Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

A revenue bill passed by the lower house of the Alabama Legislature levies a tax of $5,000 ou oil persons who deal In future contracts on comm.ssion.. .'<Gov. Ireland, of Texas, Las issued a proclamation quarantining against all ports in South America and elsewhere where cholera ex- • ists. .. ■ . Habvy Pash; the negro murderer of Felix Adams, expiated hn crime on the scaffold in the jail-yayd at Bardstown, Kylie went to the gallows sinning and praying, but became calm at the last moment, and heard the priest’s benediction quietly. Six thealers inoperstion iii New Orleans have found the present season the worst

since the war. Audiences of less than One hundred are frequently seen in a house with capacity for two thousand '.The Gate City Guards, of Atlanta. Ga., closed a contract for transportation to Antwerp. Eighty members will go, and the trip includes a march across the Alps, from Switzerland into Italy... .J. S. Cornelison,' the attorney who cowhided Judge Ried at Mount Sterling, Ky., for making an advorse decision, causing the latter to kill himself from mortification, has been ordered by the Court of Appeals to spend three years in jail. ’.rThree robbers boarded a south-bound passenger .train on the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad at Bellevue, Texas, and robbed the passengers of eight watches and $lO4 in money. A Fort Worth telegram furnishes the following particulars of the bold robbery: Al tbo train drew up at Bellevue Station. Tex., three unmasked robbers took possession of it. One of them with a drawn pistol ordered Engineer Ayers and his fireman, arid O. G. Miller, another engineer who was riding in the cab, to alight, which they did.; Ho then marched them some thirty feet from the train and went through them, taking all the valuables they had. While this was going on the other two men went through the train. Ono of tho passengers in the rear cor was looking out of the window and saw the operation with the trainmen. Divining the' situation he went into the forward cars, notified the other passengers of what was going on, and told them to secrete their money. This they did in various ways, giving most of it and their diamonds to several ladies aboard. Mies Kate Haas of Fort Worth took charge of 53,000 and other valuables. Mrs. Chambers of N. Y., received $5,000 and some diamonds, and Mrs. Wittick of Carthage, Mo., took her husband's gold watch and several hundred dollars. Mrs. Wittick was greatly incensed at the proceedings, and boldly stood up in the car and asked if forty men were going to tamely submit to such an outrage at tho hands of highwaymen. About $12,000 in money and"' $4,000 worth of diamonds anil other valuables were left by the robbers in their baste to get through the train, un i because they did not search tho women. They were evidently novices in tho business and went away with the paltrr sum of $lO5, three gold watches, teu silver watches, five revolvers, an 1 one gold ring. The robbers left the train at the rear end of the sleeper, mounted horses standing near by,” and rode rapidly away.