Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1884 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Ik a fight Kith Deputy Marshals in Ilall County, Georgia, three manufacturers of “moonshine* whisky were killed.. . .Five persons were burned to death in a fire at Newport, Art. In the presence of the Cabinet, Diplomatic Corps, and prominent persons at the ■White House, on Dec. 16, President Arthur touched the electric button which set the machinery of the New Orleans Exposition revolving. The attendance at New Orleans was large, and addresses suitable to the occasion were made, the speech of President Arthur, opening the show, being telegraphed from the White House and read to the assemblage in the Exposition Building. IT is not considered likely that the prop* ositioe to suspend the coinage of the silver dollar will be favorably acted upon by the present Congress. At a meeting exhibitors of in the Exposition building st New Orleans, it was unanimously resolved to demand the removal of Banmel Mullen, Chief of Installation, for oertain unbusinesslike acts. Ebwakd Gittengs was literally carried into the Criminal Court room at Balitimore to receive sentence of five years for arson, the lodge offering to sign a petition for pardon. The prisoner fainted, and became • corpse soon after leaving the jail.