Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1887 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Betsy Cook, colored, living near Brookhaven, Miss., went to a field to work, leaving her three small children to take care' of the house. On her return she found the house in ashes and her three children burned to death. The region around San Antonio. Texas, is seriously afflicted by drouth. The cattle are dying, and a general famine is threatened. ... .Quarantine has been instituted-at El Paso, Texas, against cholera, which is traveling northward from South America and has reached Panama. A FIRE in the great cedar forest on the Brazos Eiver, near Morgan, Tex., had at last accounts laid waste over 26;O00 acres of timber, and was still burning.