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At the late election in Arkansas Crittenden county elected a colored county judge, D.W. Lewis a colored county clerk, David Ferguson; colored assessor, J.R. Brooks; a colored coroner, E.T. Jackson, and a colored representative to the legislature, S.S. Odom. The colored Baptists of the United States number more than one million; one hundred thousand larger than any other protestant denomination. Miss Clara Duvall, of Greensboro, N.C., has entered suit against the railroad authorities for forcibly dragging her from a first-class seat and compelling her to ride in the smoking car. Mr. M. M. McLeod, Ex-Secretary of the State of Mississippi, and one of the most prominent colored lawyers of that State, speaks in high terms of the material and intellectual progress of the colored people of Mississippi. He says, “Openings for educated colored men are better than ever before.” Any line of business, trade or profession is open to men of color. The patronage of the negro alone, on account of his numerical strength, would guarantee success to the right kind of men, but the white people join heartily in aiding everything that tend to the advancement of the colored man on the line that I have named. The colored Baptists of West Virginia have
purchased the Shelton College property, located at St. Albans. They
propose organizing, in the near future, a normal, collegiate and
industrial school, which shall be undenominational. This is one of the
finest locations for such a school anywhere to be found, having
communication with three States by railroad, and also the Kanawha River.
This body is composed mainly of young men of talent, which will insure
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