The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-02
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The attorney-general of Alabama, the
! Hon. Charles G. Brown, is IN town. This
| Is his first visit home since he went into
| office at Montgomery three months ago,
and his presence here has given rise to
much gossip in connection with the fight
| between the court of county commissioners
| and Governor Johnstons new board of rev.
enue. There was talk that the attorney
| general had come to Birmingham to make
out case" against the commissioners; but
this was pronounced absurd by persons in
a position to pass judgment. In the first
| place, Governor Johnston has no authority
to direct the encouragement to take any
step In any such matter. 1t is wholly
| without the province of the attorney-gen-
eral In the second place, it is held to 3e
impossible that the Encouragement would
take any part in factional fight amongst
his friends in Jefferson. My some extra
ordinary means Governor Johnston induced
the legislature to abolish the court of coun-
ty commissioners; but the legislature placed
no new obligation upon the attorney-gen-
| eral. And those who know Mr.. Brown best
know that he would not be party to any
sense of justice and decency. Therefore
the encouragement is not likely to take
part in Governor Johnston's plans of po-
| litical salvation.
James w. weatherly has determined to
become a candidate for delegate to the con-
| stitutional convention, as announced in The
| Age-Herald's Montgomery correspondence
h; in III
| will appeal with great force to the voters
| of Jefferson county. Mr.. Weatherly IS ac-
| knowledged to be one of the ablest MEM
| bers of the Jefferson bar, and his wide
| legal knowledge, together with his bril-
| liant mental qualities. would make him in
| valuable as a member of the all-important
| convention.
The Rev. DIR. B. f. Riley, some time
president of Howard college at East Lake,
| and now professor of rhetoric and English
| literature in the University of Georgia, at
| Athens, was in Birmingham yesterday on
| his way to Collinsvlle, where last night
| he delivered an address "Glimpses of
| Europe" DIR. Riley has made several visits
| to the old world during the past few years,
| and no man is more competent to talk en-
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| lands. The good doctor was born and
brought up in Conecuh county, this state,
| and for many years he played an important
| part in educational matters. He compiled
| a handbook of Alabama, of which the leg
| islature caused 5000 copies to be printed.
| He is man of marked intellectual capac-
| ity and of most engaging personal>matters.
Iyx-ln Of x.-l,o
appointment by Governor Johnston as rail-
road commissioner has caused some little
comment in the state, was In town last
night, proceeding rom the scene of his tri-
| umphs at Montgomery to his home upon
| the Tennessee.
| Down at Mobile they have already
brought out candidate to defeat the Hon.
| G. Washington Taylor for congress next
| year. The candidate is State Senator Sid
| ney j. Lyons.
iusos s1rV g. II eatJta
"Rudyard Kipling is in the hands of the
| first two physicians of America" said
| doctor last night. DIR Janeway is prob
| ably the first expert now living in the world
| regarding lung troubles, and good sec
| ond is DR.. Durham. DR.. Janwey in the
matter of diagnosing such ailments, is GER
| tainly unequalled. He gives little medi-
| cine. Undoubtedly the administration of
oxygen artifcially has saved Mr.. Kiplings
life SO far. The poet would have inevitably
died had it not been for such treatment.
Now there is a chance for his life. The
| physicians fees? Well, 1 should say that
Dr. Janeway and DR.. Durham will each
charge at least 5000 day. There are prob
| ably no other two physicians in the world
| who command such fees as those two. If
| Rudyard Kipling dies he will die under the
most skillful treatment the medicine world
| has to offer to any patient"
| A private telegram received in Birmng-
| ham from Huntsville yesterday was to the
| effect that Hon. Richard II. Lowe, stricken
| two weeks ago by paralysis, was sufficient
| ly strong to go. down town. His physicians
| are confident of his perfect recovery. This
| will be pleasing information to thousands
| of Alabamians.
| DR.. Blake, the physician inspector of the
| board of convict inspectors, who has just
| been reapponted, is in the city.
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