Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

The Mississippi Legislature has repealed the agricultural' lien law, which avowed mortgages to be given on crops fifteen months before planted, f The law has been in force fifteen years, and its repeal will produce a marked effect upon the commercial interests of that Stite. H ; i Eli Beabdek, of Harriston, Arik., who was twice sentenced to be hanged for the murder of a neighbor, has on the third trial been acquitted. The cost to the State was , s2o,otto. During a personal difficulty in the Kentucky Legislature, Bepresentative William Jackson invited Bepresentative Thomas to go out on the street aiyl res Jtfcrasbed. The latter secured a pistoT, and the belligerents had started for the door when placed under arrest by Speaker Off utt. j ... .By the burning of a dairyman's barn

near Owensboro, Ky., thirty-five Jersey cows were fcremated. • j V. A. Wrtjflfißß, well known in West Virginia as a guerrilla colonel' and politician, and for some years a leader among the Mormons, was recently lynched in southwestern Virginia for the murder of his fifth wife. * • The Governor of Kentneky hasiprdered militia to Greenwood, Pulaski County to suppress outrages by 200 armed miners, who threaten to bum tha camp of the convict laborers unless they are removed within two days.. The Rev. Dr. Armstrong, of St. Fhilip’s Church, Atlanta, Ga., has written a letter to Bishop Beckwith strongly protesting against the Bishop)!* decision in suspending him from the church for five years for immoral conduct. ItiS said that new evidence laid before the Bishop proves that Dr. Armstrong was not intoxicated while in Cincinnati, and that his visit to a house of ill-repute was to reclaim a woman. Public opinion in Atlanta sides with the suspended rector.