Huntsville gazette., 1883-04-07
NEWS and SENTIMENT.
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From Colored Exchanges)

Race prejudice is rare in Chieago.-Er.
Kentucky has Eve colored papers
Rumor says Fred Douglass is engaged to
. charming Washingtonian. ~
April 18th, the colored people OF WASH
ington will celebrate Emancipation Day.
Consul Astwood is in Washington nego-
tiating loan for San Domingo.
Our people in Philadelphia have thirty
ing day Nursery and Kindergarten. g
Fred Douglass has been selected as ora
tor of the day for the Washington Emanci-
patton Celebration. -
The colored Military companies Of Geor-
sia will have grand drill in Atlanta ia
May.
An aged colored woman Of Savannah,
Ga,, has bought slO0 farm from proceeds
of sample cotton picked up on the streets
Miss Edmonia Lewis, the celorsd sculp>
tress, who lives in Rome, has finished for
Baltimore church large bas-relief IN mar
ble, showing the alteration OF the infant
Christ at Bethlehsm by the Aagi.
A Harvard student recently invited
colored waiter out for subtraction and was
most soundly thrashed.
Gov. Butler of Massachusetts has just ap-
pointed Mr.. Jas. NJ. Tretter to position
of honor, as one of the managers of an im-
portant State institution. No other Gov
ernor of the grand old commonwealth nas
ever made an appointment OF such honor
from among us.-N. Y. Globe.
Hence our advice to our people is to give
the party of Lincoln, Sumner. stevens,
Garrison, Fred Douglass. Phillips and Of
old John Brown long pull, strong pull
and pull altogether, and our word for It,
you will have no cause to repent your Ia
Dor. .-Kansas City Enterprise.
1t is worthy of note that wnile the South
western Christian Advocate, organ OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church, in New Or
leans, made Christian light against caste,
lives and prospers, the Methodist Advo-
cate, Atlanta, Ga, who fought in behalf Of
caste, has died the death. Christian Re
corder.
The latest account is that Mr.. Rapier
still holds his position as Internal Revenue
Collector, at Montgomery, Ala, through
the earnest efforts of Hon. B. K. Bruce,
and other leading eolored men. Mr.. Ra-
pier is one of the representative colored
men of the South, whose influence as a
staunch, honest Republican reader in Ala
bama, is above reproaeh and the only rea-
son why such underhand attempts are
made to remove him, is because he is a
colored man.-Savanaab Echo. sft
Uncle Scott, the venerable colored at
tend mt upon the Federal Court of Mem
phis, was for twenty FIVE continuous years
a porter at one Of the leading hotels. He
is familiar with the face of every planter or
traveller in the surrounding country for
hundred miles away Sam Williamson
the barber, another of our prosperous col.
ored citizens, was a bootblack in the old
Gayoso hotel during the war. MANY is
the time" he says, Il blacked Grants
shoes and when he handed out a quarter
OF half dollar, he forgot the change. -Er
About two years ago Uncle Abram Seals
col, found pocket book on the street, he :
longing to Mrs. Geo. Schafer. It contain
ed 81. so in gold and a check fer $780, The
old man carried the book to Mr.. Glenn Har-
ris. and it with It's contents was returned
to Mrs, Scbafer, and the old man amply
rewarded. A few days ago he went to MIR.
Harris with another pocket book, which
Mr. Harris examined and found to contai n
$45 and valuable notes and checks, amount
ing in all to S215. 1t belonged to Mr. E..
n. Roberts, real estate agent. The book
and contents were returned to Mr.. Rob
erts, and the old man Was again well re-
warded.-People' De e',se.