Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Andrew J. Johnson, the noted outlaw of Bell County, Kentucky, lay in wait behind a building in Pineville, and killed Thomas Napier and Josiah Hoskins and his daughter as they returned from church. Jn Pike County, Kentucky, Frank Stratton encountered Mount Clark eloping with his sister, and in the conflict Stratton was fartally stabbed, and Clark mortally shot. Joe Cotton, the favorite, won the Louisr.f le Derby in 2:37H- Ihe crowd in attendance was estimated at 30,uQ0. In Brazoria County, Texas, an armed band surrounded forty convicts and their guards and released the prisoners after a desperate fight. ' What is known as “the June rise” in the Mississippi River has begun. The present indications are that it will not fce nearly so large a flood as has been experienced in many previous years, and. even if it should be a high one, it is not likely to prove disastrous. The reason for this lies in the fact that the winter flood this year was a very light one, and leaves tho river shores in good order to withstand the June rise. Tho damage done by the latter is to be traced in large part to the soaking of the levees by the winter freshets, which leaves them in bad condition to withstand the spring pressure. J. B. Russell, of Cuthbert, Ga., killed his two children and then himself. Miss Elvira Joy, of Louisville, Ga., has been convicted of the murder of Jack McCauley, whom she decoyed to her bedroom window on a promise to elope with him. She was sentenced to flvo years in tho penitentiary.