Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-09-22
PARAGRAPHS
OF News From All Parts of the
United States Pertaining
to ColOred People.
An Interesting Array.

Mr.. Fleet Strother has received
clerkship in the Auditors office at San
Francisco, Cal.
Mr. Henry Hail is the Colored col
lector poll taxes from Colored people
in Birmingham, Ala.
Of Ascension parish, Hand Watson,
Colored, sent the first bale of cotton to
New Orleans, this season.
Nine Of the Colored men in the
Washington post Office are graduates
from the city High School.
Hon. Frederick Douglass will deliver
the chief Grafton at the unwilling of the
Crispus Attucks monument at Boston.
A Colored child born recently in
/ Omaha, Neb., had two faces and one
body all perfectly formed. It did not
live
Mrs. Carrie Wilson, of Los Angeles,
CAL, recently gave birth to four children
three boys and d girl. Mother and
children are well.
Hons. Frederick Douglass and B. K.
Bruce delivered addresses at the eman-
cipation celebration at Greensberg,
Ind, last Tuesday.
In the youngest grandparent contest
Chapel Hill, N, c., leads with Colored
woman who had granddaughter at
the age of twenty three.
Joseph Griffin of Virginia, and James
Brown of Maryland, both Colored, are
studying for the Catholic priesthood in
ST.. Peters college,, near Liverpool,
England.
A Colored woman in Atlanta, Ga, is
the youngest Of thirty-seven children,
and although not yet thirty eight years
old, is herself the mother of twenty
seven children.
Mrs. Flora Batson Bergen has been
solicited to sing exclusively in one of
the Catholic churches of New York, at
a salary of several thousand per year,
but she has declined the offer.
Martin Richey Colored boy found
bank book in the streets of Austin.
Texas, recently containing a check for
500. He promptly returned the book
to it's owner and was handsomely re-
warded. .....
The first bale of cotton ginned this
season at Arnite City, La, was raised by
Robert Virion; the first bale at Baton
Rouge, La, by Alfred Neldar; the first
at Jackson, Miss, by J. M. Nixon. all
Colored farmers
The Oldest preacher in the world is
in all probability Rev. David Smith,
who opened the recent general confer
ence of the African Methodist Episco-
pal with a prayer. He is 1O4 years of
age and has been protesting Christian
ninety years.
Gregory w. Hayes Of Richmond, Va,
pho recently graduated from Oberlin
College has been elected professor of
Mathematics in the Virginia Normal
and Collegiate Institute and Miss Helen
M. Moten Of Washington, D. c., elected
instructor in Music.
At the meeting of the High Court of
the Ancient Order Of Foresters in
England it was decided that loyal courts
in America willing to admit persons of
color should be recognized. The Amer
lean Subsidiary Court, which refused to
admit Negroes, had it's charter cancelled.
Winnie johnson, the largest Colored
woman in the world, died at Baltimore
a few days ago of fatty degeneration of
the heart. Her weight was SAG pounds
and her coffin was nearly four feet wide
and three and half feet deep. She
was born in Henry county KY, in the
year 1889. She was married and was
the mother Of ten children.
Peter Jackson, the Australian Cham
pion, has entered into contract with
Lew Johnson, the well known theatre
cal manager, to give boxing exhibitions
throughout different cities of the
United States under Josqon's manage
ment. Geo. Godfrey will be of the
party, and it will be known as the God
frey, Jackson ombinatlon.
Every morning queer procession
leaves Atchinson, says the Atchinson
Globe. It is composed of from forty to
sixty Colored men, women and children,
who 60 to the Brown farm, northwest of
the city, to churn for buttermilk. A
great many cows are kept on the Brown
place, and the Colored people work the
churns for the privilege Of carrying off
the butter milk. Every day they bring
over hundred gallons Of buttermilk
to town which they sell or use.
Esther Court
The tWenty-frst anniversary Of Els