The age-herald., 1900-12-21

grave, digged by charity. She had died
 without a penny to bless herself, and more
 than s2Oo0O to her credit in Ireland!
 
 l Chief Justice William O'Brien, like Tim Healey, was born in the County Cork, which 1 has produced so many Irishmen illustrious in the Church and State. His parents were wretchedly poor peasants, and he was in the widest sense a self-made man of the higher class of self-made men. The
 O'Brens, father and mother of the Chief Justice, had a little leased farm about nine miles from Cork City; and for years after their son was elevated to the highest court
 bench of Ireland they would travel to the city to see him preside over the assizes. "They refused resolutely to quit their lit u farm with its little matched stone cot
 tage, or in any manner to change their way l of living, and so their famous son made them as comfortable as possible, insisting upon such little improvements and decora- l tions as would make the house more hab-
 itable and presentable than it was when he was born But the aged parents scorned
 all luxuries, even refusing a jaunting-car
 and smart pony, although the sons salary
 then exceeded $15,0OO a year. and finally was
 raised to $2l ,Ooo. The father died first, and
 
 the city to see her son in his glory of red | robe and white ermine on Her Majesty's
 bench. The son was required by law to re-
 side in Dublin with the other high court
 judges each of whom had to hold one of the various assze courts, corresponding to | Circuit Courts in Alabama"
 t'There are a great many thousands of 1 Alabamians who will experience a sense | of personal satisfaction account of the 1 re-appointment of Hon. Wiley c. Tunstall l to membership of the State Railroad Com | mission, and both he and Governor Jelks | will receive the unreserved and uncondi- 1 tional congratulations of the people gen. 1 erally," said public man of wide acquaint- l ance last night.
 "If it had been known that vacancy on 1 the railroad commission was pending the l appointment would have been accorded to 1 MT. Tunstall by popular consent. He served | on the commission for several years; but conflicting interests, and perhaps heeting passions, caused the Senate to vote for an- 1 other when MT. Tunstalps name was sent l in as a re-appontment by Governor Oates | during his term, 1S94-96. He will now fill 1 out the term of MT Kyle, which will ex- pire March l. 1903.
 1 MT. Turnstall has long been one of the l strongest of the Democratic leaders, and 1 is personally known to and esteemed by | great multitude of Alabamians. Hence his l re-apr ointment, by Governor Jelks, will l give wide satisfaction.
 | 'The contest for the vacant judgeship of l the Huntsville circuit had grown to be un- l pleasantly warm, strong friends of the l several good men who were applicants l making strenuous efforts for their respec | tive leaders; but Governor Jelks seems | to have settled the contest in the best man. | ner The appointment of MT. Kyle will | leave fewer heart -burnngs than if the l honor had gone to either of the others I who sought the judgeshp. Intellectually | he perhaps the strongest man. and is | as likely to make an acceptable judge as I any of them would have made, with the | possible exception of Judge Kumpke of l Lawrence, who has had experience in l duties above those of an ordinary judge of 1 probate. MT. Kyle distinguished himself
 in the Legislature of 1S96-7; was one of the | many soldiers of the Spanish-American | war rot permitted to engage in fighting, and for nearly two years has been mem | Der ot the railroad commission" l The wretchedest of all weather for Christ l mas shopping came upon this town before | noon yesterday and continued exceedingly I disagreeable throughout the remainder of | the day and last night, gratly interfering 1 with the holiday trade Every business | hour just now is of great importance to | merchants and customers alike; and the | rain of yesterday will make business all the livelier today and tomorrow. The vol ume of Birmingham trade continues enor- nous. Miss Carrie Bridewell Is cordially praised | by the New York critics for her appearance in grand opera, Romeo ct Juliette," at I the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, l Tuesday night. Miss Bridewell gained much applause for l Stephanos air." says the Herald, and the Herald further intimates that she was espe- l cially applauded in the third act of Romeo | ct Juliette" Miss Carrie Bridewels Stephano, the page, good to gaze upon and better l still to hear" says the Sun. "She really | sung her solo in tune, feat hitherto un- accomplished by any of her predecessors" "The stately Miss Brdewell, last years l debutante," pleased the Tribune's critic ! Miss Carrie Bridewel handsome and of 1 good voice." very naturally won the critic 1 of the Journal.
 The Birmingham girl is the youngest l member of Grau's great company, and her | success is vastly pleasing to her old friends | here at her girlhood's home. Altogether, the most conspicuous thing 1 in the Senate is the brilliant red bandanna l of Senator Pettus, of Alabama" said l Washington gossiper in the Post When l it is unfurled 1t fills the whole landscape with a lurid blaze.
 Senator Pettus is old-fashioned and his l use of bandanna is one of the ancient | habits to which he still clings. Nobody in | the Senate has used bandanna since the | days of Allen G. Thurman, and for him it
 was an orifamme of victory at St. Louis