The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE

AND ELSEWHERE
Judge Sterling B. Toney, of Louisville,
| judge of the law and equity division of the
Jefferson county, Kentucky, court, who on
| Tuesday issued a mandatory injunction re-
| stralning the city authorities and officers
of election from interfering with the in
| spectors for John Young Brown is a native
Alabamian. He removed to Louisville
| about twenty years ago. Judge Toney was
| born at Roseland, the ancestral home of
the Toneys, near Eufaula. and the late
Washington Toney was his father. He read
law in the office of his distinguished
brother-in-law. the late Judge Cochran
who was associated with former Senator
James L. Pugh; and so he had the wisest
of instructors. He came upon the scene in
time to enjoy something of the rare flavor
of the Barbour bar as it used to be. The
| present judge was admitted to the bar at
Eufaula, and at the time of his admission
was noted as being an unusually eloquent
speaker, and physically a very handsome
young man. Subsequently he and the late
! General Alpheus Baker, also of Barbour,
removed to Louisville and opened a law Of
ice. Judge Toney prospered from the out
| set, and became very popular in Louisville
He married Miss Burge, an heiress and
very gifted woman. and the marriage has
| been very happy In 1884 he was elected to
judgeship, and has been on the bench
ever since. He is a man of distinguished
ability. ripe legal knowledge, and the high
| est character.
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| the Louisville Judge His youngest sister
! is the wife of General William Calvin
| Oates, sometime governor of Alabama and
now a candidate for the United States
senate. Other sisters Mrs. Holt and
Mrs. Flournoy, of Eufaula, and Mrs. Rob-
ert L. Houston, of Mobile. An elder sister
was the late Mrs. Cochran, mother of Mrs
Jackson, the wife of Bishop Jackson. The
judges only brother, Mr.. T. w. Toney,
lives at Eufaula. Famous old Roseland is
now Bishop Jaeksons country home. Rose
| land has been perhaps the scene of sweeter
and more generous hospitality than any
other house in Alabama. 1t is an old
fashioned southern country house, four
miles from Eufaula, and its doors have in
time opened wide to thousands of glad
guests. The late Mrs. Toney, Judge Toney's
mother, the highest and gentlest type
of the southern gentlewoman of other
days, an6 spoke her name as they
might speak a prayer, SO deeply was she
revereneed.
Cantain Henry j. Sharit of Morris, who
died in this city yesterday, was one of the
oldest, best known, and most highly re-
spected citizens of Jefferson county. He
had lived more than eighty-two years,
most of that long period being spent in
this county. He was born in New York.
but came to Alabama in his youth, when
there was almost an unbroken wilderness
here. At the outbreak of the war between
the state ne and his eldest son, Amos
Sharit, enlisted in the Confederate service,
ioinging the first Alabama regiment, and
he was made a captain. In 1880 he was
elected to the legislature. Last Fourth of
July, the eighty-second anniversary of his
birth was celebrated by family reunion,
at which were present 139 of his descend
ants Until recent years Captain Sharit
took a very active part in politics and pub
lie affairs generally; but failing strength
latterly compelled him to remain more at
home. Captain Sharit was a strong man
and good citizen. Whatever he found
worthy to do he did it well; and so won the
esteem and respect of his neighbors and
all the people of the county who came to
know the sturdy, straightforward, true
spirited, kind-hearted man. Today he will
be buried near the old Sharit homestead,
in Green's valley, being laid to rest be-
side those members of his family who have
passed before him. A right noble old man,
was Henry Shart. He lived to good pur-
pose in the world, and memory of his life
will be cherished.
"E,verything is or ought to be relaxed dur
ing the fair time; otherwise it would be we'll
enough to call attention to the state of the
dewaiks IN front OF some of the hotels"
said a citizen. 1.-The law against eXpec-
torating on the sidewalks is being violated
to an extent that would not be excusable
but for fair time. The city council never
enacted a better law that tended to pro-
mote cleanliness and deceney. There was
some little resentment regarding it at first,
but that feeling quickly passed and now
everybody is for the law. In this connee-
ton, L see in the papers press dispatch
from Helena, Mont, stating that United
States Senator Carter was arrested and
nHeQ one uOlldr lOr eNpeclOrallnS on u Slue-
walk in that town, and that the fine was
paid Well, 1 should hope SO. A United
States senator should no more be suffered
to befoul the sidewalk than bootblack or
any other person."
DIR. Joseph d. Green, surgeon IN the ma
rine hospital service, has returned to his
home in Birmingham after two years alb
sence, and is now with relatives here Dr.
Green was the surgeon of the Mccullough
of Dewey's fleet at the taking of Manila.
The Mccullough IS a revenue boat attached
to the navy for carrying dispatches and
| doing such other special service as may be
required 1t was the Mccullough that
drew the fire of the Spanish guns in Manila
| bay. DIR. Green has been offered the work
| of organizing quarantine in the Philippines;
| but has declined He has had enough of