Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1887 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

A dispatch from Mount Sterling, Ky., ears that Squire Silas Stofer, who took the unusual course of liberating Mr. Comeilson, who was serving a sentence for his assault on Judge Reid. has been arrested on the charge of unlawfully aiding the escape of a prisoner. The thirteenth Kentucky Derby was run at Louisville in the presence of 20,000 people. The weather was admirably adapted to racing, being sultry and still, and the track was in excellent condition. Seven three-year-olds, the pick of the season, came to the post, and the winner turned up in Montrose, one of the outsiders in the betting. He led from start to finish, but would scarcely have landed the rich prize had not Jim Gote brpke down 100 yards fiom the wire. The heavy betting men-who backed Jim Gore, Banburg, Pendennis, Jacobin, and Ban Yan all over the country lost thousands of dollars. A reception was given to Jeff .Paris at Meridian, Miss. In his speech he commented on the inferior numbers with which he struggled against the great armies of the North, and remarked: "“United you are; and if the Union is ever to be broken, let the other side break it.". .. .The-Epis-copal Diocesan Convention o' Soulh Carolina, in session at Charleston last week, was agitated by a discussion of the “color line” question. The lay delegates from fourteen parishes, who favored the admission of colored delegates, quitted the convention. "' >