Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

■While Senator Wade Hampton was hunting on his Mississippi plantation Ins guu was accidently discharged, killing his horse. The animal in falling crushed the Senator, inflicting pa nful injuries. Three ineendiaries were lynched in Franklin County, Mississippi, for burning Harrison Celcato’s cotton gin house. There was a lot of cotton stored in tho gin-house, and the negroes had stolen several bales of it and fired the building to conceal the theft. They were arrested, and while being taken to jail were “lost in the woods.” It is stated that an entire family of seven, named Poe, thought to have been burned to death at their homo in Knox County, Kentucky, a month ago, were in reality murdered by a neighbor, who is now in jail. An attempt waS made near San Antonio, Texas, to rob the oxpress car of a Missouri Pacific train, but the two men who attempted tho job were arrested hv the messenger and eonduc‘or. Robt. Vance, of San Antonio, Texas, was thirty years ago oue of the sureties on the bond of an Indian agent, wbo proved to he short in his accounts to tho amount of SO3O. A jury in the Federal Court, last week, gave the Government judgment against the Vance estate for $12,000, including compound interest for twonty-H X yoirs.