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Wb are in receipt of the address is
sued by the Sumner Independents, of
Boston, an independent political organ
ization, as its name implys, organized
a short time since. Among its mem
bers are Messrs. E. G. Walker, George
T. Downing, Wm. Wells Brown, How
ard L. Smith and T. C. Scottron. The
preamble to its constitution reads wells.
But the accompanying address is a lit
tle too nearly in accord with our ideas
of Democracy; hence, we beg to be ex
cused.
There is one thing that is indeed
noticeable all through this State where
ever there is a number of colored
voters, and that is: one and all seem to
have an exceedingly poor opinion of
President Arthur and will not be tickled
to death, should he receive the nomina
tion as the Republican standard bearer
in ’B4. For some reason or other they
dc not seem at all enthusiastic over the
probable nomination of our President,
but rather favor Lincoln or,Logan.
Editor Briscoe, of the Baltimore Vindi
cator, a representative man of Mary
land, attending the meeting of the
Executive Colored National Committee,
in Washington last Wednesday, is re
ported by the press to have said that
Senator Logan was the colored man’s
choice for President. Judging from the
colored press in general and what many
e< our representative men have said and
written, the entire colored vote can be
polled by either Lincoln or Logan, but
not by Arthur.
As there seems to be no general dis
position upon the part of our citizens
to congregate and elect delegates to
the State Convention to be held in Co
lembus next Wednesday, we presume
no delegates are to be elected, in which
ease we hope that every citizen who
cm <to to will attend the convention.
With creditable promptness the colored
citizens of Akron have assembled and
elected tarer delegates. Certainly we
of the Forest City should have at least
as large an interest in any movement
tending toward the advancement of the
race, as the colored citizens of Akron,
who do not begin to compare with us
numerically.
m CALL.
With the single object of battening the
period when the civil and political rights of
oar race taall be reeorniited, guaranteed and
MMOTded to u» ia all parte of our common
ytry,a^l>eiieving th^objeet, w
the South; and among all of the questions, the
paramount interest Is that of the equal
of . the colored people of the South,
citizens in one section of the
country should be denied the rights of citiaen
®Mp.enioved by others, should be, and is, a
matter of the greatest concern. We be
peve .that such outrages as those perpe
trated on colored men in the South,
such as recently occurred in Danville, Va.,
tor political reasons, are as dishonorable to
the Government which permits them as they
are cruel to the victims on whom they are in
"•oted, and every mod citizen who stons to
wink must feel himself compromised by
them until he has done all in his power to
check them. When a Senator so broad as a
statesman, so profound as a lawyer and so
pure as a patriot as Senator Edmunds offers a
bill to the Senate for the protection of the
rights of citizens, two things are certain:
First, there is need for the legislation asked,
and authority iu the Constitution to enact it.
We therefore urge upon all who have the
interest of the race at heart to unite in the
movement for the elevation of our people
and elect delegates to the State Convention
that will meet in Columbus on Wednesday,
the 26th day of December, 1883, at eleven
o'clock, a. m. Respectfully, W. S. Scarbor
ough, Wilberforce: Jae. Poindexter, of Col
umbus; C. L. Maxwell, Xenia; John H. Rat
llffe. Chillicothe; J. W. Barber, Westerville;
Phillip Tolliver, Dayton; H. C. Smith. Cleve
land; Geo. W. Hayes. Cincinnati; Geo. E.
Comley, Cincinnati; Harry Richardson, To
ledo; Walter Thomas, Delaware; Daniel A.
Rudd, Springfield; I. S. Tuppins, J. B. Johns
ton and others of Columbus.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Hon. Geo. L. Ruffin has been ap
pointed resident consul at the port of
Boston by the Republic of San Domin
go-
E. C. Lewis is doing a thriving rail
road ticket brokerage in Albany, N. Y.
The Catholics of the Cincinnati dio
cese have raised over $2,000 for the
support of mission schools among the
colored people.
Messrs. Payne. Evans, Hunt and
Williams can each give a check on any
bank in Memphis and it would be hon
ored.
Postmaster Gresham’s retrenchment
kick has knocked four colored officials
of the Chicago Post-office out of their
positions.
Robert R.» Church is the wealthiest
colored man in Memphis. He has
about $75,000 worth of substantiate.
William Wardlaw, colored, of Abbe
ville County, S. C., has named a child
Guiteau, in honor of the assassin of
President Garfield.
Manning, the only colored student in
the Yale class of ’Bl, has won the class
cup.
Hon. 8. P. Rounds, Public Printer,
has given another assurance of his kind
feeling toward our race by appointing
two colored apprentices.
Brother Jasper, of the “sun do move”
notoriety, is in trouble. A conference
of ministers has decided to withdraw
from him the hand of fellowship.
Hon. Frederick Douglass lectured
Thanksgiving day in aß^jtimore church
in which, fifty years ago, he was a hum
ble and devout worshiper.
Four colored men have recently been
dropped from the Chicago post-office,
who were drawing salaries out of the
contingent fund.
A resolution has been introduced in
the Virginia Legislature asking Senator
Mahone to resign. In his message to
that body the Governor says the Dan
ville riot should be investigated.
There are two colored women law
yers in the United States—Marv A. S.
Cary, of Michigan, and Louise V.
Bryant, of Colorado.
Certain slave owners in Texas have
filed a bill in the Court of Claims for
compensation for slaves freed by the
Emancipation Proclamation. They de
clare that Texas having been an inde
pendent State, and coming into the
Union by treaty, and the terms of that
treaty guaranteeing the existence of
slavery, the Government is bound to
repair the damages done by the eman
cipation of slaves.
W. B. Smith, who has" been Librarian
of the House library for the past twen
ty years, has been superseded by Wil
liam Butler. Smith is a colored man
and was efficient in the discharge of his
duties. His familiarity with the public
documents and their contents made
him a particularly valuable man, and
when the Democrats gained control of
the House in 1875, the oldest and most
prominent members united in demand
ing his retention.
The Journal of Education says the
school, fund of Kentucky is distributed
to Negro as to white schools, but the
poverty of the blacks and their isola
tion in some districts, with the require
ment that their schools shall be sena
rate, makes the progress of education
among them slow. No scnool for Ne
groes exists in Ashland, the chief town
of Boyd County, because the State fund
•for that purpose is but $55 per year
and no local fund can be raised. The
local papers of Winchester and Bowling
Green, both leading towns, report a
great lack of colorea schools.
Thomas Brown, Buchanan Duncan,
Charles Brown and Alexander Bryan,
the colored men who displayed so much
heroism at the Hayne Street fire in
Charlestown, S. C., have been presented
each with a handsome stem-winding
silver watch and massive chain, in rec
ognition of their gallant sen’ice, by the
City Council. The inscription in each
is: “City Council, Charlestown, S. C.,
to in testimony of his brave con
duct in saving life at the Hayne Street
fire November 12, 1883.”
Two colored boys were conversing
about boxing down in a Tennessee
town last week, when a white desper
ado interrupted them and asked whether
one of them wanted to fight or not.
One of the colored boys replied that he
was not particular, but would just as
soon as not The white man became
enraged at this, and whacked away at
the boy with a knife, cutting him se
verely in the neck. The boy defended
himself and the white man ran, and
was shot and killed by the boy.
In a letter to a gentleman of Wash
ington, Hon. J. P. Green expresses
himself as satisfied with his temporary
retirement from politics; says'he has a
lucrative practice in the courts, three
fourths of which comes from white
people, and is doing well. Sherman is
still his choice for President
The Roman Catholics of Maine have
a colored bishop, the Right Rev. John
Healey. He is a native of Baltimore.
A white man died recently in Ken
’ lucky and left his whole estate, valued
at $30,000 to his colored daughter.
She now owns the ground where her
father’s slave pen once stood.
Mi«s Mamie Johnson, of Chicago, is
learning telegraphy in one or the
schools there ana feels confident of a
position in aix or eight weeks, when she
will finish her course. She is the only
colored student of that branch in the
city.
By order of the Pope of Rome the
Catholics of Cincinnati have raised
52.0U0 for the sapport of mission
schools among the colored people.
An aged colored couple in Torre
Haute, Ind., who have bad twenty-five
children, four of whom were killed in
the war, decline a pension, raj ing that
the Government had done enough for
them in emancipating their race.
The public schools of South Carolina,
the pastyear contained 74,157 white
children and 98,^38 colored, making a
total of 173,095. This is an increase of
27,127 over the previous year.
A meeting of the railroad men of
Alabama was held on the 14th inst., to
consider the complaints of the colored
people of the State, who pay for first
class accommodations. The result of
the conference has not yet been made
public.
Ex-Speaker Kiefer has introduced a
resolution providing for an amendment
to the National Constitution, giving
Congress power to secure by appropri
ate legislation to all citizens “equal
privileges and immunities and the
equal protection of the law.” Mr.
Mackey introduced a bill of similar
import.
Lynchburg, Va.—lsaac Robinson,
colored, eloped with a white girl named.
Ella Redmond, some two months since.
Last week they were found living to
gether. The girl was taken home and
Robinson locked up.
Lynchburg, Va.—Harrison Crews,
colored, charged with setting fire to
ten different dwellings and other build
ings, attempted to cut his way out of
prison on the Sth inst. He had nearly
succeeded in cutting his way through
the walls of his cell when detected.
On Tuesday last he was sentenced to
twenty-six years imprisonment.
Senator Willson, of lowa, has intro
duced a bill in the Senate providing for
an amendment to the Constitution guar
anteeing civil rights to the colored peo
ple of tne country. Representative Cal
kins, of Indiana, has introduced asimilar
bill in the House.
Although known not to be a candi
date for any office. Colonel R. G. Inger
soll is nevertheless greatly sought after
by leading politicians of the country.
Few men of note ever go to Washing
ton and leave without seeing or making
an effort to see this distinguished gen
tleman. One blast from his bugle horn
is valued above the efforts of a thousand
of the ordinary stumpers.
Atlanta, Ga.—Ransom Montgomery,
an aged colored man, died on the 7th
inst., whose history is somewhat re
markable. He was born a slave and
had a cruel master. One day while
crossing the ferry he discovered smoke
arising from the Chattahooche River
bridge, near by. He ran to it and
found that the bridge had been set on
fire by a passing locomotive and that if
left to itself it would soon be destroyed,
he set to work to extinguish the flames
and after a hard day’s work succeeded
in saving it. For this the State pur
chased and gave him his freedom. He
was industrious, and was taken into
the service of the road, and saving his
money, was soon able to purchase a
home. His house was burned by Sher
man's men whiles on his famous march
to the sea. In 1856 he re-built it, but
afterwards lost it and two years ago
was turned out of doors and became
destitute. At the last session of the
Legislature it voted him sls per month.
The Governor paid his funeral ex
penses.
Mr. H. L. Smith, of Boston, Mass.,
the Washington correspondent of the
Boston Hub, and son of Hon. J. J.
Smith, who waethe first colored mem
ber of the Massachusetts Legislature,
is a gentleman of the highest culture
and one that everybody with whom he
comes in contact likes. He is at pres
ent a $1,400 clerk in the Pension Office.
Last Sunday we witnessed the largest
gathering of 'workingmen ever seen in
New Orleans, It was a grand sight,
and for a while we forgot the recent
decision of the Supreme Court which
so much affects our race. It represent
ed thoroughly those who earn their
bread by the sweat of their brow, and
as a consequence the blacks were inter
spersed among the whites. Among
the grand marshals we noticed General
Robert B. Elliot, who was ably assisted
by Assistant Marshal Jacques A. Gia.
The procession all along the route was
greeted with the waving of handker
chiefs and clapping of hands.— New
Orleans (La.) Standard.
Mrs. J. Henri Burch has been ap-
Sointed to a position in the Mint at
Few Orleans.
Register Bruce last week received a
letter addressed to “Miss Blanch K.
Bruce, Washington, D. C.” In speak
ing of the circumstances to your corre
spondent, the Register said that it was
of frequent occurrence. The Register’s
“unknown” correspondents evidently
imagine that the proposed Sixteenth
Amendment has become a fixture in the
Constitution and that women hold high
Government positions here in Washing
ton. Still, Blanch is a rare name for
any man, and for a colored man its
rarer still.-- Washington Cor. Detroit
(Mich.) Plaindealer.
Eugene Monroe Gregory, the oldest
son 01 Prof. J. M. Gregory, is pos
sessed of a wonderful skill in painting
and drawing. The youngster is only
nine years of age, and can paint and
draw almost anything.— Washington
Cor. Baltimore Vindicator.
Voters of Canton Indorse the Call for
a Convention Through Their Or
gan, the Gazette.
Canton, 0., Dec. 12.
Mr. Editor:—Dear sir, your notice
in last week's Gazette was presented
to the Colored Voters’ Independent
Club of this city at their regular weekly
meeting, which was held last Tuesday
evening. The club discussed the mer
its of calling this convention, and au
thorized the Secretary to send to the
Gazette a report of their .meeting, ex
pressing the sentiments of the club.
We, the undersigned gentlemen, do
most heartily agree wiui you in the
calling a convention, and will aid the
movement in every way that is possible
for us to. We believe, further, that
now is the time to call this convention,
as soon as arrangements can be made,
on the eve of a great political cam
paign. For at no time in the
world will the power of the colored
people, as voters, be more fully recog
nized than near an election. ' Again,
colored people stand as it were, trem
bling between two great balances, not
knowing which way to turn. The ques
tion comes up every day which way
shall we vote? We believe that Con
gress will take some action if the sub
ject is fully presented to it, and no
other way will tend to heal the great
breach that has been made in the Re
publican party. They will have to
come squarely out for the civil rights or
suffer defeat. We do not wish to leave
the Republican party,, unless by refus-i
ing us those rights that we as voters :
and good citizens are entitled to, they
make us leave them. At any rate the
time has come when you can no longer
lead us to the altar as either Republican
er Democratic sacrifices, without telling
us to which of the gods we are to be
sacrificed Yours respectfully,
J. Blockson, Pres.,
W. H. Julious, See.,
** - Ind. V, V. of Canton, Q
MUSIC-DRAMHIiraELSI.
THE FISK JUBILEES IN CANADA-
STEWART CONCERT COM
PANY IN ILLINOIS.
The Crand Minstrel Festival to be
Held In Cincinnati—Miss Mattie
Lawrence, of the Flek Jubilees
More Handsome than Mrs. Lang
try — Discrimination - Numerous
Notes.
A CHAT WITH MR. F. ,T. LOUDIN.
About five o’clock last evening, when
the third edition had gone to press and
bustle and noise prevailed in the repor -
torial department, Mr. F. J. Loudin, of
the Jubilee Singers, strolled in and
courteously asked to see the exchanges.
One of the scribes jocularly asked
him if he had seen the paper notice
stating that the people of Kingston, af
ter seeing Miss Mattie L. Lawrence,
the talented soprano of the company,
said they were of the opinion that she
was more handsome than Mrs. Lang
try. Mr. Loudin here smilingly said
he would like very much to obtain a
copy of this paper to show it to the
members of the company. This par
ticular paper was unfortunately not
among the exchanges.
Mr. Loudin was about to leave when
he was asked to take a chair. To the
reporters, like the theater-goers of this
and other Canadian cities, he was well
known from sight. He is no doubt
more familiarly known as “that tall
bass singer.”
Mr. Loudin took a chair and for fully
an hour entertained the reporters in a
very interesting conversation concern
ing his experience on the stage and also
that of the company.
One of the scribes snatched a few
items of the conversation and dotted
them down.
Mr. Loudin is now manager of the
Fiske Jubilee Singers, which has
been for four years past a private
concern, owing to the numerous
bogus companies that have been travel
ing for the past three or four years, the
University decided not to keep the old
company in the field. Mr. Loudin then
took hold and has succeeded by great
effort to obliterate any sham opposi
tion. The company is now doing well.
They are well patronized in everyplace
in Canada except in Brookville, which
they skipped this time. Mr. Loudin
said that the company is always greeted
with a good house in every place where
a refined taste exists among the popula
tion. This was a hard knock at Brook
ville! But in justice to Mr. Loudin it
should be stated that he did not imply
any lack of refinement in that town.
While in Europe a few years ago the
company sang before the different crown
heads. In Germany they experienced a
trying ordeal. By request they sang
before the Crown Prince and Princess.
The latter was moved to tears when
they rendered “Steal Away to Jesus”
and “The Lord’s Prayer.” The Prin
cess Royal said to the vocalists that she
had previously received a let ter from her
mother—Queen Victoria—in which Her
Majesty said she was greatly impressed
with the singing of this company.
By great influence they procured the
Academy of Music in Berlin. Resi
dents of this city hear nothing in the
musical line but the best. Mr. Loudin
graphically described the scene in the
green room on the evening of their de
ut. The vocalists walked up and
down, with bended head, and filled
with nervousness. Their success in
Germany depended upon this night.
Friends of the company occasionally
hurried into the room, and joyously
uttered such words as “great success! 6
“all the boxes filled!” “best audience
of the season.” So and so, eminent
artists, musicians, etc., in the audience.
This only tended to increase their ner
vousness. However they acquitted
themselves with good success and the
papers complimented them very highly.
Mr. Loudin spoke very ' compli
mentary of Miss Mattie Lawrence, the
soprano singer. She is very ambitious
and seldom undertakes anything with
out succeeding. When teaching school
in Washington a few years ago she ob
tained the highest average for punctu
ality and attendance for two months
among all the teachers of the Educa
tional Board. Miss Lawrence was
forced to respond to three encores last
night.
Mr. Loudin said he was now endeav
oring to engage a colored wonder in
the shape of a young girl whose voice
is said to be remarkable for its com
{>ass. She is said to ascend from the
owest register to a very high key. Mr.
Loudin himself, by the way, goes down
to B flat, and is acknowledged to be one
of the best bass singers traveling. He
said if this girl can descend to a lower
register than he, she is truly a wonder.
He hopes to succeed in engaging her.
The scribes were sorry to part with
Mr. Loudin so soon.— Free Press, Ot
tawa, Ont., Nov. 24.
Carthage. 111., Doc. 17,1883.
Cleveland Gazette Co.—Gentle
men: In behalf of our company it af
fords us no limited amount of pleasure
to tender you our Christmas greeting.
May you have a merry Christmas and
a happy New Year. May peace, pros
perity, happiness and a long life of
usefulness attend you.
It gives us untold pleasure to read
your most excellent paper. We sin
cerely congratulate you on the posses
sion of one of the most newsy and
elegant sheets published by the colored
race. As a small encouragement please
find P. O. order for my subscription fee
for 1884, As a company we are enjoy
ing prosperity and the future is bright
and promising. Your most obedient
servant, Frank A. Stewart,
Manager Stewart-Wilberfore Concert
Company.
The McTraver and Helms colored
dramatic troupe, after performing in
Vicksburg, Mich., were refused accom
modations by all the tavern-keepers of
the place, and had to take a freight
train for Kalamazoo.
The Cincinnati College of Music
claims^that its Southern patronage has
fallen off, because it allowed a colored
man, Prof. Wm. H. McKandlass, who
was at one time assistant superinten
dent of music in the public schools of
Cincinnati, to erfter as a pupil. The
objection was chiefly manifested by the
voung white ladies from the sunny
South. There is at present a young
colored lady from Xenia in the college.
The select readings by Miss Henrietta
Vinton Davis, at Unity Hall, Tuesday
evening, were finely rendered, showing
her to be an elocutionist of genuine
merit. Her modesty and gracefulness
were especially noticeable, and her ways
on.the platform exceptionally .pleas
ing. Her selections included ’‘How he
saved St Michael's,” by Mary A. P.
Stanbury; “The Battle.” by Schiller;
and Mark Twain ® “How Tom Sawver
got his fence whitewashed.” Selec
tions from “Lady Macbeth” and
“Romeq and Juliet” were also given,
the renditions being in several respects
equal to Mrs. Scott-Siddons' interpre
tations of the characters involved. In
fact Miss Davis’ reading reminds one
very often of Mrs. Scott-Siddons. She
received an admirable musical support
from Mrs. George Lane, Mr. Thomas
Blunt, Mrs. William B. Edwards, H. L.
Evans and George H. Benjamin. The
entertainment was a very pleasant and
enjoyable affair throughout. —Hartford
(Conn.) Evening Post.
THE GREAT MINSTREL FESTIVAL.
From the Afro-American.
George Ward Nichols has at last
withdrawn his- opposition to the intro
duction of colored minstrel talent on
the stage of Music Hall during the
great Minstrel Festival which will be
given at our magnificent Cincinnati
Music Hall, commencing December 31,
and lasting the entire week. This won
derful undertaking was originated by
those imperial theatrical managers, the
Frohman Brothers, and our own popu
lar and noted R. E. Miles, of this city.
The plans to make this one of the great
est events of the year are in the hands
of such eminent and capable men that
the prospects are favorable indeed for
the realization of the highest interpre
tations of the minstrel’s art. Almost
an army of talent has been engaged
and will appear during the week in
characteristic renditions. The comedian,
the vocalist, the artistic clog dancer
and the impersonator, each and all
have been engaged. A grand orches
tral band of over a hundred performers
have been engaged and will, appear
during the week.
The most magnificent and realistic
features of the scenic art will be
brought into requisition inorder to pre
sent perfect and real-life scenes ana in
cidents of the colored race of all parts
of the country.
Professor Charles Singer, an old and
favorite Cincinnati man, has charge of
the Festival, as leader of the orchestra
and grand choruses. An interview with
Prof. Singer elicited the following facts:
The famous Lion Choir, of Chicago,
will be on hand and form one of the
leading attractions of the Festival. The
i’olly and funny comedian and end man,
Jilfy Kersands, together with his mam
moth cave grin, will appear. The
noted Billy Banks, Billy Green, Bob
Mack and Pete Devoneau and others
will be here. The colored Campanini,
Wallace King, undoubted!}’ the sweet
est-toned tenor in America, will also
appear. Charles E. Bentley, the Cin
cinnati representative tenor-vocalist,
will also be in the Festival, as also will
be the Hyer Sisters. Prof. Singer, who
has had an experience of a number of
years as leader of Callender’s Colored
Minstrels, will have charge of the
music of the Festival, and is now in the
city superintending the work that is
being pushed forward rapidly to a suc
cessful finish.
George Ward Nichols and Billy Ker
sands are rehearsing the balcony scene
from “Roam O Julie Yet” for the
Minstrel Festival.
Mr. Gustav Frohman, who has had
many years of experience with colored
people as the manager of colored min
strel companies, says that he has found
that quite a large number of them pos
sess eminent talent and ability. He
said also, that inasmuch as they had
but few opportunities of displaying their
talents, that he had determined to af
ford them as many chances as he pos
sibly could. Besides the great Min
strel Festival, which originated with
Ms brother and himself, and in which
only colored people will appear, that he
has purposed to establish a Colored
Opera Company, believing that this,
like his other ventures, will prove suc
cessful.
Mr. Welch, manager of the minstrel
festival to be held in Cincinnati com
mencing the 31st, was in the city last
week endeavoring to secure the Ex
celsior Reed Band's services. It is
rumored that Philadelphia and Detroit’s
colored bands are to participate in this
festival. ’
Miss Carrie Dennie, of Oberlin, a
worthy student of Oberlin's Conserv
atory of Music, assisted by local talent,
gives a concert in the Vocal Society
rooms next Friday evening, which we
hope will be largely attended. Miss
Dennie is well known here, where she
has often appeared in local entertain
ments and concerts gratuitously. To
show their appreciation this community
should attend en masse and make it a
benefit concert that Miss Dennie will
ever remember with the kindest of feel
ing for the Forest City, and one that
we may be proud of.
Miss Cora Lee Watson returns to
Cincinnati next June.
Dewer has an Excelsior Cornet Band.
Choose Yo’ Pardner.
[Nashville American.]
On the second Saturday night in Sep
tember Wash Lawrence, who lives
among the classic hills of Vinegar Hill
district, gave a dance. All the colored
people in the neighborhood were in
vited to attend and did so. John Kil
gore, colored, was the fiddler of the
evening, and charged a nickle a corner
before ne would play. The first four
had taken their places; each man had
paid his nickle, and the music began.
They danced to the following tune,
which they all sang as they danced:
Choose yo’ pardners, time s er flyin ,
Take yo’ places on de flo’;
Don’t yo’ hear dat fiddle cryin’
“Nickerdemus Ebbermo!”
S’lute yo’ pardners, bow perlitely,
Dat’s de motion through en’ through,
Swing dem corners, step up lightly.
Hail Columby I Hallaloo!
Fus’ fo’ forward, keep or diggin',
Now you sasshay buck ag'in,
Nebber mind yo’ ragged riggin',
So’s’t don't show de naked skin.
Lawdy! see dat Peter Slater,
How he bow en scrape aroun’.
Head look like a peeled pertater—
Slick ez glass upon do crown,
Ladies change, en keep fcr-scootin’.
Cross right ober. now you swing.
Hold dem heads up highfalutin'.
Look protniskus. does de thing.
Mussy! look at Winnie Jeeter,
Dat gal flings a soople toe;
Crack yo' heels dar, Tom, en meet her,
B >w en smile, en—“so en so.”
Balance all! Now, don't git lazy.
Fly roun' en tar ye’ shirt,
Stomp dem feet but don't go crazy
Else someby sho git hurt.
Fidiler got his mout wide ope'm.
Holin' down dat music tight.
Teeth, dey settin’ sorter slopin’.
Look like tombstones in de night,
AU sasshay 1 I clar to gracious,
Never seed de like bvfo’;
Niggers sho'ly dance ou'dacious
bid’rin drouth an' oberflo'.
Hebinly kingdom 1 look at Mary,
Bose eyes shinin’ like de moon,
“Don’t git w ary, don’t git w’sry,”
Dat’s de wav to change de chune.
Promenade! Now, dat comes handy.
Hunt yo’ seats en take a res’.
Gentarmens will pass de candy
To de gala dey love de lies'.”
East End items.
Miss Ella Coehran, who has been
n«iting her parents at Harrisonburg,
Va , retmned last week.
Mr. Thomas Queenan left Thursday
for a tsvo weeks' visit to Charlestown,
Ind. *
Misss Eliza Kirk, formerly of this
city, now a resident of Winchester,
Va., and Mr. Daniel McKay were mar
ried at the above place Thursday, the
20th. - •
—Boston has a roller-skating
Fink, the largest in th® world. The
akating surface is of Seyssel asphalt,
with an area of over 50,000 square feet.
Around this is laid a birch surface 30
feet wide, giving an additional area of
80,000 square xeet. Raised seats for
spectators surround the floor, ami af
ford a fine view of the skating arid of
the bicycle races and polo games which
the managers propose to hold during
the season. The room is fumiished
with 2,000 pair of skates, and patrons
also have the nrivilege of bringing'their
own skates. The lighting is by electnc
ity. — Boston Herald.
The Latent Bonanza in California.
Bieber, Cal.—Mr. Thomas P. Ford, edi
tor of the Mountain Tribune, of this place
publishes that the great pain-cure, St.
Jacobs Oil, has worked wonders in his
family and that he would not be without
it. He states that among all the people St.
Jacobs Oil is the-most popular medicina
ever introduced.
Steeples come high, hut the ch’nrches
must have them.
Swift’s Specific (S. S. S.) has curod me
of a long-standing case of Eczema, which
has resisted all sorts of treatment.
Rev. W. J. Robinson,
N. Ga. Conference.
The telephone ought to be popular in
China as the Chinese are a yeller race.
The Voice of the People. No Ftonilf
Dyes were ever so popular as the Diaunonk
Dyes. They never fail. The Black is far su
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Philadelphia Chronicle.
Bad temper often proceeds from those
painful disorders to which women alts sub
iect. In female complaints Dr. R. V.
’ierce’s “ Favorite Prescription” is a cer
tain cure. By all druggists.
Gloves are a good thing to have on hand
now. — Boston Commercial.
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Is entirely different from all others. It is
as clear as water, and as its name indicates
is a perfect Vegetable Hair Restorer. It
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and produce a new growth where it has
fallen off. It does not in any manner af
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The only genuine German Hop Bitten have
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TRAVELERSREGISTER^
Lake Shore «V Michigan Southern.
Cpmmencing Sunday, November 18, at 12
o’clock noon, the time given in the figures
below is the new standard (Ninetieth merid
ian) time, which is thirty-three (83) minutes
slower than Cleveland time proper and twenty
eight (28) minutes slower- than the time hereto
fore in use (Columbus time) by these roads:
TRAINS GOING east. Arrive Depart,
from West. East.
Fast New York Express. .* 107 am *122 am
N. Y., Boston & Atlantic
Express *637 am *702 am
Elyria Accommodation..+ 8 07am ..
Port Clinton Ace +lO 37 am
Buffalo Accommodation..+lo 37 am +lO .>2aih
N.Y. and Boston fast Ex..* 157 pm *227 pm
Conneaut Ace + 4 22 pm
Night Ex. via Norwalk...+ fl 42pm +lO 07pm
Night Ex. via Sandusky.. 9 44pm
TRAINS GOING WEST.
Ar. from East. Dp. West.
Fast Limited Express.... *ll 55 am *l2 05 am
Mich. Ex. via Sandusky. .* 2 22am * 2 37 am
Chic’goEx.via.Sand^ky..s 6 07am + 6 32am
Mich. Acc, via Norwalk +6 12 am
Conneaut Acc + 8 12 um
Toledo Ex. via Norwalk. .+l2 52pm + 3 02pm
St. Louis Ex.via S’nd’sky.* 102 pm *125 pm
Chi. Pac. Ex.vfaNorw’lk..* 602 pm *632 pm
Port Clinton Acc + 4 32 pm
Sunday Train for Nottingham—Depart 8:32
a. m. and 1:47 p. m.; return at 9:37 a. m. and
4:17 p. m.
Reference marks—*Daily. +Daily except
■Sunday. tDaily except Monday.
Cleveland, Col., Cln. Jk Indlanapoll*.
Commencing Sunday, Nov. 18, trains of the
Bee Line—Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati &
Indianapolis Railway—will leave and arrive at
Cleveland as follows. Central Standard Tima
33 minutes slower than Cleveland time:
departures. a. in. p. m.
Cincinnati & Columbus Ex. No. 1.. *7 80 ....
Indianapolis & Wheeling Ex. No. 11 840 ....
Special Col. & Cln. Ex. No. 17 1 20
Special Ind. & St. Louis Ex. No. 3 *1 40
Col., Cln.. Ind. & St. L. Ex. No. 5 *6 40
Galion and C.. L. & W. Ac. No. 7'. 4 30
arrivals. a. m. p. m.^
Col. Cln., & Ind. Ex. No. 2 *6 40 ....
Galion andC.,L.& W. Ac. No. 8.... 900
St. Louis & Ind. Ex. No. 12 *3 05
Col., Cm. & Ind. Ex. No. 8 9 50
Col. & Cin. Ex. No. 4 *3 20
Wheeling Ex. No. 10 6 45
Cin. &N. Y. Fast Line No. 14 110 .....
Trains marked * daily, all other trains daily
except Sunday.
Cleveland «t Pittsburgh.
The time given is the new Standard time, 33
minutes slower than Cleveland time.
departures. a. m. a. m. p..m. p. m.
Mail 800 ........ ....
New York Express 2 00
Alliance Ac 315 ....
Ravenna Ac 450 ....
Night Express +ll id
Newburgh Ac 10 30 .... 12 00
arrivals. a. m. a. m. p. m. p. m.
Mail 212 ....
New York Express 625 ....
Alliance Ac. fl 50
Ravenna Ac 3 12
Night Express 5 55
Newburgh Ac .- ...1140 .... 120
+Night Express runs daily except Saturday
by way of Wellsville, and on Saturday by way
of Alliance.
New Turk, Pennsylvania dk Ohio.
(Late A. & G- W.)
Depot, South Water Street and Viaduct. New
Standard Central, or Ninetieth Meridian time,
33 minutes slower than Cleveland time:
departures. a.m. n. m.
New York & Pittsburgh Ex *6 50 11 00
Youngstown St Pittsburgh Accom. 10 85 ....
last New York & Pittsburgh Ex *2 20
Mahoning Accom 4 10
New York & Pittsburgh Ex 11 00
arrivals. a. m. p. m.
New York Express *6 15 ....
Mahoning Valley Accom 10 20 ....
Fast New York & Pittsburgh Ex *1 05
New York 4 Pittsburgh Ex 8 30
Pittsburgh St Youngstown Accom 9 4$
* •Sunday trains.
Valley Railway.
nkPARTVREs. am. par.
For Wheeling Junction.dally 80d ....
For Wheeling Junction, dai1y...... 2 59
For Canton, dally except Sunday 5 if
arrivals. a.m. p.m.
From Wheeling Junction, daily.... 947 ....
From Canton, daily except Sunday .... 107
From Wheeling Junction, daily
except Sunday HI
Depot, foot South Water Street.