Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-12

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 The South Alabama conference meets at Troy today.
 Has the Huntsville Mercury been se- lected distributee Of the estate for man. ufacturing public opinion?
 It is not generally known that the wife of Sir Philip Currie, the British ambas- sador in Constantinople, is the lady known to the world as Violet Fane.
 In consequence of the high price of wheat in Australia California steamer has sailed for Sydney with 1000 tons of that cereal, and three other cargoes will arrive at Brisbane within month.
 Judge Williams of New York has ruled that internal revenue officers are not sub- ject to the order of state courts when such orders are in conflict with the direc- tions of the commissioner of revenue.
 Sheffield Phelps a son of the late Will liam Walter Phelps, has bought con- trolling interest in the Jersey City Jour nal. MT. Phelps has long been an edi- torial writer on the New York Mail and Express,
 A Nashville, Ind, man, after a hard struggle, overpowered a burglar, whom he caught in his house, and discovered that it was a woman. He ehivalrously let her go without ascertaining her iden- tity.
 Dr. Stoecker, the German court chap lain, has got into disgrace at home through his connection with the Ham, merstein scandal, and has been forbid- den to style himself court chaplain any more.
 M. Cavaignac, the minister of war in the new French cabinet is said to be one of the most popular men in France. Wherever he appears in public he is greeted by tremendous cheers by the peo- pie.
 Colonel Ingersoll is not in favor at the University of Missouri. The senior law class has extended him an invitation to lecture before them, and the authorities and students arc making a flrst-class row over 1t.
 A Methodist preacher of Evanston, H.,
 
 the similarity of sermon of his to one lately preached by pr. Abbott of Brook lyn. He accounts for it by saying that pr. Abbotts sermon was "unconsciously absorbed
 Mime. Dembourg, the widow of jewell CT of Metz, has given Henri Rochefort at various times large sums of money for the use of the socialists. She became a socialist in 1S4S, and is now over so years old, but in good health.
 Marcus Daly bought the Anaconda mine in Montana for S30,000 in 1878. The mine has paid out in Montana since COCO in wages, etc, and the stock is worth $37 GOO, 900. A quarter interest was sold not long ago for $7,500,00O
 A New York woman reporter declares that at the recent celebration of the birthday of Elizabeth Cady stanton she was put away in a remote corner of the gallery, while the masculine reporters were given places on the stage.
 The New York World says that the most successful shopper is the woman who struggles through the crowd at every bargain counter, and comes home with all her money, and the announce ment that she could not get a thing she wanted.
 Our sound money" brethren of the die-in- the-last-dit complexion seem to have entirely overlooked MT. H. H. Brown in casting about for candidate for governor, and yet MT. Brown has con tributed good deal of valuable litera- ture on this subject in a modest way.
 Carl Browne is organizing an army of industrial reform in the mountains of Virginia. A large number of the noun taineers have given in their adhesion to his principles and he is industriously drilling them. He may have to be shot yet.
 The bill recently introduced by Senator Vest fixing the. compensation of United States district attorneys will do away with the present system of fees and per- centum allowed by law, and will put them upon yearly salaries, to be paid quarterly In Alabama the Northern and Middle districts will each receive $aO00 annually, the Southern district re- ceiving $4000 In Arkansas the Western district will receive $5000 and the East ern district $3000
 Yvette Guilhert has arrived in New York, where she is engaged to play for one month in Hammerstein's new the ater, the Olympia. She is to receive $16,- GOO for the months engagement The best pen portrait that has yet been pre- sented of this stage favorite is this: "She is what the French call sedusante.' She is tall, thin and awkward, most cunning ly and attractively awkward, like a girl of f. She wanders on the stage with an air of vague abstraction. Her shoul-