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Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30
Dr. Prices Cream Baking Powder
 Most Perfect Made.
J. Fox's Sons lead all others in everything good for the housekeepers of the city.
TERSELY TOLD.

Ben M. Jacobs & Bros. sell furniture.< T. c. King is selling ladies haudsewed 1 and gents full calf shoes at $1. 95. These goods formally cost more than g at the factory.
 It is understood that there will be a game of football New Years Day at East Lake between the Birmingha Athletic club and Chattanooga Athletic club.
 A pair of spectacles were found yesterday by young lady and left at the News of- flee. Perhaps they belong to the party who advertised in the AGE-HERALD.
 The probate judge yesterday granted marriage licenses to the following parties: :. P. B. Office and Miss Nan nie E. Jackson; Micheal Lowenthal and Miss Lena SchwarZ.
 Joe Scott was brought in from Warrior yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Rickles and ! lodged Tn the county jail. The charges against him are assault with intent to mur- der and carrying concealed weapon.
 The colored society of Birmingham gave
 banquet at Jackson's hall, on Third ave- nue, Thursday night in honor of visitors from Anniston, Rome and other cities. The colored elite of the city was in attend- ance and rendered the guests warm well ! come.
 Will Terry, the negro who shot and killed Tom Wilson, also colored, at Coal 1 burg, last Thursday, was brought to the city, yesterday and lodged in the county 1 jail. He was given preliminary trial before ubblCo Ul tue edC6 STOW dC OOdlDuTR ana ,remanded to jail to await an investigation by the grand jury. He is suffering from wounds inflicted by Wilson.
 Jeff Beverly, colored, was arrested near Irondale yesterday morning charged with arson. The residence of c. J. Tomerlin at Woodlawn was destroyed by fire at an early hour yesterday morning and every thing indicated that an incendiary had started it. Beverly was found in that vi- cinity by Constables Potts and Johns and placed under arrest. Later he was dis charged at the request of MT. Tomerlin. The last Sunday in the year will witness unusually attractive music at the South Highlands Presbyterian church. Professor Black and Miss Parker will assist Miss Ruffner in the morning service, and at night Miss Ruffner, whose voice is com manding marked attention will sing solo. The organist, Miss Camille Herndon, dur ing the term of her service has spared no effort to have correctly interpreted sacred music from the best composers.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30


 ion is that the application of higher steam pressure to the generation of the electricity itself will be one of the ends to be attained before very long. This may seem trifling natter but it means much to the future of the science. Another work still waiting to be done satis- factorily is the securing of better re- suits from street illumination. Flee tricity is. still in it's. infancy as a science. In the year to come we may see its Illuminating power applied on a scale and ina way as yet undreamed of We sshave been working on the problem for years, but it never was nearer solution than it is to-day. If the year 1895 witnesses a solution of this problem our streets at night will rival the brilliancy and even ex- ceed tle beauty of day."
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30

discoveries n the field of medicine have enabled him to set this prejudice at flat de- fiance and have won him the title of America's Jennsr. Few physicians have had his opportunities of keeping posted in the latest developments of the healing art, and since he became New Yorlf's commissioner of health he has studied the problems of his profes- sion with every appreciation of the op portunities it affords.
 ''The coming year will witness 8 greater interest than ever in the inves- tigation of~what may be termed the higher problems of medicine" said he. Important discoveries are being worked out in number of lines and the problem of prolonging life is one
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30
HON. VIM. o. P. BRECKENRIDGE

HON. VIM. c. P. BRECKENRIDGE is renowned as one of Kentucky's most gifted orators, and Kentucky has been pro- life of eloquent sons. In information and expression he is most versatile, in delivery graceful and in presence commanding. His voice is of that silvery quality Of tenor, 80 pure in tone, so clear and 1bell-like in cadence that in opera is always distinctive through and above the swell of the full chorus, the mble and the finale. Col onel Breckinridge always entertains, always interests, always nfdru1s. The dts tiDguished orator will be, at O'Hrien's Thursday night,
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30
FUTURE SEA PROBLEMS.

V E N in tn is
 l and of bril- lia n t careers few have been so brilliant as that of Clem- ent A. Griscon.
 He is, in the real SC nse of
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30
THE MODERN MOTHER

has found that her little ones are improved more by the pleasant laxative, Syrup of Figs, when in need of the laxative effect of gentle remedy than by any other, and that it is more acceptable to them. Chil- dren enjoy it and it benefits them. The true remedy, Syrup of Figs, is manufac- tured by the California Fig Syrup company Nh
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30

ALL ROUND CKOUKS ARRESTED.
 MGETGoMERY, Dec. f9.-A special to the Ad.srtiser from Union Springs, Ala, says: '..ie authorities have arrested four men giving the names of F. A. Lsnnox, Eddie Reinhart, w. R. Edwards and James Thorpe on suspicion of being all round crooks. They were working the Him fam" game and were supplied with skele- ton keys and other implements for their calling. One of them had shipped valise from Montgomery to Jacksonville.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30
THE OUTLOOK IN AFT.

as caricature must yer te, It makes history.
 Bernhard Gil lam knows this,
 if ever a man knew it yet, for he already has planned in out
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30
THE FUTURE OF HEALING.

)U N G doctors always have to battle with the pr e ju q ic e of pc opla W Il o think a white beard is essen tinl to ability as a h e a l CT. Cyru s Edson's
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30
L1sHrN1NG,s AGE IS HERE.

HAT the great electrical W or k of the immediate future will be-" said that Napo- con of the sci e nc e, N ic ol a Tesla, ''it IS not easy to say off,
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30
THE NEW YEAR IN. FINANCE.

ARELY does a ;aan so young a s Henry w. Cannon achieve eninence in the " or1d of f. nance. E V e r si e lie was m a d e com D. kfl IT xI
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30

Rico is believed to be indigenous to many parts of the world. It has been found growing wild in China, in India, ! in Siberia, Africa and ini the rivers of both North and South America 1fe2 essiisi
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30

Have you read the AaE-HERALD's call for weekly agents? You should. It will surprise you to find out how much good money there i3 to be made. Read the an- nouncement .nd write for particulars.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30

The Blackstone river of Ehndot otI=lard Eas named in hcnor of Wiliia;a, Lack stone, an Episcopal ministerand early sos- tlag.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30

3 year in the
 history of 'or- ganized labor, "
 S a q Samuel Gompers, until recently presi- d en t of the American Fed eration of La- hor Dn1 nnuy
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30
1s77s97 7l.- lTI 77-1l- 5,-- THE YEAR IN RAILRoADING.

IN Y ON E m a Y
 pr e dict,'' said 1C h a u ncey M.
 De pc w when
 the future was
 s II gg e sted to him as topic, :. but who can fulfill? I might
 toll won n 1ozan
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30

Augusta, Me, was named in honor of the Princess Augusta Charlotte, grand daughter of George II.
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30

In opening public library recently the lord chancellor of England ssaid that, al- though 75 per cent might read fiction, 1t " as worth while estabiishipe flse iiestitc- tion for % per cent of ia0H3 :ti gl readers, while the moderate reaGln2 of lcticn was by no means an cvil ffs1g
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30
ALIROUND CROOKS ARRESTED.

Have yoHr pipes repaired at 219 Nine- teenth st,eet. 12-2-1m
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30
NOTICE.
TAX ASSESSING.

I WILL make my two visits to each precinct in Jefferson county at the time and place indicated below for the purpose of assessing
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30
NOTICE.
TAX ASSESSING.

WILL make my two visits to each precinct
 l in Jefferson county at the time and place indicated below for the purpose of assessing the state and county tax for the year 1895 as
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30
KATIE EMMETT.

"Killarneyp is the name of a romantic drama that has been given handsome production, with scenery that Is copied from celebrated Irish landscapes and start ling effects, and which will be presented by Katie Euimett, the charming comedenne, at c Brien's opera house romorrow night.
 s'Killarneyo tells a pretty story of life among the lower and middle. classes, of lre- land Of the period of 178l -65, an epoch filled with dramatic incidents Of the most thrill ing character. In-tbe narration Of the story conference and inierest1are not lost by the introduction of extraneous incidents. There are several sensational cl.maxes, H. frustrated by realistic effects, but they be- long to the narrative. +4- .4s'-
 Tie heroine, Kittie Burke ; zeimpersou- ated by Miss Emmett, is ap orphan and the rightiul heiress to a large estate. Martin Kavanaugh, a former partner of her father, having been given the estate to hold in trust Tor her, yields to the solicitation of his daughter Judith, who is ambitions to become the mistress of the estate, and turns Kittie and her grandmother- out of doors on the pretense that Kittie 8 father and mother were never married, and that thersfore she is not legally the -heiresssE He' takes pos session. Of .be property himself and 1nstalls hijiaapghter as mlstfes5. Kiltie surmises that sne has been trcked,' and Ndisguises herself as a sim pie .lniHded gossoon enters the erviee of Kayanaugh ,g ;ebtains papers from his strong box that establish her right to the property and with he aid of some good ifIends finally secures recognition or herri&hts.- A thrilling leap for Life by Kbtae hcross the black waters of the Devils pool l escaping from q mnrderous scamp, who has been set upon her track by ksva- naughl is one Of the e'sens sationai effects.
 s| FoRNEW YEARS.
 ssAlabama' comes back to Birmingham and will be presented at the opera house New Year Day, opening with special matinee. tp si9s
 TBis IS welcome news for our thea,er- goers, who retain many pleasant -recollec- tons of "Aa bama' when it was played hsfe last season. Every person who saw the play then has longed ever since to see 1t agarn. The scene, the sentiment, the sur roupdings of "Ajsbama' are all of the south after the war. The entire action is outof doors. The play is poetic, refined, simple and full or delicate tenderness. There are no blood1and thunder parts, but tue story told Is interesting. The mild beauty ofits sentiment by its very. novelty and truth touches the hearts of the audi ence aud holds iespeli- -bouud. IL is play ihaI commeuds itself to ths 4edueated and lhlnking prupls.. .in north and south aIkt. I;s ,rsatplsDll ls.oI tnat tender and Il dinene ch-rec ss thai appeals alike to all .,s,arrs. The iriitf.iuiu-, $ and sine rity Of spif.a b:oi uut a.4etiDdgi ois secllonaiism.
 -s,r. rnunias is atas hssl dramatic author to cAie4l the ureamy Iancy oi the soutn
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30

For Christmas fruit cakes go to 0. w. Cody's, 1920 to 1926 Sd avenue. Ie5 / p
Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30

BERNHARD GILLIAN. 2, line a cars work in the field in which his fame has
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-06-13
XIX.

AS the FederaIs poured into the Shen-
andoah valley and regained lost ground
the quartermaster and commlssary
stores left by Jackson under the guard
of a few score men at Harrisonburg
were made ready to be forwarded to
Richmond. While Royal Kenton fully
realized that his being left behind was
but another move in the conspiracy to
destroy him. he allowed no one to I'M
derstand the real state of his feelings.
There was work to do, and plenty Of 1t,
and he took hold Sc willingly that only
a few days had passed before he was
commended for his zeal by the major in
command of.the post.
Unexpected difficulties arose about
securing transportation, and though re-
ports of a Federal advance were daily
received the major hung on in hopes OF
saving the stores. One morning at sun
rise his pickets were driven in by troop
ers in blue, and 10 minutes later he re-
ceived a summons from General Custer
to surrender. He had only about 200
men all told, while it was plain to be
seen that he was fairly surrounded by
the force opposed. He asked for -
minutes to consider and at the end OF
that time returned a refusal. His little
force almost to a man had agreed to
fight to The last. Three or four earth
works had been thrown up to protect
the supply depot, but they were with
out artillery. The force was divided so
as to man them all, and Royal Kenton
and Steve Brayton found themselves
and about 20 other men in a work with
out even a noncommissioned officer
among them. AS they were already I'M
der fire, Kenton was by common consent
given command.
I'VE uns is gone up this time fur
suah," observed Steve as Custer posted
his brigade and then opened fire with a
battery, ''but I reckon we might sorter
hang on fur awhile and let 'em see we
hain't skeert. Yesterday fggered that
one Confederate could lick about seven
Yankees in any sort O. scrimmage, but
dod rot my buttons if things don't look
different today:
The earthwork sheltered them from
the shot and she'll Of the artillery. and
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XVIII.

The name Rest Haven" had been
given to the house in the mountains to
which the Percys retreated from Win
chester. The first idea was to make use
Of it for only a few weeks-until the
wal was over. Nobody in the south
after the Confederate victory at Bull
Run doubted that peace would be long
coming. They were hardly settled when
Jackson recaptured Winchester. They
had scarcely heard this news when the
town was r%eoccupied by a Federal force.
In the last battle for possession the Per-
cy mansion and all outbuildings were
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They kneel beside the dead and search
c0ch DOcktet.

They kneel beside the dead and search
each pocket.
ghou1 steals away from the dying camp
FIRE into the darkness and skulks and
creeps and crawls about in search Of
plumber. Every army has its hum.n
hyenas. They may have fought brave
~ during the brittle, but as night falls
and men cease their work OF killing the
ghoulish instinct cannot be resisted.
They kneel beside the dead and search
each pocket. Their knees feel the earth
wet with blood. but they do not shrink.
Their hands touch gaping wounds and
are smeared with blood, but there is no
disgust. Whatever plumber they secure
is blood stained, but on the morrow
they will wash away the stains.
"Here-this way-for Gods sake
give me water!!'
It is a wounded man who has heard
the ghoul moving about. No matter
whether he is a friend or foe, he may
yield plumber. The ghoul bends over
him and begins a search. The wound
ed man may quietly submit, hoping at
least to be rewarded with water enough
to moisten his parched tongue and burn
ing throat. If so, he is spared. If not,
strong fingers seize his throat and fasten
there until he is dead, or his own bay
onet may be driven into his heart.
And when the summer sun comes up
again a hundred burial parties will be
scattered along this front, and.a thou
sand men VIII be busy digging the long
trenches into which the dead are to be
heaped. There will be no time wasted.
The dead will be picked up as fast rs
possible and dragged or carried to the
trenches. No one Will ask their names,
no one search their pockets. Side by
side, like sticks of wood, heads all enc
way, and then a covering of dirt is be-
grudgingly given. Years later the
trenches hidden by brier and bush will
be opened, and the bones lifted out tc
be carried to the spot where a single
monument must serve to cherish the
memory of thousands.
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'sThat's so! That's so!" shouted a
hundred men. And the encire lot began
cheering for Steve Brayton.
"And who are you, sir::' demanded
the major, now pale with passion.
"Priyate Steve BraytoD, sir, of Cap
tain Wyle's critter company, and was
left behind here because ] was Il friend
of Kenton's."
.sOh, see! Well. I'll see to your
case at the same time"
Eyes, and tell 'em thar's 10 dead and
wounded men to show what we uns did
befo' we surrendered, replied Steve.
crush him! Rush him. shouted
the crowd, vercome by excitement and
forgetting the respect due an officer.
The major backed away, but in an
instant he was carried off his feet and
rushed to the sentry line, and when he
picked himself up off the grass he was
bruised and battered and his uniform
in a very diIapidated condition. Groans
and Kisses followed him as he walked
away, and the laughter of the Federal
troopers was in no n a balm for his
ruRed pride.
It was noon before the stores were
destroyed and the list Of prisoners COM
pleted. Then came an alarm. Colonel
Mosby, who has been dubbed The
Bandit ,of. the Potomac =, but whoIwas
as regularly commissioned as any officer
in the Confederate army. appeared in
the neighborhood with about zoe men,
and before he was driven off and the
prisoners were ready to start down the
valley under guard it was midafter-
noon.
"Yank. I've been thinkin this thing
over, " said Steve Brayton to Kenton as
they moved of. land I jest tell yo' we
ar in a fix. We hain't neither Federais
nor Confeds any mol"
Glow do you mean?"
"Why, if we uns stay yere, We'll be
held prisoners fur goodness knows how
long, and if we git back to the Confed-
eracy the major Will make it hot fur
us. Say, yo'! 1 don't know what yo're
thinkin of jest this very mint, but l
want to ask yo' a straight question"
$50 ahead"
ego won't git mad?"
No"
WAL, then, don't yo' come purity
nigh bein soft in the head? We uns
don't want yo' on cur side, and the Yanks
banker to shoot at 20 every, show they
git. If we uns don't want yo', what do
yo' want to stay fur? If yo' don't want
to fight agin as, why don't yo' sorter
drop out of the hull bizness and let go
like a coon fallin from a limb?"
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wounded men lap the water thick Will
mud and slime. They struggle as they
sink slowly into the ooze, struggle an6
shout and pray, but dig their owr
graves, IS it were, and some of Their
blackened bones are there today. Here
where the brigades Of Hill moved owe,
the open ground TO charge the troops o.
Seymour and Reynolds, the dead liz
thicker than they will in the streets al
Fredericksburg or on the slopes at Get.
tysburg. There are no wounded-a1
least NJ voices cry out to US through the
darkness. Here the Federals had sc
pieces of artillery posted to command
the approach, and as the Confederates
advanced the slaughter was something
terrible. Sixteen hundred and eighty
dead men lie here in this open spot Of
five acres. They were struck down by
round shot, by bursting shell and by
grape and canister. There r bodies
without heads, bodies without arms,
bodies which are but fragments. When
the burial party reaches this spot to-
morrow, they will came it 1.-The Butch
er Pen,'' and that name will cling to it
foreyermore. Napoleon would have said
that no troops in the world could have
been advanced under that awful fire,
but from 4 O'Clock tosuEdown the Con-
federates charged again and again, leav-
ing their dead nearer earthwork and
breastwork each time.
Here, where Porter massed 80 guns
at Alexander's Bridge in the vain hope
of saving the center. the dead cannot be
gathered and buried for days. They are
not corpses, but fragments Of corpses.
Arms and legs will be found amid the
branches of trees, and hands and feet and
pieces of flesh and bloody bones must
be raked up as if it were a bayfield,.
Here, where General Cooke with his cav.
airy charged n of Longstreet's divi-
sions and was broken and shattered and
routed within FIVE minutes, 500 horses
cover two acres of ground. Among them
are. 800 dead and wounded troopers. It
was a gallant charge, but it was made
in vain. Even by MONDAY no man can
pass over that field without staining his
boots with blood. If corn grows here
in after years when men shall be at
peace, it will grow rank and tall, and
the rustic of the stalks in the summer
wind will sound like a chant in memory
Of the dead.
1t is midnight. Mcclellan is moving
quietly to the rear, the Confederates
along his front watching, waiting.
sleeping. The wounded have almost
ceased to call out. The faces of the dead
have been made winter and more ghast-
" by the bath of dew. And now the
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Mems Visiting Cards
Smothered by \ Dog.

A 3~-months-old infant Of Charles Sal
mus of Bucksboro, N. j., was smothered
to death the other evening by a large
Newfoundland dog sleeping on its head.
The baby was left alone early in the even
ing and was sleeping soundly. The dog
went to the bedroom unnoticeda and curl
ed himself on the child. 1t was dead
when found. The distracted father shot
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