Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-17
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IN ALABAMA.

IN ALABAMA.
 Fly Time in Mobile.-That it is fly time in Mobile was plainly shown today oy the crowd that gathered on Royal street when an alarm of fire was Whistled a little after 1 oclock.-Herald.
 He's No Howler.-The furnaces have started. the Louisville and Nashville IS coming. the crop yield will be bounlllul, and better times are in store Let us pull together to build up Tuscumpla'- Colbert County Banner.
 Ever1asting "Pants. ."-There is an old negro man named Peter Robinson lVlns in Cahaba that has pair of pants gwen him by his young mistress over Il1ty years ago. The pants are as good as new-Cor. Selma Journal.
 A Stroke of Enterprise.-The city coun- cil has had constructed at the cemetery a handsome and well appointed paVlilon for the comfort of visitors to the ceme- tery This is a stroke of enterprise that is mendable-LaFayett sun.
 tA1ps Fish In His Net.-Any of our sub scribers who have an abundance of good fruit and want to pay their supscriptloh that way can bring us nice apples or peaches and we will take them ana al- low market prices-Oakman News.
 Huntsville's Wood Bill.-A careful ob- server with a keen eye for figures in forms us that not less than $650 are paih out every week by citizens of Huntsville for the single commodity of stove Wooa alone. Now we would like to know what the natives pay for domestic coal.-Ar- gus.
 Encouraging-Ag Mabry informs us that business at the depot has increased very much within the past ten days. He also stated that the daily freight trains on the Montgomery and Eufaula and the Southwestern roads would be resumed within the next few days.-Eu- faula Times.
 Reynard Abroad-The Jasper fox hun ters are evidently lax in their duty. Reynard visited the well-filled chicken yard of our friend, Fayette Cranford, the Dast week and played havoc with his fine "frys." Fayette is disconsolate, and can't see the use of so many fox hounds around town.-Jasper Eagle.
 Not Booming Just Growing.-A stran- ger coming to Greensboro would judge, from the noise made in various portions of the town by hammer and saw and thel ring of the trowel that he had struck a boom town. SucH IS iiol tho So'N Greensboros growth is of the solid and substantial kind.-Greensboro Watch man.
 Great Catch of Yellow Hammers.-A:: B. Jordan who lives within one mile or Josie, says that about the tune or the plsi snow last winter his two boys, J. w. and H. A, set traps and caught within four days 1f0 yellow hammers in goober patch. The birds were estimated To weigh about thirty-five pounds after be- ing dressed.-Troy Messenger
 crons in Greene-W. J. N. Taylor, Esq. of Union called to see us Tuesday and gave us the news of his section. lie reports the corn crop as quite good, but cotton has been injured some for want of rain. He thinks now that at least two thirds of an average crop of cotton will be made in his section if no disaster be- falls it.-Eutaw Whig and Observer.
 Birmingham as Jobbing Center.-One of Birmingham's live and enterprising firms Messrs Moughon & Terrell, pack CTS agents, shipped car load of goods to Anniston yesterday says the Age Herald In view of the fact that Anns- ton has packers agents these merchants making inroads into their very surround ings speaks much for Birmingham.-An- niston Hot Blast.
 .'Ticlled to Death."-W. c. McEachen and A. F. Duffy of Denver, with their sons, gave us a pleasant call Monday. MT McEachen made us present of half dozen of the finest pears we ever saw, They averaged over half a pound a piece; and MT. Duffy subscribed for the Herald These men are wellJto-do farm CTS, and democrats of the old school. Call again, gentlemen, it does our soul good shake of your honest paws.-Dade- vile Herald.
 Evergreen and the surrounding country for radius of ten miles is concerned, the present summer will go down as one of the rainiest in it's history. Heavy rains have been quite frequent ever since the summer began but of late it has been al- most phenomenal. Last Friday the downpour was little less than a deluge here and yesterday afternoon, to use provincalism, "the bottom fell out" and another heavy shower fell today at noon.
 Said one old farmer to your correspond ent today: There has been rain enough in and around Evergreen since May to make three crops" From the latest re- | ports cotton in this section may be con sidered as doing fairly well. No sign of rain or rust or worms have been report 1 ed up to date.-Conecuh Record. Alabama's Sweet Singer.-Samuel Min l turn Peck the Alabama poet, is in New York city reading and revising the proofs | Of a new volume of his lyrics, which is l to be brought out in October by Stoke x | Co. This volume will be entitled Rhymes and Roses" and it will be in every way as delightful a little book as Mir Pecks | verse, as gracious an offering as ever a poet made to the delectation of the pub | lic.-Tuskaloosa Gazette.
 Want the Schedules Adiusted -Our people are all anxious for the schedules | to be changed back as they were on the Alabama Midland and Abbeville South ern. It is very tough on the people of Abbeville and up the Abbeville South