Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

The strange disease reported as prevailing in Virginia also exists in Kentucky and West Virginia, where whole families have been swept away, and thirty or more new graves are seen in a small cemetery. The people call it cholera, for want of a better name, and the malady upholds its dreadful title, victims, upon being seized, seldom living longer than twenty-four hours. It is said the scourge affected majorities in some precincts at the recent election. Numerous corpses have been left unburied, and the stench from the decaying carcasses of animals pollutes the air. Flour, com, and meal are needed to succor the starving population, and, unless rain falls, annihilation may be anticipated. Acute typhoid dysentery is the medical name given to the fatal scourge which has recently broken out in the western portions of Virginia. One hundred and fifty deaths have occurred in Wise County a10ne.... San Antonio (Tex.) telegram: Lieut. Eggleston, who was ordered’in pursuit of the Apaches who raided Presidio County, telegraphed the result of his scouting to Gen. Stanley. Farmer Petty was shot three times in the head, and his wife had been outraged and murdered. Three children were found butchered. The ‘lndians were trailed to where they crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico. Eggleston gave up the pursuit at the riVer, as. the reciprocal treaty for the crossing of troops has expired. Two hunters found the dead body of a young and pretty woman, neatly dressed, liTßaltimoro County, Md. In her arms was a baby, in an unconscious condition, but nothing was found to show the identity of the mother. A ring on her finger boie-the. inscription, “Mizpah, May 1, 1883,” on the back of her gold watch were the words: “Frank to Gertrude.” In a purse in the pocket of her gown was $32. An alligator ten feet in length, which for years has been the terror of Jefferson County, Arkafisas, was last week killed with a shot-gun, by Miss Dottie L. Steck, of Bellwood, Pa.