Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Eight members of the New Orleans City Council were to imprisonment for ten days for contempt of court regarding the payment of certain claims. The Chief Justice, later, ordered the release of the men until Nov. 2. Isaac Dahman, of Fort Worth, Texas, has contracted with English parties to deliver on the wharf at Galveston every fortnight for the next five years the frozen carcasses of 3,000 beeves at six cents per pound for meat and nine cents per pound for hides... .Savannah (Ga.) special: William Clemens, of McVille, Ga., a newly appointed revenue officer, went to Montgomery County with twd assistants to capture an illicit still. While passing along a lonely part of the road the trio were suddenly fired upon from ambush by moonshiners. and Clemens and one of his companions were instantly killed. Officer Rose, the third of the trio, escaped with a bad wound in his side and his coat riddled by bullets. Great excitement prevails in that locality, and a battle between the moonshiners and a posse of citizens is expected. A BICH veip of gold quartz, extending fora mile along the mountains, has been discovered in Hampshire County, West Virginia The Catholics of Richmond, Va., are taking steps to bring the attention of the Spanish Government to the offensive utterances made by Dr. Corry, recently appointed Minister to Spain....lt is reported from Clafedon, Denley County, Texas, that prairie fires in that section of the State have burned over 500,000 acres of territory.