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Stockholders’ Meeting.
A meeting of tho stockholders of the
Virginia and Alabama Coal company is
hereby called to be held at the office of the
company, ill the city of Birmingham. Ala
bama. on the 1-th day of August, 1S97. at
10 o'clock a. m.. for the purpose of consid
ering a proposition to approve, ratify and
confirm all arts ar.d proceedings of all
meetings of the directors of said company
heretofore held outside of the state of Ala
bama: and all acts and proceedings of all
meetings of the stockholders of said com
?>any held pursuant to the call of any meel
ng of the directors held outside of the
etate of Alabama; and any and all elec
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the execution and disposition of the tirst
mortgage bonds of the company now out
standing. Issued on the 1st day of May.
1893. and tho mortgage executed bv said
company to the Virginia Safe Deposit and
Fidelity Company ori the property of said
company to secure such issue of bonds
bearing even dale- therewith; and to trans
act all other business of said company
that may properly come before said meet
ing. JAS. It PACK.
President.
Birmingham. Ala., July 10th. 1897.
7-10-tJ
JOHNSON TALKS STEEL,
4 • f*V'
Alabama’s Governor Grows En
-r.
thusiastic on the Subject.
GREAT WILL BE BIRMINGHAM
An Interesting' Chat on a Subject Which Is of
the Utmost Importance to This Sec
tion at the Present Time.
Oov. Joseph F. Johnoitxvn came up fh>m
Moatgoanery yesterday to spend Sunday.
(Always fcnt/eresltild tin dtevetopmemlts In
AWbnitn*, he .talked erJihuslasWeallly on
uhe subject of tho new steel etta of Bir
mingham.
“That our pfrg lem avi Birmingham
could be converted inlfo Btelel and made a
commercial auiecess, with sufitc.->nit capi
tal, hue ttiolf bow. doubted by th© imn
maeters of this district for many yeans,”
said the governor. “But for the panic of
1SD3 a 1 trgp plan/., would'Wave been erected
here s«Tettal yeans since. Arrant semen ts
had beo.’t made to thaJt end by gentlemen
who 'had mastered ''lira EiibJ vV.
"The pr. t ,nt plant, ereoixd by the Bir
mingham rolling mlill, is In no B irate an
cxperlnaeinU X. was ocmt't'iucted after a
moist lW/Uient o:nd t'h!( dough examUtnia'ldon
of dthetr stiael plainttii, nlnld in the light of
euecefvsful experience flm the conversion
of similar lion initio at tell. 'Had there been
a neasorialble doubt so uo the outcome,
die 'in.teiligen/t manage merit directing that
company could have done all the expepi
rn, duing required at a, fraction! of tho
coBt they aire iincrinilng. They have
eiuct/ed and fitlilshied one furnace, Which is
now In successful opeiraiJkm, and turning
, out on a single shift Viweroty-five tons of
sire (1 per day, Vhait hlas stood the severest
physical nir.,.l any illieal teste. Their Bec
oaid furnace will be Completed by sflie
1st of September; cunjd Vive two will tyave a
oapaoSty, ruin on full time, of 125 to 150
torp per d'ay. Their rolling mill to now
being overhaul,3, stuck Via ken, and being
put in, complete repair, and new and im
proved machinery baling put In to handle
iJh'e pnod'uctof th1.ilr s' eel furnaces. /When
in full blast the steel furnaci ,s and rolling
mill will employ aiboult 1,300 skilled me
cthan/Ics, whose wages will average about
$3 per d'ay. The milling mill will pmuae
operaliiotys jn abou'c tan clays.
“1 do n-vt think that any One need ap
pr 'JrcirugL Vlhiat there will be any failure to
moke, good m rclian'table steel at a cost
that will leave a comfoiViable margin of
profit to the manufacturers.
"There ate many who can remember
thut when the attempt was first
made to convert our Red mountain ore
Intolpig with coke from this district, that
it was proclaimed, at home and abroad,
that it could not be done. It was said
that the ore mutt have a large mixture
of the -brown or soft ore, and that It
would otherwise be unmerchantable, and
that financial disaster was inevitable.
"After the iron was successfully made,
it was then said that \0 Held of useful
ness was so circumscribed that only a
limited market could be found. In spite
of thtse prophesies furtcice after furnace
was erected, our iion met the Pennsyl
vania and Ohio pig in many markets and
drove them from the Held, and is now
finding markets in England, Germany,
Italy, Spain and other foreign eountri. s.
It has met the distrust and disaster pre
dicted in its beginnings and has estab
lished the fact that for general mill and
foundry purposes it is as good as any in
the world and produced at a less cost
than at any other point in the world.
“I am satisfied that our experience in
the manufacture of steel will follow
tho same lines and attain like results;
distrust, and prejudice will have their
brief day of opposition, obstacles will
be overcome, the cost of production di
minished, and the market will in the end
only be limited by freight charges.
"It is quite likely flint within a de
cade the enttre product of our furnaces
will be converted Into steel or manufac
tured here at home.
"It Is the law of evolution and the law
of business that has evolved the steel
plant.
“This law will continue in operation:
The production of steel will be 'the prolific
parent of many small industries. Ev.ry
article of general use and consumption
Into which steel and iron and wood enters,
will find here the point of lowest cost fjr
their raw mate,rials and the cheapest fuel
anywhere in tho United States; agricul
tural Implements, wagons, buggi s, car
riages, birycl e, toclE, nails, cli tins, tacks,
horseshoes and numberless other artic es
will here be manufactured. In these days
when the fraction of a cent often deter
mines the market capital will root be slow
'to find Ilia point where the raw materials
are cheapest.
The same laws that are bringing the
cotton mills t> th* cotton fields will br'ng
tht se other manufacturing estaibli ti
month to the Birmingham district.
The effect on the values oif coal an I iron
lands and city ar.i:l suburban ptoperly c n
be calculated by others as accurately as
by myself. I believe, however, that tho
indications named will secure a healthy
and steady and per.-lsten't growth both In
poulation and values, and will create an
ever increasing demand for the produc s
of our gardens and orchards and fields.
“ DE LITE ON
TEXAS HILL.”
For the Age-Herald.
"Yas. suh, mats ter d tv's bin er he p
er funny things d...'s hapen'd t.v dat o e
house yer see up dur a„'_ou his 1kji\,i'
plantashun," repli d the "old man who
gave us water at the well by the road
sid , in answer to our question. "1 dis
remember dis now mos' all dot dry has
bin. but 1 spec- ef yer hain t in er .hurry
i kit., toll j r er tale de likes er whicn
yer nebtr tv-tyrd befo'; an' hit's de
1 Bold's iruf i brj woid of It t.
j "Yer f - we ail's quality folks, we Is;
an' (lore Ivaln't ti. ber bin, fus't an' las’,
] but two stranger nlgg ts on dis place.
" Bong bout de fust fall art r d • svar
| (Here wus en pow'ful likely yoller boy
| name Bum cum by cr. day tin' , I • m.»r
i ster hired ’im fo wuek er bout d ■ house,
t sued h- was er pu' wii.t.-V n.gg r a:..’
didn't teck n,, st rk in 'itn fiu.v. d s;.. t,
j uldo he had ’is manners wid 'itn an’
’liav hisvelf ebery whar.
"Well, suit; dat nlgjr. r sab i eb.y c ivt
dat ole master paid him. Wages 'us it gh
in dem days an' gin Phrismu.; cum h
hab money 'nuff to buy or nuilo, an' d’tt
he i-’.t sum Ian' tetti down on d - pi. ce
j ter lib des lack h bin "barn .h ayr. lie
! m *k < r good cr.:;, dat year an’ Ti • sake
| dot. a ' twivs des ie ram - ,le i. x' ye. r,
an' ik- fust thing yer kilo" he hab mo’
I n m ( dan er.uy n.ggi r in ..!i d , u ty.
! Pi t he up a:d fell in lot. \v! 1 r gal.;,a v ,
i Sally, what Honged or, d - t l«e . a ' a. : r
; ho h_d ’or, wc-ole niggers gin t,, fe’.J
| lick h ’us .gKtint ■■ :■ h» i ’miff fi ls
j la ' —'
i Fo’ Bum had Pa ly sh Trw’’ V — eat
’im out dam stl; gy weya an' m.ck ’lm
eperi sum1 Wat wtotniey dat he had or gltltin’
rusty; hub he had foiol’ er, sho. When jaa
tuc ’er home ter Ms cabin tie dldrn’ ebtn
hab er bed ti r Bleep on, hm ter 'comer
data 'er hie tuck an’ move de punckilrs ter
dn? side an' druve sujn forks ini de groun'
Bin/ laid sum rails in da forks an/ sum
'bo'ds on de rails, an’ don spr’d cfe straw
lUOc, wtalt ’tr mammy gin ’er, on dem,
aw J,ar dey WU8( am’ d’af dey step’ an’ ehd
c'u'dm' help heise/f. i
“Wh’en de bahy cum, Sally waunt er
cradle, but Lum des went In de woods an*
out down a holler 'tin e an’ split it half in
two, an' dait's what, dey lock’d da baby
in. an/ de nine er ton what folleied ’im.
Dait’s de way dey lib fer years an/ years,
Lum still sa'biiv’ i-hery cent, ’twell de fust
■thing yer knio’ ho hab «r two-hose wagon,
«hi' half er dozen mule's an/ meat in de
smoke house, an' corn in dis crib, an’
money to die bank, an/ don hi* got blg
erty,
"’All dis lVapen/ ’Jong 'bout de time Mars
Tom go1; grown, and tuck d'e place in Wan’,
an’ de fus: thing Lum up an’ tole ’im
''bouit er sister dart We hab ’way ober in de
im*>u:-,!;’fns sum’era, tin' axed ’is ’nuteeSiun
tb go art’ bri/ng 'i-r down to lib so he c’u'd
toe k care Ob ’er, cart? Blue bin good ter ’hn
when he us Ieetle. Mains Tom foie ’im ter
g’loitig, so hi? tuck ’is wagon an' ’way he
wen'll an’ hit 'us m-o'n cr week fo' heayr
he cuim poffin’ back, de ’on’l ie ’Oman wld
'im am’ d'e ash’es' lot er ehiluti dat eber
we all see. De 'Oman 'us bfaek an' nasty
Bin’ stab-sidled lack er cow, ain' de ehilun
’us dcis dat rag’d dalt yitr’d or thought
t/hle buzzard)* pick'd ’em. '
■'Lum 'us dad Thame ob die lay-out da'S
he buy aomi* clo.th tbr 'hide ’em, but de
fines diresostn’ im all de worl’ won’t meek
within’’out’n’ sich trash es dat. But when
we cum tor fin’ out de looks 'us dl; bos'
t'h'lnig erbout ’em. Laucr, dot ’us de
’(.man's naimte, ’us so mean an/ prl frln’
dat yen c’ucfn’ keep nuthim' ’bout 'er.
Shi? mos’ stole Lum out er house an’ home
ain’ plum nigh broke 'iim payin' folks fur
what dlie tuck from ’em, 'twill fus' tiling
yer kilo’ ht- jes’ c’u’d'n’ st'an/ er no how,
« » he go •toM’airs TomlUe-r build ’er a little
cabin ’way off on on? corner er de plica
where her rackets ari’ er’ stnaUin’ c’u’d’n
boithter nobody ’cepin’ de owls an’ de Jay
bit Idis.
'Laurer ’us mighty mad when she hab
to lebe de quarter, an’ she low she git
ebon wid sum an’ ail de res’, ef she hab
ter die ter do hit. Dis set de niggers
ter studyin,’ ’case she kinder foolish ev
ery way, an’ dey dun no but what she
’us er witch an’ 'us put sum spell on ’em;
so dey watch er mi’ty close.
"One night sum on ’em heayrd er pow’
ful racket when dey passln’ by ’er cabin,
an’ dey cum an’ tole mars Jim dat sum’un
’us tryin’ ter kill ’er, ’er she ’us cunjrin’
wM de debel, dey dunno which.
Mars Jim tuck me wid ’im, an’ dar we
went ter find out what de matter ’us.
Long fo’ we gits dar we heayrd sick er
tus’lin’, an’ er stompin' dat I 'us skeert
dat de deb.el hab er sho, an’ nuthin’ but
shame kep’ me frum turnin’ tale ter run.
We hurried down dar fas’ er we c'u’d,
an’ Mars Tom bust in de do', an’ dar 'us
dat fool nigger run'in’ roun' de room des
es hard es she c'u’d, an’ er Ieetle boy
’us right behin' 'er wid 'er b’ode, an’
ebry time he Cotch ’er he’d lam ’er fit
to kil. Sh:’d run an’ she’d holler; ’run me,
Bobby, run; hit me. Bobby, hit!’
"I thought Mars Jim ’ud kill hissef laf
fin’ but .d a es soon es he c’u’d talk he
ax ’er what de matter.
“ ‘E-n, Ise got tber colic; run me Bob
by.: hit me Bobby, hit!’
" ’Dat haint no way to chore de colic,
Laurer,’ Mars Tom say. ‘Stop dat! yer
kill y» fool sef.’
“ ’Dat’s de way dey doctor mules whar
I.cum frum! Run me, Bobby, run; hit
me, Bobby, hit! Mars Tom meek me
ketch er den an’ tie ’er on de bed, an’ den
he tole er dat ef nuflln’ tall gwine ter do
’ex’cefi ffr be doefered lack er mule, he’d
go ter de house an’ git er bottle an’ sum
soda an’ ’lasses an’ drench ’er an’ den he
did hit in spite er all ’er howls an’ kicks.
“After dat Laurer. des laid dar in ’die
bed in wou’d’n’ git up; she say she s’.fck.
Mars Tom'S lit far d? doc ter an’ h cum
an’ 1-ook’er all ob r an’ thump'erlnd side,
a:-./ finger with ’er wrls’, an’ den he looks
ober 'is glasses an’ say d-at she playin'
possum—dat dar bain't nuffin talil de
matter wid 'er. Still she law dar fur
’nuther mont, an’ Mars Tom sent fur er
way off doctor dat dey say ’us sho’ num
ber'd, an’ be cum an’ do Jos' lack de fus’
'um. an' say de same thing 'bout ’er. an’
bless Gcd, dsit r.ight she up an’ die. ’Fo’
she die do. she cuss’d Lum lack all pos
sess’d. arf tole 'im she sho gwire ter
cum back an' bant 'im plum till he die.
"Lum 'us dat skeert da.t he spent ten
dollars ter git er ole witcli-docter ter
cum ter the w.ike an’ say er spell obr ’er
ter keep ’er in ’er grabe. Do witch-doc
tor say she bin er mi’-ty wicked ’oman,
an’ dat da onl'os way ter kepp ’er from
cornin’ back 'us ter turn ’er ’roun' In 'cr
cofin an' burry ’er wid ’er feet ter de
was’.
“Mats Tom he ayr ’bout dis. an’ dee put
’is foot slap down on hit, an' say dar want
-or gwine ter be no sieh sinful dmin/n’s on
'is place, so he bab ’er put up dar in de
graUe-yard or) Texas Hill d-.-s lack all de
res’ what die on de place.
"Wall. sub. hit wan’l mo'n er w ek fo’
Lum's boys 'us out runnln’ rabits. an’ de
dorgs tree one in a hole up dar in de
grabe-y-ard, an’ whilst dey ’us twis’in’ ’im
out. all at once dey see er blue lite burn
in’ on Laurer’? grabe. ’Cose deyrun er
way des es hard es dey c'u’d. but fo’ ley
g )t ter de quarhus one on ’em drap'd down
do-d Ip 'is tracks.
“T urn si'-rvre o],-. T/nurer kl't ’im. an’
beg Mars Tom 'ter lot ’im dig her up a/n’
turn ’er ’roun’ in ’er grab?. Mars Tom
difa eus-'d Mm fun- idgtlj an’ :oie Mm iter
g’long an/ lia’be hisse’f. ’Bunt er yurtbvr
neont. Jim. dat Mis Sally's hoy whait she
hab 'fo' Lu.m hab ’cr. 'us lodklh’ fur d?
cow on? ebenin’ -an' foun’ Dr on dr Texas
HUH. He seed d- light burnin’ blue d a
lack hit ’u? befo’. an’ in nr week he dun
tuck dl? feber, a;n’ ’fo’ er yuther week h
die too. Dis mos’ run Lum ’stracted, fur
da t ’us dl? be*' bein’ ho hob. an’ d-n b' beg
Mars Tom ter lot Hm 'tack L-nu-ra back
whfiir sh* cum frum. an’ sec if da" won’t
Tay d? gh-os’. Mars Tom ’u* will'n' t?r
dlait. iso dey drag 'er up ah' Lum starved
wid 'er back t?r d'e moumt’lns whar she
cum frum.
“Wh'at IW?dun wlen lia got d'ir. I du.rlco.
But frum dial day to dis do light-* sto-o'd
burnin’. T.tint's hab all de luck, an.’ d’at oh?
witch-d-oetcr. wHak T ‘.ole yer ’bout, n her
Wert’s fur grrri - er meat ?s lbng’s da--.*
er cabbige in H-allv’r* gardm an" er s; d
er bacon in de smok-h’ouB?."
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CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY]
To Be Placed in a Splendid New
Building.
WHITE HOUSE RENOVATION
Foreigners Criticise the Presidential Home and
Fail to Appreciate the Love of the
Americans for Re'lc and
Simplicity.
Washington, July 31.—(Special Cor.)—
The great library of congress, 750,000
voum-es strung, will probably be started
on Us way to the splendid bu.ldlng op
posite the capital sometime next week.
To the credit of those responsible for
the construction of the new building,
be it said, no library In the worid is so
magnificently, so beautifully, and so ade
quately housed as the congressional li
brary will be when It snail have been
placed In Its new quarters.
The work attendant upon the transfer
of this gigantic library from its recent
cramped quarters to those spacious
rooms which have been ptCjiared for it
will be great.
A laige force of men will be employed
for the work, and at least eight, if not
ten weeks will be required for them to
perform the task.
It Is not as If there were merely so
much bulk to be transferred. To be sure
a vepy lai go number of the books are not)
expensive and not difficult to duplicate.
But a big portion of them are volumes
very rare and vauable, volumes which
neither love nor money nor yet great In
genuity could duplicate, for they are
unique.
Take, ftr imytance, t'lua far-famed Tener
CoilleoMon. Its llke'alo.a nof exiet. Guards
watch It flight and d'ay. People are per
mitted to examine and copy from ft, but
fhiey tto so Under ohe eyes of book-lovilng
watchmen.
The two giteak enemies to books are
damp and dust. The new quarters are
dump ai.JJ dust-proof In so far as quar
■teiis rmy b; mudo damp and dust-proof.
To prevent any dust of book worms being
conveyed to the new quarter's, every vol
ume will be subjedtitG Ulo a. '.borough wind
•bath. TlhU will be done by 'turning a hose
nozzlcd by a piece of strel four inches by
or.e-aixiteeint'h of an Inch onto eveiy book.
Through this hose and nozzle will run a
stream of dried air swift enough to drive
every speck of dust from the volume,
while at 'the saimie time albsorb every
panicle of molid.iure.
This baith wiill be glvein. 'Jhe boota? as
they are 'tiaken from the boxes Into which
they will be packed air.d conveyed to the
mew building.
The removal will be under the direct su- ;
penvislbni of Mr. Ppoffotd, under whose j
fnsteiling Cairo thie library bias grown to
'tis pres emit excellence. He besUows upun
a rare volume .Ihe afCec'ttan of a parent
for a child and 1th re con be mo doubt
that every possible precaution will be
taken to preserve their grout wealth of
literature frdm harm.
The white house Is to be put in thor
ough repairs while the preside':t and his
wife are away. There has been no op
portunity to clean and.garnish the execu
tive mansion for nearly five years, or-even
longer than that. During Mrs. Har
rison's illness and after .her death noth
ing was done inside the building orb r
than put soni hideous wall paper about
and lay a few carpet?. ..Mr. Cleveland
had little done to it while he was there,
a d there was no chance to make repairs
between the time the Clevelands vacated
it and that when the McKinleys as*sumt d
the occupancy. Mrs. McKinley is so
nervous that nothing has been done at '
all since - he entered it as first lady. Any
noise at all was very annoying to her.
The cabinet room, for Instance, has not
been done over since the'administration
of Grant. The floors on the second story
arc being taken up and th y are found
to be In a very bad condition. In fact,
many of them are decaying and would
soon have been the couse of sickness.
At best the white house is the most un
inhabitable place in Washington1. No
amount of money could make it present
an appearance otherwise than that of an
old-tir-e uncomfortable colonial home in
Virginia. But the people of Washington
love Has they do r.o other public build mgs
here’ and every suggestion to add to it or
t-ar It down has met with a storm of
criticism and derision from the 0"C*1 pa
pers. i
Foreigners cannot understand how this
country, with th? wealth It possesses,
all oys its president to live and cnteitaln
in such a. place. They forget that Amer
icans cling to It as a relic of the sim
plicity with which this republic was
founded and that to them it represents
the corner stone of the government.
The exterior Is still on? of the most
beautiful pieces of architectlre In the
city and once every few years it is given
a coat of white lead. It Is not gener
ally known that the walls were originally
of dark brown stone, the same as the
walls of the older portion of the capi
tal which have also been painted white
to correspond with the wings. The orig
inal cause for painting both th? whl a
house and capital was the burning of
them by the English in ISIS.
The great dome "C the capital is now
undeigolng a coat of painting for the
first time in many years. There are a
hundred men on the whit house so as to
compute the renovation by the time the
McKinleys want to return. Two weeks
only will be taken in repairing and
painting the old mansion.
MONROEVILLE.
Regular Rains Make Improved Crop Pros
pects— Special Term of Court to Try
Richard Remblay’s Murderer.
Monroeville, July 31—(Special.)—Crop !
prospect* fei th e-section are more favora- j
ble, to we have h'ail regular rain* dur- ;
ins the past five or six wo ks; and. white
I crops on some of lhe river lands will ba 1
a filial fall tore,'.he estimate placed on the '
C1\'P of the entire county is about uvu
th: :1s.
Iluaj. S. N. Van Pmag, who has been In
Monroeville for sov ral months in The In
tercut of the Peir.rtacolu and Northwestern
railroad, of which ho is prcsldem , left a
few days ago for Montgomery to attend a
'bustntii* m* cuing 'of tiJ officers of his
rood.
Special term of circuit court will con
vene on Mur.1.lay, August 9. The main
purr 'se of the tarn is to jiydiot and try ,
G urge Bra'diy, who Is <:.: r.god v’.'ih the
asoasa'rsa'.'an- of Mr. Tlic.':i?l'd Rorrr bly,
s me wtekn sin':?. Capital and jail cases
will a Do be t vi, J ■. : th! . term.
Mr. Hob:i' J. 'Mil'..:, repriSen'rlng tlhe
C.T.'nfrllcut lndemniy u.. (xlarlon, Is in
the city.
For Ueut-Cotla c, 122 I7fci
sireei; vossession given mi
media*ely. Apply toA. Hirgcla
2 122 First avenue, or Mr. J. i
O Peoples, 8th avenue and j
17 th street.
Milone Bool & Shoe Co are i
soiling the best ; hoo.s in the
city for the least mo ley.
B'liius mode to order at1
K o'-z, the iiaberda lur.
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We will sell best grade all-wool I
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per yard; made, laid and lined.
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