Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-16

Eufaula Times: The farmers or thls
 section are smiling over their big corn
 cribs, fat hogs and the good prices paid for cotton.
 Talladega Reporter: The fact that furnace and ore expert is opening the ore beds and placing the furnace in shape to begin on short notice is very satisfac- tory to our people.
 Coosa River News: pr. ". H. Darnall has severed his connection with the church and secret societies of this place and also with the north Alabama Pres bytery, and has removed to Georgia
 Mobile Unist: A negro constable of Marengo county came to Mobile with warrant charging his wife with receiv- ing stolen property. The woman was arrested. and her husband returned with her. a prisoner.
 Sheffield Reaper: MT. w. J. Davis brought to the Reaper office yesterday two corn stalks containing four immense ears of corn amidst perfect network of peas and peavines. MT. Davis is an a. maizeing corn raiser.
 Mobile News: Rapier street is the name | of a new avenue commencing at Elm1ra street and running north to Government. | It also opens up Palmetto and Church streets. The street is named in honor | of Col. John L. Rapier.
 Coosa River News MT. J. P. Anderson, | a progressive farmer of Cedar Bluff, was | in Centre last Tuesday. MT. Anderson l brings cheering reports with regard to l the corn crops in his section, but says | cotton is cut considerably short. Geneva Citizen Mr. w. A. Hill the | proprietor of the new telegraph line be- | tween here and Ozark, says that the line will be in operation within thirty days. l This is a much needed service in Geneva, l and will probably have tendency to re- duce the rates.
 Anniston Hot Blast: Alderman N. Fl. l Reid has in his possession an old time l implement of war in the shape of flint and steel musket It bears the inScrip- tion on one side of the lock of "U. s. | and an eagle, and on the other of liar I per's Ferry, 1922" MT. Reid prizes it
 very highly and would hardly sell it at l any price.
 Huntsville Mercury: The gin at Swan l colt belonging to Messrs. Harris and c. | l.. Toney was burned to the ground yes | terday evening. About thirty bales of 1 cotton were destroyed. No insurance, l consequently it was a total loss. This l was misfortune, for Messrs. NeWman 1 Boyde & Cruse insure gins in one Of | their best companies at the lowest rates l Coyington Times: Report has reached | here to the effect that MT. Preston Wor- l lev a young man who was raised In thls | county. and who left last winter for l Mississippi was shot and killed in Texas 1 some time since. We are sorry to near l the rumor, and hope it may prove false l He was supposed to have been shot by | parties who thought he was another per l son.
 1 Talladega Reporter: Frank Pierce, | who lives one mile below Jenifer, had his | barn struck by lightning Monday eVen- l ing, destroying it, with it's contents, which were several thousand bundles of | fodder, hay and corn. Pierce was feeding l his mule when the barn was struck. The mule was killed, but Pierce was unin- l jured He was in feet of the mule when | it was killed,
 Anniston Hot Blast: The tax assess l ments of this county for this year have 1 been completed and show that the esti~ | mated value of Calhoun's real estate is l S5 253 178 and personal property S3305 368 l making a total of $S,55S. .546, against last | years assessment of $9,263,56 56S, of which l 60S9419 was real estate and S3174 149 l personal property. The difference in the | totals is $705, ,022.
 l Talladega Reporter: The merchants of l Talladega have arranged to pay all fer l riage of cotton coming here from across
 the Coosa this fall. This is quite an in- l ducement, and with the many others | Taladega offers, is drawing us a big | trade. Our merchants argue that the | more they sell the cheaper they can | afford to sell it, and so the visitors are
 coming from all directions to enjoy the | advantages offered.
 Coosa River News: MT. M. J. Green. a | painter and farmer of Mackey, raised | this season six or eight bushels of up-
 land rice. This is a farm product not 1 heretofore grown in this section. If it | shall be shown that rice can be success
 fully and profitably grown here it will be l an important addition to our agriculture | The future prosperity of our farming in
 dustry in the south depends largely upon the production of diversity of food
 crops and approximately less cotton
 Mountain City Gazette A Gazette re- | porter yesterday met In the Charles
 Schultes drug store MT J. B. Cole of Crooked Creek, who says he wears his | heart on the right side. He said his phy-
 sician told him he was the second case
 of the kind he ever heard of. He did
 not tell the reporter whether disease | caused the shift or not, but 1t is sup | posed that nature would make no such | mistake when science is watching things
 so close. So we know of one man whose | heart beats in the wrong place, although
 it may be generous and true.
 Eufaula Times: The Eufaula Water
 company intend making another effort to get artesian water with which to sup | ply their patrons. Superintendent Me- | Kay informed the reporter yesterday that
 a portion of the machinery for boring the
 we'll had been received and that opera
 tions would begin within a very short 1 time. The well will be bored just north | of the compress near the point where an
 attempt was made to get water several
 years ago. The party having the work
 in charge is satisfied that he will be suc- l cessful in his efforts to get flowing we'll | Leighton News: The exhibits that will
 leave this depot in a few days for the | great exposition at Atlanta will com- | pare favorably with the farming | products of any county in the
 state. MT. Frank King was deter | mined from the start that Colbert coun- ty should have a fair representation and | success crowned his efforts. Tn another | oo1l1pap eyix list 0f inc cpn trib m tnt