Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The authorities at Atlanta have licensed thirty-six wine-rooms, as the liquor law permits the sale of domestic wine. Recently organizers of the Knights of Labor have been busy among the sugarcane laborers in Louisiana, and numbers of the field hands have been initiated. One hundred hands on Captain Pharr’s plantation, near Berwick, are on a strike for an increase of wages of fifty per cent, A Baptist church was dedicated at Fairview, Ky., on tho site of the building in which Jell Davis was born. The Rev. Dr. Strickland, of Nashville, delivered the dedication sermon, and Davis was present. An immense crowd was there. After the sermon Davis entered tho pulpit and made a few remarks. He then presented the church a service of solid silver. The church is a handsome brick structure, costing about SIO,OOO. A finely polished slab of violet Tennessee marble set on the wall of the vestibule opposite the memorial window has this inscription in Roman capitals: “Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, was born Juue 3, 1808, on the plat of this church. He made a gift of this lot March 10, 1886, to tho Bethel Baptist Church as a thankoffering to the Lord ”