Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1884 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A Washington dispatch says the publication of the letters of C. P. Huntington, disclosing the movements of the railway kings in Washington in connection with the Southern and Texas Pacific land grants and the Thurman Funding bill, has attracted great attention there. There can be little doubt that this publication will nave these Results: First, there will be a searching investigation by one branch of Congress or the other Into the various suggestions contained in the letters of undue influence; second, the publication will most unquestionably destroy whatever hopes or prospects the Southern Pacific magnates had of obtaining from Congress the ratification of the assignment of the unearned land grant of the Texas Pacific to the Southern Pacific. A mob composed of 200 armed men marched through the streets to the jail at Yazoo; Miss., demanded apd received from the jailer the keys to the prison. The object of their visit was.to inflict summary punishment upon four negroes confined therein for the murder of Joseph Nichols and the Posey brothers a few days previous, and they did their work promptly and effectually. The mob first proceeded to the cell of W. H. Foote. The door was forced open, and as one of the crowd entered he was struck with a band-iron from the fire-place wrapped in a towel, and knocked down. At this moment firing commenced and the prisoner was instantly killed, being riddled by more than a dozen shots. Robert Swaysee, another of the murderers, was taken from his cell, a rope placed around his neck and thrown over the fence, and ho was thus hanged. They then proceeded to the cell in which Richard Gibbs was Incarcerated, but could not open the doors with the keys. Gibbs appeared at the grating of his cell, and on being perceived was riddled with shot. A rope was passed into his cell, which was placed around him by his cell-mate, and he was then dragged out and hanged from the outside of the building. The mob then went upstairs to Micajah Parker’s cell. Ho was taken out, a rope placed around his neck, and in tho balcony of the middle corridor of the jail he was hanged, the body dangling over the balcony. After this tho crowd quietly dispersed. The victims were all negroes, and Foote was Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for tho district. The lynchers were young white men from the surrounding country. No effort was made to hinder them. The French lost thirty-six officers and nearly 1,000 men in the battle of Sontay, and found $2,000,000 in the city. At a consistory to be held at Rome in April, several Cardinals will be created, and the vacant' sees in America will be filled. It is thought that Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore will be made a Cardinal. Report has it that O’Donnell, recently executed, was one of four notorious leaders of the Molly Maguires who have long been hiding from American justice. It is reported that the Salters’ Company, one of the largest and mopt successful of the London guilds, has decided to dispose of its Irish lands, and is now offering them to tenants on twenty years’ time. Within the last three months seventysix fourth-class Postmasters have been raised to the Presidential grade. A strong pressure is being brought to bear to have the whisky bonded period extended two years. The petition is signed by whisky-men, bankers, and merchants, from Boston to Denver. Mr. Morrison says he will be prepared to introduce his tariff bill in the House of Representatives about the 15th of January. Mr. Morrison says he has received letters from prominent business men of the East, saying that they are not alarmed at the prospects of a tariff revision, but they would like to have the revision made at once. A Commissioner of Potter county, Dakota, has made affidavit that Gov. Ordway accepted a bribe of $5,000 for the appointment of a fellow-Commissioner.