Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

The shrinkage in cattle values, together with reports of serious epidemics throughout the country, is causing great mistrust among the cattlemen of Texas, says an Austin dispatch. Ttiere are rumors abroad that some of the most prominent cattlemen of this section have already become embarrassed, and that their paper has gone to -protest, but no one will Confess any knowledg of such a thing. It is even hinted that private residences hate been sold to insure creditors against loss. No individual cases of embarrassment have as yet come to light, but extensive lailures are looked for. By the explosion of the steamer Mascotte, near Cape Girardeau, Mo., six of the crew were burned to death by escaping steam; sixteen persons are known to have been drowned, and live deckhands and one passenger were fatally .burned. It is feared that others perished whose bodies have not been recovered. Oxe bale each of ramie and jute—the first of these products ever raised in the t"nited States—were presented to the Cotton Exchange at New Orleans by Mr. J. Jnvenet, who states that in Louisiana a net profit of SO3 per acre on ramie, and SO6 on jute, can be made by their cultivation. T. J. Clf vEßirs, who murdered Miss Fannie L. Madison near the reservoir in Richmond, Ya., has been sentenced to be banged Dec. 10.