Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-03-24
Late Southern Items.

Vacant stores are making their appearance
in Houston, Texas, and Lynchburg, Virginia.
the merchants being tired OF paying extrava-
giant prices.
A cotton factory at Macon, Georgia, is turn
ing out ninety six thousand yards Of sheeting
a day.
VIM. Barton, shoe maker in Autauga
county, Alabama, was found dead few days
ago, with eight bullet wounds in The breast
and neck.
The Loyal Georgian, published at Atlanta
in the interest OF tue freedmen, claims to have
amcng that class regular readers and SUBJ
scrlbeIs to the extent of twenty thousand.
The Jacksonville (FIa.) Times saws that
thousands of negro children are being edu-
Gated in that State by their present employers,
who were slave holders. There is a very deep
interest felt In the welfare OF the late slaves by
their former masters.
The Lexington tMo.) Express says the war
so thinned cut the live stock in that county
that cattle, mules, and horses will have TO be
imported TO meet the demands of the people of
that county.
The Charleston, s. c., Courier says the rela-
tions between the freedmen and the former
owners of the Sea Island plantations are i'm
proving every day. The former are entering
into contracts cheerfully, and everything
promises the utmost harmony.
The Macon (fa.) Telegraph says that both
the bill "to allow the redemption of real es-
tate sold under execution within a specified
time" and the .'bilI TO exempt from levy and
sale certain property of every debtor in the
State, and for other purposes which bills
were vetoed by the Governor failed to become
laws. The Senate passed the first over the
veto. but it failed in the House; and the House
passed the last over the veto, but II failed in
the Senate.
The citizens Of New Madrid, Mo took the
law into their own hands on the 4th instant,
lynching one n0Go and shooting two others
who had with aNfarge crowd OF blacks, fired
at the residence of a gentleman at whom they
had taken offense. The white people Of New
Madrid thereupon became SO enraged that they
pursued and inflicted the above summary pun
ishment upon their unfortunate victims.
The Nashville papers are fnll of news items
pointing to great social disturbances and law
lessness throughout Tennessee. In Fayette-
vile lady was dragged from her horse and
horribly treated by some unknown person
| In Chattanooga a white girl was shot while
cooking supper in one of the camps. In the
Jackson Whig of the 10th instant, we also find
| the following:-"On last Saturday night a
him that he was stabbed to the heart. and fell
dead. 1tswas not known who did the deed
We learned on yesterday Of another murder,
where a negro boy was knocked in the head
by another negro and instantly killed.
| Dublin Times, of the 9th instant says: We un-
derstand that a considerable quantity of Fe-
nian bonds of the Irish republic have been
transmitted to Ireland on speculation. There
Is a curious popularity about many of tn sse
bonds. The estates of the nobility and gentry
form the security, and the names of parks, de-
mesnes, and townlands figure in the body of
the bonds. The ordinance maps of Ireland
have been carefully studied, and the various
properties have been diyided-on paper-to
head centres and Others except those portions
which Were supposed to be reserved for the
necessities Of the Irish republic. 1t is not i'm
probable that agents have been sent to Ireland
acquainted with the different localities and
that the bonds entrusted TO each are prepared
for the district in which he is 10 carry on his
scheme. The object is TO extract from the
small farmer as much money as possible un-
der the idea that after the s'rsing' takes place
he will be the owner Of that portion of the
landlords estate to which the bond refers
| NEARLY CoMPLETED.-The repairs to the
Winchester and Potomac river railroad are
fast approaching completion TO Winchester,
Va. The track is now laid to within two miles
of the town, and it is expected the remaining
distance will be by the first Of April.
- Bishop Grace, of ST. Paul Minnesota.
denounced the Fenians in the most bitter terms
in his addresses on St. Patrcks day. He told
them they were the laughing stock OF the
world.
aSThe Raleigh North Carolina) Standard
says that the secret reasonable organization,
spoken of by General Thomas before the Re.
construction Committee, exists, eyond doubt,
| in that State.
H-The eleventh annual session of the Amer
ican POmological Society is to be held at St
Louis on the fourth of September next All
horticultural, agricultural, pomological and
kindred institutions in the United States and
| the Canaaas are invited to send delegates
EIt has been discovered that Minnesota is
entitled TO an extra grant of 500 600 acres ofland
which she never received.
@G old has been discovered in Wentworth
| New Hampshire. The dis covery was made
| by a California miner, who pronounces IN a
good prospect
THE carpenters at BROOKLYN talk ahopt
claiming $3.50 day, and their EMPLOYERS
threaten to osuspend building altogether, il they
do.