Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Nelson Stewart and Anderson Davis, colored, convicted of burglary, were hanged at Charlotte, N. C. As the trap sprung, the noose around Stewart’s neck slipped, so that the knot rested back of his iiea d, and he died from strangulation. Both men mounted the gallows with a steady step, and exhibited no emotion. They hade those present farewell, and said they were going to heaven.... The indictments against eighteen professional gamblers at Louisville were indefinitely upon their confession of guilt and promises never to engage in gambling again. Under the agreement fines aggregating $16,000 were assessed against tho men'. The Adjutant General of Texas has received information that twenty-five Mexican soldiers recently crossed the line and drove off a herd of cattle belonging to Americans. The State Government has expressed its inability to protect the frontier, and it is proposed to invoke the aid of the General Government... .A negro named John Alexander was executed at New Orleans for wife-murder. United States troops surprised the New Mexico hostiles while the Indians were engaged in setting fire to a cabin, having murdered the two men who occupied it. After a lively fight, in which it is believed two of the Indians-were killed and several wounded, they were dispersed, the troops capturing their horses and supplies.... Prof, S. H. Wethers, the colored principal of the Dallas, Tpxas, colored schools, has undertaken a project looking to the colonization of about-2,ooo.colored families in Brazoria County, Texas.... The Louisiana Board of Pardons has again refused to commute the death sentence of Ford and Murphy.