Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Fredericksburg, Yu., is greatly excited over the disupeuranee of TV. S. Honey, a prominent merchant. He had a large ,-mtn- of- moirey “onlris pel soil ,w hen-last seen; . At a negro cake walk in Eoseborough ■place, near Texarkana. Ark,, the negroes ate at their banquet supper a good portion of a liog .that had been Ted by its owner on strychnine and twelve have died and a half dozed others aie in bed. —- Isom Kear.se, colored, and liis aged mother were beaten to death witli buggy straps in Colleton County, South Ciftolina. Ivearse was charged with stealing a Bible and pulpit furniture from a church, and liis mother would not give 'testimony to convict her son. A bad wreck on occurred oil the Xorfolk and Western Railway, near Ennis, W. Ya., Wednesday, night, in which three men were killed, as follows: Engineer Fort-linos, Conductor Walter Straley, and -a colored brakeman. Fireman ..Gardner was seriously injured. The accident was caused by the-breaking in two of a freight train. The rear portion ran into the front section. George Clark, the quadroon who as an escaped slave lectured ill the North before the war, who is now .84 years? old, was taken to the Protestant Infirmary at Lexington, Ky., on actount of failing health, lie is bed- ■ riddeli and unless- lie improves rapidly umlCr treatment physicians think hi- cannot live long. He is the original of Gvuwrge .LfeK&s. in “JJtudfi.. Tftiii'-feAJaid-nJ-’--