The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-08-24
of the man making the offer is yet with

Of the man making the offer is yet with
held, however.
1t Is understood that the effort to get
the committee to make a selection was
in the interest of the present treasurer,
John ]. Cochran, who had a petition of
nearly fifteen hundred names in his be-
half. From the way the matter is pro-
crossing 1t looks as If the name of the
man making the offer would get to the
surface by this evening tomorrow.
Negroes Full Stock.
VIII LeGrand, a negro, took a basket
of decayed fruit from in front of fruit
stand yesterday and was arrested as a
result In his room at home was found
enough goods to stock a department store.
When arrested the officers went to his
room, which divulged the following
varied assortment: A diamond stud, two
gold watches, two pistols, two ham
mocks, one silver pitcher gold ring
with cameo setting, q watch chain sew
eral silver teaspoons, groceries woth sew
eral dollars, and S56 in money. One of the
hammocks has been identified as stolen
from the front porch of a residence of the
city, and the silver pitcher is recog
nized by s. Marks. with one of the spoons,
as stolen from his back porch year
ago. LeGrand has been regarded as a
reliable negro, serving number of stores
in the city as porter He was not on the
bad books of the police.
Baseball Fans Sore.
Baseball fans are sore on the evident eff
forts to give New Orleans the best of the
fight for the Southern league pennant, as
against Atlanta. In a long article in the
Montgomery Advertiser this morning, Es-
quire Brown, sporting editor among 9TH
er things, says: 1.-The championship race
in the Southern league has developed in
tn q faFpa-fbp element nj snort npar
to the heart of the average baseball fan,
has been effectually eliminated.
Reference is then made to the fact
that games have been transferred to New
Orleans from Montgomery Shreveport
and Nashville so as to give the club
there the advantage of home ground play
ing. Also of the transfer of the games
of September 16, II and Is to Memphis. for
financial reason" Just here the esquire
stops long enough to say that the great
city of New Orleans is q mighty place.
BY the same token the great city of
Memphis is ditto. But these two lordly'
towns are not the entire works by any
manner of means; there are others. over
in Atlanta Abner Powell has a team that
is supposed to have rights in the South
ern league. They have not had any
games transferred, but like thorough
sportsmen have faithfully played every
game on the road that was set down for
them, winning a big majority of them.
After all their hard work 1t will be the
height of injustice for Memphis and New
Orleans, their rivals in the pennant race,
to be given the tremendous advantage of
playing games on their home grounds
that were scheduled for the road.
Atanta's Right.
Next Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
Atlanta is scheduled in Montgomery, the
ia. Il. .fx..-
Friday when Nashville plays here. An
old maxim more expressive than elegant.
holds that what is sauce for tie goose
is sauce for the gander, and Atlanta has
just as much right to have those three
games played In Atlanta as Memphis and
New Orleans have to get them transferred
to those cities. Atlanta is only IL points
behind Memphis in the race for second
place, with a good chance Of occupying
that place by Wednesday or Thursday.
II 1t Is revenue that the Montgomery
is after surely they will not
be inconsistent enough to assert that they
would get several hundred dollars a day
more If the games were played here than
If they were played in Atlanta" The clos
ing words of the esquire are the follow
ing, which are aimed at the fountain
head. no doubt: "a word to the wise is
sufficient and this article is respectfully
referred to President Kavanaugh of the
Southern league and Abner Powell of the
Atlanta team"
Capital Notes.
Governor Cunningham today restored
the civil and political rights of Sam Slog-
gett of Jefferson county He was con-
vlcted of manslaughter in the first degree
on October %, 1902. On April 20. 1903. Gov
ernor Jelks granted him pardon In view
of the facts in the case. The pardoning
hoard recommended the restoration of cit
izenship. also a petition with fifty names
of the best citizens of the county on 1t
was presented to the governor. The gov
ernor says:
This man was convicted Of manslaugh-
ter in October, 1902, and sentenced to Inn
prisonment for one year and one day He
was pardoned on April 20, 1909. Fifty rep
utable citizens of Jefferson county certify
that since his discharge he has made
law-abidng citizen, and ask for his re-