Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-21


 The Mississippi senate has declined to restore the governors salary to $4O0O. It was cut $500 by the last legislature.
 One of the very best weekly papers published in Alabama is the Colbert County Banner Geographically, it is very superior; edtorially and locally, it is simply superb.
 Dr. Milburn, the blind chaplain of the senate, was first elected congressional chaplain in December 1S45, just half century ago. He was then 22 years of age, and the youngest man whose voice had been heard in congress before or since that date
 It is remarked in Washington that Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassa- dor, has been more conspicuous socially since the Venezuela dispute than ever before. He entertans lavishly, his man. ners are delightful, and he is one of the most, if not actually the most, popular of all diplomats at the capital
 Congressman Miles Crowley of Gal weston, Tex, would furnish material for d cowboy, a stevedore and finally a lawyer. According to his own account, his busi- ness at one time was that of tramp, and many ride did he steal on freight trains in those days. He declares that he can drink more whisky than any other member of the house.
 Bushnell the new governor of Ohio, in his inaugural message says of Me Kin1ey, his predecessor: May his destiny lead him to the pathway where he can give for the whole American people the same excellent service he has bestowed upon his fellow-citiZens of Ohlo." This is not encouraging. Mckinley said in his retiring message that he left the state with expenditures exceeding the revenue, and with "an alarming amount of local indebtedness"
 Gold mining in the south Is having quite boom Just now, according to re- ports in the newspapers. The gold mines in north Georgia are said to be doing a profitable business; company with $2,- 500000 capital Is about to develop gold mines in West Virginia, and finds of con- siderable value and importance are re- ported in North Carolina. It is said that hundreds of miners have recently ar rived in the gold fields in Montgomery and Stanley counties, North Carolina.
 The Advertiser attempts to make point out of the assertion of the State Herald that many enemies of the democ- racy go to the primaries at Mobile for the purpose of fostering weak candi- date Hpon the party with the intention of having him defeated. By garbling a sen tence of this paper it seeks to draw the inference that it is dangerous to let such men vote at the primaries. The infer ence is entirely unfair. What the State Herald said and meant was that while such men vote at the primaries 1t is sui cidal to exclude others who intend in good faith to aid the party. The honest man when challenged at the primaries admits that he did not vote the ticket at the former election. The dishonest man makes such declaration as suits his pur- pose. The honest man who would aid us is excluded, while the dishonest man is permitted to carry out his nefarious pur- pose. The managers must accept the statement of the man who offers to vote. There is no way of proving how he voted. Shall we adopt rule which shuts out all honest men who may have erred, but who are now ready to help us, and which admits all dishonest men who stand ready to stab us beneath the fifth rib?
 Writing of Benton McMillin as guber- material possibility, a Washington corre- spondent of the Knoxville Journal says: q wonder if many of his mountain con- stituents know what bowling swell he has become? Very few of the swellest functions, from a diplomatic reception down, Is complete without his presence, and MT. McMillin of Tennessee is name that is never missed when the so- ciety reporters are at work on the de- scription of the other decorations and floral exotics at diplomatic houses. Con- trast Benton of today in his dress clothes that would distinguish a New York club man with the picture he presented the first time he went down from his back woods to Nashville as a member of the legislature and-weep! Get some old member to tell of his brogan shoes, his jeans pants his home-knit wooden stockings, his black string tie and his wonderful. truly wonderful, coat, and above all get him to tell of the >antipathy his shoes and his pants had for each other and the consequent advantage those home-knit socks had for putting themselves in evidence. as the pants re. treated from the shoes. walking standing or sitting down. But now he associates with ssirs' and counts and 'barons and all sich like.'"