Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1885-07-04
Our Minneap oils Correspondent.

Mr.. EDIroR-SIR;
Minneapolis has colored population
OF some eight or nine hundred, many of
| whom have homes of their own and are
| IN comfortable circumstances; several are
said to be worth from five to fifteen
thousand dollars. We have no beggars
and but few lazy people among us, and
we are informed of but two being cared
for by the county. while we pay into the
treasury something in the thousands.
We have two churches, Methodist and
| Baptist, and both paid for, two Sabbath
Schools, two lodges, Good Templar and
| Masonic, a cornet band, number of
tirst-class barber shops, several dress
makers, two r-dresserss several laun-
dries, two boarding houses, and one
saloon, each of which contribute to this
great northwestern metropolis.
| Our A. M. E. church is presided over
by Rev. G.. w. Newton, the Baptist by
Rev. A. Brown. Both report encourag-
1 ing work in their respective fields of
labor.
We have two Sabbath Schools, one
under the sur ervision of Rev. Newton,
the other, a mission, under Mr.. J, L..
Neal. It is named in honor of its
founder, Neal Union Sabbath School,
The two united Thursday in giving a
picnic at Lake Harriet, where all re-
turned from the woods happy over
their day by the lakes and their unity
Rev. q. w. Newton leaves us August
| the 3rd for t he conference which con-
yenes at Chicag The Elder is Bishop
Browns secretary. He leaves this COM
munity with the best wishes of all who
know him, and doubtless petition will
follow to call him here again, where he
has done such noble work in the interest
Of the church, and the cause he repre-
sents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Oliver of
Chicago have taken up their abode with
us, and opened a frst-class lodging
house at 427 and 429 Hennepin avenue.
Mr.. F. L. A anderson, of St. Louis, Mo-,
our only representative in the high
school, passed a very creditable examin-
alton; next y ear he graduates, and will
take up the study Of some profession.
The stand taken by the APPEAL against
vice and immortality, meets the hearty
concurrence of your many readers here,
and it is to be hoped that its columns
will continu 3 to cry out against the
wrong, not only political but moral.
| Our police officer, Mr.. G. Brady, is
said to be one of the most efficient in
the service.
| Somebody says a st. Paul lady, well
known in the society world, is soon to
take up her abode in well furnished
house here, as her future husbands
business, w ich is splendid one, is
here.
DR.. j. d. Henderson, who has been in
our city the past two weeks, the guest of
our genial Will Turner, leaves us in a
few days for an extended tour in the
north and west. The Doctor is grad
uate of one of the best medical schools
| in Chicago, where he has been prac-
Using for the last two years. and meeting
with much success by hard struggles,
DR.. Henderson has now place second
to but few Of his race in the profession.
He secured the second prize in class
of thirty. He is frequent contributor
to medical journals, being, too, the only
colored physician in The northwest who
| is member of the 6 edical Association
of Chicago and the Northwest.
LEO.
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