Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1887 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

Ok tie Louisville race track Charles Taylor, a jockey, while exercising the bay colt Asphallus, struck Lim on the head with the bu tof his whip. The colt fell to his knees, breaking one of his legs, and also crushing the jqpkey, who is dangerously hurt Asphaltus was shot. Aih the prisoners in the Charleston f'W,

Va.) jail escaped by tunneling out... .The Attorney General of Louisiana, in behalf of that State, has entered suit against the Cotton-seed Oil TruM, which owns every mill in the State, asking that a receiver be appointed to take charge of its property and business, as it never has been incorporated. The Southern Bivouac, of Louisville, Ky., a magazine devoted to war papers and Southern character sketches, has been purchased by the Century Company, of New York, and hereafter the periodical will be issued from that hous#. The Century Company becomes the possessor of the cuts, etc., belonging to the Bivouac, and will fill out the unexpired subscriptions under the former owners.... Texas is again suffering from a drought, and the local committee of Son Antonio reports four thousand families in destitute circumstances. The crops are said to have been ruined in certain districts, and appeals for help have commenced to l>e sent out. ....The City Council of Laredo, Texas, has granted to a Mexican mining company ten acres of land and five years' exemption from taxation, conditioned upon the erection of a smelter to cost $1,000,000.