Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

The people of Shackelford County, Texas, are said to fee in a starving condition from the almost total failure of crops, and cattle are rapidly perishing. No rain has fallen for fourteen months. The settlers in that region were mainly from the Northern States... .Paul H. the poet, died last week at Augusta, Georgia. In the County Court at Palestine, Texas, six of the late railroad strikers were acquitted of unlawfully assembling aad rioting, and the County Attorney nolle pressed twenty other cases. The parties acquitted, and some of the others, have ■charges pending against them in the District Court for killing an engineer and obetrueting Eighty Arkansas convicts at work in a krickyard.near Pine Bluff, made a dash for liberty, and three of them were killed by the guards.... Sidney Davis, colored, was lynched at Mergan. Texas, for outraging a

white woman.... Austin (Texas) special; “The bedple of Wise County, Texas, petitioned Governor Ireland to call an extra session of the legislature to proride relief for the people in the drought-stricken sections of the State. Thousands of acres of school lands have been sold to soldiers in the drought district. The settlers have come here from Northern and Eastern States. They have made first paymant# pn the(r ond payn7ents” duirmg August or lose their land aftd what they have already paid. Crops are utter failures. These new settlers have not raised even enough for next year’s seeding. Many of the beads of families have just left for the East in search of work to earn enough money to make the August payment on their homes.”