The age-herald., 1899-01-20


 He attended a funeral in Selma on
 Wednesday, and that afternoon on the train
 to Birmingham he felt feverish. He retired
 early after his arrival here, and growing
 worse during the night. the Doctors Morris
 were summoned. Last night MT. Pettus
 was much improved, and possibly he will
 be strong enough to leave his bedroom
 today or tomorrow. All Alabamians will
 wish for MT. Pettus speedy recovery.
 
 ''Ths week I have been to Talladega,
 Sylaeauga and Anniston and other towns in
 that district and I found the grippe raging,
 MT. Duncan McPhee, the well known com-
 mereial traveller. Nearly everybody has
 been or was suffering from it. and I heard
 of a number of deaths that were traceaple
 to the mysterious and all-pervading mal-
 ady."
 In Birmingham the grippe continues in | epidemic form unabated. It is probable | that before it has run its course more than four-fifths of the population will have been | claimed as victims For example, every
 member of MT. Marcus Wells household,
 including the cook and other servants, has | been prostrated. The grippe is no respecter ! of persons. It strikes the strongest youth | and the feeblest old man. Meantime, the | druggists are having a great run on all | the patent medicines that are advertised | in the newspapers as remedies for the | grippe.
 | "All the leading lawyers are gratifed at
 the prospect of an additional judge for the Fifth United States circuit, and all of | them are deeply concerned in the matter as to who shall be the judge" said lawyer. | "Of course we should like to see an Ala | bamian appointed, and the president has | two most capable men of his own political l party to choose from, David B. Shelby, of | Huntsville, and Winston Smith, of Bir- | mingham. Both are good men, strong l men, and each would make eminently | satisfactory judge. Personally I prefer 1 Winston Smith He is a man learned in the | law is upright just, conservative and al- | ways calm. He has fads, no absurd | fancies, but is a sound lawyer and wise l judge of law. With all this, he is one of the best men of Alabama
 "The Georgians believe that J. T. Glenn, l of Atlanta, will be appointed to the judge l ship" said politician just returned from Washington. "They are making a powerful 1 pull for him and seem to be confident" 1
 1 "It seems almost certain now that Law | renee Jones' yacht, the Paul Jones, has | really been lost in the Gulf of Mexico with her five passengers and three crew." ob- l served a friend of Mr. Jones in the lobby. l Ut is perhaps in the nature of accident l that Lawrence Jones himself wasn't on | board and lost with the others. Two mat | ters of business kept him at home. One was the meeting of the shareholders in the l famous Paul Jones Dstillery company, in which he owns over 80 per cent. of the stock, and the other was the meeting of the | shareholders of one of the Louisville na- | tional banks, of which he is director.
 '"rhe yacht cost $22,OOO and was sent from New York where it was built, to Louis | vile by rail, special car being constructed 1 for it's transportation. At Louisville 1t | was put in the waters of the Ohio river, and after being luxuriously provisioned was boarded by a party of MT. Jones friends, including Judge Yocumb, a widely known man. The yacht steamed down the Ohio to the Mississippi, and down the | Mississippi to New Orleans en route to Mobile, Pensacola and Tampa. At Tampa MT. Jones has a winter home, and near there Judge Yocumb owned a country resi- | dence. Lawrence Jones is now at Mobile using every effort to ascertain the fate of his friends on his yacht
 |
 | "Coming into town last night I travelled | with a second lieutenant and two privates | of an Indiana regiment bound for Manila, a travelling man said. 'They were the most pronounced types of the Hoosier I have seen, and were quite unsophisticated. I | asked them if thery were from Posey coun- | ty, where nothing is produced but hand l spikes and whet-rocks, but they answered l simply mo- Didn't see my little joke. | They had with the biggest raccoon I ever saw. I am sure it weighed forty pounds. | It was perfectly tame and did all sorts of l jumping and climbing It scared the wits out of two ladies by jumping into their laps. l I asked the soldiers if the coon was their i mascot or their Jonah, but they didn't know what meant and answered mo- It was all highly amusing
 "Excitement is growing in Calhoun coun- | ty over the proposed removal of the court | house from Jacksonville to Anniston," re- l marked a travelling man who was in Anis- | ton yesterday. "The court house election is | two months off, but already the agitation is | hot enough. In Anniston $7,6OO has been | subscribed by the public to prosecute the | campaign in favor of that city. One man l gave s1,OOO. That sort of county fight | usually arouses much bitterness, and Cal | houn is not likely to prove an exception to | the unhappy rule"
 MT. Joseph Neuman, a well-known mer- | chant of Greenville, Ala, is in the city. MT. l | Neuman is owner of Birmingham prop | erty and has had faith in Birmingham for | many years. MT. Neuman makes frequent | trips to Europe, and enjoys his summers | pleasantly in Germany. He is a man of l many virtues and few faults, and If one of- I fered a big reward for the production of | an enemy of his in Butler county, where he