Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1888 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A cyclone in Baxter County, Arkansas, wrecked many dwellings and destroyed crops, causing heavy losses to farmers. No lives are reported lost A proposition to refer all correspondence touching union with the Northern church to a special committee has been adopted by the Southern Presbyterian Assembly, in session at Baltimore. It was also decided to join in the centennial celebration at Philadelphia. The Governor of Kentucky has appointed L A. Kpalding, W. B. Fleming and J. F. Hogan Kailroad Commissioners. Mr. Joseph R. Anderson, who was nominated by the Prohibitionists of Tennessee, is dead.