Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1884 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A shoemaker at Wytheville, Va., wrote to Gov. Cleveland for his measure for a pair of boots for the inauguration, and received the figures with a S2O bill. The money was returned to the President-elect, who again sent it to the anxious shoemaker. News is received of the escape of a gang of convicts employed on the public roads in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Nine of the gang are yet at large. A storm upset several oyster-fishers’ boats In the Kappahannock River and Chesapeake Bay, and about twenty persons lost their lives. The Supreme Court of West Virginia decided that a railroad charter is merely a license, the right to fix freight and passenger charges being vested only in the I egislature. Six convicts at work in Coal Creek Mines, Tenn., while attempting to escape, were flrod on and two of the number killed. Gen. B. M. Prentiss, who recently visited the battle-field of Shiloh, urges that the bones of the unknown Confederate dead be removed to the National Cemetery and their las; resting plaoe be properly marked. Hezekiah Brown, a colored schoolteacher, was lynched by masked men in Howard County, Maryland, for intimacy with a white girl named Fannie Shultz. Indictments for willful murder have been returned by the Grand Jury at New Orleans against Recorder Thomas J. Ford, his brother, Patrick Ford, Court-Officers W. E. Caulfield, Charles Baker, and VV. H. Buckley, Police Officer John Murphy, and Baptiste J. Favelto. Recorder Ford and a gang of followers, including thoso named, set upon Capt. A. H. Murphy in the street Dec. 1 and killed him.