Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1884 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

J. A. Buckner, editor of the Gulf Coast Herald, was found dead near Tarpon Springs, Fla. Having quarreled with his mistress, she fled with a negro and Buckner followed after, and nothing was heard of him till found dead. While target practice was being carried on on board the United States steamer Standish at Annapolis, with a number of cadets on board, a gun burst, three of its pieces of great weight doing serious damage M the vessel and carrying away considerable of the rigging, but fortunately injuring no person,.. .A party of seventeen persons, most of whom are missionaries, have left Atlanta for China, Some of the ladies will organize in Shanghai a high school for girls, Louis G. Shafer, a well-known bil-

Mardist of Baltimore, was fatally injured by a train at a street crossing... .Twenty-one business buildings at Liberty, Va., were burned, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO.