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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30
A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR.
Mr. John Fulton, the Mining Engineer of
 lohnstown, Pa, in the City.

One of the most notable visitors at the rooms of the Commercial club on yester-
 day was MT. John Fulton, a distin-
 guished mining engineer of Johnstown,
 Pa. MT. Fulton was for many years the
 general manager of the Cambria Iron
 works of Johnstown, which position he
 resigned on account of ill health. He
 has large interests in the Connellsville region, and is considered one among
 the best posted iron men in this country.
 He came south in the interest of the
 owners of the furnaces near Talladega
 and to consider the advisability of put
 ting them in blast, which it is under
 stood will be done at once. He is in Bir-
 mingham to see about getting coke for
 these furnaces, and other matters con
 nected with the starting up. He does
 not hesitate in saying that the outlook for the iron trade is very bright, and ex- poets a year, at least. of good prices. The following citizens met him at the club rooms, where they spent an hour
 or more in informal talk: Thomas Sed- don, president of the SloSS Iron and Steel company; William Bowron, treasurer of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Rail- road company; MT. Ramsay, superin- tendent and Dr. Phillips, chemist
 Tennesse Coal, Iron and Railroad com pany, MT. Gilmore or the Mary Lee Coal company and Mr. Dilworth of Patton, Ala, as well as number of other citi- ZenS
 This is MT. Futons first visit to Ala bama. He is now representing Laden burg, Tholman & Co.,, of Wall street. New York, who are the owners of the Birmingham and Atlantic railroad. and they are desirous of making business for that road and the starting of the Tal- ladega furnaces will give them what they want.
 MT. Fulton will visit some of our mines today and see something of what con- stitutes Birmingha greatness
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30
STRAINS POINT THE WAY.
Homeseekers Here En Route to Investigate
 What Alabama Has to Offer Them,

Never before has there been sufficient interest exhibited in the investigation of the agricultural resources of this state by the people of the north and west to induce them to visit Alabama in the months of June, July and August, when the best opportunities existed to judge of the character, fertility and variety of products of her soil; but 1895 witnesses it, and it is working a revolution in the minds of the people of the north, east and west as to the agricultural resources and possibilities of the state. Yesterday there arrived in the city a committee of seven of the most intelligent, reliable and best posted farmers of central and northern Kansas, who today start out with Maj. Frank Y. Anderson and MT D. H. Rogan to spend several days in n- vestigating the soil and it's productions along the line of the Alabama Great Southern railroad in this state.
 Yesterday several representatives of a Swedish colony of Winnebago and Rock counties, Illinois, went down the line of the Louisville and Nashville with Capt. F. Sid Jones for the purpose of inyeSti- gating the country and reporting to the colonists the facts as they found them.
 June 20 witnessed a delegation of twen- ty-six committeeman and homeSeekerS from Christian county, H., looking over lands along the Mobile and Ohio rail- road in Ala bama with a view to contract ing for lands for large colony from that county, also for farms already in culti- vaton.
 An Age-Herald reporter was yester- day shown a letter to MT. James F. Slater of this city from prominent immigra- tion concern of Nebraska, who have been taking many people to Texas for the past three years, saying: "Mr. l.. P. Young will leave here August with number of homeseekers for central and southern Alabama, and will investigate your sec tion of the country"
 The straws all point to the necessity for renewed effort upon the part of Ala bama' as a state and her people as indi- viduals, her commercial clubs, etc., and last but not least, especially by the rail- ways, to with increased forces and genu- inc enthusiasm endeavor to secure full share of all the desirable farmers etc., of the north, east and west, whom it is so plain desire to take up homes in this section.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30
INDUSTRIAL IMMIGRATION.
A Plant to Manufacture Fire Dogs Being Talked Up-Prospectors from Kansas.
 Commercial Clubs Social Feature.

MT. J. R. Grogan of Quitman, Tex, and MT. E. J. Barnes of Palestine, Tex, are in the city to confer with the foundry men in reference to patent firedog they desire to have manufactured here or else | where The firedog was patented last year by MT Grogan, but has not been put on the market extensively as yet. Messrs. Grogan and Barnes have had a few of them made in Texas, but they claim that the iron in that state is not
 suited for their purpose, and they deter mined to go elsewhere to have them
 manufactured
 They had a conference in the Commer-
 cial club rooms yesterday afternoon with representatives of the various foundries of the city in regard to the matter but no definite arrangements have so far been made.
 Messrs Grogan and Barnes arrived here Saturday, and will remain in the city about week.
 Colonists Coming. Capt. Frank Y. Anderson was out yesterday with seven representatives Of a Kansas colony, who desire to locate in the south. The colony is composed of
 400 families who have decided to re- move the coming winter, and in crder to
 secure the most advantageous location they sent out seven of their number in advance to look over the country and-as- certain the conditions that prevail in the different sections.
 The Kansas gentlemen came up from Meridian yesterday at noon and were met by Captain Anderson, who took them out over the Albama Great Southern road in the afternoon. They will be with Captain Anderson two or three days looking at the lands offered by the Alabama Great Southern company. The Commercial clubs committee on social features will meet in the club
 rooms al o'clock this afternoon to take steps towards arranging for a grand re-
 ception soon to be given under the aus
 pices of the Commercial club. The com
 mittee consists of the following gentle
 mem George M. Cruikshank, chairman
 R. H. Baugh, J. H. Barr, D. A. deFuniak, D. M. Drennen, c. B. Eastman, Solon Jacobs, Jack w. Johnston, John S. Jemi- son, I. c. Lebolt. W. M. Lindsey, w. G. Montgomery Leo K. Steiner, Mms Stone, J. J. Smith, Charles Wheelock, W. H. Wade and J. Morton Boyce.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30

George S. Clark of the department of physics and engineering of the University of the South writes us on the subject as Follows:
 To the Editor of the Register:
 The enclosed clipping was sent to me, and I wish to say that I have been exper- imenting occasionally for several years with the 'marl," a rotten limestone from Montgomery county, Alabama.
 have made an inferior grade by hy- draulic cement from mari obtained near Showdown, Ala. The chemist here Dr. Piggot, has also analysed and tested sam- ples of this mari, and he is of the opinion that fair quality of cement can be made out of it. I cannot say what the mari is worth, but the following experiment may be tried by anyone:
 l. Select samples of the pure mari about the size of an egg. 2. Burn in a forge or furnace to white heat and for various lengths of time, noting each. B. Grind each piece to powder as fine as flour. 4. Make into inch cubes of paste with wa ter. 5. Immerse in still water Cor put the cubes in paper moulds and then im- merse in water). 6. Take a cube out each day and see what weight it will take to crush it.
 The whole secret is in the burning. and this should be varied as much as possi- ble The cement, if of a good quality sets slowly in water. but in time will be- come almost as hard as stone.
 If I can be of further service in the experiments address me at Highland Home, Cottage, Highland Home, Ala.
 GEORGE s. CLARK.
 Sewanee Tenn, July 25 1895.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30
COSTLY LESSONS FOR THE NEGRO.

COSTLY LESSONS FOR THE NEGRO.
 If report be true the negroes who left Alabama for the purpose of seeking homes in Mexico are now taking a back track and filling the air with walls re- garding their misfortunes. The home ward journey is being made on foot. Poor Sambo complains of hardships innumer- able and the rosy pictures of rest and ease painted for his delectation have one by one gone the way of all air castles and left him naked to his enemies.
 This is true of the Liberian emigrants as well. From the merry care free crowd that sailed away in the Horsa has come story after story of suffering and tra- vail of want and woe, and, most of all of Sambo's aching desire to get back to the land of possum and 'taters. In vain they use upon him the argument that his ancestors were Africans and he should desire to live under their native skies. They may have been Africans, but he was born in a different cline. his early environment was different; he frankly says he wants to come home.
 In all this there seems to be lesson. The negro of the present day is not the African of the days of slave trading. days when the dark race was fresh from the land of the burning sun. The slave who came then was inured to hardships, and, possessing the half brutish instincts inherited from a long line of savage an- cestors, endurance was, as the case might be, his strongest virtue or his least attractive vice. The negro today shows the effects of being thrown in contact with civilizat tion during all these years. He shows, too, that he has become accli- mated, and, for the present at least, a part of American population.
 pr. Edward Wilmot Blyden, the Libe- rian Minister to the English court, is at present visiting in America. Upon being questioned upon the subject of colonies of negroes from America in Africa. he ex- pressed himself positively as holding the scheme to be a fiat failure. He further says it may be a success generations hence, but at present it is wasted effort and wasted human life.
 And generations hence it may be! At present the negro is fixture on Ameri- can soil, and the sooner this fact is real ized the sooner will the misdirected zeal of few individuals find itself forced in another direction. Otherwise, as Dr. Bly, den says, experience will be bought, but it will be bought with nothing less than human life.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30
rArI.Nro RANKsi

There is no doubt that the Commercial Club will be successful In its effort to better the retail trade of Birmingham.
 The personnel of the club fits it for this delicate and arduous task.
 It's members represent every line of business and enterprise. They are thor oughly conversant with the situation and necessities of the retailers. They realize the peculiar conditions which surround the retail trade of this eity-conditions which do not obtain anywhere else, and in the adjustment of which sagacity, liberality and tact are indispensable.
 The clubs record entities it to the confi- dence of all classes of the community. It has demonstrated it's ability to deal with just such problems as the one Tn view, and the retail dealers shoula rejoice that this doughty champion mas espoused their cause.
 To achieve the fullest measure or sue- cess, however, the club must have the co-opera ton of every retail merchant m the city, All should join it. from the humblest corner groceryman to the pro- prietors of the most pretentious estap- lishments. The dues are not onerous-ln fact they are a trifle to each indlVlduai of the class it is seeking to benefit put their aggregate would seasibly increase the revenues of the club and therepy add to it's usefulness.
 The money feature of an increaseu membership is but small consld- era ton in comparison with the greater weight and increased enthusiasm which shall accrue to the club and to the com munity. In the first place, the retailers as members of the club would be enabled to throw much light upon the problem, and from the stores of their experience bring forth suggestions which might be shaped into invaluable weapons. Again' unity of action and singleness of purpose would be assured, and 1t is upon these foundations that great commercial coll- munities are reared.
 Gratitude, if nothing else, shouio iil- duce the retailers to cast themselves Wllll their patrons. But the Age-Herald neeo not enlarge upon the subject. Self-lnter- est, local pride, the future growth or the city call upon every man in every me to ally himself with the Commerclai Club. The Age-Herald feels justihed Ill predicting an immediate and marked in- crease in the membership of our masnlh- cent orga nization.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30
THE AGE-HERALD READING ROOM.

The Age-Herald has fitted up a neat reading room adjoining it's business office, where daily papers from all east ern, southern, western ana northern noints will be kept on file for the benefit and information of the public. Papers from the following cities can always be found there: Boston, New York, Phila- delphia, Baltimore, Richmond, Charles ton, Savannah, Augusta, Atlanta. Gin cinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville, Chattanooga. Montgomery, Mobile New Orleans, Galveston, Houston, Dallas and many other cities not named.
 Citizens of either of the cities above named or any party desiring to read are welcome to call at any and all times, night or day, as the reading room will always be open.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30
THE RE a1sTER IS NOT "sAEERED.'

THE RE GISTER IS NOT "Ssd hflh Ho'
 Ii is generally conceded that the Mo bile Register is Democratic paper IL has always kept in the middle or the road. and no man has ever charged II with slxulIxing into bypaths to avoid an issue. It has grown gray in the service of Democracy and has fought the enc mics of the party, no matter what guise they may assume. It must be admltteo' therefore. that the Register, with it's ex- perience is not easily hoodwinked, and would not be slow to divine any ma neuver on the part of its old-time enc mies These facts stated, the following paragraph from it's issue of Sunday VIII commend itself to every fair-mlnded man. be he Democrat or not
 'The Birmingham News is greatly dis tressed over the prospect of trouble Tor Hon. F. P. O'Brien and the Birming- ham Age-Herald. The Age-Herald is now owned by MT. Aldrich and asso- ciates, most of whom are Republicans. The News is of the opinion that, under the circumstances, the Age-Herald IS sure to become a Republican organ. This jumping to a conclusion is far from wise. s-l,aps the editor of the News has allowed the Ssieh. to govern his thought We recall that the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, whose Republican opin- ions are promulgated with power of con viction," is owned and edited by Dem ocrat. How much easier it will be for the Age-H erald to preserve its Democ- racy, having, as it has, Democrat for it's editor, and avowing its adherence to Democratic principles"
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30

was no ceremony attending the impor- tant event, and but few of our citizens knew of it until they saw the smoke gracefully curling from the top of the smokestack. MT. Samuel Adams general manager of the company, is an unosten- tatious man and opposed to ceremony, hence the suspicious affair was kept a secret.
 The company has a sufficient stock of ore on hand to keep the furnace running without interruption.
 force will be put to work at once re- pairing the other two furnaces, which Will be put in operation as soon as pos sible.
 At the present prices of pig iron the Sheffield furnaces can be profitably op- erated, and when all five are in blast our little city will come to the front again as one of the live towns of the south.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30
vAluE oE rRIFlss IN t,IsroRY.
Results of Incidents In Careers of Well
 Known People.


 Known People.
 Thorwaldsen, the great Dutch sculptor, after working fer moro than four months unreoognized in Rome, determined in de- spair to return home and lay down the soulptor's chisel forever. A chance error by a careless clerk in drawing his passport detained him ss hours. During that in terYal of waiting Mr. Hope walked into the studio, admired his Jason" in clay and aroused the desponding Dane's hope by ordering a copy in marble.
 Thorwaldsen unpacked his tools and never afterward in his long career lacked patronage.
 Rachel, the great tragedienno, was, when a child, street singer and as such might have passed into womanhood and old age had not party of critics dining together chanced to hear her loud, clear voice be- meath their window. They observed the child's wonderful face and eyes and in D kindly spirit aroused perhaps by the vino they had drunk proposed to her protectors to place her in the conservatory as pupil.
 Sir Walter Raleigh would probably have remained out of favor with the court had Elizabeth on her walk to the Tower chanced to take a path less muddy. Every reader of history knows the story of how the gal ldnb DIT NdlUef sPrehu HIS oiOhk peheoeii the royal feet and was rewarded with his sovereign's smile and speedy restoration to favor
 Potemkin, the fayorite of Catherine IT and founder of tho powerful Russian fam fly which bears his name, would doubtless have remained an obscure soldier had not "a trivial incident--a chance, in fact changed his destiny. After Catherine had deposed her weak husband and herself as- stunned the scepter she was accustomed to parade the streets of St. Petersburg at tho head of her troops. One day Potemkin noticed that her sword bore no knot. He boldly stepped forward, braving the knout for his insubordination, and offered his. The czarina accepted it, and struck by the handsome lieutenant asked his name and regiment and if he would not like to serve her in the palace. Chicago Tribune.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30
Tha Modern Aristonrat.

1T hate Brown, said the shipping clerk. "Oh, you mustn't mind him." replied the cashier.
 ''But he is the most disagreeable man ever knew.''
 ''I admit that but you mustn't pay any attention to it.
 'sHow can help it, when he is so ever lastingly dictatorialP He never requests anything, but always demands it." "Well, that's quite natural"
 ''But there's no reason why he should be so naughty and insulting. He acts like an autoorat.
 "Still, it isn't exactly his fault" "Why not?"
 ''Well, he's always been used to being obeyed.''
 '.How do you know?'
 "Why, I know he was a janitor of flat building for six years. Chicago Post.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30
PARIS CHURCH BELLS.
When They Are Rung and In What an
 Old Fashioned Manner.

When They Are Rung and In What an
 old Fashioned Manner.
 The ringing of tho church bells in Paris, whether upon religious or civic occasions, is regulated not by the church authorities, but by those of the lay or municipal gov ernment. Tho mayor of each arrondisse- ment has the right to make use of the bells of his precinct on certain specified occa- sions, within the restrictions of the gener- al ministerial edict controlling both the religious and the civil ringings. The ec clesiastical authorities are not permitted to ring their bells before o'clock in the morning or after 9 in the evening from Easter to the 31st of October nor before in the morning or after in the evening from Nov. to Easter. The only excep- tion to this rule is Christmas night
 However, owing not so much to these restrictions as to tho cost of ringing the bells, particularly the chimes, these are not heard nearly so often or so generally in Paris as in some other capitals, notably Rome and when the Parisian chimes do sound, they are not always to be commend ed for tune and time. This, in its turn, may be attributed to the old fashioned method of hanging and ringing the bells of Saint Sulpice.
 These bells are not rung by means of ropes and levers, as is the modern cus- tom. They are so balanced on their hang ings that even the largest can be set swing ing by direct application of man force, and with such vivacity of motion that the clapper strikes with sharp regularity, then immediately rebounds without deadening the vibration of sound. The largest bell of Saint Sulpioe weighs e,000 kilos, or up ward of 15, 900 pounds, and requires four men to ring it. The great bourbon of Notre Dame weighs 16,000 kilos and re- quires eight men.--Paris L'Illustration.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30
THE WEATHER.
If1G w EAIHEih Forecasts for Alabama for August, 1t Based on 2l Years Observation.

Forecasts for Alabama for August, 1895.
 Based on 2l Years Observation. Highest temperature-Warm period. Sth, 96 degrees; goth, 92 degrees Lowest temperature-Cool period. 14th. 69 degrees; 24th, 63 degrees
 Dates for rain, ?, 1. 5, ', Il, IA, 16 IS, 21, 26. 2S and 30.
 Local storms, 2, IA, IS and 2f
 These forecasts will be considered as being verified for any locality within the state if they come within the following margins of observed facts, viz: A mar gin of 8 degrees on highest and lowest temperatures and four days for dates of occurrence, twelve hours for dates of rain and one day for local storms. By
 L. DUNNE. MontgOmery July 2S 1895
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30
CAMP CLAYTON
To Assist Camp Hardee in the Midsummer
 Carnival.

Camp Clayton Sons of Confederate Veterans held a meeting at the News of flee yesterday afternoon to take some steps towards assisting in the midsum- mer carnival which Camp Hardee is ar ranging to give on the 29th of August.
 It was decided to have drill between sixteen men from Camp Clayton and an equal number from George II. Thomas Post, Sons of Veterans.
 MT. Nat l.. Miller was requested to se- lect the sixteen men from Camp Clay ton. As soon as the names are agreed upon they will be called together for practice, and will be expected to drill two or three times before the carnival.
 The drill between the two teams will take place on the evening of August 20 at Lakeview.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30
Real Estate Transfers.

M. H. Burger and wife to J. l.. Welch, lot 1, block 745, Birmingham; $1750
 David and Felix Montgomery, execu- tors, etc., to Mary Anderson, 67-1OC acres in section 20, township F, range west; $2000.
 O. B. and Ida Norvell to Samuel and Rose Alltrof, parcel of land in section 19 township 16 range 1 east; $400
 Mary F. McCulley and husband to Mrs Mary E. Wick, lot in section 16, town ship 19, range west; $25
 A. Griggs and wife, McNolen and wife s. F. Remington and wife, J. R. Hen nington and wife and w. Ransem to F. A. Bates, lot in Silver Meade A. O. Wilson survey; $400.
 Stephen $. Reed to Arabella l.. Reed lot 215x258-in block 233. Birmingham; s1
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30

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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30
Montgomery, July 2S, 1895.
BIRMINGHAM DOGS
Sent to Indiana to Be Trained for Field
 Trials.

Yesterday three famous Birmingham dogs were shipped to Indiana to he trained for the field trials this fall. They were W. I. Loves dog Kent" T. T. Ash fords "Hesse D." and w. A. Porter's Tone" They were shipped to J. H. John- son at C.arlysle. Ind, famous dog train CT. w1s viii nave charge of them until the field trials end. The first srial will be at Newton, N. C., in November, and the next at West Point, Miss
 MT. Loves dog was in the field trials at West Poin. stst winter and made a splendid record.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30
IN THE COURTS.

In the city court yesterday Charles D. Cave filed suit against the Southern Railway company for $10,0o0. In his com plaint plaintiff alleges that while serv- ing defendant as fireman on one of it's engines the 21st of December, 1894, the engine ran off the track in the company s yard in the city, by reason of which he sustained permanent injuries.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-30
A HEARTLEss MOTHER.

She Stands By and Sees Her Sons Mur-
 dered.
 Huntington, w. Va, July 29-Charley Ringo, the negro charged with murder ing the two Finley boys, his step-sons, and throwing their bodies into the Ohio river on March 16, where they were found two months later, confessed his crime this morning to a number of ofIi- cers. He duplicates the mother of the children, who, he says, stood by and saw 1,o5 5,,~i,,1