Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-19
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 MARRIAGE LIcENsE.-J. ". Howard and Miss Nj. A. Johnston were granted a marriage license out of the probate judge's office yesterday. =-,-.--.-.-- - - TURNED OVER TO JUsTICE.-Moses Mann, the negro arrested by Officer Walton for assault on L. Gpldstein, has been turned over to Justice Martin upon a war rant.
 SCORE ANOTHER FOR BIRMINGHAM.-The Valdosta (Ga.) Telescope, in a lengthy article, refers to the letting of a contract to the Marshall Bates Construction company of this city to erect a s14,0O0 city hall in that town.
 WOMEN ADMITTED TO HowARD.-The feature of admitting women into the junior class puts Howard college, in that respect, on an equal footing with all up to date in- stitutions. Young women can now go to Howard.
 WHAT HOWARD OFFERs.-There is not an institution in the state that is more thorough and that offers more advantages to students than does Howard college.
 
 superior to any in the state.
 SECOND TIME.-The residence of MT. J. k. Richardson, on Seventh avenue and Twenty second street, caught fire the second time at an early hour yesterday morning and was partially destroyed. The damage will be about S6o0.
 FREE LUMBER.-Mr. J. Morgan Smith, the lumber king, thinks that the free lum- Der clause of the new tariff bill will not iu jure the lumber interests of Alabama. He has just returned from his lumber mills and finds that they are working to their full capacity.
 UNION MEETING K. OF PA union given by Dirigo lodge, No. 76, on Tuesday night at the Castle on Third avenue. Speakers from other parts of the district will address the meeting on subjects of in- terest to the order. Every lodge in the county will be represented.
 OFF TO MONTGOMERY .-Lieut. James B. Erwin left yesterday afternoon for Mont- gomery, having settled everything here In connection with the military. Lieutenant Erwin has made an able and efficient aid to the governor during tue trouble in this district and has won the admiration of everybody with whom he has been thrown in contact.
 
 LIBERTY's LIGHT. T.-Gen. R. D. John- ston, with his family. is summering in the pavilion on Red mountain. The general Is lover of liberty, law aud order, and every night the light from his camp can be seen up and down the valley, glowing like the watch fires that the brave Swiss kindled on the Alps, when they expelled the ty- rant.
 HANDSOME QUARTERS. The Commer- cial club on yesterday had the billiard room fitted up and new carpet placed on the parlor or reading rooms, and it now occupies the handsomest quarters of any similar club in the south. With the att fractions of handsome rooms, well supplied with the journals of the day, sources for innocent amusements, it's members may feel proud of it.
 BAZAAR OF NATIONS. = Tbe Young Ladies' society of St. Paul's Catholic church contemplate holding A "Bazaar of Nationsh in the near future. The pro- ceeds of the entertainment will be placed to the credit of the charity fund. Last winter this society did great good among the poor and needy of all creeds in this city, and 1t is their intention to sustain this winter their past reputation.
 THE BEST RECORD. the recent ses- sion of the Episcopal council Rector Fitz- simons reported two deaths among his 300 parishoners during the past twelve months, and these were from organic disease. This record for health of St. Mary's parish is the best in the south. The parish em- braces the South Highlands ,and the people breathe pure air, enjoy pure religion and practice pure politics.
 RURAL RoIsTERERs.--A merry party is camping at Fulton Springs, about ten miles from the city. They have two big teEts and live in Gypsy style. The camp CTS are MT. and Mrs. R.. A. Terrell, Mir. and Mrs. B. A. Hastings, Mir. Tom Terrell, Miss Mamie Allen, Miss Naldo Allen, Miss Wyllys Roberts, MT. R. c. Booth and wife, MT. George Steele and Miss Sophia Vande- grift. Messrs. Booth and Hastings ride in every morning on their bicycles.
 NEW NovEL.-There has just been issued from one of the publishing houses of the city very thrilling novel by a Birming- ham young woman, Miss Emma Belle Finley. It Is entitled, Dolores: Fated to Fail, or Fleeing to the Outside World. - It is dedicated to Miss Eula McCrary. It is the initial effort of the authoress, and displaye remarkable talent, especially when it is known that she has suffered from youth with an affiiction of the eyes, and has read but little. The entire story was dictatede, The language is fluent, the plot thrilling, and the book has local flavor.
 STILL ON TRIAL.
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