Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1886 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

A San Antonio dispatch says that valuable gold doposita have been discovered in Nueces Canyon, Uvalde County, Texas. Two Chinamen secured wives by eloping with white girls from Augusta, Ga. Out of these events grew a feeling of hostility which led to attempts with fire and dynamite on the house i occupied by the Chinese colony,. While riding in the woods near Red River, iu the Choctaw Nation, George Traafe came upon four negroes who had stolen a hog and were cleaning it To conceal their crime they murdered Traafe. The party were arrested, and one of them confessed the crime. They were taken from the guards who had them in charge, by a party of citizens, and without ceremony strung to the nearest trees. Cicsar Robinson, a negro, was hanged by a mob at Florence, S. C.. for assaulting a white woman. A masked mob invaded the town of Brenham, Texas, at midnight, overpowered the jailer, and took Shea Felder, Alfred Jones, and Ephra m Jones, three negroes implicated in the killing of Dewees Bolton on the night of election, and lynched them. It was so quickly done that the town was not aroused until morning, when tho bodies of the three men were found hanging to a tree. Mining excitement in the vicinity of the Hot Springs of Arkansas has caused tho location of claims on every available tract near Bear Mountain. Influential citizens of Northern Louisiana have formed an association to put an end to the intermarrying of whites and blacks. In most parishes committees have been appointed to servo notice on offenders. The Natural Gas Company at Bowling Green, Ky., has set up a drill weighing nearly two tons, and will bore a depth of 1,500 feet