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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
GOLD BRICK ARTISTS. ARRESTED.

RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 5.-Thomas H. Parker, a man arrested in Petersburg after midnight as one of the men who yesterday swindled A. w. Withers of Gloucester county out off S5000 by paIning off blocks of copper for gold bricks, was brought here at noon. Parker is thought to be the al. legged assayer of the Philadelphia mint, Hams when the deal was made Parker wore a long steel grey beard. .sJ When taken up in Petersburg his beard had been re- moved. A telegram from Lynchburg says Williams and another man interested in .tbe swindle have been arrested in that city.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
HORSES AND MULES FOR
 SALE.

We will sell 50 head of mules and horses at auction for cash on Monday and Tuesday, Jan- uary ' and g.. Sale at II a. m.
 J. M. NELL & SON,
 Morris Ave. and 24th Street.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
COLLIER DRUG CO nsnFEsHH% Ia2s Fst hzsqs 2A
RECEIVERS NOTICE.

The A6E-HERALD property is to be sold on Thursday, 10th instant, at noon. All persons having claims against the receiver will please present the same in due form before the 9th instant that they may be listed for payment.
 .'.-ss ..sai.4. FRANK V. EVANS,
 Receiver Age Herald Company.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
AN IMpORSANlrsD DEAL. !

BALTIMORE, Md.. Jan. 5. It is reported that the Seaboard Air Line is negotiating for the purchase of tue Macon and N orth- ern property. The Macon and Northern was sold Octo bers 15 last un der decree of the United States court at Macon, Ga. be- ing bought in this city by Mir. Alex Brown, represen nting the bondholders. The sale has not been confirmed by the court, but there is no doubtit- will be. Mr. Brown chairman of the bondholdersy committee, and Mir. Hoffman,, president of the Sea board Air Line, have recently held several long conferences. Both gentlemen are ab- sent from the city at the present time, and mo confirmation of the reported deal can be obtained. @- sss stiiss 5T
 The acquisition of the Macon and North ern property by the Seaboard would be looked upon as 0 ten -strike for the latter road, and if the deal is finally made con- siderable change inthe railroad situation of the south would be the result The Macon and Northern is direct line from Macon to Atlanta, a distance of 106 miles. It has been known for some time that the Sea- board Air Line desired a Florida connec ton, and the Rchemes Of purchasing the Macon and Northern and making traffic arrangement with the Georgia Southern < and Florida, which is also largely owned by Baltimoreans, is likely to be decided upon. .s.- .=
 The Georgia Southern and Florida is one of the most direct lines to Florida from Macon. It runs to Palatka and connects with the Plant system for Jacksonville. That arrangement W ould shorten the Sea-
 boards Florida route about seventy miles.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
100 pieces best calico Sc to morrow. ..'S,;1sss S;1,ss-@ :
 The Geo. Passe c Company.
 LOCALE tAcONlCS
Gathered, Noted and ndensed by Age-Rerald Reporters-General
 Resume of Happenings.

LICENSED TO WED.'-Marriage licenses were issued out of the probate judge's ot- lice yesterday to the following couples: L. P. Brown and Mrs. J. K. Mcclure, T. E. Faucett and Miss M. L. McCombs, D. Rowland and M s. Ida Glenn.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
yEsTERDAy,s TEMPERATURE.

As especially recorded hourly for tne AGE. HERALD on the standard thermometer at Hughes drug store, corner Nineteenth street and Second avenue. The hgures given are in all instances for temperature recorded in the shade and on q northern sheltered e-posure:
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
THE WEATHER.

WAsHINGToN, Jan. 5.--Forecast o! weather for the succeeding twenty-iour hours: Fair; warmer; south winds.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
NINE FURNACES BLOWN

BRADDoCK, Pa., Jan. 5.-Nine of the Edgar Thompson Steel works furnaces have been blown in, five of which are run ming full. A bout 300 of the striking ore handlers and laborers have returned to work and about 400 are yet out. Many new men have been employed. There are
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06

L. P. Brown and Mrs. J. K. McGuire, T. E. Faucett and Miss M. L. McCombs, D. Rowland and M S, Ida Glenn. THE TEAcHKRs' 'eINsTITuTE oia Jefferson ing in Birmingham at 9:30 a. m. on Thursday morning. January 3l. The teachers wilt spend the day in the public studying object lessons. At night they will proceed to business.
 WILL MEET TTHURsDAY.-The woman s auxilIary of the Commercial club will not meet on Wednesday next, as announced, but Thursday morning at O clock in the Commercial club rooms. Mrs. John M. Martin requests this announcement, as. , some may De misled. The postponement is due 10 meeting Wednesday of the Woman's Christian Temperance union.
 PAID THE TEACHERs.-Superinte McAdory plid off the teachers yesterday for the last quarter. The amount disbursed was SIP ,00o, nearly all of which will be put in circulation in Birmingham. The public schools Of the county outside of the separate school districts, Birmingham, Bessemer, Pratt City, Woodlawn and Avopdaie. s..s 9'
 HANDSOME PREsEET.-Maj. George W. Latham, the popular mixologist of the Florence, is receiving the congratulations of his friends over his good fortune in be- ing, handsome 7 remembered during the hoi- lidays by a rich aunt iu Brazil. He was the Neipient of d large Brazilian ruby of eight cafsts weight and oi most brilliant hue. It a is Seauty and of incalculable value and highlyAppreciated by its owner.
 CoNrRABAHD GOODS SOLD gallons Of ''&ildcat,1 corn whisky and two copper stills were sold at auction in front oftne postof ffice bniidixg yesterday by or- der of the collector of iGterual revenue. The whisky was knocked down to the hign- est bidder for Sl-27ls, and tbessnssr stills sold at h cen,s per pound. ~rhsN14S4n them and were sold ontylsasoold copp1 They were brought in son}e time ago sffOl Marion county.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06

For Christmas fruit cakes go to 0. W. Cody's, 1920 to 1926 Sd avenue. fe5 / p
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
PETITIONS DENIED.

CHARLESTON, $. G., Jan.9 5. 4-1n the United States circuit court today Judge Si- monton filed decrees in the eases of eA parte John L. Angers and ex-parte Joseph Wy lie, both against the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad company, The de- crees were on petitions almost identical. lIoThe petitions setforth that the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad had leased , the Chester and Lenoir railway for ninety nine years, and that at time of the lease the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta rail road agreed to pay tosthe1 stock olders of the Chester and Lenoir railroad a dividend of F per cent per year to clear It's mortgage debt and pay coupons on mortgage bonds. Subsequently it executed mortgageto the Central Trust company of New York.
 "apThe interest on this mortgage and bonds WAS paid until Jan uary, 1893; the road went yinto the hands of a receiver in Jnfy, 1893, and was sold in July, 1894 ''i 't s
 Petitioners oldlcoupons of bonds on the Chester and Lenoir rsilroada due Jan uary, 1893, that were not paid. They filed peti- tions claiming that ths payment of these coupons was part. .of the rent of the Ches- ter and Lenoir railroad and was thus part of the operating expenses of the Charl lotte, Columbia and Apgusts railroad and was gage bonds. sseF N+shsS@
 The court decided against the petition, holding that the rent under the lease is not one of those exceptional claims which are sometimes giysH precedspce over vested mOrtgageyl&sSAtt%~ss Att%~ ssss1es.e. t-.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
WITH THE RAILROADS.

 : 'adJudgments were given in Americus, Ga., taa:w days ago in favor of the following Birmingham firms against the Savannah. oAinericus and Montgomery, railroad, and the road ordered to be sold February 28 to pay of the indebtedness. w. B. Alexau- der & Co.,. $31, ,7o4.31; O.. 8. Simmons & Co.,; S10, ,133. .91; Perry Mason Shoe com pany, $20o; Tennesse Coal, Iron and Rail- road company, s7So5,6 Mary Lee Coal and Railway company, $7193, ,31; Watkins & Hardaway, SIG, ,996. T, and others. ~ SOUTHERN MOVE.
 ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 5.-The Pennsyl- vania Railroad company has.transferred the headquarters of it's southeastern division from Lexington. Ky., to Atlenta and has put MT; George R. Thompson l1 charge which comprises the states of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Florida, Geor- gia, east Alabama, east Tennessee and eastern Kentucky, with headquarters in Atlanta. MT. Thompson has already taken charge. The movement is regarded as quite significant of the turning tide to- wards the south, and it is reported that other great railroad systems will follow immediately. with their other southern headquarters in Atlanta.
 SOUTHERN RAILWAY EARNINGS.
 NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-The Southern rail way reports for November gross earnings of $1 ,772. .4l6, an increase oi s1O6 ,124; ex,, penses S1 ,093 ,252, increase SPA ,660, and net $679, 163, increase SS1 ,464; and for five m onths gross S7 or ,Si6, increase s5O3, ,597; expenses S4, ,577 ,944, decrease $1S, 6z7, and net S2, ,499, 392, increase of S522, 125. LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE DIVIDENDS.
 The St. Louis Globe Democrat prints the following dispatch from New York:
 An authority on affairs of the Louisville and Nashville said today: 'fThe talk about the resumption of dividends by the Louisville and Nashville in February is nonsense. The company owed large amount of money in July. The earnings in excess of fixed charges for the last six months have been about sufficient to liqui- date all the floating debt, so that the Louisville and Nashville can be said to be- gin the current half year in position to make earnings on the stock. It is to be hoped that the Louisville and Nashville will adopt fhe policy of the St.. Paul in re- gard to dividend disbursements; that is, will not declare a dividend until three months after the end of the year ia which the dividend is earned. This will give the company the use of the money for longer period, and will enable it to see little further into the future than when action is taken within three weeks of the end of the fiscal year :, 49 na11n sat HtsH
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27
CATCHING COLD
ls What So Many People Are Doing
Nowadays, and Thus Laying u
Foundation for Chronic ''
Catarrh.

Already the season of catching cold
is upon us. The cough and the sneeze
and the nasal twang is to be heard on
every hand. The origin of chronic
catarrh, the most common and dread
ful or chronic diseases, is cold This
is the way chronic catarrh usually be-
gins: A person catches cold, which
hangs on longer than usual. Then fol-
lows sensitiveness of the air-passages,
which fnclines one to catch cold very
easily. At last the person has cold
all the while seemingly-more or less
discharge from the nose, hawking from
the throat, nostrils stopped up, full
feeling in the head, cracking in the
ears.
The best time to treat catarrh is at
the very beginning. A bottle of Peru
ma, properly used, never fails to cure
common cold, thus preventing chronic
catarrh. While many people have been
cured of catarrh by a single bottle Of
Pe-ru-na, yet, as a rule, when the ca
tarrh becomes thoroughly fixed more
than one bottle is necessary to COM
plete cure. Pe-ru-na has cured cases
innumerable of twenty years standing.
1t is the best, if not the only, internal
remedy for chronic catarrh in ex-
istence. But prevention is far better
than cure Every person subject to
catching cold should take Pe-ru-na at
once at the slightest symptom Of cold
at this season of the year, and thus
prevent what is almost certain to end
in chronic catarrh.
Send for free book on catarrh. Ad-
dress The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacture
ing Company, Columbus, Ohio. Ask
your druggist for the Pe-ru-na AL
manac.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27


Chicago as a costumer and SO on"
"Ah!" said. ''I begin to understand.
II bought it at New York" said the
doctor; lit was easy for a doctor to
do"
why have put any in?'
1T gave a finish to the plot. You see,
| discern by your questions that YOU
have already been investigating. You
found everything all right, no doubt"
The doctor smiled.
"But you'll turned to madam
you acted by the side of the dying
pauper? You did not see him?
was not nice-but the reward was
great. We must have body so that
our death certificates would be all
right. 1t was my husbands idea"
You see" smiled the husband,
there is free trade in the United States
only in dead bodies. We had not been
prosperous, so we decided on a coup.
1t retrieved our fortunes; and here we
are In Paris for good and all-or else
should not be telling you this story so
frankly. We do not intend to return
to New York"
But tell me what was the profit that
induced you to try, so ghastly a-a-"
doctor. Il hold that fraud on the Gus
toms is no fraud"
But the profit?"
"Figure for yourself" said madam;
1900 pounds weight of lace packed
tight In the casket, say thirty yards to
the pound, 5000 yards, worth, including
the handkerchiefs and similar tribes,
saved. 1t was worth doing, don't you
think?'
'I call it very hard earned money"
1 said, as 1 bowed and left the table.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27
To California without CHANGE
via EEThe MiIyyaukeey

On every Saturday during the winter.
an elegant Pullman Tourist Sleeper
will leave Minneapolis (8:25 a. m.), st.
Paul (S:35 a. m.), and arrive Los An
geles, California, at 6:3O p. m. follow
ing Wednesday.
Via 'The Milwaukee's" famous He'd
rick Route" to Kansas City, thence via
the A, T.. & S. F. Ry. through South
ern California.
A most delightful winter route to the
coast.
Quicker time is made via this route
between ST. Paul and Minneapolis and
California than via any other line.
Rate per double berth, $500 through
from st. Paul and Minneapolis
Leave st. Paul and Minneapolis every
Saturday morning, arriving Los An
geles every Wednesday afternoon.
For berths, complete information
and lowest rates, apply to 1.-The Mil
waukee" agents, st. Paul or Minneap-
oils, or address
j. T. Conley,
Asst Gen1 Pass. Agt.,
st. Paul, Mimi
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27

mystery, innocent in itself, might be
all that was wrapped up in the lead
en- Ncasket. l remembered the widow S
beauty, her fearful eyes, her thrilling
my mind that L would not bel the one
to unveil her. 1 admitted to myself
that an empty coffin in ones house
and death certificate in ones pocket
are q horrible onbination of tempta-
tions toward putting an enemy out of
the way; but l quieted my conscience
with the assertion that if lovely Mrs.
Burns had an enemy he certainly de-
served his fate merely because he was
her enemy.
Thus did I juggle with my duty and
palter with the straight path.
Two years passed by. I still Won
dered at times what unhappy corpse it
was that was masquerading in the
Brooklyn cemetery under the tomb
stone Of Samuel Burns, but new prob
lens had risen to give zest to life, and
| was no longer restless about it.
In fact, at the particular time l am
now writing of I was amusing myself
memories of either dead or live people.
One night I was dining at The Bris-
tol, when whom should 1 see at the
next table but Mrs. Burns. She had
as full Of energy as an electric motor,
and as beautiful as Cleopatra. Her
companion, l assumed, was her hus-
band, as he paid more attention to the
dinner. than his lady. 1 went and sat
beside her.
':Who is in that coffin at Brooklyn ?''
I asked, as graciously as could. st
am curious
Mrs. Burns started. of Course; so did
her companion. Then they both
let us tell M. LIE Consul, Marie"
said he; there is something funny in
the tale
''It is not exactly nice story, after
ALL said madam, in French. 'tBut
shall hear all. My husband over
there"-pointing across the tablets
DR.. Fernand, once. of New York I
have been known as Nine. Clementine,
and have had a large. business at
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27
New Fast California Train.

On Oct. 29 the Santa Fe Route will
inaugurate new and strictly first-cIass
service from Chicago to Southern Cali
fornia.
The California Limited will leave
Kansas City at 900 a. m. daily. reach
ing Los Angeles and San Diego in two
and one-half days and San Francisco
in three days. thus reducing the time
half a day.
Equipment will consist of superb new
vestibuled Pullman palace and COM
partment sleepers, chair car and din
ing car, through from Chicago to Los
Angeles without change. Entire train
lighted by Pintsch gas.
This viii be the fastest and most
luxurious service via any line to Cali
fornia. The present train leaving Chi
cago at 1890 p. m. will be continued.
carrying through palace sleeper and
tourist sleeper to San Francisco, and
tourist sleeper to Los Angeles.
Full particulars. obtained by address,
ing c. C. CARPENTER,
513 Guaranty Loan Bldg,
Minneapolis, MINI.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27

and then have found a husband to die
IN the nick of time?'
"Lor', sir, you don't mean she MUIR
dered he? And yet there be a. tidy few
or them sorts about now," and the
woman looked about as If she expected
70 descry murdress strolling along
the pavement
'The undertaken who carried the cof-
fin from the house to the cemetery.
and thence the next day forwarded it
liverpool, had little to tell. When his
men got to the house they found the
lead coffin already sealed up and plac-
cd In Its outer casing, and all they did
was to move 1t as above described.
All papers were legally in order. The
undertaken said he would like more
such profitable and easy jobs.
MY Inquiries on this side of the water
We're over; but I was determined to
find out the contents of that coffin. I
therefore wrote a friend in New YORK,
a. physician Of influence, asking him
quietly to trace the destination of the
mysterious box, giving him full par
ticplars as to steamer, date, etc. In
due, time came his answer. 1 print it
in full:
our letter in re coffin has had at
1tention. Records of health bureau
show permit to land body Of Samuel
Burns and move same to Brooklyn.
Records of latter place show interment
'at'fGreenwood next day. With trifing
difficulty, owing to inability to give
adequate reason, obtained permission
to disinter. Found therein body of
man, but no further particulars noted.
Y ours faithfully, -
Who was the man in the coffin?
L thought the whole matter over.
and came to the conclusion that I
would not put the matter before the
authorities. The porter might have
been in error asto buying body from
Mrs. Burns, or some painful family
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27

beautiful, and no mistake, and spent
her money like a queen. She felt it
very much, coming in like that-not
even in time to get a word from her
husband. One word, one kiss she
says, that would have made it so
much easier; I should feel so much
happier
1 left the matron in state of be-
wilderment. It was I that was be-
wildered, not the matron. I could not
make it out. At noon Mrs. Burns was
weeping over Burns at the workhouse,
and at a she was giving away his body
like old junk. An idea came, and
laughed. I could not help it. I saw
the whole thing now. She had made
a mistake in the man, and had discov-
cred the little error after she got the
corpse to her home. But no! If that
were so, why had she come to me the
next day? Why had she carried the
coffin to New York?
1 stopped speculating and went on
inquiring. I found that she had taken
the house that the matron had told me-
Of, furnished, for g. month, that a gen.
tleman whom she called her brother
was with her, that they had had no
servant, but only a charwoman; that
they were quiet, liberal people, and
that the lady had had a great and un-
expected sorrow in the tragic death
of a husband she had not seen for a
long time. The charwoman was ex-
tremely dull, but remembered the
largesse Of Mrs. Burns with rapture
'eYes, sir. Mrs. Burns come theerE VIII
a packing box big as a 'ouse, and like
wise she had a mourning dresses VII
her when she come, I see 'em in her
baskets
1T never struck you as odd, I sup
pose" I queried, that Mrs. Burns
should have come here with coffin in
her luggage and lot of black clothes,
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27
A Hint to the Wise.

New York World.
They had been sitting on the sofa for
an hour, and he had been telling her
the same old thing that so NANNY men
have told so many times to so many
women. And he had been working for
a kiss-a kiss that from her red lips
would have been worth so much. But
the stronghold was hard to capture,
for in wit she was his equal, and he
had almost given up hope. At length
she gave a merry little toss of her we'll
shaped head and said:
Bah! The game is not worth the
candle"
He got up from his seat beside her.
waXen taper and blewi out the light.
1t was one case where ignorance
would have robbed him of bliss, and it
was wisdom to be wise
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27
Mr.. Tetter,s Philosophy.

New York World.
''Unthinking people use great many
expressions in speaking and writing
which offend the critical ear re-
marked Mr.. letter Take the advice
to put ones best foot foremost, which
is often heard. In the first place, the
superlative degree of the adjective con-
veys the idea to the grammarian that
human beings have at least three feet,
which is not true. Then consider what
a queer sort of locomotion is suggested,
if it could be called locomotion at all.
The advice presupposes that one foot
is better than the other, and says the
better one must always be put for
ward. Now, will you kindly tell me
how anybody is to walk with one foot
continually in advance of the other?
1t cannot be done at all, which shows
how thoughtless people are who give
such advice. There are good many
other expressions which I object to
very seriously. and 1 will tell you about
them some other time"
Selahi
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27
All Spoiled.
Judge

Dear old Mrs. B., of Louisville, KY,
is a, pious Methodist, and the mother
of six grown-up children, all devout
followers of Wesley. Last week she
CHANGED to see her friend Mrs. c. dress
ing her young hopeful for dancing
school. She exclaimed, with ever-in-.
creasing animation:
Now, Sallie, that's waste of mon
ey. Didn't I send all my daughters to
dancing school? And they danced
lovely, too. And when 1 got through
paying their bills and they were ready
to enter society, if they didn't every
one go and join the church and throw
your money, child
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27
Finances Very Low.

New York Weekly.
Wife, hear that the last number of
the Weekly Humor has lot of jokes
about donation parties. 1 think it
would please the congrega ton if you
should write the editor an indignant
letter on the subject
Struggling Minister can't afford
the stamp, my dear. You forget that
we have just been through a donation
party ourselves.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27
The IOmaha Lin,ited.y

Leaves Minneapolis 7:4O p. m. daily.
Leaves st. Paul S:15 p. M daily.
Arrives Omaha 9:25 a. m. daily.
For tickets and sleeping car accommo-
dations call on agents, 395 Robert
street, corner Sixth, st. Paul; Is Nicollet
House Block, Minneapolis, or Union
Depots in both cities.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27

He swore, with kiss, that he could
not refrain,
told him twas rude-but he kissed
me again;
My conduct, ye fair ones, in question
ne'er call,
Nor did I think wrong-I did nothing
at all!
Resolved to resist, yet inclined to COM
ply,
leave it for you to say, ''Fie, Shep-
herd, fien' Anon
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-27

He told me his fondness, like Time,
should endure,
That beauty which kindled his flame
twould secure,
That all my sweet charms were for
= homage designed
And youth was the season to love and
be kind.
Lord, what could I say, I could hardly
deny,
herd fiep'