Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-28
THE LATEST ALABAMA NEWS
Miss Green Ran Awayand Mar
ried Mr.. Parker.
HER PARENTS OBJECTED
Death of Mrs. Louise Hayden, Mother of MR.
HenryW Hayden, Editor of the De-
mopoIis Express.

Montgomery. March 27-(special)-At
this city, on Thursday evening, Miss
Mamie Green of Verbena and Mr.. S. ].
Parker of this city were united in mar
riage by Rev. DR.. Dickinson of the Court
Street Methodist church. The wedding
was an elopement. The young people
had been lovers for some time and the
parents of the bride, while having no OBJ
lection to the bridegroom, could not bring
themselves to consent to part with their
daughter. The young people, tired of
waiting for parental consent, arranged
for the wedding, which took place last
night, and the young lady reached the
city on the TAO train and the ceremony
took place Immediately thereafter. The
usual forgiveness will follow in due time.
Death of Mrs. Hayden.
News has reached this city of the death
at her home in pemopolis of Mrs Louise
Hayden, an aged and venerated lady,
who has remarkable bit of history.
Years ago, when a child, she lived with
her parents in the West Indies, and was
residing there at the time of the great up
rising of the negroes, when so many of
the white inhabitants were murdered.
Her family was doomed, but a faithful
slave, owned by her father, hid the fami-
ly away until an opportunity was pre-
sented for them to escape to the United
States. The family was of French ex-
traction and they made their way to the
French colony at Demopolis, where Mrs
Hayden spent the greater portion of her
life, and where she was loved by all who
knew her
Mrs Hayden is the mother of Capt
Henry w. Hayden, editor of the Demop-
oils Express
Georgia Society Formed.
The natives of Georgia at present resi-
dents of this city have taken steps to or
ganize Georgia society," and at a meet
ing held here yesterday the initiatory
steps were taken Mr.. Lee McLendon
manager of the National Building and
Loan association, was the chairman of
the preliminary meeting, and the follow
ing committee was appointed for the pur-
pose OF preparing a constitution and by
laws and plan of permanent organiza-
ton: Ex-Gov r. f. Lyon. Clifford A.
Lanier, T. Sloan Young and Lee Nc
Tendon. Among the former Georgians
who participated in the meeting were:
Ex-Governor Lyon, Col. S. L. Alexander,
James S. Wilcox, Hugh N. Wilcox, Col.
John W. A. Sanford, James S. Pinckard,
T. Sloan Young, r. P. Dexter, Willis L.
Chandler Robert Voolfolk, w. v. Brum-
hey, L. " LaTaste, John HI. Boston,
Clifford A, Lanier, Capt. A. A. Walker, C.
l.. Floyd, Cecil II. Wilcox, L. Gardner
Foster L. B. Whitfield, H. b. Allison, s.
J. Cassells, Charles r. Illges s.. W.
Mitchell, Albert S. Voolfolk and Lee Nc
Tendon.
Cotton Factory Site Bought.
The committee on location of the Peo-
pies Cotton factory has purchased TWEEN
ty-three acres of land near West End for
the site of the factory, and has made ar
rangements with the railroads to extend
track to the property Material for
building the factory will be placed on the
ground at once and the work of construc-
ton will be commenced within the next
sixty days.
A Smooth Citizen.
The negroes in and around Scottsboro,
Jackson county, are in sackcloth and
ashes. They have been worked by a
shrewd member of their race who gave
his name as Johnson and who claimed to
hail from Boston. Johnson entered the
field for the purpose of organizing a be-
nevolent order, which had for its object
doing all the good possible for the col
ored brother at the minimum of cost.
His game was an inviting one, and the
innocent Scottsboro darkies proceeded to
bite. He required the payment of certain
dues or fees in advance, and, to get in on
the ground floor. the darkies came up
with the stuff. After Johnson had raked
in about $500 he thought he would pull
out for a new field, and all that the
Scottsboro darkies now have of their
money Is the memory that it-once was
theirs.