The Appeal., 1889-11-09
MuLTUM IN. -PARvO.
News Pertaining to the Colored
People Of the L and ofthe FREQ
and Home of the Brave.
Gathered From Everywhere.

Judy Huson has died at Milledgevil!e,
Ga, at the age of 80 years. ->~-.>-~ =
Harvard had Colored orator once
before, when Terrell of 'S4 was elected
by his classmates. -.~-----,>.-,,.-
Last weeksthe fve-months-old child
OF Julia Smith, of Memphis, cried itself
to death because it was left alone. @
Eseks Adanee = gelored desperade shot
and killed Duncan Chisholm, white, at
a Colored festival at Maxton, N. C.
A boxing match between Jem Smith
OF England, and Jackson the Colored
champion, has been arranged to take
place in London Nov. II.
Last week at Sidney, O., shadraeh
White, Colored man known as shane.
shot and instantly killed Henry Nichols.
a white man, beesuse be plagued him. =
Miss Florence A. Turner, of Fort.
Leavenworth, KAN, has been awarded
$oOO damage. for having been elected
from frst-cIass coach on the NE &
st. Louis railroad.
Two Colored people went to Justice
Davis office in Wheeling, W. Va, a few
days since, and thinking that West Vir-
gl''la justices are endowed with tie same
powers as those of Pennsylvania, asked
MN to marry them. The justice sent
Tor Clergyman, who performed the
Ceremony. ",-e-:--.,,. 80 :
At fish fry at Brier Creek, I.T..
Willis Jones fought with John Carver.
lie men fought desperately orseyeral
moments when Jones gave Carver q
stunning blow whicn laid him out.
Jones then whipped out large knife.
and opening the mouth of his antagonist.
dellberotsly cut out portion of his tom
que. Jones was finally overpow wered and
jailed.
AT Birmingham, Ala, last week Ade-
line Williams, an aged Colored woman
from Nashville, was run over by a dunn
my train on the street and Instantly
Killed, her body being crushed into 4.
shapeIess mass. She attempted to cross
the track In front of a rapidly moving
traln' when her foot slipped. and she
lell under the wheels. Her daughter.
whom she " visiting, was an eye wit
ness of the accident. eFs.s r.! !'--
Capitalists Of of Latrobe, Pa. have
taken steps to put the Keystone Base
Ball club composed of Colored plavers.
on an equal fnancialand playing footing
With the celebrated Cuban Giants and
Gorhaias. the crack Colored ball clubs
Of New York city. Arrangements have
been made to have the Keystones COM
pete with the clubs mentioned for the
Colored championship of the world and
play In every prominent city of the
United States. ...rs - !: J',a-sj -. j..
Nose Strange the aged Coloredl man
VINO shines shoes at the entrance ,ef the
Court Hoase at Clncinnuti, was -boned
for nickel by q confidence man, who
introduced hitntelf as an old acauaint-
ance named Heyl, who ran will, NOSE
on the river. Nose: went int, the
County Treasurer's Office to gta dime
changed, and when hs returnde tho al
legei Mr.. Heyl had walked away with 4
brand new pair Of shoes Of Nose, who
vas resting his feet in carpet slippers.
Nose walked home on his hands. q
The: Atlant Q Constitution publishes
statistics to show that the. Colored peo-
pie OF Texas are prosperous. They own
l,WO.0O0 acres Of. lshd, pay taxes on
$2O 900 worth ofproperty, have 2 600
churches. q 90 Sunday schools, 10 high
schools, 2,5Oo common schooi. III. zoe
P"pils. % d'cto ., 25 lawyers, l0O tusr-
chants, 900 mechanics, Is ne wspap
aud several inventors. And still the
Sou hern papers claim that Colored men
ae mol fl to vote, aud ought 4, have no
p .rt IN the iaw-lusking of this country.
James Lunken, an old Colored nan Of
Norristown, Pa, WAS taking a walk
through the woods near that town about
week 80, when his dog, u large
brin,ile cur, pounced upon All enormous
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hawk in the bushes fsasting upon wild
pigeon. The dog seized the ilawk by
the right wing in his teeth, and broke it.
INSTANTLY the hawk showed fight. It tit
the dog about the eyes and, nose.
scratched him severelyall over the body
and finally drove him of wlinpering
With his tail between his lege. : Luukens
took club and killed tile Lxwk. Tic
bird measured seven test from Zip to tip,
ot ts wings. ..
National lAfrO-American League.
| , New York, Nov.1, 1889.
! To the Colored citizens of the lepub-
lie: Being convinced that the time il
ripe for the organization Of the National
A'rO-American League proposed l.y me
two years ago, TO osuccesstully combat the
denial Of our constitutional aud inherent
rights, end being urged to do 80 by
members Of branch leagues all over the