Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Lincoln Sprole and Calvin Janies were executed at Fort Smith. Ark., for murders committed in the Indian Territory. There have been forty-six men hanged at that place since 1871. Joseph Jump was hanged for murder at Gallatin, Mo. PROF. Cummings hfc Returned to Dallas, Texas, from a thr&e—weeks’ geological tour through Palo Pinto, Stephens, and Young Counties. Texas, and reports having found a Sahara of desolatibn. The cattle, he says, are as poor as they were last March. All the people who can do so are moving away, and not as much as a bushel of corn remains in the three counties... William J. Hooper & Son of Baltimore have made an assignment. The firm is extensively engaged in the manufacturing of seine, twine, etc. The liabilities are put at $125,000 to $175,000, and the assets at $500,000. ~ Gov. Ireland, of Texas, has written to Secretary Bayard informing him of the murder by Mexican authorities of Francisco Arresures, a naturalized American, and Baying: “A demand will be made in the name of the State and its people that this wrong by Mexico be atoned tor and punished. If this" State and her people must depend upon themselves for protection, the necessary redress can and will be obtained.” Meetings in approval of this action of the Governor have been held in various parts of Texas. In Dallas, a fife and-dram band, followed by a crowd bearing the .United States flag, paraded the streets. Thousards of men, white and black, turned out, and for nearly an hour the city presented the appearance of being in the hands of a moo. At night inflammatory addresses were delivered by the Mayor and half a dozen others. Whatever may be th) merits of the case, a point is nearing at which it may require the use of the United States army to prevent the invasion ox Mexico from the Texas bonder. A letter was exhibited at Dallas from a well-known ex-Confederate officer, who says that he only awaits the moral backing of Governor Ireland before taking the field with

I a forte which i he believes can in a flew days be swelled-*to 10,000. A dispatch from Corpus Christi states that preliminary steps have been taken there to organize companies for active service in avenging the murder of American citizens in Mexico. The Democratic Congressional Convention at San Ahtonio passed resolutions calling on the Preaident to demand of Mexico the release of Cutting and the punishment of the murders of Arresures, and full satisfaction and indemnity to be paid his family. t