Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-22
IN SOCIETY'S DOMAINS.
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The bazaar under the auspices of the ladies of St. Catherine's church, promises to be a success. The hall is crowded every night, and the band plays sweet music. The interest in the contests Is growing, and all the contestants are hard at work The bazaar will continue during this week.
 Mrs. M. c. Reynolds is visiting her parents in Mobile.
 Mrs. Baldwin, nee Pearl Melville, the dainty ard always popular dramatic ar tlste, is in the city with her husband, the genial proprietor of the Baldwin Melville dramatic company, now occu pying the boards at OBriens opera house. Mrs. Baldwin, owing to i'll health. retired for a. season from the boards, though her many friends and admirers throughout the south hope soon to see her again before the footlights. ##
 The Asheville N C., Daily Gazette has the following, a portion of which wil1T be read with interest by some of the State Herald readers in this city: H.
 The sham battle and other exercises at Bingham Heights yesterday afternoon attracted a large crowd of spectators. The Bingham Heights car line carried several crowded cars and many went in carriages
 The new drill ground was used, which is property lately purchased by Maj. Bingham. The ground has been entire ly cleared of trees and stumps, and to- gether with the cid drill ground makes fine open field, Q quarter of a mile long.
 The cadets were under the command of Maj. Davis, who first marched them to the further end of the field from the spectators and gave them instruction in outpost duty. The battalion was then deployed as a detailed regiment and an advance made The battalion advance in extended order and instead of uniform advance of the whole skirmish line which was the plan in vogue in the civil war successive rushes of each flank were made. The last part of the movement consisted of bayonet charge.
 Sixty blank cartridges were furnished each cadet. A battalion drill ended the exhibition.
 After the drill, in the Y. M. c. A. hall, the award was announced by Capt. Bal ley Lee, in happy manrer The dainty bit of gold goes to Capt. McD. Conner, of Birmingham, Ala. The subject or the winning essay was '"The Causes of the Rise of Protestanism." The result of the contest was we'll received and was plain- ly popular one.
 Other essays, which received honorable mention by the judges were, Should Education be Compulsory" by Lieut.. J. C. Little, of North Carolina; An Aris- tocracy of Merit" by Adjt. J. Ray Col lins, of Virginia, and Female Suffrage , by Frank Block, of Kentucky.
 The Birmingham Federation of Wo- mems Literary clubs met Tuesday af- ternoon in Magnolia hall. All Of the clubs belonging to the federation were represented and the meeting proved one of pleasure and profit. several new clubs applied for membership and the federation is now in quite a four1shlng condition This being the first meeting of the clubs in their federated capacity much time was necessarily devoted 10 business. The most important or the business proceedings was the adoption Of the constitution. After a lengthy dis cussion the constitution was so amended asato admit all musical and art clubs, composed of women only, to membership in the federation. As 1t now stands, Wo- mems literary, musical and art clubs arel eligible as members, and all clubs in the city and suburbs devoting themselves to those pursuits are cordially invited to join the federation. Applications for membership will be received ny the sec retary and will be given prompt atten- tion The federation decided to take ad- vantage of Mrs. L. Crozier-French's pres ence in the city, and secured her 10 give her course of lectures on "PhiloSophlc Principles Applied to Every Day Life. When arrangements are perfected fur ther information as to the time and place of these lectures will be given.
 After the adoption of the constitution and the completion of the business for the afternoon, the literary programme was taken up and well rendered as fol- lows:
 Paper-"The Influence of Club Life on American Women"-Mrs. s. D. Cole, of the Novelist club.
 PaDer-"An Estimate of the Average Woman's Quantum Of Club Life"--Mrs. ] Griffith Harsh, of the Edgewood Club.
 Discussion of the last subject in two minute talks by all the clubs, represent ed by the following ladies:
 ?. Nineteenth Century CluD-IMlSSeSMii- ner and Lewis. - Novelist Club-Mesdames Webster and Wilmington.
 .Cadmean Circle-Mcsdames Lowell and R. D. Johnsto-
 Fenelon ChD-Mrs. Kirk and Miss
 Edgewood Club-Miss Lewis and Mrs. H. H. Johnston.
 Clionian Club-Mesdames Brown and Sturdivant. s-I
 Wedding bells rang out mcrrily yes terday, it being the first Wednesday af- ter Easter and young hearts which long had beat in unison Were made to beat as one. :; = At St. PauPs Catholic church al 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon the joyous < notes of Mendelssohns wedding march rang through the rafters of that stately structure and to the sweet strains of 10 Promise Me" two hearts were pl;ghted , ~one to the other and Rev. Father O Riley pronounced the words making man and wife two of Birmingham's highly re- spected young people.
 At the appointed hour, to the strains of the wedding march MT Joseph B. Hay low led Miss Daisy Donovan to the al- tar rail and there mid the solemn, sweet strains of 70 Promise Me-" were pro- \ nounced man and wife. MT. E. J. Hay low, brother of the groom. with Miss Agnes Church, as bridesmaid, were with the joyous couple The ushsrs were Messrs Burrlha m Tylee. of Charles on, S. C.; Joseph Franklyn. Arnold Massbarg and Henry B. Haylow, of this city.
 The groom is the popular chief train dispatcher of the Birmingham Mineral railroad, a most exemplary young man and numbers his friends by hundreds. , His fair bride, the charming and ex- quisitely graceful daughter of MT. and Mrs. James Donovan, and sister of MT. Will Donovan, of the State Herald re-