the river in the vicinity of New Orleans. Colonel S. L. James has sold to New York parties his plantation m Louisiana and the lease of the labor of the penitentiary in that Stato. A company will be organized to build levees and work the plantation with 1,000 convicts. A log cabin near Elat Rock, Knox County, Kv., was burned, the wife and five children of William Poe, and Misses Alico Carnes and Sallio Adams perishing in the flames. W. P. Payne, Prosecuting Attorney of McDowell County, West Virginia, had a drunken quarrel with his brother Albert, and killed him with a revolver. It is rumored in Vicksburg that C. P. Huntington and Leland Stanford intend to open and cultivate 100,(.00 acres of cotton land in the Yuzjo delta, on one of their railway lines. Six United States prisoners have been sentenced to be hanged in Fort Smith, Ark., Jan. 14, for murders committed in Indian Territory.