Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

i James Gibbons, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his being ordained as a priest in Baltimore, was invested with the scarlet jberett v of a cardinal. j Severe storms and floods have caused distress in ISapid, Grant, and Catahoula parishes, in Louisiana, and Governor McEnery requests the people of the State to send contributions to aid the sufferers. The financial status of Louisiana has greatly improved, and the State Treasurer has arranged with the associated banks of New Orleans for funds to pay interest on the consolidated and constitutional 4 per cent bonds. Frank Gaston, colored, was hanged <at Salisbury, N. C., in the presence of a largo crowd, for a criminal assault committed upon a white woman. He ascended the scaffold with a firm step. After the singing of a hymn and prayer Gaston confessed the crime in a rambling speech and asked the sheriff to execute quickly. His neck was not broken by the fall and he strangled to death in eighteen minutes. The culprit showed no signs of iear. A negro named Jenkins Wright was hanged at Hampton, 8. C., for killing his wife and throwing her body into the fire.