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SATURDAY, JAN. 26th, 1889
Let the law be supreme.
Judge Lynch must be set aside for
the sake of justice.
Mahone is the coming Cabinet
member from the Sunny South.
The Alabama Legislature recon
vene Tuesday.
Omly two sons remain of the
twenty children of heroic old John
Brown.
Minneapolis Journal: Civilization
takes a step backward every time
Judge Lynch holds court.
West Virginia ends it dead lock
by a Republican victory, all the of
fices of the senate being filled by Re
publicans.
Au, honor to our vigilant young
Governor for his reward for the mur
derers of Meadows at Pratt Mines.
Let Judge Lynch be put under
the iron heels of the law.
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Dr. Garnett says that those three
lines by Keats are “the most magical
lii.es" in English poetry. They are
from the “Ode to a Nightingale”;
The same that ofttimes hath
Charmed magic casements, opening on the
foam
Of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn;
Tom Jackson, tailor, colored, and
thrifty, of Athens, Ga , will go to
Africa as a voluntary, seL-support
iug missionary. He will give a year
to preparation at home, and then
begin *by building a chuach in
Liberia.
The reparation for the outrages
at Samoa should be at least as prom
pt and ample as that received from
Hayti.—Baltimore American.
But you see Germany is nearer
Unde Sam’s equal in strength than
little Hayti. The truth is this coun
try in its treatment of Hayti ex
hibited itself to the world in the
very humiliating attitude of a cow
ardly “bully.” Its attitude toward
Germany under greater provocation
will show up the latter, contrasted,
in bold relief.
FOOD FOR FICTION.
Keallstlc Tale* Taken l-'i-oni Dally Llh aad
Jailed Down Hastily.
A genuine nihilist arrived on (lie 22d
inst., at Castle Garden.
U is said that the cotton crop this year
will be the largest e. er raised.
T. J. Peak sho and instantly killed F.
J. Johnson, at Tee^arden. lud.
Mi-s Fanny Davenpi rt, the nctre.s. h
seriously indisposed, a. j itts&nrg.
Nine etn; lo es of the appraiser - < tike
at New York, have been di mi. si d.
James Tiego was .•■eiio.isl injuied in
a runaway ace.den a: Circle* il e. O.
lion. James G. Blaine pivd . ts L a
Mar . land ** ill be a r-pui lic;.n s a:e ii
Ib'jJ.
Peter Wright was fatally mined
while cho. p ng wood, near Hopkins
\il.e. Ky.
Six person- have he n arrest d at Ow
aha. Neb., lor an a sau.t on hub i Gold
steiti, in a sy nagogue.
F. D. liuctasannn. a prominent Ger
man citien of Hoboken, N. J., commit
ted suicide on the 2 Jd inst.
A Cinciun itian named Jos< pli Ink:out
tried to kill himself in New \ oik. It, L
thought that lie will recover.
A gang of unknown ouc hs got on a
general drunk at Urr* ilie, U.. and nine
out of fifteen of them were airesti d.
The army ret r.ug 1 oard. u| on eotam
inati «. found that Gen. it wain is not in
capa -itated from acti\e se.vice.
John Healey, a^ed 9f-. a temp ed to
commit suicide at ( incinnat.. He ha
been demented for >eve. al * ears.
Two thousand miners at Spring Yfcl
ley, 111 . who struck on the ltth kteU,
want to return to work, hut a e 1 jfimi
out.
It is bel.eved that the unknown 1 oy
who was shot by a Louisville saloon j
keeper, on the ISth inst., was,George
Cramp, of Cincinnati.
The tobacco trade in Cincinnati b
periencing a • boom.'1 Ov< * seven hun
dred hogsheads were sold at ye^terdav
morning's sale.
Frederick Delancev Hali-ert. aged sev
enteen years, arc dentally bntfatailv -hot
himself while handling a toy, ru e.,at fet.
Paul.
The United States ship O.-sippce lias
been ord. re.I lo proceed at-oueeto As] in
wall fur the prote ction of American m.
terests on the utlimus.
Jndge Caldwell lias tenered his lesign
atlon io Ma or Smith, of Ciuciunaii, to
take effect Feb. I. He will prepare for
bis trip to Washington
NEWS aiid SENTIMENT.
(From Colored Exchanges.)
Bishop Campbell is much improve i
ed in health.
Ex'Senator Bruce, is preparr ltT a
new lecture.
Col. VV. A. Pledger, of O eorgja_ jg
a candidate for postmaste r Qf Atlan
ta.
Hon C. H. J. TaTy]or, is practic
ing law at Charleston, S. C., and
bids fair to succeed.
Beaufort S, has a colored Sher
iff and a colr,red clerk of the coun
ty
Misa Bober ta Sherman has the
honoc of being the first colored teach
er appointed in Baltimore, Md., Pub
lic Schools.
The colored people of Philadelphia
have organized a “Society for the
Protection of the Negro.”
Rev. G. W. Bryant ‘‘M. D.” is in
St. Louis, Mo., trying to induce the
colored people to immigrate.
The colored people of Richmond.
Va. have organized a Stock Compa
ny to engage in the business.
Hon. C. H. J. Taylor exminister
to Liberia has gone to Atlanta, Ga.,
to engage in the practice.of law.
Nearly 30,000 colored children in
Maryland are deprived of public ed
ucational facilties.
Mr. Jesse Wise is one of the Jur
rors drawn for the January term of
the court ol De roit, Mich.
It is said that John M. L mgston
made his fortune through Saloman,
the late president of the Haytian
republic.
If there is uo colored man in the
Cabinet it will not be because the
Negro’s service do not merit such re •
cognition. —Freeman.
Ex-Senator Bruce is said to have
the finest house of any Negro in the
United States. It is located in a
fashinable quarter of Washington,
D. C.
Miss Christine Shoecraft, of Mun«
cie, Ind., was married quietly to Rev.
C. 8. Smith, of the Methodist Pub
lishing House, at Nashville, Tenn.,
on the evening ot January 1st.
Mr. H. C. Smith, of Chattanooga,
Tenn., will write a history of the
leading colored Democrats, including
an account of the Indianapolis Con.
vention.
Prof. William P. Hastings is sup
eiintendeur of the Freedman’s Nor
sehool at Maysville, Tenn. He is
styled one of the finest educators of
the South.
Mrs. Barnett, wife of Ferdinand
L. Barnett of Chicago, and one of
the editors of the Conservator, is
d( ad.
There will be six colored men. on
the grand jury of Hamilton county
Tenn. Their names am Benjamin
Brown, Dan. Edinburg, C. H. Bird,
YV. Bryant, Isaac Allen and^I. II,
Gains.
Mr. Lewis Wlasted, coloied, of
Natchez, Miss., heads a coir,red
Building Associations, which hrlS al
ready bui t seventy odd houses for
colored families in that city,
Mr. Albert G. Hobbari, of Cin
cinnati, is the principal of tf ie colored
schools of Felicity. Ohio, "and is a
person of interest just now because of
rebellious state of the sch'ool affairs of
that place on account of the color
question.
Mr. W. T. Mumford, a high func-.
tionary in th.e Masonic fraternity,
died a tew days ago at St. Louis, M*>.
He had t'aken all the Masonic de
grees in this country and Scotland
and w^a Masonic jurist^ with few
eqtt*\s and no superiors.
Tl his year each colored child of
sohool-age in Alabama, will have <69
cents appropriate for his education,
while in Massachusetts each one will
have about $15,75 and in Oh:o about
$12,00. The white children of Alai
bama receive but a few cents more j
than the colored per capita.
The convention of coloied Catho
lics at Washington is the initial move
of a campaign among our brethern
in black whicn the Church of Rome
has undertaken with characteristic
energy. There are ataut 200,000
colored JCatholics in this coun'ry,
most of thorn in Leuisiana.
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^ ^ro niinent colored man in an in
rve’ *v pnblished by the Baltimore
‘'>l’.n very sensibly says.
“What the Negroes in this coun
try want is something to make them
proud—not ‘sassy’—they are ‘sassy’
enough now, and that all comes from
their not having anything to make
them proud. They want recognition
in high places, to which they can
point with pride and look with satis
faction. Then you will see the Ne
gro become in manners, habits and
ambiti n like a white man, and may
be better. A cabinet office is the
best place t ) begin, if we are going
to have recognition.
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MONTGOMERY.
Results of the State Colored Con
ference, An able and Repre
sentative Body.
Dear Gazette:
The Conference of Colored men
called to meet in this city on the 8th
iust has just closed the most impor
tant. and with respect of its influence
upon public opinion, the most pro*
fitable assembly that Ins heretofore
deliberated upon the condition of
the colored race and suggested meth
ods for the amelioration of the same.
The moral, intellectual and ma
terial improvement of the race was
splendidly conspicuous to those who
were familiar with the troeeedings
aud delibrationa that characterized
the colored conventions often years
ago. Not alone was this improve
ment disclosed in the high tone and
elevated thought as expressed in the
debates, but also ir> the personal ap
pearance of the negates and the
libe ality with which they respond
ed to the necessity for
A State University
at Montgomery for the higher cul
ture of tbeir youths. The speeches
of Doctor E. M. Blake of Binning
ham.Prof. C. L. Purse of Selma Prof.
Joseph Bibb of Montgomery Prof*
B. T, Washington of Tuskegee and
Doctor Willie Sterrs of Mont
gomery were models of eloquent
rhetoric and defeat and poliical ad
versity do not seem to have detract
ed from the originality of thought
and vigor of expression of the noted.
“Jere” Haralson, Ben. S. Turner,
Ex. Senator Jno. W. Jones, Dick
Maberry, Lawyer Garner and Hon .
C O. Harris, but the most profound
thought and impassioned eloquence
were displayed by Montgomery’s fav
orite son Nathan A.. Alexander.
The conference was sensible of the
obligation that rested upon it to re
flect the best thought and manly
pride of 1 he race and while affirming
its belief in the principles of equa ity
before the law a?, declared by the re,
publican party it sternly refured t>
endorse any candidate for political
office, and from the Address bearing
upon the matter ofJci\il.Rights,many
of Alabama‘s white citizens can well
le»rn iu social and civil rights. The
address says:
“The mistaken idea that intelli
gent Negroes are iucapable of de
tecting the difference between civil
and social equality has led to the
most inhuman and unjnst discrim
ination on railroads and other means
of travel operated by southern cor
porations. We would be understood
to believe, as all intelligent men do
that the principles of association are
innate, and therefore, independent
, of legislative provisiens. We hold
that no laws, nor the force of any
customs can carry with it sufficient
power to make the association of a
white man and a black man congen
ial. We do not flatter ourselves
with the idea that to ride in the same
coach with white men or to occupy
seats on the same floor in public plas
ces with whites, immediately trans
forms our irregulaities to equalities
of social rights.
Our enemies charge that we are
idle, and improvident. We are in
different to the charge; every day of
our life is a whole volume of refu
tation and when the State Univer
sity shall have been encted at Mont-,
goinery, as it most assuredly slial be,
the Negro will want no grander
monument to his industry and fru..
gality.
The colored citizens of Mont^om
«ry have purchased the land on
-which to build the State University,
a id they came forward mid eontri
buted liberally to erect the buil.i
iug.
Dr* Waterrsand his father Mr
Chas. Sterrs, Mess, William Wat
kins, Elyah Cook, A. C Bradford,
|N Jones, S. Whatley Jos. McQueen
Mrs. Sam Phillips, Rev. A N Mc
| Ewen, H A Loveless, Dr. Morris,
: Nelson Bibb, Prof Joseph Bibb, Dr
Dorsett, Elder Gomey and many
others whoso names, in the excite
ment and enthusiasm of the moment
escaped me, contributed liberally
and ot the delegates, John W Jones,
Rev W R Pettiford J H Thomasson,
Jere Haralson Dr E M Blakely,
H V Cashin, large cash contribution
were received, but the
Donation That Overshadows
al1 others and places the donor's
name beside that of Slater Peabody
Meharry, Clark, Livinstone and
Hand was three thousand dollars
from Andrew Beard of Birmingham,
Ala, in memory of a devoted son
who died just on the threshold of a
promising manhood, while a student
at Talladega College.
I was anxious to present your
readers with a likeness of this noble
man and a sketch of his life but time
and space forbid, suffice it that he
is the inventor of the Beard Plow,
and also an improvement on railroad
tracks, and has made an independ*
ent fortune by investments in Birm
ingham real Estate. By a unani
mous vote of a conference the Trust*
ees of the University were request
ed to name the first building erect
ed 1‘Beard Hall” iu his honor.
There are several thousand dollars
still wanting to complete the sum
necessary to erect it. Montgomery
has one man, possessing the means,
with a heart broad enough, a charity
extensive enough, to furnish that
sum. I do not feel at liberty to name
him, hut his geuerous hand has been
extended to every young man of
Montgomery, and never has he turn*
ed a deaf ear to an appeal from the
poor and distressed. His alms have
been done silently; hut all Montgom*>
ery all Alabama, know him. I pre
die* the youth of Alabama will have
cams, to b’esshim.
A Proposed Conference.
The conference, recognizing the
difficulty of securing a representat
ive body uuder the convention sys.
±ilelegates, declared
iu favor of a conference of invited
delegates, and appointed a commit
tee to call a conference and invite
delegates, whenever such conference
may seem necessary.
Objects to one Feature.
There is hut < ne feature connect^
ed with the conference that your
correspondent does not indorse and
tlrnt was the decision of ihe caucus to
refuse to hear, the paper that Prof
W II Council had been invited by
the committee to read
Thanks to Mr. Beard.
Prof W B Patterson, Prest. State
University, H V Casbin of Decatur
and Lawyer A A Garner of Mont
gomery leave Birmingham, to extend
the thanks of the citizens of Mont
gomery and of Alabama publicly to
Mr. Beard for his magnificent liber *
ality.
The conference a!so appointed E
M Bleluly M D. N II Alexander, C
O Harris and II V Cashing to pres
ent to the senate the objections of the
col’d citizens to any change in the
jurisdiction of U S District Court
Ala., that will transfer Judge Bruce
to the Northern district
Merchant.
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Dr> Jerome Cochran on the Decatur i
Petition.
Montgomery Dispwteb.
A special from the Dispatch from De
catur stated that Mayor Austin of that
city had just re warned from Montgomery
where he had been to lay before the gov
ernor the epidemic accounts for destroy- 1
ed property. The letter also stated that
Dr. Cochran was present at the meeting
between the governor and mayor and
“very vigorously opposed tlie approval
of the accounts, urging that the destruc**
tion of the bedding was neccessary.
A Dispatch reporter called on Dr.
Cochran, the state health officer, yester
day. and asked him if he had anything
to say in reply to the statement of the
mayor of Decatur. The doctor replied
that he did not, as he did not, think it
was prudent for him as a state officer, to
discuss a matter that has been laid be
fore ihe governor for consideration.
“If, however,” he added, “you can get
a copy of my report on the Decatur pe
tition, I haye no objection to its publi
cation. It is entirely in the hands of the
governor.”
•‘I wish to say tb»„ however, with ref
erence to the malter, that the infected i
bidding, carpets, ete-., are not yet de
stroyed, and I am opposed to their de- !
stnietion for t wo very strong reasons
which I set fort h in nay report.
The reporter* called at the exi cutive
office ar.d stcu ed a copy of Dr. Codi.
rail's reporr, which is as follows:
ENDORSEMENT OF THE STATE HEALTH OF
FICER ON 'J 'HE DECATUR PETITION.
I caunot ap prove of that part of Ibis
i
petition which relates to the destruction I
of beds, bedding, carpets etc , for the
I olio wing reasons:
I do not beiieve that there are at this
time any infected beds, bedding, or cars
pets, or any infected articles of any sort
in Decatur.
So far as I am informed it has been
about two months since there was a case
of yellow fever in Decatur. In the mean
time most of the houses in which there
were cases of yellow fever have been con
tinuously inhabited, even the rooms in
which the sick were treated have been
generally in use, along with the beds,
bedding, carpets, etc. This statement is
almost uuiversaliy true so far as the
houses, beds, bedding, etc., of the color
ed people are concerned, and it is very
generally true as regards the white peo
pie. If there was any danger in these
things, it would have declared itself in
unmistakable ways long ago. It would
be something new in the history of pub
lic sanitation to undertake the destruc
tion or disinfection of houses, rooms,
bedding, carpets or other articles that
have thus been in common every day
use for two months, and an undertaking
not warranted by anything we have
learned from the past liistory of yellow
f ver.
1-rost and cold are, in yellow lever, ttie
yreat disinfectants. When the cold
weather comes yellow fever goes, and
stays gone until it is brought back again.
This is the less* n taught by hundreds of
epidemics, and by all the localities in
which >eliow fever has ever prevailed. 1
.-u. pose that in the United States more
tnau one hundred communities Buffered
from yellow fever in the great epidemic
year of 1878. In not one of these places
did it hibernate during that winter to be
awakened into malignant life by the
warm ,h of the succeding summer. I do
not forget tiiat the Memphis epidemic o'
1879 has been very generally ascribed to
the hibernation of the lever poison ol
1878. But I was in Memphis in both of
the years, and I was not able in 1879 to
discover one single fact in proof of the
theory of hibernation. Sanitarians have
allowed themselves to be misled in re
gard to this Memphis outbreak Indeed
it see ns to me that sanitarians generally
have very crude notions about the liiber
natio iot yellow fever. They seem to
believe that when the frost, comes yel
low fever goes to sleep and con inuisto
sleep without interruption for live or six
or eight months, until the suns of a u th
er summer rouse it again into pestilen
tial activity. But yellow fever does d >t
hibernate in this way at all. in no time
and in no place. Yellow fever liiber
nateB in Havana by the occurrence of
cases all through the winter. Yellow
fever hibernated in Florida through the
winter of 1887-8S just as it habitually
hibernates in Havana. Occasional cases
occurred all along through the winter
and spring. This is the law of hiberna
tion in yellow fever and there is no
other.
It is perhaps, important here to men
tion the case so often quoted, ot the
Plymouth. This vessel had in the fall
of 1878 seven cases of yellow fever She
was disinfected many times over in the
most thorougt manner, a id then ex
posed to all the cold of a New England
winter. On the loth of March she lefi
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for Wind
ward Islands. Oiiejweek later two cases
of sickness occurred on board of her
which the ship’s surgeon pronounced
to be yellow fever. One of them
n.oovored, the o’her fell into a typhoid
condition and ultimately died. There
was no post, mortem examination. The
clinical histories of these cases are very
defective. I do not believe that these
two men, Saunders and Eagan, had yel
low fever.
In the meantime I want it to be under
stood that, I wage no war on disinfec ion,
even on such disinfection as can be
practiced by health offi dais. In the he i
ginning of an outbreak of v l’ow fever I
would exhaust all the possibilities ol j
disinfection, and during the progress of
an epidemic I might think it sometimes
wise to malee use of it. But mouths after
the c.osni ig of frost, and months after the
subsidence of an epidemic, and in regard
to tliii .gs that have been in constant us“.
any attempt at disinfection seems to me
not only uncalled for but mischievous.
It is important that it should beclearly
and definitely understood that wintry
weather with frost and ice give certain
and reliable protection to individuals
and to communities. Even when there
has been no fros', if the fe\er disappears
for several weeks—one or two months
fio.n any community the assurance of
future immunity is beyond quett on
Take in illustration the histoiv of yellow
fever in Key West. This city is only
uinety miles from Havana. Frost is un
known there. Since the first settlement
ot the place it lias been visited by yellow
fever on some fifteen different occasions
Without frost and without disinfection
after a prevalence of a few months it dis
appears not to reassert itself until a new
importation inaugurates a new epidemic
and in the majority of instances it has
d.ed oat in the month of August. Even
in this tropica' climate the f ver does not
hibernate, does not lie dormant for
months to be again aroused by favoring
circumstances into renewed outbreaks of
pestilential activity. Similar illustra
tions might be drawn in abundance from
the epidemic history of many West In
dia cities.
It may be that the experts of the Ma
rine Hospital Service are worthier of the
confidence of the people of Decatur ikian
than their own state health otlicer. I
cannot think of anything else that would
justify them in taking the extraordinary
step of appealing in this matter to the
Washington authorities.
I am also compelled, for reasons not
necessary to mention here, to withhold
my approval from the other objects of
the petition. I would gladly at any time
serve my people, but in my judgment,
to approve of this petition would be to
serve them unwisely.
It seems to me that it is the plain and
imperative duty of the health authorities
to lead and instruct public opinion, and
not to yi'-ld to its capricious demands.
It is only in this way that we can hope
to bring about such a state of things as
will en ib!e us to avoid in the future the
extravagances of panics, stampedes, and
shotgun quarantines.
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