Huntsville gazette., 1886-04-03
NINS AND sEf1IkFN1.
From Colored Exchanges.


Fred Douglass contemplates es-
tablishipg newspaper
A young mems Masonic Lodge is
under advisement 10 New York.
Mrs. Richard Fl udsop, of Selma,
Ala, boasts Of the earliest and finest
and lettuce Of the sea
son.
Texas Las colored Deputy Col.
lec;or Of Internal Revenue recently
appointed.
The New South Laundry is the
name Of new company doing bust
ness at San Francisco, Gal.
Herbert Clark, son Of Peter II.
Clark, OF Cincinnati, goes to Chicago
as u. 5. gauger.
Our Georgia contemporaries are
urging Col. w. A. Pledger as eau
didate for Congress.
A company has been organized
here to bridge the Mississippi at
this point. Let them push it through
at all haz irds.- Memphis Tenn.
WatchnMD.
There are three men spoken of for
County Clerk in case there is com
promise ticket in this county at the
next election They are j. e. Rect
or, J. E Bush and Judge M. ".
Gibbs. Little Rock Ark. Sun.
The Huntsville, (Ala.) Gazette
has at last raised the Republican Ex-
ecutive Committee Of that State from
the dead and they are ''now about
their fathers works. w Watchman.
Bid Tom, the pianist, has a rival
in Barbara Robinson, Of West Point,
Ga. She is nine years old, uneduca
ted, but plays with wonderful cor
rectness any composition that she
once hears.
Peter G. Graham, colored, pre-
pared himself for the Catholic prit st.
hood at st Mary's College in Ken
lucky. Ga his leaving, the Pr ST.
dent of the College wrote letter pro.
testing against his ordination at Den
yer Col. Father Graham has sued
him for $4,000 in the United States
Court.
There are six colored lawyers prac-
ticing in the District of Columbia.
They are Messrs. O. S. B. Wall. E.
Molyneax Hewett, Jno. b. Moss. T.
B. Warrick, JAS. II. Smith and J.
W. Cromwell. All are graduates of
Howard University except Mr.. E. M.
Hewett. who is graduate Of Boston
University.
The National Colored Press Con-
vention, call for which has been
issued for next month by some gen
tlemen not having proper authority,
appears doomed to be "stlll b m. -
1t may as we'll, if the brains and
learning of the Afro American is to
be misrepresented by men who resolv-
ed that negro shall be written with
"big 'N.'-Cleveland O. Globe.
The colored people OF Virginia are
taking initiatory steps looking to the
holding of grand industrial and
agricultural fair in Petersburg in
October next. Recently they pur-
chased a large tract of land in Din
wlddie county, near the corporal
limits Of Petersburg, where they pro-
pose erecting large and costly exhi-
bition halls. In addition to the
buildings there is to be race track
for racing purposes during the con
tinuance of the fair. The exhibition
will be the first of its kind every held
by the colored people of Virginia
and great interest is being taken in
it by the promint at men Of the rae E
-Ex.
Probably the Oldest African Meth
odist living is resident of Xen1a
the venerable Rev. David Smith. the
first minister to set out on the Ill
nerant tramp under A NJ. +. iuris-
dlction. Father Smith was one b.n.
dred and two years old yesterday.
lie was not one Of George Washing
tons body servants He reads easi-
ly. From the house of Mrs. E. Ga
ry, his daughter. every morning at
D O'clOck-has done SO all uintar