Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1882 — WEST AND SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

WEST AND SOUTH.

Agent Miles telegraphs from Indian Territory that the Northern Cheyennes declare their intention to emigrate to the Pine Eidge agency in Dakota, regardless of the wishes of Commissioner Price... .The party of six young ladies engaged in walking across North Carolina have reached Monroe, 420 miles from their starting point. One night they camped in a cemetery and slept between the graves; at another time they came upon a bear. Their log-book contains 1,246 pages of incidents.... The attorney general of Georgia is pushing to trial an action to forfeit the lease by the state, to a company of which Senator Joseph Brown is president of the Western and Atlantic railroad at $600,000 per year. Two years ago the sum of $12,000,000 was offered for the road... .Crop reports from southern Atlantic states are generally favorable, but portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama complain of too much rain, causing shedding of bolls and’ retarding picking. Some worms are also mentioned, supposed to be In the second crop, but it is thought they are too late to do much damage... .A desperate leap for liberty was recently taken by a noted burglar of North Carolina, who, handcuffed and tied, sprang out of a car window and went down a precipice of eighty feet, where he disappeared... .Leon-

ard Coker, a colored man, who outraged and murdered Mrs. Catherine Haynes, near Montgomery, Ala., was quickly captured, made a confession, and was lynched at the scene of his crime... .A cargo of 250 Clydes-* dale horses, chiefly destined for Illinois, has arrived at Montreal... .George Miron, who claims to have been a mechanic in Chicago for the past sixteen years, has appeared in Montreal to take possession of a family which he abandoned long ago. His wife had heard of his death, and had married again He has brought suit to recover his daughter... .A brewing firm of Davenport, In order to obtain a decision on the prohi>itory amendment, has sued a saloon-keep-irfor #ll3 worth of beer furnished two veeks ago The officers of the newly>uilt Chicago and Atlantic road passed over from’Marion, 0., to Hammond, Ind.,lna special train, and pronounced the track the best in the union for its age. Oklahoma Payne has been arrested on the Canadian river, in Indian Territory, by federal troops. .General Sherman has fixed November, 1883, as the date for his retirement from the army, when he will make St. Louis his home... .8. A. Ricker, a wellknown grain and pork operator on the Chicago Board of Trade, died at the Palmer House in that city, leaving #1,500,000 to his brothers and sisters. Mrs. Annie Burns, a Leavenworth washerwoman, died sixteen years ago, and the proper proofs of her demise are wanted in Ireland, as her six children have fallen heirs to a stake of £200,000... .Pratt, the assistant cashier of the First National bank of Kewanee, HI., has been token into custody as an accomplice in the robbery of the institution by Edward N. Welch. Pinkerton’s men captured in St Louis a dentist named James S. Scott, on charge of complicity....A C. Hesing, of Chicago, is said to have been murdered by his servant, between Hermosillo and his Mexican mine, to secure possession of #2,000, which was being token to pay the miners. His skull was found crushed and his face badly mutilated. On all former occasions he had taken a guard, bnt was persuaded by his murderer not to do so. The body was found by troops, who had previeous offlyred to escort him to the mine. A commercial loumol of Cincinnati, figuring on returns from twelve of the corngrowing states, expects a yield one-half greater than last year, or a total crop of 1,800,000,000 bushels.... Henry Pettes, one of the most prominent art-dealers in the west died at Bt. Louis from the effects of a surgical operation. Yellow fever is reported as spreading in Texas, and also among the Mexican ranches ... .Reports from Illinois place the oat crop in that state at 99,275,000, Heretofore the heaviest average was 2,401,000 and the average yield about forty bushels to the acre.... Just as a freight train was entering the depot at Hoopeston, HI., a car loaded with lumber jumped the track and went through the depot building, demolishing it and killing a boy who was standing on the platform. It is now certain that at least 120 persons were drowned by the recent flood at Concho, Texas. The loss of sheep and cattle is estimated at not less than 15,000.