ALABAMA. 



ANGLICAN CHUUniKS. 



period of twenty-three months, ending on the 

 dull- lu-t mentioned, the net income from con- 

 rlcti was $l57,7oa.r.H. 



Militia. The total number of officers and 

 mm in the State militia is about 2,730, bin at 

 lea-t 40 per cent, of this number are inellicient 

 from luck of discipline and proper equipments. 



Pensions. The special State tax levied for 

 the relief of Confederate soldiers and their wid- 

 ows yielded a fund for distribution in 1892 

 amounting to $181,862.02. There were 4,955 ap- 

 plications, and each applicant received $20.50. A 

 special fund for the blind, for which there were 

 :;s applicants, yielded $81.57 to each applicant. 



Manufacturing. In 1892 Alabama had 20 

 cotton mills in operation, containing 109.448 

 spindles and 1,900 looms, which consumed dur- 

 ing the year 39,700 bales of cotton, or 18,714,057 

 pounds. The capital invested was about $3,- 

 000,000. In 1880 there were 16 mills, with only 

 49,432 spindles, consuming yearly 7,271,791 

 pounds of cotton, and representing a capital of 

 only $1,246,500. 



Lumbering. Alabama ranks third in the 

 South in the amount of available timber it con- 

 tains, and in variety of woods it has few equals. 

 Virgin forests cover nearly one third of the State, 

 and this vast area of timber land is intersected 

 in every direction by navigable streams. The 

 principal timber woods are pine, white oak, hick- 

 ory, black walnut, and wild cherry. The prin- 

 cipal forests of long-leaf pine are to be found in 

 the Gulf coast and central pine belt of the Coosa 

 valley region, and in a limited area in Walker 

 County ; estimated in all to contain about 12,- 

 000 square miles. These lands are said to yield 

 from 5,000 to 6,000 feet of good timber per acre. 

 The short-leaf pine forms a considerable propor- 

 tion of the forest growth in the upper part of the 

 coast pine belt and in the uplands in the north- 

 ern part of the State. The yellow pine still con- 

 tinues the chief lumbering wood of the State. 

 The mills sawing pine lumber are mainly around 

 Mobile and Pensacola. 



The increase of lumber mills is as follows : 



The output of other forest products, such as 

 turpentine and rosin, has largely increased, par- 

 ticularly in the southern portion of the State, 

 where there are now 35 establishments with a to- 

 tal average annual production of $675,000. 



Phosphates. There is a tract of land across 

 the State between the thirty-second and thirty- 

 third parallels of latitude locally known as the 

 " Black Belt." In this tract, particularly in the 

 central and western parts, greensand marls and 

 phosphatic nodules have been found which prom- 

 ise as well as the Florida phosphates. Some ef- 

 fort has been made to develop these deposits, and 

 the phosphatic marls particularly have been used 

 locally, but the district is not well supplied with 

 transportation facilities at present. Under a 

 stratum of greensand marl 5 to 6 feet thick oc- 

 curs a sandy, indurated, nodular rock 2 feet thick, 



cemented by carbonate of lime, which yields from 

 iiiio ID MOO tuns an acre of phoHphatic nodules, 

 yielding 20 to 3H per cent, of phosphoric acid. 



Mobs. On this subject Gov. .Join.-* addressed 

 a communication to the General Assembly on 

 Feb. 6, of which the following is a portion : 



It i.s an unpalatable but nevertheless startling truth, 

 that wit bin tin- past two yean* no lean than 10 citizen* 

 D|' Alabama have been taken from jails or the custody 

 of officers of the law and executed by mobs. Thin rec- 

 ord is aggravated by the fact that there was not the 

 slightest doubt in any of these ease* of the convic- 

 tion of the aeeir-ed if guilty ; and in two instances at 

 least the parties, if guilty, were riot deserving of death, 

 according to any law of God or man. The court* were 

 open and trustworthy, and the laws were freely and 

 impartially administered in each of the localities where 

 these helpless prisoners were slain. In each instance 

 conies the same plea by the officers of the law of over- 

 powering numbers, or sudden surprise preventing re- 

 sistance. In none of these assaults was a weapon 

 drawn or a shot fired by the officers of the law in de- 

 fense of their prisoners or the outraged honor and dig- 

 nity of the law. Assaults upon jails and taking out 

 of prisoners by mobs to put them to death are as fla- 

 grant insults to the dignity and sovereignty of the peo- 

 Ele as would be an attempt to disperse the Legislature 

 y force or overawe its highest court by violence. 

 The State can no more permit the one to be done than 

 the other with impunity, without losing the respect 

 of the people and practically abdicating its functions. 



The Governor believed that these outrages 

 would be stopped if the sheriffs were given more 

 ample powers and if there should be more prompt- 

 ness in trying the persons accused. To this end 

 he recommended various changes in the laws. 



Political. After the State election of Au- 

 gust, 1892, the leaders of the Jeffersonian De- 

 mocracy, as the faction that supported Reuben 

 P. Kolb for Governor was styled, believing that 

 they had been defeated through fraud by the 

 regular Democracy, refused to join their oppo- 

 nents in supporting the national Democratic 

 ticket. But they were unable to carry all their 

 followers into the opposition, and at the Novem- 

 ber election were more easily defeated than in 

 August. When the Legislature met, late in No- 

 vember, Kolb and his friends demanded a law 

 that would enable them to contest the regularity 

 of the August election, but were refused. Under 

 these circumstances there was no legal method 

 by which they could establish their claims. Their 

 party organization was continued, however, and 

 in May of this year they submitted a proposition 

 to the regular Democracy suggesting that a pri- 

 mary of the white voters of the State should be 

 held early in 1894, at which the person having 

 the highest number of votes should become the 

 candidate of the white voters. This proposition 

 was rejected, and both sides began preparations 

 for another contest in 1894. 



ANGLICAN CHURCHES. Statistical. 

 The official Yearbook of the Church of England 

 for 1893 gives prominence, in view of the move- 

 ment for its disestablishment, to certain facts 

 concerning the condition and life of the Church 

 of England in Wales. The net income of all 

 the Welsh beneflced clergy, taking into the ac- 

 count tithe rent charge and glebe, pew rents, 

 Easter offerings, fees, and every other source 

 of revenue, amounted in 1892 to 183,000. The 

 total of all voluntary offerings for missions, edu- 

 cation, support of the poor, etc., was 219,000. 



