The age-herald., 1899-07-07


 Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad passed through the city yesterday afternoon in his special car, attached to the south bound L. and N. on his way to Texas.
 EXCURSION FROM SELMA The Southern railroad ran an excursion yester- day from Selma to Birmingham. bringing several hundred pleasure seekers. The train arrived at s45 in the afternoon and will return tonight at o'clock.
 SECRETARY OF sTATE.-Hon. Robert P. McDavid, of Montgomery, secretary of state of Alabama, passed through the city yesterday afternoon on his way to Mont gomery from Blount Springs, where he has been for several days past taking the sul- phur baths.
 MINERS AT PALOS-A local union of the United Mine Workers has been organ ized at Palos by State Secretary J. l.. Clemo and contains forty-five members. It seems probable that the miners at Palos will agree with the operators a mining scale similar to that at Blue Creek.
 R. G. DUN & CO.-The commercial agency of R. G. Dun & Go. is preparing to remove it's Birmingham office from the Seals building to Morris avenue and Twen- tieth street The offices over the Armour Packing company are being entirely re- fitted for them, and will make handsome headquarters.
 PLAYING WITH A NEGRO.-George Tedeski. a white saloon keeper, was arr rested yesterday for playing domfnoes with a negro It is not generally known that such an action is a violation of the law, but some time ago an ordinance was passed by the city council making it unlawful for any white man to engage in a game of Gominoes, pool or any game of chance with a negro in the neighborhood of saloon. Tedeski will be tried this morn- ing.
 AT BLOSSBURG-All of the deputies who have been on guard at Blossburg since the fighting there last week, were withdrawn yesterday as there is no fur ther cause for alarm. President Young of the United Mine Workers, returned yes- terday from Blossburg, where he had been explaining to the miners at that place the misunderstanding growing out of the diff ference existing between the wage scales in the Tennessee and the Sloss companys mines.
 A PHOSPHATE FIND.-A. c. Legg of this city returned yesterday from his farm in north Alabama, near Athens, where he has been having examined some phosphate formations which have been found on his farm. He says that the analysis of the rock has shown up very well and will prove very valuable if it is found in sufficient quantities He is having excavations made for this purpose now. MT. Legg's farm is 750 acres in size, and is situated very near the Tennessee line.
 EPWORTH LEAGUERS.-The Alabama Great Southern railroad has been chosen the official route of the Epworth Leaguers of Birmingham and vicinity to the na- tonal convention of that organization which will be held this year in Indian- apolis. A large party will leave Birming- ham on July l9, at 4:15 in the afternoon, going by way of the Alabama Great South ern. Rev. J. D. Ellis, of Avondale, the chairman of the committee on transporta ton, will be in charge of this party.
 BIRMINGHAM ATHLETES.-The Ath- letic clubs baseball and track teams have all returned from Chattanooga, where both teams met defeat on July 4. The baseball game was lost by the "merry-go-round" score of 30 to 12. Birmingham had four men entered in the track events, and wan S5 points to Chattanooga's 63. Long won the nigh jump and pole vault, and was third in the standing broad jump-11 points. Bradford won the quarter-mile, was second in the high jump and 22O-yard race and third in the 16-pound shot and the hammer-13 points. Davis won the shot and the hammer-10 points. Comstock won third place in the 100yard dash-1 point.
 SOLDIERS BACK PAY.-A letter from the auditor of the war department to Colo mel Higdon, formerly of the First Alabama volunteers, was published in yesterdays Age-Herald, to the effect that volunteers who had had a thirty-day furlough before they were mustered out were not entitled to months additional pay, as some seem to think the act passed by congress last winter provided. From this it would seem, however, that soldiers who remained in camp while the greater part of the regi- ment was off on their thirty-day furloug;,, are entitled to months extra pay At least this is the opinion of number of Birmingham men who remained in Camp Falkner at East Lake the whole of last October, and yesterday several letters were written to the war department by these men, asking for a months additional pay