Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-08
STATE NEWS.

SIAlE NEWS.
Mr.. Daniel w. Rawlinson. one of Pratt
villes oldest and most prominent citi-
zens, died Monday last.
Conecuh Record: Mr.. H.. H. Reid of
Greenyille lost his home by fire last week
and was only partially insured.
Admission Hot Blast: J. H. Sneed of
near Gadsden sold about hundred head
of cattle in Birmingham last week.
Prattville Progress: With plenty of
corn and meat and 8 cents for cotton
Wall street has no terrors for the south
ern farmer.
Wetumpka Advocate: The lower SOW
eminent works suspended about fifty
hands Monday. They will be left off
about week.
Evergreen Courant: Evergreen is
spreading out. New buildings are going
up In every direction and still it is diff
cult to supply the demand
Mobile Item: The construction of the
water works at the county asylum by
the Edgar-Thompson foundry is progress
ing finely. and they will be completed in
about three weeks.
Piedmont Enquirer: DR.. w. H. OAR
| nell. who has been supplying the Presby-
terrain pulpit at Piedmont for a short
time, has resigned the charge, having
removed to Georgia"
Tuskegee News: Mr. J. A. Smith, who
lives near Selma, came here several days
ago to place his two little girls in college.
On his return home he was robbed of all .
the money he had on the railroad be-
tween here and Montgomery.
Leighton News: lover $1OO have been
subscribed by the citizens toward grav-
cling the road from the pike to the rail-
road. A number of teams are hauling
gravel today and when the roadbed is
well covered the big roller will be press
into service"
Piedmont Enquirer: Piedmont will
| soon have a new enterprise in the shape
of a cotton seed oil mill. The mill has a
capacity of eight tons of cotton seed per
| day, the bulk of which the management
hopes to be able to supply for the present
| from the surrounding country"
Troy Messenger: Arrangements are be-
| ing made by the local lodge Knights of
Pythis to have an official visit from
| Grand Chancellor Tennent Lomax. The
visit Is to be Tuesday night of next week.
An extensive programme is being ar
| ranged and the occasion will be one of
| grandeur.
| Mobile Item: The receipts at the GUS
| tom house for the month of September
| show a large increase in imports and
| decrease of exports. The imports were
| Sill ,94S, and the exports $107 60S. The
| fact must be taken into consideration that
| the month is the dullest in general in the
| year for exports.
| Leighton News: paul S. King planted
about ten acres in cotton this year. The
| seed was of the long staple variety and
| cost 81 per bushel. The ground selected
| had not been in cotton culture in twenty
/ years. Good judges say he will make
| bale to the acre and that the lint will be
| fully rs inches in length"
Evergreen Courant: The farmers Of
| the Castleberry neighborhood have made
| corn enough to do them for two years.
| They have a supply of hogs, and peas
and pinders to fatten them on. While
| the cotton crop is short, and money is
| scarce in proportion, they consider them
selves in better shape than, usual.
| Baldwin Times: Frank S. Stone, Jr,
| has just returned from Castle Rock,
| where he went to represent the Hollinger
| Manufa featuring company in condemna-
| ton proceedings to erect a. dam and grist
| mill on Hollinger's creek at that point
| The estimated cost of the dam is So 000
| A large force Of men are now working
! upon it,"
Tuscumbia North Alabamian: Circuit
| Clerk J. H. Simpson returned a few days
| ago from his old home and birth place in
| Lincoln county, Tennessee, which he re-
| visited for the first time in forty years.
| He found but few of those he left there
| in boyhood but says wonderful improve
| ments in farming have been made, the
| lands being far~more productive than
| when he lived there.
Opelika News: A Dadeville special Of
| yesterday contains the information that
the ginnery of J. II. Turner, situated
| about four miles north of that town, with
| forty bales of cotton, was destroyed by
| fire yesterday evening. The loss is very
heavy on Mr.. Turner, as twenty-eight
| bales of the cotton were his, and the GIN
| county and there was no insurance. Mr..
| Turner's loss is about $4,000. The balance
of the cotton destroyed belonged to custo-
| merS of the gin
Mountain City Gazette: A farmer from
| Beat walked into our sanctum yester-
day and nearly paralyzed us by showing
into our face a $100 bill. We had not
seen such bill in SO long a time we
thought they all had gone out of print,
or they had all been covered into the
| treasury. We first looked at the fellow
| with suspicion; his elbows We're out, his
pants were patched on the knees, he
| wore an old straw hat and rough brogan
shoes, but there was one noticeable feat
| ure in his make-up-he had no patch on
the seat of his pants, which accounted
for the 500 bill. He had not set on the
top rail of the fence talking politics and
euSSing the government for the hard
times.