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The age-herald., 1898-09-29
AMONG THE RAILROADS.
Pioneer Company Strikes Snag on Its
 Short Line.

The engineers of the Pioneer company at Thomas, are now engaged in surveying the route of the railroad which they are to build from their furnaces to the new ore mines which they have recently acqu'rsd at Sayretown, just little beyond North Birmingham. The road will be only a lit- tie over two miles in length when complet ed The company has however, struck a snag which will delay the construction of the road for some time. About six lapd owners along the proposed route object to the road running through their land ard the company has found it necessary to commence condemnation proceedings in the probate court in order to obtain their right of-way. The first of these cases will be tried sometime in October. It is p-ssib.e that the company may decide to change the route of the road, in case the damages which the juries will fix are too heavy.
 In connection with a road running from near North Birmingham to Thomas tn re is now a rumor going the rounds of rail- road and street railroad circles that the Birmingham Traction company is going to extend its line from North Birmingham, on by way of Thomas and Pratt City to W. many will cut the fare to these places from 10 cents to cents. The rumor goes on to state that the merchants of Pratt City are fighting the proposed line because they do not want the fare to Birmingham reduced | it will be too big an iRducement for the people out there to come to Birmingham | to trade. Others say that the people at Pratt and Ensley would welcome new
 
 ing lines.
 President Alex London, of the Traction company stated last night that there was absolutely no truth in this report, and that his road was not even contemplating any such venture
 The Birmingham Traction company yes- terday announced novel plan which they will introduce on their system as soon as | the North Birmingham line is put in opera l tion Several of the most modern and up- l to-date electric cars which can be ob- | tained have been ordered by the company, | and they will be used to run around the l city loop. They will be p feet dong, and will be built for speed and good service. These cars will be shipped from St. Louis next Saturday.
 1 What is known as "the loop" on this sys- 1 tenn begins at Eighth avenue and Twsaty- sixth street. It follows the Gate City line | down Eighth avenue and Nineteenth street to First avenue, and out First avenue by | the North Birmingham track, via Twenty third street, Seventh avenue and Twenty sixth street to the starting point. These little cars will be kept going aroun4 this circle. and will not leave the city on either
 the North Birmingham or the Gate City line.
The age-herald., 1898-09-29

the father retired to private life. He died at the, age of S5.
 So rapid was Thomas F. Bayard's rise in the, senate that in ten years he became the leader of his party in congress. He was in 1880 the favorite of countless thousands of democrats for the presidential nomina- tion.
 Some Choice Gossip
 Mir. Bayard had also been voted for in the St. Louis convention, which. m lodo' nominated Mir Tilden. In 1880 Tilden's influence was not brought into play for Bayard, and it was said that Tilden was not satisfied with Bayard's course in the electoral commission business. It was even hinted that Tilden charged Bayara with having conceived the electoral scheme.
 "Labor With a Groan"
 When MT. Bayard was the most prom ising candidate for the presidential nominal tion in 1880 he made his first visit to Eu- rope On his return he used the following words:
 This summer I have been looking across the Atlantic thinking of the coun- try I could not see contrasting what did see of the daily lives of men and women in other lands with that of my own, and when so often I heard labor with Q groan and not with a voice., and realized the abuses and injustice of class privileges whereby the bar of humble birth was kept and fastened on men from the cradle to the grave, I turned as if for purer air to the American states where the noble equities of humanity are acknowledged and respect ed, and where the one great essentlal equality of opportunity, Is secured to all. And experience and reflection with mcreas- ed oportunitieis for comparison with other countries and systems of government prlhS me only to a higher appreciation of the and T11n the principles upon which our own was founded"
 MT. Bayard's Fortune
 His first wife brought him perhaps s15o- 0oO He never speculated, but in purchase of lands In West Virginia he made some money His second W fe was 8 woman or means but the senator's expenses, always large, and the necessities of his pupllc station absorbed all of his salary and the income of his practice. In recent ta'k MT Bayard said:
 q have held the two most expensive places in the government service, except the presidency I have been at the head of the state department, and I have been Tn London as ambassador, and I can say from personal experience well as observation that the government does not pay enough When I was pract chg my profession my income was greater than my expenses. When I entered public fife my expenses were. greater than any salary.
 He gave hospitality freely to his fr1ends, but never made his home the resort or politicians. He was social in private lie, simple natural and unaffected. He loved poetry and poets. and was not only fond or but very intimate with literary men. Ban croft. the historian. Lowell, who wrote him a very pretty poem upon one of his birth days, and men of that character were fond of him and he of them.
The age-herald., 1898-09-29
Cure fer insomnia

From Vanity Fair.
 "I've cured my husbands insomnia How did you do it?'
 s.Pretended I was ill. and the doctor left medicine which Henry was to give me every half hour all night long,"
The age-herald., 1898-09-29

H. Barnard, wholesale liq- uors, will remove to 1920 Ed avenue on October l. To re. duce stock of bottle goods will offer liberal discount if bought in quantities. Will be at cor ner 3d avenue and 18th street until above date.
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The age-herald., 1898-09-29
Mrs. Lansford Dead

Mrs. A. G. Lansford mother of c. H. Iapsford. a conductor on the Central of Georgia railway, died last night at 10 o'clock at the family residence No. f215 north Twenty fourth street. Mrs. Lans- ford was S5 years of age. and her death was due to declining years The remains will be shipped tonight over the Louisville and Nashville railroad to New Albany, Ind, where the interment will take place.
The age-herald., 1898-09-29
EDUCATIONAL.
Peabody 00ssEhHaTohH or MnsTe,

HAROLD RANDOLPH, Director.
 Mt. Vernon Pl. and Charles St., BaltO.
 PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT.
 MAY GARRETTSON EVA MS, Suppl
 IT E. Centre Street. Opens October 1, Apply Il to in September.
 MUSIC CENTRE OF THE SOUTH. Diplomas and Teachers Certificates. FULTON FEES: S15 to S60 for scholastic year, according to grade and study FREE ADVANTAGES: General instruction classes. Concerts by great artists &c.
 Faculty ot 2S eminent European and Amer ican teachers CIRCULARS MAILED FREE. a PROFESSORS AND INSTRUCTORS. Harold Randolph, Emanuel Wad, Ceeelia Gaul, J. Adam Hugo. Pfetro Minetti. J. c. V. Hulsteyn, P. L. Kahmer, Otto Simon Hermine Farrow, S. Archer Gibson, Isabel L. Dobbin, Clara Aseherfeld, Ethelfnd Ballard, Luther Minna D. Hill Isabel " Klinckowstroem Katharine D. Parkison, Maud Randolph, Blanche Sanders, Eliza McC. Woods Abram Noses Eleanor Bote!er. Lena Stiebler. o.
The age-herald., 1898-09-29
WANTED.

A good reliable colored bar tender. Must know how to read and write. Good refer encss required. Meyer, Marx & Go.
The age-herald., 1898-09-29
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD

Fifty dollars reward and no questions asked, will be paid for return of plain gold ring, diamond ring and card ease taken from residence 2l2O Highland avenue last We'd nesday night. Deliver goods at Age Herald office. Reward will be paid and no questions asked.
The age-herald., 1898-09-29
TH0S. F. BAYARD
 DIED YESTESDAY
(Continued From First Page.)

(Continued From First Page) ----~~---------~-~-~-~-~- ard, first, the grandfather of Thomas F. Bayard. His elder brother, James A. Bay ard was destined for the law, and was ex- pected to sustain, in the future, the pres tige of the family in public life.
 But Thomas, the younger brother, was sent to the desk of the mercantile house of August Van Cortlandt Schermerhorn, in New York. He remained in this counting house until he was 20 and completed his business training.
 A iiigher Power Controls Us
 Mr. Bayard then went to Texas.
 At this time he was not only tall but "gaunt" He gave no promise of a brilliant future. He was called guy" nd his abil- ities were sneered at. When, In 1858, he was made attorney general of Delaware and did some magnificent work his success was at tributed to the "old man." his father, then in the United States senate. He did not like this-tid not fancy that when he won a civil suit it should be said, "Oh, there's the old man" So he resigned and moved to Philadelphia and became the law partner of Willim Shippey. He remained five years and no one now Said it was "the old man. Charged With Being a "RebeP'
 It was soon after his return from Phil adelphia that he became lieutenant in the famous military company which led. in at- ter years, to the charge that he had been rebel" This company refused to give up it's arms to the government without an order from the governor of Delaware. The United States seized thenl-but afterwards acknowledged ths propriety of the com pany's protest by paying the state of Dela- ware for these very arms.
 10th Father and Son
 IT was an impressive scene when on th< same day the legislature elected the elder Bayard for the short term and his son Thomas F. Baysrd. for the full term to ths United States senate. On his retrrn to the senate the elder Bay ard was not called upon to take the iron clad' oath, and when the term ended, jus as the great career of his son was opening
The age-herald., 1898-09-29
NIGHT SCHOOL.

The Tenth Annual Night 8 chool of The Bir- mingham Business College opens Oct. 3rd Teachers all specialists All Commercial and English branches taught. Call or telephone for circulars. WILLARD J.WHEELER,
 0-25 l-m President.
The age-herald., 1898-09-29
f,rrRE A CNID DAY

Take Laxative Promo Quinine Tablets All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure 25c The genuine has L. B. Q. on each tablet. 9-l-Sm
The age-herald., 1898-09-29
inklin-Eight new cases.
Case Near Vichsburg

Case Near Vicksburg
 Vcksburg Miss, September 2S-Dr. Hall, county health officer of Sharkey county, reports one case of yellow fever at Rolling Fork, a small town fifty miles above Vicks- burg, on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley road The patient is telegraph operator named Lloyd.
The age-herald., 1898-09-29
SITUATION IS
 MORE MEASURING Yellow Fever SlOH in Spreading at
 Jackson, Hiss. ONE CASE NEAR VICKSBURG New Orleans Record is Five New Cases and One Death. NOW EIGHT F0CI OF THE DISEASE The Mississippi Board of Health Makes the Sweeping Assertion That the
 Original Focus ofEvery Case s~s.F' is New Orleans.
NOW EIGHT F0CI OF THE DISEASE

Jackson, Miss, September 2S.-With two new cases Of yellow fever as announced among the negroes in West Jackson tonight the situation looks somewhat more reassur- ing, and when the wide range of exposure is considered, the slowness of the disease in spreading is regarded by the, board of health as rather marvellous Provisions have been sent through the cordon to the 2,O0o negroes confined inside. The relief as- sociations are now well organized and are we'll able to handle the situation without asking for outside aid. prs Cant and Wal dour wire that they have diagnosed the sus- picious case at Water Valley and pronounce it genuine yellow fever. All necessary pre- cautions have been taken. pr. Cant will remain in charge state health officer. The infection has not been traced, but 1t IS supposed that the germs were brought from Lafayette county. Health Officer w. J. Hunnicutt. of Pearl River county, wires that he has discovered suspicious case of yellow fever at Poplarville, and asks that an expert be sent at once.
 Dr. H. M. Folkes, coast inspector of the state board of health at Biloxi, has been ordered to investigate.
 
 River county, and has a population of about 5,c00. A later telegram from the place asks permission to stop the northeastern trains to allow the people to leave for northern points, at the request of the coun- ty health officer. No freight trains will be allowed to stop at Holly Springs in the fu- ture.
 pr. Haralson sends the following report from Oxford:
 "One new case. Depopulation continues, About 100 people left today for the north and detention camp"
 Health Officer J. c. Hall, of Sparky coun- ty send the following report from Rolling Fork: MT. Lloyd, night operator on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley road, at this place, has yellow fever; was attacked to- day Many persons have been exposed. Gordon has been placed around infected To- eality.'
 Dr. Dunn, sea inspector, now sta f1ned at winona, has been ordered to the pace. The board of health tonight made the rath- CT sweeping statement that the original fo- GUS of every case of yellow fever in Mis- sfssippi was brought from New Orleans. resume of the situation shows that there are now eight foci of fever, very generally scattered throughout the state, three of which reported tonight. This practically means that sections of the state where business that hitherto has been undtsturb- ed will soon be tightly quarantined and business prostrated. No report was re- ceived tonight from Taylor's and Orwocd.
 In New Orleans
 Nra1, Orleans September 2S-Presil dent Souchon, of the state board of health an- nounces:
 Record for today: In city five new eases and one death; in Wilson, eleven new cases. All doing well except one.
The age-herald., 1898-09-29
CAHEEN BROS DRY GOODS.

Rain; high east to northeast winds; gales on the gulf
The age-herald., 1898-09-29
In New Orleans

New Orleans September 2S.-President
 Souchon, of the state board of health, an- nounces: Record for today: In city five new cases and one death; in Wilson, eleven new | cases. All doing well except one. In Clinton, La, (near Wison)-Two very 1 suspicious cases In Frankin-Eight new cases.
The age-herald., 1898-09-29
Gen. shelley's Defense

General Shelley arose to the defense of the American soldier. He said that with out regard to whether a camp should be located in Birmingham, he. thought MT. Roden had been unfair to the great body of soldiers who volunteered to their eoun- try's call. He explained that where s1ch
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-25
EXAMPLES OF H1NDoo CRUELTY.

(From the Sketch)
The correspondent who sends the fol-
lowing to 1.-THE Calcutta Asian" states
that his information came to him on I'M
impeachable authority. During a royal
hunt in one of the Rajpoot states an
exceptionally fine tiger was caught
netted, no doubt-and lured into cage;
his captors then proceeded to moose his
feet and draw them through holes bored
in the floor of the cage, and a black
smith was directed to draw his claws.
The tigers legs having been secured by
ropes, the royal sportsmen had a slid
ing door in the cage opened,
head out they shut the door
down on his neck while the black
smith, with mallet and chisel, broke off
his teenth; preparations were concluded
by muZzling the poor brute with strong
wire in some inhuman fashion. The tiger
was then released, to be balted by dogs,
and, despite his MANNED condition, he
killed several before the "sportsmen"
wearied of the game and shot him.
If this story is true, and the inform
alton is said to have come from an eye
witness-and there is nothing impossi-
BILE in the crippling part of the business
one would dearly like to take each of
those Rajpoot royalties in turn and read
him a lesson with cutting whip. Ma
tives have singular ideas concerning the
use of Gagged tigers. AT the end of a
street in Jeypoor one Of the finest and
most advanced of cities under protect
ed" native rule, they keeper kept ten
years ago-a number of tigers in small
cages. When a European visitor ap-
preached, the keeper Immediately ap-
peared from his house close by, sa-
laamed profoundly, and proceeded first
to spit on his charges and then to stir
them up with an iron rod kept for the
purpose. When the savage roaring this
treatment naturally produced died away,
that keeper salaamed more profoundly
and held out his hand If bakshish was
not promptly forthcoming, he said that
lowing to fear of the presence, these
sons and daughters of female dogs do
not roar their loudest," and spat and
stirred again. Q
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-25
FILTH OF HAVANA HARBoR.
Divers Never Care for More Than One
Experience There.

Capt. Olsen of Providence, one of the
best-known submarine divers and
wreckers on the Atlantic seaboard, who
is thoroughly familiar with the bottom
of Havana harbor has some interesting
views about the sunken battleship
Maine. One of the largest contracts
which Capt. Olsen ever successfully car
ried out for either the government or
private parties was the demolition and
raising of the greater portion of the
steamship Venetian in Boston harbor,
which was sunk some two years ago.
Capt. Olsen says it will be a most diff
cult task to raise the Maine, and that
the longer the work is delayed the more
SO it will become. He says Havana har-
Dor. where the Maine was anchored,
and where she now lies partly sub
merged, is a bed of mud, and that the
silt from the sewage is from 20 to 40
feet in depth Not a thing can be seen
beneath the black waters of the harbor,
and the talk of photographing anything
beneath or alongside the sunken hull is
all nonsense.
The best that any diver can hope to
do is to feel. Everything must be ac-
complished in that way. Day by day, in
Capt Olsen's opinion, the Maine will
gradually settle and before very long
the whole vessel will be out of sight.
This will make the work more hazard
Gus, and if she goes very far down in the
mud she will never again come to the
surface. There is a possibility always of
successful work by the Golfer dam pro-
cess, but much of the preliminary de-
tail in such gigantic undertaking has
to be arranged beneath the water by the
divers Capt Olsen says there are from
26 to 30 feet of water at the spot where
the Maine was anchored, and that the
position of the vessel after the explosion
shows that the bow has already gone
deep into the muddy bottom of the har-
Dor.
There is danger and death in the
waters Of the Havana harbor Divers
are quickly made very sick by the
stenches and the rotten vegetable
growth, which makes the water near the
bottom a greenish color, such as can be
seen on dead miasmatic ponds in the
swampy districts of yellow fever coun-
tries. A single experience at diving in
Havana harbor is about all that a man
wants in a lifetime says Capt Olsen,
and he is really lucky if he escapes not
with his health, but with his life. The
best thing about the Maine now is that
she is in sight, and of that the govern
ment will probably take quick advan-
tage. Capt. Olsen thinks the most ludic-
rous thing he ever heard is the sugges-
ton that an international submarine
of divers take place down be-
side the sunken hull of the Maine.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-25
RUMORS MANY.


the arrival of other tugs with better
facilities for heavy work.
Chaplain Chadwick reports that all the
wounded here are doing well, except
Frederick c. Holzer of New York, who
may die at any moment. Additional
newspaper men a.~EVe with every
steamer. The papers of all the large
cities in the United States are repre-
sented, and the principal hotels are filed
with guests.
Neither the officers of the court of in
curry, nor the witness ~ will give the
slightest indication of t he testimony or
the conclusions deduciLae from it, and
all say that the men employed on the
wreck have been warns d to observe an
equally strict reticence This course is
regarded as eminentlF wise by the
Americans and all intelligent Spanish
officials, as there is no telling what evil
results might be brought about by talk
ing freely on official matters in the pres
ent state Of public feeling in Havana
Thus far Americans are treated with
the utmost courtesy and kindness, and
II seems the special care of the residents
of Havana to show friendliness. Such a
state of things certainly is desirable but
it might easily be changed if officers
only partly informed of the truth talked
for publication.
Consul General Lee says there is no
truth in the report that he had asked
Capt. Gen. Banco TO dismiss from Cuba
certain newspaper men for sending SEN
sational stories to the United States.
Gen. Lee has never interfered with the
American newspaper men in any way
whatever. Today the principal streets
and buildings are gaily decorated with
flags and bunting in honor of the Span
ish soldiers, 2029 infantrymen under the
command of Jose Amador, who arrived
this morning by the steamer Monte
video. from Barcelona.
Gen. Solano the second chief of staff
today returned on board the Mangrove
the visit of the court of inquiry, acting
AS the representative of the governor
general Admiral Manterola personally
returned the visit paid TO him by the
court. The Thursday receptions of Gen.
Blanco were resumed this evening.
The insurgents have raided the Smith
and Fisher plantation on the Canamabo
in the Trinidad district. and Killed one
and wounded five of the defenders, who
numbered only seven. They burned all
the buildings but the dwelling of MI.
Smith, and according to the Spanish
account of the affair, took away or des-
troyed $780, 900 worth of provisions and
merchandise, and got $4,000 in cash.
United States Consul Walter B. Bar
ker, at Sagua la Gramde, is reported i'll.
1t is said that he is threatened with
pneumonia.
The coast survey steamer A. D Bache, !
after many delays. left for the Dry Tor
tugas this afternoon with three wound
ed. all doing we'll Owing to the strict
quarantine, regulations. the wounded, !
having been in hospitals here and ex-
posed to fever must be :SSen to hos
pitfalls in the Tortugas foz' quarantine.
The names of the wounded on the Bache
are John Heffron of FTeemanstown, N.
J.: Thomas J. Waters of Philadelphia
and jeremiah Shea of Haverhill, Mass. |
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-25
WORK WILL BE SLOW.
Conclusion Inferred That Magazine May
Not Be Reached Immediately,

Washington, Feb. Palate tonight
the navy department received two
brief kilograms from Capt. sigsbee at
Havana. One relates to some routine
matter of expenditures in connection
with the work on the Maine and the
other is as follows: divers report more
bodies in wreck. Some in hammocks in
volved in debris. Probably not recog-
nizable."
This dispatch indicates that the divers
have finally secured at least partial
entrance to the quarters in the forward
part of the vessel where the crew was
asleep when the explosion occurred, and
under which were the magazines The
fact that the divers were unable to ex-
tricate the bodies shows the fearful OBJ
stacles against which they are laboring,
and bears out the belief that the work
of submarine investigation will necessa-
rily proceed slowly.