Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

* ——— George Lee, colored, for assaulting a 4-y ear-old child, was hanged by a mob at Magnolia, Miss. • Capt. W. N. Robinson, Democratic candidate for Congress in the Eighth Alabama District, killed himself at Scottsboro by driving a pen-knife into his breast. The steamer Rebecca Everingham burned to the water’s edge in the Chattahoochee River at Fitzgeralds Landing, Ga. Thirteen persons lost their lives, and of the passengers who escaped in their night clothes, many were severely burned. The boat, valued at $24,000, Isa total loss; 807 bales of cotton and other freight were conumed. Forest fires are doing vast damage among the plantation sand pine trees in the Carolinas. The flames extend over six countis in-each State. A Texas Pacific train was wrecked near Cisco, Texas, the baggage car and three coaches tumbling down an embankment. Seven persons were killed and many injured. Forest fires have broken out in various sections of North and South Carolina through the attempts of the farmers to clear the planting grounds by burning the “brush.” The fires have spread with alarming rapidity. Hundreds of farmhouses and outbuildings have been destroyed. Berkley and Chesterfield Counties have suffered severely. The schooner Shoters, which left Key West a few days ago in a mysterious manner, has returned to that port. The pilot in charge states that when the vessel was clear of the harbor Aquero, a Cuban chief, with drawn pistol, forced him to take a party of filibusters to the Cuban coast, landthem near Cardenas.