Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Supreme Court of Louisiana has decided that municipal bonds cannot be taxed. The Governor of Louisiana has called a convention to assemble at Baton Rouge, June 18, to consider the building and repairs of levees, and the improvement of Mississippi navigation. A young negro who made a criminal assault upon the wife of his employer near Hanson, Ky., was taken by a mob the followng day and hanged. The trial of Congressman Philip B. Thompson for the murder of Walter Davis was begun at Harrodsburg, Ky., on the 9th Inst, with a powerful array of counsel on both sides, including, among others, Senator Voorhees and Congressman Blackburn for the defense, and Gov. Cantrell and Jesse Morton for the prosecution. At Oxford, Miss., City Marshal C. E. Butler shot and instantly killed Capt 8. M Thompson, editor of the Oxford Eagle, who was resisting arrest Butler immediately surrendered himself to the officers. A few days ago it was announced by telegraph from San Antonio, Tex, that Maj. J. R. Wasson, Paymaster of the Military Department at that point, had been robbed on a Southern Pacific train of $25,000 of Government funds which he was conveying to Fort Davis.) The story has been completely exploded by the confession of the Major that he stole the cash. Wine and women a’ e blamed for the Paymaster’s “shortage.” About sls,tOO of the stolen funds were returned. Wasson will be court-martialed. The Florida Ship Canal Company

was organized at Washington by the election of ex-Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, President, and the Hon. William Windom Vice President It is estimated that the canal will cost $30,000,000, and will be completed in three yean. b Andy Taylor, one of the Taylor brothers, who last fall boarded a train on the East Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia railTennessee, and his deputy, John Conway, and rescued John Taylor, who was being conveyed to Knoxville for trial, has just been tried, convicted and sentenced to death at Loudon, Tenn. At Oregon City, Ark., Sam Hester insulted Van R. Elliott’s wife. Elliott and his brother hunted Hester up and riddled him with bullets, killing him. On Warwick farm, near Saledo, Tex., two Mexicans killed themselves with the same knife. One stabbed the other in the region of the heart, leaving the knife sticking in the wound. The other then quickly drew the knife from his own breast and stabbed his antagonist. During a fire at Baltimore, Mr. Adams, a paralytic, was suffocated; a colored cook was burned to death, and a female servant was seriously injured by jumping from a third-story window.