Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-25

visitors were at the county jail yesterday than for any single day in years. They were mostly miners and miners wives, and they were there to see the parties charged with being participants in the Pratt mines tragedy of last week.
 STILL IN THE LEAD. D.--The Birmingham Railway and Electric company is constantly putting on new cars and improving their several roadbeds. Hardly day passes but
 beautiful coaches are rolled out of the shops, and their neat appearance causes much favorable comment.
 BIRMINGHAM TO BE GENERAL HEAD QUARTERs.-Th Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company, with MT. H. F. De- Bardeleben as first vice. president and gen. eral manager, is to have its general head quarters in Birmingham. This is a good move for Birmingham and means more | business.
 TIN WEDDING.- MT. and Mrs. Louis | Schillinger celebrated their tin wedding at | Elks' hall Monday night. A large num- | Der of invited guests were present to extend l their congratulations to the happy couple. | fine band of music was in attendance, | and dancing, feasting and good cheer was l the order.
 Now OR NEvER.-Vice- President De- Bardeleban of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
 Railroad company publishes card invit- | ing the striking miners who desire to re- turn to work at Pratt mines to enroll their names at the office of the company on | "Wednesday or Thursday, in order to make l themselves eligible to employment in the
 future, and stating that this is the last 1 opportunity.
 1 SUPERINTENDENT RYDER.-It is cur
 rently rumored that in the reorganization l of the Southern Railway company many
 changes will take place among the off cials. That Superintendent Ryder of the l Georgia Pacific will be transferred 10 the l eastern division, to be succeeded by Mir.
 Beaupree, the well known superintendent | of the old East Tennessee. Birming ham will regret 10 lose the citizenship of Mir. 1 Ryder.
 THE TENNIS TOURNAMENT. larger
 company than the evening before gathered | at Five Points yesterday afternoon to wit ness the tennis tournament The interest | was intense, and the spectators appIauded | every good play. There were several brilliant plays. Such experts as Messrs. | Ssabrook, klmball, London, Meade and was umpire. The game continues this l afternoon.
 ME. WEAKLEY SPEAKS AT WHITNEY. .- l MT. 5. D. Weakley returned yesterday from | St. Clair county. H. went out from sh | vile to Whitney to hear Biloro, candidate | for the senate. Bibro did not arrive until
 late and the crowd became impatient. All 1 arrangements being perfected for the burnt
 off ring to democracy, Mir. Weakey was l caught like lamb in the bushes and offered
 up AS a sacrifice. His speech was the in- l cense of pure democracy.
 I SOME GREAT SPORT. Occasionally one l hears of fishing parties seeking the pisca- l torial sport in foreign waters. When il is l known that just outside ot the city cue can | find the most abundant supply of scale
 fish, especially the gamy trout and pike,
 many wonder at the far away journeys
 Lake Como, at the end of the East Lake | dummy line, abounds in fish of all kind
 and iL is no unusual eight to see nimrods
 vending their way hon:eward with long
 strings of them, the result of couple ol
 hours sport.
 UNITED STATES PRISONERS. " Yesterday
 morning there arrived in the city over tho
 Kansas City road a car load of United States
 prisoners, en route to Brooklyn, N. Y.
 wbitiler they were being taken to work out
 terms of Imprisonment of various lengths, |,
 from one year 10 life servitude.= These | prisoners were from Arkansas, New Mex
 ice aud the Indian territory and as a whols
 Were tougn lot. They were full booded
 Indians, half breeds, whites and negroes