Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At South Baltimore, Md., Charles Sisco, a negro, stole upon another colored man, Thomas Campbell, and fired shots at him from two revolvers which ho held, wounding him mortally. A crowd of white mon followed Sisco, who, with a pistol In each hand and one between his teeth, warned them off. One of the pursuing band closed in upon the assassin, und was fatally shot. Sisco was then captured, when his faco was bcaton to a pulp and his skull crushed. W. Bogan Cash, tho South Carolina murderer of Marshal Richards, was killed last week while resisting arrest by a posse In charge of Deputy Sheriff King. One of tho posse was slightly wounded, and one of Cash’s associates was seriously wouuded. The jury in the case of E. B. A'heeler, charged with the murder of J. P. Matthews, in Copiah County, Mississippi, returned a verdict of not guilty after a consultation of one hour. Circuit Judge Reid, of Mount Sterling, Ky., who a short time since was cowhided by one Corneilson, a lawyer, for an alleged partial ruling, and who persistently resisted the advice of friends to challenge Corneilson to mortal combat, has committed suicide. It is 6aid that ho was driven to Insanity by the taunts of alleged friends. At Water Valley, Miss., some persons emptied a bucket of tar over a Mormon editor’s head. In that region tho Mormons are making many prosolytes among the lower classes. The jury which acquitted Ras Wheeler of the murder of Prent Matthews at Hazlchurst, Miss., make a statement to the effect that neither politics nor public opinion affected their verdict, and that after prayer to the Almighty they reached the decision that Wheeler was innocent.