Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1887 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A dispatch from Richmond, Va., says that a train went ibrough a bridgo nine miles from Liberty, on the Norfolk and Western Ttoad. The bridge was iu process of repair. Eight or nine workmen were killed and several others wounded. The Governor of Virginia has been advised by cable that the London holders of State bonds are to appoint commissioners to proceed to Virginia and arrange with representatives of the State for a settlement of tho debt In consequence, a joint resolution for the creation of a commission has been introduced m the Senate at Richmond. Owing to scarcity of grass in the Rio Grande districts in Texas, thousands of sheep have perished of hunger. One firm lost 80,00J bead Trouble with the cotton-handlers in New Orleans is seriously interfering with the trade. A colored man named Johnson was executed at Marion, Arkansas, m presence of fifteen hundred persons, for an outrage on a young white girl loft in his charge. Veterans of the Union and Confederate armies in Virginia aro contributing liberally toward the erection of a monument to Gen. John Sedgwick, killed near Spottsylvania.