Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

As A passenger train on the Natchez railroad was crossing Bayou Pierre, bear Jackson, Miss., the engine left the rails, .tearing up seventy feet of track on the bridge, and finally went to the bottom of the bayou, a distance of thirty feet, Silling the fiieman. the engineer, and a brakeman instantly. The tander and a coal car jumped completely over the engine and stopped on the west bank of the bayou. The mal oar went down on tne front end and the baggage and express matter went through the partitions, burying the

mail agent in the wreck. Both he and the express messenger were fatally injured. The smoking-car followed, crushing through the mail-car, reducing the two to a pile of splinters. All the passengers in the smoking-car were hurt, several seriously. The ladies’-car was derailed, but did not go down with the wreck.. Lucius A. White, charged with Counterfeiting Brazilian paper money, was held in SIO,OOO bail at St Louis. His brother, who was nrrested in Waco, Texas, has also been called on to furnistotbonds in the same amount... .. A colored murderer named Henry Burnett, 18 years old, was hanged at I.onoke. Ark. .... Frost in Virginia did considerable damage to late crops. - A Chattanooga dispatch reports that a train on the Georgia division of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway ran through an open switch near Rome, Ga. The engine plunged down an embankment. Williams, a section-hand, was instantly killed. John Bower, the engineer, had one leg broken, and was frightfully scalded. Fireman Bellow had a leg broken and was badly injured about the head. John Thomas, the train-porter, had both legs broken. No passengers were injured... .A mob of seventy-five persons took from the jail at Blanco, Texas, the murderer Lockie and hanged him. Lockie was the man who a few days ago killed eight persons, including his daughter and step-daughter. His deed was one of the most cruel on record, and is supposed to have been done in a fit of madness. .. .The losses by the recent storm at Charleston and Sullivan’s Island. S. C., are now placed at $1,690,000. The work of repairs is rapidly progressing. Three pilotboats hailing from Beaufort, S. C., were wrecked in the hurricane, fourteen lives being lost. The investigation into tbe defalcation in the State Auditor’s office jit Richmond, Va., by W. R. Smith, one of the clerks, shows the amount to have been $141,000.. Over SIOO,OOO of the amount has been recovered, and Smith is in jail under sentence of two years in the penitentiary waiting the decision of a motion for a new trial.