Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 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. A Charleston dispatch says that ex-Gov William Aiken died at hie country place at Flat Rock, S. C., aged 81. He was Governor of South Carolina in 1844 and a Congressman from 1851 to 1857. He was the largest slaveholder in the State before the war and was a successful rice planter. He consistently op-

posed nullification and secession, and took no part in politics after leaving Congress. Lapp, Goldsmith & Co., liquor and tobacco wholesalers at Louisville, have failed for SIOO,OOO, their nominal assets being $39,003. A Nashville dispatch reports that the rear end of the upper floor of a two-story church building at Needmore, three miles from Manchester, Tenn., gave way during a revival meeting, and sixty or seventy people fell with it thirteen feet Hardly one of them escaped injury. The injured were quickly rescued from the wreck, and three of them were found to be seriously injured. One man was fatally hurt Every physician in the county was immediately sent for, and the work of relieving the injured promptly began.