Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Central Hotel and twenty houses and stores at Newbern, N. C., were burned, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. For killing A. H. Murphy in the street some time ago Pat Ford and John Murphy have been sentenced at New Orleans to be hanged. Judge Ford, W. E. Caulfield, and William H. Buckley, who participated in the assassination of Murphy, wore sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. An appeal will be made to the Supreme Court. A telegram from Troy, Tenn., says: Ambrose Young, Charles Latham, and Frank Freeman, all negroes, arrested yesterday, charged with being implicated in the murder of Montgomery, near the State line, last December, were under guard at Union City last night. A mob of 100 overpowered the guards, took the prisoners, and hanged them just outside of the city. Their corpses were found this morning suspended from a tree. Pope, Cole & Co., dealers in metals at Baltimore, made an assignment yesterday to C. Morton Stewart & Co. Their liabilities are stated at $1,000,000, and their assets at $900,000. They are heavily interested in the Baltimore copper works at Canton. April 15 has been set as Mexican veterans’ day at the New Orleans Exposition. Jefferson Davis and William M. Burrell have been invited to deliver addresses on the result of the war with Mexico. A through express train on the Texas Pacific Road was wrecked on a bridge at Village Creek, near Fort Worth. The fireman was killed, the engineer was fatally injured, and two postal clerks were seriously bruised. A large number of strikers at Marshals and Dallas manned a wrecking train and went out to repair the bridge and track.