Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1884 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

A dispatch from Austin, Tex., referring to tbe recent report that a suit is soon ' to be brought in the United States Court of Claims to recover the value of slaves emancipated during the war aays: “Gov. Ireland, Attorney General Tom plot on. and several prominent lawyers consulted by the reporter scout the idea that Texas has any more claim on the Federal Government than any otter Southern State. They consider the scheme a very foolish one, and that if anybody is enraged in it, which is regarded as doubtful, it la for political purposes.” In the streets of Yaxoo, Miss.,% party of negroes tired upon a tup. kd by Joan F. Posey, a white business sen. killing Posey and two others and wounding two more. Posey had heeu insulted by a negro and went c 8 to collect his friends. Tbe negro did the aamo thing, and bis baud unexpectedly "v ■ i. / • , * • %

opened fire as soon as toe Posey party put in as appearance. The negro leader was killed while resisting arrest, and the City Council, after an investigation, resolved that toe conflict was entirely personal, and not the result of race rancor or political difficulties..... Fifty armed men took three persons of bad reputation from a saloon at McDade, Tex., carried them to the outskirts, and hanged them. The following day, friends of the lynched men came to McDade, and picked a quarrel, when a fight with shot-guns and revolvers ensued. In which three men wore killed, and j one badly wounded.... A band of desperadoes are terrorizing the northern section of Grayson county, Tex. They recently killed two persons and burned a church and school-house.... A turkey-shoot near Paris, Ky., ended in the killing of two negroes by another negro. , • r A family named Boss, the parents and five children, were drowned in a sudden rise In Hardy creek, Trimble county, Ky. The neighbors heard their screams, but did not venture out to the night. The following morning the cabin and inmates were all missing.

The Atchafalaya bridge of the Texas Pacific toad, a structure 1,015 feet in length, has been completed, and trains are now crossing. The Construction of this bridge was begun In September, 1881, and the cost approximates $500,000... .Archbishop Perchc died in New Orleans last week. A gambled named Bums killed the night watchman at the end of the track on the Mexican Central road, near El Paso, Tex. Burns was hanged to a box-car by a m0b....Tw0 negroos, • accused of shooting white men, were takon from jail at Brooksvillc, Fla., and shot dead. WASHINGTON. Mr. Buckner, Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency, is preparing a bill to introduce when Congress reconvenes. It provides for the issuing of Treasury noies without the legal-tender quality to take the place of bank notes going out of existence. The purport of the" measure is the same with that of the bill Introduced by Mr. Buckner during the first session of the last Congress. Secretary Teller and a party of agents and inspectors will soon go to Muscogee, Indian Territory, to investigate the Creek troubles and make recommendations to bring about a settlement. Representative Bland, chairman of the Coinage Committee, expects to effect no ohanges in the laws this session except to bring about the even exchange qf standard dollars for trade dollars. Representative Buckner disavows any Intention of making war on the national banks, but holds that their note franchise is vicious and unnecessary.... Brig.-Gen, ■ Andrew A. Humphreys died suddenly at Washington. GENERAL. An Orange procession at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, was attacked, three men being killed and soveral mortally wounded. Troops have been forwarded to the scene. Burned: Several stores at Rushford, N. Y., involving a loss of $50,000; Belcher’s shoe factory, Holbrook, Mass., loss $30,000; Tyson Brothers’ mill and elevators, Baltimore, loss $70,000; Blanchard’s mills, Winterburn, Pa., loss $30,000; Wright’s sash and blind factory, Stevens Point, Wis., loss $10,000; Linderholm’s elevator, Clarinda, lowa, loss $10,000; Harrison’s dry-goods store, Paris, Tex., loss $30,600; Sara/.in’s tobAcco factory, New Orleans, loss $20,000; eigb't business houses at Stowartsville, Mo., loss $30,000; awing of the insane asylum. Ward’s Island, N. Y., loss $25,000; a number of stores at Neches, Tex., loss $20,000; a herd of cattle and horses, at the Cheyenne agency, I. T., loss $12,000; the Luthei-an church, Rochester, Pa., loss $10,000; Ueniorest’a fruit store. New Orleans, loss $25,000; a large saw mill, at Deer Lake, Mich., loss $125,000; a large printing establishment, at Montreal, Canada, loss $55,000; a street ear house and stables, at Cambridge, Mass., loss $35,000; u cotton-seed oil mill at Temple. Tex., loss $35,000; Goddard’s flour mill at Freeport, 111., loss $10,000; Tobie’s flour-mill, Troy, Kan., loss $35,000; a storehouse at. Memphis, Tenn., loss $35,000; the Havelock house, Algona, lowa, loss $l!>,000; Samuel 'Guppies’ broom faotery and other property in St. Louis, Mo., loss $450,000: a flouring mill at Chippewa Falls, Wis., loss $35,000; a match factory at Utica, N. Y., loss $15,000; a flouring mill at Cape Girardeau, Mo., loss $00,000; Neidoringbiun’s furniture store, St. Louis, Mo., loss $100,000; a business,structure at Red Wing, Minn., loss $25,000; Lee’s shoe' factory, Athol, Mass., loss $70,000; Hardenbtirg & Co.’s carpet store, Brooklyn, N. Y-, loss $125,000; Green Brothers’ foundry, Waterford, Ontario, loss $30,030; several stores and shops at Fargo, Dak., loss $40,000; a number of business houses at Bloomflold, Ind., loss $215,000: the Empire, brewery, Utica, N. Y., loss $40,000; the offices of the Tribune and Time* and half a dozen stores at Hammond, Ind., loss $45,000. Deaths : Ex-Mayor Strasburg, of Baltimore, one of the defenders of that city against the British; John F. Ramsey, one of the pioneer settlers of Madison, Ind.; Rev. Dr. T. D. Anderson, of Boston, a widely known Baptist clergyman; Henry S. Buckner, an old and wealthy merchant of New Orleans, aged 87; Rev. John B. Wright, of Waylund, Mass., the oldest Unitarian clergyman in the United States; Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Cram (retired), of the United States Engineer Corps: Gen. Hiram Leonard, of San Francisco, retired army officer; exGov. Ralph P-. Lowe, of lowa, at Washington City; Judge E. S. Williams, a- prominent Chicago lawyer; the wife of Gen. W. 8. Rosecrans, at Washington, D. C.; Gen. Thomas L. Kano, one of the moat prominent citizens of Fennsyi vania. • A. D. Smith & Go., of Providenoe, R. 1., operating 87,000 cotton spindles, have failed for $1,000,000. The crash is a highly disastrous one, carrying with it the suspension of three great companies besides the five mills run by the ruined firm. Other failures of the week are as follows: Bomann & Von Bermith. worsted goods. New York, liabilities $75,000: Willis Bronson, real estate. New York, liabilities 8250.000: J. W. Woolfolk, cotton factory, Columbus, Ga., liabilities $200,000; J. P. McAfee, hardware, Celina, Ohio, liabilities $20,000; W. H. Kingsloy, grain, AUensville, 111., liabilities $28,000; Donald Gordon, dry goods, Rochester, Oswego and Moxico, N. Y., liabilities s2oo,oott; Lockhart & St right, dry goods, Albany,lnd.,liabilitie,sl2,000 ; 6. Jacobus, dry goods, Nashville, Teun., liabilities, $40,000; Gordon. Barker & Co., millers, Sparta, 111., liabilities, $160,000; Goo. Brooks Jt Bro., hardware, Allerton, 11L, liabilities $18,000: H. S. Gilbert & Co., grain and commission, Ottawa. 111., liabilities, $250,000; Soper & Co., auctioneers, Baltimore, liabilities, $35,000; French & McKnight, dry goods, Erie, Pa., liabilities, $34,000; Horatio E. Davis & Co., dry goods, Boston; Lam born & Gray, bankers Alliance, Ohio; J. B. Lam bert. dry goods Chattanooga, Tenn., liabilities $63,000. Last week’s business failures numbered £oe, twenty less than the previous week, but eighteen more than for the corresponding period in 1882... .The gross earnings of the Lake Shore road for the year are reported at $18,550,000, and of the Central and Southern line at $14,000,000. In the riot at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, two Orangemen and two Catholics were killed, and eight persons mortally and. about twenty slightly wounded. FOREIGN. It is stated that France will not be. gin negotiations for peace until her forbes occupy Bae Ninh, and that the French loss of life at Sontay was greater than reported. The Chinese are active in the Red River delta constructing defenses..... Forty thousand looms are idle in Lancashire, England. There 1 threatens to to an equally colossal strike of miners In Yorkshire. The ironworkers in France are also discontented. Col. Henry R, Rathbone, of Albany,

N. Y., while traveling in Germany, killed his wife in Hanover Christmas day, and then attempted suicide. Col. Rathbone and the lady be has murdered (in 1865 Miss Harris) were sitting in toe box at Ford’s theater when the assassin Booth entered and killed Abraham Lincoln, i.. The French Government has instructed Admiral Courbet to follow up his victory at Sontay with the utmost baste compatible with safety.... Russian Nihilists are quarreling among themselves. The Grand Duke Nicholas, of Russia, who has been in 'confinement in Turkestan, tried to escape to India on horseback, but was overtaken.