The age-herald., 1900-12-20


 glad to recommend him to Solicitor H. P.
 Hehln for the recently created assistant
 solicitorship of Jefferson County; it pleases
 me that the young lawyer has received the
 appointment, for he is entirely worthy"
 said Hon. Emmet A. o'Neal of Florence.
 former United States District Attorney.
 Other lawyers of distinction spoke in cor
 dial commendation of MT. Winston after
 his appointment was announced yesterday,
 and both he and Solicitor Hehin were con-
 graduated. It was agreed by the bar gen.
 orally that the appointment was good
 one.
 T cannot judge of Mir. Winston as a law
 yer but I do know that as a man he is in
 all the essentials possessed of an admirable
 character and manner" said man about
 town. 'He is noticeably modest and unas-
 suming, is lacking in the ostentatious and
 loud vulgarity which vulgar persons as-
 sume to pass for smartness, and he im-
 presses one as being truly gentlemanly in
 all relations. MT. Winston is under thirty 1 years of age and as born in Colbert
 County. He removed from Tuscumbia to 1 Birmingham about three years ago and be- | gan the practice of law. He is related to
 Senator Pettus, whose mother was a Win 1 ton, IS d cousin, 1 DelieSe, Ol rHdHh 1 L. Pettus, and there-5re comes of good
 lineage. MT Winston will be the States
 attorney in the new Second Division of the
 Jefferson County Criminal Court"
 
 Negro farmers are buying carriages and | fine buggies this winter in Lawrence Coun- | ty, for the first time in the negro's history l there" said Hon. c. M. sherrod, editor of | tba Court1opd Entarnrisa who was in l Birmingham yesterday Editor Sherrod used to serve the State in the Legislature | with ability, and he is an able lawyer and | popular man; one of the ablest citizens of | Joe Wheeler's home county, in fact. Now l he edits one of the best county weeklies in | the State.
 1 "Old Lawrence is in fine condition" MT. 1 Sherrod continued. "It is fine in the good | Democratic sense and in general business. | Our farmers raised tine past season the | best crops they have grown and received the best prices for what they had to sell
 in fifteen years The result is that farm CTS white and black have paid themselves | out of debt and have more money to spend 1 this Christmas than perhaps they ever had | before. It is common to see negroes come l into town and buy handsome pleasure ve- l hicles, such as carriages and buggies. And | the people all over the county are in com
 fortable circumstances and are cheerful in | mind.
 l "As is now well known, the population of | the old county of Lawrence increased about forty per cent from 1890 to 1900, although | the cutting off by the Legislature of
 large territory made the county to appear l in the census return as having actually i decreased in population"
 | "Governor Sanford looks better now | than he has at any previous time within
 four years, he having lost all pallor from
 his face,' said Hon. John V. Smith yes | terday.
 "The Governor is recovering his strength
 and promises shortly to be as strong as ever. Latterly he has been worrying him self with the twenty or thirty letters re- l ceived everyday from and concerning ap- plieants for office, but it has been agreed | that he shall read no more letters for the
 present, as the reading of them would re- tard his recovery So it is no use for any | body to write to- the Governor now re- | gardng appointments, with the belief that
 he will see the letters His physicians and
 family will not allow letters delivered to | him."
 1 Whit Collier, the widely popular railroad
 man of Atlanta, was in Birmingham yes l terday looking ten years younger | 'Wlliam Frye Tebbetts of Anniston, l who has been appointed collector of the 1 port of Mobile, is quite young man, and is nephew of Senator Frye of Maine, for 1 whom he is named, and to whom is sup | posed to be chiefly due his appointment | over old and notable Republicans like former United States Marshal Ben Walk 1 CT, former Postmaster Robert L. Houston | of Birmingham and Hon. Frank LaUhrop," | said observant man last night. | His appointment is a great surprise, and | will l cause considerable disappointment I amongst the Republican leaders of the
 State, several of nom souwght the Mobile | collectorship. It was understood that MT. | Houston was backed by both Senator Nor gan and Senator Pettus, and that State | Chairman Vaughan insisted that either MT. Houston or Mir. Walker should be appoint | ed.
 | Presumably Mr. Tebbetts is a Republi- 1 can, though he has not been heard of in | politics He is an Eastern man by birth, | ana was captain 1n a negro regiment raised | for the Spanish-American war. Whilst his | regiment was in camp at Macon, Ga, he | sought a change in his duties which would | have been in the nature of promotion, yet | would not have raised his rank. His ap- | plication was endorsed and forwarded to 1 the War Department. Nothing was | heard from it. Tebbetts wrote to make l inquiries. No answer came. He spoke | to General Wilson about the matter l and the general advised him, in a friendly | and confidential way, of course, to visit 1 the War Department. Going to Washing | ton, the young mans first step was to call l upon his famous uncle, Senator William P. | Frye. He told the Senator his story. The 1 Senator took him in his carriage and went | to call at the War Department. In the Adiutant-Generals office Senator Frye ad-