Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-08
STATE NEWS.

Ozark Star: There is absolutely no de- mand for corn in these parts The farm- CTS are holding for better prices.
 Sheffield Reaper: The Cherry cotton mills at Florence seem to be running successful matrimonial bureau. It ought to pay large dividends.
 Ozark Starr The streets and ware houses are filled with cotton. which is be- ing held by our merchants, who believe that cotton will still go higher.
 Athens Courier: w. W. McDaniel of Tennessee brought down load of nice dressed meats last week and sold to our butchers. That beats raising cotton
 
 Athens Courier: Col Luke Pryor has been and is yet quite i'll. We trust that he may yet be spared many years to his children and his country. grand man is he.
 Guntersville Democrat John Gilbreath has three hogs which are a little over a year old that will weigh about $50 pounds each, and he has two others of the same age that will average over 300 each.
 Sheffield Reaper: We regret to see farmers making arrangements to plant enlarged cotton crops next year. With increasing rents the tenant farmer is placed between the azure depths and old horny.
 Sheffield Reaper: When a man says "there is as much money as ever before" just ask him to pay that little amount that is overdue and his ardor will in- stantly fall 90 degrees below the smiling point. It's positive fact.
 in Toll con: Farmers are very busy gathering their crops. They say the crop is going to be a little short this year. but as a rule people are in much better circum- stances this fall than last.
 Ozark Star The farmers of southeast Alabama are now in prime condition to fight for higher prices on what cotton they still have on hand; most of them have paid up their indebtedness and are holding the surplus for higher prices.
 
 Greenville Advocate: The Geneva Citi- zen tells of negro school teacher near that place who whipped one of his scholars so severely that she was unable to walk home. and two others so un- mercifully that one of them had to be put to bed.
 Ozark Star: A. w. Nance, Esq, of Chi cago, H., is spending a few days in Ozark prospecting. He is an attorney at Chi cago and is here with a view of locating in Ozark. He is very much delighted with our beautiful southland and we hope ,that he may decide to come among us.
 
 Opelika News: MT. S. R. Hale, one of the bosses is here from Pratt mines. He will leave today with eight prisoners. convicted at the late term of circuit court of VariOnS crimes and who ara to cnrVe their sentences at that celebrated resort for the criminals and law breakers of Alabama.
 Eutaw Mirror: Our good friend, Amos Horton, has recently returned from Ten nessee, where he went on his hunt for lot of the finest breeds of Jersey cows. He purchased several from Mir Crook of east Alabama, among them the dam of Othello Pogfs and four or five other test ed Jersey cows. They will all be brought home shortly.
 Greenville Advocate: Prince, a black horse owned by MT. T. A. Fuller, about four miles south of Fort Deposit. died October 25, 1895. He came into this world of f1eeting shadows in the fall of 1862, and plowed from 1865 to 1895. At his death he was SS years old, and if there be such a place as horse heaven, we doubt not that he is there.
 Alabama City correspondent in Attalla Beacon: The Dwight Manufacturing company have now near 100 cottages on the way to completion. The Stewart Contracting company has almost com pleted the main building and the many faithful mechanics will soon leave for their homes far and near. The machinists have a hustle on themselves and are placing the machinery in position. 
 Sheffield Reaper: Is the party or par ties that stole the brick from the church lot of Furnace hill church in town. There were 2000 brick on the lot, part do- mated to the church and part paid for by the pastor. They were placed there to build with when the time came, but some low down thief that would steal the cop pers from a dead mans eyes has pur- Joined the brick to their own use. May the devil never get them to burn as hard as the brick were for they would fool his satanic majesty and start hell of their own.