The age-herald., 1898-11-05
POLITICAL AND .f
 OTHER GOSSIP

yesterday He left for Gadsden at o'clock in the afternoon and will speak at Cedar Bluff, Cherokee county. today. The governor had made several other engage-i ments in the Seventh district, but he was unable to keep his appointments because of the necessity of preparing his message to the general assembly. Before doing this he must read the reports of all the state officers.
 The report of the treasurer, the attor- ney-general and the convict department are in and printed. The report of the auditor, which Is very comprehensive, of the state tax commission, and of the health officers are not in. The reports of the adjutant-general and of the state mine in- spectors are in the hands of the printer, as are the reports of the insane asylum and the institutes for the deaf, dumb and blind Heretofore many of these reports have not been delivered until December b, but this year every report will be printed and on the desk of the members when the legislature assemblies.
 Governor Johnston yesterday directed that a commission be issued to Hon. John w. Bush to sit as special judge in the city Souhi ol ohuiinSl Ill pldCc LII <AoSoSiaeS Justice Charles A. Senn, who is tempor- arily disabled from attending to the duties of that office. Acting Judge Bush will serve until Judge Senn recovers. Captain w. c. Ward, of this city, who is still quite i'll, received this appointment to preside during Judge Senns Hines, but he was un- able to act on account of his own sick ness.
 Senator Morgan was in Birmingham yes- terday. He has spent much time recently campaigning in the state. He will speak today at Clanton. ,z
 Senator Pettus is also actively engaged in campaigning and will speak in Selma on Monday.
 MT. Aldrich, the republican nominee for congress in the Fourth district, and MT. Goodwin, spoke in Clanton yesterday, and it is understood that they had only twenty three men to hear them. The supreme court of the state will pass on many applications for a rehearing and will deliver a good many decisions before the 9th, when the new court convenes. The judges are hard at work, cleaning up the docket as much as possible. It is understood that an important decis- ion will be delivered to what the jour nals of the two houses of the legislature mst show to sustaon an act. None of the state officers go into office until December 1, when the governor and all the other state officers will be sworn in. Hts Two new railroad commissioners are to be appointed between now and the first of next March, to take the place of the pres- ent associate members. Their terms of of- flee do not expire until March 1, 1899, and it is understood that the governor will make no appointments until immediately preceding that day.
 General Joseph Wheeler and the two members of his staff who accompanied him stopped over in Montgomery few hours Thursday night and while in the city called on Governor Johnston. General Wheeler was en route to Mobile to select a site for the home for sick soldiers. It is understood that either Mobile, Citronelle or Mount Vernon will be selected.
 
 The charge of Judge Denson to the grand jury of Emore county has been commended on all sides as one of the ablest ever de- livered denouncing mob law.
 It is said that the Third Alabama regi- ment, now at Camp Shipp, Anniston, will leave for Cuba about November 2. It is now a part of General Wheeler's corps, as are all the troops stationed at Anniston and Huntsville. There are 11,000 soldiers at Huntsville and 5000 at Anniston. There are no more vacancies among the officers of the Third Alabama, and unless some more of them resign there is no probability of any more appointments at present.
 It is probable that the governor will not order an immediate election to fill the va- cancy in the legislature caused by the death of B. L. Dean, of Tallapoosa county, as the law requires thirty days notice. and it is probable that the first session of the legis- lature will have adjourned before the elec- tion could be held The date will probably be fixed for the last part of December, when the farmers will have finished gath ering their crops.