The age-herald., 1899-05-15
IN HOTEL. LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Bernard ItarWood or Greene.
 "0h, next year, perhaps" was the an- swer
 Likely enough you presume that a ma jority which has so openly violated the constitution during the past two weeks would not hesitate to disregard that little matter of the fifty days limitation?"
 Quite so. What would they care about that, or any other limitation of legal pow er?'s
 How are matters in the house, anyway" Mir Harwood was asked.
 "couldn't well be worse. There Is con- stant fussing and quarreling on the floor There came very near being two or three fights yesterday. The session was very stormy and very scrappy-like. great deal of ill-feeling has been enge1dered. The repealists will accept no proposition the friends of convention make, and it is likely that the latter would agree to noth- ing proposed by the repealists. It is very unhappy state of affairs. And there is no prospect of adjournment"
 "Why should the majority favor adjourn ment?" demanded a bystander. They have no respect for the constitution, and therefore may sit all the year. At the end of the fifty days if matter of form should be desired, there is no power to restrain the governor from calling them together again, and immediately by proclamation. The thing may go on perpetually. And large majority of the members receive more money at the rate of four dollars a day than they could make at home. At Montgomery they each make at least a bale of cotton every five or six days"
 Representative Harwood left Birmingham at noon for Blount Springs, where he will rest for two or three days.
 Reports from Montgomery were to the effect that Mr. Brandon had sent to the governor his resignation as member of the house.
 People throughout the state feel very sore towards Governor Johnston" said 8 Cincinnati travelling man, who arrived in Birmingham yesterday, and who takes an interest in Alabama politics. T have been over large section of the state during the past ten days" he said, "and wherever l went 1 found powerful sentiment against the governor on account of his action in calling the extra session of the legislature and forcing the repeal of the call for a constitutional convention. In many in stances the expressions of resentment were bitter, and in no case did I come in contact with any man of local consequence who eondoned the governors offense against the law and his own party. l was astonished at the unanimity with which the governor is condemned in all parts of the state l visited"
 Jackson county has issued $25o,000 in bonds for the purpose of building good roads, and that is long step forward for one of the best counties in the state," said Editor James Armstrong, of the Scottsboro Citizen. "Road-making in Jackson will be cheap and easy, for there is abundance of rock at hand in nearly all parts of the county. Many of our roads be macad- amized for long distances without the ne- cessity of going more than fifty yards for rock. The roads need improvement very badly; but, notwithstanding bad roads, we have one of the best and most prosperous counties in the south. Jackson is hog and hominy county. comparatively little at tention being paid to cotton. Our people raise their own meat and bread, in conse- quence of which they thrive and lead con- tented lives. Great numbers of hogs and cattle are shipped from the county to Chat tanooga and other markets. Some weeks I fear that all the stock in the county is being shipped from Scottsboro but it Is, of course, only the surplus, and may be next week the shipments would be just as heavy We have fine county and a thriv- ing population.'
 "The air-tight closing of saloons and ho- tel store rooms has cost Chattanooga dear ly,' said Chattanooga man yesterday. Formerly an average of 15O drummers would spend every Sunday in that city, many of them travelling long distances on Saturdays in order to enjoy a pleasant soclable Sunday and have their beer if they wished it. But Chattanooga is run by old women of both sexes now and is going down the hill. Travelling men shun it on Sundays, and they not only do that, but they talk the town down. Our trade is in a very unsatisfactory condition. and there would have been disasters last summer and fall if it hadn't been for the money the soldiers spent. It is a sad day for any town when it ceases to attract the pres ence and the praise of the commercial trav- elers."
 .'The tight closing of the saloons in Biz mingham on Sunday is great thing for the Pratt City and Bessemer saloonkeepers," observed a Birmingham man. "A man can get whatever he wants to drink at either place, and the cars to both places are crowded every Sunday afternoon with thirsty men. The dummy line now sells round-trip tickets to Bessemer for twenty cents; good only on Sundays. Thus a man may ride twenty-eight miles for two dimes, can see an attractive town and get all the drink he wishes.''
 The weather yesterday was perfect. The day was one of brilliant and uninterrupted sunshine, but the heat was in no degree oppressive. It was like a day in early April two or three years ago before the climate in this region underwent so radical change. The climate of Kentucky has apparently slipped down upon this section