Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-23
THE LATEST ALABAMA NEWS Captain Johnston's Montgomery Friends Are JubiIant. WILL CARRY THE COUNTY. Nearly All of the Young Democrats of the County Are for ths Gallant
 Captain.

Montgomery, Ala, Jan. 22.-(Specia1)- Captain Johnstons friends here are in the greatest glee today. They feel con fident that the action of the executive committee yesterday assures his nomina- tion and his subsequent election. They are particularly gratified at the appar- ently safe prospect of his carrying Mont gomery county. It has developed that almost all of the prominent young demo- crats here are heartily for his nomina- tion-such men as Tennant Lomax, Craig Smith, Paul LeGrande, R. Eugene Stein CT, Louis B. Farley Glenn Andrews, James B. Simpson and others of that s ilk. It is stated that of the candidates for the legislature from this county all are for Johnston, excepting perhaps one.
 The Advertiser and some of it's lieu tenants here VOW that the action of the committee yesterday will accomplish Captain Johnstons everlasting political destruction, but they make the state ment in the abstract, and do not tell on what they base their calculations.
 Peculiar Case.
 Warrants have been sworn out before Justice Morris Franklin and Justice J. w. Powell against nearly every bread dealer in the city, charging violation of section 4071 of the code, requiring all bread offered for sale to be stamped with the dealers name. The section in ques- tion reads:
 Selling bread without bakers name stamped thereon,' and reads Any per son who sells, or exposes for sale, any bread, biscuit or cracker without having the name, or the Christian and surname, of the baker legibly marked on each biscuit, cracker or loaf of bread must on conviction be fined not more than $20"
 The warrants, numbering over sixty odd, were sworn out by Robert Caffey, a well known colored boy about town.
 The warrants are all being served qui- etly and the dealers are permitted to make bond without any trouble
 It Is generally believed that the cases will not amount to anything, the law being an old and almost an obsolete one. It is understood the dealers will all ap- peal their cases, preferring to await the action of the grand jury
 Bad Charlie Burden.
 Deputy Sheriff Kirkland of Bullock county reached the city today to take charge of Charlie Burden, a negro mur- derer captured at Pratt mines Charlie killed a negro named Johnson Dalton at MitchelPs station on December 15 last and made his escape. He was arrested at Pratt mines by Deputy Phillips, who brought him here to collect the reward offered by Governor Oates. Deputy Kirk land takes him to the Bullock county jail at Union Springs this afternoon.
 The Way Editor Hood Figures It.
 The Journal this afternoon says edito- rially: '"The state executive commttee adopted, in it's qualification for voters, practically and substantially the lan- guage of the national executive, commit tee. If it has made mistake in inviting all conservative voters irrespective of past political associations or differences who can unite with us in the effort for pure, economical and constitutional gov ernment and who will support the nomi- nees and principles of the democratic party, to join us in sending delegates to the approaching state convention, the national executive committee has made mistake and any attack upon the state committee is an attack upon the national committee"
 Trying the Whitecappers.
 An interesting trial is in progress at Wetumpka, fifteen miles from here. Last March six young men went to the home of Rufus Smith, negro, for the purpose of whipping him. They took the whitecappers' oath. disguised them selves, blacked their faces and called on him at midnight. It seems they agreed among themselves before making the visit not to hurt the negro seriously, but after they had gotten him out ofs the house, one of them shot him and he fell dead. They left his dead body in front of the house and fled They were spotted and arrested. One of the party, young man named Edwards. turned states