Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1883 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Four quarrelsome persons refused to leave W. H. Fields’still-house, on the Cumberland river, in Kentucky, when Fields shot all four, one dying instantly/ another the next day, and the remaining two are mortally wounded. A negro wife-murderer named Norris Bell paid the extreme penalty of the law in the jail yard at Macon, Ga. The Texas and St. Louis railway had four smashups m one day. One of the wrecks, near Gilmer, Tex., was very serious ’ in character. After several failures by the Government to convict in the election cases, Judge Bond, at Columbia, S. C., ordered all the remaining cases continued to the next term. At the election for delegates to the Louisiana Democratic convention, at New Orleans, a riot occurred at the Seventh ward polling booth between the adherents of Gov. McEnery and Gen. Ogden. Revolvers were used with deadly effect, three men being killed and about a score wounded. Among the dead is Capt. Michael J. Fortier, of the famous gun detachment which captured militia drill prizes in many cities. Three negroes were executed for murder in the South on Friday, Dec. 15— Pleasant Hall, at Rolling Fork, Miss.; Enoch Brown, at Halifax, N. C., and Burt Ellis, at Shelby, N. C. All made the regular last address and felt confident of salvation. Juan Duran, a Mexican who had murdered a Chinaman, was hanged at Fort Davis, Tex. In the Indian Territory, a Choctaw murderer was Shot to death by the Sheriff, in accordance wi h Choctaw law. The books of the Union Pacific road show that two-thirds of the stock is owned in New England. During a storm on Chesapeake bay the Baltimore sdhooner Mary Anna foundered, and the crew of nine men perished. Four were swept ott the deck of the.craft, and five remained in the rigging and were frozen to death.