Huntsville gazette., 1886-09-25
NEWS AND SENTIM ENT
{ From CoIored Exchanges }

Arkansas coIorel e iiiO,s meet in
conveL tion.at Little Rock. Otis
= !itor q lon, of th, Marion Ark.
Headlight is member Of the Arksn-
sas legislature.
j Hodge is candidate for AL
dermnn ia Chattanooga
A National Convention of Sunday
School workers meets III Phil .delp phia
Sept 20, 30ah and O;t, l.
5 l. Hntchens, E |. of The Chntta-
nooga Age is the Republican nominee
for the Legislature
Lynchhurg Va, has two success
full c. lored lawyers, K II Merchant
and } w Kincle, admitted to pract-
ice tow months ago. Out Of twsn'y
cases they have l,st only one.
Gov. Lee, Of Virginia. will deliver
the opening address at the Colored
Agricultural and Ildu. .trIal A ssoci-
alton which begins at Petersburg.
Oct, l9
At Memphis. Tenn recently q
mob viSi ed tn. Office Of The Living
Way, threw the type and fnriaturs
into the street AMI took the press to
pie ces. The Living Way is All anti
secret society organ.
The Virginia l. meet says that /.
B. Abbot, O. Hara's opponent for
Congress IS genuine black man
live AMI energetic AMI a good ialker.
Several years ago Miss alia Thorn
as, young colored woman. weIt to
Europe as the Topsy in an" Uncle
Toms Cabin company. She h,s re-
mained in Berlin ever since acting
with a white company, and has
played Topsy in German.
1t is announced that Hon. Peter
III. Clark. OF Cincinnati, will address
the col0red democratic club of Indi-
annapolis son. We advise Mr.. Clark
to bring his opera g .sses with him
he might find some difficulty in
finding them Ind. World
In the recent election the people
in Crittend-n county eltced one col
ored jndge, clerk coroner, asst ssor
and a member of the legislature where
is the counto north, south, east or
west that has none betiei?- Marion
{ Ark Headllnght.
A committee Of Philidelph!a col
ored man want to call national con-
vention Of colored people for The pur-
pose Of taking steps to raise 81 OOO,-
900 TO build monuments in Washing
ton to John Blown, William Lloy
Garrison, Charles Summer, wendell
Hhilips. Abraham Lincoln, Richrd
Allen and other benefactOrs of the
aace.
An African Princess is living in
Hanover county, Virginia She is
IA years oln and lives in the family
Of an Episcopal clergyman, who was
missionary to Western Africa some
years ago She is soou to r; turn TO
her native land to marry the King
aud with her American education is
expected to prove useful Queen -
Peoples Advocate.
Mrs Allen formerly principal of
the primary school, has been engag-
ed as head teacher IN the Colored
Orphan Asylum iu New York ity, At
a salary of 5000 and board. The
Misses Blanchard and Morton, fol-
mrrly in the primary school, are en-
gagged in the same institution at an
annual salary of $500 each and
board Flushing L. l.. journal.
Indianapolis World; Catholicism
for the first time in American history
has an organ conducted by colored
men in its behalf. The American
Tribune, just published at Ci, cinnati
o. has the following to say in its sal
utstory: We will do VIII It no 9th
er newspaper published by colorea
men has ever dared to do give the
great Catholic church hearing. and
show that it is worthy of at least a
fair consideration at the hands Of our
race, being. as it is, the only place on
the continent where rich and noor
black and white, must drop pr4indice
~ Tho Threshold and "a