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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
HUNGRY ON AN OCEAN LINER.
Didn't Know What "BreaIxfast" Meant and
 So Got Nothing to Eat.

When a man who is on board a big ocean going steamship, with his fare paid for all the seryi ,e of first cabin, goes without eating for .24 hours, it is usually because he is seasick, but that was not the case with Weber. Weber, after serving his full time in the German army, decided to do as thousands of his countrymen had done and come to America. He thought New Orleans would be nice place to make his home, but there were no steamers leaving German ports for New Orleans, so Weber decided to buy ticket for New York and then to re.embark for the southern port. He landed in New York all right and found that his boat for the south was to leave the same night. Tho task of getting his baggage through the custom house, purchasing his ticket and getting aboard the second boat kept him so busy that he had no time to get anything to cat. As soldier he knew how to fast and decided to wait until the morning meal. So he sought his stateroom and went soundly to sleep He was awakened in the morning by the sound, as he called 1t, of tomtom beaten with considerable force. Opening the stateroom door, Weber looked out and saw big negro walking down the corri dor, beating a gong and calling in loud tones, Breakfast, breakfast!'
 Now, Weber knew half a dozen conti- mental languages, but he did not know English. Having heard that Americans were half savage race and feeling by the rolling of the ship that she was out at sea, he thought that the negro and the gong were part of some propitiatory rite to Nep tune. But the word breakfast" puzzled him, and he determined to find what it meant. Getting out his dictionary, Weber looked for ''breakfast. :" It was an hour before he found tho right word and dis covered its meaning. Then he made a nasty toilet and rushed to the dining room, only to find the door closed and breakfast over.
 The morning passed. He had had noth- ing to eat since noon of the day before and was getting decidedly hungry. He did not want to be cheated again, and getting out his German dictionary learned tho English equivalents for all the words he could think of that had anything to do with eat ing
 At Il o'clock the negro and tho gong again appeared. This time the negro was shouting, Lunch lunchl"
 "Lunch" was not in Weber's gastro- nomical vocabulary, and for a time he did
 
 thing to do with tho dining room. Then he searched his dictionary. It was q small ono and did not contain the word. An hour was spent in the search. Then he reasoned that if the negro and the gong meant something to eat tho first time they appeared it was probable they meant the same on tho second occasion. So he hur- ried off to the dining room. The doors were just being closed when he got there.
 Determined not 10 be cheated again, Weber dpcidod to watch the negro for tho rest of tho day. All tho afternoon ho trailed him about the ship. At o'clock the negro picked up the gong Weber dashed for the dining room.
 ''Dinnerl'' shouted the negro.
 'sHumphl said Weber. II need not havo worried. knew that word. ''-Chi cago Tribune.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
II IMPROVING.
Receiving the Best of Attention From the. Japanese-Chinese Con-
 tinue to Suffer Defeat.

LONDON, March 29.-The Times has this dispatch from 5imonoseki; ''Li Hung Chang progresses admirably, and the con- ters of sympathy, presents and deputa- tions continue to arrive from all classes of the Japanese community.
 "The Japanese physician. Issugurd, who is attending Lii, reports the favorable pro- gress of his patient. The antiseptic treat ment is fully effectual and there is no discharge from the wound. The pulse and temperature are normal and no further anxiety need be felt"
 The Times is informed from Shanghai: uAdmiral Ito bombarded the east forts of Pong Hu of the Pesadores islands on March 23. A thousand troops were landed and attacked the Saime fort which domi- mated the others. The Chinese evacuated it during the night and the Japanese en- tered it at 6 o'clock the next morning. They turned the guns on the other forts, but got no reply. One of the western forts exploded before it was taken. thousand Chinese were captured, the re- mainder was allowed to escape to the junks. The Japanese lost was one killed and one Japanese. vessels now on Formosa. The black flags are still insolent to for eigners in the south.'
 From Peliu it is reported that Lii Hung Chang's assailant desired To avenge the execution of his brother in Tien Tsin at the beginning of the war. The officials in Pekin confer frequently. The prospects of settlement are regarded as doubtful. Prince Kung is much worn and has taken five days leave of absence.
 The Times says it is understood that official news of the armistico has been re-
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
FLORENCE HOTEL ARRIVALS.
M. J. WHEELER CO.,. pRopIIEroRs

M. J. WHEELER & co. pROPEIETORS.
 M Clominyer, Talsdega; Charles w Carrutb, Cinci nati; c Davis, Memphis; s c Clark, St Louis; w Il Cooper, Oxford; T sheehan, city; N Johnson, Talla- dega; L During and wife, Ripon, Wis; W T Hix, Atlanta, J W GraysoD, Gurleys; Dr Judson, Davie Speignes. Alabama; Jno Hobbs, New York; Q Hammerslaugh, New York; James P Piunckett. Chicago; A R YosH oson Mosby st Louis; M Jof John shsI I Boston; W H Mathis, Chattanooo; Henry B Foster, Tuscaloosa, Ala; J Lee Jones, Baltimore, Md; A L Buck and wife, city; Chapman, Chicago; James L Dun piin, New York; H. M. Farshee, Boston; J. H. West, city; Henry Caperton, Chicago; E B Barnes, New York; George T Sirioling, Atlanta; w E Knox, Annis,on, r G Harris, Jolett; " K Atkinson, L lS N R R; living Isbell, Lynch burg, V. Ii 5 Grain, Memphis; M T Kerr, Dallas, lex; George Jones. Gr. fiji n, G.; E Herring, Atlanta; Charles Jack sou, New York.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
SILVER AND WAGES,

The free e-coinage- bust newspapers are jolying each other good deal over some statements made in newspaper interview by MT. J. J. Hill, president of the Great Northern railroad, who is just back from Europe. Speaking of the suffering manu lecturers and landlords of England MT. Hill said: "They are realizing fully that Argentine, Australia, the East Indies, China and Japan ,who are on a silver basis, have a margin on labor alone that en- ables them to underselI the English farmer or manufacturer in markets which Eng land has heretofore controlled"
 Exactly so. Any country that is able to get it's crops worked and it's factories run for silver at it's bullion value has "wide margin on labor alone' on any country that pays the amount which the same quantity of silver would be worth if 15h or IS to was the true ratio between silver and gold. England and the United States and all the otherscivilized nations are in the lat. ter class. India, Mexico and the others liver standard countries are in the former. Our own silver missionaries complain that the cotton growers of India, since the coinage of silver was discontinued in that country, are able to undersell the South. If this Is true the one reason is that they pay less for their labor. If the coolie laborers are willing to take for their wages the same amount of silver which they received when the credit of the British empire was pledged to give 15 1a measures of gold for every ueas- ure of silver, they certainly will enable their employers to undersell everybody who has to pay the old prices. The smart land lords in India eff the reports of the silver men are true) have simply cut wages in two; and the coolies were too ignorant to know It. That's all there is of it. In this country the public schools and la bor organizations have made it impossible to deal with the laboring class in that way. If the government should withdraw it's indorsement from the 16 to silver dollar, or fl in the attempt to float an unlimited issue of silver dollars at that ratio the credit of the government should be strained, would our working Of silver which they havs been receivingf If they would, we should be able to com pete with India or any other heathen land. If they would taks for their wages sixteen ounces of salt or of iron CT ot coon skins in- stead of every ounce of geld which they now receive, we should have q handsome ''margin in labor aione' or India and Mexico and Patagonia aad Tirlbuctoo; aud great would be the names of Bland and Bailey and Sibley and Peffer and Kolb and Manning and Howard and the "non- par tisan" silver club of Limestone countyl
 We think not.
 In fact, we have no faith in any financial scheme that depends on deceiving the working man about his wages. He may be, as President Cleveland says, 'the first and most defenssless victim" of fuctua- tions of the currency, but you can hardly tako money out of his pocket without his seeing you.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30

THERE is no chance for a change in the tariff law for at least three years, yet the Republican press continues to argue in favor of protective tariff. h these argu- ments they do not hesitate to distort facts, or state only half tue truth. The St. Louis Globe Democrat, with this object in view, says tour sales of raw cotton to England decreased during January and February of this year over S2, ,000, ,000.'' This is doubt less true, but it IS not due to the Demo- cratic tariff, as the Globe Democrat we'll knows. IL is simply due to the fact that the South has entered the field of cotton manufacture, and the raw cotton that once was shipped to England for manufacture IS now manufactured at its home. The South has doubled it's cotton manufacturing capacity in tho past five years, and of course consumes much raw cotton that formerly WAS shipped 10 EugIand.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30

A NEW YORK paper has discovered a new mental disease, and describes it as desire to buy something, and that until this craving is gratified the patient is misera- ble and morose. This new disease is an antidote to kleptomania. The person af- hIcted is not always of the feminine sex. The patient finds that piece of money burns a hole in his pocket. He is not happy until he buys something, TO matter how trivial or useless. A symptom of this disease is the desire people have to spend the money that they had set apart for a certain object. For instance, girl starts for the matinee with 30 cents, and finds that there will be no matinee. Does she keep that 50 cents Ia her pocket for a rainy day? Not bit of it. She says to herself, "Well, must spend that 50 cents some way" and she starts for the soda water stand. When people set apart sum for certain purpose and fail to spend it for that purpose, they feel divorced from that sum-it is no longer theirs, and they must get rid of it some way. So they spend it in treating, or 6 present, or starting news- paper, or some similar way.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
STEWART CENsURED.
REFUSED TO APOLOGIZE AND WROTE A
 VERY sAUcy NOTE.


 VERY sAUcY NOTE.
 LINCOLN, Neb., March 29.-Senator Stewart, who yesterday engaged in hand to-hand encounter with the sergeant at arms, was today censured by the votes or the senate. He was given twenty -four hours to apologize, but instead sent the following note to the clerks desk:
 .sAs regards the violent and brutal as' saut made upon me by the sergeant at arms of the senate, who has no business whatever to interfere with the work of the committee of the whole until the president has resumed the gavel and cannot then restore order, have no apology to make, and if majority of this senate desire to go on record as indorsing such brutal dis regard of the rights of a member l cer- tainly shall not be the one to try to prevent them.'
 The vote of censure was nearly unani- nous, but six populist members oppos- ing it.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30

RgThe present management or the A GE-II F. I%A LID has no claim against adverti.serss or SubScriD- CTS prior to Eobruary 1lttl, 1S9O. Under decree of court accounts up to that date have been sold and transferred, hence cancelled as between the debtor and this paper.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
BARRA RELIEVED.

NEW YORK, March 29.-A special cable dispatch to the Herald from Santiago de Cuba says: "Lieut. Y. Barra has been re- lieved from command of the Spanish cruiser De Venadito, which fired upon the Ameri- can steamer Allianca. Captain Matens has been appointed to succeed Lieutenant Barra |, and Senor Capriies, civil governor of the province of SantiagO, has resigned.1
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
The U. s. Gov'f Reports
 show Royal Baking Powder
 superior 10 all others.
REPUBLIC FOR A MONARCHY.

MADRID, March 29.-The republican con- vention, which has been in session since the beginning of the week, closed today. It was very inharmonious, and ended with g division of the party. The last resolution indorsed by the anti.revolution mem bers was that of substituting the republic for the monarchy. Several delegates refused to vote, but the rest adopted the resolutio n unanimously.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
A RECORD BREAKER.

DEs MONIES, Ia., March 29.-The ther- mometer at the signal service station reg istered S9 degrees this evening, the hottest on record for a March day. Winter wheat mud pastures are suffering severely from the combined drought and heat. Unless the drought is soon broken the small grain prosrects will be most dlscouraging.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
DEADLOCK BROKEN.

ATLANTA, Ga., March 29.-The police commission deadlock, wh oh has been on for Q week has been broken. George E. Johnson was elected chairman. Chief Con- Rolly, who refused to obey the mayors order to arrest police commissioner, has been reelected. 1t Vas conpiomise by both sides.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
FOR CUBAN CREDIT.

MADRID, March 29.-Navarro Reverter, minister of finance, asked the deputies to- day for Cuban credit of 1 200 GOO pestas. recent cabinet crisis but Reverter declined to make any explanations and the discus sion of the budget proceeded.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
IT was the impression in this district at

A DOG will scent the smell of fire before his master. A horse will see danger at night before his rider. The quick of the quills of birds feels the approaching cold long before it comes. The sea -gulls scream while ths storm is yet a hundred miles away. The hair of the dog will bristle while another dog is out of sight around the corner. A sleeping dog will wake after the wheel of u carriage touches him and get ont of the way before it revolves. AS man progresses in the scale of civilization he seems to lose the quick perceptions of the senses. Probably because it is not necessary to his safety, as he has electric lights, burglar alarms, fire engines and policemen about him.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
SEVEN COMPROMISED.

BUDA PEST, March 29.-Seven of the eight duels arranged between the election officer, Tarnoczy, and deputies have been settled amicaby. Mutual apologies were offered for the abusive language which provoked the challenges.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30

on his S11 month, had been compelled to tuY stamps ,and other incidentals, he would have had very little left.
 At one period of the war the Southern Coniederacy granted permission to several towns and cities to issue stamps. This was a somewhat novel departure, for the issu- ance of postal stamps is by all nations re- garded as a governmental function. The Confederate Government only made the de-
 parture from the customary course 10 meet the exigencies of the situation. One of the towns granted the right to issue stamps was Uniontown, Ala. Now that the col- lection of rare stamp has become mania, these Uniontown stamps are very valuable. The stamp collectors need them to com- pete their series. Only few were issued, and still fewer are in existence. Mir. Mark Myatt of this city very fortunately is the possessor of one of these Uniontown stamps. He was offered the other day $500 for it., but sent it to New York and has the prospect of getting S10O0 for it. The stamp is small, of green color, and bears the following inscription: 'sC. s. A., Uniontown. Ala, 1861.o It is a 5-cent stamp, and the figure in the centre is almost obscured by the post mark ''paido in red ink. The edges are not perforated. but are cut, showing that the printing office that printed the stamps had no perforatiDg machine. The stamp must have been printed in New Orleans or some other city having large printing office, as Uniontown contained only a small news- paper office.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30

THE Texas Legislature has devoted 5000 to the purchase of the Bible which was found on the person of Col. w. B. Travis after the fall of the Alamo. Colonel Travis was a native Alabamian, and he was as brave as Crockett aud Bowie, with whom he fell. Colonel Travis handed down his dauntless spirit to his descendants. In the late civil war there was a Lieutenant Travis in Company E, Fourth Alabama, which was organized in Conecuh county, and was commanded by Captain Bowles. He was a nephew of Colonel Travis of Alamo fame. Lieutenant Travis was in the Mexican in- vasion ten years after the fall of the Alamo. Alabama. and in fact all the States of the South, furnished much larger proportion of soldiers to the Mexican war than did the North.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
YESTERDAYS TEMPERATURE.

As especially recorded hourly Tor the AaE- HERALD on the standard tnermone- ter at hughes' drug store, corner Nine- teenth street and second avenue. The fg- ures given are in all instances for tempera- lure recorded in the shade and on north ern sheltered ez posure;
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
GRANTED A RETRIEVE.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, MarcL 29.-Dan. iel Shaw. who was to have been hanged today at Romney, Hampshire county. West Virginia, for murder, has bean reprieved by the governor until April l9.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
LUCKY GEORGIA.

ATLANTA, Ga. March 29.-Mr. r. H. Fitzgerald, the founder of the Old Soldiers colony, with headquarters al Indianapolis, {, is in Atlanta today in final conference with Ex. Governor Northen about the To- cation of bis colony in Georgia. Mir. Fitz- gerald, through the American Tribune, published at Indianapolis, Ind. has se- cured paid up membership in the colony amounting to IA ,0S0 heads of families and comprehending about 4O,000 people, who are seeking location in a milder climate at the south. Governor Northen has been negotiating with MT. Fitzgerald, the head of the colony, for several months, and he has finally induced him to come to Georgia for personal inspection ot the advantages offered by this state. These gentlemen have just returned from tour of the south ern part of the state, aud MT. Fitzgerald will go to Indianapolis tomorrow fully prepared to recon mend the settlement of his colony in Georgia. It is understood that bis recomme n dation will secure this large colony of federal soldiers for Georgia.
 Herr Dowie has at last completed his pro- cess for making invulnerable cloth. Suc- cess always attends honest effort, neither competition nor dishonest rivalry can shake the peoples belief in the goodness of Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
NEITHER party is anxious to assume

NEITHER party is anxious to assume responsibility for legislation on the eve of a Presidential contest. Hence, a promi- nent Republican member of Congress ad mits that his party will make no attempt to bring about partisan legislation. He says Congress will probably pass the neces- sary appropriation bills and adjourn. The fact that Speaker Reed is a candidate for the Presidency is a further assurance that no harmful legislation will be attempted.
 IT was the impression in this district at one time that a small furnace paid better than a large one. This impression has been proven false. The Tennessee Coal |, Iron and Railroad Company has demon- strated by actual test that the large furnace pays better. This company has furnaces of all sizes, ranging from 12- foot to 22- foot, and ils profits are greater from the large furnaces. great deal of the expense at- tached to furnace is the same, whether the furnace be large or small, and the larger the furnace the greater the saving in this necessary expense.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
THE, " FATHER.

WARRINGTON, March 29.-lforecast of weather Tor the suceeeuing Lwenty-fo hours: Fair, and continued warm south erly winds.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30

LONDON, March S9.-The ho1se of com mons passed " vote of128 to 102, tLis even- ing, J. H. Daiziel's resolution affirming that it was desirable to establish. local leg islative assemblies for England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30
RARE AND VALUABLE sTAMps.

RARE AND VALUABLE STAMPS.
 Confederate soldiers during the war en- joved the franking privilege. They wrote their letters home and handed them in at headquarters, and they were sent through the m ails without postage. If the soldier,
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30

IF Spain becomes involved in war with England, then thes Cuban revolutionists will stand a better chance of success.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30

uay resulteu: Mempnis, lU; St. Louis, Is.
 CLEVELAND, II; ATLANTA, 2. ATLANTA, Ga., March 29.-rhe Cleve- lands defeated the Atlantas today before 1900 people. The score:
 hits-Atlunta, Is; Cleveland, Il. Errors Atlanta, B. Cleveland 1. Batteries-At- lanla, Callahan, Green and Armstrong; Cleveland. Sullivan and 0'Connor.
 COLTS, 13; REGULARS, '.
 AUGUSTA, Ga. March 29.-The Brooklyn team had great weather for ball today and the largest crowd that has yet witnessed 8 game was out 10 see the boys Timber up. The sun shone very brightly on the dia- mond and a few days more Of such weather will put the nine in great shape. The Colts won easily, starting with eight runs in the first inning. Score:
 Runs-C JIts, IS; regulars, '. Base hits Colts, 10; regulars, g. Errors-Colts, 4; regulars, 2. Batteries-Colts, Stein and Daley; regulars, Gumbert and Grim.
 BALTIMORE, 6; NEW ORLEANS, O.
 NEW ORLEANS, March 29.-Baltimore gave New Orleans another shut-out by the score of to 0. Weeks of the Chat tanooga team pitched for the locals, and held the champions down to the smallest number of hits on their trip. Jennings at short for the Orioles put up great game and accepted fourteen out of fifteen chances. Score:
 Rnns-Baltimore, 6; New Orleans, 0. Base hils-Baltimore. 9; New Orleans, '. Baltimore, 2: New Orleans, 5. Batteries-Baltimore, Espsr, Hooper and Clark; New Orleans, Weeks and Mic.
 WASHINGTON, 10; PITTsBURG. 13.
 SAVANNAH, Ga., March 19.-Pittshurg won today's game from Washington in the ninth inning. The Senators were ahead up to that inning, but the Pirates got in some good stick work and scored six runs, which gave them the game. The game was the most interesting seen here this season. Cartwright got in his usuaphome run. The score:
 Runs Washington, 10; Pittsburg 13. Base hits-Washi ngton, 16; Pittsburg, fl. Errors-W Washington, 8; Pittsburg, 1. Batteries Washington, Stockdale, Ander- son, Mcclure and Coogan; Pittsburg Col colough, Hart, Sugden and Kinsiow.
 NEW YORK, 8; PORTSMOUTH, 0.
 NORFOLK, Va., March 29.-About S1D people witnessed the game across the river today between the Giants and Portsmouth team of the State league. This was the first professional game that New York has played this year. The grounds were in perfect condition, but the weather was quite chilly. Five of the eight runs made by the Giants were earned. The features Of the game were Doyle's steal to second base after getting to first on balls, and two three- baggers by Davis. The home team could not hit the New York pitchers. The Giants will play the Norfolk team to- morrow and will then leave for the north. Score:
 Runs-New York, 8; Portsmouth, 0. Base hits-New York, Is; Portsmouth 4. Errors-New York, 2 Portsmouth, 4. Batteries-New York, German, Rusie, Meekin and Wilson; Portsmouth, Mulli- gan, Brandt and Vetter.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-30

California peaches and nectarines sold for high prices recently at Covent Garden, London. Now, our English cousins realize what delicious short cake is, supplied as they are with Price's Baking Powder and ambrosial fruit from the land of the setting SuQ.