The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-08-02

July condensed Tor HaSty
Readers.
The Colored women of Atchison have
organized woman's exchange.
Peter Jackson the pugilist on last Sat-
urday sailed ftom San Francisco to Aus
tralia. He expects to return in few
months.
One white brakeman has been re-
moved from each passenger train on the
Rock Island route and the places filed
with Co1ored men.
During the marriage service in a
church in Virginia the other day goat
walked in and broke up the ceremony by
summarily ejecting the groom with his
head.
Be sure to cut out the ballot printed
in this issue, write the name of your ia.
vorite preacher on it and send it to The
APPEAL Office, 1926 Dearborn street, Chi
cago, III.
A poor washerwoman at Fayetteville,
Ark, who few days ago was notified
that she had been granted pension
and would receive $4,000 back pay, was
so overcome with joy that she died.
In Trenton. L: j., Charles Lang, Col
ored desperate. shot Theodore Ayers,
local Colored preacher, during quar-
rel about Ayers wife. Lang was arres-
ted. It lis thought that Ayers will die.
At Hopkinsville, KY, while at work
building fence Saturday morning VIM.
Jefferson, and aged Colored man, was
Frustrated by violent sunstroke, and
he is in critical condition at his home.
This is the way the great beast of
Africa goes to his extinction. An or
binary elephant produces l20 pounds of
ivory, worth $500. England consumes
$50 tons, for which it is necessary to kill
$4,000 elebhants year.
It is understood in st. Louis that
syndicate of wealthy men have pur-
chased 10000 acres of land from the
Mexican government, in one of the
many fertile valley that abound in tina,
country, and intend to settle it with
Colored people from the United States
Fred Douglass, United States minister
to Hayti, who has come home On visit,
says that it gals him to travel to and
from the Uuited States and Hayti in a
Dutch or English vessel. He wants to
see our own starry banner-our 43 star
ry baAner-foating over him both
ways.
A planter at Alpharetta, Ca, has an
acre of cotton every stalk of which is OF
deep red color, leaf, boil and bloom.
This novel crop is the product of seed
derived three years ago from two stalks
Of red cotton found in cotton field
There is a fortune in this new variety If
it can be perpetuated.
A southern Colored Farmers Alliance
indorses the nomination of Captain B.
R. Tillman for governor of South Carroll.
ma in following dubious resolutions: "In
union there is strength. We are all
children of Eve and Adam, why not act
so in principle? There is one God, one
heaven, one hell and we must stay to.
gether in one of the places. VIM not
vote together for Tillman?"
George Hughes. the Colored lemonade
vender, who for twenty years has en-
joyed the exclusive privilege of selling
soft drinks in front of the postof1ice build.
ing at Baltimore may have to give up
his stand. The order comes direct from
Secretary Window, and was issued in
difference to the complaints of mum.
Der of Colored men who said that
Hughes had been discriminating against
them.
When James Gray, of Lima Ill, re.
turned home from his work few nights
since he was astonished to find the
household goods removed, his wife gone
and note telling him that she had gone
gone good, and it would be useless fol
him to look for her, as she never inten.
ded to return. The household goods be
afterward found. were stored away in 8
secondhand store. The woman took
$35 and all of her wearing apparel, and
has not yet been seen.
]. Niger is not. as generally supposed. 9
corruption Of Negro, but it is regularly
developed from the earlier form Of meyer
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