Birmingham age-herald., 1894-12-16
OVER THE STATE.

Ashville will handle 1000 bales of cotton | this season.
 The Warrior Index says work at the mines continues good.
 The Alabama Methodist conference is in session at Brewton.
 The Bridgeport News pays compliment to Ex- Attorney General W. l.. Martin.
 Marshall county wants railroad from Guntersville via Blountsville and Bangor. Mr. k. A. Mitchell has announced him- self as a candidate for mayor of Gadsden. The Black Warrior Lumber company of Demopolis has established branch office in New York.
 The state papers periodically commend the house for passing the bill to increase the tax rate E mill.
 A Scottsboro merchant sold in one bulk 1500 dozen eggs at 15 cents. The purchaser shipped to New York.
 The forlorn editor of the Eufaula Times says, with a nervous jerk of the quill, "Christmas turkeys are fattening.' An exchange tells of a minister who has been arrested for counterfeiting. Perhaps he was trying to initiate Sam Jones. Mrs. Armstrong is editing the Scotts- boro Citizen while Mir. James Armstrong is in Washington filling good position.
 Maj. Hugh Carlisle owns 14O0 acres fern near Guutersville, and fattens his hogs on boiled corn and boiled turnips.
 1ue dduSQeu llIn6S- NeWb HOLeS Gne DTo5- ence in that town of Misses Lilla May Parker and Octa Fletcher from Birming- ham.
 The county commissioners of Lauderdale county have granted a sum for the purpose of repairing the old court house at Flor ence.
 EThe Scottsboro Citizen says there is strong movement in favor of constitu- tionai conventions, and the measure is likely to prevail.
 The editors all give the new Methodist preachers hearty welcome. The editors and preachers are co-woTkers together in 8 great many ways.
 MT. c. W. Hilliard of Troy has the dis tinction of having been appointed valedic- torian for the graduating class of the Mo- bile Medical college.
 The state papers favor making the anni- versary of the birth of Robert E. Lee a holiday. Atlanta will celebrate his birth day on the 18th of January.
 More than 200, ,000 bushels of corn on the river banks between Bridgeport and Gun tersvile, awaiting shipment to market, have been shipped since the recent rains and rise in the river.
 William Burton of Colbert county made one-h crop consisting of nine bales of cotton and 700 bushels of corn. He did all the blowing himself, only the chopping and picking being hired.
 The Tuskaloosa Gazette thinks the move- ment of the ladies of Birmingham toward taking care of the streets and looking after the poor of the city is move toward the millennium. So mote it be.
 The Gunters7ille Democrat offers premi- ums for the best corn, cotton, hams, sorgham, hens and turkeys. This is done to encourage the farmers of Marshall county to raise everything at home.
 MT. T. D. Sanford has severed his con- nection with the Opelika Post. This step was taken on account of his profession, the law, requiring all of his attention. The Post is becoming one of our best and brightest exchanges.
 The Mobile Register points out current error in regard to the arrest of Aaron Burr. He was not arrested at St. Stephens, but at a point some twenty miles distant. There- fore the ''curse of Burr'' could not have rested on St. Stephens. The papers protest against the bill be- fore the legislature requiring patent medi- cine manufacturers to print on the boxes or bottles the formula of the contents. This would stop the sale of patent medi- cines and the papers would lose great deal of advertising.
 The Pine Belt News, published at Brew ton, Ala, by ". D. Sowell, is never ing his enterprise by publishing daily during the Methodist conference now in session at Brewton.
 The Cleburne News thinks Kolb got in the habit of moving on wheels when he ex- hibited Alabama's products through the north in special car, and that's the reason he mounted wagon to deliver his inaugural. The News says nothing as to the wheels in his head. The Prattville Progress, always "up to date, in news and comment contains the following observation of the situation: "All is quiet and serene in Alabama, not withstanding that the state contains Reuben Kolb. His little clustering does not cause a single ripple on the still waters over which the ship of state is so proudly sailing" MT. William Henry Tucker, junior edi- tor of the Russell Register, is spinning poetry by the yard. News is scarce and pot metal high, so Brother Tucker very cleverly arises 10 the situation. But there is a sad note of disappointment In his songs. You have our best sympathy, Brother Tucker. We've been along there ourselves.
 The editor of the Brewton Standard Gauge philosophizes as follows: "One rich man wears poor clothes because he IS rich and can do nothing, while poor man wears fine clothes because he is poor and wants to create the impression that he is not" Don't grow envious, brother, of the poor fellow who wears good clothes. "Every dog has his day' and the editor's day will dawn bye and bye.
 The Reform Advocate of Wetumpka ap- peals to it's delinquents in the following pathetic manner: "The typo and Advocate 'devil' each want to give present to his girl on Christmas, so send in that dollar and help him out. It will be rememb bered.' ' Guess it isn't very hard for the Kolb organs
 in Alabama to remember all the dollars they are getting in these days. Even the democratic editors have found it unneces- sary to keep memorandum. Secretary Rountree of the Alabama Press association announces that he has per- fected arrangements for an excursion of that body to Cuba. The excursion will start from Montgomery January Il, arriV- idg at Tampa next day and ct Havana the 14th; returning, the party will stop at Key West, Tampa, Winter Park, Sanford, Pa latka, St. Augustine and Jacksonville. Brother Rountree is the man for the place. He knows a good thing when he sees it and the editors of the state press appreciate the diligence with which he has splanned this eXcnrsion.
 The bright and affable editor of the La- Fayette Sun, Mir. James D. Timmons, was married on the 18th instant to Miss Annie Pope of Lafayette. Mir. Timmons is one