The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-01-08

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Condition OF the
Kansas Exodus.
ters.
Rush, Shelby and Hanc0cR
Counties, to receive their
lnstallment.
Topeka, KS, Dec. 31,--A stat
correspondent of the Chicago Inter
Ocean, who has been making an in
vestigation of the exodus in Kansa.
during four weeks travel through ths
State, writes letter from here giving
his conclusions. He estimates the
number of refugees in the State al
fifteen hundred, of these he thinks
probably one fifth were able TO buy q
little land and are making good prog,
ress in farming. Most Of the balance
have found, thro' the Freedmen's re-
lief association, places as laborers and
are giving good satisfaction. La no
county did he find them applicants or
burdens upon corporate charities but
the demand for these laborers has
been stretched to the fullest capacity,
as the accumulation Of the refugees at
the barracks-nOw nearly seven hun>
dred, for whom no places can he found
clearly indicates. Judging from
what he has leaned from the refugees
themselves, and from the increasing
number, now from twenty-five to
thirty arriving every day, the Inter-
Ocean representative predicts that the
movement to Kansas will soon assume
such proportions again as to astonish
the country, and unless the tide can
be turned or the charity of the north
more readily bestowed, the suffering
which the relief committee, although
laboring faithfully with the means at
their command, has not been entirely
able to relieve during the recent cold
weather-will soon be turned to gen.
eral destitution and great suffering
among the pauper refugees.
THE EXoDUsTERs IN INDIANA.
indianapolis Sentinel: As au EN-.
issary of the Sentinel was resting cos
lily upon a seat of the evening train
of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and In.
dianapolis railway, returning from a
merry Christmas" and just after
passing Rushvilie, a short, thick-set
negro, with pair of fine check pants,
and large, fashionable boots upon an
enormous pair of pedal extremities,
meandered up to the red-hot stove,
when the following conversation took
place between the colOred gentleman
and an inno.ent Hoosier yoatt:
rs dere any colored families in
Morristown dat you knows Off"
"Wa-al' l don't think there is. ;"
"Well. you see I'm looking for
homes for desc immigrants, and have
a lot on de way dat mus be provided
fer. So you say dere is none DART"
"None that know Of
About this time we began to bristle
up, and, Strengthening out we invited
him to a seat.
"You say you are looking for
homes for emigrants?"
eyes, sir; is"
"Where are they FROM"
"From Norf Carolina. sab"
"And what might your name be!"
"Perry, sab. / guess you've heard
of me before"
Yes; I've heard of you, and now /
want you to tell me something about
this movement. "What have you
been doing at Rushville" !"
"Well, they's promised to take
twenty families thar, and we are go.
ing to tribute about two hundred fam
lilies through that country"
"And now you're going to populate
with them 7"
"Yes; we want to put as many as
We can in Hancock county"
"Well, how about the Shelbyville
trouble? Are you going to put any
there?"
"Yes, we 'spects to put about two
hundred dar this week. Those Dem:
ocrats that got mad thar hab got over
their spell, and we sheets Uncle Sam
will see that we will land safely"
At this juncture the conductor put
in a question.
"Are you going to have them arm
sdf"
"Well, / don't know. We 'spects
to land 'em dar, anyway"
"Well, what is your object in bring
ing them TO Indianai Why don't
you take them to Ohio, or some other
northern State that needs laborf"
This was a kind Of sticker, but he
got out of it by replying that be had
been here q long time himself, four or
i've years, aid was born in Norf Car.
Diina, and saw that Indiana was the
place for my people, and went down
there and lectured to them; told them
to save their money and get out of
this land of bondage and slavery"
"Well, who pays you for this rum
ming around?"
81 don't get anything
swell. now, that is a little thin,
amt it? You certainly can't afford to
spend your own money!
"Well, ! tell you. The Baltimore
and Ohio road pays me SO much for
every hundred | bring over their road.
They give US less than half fare. and
we charge half fare and 80 much per