Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-07-13

Indianapolis has colored hodcarri.
ers' union.
The colored people of the District
of Columbia pay taxes on $12, 000,.
900, 900.
The National Afro. American Coun.
Gil will meet at Indianapolis, Ind,
Aug. %. A large attendance lie ex.
pected.
The management o. the Vesta COT
ton mills at Charleston, s. c., are In
need Of colored labor.
In Richmond, Va, call is also be-
ing made for coloreil girls to work in
the Old Dominion Shirt Factory.
About rs girls are wanted.
West Virginia is the only state south
OF Mason and Dixon's line where there
is no restrictive legislation effeoting
the colored vote.
The Atlanta Age says there are more
than thirty-fve thousand negroes in
that city and only one out Of ten read
negro newspaper. There is lot OF
missionary work there for Col. Pledger
to do while he is still young.
Mr.. Warren Logan, the efficient
treasurer of Tuskegee Institute, has
been connected with that institution
seventeen years
Mr.. Charles Winter Wood, the gift
ed elocutionist, who is now a success
full instructor at Tuskegee Institute,
will tour portions of Louisiana and
Texas during the summer vacation.
Miss Lillian Sharpsnstein graduated
from the Lincoln, Neb High school
il June. The exercises were held In
the Oliver theatre Miss Lille was
the only colored graduate ont of q class
of eighty-one, and took high rank.
Morris Brown College, one of the
leading schools of the A. NJ. E. church,
had An enrolment this school term of
39S students. 1t has II instructors
and with all its apparatuses, grounds
and buildings is valued at $4,000.
Among the 1856 graduates OF the
New York Law Scnool, who received
the degree of L. L. B., at Carnegie
Music hall few nights ago, was Rev.
Francis F. Giles. Mr.. Giles Is a CRED
uate Of Howard University and pas
tor of the A. M. E., church at Jamai-
ca, N. Y.
Negroes will hereafter not be denied
tho citizens right to do service for
their country on jurles, grand and
petit, says the United States Supreme
Court 10 answer to Hon. MILFORD Fl.
Smith, the braiuy, energetic, tireless
negro lawyer of Galveston, Texas.
A society has been organized in
Rochester, N. Y. known as the Ma
tional Freedman's Rights and Educa-
tional. Its object is to encourage a
spirit of justice toward the colored
race, by scattering liteiature; By lee
ture. public meetings, by means OF the
press, correspondence, etc
Bishop B. S. Williams of the Color
ed Methodist Episcopal church has
cent In the manuscript for book OF
sermons which will be published by
the publishing house of that denomi-
nation. The Introductory will be writ.
ten by G. NJ. e. minister, 1t will be
set mp by their own printers, and bind
cd by their own machinery, under the
skillful management of their own fore.
map. So it will! be 9. NJ E. produc-
ton from start to finish. When pub.
lishsd II will have large sales through
out the church and country.
e. L, Scott, a California Afro.
American, was in South Africa when
the war broke out between the Eng
lish end Dutch. He Joined the I'm
perial Light Horse, and was in Lady
smith during the long siege of that
place by the Beers. Mr.. Scott has
sent an interesting letter to the West.
ern Outlook recounting his experiences
in South Africa. He says the nativei
have some grievance against the Brit.
ish, but they give promise Of better
civilization than is now in vogue. Oh
the Beers, however, he says IA dog
waD treated better by the TIansvaa
government than a man Of color."
Miss Mabel D. Bolden, colored, hai
the honor, or at least the satisfaction
OF graduating alone from the Ridge.
farm High school of Danville, Ill.
That honor and satisfaction. however,
has not been without some cost. HeI
six white associate pupils refused tt
graduate with Ter. Notwithstanding
the length of time they had been asso
ciated. But the school board saw tt
it tina. Miss Bolden should publicly
finish her course, If she had to do i
alone. Miss Bolden graduated. W,
have frequently designated l linois a.
Goods country" but when we hear o
such contemplate ebullitions of rae,
prejudice from the state of Lincoln
Grant and Mason, it is extremely DIFF
cult to say to certainty just wher,