Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-03-22
EVENING STAR.
Late Southern Items.

Mobile is TO have a new hotel, "with ac-
eommodations for three hundred more guests
than were ever before accommodated" in that
city.
In IberyiIle parish, Louisiana recently, at a
sheriH-s sale, six fine plantations were sold
for what their elaborate machinery originally
cost.
The Louisianians propose TO teach their
peniientiaTy convicts the Yankee trade OF
shosmaking, believing the shoemakers seat
will make a very good stool of repentance.
List week, a drunken negro az Murfrees-
hoTo, Tennessee, ran against little girl, and,
angered because she was in his way, deliber-
aiely drew a revolver and blew out her
brains. He is in custody, and will be hanged
Ten days quarantine at New Orleans, In
order TO keep out the cholera. This applies to
all vessels coming from the West Indies and
the Mexican and Central American coasts
Twenty days quarantine has been ordered at
all The Texas ports
If they punish the freedmen with severity
in Mississippi courts, il is not because any
special lenity is shown to the Anglo Saxon
race We find for instance in the Aberdeen
Sunday South, that IN Monroe county "James
Patterson, white NAN, convicted of petty
larceny, was recently sentenced to suspension
days"
Complaint comes from Mississippi concern
ing The operation ofthe statute laws relating TO
The approaching of colored children. ColOred
people who are fully able TO support their chill
drsn may have them seized at the request of
any white person, and bound out, by the Pro-
bate Courts, 10 white masters, for a small rate
oi compensation, till they arrive al the age Of
The Point Coupee (La) Echo says the small
pox has been raging IN that parish for several
months TO fearful extent, especially among
the negroes. The disease is so scattered that
caution is of little avail.
negro convicted OF murder and sentenced
to be hung in Alabama, has been discharged
by the Supreme Court of Appeals for that
State; the offence having been committed when
slave, and the trial and conviction occurring
when be was free and his relations to the State
different. nd hi
10 the case.
The Waco CTexas) Register saws a manu-
1actnring company in that town employs
seventy wOrkpeople, has thousand spin
dies running. and an equal number which
WILDE put in operation within fortnight.
an ~ rns a GU, monthly SIX thousand Two nun,
hundred yards of cloth; md cards five thou
xanI, pounds CT WOOL
The Wilmington IN. c. Herald, alllu4ing
10 report thai secret societies exist throughout
the South, organized 10 foment disturbances,
hopes that the guilty persons may be brought
20 punishment. 1t adds:--"God knows North
Carolina has had enough OF war to last her
for the next century"
The New Orleans Crescent contains the fol-
loving statement illustrating the low rates at
which property rs now changing hands in the
SoU'h:-"ihe plantation of Mr. Drauzin For
her- situated IN front OF the courthouse OF the
-. Charles. twenty five miles above this city,
was sold last week TO Mr.. Leon Larpy, for
S.G,IO1- This plantation has front oftwenty-
two arpents on the Mississippi, by a depth ex-
tending to Lake Pontchartrain. The yelling
house, of itself. is worth more than the pur-
chase money"
The Marshall (Texas) Republican notices
remarkable case which is TO be brought before
the court. man, named Isham N. Smith,
died in the neighborhOod during the past
month, possessed OF considerable property.
Just before dying, he eXecuteda s.testamentary
paper, giving the homestead on which he
had been residing, containing two hundred
acres, 10 two freed women. mother and daugh-
ter. seeking by that act TO disrnherit his white
children. The latter have ordered the negroes
TO leave the place; but these have appealed To
the Freedmen's Bureau, which issued an order
that they should not be disturbed until the case
was Judicially acted on.