Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1887 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A genuine case of leprosy has Ijeen discovered in Louisville, Ky. John Haskins, the pationt, contracted the disease in Honolulu throe years ago. At Rolling Fork, Miss., hailstones larger than hens’ eggs fell for fiiteen minutes, riddling the roofs of houses and stripping trees of their foliage. John E. Elaine, an army paymaster, brother of the Maine statesman, died at Hot Springs.

Tbe rains in Western Texas, by filling the dry channel of the Brazos River,, brought down from the alkali country a mass of cattle carcasses that threatens to cause disease. The Apache captives taken from Arizona to Florida, numbering 45J, are about to be transferred to Mount Vernon barracks, Alabama, not far from Mobile. Gcronimo and seventeen warriors w.ll continue to work at Fort Pickenß, under guard.