The age-herald., 1900-12-24


 and jailed. He bought his way out from the Union military. He stole his way to Memphis, where he was arrested again. He got passage to Pittsburg, Penn, perilously on boat. Thence he adroitly got to Wash ington. and by appointment sat with Pres ident Lincoln one entire evening in the private office of the victorious President. Richmond fell just at that time. Both men to the interview knew the city had fallen. This is the tale. a most romantic tale if known entire here only mentioned.
 Crawford Blob was driving his friend Governor Watts in buggy.
 " Governor so1iloquized Bibb, how are you to clothe and shoe your Alabama troops in the field?
 "T don't know was the gruff reply. Every male able to go, between the ages of Is and 65, is bound to go The people nave so decreed by law.
 Governor continued Bibb, Lincoln needs cotton and you have 1t. Now you com mission me to go to see MT. Lincoln. and I will undertake to trade cotton delivered 1t Mobile to him for all the gray cloth and shoes your trops will require for the com ing campaign
 NTot oiitO+ SnOul6N lAic NoNNiliOi VI EAAeN bama, anu God bless you!'
 Crawford Bibb saw President Lincoln in his private office. The night before the Ala bamian, incog. had been of the great audi ence that heard Lincoln speak from the White House steps about the fall of Rich mond Lincoln told Bibb that as soon as he entered the room he recognized him as one of the faces he had seen before him on that occasion. Bibb never told President Lin coin the real object of his strange and peril- ous mission Lincoln told Bibb that his greatest apprehension was that the con- quered south might demand to be governed as colony, and if so the Republic would fall. Lincoln was shot while Bibb was in New York a few days later"
 MT. sewelI Haggard, formerly of the Age -Herald's staff, now of the staff of the Baltimore News, is spending the holidays in Birmingham. Manifestly Baltimore agrees with MT. Haggard, and certainly MT Haggard agrees with Baltimore, for he is prospering we'll
 Congressman Bankhead passed through Birmingham yesterday on his way from Washington to his home in Fayette.
 Congressman Brewer returned from Washington to Alabama yesterday and will spend the holidays at his home in Hayneyille.
 John w. Altman has come from Wash ington to spend the holidays with his fam fly in Birmingham.
 
 Arthur Chenoweth has come from the Bingham School, North Carolina, to spend his holidays with his parents, MT. W. A. Chenoweth and Mrs. Chenoweth. Every body gives this gifted young man cor dial welcome.
 There was an unusual ceremony iii St. Paul's Church yesterday afternoon. Rev. Father O'Reilly was the celebrant in the sacrament of marriage between two Syrians, and the Eastern custom of walk ing in procession around the church was observed. The priest, with two altar-boys, headed the procession, which consisted of the wedding party, every member of which carried a lighted candle. The ceremony was very quaint and attractive, the long beared Syrians looking like figures from romance as they solemnly marched in the dim religious light of the great church.
 
 "The first time I had occasion to inter- view Chauncel Depew was in 1SS9." said a newspaper man now living in Birming- ham. T asked him who would be the presidential candidates in 1892. He re- piled promptly, Grover Cleveland and Ben jamin Harrison. I am not as experienced prophet as MT. Depew, but my guess for 1904 is Grover Cleveland, Democrat, and Benjamin Harrison, Republican. Cleve- land is still in the prime of life. Harrison is showing age and that may be against him, but he is we'll preserved and active" Senator H. D. Money of Mississippi pass ed through the city yesterday en route home for Christmas
 Gen. Amos Wylin of Lancaster, Pa, is at the Arlington. General Wylin is prom inent in politics in Pennsylvania, being a member of the State Senate and one of Quays staunch supporters.