Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-26

The West Alabama Breeze should re- member that candidates are as liable to mistakes as the rest of mortality
 Which one of the candidates treated O couple of negroes to cream at Hughes and afterwards discovered they had not registered? They say his name begins with G.
 The heart knoweth it's own bitterness, and the candidate hath his sorrows. Running for office is not the best means of acquiring faith in humanity.
 Just now the stations along the rail ways in Alabama are odoriferous with negro excursonists. Odoriferous Is the only word to express it.
 MT. John Cooke, one of Hale's most progressive farmers. says he expects to bring two or three bales of new cotton to that market next week.
 The Anniston Hot Blast has this cheer ing note:
 Not within twenty years have the crops in this section of Alabama been as good as they are today, and Anniston will unquestionably have the finest coun- try trade the coming fall and winter she has ever had.
 Hereafter the Monroe Journal will be issued semi-weekly. The State Herald congratulates its newsy little contem- porary on this evidence of enterprise and prosperity.
 It is natural to conclude that a few "nuts' go along with some of these bolts.
 
 Exchanges are discussing the bicycle as means of grace. When they have exhausted the subject they may discuss the wheel as a means of disgrace.
 The Abbeville Times says jubilantly:
 The outlook now is that Abbeville will be the best cotton market this fall of any other place in south Alabama. Ab- bevllle buyers paid last fall a quarter above all other towns, and they will do 1t again this year.
 The Opelika Post very pertinently ob- serves:
 The action of the quarterly conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in granting license to Col. W. J. Stamford to exhort brings into use an office that years ago exerted a power for good in that church, but which latterly has un- lOituhdtciy very idI6cly ldpScu lIlO ulS- use. It opens up broad field of useful ness for the lay members of the church, and in no wise interferes with their bus mess avocations. The duties of this undertaking will not in the least conflict with Colonel Samfords law practice, to which he will continue to give his close attention and time. The church might as well license many of It's members to go into this field of labor and duty. 
 There is something small besides the melons in this transaction noted by the Mobile Register. There is also touch of pathos and the swelling of big heart
 citizen yesterday informed Regis- ter reporter that in front of Daly's gro- cery on Government street a week ago he saw thick-Set white man, obviously from the country and about 60 years of age, with a cart load of twenty small melons, offering to sell the load very cheap. The citizen called to mind that a few days before he had visited a poor widow with four small children, and on leaving the house had given to each of the little ones dime, and in chorus they announced that they each "fntended to get watermelon" Thereupon he pur- chased the countryman's load on condi- tion of their delivery to the widow and the little ones He wrote her address plainly on a slip of paper and with his umbrella in the sand drew the exact To- cation of her residence on New Jersey street, with which the melon man ex- pressed entire familiarity, whereupon he drove off with money and melons, and it is the last seen of either. The citizen in this instance, while writing down the widows address, drew from the seller his name and wrote 1t down also. It was given as Marcus D. Brown, living at the Lewis place, near the new water works.
 An Attalla amateur theatrical com pany went over to Ashville the other day to show "The Rough Diamond" and escaped maltreatment, with the excep- tion of an appreclative and critical no- tice from the Aegis.
 Thrice happy editor! Who will not envy the Moulton Advertiser man?
 We are under obligations to Thomas H. Irwin for a delightful ride behind his spanking bays to the barbecue at Rock Springs last Thursday. We had not pro- ceeded far until muttering thunders in the west admonished us of an approach ing rain: but Tom was prepared. and in the twinkling of an eye the storm rug was spread. which insured us against even getting sprinkled. On we rolled, the horses cutting sand and passing ev- erythlng in sight. The dag was pleas