Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

In regard to the plague prevalent in Southwest Virginia, a telegram from Lynchburg Bays: “The latest advices concerning the epidemic in Wise, Lee, Dickinson, and Buchanan Counties are heartrending, On Guests River, Wise County, within a radius of four miles are thirty cases of the disease. In one instance the father, mother, and six children died. Many persons die for want Qf attention. Business is suspended, all being concerned with the sick and dying. Six persons were buried in one graveyard in one day. The disease is assuming a milder form in soldo localities. Not less than 175 of the best citizens of Wise County alone have died.” j Frank Casey (colored) who murdered Charlps Watson (white) the Bth of last October, was executed at Little Rock, Ark. He made a full confession, admitting the crime. David Sternberg, a dry-goods merchant of Louisville, has made an assignment to secure liabilities of $60,000. At Bradley County, Ark., the hangman Swung off Abe Frazier, colored, for the murder of Lewis Davis two years ago. Hart’s elevator and Decatle’s wood yard, at Jacksonville, Fla., valued at $60,000, were destroyed by fire. Maryland furnishes the latest lynching, the victim one George Briscoe, colored, charged with robbery, who was captured from a obiistkbte by a mob at New Bridge, and hung without benefit of clergy. He had previously been warned to leave the neighborhood on account of his frequent depredations. Two women named Conway attacked J. Devonshire and Jack Logan, at New ■Orleans, with pistols, growing out- of suspicious relations between them. The latter was seriously wounded. ; . f Near Elizabeth, Ky., seven men were killed by an explosion of a saw-mill boiler. Seven men in jail at Helena, Ark., concealed themselves behind a door, and made their escape by knocking the jailer senseless. Director, General Burke, of the World'B'#ai r at New Orleans, announces that everything will be In readiness for opening The expositiou on the 16th Inst. : • •