The age-herald., 1900-05-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

| thy IaInlly 1ounS NOhiSti VIII Ne''S | attention from men,"
 "A child born on this day will have an unlucky career. and should stay in em- ploy; if a female. liable to disgrace"
 Bake; brew hire maid servants; go a-fishing."
 This day is Memorial Day by act of con- gress and therefore is a holiday through out the United States.
 Within the past 36 hours some thousands of Confederate Veterans and their descend | ants and friends have passed through Bir- | mingham on the way to the great reunion at Louisville, which promises to be the most largely attended reunion yet held, not excepting the Birmingham gathering of six ! years ago. One train which departed from 1 this city early yesterday morning conveyed | about 700 veterans, and all of them happy | school boys. The old soldiers filled the ] union railway station with bustling life and mirth. In the fulness of his affection, one old general of a dozen or two battles who had become separated from his party, de- manded to know Where is them d--d old rebels?" He enjoyed his own testing des- | ignation of his comrades, and so did the persons he questioned To the younger
 
 the veterans were intensely interesting; profoundly so, In fact. They suggest whole volumes of word-history writ large, and their thinning ranks draw to them the ever increasing sympathy and love of the younger generation of southerners and northerners alike By the stainless sword of Lee, I swear I'd rejoice to see every one of them in receipt of a pension of six | of | student of history who came into the world too late to share in the bitterness that was | engendered by the war between the states | "Amen" said another, as the two observed | the veterans at the passenger station yes | terday morning. Some of them, but very | few, wore smart new uniforms of Confed- | crate grey, whilst most of them wore their | "store-bought" Sunday cloths It is not given to the average Confederate Veteran the ability to pay for handsome uniforms Alas! thousands of them obliged to struggle for bare living. Their youth and their means they gave to battle. l Many pretty young women, and some pos | itively beautiful ones, were seen amongst the grey old men of the Grey. Presumably they most of them were sponsors and maids
 
 of the festivities of peace. It is alleged that in the south of this day, grown to contain numerous large towns, those daughters of | the Confederacy who are popularly called | belles of society do not take much personal | interest in the reunions of their fathers and grandfathers. That may or may not be true; but s--e would seem to be an odd product of our freak-producng '1atter-day I n;,, ,,,l,a
 the valorous deeds of her ancestors, upon | whichever side those ancestors fought!
 Today is Memorial Day for the federal l dead throughout the country, and there is l none amongst the former Confederates or their descendants who will not unite in | spirit with the sentiment of reverence and | admiration for the brave men who fought | under the flag of the union. Passion long since passed from rational minds, and only ennobling sentiments survive amongst Americans regarding the civil strife that ended thirty-ivs years ago.
 The most sensational trial for murder l which Montgomery has experienced in many years has resulted in verdict of | guilty, and the punishment of the mur- | derer has been fixed at imprisonment for | there is to be an appeal to the supreme | court. One Lide killed one Johnston in | Montgomery county. There was the usual woman in the case;" but there were cir | cumstances which served somewhat to | place the murder in class apart to itself | away from the ordinary murders so long | fashionable in Alabama and some other states; but the fact which interests the pub | lie is that white man has been convict | ed of murdering another white man, and the murderer has been ''sent up for life''- 1 for the moment, at any rate The states distinguished attorney, Solicitor Tennent | LomaX, merits and receives first honors | for this conviction. It Is conceded that MT | Lomax conducted the prosecution with great ability and skill, and his speech to | the jury was most masterly. It is reason- | ably doubtful if there ever was an inno- cent man convicted of a serious offense in Alabama. Hundreds possibly thousands of guilty men have escaped punishment by the courts But there is hope. | T. T. Hillman has returned from New York much improved in health. Gentry Hillman is in town for the first time in | several months.
 | chamber of commerce, was in town yes terday and was discussing cotton fac tories with F. Sid Jones, who is charged with the duty of securing the erection of such factories along the line of the Louis- vile and Nashville railroad. MT. Pratt has done more than any other one man for the recreation of old and beautiful Hunts vile. He said yesterday that arrange ments had been made for the building of still another cotton factory in that city, making three new factories secured far this year. Mir. Pratt is the sort or man who could transform crossroads hamlet into a thriving city. He is of more value to his community than five hundred ordin- ary and indifferent men.
 | Charles Ienor of Selma is in town. He says that representative citizens of Selma | lafa ipad to ,ts,