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SOME RACE DOINGS.pr»maeiscoicia \v vbciwliamlt;irlt;mecoiCharleston, S. C, has 50 Afro-American policemen.Mrs. William Scott, missionary and financial agent for Western college, Macon, Mo. 7 is in Indiana giving a ! series of lectures. 1Advices frotn Liberia, Africa, an- * ttl1I • • • 1nounce that the president of that republic, Hon. Joseph James Cheesman, died November 11. Vice President Coleman was inaugurated.Don't fail to notice in what cities ] and towns we have no representatives . anil if you can assist us, do so. Subscribe at once if you have not already done so.A Humbles,an Afro-American, loaned j wj the baptists of Virginia $iS,000 with j which to build a seminary at Lynch- j burg, recently, Prof. Gregory \Y. ilays is its president.It seems that some persons are desirous of robbing A. D, iStraker, esq., of ins laurels for the introduction of the lynching plank. The plank was j \Q meek and inoffensive enough. It is not na likely to bring cabinet positions nor to immortality, but honor to whom honor | cej is due.—Indianapolis Freeman.The total vote in South Carolina was j \H onlv or not much over half theantinbyhaa nvote east in St. Louis. On the strength wcseiof this small (lemon.-aration at the ballot-box South Carolina gives nine elec- oJ* toral votes to Hryan, an average of tu 74-17 each. The right of suffrage seems to be going out of fashion in Tillman's state.— SL Louis Times-Democrat.The Pioneer Press, while it would prlt; like to see a colored man in the eabi- * net and believes there are plenty able vv} to do well their part. it. believes as Vvldoes T11 k Cj.i-.vh.anj) (O.) Gazette, ! co,that the Washington (1). C.) Post in i making such a elaim had a purpose in nic view, and not a good one at that.— lt;*js Martinsburg (W, Va.) Pioneer Press. j strSecond Lieut, Young, of the regular go army, stationed at Wilberforce univer- no sity as instructor of military tactics, by recently passed an examination at Ft, coi Leavenworth, Kan., for first lieutenant, and to-day is our only commissioned officer in the army, chaplainspossibly excepted. He draws a salary j to of SL,800 a year, has a handsomely j * furnished house free, and is only 1 relt; years of age.Hon. Harry C. Smith, of Tiik Ci.eve-iakd (O.) Gazette and “liright Eyes”fame, although a membtfr of tlie Ohio legislature, wilbsiot refuse a first class 1 of office in Washington, and a rumor con- ba ne-cts his name with the registership of cis the treasury department. Mr. Smith j coi did good service for the republican lai cause in the doubtful states and is de- unmetininiwiLi
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Cleveland Gazette
Cleveland, Ohio, US
Sat, Dec 12, 1896
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