Western appeal., 1888-10-13

All the silver in the treasury at
Washington is being weighed just now.
The work is done by Colored men.
Mr.. James H. Cousins, is foreman of
the largest tannery in Gallipolis, Ohio,
and one half Of his employees are Colored
men.
John Tobin, until recently porter in
Boston hotel, is said to have accumu-
lated a fortune, while there, Of about
$4,000.
F An old Colored man of Savannah, Ga,
attempted to poison his wife last week,
by putting nux vomica bean into a
dish of vegetables which she was cook
ing.
Bob Ledberry, of Waco, Tex, tells a
story about a Colored child, four years
of age, that goes every afternoon to a
bridge over a gutter and calls snake,
which comes out and feeds from the
child's hand.
A five thousand dollar damage suit
under the civil rights act has been insti.
tuted by William Harrison, Colored, OF
Anderson, Ind, who was refused a shave
at Barney Woods barber shop.
Alfred Bricker, Colored pickpocket
awaiting sentence to the penitentiary
and Miss Blanch Wilson, Colored, were
married in the Jail at Portsmouth, Ohio
The bride went all the way from Jefer.
sonville, Ind, to become his wife.
Mrs.F. E. Harper, one of the most
talented Colored writer's began the pub
lication of one of her stories in the last
number of the Christian Recorder. Il
is entitled ''Trial and Triumph" and
will run through twelve or fifteen, mum
bers.
A Colored man was hanged the Other
day at Marlin, Tex, but the punishment
WAS insignificant when compared with
the treatment h7 received at the hand!
of the newspapers. For instance, one
paper headed the description of the ex
ecution, "A Mid lair Dance" and anoth
er described him as having been "Jerkec
into Eternity
At Columbia, S. c., last week {
Colored man and white woman were
charged with living together as man anc
wife. When brought into court they
proved that they had been married. Al
miscegenation is not allowed by state
| laws the couple We're, in the eye of the
law, unmarried, and as they had ad
mitted living together they were abou
to be convicted immortality, which
would have sent them o the peniten
tiary, when the woman changed
the tide by swearing that shs
had Negro blood in her veins
The jury could not agree, and mistria
was ordered.
Henry Brooks, a Colored tenant or
Dr.. Mays plantation, has yellow
hound dog that is fifteen years old, says
| the Jackson tGa-) Argus His head il
hoary and he is toothless, blind anc
deaf. When younger he was the crack
'possum dog Of the settlement-every
body knows and loves Ball. Now he
can neither hear his masters call moi
see how to follow him, but the poor ole
fellow knows the approach of night anc
the season for the game, and wanders
alone to the forests and swamps ane
''trees" his 'possum. The master al
ways goes or sends to the tree for th'
pleasure of old Ball.
/ A Colored woman in Florida, it is re
ported, was bitten by ground rattle
snake, one of the most poisonous of th'
ratt!esnake family, and was in tremen
dous agony. A so-called maidstone wa
applied to the wound after being plunge,
in hot vinegar. 1t attached itself firm
ly to the wound, and adhered like
!. leech for nearly five minutes. 1t the
fell off, and being placed in warm waite
threw off a greasy fluid, grayish in color
with here and there trace of green
8 1t was again put upon the wound, an
I clung there about a minute. By thi
time the woman was asleep and appal
!. emily free from pain, and at last report
she was fast recovering from the effect
of the bite.