Cleveland Gazette.
TENTH YEAR—NO, 1.3.
VICTORY IN THE AIR.
^Prof. T. Greener Writes Inter
estlhg-ly and Instructively
of Matters Political.
The Republican Party in a Position of Ad
vantage—lt Possesses a Majority of
All the Moral Forces—The Situ
ation in New Jersey—Negro
V Democracy—Some Very
Pertinent Comment.
New York City.—The political situa
tion to-day seems to be republican, as
is fitting. "By right of service done for
the whole country, by reason of sound
financial theories, by virtue of brains
and an adequate concep ion of this
great country’s need, the national re
publican party ought to prevail, and,
like Truth, I am confident will prevail.
'The republican party I grant is in a
position of advantage; in the saddle
with a record as yet not even ap
proached, much less broken. It has a
majority of all the moral forces of the
'Country in its favor, and eight-tenths of
all the business interests—a combina
tion never yet defeated in this country.
Since September 23,under the au 'pices
•of the national republican committee,
I have spoken in four states and have
met men of both parties. For three
weeks I have spoken almost nightly in
the pivotal state New Jersey because of
the double issue there involved —the
rescue of “a prostrate state” from the
robbers who have gagged and plundered
it, and because of the value of its elec
toral vote for the national ticket. In
this state it is estimated there are
17,000 colored voters, men of intelli
gence and spirit, who are working
zealously for state and national tickets.
What glory here, should New Jersey
wheel into the republican column!
What testimony more conclusive of the
Negro's fidelity and value, than New-
York, Connecticut, and New Jersey,
IK,
carried by the steady tramp and solid
blows of the black vote! This were a
consummation devoutly to be wished,
and if achieved nothing can obscure its
value. Everywhere in the states men
tioned I have found the most thorough
work. The literature disseminated is
-of the most judicious character, terse,
accurate, convincing, appropriate. The
speeches are logical, argumentative,
rather than rhetorical and sophomoric,
and in quality and quantity are far
above the efforts of eight, twelve and
sixteen years ago. As one of the older
heads, this is my calm judgment, hav
ing listened to some of the efforts of
the brilliant young men of the race,
and praise is due for their encourage
ment and in order to properly estimate
the value of their work.
As to the movement to deflect col
ored votes into the democratic party, it
is noticeable only because of the higher
intellectual and social standins' of som" 1
few leaders like McCants Stewart of
Brooklyn, Johnson of Albany, Gross
-of Brooklyn, Dr. Mossell of Philadel
phia, and the consistency of such old
democratic veterans as Dr. Riley, James
•C. Matthews, Esq., and Dr. Thompson.
Your editorial of October 22 answering
“No” to the query whether a colored
man can conscientiously be a demo
crat, is to my mind conclusive. A eol
• ored man may be a democrat from self
interest, from disappointment, from
pique, from overweening conceit, from
downright ignorance, from stupidity;
but never from ny conscientious mo
tive. certainly not Irom any logical one,
.according to any ethical standard I ever
heard of. As to the right, no one dis
putes: as to the expediency, there is
ground for debate. As to the effect,
politically it is insignificant in point of
vote-making, the only real value being
to make democrats go back on all their
traditions with regard to the Negro,
and to make them literally eat crow.
I do not understated that the colored
vote in remaining solidly by the repub
lican party acquiesces in all the re
publican party has done, or in much,
very much, it has omitted to da I my
self have seen moments, after 1876,
when, had I consulted my feelings of in
dignation and revenge. I should have
’ called like Faustupon Mephistophles for
help. But every Negro must remember
that all tracks to the democratic camp
are like those in the fable, which
lead to the bear’s cave-- -nulla vattigia
pet rarnum—none lad back. For the
democratic individual there may be
an office —for the race there is nothing
despite individual sympathy, while tra
ditional policy, more potent in parties
and religions,’ remains ever the same.
What greater travesty, what more gro
tesque picture than to hear a black
democrat advocating tariff for revenue
only, state rights, or deeply concerned
over the deplorable condition of the
white people because of the force bill!!
I do not say such advocates are dis
honest or ignorant. Nearly ull the
prominent ones are personal friends,
and 1 know their intelligence and inten
tions. They are simply disingenuous,
carried away by their own exuberant
.imagination’s and deluded as to the
value of their con triUn tions to consti
tutional and politico-economic thought
How ridiculous fur a man of Hon. John
P. Green's standing to discuss national
issues with even so distinguished and
learned a gentleman as Counsellor
Stewart Not one convert would be
made. Neither party would rest satis
fied with the outcome, and the residu
ubj, if any, would be only a boom for a
weak cause, seeking the equality of
recognition. No more aphoristic sen
tence ever was uttered in politics than
Frederick Douglass': “The Rbpublwax
PASTY w tub ship; all outside is the
-sea." Il would be well if at inis time
every colored voter throughout the
country remembered also the advice of
St. Paul: “Unless ye abide in the ship,
ye cannot be saved." There are
weighty problems ahead concern
ing the welfare of this country
and all its citizens. The Negro
is not the only race whose interests are
at stake; but his are more in jeopardy
than those of any other, and he has less
advantages and few-er aids than any
other race. Against him is passive anil
active prejudice, guided by selfish in
stincts, controlled by individual inter
ests. Suppose his political force is di
vided. What greater aid could he ren
der to caste? "Divide et impera'' which I
heard, one democratic colored orator
magniloquently misuse, means divide the
enemy and thus conquer him; not dis
sipate, scatter our own forces and thus
be more easily conquered. It is to my
mind a question, w-hich needs the other
more—the Negro the republican party,
or the republican party the Negro.
There is but one answ-cr to, What could
the Negro have done without the repub
lican party? There may be two answers
to, Could the republican party ex
ist without the Negro as an ally? and it
would be well for those who really de
sire the permanent welfare of their
race, to give pause before they risk the
portion gained at such a cost and
through such dire toil, for the chimer
ical unattained.
Abstention from politics at the south
might be a decided gain. In such ca«e
there would be avoidance of antagonism
as well as a conservation of force,
which might be used with effect on ac
caMon. But divisio i of force in politics,
as in physics, is division of effect and.
a dissipation, if not an absolute loss of
power. The very idea in conception
shows ignorance or forgetfulness of
physical laws, and a limited acquaint
ance with political history.
SECURED A DIVORCE,
Alimony, a Sum Monthly and the Custody
of the Children—Personals.
Indianapolis, Ind.—Mrs. John Stew
art has returned from Valparaiso.—
John 11. Baptist has returned from Vir
ginia. His mother died soon after his
arrival there.—Mr. and Mrs. Meredith,
of Richmond, have moved here.—Mr.
Win. Kealand, of Knightstou n, was the
guest of Mr. Maurice White a few days
last week.—Mrs. Jacob Porter and Mrs.
John Puryear have returned from Chi
cago.—Mr. Charles Lamer, President
Harrison's valet, came with the funeral
party to Indianapolis.—Mrs. Richard
Mason arrived last week from Chicago
and returned Saturday to remain dur
ing the winter.—Mr. Maurice White
and others gave an impromptu party in
honor of Mr. Kealand, October 24, at the
residence of Miss Maud Christy.—The
superior court has granted Mrs. Georgia
M. Porter divorce from Jefferson D.
Porter (on her cross-complaint) and the
custody of the children. Court ordered
him to pay sl2 per month for the sup
port of the children and alimony in
sum of S2OO. Both parties are well
known in the society circle of Indian
apolis.—Mr. Jas. Harvey, brother of
Mrs. Geo. L. Knox, who has been an in
valid -for several years, died with con
sumption at St Vincent hospital and
was buried from the residence of his
sister October 29. —Mr. Robert Steele
has returned after an absence of several
years in the northwest—Harrison and
Reid have the hearty support of the
15,000 Afro-American voters of Marion
count}-. They demonstrated this fact
Friday night by holding one of the
largest and most remarkable meetings
of the campaign.
REV. ARTOPE AND BRIDE
Given a Reception—Produced With a Too
Accommodating Tempo—Porsoual .Men
tion.
Cincinnati, 0. —Fountaine Lewis, sr.,
and Mrs. Lucia West were quietly mar
ried the 26th at the latter’s cosy home
on May street. Walnut Hills. Mr.
Lewis is one of Cincinnati's oldest and
most thifty citizens. —Jas. W. Stewart
and Miss Elnorah Hicks will be married
Monday evening.—Miss Jennie Cole
man, of Cleveland, is visiting Mrs. Har
den, matron of the Orphan's home. —
Brown chapel, Walnut Hills, tendered
their new pastor. Rev. Artope, and
bride a delightful reception last Friday
evening.—The concert and entertain
ment being prepared for the benefit of
Union chapel by Dr. Carey promises to
be the musical and rhetorical treat of
the season. Miss Zelia Ward, of Wal
nut Hills, who recently won a prize for
her reading, and Miss Anna Johnson
are among the participants.—Every
thing is at a standstill, pending the
coming election. The registration was
large. The Rudin ciub is preparing to
grace the parade of Saturday evening.
—We were permitted to attend the
“Pops” last Sunday afternoon and
evening. Pfafflin gave the “Lucia”
mad scene witn a too accommodating
tempo, lacking the dramatic intensity
given it by Abbott or Litta. DeVere at
the evening performance substituted
the “Brilliant Bird ’ for the “Shadow
Song.” Oir object in mentioning these
performances is to note the fact that we
see no Afro-Americans at these artistic
performances, which are educating.
Their absence accounts for the low
standard of our regular concerts and
entertainments. AM it is at present, it
is usually an evening lost to attend the
ordinary concert given by colored peo
ple.
Brownsville, Fa., Items.
Mr. and Mrs. David Gypson, of Pitts
burgh, visited their brother, W. H.
Freeman Sunday. —Miss Doretta Bolden
is convalescent- —Mr. Edward Cushion
berry is sick with fever. —Mrs. Carrie
Wheeler entertained friends in honor
of Mrs. Carrie Mossett, of Sewickley,
last week.—Rev. Smith, of the M. E.
church, will address the Missionary so
ciety Sunday.—A lecture will be given
Thanksgiving for the Sunday-school.—
Mrs. Belle Alexandria entertained at
tea Monday evening, in honor of Mrs.
Mossett and Mrs. Baker, of Cleveland.
—Mrs. Morris, of Grindstone, was here
last week. —Quarterly meet ng will take
place the 13th. —Halloween was not
forgotten by the boys.—Mrs. Emma
Butler gave a taffy pulling Halloween,
in honor of Miss Emma Black and sis
ter, Hattie, of Pittsburgh.—Messrs.
Chance Bolden and Mr. Joe Burd spent
Halloween home.--MissEmma Blackand
sister, Mattie, are visiting their grand
ma, Mrs. Susan Patterson, of Bridge
port.—A number of our gentlemen at
tended the ball at Uniontown the 7th.
—[The correspondent will please write
on one side of paper only.—Ed. )
A K. Of r. Lodge Organized.
Middleport, O.—Mrs. Eliza Black
has returned from Parkersburg.—Hou.
John P. Green made a speech on the
politicalissues of the day,Saturday night
at School hall.—About twenty men
from Rendville came over here last
Saturday to organize a K. of P. lodge.
—Mayor S. B. Allen, and Messrs. J. V.
Simpson, C. E Jones, of Rendville, and
F. B. Jones, of Kerr's Run. were guests
of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Lewis.
CLEVELAND OHIO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1892.
THOSE BOGUS UPRISINGS.
What Judge Tourgee Says on an
Interesting Subject.
The Purpose or the New Citizen*' Rights
Association—Why It Was Organized
—The Policy of the Southerners
—How Labor in the South it
Cheapened—Timely aud
Interesting.
[From the Erie (Pa.) Times.]
You ask me to explain the meaning
of the following excerpt:
Jackson, Miss., Oct. 12.—K. H. Wildberger,
of Clarksdale, Miss., is in the city and brings
late details of the recent reported race trouble
in Coahoma county. The trouble had its origin
in a secret society, organized among the blacks
by the famous Judge Albion W. Tourgee, au
thor of the “Fool’s Errand,’’of Maysville, Ky.,
who, in consideration of 82 cash in hand (of
which 81.53 goes to Tourgee), furnished the
blacks with a certificate which guaranteed to
them, whether qualified electors or not, in largo
black capitals the right to vote, followed by
these words in very small typo, “in any meet
ing of the Citizens’ Rights Association.”
The grand jury of Coahoma county is investi
gating this society now. which has a largo mem
bership in the black counties, and serious in
dictments will likely follow. The records of the
organization are in official custody.
It means nothing except that it has
become necessary to kill a few more
citizens of the United States in order to
preserve the Christian civilization (?)
of the state of Mississippi from hope
less stagnation. There are two state
ments in it which are true:
First—That several persons were
killed last week in Coahoma county,
Mississippi. There were four killed in
stead of two: seven are missing and sev
eral very seriously wounded. They are
all colored men, however, and because
of that fact, the matter is not worth
anyone's attention. At least 20,000 col
ored men have been killed by white
men in the states of the south since
they were emancipated. During that
time only three or four white men have
been executed in all those states for the
murder of colored men. This condition
of affairs is necessary to secure the po
litical ascendancy of the white man,
and keep down the price of labor. How
could a white minority in Mississippi
have disfranchised a colored majority
of 60,000 if a white man had felt him
self in danger of the law every time he
found it necessary to kill a “nigger?”
And how would a white man be able to
make any money without working him
self, if the Negro was allowed to refuse
to work for such wages as the white
employer is willing to give. We have
always been told that cotton-raising re
quires “manageable labor,” and how is
labor to be managed, now that it is free,
unless a few laborers are killed now and
then? It is always necessary to kill some
during the cotton picking season.
Of course the rest of the country must
pay no attention to this matter. They
are nothing but citizens of the United
States, and black ones at that. They
have no rights about which the govern
ment of the United States cares a tig,
and, besides that, the southern white
democrat has a divine right to kill them
when and where he chooses, because he
is white and represents civilization (?)
and Christianity (?). For myself, I
confess there is nothing I am so proud
of as the fact that I am a citizen of a
great republic which protects a man’s
coat with zealous care, but has no re
gard at all for his life; unless it be the
fact that 1 am part and parcel of a
Christianity which waxes hot over the
burning of a mission house in China,
but looks on smiling and unconscious
while the Christian dead are heaped up
in the United States for the crime of
having black skins and desiring a free
man's rights.
Second—lt is also true that these men
were members of the National Citizens’
Rights association, and the man who
manufactured the report no doubt
thought the people of the north would
swallow once more the old fable that
they were “plotting to kill the whites.”
That is the usual excuse that is offered
when it becomes necessary to kill a few
in order to prevent the colored citizen
from holding meetings to consider his
interests and devise means for better
ing his condition.
No one believes that these men had
any more purpose to offer violence to
the whites than they had of extermin
ating the Cherubim. I suppose 1 have
had more letters and more confidential
letters than any man living—perhaps
more than any who ever lived. Ido
not think a dozen of these expressed
any feelings of vengefulness. Alany did
express a determination to defend them
selves, and all of them a desire to se
cure improved conditions by lawful and
peaceful means. But the northern
doughface has always believed such re
ports, even when their absurdity was
such as almost to dislocate his jaws in
swallowing them. He used to believe
the southern man when he told him
that the Negro preferred slavery to
freedom, and a man whose gullet would
stand that is in no danger of being
choked with a lie of any sori.
Unfortunately in this case there are
200,000 white citizens in the north who
know that every word of '.his report
about the National Citizens’ Rights As
sociation is a lie, not made out of whole
cloth, but out of rotten straw. They
know the association has no local organ
izations, no oaths, no secrets, no assess
ments, no agents, no schemes, no funds
except voluntary contributions, and no
purposes except the peaceful and legal
consideration and promotion of the
rights of the citizens of the United
States in the states of the Union. Its
sole aims are liberty, free speech, pro
tection to the citizen and equal oppor
tunity. Its weap ns are such as I send
you herewith —appeals to common man
hood, Christian conscience and the uni
versal sense of justice between man and
man. Neither are there any "records
of the association in official custody,”
since its only "records” are the rolls in
my possession. The killing was not
unexpected, as it has been threatened
for weeks both verbally and by letters
which declared that the whites of Coa
homa would "not allow any more damn
nigger meetings, if they had to kill
every nigger in the county to stop
them.”
There is nothing' secret about the as
sociation. It is just as open as the
Bible, which everyone may now read,
though it was locked until 1865, in the
“slave states,” by public statutes, to
prevent the slave from opening its lids
in the interest of Christianity and civil
ization. In the same way and for the
same reason it is now necessary to keep
him from learning the rights and duties
of the citizen.
Anyone paying the postage received
on application the circulars and appli
cation lists I enclose to you. Upon sign
ing the application list he became a
member. If he wanted a certificate of
membership he got it by paying the
postage on its return. That is all that
was asked of anyone, but when a south-
ern political liargets his magnifying ap
paratus in good working order, it is no
job at all for him to make $2 out of two
cents, or to swear that one thing is in
small type and another in large type. I
send you one of the regular certificates
of membership of which several hundred
thousand have been issued. 1 ^ There has
never been any oth(A form since the
first thousand, none of which went to
Mississippi.
The association has no funds except
voluntary contributions, with which it
has paid printing, stationery and 8210
clerk hire during the year of its exist
ence. Many thousands of the pamph
lets, “Is Liberty Worth Preserving,”
have been sold to secure funds to dis
tribute other thousands. From the
state of Mississippi $1 has been received
as a contribution from a white man,
and $4.50 for the purchase of pamphlets
from persons whose color was not
known. The association Jiso receives
and transmits funds when requested to
do so for the relief of widows and or
phans of the victims of southern bar
barism, and has been instrumental in
raising funds to test important legal
questions, and in some eases to defend
members of the association imprisoned
on trumped-up charges in order to pre
vent the colored people from getting
the impression that any of the white
citizens of the United StatM care how
grossly they are oppressed.
The simple truth is, that it means
equal liberty, equal justice and ample
security to all, and appeals to reason,
the law, the ballot and the conscience
of the American people for redress of
evils. These are the very things such
assassins most dread and most hate.
These things slavery trained them to
resist, and obedient to this Natural bias
they have driven speech and political
liberty from her borders just as thor
oughly as they .ire excluded from the
czar's dominions.
These men killed, and thousands of
other victims of this unWbly lust to
make the line of race the Boundary of
right and privilege, were just as truly
martyrs in the cause of liberty as Abra
ham Lincoln or the dead who fell be
neath the stars ^nd stripes at Gettys
burg. They died not only in the asser
tion of their own rights but of yours
and mine as well; for that man is only
half free who cannot discuss any mat
ter of public policy in any ptate where
he may elect to meet his fellpw citizens
for that purpose, without fear of vio
lence or any interference ujith his per
sonal liberty. It is precisely the same
spirit which killed those men, that
threw eggs at Gen. Weaver and his
companions. The only difference is
that they knew the Negro has a much
greater stake at liberty than Gen.
Weaver, so that while one dose of stale
eggs would serve to keep the northern
agitator at home, it requires a few
corpses now and then, to “to keep the
nigger in his place” and prevent him
from trying to obtain for him
self and his race some of the rights of
American citizenship. God grant that
he may not wholly yield this hope un
til the American people shall wake up
to the enormity of that crime which
their lethargy and weakness have per
*nitted the shtre-nursed l^barism of
the south to work upon him! Very
truly yours, Albion W. Tourgee.
A TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE.
The Surviving Descenduit us the Ilaitien
Liberator In France.
(From the New York Tribune. ] ‘
Geneva.—Americans who are familiar
with the main events of the heroic and
tragic life of Toussaint I’Ouverture, the
"Bonaparte of St. Domingo,” and liber
ator of Haiti, may be surprised to hear
that his granddaughter lives to-day in
France, in the little village of Soirac.
She is now, according to a recent is sue
of a Paris paper, sixty-nine years old,
and dependent upon an annual pension
of 1,552 francs paid her by the govern
ment, Unfortunately the details of her
personal history are meagre.
Toussaint I’Ouverture, as may be re
membered, died in the prison of Joux,
near Besancon, April 27, 1803. It is
needless here to refer to his career, to
his youth as a slave in the family of the
Count de Noe. to his part in the revolu
tion of his people, to his proud message
to Napoleon: "The first of the blacks
to the first of the whites.” The cause
of his death is still a mystery.
L'Ouverture married Suzanne Simon
Baptiste, a distant kinswoman, and be
came the father of two sons, Placide
and Isaac. The young men were sent
to the College de la Marche, in France,
where the records of their sojourn are
still tu be found in the academical reg
isters. After finishing their education,
Isaac remained in France, while Pla
cide, filled with more of his father’s
spirit, returned to Haiti, to aid in the
defense of his country. But his lot was
almost as unhappy as that of his fa
mous sire. While Toussaint was lan
guishing in the cells of Joux, Placide
was borne away to Fort Belle-Isle-in-
Aler, where he remained, it is said, sev
eral years. Isaac, unmolested, took up
his residence in Bordeaux. After his
release from prison, the elder son, ac
companied by his mother, went to live
at Agen, where Aladam Toussaint
I’Ouverture died in 1815.
After the death of their mother the
two sons manifested little love for one
another. Isaac, the younger, even ap
pealed to the courts to force his elder
brother to change his name. lie was
unsuccessful, however, as he deserved
to be.
Placide, despite the assertions of his
brother, was received into the best so
ciety, and in 1821 married M lle. Jose
phine de Lacaze, the daughter of Jo
seph de Lacaze, a nobleman, one * an
otHeer in the Royal guards and Cour
rent de Pare. For twenty years they
lived happily together, Placide dying in
1841. He left one daughter. Rose Tous
saint L’Ouverture, who. as already men
tioned, now lives in the village of Soi
rac. As her uncle, Isaac, died soon after
their father without children, she is
the onlj' living descendant of the great
Haitian soldier. Mlle. Rose’s mother
followed her husband to the grave many
years ago.
Mile. Rose, according to the Paris
paper, has never married. She is said
to be an interesting, clever woman,
worthy of the proud family of her
mother and the heroic race to which her
father belonged. She will bear to the
grave a famous name.
A Fiourishiuc Club.
McKeesport, Pa.—Mr. Grinage, an
old and respected citizen of the East
End, is very low, suffering from the ef
fect of a paralytic stroke. —Mr. Henry
Lewis and wife, of thenatatorium, have
the sympathy of the community in the
loss of their little child.—The Afro-
American voters of this district have
now a flourishing club permanently or
ganized. They meet Thursday evenings
on Market street—Rev. C H. Brown,
the new pastor, has arrived. Tne people
and pastor both seem pleased.—Prof. N.
P. Clark, the musical prodigy, is again
a citizen of McKeesport.
CHAMPION JACKSON
Returns to America to Arrange for
a Fight With Champion
Corbett.
His Great Success in Diflerent Ways In En
gland—How He Looked When He
Landed in New York City—What
He Has to Say—Dixon Knocked
Down—Other Entertaining
* Sporting News.
New York City.—Peter Jackson, the
heavy-weight pugilist, was among the
passengers on the steamship Teutonic,
which arrived last week Thursday
morning. The giant's appearance did
not create a favorable impression to the
critical observers. He did not look
like the Jackson of old. His eyes were
somewhat sunken, and had deep circles
around them that extended almost to
his prominent cheeK bones. He was as
bright and cheerful as ever, however.
He was perfectly willing to talk about
anything that the reporters did not
want him to talk about. He has all, if
not more, of his old suavity of manner,
and is as excessively polite as ever.
He appeared to be anxious to fight
Corbett again. He smiled when asked
about Goddard s draw having been said
to be really a victory for Goddard., He
was as diplomatic as ever, but did not
appear to be the man physically that
he was when he made his first bow to a
metropolitan audience. He has ac
quired a stoop of the shoulders that he
did not have before. His step is not as
elastic: in fact, he looks to be fully ten
years older than he was three years ago.
Parson Davies, Jackson’s manager, was
perfectly satisfied w.th his appearance.
He is of the opinion that with a few
days’ rest after the rough sea passage
Jackson will be himself again. Several
farewell dinners were tendered to Jack
son before he left England, and it may
be that the dinners were a trifle too
heavy for Jackson’s digestive organs.
Jackson is fond of the good ' things of
this world. He has enjoyed life
thoroughly since he gained an easy vic
tory over Slavin.
When the Teutonic entered her dock
Jackson was on the upper deck chatting
with a number of friends. He was
dressed in a blacksuitof English broad
cloth, a sealskin vest, silk hat, Picca
dilly collar and patent leather shoes.
Hjs mustache is quite long and military
looking. After leaving the ship he was
driven to the Occidental hotel, on the
Bowery, where quarters had been en
gaged for him by Tom O’Rourke. A re
porter was one of the party which ac
companied him to the hotel. After
Jackson had adjusted some personal
business he began to speak of his exper
iences across the water.
“We had a very rough trip across,” he
said. ‘‘A pleasant feature, however,
was the entertainment provided by Wil
son Barrett for the benefit of the sea
men of the ship. It was a big success
and yielded many dollars to the men.
I was treated finely by the passengers,
and am very grateinl "for their courtesy
toward me. I would like to have re
mained in England, as I was so well
treated, but business demanded my
presence in New York.
“After I fought Slavin I had a grand
time. It was one continual round of
pleasure. Almost every day I received
invitations from friends to participate
in enjoyable affairs and accepted. I
remember one occasion when I was out
hunting, a lady of the English aristoc
racy approached me. She did not know
who I was, and at once began plying
me with questions. She asked me
whether I had heard of a colored pugi
list by the name of Peter Jackson. I
• said that I certainly had. ‘And is he
such a great fighter as they say he is?’
asked the lady. 1 simply replied that I
believed so. Finally, she was told that
I was Peter Jackson. She was very
much surprised.”
“Did you meet Mitchell while
abroad?" asked the reporter.
“I saw Charley about six weeks ago;
that was before he was in trouble,” re
plied Jackson. “I don't think that he
will ever tight again. His hands are
pretty sore. He made a foolish move by
appealing his case before the higher
courts; he should have served his two
months. As the matter stands now
other indictments will be found against
him. and if he loses his appeal he will
get about six months. Jim Hall told
me that he would come over to America
in the spring. I didn’t have much to
say to him, because of his action toward
my manager. Mr. Davies. Ted Pritchard
is a nice young fellow, and well liked
in London.”
“Were you surprised when Corbett
defeated Sullivan?”
“No: Corbett is a good man. How
ever, I am willing to meet him at any
time. I never challenge anybody. If he
wants to meet me again, 1 will accom
modate him. I consider my draw with
him a disgrace, and 1 will not be satis
fied until we settle the question of su
premacy.”
When asked what he thought of God
dard, Jackson said that the Barrier man
was not a bad pugilist by any means.
He smiled when told that Goddard had
claimed the championship of the world.
In speaking of Slavin, Jackson said
that he was game to the core. “He’s
not an easy man to defeat by any
means,” he continued. “He can hit as
hard as any of them. When I left
London he was running two public
houses and is doing well. Pony Moore,
Mitchell’s father-in-law, set Frank up
in business.”
Before he left London he received
from a number of friends a costly dia
mond ring. He also carried with him a
few valuable canes, which were pre
sented to him by the employes of the
hotels where he stopped.
Jackson would notexpress anopinion
upon the result of the fight between
Godfrey and Choynski. He said that
he would be present at the battle, but
would not be in Choynski’s corner.
The fighter’s future plans have not as
yet been mapped out. After spending
a few weeks in this city he will prob
ably return to San Francisco. He ex
pressed his willingness more than once
to battle at the Coney Island Athletic
club.
AN EXPERIENCE IN ENGLAND.
According to a letter received recent
ly from England by a prominent sport
ing man, Peter Jackson engaged in a
fistic encounter before coming back to
this 'country recently, and clearly dem
onstrated that besides being a tighter,
he is also a gentleman. His opponents
were four low-browed and dangerous
toughs, who frequent the race tracks
and vile sporting haunts, so numerous in
England. However, Peter brought
them to grief with neatness and dis
patch. As a general rule he is of a
quiet disposition, and never indulges in
scrimmages or fistic arguments outside
the ring unless he is prompted to do so
by unfavorable circumstances. Upon
the day in question it appears that
Jackson was taking refreshments in a
small hotel. There were a lot of toughs
about, and they at once began to in
dulge in the most violent language to
a bar-maid who was serving them
with drinks. They kept up this sort of
thing for some time. Then Peter
thought it was time to act, and with a
well-merited reproof he told them to
keep quiet and behave themselves.
This only added more fuel to the fire
and made matters worse.. One of the
toughs approached the fighter and
threatened to “do” him, while another
hurled a tumbler at Peter, striking him
on the forehead. Although partly
stunned he made a rush at the toughs
and soon had the four beligerents
stretched senseless on the floor. One
of them was so badly hurt that he had
to be conveyed in an ambulance to the
hospital. The others were also pretty
well used up. The barmaid for whom
Peter acted as champion was profuse in
her thanks to the noble fighter. A day
or two afterward several sporting men
presented Jackson a handsome gold
watch and chain in recognition of his
valiant action.
ROASTING CORBETT.
The St. Louis Star-sayings man is
not a firm friend or believer in Cham
pion Corbett. Here is his latest effu
sion: “When Jim Corbett was inter
viewed at Chicago he told an entirely
different story than when he was in
terviewed at Scranton, or, forthat mat
ter, when he was interviewed at vari
ous other places. Bill Brady is little,
but oh, my! It is not Corbett who is
doing all this tine work, but Billy
Brady.
“He knows a good thing when he
sees it, and does not want his money
maker to take any chances to lose the
reputation he has won, because he
knows that, as Fitzsimmons says, Cor
bett is not ‘a world beater.’ He could
get out of a match with Goddard easily
enough, because the American public
know little about the big-boned Aus
tralian.
“He can bluff away at Mitchell and
increase his audiences, but when mod
est Peter Jackson, despite his dark skin,
lands on American soil and quietly de
posits a forfeit to meet the man who
says he defeated Jackson in the rooms
of the California Athletic club, then
what will Brady do? He has already
outlined w’hat he will do.
"He will insist on Corbett keeping his
theatrical engagement for the time
stipulated—one year—and now Corbett
says that Jackson must wait a year
from the time of his arrival. If Jackson
is well advised, and he likely will be,
because Parson Davies is about as cun
ning as any of them, he will make no
such a match with Corbett, as the latter
evidently proposes to try to make with
him.”
Con Riordon, who was with Peter
Jackson, has been unsuccessful in get
ting on a match in England, although
he., has repeatedly challenged Ted
Pritchard and others to do battle. He
will sail for America this week and is
preparing to take on any middle-weight
in this country.
A meeting may be arranged between
Frank Slavin and the winner of the
Godfrey-Choyinski mill. It would give
the cornstalker a chance to get back
some of the prestige he lost in his mill
with Jackson, besides adding to his
bank account.
At the Ariel club, Philadelphia, Sat
urday night, George Dixon fought four
rounds with the Kentucky Rosebud of
Philadelphia. The latter knocked the
champion down in the third round, and
though Dixon got the decision he did
not put out his man. whom many com
pared favorably with Skelly.
AGREEABLY SURPRISED.
One of the Head Me i at the steel Work,
—Personal Mention and Other Notes.
Homestead, Pa.—Mrs. James Plater
visited McKeesport last week.—Mrs.
Lizzie Lipscomb was the guest of her
mother, Mrs. B. Scott, the past week.—
Mrs. Olive Bell is in Elizabeth.—Mr.
Thomas Blake and Mr. Robert Harris
were guests of Mr. Monroe Blake the
30th. —Mrs. Lon Lacy was here last week
with her mother, Mrs. Derry.—Miss An
nie Wheeler was agreeably su prised
Friday evening by a number of young
folks.—Rev. Thomas will settle here on
Glenn street.—Mrs. Wheeler entertained
Wednesday at dinner Rev. and Mrs.
Thomas, Airs. Emma Cook and Mrs. E.
Randolph.—At last the A. M. E. church
has decided to build. —Mr. Will Beverly
has returned. —Mrs. Monroe Blake and
Airs. Nellie Beverly were guests
of Airs. Wheeler the 24th. —
Mr. Lafayette Randolph and Air.
Jerry Smith spent Sunday in Elizabeth.
—Mr. Saunders, who is in the employ
of Schurhward & Co., has The Gazette
sent to his wife in Bedford City, Va.,
every week by the agent. —Mr. Alonroa
Blake has purchased another SSO cow.
He is investing quite largely in stock.—
Air. and Airs. C. \V. Posey were guests
of Air. and Airs. Jennie Blake the 30th.
—Miss Tolliver, of AlcKeesport, is visit
ing Miss Ettie Bolden, of Glenn street.
—Mr. Hardy, an Afro-American
Pittsburgh, has moved here, and is one
of the head men in the steel works.
—Airs. Annie Thorn was the guest
of Mrs. James Plater the 30th. —Mrs.
Alice Clark is slowly convalescing.—
Airs. Annie Thorn visited Elizabeth
last week.
Obituary and Personal Mention.
Newark, O.—Miss Bertha Messer is
visiting in Springfield.—Ah's. Ransom
and sister attended the grand reception
in Zanesville.—Mrs. James Snowden,
after several months’ suffering, died at
her home Monday night.—Prof. Harry
Guy, of Zanesville, was the guest of Air.
and Airs. D. AI. Guy Sunday.—Aliss Le
titia Johnson is dangerously ill.—Miss
Lou Davison is convalescing.—Air. Wil
liam Terry and Miss Emma Davis were
quietly married at the residence of the
bride’s parents on Tenth street last
Thursday.—Aliss Effie Dorsey was the
guest of Mrs. 1). AI. Guy recently.—Mrs.
F. B. Norman attended the Artope
nuptials last week.—Mrs. AI. A. Nor
man attended the reception given in
honor of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Gant in
Zanesville Monday.
••The Gazette” Desires to Hear From Rev.
Artis.
Wellsville, O. —Rev. W. T. Artis haa
returned to his charge with his family.
—Two new members were added to the
A. AI. E. church Sabbath.—Mrs. B.
Butler returned from Pittsburgh Sat
urday.—Mr. and Airs. J. Redman have
returned to Sewickley.—Airs. T. Paine
and children went to Pittsburgh the
29th.—Mesdames B. Butler, E. Redman
and Birdie Pryor went east the 31st.—
Miss Sophia Stout, who has been spend
ing the summer in Engo, returned to
Alarietta the 31st. —The “Social Six”
realized $20.62 from their supper thd
26th an 1 27th.—Mrs. E. Redman has re
turned from Ciarksburgh.—Miss Lou
Collins has returned. —J. King was out
of town the 27th visiting a sick friend.
PRICE FIVE CENTS,
LAWYER VS. MINISTERS.
suing the Ministerial Association
for S4O Due for Services
Rendered
Last Year In the Avery Fund Inventigvar
tlon—Social Events—Presented With
a Gold Medal—The Twin Cities’
Personal News of the Week.
Pittsburgh and Allegheny, Pa.— <
Dr. and Mrs. W. D. Clinton have re
turned from a pleasant visit in Zanes
ville, O.—Jesse Grey is the happiest
man in the city—it is a boy.—VV. W.
Browne, president of the True Reform
ers’ Bank of Richmond, Va., will ba
here about the 22d. —Miss Ednorah
Nahar, the talented young elocutionist,
of Boston, Alass., will give an enter
tainment at Wylie Avenue church on
Tuesday evening, the Sth.—Aliss Whit
ing, of Zanesville, who is attending
Duff’s college, is making rapid progress
in her studies and making hosts of
friends by her lady-like ways. —Miss
Bettie Robinson, of BeriwviHe, Va., is
the guest of Airs. Scott L. Alorton. — R.
Day, jr., has been spending several
weeks in Lynchburgh, Va.—Samuel
Roach, superintendent of the Wylio
Sunday school, was presented last Sun
day night with a handsome gold medal
in recognition of his service in raising
such a large collection Endowment day.
President S. T. Mitchell, of Wilberforce,
made the presentation speech.—Rev. S.
R. Davis, of the Good Hope Baptist
church, is making a strong effort to
raise $2,000 by the 23d inst.—Tony Smith,
was here last week.—“Hallowe’en” was
observed more this year than ever be
fore. The china wedding of Air. and
Mrs. J. Writt and a pleasant reception
at the residence of Willie Pearca
and Walter Miller helped to make
the evening enjoyable to all —
Endowment day at. Wylie Avenue
church was a grand success. Prof. As
bury delivered a powerful sermon in.
the morning, and President S. T.
Alitchell, of Wilberforce, delivered a
fine sermon n t night. The collection
was $l3O, and with what cards are out
will likely amount to $l5O. This church,
leads all others in Endowment day col
lections. —S. Topson is meeting with
success in the tailoring business.—Airs.
AL Spriggs is the agent for the “Leland
Son Liniment,” a very good cure for
rheumatism and other diseases.—Mrs.
Louisa Jackson gave a 5 o’clock tea
last Friday in honor of Airs. Withers, of
Harrisburg.—On last Tuesday night
Lawyer J. W. Holmes’ law suit against
all the ministers of the two cities oc
curred at Aiderman Cahill’s office.
Lawyer Holmes sues to recover S4O for
professional services rendered in the
Avery college investigation made
last April, which sum he haa
been unable to collect Nearly
all the ministers were present and
denied that any authority has been
given by the ministerial council to em
ploy a lawyer. Holmes claims that
Revs. Laws and Trimble led him to
believe that the council would pay tha
bill. Laying aside all prejudice in the
matter we think the only honorable
way to clear this matter is to pay the
bill, as there is no doubt but that the
service was rendered and at some ex
pense to the lawyer. He did it in good,
faith, and had it been a white lawyer
he would have been paid. We do not
blame the ministerial council as a body,
and have no doubt that they knew
nothing of the case. But some of the
ministers who took a leading part in
this agitation and who had led the law
yer to believe he would be paid, should
have made an effort to collect the
money. A very bad feeling cropped out
out after the hearing, and it is alleged
that some of the preachers advocated
the boycotting of Holmes. We hope
this is not so, and hope no minis
ter will be so foolish as to attempt it.
Should they do so, we hope that the
congregation will severely set down on
them. One of the remarkable features
about the action of the ministerial
council, although comprised of the
brigh minds of the two cities, who are
always advocating race pride and race
support, and although we have a young
colored lawyer besides Holmes and Ran
dolph, they did not think enough
of their race to hire him, but
secured a white lawyer. “Con
sistency thou art a jewel ” —
The “Halloween club” gave a most de
lightful and brilliant party Alonday
,evening at the residence of Mrs. Mary
C. Miller, 139 Washington street. Tha
ladies and gentlemen indulged in vari
ous games and amusements, while or
chestral music and the perfumed flow
ers delighted and charmed all present.
At 11:30 p. m. the delicacies of the season
were served to club members and their
ladies. Afterward the parlor and din
!ing-room were at the guests’ pleasure.
The affair was continued until a late
hour.—Mrs. Margaret Donaldson, pre
sumed to be Pittsburgh’s oldest inhab
itant, was buried Sunday from the
“Home for Aged Colored Women” on
Kilpatrick street She was aged 105
years. She was born in Maryland, her
parents being slaves and full-blooded
Africans. She recollected when Alle
gheny was an immense corn and wheat
field, and Pittsburgh was largely inhab
ited by Indians. She was fond of flow
ers and all her leisure hours at tha
Home were, for the past nine years,
spent in caring for the cultivation of
numerous plants, etc. She never wore
eye-glasses. She was married in 1845 to
John Donaldson, and outlived her hus
band and several children. She was
highly respected by everyone, univer
sally known as "Aunt Peggy,” and a
life-long member of the A. M. E. church.
—Aliss Ednorah Nahar (elocutionist) of
Boston, gave a pleasing entertain
ment Thursday evening, assisted by
the choir. in Avery church. —
Charles E. Decourcey, formerly of Bal
timore, the young man who was so
badly injured by the elevator at Hotel
Anderson the 22d through the careless
ness of a drummer, died at the homeo
pathic hospital the Wednesday follow
ing, and was buried the 28th. Deceased
was about 20 years of age, and made
his home with his aunt, Airs. Spriggs,
of Allegheny. —Mrs. Coates and son,
Willie, are in Harrisburg.—Mrs. B. F.
Gross and daughter. Miss Birdie, re
turned last week from Chicago.— Miss
Anna Aston and Mr. James Ringgold
were married last week. Both are resi
dents of Allegheny. Rev. I. N. Rosa
officiated.—Mrs. Evaline Scott, of
Knoxville, Pa., was married this week
to Mr. Albert Jackson, of Pittsburgh.—
Mrs. Will Lewis, formerly Miss Nannie
Kelley, died the 25th at her home in
Leechburg. Deceased had been ill only
a short time with typhoid fever. Sha
was buried Friday from her late resi
dence.
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