Birmingham state herald., 1896-02-27
THE LATEST ALABAMA NEWS ss%
 ea | .ls Clarke Men Are Busy Collecting
 Campaign Funds. ...3s 1- BULLOCK IS FOR JOHNSTON
Railroad Bill Is Again lnfesting His Haunts in Escambia County-The Montgomery
 Baptist Will Appear Next Week. -

Montgomery, Feb. 26.-(Special)- l)-The
 Clarke men of5this city have been chasing
 the dollars of the daddies today. They
 want to hold this, county if there is any
 chance of doing it, and it will take cam
 palgn fund to do it. The Clarke boys held
 a meeting last night. It must have been
 a mournful assemblage. There was no
 brass band attachment this time There
 was no hurrah. There was no blue orbed child to encourage them. It was plain,
 cold gathering, and it bore fruit today
 when the subscription list was passed around. Everybody who 1t was believed
 would stand a touch was called upon,
 and in no place haxe+the Johnston men
 been able to find where the advocates of
 the yellow metal refused to scoop In
 silver dollar rendered to them. Of course
 it is only 50-cent dollar-a debased
 coin-but every crack out of the bottle
 they raked it in and credited the contrib
 utor up with 100 cents just the same as if
 his contribution had been planked down
 in the kind of stuff 1t takes to buy bonds.
 Silver is no good as the currency of the
 country, but it is mighty handy stuff
 with which to pay campaign expenses,
 and when some one else chips it in no
 questions will be asked.
 Good News From Bullock
 Executive Committeeman Merriwether
 of Bullock county was in the city today
 and he brings good news from old Bull
 lock. He says that Johnston will carry
 nine or ten of the beats of that county
 and that MT. Clarke has chance to carry
 two or three, but that the delegation in
 the state convention is a S safe Johnston
 as can be. He says there may be some
 talk about the county executive commit
 tee of Bullock inviting Mr. Clarke to Bull
 lock to make speech, but this was done
 by the aid and with the consent of the
 Johnston men on the committee. The first proposition was to invite both Cap
 tain Johnston and MT. Clarke, but as tha captain had written to his Bullock, friends that unless it was absolutely
 necessary for him to go to the county5he
 would prefer to put in the time elsewhere,
 and as it was regarded that the county was safe for Johnston, the matter of in- viting him was, on motion of Johnston man, dropped. The Clarke men wanted to invite MT. Clarke, and the Johnston men on the Bullock committee, who, by | the way, comprise two-thirds of that body, being desirous of having distin-, | guished men visit the county, even when the county won't vote for him, joined Fin | the invitation ito the able congress man from the First district to tarry 5bit in Bullock. .i.,..,i,,,, l I Death of Judge Riley of Covington. n Information has been received at the capitol of the death on Tuesday evening of Hon. Malachi Riley, probate judge fOf Covington county, at Andalusia,e Ala. He had been i'll for some weeks, and the announcement was not unexpected here. Judge Riley was one of the most prom l inent and useful citizens of Covington, 1! and his death is regarded as very great 1 loss to the county. Deceased had been probate judge of Covington since 1880. He leaves wife and several children. Railroad Bill in Escambia. Railroad Bill'' is said to infesting his old haunts in the woods and marshes of Escambia county. A railroad man re- ports having seen him on a freight near Flomaton the other day with a Winches- ter and pistols. A chum of the desperado has made affidavit that Railroad Bi1l' has recently been camping at Joe Halls old place, not far from Flomaton, and that, to his knowledge, he is daily ad- Vised as to any movements the railroad detectives may. make. The negro has provided the officers with a diagram the desperado. and 1t is probable that an- other effort is now being planned to cap- ture him.
 The Montgomery Baptist.
 The Montgomery Baptist, a weekly pa- per to be devoted to the interests of the Baptist churches of this city and state, and in an especial manner to the success of the Montgomery Baptist union, will ! make it's first appearance during the first week in March. Rev. George R. Eager will be editor-in-chief and Revs. w D. Gay, J. L. Thompson and c. John ston will be associate editors It is ex- pected that the publication will be a most ;ptD ti,,t, q .;y,e,t ixrno