The age-herald., 1900-01-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

haps upon this valley no night ever before shed a more glorious radiance The more than half-orbed moon of fncomparable glory made grey-white the clouds that did glow gloriously in the orbit of glory. Per haps never before have there been clouds so brightly divine. It. all of it, was splen- did beyond all words of compare. The breath of May-t!me. yea! even June-time, hallowed the night, and the beauty of it was incomparable.
 The moon shines bright In such night as
 this
 When the sweet wind did gently kiss trees. And they did make no noise; in such
 night
 Troilus. methinks, mounted the Trogan
 walls
 And sighed his soul toward the Grecian
 tents
 Where Cressida lay that night.
 And again. as it is told to us: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon the
 bank;
 Here will we sit, and let the sounds of
 music
 Creep in our ears; soft stiffness and the
 night
 Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit Jessca! Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There is not the smallest ark which thou
 bahold'st
 But in his motion like an angel sings
 So it was yesternight. A marVelous night of marvellous beauty
 Mereton Kirke Moore has returned from the east, and is gladly welcomed by innu- merabe friends.
 Il ,re.ary of State Robert Patton McDa- vid is fin Birmingham. MT McDavid was Birmingham newspaper man before he learned better things, and was of the stan of the Age Herald in the days that are done He is a descendant on the maternal side of the late Governor Patton, of Bau- derdale Everybody in Alabama likes the distinguished young secretary of state, and very properly likes him, for he is one of the best of all the good fellows upon this con- tinent.
 After today such persons in the city as have not taken out license to do business will be taxed 10 per cent extra.
 
 Hon. Frank P O'Brien has accepted plans for the erection of three dwelling houses to be built of brick, at Fifth avenue and Twenty-frst street In that district great amount of building is in progress, fact that applies to the entire city. It is estl- mated that more than seven hundred houses are in course of erection in Birmingham.
 F C. McEwen goes to Mississippi today on private business.
 I H. Pullen. of Eutaw, the largest buyer of cotton in Greene county, is in Brmlng- ham. MT. Pullen purchases about five sixths of the cotton crop of Greene and Pickens.
 The most important transaction in farm ing lands that has taken place in Alabama for a half century is the sale by MT. John L Rogers of his holdings in Sumter and Pick ems counties. It is understood that MT Ro- gers receives in cash $S5,0O0 and in consid- eration of that sum gives deeds to an es- tate amongst the most productive of cotton in Alabama This great sale is illustrative of the value now attached to cotton lands in the Blackbelt. It is the largest sale of such lands ever made in Alabama, or most probably in the entire south. MT Rogers will come to dwell in Birmingham, and will be gladly welcomed here.
 "In the charge of the American troops up San Juan Hill, Santiago, there were en- gagged a greater number of regulars than fought at Gettysburg" said an army Of fcer in the lobby hast night. And fact of some interest is that from 1856 to 1877 the Seventh infantry, General Miles regi- ment. was never assembled together. The fortunes of war had kept tine companies of that regiment apart. As is fairly well known, General Miles is not a West Point CT. though he is, under the president, the commander-in-chief of the American army. Miles enlisted as private during the war between the states, and he has worked his way upward It is doubtful if the army ever had more capable or more deserving 1llief."
 Hon. Edward DeGraffenreid, of Hale, is fin town MT. DeGraffenreid was the law partner and nephew of the late Governor Thomas Seay, and is one of the strongest and truest and best of the younger men of Alabama. He has many of the better quail ities of his illustrious kinsman, and no Ala bamian has lived more worthy of honor than Thomas Seay.
 Dr. s. c. Holmes, an eminent physician of Mississippi, is in town on professional business. Dr. Holmes dwells. at Barkley, Miss
 Augustine J. Smyhe, an eminent citizen of Charleston who is largely interested in Birmingham property, Is at the Morris
 John B. Lagarde and Charles M. Noble. of Anniston, are at the Morris. | w. C. Coruthers, of Louisville, Is at the Morris.