The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-18
GENERALITIES.


IynChed.
A private letter received in this city vcsterily
states that on Friday night party of fifteen
men, masked and mounted went to the house
of James Crowders, fourteen miles beyond
Lebanon on the Lebanon and DLuvllle pike,
and, taking him ont a short distance from the
house, hanged him to the limb of a tree. The
lynchers quetcd his wife by holding loaded
revolver to her head. It is said that CroWder,
was a very kind old gentleman, and much
esteemed, but there were reports that he wa-
concerned in some large swndles He wa
siXty-fye years of aye. lie owned some three
thousand acres of land near Lebanon, and before
the war owned large number of negroes.
Within month, it is said, three men have baau
taken out and hung by the party that lyncued
Crowders -LOujSCjUe JOluWai 1Oh.
h Threatened Starvation.
NSurycys have lately been made for a railroad
thraugh the White Mountain notch The engi-
neers have sometimes been compelled TO content
themselves with such provisions as they could
get at solitary farm-houses among the noun
tains. One day a party of four surveyors
stopped at q house i'm the woods and asked the
good woman if she could furnish them dinner.
She said her husband was gone and she had
nobody to i>ill her chickens, but if they were
willing to put up with trout she would do what
she could Tor them. NOycs who was spOhes-
man, turned grayely to his hungry companions,
and asked them if they felt rs ii they could put
up with trout They expressed their willing
ness 10 try, 80 they went into the kitchen, where
the good woman showed them great milk pan
fun of shining trout; she said her boy had poor
luck that morning: he usually did better. For
the dinner of the party of four she fried peck.
Perhaps She was astonished at the resignation
with which they sat down to such fare!
A Den of Murderers Discovered.
The Bloomfield (Mo.) Argus says that during
the past few months some eight or ten persons
have disappeared from Ironton in such a manner
as to leave no doubt OF their having been toully
tty6, .ltt YnYll hp ,it nod A
few days since the body Of "A man was found in
the brush a short distance from town, partially
inferred, the villains having been frightened
away before they had completed their helltsh
work. The body was eXhumed and an inquest
held, which led to the arrest of several persons,
and upon examination it was found that an Or
ganized band of cutthroats have long made
lrontOn their headquarters, and such was the
thirst for blood of some of the gang that they
killed without provocation or hope of plumber,
which seems to have been their object in most
cases. After the investigation writs were issued
for the apprehension of other parties, but the
sheriff and his posse was met by an organized
resistance. and after a desperate fight were
forced to retire with the loss of two men killed
and several wounded. An armed force from
JeflNrson City has probably reached there before
thisSme.
Damage TO the Cotton Crop.
From the Texas papers we learn that immense
damage was done to the cotton and corn crops
of Texas by the great flood which occurred
about the middle of last month. The rivers
Guadaloupe. San Marcos, COrnal, Colorado
Nevada, and other rivers were all out of theil
banks Many persons were drowned and all the
rich valley inundated. The Colorado Citizen
says:-A gentleman well acquainted with the
whole Colorado valley from Austin down, and
who examined the most of that valley immed
ately after the overflow in 1852, gives the fol
lowing as a near approximate estimate of the
loss of cotton by the present overflow in four o.
the river cOunties:-ln Colorado county, SOOC
bales: in Fayette county, 5000 bales; in BastroT
county, 1000 bales; in Travis county, 200O bales
Total, 20, COO bales.