Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1887 — THE SOUTH [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH

A NEopo named Calvin Gannany, near Greenville, 8. C., has just discovered that he is a free man. He had not heard of the emancipation proclamation. Tur black stallion Ellerslio Wilke*, 4 rears old, was sold at Lexington, Kentucky, for $12,000. .. .The convict system in Georgia will be antagonized by a company now being formed at Atlanta to purchase the furnaces and mites belonging to Henator 8r0wn,... In Green County, Ky., the remains of John Keith, wrapped in a blanket, were found inside the carcass of a horse. The body had been partly devoured by dogs.. The recent protest by Cassius M. Clay against the importation of Australian rabbits has dev eloped the fact that two lots were in December placed on the farm of John Morris, near Indejtendenee, La. The native animal has been exterminated in that vicinity by the negroes and their dogs. The Masonic Lodge Building, the Globe Hotel, and several stores were burned at Augusta, Go. Loss, $185,000; insurance, $124,000. A movement is on foot to build the Opera House, and a subscription list to build a splendid hotel on the site of the old Globe Hotel has been started Robert Roman and S. L. Theard, young men of leading; creole families, fought a duel near New Orleans. The weapons were Spanish rapiers, and the latter duelist was twice wounded in the' arm Thomas M. Joseph, of Galveston, Tex., is reported as short from $12,000 to $30,000 with the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows.. The gambling-houses of New Orleans are closed for the first time in the history of the city, pending a grand jury investigation. The Governor of Virginia, in addressing an agiicultural convention at Richmond, remarked that there is now less money in the hands of Virginia farmers than at any time since the surrender at Appomatox. ..It is estimated that the cotton crop of the year is 0,(110,000 bales. The quality is very superior.