Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

The Supreme Court of Alabama has do> rided that all sales of lands made by (be Alabama and Chattanooga Road before it* completion aro void. Millions of dollars' worth of territory in the richest mineral district* are involved.... Fire at Galveston, Texas, swept away twenty-eiuht dwell-ing-houses and two groceries, 'iho loss is about $'.10,000, w'jth insurance aggregating $50,000.... Some swindler gathered three hundred South Carolina negroes at Itock Hill to meet a special train for New York, en route to Liberia. They w ill need to be provided for by the charitable. An explosion of gaa in the coni bunkers of the British steamer Suez, at New Orleans, fatally burned the second engineer and three Chinese firemen, and dangerously burned three other Chinese.