Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Charles Taylor, tho 21-year-old Mayor of Van Buren, Ark., shot and kiiled Alexander Aaron, of that place, in a quarrel ever a woman. Aaron is described as a rut' flan, and his killing is said to havo been in sclf-delense. Taylor was admitted to tail. Four negroes, one of them a woman, Who wjpro accused of several murders, were taken from jail and hanged by a mob, in Chatham County, North Carolina. The cell

doors were broken dewn and tbe four negroes were each put on a horse with a disgused man astride behind. The men made no outcry, save to protest -their innocence, but tho moans of tho woman were heartrending. A mge was quickly traveled, and tho cavalcade stopped in a grove. The negroes were tied hands und feet and made to stand upon their horses. They were given five minutes to make confessions and to pray. They protested their innocence to the last, and as they prayed the horses were driven out from under them, and they were left hanging to the tre?. At Gallatin, Tenn., a livery stable was fired, suppo-ably by an incendiary, and all its contents, including twenty-one horses, burned. T. W. Hooper, late Judge at Helena, Ark., is charged with having issued bogus bonds to the amount oi $",000. The street-car drivers at Wheeling, W. Va., who are on a strike, threw stones and dynamite cartridges into the cars, and badly injured a working driver. The negro Mehane, who outraged and killed Mrs. Walker near Milton, North Carolina, a L-w days ago, was taken from the officers who were conveying him to Yanceyville and lynched.