Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Bessemer steel was last week made at Chattanooga for the first time from North Carolina ore. The plant has a capacity of eighty-five tons per day. Father A. J. Ryan, the Southern poet, died at Louisville from disease of the heart. He was born in Virginia in 1840, and served as chaplain in the Confederate army. Erasmus Sheppard, on trial for robbery at New Orleans, made a statement to the jury to the effect that when he was twelve years of age he was employed as messenger in a counterfeiting establishment at New Orleans, operated by a man who was recently Mayor of Galveston, who had with him as partners the then Mayor of New Orleans, city officials, Judges, the Chief of Police, and a man who now holds a judgeship in Baltimore. They turned out large quantities of Mexican coins and United States bills, which were put in circulation by the city banks. The descendants of these persons, Sheppard said, now occupy the highest social positions in the Crescent City. William C. Ncssen, a dry goods dealer in New Orleans, crazed by jealousy, ehot his second wife through the right arm and took his own life. His daughter witnessed the tragedy. Robert Fowler was hanged at Morganfield, Ky., for the murder of Miss Lydia Burnett, who had refused his hand in marriage. The gallows at Fort Smith, Ark., was used for the seventy-first time in twelve years in the execution of James Wasson and Joseph Jackson for murders committed in the Radian Territory.

Henry Fryer, aged 68 years, while trimming a tree in a Baltimore park, fell, and his foot caught in the crotch of a limb, where he hung untd life was extinct