The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-09-16
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= The report of the twenty-eecond annual
meeting of the Alabama State Bar asso-
citation, held at Montgomery on the 10th
and 18th of last June. has been sent out by
the secretary, Hon. Alexander Troy, OF
| Montgomery. Mr.. Troy is to be eongratu'
lated upon the perfect arrangement of the
| printed report, extending as 1T does to 1S2
pages, with an appendix of sixty-odd pages
more. Following the detailed report of the
proceedings is the address of Hon. John d.
Roquemore, retiring president. A paper
read by John C. Anderson on the exemp-
tlon laws of Alabama is also given, to-
gether with the extended report of the
committee on legislative enactment, of
which Hon. A. D. Sayre, judge of the city
| court of Montgomery, was chairman. But
that which makes this publication OF per-
manent value to the historian and student
is the annual address by Judge Henderson
NJ somerville. Judge Somerville's subject
| was The Trial of the Alabama Supreme
! Court Judges In 1929" This one
time famous trial was forgotten his
tory until Judge Somerville. with
protracted research and great labor
brought to light the facts from
masses of old papers and musty documents
and records and once more gave them to
| deeply interested public. None but a mas
| ter mind could nave dealt with the subject
| in the luminous and philosophical spirit SO
| graphically and so clearly manifested by
Judge Somervllle. Within the compass of
| This address he gives to the student a lib
| era1 education in the history of the evo-
! luton of American supreme courts, which
were supreme in name only until far into
| this century. Formerly such courts were
| but little better than parliamentary play
| things; but gradually they came to assert
| their rishtful powers, and finally to stand
between legislators and the people as the
| guardians against Injustice, wrong and OPP
| preston That is, in a sentence, the spri;
| of Judge Somervilles contention, which
| he submits with remarkable clearness of
| language, which he sustains by apt cita-
| lions of facts. As regards the trial under
| discussion, he gives clearly drawn pictures
| of men long since dead, all eminent men,
| who, to use Macauleys words, have
| spoken history, acted history, lived his
tory" Referring to the Alabama house of
representatives of 1S2s-29, Judge Somervlle
recalls the remark of the ambassador of
in its greatest splendor, reported to his
master that the Roman senate seemed to
him IAN assembly of kings" Judge SOM
ervie is a man with great knowledge of
the law, of broad learning, ripe scholar
ship; he is a philosopher.
Hon. Chappell Cory spent yesterday in
Birmingham attending to private business
talx irna RI bo
greetings OF innumerable friends. No man
| is more highly esteemed in this city than
he. Mr.. Cory recently spent a vacation of
ten days at Monteagle Tenn, where his
| family are spending the summer Mrs.
| Cory and the two Masters Cory, Chappell
| and Armstrong, will come to Birmingham
| by the end of the current month, and re-
main here till November, the guests of
| Mrs. Corys parents, Rev Thomas Arm
| Strong and Mrs Armstrong, at the West
| End.
| The six surviving brothers, Attorney
| General Charles G. Brown; Representative
! Wilson R. Brown, of Colbert; Prof. William
Garrett Brown, of Harvard university;
| Wilbur Brown. of Montgomery; Eugene
| Brown. of Birmingham. and Henry Brown
| of Texas, were in this city together yes
| terday, on their return from the funeral of
| their only sister, Mrs. Hogue, who died in
| Sheffield a week ago, and whose funeral
| took place at Marion on Thursday. Mrs.
Hogue was the widow of the late Cyrus D.
Hogue, of Perry, who was for two terms
auditor of this state, and who was of
the strongest and most honored of its citi-
zens. There has not dwelt amongst this
people truer. better man than Cyrus
Hogue. He passed before his time, but
| his virtues abide with true men, Mrs.
Hogue passes with the years named of old
but half spent, and there is sorrow for one
who was good woman, wife, and mother.
Hon. o. Y. Henderson. who has just been
elected mayor of Admission, to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of Mayor F. NJ.
Hight. spent yesterday in Birmingham.
| He is quite a young man, being scarcely
thirty, and was a town councillor at the
time of his election to the mayoralty. He
is a business man, and is expected TO give
his prosperous city a business administra-
ton Mayor Henderson lends the impress
sion of being an energetic, strong-willed
man, and his friends predict marked sue
cess for him in his conduct of the public
affairs of Admission.
George w. Fly, travelling passenget
agent of the Sunset Route was in town
yesterday. MIR. Ely returned the other day
from his summer vacation in Wisconsin.
He daiied for some weeks along the
streams and by the lakes of the Waul1e-
sha district, and declares that he had a bet
| ter time than anybody else. That declara-
| ton will be readily believed by all persons
who know Mr.. Ely. Asked if he caught
any fish. he said that fish had just begun
to bite at the time he was compelled to
leave. He went out with rod and line and
earthwerms one day, but confesses that he
didS't catch even bite. Mr.. Ely generally
makes his work his pleasure. and the most
pleasurable part of it all comes to him
when he is called upon in early autumn 10