Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-31

East Birmingham is happy over the add-
 Lion to hls family of fourteen pounder. | Mother and son are doing we'll. GONE TO THE SEAsHoRE. E.-Misses An | nette and Gertrude Muslin, two of Bir- mlnghaIh's g popular young ladies, left yes-
 terday afternoon for the coast of North | Carolina. They will remain there for
 about one month.
 | NEARLY SrARvED.-An old negro | woman was found yesterday morning in | the woods near the Bessemer cemetery so | hungry that she actually couldnH talk, | she having been without anything to eat
 for about eight days.
 l AT WesT .-Wedneeday night at s
 o'clock, at the West Find school house,
 WdIfe JWTdge y; ; M Arnoid an Capt; Frank B.
 Everybody should turn out and hear these
 two able democrats a2gue the cause of good | government.
 | RETURNED FROM THE SPRINGS. .-Misses l Lucy, Anns and Willie Morrow and Miss
 Brown r1aurned yesterday from White Su
 phur Sp-ings, DeKalb county, where they
 had Leon spending several weeks. They | s.id lucy had good time at the springs, i but were glad 10 get back to Birmingham. | A NEGRo BARBECUE. The democratic
 negroes Of Birmingham and Bessemer will | give barbecue at Bessemer Friday, Au- | gust 5. They will be addressed, among
 others, by Hons. John Mcqueen and
 Joseph Montgomery. The "Old Reliable" l cents.
 l CoUNTERFEITER CAUGHT. George l.. | White of Blount county was jncarcerated
 in the Jefferson county jail yesterday. He
 was as, arrested by Deputy United States | found by the last United States grand jury, | which charges him with passing counter
 felt money.
 l TEARING AWAY THE WALLS. Work of | tearing down and removing the brick walls
 of the Caldwell hotel was begun yesterday. 1 Dynamite was used to loosen them, and | the frequent explosions attracted quite crowd of people to the scene of the ruins 1 during the day. It will take several days
 to pull down all the walls.
 l COMMITTEE MEETING.-The meeting of l the Commercial club committee on adVer- | Using, statistics and immigration has been l postponed until Wednesday afternoon at
 o'clock. This is one of the most important | of all the committees, and full attend ance should be present for organization. | It has full field for work.
 TRIAL OF MINERS ToDAY.-The prelim- lGhTy lElGl Ol bu0 ullu6IS CnHr16Q Wltn 1 murdering Deputy Sheriff B W. Fierce and the negro miner, Gamble, at Pratt mines, | July l6, begins today in Justice Moore's | court, at Pratt City. There are about 100 | men now in jail charged with this crime, | and they will be tried in squads.
 JOINT DISCUSSION AT HARTsELLB.-Col. I G. W. Hewitt went up to Hartselle yester- | day afternoon, and today he and MT. P. G. Bowman will meet in joint discussion at | that place. It will be 8 debate between two of The ablest representatives of the two parties in Alabama and those present will, no doubt, be highly entertained. GREAT REVIVAL. The revival now in | progress at the South Side Baptist church | is great success. There were twelve con- | versions last night and much interest man. | iested. Rev. P. T. Hale, the pastor, re- | quests the AaE HERALD to announce that the services will be continued during this week, beginning promptly at o'clock. CALDWELL SAFE OPENED The large | office safe of the Caldwell hotel was opened | yesterday. It contained several hundred | dollars in cash, some iewelry and valuable l papers. Everything suffered more or less | from the intense heat, the papers being | scorched and Drowned and silver money blackened. Both the silver and bills will | have to be returned to the United States treasury to be redeemed. The damage to 1 the papers was slight, as all can be copied. AFTER AN EsCAPE.-About 10 o'clock | yesterday morning officer Brown discovered | Henry Jackson, a negro who is wanted for l being an escape from Pratt mines. When l officer Brown laid eyes on the negro he l began chasing him and followed him for l some distance, but finally the negro got l away. A posse was organized yesterd ay l afternoon and followed his trail, but could | not locate him. He has been an escape from Pratt's for two years, and is said to l have been in the city all of the time. l WHERE ARE WE AT.-There is floating l vote in and around this city which is really l an evil instead of benefit to the commu-
 nifty and state. This class of voters are to
 be found in every city, town, village and
 hamlet, but Birmingham seems to have
 more than her share of them. Their chief l occupation, 1t seems, is to hang around l the corner and bum good citizens out of a ] drink, of course advocating the man whose opinions and whisky they are desirous of | courtipg.
 DR. HANDLE DEAD.-Dr. Dudley Craw- ford Randle, who was assistant surgeon of | the First regiment, Alabama state troops, 1 recently on duty in Birmingham, died at bis home in Mobile Saturday afternoon. l The Mobile Register of Sunday says of him:
 'Dr. Handle contracted the disease which | ended his life while fulfilling his duties as 1 assistant surgeon of the First regim ent at
 Birmingham, and he remained at his post
 there, until, too weak to walk, he was car l ried to the train by some of his comrades. l Arrived at home he took to his bed at once, and though receiving the best attention | that medical skill could devise and the ten- der nursing of a loving wife and loyal l friends, he continued to grow worse until
 death released him from his sufferings.' l Get the St. Louis A, B. c. Bohemian