Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Miss Constance Edgar, aged 20, stepdaughter of Colonel Jerome Bonaparte, was invested with the black veil at the Convent of the Visitation, in Baltimore, Archbishop Gibbons officiating. A quarrel occurred on the Creedmoor plantation near New Orleans between its owner, Major W. P. Green, a prominent sugar planter, and Albert Smith, a negro laborer, which resulted in the killing of the former and the subsequent lynching of Smith The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia has rendered a decision in the ease of T.-J. Clnverius, convicted in the hustings court of Bichmond of the murder (March 13. 1885) of Fannie Lillian Madisustaining the judgment of the lower court in all particulars. The Texas State Treasury' has resumed cash payments all around. About four months ago it temporarily suspended payment of school warrants, owing to slow returns "front County Alt registered school warrants have been called in, and the Treasury is now said to be in a prosperous condition.