Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1887 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Woman’3 Christian Temperance Union of Virginia has adopted a resolution of thanks to Mrs. Grover Cleveland for her example as an abstainer from intoxicating drinks. Fire at Dallas, Texas, destroyed the wholesale grocery houses of T. L. Marsalis & Co., and Armstrong Brothers, and the wholesale liquor house of 8. B. Hopkins & Co. The loss is about $4)00,030, with $255,000 insurance. ' , The boilers of the Harvey Paper Mill, at Wellsburg, W. Va, exploded, wrecking tue building, and setting the ruins on fire. Two men were instantly killed, and two others received serious injuries. Three masked men entered the Gulf,

Colorado and Santa Fa Railroad depot, at Richmond, Tex., and, at the point of a pistol, compelled the watchman to open the doors leading into the inner offices. They then attempted to drill through the safe in the station agent’s office. Failing, two of them went to the station agent’s house and forced him to go to the station and open the safa They secured 11,400 in money, and escaped. The planters of Hinds, Amite, and Rankin Counties, Mississippi, have felt compelled to give notice to emigration agents to stop enticing the negroes to the swamps of the Yazoo delta. From four hundred to six hundred colored men daily pour into Vicksburg. The emigration from Greene County, Alabama, is the largest of aIL Five of the men engaged in the train robbery at Gordon, Texas, have been arrested, and the prospect is that the other three will be captured. Miss Annie T. Howard, daughter of the lottery king of New Orleans, has purchased a lot on the corner of Camp and Delord streets, on which to erect and establish a memorial library of 100,000 volumes, to be turned over to Tulare University. The citizens of Springfield, Ky., lynched Ludlow Corrfish, who took the life of Lulu Green because she refused to marry him, and also undertook to kill her mother and sister.