The age-herald., 1902-02-25
Grosvenor Wants to Die Saying
 "The War of the Rebellion"

gentleman. His instincts all to kindness turned, and he was without reproach.
 One romantic and very beautiful fact of his career which may with pro- priety be related. now that he and an- other are dead, was his devoted attach ment to the fair Daughter of the Con- federacy, that child of Jefferson Davis so adored by every southerner Whether marriage was attempted or even contem- plated may not be stated here; but Cas- ton Robbins was long her devoted adorer in the personal sense, and she was his loyal, steadfast friend. Neither of them ever married.
 Twenty years ago Robbins was the ed- itor of the Southern Argus of Selma, the weekly which Col. Robert Mckee found- ed and made famous and greatly prosper ous After Colonel Mckee became private secretary to Governor Rufus w Cobb in 1880 he sold the Southern Argus to Rob- bins and Chappell Cory, then fresh from college Robbins name appeared as edi- tor, though Cory did most of the edi- torial work and thereby in his youth made name for himself throughout Ala bama. Newspaper work did not suit Rob- bins, and so he soon quit 1t to devote all his time to law. His early ambition was a seat in Congress, and in time he realized that distinction.
 In 1899 Robbins removed to New York, and subsequently, formed a law partner ship with MT. Mountjoy, former law as- sociate of Hon. John W. Tomhnson in Birmingham. In New York he prospered, and new and wider career was opening free to him when that terrible hotel fire removed him from the honored activities of this life. Alasl Poor Gaston Robbins he deserved a better fate.
 With it's habitual incisiveness the New York Evening Post takes a shy at that Tuscaloosa yarn about Hobson and the presidency of the State University, and incidentally gives the hero the name of Richard"
 'The report" says the Evening Post that Capt Richard Pearson Hobson is being seriously considered for the presi- dency of Alabama State University is
 
 thority for it suggests a departure in American academic polity. Few men can stand being made bishop, said one of the spiritual lords of England. and there is pretty general feeling abroad that few men can resist the subtly demoralizing influence of the college presidents call ing. Some such conviction must be held l. Alabama University not a musty savant, an indefatigable promoter, or even a genial and diplomatic man of the world; but a hero. Now we are far from denying that, college president needs, besides the angelic, most of the sterner heroic quilites. He has trustees to fob off, testy professors to calm, happy-go-lucky stu dents to keep in line. All this requires quite as much of the steel hand as of the velvet glove. Then Alabama University is no bed of roses, according to this morn- ing's dispatches; and he who should ex- change the vague chance of glory in a future naval war for the immediate cer- tainty of conflict with the Tuscaloosa un- dergraduates would make no ignoble choice"
 "Order No. 157. from the office of the Postmaster General and signed HI. c. Payne, Postmaster General" being an order for the further consideration of Greater Birmingham, reads in the Off, ficial Bulletin, just issued, thus:
 "On May 1, 1902, consolidate the post offices at Avondale, Elyton, West End and Woodlawn, Jefferson county, with the postoffice at Birmingham, Alabama, and in lieu of the said offices establish a station and three sub-stations, as fol- lows:
 Tn lieu of the post office at Woodlawn establish Woodlawn Station, with facili- ties for the transaction of money order and registry business, the sale of postal supplies and the receipt and dispatch of mails
 Also establish three sub-stations, with facilities for the transaction of money or- der and registry business and for the sale of postal supplies, namely:
 "Sub-station No. (Avondale).
 "sub-station No. (Elyton).
 "Sub-station No. 5 (NNest End)"
 So Birmingham is getting them all iu through the Postoffice Department
 LUC1EN JULIEN WALKER.