Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

The Supreme Court of Mississippi bjjas. affirmed the constitutional iff of the localoption liquor law.. 7TX terrible shooiing af-' fair is reported from Tchula, Miss.: “Marshal Van try Me Bee attacked a negro and severely wounded him. Liter in the day he attacked nnother negro, and still later a third. He then jumped on his horse and rode away, but after going two miles the animal fell and broke its neck. Mcßee walked back to Tcbula. where he began to drink aud flourish his pistol. He finally shot nnother netiro. who has sinco died. McBee then fled to the canelirnkes. The Sheriff and Tour other men are in pursuit of him. Mcßee is accompanied by his brother Albert. They are armed with six or eight pistols nnd shotguns, nnd it is reported thnt they have declared that they will not be taken alive." A >'iLi!tt KTEitiNo sebrajp dmftned to establish a new republic in the Mexican States of Sonora. Dnran-O, nnd Chihuahua has ls en outlined by an emissary at Dallas, Texas. Cnttiug is said to tie one of the leaders of the affair. Three menil>ers of the executive committee arc Catholic priests, one of whom is now on his way to Rome fora coitf-ietnp© with the I*ape. In corroboration of the above story, it is stated that t'e Mexican military band has received telegraphic orders to return from Texas without delay. The Governor of Alabama, iu his annual message, states thnt more than one-third of the revenues of the State are devoted to the public schools... ..Commander -in - Chief Fairchild, of the Grand Armv, will visit Nashville December (i nnd 7, aud great preparations are being made by the posts in the department to receive him. A campnre or banquet nnd excursions to old battlefields are on the programme... .Rev. G. W, Bowne, lat' ly occupying an Episcopal pulpit at Salisbury, Maryland, has been baptized as a Roman Catholic, and will enter a seminary at Ballimore nnd prepare for the priesthood. He is 20 years of age, and a native of New York. The Georgia Presbyterian Synod has found Dr. Woodrow guilty of heresy for .believing in the doctrine of evolution.... The lecislative council of Memphis has granted to the Iron Mountain Road right of way from the projected bridle site fit the traet recently purchased by Jay Gould for depot grounds. Andrew J. Mulltoan, alias James Page, who murdered James N. Humilton, his employer, in Macon County, Ark., was taken from the jail at Harrison by thirtythree armed and mounted men. dragged with a rope around his neck behind a galloping horse for four miles, then strung up to a tree aud riddled with bullets.