Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

James Maxwell, President of the National Bank of West Virginia, dropped dead in Wheeling. Jasper Rhodes, colored, was hanged at Galveston, Texas, for the murder of his wife last October. The execution took place in the attic of the jail building, in the presence of fifty witnesses. The culprit mounted the ladder leading to the attic with remarkable firmness, and took his position on the trap as though anxious for the matter to be quickly ended. When asked if he had any statement to make, he simply said: “I want my relations and friends to leave off bad habits and stay away from bad places.” Six thousand people passed through the hallway and viewed the remains of the uxoricide. A negro murderer named Goodwin Jackson was hanged at Clarendon, Ark. He murdered Sandy Redmond on the 20th of last November. He went to the scaffold with firm demeanor, and met his fate without a tremor, but he declared to the last that he was being wrongfully executed. The hanging was public, and two thousand people witnessed it. Amos Woodruff, of Memphis, President of a carriage and lumber company, made an assignment to W. L. Clapp. His liabilities are stated at $200,000 and his assets at $125,003. His corporations were thought to be prosperous, and the failure created great surprise. The rectifying house of Elias Black & Sons at Prestonville, Ky., was burned.' Loss $25,000. The proprietors of the Galveston (Texas) Daily News have established a branch cilice at Ballas, where the paper will be printed simultaneously with the issue at Galveston.