Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1884 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

At Hnysville, Temi., Capt. E. T. Johnson surprised Maj. Edwin Henry and shot him dead. This is the result of a scandal a yeauago.ntlndianapolis, when Johnson's wife committed suicide, confessing previously, in letters to her husband, that she had been seduced by Henry. From that time Johnson has been on* Henry’s track*, but at last has had his revenge. .. .-Capt. VT. H. Janies, Assistant United States Engineer on the Upper Cape Fear River works in North'Cnrolina, committed suicide bust week. A tramp who assaulted a child at Shelby ville, Ky., was within six hours sentenced to a term in the penitentiary..., The Chinese Government has applied for 3,000 square feet of space in the New Orleans Exposition. At Meadville, Miss., a mod surrounded the Franklin County Jail, took out four prisoners and hanged them to trees in the yard. Two of the victims were charged with murder and the others with outrage and arson, respectively. Four other prisoners were not molested, but the lynchers left word that they would return if the County Judge did not dispose of them at the next terßa-of-eourt. • • r The, Georgia Capitol Commission awarded the contract for the-buildingto a Toledo firm for $862,765. The material will be limestone from the Bedford quarries in Indiana.... Mr. John W. Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, died at Deer Park, Md„ after a lingering illness. He was in his 63ih year.. The bodies of George Faustrick and Annie Manlor, strangers in the -vicinity, were found near Dallas, Tex,., lying side by side. Between them lay a revolver, two chambers empty. Near by was found a note; “As we cannot be united in life, we will be in death.”