Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1887 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

A dispatch from Waco, Texas, says: “The glorious rains of Western Texas that hare filled the heretofore almost dry channel of the Brazos River have brought with the current a mass of polluted cattle carcasses that offset the a 1 vantages of the rain and give promise of disease. The carcasses are evidently from the alkali country, as they are entirely devoid of hair. The 6tench from the floating carcasses is dreadful. The people are no less delighted at the volume of water than disgusted with the pollutifln 11 Map John R Blaine, brother of the Hon. James G. Blaine, died at Hot Springs, Ark. Miss Mary Garrett, cf Baltimore, offers to endow Johns Hopkins University with $35,000 per annum, on condition that the institution be removed to Clifton and that it sustain, a scientific school.