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. • -. J •.i^TOffw-Tf , i VOLUME IX. NO. II. DETROIT, MICH., JULY 31, 1891. WHOLE NO. 427 wants to be a Bishop because he step­ J^Aijp v JOJ ino uaj[u} .>.t>.u «*jtrg^iap ped aside and let Bishop Gaines in. Sal- the chief objective points being the ters wants to be a Bishop because I Island home and C F. Johnson's stock "PLUTARCH'S TOPICS." that is the only way to keep a cer­ farm. The Island home is one of the DIXON IS A WHIRLWIND! tain fragment in the connection.(?) Dr. most magnificent farms I ever saw. JUST ANO CANDID CRITICISMS NOT LIBERAL SENTIMENT AND SENTIMENT HE EASILY DEFEATS THE AUSTRALIAN Embry wants to be a Bishop because NOT SO LIBERAL. The rolling landscape, the well-kept WANTED. lie is tired of struggling, like Atlas, fields, clean lawns and out-buildings, FIGHTER. under the enormous load laid upon the splendid outlook, all combine to ihorch Organ* M Whltewuh Bro.he*- the shoulders of the "business mana­ How to Travel In the Sonih.—Prosperous form a spot that refreshes one and Only Five Round* Fought.—Hat thoad Were A« io Presiding Elders.—Who la ger." Citizen*.—A YUlt to a Delightful makes it a most delightful spot to vis­ Ve.y Lively for Mr. Willis—An Billy Greyl It is a peculiar fact that candidates Farm.—Personal Mention. it. The owner, a Mr. Dixon, an aged Triumph. come up long before the necessity for Editorial Correspondence. man and sterling Republican, welcomes The peculiar sensitiveness to any dis­ more Bishops is apparent, and that the all who come. At his place, at least, San Francisco, July 28.—The ques­ cussion of his doings that is not all general conference must be pounded Over in Eastern Tennessee, where black and white appear to be o« equal tion of the bantam championship of grounds. On the register, the Nash­ flattery, renders it difficult to speak of and hammered a good while before glides in graceful curves, the Tennes­ the world was seltled tonight at the it is brought to admit that there is see river, where hill and vale alternate ville American appears just above the California Athletic Club's rooms in this public men of our race in the same fair Plaindealer. room for two or three more upon the to form a section rich, in varied, rug­ city. George Dixon, a Boston color­ and candid manner in which white highest roost. The A. M. E. church ged and grand scenery, lies the city ed boy, the acknowledged champion men discuss the conduct of their lead­ at present has a third more Bishops But the place of greatest interest of his class in America and Great Brit­ than it needs and pays in salaries to of KnoxviLle. Not far from here to er*. to me, was the stock farm of C P. ain, shook hands with Abe "Willis, the them, and in extras, about $6,000 the Northwest, lie the coal mines, re­ Johnson, better known as Cal. John- best lighter of his class in Australia. As a rule, Afro-American men of ev­ each year that should be used to in­ cently brought into prominence by the sou. He is one of those men who re­ Dixon, by his prowess in the ring and en national prominence regard it as crease the salaries of the old men who flects credit on Afro-Americans, be­ have so faithfully served their church. strike of the miners against the em­ his unexceptionable conduct out of impudence for any one to criticise any­ cause of liis business capacity and his However, it cannot be denied that ployment of the convicts in the mines. ability to make money and accumulate it, won himself a place in the annals thing they say or do. This is more Bishops Gaines, Arnett and Grant have This section is by far, the most liberal it. Estimates place him as worth of sport beside that of the most gal­ lant of the hard-fisted fraternity of any especially true of churchmen. Negro much more than paid their way by part of Tennessee. It was strongly about $200,000. At the farm we preacher* think that it is a sin for the large results they have brought found him speeding on a 5-8 of a mile class or color. The purse, #i>,000, is in money and members, and that Bish­ Union during the war; it rolls up track, a trotter that could go in the the largest ever held up for two men person to find any fault with their op Tanner is an acquisition because now, large Republican majorities, and twenties. For the pleasure of his vis­ below the light weight to contend for, doings- of the lustre he adds to the intellect­ if anywhere, here does the Afro-Amer­ itors, lie gave some exhibitions of and tlie California Club gave that These same fellows do not hesitate ual complexion of the church. speed, trotting and running. Then to proclaim themselves the represent- ican come in contact with the most amount in recognition of tlie import­ "Plutarch." showed them his various pets and gave ance of tlie battle. There is not a alives Of the people, yet they are un­ liberal sentiment of the state, and their pedigrees, and entertained his willing lor rli<e people to talk out. All biot on tlie record of either man. Dix­ should have better opportunity for be­ visitors with many a story of his ex­ on won his sours in engagements wiih "Plutarch" has to say about that is, coming a freeman. periences on the Southern circuit. ••let them 1M- unwilling," they see we Was Hired to Cook, bigger men than aimself, but it was are talking out anyhow, and live years not until he defeated Eugene Iloru- And, Therefore, Refused to Hang Out the Tlie encouraging things about the later wi.l reveal ihat the present ••talk­ Clothes.-A Salt for #2,000. The Afro-American who desires to backer in two rounds in l»8:i that he ing oui" is but a whimper to what is travel through the South and wishes Afro-Americans here and elsewhere gained national reputation. His early oii the road. Miss Anna M. Williams, employed to escape the inconveniences of the sep­ South, are the numbers of men who uaiiies not only proved his gameness No man or set of men is bigger than as cook for Dr. C. C. Henry, of Brook­ arate coach," must take the Pullman tire accumulating rapidly; tlie men bin went a great way toward reliev­ the race. Race interests are to be pre­ far. Hence, it was to avoid the law Who are b; ginning to speak out in open lyn, has brought suit against him for meeting denunciation of the proscrip-. ing his race of the stigma of faint­ ferred to the whims of individuals. $2,000 damages for assault. She was of Tennessee, and obey the instruc­ heartedness that has from time out 1 eadtrs should be ashamed to censure tions of my local league not to enter tions heaped upon them, and who are the secular press ior the intelligence employed by Mrs. Henry as cook, for the separate coach "under pain of increasing in numbers; and the hus­ of mind attached to it in the prize and courage it is showing. But, $12 per month with the agreement pistols," that at Cincinnati, I took .a tlers, preachers and laymen, who are ring. His lirst meeting with Cal Mc­ whether they are ashamed or not, the that If she should be discharged before through Pullman over the Queen and endeavorimg, by precept and example, Carthy, which took place Feb. 7, lSliO, secular press is getting down io busi­ the month was out, she should be paid Crescent, for Knoxville. Knoxville has to lead tlie people into the ways of and ended in a draw alter seventy ness. Some ol the church organs are for a full month. a fair sprinkling of Northern element, morality and thrift. Mr. E. Maples, rounds, forced a great many people Hi lie more than whitewash brushes. On the morning of June 23, Mrs. and in general appearance looks almost father of Squire Maples, the ex-vice who hitherto had scoffed at his pre­ For instance the "American Baptist" Henry ordered her to hang out clothes like a Northern city of about the same president of the League in Tennessee, tensions, to recognize him as a likely tries to rub out what "Plutarch" says which had been washed. The clothes size. In fact, if I had not been con­ Mr. Bradley, A. M. Henry, C. F. Jolin- candidate for cuampiousliip honors. concerning the tipplers in the Baptist belonged to a Mrs. Wine hell, who liv­ scious of what I could not do, that I son and others, are men whose wealth Admiration lor Dixon was coniined communion, by merely accusing him could do at the North, I would hard­ in realty and personal property, it ed with Mrs. Henry. She refused to takes six figures to indicate. Rev. E. to a small class until he crossed the of ignorance concerning the polity ot hang them out on the ground that she ly have known the difference, so much Atlantic, and June 27. 1800, trounced the Baptist church. -Plutarch" was hired to do only cooking. Mrs. of Northern enterprise was visible. Be­ A. Johnson is a hustling young Con­ doesn't claim to be infallible, but he tween this city and Chattanooga there gregational minister, who speaks out Nunc Wallace, the recognized cham­ Henry then told her she must hang pion of his class in the (Queen's domin­ struck a center when he shot at the the clothes out or go, and she decid­ is constant rivalry, with the odds in plainly his feelings on the prejudices of wine bibbers.
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