The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-11-03
SOME WEALrHY NEGROES.
Colorcd Mcn who Have Amasscd Considerable
Worldly Goods.

Colorcd Mcn who Have Amasscd ConslderobI,
Worldly Goods.
John w. Cromwell, a negro Journalist
i'll Philadelphia, has compiled an inter.
csting exhibit of the business condition
of his race in America.
The Carolinas take tho lead in the
number of well-to-do negroes. North
Carolina has twenty who arc worth from
1000 to $4,000 each. In South Car
DINA the negroes own $4,000, coo worth
OF property. In Charleston fourteen
men represent 100000. Thomas r.
Smalls Is worth $4,000, and Charles G..
Leslie Is worth $4,000. The family of
Nolscttes, truck farmers, are worth
$150,O00 In the city savings banks the
negroes have $l24, S36.35 on deposit.
One man has over $4,000. He reccntlv
bought $4,000 plantation and paid
81, 900 in cash.
In Philadelphia John Mckee is worth
half million. He owns four hundred
houses. Several are worth ten thousand
dollars each.
! Iho negroes OF New York own from
live to six million dollars worth of real
estate. L. a. White, wholesale drug
glst, Is worth n quarter Of a million and
has an annual business Of two hundred
thousand. Catherine Black is worth
one hundred and fifty thousand.
In New Jersey the negroes own two
million dollars worth Of real estate. Bal
tlmorc has moro negro home.owners
than any other large city. Nineteen men
are worth total of eight hundred thou
sand. John Thomas, the wcalthiest, is
worth about one hundred and fifty thou
sand. Less than hundred negroes in
Washington are worth total of one
million.
In Louisiana the negroes pay taxes on
fifteen million dollars in New Orleans.
and thirty million in the State. Ionic
Lafon, French qladroon, is worth one
million one hundred thousand. Tho
Mercer Brothers, clothicrs, carry stock
Of three hundred thousand. Missouri
hes twentyseven citizens worth q million
dollars in amounts ranging from twenty
thousand to two hundred and fifty thou
sand.
The rich est colorcd woman of the
South, Amanda Eubanks, made so by
Will of her white father, is worth four
hundred thousand dollars, and lives near
Augusta, Ga. Chicago, the home of
eighteen thousand colored people, has
three colored firms III business, whose
propretors represent twenty thousand
dollars each, one fifteen thousand and
nine ten thousand. The Iastlukc furni-
turc company is worth twenty thousand.
"A. >. Scott has thirty-fvc thousand in
vested in the livery business, and is
worth one hundred thousand, including
well stocked farm in Michigan. Mrs
john Jones and Richard Grant arc worth
seventy thousand each. A. G.. White,
OI ST toI1iG fnrn,rl,, Al
Anchor line of steamers, after financial
revcrscs, has, since tho age of forty-fivc,
retrieved his fortunes and accumulated
thirty thousand. Mrs. NJ. Carpenter. a
San FRANCISCO colorcd woman, has q
bank account of fifty thousand, and Mrs.
Mary Peasants has an income from
eight houses in San Francisco, ranch
hear San Metco and one hundred thou
sand III government bonds. In Marys-
vile, Cal, twelve individuals arc the
owners of ranches valued in the aggre-
gate Mt from one hundred and fifty thou
sand to one hundred and eighty thou
sand dollars One of them, Mrs. Peggy
Bredan, has besides a bank account Of
forty thousand dollars.
These statistics show that the brother
III black is making some headway in tho
world. He is learning to ''totc his own
skillet"
T"' Children Married-rhc Happy Inion OF
Youthful Pair m New Sork.
James Brown, retired produce dealer
living at No. 3i5 East Eight-six street,
had his son Milton, sixteen years old,
arrested for stopping away from home
over night, The lad was arraigncd in
the Harlem court yesterday morning.
"A rosy little girl, fifteen years old,
watched him through fearful eyes from
the spectators seats. Justice Power
asked the lad what he staid away from
homo for. "Iour father says you are
an lncorrigiblc boy, lie said, severely.
81 am not boy, sir, was the respect
man, and believe it is my duty to live
with my wife. That is why | staid away
from home"
Your wife, did you say" exclaimed
the justice in astoniShment. You don't
mean to tell me that yon are malricd?"
"Ics, Judge, replied the lad ~ was
married Monday night, and there is NV
wife, pointing to girl in the spectators
seats, who blushed and smiled through
her tears
The patcrnal Brown was equally as
tonishcd. He said that he had no idea
his boy was married. However" he
said, "let him go with his wife if he
wants to" The little girl bounded from
her seat, kissed the Juvenile husband
heartily and the couple marched proudly
out of court. Until last Saturday tho
salary of the younger Mr.. Brown was
four dollars week. He is Cooking for
a job, now,--New York World.
The Molhers Righi 10 Her Ciiid.
TO the question, Has mother any
right to the babe whom she has borne at
the peril Of her own life? the heart of