Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Harry R. Beasant, a leading light in society at Frederick, Md, was fatally shot by a Baltimore duelist named Joseph 8. Webb, for the betrayal of the latter’s cousin, Miss Sears, who is now in an insane asylum. At Apalachicola, Fla., a fierce gale wrecked houses and leveled trees, causing a loss of $40,000. Six persons were drowned in the bay. Paul H. Hayne, the poet, is dead. Mr. Hayne was born and educated at Charleston, S. C. His first literary contributions were made to the Southern Literary Jfessenger. Ho was connected with the Charleston Eveniny News, and for a time edited the Charleston Literary Gazette. Of Russell's Mar/azine, published in Charleston, he was principal editor. Four collections of his poems have been published, one in 1854, another in 1857, a third in 1559, and a fourth in 1873. Sinc3 the war he has contributed short poems to several periodicals. In 1873 he edited the poems of Henry Timrod. At Atlanta, Georgia, the police attempted to close the bar of the Kimball House and another place. A temporary injunction was taken out, and selling was resumed. Since the prohibition law went into effect, these parties have been selling whisky by the quart uuder a wholesale license. The Illinois Central Boad is about to build a branch to Helena, Ark., from Sardis or Yazoo City. A mob of 500 people entered a courtroom in Morgan, Tex., where Sidney Davis was being examined on a charge of assaulting a white woman,bound the Sheriff, and, dragging Davis out of the building, hanged him. Davis confessed his crime. A Little Rock (Ark.) special gives particulars of the killing of three convicts by their guards near Pine Bluff. A gang of about eighty convicts was working in a brick-yard, a few miles from the town, and the entire number made a sudden break for liberty. Tho guards immediately leveled their rifles and fired, killing three of the ringleaders and mortally wounding a fourth. None escaped.