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> postoffice at^Blrmlngham, d-^tajp ,riiatter.___ _ stern gu|UMWOffice, 48 Tribune Bulld Mk New ZeiBB^torn Business Office, 509 _/„e frdSfciuiylWThicago. B. C. Beckwith. Bole Jutcnt Foreign Advertising. WcTIce to Subscribers—When subscribers desire to have their papers changed, they must specify where the paper is now going and where they wish It changed to. Watch the label on your paper and see when your time expires. The State Herald will appreciate news from any community. If at a small place where It has no regular correspondent, news reports of neighborhood happenings from any friend will be gratefully received. All communications, of whatever charac ter or length, should be written on only one Bide of the sheet. TELEPHONE CALLS. Business Office.P° Editorial Rooms.281 All calls after 9 o’clock p. m. should be sent to the Editorial Rooms. Sylvanus Sawyer, the Inventor of rifled cannon, has just died in Templeton, Mass., at the age of 73. Barney Barnato has just given $225,000 to the poor of London, which is larger than any single gift ever mude by the Rothschilds. It is an undisputed fact that every nation that demonetized silver did so when the silver dollar was worth 100 cents in gold. There will be no prize fight take place In Arkansas between Corbett and Fitz simmons until after the expiration of twenty days at least. In 1894 It was out of order for the pres ident to take any stand on the contest in New York state. At that time Senator Hill headed the ticket. AVhen everybody reaches the same con clusion about a matter, the conclusion is generally correct Everbody agrees that Birniinghajn is destined to be the city of the south. As a remedy for infanticide in Paris M. Louis de Grammont proposes that a baby market be established where parents too poor or Indifferent to take care of their Children may sell them to those who will [look after them. Joseph Jefferson never talks politics. [What his party bias may be is not gener ally known. He is very diplomatic in dodging all questions that tend to en trap him Into an expression of opinion Regarding national issues. It has been suggested that Congress man Stallings’ alleged Indorsement of (Congressman Clarke only extends as far Bs Mr. Clarke's candidacy, and that •'Jess” would be looking the other way Svhen the voting takes place. Mr. Cleveland has written a letter en dorsing the regular democratic state ticket in New York. Is it not time for pome Alabama papers to say whether or tnot they consider Ex-Mayor Grace and Jjis following in New York bolters? ' The Selma Times thinks that the main ipppositlon to reuniting the white demo crats of Alabama comes from a few men Who fear that their occupation as king makers and office-holders would cease. IThe Selma Times believes in the doctrine ©f total depravity. 1 Many of the state papers are having a (good deal to say about the alleged dis courtesy shown to Governor Oates and [his staff at Atlanta. We don't think it Ivery good taste to complain even if It Iwere true. The best way to resent a slight is never to see it. The New York World says that the shipments of American wheat to England during September were surpassed by the combined totals of India and Argentina as well as by the combined totals of Rus sia and Roumnnla. The Argentina com crop is also becoming a factor in the com petition with ours in European markets. So much has been said about the failure Of the Baltic canal that the four largest Ironclads In the German navy were re cently sent through It as a test. They made the trip In eleven hours without any accident,. demonstrating the ease with Which Germany can transfer her whole fleet from the Baltic into the North sea In case of war. The bullion now in the treasury pur chased under the Sherman law would. If (Coined, make 177,964,000 silver dollars. The seignorage, being the difference be tween this sum and the cost of the bul lion. would be 53,883.677 silver dollars. Probably we shall hear about coining this seignorage again during the ap proaching session of congress. ' The culture of olives is becoming an Important part of the great fruit indus try of California. Over 800,000 trees have been planted during Hie present year, nnd it Is expected that at least 1,000,000 will be put out In the next year. The tc.al area of olive orchards in the stale Is 21.000 acres, valued at about 55,000,000; nnd the value of the crop last year, gath ered from 5000 trees, was $160,050. The divisions now existing in the ranks of the men who followed Kolb in 1892 and 1894 are growing wider every day. Many of, those who were formerly the apostles for the Kolb movement are now denouncing him with great bitterness. Tiie convention here oil the I3th instant promises to be a lively affair, and will de velop whether Cuptain Kolb is to remain the central sun or go into a total eclipse. I The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Rep., Bays: "The democratic campaign manugprs |n the Eighteenth Illinois Congressional district have made a serious mistake In committing their candidate to the 1G to 1 folly. They put Bland, Bryan and other 60 cent dollar agitators on the Htump, and thus have brought hundred^ of sound money democrats to Hadley, the republican nominee. Hadley had an excellent chance of winning anyhow, and tills drift of democrats to him appears to pioke his victory certain. Twenty of the Illinois distreits. including the Eigh Jeenth, went republican last November, eavlng only two for the democrats. The Eighteenth is going to slick to the ma Bority.” When the election Is over next Tuesday >tve will see whether the Illinois Eigh teciuh district democrats made a mistake or not. The proof of the pudding Is in the chewing of the bag. COTTON CONSPIRACY. The Idea that the New York speculators will endeavor to bull the cotton market in order to induce fuller exports is thus set out by the New York Home Journal: “Cotton is king! Never was the poten cy of the greatest export crop of the United States more thoroughly demon- j strated than in the course of the com- | mercial and financial operations of the week ending with the disastrous panic of last Saturday. “One of the greatest combinations of the century has been recently effected in order to depress the market price of the fleecy staple which clothes the people of the earth. The resources of the old world, conjoined with the capital, en ergy and intelligence of this commercial center, all backed by prominent metro politan newspapers, entered the lists to malm or destroy the value of the main crop of the southern states. Incidentally the assault is upon the chief resource of our country for the liquidation of the bal ance of trade and for the prevention of the exportation of gold to pay our foreign indebtedness. The planters of the south made a good fight to maintain the price of their cotton at the point that would compensate for the decrease in acreage and the phenomenally short yield of the staple; but their efforts were as ineffec tual as the heroic charge of Lee’s army at Gettysburg. It was the world against the south. The interests of the wealthy spinners at Manchester being Identical ; with those of the mill owners of the. east, . it was an easy task to combine Knglish and American capital to make an on slaught the effect of which dominated the situation on Wall street and stagnated the movement of stocks and bpnds..,There cannot be too much stress placed upon the conspiracy for the depression of cot ton prices, because in exact ratio to the fall is the loss to the general govern ment of that debt-paying ability which exportation of the one crop indispensable to England gives it. “The crop of American cotton for the year ending September, 1894, was nearly 10,000,000 bales, and the English manufac turers of cloths and yarns were able to depress prices to the point of 4% cents in this market on account of the necessities of the planters ns well as the general de pression of business then prevailing throughout the world. Today the most ardent bull does not estimate the growing crop at over 6,800,000 bales, and that at a season when, on account of the revival of trade, consumption must necessarily be vastly in excess of that of the past three years. The effect of the artificial depression of cotton prices is a most se rious menace to the balance of trade. “Estimating the foreign consumption at but 4,000,000 bales, the loss to this country by last week’s shrinkage of 1 cent per pound Is $20,000,000. The enor mous operations in cotton have over shadowed Wall street transactions. Room traders manipulated the market to their advantage. The fears of a re sumption of gold shipments kept invest ors out of the market, while prudent po litical economists demoralized the gener al public by demonstrating that the abil ity of this country to pay Its foreign debts has been materially diminished by lower prices for the small crop of its most valuable staple. The unparalleled activity in the cotton market for some weeks past, accompanied by sharp fluc tuations, does not appear to have de stroyed confidence in still higher prices, In strict accordance with the law of sup ply and demand; and there appears to be a disposition on the part of the plant ers to hold their crops, ns America has not the opportunity to dictate terms to England. Th*re has been much twaddle written about the necessity of forcing cotton prices down, so as to tempt the foreign buyer and thus supply this mar ket with exchange at a lower price. Why not pass a law to keep the nose of the western farmer to the grindstone by holding wheat and corn at the seaports at prices to conform with the ideas of buyers in Europe?” THE BALANCE OE TRADE. That there is a fallacy In the argu ments based upon the balance of trade has been long admitted by all political economists. It is distinctly shown by the following comments of the Chicago Chronicle: “One of the most persistent supersti tions among amateur economists is that of the 'balance of trade.' It is the easiest thing imaginable. We import so much, strike a balance and settle the difference Ip gold, and there you have it. If there were no such thing as credit, if money were never borrowed or invested at in terest, this simple formula would crudely indicate the course of commerce. But merchandise and coin represent only a part of the world's exchanges and the other part is not so easily followed. "In the five years from 1890 to 1894 the United States exported merchandise, principally food products, to a value of $524,000,000 in excess of the value of the imports in the same period. We also ex ported an excess of $86,000,000 of silver, which may fairly be counted as a com mercial product, making our excess of exports in the five years $610,000,000. Ac oording to the balance of trade ^theory the country should have been accumulat ing wealth enormously all this time and gold should have been pouring in. Yet we exported ip these five years, in excess of imports, $165,000,000 in gold. In the previous five years, when our excess of other exports was but $270,000,000, that of gold exports was only $7,000,000. "Now here was $775,000,000 in visible ex ports for which we got no visible return— that is, no return that figures In the cus toim house statistics. We must have got some equivalent for all this wealth that we sent abroad, but it does not appear in the “balance of trade." A part of the proceeds, no doubt, was spent or invested abroad, but the largest part was em ployed in the payment of debts. There was interest to be paid on American se curities held abroad, and then as our financial policy had cast doubt on Amer ican investments, the securities them selves came back to us, to an amount that must have absorbed more than all the balance of trade in our favor. These transactions can only be estimated, but it is plain that a mere comparison of im ports and exports can give a very inad equate notion of our international ex changes. "How inadequate may be judged from the corresponding statistics of Great Britain for the same period. The total imports of merchandise into the United Kingdom from 1890 to 1894 were f2,092. 721.039, and the total exports but £1,480, 504,995. Here was an ‘adverse balance of trade' of about $3,009,000,000. which by the theory we have been considering, must have impoverished John Bull, not withstanding ttie net imports of $187, 000,000 of gold In the same period. And yet England still holds her own in the commercial world, and finds a profit in buying in the cheapest markets. In fact, some considerable part of these $3,000, 000,000 we ourselves contributed to Eng land's advantage as well as our own by supplying her with food In exchange for various advantages she had to offer us.” at hioh water mark* The silver stream Is at high water mark still in Louisiana, as elsewhere. The New Orleans Times-Democrat says: "That the farmers of Louisiana have not changed their views because worms and bad weather have cut down the crop, and consequently advanced prices, the recent democratic primary in Madison parish, the tirst held In the state, proves. The primary was for the purpose of nom inating candidates for local offices, but at the same time a vote was taken on the question of Instructing our senators and representatives in congress to vote lr. favor of the free coinage of silver at / > the ratio of 18 to 1. This stood mbre than 4 to 1—exactly 4 1-S to 1—In favor of free silver. It leaves no doubt how Madison stands on the sliver question and Mad ison Is a fair test. It is not as strongly silver as the hill parishes of north Louis iana. Moreover, It Is to be remembered that this was a democratic primary and the populltes were left out; they are unanimously for free coinage. It would Indicate that the white voters of Madison stand 8 or 10 to 1 in favor of free silver, with the interior parishes probably more enthusiastically for the white metal. “Madison Is distinctively a cotton par ish, and deeply interested in its price. If the recent advance had the effect any where of weakening the silver cause, and persuading the farmers that the demon etization of silver was'not responsible for the low prices of all farm products, we might expect it to operate in Madison; and the returns of the democratic pri mary show that it has not had the slight est influence there. In spite of 814 cent cotton the democratic voters of Madison are as satisfied as ever that the perma nent prosperity of the country demands the free oolnage of silver at 16 to 1.” The State Herald had hoped that Gov ernor Oate9 would see his way clear to appoint Capt. N. A. Graham of the Shelby Sentinel probate Judge of Shelby county, to fill the place made vacant by the death of Judge Leeper. He did not do so, how ever. Captain Graham deserved the ap pointment. He had been loyal to the democratic party, to the national and state administrations, and It does seem that if there is anything In these things he ought to have been rewarded. Captain Graham was a devoted follower of the flag that was furled forever at Appo matox and bears upon hfs person his loy alty to that cause. Alt things being equal he ought to have had the appointment. The State Herald, however, was not In a position to ask any favors at the gov ernor’s hands. When we look at the empty sleeve of Alabama's chief execu tive and watch the gallant Graham as he goes limping through life we can hut ex press the regret that we feel when we say we are sorry Captain Graham was not appointed. A fashionable audience in Paris recent ly listened to a lecture on chemistry by a celebrated chemist. At the conclusion of the lecture a lady and gentleman who' were among the first to leave the hall had reached the open air. when the lady caught her escort staring at her. "What is the matter?" asked the madame, in surprise. “Pardon me, but you are quite blue!” The lady returned to the hall and approached a mirror. She started back in horror. The rouge upon her cheek had been converted into a beautiful blue by the chemical decomposition which had taken place under the influence of the gases which had been generated during the lecture. The majority of the women in the audience had suffered in a sim ilar manner. There were all sorts of col ors-blue, yellow, violet and black. Some whose vanity had Induced them to put ivory on the skin, coral on the lips, rouge on the cheeks and black on the eyebrows had undergone a ludicrous transforma tion. Senator Sherman Is not the only man who did not. believe in Garfield. It is an nounced that Senator Palmer is writing a book of reminiscences, in which there is a good deal of plain si>eaking in regard to prominent characters. He kept a diary during the war, and had a habit Of recording from day to day his opinion of those with whom 'he came in contact. Under date of June 18, 1863, he made an entry to the effect that Garfield, then chief-of-staff to Rosecrans, did not im press him “as a man Who either possessed depth of feeling or pre-eminent sincer ity," but rather as one who was ambi tious and likely to look out for himself. “1 was not surprised afterward," Palmer says, " when Rosecrans was unfortunate at Chlekamauga, that Garfield so man aged as to not only escape the censure to which Rosecrans was subjected, but obtained credit by his easy and useless return to Thomas on the battlefield.” The big United States -battleships Maine and Texas are now in commis sion, and the Indiana will Join them for active service in about two weeks. Even now her main battery Is aboard and 100, 000 pounds of powder in lier magazines. Before the year ends the Massachusetts and Oregon will be ready. Tlia two dou ble turren monitors could be completed within three months, and the Puritan, with her 14-lneh armor and 12-inch rifles, Is well advanced. The ram Katahdln and torpedo boat Ericsson can be relied on at short notice. These seven armor clads will soon be added to the modern war ships New York, Monterey, Miantono moh and Amphltrlte. Other warships in course of construction are three gun boats, the cruiser Brooklyn, the battle ships Iowa, Keersarge and her unnamed mate, and several torpedo boats. Our navy is in good shape and Improving ev ery month. The Greensboro Watchman does not agree with some “organa” that Governor Oates is the only man in the state who “can save the party.” When the party gets into a condition that it must be saved over again every two years by sacrificing one and the same man, it tends to suggest the reflection whether it Is worth saving or not. We imagine Governor Oates has too much sense to suppose such suggestions as that are in tended to promote his ambition. A plan of salvation that lasts only twenty-four months is not one that will commend it self to reflecting men. An Object- Lesson. New York World. The gain of 54,000,000 pounda In the American production of tin plate in the first year of the new tariff is a fact of the greatest possible interest to Mr. William McKinley. It shows him that he has not labored in vain. The prayers he made for the preservation of the infant tin plate industry have been answered The democratic tariff law abolished the ab surd McKinley duty of 4 cents a pound on tin ore and reduced the duty on tin plate one-half. Twenty-six new mills, which have begun operation in a single year, will come very near increasing the total annual output to* an equality with the total annual consumption. In a few years from now we may be exporting Un-plate instead of buying It. Mr. McKinley’s organs are obliged to admit the facts, but they explain that the increase is the result of "duties high enough to protect"—which is something quite different from their franUc asser tions of 1894 that democratic success would bankrupt the tin-plate mills al ready In operation and make the opening of others impossible. It is evident that Mr. McKlnley‘s or gans are learning in spite of themselves. Perhaps in time Mr. McKinley himself may know more about the political econ omy of tin-plate production than he has ever allowed- himself to susnect. PENCILINGS. Ballad of the Bad Little Boy. The busy little neighbor boy Improves each shining hour By doing all the naughtiness That lies within his power. Jfa "plays for keeps," and daily wins Our darling's toys away. And O! the sinful words that he Has taught our child to say! All this, perhaps, I could endure. But I must draw the line When that his mother says her son Learns wickedness from mine. —FRANK PUTNAM. It is said the fellow who wrote “Four More Years of Grover” died In Philadel phia and without repentance. When any lawlessness occurs In any of the big cities now the people Jump up and say telegraph for Governor Culberson. What’s the matter with the governor of Arkansas? The perversity of human destiny is shown by the fact that politicians are clamoring for harmony and do not get It, while the professional fighters achieve nothing else. A sick man is always glad to see the doctor, but after he gets well and before the bill is paid he v/ill sometimes go a long distance out of his way so as not to’ meet him on the street. flays the Chicago Tlmes-Herald: "Two Kentucky gentlemen who had been drink ing freely got Into a dispute over a dog and proceeded to shoot at each other. All of the Kentucky newspaper accounts of the affair blamed the whole trouble on the dog.” James Whitcomb Riley denies that he either is writing or has any thought of writing a novel. He modestly adds that he does not believe himself capable of a work of that character. The Hoosler poet Is living in congenial retirement, doing only such occasional work with his pen as seems to him to be of the nature of recreation. Mr. Riley will not fill plat form engagements this season. ALABAMA EDITORS. The Huntsville Mercury pays the fol lowing tribute to Peter Zinszer: "We cannot refrain from noticing edi torially the death of Peter Zinszer, the furniture dealer of Birmingham. It was not necessary that one should meet him to know him, for every reader of a Bir mingham paper was familiar with his name and business. By his plan of liber al advertising he attracted trade to the city, and in his death Birmingham loses a factor in her business circles.” The country editor seldom gets left. Even the seasons seem to play to his hand. And now as the sturdy farmer places the yellow yam potato on his deskf he chants like a mocking bird in spring time: "The berry crop is over— Human nater, human nater, Still we nre in clover— Sop and tater, sop and tater.” The announced appointments of Sena tors Morgan and Pugh carry them through to November 23. After that time they will probably devote some time to calling the hogs in off the range in the north Alabama hills.—Huntsville Mer cury. Is the public to infer from the above that those people who inhabit the hills of north Alabama are "hogs?” Has it reached the point when a newspaper must refer to the people who may not agree with its policy, but among whom it lives and has its being as “hogs?” Verily the Mercury must have gone mad. The LaFayette Sun this week gives a group picture of two old colored men, one a democrat and the other a republi can. Beneath the picture is the follow ing poem. The poem itself is meritorious and shows that the writer possesses a ge nius above the ordinary: Two old, decrepit sons of Ham, of whom I wish to speak. Have lost the vigor of their youth with furrows on their cheek. They've passed through hardships in this life—the end is yet to come— And then these good old colored men will roach their peaceful home. They’ve tasted of the sweets of life, the ash cake made of (lough; Their faces black "ns aee of spades,” their heads as white as snow. "Uncle May” comes first, bowed down in years, the age of 93, Supported by a walking stick, a republican is he. Next conies old "Uncle Jerry,” whose age is 91; He's always been a democrat—a good race he has run. They've been in bondage, and have felt the lash of long ago, Their faces now are wrinkled, and their heads as white as snow. They’ve seen the wild and savage beasts around theJr cottage door. And heard the varmint's midnight shriek, which made them walk the floor. They’ve hoard the Indian's warwhoop, that made them shake with feat; They've seen their piercing arrows kill the nimble-footed deer: They’ve heard the wildcat's hideous scream in accents loud and low, But now 'tis like a mystic dream, their heads as white as snow. Tlietr mas'sas whom they loved so well have Sled and gone to rest, Wlille these old negroes linger on, their mem'ries in their breast. Their tottering footsteps, one by one, are marchbig to the grave— Bike heroes on the battlefield they've been both bold and brave; They've plowed the horse, also the mule, and drove the steer that's slow, But now they neither drive nor plow, their heads as white as snow. Old Jervy takes hts sweeten dram, old May takes iils'n straight; He says the liquor's all he wants, and al ways wants a belt. Old Jerry says, "I tell yer, boss, dis nigger's gettin’ old. But I'se gwine ter be er democrat an’ die within de fold." God bless old Jerry and old May while here on earth beiow. And lead them to that happy land, with heads as white as snow. —WILLIAM C. DOBBINS. LaFayette. Ala-, Oct. 39, 1895. KENNEDY. The Earthquake Plainly Felt—The Cotton Crop About Marketed. Kennedy, Oct. 31.—(Special Corre spondence.)—Quite a heavy rain fell last night, and about 5 o'clock this morning a perceptible shock was felt, supposed to be earthquake. Some houses Bhook con siderably and parties coming In from the country report it equally severe* Last week was unusually dull for the time of year, the decline In cotton hav ing caused a lull in! all kinds of business. Since It has reacted, however, trade has revived, and from present Indications the balance of the cotton crop in this section will be placed on the market in the next few days. plains, that the canceling of the green backs shall reduce the volume of the currency. The process of cancellation is only to go on as fast as other sound and safe currency oan be substituted for the notes retired. As already intimated, this may require some time, but the Im portant point Is to make a beginning.— Louisville Courier-Journal. Dem STATE NEWS. Columbiana Chronicle: Calera will have a bank tomorrow. Gordon DuBose will open doors there Friday morning with Mr. R. E. Bowdon a« cashier. The bank here will continue under his own management. Selma Times: M. B. P. "Watson cap tured a centipede from a bunch of ba nanas yesterday. It is on exhibition In the window of E. P. Gault's drug store. It is one of the largest ever seen in Selma, and its looks send a chill through one’s body. BlountsvIIle Democrat: Mr. Daniel Ma lone of Garden City called to see us Mon day and informed us that his barn con taining his fodder, corn and hay, together with his horse, was burned last Saturday morning about 2 o'clock. The fire was the work of incendiaries. Wilcox Progress: The contractors have begun work on the bridge across Purse ley creek, about one mile south of Cam den. This is one of the largest and most Important bridges In Wilcox county and its reconstruction will be a great conve nience to a large number of our people. Randolph Leader: Near Milltown, In Chambers county, three small negro chil dren were left aione in a house, which somehow caught Are, and was consumed with the three children therein. A res cuing party arrived in time to hear the screams of the victims, but too late to save them. Columbiana 'Advocate: The school house in the Kingdom community was destroyed by fire last Saturday night. Our fellow townsman. A. W. Strickland, was to have opened school there on the following Monday. The origin of the fire is unknown, but it Is supposed to have been Incendiary. Randolph Leader: In Wedowee yester day Rol Hand, a white man, became en raged at a negro named Henry McGuire, when Hand, after throwing rocks at the negro, shot him In the stomach with a shotgun. It is thought McGuire will die. Hand was arrested and jailed. It is said that he was Intoxicated. Huntsville Tribune: Revenue Officers O'Rear and McMahon raided an illicit still In the eastern part of Ijauderdale county, near the Limestone line, Satur day, and captured two alleged wild cat ters. A large still was captured and about 800 gallons of beer and whisky de stroyed. The same officers went out again to make another raid in the same neighborhood, but have not returned. Hutsville Argus: Mr. George I. Motz called our attention to a couple of big pears grown in the orchard of Dr. D. H. McLain at Maysville, which he is taking to the Atlanta exposition to be placed in the Alabama exhibit as a specimen of what we can raise In the fruit line in Alabama. The pears in question were the largest we had ever seen in the pear line, and Mr. Mote said that not even Cal ifornia would approach them in size or beauty. ■. Randolph Leader: At a negro camp meeting eight miles northwest of Roan oke a young white man named Walter Knight was In company with another white man who was drinking, when the latter became Involved In a difficulty with a negro, Gib Tucker. Knight in terfered In behalf of his friend and was shot through the neck by Tucker. The bullet cut the jugular vein, but the wound will not necessarily prove fatal. Tucker was arrested and lodged in We dowee jail. Anniston Hot Blast: Mr. O. M. Stim son, formerly wtth’Pullman, has been ap pointed superintendent of the Anniston and Decatur plants of the United States Car company*, and is said to be an ideal man for the place. He will make his home and headquarters here. The work of repairing and modernizing the rolling mills will be begun next week probably. It will take some $12,000 to do this work and require a number of men. About sixty men are employed at the big plant now. Mr. Stimson. the new superinten dent, will be here next week and there are good grounds for believing that when he comes or shortly after the Hot Blast will have something mighty good to tell its readers. Huntsville Mercury: News comes to us of a terrible experience of Mr. W. R. Johnson of Lacey Springs had with a ma licious mule a few days since. As the story goes Mr. Johnson bought a good looking mule and for several days he worked all right. But one day the ani mal became stubborn and would not budge. Mr. Johnson seized a stick and commenced to whip the mule, but then the mule reared up on his hind legs and came down upon him with both fore feet. After stomping and biting him awhile the mule caught hold of Mr. Johnson’s clothes and shook him as a dog -would a rat. After Mr. Johnson had been almost killed he Was rescued by a friend and taken to his home, where he now lies, with hardly any hope for his recovery. Anniston Hot Blast: The valuable clays that He imbedded in this county are no insignificant feature of its mineral wealth. Mr. George W. Blchelberger owns perhaps the most valuable property of this kind yet developed. It is located in Choccolocco valley, only six miles from the city. The quality of kaolin is very fine and from It has been manufactured pottery and crockery ware for years. As the clay is almost Inexhaustible we hope to see a company purchase and develop it on an extensive scale some day. There is no reason why we should not manu facture our orockery at home and save the cost of transporting it to ns from thd north. The Woodstock Iron works also own valuable properties of this kind. Likewise Mr. B. A. fcmtbry. which It lo cated just outside of the western city lim its, and from which is manufactured the best fire brick obtainable In the south. There are doubtless other properties equally as valuable not yet discovered and developed. RUTLEDGE. The Rutledge Academy—Crenshaw for Free Silver and Captain Johnston. Rutledge, Oct. 31.—(Special Corre spondence.)—Lumber Jists bten placed upon the grounds and work has com menced on the completion of the Rutledge academy. After it is finished it will be one of credit to the town, and shows an Interest in) the people for education. Several of the young men of this place went to Greenville today to taKe In the Wild West show. They report an enjoy able time and a large crowd. I’here can be no question os to the standing of*4he people of Crenshaw coun ty politically. Far and near comes the voice of free silver and for Captain John ston. It will be a complete walkover In this part of Hon. Jess' district unless some miraculous ohanpes are made. One of the State Herald's correspond ents voices the sentiments of the teachers of this county when he says "Let's have a teachers’ day at the exposition.” There Is no reason earthly why the teacfhers of the south, or even of Alabama, could not have a glorious gathering at the expost tlon,whlch would be very profitable to them. Every teacher of the state will, we have no doubt, favor It. What Jo you say, brethren? Perhaps no public man has shrunk so much in the eyes of the people during the last year as Senator David B. Hill. There Is little left of him now except an appe tite for office and power.—New York Press. Rep, PUBLIC OPINION. Attorney-General Harmon says that while there Is no law prohibiting Amer ican citizens from expressing sympathy with the Cuban revolutionists, such ac tion Is "discourteous 111 tH6 highest degree to a friendly power.” This Is sad, but the discourtesy Is Increasing, nevertheless, and the administration will hardly be able to stop It.—St. Louis Globe-Demo crat, Rep. The Farmers' National congress at At lanta has declared in favor of reciprocity with the states of Central and South America. The farmers have had their fill of maxims. They are after markets now, and they shouldn’t have to make the hunt alone, seeing that the manufac turers have as deep an Interest In the matter as themselves.—Philadelphia Record, Dem. "Should Vice-President Stevenson go over into Ohio," says the Chicago Inter Ocestn, "to speak for Campbell, he could tell the democrats how lonesome he Is at home, where at the last election the re publicans elected every congressman from the state and piled up a republican majority of 133,000.” Why can't these people let bygo/ies be bygones? Let us talk about the election In Indianapolis. That is absolutely fresh In the public mind.—Cincinnati Enquirer, Dem. It is not intended, as Mr. Carlisle ex England had a populist party about twenty years ago. A short time before the Bank of England was started this party of advanced Ideas favored the Is sue of notes on landed property. If a man's estate was worth 310.000 he was to receive a like amout In bank notes. A committee of the house of commons re ported the plan practicable and that it would benefit the nation, but the lunacy soon ran it3 course and the land banks were never established.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. When the returns are all In from tho elections four weeks hence the republi cans will probably realize that victory In 1890 will not be quite so easy to achieve as many republican statesmen and news papers have been predicting. The no tion that they can elect anybody, on any sort of a platform, next year, which has been prevalent In some republican cir cles, is absurd and mischievous, and the quicker the party gets rid of it and takes an intelligent view of the situation thg better It will feel after the election thir teen mqntfhs hence.—St. Louis Globe* Democrat, Rep. If the quarrel between Great Britain and Venezuela haa Its origin In Imperfect descriptlohs and faulty surveys, England should not hesitate to submit the dispute to arbitration. And if, on th? other band, as appears from the able study and presentation of the dispute by the Hon. William L. Scruggs, late minister of the United States to Venezuela, the dispute to the boundary rests upon a purely trumped-up claim under which, through her superior power, Great Britain Is at tempting to extend her territorial pos sessions in South. America at the expenso of n weaker plster republlo of the United Slates, then Mr. Cleveland should enforce the spirit 6f the Monroe doctrine, and, In the words of Mr. Jefferson, dlstlncly let it be understood at the court of St. James that we shall oppose with all of our means the forcible Interposition of any foreign power in the affairs of any American republic, and most especially the transfer of their territory or posses sions to any foreign power by conquest, cession or acquisition In any other way. This Is what Mr. Jefferson understood the Monroe doctrine to mean.—Philadel phia American. HA TS/ Dunlap Latest. Rogan Latest. $goo-$4.oo-$j.oo. Are high grade goods. L. ROGAN & CO., iqii First Avenue. OPELIKA. The Earthquake—Prisoner Escapes—Large Porkers—Court News. Opelika, Oct. 81.—(Special Correspond ence.)—Grant Barrow, a convict from Chambers county, escaped from the Che wacla Lime works yesterday. He was a trusty and was carrying dinner to the other convicts when he made his escape. The company has offered a reward for his captime. Mr. L. B. McGuire, master of trains of the Western Railroad of Alabama, Is In the city. The long continued drouth here was broken by a light shower last night, and this morning the winter opened up In regular order with a cold, bleak day and a steady pouring rain. A distinct shock of earthquake wras felt here this morning about 5 o’clock. Many were awakened from their slumbers by It and much, uneasiness for the moment was caused. We were shown today some of as per fect specimens of hog flesh as we have ever seen. They are the property of Mr. J. T. Puckett and are of the Berkshire variety. Four of them are 14 months old and average 350 poundS apiece. 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