The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-18

as usual, went into the business dis
 trict on his way to his newspaper of flee.
 The day before a circus company
 had paid him in fractional paper cur
 rency mostly DO cent bills. certain
 charges for advertising. He had the roll of money in his breast pocket standing on the street, Smith passing along threw himself heavily against the editor and fired. The ball struck the roll of bills and fell to the ground. inside the editors clothing. Smith ran and Randolph fired the little derringer he carried, but with effect. still in flight, smith threw his heavy pistol
 over his shoulder and fired again. The second shot struck Randolph's s thigh and caused the amputation of the limb. Indirectly the loss of the limb cost him his life 90 years later He
 was of small statue, temperate in habit, intelligent, most devoted hus- band, modest in society, true to his friends and all his obligations as gal lant a trooper as ever drew blade. He gave through his paper a tone of manly resistance to the infamous political and social condition of his environment
 town, county and state. that lives after him to honor his memory
 We must anticipate . littlc Smith, the military governor, served only one term of two years, preflXed by several months as heretofore explained. In the November elections of 1870, the democrats elected a state government including the president of the board of education.
 Col Joseph Hodgson, democrat, thus displaced N E. Cloud. His official re- port declared no trace of the appro- priations for the university could be found on record
 The faculty was now recast. Com modore Mathew F. Maury refused the presidency. In course of a few months Professor Lupton was elected to the Iplace. The chairs were now, W. S. Wyman, professor of Latin; William J. Vaughan. nat ural philosophy and as
 tronomy; s. F, Meek English litera- ture David l.. Peck, mathematics, A. S Garnet, natural history and sur
 geon; Rev. Telfair Hodgson, moral philosophy. W. A. Larkin. Greek; J. c. Griswold, modern languages; N. T. Lupton, chemistry: Eugene A. Smith. geology and mneralogy; Gen. George r. Harrison, commandant of cadets, B. I. Harrison quartermaster General Harrison resigned before assuming charge. Gen. George D. Johnston was made commandant. Henderson NJ. Som erVille was made professor of the new
 
 lstration the attendance sprang from almost nothing to 107 of the youths from the most influential classes of the people.
 Late in the session of the leglsla- ture of 1sG9-70. q bill came befovs the senate 10 permit Superintende of
 Eduation Cloud to draw $l2,O00 from he university funds. The two seal awags from the two rich adjoining counties, Jones from Marengo and Hays from Greene, had now become con- vinced they were not 10 profit by their nasty alliance with the earpetbaggers When the resolution to permit Cloud 10 draw the money came up Jones asked for select committee to ascer- tain what had become of the public school moneys and what further ap- Ipropriation would be necessary tp open
 the schools It appeared that s750.0Q0 had been drawn by the superintendent but it was notorious that the schools were languishing and the teachers were calling Tn vain for their pay i matter in the administration of the schools i'm Mobile had appeared be-
 fore the senate committee on the judi
 eiary. A few days before the session
 closed, March 3, 1870 the special com mlttee under the Jones resolution re- ported AcAfee, scalawag from Talla- and Dr North, democrat, composed the special committee.
 Putnam carpetbagger. already of unsavory reputation, was as has been shown, a member from the First dis