The age-herald., 1900-06-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND FL LSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for this | day, Saturday, June 16, I900
 Travel, deal with women, and ask fa- vors before o'clock in the afternoon "Thou wilt have rather a successful
 year for thy business. and wilt travel and | change. Those in employ may expect to | lose it."
 "A child born on this day will succeed best in business for itself, in which it will | be successful" Hire men servants"
 It being practically certain that Alabama will have a Constitutional Convention next year, it is interesting to note the more prominent surviving members of the Con
 vention which framed the existing State | Constitution, the which became operative December 6, 1875. Amongst the survivors | are two former Governors. Rufus w. Cobb, l now of Jefferson, and William Calvin l Oates, of Henry; William J. Sanford, of | Lee, who will be elected Governor next | August; former United States Senator | James l.. Pugh, of Barbour, and former l Congressman George P Harrison, Of Lee | former President of the Senate John U. | Rather, of Colbert Sumpter Lea of Dai- | las, now of Jefferson; John w. lnzer' of | St. Clair, who was a member of the Ala | bama secession convention; Cullen A. Bat l tle now of North Carolina; Sidney T. Prince, of Mobile: S S. Scott of Russell; and Jesse E. Brown, of Jackson, now candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress from the Eighth district The Secretary of the Convention, Benjamin H. Screws of Montgomery is now, and has been for many years member Of the lower house of the Legislature. At the time he was chosen Secretary he was on. the editorial staff of the Montgomery Ad- vertiser. The higher political distinctions of all these survivors were attained after the Convention had done its work; and thus it would seem to be good politics to seek membership of a Constitutional Convention.
 Amongst the distinguished members of the 1875 convention who are now dead were
 Edward Ashley O'Neal of Lauderdale, af- forwards Governor; Thomas H. Herndon Of Mobile, defeated Democratic nominee for Governor who became a member of Con gress; F.. H. Moren of Bibb, who had been Lieutenant Governor; Andrew C. Hargrove of Tuscaloosa, subsequently, President of the State Senate; John A. Foster of Henry, who came to be Chancellor; Samuel J. Bol- ling, long Probate Judge of Butler; John 1 T. Heflin of Chambers, Circuit Judge; Charles c. Langdon of Mobile, afterwards Secretary of State; A. c. Gordon of Henry; | William M. Lowe of Madison, subsequently, | a member of Congress. Leroy Pope Walk | CT, president of the convention, had been Secretary of War in the first Cabinet of | Jefferson Davis, and ordered the firing on | Fort Sumpter. Jefferson County was rep resented by William s. Mudd, for years | Judge, and Colonel Alburto Martin. | It will be seen, in summing up, that four
 members of the old convention afterwards
 won the Governorship of the State, includ- ing in the number William J. Sanford; two of them MT. Oates and MT. Sanford, hay
 ing been members of Congress thus mak- ing five of the convention members Con-
 gressmen; and one member being a United States Senator A son of one of the dis
 tinguished members, E. D. wilett of Pick
 ems, is President Joseph J. Willett of the Alabama State Bar Association, which is
 just now in session at Montgomery.
 
 Sydney J. Bowie of Calhoun having de- termined to ask for the Democratic Con- gressional nomination in the Fourth dis
 trict, he will have the best of good wishes
 from the party generally throughout
 the State; for no other man so young as he has served the party of the most conspicuous and most honored of all Alabamians. He is possessed of the courage, energy, eloquence. ability which
  and he reads the signs wrongly who fails to foresee a splendid career for MT. Bowie
 His name is familiar in every beat of every county, and wherever it is known it is
 honored. Few men so well equipped
 as he for the national legislature; few could
 serve the people so well
 Wholesale trade is very dull just now.'' said Robert Calhoun, the successful and
 popular travelling man. "Of course there
 can be but little done in the jobbing trade in summer goods And retail merchants
 are slow in placing orders for their fall stocks. There is nothing doing, as the
 saying is. This condition is due to various
 causes. In the rich cotton section of the
 Birmingham District the heavy and inces- sant rains have put farmers greatly be- hihd, and everybody is somewhat gloomy
 over the cotton crop prospects. Large
 areas of young cotton have been over | flowed, thereby requiring replanting. This
 Is not hopeful for the farmers and cer- tainly it is not very promising to the
 merchants. Added to this, in the mineral
 district proper there is some uncertainty
 as to prices generally and the stability of
 things, and the general feeling does not
 tend at the moment to make wholesale
 business bouyant."
 The late Eugene F. Williams the mill
 lonaire merchant of St. Louis married some twenty-odd years ago Miss Georgia O'Neal, elder daughter of the late Cover nor Edward Ashbury ONeal of this state. and sister of Colonel Alfred M O'Neal and Major Emmet O'Neal of Florence, and Mrs. R. H. Dudley of Nashville. Mrs. l Williams venerable and saintly mother,