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Show - "Old Black Joe" Dead. A Dallas (Texas) dispatch of December 10th says: Joe Parker, colored, died today to-day at the county poor farm at the age'of 120 years. "Nicodemus, the Slave," was his favorite melody, and his dying words were, "Wake me for the great jubilee " He was a slave for a century, most of the time in Tennessee,where he was fortunate m having kind masters. The proclamation proclama-tion of emancipation came too late to be of any particular service to poor Joe, who for many years before his death had be- I come too feeble to take care of himself aJ d. who has since then, either enjoyed che freedom of the city caliboose or of the county poor farm. It was old Joe who furnished the ideal of Milt Barlow in his characteristic song of "Old Black Joe" in Memphis, many years ago. |