Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The President of the Mississippi Valley bank, at Vicksburg, placed the institution in the hands of an assignee, notwithstanding liberal offers of aid. Melbourne, Ark., was wrecked by a cyclone. The court-house, stores, churches and residences were blown to pieces. Four persons were killed and many injured. A number of structures at Coal Hill were also demolished. In Southern Missouri the cyclone wrecked many houses and injured several people. A sub-committee of the Committee of Forty, appointed to investigate the Danville (Va.) riot of the 3rd of November, reports that the negroes were the aggressors; that the election was free and fair, and that the colored citizens of Danville abstained from voting under advice of their party leaders. A cyclone nearly destroyed the village of La Crosse, Ark. Only six houses are left. Three persons were killed and several were seriously, injured. Mr. Dawson, editor of the Charleston News, has been knighted by the Pope for journalistic efforts in opposition to dueling. The postoffice at Pottsville, Pa., was entered by burglars, who blew open the safe and obtained $5,000. Thousands of acres of forest trees were destroyed by the recent gale on the New Hampshire and Maine border. Wood-chop-pers must suffer severely this winter by the destruction of their homes. The receipts of the Irving party at New York for the engagement of four weeks were in excess of $75,000. At Northfield, Vt., three people lost their lives because the driver, who was old enough to have known better, thought he could head off an approaching express train and get across the track first. At Philadelphia a family of three lost their lives in the same way, and on account of the same pigheadedness on the part of the man who handled the reins. In both cases the bodies of the victims were shockingly mangled. Andy Taylor, the last of a gang of bandits, was privately hanged at Loudon, Tenn. After the noose had been adjusted he expressed a desire to drink the Sheriff’s blood. He had already slain two Sheriffs,. and numerous other fellow-beings. Two days previous to his execution, while on a train going from Loudon to Knoxville, he came near making a corpse of Sheriff Foute. He stole a revolver from a guard and placed the muzzle within a few inches of the officer’s head, but mistook the weapon for a self-cocker, and was knocked down before he could raise the hammer. An aged couple named King, living on a farm near Hickman, Ky., were killed with guns and knives, and the house was robbed of $2,000. Lewis List and Lewis F. List, father and son, of Wilmington, Del., have been sentenced to be hanged and imprisonment for life, respectively, for the killing of George B. Taylor. A Little Rock dispatch says the trial in Howard county. Ark., of the colored rioters Indicted for murdering Wyatt several months ago has just ended. Three of them have been sentenced to be hanged and twentynine to terms of imprisonment ranging from five to eighteen years.