Huntsville gazette., 1886-05-29
NEWS AND SENTIMENT.
From Colored Exchanges

Ohofod Dnptlsts are said 10 num-
ber $50, 900.
Ex- Minister Langston is being
doomed for Cngress in Virginia
Fred Douglass ia on an Eastern
lecturiDg tour.
w. r Davis Of Washington has
applied for patent for cigar stand
with receptacle for ashes.
Washington d. G. has the only col
ored Lutheran church in the United
States.
Four of the brick masons brought
from New Orleans to take the place
Of striking uuion men in Mobile Ala.,
were set upon stoned and fired at, IN
til they had to SEEK refuge in house
aud procure, police protection.
While BE- ing pursued, one Of the New
Orleans men. James Gaines, mnlat-
to. returned the pist fire and kept
the crowd at bay until his comrades
had reached place of ssafsty. y.-Ex
One of the signs of the times is in
dicated 10 a series of articles being
published in the Atlanta (Ga.) Def
ance. \ colorsd paper, contributed by
"a Bourbon Democrat" of Alabama
in reply to some articles contributed
to the same paper by Bishop II. NJ
Turner Argument of this Kind is q
marvt llous improvement upon arsu-
ment by the shDt gun-O. Globe.
Tobacco blindness is becomsng o
common affliction. At present there
are several persons under treatment
for it at one London hospital. Ii
first takes the form of color blindne.s
the sufferers who have smoked them
selves into this condition being quite
unable to distinguish the color Of a
piece Of red cloth held up before them.
Sometimes the victim loses his eye
sight altogether Although smoking
is to large extent the cause Of the
malady, and so gives it its name,
heavy drinking is also partly respon-
sible. Flushing Journal.
Mr.. A. E. I. Draper has presented
to the Knoxville Tenn College q
beautiful aud costly gold medal, to
be known as The first yearly plize
given by q colorsd man to an institu.
tion of learning of which we have any
note: and Mr. Draper, in mskiui
this contribution in the interest
highar education, has done more t.
perpetrate an honorable memory, il
his own behalf aud stimulus to mer-
torious youth than could innre to hi.
credit by any other act. May be live
to see the fruits of bis grateful mag
nanimity!
One or t~o Of our exchanges seem
to get the cramp collie because the
colored press is not unit in every
particular. It. would be as impossi
BILE as it would be fol all or any kind
Of newspapers, devoted to certain in
terest OF classes, TO be unit except
on one vital issue. The vital issue Of
the colored press is the advancement
OF the cause Of the Afro American !;
"a to the manner in which it is to be
accomplished or the best measures to
be adopted thereto, there wi nee
cssarllv be a diversity of opinion.
THE bodes no i'll omen for either the
race or its cause. There are no other
papors published distinctively for
class or race more united to a single
purpose than the colored journals o.
the United States. Their opinions
no doubt on questions of state. trade
or politics. are perhaps sometimes
erroneous and false, because as hu
man beings their editors are not in
fallable. For this reason We wish to
be called to account for any misstate
msnt or incorrect reasoning that any
of our brother journalists may find in
our editorial columns Detroit Plain
Dealer.