Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A. M. Mooney, Marshal of Helena, Ark., was assassinated at the door of his office, after having spent the night shadowng thieves The Government having secured the title to the site of the birthplace of George

Washington, at Wakefield, Va., • monumental building will be erected at a cost of *33,000. A negro named Fortieth waite stole a mule in Catahoula Parish. La. He was pursued by the Sheriff and arrested. While under arrest the negro shot the Sheriff off his horse After falling, the latter drew a revolver and shot the dead. The yellow fever is at last fastened at Pensacola, although very late tn the season. The proper precautions are now being taken. The bark Salone, from Vera Cruz. Mex., byway of Galveston, Texas, arrived off Fortress Monroe, Va, with yellow fever onboard. Joe Payne, a negro, having confessed to the murder of Towns Sayle, a young merchant at Oakland, Mo., the people ot the town held a court, at which the Mayor presided, and the verdict of the assemblage was death by hanging. Payne was immediately executed and the people dispersed. Three criminals were executed for murder in the South on Friday, Aug. 17— Taylor Banks being hanged at Scottswood, Ala., Ben Perry at Greenville, S. C., and DenoCasat at Little Rock, Ark. The two former were negroes. A train on the Kentucky Central road, one car of which contained 403 kegs of blasting powder, stood on the crossing at Lexington, when a Chesapeake and Ohio train ran into it A terrible explosion followed, in which two conductors were killed, five others were fatally injured, and the depot and one engine were blown to atoms. ~ , ■ , Reuben Roberson lynched at Spring Creek, Ga. Two other participants in a horrible womanrmurder, his comrades, had previously been lynched. Martin Bradley (colored), for attempted outrage, was taken' from jail at Terrell, Texas, by a mob and hanged in the asylum grounds A contract has been signed by the Government for a hospital at Hot Springs, to cost $86,355. Twelve stores and six warehouses at Crawford, Miss., representing SIOO,OCO, were burned. The cotton caterpillar has appeared on the plantations near Columbia, S. C. Efforts are being made to save the crop by burning night lights and using Paris green.