Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1885 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

George Schaefer, a cotton-buyer at Hampton, Ga., has been forced by ill-health to suspend business. His liabilities are $130,000. At Fannin, Clay County, Texas, a lad of 13 years, named Valentine Sanford, killed his mother with a rifle. He confesses having intended to murder his father, sell the plantation, and organize a band of stage-robbers. Confederate bonds are selling freely in Columbia and Charleston, S. C., at $1.75 per SI,OOO. The Governor of Louisiana has granted a respite for thirty days to Patrick Ford and John Murphy, the murderers of Captain Murphy, a local politician. Three boys started from Louisville with a stolen team, intending to go West and rob stage-coaches. During tho night they fired a house and several barns, and kept tho pursuing farmers at bay with cocked revolvers. They wore followed to Louisville, however, and arrested. Bev. Dr. Clinton Locke, of Chicago, has been requested by a clergyman of Galveston to receive contributions for the sufferers by fire in that city. Jay Gould, the New York millionaire, was among the first to contribute for the relief of tho sufferers, tho amount of his donation being $5,000. C. P. Huntington gave a like sum. Anderson Burres, a full-blooded Choctaw, who. murdered his wife, was shot dead by the sheriff at Atoka, Indian Territory, in strict accordance with the sentence of the court.