Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Mansfield, La., the Rev. Ben. Jenkins, Jr., killed President J. Lane Borden, of the female college, for ruining a young lady friend. John F. Carter, editor of a newspaper at Dadeville, Ga., was shot and killed by B. B. Bturdevant, son of ex-Probate Judge Sturdevant, whom he had attacked in his paper. Eight persons, men and women, were drinking in a Floyd county (Va.) brothel, when a discarded lover of one of the women threw a blazing pine-knot through a window, upsetting the lamp, which exploded and set the whole party on fire. The house and one man were consumed, and the remainder of the carousers were shockingly burned. Not long ago Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, the champion litigant of this oountry, obtained a judgment against the city of New Orleans for about #2,000,003. The city refused to pay, alleging “no goods.” Mrs. Gaines thereupon applied for a mandamus to compel the levying of a tax to satisfy her judgment After some legal sparring J udge Billings jssued the mandamus. This decision suspends the constitutional provision limiting municipal taxation in any one year to 10 mills of the assessed valuation of real estate It is more than likely that the officials will refuse to obey the writ A Mexican named John Yoara outraged a 14-year-old girl at Austin, Texas, and then beat her bead all to pieces and stabbed her little 10-year-old brother to death. At Bay Bt. Louis, near New Orleans, during a heavy thunder-storm two cattledealers, Adam and Borden, were struck by the same bolt of lightning and killed. The two men were standing under a pine sapling near the railroad depot engaged in a hot quarrel. Borden held a long butoher-kntfe -in Ms hand ready to plunge It into the heart of fals opponent, when the fatal bolt fall ■stf tadtd Uu quarrel

H. N. Ogden, ex-Attorney General New Orieansi* week "* Institute courteously tender to the city of New York the flag captured from the Sixteenth New York volunteers. The monument erected to the memory of the Confederate dead by the women of Kershaw-county, a <X, was dedicated in the presence of a large assemblage at Camden. Senator Hampton was the orator oi the day. He congratulated the country that its future was auspicious and that the scars of war were being obliterated by time ; and counseled that obedience should be paid to the laws and the constitution. Wesley Warren, a colored murderer, was lynched at Prospect, Tenn.