The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-22
GOSSIP IS HEARD
At THE CAPITOL
Men From All Over State At
tend Supreme Court
GOVERNOR EXPECTED SOON
Young Man Receives Check for $1,000
as Token of Gratitude From
Father for Saving Daueh
ter's Life.

ter's Life.
Montgomery, December 21.-(Speeial.)-
Reporters on the lookout for sensational
news today found very poor pickings at
the state capitol on the HILL though
there was something in the way of gossip
to be had if one knew where to stop for
it. This is always so when the supreme
court is in session and the lawyers gather
to read the books in the supreme court
library and discuss the various subjects
that come up for consideration and dis
posal. Some of the visitors were willing
to talk of matters generally and politics
in a very indefinite way, the most of them
admitting that just at this time there is
very little in the way of politics to talk
about.
The writer strolled over the capitol on
the lookout for news, and met among the
first of the out-of-town men Col John ID.
Burnett of Evergreen, lawyer, banker and
all-around citizen. He said the people of
his county are in fine shape. They sold
cotton enough to pay their debts at the
high price. and will hold the balance I'M
til there IS more in 1t than at this time.
Politics are quite with no special talk of
the next governor, though Acting Cover
nor Cunningham and all the others men
toned as possibilities have many friends
in his section of the state. Agricultural
returns this year were good and the
farmers have enough food for man and
stock TO make the next crop. I'VE are
happy and contented," said Colonel Bur
nett as he moved away to look up a law
reference in the case in hand.
Brown OF Dispensaries.
Over near one of the windows former
Attorney General Charles T. Brown was
looking up dispensary law like man who
had to have it, He came down yester-
day from Ills home in Birmingham to APP
.pear before the supreme court tomor-
row. NJ. Brown has a case from Union
town in which he has endeavored to dis
credit the law giving that town a dis
pensary. He has won before the court be-
low on quo warranto proceedings, and his
opponents having come up % the highest
tribunal in the state, he will be here to
fight 1t out with them. 1t has been held
in every instance so far that the law is
unconstitutional. Mr.. Brown was asked
what is doing in birmingham. Now that
tried to tell you that you would be here
some time and then I would tell you more
than a small part of It. There is much
doing in Birmingham all the time. and
especially just now" Mr.. Cyrus Brown,
son of the gentleman quoted, will go up
to Birmingham with his wife to spend the
holidays.
Coffee Prosperous.
D. D. Knight. sheriff Of Coffee county,
was In the office of the governor for
requisition for a man who had skipped
out to Mississippi. and while it was being
filled out he talked of his county. The
only thing that he saw in the way of
trouble was the fact that the people
had bought so many big and expensive
mules some of them would not be able
to pay for them. He said the sales of
mules in his section this fall has been
enormous, the price being anywhere from
$3.50 to S225 Mr. Knight says Elba and
Enterprise, the leading towns of the
county, are having a big and profitable
trade and that eastern capital will very
probably take hold of the work of de-
veloping the immense water power at
Elba, begun some time ago
Military in Good Shape.
Adjutant General William w. Brandon
came in today from his home in Tusca-
lOOSd. lie u1u not KNOW dll5 HSWs, DuN
was wiling to say that the military of
the state was in the best condition in
years, and that the Birmingham contin-
gent was harmonious and working well
and effectively. He attended a military
smoker early in the week at Birmingham
and enjoyed it. and was pleased with the
reorganization and prospects of the Jasper
company. He also received notice that
First Lieutenant F. 49,. Long of the Jas
laA nd hal
papers approved by Acting Colonel
Hughes Kennedy, of the Third regiment.
Messrs Harry Pillans and John w.
McAlpine of Mobile, were In the city
also and reported happy conditions at Mo-
bile. J. NJ Miller of Demopols, was also
in the city today
Governor Returns.
tt is expected thai Acting Governor
Cunningham and his private secretary. j.
Kirk Jackson, will get home from New
York some time tonight IT is not antic-
ipated that they will bring back the
money In their grips to refund the state
debt for they are too full of the heavy
clothes they were forced to secure after
getting into the big city of Father Knick-
erbocker to keep from freezing. How
ever none will De surprised If the first
sters to a contract are not stored away
somewhere to be made public when the
right time comes Recording Secretary
Mitchell Screws mas done the honors of
the office in his well known ana pecu-
liarly happy style and the absence of the
two high officials did not create so vast
a vacuam as 1t might under less favorable
circumstances.
Good Impression.
Word reaches here in round about
way that the Montgomery delegation and
these from other towns along the Ala
bama river made a decidedly favorable
impression on the rivers and harbors
committee of congress In behalf of the
Alabama river project for a six foot
channel all the year around. Congress-
man Bankhead, the ranking democratic
member of the committee and a man of
great influence in the committee, said
yesterday that the proposition to give
$500 900 to open the river from Wetump-
ka to Mobile with an all the year around
channel of six feet was one of the best
and most reasonable the committee had
had before It for some time. He did
not saw so in so many words but left
the impression that there is a mighty
good chance for the appropriation TO go
through IL there Is any considerable
amount given out at this session of the
congress
History of Thirty-eighth.
Rev. George Fountaine, a Methodist
preacher of the Alabama conference, now
stationed at Dayton, Marengo county VIII
write a history Of the Thirty-eighth Ala
bama infantry C. s. A.. for the state de-