The state journal., 1884-06-21
HARRISBURG, PENNAY SATURDAY, JUNE 81 1884
GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF
Items Gathered from all parts of
the Country.
The emvloves of tho Reod;nc road

The employees of the Reading road
have not been paid for two months.
Mr.. George Grant late member OF
the Richmond common council died
last week.
The colored men of Boston formed
the first Blaine and Logan campaign
club in that city.
Thirteen young colored ladies grad.
ulted from the miner high school at
Washington, D. G.
The colored mems convention of
the State of Texas, will be held in
Houston, August 5th 1884.
Bishop Simpson, of the NJ. E.
church, died at hisresidence in Phila
delphia Wednesday morning.
Ben Butler has formally accepted
the nomination OF the Greenback
party for President.
The Harvard boat club beat the
Columbias in o boat race at New
London, Conn.
Benjamin II. Bristow has an
nounced himself as being determined
not to support Blaine. Still they
come. ts
The colored National convention
which was to meet at Richmond, Va,
will not convene as the call has been
withdrawn.
The North Carolina Sentinel has
the name of Congressman O'Hara
prominently displayed at the head of
its colums on the State ticket as
candidate for re- election.
The Howard orphan asylum for
colored children was opened with
appropriate exercises last week at
Brooklyn, N. Y.
By a rare coincidence, it is said, six
clergymen in Charlestown, Mass,
preached on last Sunday from the
text: cam l my Brothers keeper"
A wealthy residentof Lynn, Mass :,
has been sued by lady of his ao-
quaintance for an alleged insult, his
offense being a request for kiss.
Montreal is very much exercised
over the dismissal of a pretty octo-
room from clerkship in large dry
goods house on account of her
color. ..
This wasa somewhat import
ant week politically, as two Republi-
can, eight Democratic, one Independ-
ent and one Prohibition State Con-
ventions were held.
Miss Alice V. Fields, of Mont.
gomery, Ala, set the type for six
columns of reading matter IN the last
issue of the Montgomery Colored
Citizen, her first trial at type setting.
The United States Senate has
passed a bill which is a death blow
to Mormanism, and if the House coz
ours with the Senate that disgrace to
American civilization will be blotted
out
The Boston advertiser editorially
says that no candidate for the presi-
depcy has yet advocated his own
claims to election. The Ad0ertiSer
shows a strange forgetfulncss of Mr..
Horace Greeley's famous stamping
tour in 1872.
Judge David Davis has lost con-
siderable in weight since bis retire
ment from the Senate. "He wears a
full white beard and black slouch
hat. and looks more like weil-to do
farmer from corn belt of Illinois
than a retired statesman and jurist.
The Boston Post appIauds Senator
Bayard's peace speech at Dover, Del,
in June 1861, as that of high mind
ed patriot. and says the prevalent
criticisms of it are "the last refuge OF
the little yelpers of the press who fear
this grand figure in the public service
and are trying to bark him off the
track The Post is blinded by its
enthusiasm for the man.
Senator Edmunds was informed
that the students of Oberlin College
had by vote declared their preference
for him for President, and on the 9th
inst, expressed his gratitude for the
compliment and said: "This and
similar expressions of respect and
confidence are far more agreeable
than the holding of the office referred
to-
Social Affair.