Huntsville gazette., 1883-04-14
NEWS and SENTIMENT.
From Colored Exchanges)

Thankful. !,
The NJ. E. Church at Danville, Tenn.
burned last week t8 :,
A colored Odd Fellows Hall will be built
at Edwards, Miss.
The North Carolina colored editors will
organlzs Press Convention at.Goldsboro,
May 8. 9.-------------
A Congregational Charch was organized
at jackson, Miss, last Sunday
The new secret order "oon and Dangh-
ters of jacob is tlhurishing in South Car
olina
Normal and Industrial School was ded
icated last week ut Aiken S. G., with I'M
posing ceremonies.
The Wilmington, n c., colored schools
receive sc, 232 of the school tax, nearly
double that of the white schools.
Yellow springs, Ohio, recently slected
colorcd Town Marshal and also a colored
Councilman.
President Arthur mist step TO the front.
His appointment Of = few colored n4en to
petty offices i'll the South will not be con-
sidered as a token Of his friendship f.r the
Z, GOO, coo negroes III this country Boston
Leader.
Let us drop the color question and COM
nence an honest discussion Of the prob
lens which underlie social and political
government.-The Globe.
b. C. @. Benjamin, the first colored law
ger TO do SO Ill Virginia, has applied for
and obtained "A license to practice law at
Albemarle county bar Good enough .-
The Echo.
Step by step we are advancing, slow it
seems, it is true yet We are advancing II
The day will come when we Will be ack-
nowledged az the peers of other people. -
70 that end it is the duty of every honest
man to dedicate his best efforts -Lonis-
vile Bulletin.
| The Ale bama Christian Advocate gives
it as its oliuion that Dr.. Galloway, would
never have leen honored with member
ship in tie Victoria Institute, Lad he not
decided to spend and b. spent in the inter-
est of the Brother in Black" He is the
only Southern preacher ever thas honored.
christian Recorder.
The only sure means to be relied upon
by colored men are the means of educa-
ton. That, and that alone, can make them
strong and manly. Ten cents spent in
scattering sound ideas, are uf moro dura-
BILE fleet than ten times as many dollars
spent on Brass bands and Haunting ban.
ners Kansas City Independent
Tuesday afternoon We attended the demo
cratic convention. We wanted to see how
a negro delegate to a Democratic conven-
ton would appear. We saw Gaston, the
delegate, sitting solitary AID alone in the
camp Of his friends. Hs could not com
plain OF want of room, because plenty
space was accorded him. The only time
any notice was taken Of him was when ii
came to the casting Of his ballot. Kansas
City Enterprile.
Mrs. 4 McDongall, whose excellent let
ters from the South in the New York WIT
NESS, have been SO widely read, reached
Selma about the Doth Of last month, and
after spending about week i'll the city
and vicinity, left for Texas. Mrs McDou-
gall is an able writer and an earnest warm
hearted christian lady. She is 1t present
resident Of Canada, though calls Ireland
her home.
Both States are Democratic, and yet be-
hold the difference II North Carolina
efforts arc being made to deprive the color
ed children of the benefits of an educa-
ton. In New York, especially il the city
OF NeS York, arrangements have been
made to have white and colored children
together attend the same public schools. -
The Africo American.