Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Three coaches were thrown from the track of the Memphis and Charleston road near Corinth, Miss. Most of the seventy passengers received bruises, and a colored brakeman had his law broken. Toler, the Chief of Police at Hot Springs, having been apprised that bis life was in danger from a desperate man named Edward Hojrell, took a double-barreled shotgun and slew his enemy. The people of Arkansas City, Ark., lynched Matt Orton on suspicion of setting incendiary fires. Evans Allnut, a lawyer of some distinction, died suddenly In the Anchorage Insane Asylum, near Louisville, the result of injuries inflicted by attendants in the insti tution. Streams in the Petersburg (Va.) district are drying up because of the protraeted drought, and mills are doing les3 than half their usual work. The city of Petersburg is threatened with a water fafnine. Mormon missionaries named Willey and Humphrey, who were about to commence operations in Lancaster County, South Carolina, promptly accepted notice from the citizens to leave. Dallas (Tex.) dispatch: W. A. Taylor, the negro who attempted to outrage Mrs. Flippen, of this city, and who was first taken to Waxabachie for safe keeping, was captured from the sheriff, who was transferring him to the Waco Jail, by a body of armed men and hanged within a mile of this city. A private dispatch received in Louisville announces the arrival in Canada of Payne and Viley, Indicted for hypothecating false warehouse receipts.