The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1891-10-03
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ut AL Points of tho Compass, Care
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Readers.
! Prof G. A. Green is principal of the
Okalona, Miss, schools. ~.

Africa is now completely encircled by
submarine cables, which make altogether
length of seventeen thousand milee.
At Colored church in Sheffield, Ala.
a man named Wilson, becoming enrsged
at another. man for paying attention to
his wife, shot and killed the man and
then cut his wife's throat.
At Asheville, N. c., Fred TYLER
\"hlte), during an alteration, struck
Hezekiah Rankin, (Colored) with lump
Of coal. Rankin got a pistol and shot
Tyler, producing fatal wound.
A Florida Colored man, who was hid
ing in swamp near Tallahassee. and
was forced up tree by the approach of
aIllgators, was so badly frightened bv
his experience that bis hair turned
white.
The production of molasses in Louis.
lana is so great that it does not pay to
buy barrels to ship it. Arrangements
are now being made to burn it mixed
with some other substance, and thus
save great amount OF coal.
Owing to the lateness of ORGANIZING
the Several States, the management of
the Colored department of the Southern
lnter-States Exposition have decided to
postpone the opening of that department
until Wednesday. October IA.
South Carolina The most death. deal
ing sentence in the legal annals, except
cases OF instruction, was passed at Lau-
reIs, last Friday, ten Afro Americans
were sentenced to be hanged for the
murder of another Afro-American.
In compliance with an order issued bv
the First Assistant Postmaster General
W.T.. Hardy was last Saturday dismissed
from his position as letter carrier in tho
Nashville postofice. His offense consis-
ted in replying abusively to a remark
made by a Colored man.
Colored farmer, in Murray co.. Ga.
sixty five years old, boasts that himself
and several members Of his family have
never worn any thing but homemade
clothing. The wool was raised, woven.
dyed and made up at home. He saws
that he has wool on bis head and BODY.
He is all wool and yard wide.
Henrietta Murrell convicted of house.
burning which resulted in the death of
two Colored children, and Catherine
Jackson convicted of drowning her
eight year-old child, were hanged Mon
day at Smithville, Va. Every effort
possible was made to save the lives of
the women but to no avail.
Saturday at Mobile, Ala, police officer
John King died from the effects of poi
soning, from the bite of what is gener.
ally known as "b]ue gum" Four
years ago last February, officer King ar
rested an Afro American named Richard
Richards. The man resisted, and in
the struggle bit Kings hand, lasceratine
it terribly.
Mrs.. Halle T. Dillon, M. D., daughter
of Bishop b. T. Tanner, is not only the
first Colored woman physician, but the
first woman of any race to pass the Ala
bama state medical examination. It
was written examination, and an unus-
ua'ly severe one, occupying ten days.
DR.. Dillon after passing high average,
now occupies the place of resident phy-
stefan at the Tuskegee, (Ala.), Institute.
Some of the former slaves of the
South have not been slow to take advan-
tage of the changed conditions of their
section since the war. Senator C. N.
Burton, of Fl. Bend county, Texas, owns
his old masters plantation, and three
other valuable farms in the state, while
Milton Sterritt, of Houston, formerly a
waiter on steamboat, has made S4OO,O0O
by real estate epeculations, and lives like
prince on one of the several plantations
he has acquired.
Albany, N. Y.-Supt. Mcintyre and
Clerk Bowers, at the penitentiary one
day last week went into the chair shop
to investigate misconduct on the part Of
an Afro American named Frank Wal
lace. He sprang at them with a knife.
and when this was knocked from his
hand he fel]ed Bowers to the floor with
hammer, seriously injuring him. He
was not overcome until after severe
struggle, in which the other convicts
aided the officers.
The Item of Fort Worth, Texas, eays
the Afro-Americans of that city have
one lawyer, three hotels, two saloons.
five churches. six carpenters, four gro
ceries, six expressmeD, two shoe-shops,
two physicians, two newspapers, five
blacksmiths. three restaurants, nine
secret orders, four barber.shops, one ice
cream parlor, one silver cornet band. =
population of $3.50, four second hand
clothing houses, one fruit and confec-
tionery stand, a public free school with
eight teachers.
Forty armed Colored men have ap-
peared in st. Francis township, Ark,
and have driven all the cotton pjckers
from one field, and burned Mr.. Bonds
Clubhouse. They threaten to. drive all
pickers out and burn all GIN houses.
The Sheriff is on the ground with writs
for the leaders. Another posse left
Mariana this morning by his orders.
Much excitement prevails, as majority
Of the marauding band is composed Of
non-residents, and the authorities antic-
ipate serious trouble.