Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

A fourth husband has been secured by Mrs. Sallie Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong. of Louisville, who fora generation has been known as the most beautiful womm in the South. The latent acquisition is G. F. Louns, a wealthy and cultured gentleman, 70 yeais of age. Bishop McCloskey. who usually does the lady’s marrying business, was on hand in good l form. Information has been conveyed to the Controller of Currency by the examiners in charge of the suspended Exchange National Bank of Norfolk that the concern is insolvent and will have to be placed in the hands of a receiver. The amount due to depositors alone is over $3,000,000... .L, K. Eldridge, a patient in the Tennessee insane asylum, killed two men by crushing their skulls with a floor mop, and was saulting a third person when seized. Enraged because the Legislature failed to reimburse him for time and money expended, D. S. Grimes totally destroyed the Colorado exhibit at the New Orleans show. This was accounted to be one of the most attractive displays of the exhibition. Grimes was arrested, charged with malicious mischief. Gen. Bethune, of Columbus, Gay, has been appointed guardian of Blind Tom, the musical prodigy, now an idiot