Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At New Orleans State Registrar of Voters Brewster was arrested on complaint of the United States Supervisors of Elections for refusing them permission to copy certain rolls, and was bailed in SIO,OOO, Brewster then went before the Grand Jury and churged the Supervisors with false imprisonment. At Haysville, Tenn., Edwin Henry was shot dead by Captain E. T. Johnson, after a pursuit of several weeks, the cause being criminal intimacy with the latter’s wife. It will be remembered that the woman Involved committed suicide at Indianapolis last November. The remains of Brig. Gen. B. H. Helm, of the Confederate army, who was killed at Chickamauga, have been disinterred at Atlanta and removed to Elizabethtown, Ky. He was a brother-in-law of Abraham Lincoln. Mrs. S. H. Clark, a charitable lady of Baltimore, was buried the other day. As her corpse weighed 5*2 pounds, no hearse sufficiently large to hold the casket could be obtained, and a special vehicle was provided. A dispatch from Brookhavcn, Miss., states that a mob of forty men visited tho Franklin County Jail, overpowered the jailer, took out four negro prisoners and lynched them to trees in the Court House yard. One was charged with an attempt to assault a white girl, two with murder of other negroes, and the other with arson and robbery. Four other prisoners wore in the jail at the time, but were unmolested. The mob left word with the jailer that if the Circuit Judge did not clean out the jail at the present terra, they would return to make a clean sweep. This makes six men who have fallen victims to Judge Lynch in that county within the past eighteen months. John W. Garrett, the veteran railway and telegraph manager, passed away at Deer Park, Md., in his 65th year. All the pool-rooms in Baltimore have been closed by the police. For this reason the Maryland Jockey Club are contemplating quitting tho Pimlico track and holding their races at Ivy City, near Washington. The bodies of George Faustrick and Annie Manlor, strangers in the vicinity, were found near Dal.as, Tex., lying side by side. Between them lay a revolver, two chambers empty. Near by was found a note: “As wo cannot be united in life, we will be in death.” Samuel Walters, ex-Deputy Marshal of Fort Smith, Ark., has been sentenced to two years in the House of Correction at Detroit, Mich., for accepting a bribe and releasing a prisoner who was in his keeping. He was a Justice of the Peace at ltocky Comfort, Ark., at the time of his arrest.