Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-08
AUBURN GOSSIP.
The A. & M. College and How the Students Are Progressing-Th
 Sunday Night Affair.

AUBURN March 5.-[Special Correspond
 ence. l-Prof. J. M. Steadman's lecture on
 ''Coral and Coral Growth" which was 10
 have been given Saturday night, has been
 indefinitely postponed,
 On Thursday evening the N. T.. Lupton
 Conversation club met at the home of
 Dr. Broun. After the introductory mu.
 sical programme Dr. Broun read very in-
 teresting literary paper on 'Mrs. somer-
 vile and Other Eminent W omen in Astron-
 omy.' Among the latter he classed Caro-
 line Herschel and Maria Mitchell. Dr.
 Broun brought out the fact that women khave reached the highest attain ments in
 abstruse mathematical investigations. His
 paper was very in nteresting and instructive.
 The charming Miss Daily, who has just
 returned from across the pond, is visiting
 Miss Gachet.
 Mir. Charlie Kline, an old student of the
 college, Is having good time among old
 friends. He is now practicing law in San Antonio, Tex.
 pr. Pe,re returned Saturday from Mont gomery, where he delivered a lecture be-
 fore the University Extension club on
 'Manners and Customs in Colonial Times" He also loctured at the girls high school on the "Iiad.'' Both lectures were highly spoken of in the local press. During the past week the Auburn -Ope- lika dummy line has been completed to Gay street.
 The dummy and telephone are great con veniences.
 Mir. Thomas' two-story brick building, corner College and Magnolia streets, is fast nearing completion. The lower part will | be used for store rooms, the Phi Delta | Theta and Sigma Nu fraternities occupying the second floor.
 Much interest was manifested here in re- l gard 10 the gold brick, and we are pleased to learn that Birmingnam's amateurs will produce an original farce comedy of that name depicting the recent swindle of the | gold brick character. It is said that shov- CTS of the queer won't be in it with the | amateurs.
 | An insulting young negro, excited stu dents and citizens and injudicious action on the part of town authorities caused | quite little excitement Sunday night. | Late Sunday afternoon a young negro, | George Cobb, insulted student. The in- | telligence spread like wildtire and by or 8 1 that evening every student in college was | filled with indignation. Tho circum- | stances were reported to the town author l ities, who promptly arrested the negro. | But later Cobb was released. If the author | ities had jailed the negro probably the | whole affair would have been ended. But l the fact that the negro had been given his 1 liberty caused much excitement and com l ment, eliminating in dlsgraceful climax. 1 About 8:30 o'clock tho quiet of the town | was disturbed by general fusilade on a l negro house where Cobb had taken refuge. l It seems that indignant students and cit 1 izens attempted to chastise the negro, and
 the negro resisted and fired on the crowd. . l The fire was returned by the excited gath 1 ering, resulting in the shooting of Will l Tarver and George Cobb-parver through 1 the leg and Cobb through the wrist, near 1 the hand. Both are negroes. The crowd im-
 mediately dispersed and the guilty parties | could not be located.
 I The negro George Cobb, who insulted | the cadet, is a bad character, having no | sympathy among his own color, and has | on several occasions tried to bully the l cadets.
 l The whole affair was a deplorable one, l though however rash the students may l have acted under excitement they are not l wholly to be blamed.
 l The sensational reports in the local press l are out of order and have given rise to much indignation on the part ot students l and citizens.