Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Mrs. J. M. Pearl, a teacher in a seminary at Louisville, was burned to death, evidently from allowing a newspaper in her bands to take fire at the grate. Citizens of Bland Cou»ty, Virginia, mounted and armed, took from jail a young colored murderer and riddled him with bullets, Ben Hawkins, a negro murderer, was taken from jail at Franklin, Toxas, by a mob and banged. Dr. Christopher C. Graham died at Louisville, Ky., aged 100 years 4 months. At the gate of a farm in Worth County, Georgia, Sheriff Skivers and Frank Boatright, who bad been warm friends, suddenly drew revolvers and fired while grasping. They fell dead locked In eaoh other's arms. F. F. Washburn, who has been in the Arkansas Lunatic Asylum, lost hi reason through serving as a witness against a murderer in Monroe County, and cherishing a fear that the condemned man would appear and take his life. Wayne Powers and George Gibson were hanged at Estellville. Ga., for the murder of William Gibson in April last. Both addressed the crowd, acknowledging the crime. Powers confessed that ho attempted to murder his own brother and many others. He ascribed all his woes to whisky, cards, and pistols. Tho killing was for sl3 and a suit of clothes. Gibson joked and laughed about the rope and some persons up the trees who were looking on. A committee of exhibitors has been sent to Washington by the managers of the New Orleans Exposition to appeal to Congress for $500,000 in addition to the $1,000,000 already given. A Louisiana Congressman says that before any more money is granted there will bo a thorough investigation of tho manner in which the $1,000,000 was spent. Cattle are dying rapidly in Marshall County, West Virginia, of a disenso which begins in the hoof, causing a swelling of tho leg to an enormous size, death resulting in twenty-four hours. After two minutes’ sparring with soft gloves at Louisville, Mike Cleary knocked Capt. Dalton sensoless, blood spurtiug from the fallen pugilist’s noso. A largo number was present, and Cleary took all the receipts. Thomas Morris, a colored man, was lynched at Schulenberg, Toxas, for ravishing a white girl. Belle Ryalls, of Savannah, Ga., was murdered by her brother.