The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-06-22
MULTUM IN PARVO.
News Pertaining to the Colored
People of the Land of the Free
and Home of the Brave.
Gathered From Everywhere.

Sam Stewart, Colored, of Crawford
Vile, Ca, drives his COW to wagon when
she goes dry and gives no milk. She
makes better time than an OK.
The Police Board of Dayton, Ohio, has
appointed two Colored men-George
Wilson's and Jeff Harris-to the force
as drivers of the patrol wagons.
The wealthiest Colored man in the
South is a New Orleans sugar planter
named Marie. He has an income of
$4,000, and is cultivated gentleman.
A Colored man residing near Topeka
has bought pair of 'possums and put
out ten acres in sweet potatoes. tits
very evident he is not preparing to die.
At Poplar Plains VIM. Razor, Colored
was kicked on the head by mule and
died shortly afterward from his injuries.
Before he expired his head had swelled
to twice it's normal size.
James H. Graham, the Colored boot
black who stabbed and killed bartender
John Moeler in Brooklyn about three
months ago, has been sentenced to hard
labor for life at Sing Sing prison.
A Pullman car porter who assisted
Mrs. Halford to place of safety from
train which was caught in the flood at
Johnstown has been appointed to q
place in the treasury department at
Washington.
A Georgia Colored man narrowly es-
capped being bitten by ratilesnake.
He fired his gun at the reptile and it.
kicked him into the Ochlocknee River.
He could not swim, but was pulled out
by passing teamster. The snake es-
capped death.
The Rev. John Jasper of "the-sun-do-
move" fame, is impassionately fond of
fishing, and he goes every day in the
week when the weather is clear, except
Saturdays and Sundays. His favorite
haunts are in the islands in James River,
and it is asserted fish will bite at his
hook when other persons can't Get q
nibble.
The closing exercises of the Washing
ton G. H. High School Commencement
were held at the Opera House last
Thursday night. Scholarship in Adrian.
(Michigan) College were presented to
Miss Ada Anderson, the Colored girl,w
the highest honors of the class.
The Colored people are delighted at the
thoughts of their race receiving the
honors in such large class.
Cadet Young, the only Colored lad in
the battillion, at West Point, failed to
pass. He was deficient in engineering.
and regretfully heard the announcement
made. The board decided that he
should, if he so desired, be given re-
examination in the fall, when he will
stand another chance for becoming a
United States Army officer. He was
fairly proficient in the other branches
and has studied hard.
There is an old Colored woman in
Clark County, Georgia, who prepares
herself for death ever night. After a
short prayer she clothes herself in q
long t1ower-bedecked gown, plates her
hair carefully, crosses her hands on her
breast and falls asleep: Two coppers
are placed on the table beside her to put
upon her eyelids. She has directed that
she be buried on.the banks ofthe Oconee
River, and believes she is going directly
to heaven. She is angry beyond ex
preston as she wakes each morning and
finds herself alive.
There is an old Colored cobler in
Hartford, Conn.,, named A. P. Cleggett,
who has for twenty-five years devoted
himself to collecting and studying the
history of rare copper coins. His son
is the champion checker-player of the
State. Mr.. Cleggett's collection of coins
comprises nearly complete set of PEN
MES issued from 1893 to 1856. His COL
lection is very valuable, and contains
many coins almost impossible to obtain.
His group Of British coppers is very in
teresting. Some Of them date as far
back as 1900. Mr.. Cleggett is always
glad to welcome well-informed numis-
matist.