The age-herald., 1900-04-24

Qays IueSduys ApIii ''V9.
 Ask favors, seek work, and push -| business in the p. m and evening.
 ',Thou wilt have successful year ard thy business will increase and prosper Young females will have offers of mar riage."
 "A child born on this day will be vel fortunate in all 1t undertakes, and will rise in life. If female, she will marry a man older than herself, and probably wid- over"
 ''The information comes to me that in one of the Birmingham factories crown arc manufactured for the native kings o Africa" writes the manager of a, new agency in New York to The Age-Hera!e under date of April 21, 1900. "I take thr liberty of asking you if this statement is correct" the manager continues, Tor whether it is of the freaks of imagin- ation we sometimes read?' The question from New York is that is difficult to answer by direct yes or equally direct no. therefore it shall be, the statement is e%- tremely probable Undoubtedly there arc crowns manufactured in Birmingham, Ala bama, but whether they are sent to na- tive kings of Africa cannot be positively stated. Shouldn't wonder if they are. l., addition to crowns, this town manufac- lures almost everything else conceivable. from soda water to enormous steam zines; from handkerchiefs to immense sheets of steel fit for the couch of Vulcan from dainty boots to buggies from powde to pig iron; from coke to railway cars from beer to bonnets; from,-O tantalizinS tarnation, what is it don't manufacture here in our Birmingham! The manager or that news agency in New York is hereby respectfully informed that reflection fails to reflect anything which do not manu- fracture. As to that African crown story, it is dimly within the range of possibility that Birmingham, Ala, has been mistaken for a small and comparatively obscure p1 p1ovincial village in England, which bears the name made famous by this humming, hustling, hurrying, bowling great city in Jones valley and on the adjacent moun- tains. There are stories to the effect that one of the industries of that little Birming- ham over the is the manufacturing of crowns for all sorts of kings, the material used being Great Birmingham pig iron. gilded, after taking, with Chicago brass. Therefore we supply crowns for African kings. Other industries of the foreign
 
 wholesale of bullets from Waterloo, Bunker Hill, and Colenso; ancient cutlasses from India; prehistoric vases from Japan. thousand-year-old rugs from Smyrna. and ten-thousand-year-o carpets from the pri- vate collections of Darius, Alexander, and the present Psha of pshaws, and so forth and forth etcetera
 
 A IT states supernumerary judge, was in Birm- ingham yesterday his way to Oneonta, where he will today open the Blount coun- ty circuit court. The session of the court will be an important one; but will be free from the excitement which attended thc meeting several months ago of the cour in Blount which was presided over by Judge Aston. On that occasion there was fear of mob violence to a negro prsone- sent up from Birmingham for trial Sev- eral deputy sheriffs accompanied the prs- oner, and on the same train that conveyed the party Judge Aston was passenger Hearing of the threatened violence the judge informed the deputies that he was determined to take his place with them in defending the prisoner, if need be; bu- happily no violence was attempted
 
 Rev. Father Robert of Brookside was ir town yesterday making final arrangements for the concert which is to take place in the Brookside public hall tomorrow nigh the proceeds to be used towards paying for the priests residence there. Some of the best musical talent of Birmingham Prat. City, Ensley and the district has been en gagged to take part in the concert, and ,% full affairs of the kind yet enjoyed in the county. The Catholic church at Brookside built last year, and more money is re- quired Father Robert ministers to a large number of Catholics, and is hard-worked. He is most zealous and kind, and has greatly endeared himself to the people of the Brookside district.
 Amongst the visitors in town yesterday was Hon. w. I. Bullock of Franklin, who has been named by the democrats of the Thirty-first district for the state senate. Thus will he return to the place that long knew him we'll; for he was several years a senator, retiring in 1896. His return will be good for the senate and for the public MT. Bullock has been long member of the state democratic executive committee, and has done good party work. He is able and progressive, and is very popular.
 
 Captain Meredith of Eutaw was in Bir- mingham yesterday. He is a member of the famous hunting club of Greene, which preserves the game on 12,000 acres of land, chiefly river woodland. On this property last year eight deer were killed, two of which were ''antlered monarchs of the glen." As for wild turkey, quail, 'possums, squirrels and on, there is unlimited supply, while the fish actually bow to anglers Ask Captain Meredith, Judge Roberts, Judge Niobley any member of the Eutaw club.
 Alex T. London is in Atlanta.
 Julian HaWthorne and Homer DaYen-