Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1887 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Snow fell in Georgia to a depth of five inches last week. Josepn Tosso, a well known violinist, and composer of the melody called “I he Arkansaw Traveler,” died at Covington, Ky., aged 85, Scott Pickier, aged 12, emptied the contents of a shotgun into the body of Chester Dodd, aged 10, at Jackson, Tenn., killing him instantly. A trifling quarrel led up to the killing. The ocean shore along the South Carol na coast is covered w th dead fish to the depth of one foot, which is the result, it is thought, of some volcanic disturbance.

Thomas P. May, once a wealthy planter of Louisiana, and at the outbreak of the war a Union, man, is said to be dying in London. He was Sab-Treasurer at New Orleans, and established The Time % in that city in the interest of Salmon P. Chase for the Pres'doncy. The Oerman ship Elizabeth was wrecked du ing a gale off Cape Henry, Ya., and over twenty men of the crew and the members of the Little Island life-saving station were lost through the capsizing of the life-boats which bravely wont to her aid.