Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

The value of the property left by the late Gen. Toombs is variously estimated at from $300,000 to $500,000. In a recent interview, one of the most noted sayings attributed to Gen. Toombs was repudiated by him in the following language: “I never said that I would live to call the roll of my slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill Monument. That was a fancy lie started by Jack Hale, of New Hampshire.” The Queen nud Crescent Railway system has recorded in various parishes of Louisiana a mortgage on its roadbed and cars for $1,323,000, in favor of a New York trust company... .Milton Young, of Lexington, Ky., sold twenty-three thoroughbred hors'es for $56,200, every prominent stable in the country having a representative present. Bakrupt, for which SB,OOO was refused last year, brought $6,700. Tropbadour went at $7,050.