The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-10-24
DRIFTWOOD.
Caught Floating on tho News Gu,
rent and Steered Into
Our Once BY our Army Of Correspondents
at al Points Of tho Compass, Care
fully Condensed for Hasty

fully Condensed for Hasty
Res.saoHs.
A Colored Industrial School has been
opened at Thunderbolt, Ga.
Adam Hamilton; aged SO, is a regular
school-boy in Thomson, Ga.
Georgia has passed separate coach
law, which applies even to street-cars.
Mr.. William Brown of Madison. Ind,
has been refused admittance to both of
theynedical colleges of Cincinnati on &C.
count of his color.
Joe Satter6eld, white,. shot George
Gilmore, Colored, through. the right
lung, at Knoxville, Tenn, last Fri.
day It is thought the wound will prove
fatal. The row grew out of difficulty
between the sons of the men.
in other States. History does not show,
in any age or country, such another in
stance of progress, and the Colored peo-
pie are wise in refusing to leave coun.
try where they have made good start
to 20 to another of which they know
nothing, even if their fathers did come
from that part of the world"
Second Lieut.. John H. Alexander,
! Ninth cavalary, has been directed to visit
the camp of the Charlotte Light In
fantry during the period of its encamp-
ment at Raleigh, N. G., from the I'd to
9TH of November, 1891, and will instruct
that organic atom. as far as practicable,
in all matters relating to military duty.
Rev. M. W. Gilbert of Florida was the
Colored man upon whose account a
Pullman conductor was arrested in
Louisiana. He says: "In wiring ofthe
affair the conductor became more fright
ened and telephoned to the Superin-
tendent who told him in reply to allow
Mr.. Gilbert to remain even if every
every white man leave the car.
The Southern Courier gives honorable
mention to two business houses (white)
which give honorable positions to Color
ed men in Jacksonville, Fla. The Sc are
Hon. J. G. L'Engle. the popular druggist
corner Bay and Main streets, who has
two Colored drug lerks-Tnomas Butler
and A. Benede. Mr.. John B. Roche at
6 East: Bay street, a. man who keeps a
first-cfass grocery, who gives employ
ment to Colored clerks, and exp1 esses
perfect satisfaction on the prosperous
conpition of his business.
Says Georgia man: "The agents of
the African Colonization Society have
not accomplished anything in Georgia.
They came down and urged the Colored
people to sell what they bad and emf.
crate to Africa. but they laughed at the
idea. and were not far wrong in doing
so, for the census shows that while TWEEN
ty-six years ago they began free life With
nothing but their clothes, and those
scanty and ragged, they now own nearly
Sill, 900 OoO worth of property in Georgia
alone, to say nothing Of what they have
Louis Taylor, young white man at
Memphis. Tenn, was charged with an
aggravated assault on a Colored girl,
with whom he has been living, and got a
sentence of only II months and 20 days
in the county work house! He is a
young white man of considerable prop
erty, and belongs to an excellent family
of the county. but he has for some years
past Stunned the society of white people
and confined himself entirely to associa-
ton with Colored people. He declares
that the Colored race are the chosen PEG.
pie of the Lord, and 80 far as the next
world is concerned, the whites are mot
in it." " 50: ,''~@' ~; g.. = 4. 49, T.,
A Colored church IN New Jersey will
send relic of great interest to the expo.
sition.. The relic is the bell belonging to
the African Methodist Episcopal Church
at Haleyville, which was presented to it
by Captain Elias A. Newall when the
church was established here, about six
years ago. Queen Ieabella presented
this bell to Columbus upon his departure
to America on his fourth and last voyage
(15O2), and by him it was given to monks
who placed it in the chapel which wal
the beginning of the great cathedral Of
Cartbagena, on the: Spanish Main, in
New Granada, South America. There
it performed it's holy mission until the
siege Of Carthagena by the Buccaneers
of 1897, when the city was sacked and
partly destroyed. In the division of the
spoils the bell fell to the share of the
French ship La Rochelle, and fora short
period did duty in the humble service
of ships bell for the pira,ical crew.
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