Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A Chattanooga dispatch says the trouble among the convicts in the Dade coal mines at Coal City, Ga., was ended by the surrender of the mutineers and their return to work. Two days’ thirst and starvation brought them around. This ends one of the most remarkable strikes on record, and what might have been the cause of a serious difficulty and loss of life. Advices from Western Texas represent great losses of cattle. The drought has been unparalleled. A large section of country is like a desert, being without grass or water. Along the Pecos River there are unnumbered carcasses. Herds of cattle driven from the interior upon reaching the river plunge in and drink until death ensues. The loss will aggregate hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the prospect of stock living through the coming winter in Western Texas is slight. Jake Braswell, colored, was lynched near Fiat Ford, Bullock County, Ga. Braswell had horribly maltreated Dolly Woods, a little ti-year-old girl, while on her way to school. She identified him after his capture, and ho confessed, saying that he would have killed the child, hut thought her do.id when lie left her. A crowd of one hundred whites and blacks held a conference, and gave Braswell the choice of being burned or hanging himself. He chose hanging, climbed up a tree, fastened a rope around his own neck and a limb of the tree, hut then refused to jump off A negro climbed up, tied Braswell’s hands, and the crowd pushed him off with a pole. His body was riddled with bullets. Mattie and Addie Joyner, aged twelve and eighteen, attacked their father with an ax in his sleep, at Southampton, Va., and hacked him to death. The crime was committed out of revenge for a severe whipping.