Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Aar Baltimore, Md., Capt Alfred Brotherton was found guilty of conspiracy on the high seas to scuttle the brig 0. B. Stillman. The vessel left Charleston in September, 1884, and was shortly afterward reported lost, and the insurance was peed. She was picked up at aea and towed into Bermuda in April, 1885, having floated about the ocean for six months. Brotherton and the mate were arrested in Baltimore, together with F. L. Clayton, one of the vessel-owners. Clayton was acquitted. The mate turned State’s evidence and confessed that the Captain induced him to bore holes to scuttie the vessel. The penalty is ten years in prison and SIO,OOO fine. .—'v , Hekby Fryer, an aged" gatekeeper in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, lost his life by catching his foot in title crotch of a tree and . „ -

hanging head downward, ljis body was warm when diaoovem&t Several hundred feet of the levee a mile below Austin, Miss., has been swept away, increasing th« inundation in Ttmica and Coaboiua Counties. A general breakup in the A rikausas levees is reported, and gaps ranging from 100 feet to half a mile in extent. It is believed that every acre of land \ Wtween Helena. Ark., and Laconia subject to the floods will lx*' inundated. The corner-stone‘of the monument to be erected in honor of Alabama's Confederate soldiers was laid at Montgomery, Ala., on tbe 29th nit. The central figure of the occasion was Jeff Davis, who delivered tho oration. The nnlmppy old rnntftook occasion, as is his custn m when ever' such op * portunities prcncitf themselves, to reaffirm his old State rights and secession., Said he: “That the Konth did not anticipate, much less desire, war is shown by the absence of preparation for it, ns wefl-as by the efforts made to securing a peaceful separation. The successful party always hold the defeated reI sponsible for the war, but when passion shall have subsided nnd renhn shall .luvve resumed her dominion, it must be decided that the General Government had no eouSfltutlonal power to coerce a State, and that a State haa the riglgtto repel invasion., It was- a national and constitutional light.” S. \V. Floss & Co.'s notions and white goods establishment at Baltimore was gut- ? ted l>y fire, and adjoining _tuiildings were, badly damaged. The total losses will aggregate stgH),o(>o, with insurance in excess of $400,000. " *