davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The age-herald., 1899-09-07
ANNUAL MEETING
 OF STOCKHOLDERS Western Railroad Ot Alabama in Prosperous Condition. SMITH MAKES HIS REPORT Large Increase in Earnings During the Year-Directors Elected for the
 Year-Two Society We'd
 dings in Montgomery
 
SMITH MAKES HIS REPORT

Age-Herald Bureau, Hotel Mabson, Mont gomery, September 6.-(Special)-T a1- nual meeting of the stockholders of the Western Railroad of Alabama was held in this city. There were present Milton II. Smith, president of the Louisville and Nashville railroad; George C. Smith, presi- dent of the Western; H. M. Conner, presi- dent of the Central of Georgia; Geo. M. Eagan, vice-president of the Central; J. M Falkner, attorney for the Louisville and Nashville; Cecil Gabbett, general man. ager. President Smith made his report, which makes a splendid showing for the Western. There was very large increase in the earnings during the year, as is shown by the following figures taken from the report
 Gross earning. $e6S,ss461; increase, ss4,- 7Oi.26. :
 Operating expenses, $4O6,64s44; increase, a7,462.7O.
 Net earning, S261, ,6S6.17; increase, $42 2i1. .56.
 Directors were elected to serve next year as follows: George c. Smith, H. M. Conner. John M. Eagan, l.. Lanier, R. M. Green, J. M. Falkner and H. Walters.
The age-herald., 1899-09-07
Two society Weddings

Two weddings of great interest in so- ciety circles were solemnized In this city this morning. At half past seven o'clock at St Johns Episcopal church the mar riage of Miss Julia Campbell Scott and Mir. William Atlams Gunter, Jr., was sol emnized. The wedding was a quiet and unpretentious one but was witnessed by many friends of the contracting parties. The wedding party consisted besides the bride and groom, of MT. Charles A. Cole man, her brother who gave away tine bride; MT J. Kirk Jackson, best man, and six ushers, Messrs. Charles P. Gunter Massey Anderson, Harry Smith, Edward Burton, Charles Duncan and Charles De- Yampert. Rev. Edgar G. Murphy was the officiating minister. MT and Mrs. Gunter went east to spend their wedding journey
 At half past nine o'clock in St. Peter s Catholic church the marriage of Miss Lucy OConnell and Dr. Louis Robinson was eel eErated. Rev. Father Savage ofIiciated. The wedding was a very handsome one, perfect in all of it's appointments. The bridal party consisted of MT. John Robin- sen, who was best man, Miss Ave Maria Halback, the brides maid of honor: four bridesmaids, Misses Katherine Mahoney, Margaret Robinson Adelaide Walsh and Annie Pearson; four ushers, Mr. John OConnell, Dr. R. s. Hill, Dr. John Ander- son and pr. 8. Persons; the ring-bearer, little Miss Kathleen O'Conner, and the flower girl, little Miss Lucille Jackson. Mr. William Jackson gave the bride away. An elegant wedding breakfast was rendered the party at the home of the brides mother. The wedding journey Will include visits to Washington, Baltimore Philadei- phia and New York.
The age-herald., 1899-09-07
FAST TRAINS
And Improved Schedules via the Centra
 of Georgia Through Sleeper to Sa Savannah.

The Central of Georgia Railway has made important changes in schedules, and now has through sleeping cars between Birmingham and Savannah. The new schedules are as follows:
 Leave Birmingham, S:30 a. m, 2:40 D. m. Arrive Columbus, 2:50 D. m., $40 p. m. Arrive Macon, $40 p. m. Il :50 p. m. Arrive Savannah, 6 a. m.
 This service puts Birmingham in close touch with Savannah, and makes a quick schedule to New York and the east, via Savannah and the Ocean Steamship com. pany. For further information, apply tc Solon Jacobs, Commercial agent, 2015 Firs avenue, Birmingham, Ala.
 8-15 to 31 cod 5
The age-herald., 1899-09-07
Some Newsy Notes

George w. Ely has returned from a visit to Wankeshaw. MT. Ely reports the condition of pr. George B. Judkins as much improved by his story at Wauke- shaw. pr. Judkins is surgeon in charge of the convicts at Wetumpka. and his many Alabama friends will be delighted to learn of his recovery.
 Chancellor R. B. Kelly, of Anniston is in the city en route to Fillmore county to hold court.
 Miss Nell Brown, who has been visiting Miss Eva Booker, has returned to her home in Columbus, Ohio, accompanied by Miss Booker. Miss Booker will attend school in Columbus during the winter
 Miss Ella Hargrove Sayre has returned from a visit to Tuscaloosa. She was &C., companied by Miss Belle Davidson, who is her guest at the Hotel Mabson.
 J. J. Kelly, of Fillmore, is in the city.
 MT. H. M Beck and wife have returned to Birmingham after visit to friends
The age-herald., 1899-09-07
RESIDENCE BURNED
w. P. Kennon's Loss by Fire at Opelika
 Death of Mrs. Greer

Opelika, September 6.-(Special)- )-The residence of w. P. Kennon, at Salem, caught fire last night from some unknown cause and burned to the ground. The home was a magnificent ante-bellum structure and the loss is about 1000. Most of the furniture was saved The fire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin.
 Mrs. E. A. Greer widow lady aged SS years, died at the home of her son. E. L. Odom, here today. She was a near rela- tive of Hon. Alexander Stephens, of Geor- gia. Her husband was an officer in the civil war. She leaves two sons.
The age-herald., 1899-09-07
Mrs. winslow,s Soothing Syrup

Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILL DREN WHILE TEETHING. with PER- FECT SUCCESS. It sOOTHES the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS, ALLAYS all PAIN; CURE WIND COLO. and Is the best rem edy for DIARRHOEA. Sold by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. winslows Soothing Syrup" and take no other kind. Twenty-Five cents a bottle
The age-herald., 1899-09-07
Wall Paper at cost at Rolls.
- - Relief in Six Hours

Distressing kidney and bladder disease re- lieyed in six hours by New Great South American Kidney Cure" It Is a great sur prise on account of It's exceeding prompt ness in relieving pain in bladder, kidneys and back, in male or female. Relieves re- tention of water almost immediately. If YOU want quick relief and cure this Is the remedy Sold by Collier Drug Co.,, Bir- mingham, Ala. 2-2S-thurs- frj-sat-1yr
The age-herald., 1899-09-07
NEW LUMBER co.

BATHROP LUMBER CO, at 2015-First avenue, win sell the output of Lathrop- Hatten Lumber Co.,, Riverside, Ala, and of eight other mills. Are now prepared to furnish ten cars per day of bright new stock. Phone 66i. F. H. Iathrop, presi- dent and treasurer; w. c. Fellows, man ager. Si-u
The age-herald., 1899-09-07
Widow of E. K. Bruce

Tuskegee, September 6-(Special)-The 6- widow of the late United States Senator B. K. Bruce, has accepted the position of lady principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Bruce was the only negro who served a full term in the United States senate and was the first negro register of the United States treasury. His widow is a woman of great intelligence and refinement, and is deeply interested in the cause of industrial education.
The age-herald., 1899-09-07
Mexico's Natal Day

City of Mexico, September 6.-Prepara- tions on a grand scale for the celebration of the national anniversary of independence are being made. Triumphal arches erected by the different states of the republic are ping constructed at various points in the city, and there will be a procession of troops with many allegorical cars.
The age-herald., 1899-09-07

Call at the Union Saloon, l8l6 First avenue, for the big gest and c,solest schooner of beer in the city. Drawn di- rect from the keg; no pumps used.
The age-herald., 1899-09-07

oaxaca, Mexico, September 6.-Governof Martino Gonzales, of this state, has in- vited the American residents to take part In the independence day celebra tion, and thy will erect a handsome arch, besides actively participating in tine public mani festation of rejoicing.
The age-herald., 1899-09-07
READ THIS

The White Swan Laundry is the most modern in construction, most complete in arrangements, most perfect in quality of work and is the only laundry in Birming- ham that works for white people excu- clusively. No 519 south Twentieth street, 'phone 39O S-29-sun-t tues& thurs
The age-herald., 1899-09-07
Strong, solid, Workingmen's Shoes, regular price $1.25 and $1. 50 for 98c.
 CHAMBLEE BROS.

$l,l5O cash-Finest lot cen tral llth avenue, South High lands. Eborn.
The National tribune., 1899-08-31

EDITORIAL NoTE.-An Interesting sketch
of Hon. Thomas B. Reed and his wife will
appear next week.
The National tribune., 1899-08-31

showed her receipted bills, and not few Of
them openly averred that certain burglaries
of their goods had plausible connection with
her presence in port Be this as it may, the
fact stood that farmers on the coast who
saw her high bow and unmistakable hawse-
pipes when she ran in for bait, invariably
double-locked their barns and chicken
coops, and turned loose all tied dogs when
night descended, often to find dogs and
chickens gone in the morning.
Once, too, three small schooners had
come home with empty holds, and COM
planned OF the appearance, while anchored
in the fog, of a fiotilla of dories manned by
masked men, who oyerpowered and locked
all hands in cabin or forecaStle, and then
removed the cargoes of fish to their own
craft, hidden in the fog. Shortly after this
the Ishmaelite disposed of large catch in
Baltimore, and the piracy was believed OF
her, but never proved.
Her luck at finding things was remark
able. Drifting dorieS, SparS, oars, and
trawEtubs sought her unSavory company,
as though impelled by the inanimate per-
yersity which had sent them drifting.
They were sold in port, or returned TO their
owners, when paid for. In the early part
of her career she had towed whistling
buoy into Boston, and claimed salvage of
prove that she had picked it up far at sea.
The salvage was paid; but as her reputa-
ton spread, there were those who declared
that she had sent it adrift herself.
AS poets and sailors believe that ships
have souls, it may be that she gloried in her
shame, like other fallen creatures; for her
large, slanting, oval hawse-pipes and boot
top stripe gave fine Oriental sneer to her
face-like bow, and there was slur and in
suit to respectable craft in the lazy dignity
with which she would swash through the
fleet on the port tack, compelling vessels On
the starboard tack to give up their right of
way or be rammed; for she was a large
craft, and there was menace in her solid
bowsprit-boom, as thick as an ordinary
mainmast. An outward bound coaSting
schooner, resenting this lawlessness ON one
occasion, attempted to assert her rights,
and being on the lawful starboard tack,
bore steadily down on the Ishmaelite, who
budged not quarter-point, and losing
heart at the last moment, luffed up all
shaking in just the position to allow the
ring OF her port anchor to catch on the bill
of the Ishmaelite'S starboard anchor. As
her ring-stopper and shank-painter We're
weak, the patent windlass unlocked, and
the end of the cable not secured in the chain
locker, the Ishmaelite walked calmly away
with the anchor and hundred fathoms of
chain, which, at the next port, she sold as
legitimate spoil of the sea.
The National tribune., 1899-08-31
Advertised Her Charms.
Womdn's Life.

A Japanese girl who desires to get mar
ried does not hesitate TO inform the public
of her desire. In a, recent issue of the
Japanese journal, Kunazuru Shimbum,
one of these girls who signs herself "Hosui-
JOSH" is very outspoken on this point, as
the following notice shows: 81, the under
signed, am a pretty girl with abundant
hair, hower-like face, perfect eyebrows,
and a good figure. ] have money enough
to take life easy and to enable me TO spend
my years with some beloved man who will
ever be my companion, and who can ad-
mire the flowers with me by day and the
moon by night. If any clever, accom-
plished, handsome and fastidious gentle
man is disposed TO accept this offer 1 can
assure him that will be true 10 him for life
and that after life is over | will be ready to
be buried with him in one grave" 1t is
not an unheard of thing for European or
American girls to advertise for husbands,
but it is very doubtful if any European or
American paper has ever contained such
n poetical matrimonial advertisement as
this one. Moreover, il is very doubtful if
any European or American girl would ever
think of Offering 10 share the same grave
with the gentleman who might accept her
offer of marriage. Verify, they do things
differently in Japan.
The National tribune., 1899-08-31

conventions with other countries will
speedily follow.
Since the beginning of the Spanish war
| there have been enlisted in the Regular
| Army 9O,671 men. This includes those
| who were discharged after the close of the
war and the increase of the Regular Army
| for service in the Philippines. There
were 31O,o65 applicants rejected.
There has been quite pressure to have
| a negro regiment accepted for the Philip
1st u. s.. Art, will be its Colonel. The
other field officers will also be Regulars,
but the company officers negroes.
Mr.. Asher G. Kinds, of Portland, Me-,
who has been Speaker Reeds desk clerk
for several years, will retain that position
under the new Speaker. Gen. Henderson
has rendered the place to him, and it will be
accepted. Mr.. Hinds's long experience,
his knowledge of the duties, and his ca
pacity have made him almost indispensa-
BILE, and probably he will hold the place as
are in control of the House.
Gen. Otis cables that he will need no
more cavalry than the two regiments of
Regulars and one of Volunteers that have
already been assigned him.
F.P. Metzger, Chief Clerk of the General
Land Office, who has just returned from
an extensive inspection tour, says that the
homesteader has as good a chance to-day
as he ever had. There is to-day plenty
of good land in Oregon, Washington,
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, North and
South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Colo
rado, Utah, Nevada, California. Particu-
larly good land will be found in Washing
ton, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming,
Minnesota, and the Dakotas. Not only
can be had with timber on them worth
$4,000. This timber can be sold, as it is
near enough to streams or railroads to get
it to the market. This land is constantly
being taken up, and there is enough of it
to last for long time to come. The Cen
eral Land Office is doing more business
today than ever before in its history.
There are more individual settlers taking
up land on the public domain than ever
before, though such vast tracts of land are
not being taken up as was the case some
years ago."
The issuance of licenses last week to
two negroes to marry white women has
developed the surprising fact that there
IS no law against miScegenation in the
District of Columbia.
$50
The people Of the State Of Washington
think that Francis w. Cushman, whom
they have sent as Representative and
successor of the ornate j. Hamilton Lewis,
is a coming man. They call him the "a be
Lincoln of the Pacific Coast" He re-
sembles the martyred President in figure
and his homely, forceful way of putting
things. He began life as "cow-puncher,"
and then studied law
The National tribune., 1899-08-31
HAvOC.SPREADING SHELL.
Experiment at Sandy Hook Proving Ground with Isham
Projedile.


An experiment was recently made at the
Sandy Hook Proying-grounds with a
dynamite shell which, according to the
Inuentors' Ners, tended to prove that if it
had struck battleship the latter would
have been sunk. The experiment was one
of those ordered by the Board of Ordnance
and Fortifications, and took place in the
presence of members of the Board, Maj.
Heath, who is in charge Of the defenSes at
Sandy Hook, and Willard S. Isham, the
inventor of the projectife.
The shell, made from about 900 pounds
of cast steel, and carrying a bursting
charge of 1891, pounds of explosive gela-
tine, was fired from an ordinary 12lneh
rifle, mounted on an improylSed carriage
behind shield. The charge used for firing
it was composed OF common brown pris-
matte powder.
About 200 feet in front of the gun piece
of Harveyized steel II inches thick, and
specially treated, was placed at an angle
OF As degrees to the line of fire. Behind
it was a thick backing of oak, and behind
the oak was a small mountain of sand
the whole calculated to be stronger than a
battleships side. The shell struck and
exploded with terrific report. The steel
target was blown clear up the oak backing
and lay II feet to one side, and at right
angles to the line the shot had followed.
Part of the oak backing and the sand be-
hind it were blown away. Only about
four pounds Of steel fragments Of the shell
We're found.
Members of the Board expressed salts
faction with the experiment. The most de-
structive explosive known was used in the
eight per cent. Of gun
cotton as an absorbent, and four per cent.
Of camphor. 1t is estimated to be 25 per
cent more powerful than No. dynamite.
The National tribune., 1899-08-31

Mr. Ch0s. ~. Dr0oy, Acmpste00, 1e1os'
lost q day. Before taking your medicine
made application to join insurance orders. but
was rejected on account of Kidney trouble,
but six months after taking was examined
again and passed o. X. CHAs. b. BRADY.
Disorders of the Kidneys and Bladder cause
Bright's Disease, Rheumatism, Gravel, Pain in
the Back, Bladder Disorders, difficult or too
frequent passing water, Dropsy, etc. For these
diseases Positive Specific Cure is found in a
new botanical discovery, the wonderful Kaya-
Kava Shrub, called by bOtanists the piper
lnethysticum, from the Ganges River, East India.
1t has the extraordinary record of !, 200 hospital
cures in 30 days. 1t acts directly on the Kid
neys, and cures by draining out of the Blood
the poisonous Uric Acid, Urates Lithates, etc.
which cause the disease Hon. r. C. Wood, of
Lowell, Ind, writes that in four weeks he was
cured of rheumatism. Kidney and Bladder dis
ease, after ten years suffering. His bladder
trouble was SO great he had to get up fiye TO
twelve times during the night. Hundreds of
others, including many ladies' give similar
testimony. Many ladies. including Mrs. Sarah
Castle, OF POestenkjll, N. Y, and Mrs. l.. u.
Fegeley, Lancaster, Ills, also testify to lis
curative powers in Kidney and other
disorders peculiar to wOmanhood. That You
may judge of the value of this Great Discovery
for yourself we will send you one Large Case
by mail free, only asking that when cured your
slef, you will recommend it to others as it de-
serves. 1t is a Sure Specific Cure and cannot
fail. Address, The Church Kidney Cure Com
pany, No. Al Fourth Avenue. New York City.
The National tribune., 1899-08-31
THE ISHMAELITE.
How q Fishiny-Schooner Got q Bad Reputation and
Kept 1t.

Aept II.
The heorine of Morgan RobertSon's story
Salvage" in the September Century. is the
Yankee fishing schooner Rosebud. She was
about as piratical craft as one could well
meet with in Western waters. Before tell
ing of the crowning adventure of her career,
Mr.. Robertson explains how she earned the
sobriquet of Ishmaelite.
She had large crew, abnormally large
hawse- pipes, and bad reputation.--the last
attribute born of the first. Registered as
the Rosebud, this innocent name was
painted ON her stern and ON her 16 dories;
but she was known among the fishing
fleets as the Ishmaelite, and the name fitted
her. Secretive and unfriendly, she fshed
alone, avoiding company, answered few
halls, and seldom filling her hold, disposed
of her catch as her needs required, in out-of-
the-way ports, often as far South as Charles
ton. And she usually left behind her such
bitter memories of her visit as placed the
last port at the bottom OF her list of mar
kets.
No ship-chandler or provision dealer ever
The National tribune., 1899-08-31
We low All Over. Mr.. Frank

Barknecht, Werner, Wis, writes: MY
son, aged five years, had the jaundice so
bad that he was yellow all over. He was
so far gone that | thought he could not
live. \ few bottles of the Blood Yitalizer
cured him completely. l wish everybody
knew about this remedy" 1t is an awful
thing when the bile gets in the blood. Dr.
Peters Vitalizer is the proper remedy
Not drug store medicine. Special agents
supply it. Address DR.. Peter Fahrney,
112-114 So. Hoyne Ave-, Chicago. Ill.
The National tribune., 1899-08-31
YESTERDAYS
IN WASHINGTON.
Per- Pictures of Celebrities of
the Past Generation.
By MARY S. LOCKWOOD.

Copyrighted, 1899, by THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
The National tribune., 1899-08-31
GETTYSBURG, THEN AND Now

Tho Field Of American Valor. The neV
illustrated History Of Gettysburg. when and
how the Regiments fought and the troops
they encountered. A magnificent Quartd
Volume with 125 full page Illustrations
who will agree to take orders for it we will
send the beautiful Prospectus showing samI
pie pages, and many illustrations frees
EStro terms TO Agents. .=-.z7s r
The National tribune., 1899-08-31
II Sometimes happess So.
CLsan.na Iiriha,na

What broke him up in business?"
'Slow collections"
81 thought he sold goods for cash only"
"He did. 1t was the firms he owed that
had the trouble in making the collections,
and they closed him out.f
The National tribune., 1899-08-31

The question is often asked, Why do
these lobbyists use so much money? In
the first place, they do not work for moth
Ing, and the next place, il is put where it
will does the most good. We believe there
are scores Of Congressman that lobbyist
would not dare approach with bribe
And yet it is known in many cases money
The National tribune., 1899-08-31

Here we have the state paying an aggre-
gate of 1857 900 to the episcopacy alone of
a Church whose entire membership is not
probably greater than that of the Methodist
or Roman Catholic Churches in this coun-
try.-EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE.l
The morning news., 1899-12-30
oCEAN EREIGmTs.

Cotton - Savannah to Boston. per
bale. 1925: to New York per bale.
$1OO; to Philadelphia. per bale. $1.00; to
Baltimore per bale, $1.00; via New York
Bremen, soc; Genoa, 6oc; Liverpool, 45c;
Reval, zoe; direct: Bremen, 40c; BARGE
Iona. SOC; Genoa, soc; Liverpool 4Oc:
Havre, 45c: Reval. via Bremen, 5Sc;
Trieste, 55c; Venice, 5Sc: Naples SIC.
Lumber-By sail-Freight strong. Sa-
vannah to Baltimore, per NJ, $3.50; to Phil
adelphia, $500; to New York, 500; to Bos-
ton and Portland, $3.50; crossies, A feet
base. to Baltimore, lie; to Philadelphia,
17Ibc; to New York, 1Sc.
BY --Lumber-Savannah to Balti-
more, $500; to New York, $500; to dock,
81. S.75; Iightered-to Boston, to dock, $500.
Naval Stores-The market is firm; me-
dium size vessels. Rosin-Cork for orders
Ss per barrel of $40 pounds and per cent
primage. Spirits, As Sd per 40 gallons
gross and per cent. primage. Larger
vessels, rosin, Is Cd; spirits As. Steam, 10e
per 100 pounds on rosin; soc on spirits,
Savannah to Boston, and SlAc on rosin
and soc on spirits TO New York.