The people have been greatly alarmed for
s uno time. Some days ago tho dogs bit
horses and cattle, when up< n the people turn
ed out, and by general agreement shot every
dog in tho neighborhood. They are determin
ed to stop the trouble, which has prevailed
more or less since last October. Hundreds of
dogs have l»eon shot or poisoned. So fas as
known no people have neon bitten. Cattle
and horses bitten have in all cases been
Shot.
’l'he remains of Ben Cranly, the negro who
was drowned last Saturday at Wilmington by
Abram t arter, were recovered Tuesday. The
tragic death teenlls a yet more tragic event
which occurred not long ago near the very
spot where the drowning occurred. This was
tne killing of three colored boys and the
Wt unding of tho fourth by a gun in the hands
iof Grant Best, colored. \ singular coinci
dence of the straiq.o fatality has taken place
,in tho drowning of Tianly. lie is
tho fourth boy who was sitting on
the li and was severely wounded on
that fatal day. when Best got them in a row
and tired, killing the other three instantly. To
still further continue the singular story, Car
ter, who drowned I'rairty, was in the boat
which brought the bo\s across Ihe river to tho
place where the shooting occurred. Best is
’ now serving a term of fifteen v< irs in the pen
itentiary. I'artrr is likely to follow him there.
They are the only survivors of the six who
crossed the river in that boat. A jury of in
quest mot today, and gave a verdict that Car
ter drowned Cranly.
ALABAMA.
