Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A duel between W. C. Elam and R. F. Beirne, two'Richmond editors, was fought at New Hope, near Waynesboro, Va, The parties met in a strip of woods, and when the distance had been marked off all not connected with the affair were requested to retire. At the word “one” both pistols were discharged, without effect At the second call the weapons were heard simultaneously, Elam being shot in the right thigh. As he staggered his second placed him on a cushion which lay on the ground. The combatants were pale, but cooL Beirne was taken away by his second and went to Baltimore by rail Elam was placed in an ambulance and taken to the residence of Lieut Gov. Lewis. Enoch Pratt, of Baltimore, gave a deed of the Pratt Free Library to thgt city, and beside drew a check for >833,333.33, which will be invested in city funds for the support of that institution. J. T. Brown, Jr., late United States Marshal for the Eastern district of Arkansas, has been convicted of perjury and forgery, and will pay a fine of SI,COO and undergo imprisonment at Detroit for five years. A Richmond (Va.) telegram says: “Elam, the wounded duelist, is in a critical condition. The ball struck near the right hip and passed inward and downward, almost grazing the bladder. Pyaemia and sloughing are greatly feared” A negro murderer named .Martin Jones was hanged by a mob at Skip with, Miss Col. M. L. Colo wap found near Vicksburg, Miss., Tuesday morning, riddled with buckshot Dr. H. P. Hook and his son have been arrested for the murder. Two blocks of frame stores at Gadsden, Ala, valued at >IOO,OOO, were burned. The first bale of new cotton, weighing 335 pounds, of middling quality, sold at Macon, Ga, at 25% cents per pound A’saw-mill, near Huntsville, Texas, worked by prison labor, was blown to pieces by a boiler explosion. Four convicts were instantly killed and four others seriously wounded. Six negroes, four men and two women, were drowned in Columbus county, N. C. On reaching a bridge that spanned a swollen stream, they found that a portion had been washed away. Determined to cross the stream, however, they looked for a boat, and, being unable to find one, made a raft of logs and grapevines, and on this they attempted to cross. When the middle of the river was reached the raft went to pieces, and the whole party of six found a watery grave.