Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

At Jolinston, S. C., an alleged murderer was taken from the Sheriff by a mob, shot several times, and left for dead. He subsequently revived, made a statement Implicating several of the lynchers, and died. Ten convicts escaped from a plantation near Hearno, Texas, visited the latter town, and entering a hotel purloined the garments of the male members of a theatrical troupe, leaving their striped suits behind. A largo posse started in j>ursult, and reports have reached Hearne that four of the criminals had been recaptured. New Orleans finances are at a very low ebb, In consequence of wasteful expenditures. The city employes have not been paid sinco Juno and the teachers since April.

A dispatch from Cumberland, Md., says that “while Sheriff McMllion-was absent from the lail, Peter Baker and Emanuel Johnson, prisoners, made an attack on the turnkey and broke out of tho building, accompanied by George and Charles Baker, Peter Krutzer, William V. Dye, Daniel Davis, and Henry Kennedy, white, and Gertrude Scllors and John Thomas, colored, a 1 of whom wero confined on various charges. The turnkey was badly beaten.”

Three cars of a passenger train were thrown over an embankment near Warm Springs, N. C., twenty persons being injured, three fatally. The cotton crop of Arkansas has beeu seriously damaged by unfavorable weather, and will fall below that of 1884. A vein of oro has been struck in Davidson County, Tenn., which yields 80 per cent, of silver. A company has been organized to develop It.