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tive. and rsprehetisibie when it sets itser up agairst the solennnly expressed will of the majority. es0
 If itis difficult for united democrats to win, when opposed by the solid and disciplined pha1anxes of a powerful enemy. how can they hope for success if they foollsi4ly divide into wrangling factions and hostile camps, each con- tending fer the 1sadership and clamoring for the spoils. of a. victory which is rot in sight? &
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WITH THE ALABAMA EDITORS. gu

One would not expect the meek and matter-of-faet Editor Champion, of the Troy Citizen-Journal to perpetrate the i following:
 "An Alabama murderer addressed the following note to the governor: I wish you would give me a thirty days respite. I am short on religion, intended to get some last week, but was too busy"
 The Plart system wants to help Troy have fair, and the Troy Citizen-JouInal makes this wise suggestion while the railroad Is in the position to help:
 ''Let us get on an industrial move, and let us have small industries dotting the town throughout. and join hands with the railroad people for good year"
 Editor cawthon, of the Covirgt-n Times, gets off the following mental and physical philosophy:
 There Is many soul ntrudging along Iife's pathway with weary, uncertain steps, sad and down hearted who YOU d, if there was a kind hand reached out to them, walk erect and step lightly, and even sing when passing over rough places.
 "When a 15-year-old girl deserts a 4O- year-old mother to gad around with am 1S-ysar-old boy, a mild application of a 2-year-o,d sprout by a 45-year-old fathsr may be instrumental In saving her from everlasting ruin.
 For a real prophet after the anciz nt fathers, Editor Vert. of the North Ala bamian, should net be overlooked. He says:
 Five years from today Birmingham will be the principal steel market of the world-mark the prediction. No matter what party rules the atural advantages of Alabama are sufficient to head all other states in the march of progress"
 Strange things happen in politics in other counties than the Black Belt The Florence Times is responsible for the fol- | lowing:
 osThere threatens to be splft-up of the republicans in Lawrence county into the lilly white and black and tan fac tions over the postof1ice at Town Creek, for which negro and white man are applicants"
 Says the Florence Times:
 '"The young Lauderdale farmer who is planning to buy little land upon which to build home is giving evidence of good citizenship. There is some; hing in him. The young man who is willing to be a tenant farmer all his life, with no higher aspirations-what of him.'
 Editors Powell and Carmichael, of the Efba Clipper have dropped the financial question and originated a business plan of their own whereby to keep the thief from the door and the Clipper before the reading public. Tn the last issue ap- pears the following advertisement:
 "We will take shingles, shoepegs, cow hides, beef, tallow, bees wax, wood corn, peas, potatoes, sirup, rice, or even money; we'll, in fact almost anything except tan bark, in payment for subscriptions"
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ONE MAN DEFlES. A STATE.

While the eastern newspapers are jeer- ing at us because we have an occasional lynehing, 1t is refreshing ito find that Cin- necticut has big problem on her hands. In Easton, Conn, an Engrlishman named Buxton secured from the owner the lease of a farm of 100 acres for one year. and entered into immediate r -essiom The first year passed and Buxton paid no rsnt. He was asked to leave th=. farm and
 refused. The same ahing was repeated
 each year until now. He has had pos- session of the farm for thres years, and announces that he will net leave 1t until he is ready. a. .a MT. Banks, the owrier, visited him two
 weeks ago and told him that he would have to surrender ths, farm or he would
 begin legal proceedingse to have him busted. Buxton told him that if he did he would shoot the first man that tried to
 dispossess him. lih5.. -.siee Two colts of a neighbor, Miss Ogden, sfrayed irlto Buxton's fis1d. When Miss Ogden sought to have them returned she was ordered off the placefby Buxton, who threatened to shoot her.
 
 the law, and do not know what to do. Both mysa1f and my father are in fear
 of our lives, as this morning Buxton
 called to one of our neighbors who was
 passing his place and said: Tell the Og- dens if they don't stop bothering me I am
 coming up there to shoot them both.' I intended to apply to Gov. Cooke today to
 get somthing done to give me my colts
 and punish the cowardly officers, but
 after consulting Judge Banks of Fair field, decided to await Sheriff Hawley's
 return home before I attempted to do anything"
 But Sheriff Hawley is in no hurry to call on Buxton; hs insists he has no vis- iting acquaintance with Buxton and does
 not care to interfere. Buxton sends out this notice:
 'These horses came in here ard did large amount of damage. They shall not take them away until they pay me the $50 I asked and my expenses since thsy were here. If anyone attempts to take them I will shoot him, and if the Ogdens succeed in getting ther1 away when I am not watching I shall go to their house ard shoot them.
 an dF 1IES iIpdn, ana came 10 tnlS country nine years ago. I have held re- sponsible positions under the government, and know what the law is. This gun is the only relic have of my old home and prosperity. They cannot take those horses, and I will not let them drive me off this farm. I am well supplied with provisions, and win fight them for year if necessary"
 The citizens of Eastcn are now talk ing seriously of raising a subscription and endeavoring to buy Buxton off and
 get him to agree to leave the neighbor- hood.
 Sheriff Wallace M. Buckley, of Fairfield, has received a warrant for the arrest of Buxton, ard announces that he proposes to take Buxton, dead or alive. This is the story as told by the New York Herald The governor of Con- necticut evidently is afraid to trust his militia and Buxton continues to hold the fort.
 i. The case would not bother the average Alabama sheriff, but it is too much for the authorities of the Nutmeg state.
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COULD NOT PLAY HIM.

One of the comic papers had cartoon the other day, entitled The Republican Organ, With Only One Reed" It was a representation of an immense organ in the house of representatives. with the keys and stops and other paraphernalia of an organ, except that there was but a single reed, an immense one, surnncunted by likeness of Speaker Reeds head. !
 ''What do you think of that, MT. Speak er?" asked one of his colleagues the day it was published, showing him the car toon. r4
 MT. Reed looked a t il long and critically before he ventured q suggestion s.
 That's all right" he said a last, "only they don't play me.''-W ashiEgton Star.
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PERSONS AND THINGS.

Negro republicans have good cause for protesting against their treatment in the distribution of the spoils of victory at Washington. Hundreds of offices have been given out, but thus far only five have been given to the blacks The ne- groes had every reason to believe that they would fare we'll at the hands of tho Mckinley administration. Their votes gave Mckinley nearly every southern delegation.-St. Louis Republic, Dem.
 Miss Frances E. Willard is spending her vacation in riding a bicycle through this state.-New Orleans Times-Demo- crat
 Judge Toney the most imposing Ksn- tuckian on earth, asserts that there are women angels in heaven; and if the AL mighty has ever told anybody about 1t, of course Toney is the man he would teIl.-Memphis Appeal. The Hon. Benton McMillin will spend the summer at some quiet resort where he can compose the speech which he de- lvered at the extra session of congress- Memphis Appeal.
 
 that she wouldn't marry again for $1,- 100000, her despairing lover, Chauncey M. Depew, has been driven to the bike Memphis Appeal. Charlie Ross beyond doubt is dead. His father Aft an estate of $23,00o and no one thus far has announced a con test of the widows claim.-McKeesp Pa) Times.
 There is something wrong. The man who claims to have discovered the riches of Klondyke does not hail from Ohio.- McKeesport Pa.) Times.
 John Sherman is a partisan, but it is believed that he is too much of a pa- trot to break down and permit himself to be succeeded by Whitelaw Reid.-Kaasas City Sun.
 There are two things that will never happen as lorg as Queen Victor 1; i've; The Prince of Wales will not be king and there will be no pardon granted to Mrs. Maybrick.-Kansas City Star.
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Potash for the Kitchen Sink.

IA strong solution of potash should be often used in rinsing out the kitchen sink. It is excellent for dispelling the grease which has such a mysterious affinity for the waste pipes. and will save many a plumbers bill if rightly employed. New York Evening Post.
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thwart him. The judge and jury did their duty to their state in fixing tha. sentence of death upon such abnormaB .. wretch as Flanagan. The speedy triak and conviction of Newell in Alabama
 brings us many steps nearer "a proper
 public sentiment"
The age-herald., 1897-08-03

A dispatch from London says that Great Britain is satisfied at the pros pective settlement of the seal question. It fails to state, however, that Gr= at Britain is also perfectly satisfied that the wholesale destruction by Canadian poachers during the breeding season shall continue while the s:ttlemenf is pending
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The Age-Herald is more than satisfied with it's reception. With such a con- stituency to back it the day will soon come when 1t will be the best n=wspa- per in the best city in the best state of the Union
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Colonel Fred Grant gave some excel lent reasons For resigning his police commissionership in New York, but he intimated rather too broadly that he was too big a man to engage in such work. The colonel Is to be resp cted for his higa-toned and courageous attitude, but it was not necessary for him to say so much about his position and his rank as gentleman. After all, he is simply a plain American citizen.
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Independence.

Sugars going to cost more;
 Ot salt they say the same; Higher prices must result From the tariff laws they frame. Ham, and tea. and coffee,
 And sirloin steak aud pie Are sure to bs expensive A7 Intbe speedy by and by. The epicure grows doubtful
 And curbs his appetite. 5i Like him who saves his penny
 With provident delight. They say the m ans to purchase I4- Will not be found remote, ..l But the one who has the sure thing Is the gay, omniverous goat. Y
 Washington Evening Star.
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Dos Tommy Watson know where he is at? Perhaps he does, but it is more than his followers know.5 Between prac- ticing law, running newspaper, writing a history of France and bossing his party. Tommy is swinging like pen dulum betwiXt Bedlam and Be-dan1.
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In Atlanta the rich men put their money in the sky by building ten-story structures. In Birmingham they very wisely put it into the ground.
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The Georgia white republicans are wondering why Mr. McKinlsy has thrown the entire blackberry crop of the state right in their faces. The nig- ger in the Georgia woodpile completely hides the wood.
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Will N. Harben, the Georgia story writer, has many friends in Alabama, who will be gratified to learn that his work is now appearing in many north ern and western periodicals and papers. MT. Harben has evidently caught on.
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Skip the war talk in the newspa pers. This country is not going to fight any body until it sees more profit in war than in peace.
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There are more brains, pluck, enter prise and capital to the square inch in Birmingham than in any other town in the south
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Hon. John Templs Graves is getting ready for an extended lecture tour this fall and winter. He is one of the most popular men on the platform.
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Birmingham is a natural newspaper centre, and the Age-Herald will speak for all, work for all and be sought by all
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Politics should have a place in every intelligent mind, but it should not b. forgotten that business is bigger thing than politics. Take care of the mills and factories and they will take care of
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Miss Frances E. Willard is spending her vacation in riding a bicycle through this state.-New Orleans Times-Demo- crat.
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The Hon. Benton McMillin will spend the summer at some quiet resort where he can compose the speech which he de- livered at the extra session of congress- Memphis Appeal
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There are two things that will never happen as loFg IS Queen Victor,a 1; i've; The Prince of Wales will not be king and there will be no pardon granted to Mrs. Maybrick.-Kansas City Star
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John Sherman is a partisan, but it is believed that he is too much of a pa- triot to break down and permit himself to be succeeded by Whitelaw Reid.-Kansas City Sun.
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There is something wrong. The man who claims to have discovered the riches of Klondyke does not hail from Ohio.- McKeesport Pa.) Times.
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Now that Lillian Russell has announced that she wouldn't marry again for S1,- 100000, her despairing lover, Chauncey M. Depew, has been driven to the bike MemnhiS Anneal
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Charlie Ross beyond doubt is dead. His father Aft an estate of $2S,000 and no one thus far has announced a con test of the widows claim.-McKeesp (PaO Times.
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Says the Florence Times:
 "The young Lauderdale farmer who is planning to buy little land upon which to build a home is giving evidence of good citizenship. There is some, hing in him. The young man who is willing to be a tenant farmer all his life, with no higher aspirations-what of him..
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OF Morgan IN his cell, accompanied by the
henyier voices OF tho two preachers who were
With him, could still be heard ocsea tn Iona After Sr
went to the cell himself and said:
Morgan, you've got to DO ready in twenty
"iHsiiriaht, sir" said Morgan; "Il be ready.
want to let these people bnptize me nrst:.
why, certainly said the Sheriff, any
A. lew moments later three wagons drove up
to the side door of the Jail. The hrst was a top
fsS5hrsyi u II s. stSP sn ap ia b bGSn wagon 81 sR Without lhS,, oS Sny
seats. but with q black coffin In The middle of H..
This was for tho Shcriif's jury. The other man
been compelled TO sit on his, coffin or, the way
to the Raliows. but the Sheriff said that he
thought this was nn unusual h9raShip' and no
spring wagon. The third wagon, like the sec
ond. was an open box wagon Without seats. AS
time lost their grip on the crowd. Tho $50 or
400 people rushed over aud surrounded tho
wagons closely, Tho Stb ON 6 ho9Se's rip6t OF iS SeSrsS;
the others until their horses noses were in the
wagons themselves.
and The Shcriff appeared. Next to him.. with his
| hands handcuHed in front, was Morgan. He
was = little fe lGG r psrhsppps Is t BLACK fret fram fSS sndi
TO foot. He wore a standing collar and q black
necktic. His suit was now. and, by the way; IL
lie. Ills shoes were now. too, and, in spite Of
! his position, It was written on his face as plainly
q snylhlnE ever Sro was w " him. OF " B Bssins fd sSs
sheriff and Morgan came the two clergymen.
These four got into tho first wagon. Then the
, Sheriff jury and The SUN reporter, clambercd
into the second wagon, and stood up. The
propricty OF sitting on the collin was discussed,
aud it was decided that Y was more respectful
to stand, even II II was at the risk OF the neck OF
every man in the wagon. In tho third wagon
there wore eighteen or twenty other persons
Sherifr to keep inside the barbcd wire fence
They also stood. There was O cry OF Make
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TRIAL OF THE nAsARs DEBATED.
They Arc Accused Of Smuggling In 900
worth or DiAmonds.

United States Commissioner Shields adj
journed the hearing yesterday in the case Of
Max J. Lasar and Mr.. and Mrs. Emanuel j.
Lasar, accused of participation in the snug
Cling of 500, 900 worth of diamonds into this
city, until next Thursday afternoon, as As
sistant United States District Attorney Hin
man said that several of his witnesses had not
arrived from Europe. Abraham Lcvy, for the
accused. said that Mr.. Human was seeking
to gain time for!the purposo of taking the case
before tho United States Grand Jury and so.
curing indictments over tho COMMISSIONER
head. and strenuously objected TO any post
ponemcnt.
This course on the part OF the District At
torncy Is neither just nor honorable said
Mr.. Low, land I demand an immediate hcnr-
Ing in this case. Tho District Attorneys
o.iico is proceeding irrcgularly in this matter.
Subpnnas have been sent out from it for wit
nesscy to appear before tho Grand Jury and"
"If ron viii shoH me such a subpoena ! Will
go on with this case at once Mr.. hlnnnf M
u hnyn II at my office. ! will send for IT,"
e"I know ali about that subpoena Mr.. Hin.
man ro,orted., IT is n subpoena for them 20
been 10 prepared for thc'purposc of discussing
any irreE Ularity that might have got the Dis,
triCt Attorneys office into trouble. lie sad
he would consent TO an adjournment il Mr..
Iiiuman would promise not 10 take III" case
before the Grand Jury until after the preliml-
nary examination.
II viii make no bargains" Mr.. Iiinman de-
clRrci.
"Thc hearing will he held on ThurSday at
4: o'clock said the Commissioner, "and 'hNt
settles it,"
MaX Lasar. who is q diamond merchant at
ct Maiden lane. Emanuel J. l.nsaT, who owns
IA saloon nj Grconwich and Chambers streets.
and The wife Of the latter were arrested on
Dec. {, the diamonds having been seized n day
or two before nj the Maiden .lanc address. The
accused pleaded not guilty, and were released
under $1,000 bail each.
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Yes. anybody that would kill q woman
Supplemented another.
give us n look at him. shouted another.
Amt you going TO take his hat of J
Then they fell to laughing and Joking with
each other. The fakirs, who had never for a
hall an hour tho body was permittod, to hang.
and everybody In the crowd stayed. Finally tho
Sheriff climbed up on the gallows and united
the ropo from the beam. Tho body was taken
down, and then for the first time the. peo.
pie started away. Teams were whipped
roadway first. for the roads were narrow
and 1t was impossiblo for one toam TO pass an
other; hence everybody wanted to DO first In
line. Men who had been standing rushed to
their horses and climbed VI on them. Women
who had been standing clambered up on theirs
also, and everybody headed for the roadway at
brcakneck snecd. laughing, swearing, .jostling
each other. The voices of the fakirs had lost
their potency. Nothing would hold the crowd.
They had seen tho show, and wanted to get
way.
Morgan's body was put into a. coffin. lifted
into tho wagon, and taken back to Ripley,
where II was locked up In n cell. not because
there was any fear that he might come, 10 life,
but there had been rpDurts that II might DO
to. deliver ii before dark.
Perhaps q Thousand Of the crowd returned to
Ripley. and spent three or four hours there got
ting rid OF the rest of their money OH tho fakirs
who had not gone out TO the scnffold. Tho negro
varying 1t with his banjo and his song. The other
fakirs wore still shouting out their attractions,
and they reaped tho harvest. The stores did y
good business rs well as The fakirs. The crowd
fingered. Those who could drank. rum, and ~
was not until dark that those who had remained
that the world was 'shet" of John +. Morgan.
The celebration was over.
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ings. ana the sarly comer oamped suit In the
public squaro and in the fields surrounding the
town.
AZ stated before, some Of them had started
two daysin advance In order to see the show. All
Wednesday night they kept coming. Tho little
train on the Mill Crock and Ripley Railroad
which arrived at z o'clock that night brought
with IL the greatest load or passengers II had
ever carried. They were packed In box cars, on
coal cars, on tho engine. and tho single passcn-
ger car was jammod to the point of suffocntlon.
CROWD IN RIPLEY.
Il was n jolly night in Ripley. A theatrical
troupe consisting OF two men and q woman had
come totown In anticipation of the great crowd,
and hired tho only hall there to give n tho
atrical performance, and q theatrical PERFORM
anco In Ripley is oven rarcr than q county fair.
These theatrical people aimed that their play
should 10 n sort OF forerunncr ofthe great event
TO como tho next day. So they had 1t full OF
killing, and they wound mp by hanging d man on
the stage. to the unqu0stionable delight Of every
one who could got in the hall. including tho
Sheriff. After tho play the hilarity continued.
Ripley Is a temperance town. IL IL against Tho
law to soil any liquor there. but there isn't any
law against drinking 1t, and at every spot In
Ripley where n crowd was gathered together
there was the hvegnllon jug. When morning
camo Ripley had a head on. Daylight showed
tho town jnmmed full OF people. and moro com.
Ing from every direction every minute. Hun
dreds had campcd In the tcn-ncre lot near the
scaffold.
Let tho reader imagine a town built around a
public square covering perhaps five acres. In
the middle Of this square is n brick building two
| stories high. scvonty.ave feet deep. and fifty
feet wide. Fill tho square with people on foot,
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the Fallows surrounded BY 5000 people. there
was q hubbub. E~xclamations. were heaTd 81
Look &C the crowdi II beats the county tnlIL
in Ell say maybe people a0n' come =
Tho crowd around the gallows caught sight Q!
tho procession at about the Same moment. and
| shouts could DO hoard from their direction.
The people could all be seen to turn, and crane
their necks to got u better view. Morgan stopReo
shsriT edged over close 't to Morgan and gota
grip ON his arm. He wasn't taking any cnahY NJ.
Into tho field rodc the Shcrifr's carriage. no tbs
hind rumbled the open box wagons. ana tns
Jury. and the invited guests, and. the coffin, and
beside ana all pnround them tho crowd, now
b baeR. The s RSSaaisfHs ca sS pTia S% t &Tav snq Pis ~ ~ 70
the edge of tho crowd. A half.dozen deputy
s MsI,,s' .S with T9 "SSSe v strePBBs St t aSSqs v ohsss
were drowned by the cxclnmations Of the thou.
sands and by the shouts Of the fakirs. who
Last and only true confession Of John 7.
Morgan, the murderer. Here .ye are Ut
Fresh roasted peanuts, Aye cents n,ss q q ,Snad n,o.
pie. It'll. be half an hour before they 'shct MN
of yet, Here's your fortune right here. pont
mind till you get him up there" and tho ike.
ONE PROUD WOMAN.
1t was a difficult proceeding to force the
trance at the bnrbed. wiro fence. 1t was finally
accomplished. The Sheriff stepped out. Morgan
fSl M"iSed h up the SS.sp sIsps IN IN l fSii view Gs Re Of cS Ser body ID
Behind him came came the two minister's I,hen
came the Sheriff and his deputy, and after them
a young woman. She was a stenoEraphsr. ShG
walked up the gnllOws steps and seated herself
NJ tho top to watch the proceedings, and cast on
n tSe crowd Wors ing She S" w"s tho este os sTShis who took
had promises her that she should be the only
It was a perfect DAY. Tho sun was shining
brightly; II was T T,Ir, There W vas ,toasp person sisS
M nae of Hs Mo %po ai stepp eaY BESIDE ! nsS the rope c.t the
moose OF which danglod on tho floor of tho gal