Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

The Grand Jury at Wheeling, W. Va., last week reported 125 indictments—an exGovernor, a candidate for United States Senator, the head of one of the State departments, prominent merchants and manufacturers, society meu, attorneys, and others being indicted for gambling. An Alderman and city officials are on the list, and respected real estate owners and agents are also set down for renting houses for immoral purposes. Bud Farriss, white, and Freeman Ward, colored, were hanged by a mob at the fair-grounds, near Union City, Tenn., their bodies being found at daylight ou the same tree —from which Charles Latham, Alinus Young, and Frank Freeman, all colored. were suspended March 11. They were members of a gang of desperate thieves. Mrs. Henrietta Morgan, of Lexington, Kv., in’herits a fortune of $1,000,000 by the death of the Baroness de Fannemberg, at Cannes, France, April 12. The Baroness was born in Lexington, and is the daughter of Col. James Strother. Mrs. Morgan, who is her nearest relative, is the mother of the Confederate General John H. Morgan.