The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-10-25
DRIFTWOOD.
Caught Floating on tho News Cur.
rent and Steered Into
Our Office by our Army of Correspondents
at all Points of the Compass, Care
fully Condensed for Hasty
Readers. ,-..r r.

heau our granO preacher prize offer
In another column. 3 .a 49,.
There are seven or eight CoIored men
in Texas, most of them ex-slaves, who
are worth about 100000 each.
George Johnson, of Spottington, Va,
guarded with his mother Tuesday and
then murdered her with a hoe.
Edward Fountain, Colored convict,
at Joliet, has been pardoned by Cover
nor Fifer. He is in the last stages of
consumption. ~s.-.,s..'. y.'
During revival meeting at Baltimore
last Sunday night Colored female ex-
horter suddenly fell back and expired
in fit of religious fervor.
Alexander Dumas has been amusing
himself by sending play of his anony-
mously to the Partisan managers, and
having it refused by them all.
CHI. Clover, Presiding Elder of the
Memphis District of the African Metho-
dist Church, has announced himself an
independent candidate for congress.
Mr.. William Mitchell, of Oberlin, O.,
has been elected deacon of the first Con-
gregational Church (white) of that place.
He is the first Colored man to serve in
that capacity. " '~'
A Colored woman, Juliana Alderety
Corra.es, has just died in San Antonio
de los Panos, Cuba, at the reputed age
of one hundred and twenty-five years.
Mr.. John G. Keelan Of Toledo, O., has
gone to Nashville, Tenn, where he will
take charge of the composing room of
the Methodist Sunday School Publishing
House.
Chambers County, Alabama, has a
twelve-year-old Colored girl who has
been gradually turning white for the
past five years. The doctors say she has
lucopathia, an acquired non-hereditary
skin disease. ''f'& q %@ A2s&@a" i
Rev. A. H. Durant, a Colored preach
er, of South Carolina, claimed the pow
or to kill and restore to life. To demon
strate his power he killed Primus Jones
at camp meeting but the revivifying
process was failure and Durant is in
Jail. @=s' r. ss|s' ''s ~:
Epps Baldan, a Colored man claiming
Dayton, Ohio, as his home, created con-
siderable excitement in Colored society
circles at Hamilton yesterday by ascert-
ing that his wife had eloped to that city
with William Thomas, who had met her
in Dayton. He found her living with
Thomas but will probably have some
difficulty in getting her to leave him.
The death. Of Register Poydras, Col
ored man l03 years old. formerly the
slave of Julian Poydras, took place near
Port Allen. West Baton Rouge Parish,
La, last week. he was q grown man
when Jackson won the battle of New
Orleans, and soften related tales of La
fitte and the old pirates of the gulf"
It is refreshing to chronicle, a new feat
ure about the oldest inhahitant.
The amount of bad gin and rum Which
Germany is sending toyAfrica is appall-
ing In some ships 100, 600 cases of gin
are sent out and used in barter for hun.
dreds of valuable articles. It may be
said that every case of gin costs an Afri-
can his life The merchants who get
rich at this trade cannot have q very
high respect for themselves. and their
injurious commerce ought to be check
ed.
The cesarian operation was successful
" performed at Philadelphia last week
by DR.. W. p. Ashton. The patient was
a youEg Colored woman twenty-three
years Of age. The operation was ne
cessitated by malformation. DR.. Ashton
made the initial incission il the abdo-
men at HIS a. NJ, and four minutes
later handed the infant to DIR. Mont
gomery. The infant weighed nearly six
pounds.
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