The age-herald., 1900-04-20
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Astrologer Raphaers prophecies for this day, Friday, April 2O 1900:
 Sell in the p m. do naught else"
 See to thy health and happiness; do not quarrel; be careful of letters and writ ings; those in employ will be more for. tunate."
 A child born on this day should keep Ill employ and not attempt any business on Its own account, failure is sure"
 General Shelley the captain of my company in the Fifth Alabama regiment. and General Morgan was our major, at the beginning of the civil war;" said Captain McCollum of the Birmingham police force. Captain Shelley was one of the best of officers; kind and consderate to the men. and a good disciplinarian; and there was no braver man in the army than Shelley. His men were very devoted to him. Pro- motion soon came to him because of his merits. He was made a major, then col enel, ard then brigadier general the same ranks held by Morgan. In camp, if the boys became restless and Respondent, they would march up to Major Morgans tent and call him out for a speech He always responded cheerfully and good naturedly. In his speeches he would give the soldiers good advice as to their duties and obliga- uons, and encourage them to renewed ef- forts and hopeful feelings. Morgan was aoout ten years older than Shelley. Nor gan as major being about 36 and Shelley as captain about 26 They were splendid officers, and their men loved them It Is likely enough you younger men don't feel the love for our old soldiers that we feel TOT each other. The old soldiers are pound together by memories of struggles prlvations and death in our great war be- tween the north and the south The old eohlederates know one another, and that IS why they love one another.o
 captain McCollum went throupb many or the most terrible battles of the war o,d ne pore himself like the brave man that ne IS. For many years he has been an honored member of the police force of Rir- hihgham, and is known to and liked bv everybody.
 It Is practically impossible for the city. the railroads, or great industrial enter prises situated in low-lying districts to guard against damage from such a rain 1ah as that of last Monday and Monday
 
 go outside the purely urban districts to realize something of the tremendously destructive force of the rain On wooded hillside and mountain may be seen w;da spaces swept clean of leaves and debris by water that gathered in powerful torrents at points where there were no apparent depressions of the surface of the ground. Perhaps the traditional oldest inhabitant district hafar like that. As for small streams and gull lies and ditches there is every evidence that they became roaring rivers In the lower section of the city along what is called the railroad reservation immense volumes of water collected, enough to fill greater storm-sewers than Birmingham could now undertake to build This is a trouble and a danger that will increase as the city grows and paves it's streets, The roofs of houses add to the rain surface, and day by day there is less and less of soft earth to absorb the rainfall. There fore the water gathers very quickly, and rushes in floods to the lower places.
 R. IT. Arlington, who has been nomi- mated for state senator by the democrats of the Pike-Crenshaw district is a son of the late Judge Arlington, for a long time judge of the city court of Montgomery. His late uncle, Colonel J. N. Arlington, was a representative lawyer of Montgom- cry, an old-time leader of democracy, and several times chairman of the democratic committee of the Second congressional district when it was represented at Wash ington by Hon. Hilary A. Herbert. The bright young man who goes to the senate is himself a lawyer of ability. He is member of the state democratic commit tee.
 Hon. Wilson R. Brown of Sheffield, stout Morgan man, and staunch and orig inal supporter of General Shelley for gov ernor, is in town.
 The public has heard trife too much about the eighth congressional district and General Wheeler's relation to it, said democrat of consequence last night "The discussion of the subject has been proceed ing for two years, and probably everybody is tired of it. General Wheeler's recent tel egram to a friend in Florence certainly lent the impression that he had resigned the seat he does not occupy In congress, and which is not his at present; but we are now told that he has merely given out the information that he wouldn't object to a special election. It doesn't matter whether he objects, there cannot be an election until vacancy has been legally ascertained to exist. In effect, commit tee of the house has decided that General Wheeler has no seat to resign; and there is mess of the whole business all around General Wheeler could very quickly set tie one point by appearing at the bar of the house and asking to be allowed to take the oath as member. The governors right to declare vacancy is said to bt nonresident. So there you are. Mir. Stal' Iings was understood at one time to rep resent General Wheeler In congress, but the member from the second district has not been representing even himself in the house this year. Meantime the eighth dis trict is without representation at Wash