The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-03-28
DRIFTWOOD.
Caught Floating on the News Cur.
rent and Steered Into
Our Once by our Army Of Corresponds.so
1T all Points Of the Compass, Care
fully Condensed for Hasty
~ RenderS.


fully Condensed for TASTY
81 Res.derS.
Judge James Dean of Florida, places
the wealth of the Colored people Of this
country at 1926, Oo0, 900.
At Wheeling, W. Va, recently Dr..
Garrison shot to death DR.. Baird. DR..
Baird had asserted that DR.. Garrison's
mother was an Afro-American. Both
were very eminent physicians.
The Afro Americans of Terrell County,
Georgia are steadily increasing in
prosperity and acquiring real estate, for
which. they have an especial liking.
They own some of the best farm land in
the county.
Mrs. Matilda Cayce. the old Colored
woman who was run over by a freight
train on the railroad at Hopkinsvi!le,
KY, several days since. when one leg
was so badly crushed that it had to be
amputated, died of her injuries Sunday,
aged lob years
An exchange says: "Ex-Senator
Wade Hampton and T It Thomas Fortune,
the Colored statesman, occupied the
same section in Pullman sleeper the
other day. The race war of the South
may settle itself some dey. This is
good beginning"
Judge Miner Saturday passed SEN
tence upon Rufus Moore, Colored, con-
victed the murder of Henry Stay, Col
ored, at Rising Fawn last June. Moore
will be hanged publicly within two miles
of Trenton on May Is. Judge Miner
completely broke down in passing the
sentence and Sheriff Byrd was visibly
affected.
John McGruder. of Bethel, Shelby
County, Mo-, is Colored farmer with
200 acres of land free of debt, who has
just sold 81 500 worth of stock AMI has
plenty left. He Married fifteen years
ago and went to work at 800 month
and board and never spent cent of his
earnings until he had $3.50 saved up,
which he invested in land. He is forty
years old.
Charlie Ward, the Colored pugilist of
Dayton, Ohio, and Owen White. of Gin
cinnati, who are to fight to finish with
in month, are both training hard for
the contest. The friends of Ward have 8
great deal of confidence in their man,
and are prepared to back him for a large
sum of money. They say they will be
on hand at the ring-side ready to take
any thing offered. -7-=a.. a..
The Oregon Colored Professional base
ball Club has been organized at Portland
and $500 subscribed to commence oper-
atoms. F. H. Webb was elected mana
ger and James A. Ross secretary. The
directors authorized the secretary to
correspond with Eastern ball-players. It
is their intention to have strong nine
to compete with any nine in the West,
and they will play any and all corners.
J. F. Fisher, formerly of the Tri-State
League of the East and pitcher of the
Akron, o., Club, was elected captain.
They will commence to practice about
the 18th of April
The entire Colored population of
Charleston was thrown into excitement
one day last week by panic among the
800 Colored children of the Morris st.,
School. At 1890 o'clock a copper color
ed man, dressed in fantastic costume of
an East Indian. walked into one of the
class-rooms and told the children that
he was reformed cannibal and used to
eat human beings, and his appearance
bore out his assertion. The children
laughed at the speaker at first, but he
ran at one of the girls with out stretched
arms and she fed shrieking that the man
was going to eat her. Swiftly the panic
spread and in a moment the entire
school was in an uproar. The pupils
rushed heller SHELTER down the stairs
and thence pell NELL into the street.
Three minutes after the first shrek of
the frightened girl rang through the
building there was nota child in it.
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