Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The National Cotton Convention, in sess on at White fulphur Springs, elected T. L. Avery, of New Orleans, President. Are port was adopted asking Congress to pass a law making common carriers responsible for the acts of their agents. David Ackles, colored, was hanged at Helena, Ark., for the murder of Frank Burrell and Felicia Flanagan. At Halifax, N. C., Eaton Mills, a notorious colored desperado, was hanged in the presence of five thousand people. Thomas J. Boasso, an aid on the Governor’s staff, was shot at New Orleans by Miss Mary C. Kuhn, aged eighteen, who claims that Boasso deceived her by means of a forged marriage certificate. J. J. Howard & Son, bankers, Cartersvillo, Ga., made an assignment. Their liabilities amount to $40,000. Tliero is great excitement in the village of Stepstoao, Koncucky, over tho killing of three men by Marshal Jerry Oakley. Oakley represents tho local option party, and his victim were identified with the liquor interest. Friends of both sides are arming, and further bloodshed is apprehended. An El Paso, (Texas) dispatch states that an east-bound Santa Fo passenger train was wrecked near Wallace, Texas, by striking a culvert which had been washed out by a rain-storm. Engineer \Vil3on, two firemen, and an extra fireman were killed, and one passenger, name unknown, had his leg broken.