Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1887 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

An assignment was made by the tobacco firm of Wall, Smith & Co., of Louisville, on account of advances mado upon crops. Their assets are estimated at SIIO,OOO, and they owe $75,000 to city banks. In Lawrence Cpunty, Ky„, Samuel Smith, aged 10, who had some difficulty with a neighbor named Stephen Hammoud, armed himself with a revolver, and, entering Hammond’s liouso, shot him dead. Hammond’s wife and children, a boy and girl, attacked the murderer, but he soon fatally wounded Mrs. Hammond, and as the children tried to escapo felled them both with balls. Thinking he had killed the entire family he fled to the mountains and has not yet been caught Mrs. Hammand will die and the children may recover. Money sent by John Brown, Jr., for the earthquake sufferers at Charleston was turned over to the Confederate home, with tho approval of the donor. William Jackson was tried for murder at Falmouth, Ky., aud sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. A mob raided the jail, took Jackson out, and hanged him to a tree. Henry Artis, who brutally murdered his stepdaughter at Goldsboro, N. C., by braining her with an ax, has paid the penalty of his crime on the gallows. He made a full confession of his guilt, and said he was sorry he had committed the crime. The execution was intended to have been a private one, but it was witnessed by a very large

crowd who gathered on the outside of the jail walls, which are very low, and from which a fine view of the hanging could be had. Fire destroyed the Commercial Preßß at New Orleans, with a large amount of cotton, the total loss being $150,000,'