Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-30

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 THE coldness in the North has made the South solid.
 AN Alabama poet makes "dance" and ''debutants" ryhme.
 NECESSITY is often called upon to heal wounds of propriety.
 Mss WINNIE DAVIS has just published new book. She is now devoting herself almost exclusively to literature.
 Mss WILL ALLEN DRoMGooIE, the Ten nessee authoress, spends most of ner time in the literary atmosphere of Boston.
 THE New York Sun thinks Atlanta city of great enterprise, and displayed it's enterprise in getting the Government to help build its exposition.
 HE Olu law pdrtnerOI AOranam Lln com was present at the Peoples party meeting in St. Louis, but if Lincoln himself were alive he wouldn't be there.
 THE world is progressing. The Union Pacific railroad last October tooklin B ,500,- 900. This equals the revenue for one year of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
 MIR. DWIGHT L. MOODY is now preach ing in Lowell, Mass, and such throngs crowd to hear him that he las requested the church mem bers to stay away so that the sinners can get in.
 THE Montgomery Advertiser came out in half its usual size yesterday, owing to the failure of the gas that is necessary to operating it's lineotype machines. It takes a good deal of gas to run newspaper.
 A BALTIMORE man stole a cat from a neigh bor, who had him arrested for theft. The judge decided that it was impossible for any one to steal a cat, as that animal is not property. The old maids are all in tears.
 GOVERNOR OATES thinks that each Cir cult Court Judge should have an official stenographer. In view of the usual long and wordy documents that issue from the courts, how would it do to give each Judge an official condenser?
 Mss JULIA B. THOMAS has written a series of entertaing letters entitled "The Land of the Midnight Sun.'' The letters are descriptive of her visit to Norway last summer. The fair writer is the daughter of MT. Samuel Thomas of the Thomas Iron Company.
 Miss SHoLL is an editorial writer on the New York Press. She is one of only three women who occupy like positions on the metropolitan press and is one of the most thoroughly equipped writers in this country. Miss Sholl is niece of Dr. E. H. Sholl of this city.
 THE proposed amendment to the em- ployer'si liability act borders dangerously onto class legislation. It places corpora tions, which are buss associations of indi- yiduals, at the greatest disadvantage and threatens to seriously retard progress and development in Alabama. Legislation, to be in consonance with the spirit of the times, should seek to deal fairly with both the employer and employed.
 "WHAT are you going to be when you grow up?' asked a fatherly old gentleman of Daniel Webster when he was little boy. "I'm going to be manl' replied little Dan. Tho old gentleman patted him on the head, and said: ''Thats the highest ambition any boy could have.' But in these modern days there is higher ambi- tion. Sarah Grand and her disciples teach that woman is a superior being to man. Therefore, the bright little boy now should say: "l'm going to be woman!"
 THE publication of 80 many accounts of dedication just at this time does not indi- cate an unusual epidemic of crime, but most wholesome epidemic of detection and conviction. The crimes do not seem to have been recently committed, but have been allowed to be perpetrated for months past, because official heads implicitly trusted the long employed defaulters. The neglect of the bank presidents or directors to know whether the ''cash on hand" was in the vault or in the pocket of the employe brought Seeley and Carter to the prison doors.
 LAST Sunday the AaE-HERALp stated that the Whittier Cotton Mill Company of Lowell, Mass., had decided to erect a branch mill near. Macon, Ga. This infor- mation came from private source and was published exclusively in the AGE- HERALD. Now comes the official announcement tb at this company has increased it's capital stock from S75, ,000 to S3OO, ,000, and will erect a new mill of brick, three stories high, in Georgia. It will not only manufacture coarse goods, but also some of the finer goods now made by it's Lowell mills.
 NEW ORLEANS STATES: The fact that Milton H. Smith. president of the Louis- vile and Nashville railroad, has assumed the presidency of the Gulf Transit Com pany will in no way affect his connection with the former corporation. In fact, it is understood and was so published a week or so ago in the States, that the Gulf Transit Company is nothing more or less than an offshoot of the Louisville and Nashville. The way Mir. Smiths assump- ton of his new position is put in the