Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — SOUTHERN. [ARTICLE]

SOUTHERN.

Bud Beard has been lynched at Carrollton, Ala. The mob succeeded in breaking into the court house and getting Beard out before the arrival of the StaXe troops from Tuscaloosa. Information from Hancock County, Tenn., is that the feud between the Eppersons and Williamses, growing out of the killing of William Epperson and Chas. Epperson, has broken out again. The Georgia lunatic asylum at Milledgeville was partially destroyed by fire. Nearly 1,000 colored inmates were placed in peril. One was burned to death aud the rest saved with difficulty. At Fayetteville, W. Va., Albert Voiers was hanged in the presence of over 10,000 people. He was the last of the Lewis gang of murderers and thieves and was hanged for the murder of Charles Gibson at Montgomery, April 22, 1896. The Georgia House of Representatives has passed a bill making it unlawful to play a prize or match game of foot-ball where an admission is charged. One thousand dollars fine or one year iu the penitentiary. or both together, were fixed as the penalty. After a protracted meeting, the State Board of Health decided to declare off all quarantine at New Orleans. This has the effect of opening the doors of the city to all hitherto infected ports and will do away with the system of isolation of the fever cases, which has existed since Sept. 6. Judge John J.'Jackson, in the United States Court at Martinsburg, W. Va., has decided that under the civil service law transfers cannot be made without trial, holding that it is equivalent to removal, and that the appointment of a man to a Federal position under the civil service law gives him a right in equity to the place which he is not forced to surrender save for cause.