Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A company of Texan rangers had a llvelj .battle with four mounted men, caught cutting fences in Edwards County. The offenders opened fire with rifles. Two of them were shot through the heart, and the others escaped. One of the latter was a nephew of Chief Justice Hemphill. A desperate attempt was made by the convicts la the Frankfort (Ky.) Penitentiary to escape. A prisoner named Wolff led the would-be jail-breakers. They struck down the guard, and possessed themselves of firearms, which they used freely. James Cunningham, who is serving a fourteen years' term, rendered effective service in suppressing the outbreak. One prisoner, a murderer named Alsopp, escaped. On gross earnings of $14,351,092 for the past year, the Louisville and Nashville Road reports a surplus of $81,595 by abstaining from the payment of dividends. Alsop and Graves, the ringleaders of the gang that broke Jail at Frankfort, hy., recently, were discovered about nine miles

from Lexington. ATeputy Sheriff and posse went in pursuit. The convicts resisted, and killed George Cassela, a farmer, in whose field they were found, and who had but just joined the posse. Both the scoundrels were then shot dead, the members of the pursuing party evidently not earing to capture them alive. A duel at Emory Gap, Tenn., between a cripple named Staples and a drummer from Cleveland named William H. Hogerson, resulted in the death of both. Tom Griffin, a notorious Cherokee outlaw, was shot dead at Eufaula while perpetrating burglary. The cotton counties of Arkansas surprised the statisticians by reporting an aggregate yield of 1,000,000 bales. Ex-Senator John Pool, of North Carolina, died suddenly at Washington, D. C., of apoplexy. He was Senator from 1868 to 1873. Seventy-eight buildings, comprising two-thirds of the business portion of Grenada, Miss., were destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $300,000. The insurance is about $65,000.