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Prattyille as a Railroad Center.-Two surveyors passed through PrattVllIe oll last Tuesday looking over the route or the Mobile, Tuskaloosa and st. Lotus railroad. They were estimating the cost of the road There is no doubt that this road will be completed in the near fu- tlire and then Prattvile will become a railroad center.-Prattville Progress.
 Caught at Last.-"The meanest thief on record" Walsh, alias Welsh, the man who entered the Protestant Orphans asylum on Monday afternoon, July 22 and representing himself as telephone .repairer succeeded in stealing $bl ana afterwards made good his escape, has been arrested in Charleston, identified and will be brought to Mobile. It seems that this fellow has been playing the same game in several other cities. Our chief has written to Governor Oates ask ing for a requisition for Walsh and has forwarded two warrants to the Charles ton police. As soon as he gets the nec- essary papers he will send an officer to Charleston to bring the miserable rascal to our city for trial.-Mobile Item.
 A Suspicious Chara Mitch ell yesterday arrested one Will Quick. beggar and fortune teller, on suspicion of having stolen some money Quick claims to have been reared in Chicago, but will not tell where he came from be- fore coming here. Quick has been work ing the town as a crippled fortune teller claiming to have broken his leg in a cir GUS some time ago. He is about 22 years of age. The cause of his arrest was the reason that he has been seen with a large roll of money on his person and the sus- picion that he was an impostor. When MT. Mitchell went to arrest Quick he es- pied him walking as well as any other person, but, when Quick saw Mitchell coming, he immediately started to limp ing and when he got behind a house he went away on a run. An examination Of his leg failed to show that it had ever been broken as he claimed When ar rested only few small coins were found in his pockets, and he will not tell what he did with the reenbacks-IIuntsville Mercury.
 Great Head-"The shrewdest artist that has struck the town for many day." said a Broad street merchant, was the travelling photographer who appeared on Broad and Water streets last week. He came into our store and said he was making a collection of photographs for the Atlanta exposition and he would like to have the interior Of our store. or course we very gladly consented. We posed for the picture and thanked him for taking it. day or two later he saun- tered in again, said he made number of the photographs and thor~ht perhaps we
 
 50 cents a piece, he said. They were good pictures and we took several. l learned he worked almost every store on Broad and Water streets the same way, and he must have pocketed more than $100 the few days he was here. Everybody got their moneys worth and nobody is kick ing, but doubt very much if the pictures will see the Atlanta exposition. If he is as successful in other towns as he was here there won't be room for them."-Sel- ma Journal
 Shot His Mouth Off.-At Bethlehem, a colored church near Batesville. Gabe another colored man, Ben King. They met there with others to work the road and a dispute Arose. There had been bad blood between the two before, it is supposed. Ben King had his gun along sitting behind a convenient tree. When the dispute was on Ben told Gabe he would shoot him. Gabe told Ben to fire away and then walked off. Ben seized his gun and as Gabe turned to look around the gun was discharged, it's contents tearing off Gabe's mouth. nlangling his tongue, jaw and nose, the whole load lodging in the back of his mouth and throat. Then Ben wanted to get away. But Gabe's wife seized him and held him, despite his fighting das- perately, until aid came to her. The ne- groes tied him then and turned him over to a constable. He was to have had hearing yesterday before Justice Will kins of Batesville Gabe is not expected to live and if he does not the case will go hard with Ben. Both negroes are tenants of MT. George Boyer.-Eufau Times.
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