Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

A mail train on the Illinois Central was thrown from the trestle over the Tallahatchie River, an obstruction having been, placed on the track. The engineer was killed and several passengers were cut and bruised. The State Treasury of Texas, an Austin dispatch reports, has temporarily suspended payment on claims of all kinds. A check for SBO,OOO was presented by the Educational Department, but the Treasurer was unable to meet it. A deficit of $150,000 now exists in the various State funds, especially in the school fund. The deficit is attributed to the fact, that the last Legislature reduced taxation to a point below the necessary expenses of the Government. A desperate and fatal duel at short range, was fought at Houston, Texas, between Jack Hanlon and Jack Crawley, rivals for the hand of Miss Emma Delauney. Crawley had been paying his addresses to Miss Delauney for some time and had made an engagement with the young lady, and they were to have been mairied in a few months, but, owing to his dissipated habits, the engagement was broken off, and the young lady engaged herself to become the wife of Hanlon. Crawley visited Miss Delauney and told her that he had signed the pledge, and again pressed his suit, and asked permission to intercede with Hanlon to break off her engagement with the latter. Crawley and Hanlon met at the residence of the lady, and were in the parlcir togethy when the tiring commenced. Crawley was pierced through and through by five bullets. Hanlon was shot twice, and is supposed to have sustained fatal injuries Neill S. Brown, who has been Governor of Tennessee and Minister to Russia, died at Nashville, in his 76th year- .