Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1886 — IHE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

IHE SOUTH.

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue lias demanded $3,000 at once from a land and lumber company in Georgia which. for the last eight years, nas kept afloat a large amount of scrip, and has ordered suit to be brought for SIB,OOO more. The scrip was generally received for merchandise in Glynn County, and even for taxes. The engineers and brakemen on the Southern Pacific Railroad have grievances, which, unless settled, may result in a strike. The brakemen assert that the agreement of last winter is being violated, while the engineers complain of the unjust discharge of two of their number. While Senator Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, was hunting on his Mississippi plantation, the accidental discharge of his gun killed his horse, which fell upon him. Having but one leg. the Senator labored five hours to reach his hous ?. Some time last month a family of eight persons was reported to have been burned to death in Knox County, Kentucky. By the confession of a lad residing in the neighborhood, the fact has developed that his father and mother cut the throats of the’ victims, piled their corpses on the floor, and set fire to the house. The murderers are* in jail at Barboursville, and the excitement in that region foretells a lynching. ~7 A San Antonio (Tex. > dispatch says that two robbers entered the express tear of a Missouri Pacific train at a small station on the road, but' were promptly arrested by the conductors and messenger.... Robert Hill shot his brother Tony dead at Atlanta. Ga.. and then killed himself. The cMiiowas caused by whßkv.... Three negroes, who tflwi burned a cotton gin-house, were lynched in Franklin County. Mississippi.