Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

From El Paso, Texas, comes news of a battle between the State Rapgers under Lieut. F. E. Seiker and a band of marauding Mexicans. The fight took place on the frontier of Dimmit County, which has recently earned the appellation of “Bloody Dimmit. ” Lieut. Seiker, a sergeant, and a private w’ere killed....A Westminster iMd.) special'* says three lynchings have occurred in that State in the last six months. The third was that of Townsend Cook, the negro who brutally assaulted and nearly killed Mrs. Carrie Knott, of Mount Airy. Cook was taken out of the Westminster jail, hanged to a tree, and his head riddled with bullets. The dispatch adds that a number of assaults upon women have been made by negroes recently, and the people all over the State seem determined to punish the villains who commit these heinous crimes without trial or conviction. Hessian flies have appeared in Maryland in great numbers. Wheat stalks which had been attacked were recently exhibited on the Corn Exchange at Baltimore..... The managers of the New Orleans Exposition report to the Secretary of the Treasury that they have an appropriation of $335,000 with which to settle claims of $397,318. At a meeting at White Pine, W. Va., some fifty citizens of Jackson County reported being threatened by starvation, one family having subsisted on lettuce for five days.... The bankers of South Carolina have joined in a protest against the continued coinage of the present silver dollar.