Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Two little colored children were bru tally murdered and two others mortally wounded on tho place of O. E. Usher, near Augusta, Ga. The father and mother were in a field at work when the crimes were committed. Mrs. G. D. Alsop, who resides near Louisville, Ky., gave four of her children opium, instead of powdered rhuharb, by mistake. Two of them died. The other two are not expected to live. Champ and Rudolph Fitzpatrick, brothers, were hanged at Columbia, Ky., for the murder of Miller Brewster, a farm laborer who worked with them. The Judge of the Criminal Court at Nashville, at the instance of a Democratic politician claiming an equitable interest in the paper, has enjoined the President of the American Newspaper Company and the corps of editors from advocating in that journal a protective tariff or opposing a railroad commission.