Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-01
Gathered, Noted and Condensed
 by Age-Herald Reporters.
SAYINGS ANDDOINGS ATHOME
Items. Personal and Otherwise,
 Including a General Resume = s7 of Birmingham Matters.

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 ao DON'T FoRaET.-rhe Commercial club
 committee on advertising, statistics and
 immigration meets at 4 o'clock this after
 noon for permanent organization. Every member should attend.
 LITERATURE .-Beginningt today the Com mercial club rooms will be supplied with the daily papers and the leading magazines. The privilege of reading them is alone worth more than mem bership in the club. SPEAKING AT BEssEMER.-Mr. William c. Fitts, democratic nominee for attorney
 general, will speak in Bessemer tonight.
 The Bessemer democrats are arranging for
 large attendance al, the speaking.
 Is HE SupERsTIMoUs?-Judge B. M.
 Allen says he objects to the number IS,
 and when the trial of thirteen defendants
 at the same time was suggested yesterday
 he did not hesitate to interpose an objec- tion.
 FINE CROPS. MT. Will Cochrane, who
 has just returned from trip to Lowndes
 county, reports that crops are the finest
 within the recollection of the "oldest in-
 habitant' in that section, and that farmers
 are jubilant.
 IN THE SWIM, A number of business
 men went out to I.akeview for swim yes-
 terday afternoon. MT. B. Steiner had diff
 dculty in getting a suit big. enough, and
 when he stepped out in striped bathing
 suit he looked like the Prince of Wales at
 u masque ball.
 To BUILD BRIDGE. The county com
 missioners have agreed to replace the bridge
 across the Warrior river, near Warrior, which was washed away about year ago. Work on the new bridge will begin within short time and it is expected to be ready for the fall trade.
 OFF TO OLD POINT COMFORT .-Dr. T. M. Allen and family leave for Old Point Comfort, Va., this morning, where the
 doctor goes to attend the meeting of the
 Southern Dental association, National As soclation of Dental College Faculties and American Dental association. CAN'T CoME.-Hon. Dick Clarke wired from Gadsden last night, where he is laid up with a spell of illness, that he couldn't fill bis engagement in birmingham today on account of his sickness. This--is two fold disappointment to the people here,
 who were anxious to see and hear him.
 LAWN TENNIS duffer's match at
 lawn tennis will take place on the grounds
 at Five Points, beginning Thursday after
 noon at o'clock. The entries so far are
 H. R. Johnston, A. T. London, o. P.
 Fizsimmons, F. Hardy, J. A. Montgom-
 cry, R. N. Rhodes, Jack Smith, F. s.
 Ferguson and D. w. Rucker. OFF TO SHELBY SPRINGS. s. l..
 Ledbetter left yesterday for Shelby Springs,
 where he has been invited by the Alabama
 Chautauqua society to deliver two lectures on subjects pertaining to the eye before
 that distinguished body. Dr. Ledbetter
 has established for himself wide reputa
 tion in his speciality, and his lectures will bean intellectual treat to those wEo hear him.
 HE's DEMOCRAT The AGE-HERALD was incorrect yesterday in chasing MT. Graves Embry as a Jeffersonian. He is Isecretary of the Woodlawn Democratic club, and 1t was he who arranged for the joint discussion between Colonel Hubbard and Mr. Skaggs, acting for the president, MT. Sims. He testified to the terms Of the arrangement as made by him and it was Icarried out.
 JAIL BREAKERS THwARTED. .-Evidences lof an attempt to break jail were found yes- Iterday by Jailers Morrow and Reeves at the bounty jail.< They found in one of the cells where several bars had been sawed ip two,
 Ithus permitting the escape of those con- | ifined therein into the hall. Getting into Itte hall those planning the escape would | have chance to saw other bars in two and | thus effect their escape. Several pieces of l saws were found in the cell. The cell was | occupied by Oscar White, Will Bryant and | Albert Edwards, charged with highway
 robbery, and Jim searcy, charged with | grand larceny.
 A FOSSIL HUNT.-Mr. T. H. Aldrich | spent last week in Wilcox county with
 Prof. Eugene Smith, looking up fossils. He found more fossils in south Alabama | than in the Birmingham district. But he l did not find a single Kolb man. They do
 not seem to belong to the fossiliferous | period, but are ephemerals that spring up
 In night and die in day. He WAS sur | prised to see such magnificent crop of l cotton and corn. MT. Aldrich will here