Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

The citizens of Harrison. Miss., finding that the negroes were steadily being induced to emigrate to the swamp country, gave a business man named Hammond twenty-four hours to .leave town, and he fled to Vicksburg. The people of Fayette took the same course with H. B. McClure. .... The defalcation of Thomas M- Joseph. - Treasurer of the Texas Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows,.is #23.185, which was lost in mining specnlaiions four yyars ago. Mr. Joseph is pearly 70 years of nge, aa<] was

formerly Mayor of -Galveston. The order j intends to send him to the penitentiary. I A POLICEMAN in Atlanta, having noted , that a colored man was regularly calling at I residences with a large basket, made the , discovery that it contained whisky, sugar, j glasses, ami teasiMHms, arranged in a . framework.... Block, Oppenheimer A Co., | wholesale dry goods and footwear at Gal- < vest on, Texas, transferred their entire Stock and business premises in payment of local debts aggregating $226,00(1. Their total liabilities are placed at S7SQ,(XM), ' principally duo in the East, nearly all of whifch is said to be unsecured. A CAVE has been discovered in Marshall County, Kentucky,. in v. hich are many rooms of great extent. Two skeletons. S6OO in gold and silver, nnd a quantity of silverware were found in one of the chambers. It is believed to' have been the hid-ing-place of “Bloody Bill Brady's Gang” of guerillas during the war. “The law iindordercommittee"of l'nion City,- Tenn., visited and whipped three negro riuen and one woman. They were masked, and no cause was-assigned.