Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Judge Duffy, of Baltimore, Md., imprisoned a reporter named Morris for exposing grand jury proceedings. The steamer J. M. White, the finest boat on the Mississippi River, was burned at the bank near Pointe Coupee, La. It is bel.eved that nearly fifty lives were lost The steamer cost $225,000, and had a cargo valued at $150,0.0. At Greenville, Ala., Mayor Perry and some friends made a brutal attack upon two temperance speakers who had given offense. One of the lecturers was knocked down on the railroad track with brass knuckles; the other was in the act of the Mayor when his arm was seized. James Howard, aged 35, imprisoned at Texarkana for brutal treatment of his 14-year-o d wife, was taken from jail and hanged to a railway trestle. With a red-hot live-stock brand Howard had branded the letter “H” in two places on his wife’s person. A stake of SSO, COO, to be run for on the Louisville Jockey Club’s track, has been arranged for the spring of 18891 Mr, Wgshborne, wm of the

Hon. E. B. Washburne, of Chicago, dropped dead in a Louisville hotel. Bob Jeter (colored) was hanged for murder at Spartanburg, S. C. He brokerdown completely on the scaffold, and the scene was pit.ful Leading steamboatmen of New Orleans agree in the opinion that no more large boats with costly cab ns will be built for the lower Mississippi trade. A quarry of fine malachite, 150 feet in thickness, has been discovered on the line of the Marietta and Norh Georgia Railroad The Louisiana Board of Liquidation has arranged with two banks in New Orleans to take the accounts of the State and provide for the payment of interest on her consolidated debt.