Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1887 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

The famous Glenn bill was shelved in the Georgia Legislature, but a resolution was passed against the coeducation of the races, and calling on the Governor to refuse to draw his warrant for the Atlanta University until he is assured that it will be used exclusively for the education of colored children. In the South the corn crop will exceed that of 1886 by over fifty million bushels, and that section of the country will be nearly self-sup-porting in the matter of corn. Bentonville (Ark.) special: “About 3,000 survivors of the battle of Pea Ridge, or Elkhorn, as it is called by the Confederates, assembled on the battlefield Thursday. The ex-Confederates were largely in the majority, but the Union forces were fairly represented, The most fraternal greetings were exchanged, and hearty good-fellowship prevailed. Monuments and statues were unveiled to the prominent dead, among them a statue to General McCulloch.”