The Appeal., 1890-06-21
MuLTUM IN PARvO,
News Pertaining to the ColoreA
PEOPLE Of the Land Of the Free
and Home Of the Brave.

People Of the Land Of the Froa
and Home Of the Brave.
Gathered From Everywhore
a census enumerator has discovered q
woman in Richmond who has had thir-
ty.seven children.
Mrs Annie Wilson of Clarinda. Iowa
a black woman is gradually turning
white, the change in color began about
six years ago.
James Sterns Colored policeman of
Pearsall, Tex, shot and killed a cow
boy named Collins last Sunday. Stevens
claims that Collins shot at him first.
Wesley Brown and Chas. Robinson
employed on the steamer Roselle on
the kanawha river near Charleston be-
came involved in quarrel. Robinson
picked up board and dealt Brown
blow which sent him to the bottom of
the river.
Miss Ida E. Bowser, who graduated
from the department of music in the
University of Pennsylvania, is the first
Colored female graduate of that depart
ment. She is an accomplished violinist
and has arranged several praiseworthy
musical compositions. - 2 ='t.s5a
During quarrel over the tapping Of
a keg of beer at q Colored picnic at;
Castle Shannon near Pittsburp: last.
week Frank Morrison killed Chas. Sail
by hitting him on the head with ham,
mer. At the same picnic Jack Allen
shot Jennie Halman in the leg for TAX
ing his umbrella. All parties were
Colored.
Joseph Grimes an old Colored man of
Hamilton, Ohio was killed Sunday after
moan by ZAchariah Shields, young
Colored man who boarded with him..
Shields was drunk and quarrelsome, and
Grimes and his housekeeper forced him
out of the house, and the woman went
for Police assistance. During her alb
sence Shields threw beer keg through
the window, striking Grimes, who stag
gered from the house and fell dead.
Shields fed and has not yet been cap
tured.
That's pathetic story from the South
Carolina penitentiary. A Colored con-
! vict, sent up for life for arson, was par
doned by the governor after serving
eight years because his innocence was
established by some newly discovered
testimony. The poor fellow had con-
tracted consum ption in the prison walls
but was overjoyed when it was an
nounced to him that the governors
pardon would arrive in the morning.
But the excitement proved too much
for him, and when morning came he
was dead.
College street near Linck's Depot in
Nashville was the scene of an exciting
race last week etween man and his
wife. Mary Barry is at attractive young
Irish girl who, until a few days ago, was
employed at the Maxwell House, where
Austin Patterson, Colored, was waiter.
The relations between these two we're
such that they were both discharged
from the hotel. They prepared to-
elope to Chicago that night, but Patter-
sons wife discovered the fact and was
at the depot. She saw her husband
hand the white girl her ticket, and
thereupon snatched Austin's ticket and
ran. He gave chase, but was not fast
enough, and his white enamorata went
on to Chicago by herself.
1t seems to be no trick at all nowadays
for great many Colored people to live
to be considerably over one hundred
years old. The Colored persons who
present these remarkable examples of
longevity are usually women. Nearly
every county in the South has it's aged
Colored women ranging in years from
one hundred to one hundred and thirty.
She is invariably known as "aunty,''
smokes clay pipe, and recollects
George Washington as if she had seen
him but yesterday. The census emu
merators are already running across
these very old settlers A census agent
in Georgia has just discovered a relic of
this kind in the person of Aunty Moore
who is one hundred and twenty one
years old, smokes her clay and talks en-
tertainingly of Washington, Jefferson
and other notables whom she used to
meet one hundred years or so ago.
The statistics enumerating this interest
ing branch of our population promise to
to form no small portion of the census
report. - '@
Miss Flora Batson's Kindness.
James G. Clark in the Sunday Orepo-
MAN, Portland, Ore, writing on the
Race Problem" tells the following
story:
| When Miss Flora Batson-in whom
the royal white soul of musical genius
sits enthroned behind dark veil-was