Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Thomas B. Harrison, of Baltimore, who was one of the most daring cotton speculators in the United States, killed himself the. other day rather than be examined as to his sanity'. He made $500,000 last year, and just before Christmas, lost every cent of it.... Oysters have quadrupled in price at Baltimore, the cold weather seriously restricting the supply. Whole families in Gilmer, Braxton, Calhoun, and Clay Counties, West Va., are without food, and money is so scarce that ginseng and propuce pass current. A special measure for relief has been introduced in the State Legislature. Mrs. Ann BOwlino, 86 years old, was burned to death at Baltimore. Roberta and Christophine Clay, sisters, aged 16 and 18, were fatally burned at Petersburg, Va. Two Southern ex- Governors have died during the week—Patton, of Alabama, and Beriah Magoffin, of Kentucky. Judge ■George Lane, a leading member of the Texas bar, died at Marshall in that State. ... .Thomas J. Navin, the absconding Mayor of Adrian, Mich., was arrested at New Orleans. tinder rewards of $3,000 offered in 1882!. He offered to return without a requisition, saying that he was on the way to surrender... .A jury at New Orleans found a verdict against Judge Thomas J. Ford for manslaughter in connection with the death of S. H. Murphy, while it held Patrick Ford and Policeman John Murphy to be guilty of murder. .... Two men were suffocated with coal gas on board the British steamship Deerhound at Locust Point, near Baltimore.