The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-11
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and changes; keep myself quiet and thy
| business well under control"
"a child born on this day will be rash
and headstrong and fond of company; it
should keep in employ"
Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for
| Wednesday, September 70, 1900:
1.-THE young are advised to court in the
afternoon and evening, and ask favors.'
| Thou wilt have an unsettled year for
| thy affairs, and they will require much at
! tention."
| 1.-THE young will have cause for grief
| "a child born on this day will have to
| work hard to succeed, and will meet with
many troubles and hardships.''
IF female she will lose her husband
soon after marriage"
John L" was in town yesterday and his
| brogue made the music of "Cark' around
| the corners, while his smile gave the al
mosphere of Killarney You know John
| L." His other enttlements and names are
the Hon. Jere J. Sullivan of Florida, the
Mickiest Mick of them all, not excepting
| Hughy McGeever or Frank OBrien. Mr..
| Sullivan was born in Clifton Terrace, hard
| by the Grand Parade in ''Cark,' and he
| came to America very young. His trade
| was that of locomotive engineering, and
| for many years he was one of the engin-
! GERS on the Mobile and Montgomery Rail-
way, now a division of the Louisville and
| Nashville Railroad, and there wasn't boy
between the State capital and the Gulf
city who didn't have highly priced speak
| ing acquaintance with Jere Sullivan. He
| was a master of his trade, but was al
| ways mastered by good heart and happy
! soul He was hard working student when
| off his engine. The love of law mastered
him, and he set about trying to master the
! law, and SO we'll did he succeed that he
! quilted his engine for law office He was
admitted to practice, opened an Office in
Pensacola, and prospered from the begin
ming. His practice is large and profitable,
keeping him very busy, but he still finds
| time to be happy and try to make every
| body else happy
This goodfelowship is a desire dearer to
| Jere Sullivan than even his ambition as to
the law; and 1t is that which is the most
| potent influence in his success, as it is in
! the life of every man who is truly success
| full.
! When John L. Sullivan began to fall to
| his own notoriety, Jere Sullivan was at the
| height of his fame as a good engineer. and
| one of the lads down in Lowndes County
| in good comradeship nicknamed the en-
| gineer John L." and it is John L. still.
| In becoming a lawyer Jere Sullivan follow
| ed the example of that famous orator and
! statesman, Patrick A. Collins, also a
| "Carker,' who was apprentice to the
| upholsterers trade; and hundreds of bril-
| liant Irishmen in America have likewise
| risen.
Mr.. Sullivan is the member of the Bust
ness Mems League of Pensacola who some
| three weeks ago introduced the now famous
resolution in favor of the annexation of
West Florida to Alabama, and thereby re-
| vived a question that really dates back to
the cession by Spain of Florida to the
| United States in the year Alabama was
| admitted to the Union-eighty- years
| ago. In the House of Representatives of
| one of the carpetbagger and negro Legis-
| latures of Alabama in the dark damned
| days there was a bill authorizing some
| thing like 100000 in bonds for the acqui-
| sition of West Florida.
| "All of the business and social relations
| of West Florida are with Alabama and
believe that it would be best for the best
| of all the people concerned if annexation
|
! favor of it," said Mr.. Sullivan. I'VE now
! have 10000 inhabitants in Pensacola, and
| the port Is very prosperous. Therefore our
Florida people think it but right that Ala
bama should pay something for the acqut-
| sition of a territory of such great present
value and splendid promise. The proposed
! annexation would be for Alabama an ex-
pansion of the right sort for it would
| I,r,,, 30 fJ,a
fact its own busy people and great and
rapidly growing wealth..
| Mr. Sullivan has been spending several
weeks in New York and that vicinity He
was happy in seeing the Rev. Father Nc
Cormick, parish priest of Chatham, New
Jersey, a servant of the church long resi-
dent in Pensacola and Mobile, and affec-
| tionate1y remembered in Birmingham and
! Montgomery Father Mccormick also is
"Carker' from way back, and one of the
J best of possible good men. He is physic-
| ally of gigantic strength and extraordinary
| courage, and could easily have won fame
| on those lines had he not preferred the
| gentle offices of the priesthood. There are
more good stories about Father Mccormick
| perhaps than about any other priest who
| has ministered in the Catholic province of
| New Orleans, except the late Father Ryan
| of blessed memory. Jere Sullivan tells a
| new one:
Two of Father McCormick's parishioners
| were about to be married. The bride
| groom, who was a stalwart fellow, came
| into Father McCormicks waiting room a
| few minutes before the ceremony, and he
| was very happy and exuberant, and the
| good father rejoiced with him as man to
| man, the relation OF priest and parishioner
| being for the moment laid aside. The
| bridegroom said he felt happy he be-
| lieved he could out-wrestle even the stall
wart priest. "Nonsense cried the PRIEST
| I'VE talk wild' And they went at and
! had a great wrestling match, which the
| priest won. Within a few moments the
| priest in his sacred vestments administered
| the holy sacrament of marrlage