Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-17
DEMOPOIIS.
Good Crop Reports-Squabble Over the (
 Ownership of a Paper. I

Good Crop Reports-Squabble Over the
 Ownership of Paper.
 Demopolis June 15.-(Special Core spondence.)-The first cotton bloom of this season was shown us today by MT. G. G. Sharpe. It was found on the Sharpe place, about five miles from here. We are having splendid showers and every
 thing is looking much refreshed The
 corn crop is especially fine. We saw
 some of the finest looking corn crops be-
 tween this place and Selma yesterday that we have seen for a long time Hon. AiimS Walker has two fields that can be seen from the railroad which would do your heart good to look at. The farmers have awakened to the fact that they can
 not longer hope to make a living out of
 the cotton crop alone and are planting corn and heap of 1t.
 Capt. John c. Webb and sons Mem and
 James, returned last night from North
 Carolina. where they went on visit to
 Captain Webb's old home. Miss Sadie
 will remain there for the summer.
 There seems to be a squabble down in
 Linden over the proprietorship of a news
 paper. A week or two ago Mr. A. w.
 Noble, who had charge of the Reform
 Democrat. left for visit to Livingston, and when he got back his paper was gone.
 It appears that it was sold to Messrs.
 Douglas and Wooten, who are now run
 ming it under the name of the Marengo
 Democrat. Mir. Noble was greatly in
 censed, we learn, over the way in which
 he had been treated, and thinks the sale was not legal.
 We learn from MT. Blott, who has been spending a few days in Forkland, that
 an eagle was killed on the Cole place yes terday which measured feet from tip to tip. The bird was seen by some ne-
 groes who were working in the field but
 who, it seems, did not pay any special at
 tention to him. At noon they all went to the quarters for dinner leaving two little
 boys in the field. The bird was sitting on
 a fence and as soon as the grown folks
 were gone it swooped down on one of the, little darkieS and, fastening it's talons in
 his hair, started to fly away with him. The other little chap seeing what was about to happen picked up a stick and striking the bird seyeraLtimes with all his force succeeded in killing it. One of
 the talons was brought to this place, where 1t is now on exhibition. We sup pose that Dr. J. K. Lagere, who is a taxidermist of the first order, will get hold of the remains and mount it, as he | generally does all such curiosities, and this is certainly one, being a genuine ca | gle of the bald head" species
 Past Chancellor F. S. Cornish received his commission this morning as lodge l deputy grand chancellor of Lafayette 1 No. 13
 In talking with MT Hebert today we | learned that the rapid advance in iron l will cause us to pay something over $170G | more for our water works than we would l have done q month ago. He says that l it will take a continued advance of $2 50 | in order to reach it's real value from | which price there will only be slight l variations.
 The company commanders of the Third | regiment have received a communica- | tion from Colonel Elmore, part of which | sh 5uld be impressed upon every soldier | who goes to camp, and that part is ihis | If they have any complaint to make it l should and must be made to their com- | pany commanders, thus. if their com | plaint is we'll founded. they will be as- 1 sured of the hearty cooperation of the l captain as well as the regimental con- | mander The news which the Age | Herald brought this morning regarding | the impossfbifity to postpone the en- l campment was received with much pleas | ure by our boys, for if the postponement | had taken place we would have been 1 without our colonel, and that would have | been a calamity which we could never | have stood.
 Hon. George W. Taylor left this morn | ing for Selma, where he goes to meet his f wife and children, who have been spend ing several weeks in Montgomery, visit ing Mrs. Taylor's mother, Mrs. Metca&