Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Hon. C. B. Stewart, one of the signers of Texas’ declaration of independ" ence, was interred at Montgomery, Texas, aged eighty-one. But one signer of the declaration now survives. Charles Davis, George Jones, and Mathilda Jones were executed for murder at Plaquemine, Lu. The woman fell olf the trap in a swoon before the preparations had been completed and strangled to death, and after the drop fell in her horrible struggles clutched the bodies of the other culprits, whose necks had been broken by the fall. A gang of masked men rode into the town of Monticello, Ga., an-l proceeded to the jail, where George Hopkins was confined. Placing the muzzles of their guns to the openings, they discharged hundreds of buckshot into the w’retch, who meanwhile was pleading for his life. Strange to say, the jailer did not learn of the tragedy until he brought breakfast to the dead man. During the progress of a ball at Rogersville, Tenn., a revolver dropped from the pocket of a young man and was discharged, the bullet passing through the heart of Miss Martha Brown, a beautiful girl,, killing her instantly. Extensive deposits of bituminous coal have been discovered in the vicinity of Lampasas, Texas. An old man named James Hall, of Teely County, Georgia, caught his foot while climbing a fence and remained hanging four days with his head downward before he was discovered. He is dying.