Editor's stance on negro emigration scheme
The Springfield Republican editor opposes northern agitation to move freed Black people to Kansas. He argues emigration should be voluntary, self-supporting, and regulated to aid settlers already there, not fund relocation schemes or political manipulation. He urges accountability and warns against fostering dependency or racial scapegoating.
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Springfield Republican
Lower
Mississippi
Kansas
South
Louisiana
Various Local Notes Toward Southern Town Spirit
The column collects small town updates from Ty Ty to Bainbridge including corn and cotton yields, weddings, relocations, and civic remarks. Highlights cover Mrs. Leadbetter’s fair bride, Durham moving to Daneon, a boy rescued from a cistern, and praise for Dougherty county’s Fair leadership plus civil monument plans in Thomasville and Albany.
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J. J. Williams
Ty Ty
Cuthbert
H. A. Leadbetter
Baker County
J. R. P. Durham
Calhoun
Daneon
George Bruce
Bainbridge
Berrien County News
W. W. Bacon
E. H. Barnes
John Henderson
Thomasville
Confederte
Idth
Col. Hammond
Albany
Bainbridge Demerat
News
Bainbride
Sallen
Jnc. A. Cobb
Dougherty County
Americus Recorder
Americus Republican
G. B. Hare
Lee County
W. A. Clegg
Niagara Falls to be lit by electric light
The item notes Niagara Falls will be illuminated by electric light. It also lists various disparate facts from debts of archbishops to local incidents and rail news, presenting a mosaic of late 19th century curiosities and municipal notes.
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Niagara Falls
Purcell
Memphis
Tenn
Little Cotton Mills Could Boost Southern Industry
An advocate urges widespread adoption of small cotton mills across the South from the Potomac to the Gulf. Citing Westminster South Carolina’s model, the speaker notes low startup costs, water power, and farm funding, with mills producing yarns daily and potential savings on ginning and freight. Possible sites in Albany Baker County and other Georgia counties are proposed to harness Flint river power and local cotton supply.
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E.J. Johnson
Macon
White
Augusta
M. A. Murrow
Georgia Vining
Rutledge
Vigal
Troup
Lunatic Asylum
Thompson
W. A. Pryor
Sumter County
J. T. Smith
Scratchins
Sumters County
W. H. Huntley
LaGrange
Carver
Europe
Augusta Chronicle
Burke County
Georgia
Early County
J. W. Alexander, Sr
Early
Primus Jones
Baker County
Jim
Bob Reynolds
Sycamore
Hawkinsville
Irwin County
Americus
Kate Sothern
C. B. Howard
Reynolds
Collins (White
Muskogee County
Wilkes County
Talbotton
Talbot
Macon Telegraph
Central Railroad
Central Road
Montgomery and
Eufaula
Central Line
Wadley
Saaleville
Nashville
General Grant
San Francisco
York
America
Massachusetts
Little
Wif
Easton
New York Produce Exchange
Annie Mason
Beaver
Ager
Supreme Court
Keinasha Summit
Denver
South
Potomac
Gulf
Westminster
S. C
Mississippi Valley
Albany
Couch’s Dam
Dr. Tlands
Same County
Newton
Cordray’s
Calhoun
Clegg’s
Lee
McLelland’s
Worth
New England
Ty Ty Letter Highlights Wool Trade and Local Happenings
In Ty Ty Georgia May 30 1879 the Albany News reports a wool industry boom with prices from 27 3 to 30 cents and a comical train sighting where a corpulent man chased a departing train. The piece notes snake news Maj J A Owens and a new restaurant, two fishermen tallying seventy three bream, and New York Times crop forecasts predicting a strong year with export surpluses and rising wages.
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Albany News
Ty Ty
Brady’s
Brunswick
J. A. Owens
John Mathis
Cad. Clements
Clements
Mathia
The
New York Times
Union
Pacific Coast
W E Smith Denounces Veto and Federal Troops at Polls
Georgia Democrat W E Smith denounces Hayes veto as partisan and warns that federal troops at polling places threaten free elections. He argues civil officers can maintain peace and urges withholding funding to resist enforcement of disputed laws. If opposition politics call this revolution, so be it.
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Augusts Chronicle & Constitutionalist
Atlanta
John W. N. Underwood
Rome Courier
Colal
W.E. Smith
Georgia
Mr. Hayes
Hayes
Congress
Democratic Party
A Canadian Agricultural Creed Emphasizing Small Farms and Stewardship
The Canada Farmer reports a Canadian agriculturists convention adopting a creed. It champions small farms, thorough cultivation, deep plowing, and proper manuring. It praises owning a good farmer, industry driven fertilizer, sound fences, sturdy farmhouses, and orderly barns, with a focus on kindness to stock and sensible management of grain and tools.
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Canada Farmer
Agriculturists of
Canada
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