The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-11-03
SOME WEALTHY NEGROES.
Co:orcd ',rn VINO Fave Amassed Considerab
Worldly Goods.

co!orcd 'ien VINO Fave AmaSsed Considerable
Worldly Goods.
john ". Cromwell, negro journalist
in Philadelphia, has compiled an inter
esting exhibit of the business condition
Of his race in America.
The Carolinas take the lead in the
number of well-todo negroes. North
Carolina has twenty who are worth from
so, ,0C0 to $4,000 each. In South Car
oina the negroes own 80, ,000,0O0 worth
Of property. In Charleston fourteen
men represent 100000. Thomas R.
Smalls is wort, $4,000, and Charles c..
Leslie is worth $4,000. The family OF
Noisettes, truck farmers, are worth
Sl50,000. In the city savings banks the
negroes have 1924, S36.35 on deposit.
One man has over $1,000. He recently
bought $4,000 plantation and paid
81, 600 in cash.
In Philadelphia John Mckee is worth
half million. He owns four hundred
houses. Several are worth ten thousand
dollars each.
The negroes Of New York own from
five to six million dollars worth Of real
estate. ?. A. White, d wholesale drug
gist, is worth a 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
timorc has more negro home-owners
than any other large city. Nineteen men
are worth total Of eight hundred thou
sand. John Thomas, the wealthicst, 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
Lafor, a French quadroon, is worth one
million one hundred thousand. The
Mercer Brothers, clothiers, carry a stock
of three hundred thousand Missouri
has twenty-seven citizens worth a million
dollars Ill amounts ranging from twenty
thousand to two hundred and fifty thou
sand.
The richest colored 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 in business, whose
proprictors represent twenty thousand
dollars each, one fifteen thousand and
nine ten thousand. The Eastlake furni-
trlre company is worth twenty thousand.
A. J. Scott has thirty-tive thousand in
vested in the livery business, and is
worth one hundred thousand, including
a well stocked farm in Michigan. Mrs.
john Jones and Richard Grant are worth
seventy thousand each. \. G. White,
of St. Louis, formerly puryeyor to the
Anchor line of steamers, after financial
reverses, has, since the age Of forty-fve,
retrieved his fortunes and accumulated
thirty thousand. Mrs. N. Carpenter, q
San Francisco colored woman, has q
bank account OF fifty thousand, and Mrs.
Mary Peasants has an income from
eight houses in San Francisco, q ranch
near San Meteo and one hundred thou
sand in government bonds. In Marys
vile, Cal, twelve individuals are the
owners Of ranches valued in the aggre-
gate at from one hundred and fifty thou
sand to one hundred and eighty thou
sand dollars. One of them, Mrs. Peggy
Bredan, has besides bank account Of
forty thousand dollars.
These statistics show that the brother
in black is making some headway in the
world. He is learning to ''tote his own
skillet,