Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1887 — A SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

A SOUTHERN.

Near Harrisville, W. Ya., the boiler in a saw-mill exploded, killing four man and injuring three others. Patrick McCarthy was hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., for the murder of Thomas and John Mahoney. He died protesting his innocence. Shade Scarbrough, who murdered Madison Caesar, both negroes, last July, was hanged last week at Clayton, Barbour County, Ala. 'rhe condemned man spoke very briefly to the crowd from a jail window. He Baid he ■was ready to die. Prayer was offered by a negro minister. The prisoner shook hands with the Sheriff and others present, and met his death without flinching. Nora Brown, a fat negresa of San Antonio, has within seven years become white, with tho exception of her neck and finger-tips. The drought in Texas extends from the western grazing lands across the State 800 miles to tho Louisiana pine region.