Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

James B. Walton died at New Orleans aged 72 years. He commanded the Washington Artillery Battery of Louisiana during the war with Mexico and also through tne entire period of the civil war, serving on the Confederate side. John R. Shelton and Ida Maxwell eloped at Atlanta, Ga., and when the girl’s father and brother found them at Shelton’s mother’s house a snooting bee followed, in which the three men were wounded, young Shelton and the elder Maxwell probably fatally. Ellen Johnson, a negress, who was sold fifty years ago to New Orleans parties, returned to her daughter’s home at Louisville last week, being now 112 years old. The daughter is 60 years of age, and the same roof now shelters great-great-grandmother, great grandmother, grandmother, mother, and children. Dick Scales, a negro of bestial propensities, was taken from the jail at Burlington, Ky., by a mob, and lynched. The vigilantes were crazy with drink, and fought with pistols among themselves, besides having a little brush with the Sheriff’s posse, Several persons were wounded. Near Bell’s Mill, Ga., William Whitley and Cain Bell were suitors for the same woman. To settle the question they retired to a grove and clasped each other by the left hand and fought a terrible duel with knives held in their right hands. Bell was disembowled by his opponent and is dead. Whitley will also die. A fire at Dawson Springs, Ky., destroyed a hotel, two dwellings, and four stores, causing a loss of $40,000. A. M. Britton, President of the First .National Bank, Fort Worth, Texas, has began suit again st the Nichols estate to recover $30,000, the amount of Nichols’ defalcation.