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Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

There appears to be considerable fric- ton in the ranks of our friends. the ene- my. Messrs. Kolb and Adams are asid to be opposed to any fusion with the Re- publicans. The faction favoring fusion is carrying on an active and fierce cam paign. and claim that Captain Kolb is a back number. It seems too that they are attempting to make good deal of political capital out of the alleged fact that Captain Kolb has recently formed business relations with a number Of prominent Cleveland Democrats, who favor the gold standard.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Sackville- West, who says that a New York museum manager offered him S200G q week to exhibit himself after he wrote the Murchison letter is quite unconscious of the humor of his publishing the pro posal with the utmost gravity but he is entitled to the distinction of being the first Englishman who declined to take American money when he could get it. However a poor diplomat. his rank as a freak is above dispute. He should have gone into the museum.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

The American Bankers Association meet in Atlanta tomorrow, and we pre- sume arrangements will then be made to have the government "go out of the bank ing business"
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Our friends of New Orleans have added another important steam line to their commercial marine. The new line is to run between New Orleans and Copenha- gen. the initial steamer of which will leave New Orleans about the middle of November Copenhagen will be, like Trieste, practically a new port as far as New Orleans is concerned. Connection with it means more than the local busi- ness, for Copenhagen is the key as it were of the Baltic, and line from New Orleans to the Danish capital will put the South in connection with other lines run ming tol all the Baltic ports. and the north of Europe generally. With these new and important connections the present commercial season ought to be very e-c- tive one for New Orleans
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Mobile Unist: A negro constable of Marengo county came to Mobile with a warrant charging his wife with receiv- ing stolen property. The woman was arrested. and her husband returned with her. a prisoner.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

The Duke of Marlborough is having the lakes around Blenheim dredged at a cost of $30000. This is the first time in ninety years that the Marlborough purse has been used for this purpose.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

The divorce announcement of Amelie Rives recalls an incident in Paris in 1890. when MT. and Mrs. Chanler were living there. A Parisian art student. Jules Re- maud, was in love with Mrs. Chanler hav- ing met her in an art studio. She repulsed him and he again and again made pro- testatiops of love-, finally following her to Algers. where, upon receiving his final congo he shot himself. leaving a sensational letter asking for sympathy. Renaud had wonderful talent.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

One is not surprised to learn that as a result of Spain's oppressive and short- sighted policy the autonomists are join ing the revolution which at first they did not approve. They have no other choice.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Hon. J. F. Stallings stopped over in Birmingham yesterday, and was quite pleased with the political situation in the Eighth District. He says the Democracy there is practically solid for free coinage.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

On September p, says the Westminster Gazette. the wife of a, dwarf named Mor- ris gave birth to twins at Blaenavon, North Wales. Morris is only 35 inches in height, while his wife is even smaller in stature. They were married at Bar thomley church last Christmas, and have been since travelling through the country as General and Mrs. Small, being the smallest married couple in the world The mother and infants are doing we'll
 The weather was never lovelier than it is now, and Birmingham is growing. steadily more attractive
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Lord Sackville appears to have caught it on all sides. His British friends charge him with being crank. and now Hon. Don NJ. Dickinson, once of MT. Clevelands cabinet. says he is ar ass. The ex-secretary's exact words are IS fol- lows: "As the incident occurred when was a member of the cabinet. I do not feel at liberty to discuss it. But as to Sir Lionel Sackville-West. have no hes itation in saying that he is now and al- ways has been an internal ass"
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Just now there seems to be somewhat of a lull in the political waters. The declnation. of General Shelley to run for Governor and the reported refusal of General Harrison to enter the Guberna- torial field seems to indicate that there will be no great clash in the ranks of the Democracy next year.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16
RICH WEDDINGS

Never before, says a New York corre- spondent has there been such a galaxy of rich weddings on the society tapis, and the fall and early winter promises to unite a larger number of millionaire fam flies than any similar period in the social history of the country. To enumerate the dollars concerned by these alliances is huge and somewhat delicate task This table gives an approximate idea of the subject. however:
 Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt-Moses
 1aylor... ........$ 30, ,000, QUO Miss Pauline Whitney-A. H.
 Paget ........ ........... .R 000, 900 Miss Edith Rockefeler-Harold
 Mccormick ...... -. .... ........ SSOOO, 900 Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt--Duke
 of Marlborough .......... .... .... 25oOO, 900 Miss Felicite Oglesby-G. M. Pull
 man. Jr. ..... ...... ............ 15OOO, 900 Miss Ethel V. Phelps Stokes-J
 s. Hoyt ...... ........ ............. 5000. 900 Grand total ........ ....... ...... S135, ,000 900
 While all this is going on our poor girls and boys are getting married all the same and are just as happy as the millionaires. They live just as long and have fewer cases of dyspepsia.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Elsewhere We publish an excellent edl- torial from the Selma Times on the money question.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

A mans friends are glad to rejoice Tn his property, but are not anxious 10 hear of his annoyances.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Coosa River News: Dr. ". H. Darnall has severed his connection with the church and secret societies of this place and also with the north Alabama Pres bytery, and has removed to Georgia.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Lieutenant Peary says he has made his last Arctic voyage, as man over 40 is too old for the work. But he believes that the pole will be reached before many years have passed. He has no faith in the existence of an open polar sea.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Talladega Reporter: The fact that furnace and ore expert is opening the ore beds and placing the furnace in shape to begin on short notice is very satisfac- tory to our people.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

There is a great demand and small sup ply of fractional silver. Probably the circus took off some.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Sheffield Reaper: MT. W. J. Davis brought to the Reaper office yesterday two corn stalks containing four immense ears of corn amidst perfect network of peas and peavines. MT. Davis is an a. maiZeing corn raiser.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

The New Decatur Advertiser says: We are publishing a newspaper" That's exactly what you are doing.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

MT William F. Curtis. who has spent six months Investigating trade conditions in the Orient, calls attention to the curl- ous fact that, while Japan gets most of her cotton from this country, it reaches her in a roundabout way from Liverpool. This. says the Philadelphia Record. is bad merchandising. and the transporta.. tion lines ought to better it. A straight line should be the shortest distance be- tween the southern cotton fields and the Japanese mills.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Tuskegee News: Our old time friend, J. H. Nunnallee. of Selma, is with the State Herald. He is one of the brightest and best newspaper men in Alabama and a man of lofty character.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

You can meet people from every part of the State on our streets every day.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Young gentlemen having ambition to play orchestral or band instruments of any kind should consult Professor Weber at the Birmingham College of Music. Splendid opportunity.
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Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Speaking of the State newspaper the Bessemer Weekly says: "The six months of struggle has been virtually barren of any substantial results. With it's own home and plant it would have made more headway in thirty days than 1t has in six months" The six months struggle was productive of a circulation of over 5000. That is a result that any daily in the State should be proud of
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

President Harrison. when he was in augurated, found an ample gold reserve. It ran up to nearly $200, 100000 during MT. Cleveland's first administration. When Messrs. Harrison and Foster retired the gold reserve was so near the hundred millions" mark that Secretary Foster had bonds prepared to issue. and had been in consultation with the gold spec ulators. The difficulty was bridged over and the embarrassment handed over to the new administration. The Mckinley law had placed duties so high that they were prohibitory, and it was a failure as a revenue raiser. The Democratic ad-- ministration found difficulty immediately to make both ends meet. MT Harrison had left them depleted treasury.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

The London Times of Wednesday,, says cable dispatch, prints prominent ly letter headed '"The Race Problem in America" signed by Thomas Edmond ston, recounting the story of a decade of negro supremacy in South Carolina up to 1876, which he describes as having been utterly uncomfortable. He says: We may as soon expect to see the sun rise in the west as to witness community of Anglo Saxon blood submitting tamely to the oppression of a horde of savage negroes We ought to wish our kinsmen in South Carolina all Godspeed since their efforts are directed toward true constitutional ism, and not it's reversal"
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Thomasville News: About 500 bales of cotton have been sold in Thomasville this season.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16
STATE NEWS.

Eufaula Times: The farmers of this section are smiling over their big corn cribs, fat hogs and the good prices paid for cotton.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Trade continues good and our cotton receipts are steadily growing.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

MT. Romeo German takes charges of the local department of the Opelika Evening News. MT. German is a good writer and a good news gatherer, and the News is to be congratulated on securing his services.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Occupation of the capital of Madagas- car by General Duchesne and the French expeditionary army has aroused fresh contention between England and France. The sum of the quarrel is that England realizes that France has driven her out of a rich and promising island. and that the French policy of colonization has not received the staggering blow disaster in its latest adventure would have inflicted.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

The gold bug papers. big df there are any), medium and little, refer to Capt. Joseph F. Johnston as twice defeated candidate. The friends of Johnston, like those of Richardson, admire him more in his defeats than they would have done in his success If it had been secured by the methods by which he was defeated. His friends have not forgotten Lee county yet Those who refer to his defeats @ with such evident glee ought to make use of a season of purification. Beware, ye Pharisees and hypocrites!-Sheffield Reaper.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

The demand for residences continues
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

The letter of the future will be dictated to a stenographer, who. instead of type writing it. will perforate it on paper tape. This tape will be taken to the tel egraph office, where it will be put through the automatic transmitting ma chine, and in a second or two 1t will be at it's destination. The receiving tape will be delivered direct. and the plain Morse characters will be transmitted on the type writing machine by the corre- spondent's ,stenographer. Commercial houses having a large business will do their own perforating and translating, thus securing important reductions from the regular tolls. For them the telegraph company will be simply a carrier, having nothing to do with their correspondence aside from putting it through the ma chine.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Politics promises to be lively in Bar bour. The Eufaula Times says: County politics are still quiet. but the prospects are that when they do begin to move things are going to be exceedingly lively"
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

The Clayton Courier thus philosophlzes on the cotton crop: "It is true cotton is bringing a better price than 1t did last year, but the spurt in price of one sea- son does not make permanent prosperity. Take land and other property, and what is it's value? Not half of what it would sell for few years ago."
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Montgomery Journal: Congressman Stallings has got on Secretary Herbert g trail, and everybody knows what that means. Herbert spoke at Huntsville Fri day morning and Stallings Friday night. That is as near as the gold advocates will allow anybody to get to Secretary Her. hprt
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Mobile News: Rapier street is the name of a new avenue commencing at Elmira street and running north to Government It also opens up Palmetto and Church streets. The street is named in honor of Col John l.. Rapier.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

The middle-aged American.woman shows an inclination to grow broader across the hips and shoulders and stouter and thicker through the arms; but the col- lege graduate, the university woman and the debutante grow more gracefully wig orous every year. The typical college graduate is from to inches longer from the waist down than formerly, Her waist is getting longer her chest fuller and her limbs narrower. The middle aged women grow corpulent and clumsy through indolence and indulgent habits of life. while the ever-increasing tendency toward athletic sports and outdoor ex- ercise is improving the younger of the sex. The statuesque Juno type may yet express the American woman"
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Save the Sheffield Reaper:
 The Birmingham State has gobbled the Age-Herald. We will be much diSap- pointed if its purchasers do not make it the morning paper of the state. The State was assuming metropolitan propor- tions at a rapid rate before it's coup. No paper ever published in the state has won such great favor with the people in so short time before. It could not help it when it had such men to direct it's col umns as Hodgson, Greer and Wilson all Alabamians. Here's godspeed to the new State Herald.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

The Clayton Courier gently rebukes a postmaster editor:
 The dear old Courier is always read able. but of late we are more than anx- ious to get it to see what Brother Quillin is going to say next. He keeps us guess ing all the time.-Ozark Star. .
 Dear Joe, we expect to have many good things in the Cot~ier in advocacy of the free coinage of silver. We can't go back on our life time convictions. when we believe they are correct. It's old and true democratic doctrine.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Coosa River News: MT. J. P. Anderson, a progressive farmer of Cedar Bluff, was in Centre last Tuesday. Mr. Anderson brings cheering reports with regard to the corn crops in his section, but says cotton is cut considerably short.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Says the Talladega News-Reporter: Cotton is rising because the demand is greater than the supply, and the law of supply and demand is not directly re- stricted in its operation in the use of cot- ton. Silver remains low because the law has made it the object of a prohibitory act; and having been forbidden the right to enter into its most natural channels the surplus thus enforced overhows into all the other channels and falling mar ket is the result. Pass and enforce a worldwide law that cotton shall not be used for weaving purposes and see whether it will rise?
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

The Talladega Reporter questions some peoples understanding as to the value of a silver dollar:
 The man who objects to the silver dol lar on the ground that there isn't 100 cents in 1t eonfesses that he does not un- derstand the first principle of the money question. Dollars. like cotton or corn, are regulated by the laws of supply and demand. Where plentiful they are easy. to get; where scarce and readily monop- olized the scramble for them brings all products which are more plentiful down, while raising the price of dollars.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Talladega Reporter: Frank Pierce, who lives one mile below Jenifer, had his barn struck by lightning Monday even ing, destroying it, with it's contents, which were several thousand bundles of fodder, hay and corn. Pierce was feeding his mule when the barn was struck. The mule was killed, but Pierce was unin- jured. He was in feet of the mule when it was killed
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Anniston Hot Blast: The tax assess ments of this county for this year have been completed and show that the esti~ mated value of Calhoun's real estate is s5,253.17S, and personal property $3,505, ,36S making total of $S55S,546, against last years assessment of s9,263,56S, of which S6,0S9,419 was real estate and S3,1741 149 personal property. The difference in the totals is S705 OPP.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Huntsville Tribune: John P. Hampton, Esq, one of Madison countys most in- telhgent farmers, was in Huntsville yes- terday MT Hampton is sterling dem ocrat. and believes in the remonetizati tion of silver necessary to advance the well fare of the people. MT. Hampton Is a
 progressive farmer. who has tried every
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Anniston Hot Blast: Alderman N. Fl. Reid has in his possession an old time implement of war in the shape of flint and steel musket. It bears the inscrip- tion on one side of the lock of ''U. s. and an eagle, and on the other of liar per's Ferry, 1922" MT. Reid prizes it very highly and would hardly sell it at any price.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Geneva Citizen: MT. W. A. Hill, the of the new telegraph line be- tween here and Ozark, says that the line will be in operation within thirty days. This is a much needed service in Geneva, and will probably have tendency to re- duna f hf. ra teS.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-08-25

In Alaska and traces Of It have been
found on the banks of the Yukon River,
but 1t ia only OF recent late that the
miners have given the matter any SER
ious thought. This neglect seems strange
when one considers that platinum Is
worth from $3.50 to $3.50 an ounce.
Platinum is nearly always found In
bars associated with free gold, In placer
deposits. Platinum ore, as 1t is some
times enormously called, contains iri-
dlum, rhodium, gold copper, and iron.
1t is usually found in rounded or HAT
tened grains having a metallic lustre,
though IL comes occasionally in cubes
and octahedrons. Had the miners who
have been working on the different creeks
in the Yukon basin for the last two
years known the value Of the little glob-
ular masses of platinum, they would not
nave been SO quick to resent their per-
sistent presence in the rifles. At pres
ent the most important sources of pla-
tinum are the hydraulic mines in the
Ural Mountains Of Russia. About so
per cent of the worlds production comes
from this source. Next in Importance,
perhaps, are the gold washings of the
Pluto River in the United States of
Colombia, which produces Is per cent OF
tne eHtTe prOuuct. PORTIONS OF IHula
also produce small amounts of platinum.
Platinum has been found in small guam
titles in this country, but 1t is only in the
placers of the Pacific slope that 1t has
been discovered in marketable quanti-
ties. 1t is estimated that the United
States import about 5000 pounds of pla-
tinum in year from Russia The metal
Is used chiefly in the manufacture of
jewelry chemical apparatus and incan-
descent electric lights. There has been
Of late years an increased demand for
the metal, and corresponding increase
in price. If the platinum deposits in the
Yukon Valley in Alaska approach any
where near the expectations of the pros
pectors, 1t is possible that they may
prove as valuable as the gold mines in
Alaska.
Asbestos is also found in the southeast
ern portion Of Alaska, but whether in
sufficient quantities to make the deposits
profitable remains for future develop
ments to show. A recent issue of an
Alaskan newspaper says that Clark Mil
Ter and party discovered exten3lve as
bestos veins in this section last summer.
The quality is pronounced by experts to
be first-class, and specimens show it to
be of unusually long fiber and free from
foreign matter.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-08-25
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

The best horse for work is not always
the one that is the fastest when at the
cultivator. The slow and steady animal
is to be preferred in cultivating.
The following method, says a French
paper, is cheap and effective in prevent
ing the decay of wood when buried in tie
ground: Mix finely powdered coal with
linseed oil and apply to the parts to
be buried
It is said that experiments in irrlgating
strawberries, made in Connecticut, show
an increase CT nearly 125 per cent in
yield. The berries also brought several
cents per basket more on account OF
size and good color.
A recent writer thinks a dozen hens are
worth more to a man than 800 out on
interest at per cent, and there is but
little risk attached to the ownership OF
that many hens, whereas there is always
considerable risk in loaning money in
any amount.
Successful crops of celery are raised
only by constant cultivation and heavy
manuring. In this way only can the
greatest number Of saieable heads be
raised. The most successful growers,
says Nick, are those who use constantly
the largest amount of manure. The cell
cry plant is a strong feeder, and re-
quires much nitrogen.
When setting currant cuttings remove
al buds from the part of the stem that
is to be under ground This will prevent
the start of suckers and the growth OF
soft wood, which would serve as a
host for insects and fungi. In trimming
old bushes, remove all old, messy wood,
and all but the strongest and most
healthy canes.
The watering place in pastures is far
too often only mud hole. If Il spring
provides water for the pasture it ought
not to be left open for the cattle TO tramp
in, while the sun pouring into it makes
it unpalatable Cover the spring and
carry the water in a pipe down a little
woy and let it empty into a trough, or
tub that has little shelter built over
it, leaving but one side open foc the
stock to drink.
Black raspberries are propagated by
layering. In August, when bearing is
over and the canes are growing, bend
the tips to the ground and cover to keep
them down. The following spring the tips
Will be flied with a crown of roots, and
connection with the parent plant may
be severed and the new growth trans
painted Some bend their tips into or
inch pots sunk into the earth ana flied
with the soil, finding this removal easier
Red raspberries and blackberries are
propagatcl by transplantlng the suck
ers.