Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

A dispatch from Harold, Texas, reports how another festive cowboy came to die with his boots on: Games Sullard, a cowboy, who it seems has been in the habit of getting drunk and riding into the saloons and stores, came into town, and, as usual, attempted to repeat his old tricks, but was fooled. Private Y. D. Murray, of the rangers, attempted to arrest him by grabbing the bridle-reins. He requested Sullard to halt. At this Sullard leveled his Winchester rifle at the ranger, but Murray proved too quick, and shot him through the heart*with a’six-Wooter, killing him instantly.

AT'Coviington, Kentucky, Mrs. Gravener drowned Herself and an infant in a cistern. ... JHenry Jackson, a colored man, vvas executed iii "Webster Parish. Louisiana, for the murder of a grocer named R. A. Britten. ... A quadrilateral duel is reported from Manchester, Kentucky. The last survivor is mortally wounded. One bottle of whisky and a woman inspired the tragedy. .. .The Carrollton cotton-seed oilmills, in ' the upper portion of New Orleans, valued at $90,000, were destroyed by fire. Their owner was the late Edmund Richardson, the millionaire planter. The - damage to the fruit crop of Florida by the cold weather is estimated at nearly $2,000,000... .Calvin Simpson, a negro, broke into the house of an old white lady named Mrs. Graves, three miles below Henderson. Ky., pursued the old lady and her two daughters, who had fled therefrom, and, overtaking the. former, killed her with a club. The daughters .-escaped. Calvin was arrested.