Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Several members of the Cabinet have hit upon a happy scheme to avoid the trouble imposed upon them by persistent autograph fiends. They have had stamps prepared having on their faces the name of their respective, departments and a facsimile of their signatures. All -autograph books are turned over to the private secretaries, who apply the stamp to the page selected, and after blotting the inpression it has the appearance of having been written by the Cabinet officers. No thought of a stamp enters the autograph hunter’s mind, and he leaves with his book in his pocket, happy in the belief that he has added the signature of one more great man to his list. The frosts in Florida destroyed 500,000 boxes of oranges, worth, it is said, $1,000,000. ...The body of Robert H. Small, third auditor of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was found* near Palatka, Fla., death having been caused by exposure. He was married four weeks before and weut to Florida on his wedding trip, but after a fewdays began.to exhibit symptoms of insanity. A Georgia editor declines to meet a rival in a duel as he is a marriedtaan and has four children, while his challenger issingle. He offered, however, to meet the young man, who is said to be an athlete, with bare fists. .. .Dr. Thomas W. Keene, member from Danville, fell dead in the Virginia House of Delegates. He was about 65 years of ag0.... A gold mine yielding from S6O to S3OO per ton has been discovered near Leaky. Texas, and thirteen claims have been staked off.