Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1885 — TEH SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

TEH SOUTH.

The protest against the award of the contract for stone-work on the Government building at Peoria to the lowest bidders, on the ground that they employ convict labor, has been held to be invalid by the Treasury authorities. : . Illicit distilleries are increasing in Middle Tenneseee, and whisky is selling in North Alabama at 50 and GO cents per ga110n...,T. L. Airey, of New Orleans; has been elected President, and Jerome Hill, of St. Louis, Vice President' of the National Cotton Exchange for the ensuing two years. At a sale of Jersey cattle in Lexington, Ky., forty-six head brought the sum of $9,060, an average of $197 a liearj. One cow brought $430... .Thomas J. Boasso, Chief of Detectives at New Orleans, was shot and supposably mortally wounded by Mary C. Ivuhnc, wlio alleges that Boasso deceived her with a false marriage certificate .... David Ackles, colored, was hanged at Helena, Ark., for murdering Frank Burrell and Scylla Flannery last year. !. .Eaton Mills, colored, a noted desperado, was hanged in public at Halifax, N. C. A passenger train on, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Ee Railroad was ditched near Wallace, Tex. The accident was caused by a large irrigation ditch breaking over and washing away a portion of the track. Harvey Wilson, the engineer, Frank Atchison, the fireman, and two other men were killed; Express Messenger Bennett was dangerously hurt, and a passenger named Abbott hail his arm and leg fractured.. *. The revival of an old grudge at Stepstone, Ky., between the, Towfi Marshal, Perry Oakley, and John Smith resulted in the death of the two latter, and Nute Osborn, who came into the fiht later... .John A. Armstrong and Alexander Coen, steamboat owners and lumber dealers. Wheeling, W. Va., made an assignment. Their liabilities are estimated at $250,000.