Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Wyatt Banks was executed at Franklin, Robertson county, Tex, for the murder of Add Wiser about a year ago. Two thousand people witnessed the hanging. Banks’ address on the scaffold occupied two hours Eliza Pinkston, the negress, whose testimony created such excitement before the “visiting statesmen” in Louisiana in 1876, died in jail at Canton, Miss., the other day, and was buried in the potter’s field. B. J. Roop, a prosperous farmer and miller, lived on Hillahatchie creek, six miles from Franklin, ua. The creek rose rapidly at night, and lifted the building, which started down the stream with all the inmates, Roop, his wife, three children and a negro servant The house finally struck a tree and went tc piece* A fiath cf llghtaiuf just

then enabled Roop to see the family sink. He grasped a mattress and floated down until he struck another tree, in which he remained till morning. A tornado swept the State of South Carolina from one end to the other, causing great destruction of forests, fruit trees, dwellings and churches; many people were injured, but no deaths are reported. Terror prevails in the vicinity of Sulphur Springs, Ark., on account of mad dogs. Horses, oows and hogs have been bitten. The value of the stock lost so far by hydrophobia is S4OO. Parents fear to send their children from home. So says a telegram from Little Rock.