The Afro-American., 1896-02-22
AfrO-Ameriean Items.
Race DOingS Gathered Here and
There From Various
Sources.

Judge Lamb of the Chancery Cour
OF Richmond has dismissed the deere,
placing the Richmond Planet in tht
hands of a receiver.
There are colOred twins in Putnam
Comfy, Connecticut, years old, with
red hair. Bailey, the circus man, has
sought in vain to get them.
| MIR. Fordham, one of the Afro
American policemen of the city OF
Charleston, s. c., has been reap.
pointed lieutenant on the citv force.
With the object in view of opening
several trst-class stores, a Joint stock
company has been organized at Colum-
bia, . u, by ;olOred men, with a cap
ital stock of $4,000.
A New York Negro arrested for cru
city to a mule, pleaded guilty, was
fined 50; paid it with a counterfeit $50
bill, pocketed Sl5 in lawful money and
went out to pound another mule.
Mr.. Elijah Shaw, founder of Shaw
property owner in the city IF 6fffh hfsh 81 rs9ts E3s
dence.
Miss Annie Johnson, the colored au-
thoress of Walnut Hills, will soon pub
lish her latest work entitled ''What
are Christian Deeds?" The work is
divided into Is interesting subjects,
and is very creditable.
The first and only female teacher of
cycling in New York is cOlOred wo-
man. The management of the school
that employs her thinks that only a
woman can compass all the difficulties
of woman on a wheel.
The next General Conference of the
A. NJ. E. Zion Church, which will be
held at Mobile, Ala, May 6, 1896, will
be composed of about 305 delegates
and general officers. Of this number
fifteen will be graduates of Livingston
College.
On the 18th at Jackson, Mich, Jerry
Scott, the negro whose daughter died
from the effects of fiogging admins
tered by her father, was arraigned for
trial and pleaded not guilty. The
trial was adjourned as a ruse to scat
ter the crowd which had assembled.
Jno. Mitchell, Jr., editor of the
Richmond Planet, and Samuel Clark
ston, a colored politician, INDUCED in
an alteration last week in the streets
of Richmond The disturbance grew
out of a difference of political opinion.
Both of the gentlemen are said to be
suffering from bruised faces.
Through the influence of County
Commissioner Jones of Chicago, ILL.,,
one of Chicago's leading Afro-Ameri-
can physicians has been elected
member of the county staff of physi-
clans. 1t is time an AfrO-American
had been elected u member of the
above-named staff.
Isaac Murphy, the famous Afro
American jockey, died at Lexington,
KY, Tuesday morning, Feb. 12, of
heart failure. He was well known all
over the country, and was beloved by
all for the honesty he displayed in the
discharge of his duties. He leaves a
wife, but no children, and was worth
$125, 600.
Mrs Frederick Douglass is still re-
siding at Cedar Hill, spending a great
part of her time in editing her late
husbands speeches for publication.
A very artistic souvenir of Mr.. Doug
lass has just been published in the
form of booklet, with cut of MIR.
Douglass, a front and rear view of the
house at Cedar Hill, and one of MIR.
Douglass seated at his desk in his
study. All the cuts are remarkably
good, and will doubtless please his
many thousand friends.
George Herman Jones of Memphis,
colored. says that several weeks ago
he saw a woman suffering from rheu-
matism. Something, he said, told him
to cure her. tie called her to him,
passed his hands over her face, and
the pain fled, he says. he next per-
son he says he cured was Chas. Hunt.
who was suffering from consumption.
Jones is an ignorant fellow, and at
tributes his power To sp rits. A COM
mittee of physicians is studying Jones
work.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says: Miss
Anna LaForce, the successful winner
of the $50 second prize awarded by the
Inter Ocean for It's prize story, "t3e
fore hey Were Married is a bright,
young col0rad LADY, whose home is in
Pullman, III SHE was born in New
Albany, Ind, and lis now % years Of
age. She has resided Ia Pullman ten
years, and has been teaching in the
Pullman Fablic school for the past
four years. she is-a member Of tAs
Pullman ~ E Church, ana '-aa2l1ofeI
and resp ted ~ large circle of