Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1884 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

A negro named Perry was lynched at Sulphur Springs, Texas, for the murder of farmer Jones and his wife, robbery being his motive. If the Spanish treaty is ratified, it is claimed that Key West will be a ruined town. Seven thousand persons employed in the cigar factories will be rendered idle, while the loss to property will be $2,000,000. ....The family of Andrew Maqn, a cattledealer at Fort Spring. W. Va., were poisoned, the drug having been placed in milk. Two persons have died, four are beyond recovery, three are seriously ill, and four others are out of danger. This is the third attempt, it is alleged, to poison Mr. Mann’s family. The senate of Alabama last week adopted a resolution favoring large appropriations for the schools of the State, and solemly expressing the purpose of the white people to aid in me education of colored children. difficulty between the Sauls and Basham families at Gatesville, Texas, six persons were wounded, Dr. Sauls, Henry Basham, and A. Sauls being fatally shot. Masked robbers boarded a railroad train near Little Rock, Ark., and secured $6,000 in cash and valuables. Bloodhounds were put on the track of the robbers, and six nien were soon captured in the city. Three of them were identified. The correspondent of the Courier-Jour-nal, Louisville, who has investigated the pestilence caused by drought in the mountainous regions of Kentucky and Virginia, reports that up to date 2,045 deaths have occurred.