Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The first discovery of tin in this ountry has been made in King’s mountain, Cleveland county, N. C. The lower house of the Texas Legisture has passed a bill to punish fence-cutting by imprisonment from one to five years. A jury at New Orleans acquitted Troisville Sykes of the murderof Kate Townsend. Col. John G. Kasey has absconded from Bedford county, Va., of which he is extreasurer, leaving $60,000 for his bondsmen to pay. The extreme cold weather in South Carolina seriously damaged the oat* crop, destroyed early'vegetables, and killed doves, mocking birds and poultry. A negro, named Sandy Robinson, was lynched in Leon county, Tex., for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Latbrop. Stages running each way between Whitesboro and Gainesville, Tex., were robbed by three men, who secured SSOO. At Lancaster, Tex., Robert Halsh, a maniac, who had been kept confined at his brother's house for six years, escaped from his room, secured a knife in the kitchen, and after a desperate conflict killed his brother and made for the woods.