Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1887 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

The drought in Southwestern Texas has resulted in a scarcity of food, and people are deserting their homes and moving to more favored localities. The ministers of San Antonio have opened a subscription for the sufferers... .Ex-Congressman Aiken died at his home in Cokes bury, S. C. A state E of General Albert Sydney Johnston, erected by the Army of the Tennessee, was unveiled in Metairie Cemetery, .New Orleans, by Rosa Robinson, aged li, a great-granddaughter of General Johnson, anh Miss Jennie Rogers, daughter of Judge Rogere, in the presence of 10,000 people. The yeteran associations, including Grand Army posts, attendedin a.body. Upon the platform were many noted persons, including. Mr, and Mrs. Jefferson Dans, General Beauregard and staff. Governor McEnery and 6taff. Mrs. Albert Sidney Johnston, Colonel William P. Johnston and family, Colonel Throckmorton. C, S. A., and other officers; Charles Dudley Warner, Generals Hooker and Walthall, Governor Lowrie. of Mississippi, and many others. Senator Gibson. of Louisiana,' and Jefferson Davis delivered orations.

The Mammoth Care in Kentucky now has railway connection... .Four men were killed by a boiler explosion in Ritchie. County, West Virginia.. .. .Shade Scarbrough, who murdered Madison Ciesar in July last, was hanged in the jail yard at Clayton. Ala., on Friday. Both men were negroes... .Patrick McCarthy was hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., for murdering,and robbing Thomas and John Mahoney iu the Cherokee Nation, Fob. 16,1886. The evi : dence was purely circumstantial, there being no eye-witnesses to the crime, and McCarthy died protesting his innocence. H. H. Wilkinson, a keeper at the county farm near Nashville, Tcnn., the lessee, four guards, and five trustees were poisoned by convicts who put arsenic in the drinking water, hoping in this way toy make their escape. Two of the persons will die. The others are seriously ill. One of the . ringleaders of the plot has made a confession. -