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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
Tpnati1s Donnelly No. 2.

Dr. Forbes Winslow, the distinguished aIienist has been taken to task for hav- ing said in the course of some remarks on the madness of genius that the genius of Sir Walter Scott ended in a state of imbecility. but he still stands by his statement and furnishes a good deal of strofig evidence to substantiate it. As to Shakespeare having died while drunk, Dr. Winslow is willing to modify his statement so far as to say that if the immortal bard did not die while intoxi- cated, his death was due to a drunken ex- cess-EXchange.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
Tuskaloosa.
Times. 12th


 Lieut.. w. G. Elliott left this morning for Washington, D. C., where he will spend about ten days with his parents. He will then proceed to join his regiment at Fort Niobrara, in Nebraska. During Lieutenant Elliott's brief sojourn in Tus- kaloosa he made many friends, who re- gret to give him up. He will also be greatly missed at the university, where he was an efficient as we'll as a very popular commandant. Woolsey FinneIl has been i'll for several days. He had quite painful and serious surgical oper- ation performed yesterday, from the ef- fleets of which he suffered considerably, but his friends are glad to hear that is doing very we'll indeed today. Mrs. N. N. Clements and Miss Annie Clem- ehts went up to Birmingham this morn ing for a visit of two or three days. :. Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Phillips and family have returned from pleasant sejourn at White Sulphur.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
Opelika.

Industrial News, 12th.
 Col w. J. Stamford has bought the place belonging to MT. Wiley Ross, on the northern suburb of the city, He intends making a model farm of it.... Somebody tried to break in Mr. J. J. Greene's house, about a mile west of the city. The burglar was detected and frightened away before he gained en- trance. .. ;. The wound received by Mir Arthur Smith yesterday in accidentally shooting himself in the foot while clean ing a revolver is more serious than it was thought to be yesterday. A small bone is broken in the ankle, making it a dangerous wound. One of the largest trains came through here late yester- day afternoon that has been seen here since the large engines were taken off the Central road. It reached from near Chambers street to a good distance below the union depot and had over forty cars.
 Just where the grading on the dunn my line to Lafayette crosses the water works main in Capt. R. M. Greene's field a cut had to be dug, exposing the main pipe leading from the pumping station to the stand pipe.~ The water pipe will be dug up and lowered for nearly 100 yards, making a gradual sway in the line, so the dirt can be laid over it again. {.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
IN ALABAMA TOWNS.
Ashviile.

Ashviile.
 Aegis, 12th. z N'
 The academy is completed. Cotton ginning has commenced - The fish bas- ket business is on boom. The era of hog and hominy is returning .. School opens next Monday. Pay your city taxes the marshal says so....The sorghum mill will soon be grinding. =. Court off, cers are preparing for the circuit court. ....L.and trades are being made all over the county Some valuable stock hogs are dying around with cholera. Soon we'll hear of the roasted 'possum-the school teachers st....The measles are rampaging in some sections of the coun- ty. The city corporation is out of debt and municipal taxation is very low..., The ladies prayer meeting is held weekly every Thursday at private houses. pr. Bass is bringing in some fine catfish thirty-five pounds in a week. Who can beat it?
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

Senator Smith of New Jersey has just returned from Europe, and said to a New York reporter that the holders of United States bonds were getting uneasy be- cause of the silver agitation in the United States The bonds are payable in coin, and they are afraid they will be forced to take silver instead of gold. This gives an intmation of the great disaster that would hefall our country if it should adopt free coinage of silver Then the holders of bonds would send their bonds back 10 this country for sale, and the market would be flooded with depreci- ateik bonds Our home depositors would withdraw their money from the banks t215iy these bonds below par. The banks would be forced to stop all loans. All in dustries would stop. A contraction would take place that would ruin the country.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
The Work Is Going On.

It is the silver bug organ that howis when a straightout sound money admin istra tion democrat gets the-ear of the people and talks sense to them. The sill yer bug organ is aware that the people are very susceptible to sound argument, and are apt thereby ito reject the claptrap of the silverite haranguer, and will march under the sound money banner. Let the good work go on-Columbus En- nl1rer-Sun.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
An Astute Politician.

Senator Hill calls attention to the fact that he is not only a total abstainer, but that personally he is in favor of observ- ing Sunday as a day of rest, preferring attendance upon religious services in stead of recreation, and he wishes that all others might take the same view of their duty to themselves and to society. But he wishes it understood that his personal views and preferences in matters of tenn perance and Sunday observance are one thine. while legislation for the regula- tion of the conduct of others is another.- Boston Herald,
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
An Interesting Service.

The following invita- tion has been re- ceived by the Age e-Hepald:
 Congregation Anshey AIneth cordial ly invites yourself family and friends to attend a Sfum, a Safer Thora Sunday, September 15, 1895, 5 o'clock p. m. at Erswell's hall, Nineteenth street, be- tween First and Second avenues.s,.s
 The ceremony referred to in the Invita- ton Is one of great sanctfty among the time of the building of the temple and perhaps further back It promises to be interesting as we'll as solemn.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
Very Low Rate to Chattanooga.

For dedication of Chickamauga Ma tional Military park on September IS and 20 the Queen and Crescent route will sell round trip tickets to Chatta- nooga at the very low rate of 1 cent per. mile each way. Dates of sale September Is and 19 tickets good for returning until October 13.
 For further information call upon or write o. L. Mitchell, travelling passenger agent, 2005 First avenue, Birmingham. Ala, or A. J. Lytle division passenger agent, Chattanooga.
 W. c. RINEARSON
 General Passenger Agent D,
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

Senator Morgan wants to down the bosses. Yet this seems to be 8 good year for the bosses. A desperate fight was made against bosssm both in Maryland and Pennsylvania, but both Boss German and Boss Quay won the day. The bosses in other States feel considerably ''helped IlDn
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
THE OELESTIALS HALTED.

Secretary Carlisle has very properly ordered the Collector of Customs at Og- densburg, N. Y, not to admit the 2O6 Chinese at that port, alleged to have come to this country to work at the At lanta exposition, until thorough exami- nation is made by treasury officials.
 Here is a fine opportunity for a couple of hundred or more Celestials to leak into this country 1t is the one class of immi- grafton which we do not desire.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
Greensboro.
M atchman. 12l

Watchman, 12th.
 We know a man who is going to run for the legislature in Hale next year on the issue of a new constitution for Ala bama." This is a strong card, and to b it will win in this county. Alabama is hampered by a constitution that is re- tarding her progress. Bishop Grant, colored, is in Greensboro this week pre- siding over the Scientific and Literary society, an organization composed of all the presiding elders of the African Meth odist Episcopal church in Alabama. The bishop will preach next Sunday morning at Il o'clock. -. The Greensboro fire com pany will meet next Tuesday night A full attendance of the membership is re- quested, as officers for the ensuing year will be- elected -. Mir. Robert F. Otts had a sunstroke last Sunday, from which he suffered several days. Glad to see him able to be out again.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
The Light Breaking.

A correspondent in southwest Georgia reports: 'The rise in cotton has dumb founded the free silver agitators in this section and set to thinking many of our farmers who have heard them say that the price of cotton depends upon the price of silver" It has dumbfounded the agitators in every part of the south. There is no reconciling the rise with their vagary, and they Are silent every where. The Tight in the west is nor tai dim just now.-Charleston News and Courier
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

The fairest sound money men do not deny that the price of silver would ad- vance under free coinage, but they say 1t would not advance sufficiently to main- tain the present ratio of 16 to l. Again, the upward tendency of silver would cause new silver mines to be opened, and this increased production would cause the price to fall
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

The Southern iron is used by Northern manufacturers for mixing with Northern iron because it is softer. and is called the Southern softener. Henry Waiter son is the Southern softener. His speech last year and also this year at the Grand Army of the Republic encampment has done much to soften the asperities be- tween the two sections
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
The Fool Killer Still Lives.

Once upon a time Georgia led the south as a producer of freaks. But South Caro- lima appears ito be making efforts to take away Georgia's blue ribbon for pre-emi- nence in that line. The Palmetto State has produced an alleged poet who never heard, heard of, or saw "The Last Rose of Summer At least, he says so. It may be that he is the long-sought author of "The Beautiful Snow-"-Savannah Morning News.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
A Grand Privilege.

There are some privileges enjoyed by emperors which may well excite the envy of common people. For example, Elm peror William recently ordered his chap lain to cut down his sermon to not more than twenty minutes, and the chaplain obeyed Even the free sovereigns of America cannot do that.-Buffalo Ex- press.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
He Has Read the Hand Writing.

Senator Pugh is trying his hand at pre- dieting dire disaster to the democratic party again. The old granny should be set over in the chimney corner of the democratic household. He is no fit leader who sniffs disaster from afar and sees danger in every cloud.-Huntsville Mer- cury.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
Henry Knows.

Henry Irving is not one of those mod ern cynics who decline to look at the new moon out of reverence for that ancient institution, the old one He tells an in reviewer that he doesn't believe the drama of today is so far inferior to what has been written. "The complaint against it." he says, lis the usual thing that one must always expect to hear. We are all very likely to praise what has gone be- fore at the expense of the present. ."-Ex- change.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

The esteemed Enquirer-Sun is mis- taken in its reading of the press dispatch report from Birmingham of the silver convention. The delegate Ex-Governor Cobb referred to is Hon. Rufus w. Cobb, an ex-Governor of this State, and not the genial Reuben, whose name begins with a "K t"
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

Louisville has cause for congratula- tion. Her. hospitable treatment of the "old soldier was simply grand. The cordial and hearty reception rendered the "boys" who wore the blue will be re- membered while time lasts
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

Have a delineation of your character. your talents, your faults your physical health, the profession or business that you should follow, what you should study how to keep healthy and how to make the best of what you are by Professor Fealy, the noted phrenologist. Room 60, Opera House hotel. EXamina- tions daily from a. m. to p. m.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
A Champion Letter Writer.

Of all the prominent officeholders of the state the last to malgn the organized workers of the party should be that gar rulous old gentleman, Senator Morgan, who has had his head in the public crib for the last twenty five years through the active instrumentality of these same party bosses,' as he chooses to style them. The tenor of his letter to the free silver conference shows to the senator's friends that his mind is weakening HuntSVille Mercury.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
Livingston.

JIV1nBSJOn.
 Sumter Sun, 12th Rev. D. l.. Kirkland has returned from south Marengo, where he held protracted meetings at Hampden, Wesley and Mag nolia, week at eac,s, and 300 people con- fessed Christ. It was glorious outpour- ing of the spirit, and great good resulted. ....1n Sumter there are 1882 white chil- dren and 794S black. The interest on the sixteenth section fund for Sumter county is the largest In the state, being $657419. ....Cards are out for the marriage of Miss Lula Robinson and MT. D. w. Hurl- bert at Epes on September IS, at , D. m. ,...A horse attached to buggy ran away with Robert and Cliff Foss yesterday evening and threw them out, hurting the latter seriously.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

The Cincinnati Tribune is anxously awaiting the opening of MT. Brice's cam paign and seems to think there will be no parsimony displayed. There are no insects on Calvin" The Tribune can rest assured he will play his hand for Il it is worth, with the result that James F. Campbell will warm the gubernat torial chair of Ohio for the next term.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
A Grand Reunion.

It was truly a vast multitude and if there was in it a single individual who harbored the least i'll feeling toward the gallant bluecoats that tramped through that multitude for over four hours, the Courier-Jou ournal has failed to hear of -Courier-Journal
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
Tonpla on Foraker.

MT. Foraker has said that he wants Mckinley to be elected president next year. MT. Mckinley would do we'll to make MT. Foraker write this out and sign it in the presence of two witnesses.-Chl- papo Record
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

RgThe present management or @he AGE-HER BALD has no claiffa aoainst advertisers or SubScriD7 ere Drior to February 11tl1, 1S9o. finder decree of court accounts up to that date have OeSih So-N' and transferred hence SanceiiSo as between the debtor and t1is'
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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
City Tax Notice.

In accordance with amended section 932 of the city code, notice is hereby given that real and personal taxes for the year 1895 are now due and tax payers are notified to appear at my office and pay their taxes. Said taxes Will De de- iinduent after the 15tff of dctoBeF F7fext.
 GEO. EUSTIS Tax Collecter> 9-7-3t-sat
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

Roger O. Mills says he is opposed to free coinage of silver, but if his State goes that way he will go with his State. This is a recognition of the principle that man owes his allegiance first to his State and next to the United States. It was this principle that caused Lee and others to go with their States when they adopted the ordinance of secession.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
DadeVille.
Herald. 12th

I1erdlu lzln
 We have been shown a stalk of cotton which grew on the farm of MT J.. c. Houston well laden with fruit, but every boil on it, save one, had been pierced by the deadly Hessian fly. MT. Houston says he would have made three-fourths of g. cotton crop, but this fly attacked the best spots only and will reduce 1t another fourth. It ruins all the bolls it comes in contact with. Ben H. Walker of Island Home, this county, has the March, April and May numbers of the Gentleman's London Magazine, printed at London in 1775. His grandfather, James Walker, who was a revolutionary soldier, and fought under General Shelby at the bat, tie of Kings mountain, was a subscriber to the magazine. MT. James Walker died in April, 1S49, and was buried with military honors at Hootenville Ga.. Cotton is coming in briskly aA finds ready sale at cents ... Circdn court convenes here next Monday at p. m. .i The DadeVille Training school is on q boom. It numbers now about 150, and will soon reach 25O....W. J. Goodwin of Kelleyton, who is collecting minerals for the exposition, was in town yesterday. ,
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
Notice.

! We have just received carload of choice California wines, such as Clarets, Port, Sherry and White Wine. They are equal in quality to any imported wines; prices are within reach of everybody Special inducements to parties buying by the barrel. Samples free of charge. Give us a call.
 M. & A. WISE,
 Corner Morris Ave and 10th St.,
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

The cows don't like red bloomers and will take after them every time. The bi- cycle girls must ride fast enough to out run a COW, or ride only at night
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

rnent generally. Colonel Shorter's resi- denee is well nigh completed so far as the outside work Is concerned. The plastererS are rushing their work and he is hoping to have it ready for occupation before a great while. e....A negro was brought over from Georgia yesterday and is now in jail. He is thought to be Jeff Watt who killed the sheriff of Butler county in 1893. There has been no identification as yet, and 1t Is not known whether he'll prove to be Jeff Watt or not
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
Autumnal Equinox.

The autumnal equinox occurs tomor- row and old weather prophets predict cooler weather. Judging from comments heard on the excessive heat now prevail ing the change cannot come any too soon.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

The New York Mercury says there are reformers and there are practical reformers. The practical reformers are the political saints who have grabbed offices and contracts" The Mercury man must have a "cinch' on Mark Twains mental telegraphy, and thereby absorbed the purposes of the gathering of financial reforners who attended a silver convention held in this city last Tuesday.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
A Great People

The American people show to great advantage in such vast crowds as we now have with us. Everybody is good natured and happy, and the lion and the lamb are lying down together.-LouisVllie Post
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

When Henry Watterson spoke of ''the foolishness of secession the star-eyed goddess must have shed a tear. It may have been foolishness, but it is hard to be told So
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
A Savape Pun.

The Bannock Indians refuse to have their photographs taken. They say the whites have taken everything else from them. and now they are after their pN- lures Florida Times Union.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

The Grand Army of the Republic en- campment is closed and now "Johnnle comes marching home"
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

i. Senator Pugh said while in the city that Secretary Foster in 1878 construed the law to mean that gold must be paid for greenbacks when demanded. The demand was not often made until the panic of 1893. The Senator also said that 5the lower house of the Fifty-fourth Con- gress was opposed to free silver by a large majority, and that the Senate had twenty-five free silver Democrats and eighteen free silver Republicans and sPopulistS combined.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

The large exports of grain and cotton will soon cause gold to flow in a contrary direction and come our way, thereby de- priving the calamity howlers who have been predicting depleted treasury of a great deal of their buncombe and thun-
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
RAIL AND CROSSTlE.

Ira ok laying on the Montgomery and Prattyille branch of the Louisville and Nashville railroad which was necessarily delayed one week ago to allow the graders to get ahead, has been resumed. The work train has again gone to the end of the completed work with material and track laying will now be pushed to com pietion. It is hoped to have this line fin ished in time'for winter traffic.
 A car load of Irish potatoes was shipped over the Louisville and Nashville from Speigners yesterday, consigned to parties in Grand Rapids. Mich. The po- tatoes were grown at state penitentiary No. 2, which is located at Speigner's, and is the first shipment of the kind ever made from that point.
 On several occasions in recent years regular mail trains have passed through this city in two, three and four sections, but the biggest number of trains coming under one number ever heard of in the south will leave Louisville, Ky, this morning, coming south to Nashville, Tenn, over the Louisville and Nash vilIe. Regular train No. will comprise thirty solid trains under that number, and it is roughly estimated that there will be 14,000 people in the entire train. The people are principally visitors to the Grand Army encampment at Louisville who are en route to the dedication cer- emonies at Chiclaamauga. At Nashville the tradn will be transferred to the Nash ville. Chattanooga and St. Louis road and one more train will be added, making total of thirty trains.
 No. 1 on the Louisville and Nashville southbound today will have on board two cars of New Orleans people en route home from the Grand Army encampment at Louisville.
  Mir. Henry Piper, travelling passenger agent of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, with headquarters in Atlanta, was in the city yesterday. .
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
THE EDITOR AT LARGE.
According to Hoil.

The silver democrats of Alabama are playing into the hands of Governor de lure" Kolb with light and easy hearts, Macon Telegraph
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14
Eutaw.
Whig and Observer, 12th

Whig and Observer, 12th !
 The court of county commissioners ap- pointed Maj M. T. Sumner of Boligea county surveyor of Greene county. The appointment is most excellent one as Major Sumner has had much experiences in this line, having been county surveyor for Perry county for several years also civil engineer for the Louisville and Nashville railroad at Birmingham for five years. Boligee citizens tell us that they are doing some splendid work on the roads leading to that place. Lime rock
 is being placed upon the highways until they will soon be macadamized, and the. heaviest laden wagons can be drawn over them with little difficulty. The roads that are now receiving especial attention are those leading from Boligee to Lizzieville and from Boligee to the Hawkins place, running parallel with the railroad. Those are enterprising people down that way The Farmers Warehouse com pany has secured the services of Mir. Frank A. Webb as cotton weigher and clerk at the warehouse. He Is eminently qualified for the position. Mrs. R. r. Schoppert and daughters, Misses Annie and Fannie, are quite sick :. MT. ". Y. Callahan and family, we regret to hear, are quite i'll with fever.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-14

Silver is the livest subject in politics today. Not candidate for office, so far has the foolhardiness to say that he is h single gold standard man.-The Indepen- dent.
 The best solution yet given for the large attendance" at the silver conven- tion held at Erswelrs hall last Tuesday.
 No offensive allusion was made in the silver Democratic conference to that class of our citizens who think PopuMsm the thing. They were invited to seek the harbor in a safer ship, and several tow lines were thrown out to them.-The In pedendent.
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