Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

A Knoxville (Tenn.) dispatch reports that three coaches of a passenger train, containing over one hundred persons, were thrown down a high bank near Warm Springs, N. C. Twenty people were injured. William Connelly, J. H. Wenning, and Miss Brayles, of Asheville, received fatal injures. O. T. Culbreath was lynched at Edgefield Court House, S. C. He was charged with killing William Hammond, a young man who was guarding the house of Mrs. Culbreath, from whom, her husband was separated... .Ten prisoners who escaped from a convict camp in Texas visited a hotel in their fight and exchanged their striped suits for the garments of a company of actors. Several of the outlaws have been recaptured. Orange (Texas) dispatch: “Sheriff J. C. Fennell, who was shot and wounded yesterday while arresting a negro wanted for a murder committed in Nashville, Tenn., died last night. After he died a mob was organized, who marched to the jail, intimidated the guard, took the murderer out and hanged him, and. after discharging the contents of their weapons into his body, dispersed. ”.... The cotton erop of Arkansas is reported damaged by frost, and the yield will fall below that of 1884.