Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1887 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The West Point Cotton Mills, near West Point, Ga», were totally destroyed by fire. They worked 250 looms and 6,30) spindles. Eleven inches of snow fell at Lexington, Ky., March 3). On the strength of the report that the cholera in South America is extending northward, and lias already reached tho Isthmus of Panama, the city authorities of El Paso, Texas, have ’ established a stringent quarantine. A heavy snowstorm prevailed in Virginia on the 81st us March. An artesian well sunk by the Gulf Railway iu its yarJ at Galveston has struck fre:-h water at a depth of 765 feet. There has never been an ordinary well on th 3 island.