Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-27
ASHVILLE.
Entertaining Exercises of Ashville Acads
 my-Baby Badly Burned.


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 Ashville. May 25.-(Special Corre- spondenee.)-The closing exercises of Ashville academy were held yesterday and last night, winding up prospectus session of the school-one of the most prosperous in the history of the insti- tuition.
 During the day people from all over the country, as well as a number from a distance, kept pouring into town, until the court house, where the exercises were held, was packed and damned, as if an elaborate discussion of free silver vs. sound money was going on and eV- cry one was to receive pocket full or free silver. The crowd in attendance at the evening hour was larger still, the immense gathering being not alone at tributable to the greater interest which had been awakened in the school but to the fact that several of our dlstln- guished citizens were booked Tor speeches. notably Hons. John w. lnzer and James A Embry and Col. John A. Inzer, and no one was disappointed.
 Prizes were awarded MT. w. F. Davis of Ilashain and Miss May Millican. ac- complshed daughter of the Rev. J. T. Millican, pastor of the Methodist Epis- copaT church, south, of this, city, for the best oratory and elocution of the even ing, by a committee consisting of Hon. John w. 1nzer of this city, Prof. Joe Darlington of Walnut Grove and Prof. Trotter Moore of Steele'S. Hon. John W. Inzer announced the decision of the committee in his usual characteristc style. Hon. James A. Embry presented the prize, set of standard works, elap- orately bound, to MT. Davis in mas terly manner Col John A. lnzer, our rising young county solicitor, always ready as a gallant knight to please the fair sex, was called on to present the prize, a handsome gold medal, to MISS Millcan, which duty he performed with the grace of goldbug placing ms goid into United States bonds.
 Prog E. B. Moore, the principal, was z 70 heard from, and his conduct Of the school during the past session, ably as sisted as he has been by Miss Minnie Woodall of Springville, has. given him high place in the estimation or our people.
 The exercises were of the usual char acter but showed throughout that they were the result of systematic effort skillful training and unremitting atten- tion on the part of the faculty.
 One day this week little child of MT. Dick Lindsay, near this city, fell in the fire at the home of its father, and was badly burned about the head and neck. The burns were treated by Dr. John B. Bass, and at last accounts the child was alive and, 1t is thought, will recover.
 Dr. J. c. Cason, a prominent physician of Coal City, was stricken with an apo pectic fit one day the past week and pros- trated for the time. His brother, pr. D. F. Cason of this place, and his nephew, Dr. Eugene P. Cason, of Ragland, has tened to his relief and the sick physi- clan is recovering, though still suffering from the shock.
 A difficult surgical operation was sue cessfully performed at Coal City Monday by Dr. R. D. Berry, lecturer on micros- copy, bacteriology, normal and patho- logical histology of the Birmingham Medical college, in extracting a necrosAl bone from the leg of MT. Barber. The doctor was assisted by Dr. D. F. Cason of this city and pr. E. P. Cason of Ragland. Several similar operations have been tried on the same limb, but with varying success.
 Miss Mamie Nisbet of Jacksonville, who has been the charming guest of Misses Mary Ashley and Otis Greene for the past week, is now visiting in Gadsden, Ala.
 Miss Otis Ligon, for several months past the guest of Miss Della Robinson, has returned to her home in Meridian, Miss.
 Prof. P L. Acton of TrussviIe high school spent Sunday last in this city with friends, en route to Houston, Tex. Messrs. A. Johnson Wyatt, Jerome and Deronda Edmondson of Birmingham came up on their bikes one day this week and returned, making the trip in about three hours.