The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-03-22
MULTUM IN PARVo,
News Pertaining to the Colored
People of the Land of the Free
and Home of the Brave.
Gathered From Everywhere.

cu'tlhg the ieVee, they were shot and
killed by the guard
Profs. I. N, Cardozo and W. J.De
Treville, the parties in the outrageous
assault which recently took place a.
Claflin University, Orangeburg, S. C
have beth resigned. -.....
Last Friday, while Eugene Wheelan.
of Danville. KY, was walking across
the railroad bridge just south of the
town, be was struck by an engine and
killed. He leaves a wife and six chill
dren.
William Lloyd Garrison, son of the
great anti-slavery agitator, is very
wealthy. having amssed money from the
wool business. He is literary in his
tastes and takes an active interest in
politics. :"
On the 10 of last May, Joseph Wood.
of New York. shot and killed a fellow
laborer. on the new aqueduct. He was
convicted last week of murder in the
first degree add will be put to death by
electricity.
Jane Simmons, a little mulatto woman
living in Milledgville, Ca, is said to be
the first woman in the South to become
butcher by profession. She can kill,
clean and cut up more hogs in a day
than any man in the country.
Harris Martin ("Black Pearl'') of
Minneapolis, the coming middleweight,
says he is ready to fight any man who
weighs not to exceed $50 pounds at the
ring side, for $500. and up, bar nobody.
The Pearl has an unbroken record.
The California club directors have
matched Billy Mccarthy, the Australian,
and Charley Turner, the Colored middle
weight OF Stockton. The men will fight
in April for purse of $1,000, $500 to
the looser, and weigh in at 1874 pounds.
At Indianapolis, Mrs. Rachel Greer, a
Colored washerwoman, Saturday after
noon tied her two year-eld baby girl in
chair, leaving her near the stove,
while she absented herself to deliver
washing. During her absence a police
man discovered smoke and flame isssu-
ing from the house, and upon forcing his
way inside he found the child burned to
a crisp. The house was not materially
damaged.
Peter Jackson, who has been resting
at Mount Clemens, is on the road again
under the management of "Parson"
Davies. Jackson will have with him az
sparring partner Jack Ashton, the Provi-
dence heavyweight, and will be accom-
panied by combination of athletes and
vaudeville artists. The combination
opend eat Indianapolis last Monday e.
vening showing three nights. Columbus,
Dayton and Louisville will be the next
towns visited.
A Colored man in Arkansas plowed up
a jug containing $4,000 and in his JOY
GUS delirium ran off to town to tell of
his find, leaving the jug in the field after
loading himself with $500 of the treasure.
When he returned to the field the lug
had been stolen. The best thing the
man can do under the circumstances il
to hire good strong man to kick him
from morn till noon and noon till eve at
day wages as long as the $500 lasts.
A Congo native who has been taught
to read and write, has just sent letter,
his first to the archbishop of Canterbury.
1t is as follows: 'Great and Good Chief
of the Tribe Of Christ, greeting: The
humblest Of your servants kisses the hem
of your garm ent, and begs you to send
to his fellow servants more gospel and
less ram. In the bonds of Christ. Ugal-
la." It seems to us that the letter hits
the nail pretty effectually on the head.
A policeman in Danville, KY, while
undertaking to arrest Colored man
last week had his would be prisoner to
escape and take refuge in a Masonic
| dye room, the lodge being in session.
The policeman demanded admittance
which was refused as matter of course
whereupon he battered down the door
and arrested his man. The lodge Off
Gals have sent delegates to confer with
the high authorities in Louisville with
view of suing the city. p
Half dozen or more girls have been
expelled from female seminary Ut
Culpeper, Va. They stripped an often
sive classmate and blackened her from
head to foot with shoe polish. A new
college should be started somewhere
coeducational institution-and these
young ladies'" together with the en-
bryo preachers who were lately suspen-
ded from the theological seminary at
kalamazoo, should be sent to it. Pro-
lessor Peter Jackson would make good
president for such an institution.
Mr.. White, formerly violinist to his
whillom majesty. the king of Brazil, is
creating sensation in London. Mr..
White, who, by the way, is black is de-
scribed as man forty years of age, and
ofsuperb presence. He has, acc riding
to the critics, ''a beautiful bow arm, fine,
large tone, q great deal of sentiment and
tremendous execution" Paris is al
ready beginning to rave over him, and
fortune IS accordingly, assured. It il
just possible that this Colored man il
about the only person who has gained
in any way by the Brazilian revolution.
What a pity it is that Dom Pedro can't
play the fiddle!