Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-01-11
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


that of Cambridge.
The Norfolk Rumhler says that there
are nineteen Afro-American carriers in
the Richmond postoffice.
The American Eagle is the screaming
title of a new wAfro-American newspaper,
published at st. Louis, appropriately
edited by u Missouri hayseed named
Farmer.
The legislature of South Carolina has
refused to enact separate coach law.
Such laws exist in all the southern
states except South Carolina, North
Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and
Missouri. The law serves no good
purpose whatever.
Mr.. r. c. O. Benjamin, who has con-
Quoted newspaper in Washington,
practiced law in Ala bama, Texas and
Rhode Island, and been pr siding
elder of the African Methodist Episcopal
Zion Church in California, wants tn be
Chaplain Of the next House of Repre-
sentatives. The aspiration has at least
the saving quality of freshness.
The Afro-American politicians of
Kansas. who are almost as numerous as
the white politicians of Iowa, are fight
ing a merry war over the small offices
which usually fall to their share when
Republican legislature convenes
Three on four editors are in the war,
but the exchange of compliments
between the editors OF the Kansas
Blackman and the State Ledger point
unmistakably to razors and arnica.
The new Chief Justice of Liberia, H..
B. Roberts, of Sinol county, who sue
ceeds Mr.. c. L. Parsons, who retires
afier thirty years service, was carried
to Liberia FROM the United States
something more than forty years ago.
He received his early training in Grand
Bassa county, under che Rev. John III.
Cheeseman, the father of the present
president of the republic, and is said to
be man of ability and eloquence.
Pueblo (Col) Times: Mr.. Anthony
Harrison came to Pueblo in the early
days, and at once found emplnyment,
stuck to it and lived economically, and
in few years bought property, and for
while was engaged in mining, from
which he realized but little profit; but
not tiring and believing in venturlng,
he followed other vocations which soon
brought to him a handsome sum. He
is to-day quoted as being worth over
S75, 200 He has a beautiful tract of
land of 800 acres: he is interested in an
investment company, one of the largest
stockholders of the firm. In fact, Mr..
Harrison is the only colored capitalist
southwest of the divide. He also owns
a fine brick residence in the city.
The marriage of Charles H. Lansing,
t., NJ of
Brooklyn, Christmas night, was the
most fashionable event of the year
among Afro-Americans in that part of
the country Mr.. Lansing passed a
civil service examination in Brooklyn
several years ago and was appointed to
clerlzship in the Street Cleaning
Bureau, and has been steadily promoted
for efficiency until he now has charge
OF division. Miss White is the youngest
of the three daughters OF the late
Philip a. White, who made a fortune
IN the Wholesale and retail drug bus
mess on the corner of Frankfort and
William streets, New York, and was
the first of his race appointed as a
member of the Brooklyn Board of
Education, having been designated by
Mayor Seth Low.
In Topeka, Kansas, new venture is
on foot among the women. Dr. Eva
Harding IS making an effort to assist
the large nun Der of unemployed women
by starting laundry. All women re-
ported as really needy and worthy of
help are to be employed at the rate OF
fifty cents per day with good warm
dinner thrown in without cost. At
tached to the laundry will be kinder
garten and nursery, where the little
ones Of the workers may be cared for
This, in itself, ought to bea con>i Ter
alton, for many poor woman is unable
to find work on acco&nt of the burden
some baby. Colored women as well as
white will be employed. Some will
cook, some do the laundry work, some
the mending. Itisan enterprise worth
going into, and plan which all large
cities would do well to emulate.
Mrs. Flora Batson Bergen, who has
long enjoyed reputation as concert
singer, was engaged by the directors OF
the Texas Cotton Palace to sing on
"Colored Peoples Day. at Waco. Her
singing was revelation to the Texans.
who insisted upon having her render
four encores for every number she had
on the program. So well pleased were
the directors with her that they en-
gagged her to sing for them at the Sun.
day concert, which was one of the most
attractiv. features of the exposition
Her rendering of Nearer My God, tc
Thee" won the hearts of the Texans
who did not seem to care anything
about her color at that time
and they gave her an ovation
AS ballad singer Miss Bat
son has few equals in the country.
After the Waco engagement she sang
to large audiences in all the large cities
of Texas, and is now appearing in d
series of ten concerts in New Orleans.
Eureka Lodge, A. T. and A. NJ. OF
Rochester, n. Y, has appointed com
mittee to solicit funds for the purpose
of erecting a monument in that city tc
the memory of the Afro-Americar
soldiers who fell in the war. Mr.. ]
Wall Thompson, the only Afro-Amer'
| lean member of the Republican County
Committee of Monroe county, has
charge of the movement. Col II. S
Greenleaf has consen ted to act as treas
urer of the fund Mr.. Frederick Doug
| lass has written a letter to Mr.. Thomp
son in which he says: 81 am more thar
pleased with the patriotic purpose tt