Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

At Petersburg, Virginia, Senator Mahone’s son, Butler Mahone, was fined SSO and put under bonds of S2OO to keep the peace. He bad attempted to shoot a police officer, who had arrested him for using profane and indecent language on the street, firings shot which missed its mark ... .Heavy rains have fallen in Tennessee and 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 the trouble will become general in that section. A Rusk .(Texas) dispatch says: The report that sixty convicts in camp near Lufkin had escaped and that twenty-five of the fugitives had been killed by officers in pursuit proves to have been greatly exaggerated. There were sixty convicts in the camp, all of whom made mutinous demonstrations, but only fifteen had the courage to break through the lines and run. One of the latter was instantly killed, seven were severely wounded, and seven escaped. The Supreme Court of Virginia granted a writ of error in the famous case of Cluverius, convicted of murdering Fanny Lillian Madison In a court-room at Louisville, Ky., P. Booker Reid, the present Mayor of the city, and ex-Mayor Charles Jacob came to blows regarding a municipal contract. A proposed amendment to the Railroad Commission law of Georgia, granting railway companies the right to make their own rates, subject to revision only on complaint, has been defeated in the Assembly at Atlanta. .. .Three thousand persons witnessed the execution of Chris Petrioz, at Augusta, Ark., for the murder of a woman about a year ago The section about Louisa Court House, Va., was shaken by an earthquake. Benjamin Little, colored, was lynched at Mount Pleasant. Texas. —He had been placed under bond on a charge of robbery the day before, but the offense for which he was hung was slander. At least, a note pinned to his body when found stated that he had been “hanged for slanderous talk about a white family.”... .Everett J. Waring, an intelligent mulatto, who has just been admitted tb the bar in Baltimore, is the first colored man ever authorized to practice law in Maryland.