Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-09-08
SOUTHERN eLEANINoa.


Outwitted the Brides Father.
James o West, q prominent young
farmer OF Refugio county, Tex, and
Miss Agnes O'Brien, of the same coan-
ty, were married at San Antonio, Tex,
recently, under romantic circun.
stances. The father and his daughter
arrived in San Antonio two days be.
fore and stopped at the Southern
hotel. Mr.. West arrived the next day
and soon located his sweetheart. They
met at the hotel secretly and resolved
to get married without delay. Mr..
West got the license, but the plans of
the young lady to escape from
the hotel miscarried, as her father
learned of the affair and refused 10
allow her to leave the room. Mr.. West
hung AROUND the hotel until late at
night when Miss O'Brien managed to
elude parental vigilance, joined her
lover and the two made their way to .
priest, who refused to marry them until
permit nas secured from the bishop
at Victoria, Tex. After some rapid tel
egraphing this permit was secured and
the two were welded. In the mean
time the father of the girl had missed
his daughter and was in hack on the
trail of the couple. He pursued them
to the Southern Pacific depot, and ar
rived there just in time to see the train
pull out with the young couple on board
bound for New Orleans.
The Clinate of the South.
The leading German paper of New
York, Der Auswanderer, is taking a
good deal of pains to make it known to
the Germans of this country and Eu-
rope that they have nothing to dread
in :he climate Of the south. As
is well known, nearly all the
large cities of Europe are in latitldes
north of New York. The Germans,
and other people of the north of Eu-
rope, when they contemplate immigra-
tion to the United States examine
their maps, seeing that the south is
several degrees lower in latitude than
their native land. naturally imagine
that it is almost tropical, and that
the heats of summer are something
terrible. They conclude to move into
the states more nearly in the
same latitude with their homes, and
when they get there, find that they are
| subject to extremes of heat and cold
such as thay have never known. Der
Auswandefer has instituted a COM
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south and that OF Germany, and finds
that they are not so different, save that
the climate here is milder and more
equable 1t thinks that when these
| facts are understood abroad it will
| have great effect in turaing the tide
of immigration from the northwest to-
ward the southern states.
Negroes ssnigrating to Liberia.
The international Migration society.
which was Incorporated in Birming-
ham, Ala, lat February, and whose
object it is to eend southern negro col
onists to AFRICA, has closed deal
through its ms aager, J. R. McMullen,
with a steamship company, and the
first boat will leave about the 18th of
September. The ship will start from
Philadelphia and touch at different
Atlantic and southern ports, and
from New Orleans goes direct to Ii
IBERIA, via Havahe. 1t is expected that
by November 5,o-A negroes will have
been transported, The ruler of Liberia
has offered each family of colonists
twenty-five acres of land and imple
ments to work it with. The society i,
formed on the cooperative plan, and
each negro Whiting transportation
must pay $40. Tie negroes arc wild
over the scheme, and at least 10000
will leave the south.