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Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-16
ON THE TENNESSEE.
Movements of River Steamers Excursion
 Season m Full Blast.


 Decatur, June 15.-(Special)- 1.-The Luke Pryor came to this city on Saturday evening with about ITS colored excursion ists from Guntersvlle and up river points, The crowd was well behaved and the colored folks seemed to enjoy them selves very much while here. The Tennessee is again slowly falling and stands at about feet on the water gauge.
 A farmers excursion will be run from Romans island to this city on the Luke Pryor, Jr.
 The Towle came in Saturday evening with 35,000 feet of lumber consigned to the Tennessee Lumber company. The Clinton B. Fisk passed up the river en route from Florence to Kingston re- gently.
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-16
WATERSPOUT IN CLAY.

bTIuRtS w AWHy-NO
 Were Lost.
 Anniston, June 15.-(Special.)- )-Near Lineville, Clay county, a few afternoons since, ther was an enormous water spout. A grist mill, saw mill and gin of w. J. Pearce, which were located on a small stream, were washed completely away, as were many bridges, fences and houses near the stream. Great damage was done to growing crops. No lives were lost however
Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-16
FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS An Old and Well-Tried Remedy

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Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-16
FOR SALE.

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Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-16
CHEAP COLUMN
Free to Those Wanting Situations.

The State Herald, always friendly to the needy, will publish free of charge in it's Want Columns advertisements for situa- tions wanted of twenty-five words or less three times.
 The charge for other Wants is
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The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
EPISCOPALIAN CONVENTION.

Hundred Delegates From Diocese of
California to Meet in Grace Church.
The forty-sixth annual convention of
the Episcopal Diocese of California will be
held in Grace Church. corner of California
and Stockton streets, next Tuesday,
Wednesday, and probably large part OF
Thursday.
About hundred clerical and lay dele
gates are expected, and they will represent
the district from San Francesca Bay south
to Bakersfield.
No business of particular impo1 tance is
expected at this years convention. The
settlement of financial questions between
the diocese and the recently created diocese
OF Southern California will be one of the
pricipal matters TO discussion. Then, too.
the canons of the diocese will have to be
altered to conform with the new territor-
lal boundaries occasioned by the formation
of the southern see.
The Rev. E. j. Lion of St. Stephens in
this City will preach a sermon at IL o'clock
on the opening day of the convention.
On Thursday evening the Right Rev.
Bishop Nichols will give reception at the
Occidental Hotel from until IL O'Clock.
While it will be primarily in honor of the
delegates it will be large general recep-
tion to all Epicopalians.
On the following Friday at II A. N.
Bishop Johnson of Los Angeles will make
his debut before San Francisco audience,
when he Will preach at the annual meet
ing of the Woman's Auxiliary to be held
in st. Luke's Church.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30

East Portland, Or, boasts of one of the
prettest Margarettes in the land. This
sweet little girl is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. II. Schnider of 282 Crosby street, East
Portland. Or. AS you see her in this pic
ture you see her in the flesh. Her cheeks
are plump, her eyes bright, and there is
color IN her cheeks. There is not mark,
blot or blemish to spoil the beautiful
contour of the face. The reason is given
that she has been using joys Vegetable
Sarsaparilla. Marguerite sends her love
to California and tells of her delight with
joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla.
Marguerite is winsome, bright, and is
easily the prettiest Marguerite in the coun-
try. / spoke to her father. His place of
HE came out of his Office especially to tell
me of the great good joys Vegetable Sar-
saparilla had done for the family. at isl
said he, "the family medicine now, and
we propose always to keep this remedy in
the house." He advised me to visit many
other houses in Portland and / would
learn of wonderful things that had been
done by joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla. He
said he knew of a case of scrofula that was
completely cured by this great blood med
icine. He also informed me of a lady who
had running sores over the body and she
had been using the Sarsaparilla for two
months to good effect.
By the way, remarkable thing in Port
land is that there are no substitutes here.
People are not putting up something lust
as good" and of course when you ask for
joys Vegetable Sarsaparilla you get it
without murmur The truth is they are
not cutting the price, and druggists make
a rational profit, therefore do not feel in
clsned to cheat people. 1t is good idea
to publish this letter as written.
HENRY TILLMAN.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
RARE FLOWERS ON SHOW
Exhibition of Beauties Will Open
in the Palace Hotel
To-Day.
Will Be Tod by Ladies as They
View the Blossoms in the
Maple Hall.

In the annex of the Maple room in the
Palace Hotel there were dozen vases of
old-fashioned roses yesterday, some yell
low, one cluster pink and still others of the
pale "tea" variety. And they had come
from Monterey to bloom beside the pam
pered beauties of the flower show. A trifie
quaint and plebian they looked there amid
rare palms, waiting to be classed, and
though fragrant as roses are, yet their one
charm in the connoisseur's critical eye
was a pretty historical incident.
The roses were dried by the journ ey and
perhaps little worn from long years in
the adobe soil.
They were reminiscent of roma ntic
happening long ago at Monterey. As the
story was told by lady in the Maple
room yesterday it proved to be one of the
most INTEREST," ng things said about the
show. They came from an old lady at
Monterey. When beautiful girl she met
General Sherman, and they were lovers
for time by th blue bay. One day while
the general was in the garden with his
fan ncee-for they had pledged their troth-
he received summons to go East. The
general promised he would return and
make her his bride. and they planted
roseDusb together where they stood.
General She rman went away, but never
came back to M Monterey. His love was left
with the roses that have bIoomed and
grown old and are now interesting for their
story.
''She is selling the roses now, partly for
living, Z" was the careless remark OF lady
engaged in arranging the flowers.
The show promises to be a triumph of
fr->,
will attract attention from lovers of flowers.
1t is the thirteenth flower show in San
Francisco, held by the state Floral Society,
that was organized seven years ago. While
the season was not favorable to the possi-
bilities of fine display of blossoms extra
efforts have been made by exhibitors to
secure some interesting specimens, and for
| that reason it is believed the show will be
even better than it would have been under
different circumstances
Last evening as many as thirty-six ex-
hibitors had made formal application for
| space, and many more were expected to
apply to-day. San Francisco, Marin, San
Mateo, Alameda, Santa Clara, Mendocino,
Monterey, Santa Cruz and Contra Costra
counties were represented.
| The show will open at noon to-day,
when private reception to several promi-
nent people for inspection will be held.
The Maple and Marble halls and the
| Maple annex will then present beautiful
| spectacle, with the choicest and most
beautiful blooms of the local gardens set
out upon white stands in glass vases.
| The rooms will be thrown open at P NJ.
and remain open until 10 P. NJ continu-
ously till Saturday, when the hours will be
| from 10 A. NJ. to P. NJ. and to 10 PM
Promenade concerts will be given each
evening and the State University will have
men from its agricultural department each
afternoon to teach visitors how to treat
| flowers. The rose display will be the chief
feature, but there will also be splendid
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30

passed then My Lord Prime Minister Gill
christ, on behalf OF her Majesty, thus re-
spends:
'On behalf of her Majesty I take pleas
ure in accepting the symbol of authority
which the citizens of this city have so
kindly presented. She wishes to express
the hope that she may be guided by the
spirit which leads to the happiness of her
guests"
And so the Queen is crowned, and the
festival of Dame Flora is begun. Her
Majesty and her Minister step down. They
are met by Mr.. Bullock Prince or Duke
is he, and he bears in his arms a pretty
blossom from each town and city in the
county, and on his tongue soft words of
greeting and allegiance. all of these he
bestows upon Queen Lillian and the Lord
Chamberlain makes another pretty speech
in acceptance. Now, verify, all of San
Mateo County has sworn fealty to the
reign of pleasure, and there must be no
troubled brows till the reign is over.
Again the orchestra plays the grand
march. The garlaLds, which marked off
the royal promenade are laid aside and
the dance begins. 1t is the grandest fete
that San Mateo County has ever seen. the
most pleasing spectacle that any one well
could find. The coronation ceremonies
are over now. They were success from
first to last. The coronation ball is still in
progress. The spacious hall is crowded
with dancers, and as many spectators as
the galleries will hold are watching the
beautiful moving color picture below with
the keenestin terest. More than 600 people
are in the hall, and there are still others
who would get in if there was room.
1t is the elite orchestra of Redwood Citv
that is now keeping time in soft strains
to the twinkling feet, and its members
are: George Long, leader and first violin:
Harry Jameson. cIarionette; Will jamie
son. trap drums; Lottie Christ, second
violin; Will Lipp, piano; Gus StalIer,
slide trombone; Marie Heiner, second
violin; Carl Plump, bass violin; May
Cook, first violin; Charles Dohrmanstein.
piccolo; Henry Petzold, cornet.
During the coronation ceremonies the
Redwood City quartet added not little
to the success of the great event by their
singing. In the quartet are Miss Iollu
Winnie, John Lewis, Miss May Whine and
Cliff Bacon.
OF course all the ladies of the Free Kin
dergarten Association, for whose benefit is
the entire festival, were present, as were
also the schoolteachers now attending the
institute at the grammar school in this
city.
At the close of the afternoon session of
the institute all its members were the
guests of Philip Princevalle, the popular
candy manufacturer anG proprietor of the
Redwood City Palace of Sweets. Here
some sixty odd ladies and gentlemen were
entertained with icecream and refresh
ments of the milder kind-right royallv
entertained. say all those who were par
takers of Mr.. Princevalies hospitalities.
Mr.. Princevalle is one of the leading mer-
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30

cess. The scene presented in the
Alhambra Theater when the ceremonies
began was really too pretty to attempt to
put the half of it in cold and coIorless
type. 1t was a scene of color-a grand
color scheme-thereln lay its strongest
point when viewed as a whole picture.
The theater itself has very pleasing in
terror, being finished in the natural woods.
with huge roof timbers devoid of disfg-
uring plaster or paint-all of which offered
an excellent background for the decorative
committees work. They used only natu-
raj flowers, ferns and evergreens, mingled
with much good taste-and the effect was
charming, The royal promenade, from the
rear entrance to the throne on the stage,
was marked off by long garlands of ever
green and deep-red roses. Inside its sacred
limits no plebeian mortal dare set desc
Grating toot-until the coron alton services
were over and the coronation ball in prog
ress.
At 9 o'clock the orchestra was in place,
the hall was crowded with promenaders in
full evening dress, the galleries with fasci-
mated spectators. A sentinel, trumpet in
hand, in knee breeches and full court cos
tune, stood motionless at the rear of the
oCs
On either side and little behind him,
stood two other lads, dressed as court
pages. Both of these had trumpets. All
three stood motionless expectant. Then
q signal was given. Her royal Majesty.
Queen Lillian Neuman, and suite. are
about to appear.
The sentinel pipes his trumpet, the or.
chestra ceases. The sentinel strides slowly
walks half way back and meets his pages
They are facing the outer door of the hall
and all three bow low as it opens. All
eyes look to the open door. Two wee
maidens enter, scattering before them,
from full baskets on their arms, handfuls
of flowers that sell for S. dozen to-day in
New York or Chicago.
Behind the m is the Queen, led forward
by Prime Minister George Gilchrist. She
is beautiful; he is stately and gallant.
Her gown is of dazzling whiteness, OF
heavy white corded silk to be exact. From
the shoulders hangs the ermine of royalty.
It is of crimson velvet and trimmed with
white ermine, spotted at regular inter-
Tals-this ermine trimming-with dots of
black. The Medici collar and the bout
fant sleeves complete rough description
OF handsome costume that bespeaks
royalty almost as much from its simpli-
city as from its beauty. She looks every
every inch queen-though her reign will
be brief enough, alasl So think the merry
makers at all events, regretful that all
thls brightness, this color these flowers
ana the music ana the dancing may not
last forever. In the old engravings you
have seen Sir Walter Raleigh-take the
beard from his chin and cheeks and YOU
have Prince Gilchrist, Prime Minister to
the Queen OF San Mateo County's floral
festival.
Now the orchestra plays the w. M. b.
Grand March and the royal suite moves
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30

chants of San Mateo County, and also the
agent at Redwood City for the San Fran
cisco CALL.
Plates were laid for sixty people, and
those who sat before them and enjoyed a
very pleasant half hour, together with the
various county districts, in which they
teach the young idea how to shoot, were
as follows:
Alpine-Miss Nellie Thompson.
Bell-Miss Tillie A. Pringle-
Belmont-Miss Belle Mcclellan.
Greersburg.
Mrs Kate D. Speeding, Miss Mary F. Doyle.
Higgins-Miss Alice A. Elvin.
Halfmoon Bay.
George F. Gilcrest, George Williams.
Joseph Mccarthy, Miss Sadie Savage,
Miss Annie Lane.
Miss Mamie C. Torpey. Miss Lydia Dearborn,
Miss Hannah Mcguire.
Laguna-Miss Kate Torpey.
La Honda-Miss Kate Mcnamara.
Milbrae-Miss Alice Martin.
Montara-Miss Rose Meehan.
Menlo Park
II. C. Hall, Miss Alice Loveland,
Miss Adelia Madden, Miss Hannah Burke.
Pharis-Miss Lulu Compton.
Pigeon Point-Miss Ada NJ. White.
Piarcitos-Miss Minnie Mullen.
Pomponia-W. J. Savage.
Purissima-Miss Rose Schubert.
Portola-Miss Mary Shine.
Pescadero.
Arthur Weed, Miss Mary Leathers.
Ravenswood-Miss Nellie Casey.
Redwood City.
G. P. Hartley, Mrs. J. E. Hartley,
Miss Mary Stewart, Miss Ida Martin,
Miss Mary Hanley, Miss Sallie Nelson,
Miss Lizzie Hall, Miss Josie Finger,
Miss Nellie Cloud.
Seaside-Miss Louise Cumins.
Sunnyside-Miss Augusta Leathers.
San Gregorio-MisS Emma Gilbert
San Pedro-Miss Kate Garrissino.
San Bruno.
Miss Flora Smith, Miss Florence Glennan.
San Mateo.
w. G. Hall, Miss Lillian Henion,
Miss Annie Craig, Miss Carrie Green,
Miss Minnie Edwards, Miss Maggie Maloney,
Miss Lizzie Keegan, Miss Reoecca Donahue.
Tunis-Miss Marguerite Joyes.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30

with stately tread toward the throne. A
knowing little page follows close behind
the Queen and holds high the long trailing
ermine mantle. This is little Harry Offer
mann, quite conscious indeed of the
mighty honors bestowed upon him in
holding the train of so gracious and so abb
solute a monarch. The sentinel. Arthur
Mcdonald, and his two pages, Howard
and Edward Hurlbut, lead the way to the
throne. The maids of honor are robed all
in white silk ornamente6 with red roses.
No Queen of ancient times was ever at
tended by maids so beautiful.
Now the Queen has reached the canopy,
Ny Lord Gilchrist hands her to the throne
with all the courtliness that even Queen
Elizabeth could exact. Another instant
and two maids of honor have placed the
crown upon Queen Lillian-and San Mateo
County has its first monarch. Now, James
B. o. Keefe, for the time being Mayor of
the city, brings forward the big silver keys.
He bends the knee before the crown and
then he says:
Your Gracious Majesty, the distinction
of being the city of your coronation and
ascension to the throne of San Mateo
County Carnival of Flowers is an honor
of which the citizens of Redwood are not
unmindful. They enter into the spirit of
this happy occasion and rejoice with you.
The city's official representatives have
delegated to me the authority and ac-
corded the pleasure of presenting these
silver keys to the Queen of the carnival,
thus symbolizing that she surrenders her
sovereignty unto you. Yourself and guests
are to enjoy the freedom of the city and
the warm friendship of her citizens. We
express the hope that yours will be a
reign of pleasure in which your guests to
the city will share. We extend you a
hearty welcome"
When this is said and the keys really
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
MAYOR SUTR0'S BIRTHDAY
Remembered by Four Singing
Verein's in a Pleasant
Way.
His Honor's Sixty.Sixth Anniversary
Celebrated With Song and
Good Cheer.

The hower-perfume walks of Sutro
Heights were invaded last night by 100
visitors from the singing societies of the
four German Vereins, who invaded the
quiet home of the Mavor.
The cause of this invasion of the HEIGHTS
was the sixty-sixth birthday anniversary
of the City's chief executive.
The fact that the Mayor had not left th g
City became known to a few of his i'm
mediate friends, among whom was Theo.
dore Wiesr, an active member of one of the
vereins. Through Wiesr and few Others
surprise was planned for the Mayor and
it was well carried out.
At 8 o'clock last evening the following
singing societies, under the leadership of
Professor A. Banz, assembled in front of
the entrance to the Heights: Alpen-
roesli, Hessen. Schwaben ana Walholia.
They were marshaled by Mr.. Wiesr.
and headed by "Baby" Schmidt of the
Heights, who weighs $50 pounds, marched
through the grounds to the residence of
the Mayor.
On arriving at the residence the follow
ing songs were sung: Der Tag des
Herrn, "1'Ym Lager Won Accom-" "Macht
des Gesanges, "Haute Scheid Ich.''
At the conclusion the Mayor stepped
out on the veranda, where he was met bv
Herman L. Schmidt who congratulated
him on his sixty-sixth anniversary.
His Honor responded, thanking his Ger
man friends Tor their thoughtfulness in
remembering him. and he invited them
into the banquet hall, where a supper had
already been prepared by the members of
his family, who were spending the even
ing with him. An elegant floral piece.
with the monogram ga. land 1890 and
1896, beautifully worked in pansies and
daisies. was presented.
A iovial and happy evening was spent
by friends and visitors until the last car
at midnight carried the singers to their
homes.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-30
collection of other choice blossoms no
CITIZENS MUST READ.
Judge Belcher's Fiat Regarding App1i
Cants in His Denartment

Judge Belcher's Fiat Regarding Appli-
cants in His Department.
Judge Belcher has decided that no man
who cannot read or write may pass him
as citizen. A few days ago such an ap-
pllcant presented himself, and Judge
Belcher denied his application.
II will not admit any one to citizenship
who cannot read, said the Judge in deny
ing the application, "for one of the most
important duties of citizenship Is jury
duty, and the law contemplates that jurors
shall be able to read
ut provides that when the Jury retire
to consider their verdict they may take
the exhibits with them and the written
instructions given by the court and tn cir
own notes Of the testimony. Every per-
son whom | admit to citizenship will have
to read TO me from the constitution of the
United States and, upon examination, dis
play acquaintance With its principles.