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Newspaper
Savannah Weekly Echo
Location
Savannah, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1884
Page
2
Georgia Republicans unite and prepare for political battle as the public school system is set for major improvements. The call invites job printing from the country and promises neat, cheap, dispatch work. Savannah and Atlanta are highlighted as rising Southern leaders.
A dramatic note declares the presidential contest has begun to stir national attention as partisan strife looms and campaigns gear up for a heated season across the country.
The article notes Dopee county Georgia remains a dangerous spot for colored people, with Eastman singled out. It cites our obligation to Hon. John A. Logan of the U.S. Senate for a copy of the Congressional Directory for the forty eighth Congress.
The Jewish Free School of Spitalfields London is described as the world’s largest school with an average daily attendance of 2,800 pupils.
Within a month a number of bloody-shirt wavers emerge and may be picked early. The Georgia Republican State Convention looms as a nine days event with demagogic chatter noted. Joseph E Brown seeks credit for a Morton Question speech to the U S Senate. John B E Bryant reappears from wartime politics. Savannah declares cautious optimism for fair daily life, though limited white Republican presence expected in Chicago. The Negro will influence the convention.
The Chicago divorce market appears booming with nearly one thousand applications filed in the past year and six hundred fifty granted. Jacksonville Times Union speculates President Arthur can continue in office without John C New as the government wheel rolls on. Mrs Mackey the widow of the late South Carolina congressman lies ill in Washington and faces a grave prognosis.
Ex General Jas G Loxastrest plans active involvement in the forthcoming presidential struggle. The New York Daily News notes the Savannah Echo, published by Hardenros & Griffin, as a creditable colored journal with strong appearance and businesslike success.
The Press notes the Virginia Bourbons praising themselves for urging Senator Mahone to resign though he has three years left of his term. The likely reply from Mahone is a curt parting remark.
The Germins of Wilmington North Carolina have raised a fund and ordered a handsome gold medal to be presented to Lieutenant Rhodes of the United States steamer Dexter for his gallant conduct in rescuing passengers from the wreck of the City of Columbus.
A Chicago publication praises Atlanta as the wide awake city of the South. It urges readers to welcome enterprising people and capital from any origin, arguing progress comes from cooperation and modern thinking.
The Western Farmers' Almanac for 1884 from John P. Morton & Co. Louisville Ky enters its fifty seventh year. The standard work grows in popularity in the South and West as a useful production of its class in existence.
Our Sunday School Review published in Bloomington Illinois by Rev C S Smith of the A M E clinred offers guidance for Sunday School scholars and teachers. It is furnished to subscribers for fifty cents per year and a sample copy is available.
A melodramatic exchange in multiple papers questions whether Frederick Douglass would be welcomed at Republican President events with his wife. The Chicago Tribune defends Douglass, saying he retains rights as a citizen despite criticism. The Boston Evening Transcript features a defense of the colored American, praising a sketch by Colonel George W. Williams and arguing Negro progress on American soil counters Southern prejudice.
The Washington Chronicle defends Frederick Douglass and Miss Pitts over their marriage rights, arguing personal choice in unions is a private matter and criticizing attempts to police social associations. A second letter from Peter Dick, dated Jan 31 1884, recalls winter hardships and rural humor.
Miss Lizzie Lane, famed belle of Baltimore colored society, wed Mr Nathaniel Parrott an aide to the Maryland Club at North Street Colored Baptist Church. The church was filled beyond capacity with about twelve hundred guests as carriages lined the street. Griffin.
SPECIAL TO THE ECHO Carcaco Indiana January 31 1884 daylight excitement as three human bodies are found encased in hay and compressed into two whisky casks from Baltimore. One barrel holds two white males and the other a colored man. Police arrest John Carlson veterinary surgeon and the express wagon driver who delivered the freight. Bodies labeled Fawcett Barnes Co supplying dead bodies to medical colleges. police suspect intended for a local college.
In Topeka Kansas last month Bradford Miller won the election as a staunch Prohibitionist foe of non Prohibitionists. Colored citizens supported the triumph pledging loyalty to a party waging war against corrupt office seekers who prey on the public. The piece argues for expanded rights for colored citizens in Georgia and cites Topeka as a model of civic resolve.
Wm. H. Harris argues that colored citizens deserve representation on school boards and in boards or corporations, urging justice and taxation without representation parallels, urging Georgians to support equal rights for African Americans in 1884.
The Literary Enterprise thanks Mr. Joseph Butler for a copy of the Savannah Weekly Ecoo and congratulates the progressive sheet on its appearance. Both publications express mutual willingness to exchange issues and support each other’s enterprise.
Ek B. Reppard offers novelty weather boards planed No 1 at 18.50 per thousand and No 2 at 13.50 per thousand in R. R. yard next to Cassel's wood yard.
An advertisement touts Ayer's Sarsaparilla as a remedy to eradicate inherited or acquired serf ula taint in blood. It also promotes Hall's Vegtate Sicilian Hair Re newer as a physician endorsed treatment for dandruff, scalp cleansing, and restoring gray hair to youthful color.
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