Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Mrs. Bony, 96 years of age, living alone near Falmouth, Ky., barred the door and windows of her bouse, started a blaze, and perished therein. In Hawkins County, Tennessee, James Reynolds put kerosene on the heads of his three children, to kill vermin. Two of the little ones died, but the third survived. The steamers Ida Darragh and City of Helena, with full cargoes, and the wharfboats were burned at Memphis, the losses aggregating SIOO,OOO. John Chaffee’s Sons, cotton factors, at New Orleans, ask an extension from their creditors. They owe $633,816, and have assets of $1,763,614. Gidiere/Day & Co., cotton factors at New Orleans, ceded their property to their creditors. Their liabilities amount to $112,328, with assets of but $494,800. Valuable silver discoveries have been made in Ritchey County, West Virginia, and it is asserted that the Baltimore and Ohio Road ballasted its track four miles through the mountains with silver quartz. Bob Johnson, a negro boy, who assassinated a citizen near Princeton, W. Va., was taken from -fail by a mob, tied to a tree, and riddled with bullets. Babe Ellison, a negro who outraged Miss Polly Francis, was hanged by a mob at Shelbyville, Tenn., the home of his victim. She was found by neighbors in an unconscious state, but recovered and identified her assailant. The Adams Express Company lost $250,000 by the recent accident on the Virginia Midland Railroad. All of their Southern money safes were on the train, and the fire was so Intense as to melt the gold and silver In transit. In McDowell County, West Virginia, and the territory adjacent citizens and live stock are said to be starving, on account of the failure of crops last summer. This region Is 103 miles from a railroad. Marshal Gardner and Deputy Manning were shot near New Braunfels, Texas, the former fatally. They were taking James Pitts and Yeager to the penitentiary to serve life sentences for postoffice robbery, when the prisoners turned upon them with pistols, killing the former • and mortally wounding the later. A woman passenger was hit by a stray bullet and dangerously wounded. The desperadoes jumped from the train and fled. Pitts was overtaken and killed one hundred yards from the train. Yeager, his accomplice, was pursued eight miles and shot dead.