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230 maxim that temperance, justice, and fortitude conquer all things, he fought to the end.

The New Light is now three years old, and is a noble reflector of Afro-American sentiments, being the only paper published in Mississippi in an office the outfit of which is owned by Afro-Americans.

Mr. Littlejohn was associated with the lamented Rev. Dr. Williams in the editorship of The New Light, to whose popularity and influence the success of the paper is greatly due.

Dr. Williams was born in Virginia, February 3, 1839, and lived until a few months since, when he fell triumphant in the arms of the blessed Savior, having fought in war and in peace, first for God and then for his race.

He published and edited The Peoples Adviser, in Jackson, Miss., which was a religious and an educational journal. It was a strong advocate of temperance and prohibition.

In 1885 he and Editor Littlejohn associated themselves together in the publication of The New Light, to the success of which Dr. Williams never failed to contribute, until called from labor to reward. He was widely known in the M. E. church, to which he belonged.

Among the many weekly journals published in the West, none carries with it such great influence, and none is so powerful in the maintenance of right principles, as The Gate City Press, published at Kansas City, Mo. It is one of the largest sheets published by the Afro-American, and one of the most substantial. Papers may come and go, but The Gate City Press seems "to have come to stay."

Its editor is J. Dallas Bowser, who was born in the Tar Heel State, (North Carolina,) at Weldon, February 15, 1846.