The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-01-13
Something About Names Of
Alabama's Postoffices.

and 1t is once more. a1asl Julien is OF st.
Clair, Jester of Lee and Graphite OF
Clay. as to counties. These are new post
offices. There used to be a Julian postof-
fee In Crenshaw. but the name being
spelled with an a, as you see. the thing
died out as a postoffice and is no more
on the list.
There are Fiddler. a Fife, and a
Manning of Stouts Mountain; Friebus
Fry and Funston with a very good Grace.
Kipling sings in Mobile, lest they for
get the memory of Peacock-onetime
merry mixer of strong potions-though
this Peacock is in Clarke, near by. Messy
Grove and Rainbow are poetic while the
Waters of Baldwin Spoke in Coosa of a
Trade in Cullman. China certainly re-
uuired a Tabernacle. And Wilson IL. b.
was led to Rue it once at any rate. Theirs
is a Relhi-which they probably call Dell
high-on the Edge of the Empire to the
East.
That's enough Please don't Burnett II
you do there will be Hemp for Snyder
or Hope of Pleasantfied with Scyrene.
and you know Uwanta. Otis Flatwood,
but don't make 1t Ash-lyl
In all Of Alabama there are nine and
forty Presidential postoffices, as GEM
pared with none at ALA hundred years
ago, say. II you want one, take your
choice. judging by the salary on the litti
Alexander City, where Joe Manning
holds sway. $1,000; Admission where Sid
Bowie and Joe Willett come from, $500;
Athens,s schools. $500; Alfalfa, water
tank. s1100; Auburn, where football comes
from. $1400; Avondale named for laun-
dry, s11e0; Bessemer, Edgar MitchelPs
town, 1890; Birmingham, the whols
thing. $500; Blocton, where Jones Moore
comes from, s140O; Brewton, lumber $500:
Cullman, Strawberries, grapes and pota-
toes, $500; Decatur. New Decatur and
the Tennessee river. $1,000; New Decatur.
the Tennessee river and Decatur. s17O0;
Demopolis, demos the people and opols
city, $500; Dothan. lumber, $500; Ems
ley, steel and reformed blind tigers,
$500; Eufaula, William Dorsey Jelks, Hen
ry De Lamar Clayton. Legore Conner and
a whole lot Of others, $500; Eutaw, Judge
Mobley, Judge Roberts, DIR. Morgan and
Sam Carpenter, 1890; Evergreen, pears,
S1400; Florence, Judge Mitchell and fac
tories. s2100; Fort Payne, peaches, $1,000:
Gadsden. where Jim Tanner comes from.
$500; Greensboro. Hobson, $500; Green
Vile, General James Berney Stanley and
Zell CASTOR. $1,000; Huntsville, big spring
and factories. $240O; Jacksonville, where
Colonel Bob Mckee used to live, $1,000;
Jasper, Lawrence Breckenridge Mus
grove and Jack Crawford. S140o; Lafa-
yette, where one Of the Helms is happy,
S1100; Livingston, water, $110O; Marion,
pretty schoolgirls, $500; Mobile, Alabama,
bonds and champagne cocktails, $1,000;
Montevallo. hundreds of pretty school
girls ana much coal, $780, Montgomery.
water, light brick pavements and beauti-
full women. 5000; opelila, factories and
hard-boiled eggs, s2000 Ozark, Joe Adams
and gophers, s11oO; Pratt City, A. ]. Ri
ley. DIR. Cunningham and the penitenti-
airy, s1400; Prattvile cotton gins and
mills, $1100; Russellville, plan atoms of
iron, $110O; Scottsboro, Jesse Brown,
s11o0; Selma, the whole thing in United
States Senators, $1,000; Sheffield, where
Wilson Brown comes from, $500; ITALIA
where Colonel Wiley comes from, $500;
Tuscaloosa, university, many colleges,
one insane asylum, thousands Of oaks,
beauty, 5000; Tuscumbia, big spring and
Frank Julian. $500; Tuskegee, Booker
Washington, $500; Union Springs, where
Frank Mccall comes from, $500; Union
town, canebrake chivalry, $1,000.
Which will you have, please?
The refusal Of the House of Represen-
tatives to pass the bill making the census
bureau permanent was due to it's vague
and indefinite provisions Friends of the
general proposition for permanancy voted
to recommit the bill to the census COM
mittee with a view to its being put in
definite and satisfactory shape, so that
it's scope might be plain to the people.
There seems to be one opinion as to
making this bureau permanent, and that
is it ought to be done. Indeed, there can
be no sound argument against 1t, but the
best of business common sense in its Ia
vor. The bill will be revised and reported
back to the House, which will likely
adopt its main features, though a mora
or less prolonged debate over its details
is almost certain At present there are
about three thousand persons employed
in the census bureau. The bill rejected
provides for a permanent force of some
two hundred and fifty. The director at
present receives $500 a year. and 1t was
proposed to continue that salary perrna-
nently Some members objected to that.
In the main the bill made permanent the
temporary act providing for the taking
of the census of 1900.
LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER
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