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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
CUBAN PATRIOTS AT JACKSONVILLE.
They Are Sangune of Success-Gaining
 Ground

Jacksonville, Fla. July f3.-Senors Her nandez. Villada and Herrera, prominent Cubans, reached Jacksonville today from Key West and are in retirement at the home of a. sympathiZer.
 Hernandez was direct from Cuba. It Is said that he is an officer in Gomez army, which he left recently, and that ha bears messages from Gomez for Cuban leaders in this country. Hernandez, while refusing to disclose his mission. talked interestingly of the situation in Cuba and predicts Cuban success.
 Senor Valdes, who was a naval com mander during the last revolution, and who is a prominent Cuban patriot, was also in Jacksonville today. Valdes came from Santiago to Tampa on the schooner Mccullough. The patriots will win their freedom in less than two years, as they are certainly gaining ground, he says. He predicts an increase of the deaths in the government forces till the end of September and says the rainy season is greatly retarding the military movements of the Spaniards, who are dying in great numbers from vomito.
 Senor Valdes left for New York tonight to confer with N. B. Borden, the owner of the yacht Puzzle, and who Is suspected of aiding the Cubans in organizing fili- mastering exDeditionS.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
Hoke SMITHS LETTER.
It Was in Reply to Speech Delivered by Colo
 nel Peek.


 Atlanta Ga, July 13.--The Consttu- tion publishes tomorrow morning a let ter written by Hon Hoke smith, secre- tary of the interior, to Hon. w. l.. Peek, on the 18th of September, 1890. It was a reply to a speech delivered by Colonel Peek. then a leader of the State Alliance at Conyers, in which the latter made the statement that in a conference with MT. smith. who was assisting in the management of General Gordon's sena- torial campaign, General Gordon had pledged that he would accept an agreement to certain conditions named by the alliance. In the letter to Colonel Peck Mir. Smith corrected the impress sion that General Gordon had unquali- tiedly approved the sub-treasury plan advocated by the alliance. He then re lates his view of the conference, and adds: 'I mentioned a number of meas ures of proposed reform around which all might gather and out of them obtain the very best plan for the relief of the people that it was possible to pass.
 ''1. Currency with non-perishable agri- cultural products as basis, the issue to be limised to only part of the crop, but not to be called in at the end of twelve months. On the contrary, to remain in circulation until a second crop is har- vested, and until portion of the sec ond crop may be substituted for the first, thereby making it possible to keep the money in constant circulation and to pre- vent yearly forced contra ction
 '2. The free coinage of silver
 '3 The issue of treasury notes by which the government bonds might be re- deemed, and instead of the interest bear ing bonds a legal tender currency sub stituted."
 The fourth and fifth plans proposed fa- vored graded income tax and reduc- ton of the tariff. And Mir. Smith thus concluded:
 My only object was a spirit of har- mony to aid democratic nominees and preserve the democratic organization and pass by a united effort measures of practical benefit to the people"
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
FROM l25 TO 150 YEARS,
An Army Engineer Estimates That It Will Re- quire That Time to Finish Coosa
 River Improvements.

Washington, July 13.-Major Mahans report to the chief engineer on the rivers and harbors of eastern gulf states reached the chief of army engineers to- day. Apalachicola bay where little or no work was done during the year, shows by examination that the channel through the bar at the mouth of the river has filled nearly a fcot, the depth of water for more than half the channel being now less than feet. The straight channel across Pulkhead bar, completed in 1892. has not shoaled apprecably. The snag boat Flint went the whole length of the upper river and cleared out all the ac- cessible logs. stumps and overhangng trees making it fairly open for naviga- tion. Similar work was done by the same boat on Flint river below Albany Ga., to which point a navigable channel was maintained throughout the year. On Chattahoochee river SIP, S04 was expended from the mouth to Columbus, Ga. At Pensacola not much work has been ac- complished on account of the exhaustion of the appropriation, with the result that a slight shoaling has been noticed on both bars. The depth and width of the inner bar channel not only prevented many first class vessels from coming to the port, but prevented many that did come from clea ring with full cargoes.
 On the Alabama river over $19 900 was expended during the year. The small appropriations heretofore do not permit of full utilization of the plant. The commerce of the stream is large, and as soon as the projected depth of 6 feet is secured 1t will become much larger. It has averaged about $5,000.00O annually for the past six years. On the Coosa river $S3,255 was spent last year, above Wetumpka, and $7217S below that point. In urging more liberal appropriations for the work it is estimated that at the present rate of progress, due to con- gressional parsimony, from 125 to 150 years will be required to complete the Coosa river project. Of the eight locks required in the upper section the fourth is now under construction. three being in use, and in the lower section twenty three locks with their accessory dams are projected, one of which is nearly finished
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
ion. she would not have accepted in the

ton. she would not have accepted in the beginning.
 There have been several other resig- nations from the New York committee. Mrs. Florence Gray gave up her office some time ago. Mrs. A. M. Palmer, chair man on drama, resigned last March be- cause of i'll health, and Mrs. William Tod Helmuth, chairman on hospitals, who has been absorbed in the general manage ment at Atlanta as vice-president of the wOman's board, because the New York womens room was inadequate for her hospital exhibit.
 Mrs. Joseph Bradley Read, chairman of the woman's work in this city, report ed great progress and express the be1ef that the New York room will not be dis appointment.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
Montgomery Miscellany.

Carrie Lee, the young negro girl who was shot yesterday by the negro. Frank Williams, with 75 cent pistol which he didn't know was loaded" will die. The doctors say that her wound is fatal, and that she. can live only a few hours.
 The game of ball a the park yester- day between the Hoosiers and Hobos, Montgomery's crack ball teams, made up from the young men of the local 4O0, Tor the benefit of the infirmary, resulted in a victory for the Hobos by the score of 12 to 6 Several hundred people witnessed the game.
 Mir and Mrs w. St Naftel are on a visit to friends in Mobile.
 MT and Mrs. Fred Hammond and fam fly have returned from their summer home at Nerbena.
 Mrs. J. T. Whitfield has returned from a pleasant visit to friends in Birming- ham.
 Mrs E. B. Tullis and children have re- turned from Eufaula.
 Mrs. J. T. Hughes and children have gone to Kentucky to spend the usmmer
 Misses Lizzie and Annie Dowdell are spending the Summer in Auburn with their grandparents, Col. and Mrs. w. C. Dowdell.
 MT. and Mrs E. R. Malone of Geneva are visiting MT. and Mrs. B. H. Brown, 329 Clayton street
 Gen. T. c. Mumford of Lynchburg, a ulSllnSulSfleu NlTSlnldU, spent ySSltiuhy in Montgomery. the guest of his friend, Major Walden. at Hotel Galatas. He is returning from Monteagle, where he de- livered his famous lecture.
 Among the arrivals at the Windsor Saturday were: F. R. Blair. Birming- ham; John A. Grist and c. Y Mayes, Pollard; William Brown, Birmingham; J. H. Jackson, Lafayette; W. H. Wilson, Ozark.
 Misses Kate Gaston and Kate Bell left this morning for Jacksonville, Ala, where they wifi visit Miss Sallie Rowan.
 Mobile Register: Messrs. R. U. Falk- ner and J. Ware Walker, two prominent city yesterday. MT Walker left on the early train this morning for trip along the coast, and MT. Falkner will return to Montgomery today
 Capt J. K. Warren of Birmingham is in the city today and at the Exchange.
 A school for the instruction of lady bicyclists has been opened in Montgom- ey One pair of boomers have made their appearance on the streets already.
 Mrs. Mary Kelly is visiting relatives in the city. Mrs. Kelly has just grad uated with highest honors from Draughon's Business college, Nashville, Tenn.
 MT and Mrs Fern Wood and Mrs Woods charming sister, Miss Hattie Jones, are at St. Simons Island for week s Stay-
 Governor and Mrs Oates viii not le- turn to Montgomery before the 18th of the month.
 The Alabama railroad commission will meet in Birmingham on Tuesday of next week for the purpose of considering matters of a local character number of witnesses are to come before the com mission, and the reason of holding the meeting in Birmingham is for conVen- fence to them. A regular Birmingham branch would be good thing, however.
 Flalky pie crust and appetizing biscuit are the results of Prices Cream Baking Powder.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
THE FLOW IS CHASING.
The Movement of Money From the Interior to New York Has Abated-The
 Bank Statement.

New York, July 13.-The weekly state lowing changes:
 Reserve, increase. $1 231 600.
 Loans. decrease, $2, ,512. 700.
 Specie, decrease. $231 500.
 Legal tender, increase. $9S7, 400. !
 Deposits decrease. $1.903.20
 Circulation. increase, 300.
 The banks now hold $33 405, 300 in excess of legal requirements.
 The New York Financier says this week:
 The statement of the associated banks of this city for the week ending July 13, 1895, is the first in weeks to show a con traction in loans, the net decrease being $2,512, TOO. The aggregate volume, how ever is still far above the average. The falling off was not unexpected. since the business transacted on the stock ex- change during the week has been much lighter than usual, and the demand for funds has been less. One year ago loans were declining regularly week by week, while deposits were piling up steadily, and while loans were then nearly $1OO,- 0O0,000 less than deosits. the difference is now but $66000.00O. In other words. loans were then over BPS, ,000, GOO less than at present and deposits were over $22,900, GOO higher than the amounts now held by the New York banks.
 very cheering sign, although 1t may be due to temporary causes, is the stop. page of the movement of money from the interior to this point. The greatest per- centage of trade balances must have been cancelled long since, but money appar- ently was sent here for the small interest it would earn. Last weeks shipments were less than $1 ,000.000, and reports from different centers show that trade is ac- tive enough to require all the money that the banks can furnish for the purpose. Talk of higher money rates in New York still continues. but the outlook does not warrant prediction of much of an ad- vance just at present
 The New York banks decreased their deposits s1.903, 900 during the week and gained $755.S00 net cash, the loss of $231,- 600 specie being compensated by the gain of $9S7, 400 legal tenders. Owing to the contraction in loans the reserve increased S1 231 G00
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
THEY MADE TIE MONEY, TOO The Two Men Arrested in Henry
 County Confess. THAT VENIRE IS QUASHED The Little Error Will Cost the County a
 Cool Thousand. s',aDAY-SCHooL WORKERS IN SESSION The First Pair of Bloomers Has Made Its Appearance on the Streets of the
 Capital City-Carrie Lee
 Will Die.
aDAY-sCHooL WORKERS IN SESSION
Age-Herald Bureau.
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 Montgomery, July 13. Tho Henry county counterfeiters, George ". Smith and James II. Johnston, are now in jail here in default of $500 bail each. They were brought here this morn ing from Dothan by two deputy United States marshals and taken before United States Commissioner John w. Watts for preliminary trial on charges of passing counterfeit money. The defendants in the examination admitted that they had made the spurious money. $500 of which, in half and quarter denominations, were offered in evidence; that there we're $20 more which they destroyed This ad- mission developed additional charges against them of making counterfeit money.
 From time to time spurious money has bohbed up in Henry and adjacent coun- ties. This led the federal authorities to believe that there was an organized gang of counterfeiters plying that nefarious business. Occasionally one or two would be arrested. It was thought that Smith and Johnston would blow" on the gang today, but they were as tight on that subject as could be.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
Sunday School Convention.

The annual convention of the Mont gomery county Sunday schools is in ses- sion at Pine Level today. Many dele gates from the city schools are present, and the session promises to be one uf-thv nose interesting ever held. 7 The following exercises were held last night:
 S00-Song and prayer service, w D. billiard, president.
 S15-Address of welcome on part of school Jesse Dickson: on part of commu- nity. IT. c. Smiley.
 S:SO--Response to the address of wei come B NJ. Washburn.
 S:45-W Welcoming delegates.
 The programme prepared for today consists of talks and speeches and the discussion of active Sunday school work
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14

The 1OllOWlnS lelleT, WI1llcH by AuQl- tor Purifoy, contains much valuable in- formation:
 Revenue Department,
 Montgomery, July H. 1885, Col. J. w. Bush. Birmingham. Ala
 Dear Sir: Replying to your favor of the 10th instant, written from Marion, you say: Tn the matter of redemption of land sold July 1. 1893, can or not the land be now redeemed in accordance with section of an act approved Feb ruary 9, 1895. Acts of 1Sai-95 page 4SS?" You then cite the following provision in said section: If such lands have been sold to the state less than five years, then the party redeeming shall pay taxes for each year since the sale" This ques- tion has been presented to me before by others, and l have given it as my opin- ion that it is not the purpose of the act in question to permit the redemption. un> der the provisions of section 5, of lands sold for taxes in 1893, and bid in for the state. My conclusions are based on the following grounds; Section provides, that it shall be the duty of the auditor, as soon as practicable after the 1st of January, 1895, and each year thereafter. to prepare and forward to the probate judge of each county in the state list of all lands sold for taxes in their re- spective counties and bid in for the state, and which have not been redeemed or purchased from the state, and which have been held by the state for more than two years"
 The lists provided for in this section were promptly prepared and forwarded by me between the 1st and 10th of May, and included all lands which had been bid in for the state, more than two years prior to January 1, 1895, and which had not been redeemed or purchased from the state. Construing the whole act to- gether, I am of the opinion that it is not the purpose of the act to extend the privilege granted in section 5 to the sales of 1893. This privilege is evidently extended only to such tax sales as had been made prior to January 1, 1885, and only to such lands as were contained in the first list provided for in section ?.
 Again; If party should wish to redeem under section sos of the code, is it necessary for the party proposing to redeem, to pay the taxes for 1895, which taxes are not yet due?" Sectin 34 page 23 acts 1S86-S7, supersedes section eos of the code. The former however, con tains the same provisions as the latter, and more are added. The tax assessors, having closed their assessments and the assessment books having been turned over to the judges of probate (see sec ton 2, page 2. acts 1SS6-S7, and in view of the fact that such property might escape assessment for 1895, think it proper for the judges of probate to col feet the tax of 1895, on all subsequent re- demptions made through them. With much respect, JOHN PURIFOY,
 State Auditor
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
STRUCK BY 4 FLAME-BOLT The Alliance Warehouse at Tus-
 kegee Is Ignited. OOOM IM OIIEET OE rIHr-
SOON IN A SHEET OF FIRE
And the Entire Block and Several Other Build
 ings Were Threatened
RAIN FELL IN CONTINUOUS TORRENTS
And Stayed the ,$. of the Devouring Fiend-ov>eV1 Bales of Cotton Burp eS 'eilInsured-Loss
 2 the Building.

TycT ,ee, July 1S.-(special)-Th aft oS on about o'clock lightning struck the alliance warehouse and in a few min- utes the entire building was in flames. Fortunately rain was falling in torrents and continued until dark, or the entire block and many other buildings would have been destroyed There were about S6O bales of cotton in the warehouse.
 MT. Frank Russell lost 2S0 bales; in- surance, $5000
 c. w. Thompson twenty bales; no in- Surance.
 Judge Cobb ten bales, Willis Ligon five and A. H. Drakeford one
 Loss on building $2300; insurance $500. This was the third fire that has occurred on the same corner
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
STILL NO CLUE
To the Bold, Bad Florida Robbers-Aboui
 That Suspect

That "Suspect.'
 Lake City. Fla, July 13.-There Is still no clue to the robbers who raided this place and blew A. M. Chandler's safe open. broke the money drawer in the ticket office of the Florida Central and Peninsular railroad, and pursuit is given up. It was evidently the same gang who have been operating southward and at neighboring points for some time past There are no new developments in the matter.
 There is nothing to connect the sus- pected party with the job except that he is reported to have been about several other places raided in like manner just before it happened and to have played drunk and broke at those points as here He is supposed to. be the spotter for the gang, but may have no connection With them. His name is May. or Mays, has 8 dark complexion, is B or 40 years old, generally has one or two stallions with him and is either drunk and broke or plays it fine. He was formerly from Georgia, latterly from Suwanee county and sometimes claims to be from every where.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
time Governor Lowry would not an-

time Governor Lowry would not an- swer because he could not.
 Governor Lowry's speech was an able one, but he made no attempt to reply to most of the arguments advanced, and confined his speech almost entirely to these points which work on the preju- dices of the people, The people in this county have the free silver fever pretty badly and the larger part of the crowd was with Governor Lowry and applaud ed him lustily. Though he got much the worst of the argument, after his closing speech Governor Lowry anounced him self as a candidate for the United States senate to succeed Senator George.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
RUSSIA AND JAPAN.
A Question and Answer That May Pass Into
 History.

London. July 13.-A representative of the United Press in St. Petersburg tel egraphs that Prince Hobanoff Rostov- ski, Russian minister of foreign affairs, on the 11th instant requested MT. Nishi Tokujiro. the Japanese minister to Rus sia, to state within what period the Jap anese would evacuate the Liao-Tung peninsula The minister replied that Ja- pan would retain the territory in ques- tion until the full payment of the war indemnity and compensation for re- nouncing of Liao-Tung had been made by the Chinese government. Prince I.obanoff refused to accept this answer and at once instructed the Russian ann bassador at Tokio to ask the govern ment to name date for the withdrawal of all troops from the Chinese nain-
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
A s1an inc Connoil

Paris, July 13--In the chamber of dep uties today M. Pouruery de Boisserin, radical member for Avignon Vaucluse, to the council of the Legion of Honor. He expressed regret that the council had taken such small account of the decisions of the courts of justice in reference to the Panama canal swindles as to allow the name of M. Eiffel to remain upon the roll of members, and called upon the govern ment to introduce a bill for the reorgani- zation of the council. The motion was adopted by a vote of 43S to 2
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
The Illinois Commissioners.

Chicago, July 13.-The Illinois commits sioners of the Atlanta exposition met yesterday in the parlor of the Illinois Ma tional bank. A. s. Trude was elected president, George Schneider vice-pres.- dent. w. P. Halliday of Cairo treasurer, Willi J. Abbot secretary. The secretary was instructed to visit Atlanta and se- lect a site for the Illinois building and to commission an architect to prepare nee sssary plans for the edifice. An office will be opened in Chicago within week for the convenience of intending Illinois exhibitors
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
Grand Jury venire Quashed

Judge Thomas M. Arlington came down from Mountain creek this morning and granted the motion of Solicitor Lo- max to ouash the grand jury venire. The jury has been in session for about one week and has made several indictments It was not discovered until yesterday that the jury was unlawful, as it had a man serving on it who was not legally drawn nor summoned. The county is 5000 out of pocket by reason of the mis- take
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
NICARAGUA CANAL.
A Model Of the Project to Be Exhibited at
 Atlanta

Atlanta Ga, July 13.-Space in the transportation building of the Cotton Staes and International exposition was awarded today for a model of the Nicara- qua canal, which was exhibited in Paris. The national character of this undertak- ing and its especial importance to the de- velopment and extension of industries of the south make the exhibit of unusual interest to this section. The model is 14x40 feet in size and it represents in re- Norte on the Caribbean sea to Brito on the Pacific, showing topography, water courses and lakes. The model will be operated and arranged to show the flow of water from Lake Nicaragua. the great central reservoir, to either outlet of the canal ,.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
ANOTHER SETBACK.
httorney-GeneraI Crane Holds That the Big Eight Is lIlegal--1he Law Must
 Be Enforced.

Washington, July 13,-A special from Austin, Tex, says:
 Attorney-General Crane, in an opin- ion which will be sent to County Attor- ney Gillespie at Dallas tonight or Mon day, will hold the rbett-Ifitzsimmons fight illegal, and that the law must be enforced until declared void and in- operative by the supreme court.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
Held for Parinrx.

Before Commissioner Booth today Ram som Mcintosh and Alexander Mcintosh. two brothers, hailing from Coffee county, were tried on the charge of swearing falsely and thereby obtaining from the United States more mileage money than they were entitled to as witnesses Com missioner Booth bound them over in the sum of $2o0 each to await the. action of the federal grand jury.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
Receivers Appointed.

Chicago, July 13.-Receivers are inpos- session of the property of the Campbell Commission company. Judge Phillips in the federal court at Kansas City ap- pointed receivers yesterday on the peti- tion of the company. The liabilities are estimated at $S50,000. It is expected the assets will equal or exceed the amount.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-14
A Small Fire.

The two room frame building located near the corner of Perry and Washing ton streets caught on fire this morning at about II o'clock. The fire was extin- guished by the department before much damage was done The house had been for long time the common resort of night walkers and tramps and should have been allowed to have burned up.