The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-05-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE

''The proprietors of coal mines are feel
| ing very perceptibly the advance of hot
| weather." said a manufacturer. "There
is notable falling off in current business,
and 1t is expected to become still more
mari.ed. Private houses will have no use
| for coal, except for use in the kitchen,
and people are not in the habit of buying
| their coal supplies in the spring for the
next winter. In fact great numbers OF
large residences are supplied with only
| ton of coal each at time. The iron fur
| naces are using moro coal than ever be-
| fore. They are being run at their fullest
capacity. But householders have quit
buying coal and have turned their atten-
ton to ice. The indications are that they
will have much need for ice from this time
forward"
1.-THE burning of Wade Hampton's resi-
| dence at Columbia is a sad misfortune to
that great old man. said John Walker, of
South Carolina 1.-THE library, of which
General Hampton was very proud and in
which he spent much of his time, was one
of the largest and most valuable private
collection of books in the south. 1t was a
total loss, together with General Hamp-
tons private papers and correspondence,
the accumulation of fifty years. Ill for
tune seems to have pursued the general
for many years. Some fifteen or eighteen
years ago, while riding a mule out hunting
the animal against a tree with him,
so badly SCATTERING one of his legs as to
necessitate amputation. This greatly hui
inflated the general, and he has never
quite recovered from it. Then came the
If nj fbaf him from
the senate and from the leadership of his
own people Now comes the burning of his
cherished home. All this is hard on the
old man, who has worn so many honors
and who bears the burden of so many we'll
spent years."
when Hampton and Butler together so
worthily represented South Carolina in the
senate they had but two legs Between
them. Both had been generals in the con-
federate service, and Butler had lost his
leg in BATTLE Hampton came through that
long strife fighting all the time, and was
practically unhurt. 1t remained for mule
to deprive him OF his leg; not very heroic
spectacle. Hampton was made United
States commissioner of railroads by CleVe-
land. After Mckinley came into power he
resigned in anger at some ill-mannered
critics. who tainted him with holding on
to an Office which he knew Mckinley would
not deprive him of. He is as proud as
Lucifer. After Bueler left the senate he
went irto private business in Washington.
In the late war Mckinley made him a
major-general of volunteers. l believe he
has been mustered out. He is one of the
best men who has served a southern state
in the senate since the civil war. Imagine
Tillmanism turning out of the senate two
such men as Wade Hampton and M. c.
Butlern and the South Carolinian snorted.
zone of the quaintest and most beauti-
full spots in the country is Seottsville, in
Bibb county, not far from Blocton," said
w. C. Fellows 1t is the quietest of places
now, but it was busy enough during the
civil war. The confederate government
caused to be built there large wooden and
cotton mills for making cloth for soldiers
uniforms; and grist mill was also built.
The mills were driven by water power OBJ
aained by means of a powerful dam built
across a bold, clear stream. The dam still
stands and the pond is perhaps mile long,
and remarkably beautiful. The water Is as
clear as crystal. The surroundings OF
woods and fields are very attractive. Tho
old grisG mill remains and to this day
grinds the corn of the neighborhood. The
wooden and cotton mills were burned by
Wilson and his raiders towards the close
of the war. In his march from Tuscaloosa
to Selma he went out of his way to de-
stroy that property. The women and chill
dren begged him to spare the grist mill,
and he granted their prayers Scottsyille
is we'll worth a visit. Anglers especially
would find it interesting, as fish are plenti-
full. The place is on the new line of the
Mobile and Ohio railroad, and the COM
pany has selected it as the place for the
annual picnic to the employees between Ar
tesla and Montgomery. The picnic will
take place sortly."
Hon. Walter Nesmith, of Vernon, the
noted leader OF the bar in Lamar county,
is in the city. Mr.. Nesmith is a lawyer of
widely acknowledged ability, a man OF
great enterprise, and citizen whom all
the people of his county honor.
Nearly all the visiting knights of Pythias
who were in attendance on the grand
lodge this week have gone home after de-
claring that they had greatly enjoyed their
stay in Birmingham. They really did ap-
pear to enjoy themselves; and certainly
Birmingham made them welcome.
Former United States Marshal r. A.
Mininger, of Huntsville. is in the city.
Colonel J. M. Falkner, of Montgomery,
is in town.
Hon. Cecil Browne, of Talladega, was In
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