The state journal., 1884-06-28
GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF
Items Gathered from all parts of
the Country.


Steve Anderson, colored, quarrelle,
with his wife and daughter, am
while his daughter escaped through
a window. shot his wife through tn,
heat and then blew out bis owl
brains.
Hon. Geo. w. Williams, coloreC
historian, is writing up a poljtica
novel.
w. Hallett Green, colored gradu
ate of the college of New York made
application for enlistment in the Sig
nal Corps Service. General Hazen
chief Of the Signal Corps, rejected
the application, but Secretary Lincoln,
upon being applied to, demanded
that he be given the same considera-
tion as other applicants.
If the colored voters of Detroit
have any more men "a upright "nd
as firm as Councilman Watson, we
trust they will bring them forward
as candidates for municipal Office. Ii
such men as Watson filled all the
places in the city hall, there would be
little talk of bribery or corruption
Detroit Eoenitg NeaoS.
A ccmp1ny Of colored men in oak
land, Cal, who recently established an
organization for farming purposes,
have incorporated under the title Ct
"Pacifie Coast Stock Raising and
Farming Company" The principal
place OF business is Almeda County,
and the capital stock Of the company
is $4,000, divided into 1000 shares of
SIS each. The paid up capital is al
ready over $1,000.
Arrangements are making for the
fourth biennial reunion of the colored
militia of the United States, to be
held in Kansas City on August A.
The frat Republican newspaper
ever printed in Texas is to be estab
lished shortly at Austin. There is a
Republican vote of65, ,OOOinthe State:
Messrs. Beck, Edmunds and Ingalls,
are said to be the only members of the
present Senate who use snuff, and
even they do not take it regularly.
Senator Logan is the first vice-presi
dent nominated by the Republican
party in twenty years who was mar
led at the time of his nomination.
Among the prominent colored men
who went 10 Portland, Maine, to oifi-
cially notify Mr. Blaine of bis nomi-
nation, were Hon. J. r. Lynch, Perry
Corson, Congressman O'Hara, 2. B.
S. Pinohback and Congressman Small.
A colored woman living in Bruins
wick, Ga, was put off of a train
because she would not ride in the
smoking car on a first class ticket.
She sued the road for damages and
recovered $4,000.
Rev. Mr. Derrick, of New York,
in addressing colored Blaine and
Logan club at a ratification meeting
the other night, said: "That the kind
of soup which fattens white man
kills a negro in politics"
For the last twenty years the mex
ori4ble will of God has through the
instrnmentalitiy Of the Republican
party, preserved this nation from the
long term of evils which would have
inivitably followed the success OF the
Democratic party. We still have faith
in God, and the Republican party
under the leadership Of Blaine and
Logan, and believe that we shall be
saved once again from the devil and
the Democratic party.-hentuchey
Republican.
Ex-Gov. Franklin J. Moses, who
is under arrest in Chicago on charge
of swindling, is under indictment in
Boston for swindling Col. T. W.
Higginsoh out of $4S, and is also
charged with swlndling MIR. A. Will
liams and an ex Mayor of the city.
It is said that Mr.. Blaine's formal
letter of acceptance will not be pub
lished until after the Democratic Ma
tional Convention has been held, anc
that Gen. Logan's letter will be {
short one, leaving the elaborate dis
cussion of public questions to Mr
Blaine.