Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

The Maryland Court of Appeals has decided that the selling of pool tickets and the keeping of pool-rooms were not violalations of the law. J. G. Hudgins, member of the Arkansas Legislature, was arrested at Little Rock, charged with arson in Georgia nineteen years ago. Hudgins was afterward set at liberty, the Governor having quashed toe warrant issued on the requisition.. . .In the Criminal Court of New Orleans, Patrick Ford and Policeman John Murphy were condemned to death for the murder of A. H. Murphy, last December, While Judge Ford, A. E Caulfield, and W. H. Buckley were each sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. A telegram from Troy, Tenn., says: Ambrose Young, Charles Latham, and Frank Freeman, all negroes, arrested yesterday, charged with being implicated in the murder of Montgomery, near the State line, last December, were under guard at Union City last night. A mob of 100 overpowered the guards, took the prisoners, and hanged them just outside of the city. Their corpses were found this morning suspended from a tree. Pope & Cole, dealers in metals at Baltimore, Md., have failed, with liabilities variously estimated at from $600,000 to $1,000,000... The Southern Agricultural Works at Atlanta made an assignment to secure debts of $197,000... .The International Boad has restored wages at its shops in Palestine, Texas, and arrangements have been perfected for the resumption of work at Marshall. April 15 has been set as Mexican veteran’s day at the New Orleans Exposition. Jefferson Davis and William M. Burrell have been invited to deliver addresses on the result of the war with Mexico. A through express train on the Texas Pacific Road was wrecked on a bridge at Village Creek, near Fort Worth. The fireman was killed, the engineer was fatally injured, and two postal clerks were seriously bruised. A large number of strikers at Marshall and Dallas manned a wrecking train and went out to repair the bridge and track.