The age-herald., 1900-01-08
IN HOTEL, LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

The deeds of Colonel Hare in the matter of the rescue of the American prisoners from the custody of the Fiipinos are just now being praised by all Americans. and very justly so Colonel Hare Is a Texan, and is said to be a very superior man. He married Miss Hancock. daughter of John Hancock, the brother of General Winfield Scott Hancock. Mrs. Hare's sister mar ried Governor Merriam, now superintendent and Mrs. Merriam, John Hancock, was an adjutant-general under his distinguished brother during the war between the states. l ''IIare is great fellow, and predict that he will rise to much higher rank.' said a former officer of the army He is a man of most excellent general character. and is a stalwart man of the stuff that heroes and leaders are made of. It has been my pleas ure to know him long and well, and I en- tertain for him the highest regard No brave or wise act on his part would surprise me. l expect of Hare that sort of action as | a soldier"
 Lieutenant Charles Carroll Wood, of the Lancashire regiment. who was killed in bat tie with the Boers in the Transvaal the other day was of southern ancestry. He is the son of John Taylor Wood, who dis tnguished himself in the navy of the Con- | federate states in the American civil war After the fall of the confederacy, John Tay- Tor Wood concluded not to remain in the | United States and he took up his residence l in Canada. His children have been brought up as subjects of the British queen. His son. Charles Carroll Wood. was trained for the British army. and was gazetted to the Lancashire regiment in the mother country. He was slain with his face to the foe; his l colonel being killed at the same time The 1 lieutenant and the colonel are buried in the same grave the far away veldt. Lieu | tenant Woods mother was a Miss Mac kubin, of Maryland, who sprung from the l famous Carols of Carrollton; hence his double names, Charles Carroll, is of proud 1 ancestry. His mothers sister is Mrs. Min nlnger the wife of Major A. R. Ninninger 1 of Montgomery, sometime United States l marshal for the Northern district of Ala | bama, a gentleman universally esteemed | and honored for his many rare qualities of intellect and heart. Major Ninninger came to Alabama as an adjutant in the federal
 L.. Ghortlx l lftat Ia war his late father came to this ! -lts aal purchased a splendid cotton plan .l.a h Lowndes county, which is known
 n. war that county as the "Ninninger .I- Thus Alabama Is interested in the 1 heroic death of the brave Lieutenant Wood 1 in South Africa.
 q do not recall the personal appearance | of Lieutenant Wood, or MT. Wood. as he should be properly called, since lieutenants are never given their titles outside the drill | ground or the Army List" said man who | lived some time abroad. "I knew the of ficers of the Lancashire regiment well, and was often their guest on guest nights at the regimental mess. Wood must have | been attached to the regiment after I was | last at the mess dinner. They were fine lot of fellows, those officers, filled with the unexamped esprit du corps of the British l army. Jolly nights we used to have at the mess dinners. Throughout dinner bhe regi- | mental band played outside the mess hall. At the conclusion of the dinner the mess president, young lieutenant in almost ev- cry instance, would rise, and, with his glass in hand, say: Gentlemen. the spond with, The Queen-God bless her! Then the band would play God Save the Queen, the national anthem, and the din- ner was over. Cards and pipes and cigars | jcyed"
 "Our farmers and the people of Sumter and west Alabama generally are in much better material condition than they have been before in a number of years," said Colonel Reuben Chapman, of Sumter. "The cotton crop was more cheaply produced l NIldn dly CiOp SiHCe luc CIVIL war. | Farmers raised cotton on a four-cent basis, end they are getting seven cents. This is great good fortune for thom, and it has rut an entirely different aspect upon the business situation in general. Our people | are paying more and more attention to the raising of cattle. horses and hogs. Prices for cattle during uhe past year have great ly encouraged farmers. A beef that for merly sold for five to seven dollars would l command twelve to fifteen or eighteen dol lars. This has reference to scrub stock. A neighbor of mine, MT. William Little. who is giving much attention to the raising Of | high-bred cattle, made sale of high-class and scrub stock. The high-bred cattle brought about thirty-fve dollars a head; | the scriIhSsalhOut fifteen or ejph icon da1lars