Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-01
Seems to Have Reached Mont
 gOmery at Last
DESPITE THE HOT WEATHER
The Campaign Discussed-Sol- dier Boys Kick Over an Act
 of'the Council.

MONTGOMERY, June 30.-[Special Corre- spondence. l-The weather has been so op- pressively warm for a week that sort of lethargy has rested on the city.
 Society folks are staying at home with their novels and palmetto fans, and the business men are eating watermeions and trying to convince each other that it will rain tomorrow.
 The capitol has practically gone out of blast, the heads of almost all of the depart ments being out of town and the supreme court being in state of adjournment. Many Montgomerians have left the city for summer resorts and cooler places, and those who must remain at home are envy ing them.
 From this standpoint it appears that the dem mocratic state campaign is afd cted to some extent with the prevailing lethargy. There seems to be rather q lack of enthusi asm so far. The officers of the executive committee appear to keep diligently at work. They are not sparing any effort to improve every opportunity that is pre- scented to win vote from the opposition or bring wandering sheep back into the fold. But despite their efforts there is certain amount of snap and enthusiasm lacking. Some think this is due to the fact that the press of the state does not more fully publish the reports of the speeches that are being made in the cam paign. It is facetiously asserted that many of the state papers had exhausted them selves before the nomination. It is worthy of note at any rate that not single speech nor an approximate abstract of one that has been made by any of the democratic orators since the campaign opened has been printed by any state paper.
 The Montgomery military are very much exasperated at the action of the city coun- Gil in allowing negro ball to be held in their armory. In the third floor of the building is large hall, perhaps the most spacious in the state, which was intended and which has always been used for an armory and drill hall for the four local companies of the state troops. It is also used by the companies for their social functions, their balls and other entertain ments which their lady friends attend. At the last meeting of the city council the negroes, in anticipation of thesbig lodge meeting here last Thursday, petitioned that they be allowed to have ball on Thursday evening in the armory. Their petition was allowed and the bali came off in regular order.
 Now the boys are red hot. They look upon the armory much as social club room and they are scoring the council roundly. Some of them VOW they will never darken that armory door again with their presence, DO matter what the emer- gency. They say the hall has been conse- crated to the negroes and they propose to let them have it. It is presumed that the council, in the absence of any protest from the military men, concluded they would not take offense, or else the city fathers did not consider carefully the petition which they allowed.
 It s stated there are more than 200 houses of the value of more than $1500 each now in course of construction in Montgomery. The number is probably overstated, but thare is unmistakably a very large number being built. A Bir- mingham man told some Montgomery boomers yesterday they were making the same mistake Birmingham did three or four years ago-they were locking the sur plus money of the town up in brick and mortar and were providing more houses than the number of tenants justified. They told him he was pessimist.
 Misses Rebecca and Lizzie Berney have returned to Birmingham after having spent a month with relatives here. The Mont gomery people are trying to persuade Mir. William Berney to remove to this city and engace in business.
 MT. Reavis J. Terry spent part of the week here.
 All of the supreme court judges except ing Chief Justice BrickelI will leave tomor- row for Huntsville, where op July the impeachment trial of Judge Tally will be commenced. Sterling A. Wood, clerk of the supreme court, and Mir. Messenger, private secretary to the judge, will also be in attendance.
 Dr. J. w. Hughes spent few hours in the city last plight en route to New Orleans on business.