The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-08-03
Null TUM IN PARV0.
News Pertaining to the Colored
People of the Land of the Free
and Home of the Brave.
Gathered From Everywhere.

J ana Home of the Brave.
Gathered From Everywhere.
Eaorts are making for the publications
of tie Crusader OF New Orleans az e.
daily #& E. Ez
A Celcred man at Albany, Ga, has
served no, less than twenty-one terms in
jail for fighting. ...---...
The first bale Of Texas Cotton was
made this season By a Colored woman
Mrs. Bowman Of gnero shipped O.
E5Oopound bale to Hoaston last week.
Louis Traachon, CoSored, who was to-
have been executed in New Orleans, last
week. was respited by the Governor.
An effort is being made to have his SEN
tence commuted' to Imprisonment for
life.
Az enterprising Philadelphia boot
black has attracted a great deal of atten-
ton during the past week by this sign,
which he puts Oh bis operating chair::
Boots Backed Yellow" He. has a sort
of mayonnaise dressing for russell shoes.
KingMenileck, the new ruler of Abys~
sima, is ferce-looking man, dark, tall,
thin and active, with piercing black eyes
and long, dark, beard. He is not quite
as cruel by nature as the late KingJohn,-
but nevertheless he manages to awe his,
subjects into doci1e submission.
Martha Cobble, of Greensboro, KY,
Colored woman formerly a slave, has
searched forty years for her two sons
who were sold to a New Orleans trader
when they eight and ten years of age.
| Recently she learned the whereabouts
of both and was made happy by visit
from one of them.
Jordan Blais, of Montrose, Pa, is &
Colored man possessed Of remarkable
courage. He was afflicted with gangrene
in his leg and foot, and the doctors said
he would die if heyperformed amputa-
ton. Blair thereupon cat his leg off
with aIJack-knAe and is now limping
alongtthe road to recovery on q ycrutch
Henry Sturdivant is Colored farmer,
who works on the farm Of K, W. Berry,
bill, three miles out of Rome, Ga, on the
Alabama road. sturdivant has always
been accustomed to having his shoes
made to order. One of his feet is larger.
than the other. It takes No. 2Oshoe
to inclose his right foot and No. Ii to
fhouse the other. The largest shoe in
the world is worn by young lady in
Kentucky, who sports No. "a.
Last Saturday Walter Roots, Colored,
went into Xenia, Ohio, saloon with an
other mans when Squire Kern, white
man, guyed him. Hot words ensued,
when Roots jumped up and went for
I Kern's throat with razor. Kern turned
and received the blow on the back of
mis- head, the blade cutting the scalp to
the skull for IL distance of three inches,
which was followed by two more slashes,
severing the main arteries and causing
Kern to nearly bleed to death.
A white man ut Synar. a, Fla, day or
two ago, bet a Colored man that he could
not eat the two watermelons before
them. The Colored man was to pay
double price for them if he failed. Ha
cut the melons, weighing thirty pounds
each, up into sections, and it was fun to
see his lips slide up and down the Sec
tions of those melons. Within FIVE
minutes nothing was left but the bare
rinds, which he turned over to the white
man, who had just paid IS cents for
them.
i Wednesday night a party of fifteen
linen visited the farm of Nilt Barclay.
Isixteen miles east of Somerset, KY, on
the Mt. Vernon Road, and called out =
Colored tenant, who was accused Of
stealing from the surrounding neighbor-
hood. Upon one occasion the man took
Ia horse, in order to transfer other things
which he had stolen The crowd gave
the man sound whipping and ordered
him to leave the State, which he did
without further testimony. They then
+ called out Mr.. Barclay and gave him Z
sound thrashing for keeping .ksuch ten
+ ants upon his farm.
& A short time ago There WAS vacancy
in the naval sfico 1t New York and Col.
Burt sent to Acting Secretary Bah
cock of the Board of Examiners,
for the certificates of the
highest three men on the eligible list.
Of these three Col. Burt choose the
highest. and the fortunate man appeared
in the Office this week. He turned out
: to be ayoung and remarkably good look
ing Colored man whose name ,ig Hora-
ito P. Howard of New Bedford, Mass.
Mr.. Bedford passed fine examination,
as may be judged from the fattthat the
eligible list has. $50 names on it. Hrs
9 papers are regarded as models of excel
= lence. Mr.. Howard. was sworn in,
y and received q position with a sal.
: airy attached Of 81 600 year. Collecto,
e Erhardt seemed much pleased over Mr..
: Towards appointment.
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