The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-04-20
DR|FTW0OD.
Fished From the Ocean of News
in all Parts of the Clio
I rlOuS Union.
Observation-Disclosures.

North-South -East-West.
|. N. Bradley, ESQ, of Kansas CITY.
Kan. has been elected Justice of the
Peace
MI. w. Patterson, Of Kansas City,
Kan, was last week, appointed street
commissioners at a salary of $500.
Mrs. Harriit Beecher Stoves illness
has given "Uncle TOMS Cabin, another
boom, and more than 1000 copies of it
are again sold every week. III
Homer E. Bishop, the steward at the
executive mansion at Albany, N. Y. is g.
Colored Republican,. He served under
Cleveland VIXEN governor and is still re-
tanned by Gov. Hill.
Samuel Jones, a Colored farmer near
Mlddletown. Del, runs a school house
exclusively for his own children. The
eldest son teaches dozen of his Younger
brothers and sisters.
Prince Law, Colored man living on
the Springfield plantation, near Savannah.
Ga, killed his four-year-old child one
day last week as a sacrifice to the devil.
He says he was ordained by God to do it.
in order to appease the deity, who was
about to destroy the world.
Lewis Hayden, whose imposing fun
eral ceremonies at Boston the other dav
were attended by many prominent
Massachusetts people of both parties,
was born a slave in Kentucky. His
father was once owned by Henry Clay.
and was by him traded for two horses.
John Taylor, Colored, of Hanover.
Ind, languishes in the County Jail,
charged with committing rape upon the
person of his little stepdaughter. The
alleged crime was committed year ago.
The warrant for Layers arrest was
sworn out by his wife, who wanted him
to shoot man named Harris tor an i'm
aglnary insult offered her. Taylor re-
fused, and she had him arrested for re-
venge.
In Sumter County, Georgia, little
Colored boy was sitting on the bank of
the Muckalee, just above the Dell, when
large 1oggerhead turtle rose up in the
creek. He gave one scream and ran to
his mother, a few feet away, and told
her the s'debble was after him" She
had to take him home, and he nearly
died from fright. No amount of persua-
sion has since been able to induce him
to go near the creek.
News of queer suicide comes from
BERTHE County, +. G. Eliza Hedge, a
Colored woman, in the absence of her
husband set fire to her house and then
covered herself in bed to roast in the
flames. She left a note in her anron
hanging on the limb of an oak near by.
saying her husband was too cruel to live
with; that che was obliged to support
him; that she had bought the little
home in which she lived with money
she herself had earned and that she de-
sired to die, and would destroy her
home in her death so that her husband
might not enjoy it. Her bones were
found among the ashes of the house.
Among the old people of the country
the Colored people figure largely in pro-
portion to the population. Only a few
days ago Mrs. Sallie Mattox died at Bris-
tol, Tenn, at toe age of ITO years. She
retained all of her faculties up to tho
time of her death, and was as active as q
woman of so. The oldest person in
Pennsylvania in all probability is COL
ored man named Robert Springer who
is ia. He is physically weak, but has
strong mental faculties and has used
tobacco constantly for over 100 years..
Elejah Bledsoe living near Harrodsburg,
KY, is ll6 years old. He was born q
slave, is in good health and distinctly
recollects ''Mr. George Washington's
war;"
Recently Mrs. Fanny Wells of Indian
apolis brought suit against the heirs of
Sandy Nelson for her share in an estate
of several thousand dollars. The heirs
fought her claim on the grounds that
she wvs not the legitimate daughter of
Sandy and Nancy Nelson, who were
slaves in Kentucky, but was born after
Sandy had escaped from his master and
made his way North. The jury, how
ever decided in favor Of Mrs. Wells and
gave her portion of the estate. Now
comes Thomas Nelson, a brother of
Sandy Nelson, and in a suit filed last
week sets forth that the marriage of
Sandy and Nancy Nelson was not legal
one under the laws of Kentucky; none
OF the children are entitled to anything.
He lays claim to the entire estate as the
only lega! heir.
A man who lives near Starke, Fla,
had chickens stolen from him until at
last last only an old rooster was left.
Having chance to buy bald eagle that
had been wounded in the wing, he SUBJ
stituted the bird for the the rooster in
the fowl house and watched for results.
The other night one of his sable neigh
! bors entered the hennery, grabbed the
eagle and left. It was not long before a
prolonged ooh, Lawd!' was heard in
the direction of the thief's path, and the
following morning an cole Virginia GEM
man" was sitting on the porch of his
cabin with one eye nearly out, under
lip slit, swailow-fork in both ears, arm
arm in sling, and with general appear
ance OF a section of slaughter-house