The state journal., 1884-07-19
GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF
Items Gathered from all parts of
the Country.

| Vi leV' henry V. RUNNER 10 the
senate for the chaplaincy of the 9th
| .. S. Cavalry. This is the first
nomination of colored minister to
such position. He is pastor of Mt
Carmel Baptist church of Washing
ton, D. G.
The people of the third congression.
al district of Louisiana are advocating
the nomination of a colored man fo1
congress.
A. p. Albert, a Howard University
law graduate, will probably go to
Africa this summer in the interest OF
the New Orleans exposition.
The Memphis Watchman says
"The only colored member of class
of slxty-four in the Cincinnati law
college, was ]. w. harge, recently
| graduated and will Immediately enter
upon the practice of law, in the firm
of Fox & Bird, Cincinnati"
The color line seems to have cropped
cut in England. The British Lords
of the admiralty have issued stringent
orders that no negroes shall be en-
tered for service in the navy without
their special sanction.
A correspondent of the Detroit
Pldindealer has been interviewing
the leading colored men of the
country as to Mr.. Blaine's feeling
toward the colored voters, claims he
it was his intention when secretary
Of state, TO appoint several colored
men, ministers abroad and in the
state department IS clerks.
Joseph L. Ferguson, of Detroit,
who recently passed the Civil service
examination, has received an appoint
ment in the postoffice in that city.
There is a movement on foot look
ing toward the holding of a colored
centennial exposition in Chicago, in
1885. Congress is expected to ap-
propriate $55O,0O0.
A Democratic delegate to the late
Chicago convention from Ohio went
crazy upon his return home, the fact
that there being no Ohio man on
either ticket and the defunct final ap-
pendage of the old ticket of 76 being
resuscitated was too much for the
poor fellows nerves.
The Democratic school board Of
Lynchburg, Va, has dismissed all its col
cred teachers from the colored
schools, the places to be supplied by
white teachers.
Notwithstanding the opposition OF
the Washington Bee, Mr.. John
Brooks was re elected as a trustee ol
the colored school.
The colored press convention which
met in Richmond, Va, July 8, elected
MIR. Price Willioms, of Philadelphia,
president and selected Philadelphia
as the next place of meeting.
Savannah Ga, colored people in
dulge in watermelon eating contests.
1t must be hard on the melon patches.
/ A Massachusetts newspaper reports
that the independents of that State
are talking abot running ex Gov. Gus
ton for Governor Col. Goldman tol
lieutenant governor.
The Chicago Times says that Mr.
Blaine's honorary LII. d. means doctor
of legislation, and the honor conferred
is neat testimonial to his skill as 6
"doctor" of railroad legislation.
The newspapers are mentioning
the somewhat curious fact that Mr.
Blaine was for a time teacher in &
deaf mute college, and Mr.. Cleveland
was teacher in an asylum for the
blind.
The Rochester Union confidently
believes that Cleveland andHendrickl
will carry % states, having 255 elec
toral votes. These states are the
solid South and California, Indiana
New Jersey, New York, Ohio ant
Wisconsin.
1t is said that A. A. Whitman, thu
Byron of the negro race, has gone t.
North Carolina.
John Allen, a colored man o
Arkansas, has invented locomo-
tive.-ChriStidn Advocate.
The Hon. John X. Lynch, who wa
temporary chairman of the recent Re
publican National convention a
Chicago, will be the orator of tn
day at the Emancipation Day celebra
zion at Lockport, N. Y, on Angus
12.
Prof. Greener who has mad an ex
tended tour through the south i
giving extended Opinions to tn
press on the prosperous condition o
the colored people of that section.