Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1887 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The Rev. Dr. Alfred Lee, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Delaware, died at Wilmington, aged 81. ■William A. Day, of Champaign, 111., ■will proba ly succeed Mr. Maynard as Second Controller of the Treasury. At Union City, Term., John Thomas, a young mair.cd negro, brutally assaul ed a little colored girl. He was arrosted and arraigned in a Justice Court to answer the charge. Tlie negro failed to secure a lawyer, but introduced i-everal witnesses in the vain’attempt to prove an alibi. The little victim gave her testimony, which brought toars to the eye- of the many spectators with whom the courtroom was densely crowded. At the close of the testimony, and before the court could render a verdict, a yell was hoard and in an instant the officers were overpowered. The negro was seized, a rope was placed around his neck and'over a beam in tlie courtroom, and a hundred hands drew him lo a merited Not more than two minutes were consumed in the act The body hung for one hour and was then cut down, and a Coroner's jury returning a verdict to the effect that Mecca-ed came to his death by hanging at the hands of parties unkno wa ” It was impsmmMe. to find witnesses to testify as to who t&ey were. , Tbe City Council of Laredo, Texas, law grated to a Mexican mining company ten asms of land and five years’ exemption from tsoatfoa, conditioned upon the erection of a mmim to cost 11,000,000.

John T. Fernandez and Henry Bernard, members of a New Orleans fencing club, had a friendly set-to with foils. The button of Bernard’s weapon war broken off during the encounter, and a sudden thrust drove the point of the blade into Fernandez’ brain, entering below the left eye. Fernandez died, and Bernard surrendered himself to the police.