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

SOUTHERN.

A family of seven persons named Bobs lived on the banks of Hardy creek, in Trimble county, Ky. By a sudden rise of the water they and their cabin were swept .off and have not since been seen. In a free fight at Allendale, S. C., three persons, were killed and several wounded. A. number of Christmas tragedies of an exceptionally bloody character are reported from the South. At McDade, Tex., three men were taken from a saloon at midnight by fifty armed and masked citizens and hanged to a tree, for horse-stealing. Six relatives of the victims rode into town and forced a fight with suspected lynchers,in which two of the assaulting party were killed and two others were mortally wounded. At Yazoo, Miss., an affray between whites and blacks resulted in the killing of three white men and a negro. At Paris, Ky., in a drunken affray between negroes two of them were slain. In Chatham county, N. C., Mrs. Sarah Gunter, her daughter and grand-daughter were murdered by robbers. In New Orleans a city official named McCaffrey was shot dead by a notorious gambler. Near Sherman, Tex., a constable and three citizens were murdered by a band of outlaws. A company engaged in boring for oil at Warfield, Ky„ struck a flow of gas which blew 6,000 pounds of tools into the air. The roar of the well can be heard for three miles. A gambler named Burns killed the

night wa’chman at the end of the track on , the Mexican Central roads near El Paso, Tex. Burns was hanged to a box-car by a mob. Two negroes, accused, .of. white men, were from jail at Brooksville, Fla., and shot dead.. r .