Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

At Petersburg, Virginia, Senator Mahone’e son, Butler Mahoue, 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 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. The illicit distillers of Franklin County, Georgia, have begun a war upon law-abid-ing citizens whom they suspect of having informed upon them. A young man who testified for the Government in several cases has been assassinated, and many persons have been ordered to leave the county or take the consequences.... As the result of a feud grave outrages are reported from Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Two men have been dangerously wounded, and others—white and black —have been taken to the woods by masked men and scourged almost to death. The authorities are said to be endeavoring to hunt down the perpetrators. A bloodless battle occurred between a squad of Mexican customs officials and a gang of smugglers at a point thirty miles -south of Laredo, Texas, on the Mexican frontier. The officers got the drop on the smugglers, and, without exchanging a shot, captured the booty—a lot of fancy dry-goods which were being smuggled in from the United States. The smugglers escaped, but returned largely re-enforced about midnight, recaptured the goods, made prisoners of the customs officials, and confiscated their firearms. At daylight the smugglers booted the officers out of camp and threatened to hang them if they ever again interfered with a smuggler. Danziger Brothers, dry goods merchants at New Orleans, surrendered their store and stock to creditors, and an agent was placed in charge, who will continue the business until a settlement is effected. The liabilities are $235,000, with assets of about $130,000. The veterans of the 2d Maryland confederate regiment have received permission to mark the line reached by them on the battle-field of Gettysburg in the charge on Culp’s hill, and they are now collecting funds for the purpose of erecting a monument on the spot.