Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1885 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

The Judge of the Superior Court at Atlanta, Ga., to whom appeal was made for an injunction in the election case involving the prohibition issue in the city named, declined to interfere. Prohibition was immediately declared carried by it majority of 228. The case will be appealed and other litigation over the election is in progress. CBAIO Tollivek who was reputed to be one of the bad spirits of Kentucky, had the audacity to rob a friend of a girl at a dance

at Martinnburg. The injured party put a bullet into Tolliver’s henlrt, and then fled to escape lynching. The desperado was mailed from head to foot with knife and bullet wounds.