The age-herald., 1899-01-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

| tildl nc WOulu D5 dDiB lO iCdfE nlo OSOfooAh yesterday. but his condition was not so
 satisfactory as had been hoped for In fact,
 he had not improved at all; and last night
 was quite sick. pr. Morris is confident,
 however, of bringing his distinguished pa- | tient around all right within day or so.
 As stated in the Age-Herald yesterday MT. l Pettus Is suffering from the grippe, and he
 has in Birmingham about 5000 companions
 in the same sort of misery. That is of small
 comfort to him, except on the score that
 misery loves company. Nothing under the
 sun can be great comfort to man who
 Is in the embrace of the grippe.
 
 Amongst the crowd of visitors in the city
 is Colonel w. A. Turk general passenger | agent of the Great Southern system, with
 headquarters at Washington. Colonel Turk
 is known to and honored by all the railroad | men of this country, and his fame has | erased the seas. To all the public he IS 1 known by a reputation that is enviable;
 and to a multitude of personal friends he
 has endeared himself by his sterling quali-
 ties as man and his engaging manners as | companion and associate. l Colonel Turk is on a regular tour of the
 Southern system, and Is cordially welcomed to Birmingham. reporter of The Age | Herald sought an interview with him. but he insisted that he had nothing to say for l publication.
 1 "I am sorry" he declared, that haven't | got anything to tell you; but really don't know anything of interest" And he actu- ally looked regretful.
 Business is very good, presume?" ven | tured the reporter.
 "Yes!" And then after a moment. he re- marked: "I'd be glad to give you an hour
 in which to pump me, but honestly I'd have nothing to say.''
 T knew General Anson G. McCook when | he was young clerk in drug store in Ne vada City, California" said a forty-niner, l in the lobby, last night. ''There were four or five of us southerners in the mining camp there, and we used to make the drug store our headquarters, and pleasant social | times we had. We had our gold dust weighed there, and if we had dirty nuggets we'd buy acids of the druggist to clean them with. Young McCook was very civil and obliging and we all liked him. In time we all scattered about the world, and forgot | McCook. One day, several years ago, I was in New York and met one of the little party which used to gather at the Nevada City drug store.
 DO you know General McCook? he asked me.
 NO; only by reputation " Do you remember the drug clerk in our Nevada City drug store in '50?' "'Yes'
 "'Well the drug clerk is now General Me Cook
 You can imagine my astonishment! We called on the general; he remembered us and received us gladly. Whenever I am in New York call upon him, and he treats | me with the greatest friendiness.' Governor McLaurin will be the next United States senator from Mississippi" observed a former resident of that state, land he will be one of the ablest and most eloquent members of the upper house. He is candidate for the senate, and no man can beat him. The power of his eloquence was once displayed in the court house at Brandon in a remarkable way. He was counsel in noted murder case; and at the conclusion of his address all the jurymen rushed forward and embraced him, so deep ly had his eloquence moved them and two thirds of the crowd in the corut house were weeping. The judge had to call upon the sheriff to restore ofder Needless to say, he won his case.
 "One of the strangest hallucinations of a disordered mind that has come under my observation" remarked state solicitor, lis that of a young man who imagined him +1 l. xvhc duty it was to arrest men for all sorts of offenses. He would meet a negro whom he imagined to be a criminal, and instantly he would bounce upon the startled man and claim him as prisoner. A few days ago he
 went down to the freight yard of one of the railroads here in Birmingham, and seeing negro man at work in a car, he jumped with pistol in hand and placed the man under arrest as Gholson, the murderer of Deputy Sheriff Warnock. He spent several weeks in Birmingham and caused no end of annoy ance, but the police and the deputy sher- ifs knew him and good-naturedly put up with his pranks as best they could. This week he was taken to Tuscaloosa and placed in the hospital for the insane He is the son of prominent doctor in one of the leading Alabama cities"
 Judge James Greene, of St. Clair, was in Birmingham yesterday.
 Representative John H. Wallace, Jr., of Madison is, in the city en route to Mont gomery.
 State Solicitor Manley Foster, of Tusca- loosa was in town yesterday.
 RATIFY THE TREATY-STOP THE WAR From the Washington Post.
 It rests with the senate of the United