The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-06-14
MULTUM IN PARV0,
News Pertaining to the Colored
PEOPLE of the Land of the Free
and Home of the Brave.
Gathered From Everywhere.

Capt. Kennedy, Tenth u. s. Cavalry
with slxty-two Colored troops has gone
to the frontier.
L. A, Davis, Colored bootblack of
Brooklyn. is said to possess one of the
most remarkable bass voices IL the
city.
Miss Lizzie Jones was the ONLY Col
ored member of the class which gredua-
ted recently at the Newcastle, Pa, High
School.
An African craze prevails in GERMANY.
The foreign office is flooded applications
largely from army officers but including
all sorts Of people, asking for govern
ment employment IN Africa
Mrs. Elizabeth White of Rich Valley.
was recently declared insane. She
labors under the hallucination that she
is perpetually engaged in a hand-to-
hand encounter with the devil.
Pineapple juice is the latest discoy-
cred domestic remedy for diphtheria.
1t is said to be used with great and un-
failing success by the Colored people of
Louisiana and other parts of the South.
James Wormley, the Colored man
who first kept the little inn in Washing
ton that has since become famous az a
hotel, was hackman who afterward
made a modest fortune from a little
livery stable.
women, white or black" said Mr..
Stanley recently, II regard as far above
us. They are more humble, they are
more prompt with sympathy, they are
more tamable to new ideas, than we of
the opposite sex.''
A young Colored girl of Hiawatha,
Kan, who is very ill, and who does not
expect to recover, had herself carried to
the African Methodist church of which
she is member, and, after the services,
called all her friends around her and
asked them to meet her in heaven.
Farming operations in the vicinity of
Egypt, Miss, are greatly retarded by
crayfish, which burrow in the fields and
keep the surfacebroken and wet. They
bore underground to the depth of two
or three feet, so that the hogs cannot
get at them, else they would not live to
do any damage.
A novel method Of blowing was that
recently adopted by Colored man in
North Carolina. His steer refused to
work when hitched to pillow, and
thereupon he hitched it to cart and
fastened the pillow behind the cart. He
proceeded to pillow with the steer with
out any further trouble.
Charles &. Barnard, ffty-six years old
and leading business man it Lansing.
Mich, was married to Mrs. Lizzie Jack
son, Colored. Barnard has a respec-
ted wife and large family, but the
Jackson woman was made to believe
that Mrs. Barnard was Barnard's sister.
Barnard will be prosecuted for bigamy.
Nova Scotia has just afforded an ex-
traordina,y exhibition of color line pre-
judice. When the Fisk Jubilee Singers
appeared in Halifax recently they were
guests at leading hotel. They went to
Bridgewater. the second largest town in
Lunenburg County, and were there re-
fused accommodations at any hotel or
private house, and had to drive twelve
miles to Lunenburg to obtain supper
and beds.
Exclusively in the interests of "the
Negro" there are, as shown by the
American Newspaper Directory, fifty
four newspapers published. None of
these is credited with as much as five
thousand circulation, and but two are
said to have more than four thousane.
and one of the two-,THE APPEAL, is in
Chicago. Alabama, Florida and South
Carolina have one, while Illinois has
six.-Printer's Ink.
According to Virginia paper the
| Oldest person in that state, if not in the
nation, is Sarah Gaddess, Colored
woman, Oreide Taylor County. She
was slave in an old Virginia family
when the revolution began, and re-
membered distinctly circumstances of
that.war. Friends who know her his
tory estimate her age at one hundred
and thirty years. She lived alone, car
ing for herself with the aid of neiphbors
who erected small house for her. the
whole community contributing to her
support.
Henry Tanner, prominent Colored
citizen OF Oxford, 0. has been suspected
by his wife of meeting another woman
ofthe village, Monday morning armed
with butcher-knife, she started out to
do up her rival. She was overpowered
and the knife taken away from her.
when she returned home. That after
noon the Marshal had occasion to visit
that part of town, and Mrs. Tanner.
seeing him approaching her res1deden.
supposed he was coming to arrest her.
whereupon she ran out and threw her
self headlong in the we'll. The Marshal
ran to her, and with assistance of neigh
bors succeeded in extricating her from
her perilous position.
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