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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
Side Of the 8heet^_
TELEPHONE CALLS.
Business Office.230
Editorial Rooms..'.231
All calls after 9 o’clock p. m. should be
sent to the Editorial Rooms.
Japanese, almost for the first time, are
advertising in New York city for places
as house servants.
The republicans of the senate now lack
three of a majority, and will lack one af
ter the Utah senators c^gne in.
Joseph Pulitzer has presented the city
of Paris with bronze statues by Bar
tholdi of Washington and LaB'ayette.
They have been erected In the place des
BJtats Unis.
The president devotes several hundred
words of his message to woolly Waller
and. as many more te the furry seals of
Alaska, but never an allusion that we
have discovered to the Nicaragua canal.
The relative importance of these matters
in his estimation may be gauged by the
space he devotes to them. Why do not
Mr. Cleveland's worshipers point with
pride to his absolute oracular silence
upon a matter of Inconceivably more
importance to the United States, and es
pecially to us here In the south—in Ala
bama, In Birmingham—than all the seals
in all the seas and all intermeddling con
suls—white, black or yellow—In Mada
gascar, France or elsewhere?
It is thought that Speaker Reed will
announce the chairmanships and make
up of the various house committees after
the convening of the national republican
committee. There is a good deal of poli
tics in the selections to be made, and
Mr. Reed, who is out for the presidential
nomination, is too astute a politician not
to know this. The national committee
will meet on the 10th instant and will
bring to the capital the leaders and
bosses of the republican party from the
various sections of the country. The
committees, which will have already,
been made up, will be submitted to these
leading men of the stripe of Quay and
Platt for their consideration, and they
•will in turn he able to meet the favored
ones and confer with them personally
upon matters of mutual political inter
est.
Mr. Cleveland’s entire position and his
partisan argument against bimetallism
nnd for gold monometallism depends for
support on his bold assumption, contrary
to all the facts of history, that all the
obligations of the United States, whether
bearing interest or not, are payable in
gold, and gold alone. Outside the gold
certificates, issued as evidence of an act
ual deposit of gold coin in the treasury,
the United States has never issued any
obligation of any sort solvable in gold
alone. The last congress, to its honor be
It said, refused peremptorily to create
any such, although Importuned and urged
to do so. The "Ills of our critical finan
cial plight" are due to the lawless mis
construction by Messrs. Cleveland, Car
lisle and others of "coin" to mean "gold,”
and gold only; and their faithless surren
der of the discretion—by law reserved for
the benefit of the country and the main
tenance of the equality of stiver and
gold—to the money changers, to be used
for the debasement of sliver and the pau
perizing of the people, as it has been for
several years past.
The Washington Star says: "Colonel
Wilson of the engineer corps, in charge of
public buildings and grounds, is now en
gaged in the execution of a work placed
In his care by a special act of congress.
It is the construction of a granite ped
estal for the bronze statue of Dr. Sam
uel D. Cross, the great surgeon, which
is to be erected at a prominent point In
the Smithsonian park, between the Na
tional museum and the Army Medical
museum. The pedestal will be of simple
and impressive design. Upon one of the
faces of the die will be carved a partial
leaf of palm and laurel, within which
will be in raised letters the name,'Samuel
D. Gross.’ and under It, in incised letters,
ihe following words: ‘American physi
cians have erected this statue to com
memorate the great deeds of a man who
made such an impress upon American
surgery that It has served to dignify
American medicine.' The statue is now
b* ing made abroad upon a design of a
foreign artist. The pedestal will un
doubtedly be in position iti ample time to
receive the statue."
The country has at least one ground
for congratulation In the present situa
tion on Pennsylvania avenue. Mr. Cleve
land at last recognizes the responsibility
of the "people's representatives” in con
gress lor inaugurating, and their right
to consider, measures for the safety and
prosperity of the country, and to cure the
"ills of our critical financial plight.” He
also professes that he Is prepared to co
op-rate with them in "any other meas
ures" than those suggested by himself
"promising thorough and practical re
lief." These honeyed phrases are ad
ds' ssed especially to a house of represent
atives which is republican by 130 ma
jority, and incidentally to a senate vir
tually republican. Anyone who does not
remember Ills style and spirit towards a
congress controlled in both branches by
e'-mociatie majorities may refresh their
li.' mory hr reading hi# Wilson and Catch
ing? letters and Ills veto of the seignior
age bill passed by them. Harmony and
co-operation for the public welfare be
tween Mr. Cleveland and a republican
congress may be good; between him and
a democratic congress it would have been
Infinitely better for the country, as well
as for the democratic party.
HON. ANDREW COLEMAN HARGROVE
The death of this eminent citizen Will
awaken feelings of sincere sorrow in
every manly bosom In Alabam.
Our deceased friend was a good, a pure,
a brave man, and loved right and justice
with his whole heart. His walk and con
versation was that of a genuine Chris
tian gentleman, and whilst Heaven num
bers another genuine follower of the
Master, our state has lost one whom we
every manly bosom in Alabama.
Entering our state university in the
autumn of 1852, he was graduated in the
class of 1856, and began at once the study
of law in the office of the late Judge E.
W. Peck. Afterwards at the law schools
at Lebanon, Tenn., and Harvard univer
sity he completed his studies and was
admitted to the bar. Soon afterwards
the cruel war was upon us, and as a
private soldier in Tuskaloosa’s first com
pany, the Warrior Guards, and as lieu
tenant in Lumsden’s battery, he won
golden opinions as a brave and fearless
soldier and did his whole duty in the ser
vice of the south.' When the war closed
he returned to Tuskaloosa and began the
practice of his profession. He soon
achieved prominence at the bar, and as
the partner of Phillip A. Pitts and of
Burwell B. Lewis, he was justly esteem
ed one of the foremost citizens of his
county. The great worth of the man
was shown when, at 38 years of age, he
was sent to represent an entire county
in the constitutional convention of 1875.
The golden opinions won by him for the
wisdom, conservatism and great good
sense manifested by him upon every
question caused him to be sent to the
state senate, where he was honored with
the office of president of that body. So
well did he discharge all his private and
official duties that he was freely urged
for nomination by the next democratic
convention for the office of governor of
Alabama.
Colonel Hargrove mar.y years ago
married Miss Cherokee Jemison, daugh
ter of the late Hon. Robert Jemison, Jr.,
and leaves a daughter, Mrs. A. S. Vande
graff, and a loving wife to survive him.
He was truly blessed in each one of
I hose noble women, who contributed so
much to his happiness, and he in turn
was the loving, kind and noble husband
and the tender father, whose solicitude
for his loved ones was truly beautiful.
He has been taken from us and we
cannot again be guided by his wisdom,
encouraged by his presence, or share in
the fruits of other deeds as in the past,
but it makes us proud to testify that in
his day and generation he achieved de
served eminence for worth and goodness;
that he commanded the love and admira
tion of all who knew him, and that “he
loved his fellow man.”
NO SUCH BATTUE.
The story of the great pitched battle
in Cuba has no foundation In fact. The
New Orleans Tlmes-Demoerat says that
it was impossible for Gen. Antonio Maceo
to have taken part in a battle at Jaguas
co on November 18 and 19, because he
happened to be then in the vicinity of
Cascorro. more than 100 miles from Jagu
asco, and not in the province of Santa
Clara at all. Indeed Maceo has never
been In the province of Santa Clara, but
has, ever since the commencement of
hostilities, been maneuvering on the bor
ders of Santiago. His failure to march
westward and to help Gomez extend the
insurrection into the western part of the
island has been the subject of very much
discussion, many people inclining to the
belief that he had fallen out with Gomez
and was spiting him by refusing to co
operate with him Matanzaswards. But
whatever may have been the cause of
General Maceo’s failure to co-operate
with Gomez, It is certain that Maceo was
over 100 miles from the scene of the en
gagement on November 18 and 19, and
that he did not participate In the battle.
Tt Is also an old story and was tele
graphed from Havana on Sunday last
to the New York World by Mr. Shaw
Bowen, who has for several weeks been
transmitting from the island very val
uable intelligence concerning the fighting
to that journal. Mr. Bowen on Sunday
wired his paper inter alia:
‘•The report of a battle at Jaguaseo,
published in the United States, is wholly
untrue.
'It was stated that three Spanish gen
erals, Suarez Valdez, Uuque and Aldave,
with 8000 tropps engaged Maximo Go
mez for thirty-six hours November IS
and 19, with the result that Alilave was
killed: thnj Luque and Suarez Valdez
were wounded, and that 620 Spaniards
were left dead on the field. Antonio
Macro was said to have arrived with 3000
men and turned the tide of battle against
the Spaniards.
■'This story Is part of a programme of
falsification being carried on by Interest
ed parties to humbug American readers.
It was offered to me. I Investigated and
found It was false.”
FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
At frequent intervals, ever since the re
construction days of 1870, we find efforts
to overthrow the .local governments of
the southern states upon the pretext that
they have not a republican form of gov
ernment. Every southern state had a re
publican form of government In 1870,
hut the power of the federal government
was called In to seat members of the re
publican party who claimed to be elected
to the Alabama legislature from the
counties of Marengo and Barbour. The
seating of these men changed the com
plexion of the legislature and secured
the return of Spencer to the United
States senate. That was all that was
accomplished—the seating In an ele
vated place, which he disgraced, of a
man who was utterly unfit to represent
the state.
Now it appears that the federal au
thority Is to be again Invoked, with no
practical object In view except to bolster
up the absurd pretensions of Mr. Reese,
who puts In a claim to the seat of Sena
tor Morgan. If every bogus vote were
detected and thrown out, and If the. seat
in the legislature from each county
where bogus votes are proven were
given to a republican or a nondescript
the election of General Morgan would
not be affected. He received a major
ity of the general assembly, even If we
exclude the votes from all questionable
counties. His title to the seat is irrefut
able. It cannot honestly be disputed.
Those who seek to throw a cloud upon
the election of Governor Oates and of
Senator Morgan aim not so much to conr
vlct those electors of fraud as to con
demn the whole government of Alabama,
legislative, judicial and executive. They
aim to drive a knife at the right of local
self-government and to substitute the rule
of satraps under the will of the federal
power for the time-honored right of the
people oftthe state to manage their do
mestic Institutions in their own way.
We have- no apprehension that Any
thing will come out of this Bcheme ex
cept a little cheap campaign literature
and a rebuke by the people of the state
of those dirty birds which would foul
their own nests. The senate may pos
sibly vote to send a smelling committee
to Alabama, but we venture to say that
when the time comes, if ever it cotnes,
when It is proposed to set aside the state
government as not being republican In
form, the senate will never lend Itself
to such a shameless mockery. The
clause in the federal constitution empow
ering congress to guarantee to each state
a republican form of government means
nothing more than that the form of gov
ernment shall be republican and not
monarchical. It did not mean that con
gress should sit upon the qualification
and election of state officers and legis
latures in the various state republics. The
form of government in Alabama Is un
questionably republican. If there is a
doubt about tt, let some criminal take
his case to the supreme court on the
ground that his liberty Is invaded by a
state which has no republican form of
government. We have precisely the con
stitution today that we have had for
twenty years, the same form that we
have had from ^the beginning and the
same that the northern states have. The
form of government docs not cease to be
republican because there la fraudulent
voting here and there, Just as there is
in New York city and other localities of
the north.
But If the republicans and populists of
the senate should unite to overthrow
our state government it is fortunAte
that the executive stands ready to put a
veto to such nonsense. Mr. Keese and
those who are aiding and abetting him
can do their people no harm untU the
meeting of the next congress in Decem
ber, 18!t7. In two years a great many
things may happen. There may be new
tidal waves.
HIS FINANCIAL POLICY.
The president’s views as to the financial
policy of the country is succinctly staged
as follows:
"I am convinced the only thorough
and practicable remedy for our troubles
is found in tlie retirement and cancella
tion of the United States notes, common
ly called gieenhacks, and the outstanding
treasury notes issued by the government
in payment of silver purchases under the
act of 1890.
"1 believe this could be quite readily
accomplished by the exchange of these
notes for United States bonds of small
as well as large denominations, bearing
a low rate of interest. They should be
long termed bonds, thus increasing
their desirability as investments and be
cause their payment could be well posti
poned to a period far removed from the
present financial burdens and perplex
ities."
In reply to this the New Orleans Tlmes
Democrat says:
’Hr. Cleveland's plan Is one that would
benefit the banks, the capitalists and the
possessors of fixed incomes, but would
strike a serious blow to those who owe
money, to the tax payers and the pro
ducers. It would bo a check on industry
and prevent the establishment of new
factories and serve as a general obstacle
to all progress.
"There is, however, no probability that
his recommendations will be adopted.
They would increase the indebtedness of
the people and the burden of taxation;
they would bear hard on every producer,
and it is by no means certain that they
would have the effect he claims for them,
or offer a solution of the present difficul
ties. Mr. Cleveland, indeed, has failed
to show by comparison with other coun
tries that the plan would benefit us.
"The people know all this and are not
likely to be misled by words. The great
majority of the democrats arp opposed
to Mr. Cleveland on the financial ques
tion. and have been opposed to him for
some time. Even the adminlstrationists
are not with him on this point of retiring
the greenbacks and the issue of more
bonds. He will have very little following
fmm his own party. His message Is prob
ably an altempt to vindicate his financial
policy before the country to show that
he is not responsible for the present cri
sis. It can at best be regarded as only
ail apology.”
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GERMANY.
By all means let this government retal
iate with the little tin god emperor who
lords it over the German people. The
president’s words on the subject of this
unjust trade discrimination take on a
rather ominous note of reprisals. He
says:
'These considerations (commercial
open-handedness and fairness) should
not, however, constrain us to submit to
unfair discrimination nor to silently ac
quiesce In vexatious hindrances to the en
joyment of our share of the legitimate
advantages of proper trade relations. If
an examination of the situation suggests
such measures on our part as would In
volve restrictions similar to those from
which we suffer, the way to such a course
is easy. It should, however, by no
means be lightly entered upon, since the
necessity for the inauguration of such a
policy would be regretted by the best
sentiment of our people, and because It
naturally and logically might lead to
consequences of the gravest character.”
A society of Swiss photographers has
been making some curious experiments
lately with a view' to establish the old
proposition that a man and a woman
who have lived long and happily together
come at length to resemble each other,
not only In disposition and temperament,
but also In face and feature. The exper
imenters have taken photographs of
seventy-eight couples and of a like num
ber of brothers and sisters. On careful
Inspection, it is said, It Is found that the
married ocuples are more like each otjhe|
than the brothers and sisters.
The reply of the Marquis of Salisbury
to the note of Secretary OIney on tli«
Venezuelan question, the Associated
Press learns, is on board the White Star
Line steamship Brltannlo, due at New
York on yesterday. The essence of thq
document Is that Oreat Britain refuses
to submit to arbitration any of the ter
ritory within the Soomburgk line.
ATHENS.
Circuit Court Clerk of Limestone County
Takee Unto Himself a Wife.
Athens. Dec. 6.—(Special Corresponds
ence.)—George Malone, son of the Igta
Hon. John N. MaJone, and the clerk of
the olrcult court of Limestone oounty,
was married yesterday at 11 o'clock to
Miss Lena Kelley,daughter of Mr.Joshua
Kslley. one of the representative men of
Madison county. Quite a number of
friends from Athens attended the mar
riage. The happy oouple left on the noon
train from Huntsville for an extended
trip north. Both Camilles belong to the
oldest standard people of the state and
the union la one of pure love and mutual
satisfaction to all ooncerned.
That little cold may bring on catarrh.
Hood's Sarsaparilla prevents and cures
catarrh. > >
jand GOIvD!
The cherished, hope of the people. | The pampered pet of patricians.
I Or Even Your Old Linen Done Over as
| G-R-E-E-N-B-A-C-K-S,
I All have an equal value with us—that value one hundred cents’ worth of first-class, well-made
' FURNITURE AND CARPETS..
We are not offering you Two Dollars7 worth of goods for $1 in money, but ar® JRR”8,1 _°
come nearer doing so than the man who tells you he does. Step in and look aJ 3 . • r G
Four floors stocked full of choice goods—the best on the market. aa tale, ^ut 8ee ^ ^
positive, and that is one reason for offering the UNAPPROACHABLE VALUE R.
. This season7s stock has never been equaled and the variety °* beautiful design ^orlv^filuc
With the approach of Christmas we want to remind you of the advisability of making an e y
tion. We will place it r.side for you. flialF'Special attention to mail orders.
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HOME PRODUCTION.
Opelika News: Mr. D. F. Dickson killed
six of the finest hogs today ever raised In
Opelika for their age. They were only
twelve months old. and the six will net
nearly £100 pounds.
Anniston Hot Blast: Next week will
be a brilliant one in Anniston social cir
cles. Besides three weddings, a ball, a
concert and other affairs are under con
sideration and will probably occur.
Anniston Hot Blast: “Father” O. H.
Dlvlngston, a venerable member of the
Hot Blast's eomposltorial force, killed a
pig this morning that was immense. It
was not quite a year old. and yet weighed
—besides feet, liver, etc.—323 pounds.
Alabama Beacon: ICver hear of so
many big hogs as are going to be killed
this fail? The editor was favored with
the backbone of a wee piggie that
weighed 350 pounds, and will fatten on
pork yet. Don’t get this item wrong—
the ptg weighed 350 pounds, and not the
backbone.
Anniston Hot Blast: There was brought
to Anniston yesterday from below Ox
ford a wagon load of the finest turnips
ever seen here. Some of them W'elghed as
much as seven arid eight pounds, and
none of them less than four. All of
which is more evidence that the agricul
tural possibilities Of this section are prac
tically unlimited.
Randolph Deader:v During the sum
mer the Deader took occasion to note un
der the heading. “Roanoke's Hog Cen
sus,” the large number of hogs being
raised In this place, together with ample
patches of corn. We are now able to il
lustrate the wisdom of our citizens In
pursuing this course. A number of fine
porkers have already been killed, many
of them being only 1 year old. We give
the weights of a few below, as we have
been able to learn them: Ben Mitcham’s,
441 pounds; R. G. Rowland's, 383; John
Fausett's, 385; John Vincent's two, 475
and 375- N. C. Causey’s, 302; W. C. Dane's,
800; A. A. Mooty’s 1-year-old Jumbo, too
large for the scales, hut Jim Dongshore
says he would have weighed 500 pounds.
Fort Pavne Journal: A genuine fanner
was halted by a friend, who said. "Well,
I suppose you are here getting supplies
for your farm?”
"No, sir; I am not. I quit that five
years ago, and now I have got
Corn In the corn-crib
Chickens in the yard.
Meat in the smoke house
And a tub full of lard.
Milk In the dairy.
Butter by the load,
Coffee In the box
And sugar In the gourd.
Cream In the pitcher,
Honey In the mug.
Cider In, the demijohn
And liquor In the Jug. ^
THE HILLS OF MURRAY.
The sunshine steeps
The long, low sweeps
Of brown sedge Helds and marshy fallows:
The wrinkling waves
From crystal caves
Chlmfi merrily o’er the pebbled shallows;
And o’er dim woods
The mist wraith broods,
And wayward winds through brown leaves
scurry.
And autumn dreams
Of glorious themes
Upon the windblown hills of Murray!
The chirp of birds,
The lowing herds,
The bursting corn cribs golden yellow;
The welcome songs
Of childish throngs
From happy homes oomos mild and mellow ;
Blue akles o'erbowed
With drifting cloud.
Whose shifting shadows westward hurry;
5lie blended balms
f Sabbath calms
Breathe blessings on the hills of Murray!
No pensive plaint
Of pained restraint
Awakes a discord In each anthem;
From glad hearts rise
Contented sighs
Song burdened on the lips that chant them;
A long farewell
To evil spell
And pain and sorrow, woo and worry.
In dreamful deeps
Contentment sleeps
Among the vales and hills of Murray!
—Montgomery M. Folsom.
Here's a republican congressman that
says the republican party Is the only
one that sympathizes with the people.
In view of the approaching session of the
Fifty-fourth congress the people certain
ly need all the sympathy they can get.—
Albany Argus, Dera.
ALABAMA EDITORS,
Bottling Can Prevent It.
Politics or no politics, the south is
bound to be the greatest country under
the sun.
The "Whole Truth.
Cigarettes and whisky are ruining
“presidential possibilities" every day.
Gadsden Titnes-News.
The Advert.'",or Hulling.
It hurts the Advertiser to see so many
papers coining out for Oates for the sen
ate William Is in somebody’s way.—
Selma Times.
Register Doing Batter.
The last Issue of the Mobile Register
did not have a single editorial thrust at
the democratic party. Good.—Selma
Times
All Harmony Among Democratic Congress
men.
It Is said that the democratic party in
uongvesB, with Ps less than 100 members
In the house, now acts In perfect har
mony. Looks as though they should.—
Cullman Tribune.
All Democrats Will Support the Nominee.
Says the Cullman Tribune:
“As previously stated, we believe all
true democratic papers in the state will
support the nominee of the party for gov
ernor, but it must be evident that such
political capers as those of Hardin In
Kentucky would he as disastrous here
as there.”
Somebody Will Sacriti.ce Himself.
The Advertiser says that at the right
time a Moses wli] be raised up to lift
the administration men out of “the
slough of despond.” That paper is right.
Somebody will be found to sacrifice him
self to the vindictiveness of a few men
who had rather see the party busted than
united.—Selma Times.
Queen Vick Frightened.
We have not heard of any defeated
candidate from Alabama contesting for
President Cleveland’s seat, though rumor
has It that Congressman Howard will
Institute Impeachment proceedings
against him —Cullman Tribune.
Queen Victoria Is very much fright
ened, and even talks In her sleep about
Howard's horrible attempt to dethrone
her. Howard is ■getting to be some pump
kin.
Mr. Powell, Please Piss My House.
A correspondent In the Cullman Trib
une makes the following pitiful plea:
“Tell Mr. Powell, he who made that
chevanx-de-frlse speechiflcatton in Bir
mingham about annihilating we poor
white men of Cullman beat for stuffing
ballot boxes that Is going to be done In
the black belt next election, to not hurt
me I’ve been hurt, already enough. Ten
balls hit me in the war I was in and I
don't want to be hit any more. Oh, Mr.
Powell, I’m not mad. Pleu.se pass my
house I’ll have the door lintels sprinkled
with the blood of a goat."
Hard to Koep Straight.
Says the Montgomery Journal:
“The cuckoo press is so excited It.
knows not what it does, and it keeps the
Journal pretty busy trying to straighten
them out. The Eufaula Times la guilty
of perpetrating the following:
•' ‘But what we intended to say was
this: Senator Morgan, after a special
seance with some Heaven-sent messen
ger, has announced that the 16 to 1 plan
^ls God Almighty’s own arrangement.
That being true what does he want with
human currents? Is it not an irreverent
and impious performance of his to go
about hunting for opportunities to do
violence to an arrangement made by Om
nipotence Himself?’
“The Times doesn't grasp the situa
tion. Senator Morgan was simply In^la
bama not to change or do ‘violence to an
arrangement made by Omnipotence Him
self.’ but to preserve that arrangement
and prevent the Irreverent from doing
‘violence to that arrangement.’ When
the Times fully recovers it will perhaps
know what It Is talking about.”
Cold Weather Is Coming.
Telephone 487 for coal. Ward's coal
yard keeps as good as can be had in this
market. When you need coal call on
them. Can furnish on short notice at
market price. 7-19-tf
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rHE NORTH ALABAMA RAILROAD.
Major Campbell Resigns as General Mana
ger—A Union Depot Wanted.
Sheffield, Dec. 6.—(Special.)—There
tave been some Important changes in
railroad circles here recently. The Bir
ningham, Sheffield and Tennessee River
railroad has passed out of existence, and
is succeeded In all rights, privileges and
franchises by the North Alabama Rail
road company. Maj. Phil Campbell, gen
eral manager, who has been connected
with the road from Its inception, has re
signed, and, much to the regret of every
one here, will take up his abode in the
great city of New York. Major Camp
bell will be succeeded by Mr. Samuel
Hunt of Cincinnati. It is not known
whether there will be any changes made
In the office management of the road at
this place. We hope not, as the road is
now officered by popular and efficient
men. Our people are going to make a
vigorous effort for a fine union depot.
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A11 of the roads here are ready to co-oper
ate with the Memphis and Charleston.
With the help of the railroad commis
sioners we hope to get the Memphis and
Charleston up to her duty. If the North
Alabama railroad will now extend the
road into Birmingham it will be one of
the best roads in the south.
There will be a change In the man
agement of the big hotel at this place.
Mine Host J. B. Lagomarsino, who has
kept the hotel splendidly for the past two
years, will be sncceeded by Mr. Thomas
Weaver of Bethlehem, Pa. Mr. Weaver
is a man of large experience, and will
keep a flrst-class hotel.
The furnaces are doing finely, running
smoothly and making large quantities
of fine Iron.
Everything is quiet here politically.
Johnston is in the lead for governor.
Wilson Browne for the legisflature and
General Wheeler for congress.
DIAMOND RINGS.
Some $250 down to $3.50 each. Have
more rings to select from than all the
jewelers put together can show you, and
can make more to order if you want them
at a day's notice. E. GLUCK.
Manufacturing Jeweler.
There Is nothing worse In the history
of American parties than his (Sher
man's) confession that he was willing to
trade a cabinet appointment and other
spoils with Thomas C. Platt In 1888 for
the support of the New York delegation
in the republican national convention of
that year.—New York Herald.
Awarded
Highest Honors—World’s Pair.
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