The age-herald., 1898-07-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Secretary Nat Miller of the democratic campaign committee was telling a good one on Congressman Jesse Stallings at the Mor-
 ris last night. According to MT. Miller, the clever congressman had an appointment to
 speak ill Clay county he other day. "He
 was to have been met at the station some
 fifteen miles from the place of appoint
 ment,'' said Mr. Miller, "but by some means
 the gentlemen to meet him were behind
 time, and consequently Congressman Stal-
 lingS did not reach his appointment until
 about an hour behind time. When he ar
 rived OH the scene he did not wait for an
 introduction, but immediately mounted the
 platform, rolled up his sleeves, untitled his
 cravat, loosened his collar, and, picking up
 the big water bucket, proceeded to drink it about half dry. Surveying his audience,
 he opened up, Hill Billies, I have come after you.' This opening caught the crowd, and no speech in Clay county is said to
 have had so good an effect"
 "This weather we have been afflicted with the past few days is hard on ice and beer
 dealers," said MT. baughlin. of the Ala
 bama Brewing company, at the Florence yesterday. Possibly you would not think
 it. but the ice supply has been lessened
 from ten to fifteen tons per day in this
 city for the past three days. Rainy, cool
 weather Is udTu Oll ICS, OSSl diloSo uet
 water"
 Hon. Walter S. White, state auditor, is
 spending today in the, city. He spent yes
 terday at Shelby Springs, where he attend-
 ed a reunion of the old First Alabama reg-
 ment.
 Congressman J. H. Rankhead was in the city last night. q have just returned from a trip through Coosa, Fillmore and Clay countless" said MT. Bankhead. "I have had good audiences everywhere l have spoken and it seems to me that the democrats should elect their county ticket in each of these counties l ind that there is practically no opposition to the state ticket. The people are all well pleased with the economical administration Of the
 present state government, and believe it the
 best in the states history"
 MT. Bankhead spoke in Clay county yes-
 terday to fine audience. He went to
 Guntersville early this morning, where he
 will speak today.
 Congressman O. w. Underwood goes to
 Blocton this morning, where he is to be the orator at a flag raising. MT. Under wood is billed for several speeches in Bibb next week.
 The executive committee of the Ninth congressional district will meet in the of flee of Mr. D. K. Campbell today at o'clock to arrange for the primary to nom- mate a candidate for congress from this, the Ninth district It is generally under
 stood that MT. Underwood will have no opposition for the nomination, fact of
 which he is justly proud.
 'I heard today that Col. J. J. Altman
 would be candidate for mayor to succeed
 Mayor Evans" said a prominent local pol | itician in hotel lobby last night. "I have |, ard Colonel Altman pXDrpSS himself | however and therefore can't confirm the | report He would make strong candi- | date"
 | Colonel Altman was seen by an Age | Herald reporter later in the evening, and | positively denied the report
 "Afy father built the first cotton mill ever erected in this state," said Major o.
 M Scott. of Selma. to an Age-Herald re- porter last night. Tt was at Scottsville,
 in Bibb county, away back in the hfties, You know they hadn't much facilities for running cotton mills in those days. It was run by horse power and the looms were the old-fashioned wooden ones. He wove Osnaburg and linsy, and spun quite a | large amount of ''hank." You don't know what thank is? It was used by the wo- men in those days who did their own weaving. The output of the mill was about | five thousand yards per day. I remember that during the late war people would come to Scottsville from all over the state for cloth, and some of them would camp there and wait probably two weeks before being served, as the war department would only allow us to issue a certaih amount to the people daily, purchasing the remainder for soldiers clothes. Father always reserved one days product of the mill which he gave to the widows of sol- diers.''
 Scottsville long ago sank into insignifi- cance and there is little left to mark the place, once so familiar to Alabamians.