Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

All the gambling houses in Memphis %ave been closed by the police.

Seven passengers were injured, one fatally, by the overturning of a stage coach near Abilene, Texas. On Chincoteague Island, in Virginia, William Freeman, aged eighteen, shot Timothy Hills, his wife, and daughter, and then killed himself. He had been jilted by the daughter. The operating expenses of the Southern Pacific Railway being in excess of the earnings, a number of general officials of the company have been asked to resign. Since the beginning of the year 2,500 names h ave teen stricken from the pay-rolls. Job Barbour and Horace Terrill, both colored, were hanged at Charlottesville, Va., the former for the murder of Randail Jackson, and the latter for the murder of Mary Foster. Barbour confessed his crime on the scaffold. George E. Pyers, a convicted wifebeater, was publicly whipped by a Sheriff at Baltimore. Link Banks, a desperado, entered James H. Frazier's store at Whitesburg, Ky., and, drawing his revolver, said to Mr. Frazier that they would settle accounts. Mr. Frazier snot the ruffian dead. In Knott County, Kentucky, the war between the Hall and Jones factions is still raging. Nine men have been killod on both sides during the last three weeks. At Fort Worth, Texas, while a murder trial was in progress, Judge Beckman presiding, Henry Furman, counsel lor the defense, founty Attorney Bowlin, and Lawyer Weare got into a general fight, but were separated by members of the jury. The five negroes charged with outraging and murdering a white woman at Elkhart, Texas, have been hanged by a mob.