Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Nearly fifty shots were fired in a difficulty at Tifton, Ga, between Green B. Mayo and Martin Harrell, whose friends took part. Both principals were mortally wounded, and a sympathizer with Harrell was shot. William Austin was hanged at Lancaster, Ky., for the murder of his aunt, Mrs. Bland, and made a full confession at the last moment Paul Pringle, colored, was executed at Mansfield, Lx Gill, Floyd and McFadden, the three raiders from Posey county, implicated in the lynching of Redman at Evansville, were indicted and bailed in SI,OOO each. Recruiting for tho Egyptian gendarmerie lias been prohibited in Switzerland. The Egyptian Minister of Finance has a list of landed estates valued at £2,0C0,«. 000 belonging to lea lers of the I’ebellion, and extensive confiscations arc foreshadowed. Gen. Sir Archibald Alison, Gen. Wolseley and the Duke of Cambridge think the cons'ruction of the Channel tunnel would be fraught with danger to England. Bob Taylor, one of the Tennessee desperadoes for whom a reward of $16,000 is standing, was killed on a train near Marshfield, Mo., by R. P. Goodall, Sheriff of Laclede county, while attempting to draw a revolver. During the fiscal year ended June3o, the Post-office Department received $41,876,41", and expended $40,039,634, leaving a surplus of $1,886,775. John Hurd’s elevator, at Bridgeport, Conn , containing 100,000 bushels of grain, was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $135,000.