Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-10
LINCOLN.
Rains Threw the Farmers Behind-Persona
 Notes.-The Sound Money Club

Notes.-The Sound Money Club.
 Lincoln, July 9.--(Special Correspond ence.) .)-The heavy rams of the last ten days have thrown the farmers all be- hind with their work. The old corn is good, but young corn is grassy and the larger part of it has been drowned The cotton plant is large enough but meas urably bare of forms. Taking it as a whole the crop prospect is about on an average.
 MT. A. H. Crawford has taken charge of our postoffice, and moved it into the drug store of Dr. A. O. Brooks, on the Southsde. Mrs. Hattie Tongue is at present assisting in the work of dis tribution.
 MT. and Mrs. Will H. Crawford of Tuskegee are visiting relatives in our town
 MT and Mrs Walter Harden have a visiting friend, an infant daughter, who arrived on the Sth instant
 Mrs. R. E. Burns is visiting friends and relatives in Oxford
 Mrs. J. c. Wilson and her son, J. 1T. Wilson, are visiting in Annston and Oxford today.
 The Lincoln high sch.ol will open next Monday
 Judge J. c. Wilson is the leader of our Sound Money club" and a kinrly leader he makes. Our club numbers about sixteen, and this club includes about all the original Oates men in our beat. They are vastly in the minority here, but they hope to be in the major ny at Montgomery, as they were last year.
 An Inventive Citizen.-The following is from the Mobile Herald: "To Capt Az e, banner, president of the Mobile Coal company, and a shrewd business man of good mechanical ideas, is due the credit Tor an invention which will probably rev. olutionize the present manner of coaling steam vessels. Captain Danner recently purchased the abandoned Norwegian bark Thomas Falck, which was picked up i'll the gulf by the fruit steamer Jarl sey- eral months ago. He had the upper DOT ton Of her decking cleared away, until she presented all the appearances of a coal barge. On her bow he then erected an engine of sufficient horse power to pull an endless chain, which conveyed the coal to an elevation from where it can be dumped by means of an iron spout into the vessel to be loaded. In other words, Captain Danner has applied a we'll known mechanical principia to the water and of course has been successful with his device. The first trial was made yes terday afternoon about dusk, when the new barge, having on board 225 tons of coal was towed to where the steamer Clearwater was tied to the Mobile and Ohio wharf The machinery was put in motion and in @ few moments a second endless chain. which runs the entire length of the boat, was carrying coal to fine front part where it was received by the first, which like a slab conveyor in q saw mill carried the fuel ahead of it to the place desired. An estimated sav- ing of 40 per cent will result from the de- vice of Captain Danner."
 A Tribute to An Honored Citizen.-Tha Eutaw Nhig and Observer says: t.It is with pleasuraIhat we note the improved health of J"1ge James B. Head of the supreme ,s,crt. While in Birmingham. by invitation we spent a night at his home on South Highlands and enjoyed the elegant hospitality of himself and his estmahle wife. and to us PC visit was Eore pleasant while in the eff The