Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Austin, Texas, was visited by a $175,000 fir a Immense deposits of chloride and horn-silver have been discovered in the section of country lying between the Pecos river and the Rio Grande, Texaa Negro miners lynched William Connors, white, who killed two men and seriously wounded two more in a drunken quarrel at Glenmarry, Tenn. Two brothers named Reeves, living at Paris - Ky., quarreled about the proper depth to plant corn, when one shot the other, with fatal results Four business blocks were burned at Elizabeth City, N. C. General Josiah Gorgas, chief of ordnance in the rebel army, died at Tuscaloosa, Ala, aged 65. Miss Bragg, niece of Gen. Bragg, poured oil over he? cfotningat Brenham, Texas, and applied a match. Her burns are fatal The trial at Harrodsburg, Ky., of Congressman Philip B. Thompson for the murder of Walter H. Davis resulted in a verdict of acquittal after an absence by the jury of an hour and twenty minutes When the verdict was read the crowd in the courtroom yelled for fully ten minutes, and the rush in the court-yard was simply indescribable, and during the confusion the voice of Phil Thompson, Sr., was heard saying: “Thank God, Kentucky wives can now be protected.” Senator Voorhees and Congressman Blackburn were the chief counsel for the defense. The business portion of Alton, Miss., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $20,000. At Orangeburg, N. C., Richard Jeffcoat, for the murder of Lewis Rumph; William Tressevant, for the murder of Frank Mitchell,/and Horace Hale, for the murder of Daniel Glover, were sentenced to be hanged together June Heni-y Fleming, who was hanged at Pittsboro, Calhoun county, Miss., for murder, made an attempt on the gallows to escape the ignominy of hanging by cutting his throat with a small penknife, but was prevented, the hangman then performing his work.