The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-21
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| Hon. Robert ]. Lowe, city attorney. was a
candidate for reelection and was success
fu 1t was held that Mr.. Lowe was a sup
| porter of Senator Morgan. In fact, Mr..
Lowe is an ardent supporter of Senator
| Morgan for reelection, and is known to be
one of the two or three most conspicuous
| supporters of the senator. In addition to
| being the chairman of the state democratic
| executive committee, Mr.. Lowe is the chair
man of the jefferson county democratic
| executive committee This explanation is
necessary in view of the fight against Mr..
Lowe for the city attorneyship. 1.-The fight
against Mr.. Lowe in the city council was
really Morgan and Johnston fight" said
| man who is observant of current political
| conditions. 1.-THE attempt to defeat Mr..
Lowe could not possibly have been on per-
sonal grounds. 1t was political Mr.. Lowe
is outspoken for Senator Morgan, and the
attempt was made to discredit him in his
own home. In this attempt, men who are
closest to the governor, took part Had the
| opponents of Mr.. Lowe succeeded, their
SUCCESS would have meant a great deal for
Governor Johnston. Having failed in their
purpose to discredit Mr.. Lowe in his own
home which is also the home of Governor
county will instruct it's senator and six rep
resentatives to vote for Morgan as his own
successor in the United States senate.
Lowe won; Morgan will win the county.
| Jefferson is not, and never will be- john
ston county. Everybody, Governor John-
| ston most of ALL knows this. The fight
against Mr.. Lowe in the city council was In
no sense an anti-Lowe fight-it was anti
Morganl The governor loses. He can
possibly hope to carry Jefferson county,
Colonel Emmett Seibels, whose death at
his home in Montgomery was reported
/ Yesterday was one of the few survivors
| of the old race of southern gentlemen. lie
was born in South Carolina seventy-elght
years ago. Graduating from the University
of South Carolina, he entered upon the
practice of the law; but he gave up lu-
crative practice to enter the service OF the
Confederate states. At the organization
of the Seventh South Carolina regiment
ne was elected major, and by successive
promotions became its colonel and COM
manding officer. He bore his part gal
lantly in many of the most desperate bat
ties in which the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia was engaged. After the war closed
Colonel Seibels went to reside In Mont
gomery, and there married a daughter of
the late Senator George Goldthwaite,
whose son, Robert Goldthwaite, is presi-
dent of the Merchants and Planters Ma
tional bank of Montgomery. Senator Gold
thwaftes granddaughter, Mary Virginia,
daughter of Robert Goldthwaite, was we'd
ded some years ago to Milton Paul Le-
Grand the younger, elder son OF DR.. M p.
IeGrand, the most successful merchant
Montgomery has ever had. DR.. LeGrand
founded the famous Bank of Montgomery,
Of which tine son is now president in sue
cession to his father Colonel Seibes was
a right royal southern gentleman, and his
death removes from Montgomery one of
the most notable and most honored citi-
zens. Colonel Seibels was brave, strong,
chivaric gentleman, who sprung from an
age that is done. There rs none left to
take his place. One of Colonel Sebels's
sons, George Seibels, was paymaster on
.the Petrol in Dewey's storming of Ma
Mia. and for many hours he dealt out the
missiles of death to the Spaniards. A pa
thetic and somewhat romantic interest is
aroused by Colonel Seibefs death, in that
one of the brightest, most gifted, and most
lovely of all the young women of Alabama
is his daughter, the Miss Annie Laurie
Selbels, one of the society heroines Of a
city famous for it's beautiful women.
Judge Samuel Greene and Solicitor John
Mcqueen of the criminal court will leave
Saturday night for Sunhower county, Mis-
sissppi, where they will for five days de-
vote their energies to the pursuit and de-
struction of the black bear Ucsus Ameri-
canus). Judge Greene and Mr.. Mcqueen
promise themselves great sport during their
short relief from the exacting duties of the
Criminal court and Mr. Mcqueen has prom
Used in advance a bear skin to one who
wishes him well. Judge Greene has recent
ly purchased a Remington gun, with which
he has been practicng for several days;
and he AYERS that he can kill a bear at a
distance very astonishing in the number of
yards named. The judge maintains that no
bear can escape that gun. John Mcqueen
is an old bear-slayer, as two or three times
a year he HES himself to the Mississippi
swamps for the purpose of aiming his un-
errng sun at the shutting Bruin.
"There is a curious fact about the fat OF
the bear" said John Mcqueen. "Save only
the fat of the 'possum, the fat of the bear
is the only animal fat known that is per-
fectly dgestlble as human food. The black
bear, which Judge Greene and 1 are going to
Mississippi to hunt during our short
Christmas holidays, feeds on berries and
herbs of various Sorts and at this time of
year the bear is very fat The fat on the
bears body is in many places inch to
an inch and half thick. When we kill a
bear in the swamps we strip off the fat
and put it into pot, which we carry with
us, and boil it for an hour seasoning it
well with pepper and salt, and dropping in
a few sweet potatoes. When the mess is
done it is the most savory dish in the
world. You can eat it till you can't stand,
and never suffer from indigestion of heavi-
ness; but you sleep under tent as soundly
as an infant in downy bed of ease. Bears
fat is the most delicious food 1 ever tasted
and, though 1 do say it, have slain many
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