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THE MODEL
(TJp to IDate)
First Avenue and Twenty-first Street.
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’Mrs. E. F. Johnson, Manager, takes pleasure in announcing
to the ladies of Birmingham and neighboring town^that the
FIRST FALL OPENING
of THE MODEL will take place on Thursday and Friday, October
31 and November 1, on which days she will show the most exclusive
styles in imported Hats and Bonnets, as well as Mrs. Johnson’s own
creations.
A cordial invitation is extended to every lady in Birmingham to
visit THE MODEL on opening days. Each will receive a hearty
welcome and have every courtesy and attention shown them by the
corps of salesladies.
Grand Full Opeipg Tlpdinj arid Fridaij, Ocl. 31-Nov. 1
SECOND EDITION.
THE WEATHER.
Washington, Oct. 30.—Forecast for Ala
bama and Mississippi for the succeeding
twenty-four hours: Threatening weath
er and rains, with northerly winds.
DAILY BULLETIN.
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Weather Bureau,
Office of Station Agent.
Birmigham, Ala., Oct. 30, 1895.
Local observations during twenty-four
hours ending at 7 p. m., central time:
Time.
Dlreot'n Rain
Temp. of wind. Weather fall.
8 a.
12 in
7 P
51
68
50
NE
HE
SE
Cloudy
Cloudy
Cloudy
.00
T.
.00
Highest temperature, 58; lowest, 41; aver
age, 55.
BEN M. JACOBS,
Local Observer.
Reports received at Birmingham, Ala.,
on Ocotober 30, 1895.
Observations taken at all stations at 8
a. m., 75th meridian time.
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Place of
Observa
tion.
Montg’ry
Mobile—
Meridian.
Memphis..
Knoxville
Atlanta...
Vicksburg
N. Orleans
Ft. Bmitb.
Nashville.
fl 6
54
48
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36
44
41
50
46
34
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T. Rain
T.
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Cloudy
Pt. Cdy
.00;Pt.Cdy
.04,Rain
T. (Cloudy
.OOlCloudy
.OOlCloudy
•Killing
T indicates trace of rain or snow; ( Indicates
rise and - fall.
BEN M. JACOBS,
Local Observer, Weather Bureau.
The World’s Fair Tests
showed no baking powder
so pure or so great In leav
ening power as the Royal.
Waiting: to Got to Cuba.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 30.—A cable
gram to tiie Tlmes-Union from Key West,
Fla., says: Considerable excitement is
felt In official circles here over the re
port that a large number of Cubans are
encamped on Cudjoe, Howe and Pine
Keys waiting an opportunity to go over
to Cuba. The revenue cutters Winona
and Morrill have been sent to the above
tiamed keys to prevent any expedition
leaving those points.
[ Children Cry for
Pitcher’s Castoria.
A Schooner Ashore.
Cape Charles, Va., Oot. 30.—The schoon
er Carrie L. Godfrey of Philadelphia,
loaded with phosphorate rock from
Charleston, 3. C., bound for Wilming
ton, Del., went ashore on Machtpongi
Bhoals, near Paramores Beach life saving
Station, about 3 o'clock this morning. The
crew of eight men were all saved. The
.vessel and cargo will probably prove a
total loss.
THE PRIZE.
ECZEMA
CDTICURA
REMEDIES
Uur baby wnen luree week’s oiu was naqiy ar
fllcted with Kc/eina. Her head, arms, neck, limbs,
ami ucarly every joint in li<>r body was raw and
bleeding when we concluded to try Cl'TICtrnA
ltKMBlHSB. We began with Ol'TICUBA (oint
ment) aud CUTIOURA Soap, and o/ttr the first
application we could see a change. Aiter we bad
used them one week some of the sores bad healed
entirely, and ceased to spread. In loss lhati a
month, 9he was free from scales and blemishes, and
to-day has as lovely skin and hair as any child,
fjho was shown at the Grunge Fair, and took a
premium as tin* nrrtfiest baby, over sixteen others.
Jin.# \f n. * '•»>»* l«rv» v„:f0vf,.w Av«\. Ivan. City.
Birthday Gift?. %
Wc1 are now open
NflBERS,
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THE SUFFRAGE PROBLEM.
A Battle Royal Being Waged in the Constitu
tional Convention—Tillman's Long
Expected Speech.
Columbia, S. C., Oct. 30.—In the consti
tutional convention today there has been
a battle royal all day on the all Important
suffrage problem. The question under
discussion has been the Patton substi
tute, which would make all Confederate
and union soldiers and their descendants
qualified. There has been no end of talk
about fraud. The article reported by the
committee with its "understanding"
clause has been attacked with great force
on ail sides and denounced as a mere sub
terfuge. Strong speeches have been made
by Messrs. McGowan, Bryan. Farrow,
Governor Sheppard and others. Senator
Tillman has not yet made his general
suffrage speech. He is waiting his oppor
tunity. Senator Irby is likewise charged
with much ammunition. The hall has
been filled all day with spectators wait
ing to hear these two cross swords. Till
man expects to speak at the night ses
sion, but may not until tomorrow.
When the hour for recess arrived Mr.
Bryan of Charleston was attacking the
constitutionality of the Patton scheme
and sustained that of the committee. An
effort was made to force a vote on the
subject, but it failed.
At the night session there was quite a
lively time. Mr. Hatton’s scheme was
killed by a vote of 117 to 20. The com
mittee then made several amendments
to its article as reported and left the im
portant clauses reading mus;
(C) —Up to January, 1898, all male per
sons of voting age, who can read a clause
In this constitution or understand and
explain It when read to them by the reg
istration officer, shall be entitled to reg
ister and become electors. A sure rec
ord of all persons registered before Jan
uary 1, 1898, sworn to by the registration
officers shall be filed, one copy with the
clerk of the court and one in the office of
the secretary of state on or before Feb
ruary 1, 1898, and such person shall re
main during life qualified electors, un
less disqualified by other provisions of
this article. The certificate of the clerk
of court or secretary of state shall be
sufficient evidence to establish the right,
of said citizen to any future registration
and the franchise under the limitations
herein Imposed.
(D) —Any person who shall apply for
registration after January 1, 1898, If
otherwise qualified, shall be registered,
provided-that he can both read and write
any section of thia constitution, or can
show that he owns and has paid all taxes
collectable during the previous year on
property in this state assessed at $.'100
or more.
Congressman Wilson offered a substi
tute for subdivision “C," which was to
make the "general understanding" per
petual and the only qualification. He
spoke to this at great length.
He wanted to make the report of the
committee doubly secure against the
fourteenth amendment. There were
things in the report which should not
be there. Had it not been for these two
amendments—the fourteenth nnd fif
teenth—there would be no need for this
convention. They might ransnck all the
ages of vandalism, and nowhere could
they find a parallel to the crime com
mitted by the union when the war was
ended. The negroes had only just
emerged at that time from a sea of
savagery. It Is a crime to put them In
charge of the southland. From 1881 to
the present time there had been no fraud
whatever. He wished to deny that South
Carolina had ever been controlled by
fraud. But they were now at a road
crossing. The committee came and pre
sented a reasonable plan—a good plan.
It was whether It was to he adopted or
not. I am depriving them of nothing.
We are not responsible for the fourteenth
or fifteenth amendment. We are here to
frame a constitution that Is best for the
great mass of the people; the great mass
of them were unfit for the educational
qualification. He was going to do his
duty, guided by his conscience. They
did not have to be controlled by what the
north might say. The idea of this clause
was all right, but It goes too far. Three
years from now what will be the con
dition of the negro race? They are being
edurated rapidly. Why restrict the qual
ification to education, when the broader
distinction is possible to be made? Re
finement and civilization could soon
change the matter. He wanted to keep
the distinction there not only up to 1898,
hut on for every ypar.
Senator Tillman then rose, and the
crowded hall was Instantly so quiet that
one could hear a pin drop. Tillman made
a rejnarkable speech. He said:
"It has been my purpose from the ho
glnnlng of this day to have something
WED
iny;’ uj> our recent
lielt vour visit to
MORROW&
to say on this article as a whole, but that
time has not yet arrived. I am sick and
nothing but will power has kept me on
this floor since yesterday morning. I
shall confine myself to a very brief an
swer to the gentleman from Spartan
burg. More of •> statement, than argu
ment. The trouble here, sir, seems to be
in the mind of some men that poor white
men must be protected at any cost (with
scornful emphasis). If there is one man
on this floor who has tried to do more
to elevate the poor white man of this
state; to help them, to give them a chance
to educate themselves and their sons that
they might have equal protection of the
law in the government than myself I
do not know him. It is a cheap and dem
agogic argument which some people take
delight in. I have been myself charged
with demagogism because I have cham
pioned the rights of this class of citizens.
The gentleman from Spartanburg pre
sents to us a communication which simp
ly perpetuates the legislative evil. We are
held up to the scorn of this nation by
the reason of our present registration
and eight-box laws, and when this con
vention was called for the purpose of
relieving us of the necessity of continu
ing that system I had hoped that we
would not be brought face to face with
the champions of that system to be per
petuated. and If possible made worse.
"Mr. President, this convention dare
not adopt the amendment by the gen
tleman from Spartanburg. The commit
tee considered the Mississippi plan, w hich
is based upon this idea, and we univers
ally agreed that to make it permanent
was to jeopardize the entire fabrio which
we are constructing here and at the same
time to continue the evils w'hlch now ex
ist. Some one has said, ‘Why do you
bring It in temporarily?’ Simply be
cause we desire to have a scheme that
will take care of the poor white man
and of such negroes as were qualified by
reason of good citizenship and high char
acter and intelligence who might be able
to understand the clause of the consti
tution when read to them and not draw
tile color line.
“The legal arguments presented at the
conference ere, I thought’ disposed of
In the mind of pvery man on this floor.
You cannot make this understanding
clause prominent. The Idea was present
ed aigl withdrawn in that conference and
it Is brought back here today, for what?
I don’t want to impugn any business mo
tives, but the gentleman from Spartan
burg cannot come here and legislate for
Spartanburg county alone. He has a
two-thirds white majority In Spartan
burg, whereas the genera! thing in the
state is a two-tlilrds negro majority. If
we are to let men into the rights of regis
tration and the ballot on a question of
understanding merely, as I have heard
today, to adopt nauseam about entrust
ing the rights of the citizens to the dis
cretion of any man, that provision ls
neausea, and I only swallow enough of it
to preserve the rights of the poor man.
After that has been accomplished I am
willing to give it up. That'we may lift
ourselves out of the bog and mire that
we have been swallowing in for the last
twenty years, I think no ono can say that
you will stoop to any fraud to accomplish
this, or that you intend any fraud in the
operation of this clause.
“For the good of the body politic and
the preservation of the rights of the poor
white man—and I say that anybody who
comes here and claims that he Is the bet
ter friend of the poor white man than
this committee is claiming more than he
can prove.
"Let me point out the miserable situ
ation that will exist If you make this
provision lasting and permanent. The
one Idea that Anglo-Saxon oivlllzation
which we have inherited shall be pre
served and that white man shall govern
In this state. We have had a taste of
what negro domination, or the domina
tion of.whitemen through the negro, can
accomplish and I say that that danger Is
ever present until we have gotten such,
restrictions on the suffrage es will large
ly reduce the number of these people
that can vote and thereby put it so that If
we divide, and divide we must, we will
still have a white government and a de
cent government In this state, even if the
negro shoud hold thfi balance of power.
"Let. us suppose that you leave It. to the
discretion of the registration office to say
who can understand—mind, in perpetuity
we limit to twenty years. Let us con
ceive that this convention, carried away
by the pleas of the poor white men and
boys who cannot read and write, and
never expect to try to learn: and in the
future when these whlto men have divi
ded and we have two white parties and
one negro party, and the registration law
gives the power to reach out and Increase
the suffrage throwfrh the understanding
clause. Is it not clear enough that the
temptation to make moro and more of the
negroes understand will not be resisted?
When the party In power make enough of
them to understand to perpetuate (ts
grip upon the offices and deprave the
DING
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white majority, then we would feel the
consequences of it. It is too plain—too
easy; therefore it is preposterous to adopt
it. We want to have done with it. The
committee proposes to have done with it
in two years; and wo then propose to put
in force such laws in regard to our
schools as will give every poor white
boy an opportunity to qualify himself to
become a ’ hite voter. Let the gentleman
vote thus when the time comes, and not
come here and give them lip service, but
actual service, in Increasing and improv
ing the free schools, as will do away with
white illiteracy In South Carolina. He
will be blessed by the poor white men
of South Carolina, but when he comes
Ihere and talks I fear I must call a halt.”
Il»* continued in the same earnest man
ner.
The Wilson measure was then voted
down by a vote of 129 to 16. Several oth
er measures were voted down in like
manner.
Other amendments are pending. At a
late hour the convention adjourned anild
much confusion, a batch of propositions
being rushed in to be printed.
Tillman and Irby both speak tomorrow
on the question proper.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, 6ho cried for Castoria.
When sho becamo Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, Ehe gave them Castoria.
THE MISSION AT ST. PAUL’S.
Despite the inclement weather the at
tendance was good at the mission in ses
sion at St. Paul's church. Rev. Father
Yuunan gave the opening instruction on
the church, showing first o£ all that the
church is the spouse of Christ, the car
rying out of ids incarnation and his gra
cious mission upon the earth and by his
indwelling the organ of his truth and
grace to mankind. As such the church
must be unerring in the declaration and
maintenance of Christ. As such it must
embrace the multitudes of every tongue
and clime within its folds and provide for
their manifold spiritual /needs. More
than that, It imitates bis compassion and
provides even for the physical ills to
which flesh is heir. This exercise of his
charity is shown by the devoted sacri
fices of its priests and sisterhoods to the
most afflicted and loathsome of men.
As an illustration he quoted the example
of Father Damien to the lepers of Molo
kai; shown also in rescuing the aban
doned offsprings of heathen parents in
India,.China and other pagan lands, thus
vindicating its mission as the church of
the good shepherd and following the
command of St. Paul, who said: “13e ye
Imitators of me, even as I ant of Christ.”1
The principal discourse of the evening
was given by Father Smith on the "Oc
casions of Sin,” pointing out to Chris
tians the dangers to which they nre
mainly exposed. These the reverend
speaker Instanced were to be found in
literature, gross, immoral or seductive in
its spirit and aim. Caution must be used
In our choice of amusements. For exam
ple, the manifest degeneracy of the stage
as evidenced by certain classes of spec
tacular plays so much in vogue. Of all
the enemies to moral welt being, the sa
loon must be considered the most promi
nent and destructive, since drink is daily
dealt out without regard to its conse
puences on its self indulgent victims
and their families in defiance of the re
strictions of the law or the sanctity of
time and place. The preacher pointed out
the extravagance, the crime, the domestic
misery, the pauperism, and the tragedies
which the saloon Is the direct occasion
and urged most careful limitation as to
the number of saloons and most w atchful
supervision as to the conduct of the bus
iness. In conclusion he urged thnt if the
mission wanted to effect any lasting good
it must be In proportion to the generous
resolution, tha watchful vigilance and
self-denial that Catholics must exercise
in regard to the dangers of the soul.
The mission will continue for a few
days longer, and promises great good to
the community. .1*1 111 I
New business houses here
and there over the city gives
the “howler” another- lick.
Among them is the PARLOR
SHOE STORE, 109 N. 20th
street, under the management
of Mr. A. P. Lims, who prom
ises to take care of the SOLES
of all who will come to him.
Good goods, fit and low prices
is his notto. io-3o-6t
Stabbed by a Woman.
Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 30.—Book Thomas
was stabbed to death this morning by
r,ucy Hogan seven miles from the city.
Thomas and the woman were lovers.
They quarreled and the woman, armed
with a shotgun and butcher knife, ran
after Thomas. She drew the gun and
when he rushed In she dropped the gun
and stabbed him In the stomach.
opean and Domes
for a critical exam
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ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.
Davis Carried Back to Selma—The Boy Readi
ly Recognized Him—Another Crime of
Which He May Be Guilty.
Selma, Oct. 30.—(Special.)— OfTlcer I. N.
Eddy returned from Birmingham Mon
day morning with Joe Davis, the negro
who brutally assaulted and robbed little
Jerome Simons on September 26.
Little Jerome Simons, whose head is
still covered with bandages, was at the
depot when the Birmingham train pulled
In, and as soon as the negro alighted
from the train his face broadened with a
smile of intense satisfaction as he said,
"That's the fellow.”
The negro stoutly maintained his in
nocence. He says he knew the little boy,
■but did not see him on the day the crime
was committed. He admits that he lived
near the Kenan place and that he left
about the time the little boy's assailant
disappeared. His reason for leaving qui
etly and hastily, he says, was that he
heard he was going to be hung. The
negro said he made his way through the
country to Burnsville, and catching a
Southern train there stole a ride to Chat
tanooga. As to his whereabouts since he
has told many conflicting stories.
Just before the negro was placed in a
cell an old negro by the name of Jesse
White, who lives near Summerfit-ld, came
up and identified the criminal.
The negro seems very nervous; he can
not keep still, and constantly casts
glances backwards as if expecting some
one to como upon him from behind.
Davis had a preliminary hearing before
Justice Pitts yesterday afternoon at 3:30
o'clock, and was remanded to Jail with
out bail.
Another crime is laid at Davis’ door.
It will be remembered by our readers
that about two years ago on account of
the mysterious disappearance of a little
negro from his home near Summerfield
appeared In the papers. The disappear
ance was so sudden and complete that
It was thought a large eagle that had
been seen In the neighborhood had car
ried him off.
The last time the little negro was seen
alive he was with Joe Davis, so tlie
child's mother says, and since Davis so
brutally beat little Jerome Simons and
left him for dead, (the mother firmly be
lieves that her ohild was killed and its
body hidden by Davis. One of the wo
man's relatives cooks for W. Tt. Morrison
out near Valleygrande, and the above is
the story she tells.
The name of the child or Its mother
could not be learned.
Dr. R. D. Jackson of Brookwood, who
has been attending the bedside of his
fatheh-ln-law, Dr. A. H. Mltohell, passed
through Selma yesterday On the way
back to Brookwood. Dr. Jackson left
Dr. Mltohell much better.
Capt. John Broadstreet of the Mobile
and Birmingham has Just returned from
a trip to Nrw York He will probably
resume his run Thursday.
The Iron work of the bridge for the
Oahaba river at Fortune's Ferry was re
ceived at Harrel’s last week and Is now
being hauled to the river.
Henry Vaughn, a carpenter, who lives
with his widowed mother, Mrs. M. H.
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Vaughn, corner Selma and Lawrence
streets, In this city, had half of his right
arm blown off yesterday one week ago,
near Sweetwater, Marengo county.
Col. Isaac Peacock of Reed City, Mich.,
is visiting his brother, Capt. George
Peacock, in this city.
Dean Weaver, the afflicted son of Mrs.
V. Q. Weaver, was so unfortunate as
to accidentally shoot himself in the ankle
yesterday morning about 11 o’clock. He
was playing with a rifle when the acci
dent occurred.
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Is the title of a sumptuous volume of ?50
pages, printed on fine enameled paper and
illustrated by 200 exquisite half tone engrav
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Southern Pacific has Just issued. It contains
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told story of the romanoo of the country
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A Viotory for Tammany.
New York, Oct. 30.—The general term
of the supreme court has hunded do wui an
opinion afllrmlng Judge Beach’s decision
in the matter of the state democracy
rooster. It holds that the regular state
democratic ticket Is not to be printed un
der the rooster, and also that the other
nominations be considered as indepen
dent nominations and to be placed in the
last column.
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