Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

The fight has been resumed against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's proposed elevated road through Baltimore in connection with the Philadelphia and New York extension. A bill is now in the hands of a committee of the Maiyland Legislature to require the company to define and locate its route. The company two years ago indicated two routes. This was done to prevent property-owners from demanding exorbitant prices. The elevated road .will go through a thickly settled part of the city, and more than J 1,000,000 worth of property

—, - , , , .u, will have to be purchased... .Al mob rode into Carrollton, Mis*.,; and repaired to the Oonrt House, wtaere thirteen ' negroes were on trial for murder. They shot i ten prisoners dead and mortally wounded the other three. .. .Old Sorrel, Stonewall .Jackson’s war-horse, died at Richmond, Va., tbe other day. He was 32 years old. _ .7 At a conference between L. A 'Sheldon, one of tbe receivers of th* l Texas Pacific Road, and Knights of Labor, at Near Orleans, it wa« decided that the question of The dismissal of Hall, which provoked the strike, he submitted to the nrljilriqvon of tbe United States Court, provided Hall and the Marshall (Texatfl Assembly agree to, the plan. In the meantime work wilj’ be resumed. .t. A train was wrecked near Mar-. ■ shall, Texas, and the railway bridge'spanning Fossil Creek, "hour Foil Worth, was partially destroyed by fire, the structure having first Jjeen soaked with coal-oil. The strikers are charged with the crimes. A special from Salem, Roanoke County, Virginia; says: “A horrible,double murder was committed on Back Creek, this county, Wednesday night. A man named Griffey, who b*« a wife living on Hack Creek, has just returned from Texas, where, it is alleged, he served a term in the Penitentiary. His wife refused to reeognizb him, and. learning that John and I’ike Metz, sons of Mr.- M illiain Metz, had been visiting his wife in his absence. Griffey went to their home, called one of the ybung men out and shot him through the h< art. He then entered the house and shot the other young man through the i ight breast. The murdered young men WVre aged respectively 17 and IB years. Griffey is still at large.”