Huntsville gazette., 1888-11-03
NEWS and SENTIMENT.
(From Colored Exchanges. }

upon its fourth year last Saturday.
"The Messenger" Of Columbus,
Ga, is now published sem weekly.
Gen. ssSalomon. ex president Of
Hayti, died last wesk in Paris, France.
JEFF King a Colored man who died
yesterday at Mamie, Ga was 123
years old. He was born a slave in
Virginia.
At Springfield the other day Col
ored butler carried coin on a silver
salver to an organ grinder in the
front yard of the residence.
A little colored boy, thirteen
wears old has been preaching before
crowds in Perry County, Georgia,
and astonishing every one with his
| eloquence and his familiarity with
the Scriptures. Frequently an audi
ence Of 800 people has listened to
his discourses and wondered at the
maturity of thought shown in his SER
mons.
At meeting Of the Directors of
the Hamilton County Loan and
Building Association, Cincinnati,
held last week, Robert Harlan, Jr.
was unanimously elected Vice Presi-
dent Of the association. This is the
first time in the history oflike organ
izations in Hamilton County that a
colored man has been so honored.
Mrs Crane Washington, colored
woman living near Charleston, S. c.,
has given birth to five children dur
ing the past year. Last January
she became the mother Of triplets and
and few days ago twins were born
to her. 1t is said that George was
the father of his country and now it
seems as if Mrs. w. has the com
mendable ambition to be the mother
of large section of it.
A chip of the old block is Freder
ick Douglass, Jr. Mr.. Douglass is a
gentleman of eminent literary attain
ments. an able orator, and possessed
of fine physique. He is often
pointed out on the streets as the SEN
ior Douglass. Mr.. Douglass is a
practical printer and practical man.
-Ex.
Winnie johnson, the heavist cols
ored woman in the world, died at
Baltimore, a few days ago of fatty
degeneration of the heart. Her
weight was $40 pounds and her cot
fin was nearly four feet wide and
three and a half deep. She was
born in Henry county, KY, in the
year 1889. She was married and
was the mother of ten children .-
Little Rock (Ark) Sun.
One Of the students at Wilberforce
College set lamp down on fire ex-
tinguisher last Saturday and dropped
match with which he had lighted the
lamp the on corner Of the extinguish
her. The extinguished took fire and
exploded, causing several others in
the same hall to do like ise. The
building was set afre and was consid-
erably flooded with water before the
extinguishers could be extinguished.
Mrs. Lydia Washington, aged "a
years, was at the Colored Wesleyan
church one night last week and par
ticipated in the revival services,
speaking and shouting in an un-
usually happy way. While engaged
in shouting she sank into her seat and
died. "Aunt Lydia" was famous
about Xenia for being the mother
Of twenty~one children. Western
, Appeal.
A drunken Colored woman had an
experience at the Miflin rect wharf
Philadelphia, that will do her more
good than temperance sermon.
She wandered out into the marsh and
sunk into the mud up to her neck.
A hunter coming along most oppor.
tunely. found head apparently rest"
ing on the surface of the ground
The woman was extracted from the
mud, hose was turned on her, and
she went her way sober and wiser.