—The Baltimore Annual Conference of the A. M. E. Church passed resolutions denouncing the action of the School Commissioners of that city, in refusing to employ colored teachers for the separate schools for colored children. Two colored delegates, representing the African Methodist Church, were most cordially received.
—Prof. Bennett, of Nashville, makes an important contribution to the question of negro mortality, in the Independent. He sums up the causes of its large percentage: (1) The old and sick, broken by slavery, are dying as the effect of former hardships; (2) they lack vital force, are scrofulous, and readily succumb to disease; (3) ignorance of the laws of health; (4) late and excited religious meetings; (5) inadequate clothing and food; (6) crowded tenement house life. He also names the following grounds for expecting an improvement: (1) They are gradually improving their condition, as to homes, food and clothing; (2) they are progressing in intelligence and knowledge of the laws of health; (3) the younger ministers are leading them to earlier hours and quieter modes of worship; (4) boards of health are securing better sanitary conditions.
—The first negro who has sat on an important jury in New York, in many years, was accepted May 22d, in the Supreme Court circuit, in a case involving $6,500.
—Should the barque Azor make four trips a year, it would take one hundred years to transport to Africa the 100,000 now ready to go, and able and willing to pay $20 each for passage and food. It is most important that the 99,000, at least, should neither give up home nor work.
—A French Roman Catholic mission is to be established at Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika, in Central Africa, with government aid to the amount of $20,000. Ten missionaries, who have seen service in Northern Africa, will soon set out for Zanzibar. They have already large and extending missionary enterprises in the north and in the south.
The Indian.
—It is hard to tell, from the contradictory accounts, whether Sitting Bull will continue seated over the Canada lines, trading in the spoils of raids on Black Hills trains, or will issue from his camp of 1,500 lodges to take possession of his old home and fight out his claim to the end. Authorities differ.
—Meanwhile, the Bannock Indians, numbering about 200 warriors, under the command of Buffalo Horn, the noted scout, are encamped in the lava beds, between Big Campus Prairie and Snake River, and have ordered the whites to leave the prairie on penalty of death. The Indians on the Upper Columbia are equally hostile, and the Sioux still threatening.
—General Sherman says that, if the present indications of an Indian war are realized, and he fears they will be, the army, as it now stands, would be entirely insufficient to cope with the weight of Indian strategy and valor that would be thrown against it.