Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-25

least, have confidence in the return of l prosperity. We trust that this greatly desired condition may be realized.-Mon- l roe Journal.
 "Traveling Saloon" Captured-Sherif w. s. Wilson and his deputy, MT. C. M. | Malone, captured a "traveling saloon | in the person of MT. Francis Whitlock, | out at Bethsadia, eight miles east of | here, on last Sunday. He was brought | to town and put in jail, where he re- mained until his friends came in Mon | day and made his bond.-Russellvill | Idea.
 Eadie Smiths Death.-Coroner Ward was called for on Tuesday to hold an in- quest on the body of Eadie Smith, who | was found dead in her house on that | morning. The jury found that she came 1 to her death by heavy instrument in | the hands of Neil Taylor, her paramour. | Taylor is in custody and claims that | he is innocent.-Reform Democrat, We | tumpka.
 | Got S10 Out of It-Mr. Jim Crawford. | has just received the returns from his | first shipment of melons to Cedar Rapids, Ia. The car was sixteen days in transit. | The car sold for $180.35; commissions. l S1O.03; freight $152.35 leaving $10 for | MT. Crawford. This certainly winds up l the melon business about here. With reasonable freight rates some money could be made by our growers.-Abbe- l vile Times.
 Assaulted and Robbed.-The news
 reached the city yesterday that negro, name unknown, had assaulted MT. 1 Durrett somewhere near Cottondale, knocking him down with @ rock and rob-
 ping him. The report says that Mir. Dur rett was seriously hurt. His son, who | is an employe at the hospital, was called | home on this account by telephone from | Cottondale. We could get no further articulars.-Tuskaloosa Gazette
 Freak of the Lightning.-Durng | thunderstorm Wednesday the cabin of l Charles Coleman colored, living hve | miles below Eufaula, was visited by | lightning, the chimney torn down and 1 part of the side of the house and porch l demolished Seven negroes were in the | house at the time, and besides being | shaken up severely suffered no inconveni-
 ence. They. however, did not greatly | enjoy the xperience.-Eufaula Times. Fell Fifty Feet.-William Lewis, col l ored laborer at work on the Warrior | bridge. had a narrow escape from death | this morning. While setting post he
 missed his footing and fell to the ground | below a distance of nearly 50 feet. His | fellow laborers approached the prostrate l | find their companion lifeless. What was | their surprise upon discovering that he | was only slightly stunned and within | an hour he had resumed his work as | though nothing had happened. His es- | cape is accounted for by the fact that
 he fell on the bank of the river. Had | he fallen on the rocks in the bed of | the stream death would have been the | result.-Tuskaloosa Times.
 Chert for Commerce Street.-The bids | for paving Commerce street with chert
 were opened Wednesday by the street
 committee, of which MT. Charles E. Me 1 Lean is the chairman, and there were
 only two bids submitted. The bids are | for paving the street from the south side | of Government to the north side of St | Louis with chert 12 inches deep, cement | gutters and stone crossings at the street l intersections The bid of Dunn & Laland
 Bros. of Birmingham was $14.356 and of l the Mobile Paving company for the same | work 2O,057 1O The chairman of the | street committee was in conference with | the city engineer and the street commits | sioner all the morning yesterday to con- | slider if the city cannot do the work for | a less amount than either of the bids | submitted to the committee.-MobileR Reg | ister.
 "Finest on Earth."-Mr. H. J. Shay, | master mechanic of the Stilwell Biern company of Dayton, O., is here to Su- l perintend the placing of the machinery l in the International Cotton Oil compa- | ny's plant. He said this morning: Tn | the thirteen years experience I have had | building and placing machinery in cot l ton seed oil mills and other manufacto- ries I have never seen as fine lot of | buildings as this mill has. Our company | has taken particular pains to build the 1 machinery first-class and complete in | every respect, and I can safely say that | when the plant is ready for business | it will be the finest and best equipped oil l mill in the south, and that means the l best in the world, for cotton oil mills in | other cotton producing countries do not | compare with the mills in the United | States "-Selma Journal.
 1 Grapes in Madison.-A representative | of the Tribune visited Capt. Charles O. Shepherds vineyard this morning. The | men and women were employed in gath l ering grapes and the process of pressing l and preparing them for wine was being | rapidly pushed. In conversation With | Captain Shepherd we were told that he would put up thirty barrels of wine, | which was not as large yield as he l should have had, owing to the frost; that | until a late date he had intended making a different disposition of the crop. The I vineyard will not cover an acre and l half Captain Shepherd has given grape | culture a study for several years, and | says this section is the finest grape pro- | ducing section in the world The Fri l bune representative was advised in | conversation a few days since that Hon.
 Milton Humes would gather 10000 pounds | of grapes from his vineyard, and that l grape culture was most profitable. We | have no doubt that considerably over 100 coo pounds of grapes will be harvested