Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-10-20
PARAGRAPHS
OF News From All Parts of the
United States Pertaining
to Colored People.
An Interesting Array.

Judge u. w. Gibbs is first Republican
elector at large for the State of Arkansas.
r. G. O. Benjamin Esq, has with
drawn from the editorship Of the Los
Angles Observer.
The Republicans of the sixth congress
sional district Of North Carolina have
nominated G. P. Jockey for congress.
Offorty Colored Baptist colleges in the
South, twenty-five are controlled and
supported by Colored people, and
fifteen are controlled by the Home
Mission Society.
Benjamin Bardley, a Colored man
who died at Denton, Md, last Tuesday.
was noted for his immense strength.
He had on occasions walked through
the streets with SEQ pounds of iron on
his shoulders.
Andrew Rowland, while engaged in
painting a cistern, twelve feet deep by
seven feet in circumference, on the
premises of ]. II. Ledbetter, at Armis-
ton, Ala, last week was suffocated by
gas, death ensuing. ..:
A woman in Americas, Ca, fell aisle, p
during a recent Sunday night service
and didn't wake up until after every
body had gone home and the door was
locked. She remained imprisoned three
days before she was discovered and
rescued.
The Rev. Thomas Sunrise, full
blooded Indian and once medicine man
Of the Oneida tribe of New York State,
has volunteered to become pastor of a
Colored Methodist church at Putnam,
Conn. Sunrise claims to have converted
the Oneidas to Christianity.
A call cas- been issued through the
columns of the American Catholic
Tribune for meeting of re representatives.
of all the Colored Catholic organizations
to meet in Washington, D. c., January
8, 1889 for tho purpose of taking the
status of the race in it's relation to the
church.
Mrs. Lydia Washington, aged 81 years,
was at the Colored Wesleyan church one
night last week and participated in the
revival services, speaking and shouting
in an unusually happy way. While en-
gagged IN shouting she sank into her
seat and died. "Aunt Lydia" was
famous about Xenia for being the mother
of twenty-one children.
A young man attending church at
Cisco, Tex, the other evening, suddenly
leaped to his feet with a yell, and COM
menced dashing around in very lively
manner. All fears that he had gone
crazy were dispelled, when he held up
to the view of the congregation the NOR
tai remains of huge tarantula. The
sermon which had been interrupted,
continued without further incident.
One of the students at Wilberforce
College set lamp down on a fire ex-
tinguisher last Saturday and dropped a
match with which he had lighted the
lamp at the corner Of the extipguisher.
The extingulsher took fire and exploded,
causing several others in the same hall
to do likewise. The building was set
afire and was considerably flooded with
water before the extinguishers could be
extinguished. ..< s'~. .
A drunken Colored woman had an ex-
perience at the Miffiin street wharf,
Philadelphia, that w1lldo her more good
than a temperance sermon. She wan-
dered out into the marsh and sunk into
the mud up to her neck, A hunter
coming along most OPPORTUNITY, found
head apparently resting on the surface
of the ground. The woman was ex-
tracted from the mud, hose was turned
on her, and she went her way sober and
wiser.
VIM. Arrow, Colored, has just finished
ride of 200 miles on the Savannah
river, lodged in the branches of a tree.
He was fishing in the river during the
recent floods and his line becoming en-
tangled in a tree he clined up to un-
fasten it. The high water had loosened
the roots of the tree and the weight Of
the man threw it into the stream. Arrow
was aboard the tree for several days and
when rescued he was thoroughly ex-
hausted. At Atlanta, Ga, they have
dubbed him the Ozark Secret
King ia ia and his son, Sunday, seem
to enjoy their exile on the Island of St.
Vincent, and are daily becoming more
popular, owing, it is alleged. to the
kings allowance of $4,000 a year from
the British government. He is fire.
quently entertained, and conducts him
self with average propriety. But the
ladies of the Island have not, so far,
acceded to his proposals of marriage.
The English government expects the
colony, a poor one by the way, to show
his majesty every courtesy possible, SO
that his. stay may take the form rather
of fye-years' picnic than exile.
Two white men. w. ]. Jackson and
Otto Olsen, were shot by a Colored
policeman named Shaw in Galveston
Tex. last week. They had both been
drinking and one of them had been
elected from church for disturbing the
services. The minister asked the officer
to arrest them, and when he attempted
to do SO they resisted on the grounc
that he was Colored. They took hi
club from him and were beating him OF
| the head with it when he drew his re