The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1867-01-03
SOUTHERN -NEUS.

The Ladies Of Mississippi are raising
funds to support theafamily OF jeit. VA
Wis.
Oil has been discovered on ohoal
creek. st. Clair county, Alabama, in
abundance at depth of 500 feet.
Miss Gregg, of South Carolina, sister
of the late rebel General Maxey Gregg,
has cone to Siberia as missionary.
\ man was found in the streets of Lou
isvjlle frozen to death. with nothing on
his person but pair of stockings ana a
neck-tie.
Some ex-slaves ofGen. Taylor at New
port, Ky, have recovered, through me
courts, property bequeathed to them by
their former masters VIII.
A negro woman in Richmond after
dancing at ball all night found her
child half eaten up by rats in the morn
ing-its face, hands and ears knaWed
away.
A colored laborer fell a distance of
nearly thirty feet, from a building IN
Columbus Georgia, d few days since,
and aightel on his head. He was con-
siderably stunned for a time, but eX
pected to resume his work next day.
It has been decided by the Supreme
Court of Georgia, that a cause dsaissS-
ed during the late war, on the ground
that the plaintiff was q citizen Of the
United States, and therefore an alien en-
envy, may be reinvested on motion.
-Four freedmen, from the vicinity Of
Danville, it seems, wade raid On VIM;
Logan, ESQ.,, of Halifax county, and
drove Off five head Of his cattle. They
had slaughtered one OK before they
We're discovered, but some Of the cattle,
which were milch COWS, We're found
alive and driven back to their owner.
The negroes, who lived q few miles
from town, were arrested, carried before
a magistrate and examined, and sent by
him to Halifax Jail for trial.
The Alexandria Gazette Of Saturday
last gives an account of & series of out-
RACES perpetrated by a band Of negroes
in the suburbs on Friday night, and
asks that the negro troops stationed
there, be prohibited from coming with
in the corporate limits during the hoIi-
days. 1t says: .We wantno more Christ
mas riots nor military commissions here
but last nights proceedings are ominous
Of what may happen.
Coffee County, in Tennessee, is being
colonized by Pennsylvanians. Some
fifteen or twenty families from that
State have purchased lands around Con-
cord and Oak Hill, and are settling
They have already laid out some eigh-
ty-fve thousand dollars for lands, and
the cry is "still they come" They are
excellent farmers and good citizens,
and there is ample room for all such.
Capt. B. J. Smith, one of the most
successful business men in Georgia, has
just returned from a six months tour in
Europe. He thinks that the present
Liverpool prices are based upon thesup-
position that over 100000 bales will be
and he expresses the opinion that as
soon as they appreciate the true state of
things that tn. staple will range at 2Od
He urges that cotton lands are Valua-
BILE, and that we must not let cuffee en-
igrate.
A writer for the Richmond Christian
Adrocate urges the necessity for the
word Methodist being stricken from the
Southern Church, (Which has come to
mean in the most of the United States
an offensive political creed,o so as to let
the people know that it has become a
corruption, and therefore has been cut
Off, and to let them know whenever a
preacher appears, calling himself a
methodist, he is the emissary Of politi-
cal radicalism. The name suggested Dy
way of change is Evangelical Episco-
pal Church."
Mrs. jeff. Davis says, concerning her
finances, that she can see her way clear
for the next three months-beyond that
'sall is dark" Having to maintain two
households, her mother and children in
Canada, and her husband and youngest
children at Fortress Monroe, her expen
ses are necessarily very large. Mrs.
Davis says her husband is well taken
care Of, BUTT is the Southern people
alone who keep him from starving, as
he would inevitably, if, in his delecato
health, he bad only the food provided
for him by the authorities
The eN-Confederate General Forrest
has a contract for constructing forty
five miles of the Memphis and Little
Rock railroad, from Duvall's Bluff ia
Madison, Ark, and the work is being
prosecuted with energy, but laborers
are very scarce, and General Forest