The Appeal., 1889-10-12
MuLTUM IN PARv0.
News Pertaining to the Colored
People Of the Land of the Free
and Home of the Brave.
Gathered From EVERYWHERE.

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Two Colored men were appointed let
ter carriers in Birmingham and all the
white carriers resigned. +
AT Enterprise, Mo-, Allen Brown. Co..
ored, one of the Marion rioters, has
been found guilty of murder, and SEN
fenced to be hanged Nov. is.
While charging soda fountain in
Washington Saturday, P. E. BRYANT.
Colored, had his head blown open bv
tie explosion Of the feunta
Green ssas ! candidsi al a. t, III,
legislature before th Cleveland prerhors.s
les last week and receiyed>6oO votes
more than any other candidate.
Just before Fredrick Douglass sailed
for his post as Minister to Hayti he vas
called upon by Lieutenant Edward
Lloyd, of Maryland, whose great grand
father owned Douglass and his mother
when they were slaves.
Senator Walker, of Mississippi, pro-
poses to urge upon the Legislature of
that State bill prohibiting Colored men
from holding office. His friends should
consult the family doctor about his con-
dition. A fish diet would probably do
him good.
Minister Douglass had some trouble
about securing transportation to Hayti:
but that does not affect the beautiful fit-
ness of the fact that he finally took pass-
age on the Kearsarge, the famous vessel
that sank the rebel Alabama in such q
gallant and glorious way.
Mr.. R. T. Gfeener secretary Of the
Ornamental Grant Monument Commit
tee of New York does not regard with
favor the scheme of the G, A. R. for the
erection of memorial structure over
the great leaders remains. Ofcourse
not, Mr.. Greener does not wish to give
up bis soft Job.
For more then thirty years Jacob
Jackson, respectable Colored man
who died in Massapequa last week, is
said to have carried in his mouth a Sill
yer Mexican half dollar to charm the
evil spirits away. The coin was re-
moved when he ate his meals. It was
worn perfectly smooth.
A delegation composed of nearly all of
the ministers of the Colered churches
in Richmond, led by Rev. Holmes, of
the First Church, called on Gov. Lee
Monday in behalf OF Simon Walker, the
Colored manlto be executed at Chester
field Court House Friday for an alleged
criminal assault On white girl. The
Governor informed the delegation that
he held the matter under consideration.
and had not yet decided it.
A crazy Colored man who proclaimed
himself John the Baptist and called up-
on all to be batized has been making
things lively in Liberty County, Ga.
Many Colored men were baptized
and cut down trees andbuilt a
circular structure which they called
ARK" A hundred unbelieving visited
the place Sunday and gave "John the
Baptist" a severe whipping, and he has
since disappeared. :
Sound financial ideas appear to prvail
in the dark continent of Africa notwith-
standing the use of rude mediums of ex-
change. The accomplished ethnologist
of the New York Sun remarks upon tie
dissatisfaction of the untutored Hotten-
tots at the fluctuations in the value of
the circulating medium, and the shrewd
acumen which they employ to offset its
disadvantages. Native cotton cloth in
strips reaching from the longest finger
to the elbow is the monetary standard
among many OF the African sayages.
and they haye developed sufficient
shrewdness to take advantage of fuctuas
tions in length by paying in short strips
and collecting in long ones. The in
stinct of gain is a primitive idea, and the
Africans are not behind the highly
civilized people who, when cattle were
the medium of exchange, paid their
debts in lean kline and sought to enforce
payment in fat ones.