Birmingham state herald., 1897-05-14
PERSONAL.

The teachers of the city are being paid off.
 Peter A. Buyck, of Wetumpka. is in the city.
 Dr. E. A. Wilson has returned from Montgomery.
 Hon. S. D. Logan, of Centrevlle, is in the city on legal business.
 Capt. J. V. Allen. coal oil inspector of the Eighth district. is in the city on bus mess
 The weather was greatly moderated yesterday after the tremendous rain fall of Wednesday night.
 The friends of Judge J. M Arnold are glad to see him again in the courts after a seige of sickness.
 Rev. Father O'Riley leaves today for Baltimore to attend the consecra tion of the bishop of Mobile.
 Hon. s. D. Logan. of Centreyille. and one of Bibb's most prominent young at- torneys, is in the city on legal business.
 The Shriners captured the city yester- day and their pieces of. rope were very much in evidence. causing much specula- tion as to their use.
 Hon. H. l.. Mckee, of Selma, was in the city last night, en route home from Bes- semer. where he has been attending the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows.
 The Louisville and Nashville pay car arrived in the city yesterday and the employees were very much elated, as were also the merchants of the city.
 FIRE SALE-About s10.0O0 In these goods left that have not been touched by fire or water and are going at most any price. T. C. King, 2028 First avenue.
 Capt. George W. Ely, travelling passen- ger agent of the Southern Pacific rail- road, with headquarters in Montgomery. spent yesterday in the city in the inter- es': of his line.
 Hon. I. F. Culver, commissioner of ag- riculture. and Hon. J. O. Turner, state superintendent of education, of Mont Gomery, were in the city yesterday, re- turning from Albertsville.
 Mir Clarence L. Dean, advance general manager of advertising of Barnum & Bailey's circus, which comes to Birming- ham next Saturday week. was in the city yesterday.
 Miss Ida Porter. of Centreviife. is in the city. She is very bright and charm ing young lady. She has the distinction of being the only young lady in Alaba ma whn is preparing herself for the legal D ession, and expects to practice the S. ,.
 Col. H. B. Foster. of the Second regi- ment, Alabama State troops, Tuscaloosa. was in the city yesterday. Col. Foster has not yet appointed his s.aff. but will have the roster ready in few days. The colonel was here to look after the coming encampment. A.
 MT J. P. Douglass, general agent for the Fort Worth and Denver, and the Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf rail- roads, with headquarters in New Orleans. was in the city yesterday, advertising his line and tryind to secure the travel during the Christian Endeavor conyen- tion in San Francisco next mon ;h.
 MT. Max Hamburger, Jr.. business manager of the Mobile Daily Herald. is the youngest Knight Templar attending the thirty-seventh grand commandery of Alabama. His boyish looks attracted at- tention yesterday among the older men, and when it became known that he was to be made a Mystic Shriner, Btrmfng- ham Knight remarked that MT. Hambur- ger. who has just entered his .22d year, would be one of the very youngest Ma sons in the United States to attain so high a degree. %
 Dr. John Davis, who has been to Nash vile to attend ahe meeting of the Associa- tion of Southern Medical College Fac- ulties, returned home yesterday. Mrs. Davis his mother. who went with him ito attend ihe Centennial, returned also. While in Nashville Dr. Davis was in- vited to lecture before the State Medical association, now in session al the cap- dtal, upon some recent experimer.ations he had made upon the gall bladder and the ducts of the liver. The Daily Sun, of yesterday said Dr. Davis is an original thinker and his work in gall bladder sur gerry is sure to stir up the profession. especially abdominal surgeons. on this Slrhjecf