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 Missionary Baptist church for about for ty-six years, being about 60 years old at the time of her death. She was raised in Calhoun county, this state, and her maiden name was Cambran.'
 Interesting Installation-rh Eufaula Times prints the following: "On last Sunday Rev D. N. Yarbro was installed at the Presbyterian church in this city. Rev. p. P. Davis of Montgomery preached the installation sermon, pro- pounded the constitutional questions and gave the charge to the pastor. Rev l.. Ii. Gregory gave the charge to the peo- pie. The services all passed off most satisfactorily. The house was well filled. notwithstanding the rain. The sermon was full of thought and beauty, and made a fine impression upon the congre- gation His theme was "The Dominion of Christ, the Atonement of Christ and the Covenant of Grace" The singing was exceptionally fine. The new pastor thus installed by these impressive-cere- monies has taken charge of the work, and is succeeding finely.
 Negro Frauds-The Florence Gazette says: Two colored men and a woman struck the town last week, one of them, Rev J. B. Gray, claiming to have come from Africa to lecture to his race. but on what subjects we did not learn. The olItr, IleN. ". U. Knox, me noted Ar kansas evangelist. Knox preached in the Baptist church one night, and then they gave show in the colored Odd Fellows hall Friday night, in which they at tempted to delneate negro life in the south before de wa. Before they got out of town those that had anything to do with them were pretty well satisfied that they were frauds of the first water. Let the press watch for them and be on-the safe side in dealing with them. We had to bring them to time by sending an off, cer after them"
 Raised Wages.-The Florence Herald prints the following: "The employees of the Spathite Iron company, of which MT. J. Overton Ewin is re- ceiver, were granted an increase in wages Monday of 10 cents per day. The men had asked for an increase and their request was promptly granted by Re- ceiver Ewin. The rise in the price of iron and the fact that the product of the North Alabama furnace, spathite iron, commands higher price than ordinary iron, Justified the increase in wages. Ev- erything is running nicely about the North Alabama and the furnace is doing as good work as could be desired The spathite iron is in great demand on ae- count of it's strength and softness, and from the fact that is does not contract and expand in heat and cold as other from
 Interesting Cave.-The Swansea corre- spondent of the oneonta News Dispatch writes as follows: "Crurnn cave is sit- uated in Sand valley, near Swansea and is about one-fourth of a mile in length. Saltpeter was manufactured from the dirt taken from this cave by the Confed- crate government in the sixties. Some lead ore was found in this cave when it was first discovered in about 1884. Some Indian skeletons, in long wooden coffins, dug out of solid trees, were also found. The Blackburn prong of the Big Warrior river runs through the noun tain near the cave. Just across the river in the valley are numerous beech trees with pictures of Indians and rattle snakes cut in the bark. One tree has a big 'booger-looking' thing, with seven heads and seven horns, end devil written Just above it, supposed to have been writ ten by the first settlers, to let the people know that the devil was here as well as elsewhere"
 Welcomed GueSts.-Referring to the visit of a committee from Birmingham to that place the Collinsville Clipper says: Capt. James F. Zediker of Lincoln, Neb., Maj. w. H. Hunter and Daniel Rogan of Birmingham were in this city last week on a prospecting tour. Captain Zediker is editor and proprietor of the Nebraska Camp Fire, the official organ of the Grand Army of his state. He is a very affable writer and a pleasant gentleman, and has come ito our state for the purpose of writing up the country and locating colonies of the old soldiers where the sea- sons are sure and the climate more genial. Major Hunter is secretary of the Grand Army of Alabama. He came from Ohio and has been a citizen of Alabama for several years. They were met in this city by w. O. w. Paine the popular agent of the Alabama Land company, who carried them over the county"
 An Industrious Farmer.-The Eufaula Times says: "Col. G. l.. Conner carried this reporter down to his farm two miles below Eufaula an evening or two ago, and allowed him to see what a great farmer he is He has great number of pecan trees which will bear in year or two, pear trees loaded down, cherries grapes chinquapins chestnuts, peaches, and trees loaded down with the prettiest display of the large Botan plumb this reporter ever did see in his life. We counted on a limb 20 inches in length sixty-five of those large, magnificent specimens of the fruit family. Each small tree must have held from two to five bushels of these pluns, that sell in the eastern markets at about g cents a quart. Then, too, the colonel has water melons, cantaloupes and every kind of vegetable growing in great profusion and luxuriance. He is a successful plant CT"
 
 Deaths Visit to Attalla.--The Beacon says: "The last visit made by the angel of death to our community was to the home of our fellow townsman, Rev. George w. Hills, at 6:30 o'clock last Sat urtlay morning. taking from him his loved companion, Mrs. Martha J. Hills, who had been sick only about ten days, and seriously so only one week. All the aid that could be given her by kind nurses and the best medical skill was employed. But in spite of all this and the great anxiety of MT. Hills and their many friends to keep with them this good, pure, Christian woman, who was his only earthly comforter (they having no children), and who will be greatly missed by the Seventh Day Baptist church in which she was one of the most useful of all its members, and by the Christians and community at large, God claimed His own, and she left us. as stated above. May Gods richest blessings ever rest on. all the bereaved ones, and may both these dispensations of His love result in lead ing some one to Christ. The funeral services for Mrs. Hills were held in the tent Sunday at 10 o'clock a. m. and her