Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-21
LOCAL LRCONICS
Gathered, Noted and Condensed by 7 Age Herald Reporters--General Resume of Happenings.


 To PLAY BALL.-The Warnock base ball club leaves today for Montgomery, where they will play picked team series of games. The Warnocks put up good game for amateurs.
 BACKBONE OF SUMMER BROKEN. After an un precedented hot spell of hot weather yesterdays cooling breeZes were greatly appreciated. Old inhabitants say the back bone of summer is broken.
 A SMALL BLAzE.-An alarm of fire was sent in from box 15 at II 80 o'clock yester- day morning for fire at Twenty fourth street and Sixth avenue. It was a barn, and only small pile of hay burned. Very little damage was done.
 ASSAULT WITH A ROCK. Robert Gil- more was arrested yesterday by Deputy Sheriff John Bergin upon warrant issued by Justice Benners. It is alleged that Gill more bursted another negroe's skull with a rock at the rolling mill.
 Ar RIPE OLD AGE.-Yesterday after noon at 2:30 o'clock at her residence, 2505 Avenue c, told Grandma" Paris, after an illness of three months, was called up higher. She was 94 years of age. Her death is regretted by a large mum Der of relatives and friends.
 CAPTURED IN CORN FIELD. The farm- CTS near Elyton have been troubled lately by thieves going in their fields aud pulling corn. On Sunday Deputy Sheriff Thomp- son arrested Ed Smith and Walter Howard for going into MT. T. s. Smiths field. There were two others, but they got away.
 f'SoCIETY AND OTHERWISE. .''-Mrs. George 0. Balls column in the AGE- HER. AID will herea fter appear on Sundays and Thursdays under the above caption. Her facile pen has so charmed our readers in society circles that she has been persuaded to add comments upon current literature, etc., to her contributions.
 HELD FOR FoRaERY-Ed l.. McNamara, who was arrested on Saturday night on q telegram from Chattanooga for stealing vallses out of the Union depot in Chatta- nooga, was released upon that charge, but there Is another and graver one that is placed against his name on the jail docket. That of forgery. The case is said to be one of long standing and was confined until this afternoon.
 OUR COUNTRY CoUsINs.-A covey of countrymen, in their sf irt- sleeves, entered the First Methodist church Sunday night, They probably came down to the city with their apple wagons. Their shirts were not even the "biled shirt,' but the well known "hickory shirt'' which grows in the backWoods, There were some eight or ten in the party, and one wore vest and another had on complete pair of suspend CTS. They seemed utterly unconscious of any breach of etiquette. They evidently lived in @ land where the men go in their shirt-sleeves from May to October, and wear coats to keep warm and not for looks. They certainly looked cooler and more comfortable than the city men in the con. gregation sweating under their heavy black coats. Madame Sarah Grand says man looks better in his shlrt-sleeves than in any other style of dress. Perhaps these countrymen are the first to adopt her idea, and were on dress parade like others in the congregation. Nose, the sexton, thought they were a contingent of Coxey's army. No doubt they had heard of the sBig Bethel church." and determined to see it. Maybe they drifted into a church thinking it was theater, like the man ia Colonel Oates' goat story. They will have an en- tertaining story to tell when they get back home about the big stone church, with it's light, it's music and pretty girls.