Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

After an idle period of several months, work has been resumed by four large tobacco factories at Lynchburg, Ya., and others are preparing to start, giving employment to 2,000 colored laborers... .Geo, P. Carry, an insolvent banker of Augusta, Ga., who accepted bonds for safe-keeping and converted them to his own use, was found gnuty of laroony and sentenced to five years in the Penitentiary: Advices from Baltimore report that of the $200,000 required to establish the proposed female college under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church $135,000 has already been collected.... Fire der stroyed over $120,000 worth of property at Fayetteville, N. C. Col. -A. K, McClure, editor of the Philadelphia Times, upon arriving at New Orleans was waited upon by a United States Marshal, who served ou him notice to answer a suit for libel for SIOO,OOO broughtby the Louisiana State Lottery Company X.. Dispatches from Texas report great loss to cattle anil sheep by the late cold weather in various parts.