Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Jack Henderson, a farm laborer who attempted assault at A'inegnr Bend, Ala., was found hanging to a tree riddled with bullets. Captain Gaskill, his wife and the crew of the steamer City of St. Augustine,, which was burned at sea, arrived at Boston f)n the steamer City of Macon, having been picked up by the latter. Advices from Fort Bend, Texas, and other sections give gloomy accounts of this year’s crop of sugar cane. The freeze of last winter seriously damaged thje cane stubble, causing it to mature dry and hard. Land in Fort Bend County which last year produced twenty to thirty tonS of cane this year prodhcW only three to ten tons. The cutting will be finished in thirty days, whereas it ordinarily takes a hundred. One of the results of the great gathering of AA’estern men in Yickstanrg incidental to the waterways convention has been the -organization of the .Vicksburg" Natigpal Military Park Association, whose character is now in course of preparation itiidwliose ineorpocu tor s ureauch _ men as General Lee, General R. A. Alger, General John B. Gordon, cx-Governor Hoard, of AVisconsin; Colonel Fred D. Grant, and many others of equal prominence in civil fife or the great conflict between the States. The object of the organization is to foster the foundation of a national military-park there similar to those at Gettysburg and Ckieknumuga Park.