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Birmingham is growing as a cotton
market. __
Birmingham Is growing as an educa
tional center.
Birmingham is growing as a manu
facturing center.
It is reported that Brazil recognizes
the Cuban Insurgents as belligerents.
This Is hardly true, but if it is it is in
tended as an incentive to the United
States. __
, The marria/ft' of the Marquis of Wor
cester, who is nearly 50 years of age, and
has always been regarded as a confirmed
old bachelor, has fluttered all the aris
tocratic dovecotes of Great Britain. If
he has a son it will cut out his nephew,
young Henry Somers Somerset, who has
been brought up as the eventual heir to
the Duke of Beaufort, und who is well
known in America.
Railroad kidney is one of the latest
additions to the list of ijpeclal diseases,
and it is said to be wholly due to the
dust and grime that filters into the sys
tem through the pores of the skin, and
which, under continuous railway travel,
It Is impossible to eradicate. To any one
with a tendency to kidney trouble rail
road travel for a week is said to be most
dangerous. There is no such danger in
sea travel, for there Is no permanent dis
ease known which is peculiar to the
ocean.
There was a decrease In the month of
September of gold coin In circulation of
over $30,000,000, and of gold certificates
S14,100,000. The per capita circulation on
October 1 amounted to {22.57, a decrease
of 30 cents for the month and of $1.50
from the figures of the corresponding
date in 1894. Estimating the population
of the United States at 70,000,000, there
has been a contraction of the money of
the country of $105,000,000 in one year.
Verily, the single gold standard policy is
operating most satisfactorily for 'he
money power; and the end is not yet.
Addressing the Bankers' Congress at
Atlanta Mr. St. John, one of the most
prominent bankers in the country, among
other things, said: "You repealed the
Sherman act in November, 1803, and cut
off thereby abruptly a $50,000,000 yearly
increase of the world's aggregate of
money. In September, 1894, the price of
cotton was lower than in thirty years.
The price of wheat was lower than in
300 years. On July 1, 1895, $1,200,000,000 of
corporate stocks and bonds were in de
fault for dividends and interest due.
‘Fixed incomes' were transfixed for
widows and orphans und employes.”
It is said that John D. Rockefeller will
soon begin the erection of a chateau on
the Hudson which will rival that of
George Vanderbilt in North Carolina.
The Rockefeller mansion will be of white
stone, which will stand near his present
house, commanding a. magnificent view
of the Hudson river. The architecture
will be of the renaissance style and the
building will probably contain several
hundred rooms. The house will be lav
ishly furnished and will be lighted by
electricity. In architecture, finish, fur
nishing and decora'tions it promises to
be the finest country establishment in
A merica.
An authentic tabic has recently been
published showing, the range of prices
during five years for 110 of the staple pro
ducts of the country. It develops the fact
that during the period named the only
tfrtlele which reached Its lowest point in
the year 1893 was petroleum, while in
1893 eight articles reached the lowest
point. In ISM and 1S93 more than 100
articles touched "rock bottom” -ami of
this number over one-half are credited
to the present year, of which less than
ten months have expired. It will be re
membered that the "financial policy now
in force was fully inaugurated in the
latter part of 1893.
In its "(Jubernatortal Gossip" the Mont
gomery Advertiser recently published the
following purporting to be an interview
with a Birmingham gentleman:
"Since it has been ascertained that Gen
eral Shelley will not become a candidate
for Governor,” said a sound money and
administration Democrat in Birmingham
several days ago. "It looks very much to
me like he will have to run Governor
< >atrs again and compel him to accept the
place for.the second time. I understand
that he docs not want to do It, but a
man has to do a great many things for
the sake of his party, and I am of the
candid opinion that it will help the Gov
ernor in his senatorial aspirations to be
elected Governor again, lie will be fresh
from a campaign before the jieople. and
his name will be foremost in their minds
and lie will have an advantage that can
not be obtained otherwise in his lace for
Senator. If he does not stand for Gov
ernni again his term will expire about
tiie Ohio that the election for Senator
comes off and it might mitigate against
him. 1 want Oates to run for Oovs^mr
again, maintain the present organization
b: the party in power and he cannot he
b aten for Senator, and that is the feel
ii’g of many of the Governor's friends.”
Commenting on th< above, the Hunts
ville Argus, whose editor is "a sound
money and administration Democrat,"
ni > s:
Head closely between the lines There
is an anybody-to-bea'-Joe-Johnston
meaning in the above extract Only re
cently it was given out with absolute
I ositiveness that Governoi Oates would
not consent to be a candidate for Gov
ernor again. Evidently Joe Johnston is
regarded down about Montgomery as a
dangerous aspirant, and he is. No mis
Jake there!
WRONG AND MUST GO.
There Is but one thing- just now stand
ing between Birmingham and an era ot
prosperity, second only to the best days
of the boom. That thing is the system
practiced in this district by the employers
of day labor. The pay rolls in the Bir
mingham district are now simply im
mense, but nobody, not even the laborer,
Is getting fair play.
The State’Tlerald does not want to be
'understood as taking the position that
contractors, mine operators, etc., do not
have a perfect right, both morally and
legally, to own and operate stores com
monly called commissaries. Those men
and corporations have just the same
right td engage in the business of buy
ing and selling goodH that any merchant
in Birmingham or elsewhere has.
The system about which we complain
and shall continue to comjrlain nutil a
change is made 4s in the way the men are
paid off. In the first place, pay day comes
too seldom. In the second place, the
men and corporations who issue checks
should redeem them when they fall due
in money if demanded. It should he
known of all men that when the pay da>j
of any concern employing laboring men
conies around that it will promptly pay
the checks that it has given out. no
matter by whom presented, and, it de
manded, pay them in cash.
Such a system would be perfectly fair
to all parties, and especially would it be
justice to the man who strikes hard licks
from morn till night to earn his wages.
As it is, the laboring men in this district
do not get the benefit of competition in
trade. A large majority of them are
men of families. They have no earnings
laid aside for a rainy day, and are there
fore forced to trade oft their time checks
during the month while they are earning
them in order to feed and clothe them
selves and their families. The checks
being redeemable only in merchandise,
they are forced to trade at the company's
commissary or use them elsewhere at a
ruinous discount. Of course, it will be
said that these company stores sell goods
as cheap as they can be had elsewhere.
To answer this we need only to say: If
you mean what you say, why persist in
practicing a system which forces men
to buy of you? If the commissaries sell
goods just as cheap as they can be had
elsewhere the man who labors for the
owner of the commissary and is given
ils^checks knows it full well, and the
commissary owner will therefore run no
risk in saying to him, Here is your check.
We want your trade, and can and will
sell you goods as cheap as anybody. At
the same time say to him. This check will
be paid in cash on pay day if not traded
out with us. Go now and try the mar
If Pit
The system now in vogue in this dis
trict which operates to deprive the la
boring men of the benefits of competi
tion in trade and cuts the retail mer
chant, who is paying his part to sustain
the community, off from a fair chance at
the trade of the community, and which
indirectly forces the man who toils for
his daily bread to pay tribute to the op
eerators of the commissary stores is
wrong, radically wrong, and must go.
Alabama's next legislature will and
must put an end to it, if the men inter
ested will not voluntary abandon the
system.
ENTER TEE OPEN DOOR.
The following able editorial is taken
from the West Alabama Breeze. While
the Breeze may some times lean a little
too far In its advocacy of the single
gold standard. It strikes the keynote
when it urges that Democrats be invited
back into the party and through “the
open door.”
If every man in Alabama who is a
Democrat at heart, hut has drifted oft
on account of factional differences would
come together in one solid phalanx and
hnry past differences there would not be
enough Populites, Kolbites, Jefferson
ians and Republicans left to work the
road after the grand Democratic pageant
had passed over in 1S96.
If the doors of the party are thrown
open we do not believe there is a gentle
man in either of the opposing factions of
the Democratic party or other political
party who would enter this door prompt
ed by other than the purest motives, and
with the honest intention of abiding its
action. The State iHerald believes a
large majority of the citizens of Ala
bama are honest patriots, irrespective of
their political affiliations, and that if all
the doors and windows of the Democratic
party were thrown open, the flue of the
chimney pulled off and the gable end of
the old homestead torn asunder to admit
the crowd there would not he enough
Judases In the assembly to commit a re
•'We have often thought of the fact that
there are many good men here in our own
county who are in the Populist ranks,
and who are considered Populists by
their acquaintances, who are really at
heart Democrats and who desire to again
be back in the ranks of the Democratic
party. For such we have the very kind
est feeling. The Democratic party is
their natural place, and is where they bar
long. If they had been told four years
ago that they woujd now be voting with
I he Populists, they would have actually
felt insulted. The fact is. they were per
fectly honest, but were lead on step by
step by their political leaders, in whom
they had perfect confidence. They did
not know where their leaders wore going,
and blindly followed them on until now
they have realized that they were im
posed upon.
"We ask such men.who are some of our
very best citizens, to pause for a moment
and give this matter some real sober
thought. Why should you longer remain
out of the Democratic party? Now, really
why? Times are now much better than
they were, cotton is bringing a better
price, we are feeling better, we believe
we understand each other better, we all
really want to do what Is right and get
together again. Then why not all go to
work again in the same old party that
wo have loved so long, and which is really
and truly the party of the people? Of
course. It is to be expected that your
local Populite leaders will urge you to
stand together and will do»all they can
to inflame your minds and keep our peo
ple divided, hut it should be remembered
that they have a purpose In all this. It
Is their only hope for continuing in or
securing office. The Interest of our
masses are common and the same, and we
should nut allow any candidate to keep us
separate.
“Come, let us get together. The doors
are wide open, and our hearts are warm
to receive you.”
VIEWS OF THE CARDINAL.
Cardinal (Hbbor.s Is an accurate ob
server of events and opinions. His clear
intellect and purity of character have
given him a strong hold upon the people
of the United states irrespective of his
ecclesiastic dignities. The Cardinal was
a good old Confederate and he has al
ways been a true American. Heftakcs a
bright view of afialr3 in tills jpountry.
\
Last week he was In St. Louis on hlstw^y
to Santa Fe, N. M„ to confer the paljitfta
upon Archbishop P. L. Chappelle.Ift
an interview printed in the Globe-Dem
ocrat,’among other things he said: ] ••.*
While traversing the States of tjtliio.
Indiana and Illinois I was much interest
ed in recitals and statistics of progress
furnished me by members of the party,
and in the evidences of a heavy ana al
most unprecedented harvest which were
everywhere apparent. And as I gazdd at
the countless well-filled sheaves of g*raln
I TTisntuted In tty mind many compari
sons betwesa this region of our country
and- many parts of Kurope, and these
eutlftiarifflms we're rftostly to the disad
vantage of the latter. This was inevita
bie^ owlng to the ideas 1 gleaned during
my recent trar^tS-ftt Europe. Hut aside
frorh merely' material considerations
there are others in which Europe suffers
in comparison with America. 1 find that
liefe the Oigrifty of^man as man Is recog
nized nvire fully Than in Europe. The
spirit of-Chiistiarrtty is more widely dif
fused. The idea of the majesty of the
law and of the beauty of civic harmony
is more deeply engraven in the minds
and written into the dally lives and
thoughts of the people. I find, on the
whole, a greater reward for man's la
bor and infinitely greater possibilities In
the achievement of wealth, position and
honor-according to brain, energy and en
terprise. Here the race is free for ail,
without the handicap of tradition or so
cial ban. One of th^best ways for a man
to fully appreciate this glorious country
is to take a trip through the various
countries of Europe. Still dangers
threaten, us even here. Two of these I
apprehend most seriously. The first
great danger which confronts us here in
America. Is the tendency toward the con
centration oWmuitiiudes In large cities,
and the consequent depopulation of the
rural dlsttlijB. . This tendency has for
its moving spring the too general con
tempt for the simple habits and frugal
fare of country life. This concentration
and dislike of everything w'hlch savors of
the country is unfortunately fostered by
some of the alleged literature and para
graphic humor of the day. The result Is
that thousands, ashamed to be known as
dwellers in the rural districts, flock to the
large cities, and in consequence the num
ber of tillers of the soil, the country's
greatest benefactors, is disastrously re
duced. The second danger which threat
ens us is the tendency to make Christian
faith and practice an affair of Sunday
only, whereas the ten commandments
should be looked upon as binding
throughout he week. I find less cheer
fulness and gayety in this country and
less capacity for wholesome enjoyment
of holidays and less lightness of heart
than in some portions of Kurope. I think
that if there were more of the Joyfulness
of Christianity,. of simple trust in God,
of the spirit of Christian resignation, es
pecially, we should all be more light of
heart and better fitted to bear the ills of
life. Still, on the whole, my hope of the
working out of the great problems of re
publican government Is deep and strong,
and is equaled only by my love and ad
miration of our institutions.
OHIO.
Thp canvas's In Ohio is getting to a very
Interesting stage. The currency question
is ignored and the tariff question is ob
scured. The candidates appear to con
fine themselves to State issues. Camp
bell attacks the McKinley administra
tion and charges it with gross misman
agement of State finances, and McKin
ley, after denying the charges for a time,
now admits that Campbell is correct In
his statements. At Portsmouth McKin
ley admitted that he was in error when
he assailed Ex-Governor Campbell at
Caldwell, making the feeble excuse that
he was misled by the figures furnished
him by the Auditor of State. The friends
of the Democratic standard "bearer ere
jubilant over the result, not only because
he scored his point and proved that there
was extravagance, but because he made
his political antagonists, who were dis
courteous enough to denominate him a
liar, eat their words, just as he said he
would. The news that Governor McKin
ley had thrown up the sponge simply as
tounded the leaders of his party, and
they are in a very unpleasant frame of
mind. The report of his virtual apology
as given in the leading Republican pa
pers is as follows:
“Referring to Campbell’s statement
that he (McKinley) had willfully falsi
fied and misrepresented some matters tn
his Caldwell speech he made this correc
tion. The figures given in his Caldwell
speech as to the local indebtedness were
on the authority of the Auditor of State.
After Campbell's attack the Governor re
quested the Auditor of State to go over
the figures and compare them again care
fully. Upon his arrival here today he
received a telegram from the Auditor of
State saying that Campbell's figures as
given in the Enquirer of yesterday were
substantially correct. Governor McKin
ley said that in a campaign before the
people he believed in absolute honesty
ami fairness, and for that reason he made
this correction.”
RELIGION'.
A leading editorial of the New York Sun
is as follows: "Religion is an unchange
able fact. It abides forever In the world,
despite all assaults. Here we have at
this time a convention of the New York
State Societies of Christian Endeavor,
branches of a recently formed national
body, which is .said to have over 1,000,000
members, most of whom are young men
and young women. Here we have the
Salvation Army, the strength and na
tivity of which grow with the years. We
have the Young Men’s Christian Associ
ation and the Young Women's Christian
Association, both of them great in num
bers and vigor. We have councils of the
Roman Catholic heirarehy, conventionsof
the Episcopalian bishopric, assemblies of
the Presbyterians, conferences of the
Methodists and other Protestant commu
nions. We have thousands of American
Sunday schools, at which there are mil
lions of boys and girls. We have
churches, the number of which is en
larged every year. We believe that thfre
is more, far more, religious activity i in
the world in our times than ever existed
at any other time since Christianity was
propagated. Religion is the strongest,
most enduring and the most vivacious of
all the powers in our world. Firmer than
the rock it stands.”
The Farmers’ Congress in session at
Atlanta lias gone out of its way to dis
cuss the financial question.—Houston
Post.
Why, of course the farmers had nojbws
iness discussing the money question.
They should have talked about grasses,
corn, cotton, potatoes, hogs, sorghum
syrup, etc., and left the money question
for live discussion oi| the distinguished
gentlemen who \ycnt to make up the
bankers' convention, which also met in
Atlahta about the time the farm
ers' congress adjourned. The farmers
create the wealth of the country; that is
enough for them. They should let the
boys who handle -the cash worry over
the money problem.
It Looked 'rhat'Mfaiy.,—“Yes; I married
beauty ami brains/'- -'Did you? Then
you must be a bigamist."—Puck.
ALABAMA EDITORS.
S?!ma Times: When the seven days'
discussion of notable subjects by notable
women begins at the Atlanta exposition
the men who will be In the city at that
time may take a week's rablt hunt in
that and adjacent states.
find made us agreeable. We make our
selves disagreeable.—Greenville Advo
cate.
The “cynic” Advocate is brooding over
an unnecessary trouble. Why, you are
neither “agreeable" nor "disagreeable."
Says the Fort Payne Journal:
“Alabama day at the Atlanta exposi
tion was a success. Governor Oates
made a speech and President Collier
made a speech and the dispatches say
that when punch was served the building
was crowded.”
Says the Union Springs Herald:
"The governor is not exactly satisfied
with Alabama day at the exposition,
which was last Friday, and he will make
efforts to have another day for Ala
bamians to visit the show. He will try
to get up a batallion of state troops
to visit Atlanta some time soon.”
Tuskaioosa Gazette: The Montgomery
Advertiser is extremely unfortunate, we
think, in its attitude towards those Dem
ocratic leaders who differ with it on the
financial question. It contiually carps
at them and their policies, often unfairly.
When criticism sinks to mere petty and
pettish faultfinding, it always falls of Its
purpose.
Tuskegee Reporter: A little boy visiting
here from Salem was heard to cuss, and
when reprimanded for it said: “All the
boys cusses in Salem and most all the
mens." We don't know but that is pret
ty well the case in Tuskegee. Recently
a little 4-year-old asked his grown up sis
ter a question about something, to which
she replied: “You don't know, do you?”
"No, I don’t know, but I am trying my
damndest to find out.”
Says the Mobile Register: “If the Ad
vertiser’s report of the Alabama day pro
ceedings at Atlanta is correct, the Ala
bama Press association got lost in the
immensity of the show and the official
oratory was addressed to a beggarly ar
ray of empty boxes. There is one ad
vantage people who stay at home have:
They can continue to think they cut
some sort of a swathe. Where ignorance
is bliss it is folly to be wise.
The Union Springs Herald pays the fol
lowing compliment to Birmingham's pop
ular poet:
“Dr. O. T. Dozier, the sweet poet of
Birmingham, presented the editors who
were in session In his city last week with
copies of his latest publication, and this
book contains some of the lovliest and
sweetest poems that have fallen from the
pen of any southern muse. Hours may
be most delightfully spent with his vol
ume.”
The State Herald giving general satis
faction. The Oneonta News says:
“The State Herald of Birmingham ap
pears to be giving general satisfaction
throughout the state. The Montgomery
Advertiser and a few other cuckoo news
papers continue to. growl, alleging that it
is now too conservative. It would be a
profound blessing to the democracy of
Alabama if like charges could be honestly
preferred against the Advertiser and its
confreres."
The Jasper Eagle approves—
“The State Herald’s advice to the dem
ocratic press and leaders, in which it ado
monishes them to adopt a conciliatory
policy towards their brethren who differ
from them on the financial question, is
good and in the right direction. There
are extremists on both sides who have
greatly injured the party we fear by their
course. It is a question which must be
settled within the party, and the only
way to settle it right, as it should be set
tled, Is for all parties to respect and give
weight to opinions of those of the party
who may hold opposite views. We trust
that this will be done.”
Silver and gold current money In the
days of Abraham. The Hamilton News
Press searches the scriptures and finds
the following:
“There is no question but that silver
was the first metal ever used as money.
We read in the Bible, Genesis xxiii, 1C:
“And Abraham harkened unto Ephraim
and Abraham weighed to Ephraim the
silver which he had named In the audi
ence of the sons of Heth, 400 shekels of
silver current money with merchants.”
Again, “And Abraham was very rich in
cattle, silver and gold.”—Genesis xiii, 2.
From that day until the monopolists and
speculators of Europe and America got
possession of the finances of the country
silver has always been recognized as a
money metal and enjoyed equal coinage
privileges with gold.”
Mentioned Often to No Purpose.
Bob Lincoln is said to have been men
tioned oftener and to less purpose for
the presidency than any other man in the
country.—Houston Post.
Go Up in a Balloon.
Should the No Man's Land resort fail
Corbett and Fitzsimmons, they can still
so up In a 20-foot balloon and have it
out there.—Philadelphia Enquirer.
People Who “Went West.”
Topeka Capital.
The old editor must have looked down
with an approving smile as he saw the
citizens of Horace. Greeley county, going
over to Tribune to attend a fair.
Account* for It.
The fact that no interviews with
Chauneey Depew on the political situa
tion have appeared for several weeks
Rives ground for the belief that he has
changed typewriters.—Chicago Tlmes
Herald.
To Be Lively.
It. is predicted extra officially, but with
good reason, that President Cleveland's
message to congress will be a livelier let
ter than that body has received from the
federal executive for some time.—Chica
go Ti/nes-Herald.
Business Condition.
Set utor Sherman, in a Washington in
terview, said:
"Times are better than they were. The
business conditions have improved over
what they 'have been, but there is no
substantial revival and no promise of
return of general prosperity under the
present circumstances. In some branches
of business there has been material im
provement, but the improvement is not
general.”
"Do you expeot congress to do any
thing this winter to improve the situa
tion ?”
"That depends upon the president. The
republicans have complete power in the
house, but uncertain power in the sen
ate. I think something can be done, but
it will depend upon the president.”
"You mean in the way of increasing the
tariff revenue?”
"Yes, something could probably be done
in that direction. Whatever is done
must be on protective lines, however, and
if there is any tariff legislation it will
include a duty o»wpol."
He would not discuss the outlook for
financial legislation. To the question,
"Would the republicans organize the sen
ate?” he replied:
"We havg a, strong plurality in the sen
ate. One vote would give us the organi
zation. I <Jo .think, however, there will
be trouble over the smalb'emces. I don't
think there wIH be any combination to
get the orgahiZaAion." *
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report j
Powder
V&0SS&a
ABSOLUTELY PURE
STATE NEWS.
Jasper Eagle: Brick laying has com
menced on the Banks block and the east
side of Public square will soon doubt
less fall in line in the erection of sub
stantial brick business blocks.
Jasper Eagle: Mr, W. S. Randolph,
who emigrated to the “nation” about two
years ago, arrived back in old Walker
this week. Two years in the "wild and
wooly west” was enough for him.
Fort Payne Journal: There are more
pretty girls in Fort Payne than in any
“one-gallus” town we know of. We also
have a few knotty headed old bachelors,
but they are either “afraid of their
horses” or the girls won't say “yes.”
Jasper Eagle: Mr. Bud Wade of Win
ston reports a. novel raid on his premises.
He was engaged in stilling fruit and had
his “plant” regularly and legally regis
tered. In the darkness of the night last
week some parties unknown carried oft
his still bodily and up to this writing he
has no clue to the thief.
Alabama Tribune: Through the ef
forts of Messrs. Powell and Burks prop
erty amounting to $80,000 will be repre
sented at the organization of the Farm
ers’ Insurance, which takes place at the
court house next Saturday. A president,
secrtary and one supervisor for each
beat will be! elected at the meeting, which
will convene not later than 10 o'clock a.m.
Alabama Tribune: The broom corn
which has been grown the past season by
a number of our German farmers Instead
of the usual amount of cotton Is being
delivered at the old bucket factory, which
is to be converted Into a broom factory
to manufacture the brooms. Thus these
farmers who planted a portion of their
cotton acreage In broom corn will re
ceive the usual remuneration from cotton
with an additional Income from broom
corn.
Wilcox New Era: Mr. F. F. Kimbrough
was in our city Monday and paid our of
fice a pleasant visit. He is one of the
largest and most successful planters In
west Wilcox, and Is a close observer, and
especially In regard to cotton. He says
that the last report places the average
crop too high, 62 per cent, and that If
west Wilcox can be taken as an index
that 50 per cent of the crop of last year
is a fair average. He says that the corn
crop Is good and that with the present
price of cotton the planters are in a bet
ter condition than they have been for
many years.
The Winfield correspondent to the
Hamilton News-Press says: "W. R. H.
Loden Is taking options on mineral land
for a northern man, who wants 6000
acres of land near Winfield. Mr. Roden
is optioning: the land, top and bottom, at
$0 per acre. He wants options on all the
land east of range 12 to New river and
north of the railroad to Robert Webb’s.
All interested would do well to confer
with Mr. Loden. The coal on this land is
the best I have ever seen. I am using it
in the grate in my dwelling. It is en
tirely consumed, leaving nothing but a
very little ashes. I don’t believe any
better coal is found in any country, and I
predict that it will be opened up for mar
ket at an enrly date. If so it will add
greatly to the taxable list of Marlon
county, and would give the farmers a
home market for their produce.”
Marriages.
In Huntsville—Mr. F. H. Peebles and
Miss Vecholorle Rankin.
In Barbour county—Mr. J. S. McLen
don and Miss Lula Griggs.
William M. Standefer, Esq., of Gads
den and Miss Georgia Tumler of Kirk's
Grove, Cherokee county.
In the Mobile theater—Mr. Kelly B.
Harvey and Mrs. Mattie Gunnison Hick
ley, both of Punta Gordo, Fla.
In Mobile—Mr. John P. Bogue and Miss
Mary Schwaerumle.
In Fayette—Mr. E. E. Solomon and
Miss Susie Sogg.
In Cullman—Mr. A. J. Day and Miss
Martha E. Ginright.
In Huntsville—Mr. P. E. Brumley and
Miss Josie Pool.
Adams avenue, Huntsville—Mr. D. Y.
Butcher of Detroit, Tex., and Miss Addie
Clark of Blossom, Tex.
.In Jasper—Mr. R. L. Lockhart and
Miss Dora Carmichael.
In Blount county—J. E. Self and Miss
Lou Varnum.
In Hamilton—Mr. Newton S. White
head and Miss Della Rains.
Death’s Doings.
In Greenville—Arvie Motes, 13-yeer-o!d
daughter of Robert C. and Mattie V.
Shell.
In Montevallo—Mary Ann Whorton.
In Huntsville—Mrs. Mattie Turner of
Gates avenue.
In Huntsville—Mary Catherine Kenne
dy, wife of S. W. Kennedy.
Near Bell Factory. Madison county—
Mrs. Nancy McCrary.
Mrs. S. B. Stewart, on Madison pike,
Madison county.
Robert, the 12-year-old son of Mr. Wil
liam Jones of Maysville, Madison county.
In Jasper—Mrs. Watts, wife of Mr.
James S. Watts.
In DeKalb county—Mr. Richard Car
roll.
NOTICE TO GREAT BRITAIN.
Walter Wellman’s discovery that Ol
ney is a true-blue American will, we
trust, hold water.—Scranton Tribune.
It gives plain notice to Great Britain
that If a fight is wanted on that subject
it can be had. The American people, as
a body, will be with Secretary Olney in
his position. The Monroe doctrine Is
here to stay.—Indianapolis Sentinel.
England can depend upon it that this
country will not tamely surrender any of
its rights in Venezuela, and that it will
oppose to the bitter end the grab which
is contemplated by the British lion.—
Kansas City Star.
If Secretary Olney shall vitalize the
Monroe doctrine and raise it as a bar
rier to British'encroachment on this con
tinent he will have behind him the pa
triotic support of his countrymen of all
parties.—Philadelphia Bulletin.
If the United States has any disposition
to enforce the principles enunciated in
the Monroe doctrine the Washington gov
ernment cannot abandon the cause of
Venezuela, and the only*consistent course
is to compel the British lion to keep his
paws off that country.—Saginaw Courier
Herald. _
Ex-Governor Beaver's nail mill at Bcl
lefonte, which shut down under the be
nign operations of the McKinley law five
years ago, is to resume operations, giv
ing work to 150 men. They won't have so
much protection as McKinley gave them,
but they will have more work, more
wages and more bread and meat.—Port
land. Argus, (Dem.)
OUR LETTER BOX.
Cuba.
Editor State Herald:
South Highlands, Oct. 18.—I have just
read with great pleasure and approbation
the comment of the New York Sun in
your columns today upon Mi . Harmon 9
idea or the Cuban struggle for freedom.
The ladies of tile Edgewood Hook eldbi
have been studying tue past week tha
lives of those iiiusuiuus statesmen anil
patriots, Clay, Calhoun and Webster.
In reading with my wife, whuls a mem
ber of the club, the life and speeches of
Henry Clay I was forcibly struck with his
great speech in the senate in favor of
sending a message of sympathy to Greecu
in her struggle for independence in 1824.
It Is so appropriate ut this day that I
have made the following extracts, substi
tuting the name Cuba for Greece, and
ask you to give it a place in your valuable
columns, with the hope and prayer that it
may Inspire our able Alabama represen
tatives to work for the recognition as
belligerants by the American congress of
those brave patriots now struggling for
liberty In the queen of the Antilles.
"Surely, sir, we need no long or learned
lectures about the nature of government
and the Influence of propriety or ranks
on society. We may content ourselves
with studying the true character of our
own people; and with knowing that tha
interests are confided to us of a nation
capable of doing and suffering all things
for its liberty. Such a nation, If Its rulers
be faithful, must be invincible. No, sir,
no united nation, that resolves to be free,
can be conquered. And has It come to
this? Are we so humble, so low, so de
based that we dare not express our sym
pathy for suffering Cuba; that we dare
not articulate our detestation of the bru
tal excesses of which she has been the
bleeding victim, lest we might offend
some one or more of their Imperial and
royal majesties? If gentlemen are afraid'
to act rashly on such a subject suppose,
Mr. Chairman, that we unite in an hum
ble petition addressed to their majesties
beseeching them that of their gracious
condescension they would allow us to ex
press our feelings and our sympathies.
“Are we so mean, so base, so despicable
that we may not attempt to express our
norror, uner mmgnauuil ai me moat
brutal and atrocious war that ever
stained earth or shocked high heaven?
“But, sir, it Is not for Cuba alono
that X desire to see this measure adopted.
It is principally for America, for the cred
it and character of our common country,
for our own unsullied name that I hope
to see it pass. Mr. Chairman, what ap
pearance on the page of history would
a record like this exhibit? ‘In the month
of December, in the year of our Lord and
Savior, 1895, while all European Christen
dom beheld with cold and unfeeling indif
ference the nuexampled wrongs and inex
pressible misery of Cuba, a proposition,
was made in the congress of the United'
States, almost the sole, the last, the
greatest depository of human hope and
human freedom, the representatives of a
gallant nation containing 1,000,000 free
men ready to fly to arms, while the people
of that nation were spontaneously ex
pressing its deep-toned feeling, the whola
continent, by one simultaneous emotion,
was rising and solemnly and anxiously
supplicating and invoking high heaven
to spare and succor Cuba and to invigor
ate her arms in her glorious cause, whilst
temples and senate houses were alike re
sounding with one burst of generous and
holy sympathy; in the year of our Lord
and Savior, tjiat Savior of Cuba and of
us, a proposition was affirmed In tha
American congress to send a message to
Cuba, to inquire into her state and con
dition with a kind expression of our good
wishes and our sympathies—and it was
rejected!’ Go home, If you can; go home,
if you dare, te your constituents and tell
them that you voted it down; meet, if
you can, the appalling countenances of
those who sent you here and tell (hem
that you shrank from the declaration of
your own sentiments; that the spectres of
of cimiters, and crowns, and crescents
gleamed before you and alarmed you;
that you suppressed all the noble feelings
prompted by religion, by liberty, by na
tional independence and by humanity.”
All true Americans will pray that tho
star of liberty may shine triumphant
over downtrodden
“CUBA." i
THE SACKVILLE INCIDENT.
There is no reason why the genius of
opera bouffe should not build a play
around Lord Sackville, formerly Sir Li
onel Sackvitle-SackvIHe-West, K. C. M.
G.—New York World.
The noble lord has plainly written him
self down in a word of three letters, and
he might very well be let go at that.—
Philadelphia Ledger.
Whether we consider him a diplomat
ist or as a self-vindicating pamphleteer,
we are constrained to remind him, as
Thackeray reminded Bulwer, that “his
intellectual nature is not physically
adapted” for success in either of thosj
capacities.—New York Times.
Yet Lord Sackville, who was such a
failure as a minister, and now makes
such a mess of it as a man, is a “trained
diplomate.” He is the product of enter
ing “diplomacy” as a “profession.” He
had had the experience, the training and
th^ table manners which we are assured
our representatives lack.—Philadelphia
Press.
WILL BE CORRECT ED.
The State Herald Is requested to state
that the opinion of the supreme court in
the case of mayor uf Albertville vs.
Rains, as published in IS Southern Re
porter, page 255, was modified before
adoption so as to leave open the constl-fc
tutional questions therein referred to. By
oversight a copy of the opinion, as origi
nally prepared, was sent to the Reporter.
It will be corrected In the bound volume.
Awarded
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