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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
IT IS UNFORTUNATE.

It is pity that the Defender will con test for the American cup by default. The withdrawal of the Vigilant from the trial races leaves the Iselen sloop with out a competitor. There is every reason to believe that the Defender is faster vessel than the Vigilant, and all the keener is the regret that the men who handle her should have stopped to the jockeying methods which called for the protests from the managers of the Gould yacht Several times in the recent races the Defender has "hogged the line" that is, she has sailed over the starting point in defiance of the rules of yachting, not to say of seamanship. In each instance the Vigilant had the law of the road and might have sunk her antagonist without laying herself lia- ble. It is represented with great deal of force that the Defender can expect no such forbearance from the British yacht
 Outside of the coterie which dominates the New York Yacht club there seems to be universal sympathy for the gall lant sloop which upheld our National prestige in the last cup contest. If the Defender wins the satisfaction will be largely alloyed; if she loses there will would have fared better and that we lost the cup because we degenerated in sportsmanship rather than nautical skill
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
THE AGE-HERALD READING, ROOM,

The Age-Herald has fitted up neat neat reading room adjoining its business office, where daily papers from all t5a'.,, east, ern southern, western and northern ,,nints will be kept on file for the beneht and information of the public Papers from rlT the following cities can always 5,,,O De found there: Boston, New 4ork, mia ma deIphia. Baltimore. Richmond, Charles ton Savannah, Augusta, Atlanta; lil Sla- cinnati Louisville, St. Louis. Nashvlile, s1battanooga. Montgomery, Mobile. New Orleans. Galveston, Houston, Dallas ana many other cities not named
 Citizens of either of the cites apoVe named or any party desiring to reaa are welcome to call at any and all liilleS; e,7; night or day. as the reading room VIII always be open.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
TIME TO INVESTIGATE.

The New York Evening Post, MT. E. Larry Godkins' paper, has the following:
 1.-TWO incidents reported in single day from two Southern States illustrate what we mean when we say that the so- ciety of the South is far behind that of any other country which can properly be called civilized in respect for human life. At Potts Camp, Miss. Joel Gattin, a politician went into the telegraph office to send q dispatch. Presently he drew pistol fired and killed Edward West, the operator, for not hurrying satisfac
 torily in sending the message At Mur- ray, Ky, Col. Joseph Elliott, "a we'll known citiZen,' was eating breakfast, when his grandson, Edward Gardner, en- tered the room. The boy has been rath- CT wild and had engaged !n an escapade the night before, of which his srandfa- ther had heard. The old gentleman be- gan to upbraid him; his grandson replied angrily; Colonel Elliott ordered him from the house and declared that he would no longer recognize him, whereupon Gard ner drew his knife and ran at his grand father and Colonel Elliott quickly pulled a dirk and ran it into the young mans heart killing him instantly. The South is trying to get settlers It will never get many until it's leading citi
 zens' stop carrying dirks and pistols and killing anybody, even to a grandson, who happens to offend them."
 When such utterances as the above come from a paper generally admitted to be fair in it's criticisms it is time to call a halt and make some effort to find where the trouble lies. In view of the recent reports sent out regarding the alleged trace riot" in our own county of Jeffer- son. inquiry would seem to be not very far from the root of the evil when 1t asks as a leading question what was the tenor of the accounts sent out over the wires by "speciap correspondents. Did they in- tentionally distort the facts or were their news items edited to suit the palate of the various circles of readers to whom they were to be served? Something is evidently at fault, and the fault is not of resent birth, but of the growth of the last ten years. Sensationalsm, it seems is destined to be the bane of modern jour nalism, and the special correspondent the high private in the rear rank. Every petty affray is sent over the wires as a fight to a finish Two street loafers have 6 fisticuff, 1t is immediately telegraphed far and wide as sensational meeting be- tween two prominent men. A barroom loafer, too low in the social scale for even his familiars to remember his name is commonly known as Colonel or Gen eral." The reputable citizen hardly knows of his existence; he has knock-down and drag-out exchange of courtesies with a negro porter or glass washer, imme- diately the affair is sent out over the country with the "Coloners" title at tached in full blaze. The enterprislng
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
.Job for the Fool-Kil1er.

Some smart aleck'' in Kansas has sent to the federal pensioners in Shawnee county this circular:
 Comrades, halt! You are entitled to gold in payment of your checks. Demand it. Do not accept depreciated currency"
 Owing to the policy of the present ad- ministration in preventing the country from going to a silver basis we have no "depreciated currency" Every dollar is worth 100 cents in gold. Moreover, our gold, silver and greenbacks are all legal tender, and the pensioners must accept any one of hese forms of money that may be proffered in payment of their checks. Perhaps our Kansas smart aleck" has been reading that able Ken lucky free silver organ which proclaims that silver is not a. legal tender for more than $5.-Courier Journal.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
THE IRON TRADE.
The Strong Position of Products Is Practically
 Maintained.

Maintained.
 Cleveland, O., Aug. S.-The Iron Trade Review today says:
 While not entirely unanimous, few re- ports from selling centers indicate any thing but the steady maintenance of the strong position all iron and steel pro- ducts have held for the past two months.
 There is for the time being some un- certainty about Bessemer pig iron, due to additions to the list of furnaces turn ing out Bessemer coincident with slack enipg consumption in the Pittsburg dis trict on account of repairs to important steel plants. But so far as the market has reflected it, the effect of these in- fluences has been chiefly felt in prompt delivery sales. Some have been made to a western steel company at $13.65 in the valley, and in few instances at figure slightly lower The amount of metal taken by this single interest was about 30, 900 tons, all placed through Pittsburg, but distributed among Pittsburg and western furnaces, included in the latter being one in the Chicago and one at St. Louis that are about to start up after a long inactivity. Of the valley Bessemer product to the end of the year probably so per cent is sold. and Pittsburg and Wheeling have comparatively little free metal for the next four months.
 In view of these facts the position of furnaces on future deliveries is still firm. Sales in the week are reported on the former basis, viz; $1375 at valley fur naces, four months deliveries. Of bill lets shipped into Cleveland for conversion into rods portion has been sold. Other sales totalling several thousand tons have also been made in Cleveland at a figure somewhat better than s2l75 de- livered. The advance in pudding to $4.25 in mills west of the Alleghenies dis pose of threatened defection of puddlers from the Amalgamated association and insures the steady operations of mills
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
Ice Box Needed.

Hon. Tom Watson, and we knew him when he was a kid, Tom says the pop ulsts will not join in any more free silver pow-wows like that at Griffin. He says that the free silver fellows will have to call on some other party to swell it's ranks at a great show down. He inti- mates that populist is no fool except now and then, that you can't depend up on them to meet HowelPs motly aggre- gation any more. Well, the free silver people did run cold deck on the pop ulistS at Griffin sure enough. They worked f1im-flam game on them and Tom is righteously mad. He ought to be.-Eufaula Times.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
To the Citizens of Birminebam.

The commissioners of the negro de- partment of the Atlanta exposition for Alabama are endeavoring to raise mon ey to care for their exhibit from Alabama while in Atlanta.
 Birmingham is requested to raise $75. We take this means of notifying our good citizens and respectfully solicit their assistance.
 Any amount given to the undersigned or left with the Alabama Penny Saving and Loan company will be thankfully received and faithfully reported. Re spe ctf,-lly, w. R. PETTiFORD, Commissioner of Negro Department for
 Atebama.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
Nor in His Head,

DO you mean ter tell me-" said the man with chin whiskers and gingham shirt, "that yeve got CT way by which I kin turn one dollar into two?''
 Well" replied the silver orator, that's what some people say it amounts to, but -n
 "Thet's all I wanter know. I'm with ye in sympathy, but I'm skeart ter deth l tried the same idea oncet before, an when I got home there wusn't dern thing in my yalise but sawdust. Wash ington Star.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
A Long Head.

''What kind of money are you in favor of?" inquired the energetic statesman' DWhich metal do you prefer as curren- cy?" "Wa-a-l," replied Farmer Corn tossel, 'I dunno 'z I kin tell But the one thing 1 do know is thet ef l put in my time stan'in roun' argyin' an wor- ryin' bout it, I'm purity doggone lfble not ter git either of 'em. m."-Washington Star.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
Difficult to Understand.

In every community it will be ad- mitted, there are business men who do not advertise in any newspaper, not withstandng the fact that they depend upon the public for support, and do ad- vertise in some form or other outside the newspapers. They read newspapers themselves, see other mems advertise ments therein in the same line of busi- ness, know that it pays them-why don't they advertise e?-Newspaperdom.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
Not Deep Enough.

The populists are in trouble. If they admit that improved conditions are due to the Wilson tariff they can no longer unite with protectionists and defend it by calling the tariff reform fight Ca sham battle" If they deny that it is due to the tariff the "gold bugs" claim it is the result of the cessation of silver coin age and puts them in still deeper hole. -ShelbyVille Gazette.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
Horse of Another Color.

The free silver organs have been rais- ing a mighty clamor over press sub sidized in the interests of gold monop- olists. Will some of them rise and ex- plain the tenor of that pleading circular, issued by the leaders recently, calling on all the faithful to pony up the cash and keep their organ, the New York Mer- cury, afioat while longer?
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
ouebt to Call if ..Twill Be. .n

, The silver question, it is reported, has been dramatized and will be put on the stage to be a rival of Trilby. Harvey will be the hero, a gold bug the villain and the crime of '7S one of the most start ling features.-KnoxVille Sentinel
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
Governor Budd Is Very Sick.

Stockton, Cal. Aug. S--Governor Budd is a very sick man. He has been under the doctors care for the past week. Yes terday no one was allowed to see him ex- cept his wife and mother. His physician says he must have absolute rest, other wise the trouble, meningitis, may prove fatal.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
NAY. NAY, SAYS DIAz.
The Corbett-F -Fitzsimmons Fight Cannot Be
 Pulled Off in Mexico.

St. Louis, Aug. S-A special to the Chronicle from San Antonio, Tex, says the report that the Athletic club was in- terested in the proposition of pulling off the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight in Mexico in the event of official interfer- ence in Texas was brought to the att tention of President Diaz The latter im- mediately issued an official announce ment that under no circumstances would the fight be allowed to take place in Mex sa4
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
A Problem in susnenders.

There is a lurking danger in the skirt waist, so popular with women. Will the charming and cool appearance of these summer maids lead man to think that he will be improved in comfort and looks if he doffs his coat and vest in summer time? There is a temptation to do so, to say the least-Cincinnai Tribune.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
Opportunity for the lingo.

If negroes are to be killed by women it is well that the first shot was fired by northern woman. Had it been a south ern woman who did it the republican press would have gone to work again waving the bloody shirt.-Washington News.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
Reats Charley Wellborn.

The latest curiosity in criminal annals is the detection of a counterfeit plant in full blast, in the Arkansas peniten- tiary It only turned out nickels.-ViclSs- burg Commercial-Herald
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
How About the Candidates ?

Whatd we tell yer about Miss 'sippi? Lissen at 'er. Don't she make the gold bugs squirm? S'long es ther's 900 can derdates fur ev'y orflce down thar the intrusts O this yer nation is safe. Whoopee!-Scimeter.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
THE EDITOR AT LARGE.
Keen Him on Tap.

A Chicago parrot was caught in the act of turning in a fire alarm. He had already called up the police and livery lstable.-Exehange
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

n1s-ExcLUsIvE SoUTHERN AssoolAihD ppFss. UNITED PRESS, NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATED PRESS, NEW YORK Aseo- PLATED PRESS, CABLE NEWS FROM ALI DARTS OF THE WORLD AND SUPERB ofh- CIAL STATE SERVICE.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
Glove Farm!

A woman in red bloomers broke up prayer meeting in Ohio, Is it coming to the pass that we cannot hold prayer meeting without patrolling it with guard of he-cows?
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

The Spanish commander in Cuba has actually got to the pass where he adver- tises that Spanish deserters from the army will be reinstated without punish ment if they will return.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

The. jingoes who have been having duck fits over the Waller case are now respectfully requested to chip in for the benefit of Walters wife and children. An exchange very aptly remarks, put up or shut up,
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

There are nine MeI.aurin's in Missis sippi, and each one of them is toting his own skillet to get a share of the pot pie dshed up by the silverloons.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

naThe present management oi .ba AGE-HERALD has no ciaiifh
 .x.+ edvertisers or subScr1o-. CTS prior to February ii'ii' finder decree of court ,,r to that date have been so-ol and transferred, hence eanGeiieo s betUeen the debtor and tihis paper.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
Moi Resnonsible Meanwhile.

1 After this issue the editor will leave for a two weeks rest at the Georgia Lithia Springs and the mountains of North Car Dispatch.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

The members of the theatrical compa- my which presents Durant's "Crime of the Century," have been discharged. The manager was jailed for three days.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

The reform movement has extended from New York to Tampa. The latter city is now being delivered of Sunday lau
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

Now that Harvey is out of a job he should apply at bicycle manufactory for the position of tire infiator.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

Tyler, Tex, has a paper called Spark les. Would it be allowed to come out on Sunday if its home were in New York?
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

The Spanish paper Las Novedades says of an engagement:
 "We would merely add in reference to that action that it appears to have been one of the most desperate ever fought in Cuba. General Martinez Campos in his report says:
 :. It was a very storm of lead while one of he insurgent chiefs who was be- ing reproached for his failure to crush the Spanish troops exclaimed, those were not men-they were lions Gen loss as being over 300 men, among the latter being the insurgent chiefs Goule and Moncada "
 There seems to be no doubt about the head of that news bureau.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

i Is the world at large to understand that the recent Kansas cyclone had any sort of sport with Peffer's whiskers?
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

news editor. catching sight of the title adds the words, Foremost citizen" The next time he is heard from he is a repre- sentative of one of the first Southern families and so it goes. The South is the recipient of doubtful eourtesies like the one from the Evening Post, and law abiding citizens are left with the burden to carry,
 certain number of catch phrases seem to have become lodged in the gray matter owned and operated by certain Northern editors. Southern outrage, Southern barbarlsm. negro oppression and pistol pocket are at the top of the column, while prominent citizen. we'll known man, principal family, first cir cles," etc, are appended freely to any and everything regardless to truth or foundation
 There is no intention of denying that a number of crimes are committed in the South, but let the facts of each case be sent out as they are, and not garbled, distorted and changed to make things appear radically different from the ex- act status of the case. There is in this section, as in every other, an element which will not be kept down except by the vigorous exercise of the law; but there is also another class, law-abiding and or derly, to which civilization was a well digested volume when some of the pres ent carpers were learning to eat with forks and save the knife for cutting pur- poses. The papers daily teem with mur- ders, thefts and crimes that are nameless, all committed north of the line. Let the jealous editor edit his charity before he sends it abroad Let him trim it down to suit his own surroundings, or else there might be a suspicion that civilized as he is, he is only living in glass house and secretly afraid of a possible shower of stones.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

{. An important question. Will the new woman wear 'creases in her bloomers?
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

all the cows on Uncle Sam at fixed price, and then let Uncle Sam issue legal tender COW certificates. ."-Boston Trans
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
IN ALABAMA.

To Keep Her Grave Green.-Jack Webb, an old bachelor miser, died near Sulligent the other day. He lett Wiil directing that the money which he left, S4OOO should be expended in keeping fresh the grave of Francis Stewart, his sweetheart who died fifty years ago upon the eve of their wedding day. Such constancy is perhaps without a parallelt Jasper Eagle.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

Part of the makeup of a Chicago pa
 tper is a list of poodle aldermen.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

The Rev. John Shorter, pastor of the church of which Miss Ada Coleman Is or ganist, has announced that on next Sun day he will preach a sermon to the base ball players. the title being "A Home Run.' He has invited the members of the different teams and assures them that the front pews will be re- server for them. Half the congregation is up in arms and declare that the baseball players will find the door locked when they go to church. Miss Coleman is the young woman who walked into church wearing boomers and played the song service some days agr
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

' It is said the paper trust is almost hlpon us -
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

More business and less buncombe is rattling good war cry these days.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

Hill says it is to be a Western man. How about the military record?
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

paragraph regarding the flying ma chine has been going the rounds of the press Each paper calmly bolts it bod fly, giving no credit, making no eXpla- nation. It always appears in the edito- rial column and looks like it should have under it the mystic characters "1t."
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

Fred Grant says he talked too much at the Eakins trial. Only then?
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

The Last of the Cotton.-Col l.. H, Scruggs arrived in the city yesterday from Nashville and will remain a few days with relatives. The object of the coionePs visit just at this time was to purchase about 15O bales of cotton held by C.. w. & J. E. Butler of New Hope, for which he paid 61a cents. This is about the last of the crop of 1894, with the ex- ception of a few scattering bales in the country, and we are not 10th to see It oo There was so much dissatisfaction over it that we are glad to see the last Of it-Huntsville Mercury.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

Ina Donna Coobraith, the western writer, is dying.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09
SPECIAL MEETING.
Commercial Club to Confer With Trades Coun-
 cil This Afternoon.

A special meeting of the Commercial club will be held this afternoon at o'clock to receive a committee from the Trades council. MT. Stanley of the Trades council was present at the meet ing of the club last Friday and requested that a special meeting be held this week to consider some matters in which mer- chants and workingmen alike of Bir- mingham are vitally interested. full attendance of club members is desired.
 The Iowa silverloons talked themselves in to jelly, but the Democracy were unanimous for sound money s
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

A correspondent of the Houston Post inquiries what there is about lightning bug that produces light. And now let the Post explain what there is about a gold bug that produces gold, says the Mexia Times. Probably the same ele- ment which in the human race produces 30 many fiabber-gasted idiots.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

Minister Denby very sensibly did not wait for the official untying of red tape bow knots, but promptly informed the Chinese government that for every United States citizen injured or killed he would demand a vigorous account. This is all our representative could do and he is to be commended for his promptness.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-09

His Eightieth Anniversary.-Last Sat urday was the eightieth of the birth or George w. Mitchell. For more than hfty wears he has been a misister of the gos- Del, and is possibly better known through ont north Alabama and middle Tennessee than any other divine in the two states He is now making his home Wlth Mrs. Harwood his daughter in Pulaski, but often visits his old home and loved ones in Athens. May he live for many years vet to bless and benefit mankind. He IS almost now the father of the Cumber- land Presbyterian church., and mas cone n,ora for ifs upbuilding than any other man now living.-Athens Courier.