Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-09-08
PERSONAL.

Asa Richmond, Jr., left last
Thursday to take a collegiate
course in Lincoln University of
Pennsylvania. We hope more of
our young people will follow their
example.
NC Armstrong, grand district
secretary of Reeds Landing, has
been in the city attending to bu-
siness appertaining to the district
lodges of the G U Oof o F, left
for home last Thursday.
II Clay Jones, city clerk, has
been suffering from a severe at
tack of illness, into which he had
relapsed, but we hope not dan
gerously so.
Hon Fred Kramer our very
much esteemed mayor, who has
been spending couple of months
recuperating in the north, left
Chicago yesterday, to view the
Louisville exposition and then
come home.
NJ Stern left last Sunday for
! the east, to buy his fall stock OF
dry goods, ladies and misses
wear. One of the most compile
test stocks ever bought by him
will be here in Il few days.
Hon NJ w Gibbs, U S land
commissioner, will leave III a day
or two for the north, to spend a
| thirty day vacation with his fam
lily at Oberlin, o., and will meet
the Arkansas delegation at Lou
isville, on the Oath inst.
Arrived from Detroit last Thurs
day, G f Kelsey, U S receiver of
public moneys. Mr. Kelsey has
been spending month or six
weeks in what he thinks may be
called the Arctic region of the
north. he visited Kingston Can
ada, and sailed upon the river St.
Lawrence, finding it SO cold dur
ing the month of August, that he
had to purchase an overcoat
and kept it on every day except
one or two during his ride.
What do you think! DIR.
Geo A Hughes is president Of the
German bank of this city. He
gave the Mansion a pleasant call
last Tuesday and bade us God
speed.
| Mrs Susan Gray is very sick
with bilious fever, but we are
glad to hear that she is improving.
NJ Pollock, left Wednesday for
| the east.
Hon Wood EThompson, super
intendent of public instruction,
{gave the Mansion a pleasant call
last Thursday, and is we are
pleased to say, deeply interested
in the educational welfare of the
colored people as well as the
white. Prof II is southern gen.
tleman to the manor born and
knows the wants of our people.
He has spent the last three
months in arranging for normal
Institutes among all classes, which
he says has worked admirably
well. He says it is very much to
be regretted that colored teachers
will not attend teachers associa-
tons inaugurated for both white
and black, but If they prefer be-
ing alone he is wiling that
they should have a state assoola-
ton of their own. r. Thomp-
son in our opinion, is with the
signs Of the times. says he
admires the Mansic d it's style
Of speaking out tn nth. This
comes from sol .ern tongue e
and a democrat, SO the werd dem~
ocrat don't always mean what it
is construed to mean. Literally
the word democrat and republi-
cans are synonymous when car
ried out as was intended by the
fathers of the republic.
If this government wants to
live it must give the colored ele-
ment "more Offices And par
ticularly should the southland
more especially Arkansas to be
safe, prosperous and respected,
have more Ohio "colored states
men" to hold Office, and fret and
cavil and "cavort" and dictate,
and malign and slander the
courts and the white element
generally. Yes, we repeat, give
I the colored element more Offices,
and let more white women go in
to the cotton fields and truck
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