Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Rock Creek, Tenn., last Sunday, John Pearce procured a license to wed Alice Penny, but the young woman refusing to have the ceremony take place on the f-’ab-batb. Pearce drew out his pistol and shot himself dead. Eight members of the “Sara Sata Assassination Society” have been indicted for murder at Pine Level, Fla. J. M. Bennett, of Union Springs, Ala., was to have been- married, but he got drunk and, fearing his betrothed would hear of it, killed himself. A troop of cavalry has been ordered to destroy the permanent improvements on the ranches of two cattle firms in Oklahoma, which is taken to mean that all unauthorized stockmen will be driven out. William D. Cushing, book-keeper for the Belmont Iron Works, at Wheeling, W. Va., was arrested for embezzling the company's funds, and after being released on ball, went home and shot himself, dying in a short time. The death sentence was imposed upon Jordon Taylor, colored, who murdered Sallie Panders, at Hopkinsville, Ky. William Neal, the third and last of the villains who murdered and burned the bodies of two girls and a boy at Ashland, Ky., was executed at Grayson in presence of 100 armed guards. As th, drop fell he protested his innocence. One of his confederates confessed and was lynched; the other was hanged at Grayson last October. Mrs. Judge P. B. Muir, a prominent society lady of Louisvi le, Ky., was burned to death by her clothes taking fire while standing near the stove. The anniversary of Ponce de Leon’s landing at St. Augustine, Fla;, In 1512, was celebrated at that place March 28. Powder smoke and coal dust caused an explosion in a coal mine at McAllister, Indian Territory, and twelve miners were taken out dead.