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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06

BY MRS. COLBY OF NEBRASKA, AN ADvo-
 CATE OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
 Mrs. Colby of Nebraska delivered two lectures in Birmingham yesterday, one in the afternoon and one at night.
 Mrs. Colby is one of the leading advo- cates of woman suffrage in America, and is the editor of woman's rights paper published in Washington city. She attended the national convention of women recently in session in Atlanta, and came from that city to Birmingham. It had been announced that Mrs. Yates would accompany Mrs. Colby, but from some cause she was unable to do so, and Mrs. Colby came alone.
 Her lecture in the afternoon was free, and she had very good audience to hear her.
 She discussed principally woman's rights and inciden tally temperance, and dwelr at some length upon the efforts of the women in her state, Nebraska, in be- half of those two causes and the success that had attended the same.
 The lecture at night was delivered in the admission fee of 25 cents was charged, the proceeds being donated . to the Good Templars' lodge in this city. Her talk was in line with the one she made in tho after noon, the greater portion of 1t being de- voted to the advocacy of female suffrage.
 At the afternoon lecture, which was held in the Cumberland Presbyterian church, a committeej on organization was formed, consisting of Mrs. William Vaughan, Mrs. A. l.. Billhemer, Mrs. Dr. Clapp and Mrs. BrjdeWell
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06
GEN. GEORGE L. THOMAS

THINKS THR NEW ROAD LAW A GOOD ONE.
 TO BEGIN woR& SOON.
 The road law recently adopted for Jeffer- son county has not yet been put into effect on account of the bad weather.
 Gen. George l.. Thomas of the county commissioners court was seen by an AaE- HERALD reporter yesterday, who asked his opinion of the new road law.
 General Thomas said: ''I think the law a most excellent one. It was carefully pre- pared by Representatives John and Fulton after they had consulted with the members of the commissioners court and others. They availed themselves of all the resources of information with regard to the condi- tions and needs of all the public roads, both macadam and dirt, in the county. If the provisions are properly carried out it will complete the system of public road work ing in Jefferson county. Soon thereafter our macadam roads will be repaired, and the dirt roads, many of which are well nigh impossible, will be converted into well worked highways.''
 'When will work under the new law begin?' asked the reporter.
 "Just as soon as the weather will per- nit. But for the unprecedented bad weather of the last four or five weeks the work would have commenced some time ago. When work is begun it will be pushed as rapidly as possible.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06
DIR. POPE'o DEATH
Laid to William Brusseau, His Man Servant, by the Coroner-The
 Wife Implicated.

DETROIT, Feb. 5.-The inquest on the body of Dr. Horace E. Pope, who was murdered Saturday morning, was held this afternoon.
 The only testimony taken was that of doctors describing the nature of the dead mans wounds and story of the killing by Policeman Shick, who was summoned to the house after the killing by Brusseau. After.this testimony had been given the coroner instructed the jury to bring in a verdict that Pope came to his death as the result of violence at the hands of William Brusseau. The prosecuting attorney says that Mrs. Pope and Brusseau will be in- dicted together for the murder.
 William Brusseau, under arrest on sus- picion of having conspired with Mrs. Nellie Pope to murder her husband, Dr. Pope, to get his S14 1000 life insurance, has made a statement going square back on his early story. He at. first said that he killed the old man with hatchet in self defense. He now says that Mrs. Pope murdered him with hatchet, and that he had nothing to do with the actual killing, although he knew Mrs. Pope intended to murder him, aud also knew she had attempted to mur- der him with coal gas before.
 The police take no stock in his latest con- fession, and still think that he did the killing. He says that he was wholly under the influence of Mrs. Pope, and that she forced him to tell the story duplicating h mi
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06
DID THEIR WORK WELL. Two Supposed Amateur Train
 Robbers in Kansas GO THROUGH A WHOLE TRAIN, And With Orders to "Hands Up" Capture a Sackful of
 Booty and Escape.
0 THROUGH A WHOLE TRAIN,

HUTCHINSON, Ks. Feb. 5.-Train No. 1 l on the Sante Fe passed west through Hutchinson last night on time. When 1 Sylvia, small station twenty miles west, was reached the train stopped for coal, and two men crawled into the cab, at the same
 time covering Engineer Kearney and his fireman with guns. They robbed the engi-
 neer and fireman of their money, about S40, and ordered them to march to the ex- press car and break open the door.
 demand was made upon the massen- ger, Jesse Ruble, to open the safe, but when he refused the robbers abandoned the idea of robbing the express car and then
 marched the engineer and fireman with a
 sack into the coach, and while one man
 held the trainmen the other covered the passengers and ordered sshands up.D
 Thus they went through the train, dump
 ing pocketbooks, watches, knives and re- volvers into the sack. The amount of money secured cannot be approximated. One lady bought a ticket at Hutchinson for a Colorado point and the ticket holder says
 she had at least $500 when she purchased her ticket, which she was pade to donate. The robbers were very cool and delib- crate, taking fully an hour to do their work. When the robbers reached the coach about the first man they covered was Con- uuctOr McdraIu ana nlS Drakeman, ana they, too, were forced to surrender their
 valuables. After the work of robbing the coaches was over the engineer and fireman were marched back to their posts and
 ordered to pull out, which they did.
 After the robbers passed through the first coach the conductor and brakeman started
 to leave the car and raise an alarm in the
 town, but they were discovered by more
 robbers standing on the ground on each
 side of the traiu, who ordered them back
 into the train. The country is aroused
 and the farmers are out we'll armed trailing
 the robbers, who rode off in a southeast
 direction.
 Officers of the railroad company are con-
 vinced that the work was done by anna
 teurs, as Sylvia is long distance from the
 territory line, and as there is snow on the
 ground it will be an easy matter to follow
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06
THE JAPANESE TREATY
AFTER BEING AMENDED ACCEPTED BY ALL
 PARTIES CONCERNED.

AFTER BEING AMENDED ACCEPTED BY ALL
 PARTIES CONCERNED.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-Tte senate this afternoon in executive session recon sidered the Japanese treaty and made the change in its text to which attention was called some days ago by the state depart ment. As the treaty was amended last week the senate provided that it should be within the power of either of the contract ing parties to abrogate it after twelve months notice.
 Inasmuch as the treaty does pot go into effect until four years from now, in 1899, this puts it within the power of the United States to abrogate the convention before it goes into operation, a condition which the Japanese minister reported would be manifestly unfair to the government of Japan. He urged that the treaty be recon sidered and the amendment changed SO that it could be abrogated twelve months after the same had'been in opera ton.
 The secretary of state called the atten ton of the senators to this in a letter addressed to each senator personally, and there bein 2 no opposition to it the change was made today without the formality of a vote upon @ statement of the case by the chairman of the committee on foreign relations. The state department, 1t is understood, has re- ceived the assurances of the Japanese miu- ister that the treaty as amended in this way would be satisfactory, and there appears to be no reason why 1t may not be proclaimed iu due course of law without unnecessary dalav
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06
TWO GREEN EMPLOYES
OF A BROOKLYN ELECTRIC LINE BREAK U
 FUNERAL PROCESSION.

OF A BROOKLYN ELECTRIC LINE BREAK UP
 FUNERAL PROCESSION.
 BROOKLYN, Feb. 5.-A trolley car of a cross town line ran into funeral process sion at Wythe avenue and Broadway, Williamsburg, this afternoon. After the car had gone through the procession the hearse was found upset and the coffin lying in the gutter.
 The funeral was that of 2-year- old child. The little white coffiu was in white hearse and three carriages, occupied by friends of the mother, followed. The funeral pro- cession was going through Wythe avenue on its way to Calvary ceme- tery. Just as the hearse was crossing the tracks at Broadway a car came along at lively clip. Motorman Casey of St. Paul, Minn., and Conductor Bellin of Oshkosh, Wis.,, both new hands, were running the car. Special Policeman Dunn was also aboard. In some way they failed to stop the car and it ran into the hearse. The hearse was badly damaged and all it's glass sides were smashed. The driver was thrown from his seat and badly bruised about the right side.
 Police Sergeant Hayes arrived just in time to keep the crowd from attacking the motorman and conductor. As it was Casey had a narrow escape from violence. He was arrested.
 The funeral party rescued the coffin and put it in the carriage with the parents. Then the procession moved on, leaving the driver of the hearse iu charge Of an anbu- lance surgeon and the damaged hearse standing in the street.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06
RED PLUSH FOR CAR SEATS.
The Fayorite Color and Mate.ial. Some O
 It Being Imported.

The Favorite Color and Matssial. Some of
 It Being Imported.
 The red plush car seat is one of the time honored institutions of the railroad serv- ice, and very few cars are upholstered in any but that color. Some of the roads have broken away from the stereotyped color, and on special trains have adopted old gold, blue, olive and other simple col ors, but the roads cannot get away from tho old favorite, which has survived the changes which occur in almost every de- partment of railroading.
 .'Why is plush so widely used by rail- roadsr' remarked prominent plush man. ufacturer to a reporter. Because it never wears out Tho plush covering of car seat will last on an average at least ten years But even when it has to be removed it is not worn into holes It has been torn or stained or faded, and for this reason, and no other the seat has to be recovered The railroads have often tried substitutes. One sometimes sees wooden or willow ware seats, but none is so comfortable as tho old fashioned cushion, and so the latter triuinphs to tho end"
 Very expensive plushes arc used by some companies" remarked a railroad man, "stuff worth DO less than S3 or $4 ! yard. Railroads go to this expense part } ly for luxuriousness, but also because the finer and costlier materials will wear longer. Tho plush seen in the passenger cars of tho Pennsylvania and Reading rail roads Is worth from S45 to $50 piece, or $1 to SIPS yard. Most of it is domestic material. The Reading railroad gets it's supply from Pawtuokot, R. l. The Penn sylyania railroad, however makes somo importations on it's own account. Itwould surprise you to know tho amount of plush that railroad company uses up in It's re- pair shops. Tho upholsterer of a big rail road has great room fitted with rolls of new material with which to fit up new cars and put new face on the old. The Pennsylvania railroad has in some years given it's order for 60,o00 yards uf plush, whilo company liko tho Philadelphia and Reading will pay sl5. GOO to $50, GOO year for plush used in repair work alone. "- Philadelphia Record.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06
TERSELY TOLD.

Ben M. Jacobs & Bros. sell furniture.
 The Philhedonians will give dance at their club room tonight.
 The probate judge yesterday granted a marriage license to c. w. Morrison and Miss Lexie Watkins.
 Twenty-Five per cent reduction on all shoes, except Banister shoes, at T. c. Kings, and S100 to the party who will dis prove the integrity of this offer for thirty days.
 The regular monthly meeting of the ladies' auxiliary of the Young Men B Christian association will take place in the parlors of the Young Mems Christian as- sociation today (Wednesday), February 6, at 3 p. m.
 Maggie Williams, convict who had just served sentence at Coalburg, was given money to purchase ticket to St. Stephens. She gave the money to a negro man to buy the ticket and she hasn' t seen him since.
 man must have move on him in these progressive times. Alex Klein Is doubtless the prince of movers. He pushes right along and today he is prepared to take orders for suits or trousers at 1925 First avenue, next door to the Berney bank. Perfect fit is guaranteed. *1-31-tf
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06

THE Columbia (S. co State has been fig uring out how an educational qualification for the suffrage would work in practice in that State. It seems that there are 236,- C46 males of voting age in South Carolina, of whom 102, ,657 are white and 132, ,949 are colored. Applying the census percentages of illiteracy, the State finds that 13, PAP of the whites and 6S,0 ,09S of tue negroes of voting age are illiterates, and would be ex. cluded from the polls by an educational qualification for the suffrage. This excIu- sion would leave on the registration lists, if all possible voters were registered, S9, ,415 whites and 4,S51 negroes, giving the whites sufficient majority to control the government of the State, if all voted to. gether. On the other hand, com- paratively small body of white men, !, s,o0O or 10, ,0OO, reinforced by the solid ne. gro vote, would be masters of the situation. The State concludes that the educational test will not meet the emergency. If such law were to be fairly administered it would disfrenchise too many whites and enfranchise too many negroes to make white supremacy absolutely secure, while if dishonesty administered all the evils of the present system would be exaggerated. Nevertheless, the experiment of au educa- tional qualification for suffrage seems likely to be tried in South Carolina.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06

steadily down. Mistaken as we were from first to last, our purpose was for the best; and we have no reason to regret the earnest effort we made. But we have reached point where, in our judgment, to go further is to invite ruin.' And he pro- ceeds: ''All that the President says is we'll and truly said; particularly what he says about silver. If free coinage bill could pass into law, 1t would expei gold from the country. It would Mexcanize our currency. It would not make money cheap, but dear. It would not make money plenty, but scarce. In very little while it's authors would be eDgulfed by popular odium.p
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06
Curran's Wit,

Curran's ruling passion was his joke, and it was strong, if not in death, at least in his last illness One morning his phys ician observed that he seemed to cough with moro difficulty"
 That is rather surprising" answered Curran, flor I have been practicing all night"
 While thus lying ill, Curran was visited by friend, Father O'Leary, who also loved his joke.
 1T wish, O'Leary," said Curran to him abruptly, ''that you had the keys of heav- en-
 ''Why, Curranf"
 Because you could let me in" said the facetious counselor.
 Ut would be much better for you, Cur ran," said the good humored priest. "that had tho keys of the other place, because could then let you out. ."-Green Bag.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06
A STRANDED STEA MER.

NASSAU, N. H., Feb. 5.-rhe steamer Cienfuegos, Captain Smith, of the New York and Cuba line, which sailed from New York January 31 for Santiago via Nassau, stranded shortly before daylight on February near Harbor island, forty five miles northeast of Nassau. Her pas- sengers, crew and mails were safely landed. Wrecking schooners are near by, and the steamer Santiago, which arrived yesterday from Santiago the tug Nassau and the stea m yacht Algonquin have gone to her assist ance. The Cienfuegos lies in an easy posi-. ton and the weather is moderate.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06
THE PASSION FLOWER.

Yes, in life's evening hour This is my chosen flower The passion flower it's name,
 But flower of life call it. Are they not the same2 It has the crown of thorn
 And the ladder thnt leads on high Bitter, now sweet, the drops divine From the sponge of agony. And here is hopes bright green
 And violet for gloom. Gladness and sorrow both are there, The cradle and the tomb. So in life's evening hour This is my chosen flower, In color like day that soon must pale
 away, Life's image true! Life's image truel The past, the future tool From tho French of Mime. do Chambrun.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06


 TIE AGE HERALD heartily agrees with the city administration in it's opposition to the bill pending before the General As- sembly for the establishment of another court in Birmingham to be supported by the city. With limited tax rate of h of 1 per cent Birmingham already has a heavier burden than she can carry under the most economical management, and to add S2400 to the present expense is just out of the question. It has been understood for some time that the city was to be re- lieved Of the expense of even Recorder, and that the Mayor WAS to act as Police Court Judge, thus saving S1c0o to the city. Now, for the State to establish a court at the expense of the city for the trial of cases that are handled by the Justices of the Peace seems an outrage. The bill ought to be defeated, and no doubt will be.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06
COTTON.

The New York Sun said last week that even if cotton planters cut down their crop one-third they would not get better prices, because other countries were now competing with America. The Sun boasts that if ssyou see it in the Sun it's SOL but sometimes 1t makes slip. The best au- thorities on cotton show that the United States has no competitor to be dreaded.
 According to the Financial Chronicles annual cotton report, page 4oi, issue Sep tember s, 1894, the proportion of the worlds supply of cotton furnished by countries other than the United States was in 1872 just 42.4 per cent of the whole. But In he year ending September 1, 1894, it was only 21.6 per cent, the United States furnishing now 7S.4 per cent, against 57 in 1872. As for competition of other coun tries, there has been none at any time ex cept East India, and there will soon cease to be any iron. that source if American re- mains at 5 cents. American is used more largely this year than ever before instead of Indian, because in the first place it makes better goods and the waste working is only 10 per cent, against Is per cent India, so that at cents for American the Indian will have to fall to figure lower than experience has shown probable. Egypt is not com- pettor, as It's staple IS alto- gether different and is used for goods that our cotton cannot be used for to advan. tage. It's supply at the present and the future is not large enough to become a factor in the question. Since 1865, period of thirty years, every endeavor has been made there in it's cultivation, and yet it's largest crop is but ,000 900 bales. And as Russia is still in an experimental stage, how long will it take for it to grow crop large enough to compete with the United States, the rate to be the same as that of Egypt's and that of the United States, to progress according to it's custom2
 The rate of increase of the cotton spin- dies of the world in the last decade, and still increasing, and the degree in which American cotton at cents is taking the place of Indian makes a crop of 10, ,000, ,000 bales or more necessity another year.
 The supply of American cotton since September 1, 1890, to September 1, 1894, has been 32, 421 ,0O0 bales. Its consumption in the same time has been 30, ,000. The surplus in the world at the beginning of the present season was only ,589, ,000 bales, or little more than a months supply. There has been no accumulation, although we have in that period grown the two larg- est crops in history. Even this small sur plus would have been cut down to 500, GOO bales had consumption remained at it's maximum. The mill operative strikes in Great Britain in the winter of 1893 cut down consumption 600,00O bales. The American spinner cut his down 400, GOO the past two years by reason of trade depression. So it appears that overproductIon is not so much the cause of 5-cent cotton as is un- der consumption. If we can grow 5-cent cotton profitably we will supply the world, and that means crops hereafter of 10, ,0O0, ,000 to 12 ,000, 1000 bales. Can the south be de- pended on to groM such crops2
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06
A CLOSE CALL.

SMALL BOY LODGES A BUTTON IN HE
 WINDPIPE.
 Clay Johnson, 9-year-old boy living on Avenue c, near Eighteenth street, had a button to lodge in his windpipe yesterday afternoon and thereby came near losing his life. A physician was sent for and applied hyper demic injection, which caused the boy to vonit and by that means the button was expelled from the windpipe, but mol until the little fellow had begun turning black.
 He was all right last night and will sui. fer no serious consequences from the but ton having lodged in his throat.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06
A DELjBERATE SUICIDE.

CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 5.-W. H. Goodno of this city deliberately froze him. self to death in Lakeview park last night. His body was found on one of the benches in the park by an employe of nearby hospital this morning. The following let ter was found in his pockets
 gro Whom It May Concern:
 "lsam with W. Il. Goodno of 255 Central avenue. Don't take me home, but drop me at your morgue, and let my wife know. Break it gently 10 my wife and then drop me in some hole SD 1t won't take any ex- pense. My wife has no means to foot my bills. w. il. GooDNo. V
 Goodno was plumber and suffered from rheumatism.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06

HON. OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, who has returned from visit to Washington, says that from the best information he could gather there is no probability oi an extra session of Congress. MT. Underwood is probably correct. Just what is to be done cannot be foretold. The President can ot command the party now in power, and the Republicans seem to desire to avoid an ex- tra session, for the reason that they do not care to assume management of the financial ship while the storm is raging. As a matter of party expediency they would like settlement reached before the 4th of March,
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06
IS IT BOGARDUS?
AN UNKNOWN MAN, CLAIMING TO BE THE CRACK SHOT. DIES AT LITHIA SPRINaS.

AN UNkNOWN IAN, CLAIMINCt TO BE THE
 CRACK SHOT, DIES AT LlTHiA SPRINGS.
 ATLANTA, Ga. Feb. 5.-A man who reg istered as L. s. Bogardus died at Lithia Springs, Ga., on Sunday. He claimed to be the crack shot. The hotel people have not been able to get communication with any of the dead mans family.
 He was literally supplied with money, had several trunks and some papers in his possession referring to Bogardus. once the champion shooter. The identity of the dead man is not satisfactory to the hotel proprietors.
 IL is said that Bogardus, the shooter, was in New Orleans few weeks ago.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06

IN the AGE-HERALD's editorial yester- day morning indorsing the candidacy of Mir. Ross c. Smith for Railroad Commis- sioner it was inadvertently stated that the Commercial Club of Birmingham had in dorsed MT. Smith. This was an error, and this paper takes pleasure in making the correction. The Commercial Club only asks for Birmingham man on the com mission, but many of it's most active and prominent members are strong supporters of MT. Smith. It is contrary to the policy of the club to lend it's indorsement to indi- viduals.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-06
SENATE COMBINATIONS.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-rhe senate to- day confirmed the following nominations: Frederick Munchmeyer of West Vir- ginia to be United States consul at San Salvador.
 Postmasters-Texas: J. A. Simmons, Taylor; B. F. Delamatar, Caldwell; Laura J. Washburn. Eagle Pass.