The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-29
no.. 9
l.-Is-.ERICt,N !. NEGROES IN AFRICA.
t.a:n and i'ever, Thiskey and irdolcDce
lead 10 Suffering.
from, ,h. S.w York Herald

- t.a:n and i'ever, Whiskey nnd indolcDt
= Lead 10 Suffering.
From the New York Herald.
The tirht little bark Liberia has ar
G. rived st The Empire Stores, Brooklyn
a after an excellent passage Of thirty. tv
X cavs frorr Liberia, Africa. There ar
cr board some American colonists wht
IS are glad to return, and q cargo which
= includes palm oil, coffee and hides
:. sad 50 az .ortment parrots, monkeys
> sq6 Snakes. According to the &C
:. coun,s q Mate Natterson, of the bark
!. and Others on board the vessel the
I condition Of the colony Of American
Y rsgrces which was established years
! sc II Liberia is lamentable. 1t ap-
E r-ars, il iact, that the experiment OF
, kfrican colonies for colored people
t from the United States has proved a
} faiiule. Mr. Matterson said:
: "There is scarcely single American
negro N Liberia that is not longing to
return TO the United States, but with
ffos exceptions, they will never have
,;'e means TO do SOFAS rule all who
con are leaving. The scheme isa mis-
taxe. They are all right SO long as the
njgration Society feeds them, which
il does for sis months. During this
sine they sleep and eat and enjoy them
! sc,ves, butShen thrown on their own
resources their condition is pitiable.
They live on potato peelings, banana
.G;ns-on anything, in fact-snd their
laziness is beyond description.
"There is nc currency in the ooun-
try. There are all the forms ofgovern--
nent-PresiGent Senate and so on
but that is ell. The fact is the negro
will not work. All work is done by the
coast natives, or Kroo men, who are
hsrdy and industrious.
TOO LAZY TO WORK.
"The country is fertile if it receives
any care; the missionaries grow very
| fair coffee, bananas and sweet potatoes,
! and rice and cassada grow freely if the
ground is only scratched, but the
American negroes won't scratch it. 1t
| rains for half the year in torrents, and
then the heat sends up poisonous fever.
However, most of the whites who go
there help the fever robly by drink
ing liquor, which is fatal when taken
in excess. Mrs. Dr. Huehler is in the
cabin. Her husband, missionary,
died there lest October. Poor lady,
she has had 8 hard time of it. She hes
been dow1 twice with the fever, and
he: little airl has been i'll with it too."
saw n, S. huebler, a handsome, in
tellectua, Josing lady, accompanied
by little golden-haired girl about Z
years old. Her pale face bore sad tes.
;in.or., 10 ner Liberian experiences.
lis. L:ueb!er said:
I'VE bsiong to Springfield, Ohio.
Ny husbsrd was a physician ald
missionary. he went to Liberia about
:wo 7ears ago: and I joined him there
.ssy year. Ny husband died of fever
in October, and my little girl and my
sell have been i'll nearly all the time,
and en- now returning home to my
father.
What Go think of the prospects
OF he colony? I think the colonists
w aid :,li Ike to return here if they
could. They are too lazy to work;
r. 10y :.2re -a@!:cy and Independent ~Nar-
DO Shey ;ee.a to stand the climate any
Be: ses than the whites. I believe
me regroes who settled in Basau, a lit
!!e way in The interior, have nearly all
died.
HowTEE NATIVES LIVE.
Missionary David a. Day has
sclool and farm called the Mullen
berg Mission. This is about thirty.
two NJ es . the St. Paul's River, where.
scrle eight or niue native children are
:eG aaG tacght. The Kroos are intel
'ic9nt. iIey wear no clothes usually;
bu, wnen they come to the mission
they rusU 10 so as necessary condi-
.ioa. They are wonderfully sharp at
bargaining, and you cannot get an egg
from taem for less than two cents.
Tiose tribes which live in the bush
aro different from the Kzoos. They eat
when they can get it, lie down and
sleep, 10 matter where; wear no clothes
IL. oily have any houses, and you
Tuu;J wonder what they want money
for-brt t,:ey DO, just the same.
There are 10 cattle of any kind,
so, GO 7 think cattle would live there.
G,ha heat is intense after the fearful
IA IS, and aheD comes the fever. Africa,
however, l believe, will be a great
country some day, but the average
1irlerican negro will not succeed there.
Ii ere are 3 few families, however,
shat have done we'll"
4 Mrs. Massey and her son were on
ooald the vessel. They are returning
to South Carolina. They have been
three years in Liberia and have had
enough of it. Nearly all who are
there would follow their example if
they only had the MEANS" said Mrs.
Huebler, "but they never will"
BOYS SENT HERE FOR EDUCATION.
Four black eyed and very dark-skin-
ned little natives Of Africa were taken
to Castle Garden from the Liberia yes
terday by Inspectors WMtlock and
Eichler. They were sent here en-
routeto Nashville, Tenn, where they
are to be educated by Mrs. Sharp,
Methodist missionary, who has spent
some years among various African
tribes.
The boys were dressed in neat jack
| cts, flannel shirts and knee breeches,
woollen stockings and leather CATERS.
TREE of Item wore wollen campaign
CO os, CT .,oo' which appeared the
! words ''E.rrison and Norton" The
lh:rG was "Cleveland;' cap. They
could alls2eas English, and Deems,
tie eldest led, Is years old, who had
boe- lam 1 Benjamin Payne at the
}, ission; sa;d his father was chief of
t tribe to hich he belonged. The
other hes were Frank Payne, 13
! r.srs: Cioarl Haven. S. aad Harold