Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1888 — THE SOUTHERN STATES. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

The latest thing to form the basis of a trust is that interesting Vegetable the peanut Norfolk, Virginia, is the headquarters of the combination, which embraces peanutteries in New York, ’St. Louis, Cincinnati, and various points in Virginia Reports from all parts of Texas tell of an extraordinary rainfall throughout the State, doing much damage to railroads and farm property. All the small streams near Red River are overflowing their banks, submerging thousands of acres of grain aud cotton. A duel to the death occurred ou the streets of Jackson, Miss., between Gen. Wirt Adams and John H. Martin, editor of the New Mississippian. The immediate cause of the affray was an attack upon Gen. Adams in Martin’s paper, lhe telegraph re: ort says: General Adams met Martin on the street, and said : “You d—d rascal, I have had enough from you.” Martin hotly resuonded: “If you don’t like it ’’ and without waiting to finish the sentence drew his revolver and jumped Dehind a tree. General Adams instantly drew his own weapon, aud a rapid exchange of shots followed. Both men fell to the ground. As he went down Martin gasped, “lam deed," and almost immediately expired. Gen. ’Adams never spoke, a bullet having passed directly through his heart. This was the only wound he received, while Martin’s body had received three bullets. The tragedy -was the direct result of the kilhng of R. D. Gambrill, editor of tho temperance organ, the Sward. and Hfitld, by Col. Jones S. Hamilton, last spring, and for which Hamilton was recently tried and acquitted. Martin’s l>aper charged the General with using his position us Postmaster to prevent the circulation of a copy of tho paper containing comments upon the trial. Ar Summary lie, Ga., Henry Pope, colored, who was to have boon legally executed, but bod been reprieved by tho Governor, was taken from the jail au 1 hung by a mob, regardless of the respite. Geobge Morton, a miner, shot and killed a deputy marshal at Warrior, Alabama. Officers fearing mob violence, secreted Mortou in thecaboose of a freigh train, with the intention of taking him to Birmingham, but the caboose was detached and the prisoner taken out and hanged aud riddled with bullets. A cyclone passed over the eastern portion : of Ouachita County, Arkansas. It struck Josiah Hersou’s p ace, wrecked his houses, and destroyed his fencing, but no 1 vas were lost The storm traveled from the southeast to the northwest, and its track was about 15J yards wi ie. Trees were twisted and torn from their roots and hurled about like straws. Damage is also reported at 8. Blake’s and other places j in tbe neighborhood. John L. Black an.l Samuel Black, brothers, who went from Alabama nearly thirty years ago to Nevada, aud had acquired a large amount, of real estate in Virginia City, had a quarrel which resulted in the death of the former. Two shots were heard in a building which the brothers owned, and then Samuel Black emerged from the house with an iron wrench in his hand, went to the Sheriff’s office and surrendered. His brother’s body was found in the house with the front part of II •

the skull broken and with a bullet wound. Samuel claims that he killed his brother in self-defense. At New Orleans, C. W. Moore, President of the spurions “Honduras -Mining Company”; H. Y Mullen, Vice President; and J. W. Quayle, its Secretary and Treasurer, were indicted by the United States Grand Jury for devising a scheme to defraud.