The age-herald., 1899-08-04
 IN HOTEL LoBBIES AND ELSEWHERE

StHdiOF anu QduSnleTS nave DeCu III Anniston a week OF more, the guests of Judge James W. Lapsley and family. In order to reach Blount the party will pass through Birmingham. but their delay will be very brief. Just how long they will stay at Blount Is not known, but long enough, peilaaps, for that resort to become a sort of Mecca of the politicians, most of the leaders of whom will desire to pay their respects to and consult with the senator regarding matters now of much concern to Alabamians. 1t is expected that the senator will stay in Alabama two or three months and then proceed to Washington to prepare for his work in the senate during the coming ''long session" of congress Word is brought from Anniston that Sen ator Morgan purchased two or three days ago the first roll Of carpet manufactured by the new Anniston Carpet mill. There were forty yards in the roll and the sena- tor intends using the first Alabama manu- factured carpet in his Washington resi- dence. The senator owns and occupies a modest dwelling house, No. 315 Four-and-a- Half street. Northwest, one of the treas ures of which is an antique chair, which he bought at auction in Paris when he
 
 commission in 1893. It is a well-known fact that Senator Morgan is not a man of wealth. For twenty years he has received practically nothing but his salary as a senator, and $5,00O goes but little way in Washington It is impossible for sena- tors and representatives to Save anything out of their salaries. To live upon their pay at all is to live very modestly. It is a great honor to Senator Morgan, as it was to Conkling, that after nearly a quar- ter of century in the senate he remains a poor man in this worlds goods. He has labored faithfully for his state and his country, with the usual result that he has been unable to accumulate money.
 
 Speaking of Senator Morgan recalls an- other veteran democrat and hero of the Black Belt. Colonel M. L. Stansel, of Pick ems, whose recent dangerous illness caused regret and apprehension throughout the state, has so far recovered as to be strong enough to visit his county town of Carroll ton, and that means that he has almost entirely recovered his strength. Few men in Alabama more fully receive the honor and esteem of the people; none more de- serve it. Colonel Stansel is the highest type of southern citizenship. He is proud, brave generous and faithful in all his appointed ways With his long, flowing white beard he looks the patriareh-a father of his peo- pie. His gentle courtesy and unpretending civility are worthy of an age that is done In the essentials of a. strong manhood few equal him; none surpass It will be a cause of satisfaction that this great old man of Pickens, so often placed in positions of honor, is again restored to health.
 Charles Broadway Rouss. of New York. so prominently identified with the funeral of the late Colonel Ingersoll, when Mrs. Ingersoll placed his hand over the dead mans unresponsve heart, is a great friend of the south. He is totally blind, as is well known, and so it was necessary to lead him to where Ingersoll was sleeping the last sleep, Mrs. Ingersoll saying that 1t was her husbands wish that the blind mans hand be placed over the heart of the dead. MT. Rouss is, in fact, southerner. having formerly resided in Winchester Va, to which place he has given, first and last, s1O0,OOO for public purposes. For great many years he has been doing good with his large fortune, and to seutherners he has been especially kind. It is of local interest to note report that comes from New York to the effect that Demetrius F. Myers, formerly of Birmingham. has been appointed by Mr. Rouss to be his chief legal counsel. This is good fortune for MT. Myers.
 There is not likely to be any further de- velopment in the sale of the Highland Dalt Iipa roilr in laoa sense, before September, when the United States court will reassemble and presum- ably will confirm|the sale to E. E. Whit taker. There could be a confirmation of sale before then, but it is held that the necessity does not exist. Special Master N. w. Trimble, clerk of the United States court, will submit his report of sale within a few days, and it will go on file. The re- portwill necessarily be short Either Dis- trict Judge Bruce or Circuit Judge Shelby has authority to confirm sale. Unhappily. Judge Bruee's health continues unsatis- factory. It is understood that confirmation of the sale is mostly matter of form, the courts having ordered it, and the transac- ton having been carried in terms of the order.
 
 Judge G. B. Mobey, of Eutaw, is in town.
 E. Carlisle Jones, of Selma, was in Bir- mingham yesterday.
 Judge Samuel M. Adams. of Chflton. ecd W. F. Garth. of Huntsville. were in tawS yesterday.
 
 Banker F. M Billing. of Montgomery. is in town.
 E. T. Hollingsworth, of Gadsden, spent yesterday In the city.
 Colonel J. T. Murfee, president of the Marion Military Institute, and for many years president of Howard College when it was located at Marion, is in the city. Hon. Charles E. Waller was In town last night on route to Shelby county to attend