Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

A revj be shock of earthquake disturbed the new dam of the Langley Cotton Works, in South Carolina. The dam gave way 1 Monthly afterhr on, flooding the adjacent country and causing heavy damage to railway tracks and other property. WfilUL riding in the woods near Red ' River, in the Choctaw. Nation, George Traafe came upon four negro-s who had stolen a hog and were cleaning it. To con- ' real their "crime they murdered Traafe. ■ The party were arrested, and one of them confessed the crime. They were taken from the guards who had them in charge, by ,i party of citiz< ns, and without ceremony strung to the nearest trees. Casar Robinson, a negro, was hanged by a mob nt Florence, 8. C.. for assaulting a white woman. A masked mob invaded the town of Bren) am. Texas, at midnight, overpowered the jailer, and took out Shea Felder, Alfred Jones, and Ephraim Jones, three negroes implicated m the killing of Dewees Bolton on the night of election, and lynched them. It was so quickly done that the town was not aroused until morning, when the bodies of the three men were found hanging to a tree. So sTiioxo is the prohibition sentiment in Mobile that the Saloon-keepers have asked the Alabama to-pnss a law for a license of SI,OOO. Rev. Dr. Hawthorne, of Atlanta, is going to Mobile td open the campaign.