The age-herald., 1899-10-07
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 face of the earth: that one cannot be able to SC the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groeth for you out of the field.-Exodus, x, 4-5. The iocusts were grasshoppers, as we southerners would designate them; and Birmingham yesterday mad a rare experi- enee with these insects. There were count less thousands of them in the fields, gar- dens, yards, streets, and even many were inside houses. One choice specimen, an inoh and a quarter long. rested until after noon by the ice-water tank in one of The Age-Herald's editorial rooms, and then went his way, none knows whither. Many lay about the pavements of the streets and were crushed under the relentless tread of traffic. All the grasshoppers appeared be- numbed as if by cold, or limp as if weary of long flight. Numerous specimens were sent to The Age Herald with requests for explanation. There cannot be but one way of explaining the presence here of these insects, and that is that a "cloud' of them passed over Birmingham, doubtless going from colder to warmer localities, and those seen lhere were the weak ones that dropped from the flight The "eloud' passed in the night The grasshoppers appeared to be of the ordinary gray-brown southern corn field species, familiar to everybody. There are many species of the grasshopper in the United States, as the Gryllus vulgars of New England, which seems to be repre- sented by the Gryllus agilis of the south ern states The katydid is a familiar ex- amDle. Rut Whenpa parna fina sselord of locusts" of Thursday night and whither bound are questions not here or now an- swerable. Students of natural history will find the subject interesting.
 Peter B. Mckenzie has resigned the may oralty of Eufaula, after adorning that hon. orable position for five years, and will re- move to Birmingham to practice law, in which he is learned man. The attractions of Birmingham are great indeed when they can lure man like MT. Mckenzie from the chief place of honor in one of the most cultured and charming towns in all the land of the republic. MT. Mckenzie is not a Eufaulian in the sense that he is native there and to the manner born; but he has dwelt there for many years and his ap- preciative townsmen have been pleased to
 
 all, for he is a young man of ability and of many of the excellent qualities that shine as real virtues. The Birmingham bar will cordially welcome MT. Mckenzie, and all the people here who shall come to know him shall come also to like him.
 Speaking of the chief town of Barbour. it is interesting to observe that a gifted iva of ;,l TNtx. as that historic county was called of old, is now visiting his mother and other rea- tives there. Bertram Clayton, now a member of congress from one of the Brook lyn districts of New York and colonel of a regiment of the New York national guard is the guest of his mother, Mrs. II. D. Clayton, at Eufaua. He is one of the sons of the late Major-General H. D. Clayton, for many years judge of the Third circuit, and who died whilst in office as president Of the State University at Tuscaloosa; and he Is therefore younger brother of Con- gressman H. D. Clayton of the Third Ala \ Dama district. Thus two sons of a major general of the confederacy are members of the Fifty-sixth congress, and one of them represents Yankee district It is fact without precedent; although brothers have heretofore served in congress from differ ent states. Bertram Clayton, who is a nephew of former Senator James l.. Pugh, graduated from West Point and served several years in the army. He married a Brooklyn woman and resigned from the army to engage in private business. At the outbreak of the war with Spain he yolun- teered his services and was q captain at the seize of Santiago. It is not nee6ful to state that the New York congressman, like his Alabama brother and colleague, is a democrat.
 H. F. DeBardeleben returned to the city yesterday from the east.
 Charles J. Jackson of Richmond, Va, is in Birmingham.
 Representative Speer of St. Clair was in town yesterday.
 The Messrs. Dimmick, of Anniston, spent yesterdy in Birmingham, in consideration of the matter of selecting a site for the large plant soon to be built by the Dim- mick Pipe company.N No conclusion was ar rived at, and it will be a week before a site is finally determined upon. North Bir-
  atfon, and Anniston is working strongly for the new industry
 
 Editor Frank w. Gist, of the Solumbiana Chronicle, and chairman of the Fourth congressional district democratic executive committee, is in Birmingham.
 G. L. Norman. of Atlanta, widely known as a successful architect. is a visitor to Birmingham
 Rudolph Keppler. of New York, ts at the Morris.
 There are a great number of visitors from other states in Birmingham at present and all the hotels are filled with guests. "The rush is on," undoubtedly, and Birmingham is the busiest town between the seas. The demand for dwelling houses is extraordl- nary.