Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

The sugar bounty law has been declared to be constitutional by Judge Pardee in the United States Circuit Court at New Orleans. The expected duel at New Orleans betvM>en Congressman Boatner and Major llearsey has been declared off. Each gentleman has taken back all the mean things he said about the other and expressed regret for, the trouble between them. At 9 o'clock Thursday morning, shortly after the day force numbering" sixty-;, seven men'had gone on duty at the Cumnock coal mines, six miles west of Raleigh. N. a fire-damp explosion occurred, kilfnifk-ut is believed, forty-three men.' . ’ ■ A largely at tendyjlOjm volition in the interest of the Nicarauga Canal project opened at Jacksonville. Fla.. Wednesday, with ex-Gov. F. I*. Fleming presiding. The Object of the convention, which is the first of the kind to be held in. two years, is to take steps toward inducing Congress to give increased countenance and support to the construction of the canal, and specially to emphasize the valuable results that would accrue to the. Gulf States, and Florida in particular, by the successful earryiiig out of the enterprise.