Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

On W. G. Taylor’s plantatioa in Lenoir county, N. C., a colored family, comprising William Cook, his wife and six children, were burned to death by tbeir house taking fire. A telegram from Shelby, N. C., reports that a terrible and fata) knife combat took place about fifteen miles from that place. “For some years past a vendetta has existed between the Lepaugh and Bunyam families, both of whom have largo connections. Philip Lepaugh was this morning driving his wagon to a sawmill, when Oraige Runyam, accompanied by his father and brother, made an attack upon him. They pulled Lepaugh from his wagon and cut and backed him with bowie-knives, inflicting some terrible wounds. They left him for dead on the road. As they were fleeing* the wounded man’s two sons-in-law came up. They galloped after and overtook the Runyam party. A desperate hand-to-hand conflict ensued, in which every man engaged in the affray was mortally wounded." The wife of Col. H. Coulter Cabel was fatally burned at Richmond, Va., by her clothing takir~ fire from a grate. At Austin, Tex., in the midst of a banquet attended by members of the Texas Fence-Cutting Convention, a “terror" walked in, kickod over the table, and drove tbe banqueters into the street. In the Legislature of Texas a bill was introduced making justifiable homicide the killing of a man found cutting a fence. . The cattle men, in convention at Austin, declared against a herd law, but opposed the doctrine of free grass. A rise in the Elk river has caused a loss of SIOO,OOO to West Virginia lumberman. Bark, lumber, and staves unre beru swept away in large quantities. The Federal Government has been compelled to declare void an important levee contract in Tensas parish, La., and put thereon a sufficient number of laborers to finish the work before the spring rise.