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A Short but Interesting Sketch of Robert Parvin, the Venerable Abortioniat, Recently Deceased Dr. Parvin, of Waeehingtes, © €.. Mrs Son Veareseia’s Moet Pamone Ceneral (Creepe), Recently Killed. « Me latte “Jaatice” in the tenth. Prejectived Flipper. He gensed thhere Sotes A boat of Dem Antonia Maceo was unveiled on the 17th at Rue itair. Attorney T. Metanis Stewart, of New York City. has gone to hagland on business Gee. Crespa, Venezuelas most fa mous general and ex president. who was killed in battle recently. was @ milatta. : When Miss Alice Rath Moore aver ried Mr. Paul J. Dunbar recently she met up kindergarten work in New York and Brooklyn, which will always reflect the greatest credit upon her. Mrs. Misher, of St. Louis, has come into possession of $15.00, which was left her by Mrs. Huntley (white) for whom she worked quite a number of cars. The white relatives of Mrs. Antley contested the will. Miss Alice Ruth Moore, whom Paul L. Dambar married March 6 is one of the race's brightest young ladies. She has written some very good poetry and will be an excellent companion in every way for her gifted husband. Only until June can you take ad vantage of Tax Gazette's one dollar a year special subscription rates. After that it will cost the regular price, $1.50. Don't delay, put a dollar bill in a let ter and send it at once. Attorney Wm. M. Randolph, of Pitts burg, who married a sister of Hon. John S. Durham, ex-minister to Haiti and ex-consul to San Domingo, now en gaged in commercial pursuits in the last named republic, has a fine son born April . Postmaster General Gary has re signed on account of ill health. Charles Emory Smith, of the Philadelphia Press, has been appointed to succeed him. The Negroes of the country would have eut Mr. Gary if he had resigned a year ago.—Omaha (Neb.) Enterprise. Last week in this city a white man, who had robbed his employer of about $30,000, was convicted and sent to the penitentiary for three years. In the same court, and perhaps on the same day, a colored man was convicted of stealing some lead or other metal and sent to the itentiary for three years.— Louisville (Ky.) American Bap tist. The bill pending before congress to restore Ex-Lieutenant Henry C. Flip per to his original rank in the United States army should speedily become a law. Though years have elapsed since the unfortunate circumstance occurred which led to his separation from the service, it is never too late to redress a wrong.—Washington (D. C.) Colored American. in Arkansas a Negro = who had stolen $20 from a cash drawer was lynched. Of course nothing will be one about it in that state. In Ken tucky two were sold at auction to the highest bidder for 83.25 and $2.50 re spectively for one year each. The world keeps moving but hades remains the same.—New Orleans (La.) 8S. W. C. Advocate. A cotton mill is being erected in Con cord, N. C., to be owned and operated by Negroes. The colored people of Wilmington alone put into this mill $4,000. W. C. Coleman, who is at the head of the enterprise, is said to be worth $100,000. This looks like busi ness, and we hope the undertaking may prove a success.—S. W. C. Advo cate. There were 22 Negroes killed in the Maine explosion, four injured and four escaped unhurt. By this we are re minded of how one of the white sail ors, in his testimony before the court of inquiry, tells how he and a colored sailor hugged each other on the night of the explosion in their effort to es cape from their sleeping apartments, which had filled with water. It seems they got out, too. Such calamities like death level all men.—S. W. C. Advocate. Ernest Hogan, the comedian, who wrote ‘“‘All Coons Look Alike to Me,” and married a white woman, recently broke into a ball room in Omaha, and it was thought at the time that the doors of the Nebraska State Insane asylum would have to be kept ajar, the society girls went so crazy about him. During Hogan’s stay in the ball room, it was impossible for the young swells to secure the hands of their sweet hearts for the different dances, so daz zling and attractive were the comedi an’s patent leather shoes and blood-red necktie. It is thought that some of the girls will “get the sack.”—St. Jo seph (Mo.) Radical. Robert Purvis the venerable aboli tionist of Philadelphia, who has just died, was the last of the sixty odd per sons who organized the American An ti-Slavery society in Philadelphia on December 4, 1833. He was the son of a Charleston, S. C., cotton merchant, and when a young man formed the ac quaintance of William Lloyd Garrison, whom he helped financially in the pub lication of his “‘Genius of Universal Emancipation.” His appearance at the organization of the Anti-Slavery socie ty was thus described by the poet Whittier, who was present: “A young man arose to speak whose appearance at once arrested my attention. I think I have never seen a finer face and fig ure, and his manner, words and bear ing were in heocen. ‘Who is he” I asked of one of the Pennsylvania dele gates. ‘Robert Purvis, of this city, a colored man,’ was the answer.” ‘Mr. Purvis and Whittier,” says the Phila delphia Ledger, “had the distinction of being mobbed together in Pennsyl vania half some years later. State societies were formed subordinate to the national organization, and Mr. Purvis was president of the Pennsyl vania society. When the other famous organization, the ‘Underground Rail road, which helped so. Many slaves to freedom, was formed in 184%, he be came its official head.”
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Sat, Apr 30, 1898
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