Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Judge Jackson, of the Federal Court at Charleston, West Virginia, in sentencing George J. Williams for pension frauds, embodied an order for his perpetual banishment from the State, to take effect sixty days after his release from jail.... The Houston Savings Bank, of Houston. Texas, t has closed its doors, and D. F. Smith has <■ been appointed receiver. The total amount of money deposited with the bank is $250,000. Its failure is due to the heavy-run upon it at the time when the Houston* City Bank failed recently. The bank had a paidup capital of SIOO,OOO. The Missouri and Arkansas division of Che Texas and St. Louis Railroad has been i sold to representatives of the bondholders j for-$7,401,000... .The Louisiana Board of Pardons has refused to yield to the petition of 26,786 citizens to release Ford and Murphy, the murderers of Captain Murphy. The Governor fixed March 12 as the date for their execution.