Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1885 — HIS RIVAL’S REVENGE. [ARTICLE]

HIS RIVAL’S REVENGE.

Shocking Murder of a Young Couple by a Man Whom the Woman Rejected. IWhite ulphur Springs (Va.) dispatch.! The details of a desperate double murder and probable lynching have reached this point The affair occurred several days ago near Bond’s Mills, a way-side postoffice in Wise County, Virginia. 'Mary Reynolds, a country beauty, eloped the last week in February with the son of a neighbor named Henton.- greatlv to the chagrin of a suitor named Mitchell, who claims to have been engaged to the girl. After their return to the bride's home her parents gave a dance to which all the neighbors were invited. Mitchell came, and before the evening was over became quarrelsomely drunk. He defied the newly made husband, and finally grossly insulted the bride. The husband knocked Mitchell down, and a despe ate fight ensued, and the party broke up in a row. The next evening a spelling match was held in the schooL-house, and was attended by Henton and his wife, and Mitchell was not present, so far as known. Failing to reach their home, search was made for the Hentons, whosebodies were found next 'morning at a lonely spot Each had been killed by a pistol shot The assassin then beat his victims in a horrible manner.

The United States is said now to be the third largest silk manufacturing country in the world, and this despite all that has been said and written to discourage the raising of silk in this country. The value of our annual silk product is now placed at $35,000,000. About 60,000 pounds of cocoons were raised in 1883. A Pittsburg girl wants SIOO damages for the loss of her “bang" by a natural gas explosion. The bang was natural and come out by the roots. ’Dorsey County, Ark, has been changed to Cleveland County.