--The
McNutt (Sunflower county, Miss.,) Sentinel, of last week, gives an account of a melancholy tragedy, enacted on
Jones' Bayon, a few days ago, in which two men were killed, and the wife of one of the parties shot through the hand.
A man named
Murfree got into a difficulty with his overseer, named Young.--
Murfree attempted to shoot Young, when
Mrs. Young came forward and begged him not to shoot her husband.
Murfree fired and the ball took effect in the woman's hand.
Young then rushed upon
Murfree, and in attempting to wrest the pistol from his hand was shot in the abdomen; he then beat
Murfree to death with the pistol.
Young has since died.
Murfree was supposed to be laboring under effects of
mania-a-potu.