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Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25
NEWS AND SENTIMENT.
From Colored Exchanges. J
Detroit Free Lance.

Detroit Free Lance.
DR.. John NJ. Brown, of Kansas
City, son of Bishop Brown, died
FEBRUARY 4th.
The citizens of Chicago will tender
Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis benz
eft on March 1st.
Mr. Charles E. Dillon, son in law
of DIR. B. I. Tanner of the Church
Review, is dead
The Kansas Globe is booming Hon
John NJ Brown, of Topeka, for Sec
retary of State.
There are five Afro-A merican stu.
dents at the Newton Center mass. J
Theological seminary.
Mrs. Katie Campbell Beckett, the
daughter of Bishop Campbell. died
in Philadelphia February End
Charles l.. Mitchell, the inventor
Of the Phonoterian which was recent
ly exhibited at Boston, has received
a bronze medal and diploma.
Master Joseph Douglass, grandson
of Fred. Douglass, is becoming a
vel y proficient violinist. He will be
sent to Italy to perfect himself on the
instrument.
Miss Halle @. Brown, elocutionist,
Of Wilberforce, has established sue
cessful classes in elocution in Louis
vile, KY, and New Albany, which
she meets twice each week.
Prof. j. I. Bailey, editor Of the
Sun, Little Rock, after sustaining a
creditable examintion has been ad-
mitted to the practice Of law in the
courts of the State of Arkansas.
Mrs. Cora White, of Chicago, hav-
ing been refused the privilege of
riding in the elevator of the Grand
hotel, corner of jackson and Clark
streets, has entered suit for $4,000
against the proprietors.
Despite the protest of the preju-
diced Mr.. Thomas H. Murray, an
Afro American teacher of acknowl-
edged ability, was elected principal
of the James Forten school in Phil
adelphia last week.
The Afro American members OF
the Virginia legislature visited Pres
ident Cleveland to invite him to
Virginia on the occasion of the next
fair o. the Colored Agricultural and
Industrial Association,
c. H. Jones, the Afro American
stone cutter Of Richmond, who sur
prised the council by undertaking
the other contractors for laying the
curbing in that city, has in spite of
an attempt at intimidation, qualified,
and will soon begin the job.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

J. G. Johnson student of the
Chattanooga University was Knocked
in the head and killed with a hickory
base ball bat by fellow student, NJ
McGill, last Wednesday. The muir
derer escaped. Speaking OF the hor
rible affair the Times remarks,
"WHEN our school boys engage in
homicidal amusements it should be
time to call halt and take our bear
ings. The readiness Of their elders to
shoot, cut or use bludgeons on each
on each others heads and the laxity
with which the law is applied to fel-
onious assaults and murders, these
are teaching the rising generation
that the courts are farcical things,
and law musty bumbug, maintained
chiefly to excuse the payment OF
salaries aud fees to an army of Off
Gals"
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25
A Canadian Wall

OTTAWA, Ont, Feb. Accommodating on
the fishery treaty, the Free Press SAYS: AS
The Americans have now secured by the
Chamberlain treaty almost all tn. advan-
5ages they woull have obtained by a treaty
Of reciprocity without giving an equivale. t
Of any kind, it is not likely that they will
very anxious to make any concession. All
that Canada had to offer in return for the
free admission of our products to the Amer
ican market has been virtually given away
for nothing.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25
A Building Crushed by Snow.

PEsHTIGo, Wiz, Feb "a - Newton
skating rink, which was recently converted
into stores, collapsed last evening, killing and
inJuring the four workmen engaged upon it
at the time. Their names are: Richard
Morey, aged SIXTY, killed, leaves family in
poor circumstances; Joseph L. Newton, aged
sixty-five, hurt internally; Joseph Newton,
aged twenty-on thigh broken; William
Ponko, aged twenty, chest crushed 1t is
impossible to tell at present whether Joseph
Newton and Ponko will recover The rink
was fifty by one hundred feet The crash
was caused by the great weight of snow on
the roof
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25
The Industrial Reform Part II

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-After a series IT
very disorderly sessions of the Industrial Re-
form party-forty five men and four women
"a presidential ticket has been agreed upon
as folows A. E. Redstone, of California,
for president and J. A. Calvin, of Kansas,
for vice president.
This is not the same party that nominated
Mrs. Belva Lockwood for the presidency in
1894, but it is its legitimate political heir and
successor, and Mrs. Lockwood is numbered
among its originators and founders, although
she is not participating in the present con
ventiOu
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

ST. LOUIS is highly elated over the
selection OF that city for the holding Of
the National Democratic Convention
Chicago is mighty small potato just at
present in the minds OF the average St.
Louisian.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

al bOt IL " " II, IL u w :
greeted with a salute of twenty-one guns
and the acclamations of an Immense con-
course of people The party was escorted to
the st. James hotel by the state militia, the
reception committee III carriages and band
playing patriotic airs Mayor Barbridge
rode in the carriage with the president and
Mrs. Cleveland, which was decorated with
flowers and evergreens. At l:30 o'clock,
after the presidential party had taken lunch,
the marshal of the day, Maj Harkishimer,
with twenty aids, formed the procession in
the following order:
First division Police in platoons, the mar
shall and his aids, the band Of the First Flor
ida battalion, the presidential party in car
riages the carriage of the president and Mrs.
Cleveland being drawn by six black horses
Wilson's battery mounted as special escort
to the president the Second Florida bat
TALON, the congressional party in carriages,
the press association in carriages, invited
guests in carriages.
Second division-Key West band of col
ored men, the Uniformed Knights of Pythias,
the Independent Order Of Red Men, the
Perry guards of the colored state militia,
the Duval guards of the colored state mill
tia, Jacksonville Typographical Union, No.
| 162, and the Jacks nvil,e fire department.
| Other organizations and citizens generally
| followed. The line of March was along the
principal streets, which We're gay with doco-
rations, of all kinds, including evergreens,
| bunting, festoons of oranges and orange
| flowers Masses of people in holiday attire
| lined the route and it is estimated that 100,-
| 900 citizens and visitors witnessed the pro-
cession, including thousands of northern
| tourists.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25
HELP FOR THE SUFFERERS.
Provisions by the Carload Going to Mount
Vernon.

Vernon.
MOUNT VERNON, H., Feb 24-Carloads
upon carloads of provisions are coming every
hour, but they are all needed The money
relief is not prompt enough, and unless the
people contribute at once there will be much
suffering.
The various relief committees have been
thoroughly organized and are doing a noble
work. There is some talk of erecting larg,
barracks in the center of the town where the
homeless may live until they can obtain bet
ter accommodations. Hundreds of working
men are arriving with every train and more
are needed.
There will be steady employment for at
least 5000 laborers for the next month or
two. The weather remains mild, hut a
storm would cause untold suffering. Large
money contributions are needed at once.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

WE note among our new exchanges
"The Weekly Negro World" publish
ed at Knoxville. Tenn, by Patterson.
Elms, & Go. 1t is very neat, and
readable sheet, and we wish it much
success
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

We have recently seen an illustra.
ted edition of Sam. P. Jones Ser.
mons, and our readers should avail
themselves of the opportunity offer
ed them to get the Interesting book
Of sermons of this wonderful evange-
list, through the agent now canvass
ing the city Mr.. A. J. Fleming.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25
a somnambuIist's Dangerous Freak.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Feb 24.-Iast
night, as passenger train on the Cincinnati
Southern road was running at the rate of
thirty les per hour, just south of Lansing.
Tenn, c. w. Jewell, a somnambulist, arose
from his berth in the sleeper and walked
through the car to the platform and stepped
off He was badly hurt Tewell lives at
Rockwell n c.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

Ten colored men were put on the
police fol ce Tuesday. We are heartily
glad of such a movement, and hope
that a few of our race may be retain
ed permanently-Mobile Ala Week
lY.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

john D. Barnes, Of Chattanooga, was
convicted of voluntory man-slaughter'
and sentenced to five years in the peni
tentiary. An appeal was taken and he
was released on bond which was fixed at
$4,000
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

AN worthy effort is on foot by the
colored people to erecta monument
to Abraham Lincoln at Washington.
1t is an undertaking for which every
colored person should feel pride in
making donation in keeping with
his or her means.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

Now is the season tor our farmers
to turn over a new leaf, and diversity
their crops. Too much cotton does
not pay. more hogs and hominy is
what the county needs.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

If there is any thing you want
done. You must either do it yourself
or use every possible argument and
endeavor to get some one else to do
it you cant pass the Blair bill, but
you can speak and write for it pas
sage.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25
Prominent Politician Dead.

New YORK, Feb 24-Mr. John E. Deve
lin, a prominent member of the county De
mocracy, died to-day at his home in Wash
ington Heights in the upper end of the city
He was lawyer of considerable note al
figured extensively in politics.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

THE Mormons are at work proselyting
at Montevallo in this State, and it is ru~
mored that converts to polygamy are
being manufactured out OF the illlterate
Sand mountaineers.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

SHERIDAN is not troubled with the
residential bee He says he would
not accept Presidential nomination
if of cred to him.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25
A Feather-Weipht CI,a,nu,on Mead

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 24.-Charles Mccoy,
feather weight champion of Pennsylvania,
died in this city Wednesday He had de-
feated Tommy Barnes twice, Denly Co5ti-
gan, Nitchie Golden and other well
known men, Mccoy died from consump-
ton
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25
The House.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24-The house was
caued to order by Mr.. Clark, its clerk, who
announced the forced absence of the speaker,
and ON motion of Mr.. Mills, of Texas, S. 5.
Cox, of New York, was unanimously elected
speaker pro tenn. amid a round of annlause
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25
BROUGHT TO LIGHT,

The recent chemical Investigations made By the National
Food Analysts have brought light fact which will h
of special interest housekeepersthatt the Cream Of Tartar
used by the Price Baking Powder Company the Durest
made in the world The crystals from the finest cranes
imported direct from the vineyards of France and when
freed from all impurities used by them in the manufct
Of the celebrated DR. PRICES CREAM BAKING
POWDER.
No better proof Of the purity and wholesomenes ~
DR.. PRICES CREAM BAKING POWDER and SpF
CIAL FLAVORING EXTRACTS can be offered than that
they recommended by the following Heads Of the great
Universities and used by the United States Government
Prof R OGDEN DOREMJS, NJ D. l. I p, Bellevue
ProfH C. StaeC Chemist University Georgia q
R. KEDZIE, President Lansing
Prof H. NJ SCIIEFFER. Analytical Chemist St Louis No
to the Felh,B BROOKLYN
CURTIS HOWARD
R. A. A. NJ. D., University O. M
Prof A. H. SABIN Chemist Burlington Vt
Prof JOHN BOHLANDER. NJ NJ D, Chemistry andTo
and
Pof AUSTEN WILBUR,
Prof GEOBGE BARKER Prof Chemistry University
PETER COLLIER Department Agriculture
D C.
Prof Pharmacy
Dr. JAMES ALBRIGHT
EDGAR Of Texas
E. w Prof
DR. HEINRICH DETTMER Chemist
Prof GILBERT Chemistry University
Prof H LONG Professor Chemistry, Chicago Medical College
GA Chemist Chicago
Prof M DELFONTAINE, Analytical hmht chicago
Prof R. S G. PATTON Late Chemist Health Department
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

WRITE to your Congressman to
urge the passage of a bill relief of
the Freedman's Bank depositors.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 25 1888

The house has passed the bill apprc-
priating $500, 900 for public bnilding at
Birmingham.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

THE Blair bill must be kept before
the attention Of the country. The
House will aim to smother it.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

THE A M. E. General Conference
will convence at indianapolis in
MAY.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

OK some time the people of
this city have been preparing
for the arrival of the presi-
detial party. The presiden-
tial train arrived here yester-
day afternoon, and was
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" FORTUNES OF THE PARADAYs,"

" The Fortunes of the Fdraddys," Dos
ton, Lee q Shepard). is one of the charac-
teristic novels of Amanda M. Douglas, whose
books we have noticed on several previous
occasions. 1t is the story of physician with
large family of children, in good position
in society, and the story reveals the many
expedients which were adopted to maintain
their standing in the social world.
"The Faradays" were constantly "turn-
ing corners" to make the best of outward
circumstances; and the story of their man.
agement is made interesting because so near
like that of many other people. They were
on the road to good fortune in the ordinary
course of things, when an unusual combina-
ton of circumstances made them independ-
emit. The story is not very profound and
there is nothing very sensational in it from
beginning to end. Bot like all of this writer's
novels, it is wholesome reading, and can be
commended for the high moral purpose per-
vading it. The father and mother are fine
characters, and we'll outlined also Mel Col
laston, the nephew, who, in the development
of the story, inherits and nobIy relinquishes
fortune which had once been DIR. Faraday's,
but which comes again into the family by the
marriage with Nan. On this incident the
main interest of the story turns. The plot is
simple enough, but is very pleasantly worked
n.
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word of God, passage of his holy
scripture just engrossed; each voice
that speaks for justice. purity and
mercy, from whatever race and sect it
proceed, it will answer back with joy:
We are one;" it will hail every effort
toward better things as inspired of
God, and every sincere worker as a
messenger and helper sent from him.
1t will go into street and market-place,
as it has not yet done, wiping out many
sin of expediency, establishing con-
science, and giving standing-room and
exc Tcise to principle. 1t will go from
out its places of languid rest to seek
the poor and give them the blessing of
comfort; to the wrong doors, to lead
them to the right; to the mis- directed,
to put their feet in plain way; to the
rich, to show and lead them to the do
ing of sweet charity; to the philosophic,
to show them God as the end of all phil
osophy; into all the ways and byways
OF the world, to teach it that in the
laws Of God and conformity to them
alone, is found the satisfaction and the
life which the highest welfare of man
kind demands. With wise counsel for
the bewildered, respect for every man
whatever his estate, sympathy for all
conditions, and universal helpfulness,
the church, "a spectacle to the world,
to angels and to men," shall show it.
self approved of God and gain the ap-
proval of men.
The Universalist Church: How
great its influence has been, how much
greater it might and must become
All will be accomplished as it rises to
the greatness Of it's duty. awake,
put on thy strength, o Zion ~ The
strength thou hast attained by seeking,
praying, working, blessing, as thy Mas
ter did: open the door of thy Holy of
Holes, and reveal to men in thy in
most court place for every man, an
opportunity for his every power, life
for every spirit. So shalt thou fit man
to dwell on earth and make earth meet
to be called court of heaven.
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THREE FAMOUS HYMNS.

The following details about some of
our best known hymns are taken from an
article by Elsie M. Wilbur:
The history of "Asleep in Jesus, bless
ed sleep" is very simple and in harmony
with the beautiful lines. Margaret Mac
kay, its author, was visiting a cemetery in
England. In reading the various inscrip-
lions she came across plain stone, bear
ing these three words, sleeping in Jesus"
The stiffness and beauty OF the spot, the
unobtrusive stone, with it's message as
from the dead one beneath it, SO calm, so
tranquil was it not enough to inspire
one with the thought, "Asleep in Jesus,
blessed sleep, from which none ever wake
to weep?"
Doubtless when Cowper wrote, "God
moves in mysterious way" he felt its
force and meaning throughout his whole
being, as no one has ever since felt it. It
was written during that sad period of his
life when his mind was slowly leaving
him and he knew it. Believing that he
was destined to end his life in the River
Ouse, he started on his melancholy, self
imposed duty. For some reason he
could not find the spot he was searching
for as his grave, and was obliged to go
home unsatisied. It was Immediately
after his return from the melancholy err
rand that his peculiar but greatly admir-
ed hymn was composed. In Cowper's
case God had indeed moved in mystic
rious way his wonders to perform.
If Toplady had written no other hymn
than Crock of Ages" he would have been
famous. There is scarcely a hymn that
is as widely known and that commands
as sympathetic an audience. 1t has been
translated into Turkish, and is sung in
that language in the Armenian churches,
while through the Christian missions in
China, the oppressed Chinese women
have been given this hymn in their own
tongue to sustain their hope through
dark hours.
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HUMAN FORGIVENESS.

A painter named Romney, Kendall
man, in his youth, with the consent of
his wife, went up to London to seek
his fortune. When he got there, with
out any wrong intention at first, it hap
pened that he did not say anything
about being married. By degrees that
man got on; he became rich and fash
ionable, was courted as great painter,
and lived in Cavendish square or some
aristocratic region of that kind. For
forty years that man lived in London,
and during that forty years he never
went back to Kendall once, nor did his
wife see him. During the first years
travelling was not easy, and there was
an excuse for him; but by-and-by,
when the means came, the will was
gone. He never went back once; he
never wrote to that faithful woman
once; he never saw her once. o Prodi-
gal He had no thought for the fond
heart and the true soul at home. Sure
ly he was the m eanest of men At the
end of forty years sickness came; the
body failed; madness overlook him;
and then, broken in body, diseased in
brain, stricken, smitten, driven home
by calamity, and not by penitence,
back went the wretch to his wife. And
what did the woman do? Did she shut
the door and say, 100 late" She
might have used these words, and who
could have blamed her2 But not she.
She took the man in. She waited on
his dying hours; she nursed him ten
DERBY; she watched the fast-ebbing
brain; she closed his dying eyes; she
laid him in his grave; she did all this,
and gave him no word of reproach. In
the history of mans meanness there is
no meaner chapter. In the history of
woman's glory there is no more glori-
Gus page. Has not He who has put
such power of forgiveness into a hui
man heart everything to attract us in
HIMSELF George Dawson.
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THE CUP OF COLD WATER.

1t is hardly an exaggeration to sa
that two-thirds Of all that makes it
beautiful to live" consists in cup-offer-
ings Of water. Not an hour of life's jour
ney but is rendered easier by their fresh
ening, or harder by their absence. Why2
because most of us are burden-bearers of
one sort or another; because to most of
us large part of the journey is dull,
trivial trudge, because there is much dust
upon the road, and-not SO many bad
places as probably we think-yet many
commonplaces; and it is load and dust
and stretches of the commonplace that
makes one thirsty. If the feeling on one
shoulder were of wings instead Of load;
if on Monday, sin some good cause not
our own, we we're marching singing to
battle, and on Saturday were coming
back victorious, then the gree tings on
the way would make less difference to us
But as it is, we crave the roadside recog-
nitions which give praise for the good
deed attempted, pity for the hard luck
and the fall, hand lift now and then to
ease the burdens chafe, and now and
then a word Of sympathy in the step, step.
stepping that takes us through the dust
And this is all that most OF US can wait
to give, for we, too, are here on business
You cannot step my journey for me, can
not carry me on your back, cannot do
me any great service; but it makes
world of difference to me whether do
my part in the world with or without
these little helps which fellow-travelers
can exchange.
81 am busy, Johnny, and cannot help
it," said the father, writing away, when
the little fellow hurt hls finger.
"Yes. you could. you might have said
'Ohp" sobbed Johnny. There's Johnny
in tears in side OF us all upon occasions.
The old Quaker was right. st expect
to pass through this world but once: If
there is any kindness or any good thing
/ can do to my fellow-beings, let me do
it now 1 shall pass this way but once
An arm of aid to the weak,
friendly hand to the friendless,
Kind words so short TO speak,
But whose echo is endless
The world is wide, these things are small.
They may be nothing. but they are all,
-"1he Faith that makes Faithful"
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BIBLE ORIENTALISMS.

One of the marked peculiarities of
Oriental speech is exaggeration. Such
speech is not intended to be taken
literally. The Bible, as an Oriental
book, is sure to give illustrations of
this Oriental popularity. If they were
not to be found there, the Bible would
lack one of the evidences Of its verit-
ableness as book written by Orientals,
primarily for Orientals. Thus, when
the inspired Evangelist says that, if
the things which were done by Jesus
were written down, "the world itself
would not contain the books that should
be written" he is using an Oriental
form of speech, which no Oriental
would think Of accepting as literal
ism. A similar Orientalism is found
in the statement in the Duran: eff
the sea were ink to write the words of
my Lord, verify the sea would fail be-
fore the words Of my Lord would fail"
So, again, when our Lord says of a
person who causes a little one to
stumble, cit is profitable that great
milestone should be hanged about his
neck, and that he should be sunk in
the depth of the sea-" his words are
clearly not intended to be taken as a
literal statement of a fact, but rather
as the suggestion of an important
truth. One of the Bible Orientalisms
which has been discussed, perhaps,
more than any other, is that of the
camel's going through the needles
Sunday School Times.
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Three children, the eldest twelve and
youngest three, found horse caught in
a railroad bridge near Piedmont. Mo. 1t
was toward evening. and passenger train
was soon due; SO the little ones made a
small bonfire of brush on the track, and
when the train came in sight, waved burn
ed branches. The engineer stopped the
engine, the horse was removed, and the
train went on.-Golden Days.
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VOICE CULTURE AND ELooUuoN. William T.
Ross, A. M. New York. The Baker &
Taylor 90. Revised edition. $50 PIP. Price,
cloth, SLIPS.
This book is designed for a text book for
the use of teachers in the higher schools. We
Judge from the many fattering notices it has
received from teachers, East and West, that