Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Miss Maude Jetton, of Calloway County, Kentucky, who was bitten by a dog eighty days ago has just died of- hydrophobia.... The boilers of the International Cotton-Press at New Orleans exploded, Mowing out the Peters street side of the building and killing two employes.'... At a banquet in Charleston, W. Va., the Hon. C. Groevenor, an Ohio Congressman, said there was an intense feeling m Ohio against the New England States, on the ground, he explained, that these States do not want the South and West to improve. James Emmett and Robert Dillard, negroes, were hanged for murder, at Greenville, Miss. George B. Davis was hanged in Seale, Ala., for the murder of Archie Reeves. He made a speech on the gallows, saying: “I killed Reeves -willfully, but hope to die like a man. I have nothing

again si anybody. The jury gave me justice, bujt I want the people to do everybody justice. I know God is willing to save me, and I hope Re will. Whisky was tbe cause of all my trouble. I warn the young mien obont marrying as I did! l Want to tell them it is wrong to tell the girls that yoq love when you don't. I hope my death will pave ten thousand. I want everybody to be eaved from sin.” After the marriage. of Reason Stamper and Mrs. Hattie Dinkins nt Ashlnnd. Ky., Miss Frances Tiles attempted to shoot the groom, who. she said, had promise 4 to msrrv her. The bride fell in n faint, and the iMles woman heightened the excitement by charging Stamper with having committed a murder two years ago... .In Baltimore George O. Forsyth fatally wounded his wife with a revolver and then shot himself dead. She was employed in a print-ing-office. '