Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

A DESrERATE shooting took place at Owingsville, Ky., which resulted in the death of Mose and James Ballard, brothers of Jack Ballard, who had just been sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment for killing William Spencer last spring. The jury had just brought in ’a verdict and the prisoner was being returned to the jail, when Mose and James opened fire upon the guard, who returned the fire, killing both men instantly. Jack Ballard escaped during the fight, but was recaptured. The guard escaped unhurt... .The Gulf, Western Texas and Pacific Railway has been absorbed into the, Southern Pacific system. The mill buildings and 6,000,000 feet of lumber, owned by the Southern Pump Company, at Nashville, Tenn., were burned, entailing a loss of $200,000, with SIOO,OOO insurance. The tobacco crop in Virginia and North Carolina is said to be a failure, and a drought of long duration has “fired” the plant badly... .Nicholas Snowden, colored, in jail at Ellicott City, Md., on a charge of assaulting a child, was taken out and hanged by men of his own race.... The streets of Galveston, Tex., says a dispatch from that city, are submerged, the result of heavy rains, which have fallen almost incessantly since Sept 1, the rain-gauge since that date indicating a fall of nearly eighteen inches—one-third of the average total for a year.