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where it lias no regular correspondent,
news reports of neighborhood happenings
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All communications, of whatever charac
ter or length, should be written on only one
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TELEPHONE CALLS.
Business Office.230
Editorial Rooms..1.231
All calls'after 9 o’clock p. m. should be
sent to the Editorial Rooms.
mr. Crisp.
The nomination by the democratic cau
cus of Ex-Speaker Crisp for renomtna
tlun as speaker Is suggestive of a line of
policy which all democrats should pur
sue. When it was suggested that Mr.
Crisp would stand for renomination a
number of papers which supposed that
they represented the views of Mr. Cleve
land Indignantly called for a vote of
condemnation upon Judge Crisp. They
held that his nomination would be a re
buke to the administration, and that If
the stiver craze is*to be stamped out It
must be done at the top of the mountain
by stamping Judge Crisp Into atoms.
We find, however, that the members of
congress are wiser than the rabid news
papers. They listened respectfully to
Mr. Richardson of Tennessee, who
placed Judge Crisp In nomination. Mr.
Richardson said;
nf snouia insrrine on our nanners
the policy and principles and triumph of
democracy, lay aside all new-fangled
doctrines and continue the battle for a
reduction of taxation on the people, give
them cheaper clothing and supplies, to
broaden and make better markets for the
products of our farms and manufacto
ries. to reduce the public expenses, for
greater simplicity in our national affairs,
for home rule and local self-government:
for an ample circulating medium for our
trade and commerce; for 'sound money,'
the gold and silver coinage of the consti
tution, and then the democracy will
again be triumphant and the country will
be redeemed and regenerated.”
It appears, therefore, that Mr, Crisp
was nominated upon the heels of a
speech which called upon the caucus to
lay aside oil new-fangled doctrines and
to stand by the gold and silver coinage
of the constitution. As our so-called
"sound money” friends do not believe In
any constitutional money, and will not
admit, that gold and silver are recognized
by the constitution. It follows that Judge
Richardson’s speech was a free arid equal
coinage speech such as the silver men
approve. There was not a word of dis
sent In the caucus agninst Mr. Riehard
6on's speech or against the nomination of
Judge Crisp.
To be candid, we do not believe that
Judge Crisp's nomination followed from
Judge Richardson's speech as a neces
sary consequence. It is fair to say that
be would have been nominated as an
empty compliment whether the speech
placing him in nomination had been a
silver or a gold speech; hut It Is Just to
say that the nomination sets a healthy
example to those who would slaughter
end ostracise a good democrat because he
differs from others of his party upon an
economic question which the party alone
can settle, and which the hostile party
will evade and refuse to settle. The tol
eration shown to Judge Crisp by the
democratic caucus In face of the calls
made by the administration press to re
fuse to him the empty compliment should
be a lesson to those newspapers of the
south, published in the money centers,
which would ostracise all democrats who
will not acknowledge Mr. Cleveland as
the prophet to lead them to the political
Mecca.
CARRYING OP WEAPONS.
It Is a matter of surprise to find an
eminent jurist like Judge Campbell of
Mississippi advocating the legalizing of
the carrying of arms. He has recently
written the following letter:
"Jackson, Mls9., Nov. 23, 1SD5.
••To the Editor of the Times-Uemocrul:
"Heading yonr editorial on carrying
concealed weapons leads me to write
that, after an experience of nearly a half
century, in active connection with the
enforcement of laws, my Judgment Is
that all laws against carrying weapons
are wrong and should be repealed. They
cannot be enforced, and for that reason
should not exist. They operate unequally
and harmfully by being a restraint on
those in whose hands the weapons would
be harmless and often useful, and impos
ing no restraint on those In whose hands
they are dangerous and often destruc
tive.
"My view is that all should be free to
carry aims as they please, and that
every girl especially should be taught to
use them expertly. We would then hear
less of rapes and burglurtes and such
crimes as so often occur, arid there
would not be a crime more by reason of
the unrestrained right to carry arms.
"It would, prevent rather than promote,
crime The man disposed to commit
crime is never restrained by lha law
against carrying concealed weapons,
while the good citizen often Is. and Is
thus placed at a disadvantage, being ot
the mercy of the villain who assails him
and is emboldened to do It by the confl
dslice that his victim is unarmed.
“J. A. P. CAMPBELL,."
Judge Campbell is mistaken. The law
Against carrying concealed weapons can
be easily enforced if Ihe drawing and use
of a concealed weapon Is made a felony
equally with the commission of the crime
which follows The excuse made for car
rying concealed weapons Is that the bear
er b ars for his life. The bearer i3 gen
eral'y an arrant coward, who carries
concealed weapons habitually and who
hasicns lo use them before his adversary
Is conscious that his life is In peril. He
is usually a murderer without provoca
tion If Judge Campbell's ideas were to
prevail vve would go back to the dark
hl s, when every brawler had a sword at
Ii.s side and was ready to run another
m ii <b'oogh the body for biting his
Atmmh at him. Fortunately we have
C ine lo a better age: but It is doubtful
v net her this great republic of ours Is
yy far advanced from the dark ages
as respects 'he use of arms to avenge
Jjrivate quarrels. \Ve are certainly very
far behind Great Britain, Europe and
even Central and South America.
ARMENIA.
The co^ttion of affairs In Asia Minor
Is simply barbarous. The anti-Moslem
population Is being massacred by the
wholesale. Over a region of 60,000 square
miles, from Trebizond to Dlarbekr and
from the Russian frontier to Sivas there
has been nothing for months but sys
tematic murd,er and pillage. Hire Is a
list that will show in part the loss of life
which in the course of the last six
months has had place under circum
stances of cold-blooded cruelty in these
unfortunate provinces:
Name— City. Village. Total.
Trebizond.. 800 .too 1,100
Balburt :. MO 300 800
Qumush Hane. EM iiPO 500
Erzlngan.1,000 900 1,91)0
Bltlis. 800 490 1,200
Khnous. 300 300
Boullnak.. ... 400 400
Harput. 1.000 1,000
Sivas . 300 300
Pain . 450 200 650
Dlarbekr.2,600 500 3,000
Alblstan. 300 100 400
Krzermn . 7u> 600 1,200
Curt'a. 300 100 400
Total so far as reported.13,200
Massacres are going forward still in
these same districts: and instead of
things growing better they are steadily
growing worse. In the disturbed regions
the valis are throwing aside all attempts
at maintaining order, and both Kurds
and Turkish soldiers are pillaging and
murdering at will.
There can be but one solution to these
disorders. Mr. Gladstone struck the key
note. He Is the modern Peter the Her
mit, who Rounds a new crusade against
the Turk. The Crescent must be driven
back, and the sacred regions of Pales
tine and Asia Minor must be brought
into the pale of civilization. The ships of
war are ready to move forward—God
grant they may move to victory!
MARBIAGB.
Charles Dudley Warner Is hopeful and
refus-s to look upon marriage as a fail
ure. He comes to the conclusion: "It Is
the exceptionally discontented who are
oftenest heard, and It is the exceptionally
unfortunate or vicious -who attract most
attention. The complaints of the one
and the visible and flaunted misery of
the other furnish us a sufficient spectacle
of a world gone wrong, and sufficient il
lustrations for those who adopt depress
ing theories, and apparently enjoy the
prospect, of pretty nearly universal un
happiness. The wise know, indeed, that
no one Is happy at all times, and that no
one escapes suffering, and that the ex
periment of two lives lived as one,
though of nature’s own devising, is not
always successful. Yet. in the great mass
it Is reasonably successful, and, at any
rate, a condition better for humanity
than any other that has been tried. * * *
It Is a fractional view of life upon which
the pessimists base their theories of the
misery of life and the misfortune of mar
riage. The fairly contented and reason
ably happy are silent; the mass of do
mestic life is unreported.”
Twenty of the state delegations in the
house will be solidly republican, and the
republicans have a majority of thirty
one delegations. Consequently, In the
event of the election falling in the house
they would choose the president. The
only solid democratic delegations are
.those from Louisiana, Arkansns, Geor
gia, South Carolina and Mississippi. The
delegates from all the territories are re
publicans. The populists have fallen off
SO per cent In representation, having only
six members as against twelve In the last
house. __
The most successful cotton mllls^ln the
north are those In Fall River, Mass., and
the report of the dividends declared by
the thirty-six leading factories of that
town gives an excellent idea of the con
dition of the cotton Industry. These div
idends have been as follows for the last
five years;
Dividend
Year— per cent.
1895. 8.12
..8-25
..8.02
1892.‘‘.62
..4-98
Mr. Cleveland employs about 20,000
words to udvlse congress of tba condition
of affairs and tell them what to do. So
far as any outcome Is concerned he bould
have said: “Pass the appropriation bills,
turn out all the democrats you can and
go home.”
One or two of the "die In the last ditch
opponents of Captain Johnston are now
calling for a candidate “without any
record." A man who has no opinions
and has made no record is not fit to be
governor of Alabama.
The esteemed Advertiser Is now anx
ious to know where Captain Johnston
stands on various questions of Internal
policy. We are somewhat curious to
know if this “would affect the result."
A Swiss scientist has been testing the
presence of bacteria In mountain air and
finds that not a single microbe exists be
yond an altitude or 2000 feet above the
level of the sea.
About two-thirds of the democratic
press of Alabama favor the nomination
of Captain Johnston. One-third of the
other third and all the populite papers
are against It.
Judge Head of the supreme court Is at
home until the 16th instant, when the
court again convenes. The judge Is near
ly up with his work and his health stead
ily Improves.
If the men and women who send their
orders away from Birmingham would
patronize home merchants and home In
dustries all classes would be benefited.
The merchants who have made the
greatest fortunes are those who have
paid out the most money for printer’s
Ink._
It Is estimated that fully 50,000 white
men failed to vote In Alabama last year.
Perhnps it would he a good Idea to have
them line up with us next year.
All things come to those who wait; but
If you are In a hurry you had better go
after what you waait.
As we approach Christmas whyl not
come together for peace on earth and
good will to all democrats?
Intolerance has Ignorance for Its father
and prejudice for its mother. It ought
always to die young.
The State Herald has the largest cir
culation of any Alabama paper and Is
steadily gaining.
It Is only the abuse of lawful power
that antagonizes a just public sentiment.
ALABAMA EDITORS.
Should Let Each Precinct Decide.
Senator Morgan is of the opinion thtt
the qualifications for participants In the
next democratic primaries should be left
for each precinct to decide upon.—Tuski
loosa Times.
Well, how do you like that? Do you be
lieve nothing good can come out of Nat
areth?
A Blind Man Can Bead the Truth.
Says the Ozark Star:
“The Dale populists who attended the
mass meeting in Birmingham deny that
there was a fusion with the republicans.
We expected nothing else, but a blind
man cnn see from the reading of the res
olutions that it means fusion If it means
anything.”
New Converts Making All the Noise,
Somehow it strikes us very forcibly
that the new converts to the free silver
idea are making all the noise. Those
few free silver leaders that have advo
cated the idea for years are more con
servative, and not inclined to abuse those
who do not agree with them. But It is
always thus. They will cool down later
on.—Stevenson Chronicle.
The Chronicle must mistake the posi
tion of the Montgomery Advertiser.
Johnston and Oates.
A good deal of fuss is being made In
some of the papers,which runs this way:
"Gov. Joe Johnstqn" and “Senator Wil
liam C. Oates." This will not do. The
silver democrats are not going into any
such a compromise or adjustment of their
troubles as this, notwithstanding Wil
liam C. Oates declares that he Is a free
silver man. We don’t like his ratio the
ory. It will have to be boiled down be
fore the people can indorse it.—Scotls
boro Progressive Age.
United States Sonator Contest,.
The race for United States senator In
Alabama will no doubt be between Gov.
William C. Oates, Clarke of Mobile,
Tompkins of Montgomery, and the pres
ent incumbent, James L. Pugh. In the
contest between this .quartette of states
men the Progressive Age will he for
James L. Pugh, beenuse he is the only
free' sliver man and the only sound mon
ey man in the race, as we understand
sound money. We think money can be
wortli too much as well as it can be worth
too little. The first consideration is the
dire calamity that is distressing the
country now.—Scottsboro Progressive
Age.
Col. James B. Simpson.
The Athens Courier thusly compli
ments Kdltor Simpson of the Montgom
ery Journal:
"The friends of Col. James B. Simpson
of Montgomery are urging him to stand
for a seat'ln the lower house of the next
gcneial assembly from his city. We
don't know whether or not ‘Jim' wants
the place, but if heN3oes he Is entitled to
It, both on account or his democracy and
his ability to make a representative that
would do honor to his county. He Is a
mart, every inch of him. We would like
to be able to vote once for Jim Simpson
on general principles. He is an Irish
man. true to Ills friends, true to his coun
ty and true to his state."
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Not Surprising.
A special telegram from Washington
to the Birmingham State Herald says the
republicans hold eight-tenths of the best
offices in that city. This fact was ascer
tained in a canvass of each of thejlepart
tnents by democrats employed therein.
They found that in several large bureaus
there was not a democrat employed. All
the most desirable places in the postoffice
department are held by republicans. In
tlie war, state and navy departments
like conditions prevail. In fact, the only
exceptions to the rule are the interior'
and treasury departments, where demo
crats make a somewhat better showing.
The disbursing office of the treasury is
in republican hands. The facts gathered
are to be printed and circulated. It is
not surprising that a president who is
surrounded by opponents of his party
and Its principles was repudiated in the
recent elections.—Mobile Unionist.
WASTED OPPORTUNITIES.
To the State Herald:
One of the prime causes for the slow
ness of development in diversified manu
factures throughout the south has been
that the profit in producing the raw ma
terials has been so unsatisfactory to the
farmer and miner that they have natur
ally been content and let "well enough
alone." For many years the price of raw
cotton was such that the farmer did not
ootnplaln, hut as the price went down
and the necessity arose for using every
recourse at hand, ootton manufactures
sprung up In the south and have been
profitably operated with scarcely an ex
ception.
The same condition will eventually ob
tain In regard to iron. At present the
ease with which we make the pig, and
the profit thereon, is n quietus to fur
ther effort on the part of iron workers;
and not until we find the price again so
low thnt It won’t pay to make ptg will
the agitation again set. In to make steel
and start smaller manufactures of our
product at home. In the writer’s humbla
opinion it would have been better
eventually for the Birmingham district
If the revival of good times (?) had not
oomo for three years at least. Then we
wouM have been forced to steel making,
and thus established not only our claim
to enterprise, but brought about a condi
tion that nothing could undo. As it is
now, so soon as there Is a lull in the de
mand for iron and coal, Birmingham
slides back into the sama old rut, and the
spasmodic improvement leaves us worse
off than before. We were growing ac
customed to hard times and could have
starved it out for a few years longer If
In tho end we forced a knowledge of the
possibilities of our district upon our peo
ple who have money in Iron industries,
and thus compelled them to Improve
their opportunities.
There are many other sources of waste
that might be utilized by united action
of our people. Birmingham has an unen
viable reputation abroad and at home,
too, for the ease with which life Is taken
and the Immunity from punishment to
the sheddars of human blood. There 1$
evidently a different idea In the minds
of many Jefferson county officials us to
when a man should be shot,
and opinions are evidently enter
tained by many of the coni
servators of the peace entirely at vai
riance with current notions obtained
from law books. Very certain It Is that
It Is a very ridiculous proceeding for a
man to run when accused of theft, or run
at all from an officer, or resist arrest, for
It usually becomes a simple question of
marksmanship if he escapes killing. The
justification—or rather the apology—for
this course, should any one dare to enter
a mild protest, Is, "Oh, but you don’t
know what sort of people we have to deal
with In Jefferson county. There are so
many convicts,’’ etc. That explanation
Is unfair to our rising emigration socie
ties who want people to come here, be
cause they say '“tve are Just as orderly
as any other part of the United States.’’
What we should do Is to use the wasted
opportunities and materials. If the kill
ings must go on, and public sentiment
is evidently In favor of them, let us put
them to practical use. Let the county
and police commissioners be empowered
by the hext legislature to appoint a sal
aried officer, whose duty It shall be to
keep a list of all killings (not mentioning
the Indifferent causes that may lead to
them), but tabulate always the weight,
age, dolor, distance, estimated speed (if
running), caliber and make of gun used.
SILVER^. GOLD!
The cherished hope of the people. | The pampered pet of patricians.
Or Even Your Old Linen Done Over as
G-R-E-E-N-B-A-C-K-S,
AH have an equal value with us—that value OtLO hundred Cents’ worth of first-class, well-made
FURNITURE AND CARPETS.
We are not offering you Two Dollars’ worth of goods for $1 in money, but wo are in position to
como nearer doing so (ban the man who tells you he does. Step in and look at our crowded house.
Four floors stocked full of choice goods—the best on the market It is an old tale, but seeing iB proof
positive, and that is one reason for offering the UNAPPROACHABLE VALUES. *.
This season’s stock has never been equaled and the variety of beautiful designs unsurpassed.
With the approach of Christmas we want to remind you of the advisability of making an early selec
tion. We will place it cside for you. jfcirSpecial attention to mail orders.
-w.
point of entry and penetration of missile.
A carefully kept table of such statistics
would be of great use in aiding not only
our own conservators of the peace, but
would be invaluable in time of war to
our government in the selection of arms
and ammunition. Then, indeed, would
we be the pioneers in a new field, giving
to science, and sportsmen as well, new
ideas which might change eventually
present methods and character of fire
arms.
Let us improve our present opportuni
ties. 9ENEX.
THE BICYCLE GIRL
She glides like a dream from my vision
In the morning all dewy and gray;
A nymph from the gardens Elysian
She dashes and flashes away!
Fast meadows and groves where the sing
ing
Of birds all melodious swells.
My heart hears the silvery ringing
Of the beautiful bicycle bells!
She's a bicycle, bicycle girl,
With hair of the loviest curl;
She’s fresher than clover;
My heart she rides over:—
She’s a bicycle, bicycle girl!
Her cheeks with the crimson is glowing—
With all the rose could impart;
The breeze—the mad wanton!—is blowing
A kiss and a curl to my heart!
Past meadows where wild birds are wing
ing
Their way: Over velvety dells,
She glides, with a ravaging ringing
Of the silvery bicycle bells!
She’s a. bicycle, bicycle girl.
With hair of the loviest curl;
She’s fresher than clover;
My heart she rides over:—
She’s a. bicycle, bicycle girl!
—Atlanta Constitution.
FOR JOHNSTON AND BIMETALLISM.
—
Troy, Dec. 1, 1895.
To the State Herald:
I noticed In last Friday's Advertiser an
article from the Mobile Register stating
that Captain Johnston may be nomi
nated, but that he would certainly be
I beaten; that he could not carry one-half
of the democrats of Jefferson county,
and could not get one-third of Mobile
oounty. Such articles are undemocratic
and damaging to the party, having a
tendency to disorganize the party instead
of building It up. The Advertiser and
Register are doing more for the populite
and republican parties than any half
dozen papers of their own can possibly
do. Captain Johnston will get two-thirds
of the democratic vote of Pike, and J. F.
Stallings has simply got his rabbit foot
on our people. He can beat a half dozen
of the strongest men they can put out.
While we are for Johnston and bimetal
lism, we will support any man that gets
the nomination, as it Is better to have a
half republican than a populite or a full
republican, for we did support Horace
Greeley once in preference to the regular
republican nominee. I am fearful that
such papers as the Advertiser and Reg
ister will go as Brick Pomeroy and his
Lacrosse Democrat sooner or later.
DEMOCRAT.
Diseases of the blood ore permanently
cured by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the one
true blood purifier. _
SCHUBERT-CONCERT COMPANY
The Attraction at Seals' Hall Tomorrow
Night,
The Schubert Concert company of Chi
cago will give a concert at Seals hall to
morrow night. In speaking of this com
pany the Rochester CN. Y.) Herald says:
"In many respects the most delightful
concert of the season in Rochester was
that of the Schuberts at Central Presby
terian church last evening. The big au
ditorium was thronged, as it should, be
on such an occasion, nearly 2000 people
gaining admittance. In the whole range
of musical organizations of the country
there Is none superior to the Schuberts;
and Rochester has y?t to hear ,|ts equal,
by a very long way. In absolute perfec
tion of tone-blending, In delicacy of ef
fects, in purity of quality and artistic
finish, this quartette is superlative to
the last degree and simply unapproacha
ble. In a programme of such marked
uniformity of excellence one hesitates to
name the best rendered selection of the
evening, finding It far easier to say that
each number was the best until the next
was heard. One cannot but wonder,
however, whether a pleca of music has
ever been written that wound sound un
musical when rendered by th* Schu
berts."
The Schuberts will be assisted by Miss
Hughes, a celebrated harpist, ai d Miss
Read, a talented elocutionist,
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
We are called upon to note another
spirited encounter between our new navy
and the dry docks.—Detroit Tribune.
It is presumed that Mr. Reed sacrificed
his moustache in order that he may have
an unobstructed view of the house.—
Washington Post, Ind.
There Is some question if it is General
Harrison's big law practice which causes
him to make such frequent trips to New
York city.—Toledo Blade.
The melancholy fact confronts the
democratic party that a deficit in votes
cannot be made good by a sale of bonds.
—St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Rep.
We trust that our republican contem
poraries will not attribute the number of
loose comets darting about to the re
sults of the late elections.—Petersburg
Index-Appeal, Dem.
Senator Peiler wants the populist na
tional convention to be held in Dallas,
Tex., probably In the hope that Governor
Culberson will advertise it by interfering.
—Chicago Tribune, Rep.
Everywhere it is admitted that McKin
ley is far in the lead in the presidential
race. That is not only true, but it is a
fact that he will continue in the lead.—
Cleveland Leader, Rep.
If the Maryland republicans allow
themselves to become involved in a fac
tional quarrel over the distribution of
the spoils the return of Gormanlsm will
be but a mere matter of time.—Chicago
Times-Herald, Ind. Rep.
Ex-Speaker Reed declines to say what
course tariff legislation will take until
he has heard the president’s message.
Mr. Used doesn’t know yet what the re
publican policy will be. It must be agin
the president, right or wrong.—Utica
Observer. '
ivianer won i inguv any wnc
slmmons. Fitzsimmons won't fight any
one hut Corbett. Corbett won't fight
anybody at all. And the governors of
the southern states say they will lick any
one who attempts to fight in their baili
wicks. Puglltsm is evidently in the sear
and yellow leaf.—Terre Haute Gazette.
And now Senator Cullom is said to he
the republican presidential dark horse.
No dark horse is likely to win In 181)6.
Allison, McKinley and Reed are the log
ical republican candidates. There are
twenty-four trans-Mississippi states.
Cullom cannot carry one of them.—Oma
ha World-Herald.
Gaul to the front! No ladies will here
after he admitted to the Theater Fran
cals unless they agree to go hatless and
bonnetless, “sans chapeaux, ni cotfTures."
Verily, the new woman is In the ascend
ant. Let Paris lead'the van In one other
reform, and proscribe the clove-seeking
biped who rushes for the doors between
the acts.—Boston Transcript.
The character of Senator Sherman's
revelations leaves no doubt that he be
lieves himself at the end of his political
career. It may well be doubted whether
In his long period of public service he
ever did a more serviceable thing than
thus making hts swan song a threnody
for the lack of political honor among re
publicans.—Chicago Chronicle.
The statement that Mr. Carlisle Is pub
licly liked but personally hated by the
New York bankers Is a high compliment.
They recognize the fact that his views
of public policy are sound and states
manlike. and they cannot but say so.
Personally, they do not like him because
they cannot control him. This is about
all that need be said In praise of a sec
retary of the treasury.—Louisville Cour
ier-Journal.
There was once an American who said:
"Observe good faith and justice toward
all nations. Cultivate peace and har
mony with all.” His name was Wash
ington. He was not a jingo, but simply
the wisest and most patriotic of Ameri
cans. It would probably be useless to in
voke his name or commend his teachings
to the Campbells and Chandlers, who
have foreign policies of their own.—New
York Herald.
WILSONVILLE.
Burglars Getting in Their Work—Johnston
the Favorite.
Wiisonvillf, Dec. 2.—(Special.)—The
residence of .1 S. Pope was entered last
night by burrdais. They entered through
the pe' ..in low, went upstairs
:h : ..in of Mr. Walter Galli
. .i Oxford. Ala., who has the contract
. i building Mr. Pope's new brick store,
and look bis gold watch and all the cash
i:. his pocket; also the gold watch of a
Mr Willtoms. who was steeping with
hit.1. Nothing else lias been missed so |
Ui. Blood hounds from Columbiana.
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have Just arrived and the town Is wild
to see the chase.
George T. Smith, an express messen
ger, who was hurt on the Alabama Great
Southern road last October, has suffi
ciently recovered as to be able to do of
fice work and will return to Chattanooga
In a few days.
Capt. Joe Johnston is the favorite in
this part of the county for governor.
Men who were strong Oates men in the
last election now openly declare that
Johnston Is entitled to the place and
they expect to vote for him In the pri
maries.
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ATHENS.
Christmas—Schools—The State Herald Ap
preciated.
Athens, Dec. 3.—(Special.)—Christmas
is coming, and our people are beginning
to feel its Inspiration. A splendid crop of
cotton has been made and good prices
have been realized.
Our schools are In full blast. The female
college, tinder Dr. Parker's administra
tion, has taken on new life. The attend
ance has very much increased since he
took charge six or seven weeks ago.
Miss Mary P. Ross will give a grand
Christmas concert December 18, in the
chapel of the college. Miss Ross Is one of
the finest musical directors In the south.
Col. J. T. Tanner, one of our oldest and
most respected citizens, made a very fine
speech on Thanksgiving Day, on the
“Old and the New.”
Col. Robert Rawls, one of the finest
newspaper men In the state, is booming
this section of Alabama for all it is
worth.
-Coionel Warten, one of our most en
terprising merchants, has offered a beau
tiful gold medal for the highest grade
pupil in the Athens Female college for the
year.
The State Herald has many readers In
Athens, and grows more popular every
week.
(.FLORENCE.
A Well-Known Citizen Killed by a Falling
Tree.
Florence, Dec. 3.—(Special.)—News was
received here this evening of a fatal ac
cident at Cowpens, this county. Cash
Riley, a well known citizen of the neigh
borhood, was instantly killed by a fall
ing tree which his son and a man named
Richardson had cut down. Mr. Riley
was picking up brush when the tree fell
upon him.
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