Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-07
LONG LOST RECORD FOUND
 Was the Book Containing the 5 Acts of 1887. FIT IS HID FROM THE TANKS
 When It Was Thought the Capitol Would Be Destroyed.
DEMOCRATS WERE NOT SURPRISED
Captain Johnston Complimented. The Supreme Court-Persona1
 and Local News.

Montgomery, Nov. 6.-(Special) )-Mrs. w. B. Mitchell, wife of travelling sales man of the firm of Loeb & Bro. of this city, while driving in a buggy with her two infant children this afternoon, was run into by a runaway team attached to a grocery wagon. The pole of the delivery wagon struck Mrs. Mitchell on the head, killing her instantly. The vehicle was overturned and one of the children se- riously hurt. Mir and Mrs. Mitchell came here from Troy, Ala. about two years ago. She was about 30 years old.
 Mrs. Mitchell was a daughter of Judge Afford of Troy, one of the most prominent attorneys of southeast Alabama. George Duval, the negro driver of the runaway team,is being held on suspicion of murder. Mitchell is on the road, it ic not known where.
 Long Lost Record Found.
 Hon. H. Clay Armstrong, grand secre- tary of the Masonic order in Alabama, recently presented to the governor long lost and very valuable state record. It is the big book containing the original cop ies of the acts of Alabama of the session of 1887. Colonel Armstrong found the record recently among the old records of tne MdSQnlC ITdleTHlty. is that during the war, when there was danger of the federal troops destroying the capitol, the records were hidden away among the archives of the Masons, where they would be assured of safe keeping. When the other records were returned to the capitol after the war it is supposed that this one was overlooked. It is a venerable looking old book and the acts in 1t bear the signatures of c. c. Clay, governor, Hugh McVay, president of the senate, and A. P. Bagley speaker of the house.
 The Supreme Court.
 The following matters were disposed of and orders granted in the supreme court today:
 The state of Alabama, ex. rel. etc., vs. William c. Robinson, judge, etc., i'm peachment; motion to dismiss cause de- nied: motion to suppress dispositions granted, and order appointing commits sioner vacated motion to withdraw SUD- pressed denositions denied; case set for hearing on Monday, November IS, 1895.
 Cleveland Pritchard vs. Patrick Swee- nes, from Mobile circuit court; argued and submitted.
 Rittenhouse Moore vs. Barber Asphalt Paving company, from Mobile circuit court; motions to dismiss appeal and strike out objections to abstract argued and submitted
 T. ", from Clarke chancery court; continued by appellant.
 Mobile Furniture Commission com pany vs. James W. Little, ct al. from Mobile circuit court; argued and sub mitted
 Mary Cary vs. Henry Holmes, from Mobile city court; submitted on briefs.
 Western Union Telegraph company vs. E. Holzborn & Co.,. from Mobile circuit court; argued and submitted and affirm ed.
 Fred G. Bromberg ex. etc., vs. Theodore c. Bates, from Mobile chancery court continued by appellee.
 George B. Cleveland vs. Adelaide G. D. Edwards, ex. etc., ct all, from Mobile chancery court; continued by appellant.
 Gerald & Chambers vs. Peyton R. Tun- stall, from Mobile circuit court; argued and submitted.
 Henry J. Hunt vs. the Stockton Lum- Der company ct al., from Mobile chancery court; continued by consent.
 Hon. Harry Pillaus and MT. Frank B. Clark of Mobile were in attendance upon the. court, with other attorneys of the Mount Donsun today.
 In the Robinson impeachment case, above the court suppressed the deposit tions upon the grounds that the defend ant consented to the appointment of a commissioner to take the testimony, upon the assumption that all the testimony would be taken and not that of the state only; and because the consent of the de- fendant was not in writing in the form as provided by statute. As a result the witnesses will be summoned to Montgom- cry and examined in open court; the trial beginning Monday, November IS, 1885,
 The 103 volume of Alabama Reports is about printed and will go into the hands of the binder at once.
 Democrats Not Surprised.
 The dapnooy-o fio adarc bara u,ora ,,o4 surprised at the result of the elections of yesterday. The division in the dem ocratic ranks Is charged, by them, with all of the Waterloos. Governor Oates says he fully expected the defeats, and in a speech at Abbeville yesterday prophe- sled exactly what happened. The gov ernor does not believe, however, that the r2sults reported mean the unquestionable defeat of the democratic party in the na- bonal elections. He believes these de- flats will open the eyes of many demo- crats and will illustrate to them that cannot stand. He believes that if pros perity continues to bless the country the democrats will still have good fighting chance to win in 1896.
 v Captain Johnston Complimented. ,- The Journal pays the following nice compliment to Captain Johnston:
 eCapt. Joseph F. Johnston of Jefferson was in the city yesterday. He came down presumably on business, and hav- ing attended to that business queitly re- turned in the afternoon to his home. There were no tongs-tongs sounded an- nouncing his arrival and no bazoo blown given notice of his going. He is a plain, mbdest, unassuming man, essentially a man of the people and for the people, and the people now naturally turn to him in this hour of their peril as their Ieader, as they know him and can trust Him. 4 H Jones-Brown.
 MT. Erwin Jones and Miss Susie Brown, both of this city, were married this after noon at the First Baptist church here. They left at 5:30 for Atlanta, where they Will visit the exposition and afterwards make an eastern tour. Mir. Jones is val tied office attache of the Louisville and Nashville road and has host of friends vsa,ra rJfc xuifo Sfo ono nf tho ruoef ant