Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

* i. •' *— Fritz Halder, County Treasurer at Yazoo, Miss., who was .a peacemaker in the recent tragedy, has expired from wounds received.

James A. Wallace, cashier of the Bank of Hopkinsville, in Kentucky, has absconded, leaving a defalcation of $40,000 to $50,000. In the mountains in Arkansas, bear, deer, and wild turkey are exceedingly plentiful. A hunter in Searcy county recently had a desperate fight with a bear weighing 700 pounds, and came near losing his life. Vai mar Rector, a negro, was hanged at Baton Rouge for the murder of Duncan Williams. The condemned man refused to remain on the scaffold, and screamed and begged-for life until be was bound. The Sheriff at Eastman, Ga., on opening the cell door of a colored murderer named James Crum midge, about to be hanged, was attacked with a knife. The doomed man then made himself unconscious by hacking bis throat. He was taken to the scaffold on a stretcher, and supported until the drop fell. A heavy snow storm prevailed last week in sections of Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina, with the coldest weather known for years. At Charleston, S. C., the thermometer registered- 13 degrees above zero, being the coldest weather registered in that region for 135 years. “The defunct city of Memphis, Tenn., had a debt estimated at $5,506,000. Of this amount the funding board of the taxing district has secured possession of $3,500,000 in exchange for new bonds, and two payments of interest have been made.