Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-02
ANNISTON'S TANNERY
Proves Great Success-The Plant to Be Im- proyed-Mysterious Disease
 at Hehin

Anniston, June 1.-(special)-The con- mencement exercises of Noble institute, the Episcopal diocesan school for girls, will be as follows
 Whitsunday, June 2, at D. m, com mencement sermon at the Church of St. Michael and All Angels by Rev. Charles Fearnley of Sewanee.N
 Monday, June 3, at 10 a. m., primary musicale and pantomime; at p. m, open meeting of Castaladean society, "A Southern Evening"
 Monday and Tuesday, June and 1, art exhibition
 Tuesday, June 4, at D. m, musicale and art levee
 Wednesday. June ,, at D. m., com lmencement exercises and address by Mr. B. Lawton Wiggins, M. A., vice. chancellor of the University of the South at Sewanee.
 Wednesday. June 3, at 10 D. m., re- ception at dormitory of graduates
 W. M. Shredder, proprietor of the New AnniSton Tannery, made his first ship ment of leather this morning. The ship ment consisted of about 2500 pounds of fine sole leather and goes to Philadel- phia. MT. Shredder will manufacture and ship about 4000 pounds of sole leather a month now for several months, after which he will finish his product into finer grades for home markets. He is so well pleased with his prospects herd that he will at once considerably enlarge his tannery. Hefiin, Anniston's prosperous little Cleburne county neighbor, is considera- ply excited over the rapid and mysteri- ous manner in which its negro popula- tion is dropping off Thursday night negro man. who had been unusually healthy and robust, died after an ill., ness of less than a month of an illness which resembled galloping consumption. cd off in the same manner in the last six weeks. Hefiin's colored cemetery, which has accommodated the dead of a popula- tion averaging about 100 only, had three graves in it three years ago, and now it contains not less than seyenty-fiVe. The volume of business done by the Anniston postoffice for the month of May is larger than that of any month in the last two years.
 Rev. A. c. Barron, D. D., of the Na- tional Evangelization society of Balti- more and co-editor with pr. H. M. Whar- ton of the EvangeI spent several hours in Anniston today en route to Selma, where he and Dr. Wharton are to hold series of union evangelistic meetings. Alderman George w. Wetzel of the Second ward has resigned. The vacancy will be filled by the city council at the regular meeting next Friday night.
 MT, w. H. Finn of this city, who has just returned to Boston after an elabor- ate European tour. writes that he will reach Anniston on Wednesday or Thurs day of next week.
 MT. and Mrs. w. w. StringfeIlow and Mrs. w. G. Scott have gone to the farm of the latter in the mountains of North Carolina, near Lenoir.
 MT. James H. Meigs, associate editor of the Guntersville Democrat, is in the
 city to attend the Southern Female university commencement. Mrs. EG. O. Neely, wife of the editor of the Democrat. and Mrs. Mollie C. Jor dan both of Guntersville, Mrs. Y. c. Holloway, Mrs. w. T. Simmons and Mrs. c. c. Arlington of Birmingham, and Miss Juliet Poe of Talladega, who are here to witness the commencement exercises are guests of the Southern Female univer- sity.
 Miss Mary Woodruff is at home from Nashville, where she graduated with high honors at the Peabody institute. Mrs. F. J. Spiller of Tuskaloosa. is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Gen. G. T. Anderson.