Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-05
SELMA SETTINGS. An Episode of Ante-Bellum and
 Present Times
WHICH READS LIKE FICTION.
Some Kindly Words-SeIma Fall Meeting Results-Checks
 for Wages.
AGE HERALD BUR EAU,

SELMA, oct. 4, 1854. ]
 The war between the states is still making history. Although 1t has been thirty years since the flag of the Confederacy went down in a deluge of blood at Appomattox, little incidents will turn up now and then as result of that war.
 CAleb Hunter is an old negro who lives in Southwest Dallas, near the Wilcox line. He belonged to General Hunter before the war.
 It was no uncommon thing in those days for slave on the plantation to choose a mate from the plantation of an adjoining planter. And it just as frequently hap pened that the master of one of the slaves would dispose of his servant and send him to distant plantation or even state with his new master.
 This would cause the separation of man and wife, but the negro very readily ad- justed himself to the new order of things and in a short while the pair who were separated by the sale would seek new part ners and things would drift along as smoothly as if nothing had happened.
 This old man Caleb married his first wife in the early ffties. She belonged to MT. Robert Meyer, one of Dallas county's most honored citizens. Caleb's wife's mother was owned by Mrs. Smith, sister of MT. Meyer.
 Caleb's wife begged to be sold to Mrs. Smith, so she could live with her mother, and this request was granted. As strange as this may seem, the woman preferred iv- ing with her mother to her husband, and this forced Caleb to select a second wife, which he proceeded to do.
 Caleb in the meantIm had been given to General Hunter by his sister, and this sep. arated him from his second wife. The old fellow adjusted him sef to the conditions of affairs and promptly m lrried third wife, with whom he was living at the time of the surrender. This woman, by law, WAS Ca leb's legal wife and he lived with her up to flaw weeks ago, when wife No. was taken ill.
 In the meantime wife No. 1 had come back to the neighborhood, and with kindness of heart very rare in such cases, volunteered her services aud nurssd wife No. through weary days and sleepless nights, and finally with her own hands tenderly closed the third wife's eyes when her spirit took its flight.
 for burial, and was one of the cbief mourners that followed the little one horse wagon to the cemetery and dropped a genuine tear of regret on the mound that covered the woman who had cared so well for her first husband through all these years.
 Old Caleb was not long in grasping the situation, and one day last week, about ten days after the burial of wife No: 3, he called in the services of a parson and mar ried again the wife he had taken to himself away back in the fifties.
 It is remarkable affair, and would fur nish the groundwork for piece of fiction.
 SOME KIND WORDS.
 Mir. Aubrey Harwell, who has been in the city for some time representing the AGE HERALD in it's Selma bureau, has gone back to Birmingham. Under his supervision the AGE HERALD grew in pop ularity with our people and many new sub scribers were added to it's list. MT. Har- we'll impressed our people by his gentlemanly bearing and openheartedness, and left many friends in Selma, although he had been in our midst but short time. F. J. H. Nunnellee of the Morning Times now has charge of the Selma newsI bureau of the AGE-HERALD. MT. Harwell's Selma friends wish him much success.
 SELMA FALL RACES. The fall races of the Selma Driving asso- citation are now in progress. The trotting race between Brown Kate and Nutman was won by the former in 2:55. The stallion race between April Fool and WiIkesboy was won by the latter in 2:29%. The pacing race between Lula Nc and Slipper was won by Lula, coming in a neck abead on the last heat. Time, 2:35.
 CHECKS IN FUTURE.
 The pay car of the Southern railroad passed through Selma yesterday. 1t is said that this is the last time the pay car will come through and that the men will be paid off by checks direct from head quarters in the future.