Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-02
STATE NEWS.

Columbiana Chronicle: Calera will 1 have a bank tomorrow. Gordon DuBose l will open doors there Friday morning 1 with MT R. E. Bowdon as cashier. The | bank here will continue under his own management. lEtti= Selma Times; M. B. P. Watson cap- tured a centipede from bunch of ba- nanas yesterday. It is on exhibition In l the window of E. P Gaults drug store. It is one of the largest ever seen in Selma, | and its looks send a chill through ones body.
 Blountsville Democrat: MT Daniel Ma lone of Garden City called to see us Mon day and informed us that his barn con- taining his fodder, corn and hay, together with his horse, was burned last Saturday | morning about o'clock. The fire was
 the work of incendiaries.
 | Wilcox Progress: The contractors have begun work on the bridge across Purse ley creek about one mile south of Cam den. This is one of the largest and most important bridges in Wilcox county and it's reconstruction will be a great conVe- l nience to a large number of our people, Randolph Leader: Near Milltown, in Chambers county, three small negro chill dren were left alone in a house, which somehow caught fire, and was consumed with the three children therein. A res cuing party arrived in time to hear the screams of the victims, but too late to save them.
 Columbiana Advocate: The school house in the Kingdom community was destroyed by fire last Saturday night. Our fellow townsman, A. w. Strickland, following Monday. The origin of the | fire is unknown, but 1t is supposed to have been incendiary.
 Randolph Leader: In Wedowee yester- day Rol Hand, a white man. became en- ragged at a negro named Henry Mcclure. when Hand, after throwing rocks at the negro, shot him in the stomach with a shotgun. It is thought McGuire will die. Hand was arrested and jailed. It is said | that he was intoxicated.
 Huntsville Tribune: Revenue Officers O'Rear and McMahon raided an illicit still in the eastern part of Lauderdale county near the Limestone line, Satur- day and captured two alleged wild cat ters. A large still was captured and about 800 gallons of beer and whisky de- stroyed The same officers went out again to make another raid in the same neighborhood, but have not returned. Huntsville Argus, MT. George I. Motz called our attention to a couple of big pears grown in the orchard of pr. D. H. | McLain at Maysville, which he IS taking | to the Atlanta exposition to be placed in the Alabama exhibit as specimen or what we can raise in the fruit line in Alabama. The pears in question were the largest we had ever seen in the pear | line, and MT. Motz said that not even Cal l ifornia would approach them in size or | beauty.
 11J, Al a CamD- meeting eight miles northwest of Roan- oke young white man named Walter Knight was in company with another white man who was drinking, when the latter became involved in difficulty with a. negro Glib Tucker. Knight 1n- | terfered in behalf of his friend and was shot through the neck by Tucker. The bullet cut the jugular vein, but the wound will not necessarily prove fatal. 1 Tucker was arrested and lodged in We dowee jail.
 Anniston Hot Blast: MT. O. M. Stim- son, formerly with Pullman, has been ap- pointed superintendent of the Anniston and Decatur plants of the United States | Car company, and is said to be an ideal man for the place. He will make his home and headquarters here The work | of repairing and undermining the rolling mills will be begun next week probably. | It will take some $12,000 to do this work | and require a number of men. About | sixty men are employed at the big plant now. MT. Stimson, the new superinten- dent, will be here next week and there are | good grounds for believing that when he | comes or shortly after the Hot Blast will have something mighty good to tell Its | readers.
 Huntsville Mercury: News comes to | us of terrible experience of MT. W. R. l Johnson of Lacey Springs had with a ma | licious mule a few days since. As the story goes MT Johnson bought a good | looking mule and for several days he worked all right. But one day the ami
 | mai became stubborn and would not l budge MT. Johnson seized stick and commenced to whip the mule but then | the mule reared up on his hind legs and came down upon him with both fore feet. After stomping and biting him awhile | the mule caught hold of MT. Johnson s I clothes and shook him as a dog would a rat. After MT Johnson had been almost | killed he was rescued by a friend and | taken to his home, where he now lies, l with hardly any hope for his recovery. Anniston Hot Blast: The valuable l clays that lie imbedded in this county are no insignificant feature of it's mineral wealth. Mr. George w. Eichelberger l owns perhaps the most valuable property
 l of this kind yet developed. It is located l in Choccolocco valley. only six miles from
 the city. The quality of kaolin is very
 l fine and from 1t has been manufa ctured
 l pottery and crockery ware for years. AS
 l the clay is almost inexhaustible we hope
 | to see a company purchase and develop it 1 on an extensive scale some day. There 1 is no reason why we should not paan,i-
 I facture our orockery at home and save l the cost of transporting it to us from the north. The Woodstock Iron works also
 | own valuable properties of this kind.
 Likewise Mir. B. A. Embry which it To-
 | cated just outside of the western city linn
 l its, and from which is manufactured the
 l best fire brick obtaina ble in the south
 | There are doubtless other properties
 l equally as valuable not yet discovered
 l and developed.