Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1887 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The yearly drive of Texas cattle into the Indian Territory aggregates 45,556 head. The bodies of three negroes, brothers, named Sylvester, were found hanging to a tree near Proctor, W. Va. Each body bore a placard on which was written: “Nigger thievery must be broken up. ” The farmers in the neighborhood had suffered depredations at the hands of unknown persons, and it seems they finally settled on the Sylvester brothers as the guilty ones. By the accidental discharge of a gun at Wilmington, N. C., four negro boys were killed, and a fifth badly wounded. Joseph Compton, a member bf the Alabama Legislature, proves to be an escaped convict from the North Carolina penitentiary, where he was sentenced in 1874 for twentyfour years for murder. He has fled from his home in Alabama to avoid arrest Louisville comes to the front -with a prodigy of judicial acumen in the perAn of a magistrate named Stofer. John J. Cornelison, who was serving a three years’ jail sentence for ths assault upon Judge Reid which caused the latter’s suicide, was brought before Stofer the other day on a writ of habeas cornus, and ordered released on the ground that his conviction was illegal. As the judgment against Corneilson had been affirmed by the Court of Appeals, the magistrate’s presumption amazes the public, and will likely get him into trouble. The remains of a mastodon of the largest size have been discovered about twenty miles from Atlanta, Ga. A negro man and woman named respectively Richard Goodwin and Grace Blanton, who confessed to having robbed and burned the store of a country merchant, were taken from the West Carroil parish (La.) jail by a masked mob and hanged to a tree. Fifty colored persons who had gathered at New Orleans to witness an immersion were precipitated into the river by the collapse of the railing on the wharf, and eight were drowned.

Three murderers were legally executed ou Fiiday, the 6th inst, namely: John Bogers, at Eureka, Cal.; Theodore Baker, at Las Vegas, N. M.; and Henry Anderson (colored), at Socorro, N. M. Crop prospects in South Carolina are reported more favorable than at this season in any previous year since 1882. Gen. Greeley, Chief Signal Officer, has arranged to issue a special weekly bulletin with a view of promptly placing before the public each Monday morning reliable information relative to the climatic condition in the agricultural districts of the country. It u believed that these bulletins will serV as

a reliable basis for determining the conditions favorable or unfavorable for the growing crops.