Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1884 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Hebbebt Leith, one of Stonewall Jackson’s soldiers, who lost both legs during the war of the rebellion, fatally shot his cousin, John Rawlings, at Leesburg, Va., during a drunken quarrel. Both men have been prosperous farmers. • An association formed in Hamburg has purchased 134,000 acres of land in the corner of North Carolina, next to Georgia. The agent will compromise with 1,500 squatters, and intends to colonize 2,000 or more Germans on the tract. Mbs. Fbances Stegall, a widow, aged , 70, who died a few days ago near Monroe, N. 0., confessed that she had murdered her husband by ppunng molten lead into his ear thirty years ago. She refused to say what was the motive of the crime.