The age-herald., 1900-01-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

1 +e aAA4fA-taa PbaA-hbi4a-iA bhAAital77f Ns--- bined with the unusually low temperature of the atmosphere make the second day of the new year rather tame in Birmingham, in so far as trade and traffic were con cerned. The day was splendid in it's winter i glory, the sun shining all day long and not cloud in the sky. But. speaking compara- lively the crowds fin the hotel lobbies and the streets were small; showing that there was not the usual amount of shopping being done. Women were notieeably few in num- Der. and those who came down town ep- peared to be driven by necessity, so to speak Only such as needed to make pur- chases left their homes. As regarded the | hotels, travellers who spent the holidays at home have not had time to get lon the move" and so there was dulness all 1 around-that is to say a condition of things that would be riotous life in Atlanta Mont gomery, Memphis and other suburban towns, but which was apparently dull for Birmingham. The day was surprisingly beautiful. and the sun went down a mass of gold. The splendor of the sunset was surprisingly glorious.
 Chairman Frank s. White of the Senator Morgan campaign committee was very busy with pressing obligations in the courts yes- terday and he hadn't time to engage in the work of making up the committee as 1t IS to fight for Senator Morgan's reelection. Everything in the direction of the commit tee work will be perfected within day or two, and the fight to the finish for the United States senatorship will be aggress- ively begun. A good story is told of Chair man White, by the way. When he was elected to the Mississippi legislature in 1875 it was as the representative of Colfax county. The first bill he introduced was to change the name of that county from Col fax to Clay. The bill passed quickly and became law, and so MT. White was referred to but short time as "the gentleman from Colfax." The county had been formed by carpetbagger legislature and named in, honor of Schuyler colfax, then viee-presi- dent of the United States, and who had been speaker of the national house of rep resentatiyes. Colfax was elected with Grant in 1868; but, justly or unjustly, his name was mixed up with some of the pehti-- cal scandal of the day, and he was not re- nominated in 1872, the second place on the republican presidential ticket being given to Henry Wilson, who died before his term expired MT. White caused the Mississippi county to be named for the immortal liar ry of the West" Mir. White was nominated for the legislature at meeting held in the woods. He was making a public polltlca4-~ speech. and while he ~Xa-sse~speak1ng- the democratic coun+a1@executive committee re- ti.,s,l-4S r6e woods and nominated him in nlace of the regular nominee. a. man who refused to fight when charged with coward ,ee in the war between the states. Ihe committee forced the man off the county ticket of the democratic party
 .sThe holiday trade forced up the price CT flowers" sad w. M Lindsay, the norlst, "American Beauty roses sold at wholesale for nrsces ranging from twelve to twenty fva dollars- per dozen. More than two dol lars anieee for roses seems q stiff price, but il was paid here in Birmingham at chris.mas. The American Beauty is royal rose, but in Towering it is &s capr-- cious as a spoiled cnild. 1Ae bushes of thls rose filing an entire greenhouse, and rep resenting an investment cf/tnotsands or dollars will fail for an entire season to bloom This peculiarity of the beAuty' combined with its wonderful loVehness ana the fact that it is fashionable, makes 4N very expensive. We are building up great business at Woodlawn," Mir Lindsay con tinued "and we have already very large trade. Today we booked twenty-seven good orders received by telephone asone, and there was d large order by telegraph from New Orleans. By the opening of spring we shall have coppleted several more fine greenhouses.
 q have gone somewhat largely into the breeding of shorthorn castle, said Colonel G. C. Osborne, of Tennessee. My place IS in CloverIeaf valley, Hawkins county, on the line of Tennessee and Virginia, one of the most beautiful sections of this ceun- try. Next fall l shall bring to Alabama fifty young saorJaorn. bulls, and expect to find ready sale fN the animals. It appears to me Alabama farmers are aroused as to drae necessity fer nigh bred cattle, and look for your farmers to make great prog ess within the next two or three years. It is absolutely necessary for them to do. Scrub stock must go, for it is not profitable to keep such stock. 1 have known short horn beef cattle to sell al three cents pound on foot w.nie5 scrub beeves were selling at a cent and half. The day is
 
 past when people accepred and paid for poor beef. As for our nome district in Tennessee" Colonel Osborne. went on to say, Tit is well adapted to cattle raising, and it is a delightful locality to live in. Cur people keep up the good southern social customs, visiting each other. with the same freedom, and the absence of fixed forms, as prevailed Atty years ago.
 
 Hon. John B.. Knox, of Anniston, was in town yesterday.
 w. T. Nortnington and Daniel Pratt, of Prattville are at the Morris.
 State Auditor Walter s. White was in Birmingham yesterday.
 Representative Wilson R. Brown, of Col heri, is in the city.
 
 Colonel Rolfe M. Saunders. of Nashville.