Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1886 — LATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Miss Carrie Boyer, a local belle of Gainestown, Clarke County, Ala., was murdered within sight of her home by a negro named Aleck Reed, who attempted to outrage her. When the mews was made public all the county liastened in pursuit of the murderer. He was discovered in hiding at Tompkinsville by a white man and two negroes, and carried back to Gainestown. He confessed the crime, and declared that he had been guilty of outrag; in Mississippi also. After his confession was he ird he was escorted to the spot where he had murdered Miss Boyer, which was a short distance from town and in a lonely and deserted wood. Here the murderer, screaming and shouting, was tied to a stake, and a fire built around him. He writhed and twisted in it but a few minutes, when death came to his rescue. A numlier of negroes witnessed his burning. Francois P, J. Grevy was re-elected President of the French Republic, at a joint session of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, by a majority of 135. He is now 72 years of age. The salary of the position is GCO,GOO francs per annum, with an allowance of half as much more for household expenses. The cable records the demise of Louis Prosper Gachard, the German historian, and Jules Glazer, the Austrian jurist It is reported that Russia and Austria are secretly arming, and that both these countries have sent order’s to England for heir respective armies. A relief steamer will be sent by the Government in search of the whaler Amethyst, carrying a crew of forty men, supposed to have been cast away in Behrings Sea. Commissioner Sparks, of the General Land Office, in view of the almost universal comment as to his policy, has felt constrained to issue a new series of regulations for registers, receivers, and special agents of the Land Office, which have just been promulgated. They modify in many important particulars his recent sweeping orders. They provide that homestead or pre-emption claimants who have made bona fide settlements upon public lands, and who are living upon, cultivating, and improving th > same in accordance with the law, with the intention of acquiring title thereto, shall be permitted to cut and remove from the portion to be cleared for cultivation so much timber as is actually necessary for that purpose, or for buildings, fences, or other improvements on the land entered. In clearing for cultivation, should there bo a surplus of timber, the entry-men may dispose of such surplus; but it is not allowable to denude the laud of its timber for the purpose of sale and speculation before the title has been conveyed by patent. Chicago elevators contain 14,459,855 bushels of wheat, 1,921,993 bushels of Corn, 252,453 bushels of oats, 299,377 bushels of rye, and 223,220 bushe s of barley; total, 1 bushels of ail kinds of grain, against 15,419,736 bushels a year ago. Amelia Sheehan, of New York, once noted as an oarswoma •>, has been rendered insane by the action of drugs used for the purpose of bleaching her hair. Charles Dickens’ daughter Mamie relates that she was often in the ro om with her father when he was composing his books, and that he acted his characters in the process of creating them, literally living in his works while writing them, and turning his creations into breathing realities, with whom he wept and with whom he rejoiced. A dangerous counterfeit $5 gold piece, of which hundreds of thousands are said to be in circulation, is supposed to have been made through the rascality of some ex-employes of the New Orleans mint. I t was made with the genuine stamp, is tine gold on the outside, but filled with spilter and platina.