The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-10
NEWS OF CENTRAL CITY
lBARNwELL MEMORIAL FUND
 MOVEMENT A SUCCESS.
Enough Money has been Raised to Assure the Purchase of . Home
 for the Dead Bishops Family.
Advertiser Bureau,


 Selma, Sept. g.
 The movement to raise a fund to tht memory of Bishop Barnwell. for the pur' pose of purchasing residence for hii widow and little ones. has progressed SC far that 1t is now an assured fact thai the project will be carried out. About half of the money to purchase the homo has been secured. but no one should b. the least deterred from. contributing tt the fund when the day arrives for taking up . collection throughout the diocese. Those who have the matter. in hand 1T Selma have been casting around for suitable house. and yesterday Bishor Barnwell's children indicated that they would be pleased with the M. Leva cot tage on Lapsley Street, almost opposite the present home of the family It is new six-room cottage. with all moderr Improvements. and can be purchased fol the sum of $2,S50 The lot is about q by 156 feet, giving ample space tt add several more rooms in the future, il 1t should be deemed advisable.
 It Is more than likely that the cottage will be the one selected.
 Specimen of Human Leather.
 Capt S. o. Tripp. who is great gath erer of curios, has piece of leather made from human skin. He purchased il in Chicago, but declined to inform youi correspondent what he paid for it, beyond to say that 1t was quite costly. It fs about as thick as piece of fine calf skir and Is beautiful tan color. very sof1 and pliant. Captain Tripp says that tho piece of leather Is from the back of ( man some medical students secured fol Siissectins purposes. It Is thirteen inShe, wide and. twenty-seven inches long .a,t was taken from the shoulders and back.
 Looking for an Heir.
 1, A story full of human interest came t light this morning. A few weeks ago while Mrs Pomp Keith was on visit t Meridian, she heard about an estate Il Mobile that could not be settled until on of the heirs could be found, and the nam of that heir-was Miss Lou Paris. Mis- Paris has been a resident of Selma for : long time, and as soon as Mrs. keiti heard the name she told them that Mfs Paris lived in Selma and that she kneV her very well.
 Miss Paris has been in bad health fol a good many years. and for the last fou years has been at the City Infrmary where she has received the best Of nurs inx and attention at the hands of tn - institution. Miss Paris has great man. friends among the ladies of that organi zation, and is popular: in fact. all owe the city.
 Miss Paris was seen at the infirmar. today. She said that she had heard tn report that Mrs. Keith had brought iron Meridian and the matter was now bein' investigated. She was born in Mobile an' Is now in her s7th year. Her mother die' when Miss Paris was only three week old, and her father and grandfather sool followed with the same disease. yello' fever Up till she was years Of age Miss Lou lived in an orphans asylum She came to Selma in 1851 and lived her one year and. then went back to Mobile but removed to Selma to reside perma nently in 1869. She knows very little abou her parents, but gays she has heard tha he. father and grandfather had som lproperty in the city and across the bay hSit what it consisted of she did not know l. The report that Mrs. Keith heard I Meridian was to the effect that ther Were two other heirs and that as soon Miss Lou could be found the estate coui be divided.