Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1887 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Since 1880 tlie iron and steel plants in Southern States have gamed an • annual capacity of 505,200 tons, with indications that at the next census the gain wiil reach 2,000,001 tons annually. The .outlook for the iron industry in 1887 is more prom sing than in the past Ten new blast furnace 3 are in progress of construction.- i Hirseli Brothers’ store, twelve miles below Vicksburg, Miss., was burglarized, and Milton Washington (colored), the occupant,' murdered. Eobert Beasley and Baymond Murphy, known to be enemies of the murdered man, were arrested for the crime. A

mob forcibly took them from the officers of justice and hanged them to a telegraph pole. A steamboat nsed as a boardinghouse at Ja.kson, Ala., was burned at midnight Twenty-five persons lost their lives; ten perishing in the flames, and the others being drowned. The Dolores Land and Cattle Company of Texas, chartered daring fire last year with a capital stock of $2,000,000, has made an assignment The liabilities are $500,000, assets $450,000. The new Sunday law at New Orleans is said to have been observed last Sabbath at all but about four hundred places of business, although the District Court had enjoined the Mayor and police from interfering with certain specified bar-rooms and groceries. The gambling houses gave away no liquors. The open Bhops were generally in the French quarter.