The age-herald., 1897-08-01
TECHNICS FROM THE LOCAL FIELD.
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1 During the construction of the preeenfb court house, several yeaas ago. while the circuit cour. held it's sessions in the Hood building, on Twentieth str ct, Cir eua Clerk Feagus Mccarthy, his deputy, MT. w. L. Howard. and Attorneys C. B. and Ed Powell, who at that timezzhiad offices i'm the Hood building. thougfT it meet and proper to jointly celabrataiGhefr anniv versaries, which, they discovered. oe- l cufe, oddly enough, on the same. dilite Last Thursday, .ase 29th of July. was again at hand Clerk Mccarthy and the Attorneys Powell. who, by the way are 1 twin brothers, are 39 yeafs cid, with Mir. Howard seven years their junior. Enc mat. CT cf bsfitting celebration conf.o1ls- cd he genetienen. It is said Attorney Charles Powell would have liked 10 en- dar banquet, ard it Is known that the others would have liked to attend. Hoy ever the feast didn't materuEze. h. stead. the quatle.te met in the evsring and fslieJ.ated themselves with blowing pulJty at the moon.
 T am agin '.he democratic party and l everybody connected with it. sa4d ne man with the red mus,tache and hickory shirt. .a
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 Yep" .iF F. fj
 "And why?"
 .Aint Equare about vcln'. Always on lhe b@at, specially Back Belt onss That's me That's BA Roger, 'nr59gh and thrOugh, Lord. the way they do pile up majorfttes in the black belt, votin, "a feller tells me, dead mules when dead niggers is scarce. A black belt man'n do anything in politics if-'
 "A moment,' said l, nt=rrupiing "See the gentleman ecmipg-the tall, haLll- some man?"
 Yep. Peart loolzin' felier."
 Hes lawyer and a poGittcian. and hs will swing himself up several rou1iiis of The ladder yet, mark me I'll irtrodLce you aa h. passes directly. Now MT. Mcqueen, this is Mr. Rogers"
 "Glad to know. I'm sure. MT. Rcge.s; this is warm now dH-ft thin"
 ''Mr. Rogers and l." said I, moving away, were just discussing the black 1 belt"
 "nndeed. Oh, we'll, now that's gced, don't you 'hinaS. Mr. Rogers? You know, MT. Rogers, Lhe black belt f9 my cd home. I was raised down there, gr,w ,up there studded ldhere.'
 Should a clisnt always seek and aet on the advice of counsel?
 Attorney D. A. Green might eIl.ghten the public on that query, for unlocked for results bafell a client during the past week who had acted on the bright young lawyers suggestions.
 Now, I'm sent for" said the client, by the enemy. Shall go?'
 q see no reason why you shouldn't. By al means go.'
 But" hssltated the client. "thsre's more than one of the enemy. There might be a row.
 "Pshaw," laughed Attorney Green, pushing the huge bulk of the itigant from his office. "Go along with you. You're big enough to take care of yourseHr' A few minutes later loud noises on the stairway announced the rapid ascension of very large man, and in an instaat a sadly altered countenance with a batter ed ncse and bloody shirt front threw opsn Lawyer Greens door and ghoused, Didn't I tell you so? There was a room full of the enemy. Attorney Green, [ shall have to discharge you on the spo,." | "W-h-e-wi" excfaims Hon. S. w. JLhn, | with supreme and expressive denuncia- l tion not of the weather. but of the propo- sition to eliminate -rational issues from | the state platform Indeed" he adds, | with emphatic confidence such an idea | is only advanced by namby-pandy p.e- | hunters and republicans!" He's an expert wheelman and keeps abreast of all new things pertaining to the bike. He is Ed Warren, Jr.. an1 ne hat fJ,e in lace | a success.
 Appropos of dog-days and dogs there are Hogs and dog fancisrs in Brming- ham. Prominent among those who de- vote attention to the dog family is MT. Tom Ashford At his home on Park avenue there are fifteen full .pedigres pointers. He has four lingo pups, one out of Hester D., and litter of eight out of his famous field queen, Balsora. Tn 80 are sired by dog whcss lineage runs in u clear unbroken line back through the best English-bred hunters. This is Ven 1 Gull, winner in thirty field trials, and l four times a bench wnner-once ill Cana | da and once in ManitG.ba.
 | "Nick" and "Chappie' helorg to MT. J. | ]. Garrett. With the characteristic | shepherd dogs tralt they can oo eN Nsis- | thing but talk. They are as fond of sweetmeats as children and enjoy feast | of goobers like the proverb.al Georgian. Billy" Moughon on Eighth avenue, l turns to the ungainly and feroclous hull- 1 dog. "She-wee" is the night guardian of his premises. It is currently believed by all who have had horrfying glimpse of the beast that she could ainputate a limb as a hobo would amputate a saul sage.
 There is late and interesting arrival from Washington-ciean, nsat, unruffed, and comfortable in a plain suit of linen crash. He does rot permanently res de at the capital. He is there as represent atiye of the Ninth congressional district