Richland beacon., 1880-06-12
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Committee on Education not to recon-.
mend any candidate ior help in his
education who uses it,
AT Newbern, n. c., ]. l.. Rheen
planted crop of peas on the III OF Feb
ruary and finished gatheri, gthe product
on the 2Oth of April. Ee then cut the
vines from forty-ive acres, ard cured
them for forage, and on the evening of
April 80 had the ground planted in
cotton.
The principal plank in the platform
of the Rev. Jefferson WASHINGTON, cJl.
ored, Independent candidate for Goa.
gress in the Fifth Georgia d strict, is
thus stated by him: AZ am opposed to
having our children gobbled up by there
medicated students, and Pm bound TO
stop it."
AT Argenta, ARK, an immense cotton
seed oil mill is TO be erected immedi-
ntely by Memphis and Little Rock cspi-
talists. They will also erect powerful
cotton compress, the press costing $50.
pOO, and having pressure of tw. nty-
five hundred tons to the nch-capable
of I'D ucing a bale Of cotton to six and
a half inches.
A GENTLEMAN passing a colored
school at Toccos, Ga, saw a number Of
little chaps playing in the bushes-as If
they were hunting for some one, using
sticks for guns, when he casually asked
them what they were doing, and re-
ceived the reply: ave is playin' rev.
nue. men hunting for licker"
THE evangelis,s Moody and Sankey
parsed through Indian Territory last
week, and while at Muscogee in the
Creek nation, Mr.. Moody arranged to
receive ten Indian girls from that na-
tion, for whom he will provide free
'ducation at the Young Ladies' Semi
nary established by him at Northfeld,
Mass.
The coiored Republicans of Mis.is-
sippi demand that Blanche K. Bruce,
now United States Sena or from that
State, shall have the second place on the
Grant ticket. Bruce is a colOred man
OF limited education, a native of Vr-
ginia, and Mississippi planter since
the war Hi, term of service as Senator
will expire next March.
A NEWSPAPER in Georgia says that if
the farmers Of that State would devote
less of their energies to the raising of
cotton and give more attention to the
cultivation of sugar-cane, rice, arrow
root, the tea plant, wine-growing, and
the production of early fcuits, vegeta-
b!es and melons for the Northern mar
ket, they would be much more inde-
pendent and happy.
A FORCE of men stationed by the
United States Bureau of Internal Rev
enue il Fanni, Union, Towns and Ra6un
Counties, Ga, to break up the illicit
distilleries in those counties and to
bring the offenders to trial, is being paid
$1,000 month. These men look uyon
their occupation as . "fat Job" and
will hardly apply for . discharge until
the appropriation runs out.
AT the Office of the Commissioner of
Immigration for Florida, were rec ived
on Saturday two letters which were
somewhat unique as to the request. con-
tanned in them. One was from Greek
firm iu London, which wanted q cargo
of orange-wood sticks, and the other
from . gentleman in Kentucky who
wished . water monkey forwarded to
him.
The season for elopements has begun
in Virginia. In that State such even.s
are much more likely to occur during
the cheap excursions in summer to
Washington City and the North. In
deed, Washington is regarded a. sort
of national Gretna Green. In many Of
these cases no cruel parents interpoee
any objections to the match, but the
hypothetical elopement was adopted
with . view Of economy. 1t saved q
wedding outfit and entertainments that
usually follow marriagea
THE Richmond IVA. Slate attributes
the failure Of foreign immigrants to
settle in tie South to the presence Of
the negro as an important element of
the population of that section. On the
other hand the Richmond Wig says:
"trujudice against the negro is indigo.
nous only to the soil they inhabit, and
1t is especially noticeable that the i'm.
migrant clats of foreigners when they
hrst come among us know little or moth.
log of such distinctions until they have
imbibed it from accociation with our.
selves
IT is likely that Congressional Com.
mittee will be appointed to visit North.