Huntsville gazette., 1889-09-28
NEWS AND SENTIMENT.
(From Co!ored Exchanges.)

0SSAA 80 SSSANesAON 90 wiz paw VA
thusiastic ON the subject of silk cul-
ture in the South and left for Phila-
delphia to arrange for securing Ia
loom for his work. He is endeavor.
ing to dispose of stock to further his
enterprise. as well as to sell lots in
his projected settlement of Lpwery
vale. He also desires to secure the
aid of industrious families as settlers
to work on mutual cooperative
basis.
Richmond, (Va.) Planet: Colored
men are not clamoring for white
wives, neither do they desire to court
white mems daughters. Thanks to
the blue blooded white men of Vir.
ginia we have from the whitest to the
blacklist on our side of the line, and
can marry to suit ourselves. You
can carry the news to Hannah.
Mr.. William Thaw, of Pennsylvan,
ia, wealty philanthropist, has left
in his will $40. 900 for the Freedman's
Bureau, and 1000 tor Berea Col
lege. Both of these bequests will 60
exclusively to the benefit of col0red
people.
Catharine A. Hoffman, a we'll
known member of the Society Of
Friends, who died recently, left an
estate valued at over $4,000. By
her will. which was admitted to pro-
bate last week, she bequeathes 81, 900
to the Home for Aged and In6rm
Colored Persons.
Eatonville. Florida, with a popu-
latiolp near.ey 1000, is composed
entirely ofcolored people, not white
person in the town. Mayor, council
and other officers are colored. The
Eatonville Speaker" is published BY
j. E. Clark, the founder Of the town.
A colored Farmers Alliance was
organized at Eatonton this week,
with a membership of three hundred.
They will open a general merchan-
dizing store, and have elected a pres
ident. manager and other officers to
run the concern. This step in the
right direction, and should be fol
lowed by our people all over the
State. Tribune.
The suit of VIM. w. Ferguson OF
Detroit and M. F. Walker, the ball
player, against restaurant keeper
of that city for a refusal to serve
them on account of color, resulted in
a mistrial in the police court, the ju-
ry failing to agree. Mr.. Ferguson
announced his intention of commen-
ing civil suit for $4,000 damages
Mr.. Rudolph B. Scott, who was
elected delegate to the convention
that recently organized the new State
of Washington, was formerly business
manager of the Chicago Conservator
for one year and the first colored man
ever appointed mail agent in Illinois
He was also a delegate from Yates
county to the New York State col
ored invention held at Troy in the
Greeley campaign.
| Collector N. w. Cuney took
charge Of his Office at Galveston last
month. He has made the following
appointments; DR.. Geo. NJ. Patton
deputy; ]. Cuney, chief clerk; Mau.
rice Gross cashier; D. Davis, marine
clerk; Joe Wilson, Jr., day inspec-
tor; Mr.. Bell, deputy collector at Sa-
bine Pass; Mr.. Sharp, deputy collec-
tor at San Bernard; w. Sheets, and
E. M. Russell, day inspectors; j. H.
Burnes, temporary inspector on
duty.
The Detroit Plaindealer says that
Miss Fleming, who was appointed by
the Missionary Union to 90 to Afri-
ca, has now sent young African
girl to this country to be educated
This girl, the young women in the
Estey department Of Shaw Univer>i.
ty have been supporting for some
time in Africa, in Miss Fleming.
school; as consequence they named
her Estey and as the University is in
one of the Carelinas, they called hel