Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

A MAD dog belonging to A. J. Hall, n farmer, of Cabott, Ark., bit his milch cow last week. The cow showed symptoms of hydrophobia, as did also two children of llall’s, who had been nourished on the animal's milk. Other members of the family are also ill, bnt may survive, but no hopes are entertained of the children’s recovery. In the Methodist Episcopal General Conference at Kichinond, Vn., a committee on episcopacy reported in favor of electing four new bishops, and the report was adopted. . . .The grain commission house of Tyson & Brothers, of Baltimore, whose liabilities arc estimated at $200,000, has made all assignment. . r . Ben Ali won the Kentucky Derby at Louißville in 2:36j, beating the record.... A representative of a British syndicate is at Baltimore prepared to contract for building the Chesapeake and Delaware ship canal at a cost of $8,000,000, provided the citizens of Maryland subscribe $1,000,000 toward the project. Gen. John L. Lewis, one of the most noted citizens of New Orleans, has just died, in his eighty-sixth year. He served as a courier for Gen. Jackson in the battle with the British forces. He was three times Sheriff of the parish and once Mayor of the city. He was Major General of the forces of Louisiana in the Confederate army when sixty-one years of age.... Dan and Lon Mann murdered Marshal Campbell and wounded Officer McCormick, at Bartow, Fla. The murderers were arrested and jailed. Subsequently a cro.wd of two hundred men surrounded the jail, disarmed the Sheriff, secured the keys, and took the prisoners to a tree near by. While stringing Dan Mann up Lon got loose 'and ran. He was promptly winged and strung up to the sameYimb.