Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Fob using the word “National” on his bonneas sign at Atlanta, Ga., suit has been brought against G. C. Nelson, who is a money lender, for $50,000 —the sum total of SSO a day since he began business —that being the penalty, under the United States statutes, for bankers or brokers using the word “National,” unless authorized by Congress. The informer claims half of the money.... After being lashed to the rigging of the barken tine Ephraim Williams live days without food or water, the captain and crew were rescued by the life-boats at Cape Battens. A&an Aktonio (Terns) dispatch reports that “as a passenger train on the Southern Pacific was nearing the bridge crossing the Pecos Stiver' a number of torpedoes exploded on the track, causing the engineer to stop the train. Six cowboys boarded the train with drawn revolvers and compelled tile conductor to stop at Langtry, the next small station. At Langtry twenty more cowboys got on board and took possession of the train. They were all more or less under the influence of liquor, and amused themselves by shooting out all the window lights and lamps and terrorizing the passengers generally. As the train passed email stations the cowboys would shove their heads out of the broken windows, and shoot and yelL A passing freight train was saluted in a similar manner, several hundred shots fired, and the roof of the cars riddled. They robbed the train boy of his stock of peanuts and candies, but, so far as known, nobody was shot. Jndgs Falon, United States District Attorney and Sheriff "White were among the passengers, but thought ft best not to make their identity known. The gnng left the train at Uvalde,

after riding over sixty milas... .An unknown assassin, standing near a window in Torian ana fatally wounding Peter Adcock. * There is much excitement in the Fort Mountain (Georgia) region over the discovery of a rich silver mine, the ore assaying from SSO to $2 ,000 per ton. Gold has | heretofore been found and miners are flocking to the district... .In the Circuit Court at Little Rook, Ark., Adolph Parker and Jade Clifford, two of the train robbers, were sentenced to the penitentiary, Parker for six and Clifford for seven years. The trial of Cook, who turned State’s evidence, has been postponed until the next term.... The Central Elevator, at Dallas, Tex., was burned, causing a loss of SBO,OOO. Two employes are known to have perished in the flames. 1