Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1887 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Legislative Council of Memphis has agreed upon a legislative bill to authorize the issue of bonds for $1,500,000 for the construction of water works. Evans Fabes, a negro who was pardoned from the Mississippi Penitentiary because of inhuman treatment by the lessee, sued Captain John P. Withers for damages, and was awarded SI,OOO by a jury comprising eleven white men. From a tree standing on the spot where Jeff Davis was captured, some Georgians recently cut a cane, and sent it to the Confederate chieftain. His letter of acknowledgment refers to many scanalous falsehoods connected with his sad adventure. Preston Valentine, colored, who brutally killed an aged man, was hanged at Augusta, Ga. A negro named Abe Chambers was executed at Newport, Ark., for the murder of Jonas Williams, colored. A special from Louisville, Ky., gives an account of a desperate combat between a stallion and an Alderney bull, in which both were killed: A singular and fatal combat took place in a cattle car on the Air Line Railroad between an Alderney bull and a stallion. The two animals were boxed in a car at Depauw, Ind , by Gustavus Edenburg, a local dealer, for shipment to this city. A strong partition was built between the two animals. The train was running near New Albany -when a brakeman passing over the car heard a furious bellowing beneath, and climbing down the side o( the car found that the partition between the two animals had been broken down, and the infuriated animals were engaged in deadly, conflict. The train was stopped, and the crew gathered around the car, but no means could be devised for stopping the encounter. 'lhe iron heels of the game horse were planted with telling effect upon the bull’s head, and the horse was gored in a terrible manner. Finally the stallion got in a blow between the eyes of the bull, and the latter animal fell dead. The horse is so badly injured that he will also die. A passenger train on the Texas and Pacific Road was boarded by a band of robbers near Gordon, Tex., and the express and mail cars were rifled of their valuable contents. The robbers are said to have realized about $15,000. The passengers were not molested. The assassins of the Harris brothers, who were thought to have been released from jail at Warren, Ark., by masked men, were promptly lynched and their bodies thrown into the river.

By the burning of a cotton shed on the corner of Shelby and South streets, Memphis, property valued at $310,000 was reduced to ashos. *