Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Three brothers, Ed, Bob, and Porter Hawkins, called upon Horace Miullins, in Anderson County. Kentucky, and desired to know if he had used foul language about their sister. The four men began tiring at once, two of the dead at the first shot, the third leceivingl slight ■wounds at the second discharge. Mullins escaped unhurt... .The walls of a rolling mill at South Wilmington,' Del., fell, killing two men and wounding half a dozen others, some of them mortally. Two BROTHERS named Heaton were drowned near Huntsville, Tenn. One,' who had been taken with a cramp and rescued, when he saw his brother sinking, plunged i ? to assist him, and both per-, ished’. .. . Martha Brown, a youug woman in attendance at a ball in lt< gersville, Tenn... xvas instantbh kill'J™ hyi a.jbullet. from a revolver which fell from the pocket of a young man present upon the ballroom floor. '■ Charles Davis, George Jones,' and Mathilda Jones were executed for murder at Plaquemine, La. The woman fell off the trap in a swoon before the preparations had been completed and strangled to death, and alter the drop .fell in her horrible stiugWcs she clutched the bodies of the otluig* culprits, whose necks had been broken by the fa 11.... A gang of masked men rode into the town of Monticello, Ga., and proceeded to the jail where George Hopkins was confined. Placing the muzzles of their guns to the openings, they discharged hundreds of buckshot into the wretch, who meanwhile was pleading for his life. Strange to say, the jailer d d not learn of the tragedy until he brought breakfast to the dead man. Colored citizens of Vicksburg, Miss., in consequence of threats said to have been made against them, have adopted resolutions demanding protection at the hands of local merchants and land-owners, and thfeate ing to emigrate en masse if it is withheld... .Near Lampasas, Texas, the discovery has been made of a large a d apparently inexhaustible bed of bituminous coal, the quality being equal, if not superior, to the Indian Territory article.