Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1887 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

A monument to the memory of John C. Calhoun was unveiled at Charleston by thirty-two young ladies. There was on imposing military and civic procession. Secretary Lamar was the orator of the day....At Longview, Texas, Caleb Foster, a negro, went crazy and dashed his threef ear-old child’s brains out against a tree, le then ran into the woods with the dead body, where he was captured. NVhen found he was rending the child's body with his teeth, spitting flesh on to the ground, and all the time jabbering to himself: Three days afterward he regained his reason and asked for his child. A strict investigation showed conclusively that he retained no remembrance of the awful tragedy in which he had been the chief actor. James H. Marcum was hanged at Louisa, Ky., for the murder of his cousin, Fisher Marcum. While on the scaffold he shook hands with those around him. and smiled when the black cap was slipjted over his h^ad. Texas continues to suffer from the almost unprecedented drought A Galveston dispatch says: “The.drought of last year and that of the present season are unparalleled. In extreme northwest Texas and in the extreme southwest there have been rains of late that will prove of incalculable benefit to tLe cattle districts, but the agricultural districts, pure and simple, except, perhaps, in a limited area in northern Texas, are suffering seriously for want of rain. In all that belt of country between San Antonio and Austin, from'Austin to Waco, from Waco to Bremond, and down the Central Railioad to Houston, and in the circumference described by this geographical circle, the crops of oate and small grain are almost a total failure, while com that should be well advanced and vigorous is seriously wilted and in bad condit on at tie roots.. .TLe bodies of three negroes, named Sylvester, were found hanging to. a tree near Proctor. W. Ya., bearing a placard, “Nigger thievery must be broken up.”