The age-herald., 1900-08-20
of the beautiful dancer of five and seventy

of the beautiful dancer of five and seventy years ago.
 Mrs. Faunce was the daughter of Dr. McBryde, noted Montgomery physician of the long ago, and her mother was the daughter of Wade Allen, father of the late Major General ". w. Allen. She married in early womanhood the late I. B. Faunce, who died many years ago. She was the sis ter of Major Wade Allen McBryde, of Montgomery, and Mrs Frank P. O'Brien, of Birmingham, and half-sister of MT. Ben Theiss, of Birmingham.
 A Midsummer's Night Festival will cause badness and rejoicing at Lakeview tomor- row, Tuesday, August 21; and thus beauti- full Lakeview continues to be the scene of innocent merriment, with the added at tractiveness that whosover shall visit that prettiest of all Birminghams pleasure re- sorts on Tuesday evening will give direct aid and support to gentle charity, first of all the virtues. The festival that Is to be is intended to benefit the charity funds of St. Pauls church, and Is being arranged for by the Ladies of Charity of St. Pauls There will be dancing and other amuse- ments, and light refreshments will be served The ladies-what a miserably un- charitable world this would be without charitable women.-hope to sell tickets for charity's sake at quarter of a dollar each, and they deserve to sell thousands. Like the charity organizations of all the churches, the Ladies of Charity of St. Pauls are doing a noble work in the cause of merciful human kindness; and no man can say it is not his duty to do all he can do for charity!
 The myth-makers and myth -destroyers will likely be spurred to new energy by the statement that Thomas c. Lawler one of the last men who talked with John Wilkes Booth before Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln on the night of April IA, 1865, Is dead at his home in Lynn,, Mass. Lawler was proprietor of the barber shop in the National Hotel, Washington, and a few hours before Booth committed the crime it was alleged that he shaved the actor and cut his hair. Before he left Booth gave Lawler pass to attend Ford's Theater that night, but Lawler was unable to at tend, and few hours later he heard of the crime. Lawler was taken on board the monitor Miantonomoh after Booth had
 
 Ter was born in Ireland, and for the past twenty years had lived in Lynn.
 
 The statement that Joseph Slaughter and Lee Slaughter are going into the merchant tailoring business on their own account is of interest to the great number of friends of one of the oldest and mofst honored of Southern Jewish families. These young ,,.rI,,, and are amongst the brightest of the many young business men who are building Bir- mingham greater. Their father, Er. A. Slaughter, has dwelt in Georgia and Ala bama for fifty years, and he is @ Confed- crate Veteran with the right to be proud of his record as soldier. He was mem- Der of Company D, Echols Guard, in the famous old Eighth Georgia, Bartow's regi- ment. He dwelt for many years in Eu- faula, where he and his charming family were greatly esteemed and honored. His eldest daughter, Miss Bettie Slaughter, a remarkably beautiful girl with a beauti- fully trained voice, was married some years ago to w. J. Wolfsohn of New York, nephew of Isidore Wormser, the famous millionaire banker. His second daughter, Miss Minnie gifted woman, is now Mrs. Herman Saks of Birmingham and the youngest is Miss Estelle Slaughter, a love- ly society belle of this city. MT. Slaughter is hale and hearty, and can outwork most men of half his honored years.
 Hon. John Mcqueen has returned from Hot Springs, Ark
 MT. Jefferson D. Chamblee, the shoe merchant, has returned from a pleasant visit to Mobile, Point Clear and Pensacola. He declares that the weather is hotter down there on the gulf than it is in Bir- mingham.