. The Southern States. in spite of all herfaults, that I could have better spareda better man. I saw Liz the other day, and she hada bit of a black baby on her arm. Why, Lizzie, whose child is that? Iasked. Mine, she answered promptly. Hitspaw ain no count. Hes done lef he ain gwine live wid no sich fly-up-de-crick—may or no may. But Igwine to fotch hit up right—and in-deed the little thing did look clean andwell cared for, as it lay blinking on itsmothers shoulder. The idea of Liz fotchin up any-thing right seemed irresistibly funny;though Ive no doubt the monkeymothers that we watch t


. The Southern States. in spite of all herfaults, that I could have better spareda better man. I saw Liz the other day, and she hada bit of a black baby on her arm. Why, Lizzie, whose child is that? Iasked. Mine, she answered promptly. Hitspaw ain no count. Hes done lef he ain gwine live wid no sich fly-up-de-crick—may or no may. But Igwine to fotch hit up right—and in-deed the little thing did look clean andwell cared for, as it lay blinking on itsmothers shoulder. The idea of Liz fotchin up any-thing right seemed irresistibly funny;though Ive no doubt the monkeymothers that we watch through the barslondliii!j their wrinkletl l)abies think LIZ; A CHARACTER SKETCH. I8l they are bringing them up irreproach-ably. I asked her how she was training itjust now. O, I hoops hit, she said, an asser-tion which was flatly disproved by her look of fond pride at its small, aged-looking visage. I hoops it good; ymus y know. Dat wat ail me—Ididnt git nough wen Is little.—Fromthe New Orleans The Southern Outlook. The Governors Immigration Procla= as can be found in the world—cypress, oak, mation. walnut, ash, maple, pine and the like—fit in the highest degree for ship-building, house- The full text of the immigration proclamation building, and for all the uses of manu- which was issued by the convention of Southern facturing. Governors in Richmond, April 14, is as follows: Agriculture.—The soil and climate unite to The States represented at this convention give these States unsurpassed adaptation and comprise substantially the Southern half of the capacity for the productions of agriculture. American republic. The territorial area of Tobacco, cotton, sugar, Indian corn, wheat, these States is 875,720 square miles. The rye, barley, oats—all the cereals—are grown population as shown by the census of iSgo here in profuse abundance. Nowhere in the is 22,279,670. world does the earth yield a more prompt. Its eastern and southern exterior limits


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