Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Bev. S. W. Bicknellj of Hampton, W. Va., denounced Miss Emma Clark from the pulpit for personal reflections upon his character. The lady and her brother revenged themselves by administering a caning. Reports from Delaware indicate that the peach crop will be almost a complete failure. A rainfall of twenty-eight inches in fifty hours is reported from Alexandria, La. A conspiracy to murder a ranchman near Sipe Springs, Texas, was exposed by one of the parties. Five neighbors seized the ringleader, perforated him with bullets, and hanged him to a tree, where his body was allowed to dangle for five days, as the Comanche County officers were away on vacation.