Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Major W. P. Green, one of the lead-, ing planters of Louisiana, was murdered by a laborer on the Creedmoor plantation, after an interchange of blows and shots. The citizens of the parish took tho negro from jail and hanged him to a tree. In the case of J. T. Cluverius, convicted at Richmond, Va., of the murder of Fanny Lillian Madison, tho Supreme Court of Appeals has decided against the prisoner, fully sustaining tho judgment of the lower court Unless the Governor interferes Cluverius will be hanged. A tree in the Macon (Ga.) suburbs, from which the recent flood swept two negroes, who were drowned, is said to be haunted. At night a white figure is seen seated among its branches, and moans, which grow louder as tho night wears on, are frequently heard.