Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

To PREVENT • recurrence of the robberies which hare been recently committed,

armed men now patrol Fulton, W. Va., and even women carry revolvers Suspicious characters have been driven out, and, if they return, will be shot The first thief caught will be hanged immediately.... Seven stores and an hotel at Hopkinsville, Ky., were destroyed by fire. The loss is $76,000, folly insured. All the white messenger bdys in the employ of toe Western Union Company at Savannah, Ga., have been discharged, colored lads taking their places... .Messrs. Derosset and Pass engaged in a duel With shot-guns in toe streets of Rockwood, Tenn. Both men were mortally wounded: .... A prohibitory liquor ordinance has gone into effect at Hot Springs, Arkansas, with a limit of two years. Russell Hancock, son of Maj. Gen. Hancock, died at his cotton plantation near Clarksdale, Miss. Ex- Speaker Randall journeyed from Louisville to Nashville, where he was accorded a cordial reception. *He made a speech, visited the venerable widow of exPresident Polk, and inspected toe largest cotton mill in toe city. ' A Baltimore and Ohio train was boarded at Rising Sup, Md., by two men, who robbed toe passengers of money, watches, and valuables, and then jumped from toe train while it was running at full speed. The Norwegian bark Lena was wrecked off Hqg Island, Va., eight persons losing their lives. In a fierce storm and freezing weather the crew clung to toe doomed craft for twenty-four hours, but finally dropped off one by one. The two survivors floated ashore by the aid of some planks. At Galveston, Texas, for a purse of SSOO and toe championship of toe South, Harry Cole, of Galveston, defeated Frank Maggioli, of New Orleans, in a three-ball French carrom game sf billards. Cole’s average, 66 2-3; Maggioli’s, 16 14-15, Cole ram 507 in the sixth inning... .Cobum A Ewing, of Kansas City, have paid SBOO,OOO for the Munson ranch in the Pan-handle of Texas, which comprises 100,000 acres of land and 25,000 head of cattle... .The Court House at Moorefield, W. Va., was toejscene of a bloody fight on toe question of who had been legally elected County Clerk.... J. G. Scragham, teller in a national bank at Lexington, Ky., is a defaulter for $50,000, and has fled to Canada.... Judge Chalmers, Associate Justice of toe Supreme Court of Mississippi, is dead.