Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-21
GREENSBORO.
A Leap Year Ball--A Good Dividend--Put-
 ting on City Airs.

ting on City Airs.
 Greensboro, Jan 20-(Special. Jon
 Friday night the young ladies of Greens
 boro gave leap year ball. at which the
 young men appeared in knee brooches
 and powdered hair. in colonial style. Some of the young men were pronounced
 by the young ladies beautiful in this ancient costume.
 Two of the oldest negro women in this section of the country died in Greens
 boro last week-Matilda Kennedy and
 Lizzie May-both of whom were over 100 years old.
 The directors of the Bank of Greens boro met on the 18th instant and elected J. A. Blunt president and Ed Hutchin- son cashier. Inge Seldon holds his place as clerk. The bank declared dividend
 of 12 per cent, per cent of which was
 paid to the stockholders and per cent
 put into the reserve fund. The officers of
 the bank are young, progressive and wide-awake and will manage the affairs
 of the bank successfully and satisfac-
 torlly Greensboro has three banks, all in good condition
 Greensboro is putting on city airs. On
 Wednesday night the plate glass in the
 window of MT. Munch's jewelry store
 was broken and the store robbed of lot of jewelry. There is no clue to the perpetrator of the bold act.
 
 handsome residence on the lot lately bought by him from the Miller estate. Professor Christenberry has bought from Dr. Peterson part of the Tinker lot and will soon begin the erection of fine residence
 A new postofice has been established in Hale county al Wadsworths Store on the Cincinnati. Selma and Mobile rail- road called Greenwood. The percentage of cotton remaining on the farms in this section is smaller than was ever known in the history Of this county. All the cotton not sold is at the depots along the railroads. The increased number of mules and horses bought in this county is given as evidence of the intention of the cotton growers to increase the cotton acreage. But this increase is explained by the fact that for several years past on account of the low price of cotton and the strin- gency in the money market no stock of consequence was bought, and planters had to replenish their stock of work an- imals or quit farming.
 Senator Morgan's alluson to the Se- | ligmans as people who used to sell cheap clothing down in Alabama" re- minds the old citizens of Greensboro that the Seligmans came to this country about 1S43 with packs on their backs that they peddled through this country until they made enough money to set up a general merchandise store in Greens boro where they remained for several years When they left here they carried with them s40.00O or $50,O00, which was | the foundation of their present immense | fortune. There were four brothers and when they left home two of them went to New York. one to New Orleans and one to San Francisco, where they estab- | lished banks
 It is somewhat sing ular but neverthe- | less true, that while your correspondent has heard several democrats who are Clarke men say they would not vote for Johnston If nominated, he has not heard a single Johnston man say he would not vote for Clarke if he was nominated. Are we to infer that the Johnston men are better democrats than the Clarke men? MT. Prime Osborne has bought the stock of goods belonging to Mir. Beeman. who opened a store in Greensboro last fall.
 The young men of Greensboro will give fancy ball this week, probably on next Thursday night.
 J. D. Steinhart of Birmingham Is on a visit to Greensboro, his old home.