Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-30

but little rain of any consequence for
 some time.
 Ozark Star: Good, able-bodied hands. willing to work can get employment at remunerative prices almost anywhere in
 Dale county now.
 Wilcox New Era: There is woman
 in Dallas county who proudly claims to
 be 145 years old, but there is only one
 of-that sort on earth.
 Cuba Banner: Bidding on seed became quite spirited last week between the local buyers, the price being carried as high
 as 20 cents per bushel.
 Standard Gauge: Locks have been put in the Warrior river so that barges loaded with coal directly at the fields can pass down Tuskaloosa to Mobile Ozark Star: The cigar factory will soon be one of OZarks most flourishing enterprises. The organization has al- ready been perfected and the money paid in.
 Ozark Star: The indications are that the price of guano will go higher than it was last year. This is due to the ad- vance in price of material, which Is still advancing.
 Greenville Advocate: Rev. w. M. Har- | ris, pastor of the Baptist church at this | place, has received and accepted a call | to the pastorate of the First Baptist I church at Galveston, Tex.
 Cuba Banner: Mir Charlie Woods met with painful accident one day last week. While driving 8 wagon his team l became frightened and ran away. MT. | Woods jumped from the wagon but l missed his footing and fell on his right l arm, breaking 1t just above the elbow. Eutaw Whig and Observer: Five wag- | ons passed through Eutaw last week on 1 the way from Kansas to hunt homes in l east Alabama and south Georgia. There are said to be hundreds of wagons on | the way from the northwest to the south l on the hunt for homes where freezes, l cyclones and blizzards are unknown, and
 where there is always plenty of water l
 l Selma Times: L. T. Taylor, one of the l commissioners from Autauga county was a visitor to Selma yesterday. He l came down to confer with the Dallas county commissioners about hiring out l the convicts. MT. Taylor says that the 1 out the counties and will not bid against each other. He wants to try and remedy 1 this evil. l Ozark Star: The familiar whistle Of | the Golden Rod Guano company machin- l cry will awake Ozark citizens from their | slumbers now for some time to come | Steam was turned on yesterday morn l ing. Many improvements have been l made about the factory and already an | air of business pervades the mammoth
 building, which will soon be filled from | garret to cellar with the best guano ever l sold in Ozark.
 Ozark Star: Yesterday evening about | 3 o'clock the colored Baptist church in | this place was destroyed by fire. The l fire originated from heater in the l house. Rev. D. L. Prentice was teaching
 in the church and the pupils barely had | time to escape from the burning build l ing. The church was a most creditable
 one to the colored population of the | town and had been completed but few
 months. They will begin to rebuild at | once. r. l Lafayette Sun: Old Aunt" Beulah | Driver, colored, died at her home in La | Fayette last Monday morning. She is | said to have been between 110 and 115 | years old. She was brought to LaFay-
 cite about the year 1882 and at that time
 she was considered an old woman. l Aunt Bule," as she was familiarly | called, was good, honest and faithful i servant, and never left the Driver fam | fly after freedom. When she became too | old and feeble to care for herself mem | bers of the family of her former master
 cared for her.
 l Troy Messenger: John N. Folmar went into the circus and as he passed in he | wanted to buy some reserved seats. He | took out some bills and the circus man
 said he could give him change for ten l or twenty-dollar bill. He handed the
 snowman a ten-dollar bill The show | man said, Where is your crowd?" He l pointed them out. "Oh, we'll" said the
 snowman. ''Pll just let those little boys | pass; take your money" He handed | back a bill. MT Folmar looked at it the | next day only to find that the show l man had given him back a one-dollar l bill. Others lost money here about the
 same way. and we learn they beat people
 in Eufaula in the same manner
 Florence Herald: The new road lead
 ing off from the Huntsville road to the l canal headquarters is perhaps the finest l piece of road work in north Alabama.
 The road was built by the government. | It Is something more than mile in | length and like all government work, I is as near perfect as it Is possible to make | it. The roadway Is constructed so that it drains from the center to each side.
 No amount of rain can make it muddy | from the fact that it is built with gravel, | well packed ana rOunQeQ so that water l cannot stand in the roadway. The work
 Is under the immediate supervision of | MT. James Simpson. This road is an ex-
 cellent model to guide those who have
 the county roads in charge.
 Opelika News: Frank Small, negro I living here, and well known in the crim-
 inal annals of the city, made bold but | unsuccessful attempt to stab Policeman
 Mills Saturday night. He was mad with Mir. Mills for arresting him some days | ago. and Saturday night began talking | to him of it, whereupon MT. Mills ordered | him away and paid no more attention to | him. Later, when crossing the street, | MT. Mills saw some one behind a tele- | graph pole. but paid no attention to the l fact until he heard a stealthy step be- | hind him, and turning. saw Small mak- l ing for him with a dangerous knife. He l quickly drew his pistol and fired point | blank at the negro twice. The negro | turned and beat nasty retreat, scream | ing as he ran. He was uninjured. how l ever, by the shots.