Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1885 — TUB SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

TUB SOUTH.

Bl a legislative act. Dorsey County, Arkansas, originally named for ex-Senator S. W. Dorsey, has been changed to Cleveland, in honor of the new President. According to an arrangement between thorn, August Schaefer poisoned his wife, at Burnet, Tex., and after she was dead took tho deadly dose himself. They left a 2-year-old chiid. Near Grenada, Miss., a collision occurred between mail and ? xpfeSs trains on the Illinois Central Road, the engines and four cars being knocked into splinters, Both firemen and an unknown man were killed, and several persons were injured. Gross neglect on the part of employes of both trains caused he disaster. The prospects for the fruit crop in Arkansas are not flattering. In Mississippi and Texas the outlook is fair, but the crops are backward.