The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1892-04-02
, DRIFTWOOD.
caught Floating on tho News Our
rent and Steered Into
W. once BY our Army Of Correspondents
1t all Points OF tho Compass, Care
fully Condensed for Hasty
Readers.

1904 1oAnts OF tho Compass, Care
fully Condensed for Hasty
Readers.
The New Era of New Orleans, La, is
now dead era.
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell has become
one of the editors of the "Ringwood
Fashion Journal"
Dr. j.. E. Asbury & Co., have erected
and opened beautiful little drug store
3l7 Peters street Atlanta, Ga.
Hon. Frederick Douglass is to deliver
the commencement address at Tuskegee
(Ala) University next commencement.
Edmun Turner, an Afro-American
died near the village of Tennessee
Colony, Tex, yesterday, aged lO4 years.
Near Canton, Mo-, Saturday, row
boat containing eight Colored men cap
sized in. the Mississippi. Six were
drowned.
We are pleased to notice the appoint
ment OF Hon. Frederick Douglass by the
Haytein government one of its COM
missioners to the Worlds Fair.
Hon. Isaiah T. Montgomery of Missis-
slppi the only Afro-American of the late
constitutional convention has been On.
gagged to write an article for the New
York World, which is shortly to appear.
A muscular Colored man in Arundal
County, Maryland, killed an infurtated
bull which attacked him by Selling the
animal by the horns and throwing him
with violence sufficient to break his
neck. ~-I~-.--., ..a-.s -.. ..-.-
An effort is to be made to raise funds
whereby the families of the three Afro
Americans who were so inhumanlv
lynched in Memphis, Tenn, will be en-
abed to bring suit against the city for
damages. A good move surely.
Gretna, small town just opposite
New Orleans, was the scene of a conflict
between whites and a party of Afro
Americans Sunday, the result being the
serious wounding of five white men and
the killing of the leader of the Afro
Americans.
Six hundred and fifty Afro Americans
left Memphis, Tenn. last Saturday NOR
ming for Oklahoma. They will make the
journey in wagons and on foot. One
Thousand more left ON Monday for the
same point. This is the, result of the
late lynching. 49,.
j. Madison Vance an Afro-Ame1ican
lawyer of New Orleans, La recently
cleared John W. johnson an Afro-Amer-
can client who was accused of killing a
white man. OF course Judge and jury
were white and Vance's success is there
fore the more fattering.
Joe Lannon and George Godfrey, the
well-known heavyweight pugilists, were
last Friday matched to fight to finish
before the Coney Island Athletic Club,
of Brooklyn, for purse of 5000. The
affair is to occur on May Is, and the win
ner will receive $2,000.of the purse, and
the looser the remainder.
Moses Tucker, young Afro-American
artist of Indianapolis, Ind, was declared
insane Saturday. He has mania that
the gongs on the electric cars are sound.
ed only to torment him. He was unable
to get work and starved until his mind
was wreck. Some of the drawings
which have appeared in The APPEAL
were executed by the unfortunate
young man.
| The Washington, D. c. Evenin: Sta,
devoted two columns of its space on the
23d inst. to the reproduction of an ad.
mirab]e paper read by Mr.. A. F. Hilye,
before the Bethel Literary and Historical
Association. The title of the paper was;
| IAN Analysis of American Color Preju.
dice and How to Overcome it," MI
Hilyel is one of Mime eota's Afro-Amer.
lean representatives in the, Treasury
Department. The paper was deep and
logical and gave evidence of much
thought and the subject was we'll handl
ed throuhout.
At Arcadia, La, Saturday night five
whites visited Dennis Cobb, well-to-dc
Afro American compelled him to &C.
company them away from his house and
hung him to tree. Soon as he was pull
led up each took shot at him and i'm.
mediately left. Several bullets struck
him, but he still lived, struggling to free
himself. Finally the limb to which he
was hanged broke and he crawled to hi
house, several hundred feet away, where
he soon died from loss of blood and ex
haustion. Two notorious touehs have
been arrested for the deed, for which NJ
cause can be assigned. The prisoner,
protest their innocence, but will be hele
for trial.