Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1888 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A Charleston (W. Va.) special says; “The vendetta between the Hatfields, of Logan County, W. Va, and the McCoys, of Pike County, Ky., is settled for the present The agent whom Governor Wilson sent to Logan County some days ago returned, and reported the belligerents on both sides have disbanded and the trouble ended. Governor Wilson has countermanded the order calling out the militia ” • A young man in Louisville who smoked forty cigarettes a day has been pronounced of unsound mind by the physicians. Cybus 8. Oberly, brother of Civil Service

Commissioner Oberly, died at Houston, Texas. He was a well-known journalist The committee now engaged in investigating the chain-gang scandals of Georgia have unearthed a horrible stale of affairs under the prison-lease system of that State. Many of the details are so vile that they will not bear publication.