Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-10

week in the First Methodist church. be- ginning Tuesday night Among the number will be Dr. A. B. Jones, president of Gadsden College for Young Ladies;
 J. K. Powers president North Alabama Normal college, Florence; Dr. J. D. Slmp- son, president Tuskaloosa Female col lege; Solomon Palmer, president Athe- neum, Birmingham, and Dr. B. r. Meek of the state university, Tuskaloosa.- Anniston Hot Blast
 Typical Tramp.-The marshal ar rested tramp in Greensboro Sunday and lodged him in jail. He was worrying the people by happening at their houses at most unreasonable hours. If his ring of the door bell was not answered at once he'd walk in the house anyhow and ask
 for something to eat. If the food didn't suit him he would chunk it in ditch.
 He says his name is John Quigley and ac- knowledges that he is a professional tramp, and that he has often been in jail.
 The calves of his legs are full of bird shot. We don't believe the fellow has good sense.-Greensboro Watchman.
 Colbert's Exhibit.-A Banner represent
 ative called on MT. King at Leighton last week to obtain information in regard to
 the exhibit which he is getting up for the Cotton States exposition. MT. King has already collected fine specimens of rye,
 bermuda grass, orchard grass, crab grass.
 peaches millet, oats, wheat and various
 other products. The rye is feet long and
 the bermuda grass feet The peaches
 are extremely large. Mir King informed
 the Banner man that the exhibit would
 not be arranged for more than month.
 Mr. T. J. Key is daily expected. He will help arrange the exhibit.-Colbert County
 Banner
 New Kind of Fish Story.-Mr. Jim
 Harp, while out hunting one day last week in company with Ed Colston, went
 to the creek to see if he could get shot
 at a fish. On approaching the bank he
 heard a fluttering in the water and on
 investigation found that large spider
 had caught a small fish about 112 inches
 long. He says the spider climbed weed
 with the fish and that he knocked them
 back into the creek with his gunstick
 and they sank out of sight and remained
 under the water some time. When they
 came to the top he knocked the spider away and the fish after swimming around on its side for short time, disappeared
 from sight
 A Queer Little Pig.-There was one
 of the greatest curiosities of the nine
 teenth century here last Saturday night.
 It was in the shape of pig; a SOW was
 it's mother and it had five little partners
 come with it, but none like it. I will
 here give a description of it. It had four
 legs and a body like any other natural
 pig. It's jaws and chin were like that
 of a mans. It had a snout for nose
 like that of an elephant; the upper part
 of the head was like goats head, and it
 had no eyes. It lived until Monday
 night and died. Something near 400 people witnessed this sight Sunday The
 SOW belonged to F. Glider, a colored man. -Berreyville Correspondent Bessemer
 Journals
 Killed by Gas In a Well.-Hal Jordan,
 colored, went down in a we'll on the Love-
 lace place a few miles from town last Friday and was overcome with poisonous gas that had accumulated there, and was
 hauled up dead in a few minutes. The
 we'll had been started some months ago,
 and was abandoned, and Hal and two
 or three other men were going to finish
 it. So Hal went down in it for that pur- pose. Upon reaching the bottom Hal
 told those above to draw the bucket up
 out of his way but, misunderstanding
 him, they drew the bucket all the way
 up When he told them to let it down to
 him they did so but he was unable to
 get in it when it reached him. Another
 negro named Henry McGee went down after him. and was himself considerably
 affected by the gas, though he finally came round all right.-Marion Standard.
 The Garrett Murder-Another tragedy
 was added to the crimes of this county | last week aL 1Ou1lu MDQuidlIl. It oCcllio
 that one John Garrett had difficulty
 with a man by the name of Grower in settlement over 20 cents. The Grower family were getting water out or Gar
 rett's well. After the difficulty in the
 settlement Garrett objected to the Groo-
 vers getting water out of his well. The
 old man Groover and his two sons went again to Garrett's after water, when the row came up which resulted in the shoot ing of Garrett by John Groover, boy lS years old. Garrett lived till next day and died The three Growers succeeded in making their escape to Coosa, Ga, but were followed by Messrs. G. l.. Hardwick and Tom Hampton and brought to Gen. tre and committed to jail-Cherokee Sen tinel.
 "Five Practical Idiots. Hast Sunday a city clergyman was preaching to large congregation in a country church. The audience in the main was attentive and much interested When about half way through his sermon six yearling boys, most of them vigorously chewing wax and wearing sharp pointed tan shoes and leather belts tightly gathered around their waists, rose from their seats and stall1ed down the aisle like blind mules, and out of the door to a neigh boring shade tree, where they exchanged the gum for cigarettes, and there they chatted to the annoyance of the wor- shipping audience until the services closed. The preacher soliloquized with himself thus: "In town the boys may not be burdened with piety, but they sit through the sermon and wait for the benediction before leaving the house, whereas the country boys, regardless of the discontinue it causes others, tramp out before the services are half over" Much to his astonishment, after the dis mission, a staid old deacon who was
 mortified at the rude conduct of the fel- lows who left the church during the ser
 mon, said: 'The six boys that left the
 church while you were preaching don't live in this community five of them are town boys and the other enc is natural idiot" A by-stander responded: "Yes,
 and the five are practical idiots" We forbear to say whether 'the five' live in Decatur or Hartselle.
 A Trifle alty."-Tuesday evening will be remembered long as the bursting day
 of Santa Creek Gold Bubble. The news spread with tornado rapidity and gaping wonder and surprise, and some wrath, was in every face. It shut out all other