Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

At Petersburg. Virginia, Senator Mahoneys son, Butler Mnhone, 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, 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. Lucinda Benfield; an aged lady of Louisville, who became noted for appearing in public places in regal robes, has at last been consigned to the insane asylum at Anchorage. Two years ago she was arrested in Washington for annoying President Arthur... .One of the heaviest rainstorms known for years is reported from the Shenandoah Valley, in Virginia. High water prevails throughout the region, and trains are generally delayed. The State Fair held last week by the colored people of Mississippi was a complete success, with the exception of the closing display of fireworks attempted by a white citizen.... A sudden rise in the Kanawha River, near Charlestown, W. Va., did damage to the extent of $150,000.