Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

'We strike of the glassblowers at Baltimore, which began last winter, has been amicably settled. Union men will be employed in the various factories. The Maryland cotton mills are preparing to run on full time. The corner-stone of the new Georgia Capitol was laid with imposing ceremonies at Atlanta. General Lawton made the principal address. The official statement of the Louisville and Nashville Kailroad Company for the month of July shows a decrease in net earnings of nearly $75,000. A mob broke into the Lafayette County Jail, at Lewisville, Ark., and hanged George Crenshaw, a negro, who murdered Harry Sarep, a white man, in a cotton field. A mob stormed the jail at Knoxville, Tenn., and, taking out Lee Sellers, a murderer, hanged him from a bridge, several shots being fired into his body while suspended. Sei ers cut one of the lynchers badly and also attempted to cut his own throat. Charles Williams, a drunken negro, at Chattanooga, Tenn., shot and instantly killed a street-car driver named Polk Mitchell. At night an infuriated mob forced their way into the iron-clad jail with sledge hammers and chisels, and battered down the door of Williams’ cell. He was dragged to the third story of the jail by four of the leaders of the mob and a rope placed around his neck. The assassin maintained a stolid indifference, and did not utter a word. He was not given time to pray. After he had been securely tied the rope was placed around a beam, and he was suspended between heaven and earth.