Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-10
STATE NEWS.

| Randolph Leader: Mir. Jack Gladney's- | residence between Roanoke and Rock
 Mills was burned on Thursday night last. | Opelika News: A cotton factory at West | Point, the Lanette mills. paid a net div
 idend of 1872 per cent the first year of it's | operation.
 Headland Sun: We thought the sea-
 son for watermelons was over. but we
 Saw a few little "knotty fellers" last | Sunday evening.
 Roscoe correspondent to Leighton | News: Our farmers are about done | gathering their corn and cotton crops. which have turned out a great deal light | CT than they expected at one time. Prattville Progress: We venture to say | that more strangers are now seen on the | streets of Prattville than ever before in | the history of the town. This is but the beginning of the influx of larger popua lation here.
 Opelika News: MT J. H. Hayes was | tried before Justice Barnes at Waverly yesterday afternoon for the killing of | Henry Harper and the wounding of
 bound over in 5000 bond. which he read | fly gave.
 
 Headland Sun: It is easier to pay too
 much than it is to pay too little. But there are times when too little is asked for goods-and this is one of them. A glance through our stock will demon strate that our prices are very low-Alex Rice, Montgomery.
 Roscoe correspondent to Leighton News: A letter from J. E. Jeffreys, who ont falo fo hn tory last fall. states that he will soon re- | turn to his old home in Alabama. He | lost his wife after he arrived there and has not been satisfied since. Canebrake Herald: The new boiler for the water works shas arrived and Is in position. It is a large boiler, of the latest pattern, being so constructed that | tops of all flues are below the water line | It gives ample power, and there need be
 no scarcity of water after this. a. . 4-t r,r.-, Randolph Leader: Messrs. Dodson and Shooter of Birmingham passed through Roanoke the other day en route to Wedo- wee. They represent the Jasper Coh- struction company, which has the con- tract for supplying Randolph's jail with new and modern cells. The work will be- gin right away.
 Sumter Sun: At Epes Monday two l tramp negroes by the names of Will | liam Stephens and Jack Reynolds l hand of another negro in broad | daylight and fled. pursued by a mob. l They escaped, but were captured by Dep | uty Sheriff Caldwell at York that evening l and lodged in jail at this place.
 
 Abbevllle Times: The Dothan demo- l ciats held a convention last Tuesday | night for the purpose of nominating | mayor and six councilmen. H. A. Pearce l and James R. Young were placed in nom- l ination. Mr. Young received a majority l of the votes was declared the nominee. l The election will be held the first Monday | In Decembr.
 Florence Herald: Messrs. W. L. and l J. A Lawrence, Jr., of Tecumseh, Neb.. l place, near St. Florian, consisting of 320 l acres. Their father. J. A. Lawrence, has l bought place on Hawthorne Heights l and will live in the city. MT w. L. Law l and has worked in several western cities. 1 Huntsville Tribune F. c. Hubbard | and family and Pennard Hubbard and | family drove through with teams from l Kendall, III. They are substantial farm | CTS who want to buy or rent farms. They are camping near the big barn on Pulaski | pike. They have nineshorses with them. MT. James Scofield of Yorkville, H., a | prominent farmer and capitalist, is in the l city looking for a location. All of above | were attracted to our city by the efforts | of the chamber of commerce. | Abbeville Times: Last Wednesday the | gin house and contents of MT F. Bond was destroyed by fire. The entire cot | ton crop of MT. Bond amounting to | twenty-five or thirty bales of cotton-all | it1 dncfrnu6d ] The fire caught while the gin was run | ming, and 1t Is presumed that a match l had been dropped in the cotton. It Is l heavy loss on MT Bond, which, just at | this time, he is not well prepared to l stand. No doubt the match was dropped | there by some careless person while sieep- 1 ing on or playing in the cotton. l Opelika News: Engine No. 30 of the 1 Western road came down late yesterday | badly disflgured. It was en route to the shops in Montgomery for repairs. The l engine was pulling the night freight yes terday morning and when near LaGrange l struck a hand car that had been placed | on the track by some miscreant and a se- l rious wreck was narrowly averted. En- gineer Lovelace jumped and received l some severe bruises, having his arm l broken and side hurt. The damage to l property was slight.
 1 Opelika News: MT. G. A. Taylor, who | resides near the northern portion of town, l is a model farmer A News reporter was shown today a specimen of white globe turnip raised by him weighing seven and l half pounds, the top of which. despite l the dry weather, was perfectly green and l about feet high. MT Taylor has one | and half acres of the same kind. He | is living entirely at home, having tur- l nips hogs, chickens and cattle in abund- | ance. He is also raising bale of cotton l to the acre on land that few years ago l was considered worn out and worthless.