The Elmira Daily Gazette profiles 'Samuel Volskovitz', described as 'the greatest curiosity' and 'a real live native Negro-Hebrew', who arrived in Elmira and conducted services in the synagogue the previous night; he claims to be a rabbi from Egypt, speaks fluent Hebrew and 'Jargon' (Yiddish), and is cared for city to city by local Jewish fraternal societies, who furnish board and onward travel money; he was due to leave for Rochester. The article notes several rest of the town think him only a fakir working the Jewish community as he travels. Collected by CWB among reports of black Egyptian/Ethiopian/Falasha Jewish travellers connected to Neville's account of Abdullah as an Ethiopian Jew. A fuller capture of the same clipping gives his own written name as 'Samuel Valskovits', a well-built man about 5'10", age 33, with a wife and two children still in Egypt (Nile river, northwestern part); his father is a rabbi and his brother a minister; he served two years in the army before emigrating and writes the sefer (scripture scroll) and the Talmud for a living. He said he left Egypt seven months earlier, paying $57 second-class fare to New York, and gave a New York address, No. 18 East Broadway, where a photograph of his family could be obtained. Some Elmira Jewish residents doubted his story and thought him an impostor. A third independently scraped copy (node 4106) confirms the wording; no additional dating information.