The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-04-16

MISCELLANEOUS
A REPORT has been received In 81
Petersburg that 10000 Chinese troops have
crossed the AMOR River and invaded Rus
sian territory.
TuE Senate Exodus Committee has
examined large number OF additional W.T.
nesses regarding the status OF the negroes IN
the south and the causes OF their emigration-
A number Of prominent colored men from
Louisiana testified strongly regarding the
! race prejudices alleged TO exist there, and
ayerred that the denial 10 the cclored people
Of their political rights was the main cause OF
,haexodus. Instances were alsocited cfuniust
treatment Of colored laborers by land-own-
- and merchants, and some cases Of actual
hunaozinc that occurred during the State
c.mnaivn az 1879. One witness, coored
ran = slave ND TO the time Of emancipa-
zion. testified that he now owned planta-
rim Of 200 or 600 acres In Caddo PARISH
,xer, stocked. the whole valued at from 81
60 10 $4,000, which he had earned
s;nce he obtained his freedom. he
believed his interests were the same a. those
~ The people among whom he lived, and
sought to harmonic his views with theirs
The witness voted the Democratic
ticLet for the reason his white neigh
hors aid: II the rest Of the negroes should
Al 40 there would be no trouble.
] 4 number OF returned emigrants testified
- ne hardships they had endured while in
"a North and said they had got enough Of
/, The manager OF the Colored Relief As
sociation at St. Louis stated over 1'vv Inn
migrants had passed through the hands o.
4 the Association al that point, and ne thought
I that altogether fully 1900 had located y
: Kansas from the South lie though
4 the movement was on the Increase
i Mr.. II. Case, Mayor OF Topeka, Has
,bought from 5000 10 10000 had come int
shawnee County within the last six months
mt few applications had been made 70 hin
4 - Mavor for assistance, although he be
= l;eved seven tenths OF those arriving neede'
'e .ssistanee. He did not believe the large
; number were improving their condition b
= coming nth. and many would doubles
g ~ glad 10 return II they had the means .
e doinv "a. II. C. Parks, Democrat, publishe
% .rd edi.or Of the Atchison Putrfof, said IN
" neople. without regard to politics, are .
2, opposed 10 this influx Of blacks.
! ANOTHER ship load Of colored EN-
$1,000 - -
- American Colonization Society.
- A DISPATCH from Havana says II
he drought which prevailed for over thr'
he months in the most fertile portions Of Cut
~ has done immense damage. The tobac'
ey crop IN vuelta Abajo Il almost destroyed.
e. |. estimated that the total sugar crop W
I'd not exceed 100 ,Oo0 tons. The insurrection
,er The east Of the island languishes, but ro'
ire berry and vagrancy increase fearfully.
mt THERE were several severe shocks
or e.rthauake At Toxic on the 22d Of Februar
In during which many houses were injured
- destroyed. No lives were lost.
e. 81 THE business portion Of Bradfor
D.. va destroyed by fire on the morni
- ~ The ID. The Academy Of Music and sc
er.l hotels are among the buildings burne
James Williamson, Of Dunkirk, n.
ns burned 70 death. Loss about 900; pr
y, cipally insured.
" REPORTS are current in New 70
-. and Washington that Cuban flibusteri
=. expedition Il being secretly fitted out In Z
country. and that an armed steamship
10 been secured to transport troops from 90
,a~ mort on the Atlantic coast.
lcf- SHREVEPORT, LA-s sunOf0u SC'cs'
m from hurricane on the night Of the
pli- A number Of buildings were blown dov
rib- among them the Colored Baptist Church
ans THE Paris Temps Is informed tina
now note from the Vatican 70 the Government
the on il way 70 Paris, expressing regret at
the measures against the Jesuits, but abstain
,ese from any formal protest, and from any IN
per resembling encouragement TO religious Q
ich, fr.fernities 70 resist the DEGREES Of the q