The state capital., 1891-09-26
News of the AfrO-Am m ef'1-
cans All Over the
Country.

nd meet SlaVen.
Several colored men have purchased
cottages at White Sulphur Springs, va.
Of the 900 members belonging to the
Plttsburg Hod Carriers Union, 6oo are
colOred men.
Blind Boone, the colored pianist. VIII
be managed this season by Mr. Johh
Lange, of Columbus, Mo-,
At Vicksburg jury of twelve white
men has just given Negro elected from
a train car, $4,000 damages.
At Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, John
Ell. Webster, a Negro, was killed py all
officer while resisting arrest.
There is said to be (colored) preach
er candidate for congress in every con-
gressional district in Alabama.
Mrs Sallie McLendon, of Fordyce,
Ark, died recently, aged l4O years,
lie wing an orphan son, aged 20.
San Francisco has cOlored firm, G
r. Person q Co., that does large busi-
ness in electrical appliances OF all kinds.
The teacher O. music in the public
schools of Tecumseh, Mich, is Miss
Dora r. Frayson, a young colored lady.
Frank Ward, the champion colored
bareback rider, has signed with Sells
brothers circus for tour to Australia.
Sergeant Henry F. Washing, of Com
pany E. Twenty fifth infantry, u. ). A,
is now stationed at Fort Buford, n. D..
J. Wesley Hoffman has been recently
elected proffPs or of natural science IN
the State university at Louisville, XIV.
The two Afro-American murde' ers,
Chas. Large and William Ball were exc
cuted at Lake Charles, La, last Friday.
Nearly all the large towns of Mississ-
ippi are making efforts to secure the
Mary E. Holmes school for colored girls.
One hundred years ago there were in
the South "a ,25S colored people to every
| 00,000:white people; to day there are bu;
4l ,476.
The African 1a~er has again broken
out in Atlanta. Ga. and hundreds OF col
ored people are talking of emigrating tt
| Liberia
Prince Momou, son of the king of the
Vey nation, of West Africa, is a student
of Meharry medical institute at Nash
vile, Tenn.
Over 800 cOlored ministers were pres
ent at the fnneral of Bishop JabeZ Pit
| Campbell. SIX Bishops participated IL
the services.
| Bishop Foss has sustained DIR. Thorne
| in his refusal Of membership in the M. t.
| Church of Asbury, Iowa, to a cOlOreC
barber named McCracken.
Cato Thompson, one of the richest col
ored men in Newark, died there about
three months ago, leaving five grow
children to share his property.
William Oscar Armstrong, coloreC
man hailing from Boston, was nominal
editor audito .of the state, Wednesday, by
The prohibitiunists of Massachusetts.
j, Madison Vance, Esq, an Afro
| American lawyer of New Orleans, Is tbt
attorney for four labor organization!
tnat pay him 1000 year simply as re
tainer. He is also paid tor every case h'
pleads.
| The total income of the Tuskpgee In
Stitute, at Tuskegee, Ala, for the trs
year amounted TO So. III 81. This is thu
largest sum of money handled by any
AfrO-American institute in the United
States
Rev. viii on f. Boone, d. D. has re
signed the presidency of the Baptist Uni
vefsity at Independence, Mo-, and th'
pastorate of the Metropolitan Baptis
church, Kansas Ci y. Mo-, and accepted
call to Lawrenc Kan, where he may
be addressed in future.
| Hon. j. p. Green, of Cleveland. wht
was the guest of the Amalgamated Coun
ell of Trades on Labor Day, in Cincin
natl, was refused his meals i'm the dinins
room of the Gibson House. The commit
tee promptly secured quarters at tile Bur
nett House where he was properly enter
| tanned.
"Auntie" Tilly Hunter, of Milwaukee
well known colored character, aged six
| ty-eight, died last week from che effects
of tiendsh practical joke. AT er Civ
| ing a plantation dance in a saloon,
stranger touched a lighted match TO he
| skirt and fed. Flames rapidly envelop
| ed her and she died in agony,
| WEALTH OF GEORGIA COLORED MEN
The colored citizens of Georgia arr
gradually making inroads upon thu
total wealth of The state They return
for taxation this year 10 per cent more
than they did last year. Then they re
turned 81, ,322, 900. This year they
have returned $14, 1856, 735 worth of tax
able property out Of total in the state
of $402 900 600.
The governor has arrested a Baltimo {
lawyer named Garrittee for conspiracy
1t is alleged that through Garrittee's
Vaccinations Mamie Cole, a mullattC
girl was married to John l.. Cole, color
ed, a pensioner, aged %, while the latter
was mi-uncoascious and dying, for the
purpose of securing to Garrittee and
those who aided him the continuance ol
Coles pension after his death. A more
contemplate plot could not b. ha ched
from the brain of Satan himself.
Mr.. George Trowb idge, colored
dt ummer OF Boston, is a native English
man but reared in the Barbadoes. Ills
father who died about seven years ago,
was wealthy merchant, and, Though a
full-Dlooded African, he himself owned a
number of slaves on the Brazilian coast,
to whom it is said he was most kindly
disposed. Mr.. Trowbridge, the drum
mer, is man of clean cut fea ures, but
leaving no doubt as TO his race identity.