Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A Fort Smith (Ark.) dispatch reports that between Childer s Station and Webber’s Falls, Indian Nation, while Deputy United States Marshals Beck and Merrill ware wtt-empting to arrest John Bark and a Cherokee named John M. Jacks, whisky peddlers, both officers were killed Merrill was shot several times, and had his head smashed in with revolvers. Bark escaped. A will-breaking contest in Kentucky resulted in a double fratricide. Sam Rogers, thinking his brothers, Bill and Tom, were about to pull their guns on him, got the drop on them and sent them to their last account Isaac Evans, Reuben King and Sawney Young, negroes, were executed at Chatham t Va,, for murder. For a similar crime, George Wallace, also colored, was hanged at Savannah, Ga. In Pittsylvania county, Va., in the moonlight, George Thomas and Bowman Doude settled a family trouble by fighting an impromptu duel, one having a shot gun and the other a revolver. Doude was peppered in the face and arms. At a camp-meeting near Winston, N. 0.. the appearance of a number of moccasin snakes caused fifty ladies in the congregation to faint Several persons were bitten before the men could kill the reptiles.