The age-herald., 1900-06-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

l An unpToplllOuS udy.
 Sickness and troubles threaten thee; thy
 health and affairs will go very wrong; thou
 wilt also be annoyed by letters and writ
 ings"
 ''The young will court
 | "A child born on this day will have many
 troubles to contend with both in health
 and business, and will have great difficulty
 in making headway in life. If a female
 her marriage will be a very unhappy one.' | The presence in hotel Hobbies and about l town of numerous men who had been vis- l itors in Tuscaloosa during the commence
 ment days added marked volume to the | prevalent gossip concerning recent events | at the University of Alabama. The tone l of comment was in the main a tone that was sorrowful, rather than angry Refer
 ence was most frequently had to the action l of the Board of Trustees in passing the
 "muzzlng order against the faculty, and
 in removing from office James H. Fitts
 who for twenty-five years had been the l honored treasurer, and who repeatedly in l time of sore need advanced money without l interest to meet the Universitys current | expenses, Amongst those who are reported 1 to have voted for those drastic and almost | revolutionary measures were two trustees | who were appointed the other day, whose 1 titles to office are in the courts for l judgment, and who are yet to be confirmed l by the State Senate. The Governor and l the State Superintendent of Education are 1 by the Constitution and by the law trustees whose titles may not be questioned, and l they had absolute right to vote as they | deemed nrODer Still regret was pxpreSSed
 that their power was exercised for the
 "muzzlng' order and the removal of Mir
 Fitts. Justly or unjustly, President Pow CTS was the subject of adverse criticism l The causes of these comments were gem
 orally deplored; and in the talk there was
 displayed a spirit which promises to result
 in still greater agitation respecting that
 football of politics" which all good citi-
 zens would wish to cherish as the Uni l versty of all the people of Alabama. | The University and the National Repub-
 lican Convention divided honors" in the
 gossip of the day. It appeared that every
 body, whether Democrat, Republican, Pop
 ulist or nothing, was of opinion that the l Republican ticket is very powerful-inher- 1 ently "the strongest ever nominated by l any party" even some Democrats declared. Ut represents robbery and force," one dis 1 tinguished Democrat asserted. References 1 to the coming Democratic Convention were
 mostly incidental, its action being already | known, except as to the Vice-Presdential | nominatio One leader in a position to be
 well-informed said that Parker of New | York would be placed on the ticket with l Bryan, if Parker's consent could be obtain- | ed. The New York man was year or two l ago elected as a Democrat to the Supreme | Court of that State by 1S000 majority. 1t is | doubtful if he would accept the empty hon. | or of the Vice-Presdency, seeing that his | term as judge is fourteen years and his pay S1i,500 a year. As Vice President he ! would draw but $S,OOO a year, and his only | privilege would be to preside over the Sen ate and wait upon the improbable death of another.
 Captain J. w. Dimmick, who succeeds Colonel William Youngblood Alabama $ representative on the Republican National Committee, is the clerk of the United States court at Montgomery, a lucrative position which he has occupied for some twenty years He is one of the most suc- cesSful business men of Montgomery. For a time he was president of the First Ma tional Bank of that city, and is understood
 to be still director. He is the president, and perhaps the principal owner of the
 Montgomery street railways, and the pub- lie impression is that he is possessed of d private fortune which makes him inde-
 pendent in the material sense. Personally
 Captain Dimmick is highly respected in Montgomery, and is esteemed amongst the
 best of citizens. In the prolonged strife
 within the Republican party of this state, he espoused the cause of United States District Attorney Vaughan.
 P. D. Barker, who represents the Ala bama Republicans on the committee named
 to formally notify President Mckinley of
 his nomination, is the postmaster of Mo-
 bile, is the principal owner of the famous Battle House hotel there and is business , man who is said to be wealthy. He also is a Vaughan man."
 When Alabama was called, thin, red whiskered delegate from that state arose and surrendered the first right to speak to Ohio," says the Associated Press in its ac- count of the Philadelphia proceedings of 1 Thursday. This is understood to refer to
 Delegate Garden of Lee County, one of the
 
 district.
 John c. Graham, whose death at Sea- bright, N J., was reported yesterday, was the best known cotton man" Alabama ever had. He was born in a log-house on a farm in Bullock County, and his father continued to reside there until he died a few years ago. MT. Graham began his act i've career in Selma, and it used to be told with wonder throughout the adjoining counties that he was paid "S25, 900 year dollar bale-for buying cotton for Liverpool house." Subsequently he had an office in Montgomery, and called that city home; having purchased fine old mansion in Perry street, now owned and occupied by MT. Teague, wholesale grocer In the later sos he went with his family to per manently reside in New York. He was d member of the New York Cotton Exchange. I.,l