Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1888 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A political quarrel in Clark County, Georgia, between Sheriff George W. Allen and ex-Sheriff Davis Carter, resulted in a murder and suicide. Allen shot Carter dead and then killed himself. A Charleston (W. Va.) dispatch announces tho death of Gen. D. H. Strother, an old-time and popular author. His literary career was begun in 1853 by the publication in Harper's Magazine of a series of illustrated sketches of Virginia life, over tho noin do plume of “Porte Crayon,” which were continued for several years. He was 7!1 years old at the time of his death.