Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-29
STATE NEWS.

Florence Times: The North Alabama
 conference of the Methodist Episcopal
 church. south, will meet at Gadsden on
 Thursday, November, 21.
 Cleburne County New Era: Edmond
 son & Wagener shipped carload of fine
 beef cattle to Atlanta this week off their
 stock farm near this city.
 Sheffield Standard: Corn is more plen-
 tiful and cheaper in north Alabama than
 has been known for many years. It is
 now selling for 20 cents in this market.
 Mobile Unionist: Friday the remains
 of 122 soldiers of the Mexican war were
 dsinterred at Pascagoula and sent to
 Mobile for interment in the National
 cemetery.
 Mobile Unionist: Friday night the Mo-
 bile Cadets had banquet in celebration of their fiftieth anniversary. One of the speakers was Col. R. M. Sands, the com panys first captain.
 Sheffield Standard Rumor has it that one of our citizens struck 1t rich in cot- ton, having closed out his purchases a few days before the recent decline, real
 izing the snug sum of $7O0O, F1OrenCe IlIneS. MTS. A. ,J. Hooper, WHO was burned out at the Commercial ho- tel Saturday night last, expects to rent a building in the city and open accommo dations for the people again.
 Talladega News Reporter: Mir. Law renee Boggs of Birmingham and Miss Louisa Lathen of this county were quiet
 ly married in the Southern hotel par
 lors here yesterday, the young people having. come up on the noon train from Childersburg.
 Leighton News: Last Friday night
 John w. Hall and Mrs. Margaret Hall
 of the Brick neighborhood were united in
 marriage, William Mccormack, J. P, of
 f1ciatng. MT. Hall has passed the three
 score and ten line and the blushing bride
 is about twenty years his junior.
 Jasper Eagle: Jasper is now in talk
 ing distance" with Carona Patton, Coal
 Valley, Oakman, Horse Creek, Blossburg
 and Birmingham; that is, the telephones
 have been placed on the new telephone
 line and man, for a small fee, can talk
 with parties at any of these places. Jasper Eagle: We learn that the Po-
 cahontas Coal company of Virginia, one
 of the largest coal mining corporations of the south, has extensive mineral in terests there and are proceeding to de- VelOp them. Ouf ln1OfmanC tellS us that they are now sinking double shaft, the largest opening, it is claimed, in the south, and will put in very large force. They have also some twenty-five houses for operatives under contract for con- struction.
 Florence Times A horrible accident oc- cured at McWilliams' gin mill, near Tus- cumbia, on Monday of last week. Mir Y B. Hicks, aged about 26 years, was caught between the bar and the line shaft and hurled at a terrible speed. His head was thrown against the floor with every revolution and was horribly man. gled. His head knocked a hole in the floor, which was made of seasoned pine lumber. Hicks was well respected by all who knew him and was a young man of good habits.
 | Daphne Breeze: The prisoners con- fined in the county jail made a well-nigh | successful effort to break out Thursday night. A large three-cornered file was found in the jail and the door of one of | the cells was found off it's hinges. The bar had evidently been weakened at i three points by filing and the door was | then used as a battering ram to break | it out. The prisoners made many con- | tradictory statements concerning the | manner in which they had broken the bar and how they obtained the file. l Monroe Journal: The Mississippi river | is at it's lowest here in the memory of the oldest inhabitants and navigation is prac- | tically suspended. There is barely suffi- | cient water in the river to enable the | ferry boats to cross between the Illinois l and Missouri shores, and not enough to | permit the freight and packet steamers | to ply between here and Cairo. Slight | hopes are entertained that navigation | will be resumed this season. and nearly | all the boats have discharged their crews | and are making preparations to tie up for | the winter.
 Covington Times: We are informed by | Mr. T. F. Baisden of this place that he saw pig belonging to MT. J. D. Mallet 1 of Searight few days ago that was the | grandest curiosity ever presented in this | part of the country. The pig had only l one eye, which was in the middle of the | forehead: no nose, but a snout about 2h | inches in length. which resembled an | elephants probosis. Its head and ears were like those of dog. and there were | four tusks in the lower jaw. Its legs
 were like those of any other hog. but on ] its feet were claws. MT. D. R. Spicer