Huntsville gazette., 1884-07-26
NEWS and SENTIMENT.
(From Colored EXchanges)

|
Sun-do Move Jasper recently celebrated
his ~ Birthday.
| Philadelphia has colored letter carrier
recently appointed-J. R. Ballard.
st. Joseph's Advocate claims about 1900
colored Catholic converts in Maryland.
| About two. thirds Of the 130 colored news
papers are published in the South.
Miss Henrietta V. Davis thu Washington
cold. elocutionist has been delighting
Richmond Va. audiences.
H. Price Williams, of the Philadelphia
| Pilot was elected President of the Press As
sociation.
John G. Jones, of Chicago. is writing
biography of prominent colored lawers in
the United States.
Colored Democrats are as scarce as as
hens teeth,-N. Y. Globe.
Rev. N. G. Merry. Pastor Of the First
Colored Baptist Church at Nashville, Tenn.
died Monday July IA, of paralysis.
Congressman O'Hara will be .orator Of
the day at the Ann Arbor, Mich. Emanci-
patton celebration Aug. l.
Samuel T. Mitchell of Springfield, sue
ceeds DR., Lee es President Of Wilberforce
University.
Ex-State Treasurer Cardozo is now prin-
cipal Of the Washington cold. High School.
Mr.. Blue. cold. patentee of a new corn
shelter has been offered So. 600 cash for his
patent from Baltimore Hardware firm.
We can see no other cause for the rejec,
ton of Washington and Binford by the Uni
ted States Senate, except their color
Nc tgomery Citizen.
| "Iie bloody shirt should be buried"
shout, Democratic organ. Yes, and with
it should be inferred the ku klux, the bal
lot ,box stuffer and the tissue ballot fraud
Detroit Plaindealer.
1t is rumored that Hon. T. F. Cassells,
Judge Latham and other prominent Repuh-
licans will run a republican paper during
the campaign.-Memphis Watchman.
The Cleveland, O., Board of Education
reelected last week two colored ladies, Miss
Cora M. Bean and Miss F. w. Trapp, to
teach in the mixed schools. Chicago has
one, st Paul one, and two small towns in
Michigan.-Ex.
Blaine and Logan will lead the Republi-
can party to q victory, and the Hon. John
r. Lynch, a representative colored voter
and southern Republican, should be made
a member of the Cabinet et-Cleveland (OD
Gazette.
Mark Twain says that he is always ready
to drink with niger, provided the niger
does the treating. But Chicago Demo-
crat is always ready to drink with niger
and gets mad if the niger offers to pay for
it. Ark Mansion.
Capt. Beverly Dodson, a well known col
ored Democratic politician, will leave this
city on Tuesday. as delegate from Califor-
MIA to the Chicago Convention in the i'll.
terest of Justice Field for the Democratic
nomination for President of the United
States. San Frisco Elevator.
Mr.. Henry Boyd, of Selma, who has for
some years been Route Agent from Selma
to Pine Apple, has been transferred, and is
successor to H. V. Cashin, Esq on til. E.
t., V. & G. r. r., from Selma to NJ. ridian
Miss. Selma Pioneer.
We regret most sincerely the failure of
Messrs. Binford's and Washington's con-
70 GA ta,.f fhr
gentlemen and the Post will try and fur
nish the public with the cause of their de-
feats in our next issue. Dallas Post
Every measure which the Republican
Congress has enacted into law for our BE-
hoof has been declared to be unconstitu-
tional- by Republicans, not by Democrat
Ijudiciaries. The colored people will sup
port Blaine and Logan, bnt they will not
do it because nothing better is offered to
them.-N. Y. Globe.
Sammy Lang Williams, colored gradu-
ate OF the Lapeer high school, has been
awarded second prize for the best general
essay by Columbia University at Washing-
ton.-Lapeer Democrat
There is a colored man in this city, John
Allen; who has little locomotive of his
own make which works like charm. He
is in possession Of piploma awarded by
the State Fair. We have found this loco
motive perfect in all parts, and Mr. Aliens
genius should be encouraged in such a
laudible enterprise. We would call our
North Carolina friends and Gen. T. M.
Chester's, of this gentleman as a suitable
person to build their first engine.
Rock ARK } herald.
The Richmond Va. Daily Wing gives R.
G. 0. Benjamin Esq, congratulatory no.
tice on his successful conduct Of the case Of
Ex,ailxr E,,ltz aiaa &c