Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Four negroes, one of them a woman, who were accused of several murders, were taken from jail and hedged by a mob, in Chatham County, North Carolina. The cell .doors were broken down and the four negroes were each put on a horse with a disguised man astride behind. The men made no outcry, save to protest their innocence, but the moans of the wdmap were heartrending. A mile was quickly traveled, and the cavalcade stopped in a grove. The negroes were tied hands and feet and made to stand upon their horses. They were given five minutes to make confessions and to pray. They protested. *heir innocence to the last, and as' z lhey prayed the horses were driven out from under them, and they were left hanging to the tree. Teamsters who were transporting a large quantity of merchandise from Piedras Negras to New Laredo, Mexico, were attacked thirty miles from the latter place by highwaymen, who bound them to trees and carried off most of their goods. Between Abilene and San Angplo, Tex., a smoothfaced boy, with a Winchester rifle and a six-shooter, relieved a Texas stage of its mail, the driver and six passengers quietly acquiescing. At Petersburg, Virginia, Senator Mahone’s son, Butler Mahone, was fined SSO and put under bonds of S2OO to keep the peace. He had attempted to shoot a police officer, who had arrested him for using profane and indecent language on the street, firing a shot which missed its mark ... .Heavy rains have fallen in Tennessee andj-Northern Georgia, causing serious injury to the cotton crop, and partially suspending railway traffic.... Three hundred miners at Chattanooga, Tenn., struck for higher wages, and it is thought tfie trouble will become general in that section.