Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

John W. Stevenson, who had been Senator and Representative in Congress and Governor ol Kentucky, has passed away at tlie age of 74 years. Gov. Ireland, of Texas, has issued a proclamation askiug for relief for the drought rofferera The rice crop of Louisiana is the beat ever produced. | Adolphus Parker, a IG-year-old boy, who with four men robbed the Valley route train, near Little Hock, Ark., in December, imt, and was sent to prison for the crime, has been pardoned by the Governor of Arkansas. A terrible triple tragedy occurred at Graysville, Teun., tweuty miles from Chattanooga. The liev. F. M. Dandy and John Daria, the latter a prominent farmer, had a difficulty over the attentions of Davis to

Bandy’s daughter. The young lady’s brother attempted to whip Davis, and the latter beat him to death, crushing his skull with a stone. At this juncture the minister drew a knife and attacked Davis. Both men fought with knives, and each was mortally wounded. Miss Mamie Little, from Savannah, arrived at Macon, Ga., and asked ex-Po!iceman Jim Moore for directions. He procured a hack for her, and, getting in himself, put his pistol to her head and compelled her submission. He took her to an assignation house, keeping her under cover of his pistol. Moore was arrested and jailed. An angry mob stormed the prison, battered down the doorr, took Moore out, and, despite his piteous cries for mercy, hanged him to the limb of a tree. Absolute destitution is said to prevail in ten counties of Texas on account of the drought. The Commissioners of Shackleford County are employing farmers on the public roads, and a fund of $5,000 is being raised to lend without interest for the purchase of seed.