Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

J. R. Dorsey, the Postmaster at Alpine, Ga., and a woman named Jane Wade were hanged by a mob on the same rope at Center, Ala., for the murder of Mrs. Mary Davis, a niece of Dorsey. The murder was one of the most atrocious ever committed in that section. While three men were examining a defect in the top of a coke oven near Tunnelton. W. Va., the oven caved in, letting the men drop into the fiery furnace. The oven was cleaned out after an hour's work, but no trace of the victims was found save Little lumps of metal, probably melted buttons or coins. John F. Pleasants, editor of a newspaper at Petersburg, Va., having been convicted of libel, was fined $5 and sentenced to one minute in jail. In St Tammany Parish, La., a few days ago, three persons were murdered, and a posse hanged four negroes who were implicated in the butchery. At Adairville, Ky., John M. Gilbert, a farmer, was shot and killed while outwalking, by an unknown assassin. Mrs. Johnson, sister-in-law of defaulting ex-Postmaster Johnson, of Grantsville, W. Va., mixed arsenic with sugar and gave it to her three children and then took It herself. She and two children died.