Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

T. C. Wells, a former merchant at Lockport, N. Y., who failed and went to Texas to retrieve his fortunes, committed suicide at Dallas. He had subsisted for a week on one meal a day. James Graham, a lawyer of New Orleans, who had squandered his wife's fortune, killed her with a pistol while she slept, and then took his own life with a razor, nearly severing his head from his body. The representative of an English syndicate who came to Texas to invest £1,000,000 in lands, has departed- for home, averring that, under present conditions, fence-cutting and lawlessness was too prevalent, and that there was no security of property in Texas. • ' « The railroad supervision bill has passed both houses of the Mississippi Legislature. It provides for the taxation of railroad- proparty, and the supervision of fares and freight. Ah Hot Springs, Ark., while the three Flynn brothers were proceeding homeward In a haek a party of seven men’, led by S. A. Doran, opened Are on them with shotguns and rifles. Jack Flynn was killed, William Flynn was mortally wounded, Frank Flynn Mightly wounded, the hackman seriously hurt, and two citizens were accidentally shot. It is understood that Doran, who is a desperado, is simply the tool of James Lane, a gambler, whom Frank Flynn drove out of the business in Hot Springs, and who swore vengeance in consequence. One hundred bullet-marks were found on the hack in which the Flynn brothers were riding.