Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1878 — Changing Color. [ARTICLE]

Changing Color.

There is in pur city now a colored man who for fifteen years past has been steadily turning white. He says that before the war he was the slave of Mr. Winston, n f ow living near Union City, Tenn., and that any one doubting that he is a negro can have those doubts set at rest by writing to his old master. He has farmed near Columbus, Ky., for seven years past, and his children, all black, have grown up and are married. He says that the change in the color of his skin began fifteen years ago, in a spot the size of a three-cent piece, on his right wrist, and has been spreading until now the only black left upon IhS person are a few spots on his hands, and a mask, as it were, on his face, extending from his forehead to his mouth, with the exception of his eyebrows, which are white, the hair on them being black and straight like a white man's. The skin of the head, neck and body is a healthy fiesh,,color like that of 8 any white man, and is tender and easily blistered by the sun, and his hair is getting straight like a white man's The first impression upon seeing him is that his face has been painted with iodine, but his eyes are the unmistakable color of a negro’s”. His name is

Henry Winston. He says that noon after the change began he was examined by twelve physicians at New Orleans, and they told him not to be alarmed; it was a healthy changti, and would not injure his life. He had feared it was the leprosy. —Cairo (111-) Disjialch to Cincinnati Commercial.