Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

While hunting in the woods in Franklin county, Va., a citizen brought on a terrible affray by pulling the tail of a dog. Joseph P. Love fatally wounded his brother, brother-in-law, and father-in-law, the latter being the offender. A Huntsville (Ala.) special says: A mob took the negro who helped kill Officer Street, out of jail, and hung him to a tree near by. When the negrcJ died the crowd dispersed quietly. Cotton-crop returns lead to tlie conclusion that only two-thirds of an average yield will be gathered. So severe is the drought in Mississippi that drinking water commands a premium in Vicksburg, and planters in that region state that cattle are dying by scores. At Fayetteville, Ark., United States Deputy Marshals Perry and Weatherford, while guarding some Indian prisoners, quarreled over a game of cards, drew revolvers, and killed each other, ono firing three and the other seven shots. Gov. Stanford’s Bonita lowered the 4 year old trotting record at Lexington one-fourth of a second, making the ihilo in 2:lBJ£. At Danville, Va., John A. Ferguson was acquitted of the murder of Officer Parks, the Court instructing the jury that a'citizen may legally kill a policeman who attempts to arrest him without a warrant.