Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Near Helena, Ark., the flood overturned a house and four children were drowned. Six adults were rescued, after clinging to the roof for three days. A Memphis dispatch says that “stock are up to their throats in water in the St Francis swamps, and many carcasses of dead animals are floating about” A bill has passed the Arkansas Legislature changing the name of Dorsey county to De Soto county. It was named for ex-Benator Dorsey during the reconstruction era. Richard Howard, of Chattanooga, Tenn., took offense at the reports of a scandalous suit in which he was involved, published in a local paper, and assaulted the city editor, G. W. Ochs, with a cana Ochs drew a pistol and shot Howard in the groin. Judge David Davis and Miss Addie Burr were married at Fayetteville, N. 0., but few persons being present The presents were. numerous and costly. The bridal trousseau, many of the dresses in which were made by Worth, of Paris, entailed an expense of #15,0001 Clarence Hite, one of the Missouri outlaws, pardoned on account of ill health by Gov. Crittenden, died at his home in Logan county, Ky., the other day. William Watkins and Jack Baldwin loved the same damsel As they both could not marry her, Jack slew Billy and then killed himself. All the parties were colored. H. F. Crocker, a desperado, who confessed to murdering three men and one woman, and regretted that he did not have an opportunity to kill two men more, committed suicide in the Granbury (Texas) jaiL A lady of Hagerstown, Md., who had had eleven teeth extracted caught cold in her jaws, lockjaw set in, and she died.