Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

A Little Rock (Ark.) dispatch says that "interest in the celebrated Mose Harris damage suit in the ' United States Court* continues unabated, and squads of witnesses for the defense arrive on the daily trains from Hot Springs. The plaintiff. Hams, brings suit for $100,600 against the Committee of Fourteen,who, it is alleged, instigated his compulsory removal from Hot Springs. It is conceded that he will receive actual damages by the ruling of the court, and the defense is reduced to evidence in mitigation. The case is causing a genuine sensation.” 1 The Rev. j. H. Dally, formerly pastor of Trinity Church, in Jersey City, who left tho ministry confessing that he had been improperly intimate with a servant, committed suicide by throwing himself into the Mississippi while en route by steamer from NevwGrieans to St. Louis .. *. Editor M. ,G.‘ Harris, who was expelled from Hot Springs iu 1884 by a citizens’ committee, has been awarded $1,250 damages in the Federal Court at Little Rock. The General Conference of Secretaries of Young Men’s Christian Associations* of the United States and Canada convened at Chattanooga. About- 200 delegates were in attendance.... In the interstate drill at Mobile the Busch Zouaves, of St. Louis, took first zouave prize, and Chicago second.