Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

John R. Shelton, of Atlanta, Go., eloped with Ida Maxwell, the 16-year-old daughter of John Maxwell, of that city, The couple were married, and were found by the father and brother of the bride, who attempted to take her home. Young Maxwell was fatally wounded by a blow from a hatchet in Shelton’s hands, and spots were exchange between the other men, both being mortally injured. Louisville (Ky.) dispatch: “Fifty years ago Ellen Johnson, a colored woman, was separated frotn her mother, who was sold and sent to New Orleans. The mother arrived here this morning, hale and hearty. She is 112 years old, and the daughter 60. Living in the house with Mrs. Ellen Johnson are her great grandchildren. This makes them the great great grandchildren of Mrs. Johnson’s mother. Strange as it may seem, this morning the reporter sawthe great great the great grandmother, the grandmother, mother, and children, all assembled in the same room.”....Cincinnati special: “William Scales, a negro boy of 18, who outraged the 5-Vear-old daughter of a farm laborer named Lunsford, near Walton, Kv., twelve miles from here, and who has beer in jail at Burlington, the county seat of Booue County, was taken from the jail by a mob from Walton and Florence and hanged to a tree. ” The seventy-first anniversary of the battle of North Point, near Baltimore, w-as celebrated on the 12th inst. Only five of the veterans survive, and only one—James Morford, 90 years old—was able to leave his home.... Senator Mahone, of Virginia, attempted to cowhide a Mr. Hunter, of I’cteVsburg, who was accused of leading his son astray.