Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1887 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Gen. Pitcairn Morrison, United States Army, retired, aged 92, diedin Baltimore. Sam Branch, a colored man, was found guilty of grand larceny at Chattanooga. As soon as the verdict was announced he cut his throat A heavy decrease of the average yield of cotton in Texas, as compared with last year, is reported. A Richmond (Va-.) dispatch says that “United States Judge Bond fined Attorney General Ayers SSOO and also State's Attorney John M. Scott of Farquhar County and the State’s Attorney of Loudoun County for bringing suits under the '“coupon-crusher” law in disobedience of the injunction issued by Judge Bond. The fined officers were committed to jail to remain until the fines are paid. They will apply to the United States Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus. ”