Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-04-07
MEMS.
Gathered From all Parts OF This
Great and Glorious Country
and Complied for our
Read ers.
Al Concerning CoIorcd People,

lie Republicans of Topeka have nom
mated G. !. Curry for police judge.
Seven Golored men. will be. appointed
q onthe assessors force in indianapolis
Il this year.
4 The Republ cans 81 Columbus, Ohio.
have nominated Isaac d. Ross for couil-
& Gilman IN the ninth ward.
Miss Louise A. Smith, Of Washington,
10. O., is writing a drama. to be per-
Termed by asunday school i'll May.
Mr.. A. p. Albert, of Washington, d.
4 O., has been promoted to the chief of
| the files at a salary Of S AGO per year.
Mr. Lincoln Nelson. Of Spring tield,
ILL.,, has been appointed to a position in
4 the treasury &c partment at Washington.
8 Wiiliom Dorsheimer, editor of the
i New York Star, who died Monday, had
IL Colored private secretary, Isaac H.
4 Hunter
A boy will graduate from the high
lschool at Washington, G. H., Ohio, who
! was three and a Ealfyears learning tie
. alphabet.
/ The first slave labor in the present
limits of the United States was that. en-
j ployed at The foundation Of st. Angus
q line, in 1865.
! Hon. John M. Lynch and Hon. james
. Hill were elected gates-at-large
4 from Mississippi to the National Con-
yention Wednesday,
i Mrs. Agnes Galloway, aged rs years,
acridently set fire to her clothes at her
home in Bessemer, Ala, last week and
was burned to death.
/ Mrs. L. i. W. Harper addressed the
Women's international Council at WASH
/ ington Tuesday. Subject sWhat shall
be done with the neglected rich IS.
i The millionaire Lincolns of Texas,
i have purchased track Of land and
1 have let the contract forthe building of
4 a large cotton seed oil mill III Houston.
]. Mrs. Iavini, Bright, Of Louisville,
Ky, aged eighty years, committed SUI
!. icide by taking morphine last week.
! Cause, desertion by her three children.
DR.. Willigm IL. MCKINLEY. was the
only Colored graduate from the Lorg
Island College Hospital at recent COM
nencement. He has located at Brook
=Ilyn, N. Y.
Seven years ago Prof. B. Z. Washing
ton, OF Tuskegee, Ala, started the Tusk-
egee Normal school with 50 pupils; to-
day he has a05 receiving normal and in
dustrial training.
sergt. w. D. Edwards, was recently
Ihonorably discharged from the u. s..
Army, after service Of five years. He
has saved ST, AGO with Which he will 90
i into business in Atlanta Ga.
I Prof r. R. Wright, of Augusta, has
been elected as one ofthe delegates
from the 10Th Congressional Des,rict, to
the National Republican Convention.
4 lie was also elected chairman of the
4 destrict executive committee.
i hat is supposed to be a Confederate
gold dollor was found in an ash heap in
Atlanta recently by Colored boy, and
old for $50. 1t is said that only six
such coins we're issued by the Confeder-
ate government, and if genuine this spe-
cimen would be worth $3.50.
! Col. Donavin, of Delaware, Ohio, the
ex-nanager of the original Tonnes
scans is now u proprietor Of Hotel
I Donavin and the walls Of the reading
rooms are adorned with handsome large
4 photographs of the different members
4 of his troupe handsomely framed.
! According to- correspondent in the
/. Cairo Gazette, Gen. John G. Black,
4 commissioner of pensions has CoIored
employees under him as follows: As
\ sistant chief, 81, so0; clerks, si,40o; 30
clerks, 81 200 each; 10 clerks i 900 each /;
4 s clerks, 5000 each; 6 clerks, $50 each;
4 clerks, s72o each; 2 messengers, 5 lab
orers, chair busters, salaries notstated.
i Several years ago a Colored girl at
), Calhoun, Ga, predicted that The town
of Calhoun would be utterly destroyed
on March 20, 1888. She was only one
& day out of the way, the recent disas-
trous cyclone there having occurred
q March q. Her prophecy is cor
/. roborated by dozen citizens. who dis
) tinctly remember the occasion when
y she made it.
: Three car loads Of Colored people
s we're tafsa,1 ia California luot 21,-o,I, ~
!, work on the large farms, as farm labor
ers are scarce. They were obtained III
q The South, and, should the plan prove
successful, others viii be taken West.
4 The whites seriously object to the going
s Of the nand their families and the
agents have considerable trouble in Sc
. curing them
EMANCIPATION is progressing rapidly
i in some parts of Brazil. III the province
t I5of San Paulo the slaves are being Sc.
free at the rate of from 500 to eco a day
!. and the legislature las p.lsssd Il bill for
. bidding the use Of the prisons for the
3 custody of runaway slaves. Thousands
!, OF runaWays have returned to work on
!, being assured that they would be paid
wages and not deprived of their liberty
Important alterations are taking place
in other provinces, but much less mum
ferrous than those Of San Paulo.
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