The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-23
THE NEWS OF SELMA
Advertiser Bureau,

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 Selma. Feb. 22. One Mir. Mise, a laborer at the cot ton factory. threatens to bring suit against the city of Selma for damages Incurred by injuries sustained by fall ing a few nights ago from the side" walk into the cellar of the city nall.
 Mise claims that as he made nis exit from the Franklin , bal1 street and tIrt,ins to his right. he fell into the cellar through the open transom after taxing only q few steps. The 1anitor was In the cellar and when Mise fell ne was peding the fall of the plaintiff so he sustained, it ig said, only paintui bruise on the head.
 This morning Mise had a conference with Mayor Atkins and, it is said, ace marided SiO0 damages.I Tn return the Mayor made him a proposition to pay for his lost time at the factory and possibly for the services s os MSss 4nsss the factory iaborer's proposition and the factory laborer scornfuliy rejected the Mayors offer, So t is probable that . suit will follow as Mise has said that he will bring suit against the city #
 The janltor at the city hall said, and the officials of the city say, that they can prove that Mise was intoxicated- snS a s5 h Eo1s % SsS. Sss Sssn fisn atURcas aso AA ed They doubt Mise's ability to make out a competent case against the city.
 Mise had been to the city prison 10 see one GAylor, another factory em- ploye whe Is reposins there.
 Lost His Wedding Suit.
 Great Is the sorrow of a Birmingham negro who came to this city the other day to take unto himself spouse. So great was the calamity and so crest- fallen was the negro that 1t is said that he has actually decided not to enter into the matrimonial state until his liabors bring him enough gold dust to wedding suit. And 1t ali was caused by an hours eiumbeT. gt
 A few days ago this son of Ham made the Journey from Birmingham e Selma to consummate his life's happi- ness. It didn't take sixteen trunks 10 hold his wearing apparel but 1t did take a wicker basket, the kind the Pu- ritans used to carry to market. The basket contained one suit of tailor made clothes, one shirt, three collars. three pairs of cuffs, one pair of suB- penders, s cents worth of candy, 5 cents worth of chewing gum, and last but not least, a bottle of whiskey which the black valued at 25 cents,
 He arrived in this city early in the morning and Go await the break of morn he sat before the stove in the station. The ride from BirmIngham had wearied the traveller and the som berness of the prosaic station at that time of night and the stiffness of the night without caused sleep to come to the eyes of the happy negro from Bir- mingham who was unaccustomed to the ways of cruel Selma and the meth ods of hackmen in dealing with strangers.
 A haekman sat, by this waysarer in search of wife. bfid spoke to him Of hts japrney from Birmingham, but the negro from Birmingham suspected him not. Nor did he Suspect him until vagabond. the wayfarer's lone compan- ion in the waiting room. informed him that the hackman had gone off with basket, wedding clothes and all. Tho hackman was found, but it was easy to make the negro from Birmingham be- lteve that a man had been seen with the basket boarding the train for Ment- gomery and the next tragic scene was the Birmingham negro m a telephone booth talking to the Chief of Police at Montgomery. --
 The hackmar. BrIny Johnson. was arrested and in police court this morn ing he was found guilty and was fined S45 or ninety days.
 The wayfarer has gone back to Bir- mingham, 1t is said, without wife and without wedding clothes.