Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Evert Knight of Labor (save those in the morning newspaper offices) at Galveston, Tex., struck the other day, causing a virtual suspension of business. The strike was caused by the refusal of the agent of the Mallory Steamship Line to restore white longshoremen, recently superseded by colored laborers. If the affair is not compromised serious trouble is anticipated. Through the misunderstanding of orders by the conductors a terrible accident took place near Childersburg on the East Tennessee, Virginia apd Georgia Road, near Rome, Ga. Thirteen cars were piled in a huge mass. Ereman Swain, colored, was killed p<right. Conductor Hall is expected to die, and four train hands were fatally injured, one of whpm has since died..... A boiler explosion occurred j>n the Texas

> ■ , ’ - I plantatioftinear Bayou Goula.La., by which Dr. A. R. Gounier, one of the inost prom- j inent creole of the State. ' was killed. The boiler was used in his i sugar-house, and Dr. Gourrier was alone by it when the explosion occurred, the noise of which was heard many miles. His body was horribly mangled. George W. Cheves, a Georgia journalist, died from melancholia in the jail of Fulton County, where he had been imprisoned for the past year for killing Captain I. H. Pickett. Reports on the condition of the cotton crop in West Tennessee and the northern portion of the States of Alabama. Arkansas, and Mississippi show the marketing be well advanced, and all conditions favorable for gathering. The yield throughout the district indicated will be equal to that of last year.... A cyclone passed over Daingerfield, Tex*., killing six persons and damaging much property. At Brownsville, Ala., a cyclone almost destroyed the village, but no lives were lost. The Baptist Church at Spartanburg, S. C., was unroofed... .The trouble at Galveston, Tex., between the Knights of Labor and the Mallory Company was placed in the hands of an Arbitration Committee, pending the deliberations of which the embargo on commerce has been raised. A party of four girls and two boys went into the woods of Webster County, Kentucky, to gather nuts. They were assaulted by tramps, who nearly killed the lads and bore the young ladies to a thicket and murdered them all. Citizens who turned out in search identified and killed two of the tramps.