The age-herald., 1900-06-01

morning fire, numerous lawyers have
 their offices All of them removed their books to the street when it appeared that the fire would spread. One notable mem- | Der of the bar hired ten small boys to as- | sist him, telling them he would pay them 1 after their work was done. The boys in- | terested evidently told other boys and
 when the lawyer called up the ten possibly | hundred responded and demanded pay.
 The lawyer could not identify those he | hired. All boys look alike to him. And | there was a great excitement caused by | the vociferous demands of the unterriied 1 hundred. Happily for the lawyer, a police
 man appeared, and at sight of the officer 1 all who hadn't worked took to their heels.
 The ten were paid and peace restored.
 "The board of trustees of the State Nor | nal school at Florence voted to substitute
 manual training for vocal music and art"
 said Hon. Chappell Cory yesterday. "The
 board was anxious to provide for manual | training, but not having the money to meet
 the additional expense that would be in
 cured it decided to suspend the teaching | Of vocal music and art that department
 being less necessity than any other. 1 There are a number of pupil teachers who
 will give elementary instruction in those
 studies. The school is in a prosperous | condition"
 | MT. Cory, who is trustee of the normal
 school, was in Birmingham, returning from | Florence to Montgomery.
 Governor Johnston recently accepted an | invitation to take part tomorrow in elabo
 rate ceremonies attending the completion
 of the Seaboard Air Line railroad into | Richmond, the governor to drive the last l spike, which is to be of gold. It was the | governors intention to leave Birmingham | with members of his staff today; but | happily Mrs. Johnstons health has taken
 a very serious turn for the worse, and it | is probable that the governor will abandon
 his proposed journey.
 | The funeral of Warwick Mcclure, long | one of Nthe best known and most widely | popular commercial travellers in the south, | took place from his late residence in Louis- | vile yesterday. MT. Mcclure died sudden | ly last Monday. ETe left Birmingham Sat
 urday night for home in order to receive
 his Confederate Veteran friends, intending l to spend a week in Louisville and then
 return to this city Monday morning he | went to the wholesale hat house of the
 Swan-Abram Company, for which he trav-
 eled, and until Il o'clock he assisted in | decorating the store. Feeling unwell at
 that hour, he went home. Before o'clock 1 that afternoon he was dead of heart l trouble. His wife and two adopted child
 ren, his neices, survive him. Warwick Me Guire was ffty-one years old. and had been
 for about twenty-five years making regu- | lar visits to Birmingham and the district, l selling hats at wholesale His popularity | with his fellow commercial travellers and | with the business public was eXtraordi-
 nary. He frank and amiable as a | little child, and was at the same time one | of the truest and best of all men. His | death comes as personal loss to hundreds | of people. MT. Mcclure was one of the
 most successful salesmen in the south His | trade in the Birmingham district was very l great.
 The death chamber on Fountain Heights | where lies the body of George Lambrakis | the murdered Greek, is said to present the | most pitiful of all spectacles. The mur-
 dered mans young bride and his aged and | feeble father keep constant watch by the
 loved dead. The old man talks necessarily
 to the unreplying son, the broken prop
 and stay of his years, crying "George | ge!-George no answerl George dead | George no come again.' Thus the old man | cries through the bitter hours while an- | other murderer takes place with that ever | increasing band of murderers unwhipped | of justice!
 | Colonel w. R. Nelson of Selma a lead | ing lawyer of the Blackbelt, was in Birm- | ingham yesterday.
 | John P. Tilman has returned from the l gulf coast, where he fished fishlessly for | several days.
 Adjutant General w. w. Brandon is at | the Morris
 | the Morris.
 Ii is understood that the beloved Rt. Rev.
 R. H. Wilmer, Episcopal bishop of Ala
 bama, is critically ill at his home in Mo- | bile. Bishop Winners great age-he is in his S4th year-causes serious apprehension. | Few men have lived in Alabama who have | won so high a place in the esteem of the | people: none has deserved esteem and af lection more fully than he. In view of | Bishop Winners venerable years, the re- gently elected bishop co-adiutor, pr. Barn
 we'll of Selma, is young man at fifty. OPTIMISM
 | From Blackwood's Magazine.
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