Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

A Grenada (Miss.) dispatch reports that “the mob that hanged McChristian and Felix Williams started after two other men implicated in the same murder by Williams in his confession. They were Bartley James ana John Campbell. The mob found James at his house and carried him to Union Church, about ten miles from Grenada, where they hanged him to a tree. They then .went to Campbell’s house. Campbell fired upon the mob, wounding one of them, and tjiey then shot him to death.” ‘ » John Martin, one of the two escaped negroes implicated in the outrage and murder of Mrs. Hazell, at Elkhart, Texas, was taken out of the Grayson County Jail and lynched. This makes six victims of Judge Lynch for the murder of Mrs. Hazell. Db. Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital Service, having stated at Washington that there were rumors of a number of cases of yellow fever at New Orleans, the Board of Health of the latter city makes denial, and states that cases occurring will be promptly reported. j “TEtHeia a Jersey cow 21 years old, owned by Mr. McEwen, of Columbia, Tenn., according to an official test, produced in geyen days thirty pounds fifteen ounces of butter—beating all records for the same age ...A new comet has bean discovered by Prof. Barnard, of the Vanderbilt University observatory at Nashville, Tenn. A train on the Southern Pacific Road, in the vicinity of Eagle Pass, Tex., encountered a cloud of grasshoppers which i was so dense as to obscure the sun. The {cloudißsaid to have been fifteen miles long and two miles wide.