The age-herald., 1899-03-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES AND ELSEWHERE

IOuf 10 IOTly-elSul tiOdlS III auNdAON OA Nao
 actual occurrence of such phenomena. He
 feels the effect in his nerves, in his bones
 and in his eyes. He cannot see distinctly,
 and strange lights dance before his eyes. l At dark last night he said: There Is go- 1 ing to be some unusual display or elec- l trieity within the next few hours; for 1 feel it's approach, and have been feeling It
 for nearly two days" As he spoke there
 was a light hare-up in the northwest, l which was supposed to come from soma
 one of the iron furnaces, which paint the 1 clouds so brilliantly every night when | there be any clouds at all. This natural
 "forecaster'' of the weather continued to | talk of his experience with lightning, when 1 suddenly all the northwestern heavens
 were brilliantly illuminated by na- l ture's great dynamo. There you are!' he | remarked, in a tone of relief. There IS
 the lightning; I knew 1t was coming. To- morrow 1 shall feel like I am at cham
 pagne feast all day. l shall feel as well | and in as good spirits as it is ever given | to me to feel" This is highly suggestive l of Dickens character who cried in real | pain, The winds in the east, my dear; l the winds in the east!"
 
 | Bradstreets famous agency has filed 1 with the secretary of state of Alabama | the formal certificate setting forth it's main | business the whereabouts of it's head office l and the location of its principal office in Alabama, as 'now required by the state l law. Birmingham is named as the ehier | office of the Bradstreet corporation In this | state, because, as the secretary of the | company writes to the representatives | here Birmingham Is the leading city of | Alabama" This will surprise no one, but | it is of more than ordinary interest to | know that great Bradstreet acknowledges | young Blrminghams supremacy. w. C. | Lovejoy and Shelby Smith are now in | charge of the Birmingham office; and It is | the purpose of Bradstreets to give it's GUS 1 toners in this territory as perfect a serV- | ice as is given to New York. It will cover the commercial field in every detail.
 
 Congressman John l.. Burnett, of the Seventh district, the able and popular Jack
 of Clubs" is in the city on legal business
 He spent the closing days of the late con | gressional session in Washington viewing the landscape over and spying out the i place or HIS IuluIt ieSiSideiNS NNA VT | Doubtless he desired to see just how things are done in Washington, and incidentally he looked around for a place at which to live after the assembling of the new con gress shall call him to his duties at the capital. He looked at hotels and private boarding houses but will look again before he makes up his mind as to habitat!on Mrs. Burnett objects to hotel life, and their | son. Master Burnett, aged 10, the actual | ruler of the family, declares that he wH | not go to Washington unless he can carry | his dog with him. The lad couldn't keep | his dog at a hotel; and so that will proba- l bly settle the question in favor of a private house. One very agreeable thing occurred | for the gifted congressman at noon on the
 4th of March. His name was placed on the l pay roll, and his salary of 5000 year be- 1 gan. No new congressman deserves 1t
 more; none will more fully earn it. l James A. Going announces himself can- | didate for alderman from the Fifth ward, | and his name will commend itself very l strongly to the voters. MT. Going is bus | mess man of wide experience, and he pos sesses to an unusual degree the confidence | of the public. Such men are always needed in the city council.
 story on the late Rufus K. Boyd, secre- | tary of state, is told by Sheriff oBrien at I the expense of former Governor Rufus w. | Cobb. Boyd was great at jokes of all sorts. | One day he was coming up from Montgom- | cry, and when the train stopped at Helena,
 which was the governors home, and where ha tiV hal0Vad ha decided n have some fun out of several workingmen who l were at the station. Let me see," said | Boyd, to the men, "this is Helena, and | Governor Cobb lives here." "Yes, sir" an- | swered the men, with local pride, and with
 fond regard for their distinguished towns | man. This is Helena and the governor of | Alabama lives here!' Boyd smiled and
 said And that same governor goes bare | footed when he is at home" That's a l d--d lie!' shouted the men in great | wrath; and just at the moment the train
 steamed away bearing the secretary of | state from what would have been the se-
 were consequences of his own little joke. 1 The men were ready to fight the fellow
 who said that their own governor went | barefooted at home.
 |
 w. L. Clay, of Huntsville for many years
 secretary of the State senate, is in the city
 visiting his brother, J. Withers Clay. He
 is one of the best known Alabamians and
 is greatly liked all over the state. He gears | name famous in the history of the state, | and one that will be always honored by
 the people of Alabama. Madison county
 has given to the service of the state prob-
 ably greater number of strong men than
 any other one county during the eighty | years of the states existence.
 State Solicitor John V. Smith, of Russell,
 was in Birmingham yesterday. The solici- | tor has had no court for week. and will
 have two moro weeks of idleness. He ob- I jects very emphatically to this condition | of things, and he expressed the earnest | wish that he might be able to resume his
 labors tomorrow MT. Smith Is one of the
 best two solicitors in the state, and is one |