Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1884 — BRIEFS. [ARTICLE]

BRIEFS.

Newfill, X. C., claims a storm of rod rain last week. A coi'v of John Eliot’s bible was sold in New York on Tuesday for $950. Six thousand tean guesses at Cincinnati realized 81.50 Q for flood sufferers. Is the, Congregational Church at Grlnneit, lowa, a pew is named for Wendell Phillips and is tet apart for colored people. Gustave Hauck. of Philadelphia, tried to hang, shoot, ami down himself because Selempe Nennerowicz married another fellow. Senator Brown, of Goorgia, pays tho largest real estut • tax in Atlanta. He owns S4CO.COO worth of property in th-J city alone. As an evidence of tho recent remarkable growth of Texas, it Is stated that the Btate hah now sfxiy-four ofganizcd counties in which no vote was polled at the last Pres idcntlal election. ' a ■ Ths Southern Dir.mac argues that dfe mound-builders were dinwned by floods.