. Crisis. teen years ago Missouri, with con-siderable satisfaction, made chicken stealinga penitentiary offense and expected alarge harvest of black State slaves as a 70 per cent, of the convictions underthe act have been white men, and lastmonth, at Montgomery, Mrs. Addie Pave,a white woman, was sent to the peniten-tiary for two years under this act. FOREIGN. A MONG the officers of the Braziliandreadnaught Minas Geraes, whichvisited New York last month, were severalcolored men. Two of these called at ouroffices. A copy of The Crisis went awayin the cabin of the captain, who is no
. Crisis. teen years ago Missouri, with con-siderable satisfaction, made chicken stealinga penitentiary offense and expected alarge harvest of black State slaves as a 70 per cent, of the convictions underthe act have been white men, and lastmonth, at Montgomery, Mrs. Addie Pave,a white woman, was sent to the peniten-tiary for two years under this act. FOREIGN. A MONG the officers of the Braziliandreadnaught Minas Geraes, whichvisited New York last month, were severalcolored men. Two of these called at ouroffices. A copy of The Crisis went awayin the cabin of the captain, who is notcolored. ^ Hon. H. Walter Keece, K. C, has beenappointed Solicitor-General of is just one step removed from theotfiee of chief justice of the colony, whichhas been held by a white man since thedeath of the distinguislied colored William Conrad Reeves. ^ The French colonial troops Avere receivedwith great enthusiasm by the populace ofParis at the review on July 14. MEN or THE MONTH. AN INVENTOR. IF you haye any occasion to peruse theHelp Wanted columns of the dailynewspapers—and you will find this an in-structive and entertaining and perhapsotherwise profitable occupation for a sparehalf hour—you may come across a demandfor nigger-head lasters, at good you are not versed in the vernacular ofshoemaking, you may think that this phrasewas specially devised to humiliate and ridi-cule the Negro race. But in this case yourpresumption would be found to be incor-rect, for the head referred to in thiscompound name is not the outward andvisible, but the inward and spiritual andintellectual head of a black man. He was not really black; in fact, twentyyears after his death the Beverly (Mass.)Times went so far as to declare: It isknown that he had no Negro blood in hisveins Avhatever. But the doctors and theciy-il registrar of Lynn, Mass., did not knowthis, for in his death certificate they setopposite to color the abbreviation M., therebeing no space f
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