The state journal. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1883-1885, 1884-04-26
GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF

IL. ii. flsher and w. Lowry, OF N.
c., are two of the wealthiest colored
men in the State.
Miss 81. Vintor Davis will shortly
be given a benefit at Ford's Opera
House, in Washington, D. g.
Mr.. Quarrells, the colored lawyer
of New York, is defending Charles
Rugg, the accused Maybee muir
derer.
A sewing machine agent, of Cleve-
land, has eloped with a colored wo
man. A white man with good
taste.
Jordan Thompson, Anderson Tay.
lor aud w. Harris are the colored
delegates to the National convention
from Virginia,
w. S. Wilson, editor of the Amer
lean Citizen, of New Orleans, has
been nominated as Republican can
didate to the Legislature.
Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Tyler and Martha
Washington are the only wives of
former presidents whose portraits are
hung in the White Honse.
Col. William Murrell, formerly
connected with the Baltimore Yin
dictator, has accepted the manage
ment Of the Washington Bee.
A new building costing $41, 1000 is
nearly completed for Biddle Universe
ty, an institution for the education of
colored people, in Charlotte, N. G.
A young mau in Braintree, Vt.
has just received bequest of SIS 900
from an old gentleman, a stranger,
to whom he did chance favor few
years ago.
Edwin F. Horn, of the Indianapolis
World, has been elected Senator
Benjamin Harrisons alternate for
delegate at,large to the National Con
vention.
Mr.. William McIlvain and wife, of
Reading, Penna, celebrated their
golden wedding on Friday last, and
are now to start on a "bridal tour to
the Pacific coast.
Quite a number of States are elect
ing delegates to the Pittsburg con
ference and the National Colored
convention to be held in Richmond,
Va, in July.
Rev. Alfred Vedder, young cler-
gyman, of Albany, N. Y, has been
indicted for completely in case of
malpractice and sentenced to three
years imprisonment.
The $4,000 colored voters of Ohio
failed to get colored delegate to the
National convention. The 10000
colored voters Of Pennsylvania ex-
tend the hand of sympathy.
Representative Chappelle, colored
member of the Massachusetts Legis.
lature, introduced bill, which has
been passed, preventing insurance
companies from discriminating against
color.
Yale College has graduated only
three colored lawyers the fourth,
Thomas, of Memphis, Tenn, will
graduate in June. Only two colored
doctors hold her degrees: Creed of
Pennsylvania, and Thompson, of
Paris, France.
A Washington correspondent of
the Springfield (Mass.) Republican
gives currency to report that ex
Secretary Blaine has told his friends
that his nomination would be fatal
to Republican success, because he did
not believe that it would be possible
for him to carry New York.
T. J. Matthews, Wesley Clayton,
w. w. G. Allen, J. W. Longstreet,
J. M. Hancock, F. G. Greenbury,
Charles Richardson and Exon
gresham J. r. Lynch are the COL
ored delegates to the National con-
evntion from Mississippi.
Ohio sends Rev. Mr.. Pondexter,
j. P. Green, Colonel Harlan and j..
Dewell as alternate delegates to the
National Convention. Ohio smelt
powder in the air. The colored men
helped to beat the republican COVER
nor IN the last campaign. "A llttle OF
the same medicine ought to be ap-
piled to Pennsylvania.
Miss Ophelia Bright, by her father
Solomon Bright, has entered suit
against w. H. Patton, president OF
Howard University, and NJ. E. Hunt,
Matron. 1t is hoped that both Dr.
Patton and Mrs. Hunt will be com
PEELED to justify the wrong that they
have committed. = Washington i'd
UOcdte.
The Blair bill appropriating sos,
600, 900 for the establishing and sup.
port of common schools throughout