Journal of freedom. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1865-186?, 1865-10-21
NEWS SUNNI

N6uGTd1 0iduU ID SOtuS w AASS P
nently in Washington.
Considerable very good hemp has been
raised in Kansas this year.
The colored citizens of Wisconsin have
held a mass convention.
In Maury county, Tenn, last week,
eight couples were married at a single
stroke.
Over %, 900 bushels of oysters are an
nually planted on the Thames river;
within the town limits Of Norwich
James Monroe, United States Consul at
Rio J~aueiro, has been offered the Presi-=
dency of Oberlin CO., college.
A sherif's daughter out in Wisconsin
latel, released two prisoners and eloped
with them while her father was away.
The Fenians nave bought fifteen gum
boats, and are going to keep their mat
tiers more secret after this. So It's said.
Mrs. ~Ingraham, sister of Robert E. Lee.
appeared before the Provost Marshal, at
Washington, Saturday, and took the oath
of allegiance.
At Visalla, Cal, married women go to
school with their children. Sometimes
the mothers and children are all between
4 and IS.
The New York Saturday Press says the
most natural abbreviatiOn of City official
New York city official of course-is city
off al.
The Mobile Tribune reports that a news
PAPER, to be edited by colored men, in the
interests of the colored people, is to be
- ~ -, that OIfB
The property of Joe. Davis, brother of
jeff, in Mississippi, has been restored to
him. 1t was never legally confiscated, but
merely seized by the military.
It is reported that measures are now
on foot to establish an evening paper In
Baltimore with Roger A. Pryor at its
head.
Nathaniel D. Hubbard, a respected
member Of #he Boston Board of Brokers,
died suddenly on Saturday, of disease o
the Leart.
General Strong, Inspector General o
the Freedmen's Bureau, has been order
ed to Texas to make an inspection OF thu
affairs of freedmen in that State.
Work is very much delayed in the Bal
timorer ship yards, by the refusal of tn
white caulkers to do any work until TIA
negro caulkers, who have been employee
many years, are discharged,
Young Edward Ketchum takes his con
fnemeft at the Tombs very quietly. ID
reads poetry most of the time. His wifi
don't visit him, but other female friend
do.
It is said that John C.. Breckenridge
ex-Secretary of War, and ex-General
proposes to become a British subject, an
enter into the pork business IN som
Canadian town.
The deficiencies of Southern Postmas
tiers holding Federal appointments at til
breaking out of the war, amounted |
nearly $3.50 900. Preparations are beln
made to enforce collection.
The negroes of Alexandria, Va, hay
formed a Coal Protective Association, an
now buy whole cargoes, at a great savln
from monopolist prices Some promine'
white citizens have gladly purchased trol
the association.
Already an enterprising Yankee HI
hired land near the great Paris exhlbltlc
of 1867, for the purpose OF selling Anne
kican drinks and food-cocktaiEs and co
blers, pork and beans and hash and hS
chowder.
A Cincinnati young lady, who enth1
siastically admired Gen. Grant, stole h
cigar from under his nose at a receptle
at the Burnet House, the other day. III
hero was too much astonnded at the a.
sAacity to prevent or punish the theft.
Jeff. Thompson tells the editor of Il
louisville journal that the only persol
d the South who wish to do any mo
ightIng are those who didn't do al
hen they had a chance.
The Mississippi Central railroad W
. in running order from Memphis IN
wv days, when passengers can reach NJ
D~rleans in forty hours after leaving t
ermer city.
Major-Gen. Carl Schurz arrived in
puis on Thursday. 1t is supposed tt
will establish there a radical Engll
wspaper more in conformity with I
VS. of the Wesliche Poss than thu
Rocated by the Democrat.
4 railroad company in Michigan ha
ply made application to the Freedme
lreau for four hundred negro laborers
Employed in the construction of O n
. Of road in that State. They offer
such laborers eighty-seven-and-a-h
It's per day and board them. The pro-
GERS of the Bureau are now engaged