The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-01-28


whom he killed some years ago.
The FATAL RESULT OF SURGICAL
OPERATION ON A MIDGET. Syracuse,
n. Y. Jan. l6.-About two wears ago
Miss frankie Thompson, of this city,
was married to Charles q. Roberts, while
they were travelling as members OF the
same company in the West. Miss
Thompson was 80 years old, weighed
about 40 pounds and was only thirty
inches high. Roberts was six feet tall.
They travelled together and exhibited at
museums in the West and South. AT
8 clock this morning Mrs. Roberts was
| taken severely i'll and physicians were
summoned. They found that she was
about to become mother and, 10 order
so save the little woman's life, they de-
termined to resort to the C9sarian oper
ation The condition of the patient im
mediately after the operation was favor
able, but this morning her recovery is
hardly looked for.
The child was perfectly formed male,
its weight being II pounds, but it lived
only short time Mrs. Roberts father
was dwarf, only 3 feet 3 inches tall. He
was married three times and had by his
first wife three children, by his second
none, and by the third eleven. Among
the number was frankie When week
old she weighed only only pounds, IN
Guiding her clothes. When she was 6
years old P. T. Barnum offered her
father So, 900 for the privilege of show
ing her in New York, Philadelphia and
elsewhere for year.
A later telegram states that Mrs. Rob
erts died yesterday.
For THE CoLoRED PEOPLE
.ionary services VII special reference to
the work among the colored people were
held last night in Emmanuel Church.
Bishop Theodore b. Lyman, Of North
Carolina was the first speaker. He said
he was much interested In the religious
condition of the coored people OF the
South. He felt that he was speaking to
people who understood the condition OF
things down there better than those at
the North. When they were emanci-
pated, being without education and al
most every other advantage they fell
naturally under the guidance of the old
plantation preachers of the Baptist and
Methodist denom nations. Religion with
them was entirely emotional They have
cut loose now from the white Baptist and
Methodist churches, but he was glad
there had never been any attempt to form
a separate colored Episcopal church. The
Episcopal church desires no separation
The people must be helped or they viii
be degraded. No one except South
erner can have any idea what cOloIed
meetings in the South are. There never
was a greater mistake than to suppose
that the Episcopal church is not adapted
to the needs of the colored people. 1t i.
pre- emnently so. Its doctrine is SO plain
and simple that any one can understand
it. Bishop Lyman said the co!ored peo-
pie must not be left to themselves They
need above everything Christian educa.
ton A training school for colored
teachers, with an endowment tund O
$40. 900, has been established In New Or
leans, and theological department ad
J ded to it, From this school fifteen min
, listers have been ordained and sent torrh
| and are working successfully. There are
! ten colored ministers in North Carolina
and there is great need for more. a
colored man is as much needed for {
minister as a white one. The sum O
l Sc, 600 has been received for this school
2 but there is need for at least 81 ,OO(
7 more to erect the necessary buildings
After the war there were tour and hal
millions of colored people, now there arr
t six millions, and of these very few have
/, any just idea what religion is. 1t is the
: duty of the church to strive to draw
them away from fanatieism and ignoI
e ance, and to teach them what Christian
d ity really is.
: Bishop Thomas U. Dudley, Of Ken
: lucky, followed. He said the burden c
: this matter rested with the people of tn
!. South. 1t was idle and preposterous
:, talk of the colored people SO far away.
It Baltimore american.