Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Supposing that she was a witch, negroes in Etowah County, Alabama, dragged an aged colored woman from her house, and after tying her to a stake, beat her brutally and burned down her dwelling. Eleven of her assailants have teen arrested.

Three lynchings have occurred in the State of Maryland within the last six months. The third was that of Townsend Cook, a negro, who brutally assaulted Mrs. Carrie Knott, of Mount Airy. Cook was taken out of tho Westminster Jail and hanged to a treo by an armed mob, his body being riddled with bullets.

Secretary Whitney has received a detailed statement of tho present indebtedness of the World’s Fair at New Orleans. The total amount of claims against the exposition is $397,318, of which $335,000 is provided for by the appropriation—leaving a balance on the wrong side of tho account of $62,318.

In a battle between State Bangers and Mexican feebooters, on the frontier of Texas, three of the Hangers, including the officer in command, were killed.

J. H. Aufdemorte, redemption clerk in tho Sub-Treasury at New Orleans, who is charged with a deficit of $25,343, has disappeared. It is feared that the thel't may be fully $50,000, but the Government is protected by the bond of the Assistant Treasurer.

James McDaniel, a Texas stager robber, who broke jail at San Antonio, has been sentenced to ninety-nine years’ imprisonment in the Chester (Ill.) Penitentiary.