The sun., 1895-01-20
COMPANY B-cAfr. sMYLIE-
AFRO-AMERICAN NOTES.

Christopher j. Perry the proprietor of the Weekly
Tribune has been placed in nomination for the City
Council in Philadelphia the Republican municipal
ticket which Senator Matthew Stanley Quay has not
yet blessed.
Georgia contemporary announces that MI Hamp-
ton Lamar is Just recovering an attack OF tho
grip 1t is Just and proper that BEARING such
distinguished name should have the condition Of his
health chronicled in the public presa
There are three Afro Americans in the South Caro-
lima legislature On the recent for United States
Senator two Of them voted for Congres essman George
Washington Murray, and the other for DR.. William
Demos Crum
Miss Frances A. Davis, having herself collected all
the necessary for her and 60
has gone to Africa to engage in missionary work.
The Republican majority of tho Nebraska Legisla-
ture has elected DR.. o. NJ. Ricketts, as temporary
Sneaker of the House of He IL tho
only Afro American member OF the Legislature.
The Afro-American Masons Of New Orleans have
broken ground on the corner Of Common and Frank
lin streets for the erection of temple to cost $50 oOo
This order is unusually strong in New Orleans They
hone TO have their warming before the end Of
the winter.
Miss Kate Crawford one Of the nrst Afro American
graduates OF the Ann Arbor High School after teach
ing many years in the public schools of St. Louis Ii
now studying medicine at Ann Arbor. There are
ouite n number of Afro American women practislpR
medicine in the United States
Mr.. Heraclitus Constantine Jeconiah Taylor Presi-
dent Recorder of Deeds of the
District OF Columbia has instituted suit in the Dis
trct courts for criminal libel against William Calvin
Chase the editor of the Washington Bee The report
OF the Civil Service Commission recommending that
Taylor be removed from ONCE was based in the main
upon facts furnished by Chase Mr. TAYLOR who halls
from Kansas and is very breezy citizen has been In
hot water ever since he went TO washington.
The Afro. Americana of Hot springs Ark arc weary
of the inferior public school accommodations &C.
corded them and have decided to appeal to the courts
for mandamus to compel the School Board TO comply
with the terms OF the law In their case.
Tbeophile Terrence Allan, who has been made third
assistant doorkeeper of the illinois LEGISLATURE was
for long time senator I'm the Louisiana LegislAture
for Iberye parish on the unncatiou plan Of dividing
the parish onlces between the blacks and native
whites He owned large plantation which he called
soulouaue after the famous Haytan General, but
went broke as heavy leyee contractor and went to
Chicago and opened a tobacco factory He Is born
poiltician very Frenchy in his manners and speech
and I'm hI, lie xIcon has no such word as fail
And now it is said that an Afro-American near OF.
ford Mas while ploughipE turned up a tin can con.
tanning 81 700 in gold coins some OF them 80 old that
they are valued at 800 Some OF De soto's Inflated
follower. may have buried this treasure
II ia said that some 500 books and pamphets have
been written and published by Afro Americana since
1868 Most OF them have dealt with theology and tho
race question
The President OF the Co ored Bar Association airms
that there are ass AfroAmerican lawyers In the