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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-16
FOR SALE.

$350-105x432 4-room house. well, etc., on dummy line near Fair grounds. A snap. Call at once.
 $550-Choce corner lot at Woodawn, 50 feet front, on East Lake dummy neat cot tage, well, etc., between Lucille and Fulton stations. Reasonable terms.
 $2400 cash-ciood broom house, bath, etc.. fronting east on Eighteenth street, near Fifth avenue.
 $1000-Twelve acres, 4-room house, magnifi- cent spring, half mile from electric car line at Jonesville, mostly under cultivation. $1S00-Forty acres on macademized road at East Lake, convenient to car line, all under cultivation. A beautiful place, well watered $300-50X200, 4-room house, East Lake, fronting south on dummy line.
 $. E. THOMPSON, aug6-tf 215 Fist street.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-16

Colonel Dcnson to Speak at East Lake. Col. w. H. Denson will speak at East Lake next Tuesday in favor of free sii- yer. He comes at the invitation of the Jefferson County Free Silver league of which Dr. R. s. Greene is president. Hon. H. H. Brown has been requested to reply to Colonel Denson, and if he consents the cause of sound money will find in him an able champion.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-16

Returned Fisherman.-The following gentlemen who have been spending sev- eral days fishing at Musgrove's old mill on Blackwater creek, six miles from Jas per, have returned to the city: Messrs. J. c. Musgrove, J. D. Miller, R. D. Bur ne4t, O. F. Freeman, Will Love. Thomas Jeffers A. J. Sullivan, Mourton and Hudgins. They report great time.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-16

Fireworks at East Lake Thursday night, August g, at 9 o'clock. Biggest display of the season. Thirty-six coaches will be in waiting to bring the crowd back. Seven through cannon ball trains and two To- calls. See bill boards.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-16

Rapid Freight Handling.-The express and baggage men at the union depot made great record this morning. There were 1000 packages of express to go north on Louisville and Nashville passenger train No 1, besides the average amount of baggage. The entire shipment was checked and loaded in twelve minutes after the train rolled under the she'd
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-16

Big Block of Ore.-At the Greene Spring ore mines yesterday the miners blasIcd ont a solid block of ore as big as an electric car and weighing thirty tons. It split from the vein like an oak rail. It is rare that so large block is mined without breaking. The Tennessee com pany will include it in their Atlanta ex- hhit if it can be handled, and if not then Q photograph will be taken and the dimensions given.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-16

Money in Laundries.-On one block in the city are two steam laundries. The proprietor of one owns valuable real es- tate in the city and is accounted a wealthy man. The proprietor of the other has just sold out for $15. .000 The plant cost S1000C. A great deal of work Is sent to Birmingham from other towns. There is money in the laundry business The machinery is now so perfect that but little hand labor is necessary. Before long the steam laundry will do work cheaper than the wash women. The days of the scrub board are numbered.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-16

Postponed One Week.-The proceedings against the several justices of the peace in the inferior court were postponed un- til next Thursday. A demurrer was filed by Lawyer Kennedy, attorney for Justice J. M. Leonard and argued, but no de- cision was rendered.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-16
LOCAL LACONlCS
Gathered, Noted and Condensed by Age Herald Reporters General Resume
 of the Days Happenings.

A Slight Wreek.-The westbound Southern train, due here at 10:20 o'clock last night. was one hour late owing to a slight freight wreck at Iron City.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-16
ADVANCE IN LUMBER.
The Southern Association Puts Up the Price of
 Standard Grades.

Memphis, Tenn, Aug. 15.-The price of all standard lumber was advanced today at the closing session of the Southern Lumber Manufacturers association. The price list adopted, to take effect on Sep tember 1, is based on a 22 cent freight
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-16

COR SALE-S4 ,500 residence, rooms, 2 I servant rooms, hot and cold water and gas, 65x220; 14th avenue and Fist street. South Highlands. w. B. Leedy & Co.,, 114l2 21st street. S-2-u
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-16
BUSINESS CHANGES.

CSQO 10 $100 easily made by speculation. JOOU Address Pattison & Co.,. Omaha build ing. Chicago. 6-2-d&sun I'm
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

PATENTS. n BYRNE, Patent Solicitor. r, Procures American and Foreign Patents. 1s21Ia Second avenue, Birmingham, Ala.
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members had achieved under different
management The artistic success of
the company, while overshadowing the
financial success, reflects to a very
great degree upon the consistent and
conscientious methods pursued by Mr..
Neill as the stage director of the COM
pany. During the past five or six
years the leading dramatic critics
throughout the United States, and the
better class of theater-goers, have be-
moaned the gradual degeneration of
stage productions as offered by Amer
lean managers. In this respect the
MANAGEMENT of the Giffen and Neill
company has been an exception to the
rule. The productions have invariably
appealed to that portion of the theater-
going public which patronizes and ad-
mires the better class of plays and
plavers. In all it's long and diversified
repertoire, the Giffen and Neill COM
pany has at no time catered to the adj
mirers of sensationalism and eXagger-
alton.
AS a fitting climax the company de-
cided by a popular vote to present, as
a complimentary testimonial to Man
ayers Robert Lawrence Giffen and
James NSlll, OlN hOiludy AiShl, ilo
first success during the st. Paul en-
gagement, Dion Boucicaults masterful
comedy, 1.-The Jilt." This comedy Is
conceded by competent critics to be
one of the greatest creations of
Boucicaults fertile mind. The play
has not been done throughout the
country in recent years, presumably on
account of its long and eXacting cast,
and it is doubtful if any other stock
company outside of New York city
could have presented this charming
comedy to the same advantage as
characterized the Giffen & Neill COM
pany's first appearance in St. Paul.
The scenic artist and stage artisans
best skill, as well as a company of
talented players, are requisite to
proper production of 1.-The Jilt" When
the Giffen & Neill company first pre-
scented the comedy in Milwaukee, Mr..
Lift telegraphed instructions TO his
local manager to spare no expense in
the preparation of both scenery and
stage accessories.
"lrhA 1ilt'' fairly hristles with good
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books. She was therefore packed off
to one of the best schools in En-
gland, where she remained until last
year, when, her father having scored
a great success as member of
Richard Mansfield's company, she
came over to this country.
Miss Gretchen's first American en-
gagement was in the company of
Edwin Milton Royle, with whom she
remained during the entire season,
playing the part of Jennie Merry
Wether in the comedy drama
Friends" so we'll that she received
eXtravagant praise for her work
from critics in all parts of the coun-
try. Miss Lyons is now with the
summer stock company at the Acad-
envy Of Music, Quebec. She has been
cast for the ingenue and soubrette
roles in a large number of the stand
ard comedies. For next season Miss
Lyons has not decided which of the
offers under consideration she will
accept.
In appearance Miss Lyons is at
tractive, although she it not, strictly
speaking, pretty. She is very viva
cious, and her stage work is marked
by much of the originality of con-
ception for which her father is noted
She ought to win even greater tri-
umphs in her chosen profession.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-14
GRETCHEN LYONS.
Bern to the Stage, She Has Made
Il Success of Her Profession.

Bern to the Stage, She Has Made
II Success of Her Profession.
Gretchen Lyons may be said to
have been born on the stage, as her
parents were professional people,
and the stuffy atmosphere of the
green room and the panty smell
of the flies are more familiar to her
than the odor of the fields and the
air of the country.
Miss Lyons made her mundane
debut in London a, little more than
seventeen years ago. Her father, E.
D. Lyons, was then, as he is now,
one of the best character actors on
the English-speaking stage, and lit
tie Gretchen appeared to have in
herited his ability. When she was
five years of age the embryo ingenue
made her first appearance in the
company of the celebrated Kate
Bateman, in the English metropolis.
This was followed by long engage
ment under the managerial banner
of Augustus Harris, during which
she played child parts in ''Pluck"
and other comedies. Miss Lyons next
role was in that elaborate but alb
surd panorama, Human Nature"
which was foolishly denominated a
play, and which later enjoyed some
success in this country under the
title of THE Soudan."
At about this time Miss Lyons
parents decided that instead of act
ing and studying lessons she must
give up the former temporarily and
devote herself exclusively to her
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-14

ibald Clavering Gunter's romantic so
ciety melodrama, Mr.. Barnes of New
York. The present summer stock
season has been without question the
most artistic with which the theater-
going public of St. Paul has been favor
ed during the past five years. There
have been companies stronger in name,
perhaps, but none whose performances
have b EN- characterized by the artistic
finish and absolute smoothness which
has been the charm of the Giffen and
Neill productions. The present season
will undoubtedly be remembered as a
prominent epoch in the history of all
other stock offerings.
AS fitting climax to the brilliant
stock season Manager George A.
Kingsbury and the members of the
Giffen and Neill organization have de-
cided to give magnificent production
of Dion Boucicault's great dramatic
achievement 1.-The Jilt' at the Grand
tomorrow night The fact that the
artistic offerings of the Giffen and
Neill company have been appreciated
by the better class of theater-goers in
st. Paul IS evidenced by the character
of the patronage accorded the company
since it's initial performance in the
early spring. The company came to st.
Paul practically unknown, save for the
individual reputation which various
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-14

Empire Lumber company, of Winona
| This makes a total of 100 shipments
/ this season, thirteen going out the
past week.
Miss Blanche Kenyon returned Fri
day from -Olmsted county, where she
J has been teaching school, and is enter
tanning Miss Minnie House, of that
place.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Kuhn are home
from an extended visit to relatives
| and friends in New York and Ohio
j. o. Holen and family returned yes
terday from a visit to Sleepy Eye and
New Ulm.
Joseph Wolf is in LIE Sueur. called
thither by the serious illness of his
brother.
The ladies of the Methodist church
gave a very successful ice cream social
on the parsonage grounds Thursday
evening.
Eller McKeller and family are en-
camped at Camp Lincoln, Mahtomedi.
H. II. Gillen leaves Tuesday for Lon
don, England, to attend the supreme
court of Foresters. He will make an
extended trip through the British isles
before returning home.
Senator w. c. Masterman and fam
lily and Mrs. T. G. Clark were the
guests of Capt. T. G. Clark at Lake
view the past week
Mrs. Bicknell Hall and son. of Med
loiu, MASS, are VISITING relatives mere.
Samuel Mcclure left Wednesday
evening on a visit to his daughters in
Montreal.
Mr.. and Mrs. James WEIGH and fam
lily, Mrs. Henry Copp and children,
Miss Annie Payne and David Burke
left Tuesday on a visit to New Bruins
wick.
Mrs. Joseph P. Berkly is visiting
John Disch and family in Iowa.
Mrs Charles Ries and children arc
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. AL Simonet,
of Little Falls.
Mrs. T. H. Warren and son were the
guests of Lake City friends last week
Mrs. r. c. Wight left the first of the
week on an extended trip abroad.
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SALTWATER.
Log Stealing Cases Go Over
Prison City Social.

Wy SoSisti.
James Matthews, Joseph Crick and
Charles T. Goodrich We're arraigned in
the district court yesterday on the
various indictments charging them
with forgery or manipulation of log
scales They all pleaded not guilty
and their cases will go over until Sept.
10 for trial. Goodrich and Matthews
the sum of $4,000, with Thomas j.
Burke and John F. Burke as sureties.
Goodrich gave individual bonds for
1850, with A. w. Pattee, Ludwig
Simonet, Gilmore Lowell sod T: G.
Kitty as signers. This is in addition
to the $4,000 bail on which he was re-
leased few days previously. Crick' S
bonds were fixed at $500, which were
signed by Oscar Shepley, of Minneap-
oils The defendants attorneys are j.
W. Castle, of this city, and John Day
Smith and William Parsons, of Min
neapoliS.
Another handsome and substantial
brick block will be added to the bust
ness portion of the city. 1t will be
erected by Mrs. Elizabeth Drechsler
on her property on South Main street.
The board of equalization finished its
labors yesterday afternoon, increasing
the personal property valuation of the
city by $83, 420, making a total of $685.,
2S4 The real estate remains the same
as before, being assessed at $3,77O, 294.
The Saltwater Cycle club was organ
lied Friday evening, with the following
officers: President and secretary, W.
T. Hutchins; vice president, l.. E. Kin
ney; treasurer, H. G. Robertson. The
club starts out with a membership of
sixteen.
Warden Wolfer is in Granite Falls
on business connected with the prison
Irvine industry.
A steamboat excursion will convey
a number of visitors to Camp Lake
view today.
The Meta Durant and Musser de-
parted with RATS yesterday for the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-14
FOOTLIGHT FLASHES,

1t is said that Laura Biggar made
an excellent impression in st. Paul.
Mimi, in the leading feminine role
in Hoyt's "a Black Sheep" company.
She only received the part from
Playwright Hoyt two days previous
to her appearance in the role, study
ing en- route, and with one rehearsal
upon her arrival therein. Y. Clipper
Who said it Is the question for the
Clipper to answer, maSmuch as Miss
Fanny Johnson appeared in the
leading feminine role the entire week
in st. Paul, and Miss Laura Biggar
was not in the cast.
Jacob Lifts star attraction next sea-
son will be his big and costly produc-
ton of c. T. DazePs latest successful
American play, 1.-The War of Wealth."
which was produced in Philadelphia
last spring with such great results.
81 will give this play" said Mr.. Lit
recently, ''the finest production ever
given an American drama, and I'll
venture to say that 1t will be the
most complete and expensive dramat-
ic organization in America
Nelson Lewis was Clipper caller
July 6. Mr.. Lewis requests us to cor
rect a statement which appeared re-
Gently, in which he was credited with
being the husband of Agnes 3. Thorpe,
who he states, is not his wife.-NeW
York Clipper. The G. o b e repub-
fishes this paragraph for the benefit of
both parties.
Manager Henry c. Miner has cabled
to Manager ]. Charles Davis, of the
Fifth Avenue theater, that i'll health
will prevent the proposed American
tour of Eleanora Duse, under his man.
agement, the coming season. He adds
that tour may be arranged for the
season following.
Mrs, Minnie Maddern Fiske has
signed a contract with Henry Green
wall & Co. to star under their manage
ment for several years. Harrison Grey
Fiske will adapt q French play for her
use, and the tour will begin in October.
Olga Nethersoie will produce for the
first time. at the Hollis Street theater,
Boston, Mass, Nov. 49, Henry Hamil
tons dramatization of Prosper Meri-
mee's Carmen" Miss Nethersole will
appear at the Grand opera house in
St. Paul this season.
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MUSICAL MELANGE.

Miss Nellie Hope, soprano of the
First Baptist church, leaves this week
for Boston and New. York, where she
will take a course of musical studies.
She will return in September.
At st. Mary's Catholic church. this
morning the offertory will be a spe-
cial musical number. Gounod's ave
Maria will be rendered, arranged for
cello solo, with violin obligato and
organ accompaniment. Martin Blum
enthal, of New York, will play the
cello, and George Danz the violin,
while Miss Shave will preside at the
organ. This beautiful arrangement
will no doubt be splendidly rendered,
and will please.
The bones of John Sebastian Bach
have been discovered at Leipzig. He
was buried in the Thomas cemetery of
that city AS years ago, but within this
century a street was built through the
place and the grave obliterated, along
with a number of others.
The relatives of the late Franz Won
Suppe deny the statement that he was
of Slavic descent, as has been fire.
quently stated. They assert that the
family were originally German, who
emigrated to Belgium. Suppe's grand
father emigrated to Cremona and later
to Spalato, where the eminent COM
poser was born. l.. DE l..
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humor and the dazzling wit for which
the great playwright was noted. It's
story has been so recently reviewed
at length in these colussls that any
extended description here would be but
repetition. Any theme drawing upon
the multiform history of the race
track is absorbing, and it is this phase
of English life that is represented by
the characters in 1.-The Jilt." All the
events and persons in it are associated
with and lead UP to the climax in the
race for the Yorkshire cup. The people
one meets in 1.-The silt' are real
men and women-the men and women
we meet in everyday life-people we
learn to love for their good qualities,
and the people we despise for their
treachery. The cast in the coming pro-
duction will be practically the same
as originally presented by the Giffen &
Neill organization in st. Paul. Miss
Crosman will appear as Millicent, Mr..
Neill as Sir Dudley Woodstock, Miss
Kate Blancke as Kittie Woodstock
Anne Blancke as Phyllis Welter, Mr..
Perry as Godfrey Tudor, Mr.. Fischer
as Col. Tudor, Mr.. Herschel Mayall as
Sir Marcus Wylie, Mr.. Dade as the
Rev. Mr. Spooner, Robert Morris as
James Daisy and John B. Maher in
his hit of the stock season, as Myles
O'Hara. The play will be admirably
staged, as all the special scenery built
and painted for the original Milwaukee
production by the Giffen & Neill COM
pany will be used.
That the artistic offerings of this
company have been appreciated by the
residents of st. Paul is evidenced by
the large advance sale for the berEfit
performance to be rendered Managers
Giffen and Neill. The boxes and de-
sirable seats have already been Sc
cured by the company's admirers, and
the audience tomorrow night will I'M
questionably be large and representa-
tive of the most desirable element.
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25c Figured China Silks, Monday at
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25c Colored Henrietta, 36-inch width,
Monday at 1219c per yard.
25c Dress Plaids and Flannels, Mon
day at 12115c per yard.
Hundreds of Remnants of Wool
Dress Goods Monday at Half-Price.
Remnants of Wash Goods at Half
Price.
Sc Light Prints Monday at 212c per
yard.
&c Dress Prints Monday at Sc per yard.
SC Ginghams Monday at 219c per yard.
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121Ec Vienna Crepon Monday at G15c
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10c Gingham Crepon Monday at sc
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10c Printed Lawn and Jaconet Nom
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10c Printed Ducks Monday at SC per
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15c Printed Pique Monday at SC per-
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15c Figured Sateens Monday at nc
per yard.
25c Figured French Sateens Monday
at 121ac per yard.
35c Figured French Sateens Monday
at 1779c per yard.
Remnants of &c Towelings Monday at
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Remnants of 1880 Towelings Monday
at &C per yard.
Remnants of 40c Turkey Red Table
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at half-price.
Remnants of Embroideries Monday
at half-price.
Remnants of Lace Curtainings Mon
day at half-prlce.
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price.
Remnants of all kinds of Laces Mon
day at balf-price.
Remnants of Ribbons Monday at half
price.
26>inch Corola Silk Sun Umbrellas
Paragon frames and steel-tipped. as.
sorted handles, and good value at 50. OO
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26-inch Gloria Silk Sun Umbrellas
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26-inch Fast Black Twill Sun I'm.
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FAREWELL OF THE GIFFEN AND
NELL STOCK COMPANY To-
MORROW NIGHT.
BENEFIT OF THE MANAGERS.
TWO MELODIoUS AND POPULAR
OPERAS AT THE METROPOL-
ITAN THIS WEEK.
hBoHEsIIAN GIRL,,AND ..FALKA,,
New Living Pictures to Be Pre-
scented by the WiIburs-Their
Great Success-GOssip.

Last night the Giffen & Neill Stock
company closed it's season in st.
Paul, much to the regret of all who
esteem the dramatic art and admire
it's opponents. The work of this
organization during. its stay in st.
Paul has been such as to stamp it's
individual members as artists and it's
managers as men Of refined tastes,
and most commendable ambition.
1t is unnecessary at this late day to
review in detail the admira BILE
achievements of this company dur
ing the past three months. To mere
ly refer to the performances of The
Jilt,, "A Scrap of Paper" Nancy
and Company" Young Mrs. Win
throp,' London Assurance and
''All the Comforts Of Home" is
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of the principal opera house at Alex
andria, Egypt, and since his arrival in
this country has made reputation for
himself all over the continent.
Miss Sophie Straka, the oldest of the
young ladies, was born in Alexandria
in 1868 during her fathers professional
engagement there. Receiving her earl
Ter musical education from the father,
who soon noticed a remarkable apti-
tude of his pupil, she was later on
placed under the care of the best mas
ters of San Francisco. Acquiring a
rare skill for conducting an orchestra
and for the mastery Of the violin, she
later took charge of one Of the orig
inal ladies' orchestras which travelled
over this country, achieving remark
able successes. From 1878 to SO she
pursued a professional career, and then
came to this city with her parents.
During her six years residence in st.
Paul she has won friends who count
legion. She has appeared at the most
important local concerts in solo work
winning fresh laurels on every appear
ance. At present she has large class
of apt pupils, who are making rapid
progress under her guidance.
Miss Stella Straka was born in San
Francisco in 1880. Although but fif-
teen years of age, she has mastered saa