Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-12


  Parker of your city who, with his daughter, Miss Lila May Parker, is now ] in the city.
 | The prospect of our college and agri- | cultural school was never so bright as today. Every indication is that the pop Qon of the town will be doubled witbin a year.
 It is confidently expected that Blount | college will catalogue 300 students the next scholastic year.
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 Pretty good snake story is this taken from the Abbeville Times: Mir Henry Clem killed the largest rattlesnake on last Saturday that has been about here in several years. He was blowing in his field and his mule got scared at some thing in the bushes at the end of the row, when he examined and found the snake coiled ready for business, but he got a fence rail and killed it. It measured 4 feet 10 inches. This reminds us that sev- eral years ago MT. Kennedy offered a re- ward of $10 to any one who would kill the snake that crossed the road near his house, one and a half miles from town, in the spring and went back in the fall of the year, but no one was ever lucky enough to run across it and kill it. The track has con tinued to cross and recross ever since Mir. Kennedy died and the same track, or supposed to be the same as it is very large and crosses in about the same place, was seen near the same place this week. If it is the same snake MT. Kennedy of fered the reward for it must be about 20 years old or older
 The Attalla Herald is for Etowah first and Alabama all the time, as will be noted from the following advice to the outside world: People who love to eat, come to Alabama; people who love to know they will get a crop, come to Ala bama; people who love to see things grow, increase and multiply, come to AL abama; people who love to educate their children, come to Alabama; people who love religion and it's influences, come to Alabama; peope who are wise, come to Etowah county, Alabama. for they will find soil climate timber. iron coal, man. ufactures, school houses and church houses, and a hearty welcome awaits them
 The Mobile Herald records what came near being serious collision in that city as follows: Yesterday afternoon Mir and Mrs Louis Schnacl1el were thrown from their buggy at the corner of Lawrence and New Jersey by a collision with an electric car in charge of Motorman Gel roy. Mrs. Schnackel was seriously in- injured. her collarbone being broken. MT, Schnackel was also injured about the body. They claim that the accident was caused by the motorman, while he refutes the charge, saying that it re- suited from the inexpeIience of the driver.
 The Covington Times tells of a maies- tic oak in that county in the following words: Tn front of Mr. Jones residence stands one of the largest red oaks we have ever seen-oVer 100 feet from tip to tip of limbs and something over C, ,@f Il, I, 4I.s.. ster tree is suspended a hammock where one can spend the monday hours reading if you wish,or dreaming of the glorious southland, where space between a soft blue sky and a fiowery land is filled with sweetest chimes of happy birds.
 The Opell1a Evening News speaks of the farmers in that section as follows: A week ago our farmers were badly in the grass, and some of them are yet fighting old General Green with all their might. As a whole, however the farmers are well up with their work. Indeed, there are but few of the town-loafing class of farmers around Opelika, which ac- counts for the clean crops usually mo- tieed about here.
 Cattle from Alabama to the Dakotas is an innovation. The New Decatur Ad- Vertiser says: Parties are here today with 112 head of cattle bought in Mor- gan, Lawrence and Winston counties to go to Dakota. The cattle are now cor raled in A. Stroup's barn yard, and will be shipped al once It is a new thing for north Alabama to ship cattle to such vast cattle region as South Dakota. A canning factory is one of the possi- bilities for the Decaturs as noted bv the following from the New Decatur Ad- vertiser: gentleman informs us that it is in contemplation to build a manu- factory in this city that win use 1000 bushels per day of corn and potaties, to be increased later on to 2000 or 5000 bush els per day.
 religious wave has struck the Sea right community, judging from the fol- lowing clipping from the Covington Times: Baptist protraeted meeting will commence at Searght today The tent meeting that has been going on there for several weeks closed last Sun day night.
 good showing for watermelon rais- CTS. judging from the following from the Abbeville Times: Our watermelon far mers say their prospect for a fine crop of melons are very promising. Tn two weeks time at tho very latest they all think to be able to ship a car load each. The Covington Times describes the weather in that locality by simply us- ing a one-line, one-word announcement- Hot"
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