The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-19
POLITICAL SEA IS
 MUCH DISTURBED Anything Liable to Happen,
 Says MT. GauIey
NO ONE CLAIMS CLOTHES
Negro In Selma Is Therefore Dis charged, Although Officers Are
 Wondering Where He Got
 the Extensive Wardrobe.

Selma. October 1s.-(specia1)- P. J. McGauley of Montgomery, the well-known court stenographer of Montgomery, passed through Selma today en route to Greens boro, to take the testimony in the trial of young Dugger, which is called for tomorrow. MT. McGauley keeps pretty well posted on all public affairs. He was official stenographer for the late consti- tutional convention, and has taken the proceedings of all conventions of the democratic party of late years. He is therefore alive to men and matters in the state.
 Asked as to "doings" in and about the "big house on the hill' in Montgomery, he said:
 Well the very air seems surcharged with political electricity. You can feel the shocks and almost grasp the wires along which the current flows, but when you come to look for the source it is not there."
 twill Conner be a candidate?" MT. Nc Gauley was asked
 Ask me an easier one," he replied, He seems to be running now, but when asked the direct question he invariably side steps. If he isn't running I don't see what he Is making speeches every day for I have been in seven counties lately, and while no one can tell what may take place In a year, I believe if the cleo ton were to come off tomorrow he would get 90 per cent of the vote where l have been.
 Talk about trimming sails and getting s lines in order. There Is more of 1t ap- parent in high places In Alabama to- day than I have ever seen. Anything is likely to occur. Outbreaks in unhear of localities may come at any moment. In fact. the whole political sea appears to be troubled no little"
 To Whom Do They BeIong7
 The police department Is up against a tough proposition. They have discov- cred about $lOO worth of dry goods and Lovett Burton by name, but can find no one who will claim the same or identify them. The negro was first arrested as a suspicious character, and the goods taken to the council chamber and kept by the authorities He was then dnoharged on that count and charged with larceny, it being thought an owner for some Of the goods had been found. This morning he was tried for larceny aad acquitted by the mayor. The goods were then given back to him. If they are no his no one has come forward to claim tin'n, and .he nine points of law will prooa5iy protect him as 1t is doubtful even ii somebody came forwarded whether he eoail be con- victed having once been put h jeopardy for the alleged offense.
 Local and tersonsI.
 The special agent for the edsus bureau of the government. in Dallas county, be- gan today his rounds collecting the cotton ginning statistics. All the cotton ginned up to October IS will be compiled and forwarded by telegraph on tho night of October 25 It will then probably be made public on the 26th.
 Mrs. Adolph Hohenberg and Mrs. Morris Hohenberg of Wetumpl<a ale visitors to ho c'ty Both formerly liveil h"rc.
 Mrs. J. P. Schuh and children reached the city last night after spending the summer in Chicago, Ashevlle and other cities.