Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Lynchers attacked the jail at Forsyth, Mo., and, taking out Frank and Jubal Taylor and Elijah Sublette, hung them for making a murderous assault on Postmaster Dickerson and his wife.

A Vicksburg (Miss.) dispatch reports that a number of lives were lost iu the conflagration in that city. Six bodies had been recovered, and it wa3 believed that from fifteen to twenty others were still in the ruins.

The forty-ninth anniversary of the bnttlo by whioh Texas established her independence was generally celebrated* throughout that State April 21. Among the veterans taking part at Sherman wus Henry Stout, over 10 years old, who in U 36 shot a match with Davy Crockett.

N. G. Evans, belonging to a private detective force in Now Orleans, finding his wife as cop in tho arms of a young clerk named Casper Wenger, killed both with a revolver.

Miss Constance Edgar, stepdaughter of Jerome N. Bonaparte, and great-grand-daughter of Faniel Webster, was invested with the habit and veil of the Order of tho visitation at Baltimore, and assumed the religious name of Sister Mary Le Sales. Archbishop Gibbons officiated. A dispatch from Vicksburg says tlie people of that city, to the number of 2,000, followed to tho cemetery the remains of thirty-two victims of the recent fire. Thirtyseven people are known to have lost their lives by this disaster, only bare mention of which has been mado in the telegraphic columns of tho daily press.