Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-20


patient work of months, and sometimes
years, is oft times destroyed in a night
by some ruthless COW. Something is
due property owners ard home beauti-
fiers as well as the possessors of insatia-
Bile COWS, hogs, goats and horses. An
ordinary fence has long since ceased to
be a protection, and 1t will be less eX-
penSe to pen the cattle than to build
stone walls or hanging gardens. But
some of the long suffering Highlanders
have known COWS and other grievouS
cattle that would have reached the flow
ers. that bloomed in Babylon's gardens
had they lived in that day, for there is
neither heightht nor depth that their agil-
ity has not comprised. Mr.. London will
almost immortalize himself If he will
pursue this question until the ordinance
regarding this matter is enforced.
The following very handsome cards
have been received announcing the mar
riage of Miss Smith and Mr.. Hoover on
last Wednesday, description of which
was given on Thursday:
Louis r. Hoover--Alice M. Smith, mar
ried Wednesday, October 16, 1885, Bir-
mingham, Ala"
Mr. and Mrs. Hoover have carried with
them to their home in New Orleans the
affection and esteem of very many Biz
mingham friends.
The marriage of Miss Amanda P. Moore
and Mr.. w. p. G. Harding, which viii
occur next Tuesday evening at st. Ma
TYSON Highlands, excites much IN
terest among their large circle of friends.
1t will be green and white wedding, and
Misses Rmmie Leigh Head. Eloise Juhn-
ston, Mamie Pearson, Marie Nelson,
Mary Cleary and Mamie Walker will be
the lovely bridesmaids. Miss MaliZa
Moore will be maid of honor and Mr.. j.
H. Barr best man. There will be grooms-
1,AD oil Mt d
the young friends of Miss Afeeee-sssa-
Harding. Miss Moore has received,
among other handsome and valuable
presents, a very rare and beautiful one
from the father of Mr.. Harding, Colonel
Harding of Tuscaloosa. 1t is very old
and very elegant set of china, purchased
by one of the Harding ancestors during
the French revolution.
The reception at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs Sydenham Moore, after the mar
riage on Tuesday evening, Will not be
large one. only the relatives, attendants
and very few friends Will be present.
The Clonian club was entertained on
Friday afternoon by Miss Bessie Bllnn.
Miss Kate Smith was elected a member
of the club. The quotations were from
Alabama poets. Mrs Myall was hlsto-
rian of the meeting and read an account
of the Spanish, French and English ex-
plora lions and settlements of America.
Mrs. S. L. Ledbetter read Father Ryans
poem "A Land without Ruin" Miss Bes-
sic Blinn read Indian Names by PROF.
A. b. Meek and current events were as
cussed by the club. Miss Blinn served
refreshments during the afternoon. the
club will meet next Friday afternoon
with Mrs. ]. w. Barclay on Seventh av-
enue.
THE Mendelssohn society has COM
menced its present season under the most
fiattering prospects, and the present
promises to be one of the most brilliant
in it's history. There is a growing ana
popular desire to have this society ex-
eel itself A financial committee has
taken its money matters in hand ana IL
will have no debt to carry. The chorus
will be selected with great care for the
value of its vocal talent. The associate
list is being rapidly filled and will be linn
tied to 800. as usual. The annual dues
this year will he 81 for active and ~ for
associate members. There are many or
it's old members whose address has been
changed, and many new musicians and
lovers of music who desire to come into
the society at the beginning of this sea-
son. and 1t is desired that they send their
address at once to the Mendelssohn So
ciety
Atlanta is preparing to do herself
Cleveland. Many elegant social func-
tions will be given in his honor, the larg-
est and handsomest being the magnlh-
cent reception rendered by the Capital
City club. This organization will eX-
pend $4,000 on the entertainment and
florist from Washington city will decor
ate the beautiful club house on Peach
tree street. 1 acknowledge with pleas
ure the receipt of the following invita-
ton: 1.-The Capital City club requests
the pleasure of your presence at reeep-
ton given to President and Mrs. Cleve-
land Wednesday evening, October %. at
O'clock Enclosed was the card of Mr..
Ball, a young gentleman in whom feel
a tender interest.
DR.. Lyman Abbott who is to lecture at
the opera house next Wednesday evening.
is the brilliant successor of Henry Ward
Beecher at Plymouth church, Brooklyn,
and editor-in-chief of the outlook,
widely known magazine.
The New York Recorder of last Sun
day publishes a picture of DIR. Samuel
Minturn Peck, and has these pleasant
things to say of his last beautiful book
Of poems, "Rhymes and Roses"
A first edition" of 5000 copies of a
volume of verse is a phenomenon of some
Significance to the writer's in rhyme.
Most poets find the expense of getting
out an edition of 500 copies too great for
frequent Indulgence, but Samuel Minturn
Peck's Rhymes and. Roses" must be
pecuniarily as well as aesthetically salts
factory to the author and publisher.
invite other poets to a consideration OF
how Mr.. Peck does 1t.
In the first place, Mr.. Peck. is very
much a man, and wastes no words on
pessimistic catwaulings or on cratic i'm
aginings. His verse is clean, sane and
wholesome IT deals with the sweets of
nature with the big theme of love and
with lighter themes with which vers de