Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-11
STATE NEWS.

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 Ozark Star: A negro was sentenced to the penitentiary at Dothan last week for stealing pair of shoes.
 Talladega Mountain Home: The farm CTS are smiling over their big corn cribs, fat hogs and the good prices paid for cotton.
 Mobile Herald: The Colombia came up this morning from Bocas with 15,00O punches of bananas consigned to J. B. Camors & Co.
 Mobile Herald: A young son of MT. George w. Huy of Whistler fell from an oak tree yesterday afternoon, breaking his arm in the fall
 Carrollton News: We have made very diligent inquiry, and gather that the present cotton crop of Pickens is about 25 per cent short of last years crop.
 Carrollton News: Pickens grew this year perhaps the largest corn crop of her history Now, if the cholera don't break out among the hogs there will be plenty of meat next year.
 Collinsville Clipper: The present sea- son insures an abundant harvest, and most all of the farmers are pretty well fixed for the coming winter with plenty of hog a..d hominy.
 Huntsville Tribune: Three goldbug papers in Alabama have been buried while the silver craze was dying. and there are others that might as well be dead for the good they are doing any body.
 Collinsville Clipper: Thomas Carroll of Lathamvlle, aged 75 years, has recently wooed and won the heart and hand of Mrs. Clem Holdbrooks aged about 5O years of the same community. over some gallant men. and on Saturday night, the 2Sth ultimo, the two were united as one.
 Salem correspondent Opelka News: MT George Barnett of Beat was in Sa- lem last week and he says the farmers in his ne.ghborhood are in much bet ter fix this fall than they have been for some time. He says most all of them will pay out of debt and will have plenty to eat at home.
 Ozark Star: Numbers of farmers all over southeast Alabama have made this year fine crops of rice and are independ- ent of the South Carolina rice crop. One would be surprised to sec what fine rice is raised by our farmers, upon dry land at that Southeast Alabama and Dale
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 Mobile Herald: We are reminded by the death of General Malone that the old Third Alabama was in his brigade al Norfolk and fought its first fight, the battle of Seven Pines. under his com mand. The Mobile cadets, Mobile Rifles Gulf City Guards and Washington Light Infantry formed part of the Third Ala bama
 Ozark Star: A Star reporter saw last Monday afternoon one man leading out of town five fine young Tennessee mules that he bought from our stock men, pay ing the spot cash for them. He is good farmer and you never hear him complain of hard times, and of his abusing the gen eral government for not issuing $50 per capita.
 Huntsville Tribune: The Montgomery Advertiser accuses the Birmingham State Herald of abandoning free silver" and coming out for "bimetallism." The Bir- mingham journal has not abandoned free silver" It has only put on new clothes, moved to new premises and promised to behave better, and we can testify 1t has not hit a hard lick since it turned over a new leaf. Has it. brethren? @
 '>oI Ieuin ",i'9' iiie o"Siiih6 iouSe "t MT. Jim Singleton, near this place. was destroyed by fire few days ago, to- gether with all its contents, besides about two bales of seed cotton belonging to MT. Singleton and MT. G. w. Sims. The loss was very heavy on MT. Singleton, especially, and the good people of beat 8 cannot do a more charitable deed than to assist MT. Singleton in replacing his property.
 Opelka News: The mill property of Mrs Rehecca Robinson at Gold Hill was burned last Saturday morning. The burning was accidental. The lady's friends sympathZe with her in this heavy loss MT. John w. Allen of Gold Hill lost his barn, together with his en- tire crop of corn and fodder last Satur- day evening. The loss is serious, falling heavily upon a hard-working, worthy gentleman.