Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

On the ground that the gospel is free, the Superior Court of Georgia threw out a suit brought by Rev. J. A. Smith against the Marietta Railway for preaching to the convict gang its its employ* ... The loss by the fire atCnariestou, Va., will reach $l7O,-

000. It hgs been discovered that the safe-ty-valve of the boiler, the explosion of which caused the conflagration, had been plugged with iron. I 4 , ( ,J Al Chapman, a well-kriowri sporting man, committed suicide at Hot Springs, Ark. . „ The ferry steamer Mark Twain, plying between Memphis and Mounda City, exploded her boiler while lying at the latter place, killing five, persons and wounding four others.... Jos. A. Katzenberger, convicted of manslaughter at Ellicott City, Md , in causing the death of Miss Emeline Miller, was sentenced to nine years in the penitentiary. ( William Neal, the third and last of the villains who murdered and burned the bodies of two girls and a boy at Ashland, Ky., was executed at Grayson in presence of 100 armed guards. As the drop fell he protested his innocence. One of his confederates.confessed and was lynched; the other was hanged at Grayson last October. Twelve miners were killed by a terrible explosion in a coal-mine at McAllister, I. T,, supposed to have been caused by the ignition of a quantity of blasting powder. The anniversary of ( Ponce de Leon’s landing at St. Augustine, Fla., in 1512, was celebrated at that place March 23.