Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1887 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

A FREIGHT train on the Norfolk ami Western Road went through Otter River Bridge, nine miles from Liberty, Ya. The biidgo was in process of repair, and eight or nine workmen were killed. Several others were . wounded. The engine and several ears-erossed the bridge safely before it gnve way. San Antonio (Texas) special: “Reliable reports from the grazing districts, of the Rio Grande show that the winter just closing was very severe on sheep. Owing to the long drought last fall the grass was very scarce, and many thousand sheep perished from starvation. One firm alone is reported to have lost 30,000 ! each Good rains have recently fallen along the llio Grande.”... .Amos Johnson, colored, aged 40, was hanged at Marion, Crittenden County. Arkansas, for assaulting a white child only 8 years old, who had been left iu his charge bv her parents.' He eon--fesSedpQuul made a long harangue from the scatrotd. Fully fifteen hundred people, mostly colored, witnessed the execution. In plowing in-a field about three miles from Atlanta, Gn., $l,lOO was plowed up in $5 gold pieces. The treasure is supposed to have been buried there before the war, by some person who has since died. ... A Cincihnuti syndicate, headed" By Er Zimmerman, has invested $1,000,000 in the Soddy mines, near Chattanooga, and intends to spend $500,000 in improvements.