Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

“ “ AfLAJiTA (Ga.) dispatch: “About one hundred and fifty convicts employed at the Dade coal mines, oimod by Senator Brown

A Co., bavs Revolted and intrenched jsiemselves in a building. The Gate City Guards, of Rome, have been ordered by the Governor to hold themselves in readiness to go to the mines. Penitentiary Keeper Tower has telegraphed Uov. McDaniel that he .has.a. strong enough force of guards to quell the revolt, but that it would be necessary to kill three or four of the leaders or starve till into, submission. The Governor bas ordered him to adopt the latter conrae. The convicts say they will all starve to death rather than return to work.” Weatherford, Texas, dispatch: The following telegram has been sent to Hon. S. W. Lauham, member of Congress, at Washington: “The protracted drought in Jack, Parker, and other counties north and • west has caused an almost total failure of ! crops, and will produce great distress. Ifcf threatens to depopulate the country. ' Families are leaving by the hundred. Use your efforts to obtain Government aid. Telegraph if we can do anvthiug further.” The above was signed by the County Judge, Sheriff, and other officers of Jack County. This is the second appeal that has been made to Congress for aid. while Gov. Ireland has been petitioned to call an extra session of the Legislature. The alarming extent of destitution in the drought-stricken districts is not yet fully realized in Texas, and it is feared it will not be until many people have starved to death. The Rev. John Lokey quarreled with a man named McClellan over a division line at West Fork, Ark., and Lokev and his son Ephraim assaulted McClellan. The latter defended himself with a knife, fatally stabbing both of his assailants. McClellan wns arrested and released on a preliminary trial. A Chattanooga dispatch says the trouble among the convicts in the Dade coal mines at Coal City, Ga., was ended by the surrender of the mutineers and their return to work. Two days’ thirst and starvation brought them around. This ends one of the most remarkable strikes bn record. and what might have been the cause of a serious difficulty and loss of life,, Fort Worth, Texas, has been celebrating the tenth anniversary of tho advent of railroads, when the city had less than one thousand population. There are now eight roads, and ii is claimed that the citizens number thirty thousand.