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ex-nesaitle-cesscity the e a the lownans.A.me*Ig-e.ace, $9 a urs-willIon.imerestror-sji wo uuuvcuuuu in uur uuxi issue.TomNOTES AND COMMENTS.The first colored men commissioned as officers in the United States army lived in Kansas, and were commissioned at Fort Leavenw’orth in this State. Captain W. D. Mathews holds the senior commission to anv colored man in the United States, and the records of the War De-fiartment will show it. Captain Mathews ives in Leavenworth, Kas., and any information upon this -subject can and will be given. Captain'Mathews’ commission bears the signatuha.of Edward M. Stanton, Secretary of W*^, and has commanded more men than hny other colored man in the United States. He M as in command as officer of the day of 20,000 men, white and colored; the day the neurs of the assassination of President Lincoln reached the fori, when he ordered the flag at “half mast.*The National Convention of Colored Men and the Press will meet in Richmond, Vn., on the 8th of July.Wallace King, George Cowly, Dick Little, lUly Banks, and the Hver Sis ters, of Citllander’s Minstrels, arehighly spoken of by the Englii^h papers.Detroit has a coloied baby show at its Dime Museum.Ealat its exu*iTolllinote,ThepreseeleveiJ udglt;con rsp. mProdiis givseries as thi now. promi ruarri will h I cam moreGeorgtheirintelliRev.WeakNew York. Mav 81.—-Three weekspasselt; ing h Esq., city, t rates.
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Cleveland Gazette
Cleveland, Ohio, US
Sat, Jun 07, 1884
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