Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1882 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Five negroes,'including one woman, were hang-id at Eastman, Ga, for complicity in a terrible riot which occurred at a camp-meeting at that place in August last The outbreak had its origin in the arrest by the City Marshal of a negro gaipbler, who, upon resisting and attempting to escape, was shot and ki led. This inflamed the negroes to a furious pitch, and they wreaked their vengeance in the most horrible manner upon a young man named Harvard, whom they killed and mutilated. In an encounter wh ch followed between the wh te citizens and the riotous negroes three of the latter were killed. The cqlored people of the region regarded the punishment as out of all proportion to the crime committed, and there were app eliensions of trouble at the execution, but n ne occurred, and the five negroes were hanged without any attempt at rescue. Near Mineral Springs, Ark., a posse who wished to arrest the two George boys found them at their father’s residence. Upon the fugitives disobeying an order not to stir the pursuers fired, instantly killing old man George and one son, and fatally wounding a young man visiting at the place. Stamped envelopes of the best quality are to be reduced to #1.89 per 1,000, exclusive of postage, at the commencement of the new year. Robert Paine, senior Bishop of the Method st Church South, died at Aberdeen, Misa The Universalists’ General Convention, in session at Philadelphia, condemned the death penalty, lauded and indorsed the_ efforts of the Prohibitionists and resolved that State Legislatures should enact stringent lgws for the prevention of cruelty to aniinala A Convention of Baptist clergymen and laymen, in session for several days at Hamilton, Ont., declined to demand of the Premier the introduction of the Bible as a textbook in the public schools, as they do not wish to interfere with the religious liberty of any citizen. The Michigan crop report for October states the average yield of wheat in the State is 18 41-100 bushels per acre, and the aggregate product is estimated at 31,689,445 bushels. Freight trains on the Hudson River road collided at Rhinecliff, by which an engine and twelve cars were thrown into the water, causing a loss of #BO,OOO. The indictment against Arabi Pasha embraces numerous counts of a serious character. It fie charged that in violation oj the rights of nations he displayefl a white flag in Alexandria as a cover under which to retire his forces and give the city over to fire and pillage; that be incited the Egyptians to engage in armed rebellion against the Khedive; that he continued the war after peace had been declared; and, in a general way, that he incited civil war, massacre, devastation, and pillage in Egyptian territory The new army of Egypt will number 11,0(k) men and cost £168,000 per annum. Baker Pasha proposes that the field officers be half British and half native, the gendarmerie to be officered by Egyptians. News has been received at Irkutsk, Siberia, that the harbor-exporing party in the Lena delta are all well. Nothing has been learned concerning the fate of Lieut. Cbipps. Dr. J. H. McLean, of patent-medi-cine fame, has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of St Louis, Mo. Joseph N. Dolph was elected United States Senator on the forty-first ballot by the Oregon Legislature.