Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

.Ik the colored Methodist conference at' Richmond a minister undertook to boycott n candidate foi admission solely beeansa he had Voted a Democratic ticket, but the attempt was frowned down. Charles Itoit lssa N, a negro murderer, wan hanged<at Newcastle, Del. He killed Mrs. Ella F. Gardner, a white woman, October 5, 1885. / ~* Another dime museum freak has been discovered in Lawrence County, South Carolina, a boy twelve years of age, with' spinal column prolonged into a wagging tail covered with a thick growth of hair. ' . Robert Smith, nineteen years old, colored, was executed at Nicholnsville, Kv., for the murder of his stepfather, James Sea. The murderer sold his body to a physician for $25. which lie expended for fruit.