Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-22

The Opelika Industrial News pro- pounds this knotty legal questions:
 "Last Tuesday the bailiff of Russell county levied on a dray load of house. hold furniture in Girard just as 1t was being moved away from the house, and in a few minutes afterwards the horse ran away with the furniture and broke 1t into a thousand pieces. Who IS the loser?"
 There are over forty candidates for the different offices in Etowah. The voters hand is numb from overmuch shaking.
 Here is a hint as to the possibilities or north Alabama. as wheat growing coun- try: J. H. Daniel of Cherokee county made this year ninety-two bushels Of wheat from four acres of land.
 The Mobile Herald notes this remark able fact: @s.
 The criminal term of the city court just closed was remarkable for the Iact that not a single case was appealed 10 the supreme court This is record that any judge would be proud of, as only once before in the history of the courts of this county has such session been held. The exception was about ten years ago in this same court.
 A gentle little jab from the sickle of the Reaper:
 Sheffield has the most enterprising merchants in the south. The two pa pers are teeming over with half and fun page(O ads showing what prices thelr goods are sold at.
 The Alabama country girl has caught on to the bicycle, and can perhaps out scorch her city cousin.
 The Decatur News local man is bit of philosopher:
 The wea ther seems a tride too warm for humanity, but is splendid for corn.
 The Morgan County Herald gives ad- vance notice of a unique addition to Bir- mingham's population:
 One day this week the little steamer Mattie Ivea transferred family Of peo- pie from the other side of the river to this city, who are on their way from Rockport Ind, to Birmingham. They were travelling through the country in quite large wagon, which was pulled by the father. The wagon contained lug gage to the amount of about 300 pounds and had been pulled by this man all the way from Indiana to Alabama.
 Charlie Lane is an observant individ- ual, as the following from his Tribune will attest:
 When two men get into a saloon and get about. half drunk, the way they lie about the country and their wrongs is simply scandalous.
 Editor Jelks has to face the awful all formative of drinking beer or turning to dust. The Times says:
 It,does not take one long to get outside of his pound of dirt if he drinks Eufaula water these days. A little dirt may or may not be bad thing, but when one has to take it in by the mouthful he gets little surfeited.
 The Tuskaloosa Evening Times has the nucleus of a museum. It says: We are indebted to Mr. Thomas Clin- ton for an interesting collection of h. | dian relics found on his plantation west | of Newton. It Is evident that history or tradition has rightly located the Indian | camps in war and the villages of these savages to a large extent on the river | just below the present site of Tuskaloosa. l The green-eyed monster always makes | base hit At negro picnic near Har- | grove's mill Saturday Zeke crummins | and George Hyche quarreled about | sable damsel. Later Crummins stepped | behind Hyche, engaged in a conversa- 1 tion, and struck him on the head with a 1 baseball bat, probably fracturing his l skull Crummins fled, but was captured. | A pistol and two cartridges were found | on his person, which entities him to place
 in class A of bad" niggers. There was
 talk of lynching, but it subsided. l Pike breaks the record this year. The 1 Tryo Messenger says: John l.. Trotman reports fully ma f1Tn. haI1 Of nAff saf1 ic n an near the city today, the goth. This is the | first that we have heard of this season in l this section.
 This is a good piece of news in it's way | from the Anniston Hot Blast: l The United States Car company has | just finished three months job of iron 1 work on the repairs which are being | made on the two furnaces at Ironaton. 1 This work has formerly been done in 1 Pittsburg, but this time home shop se- | cured it and did the work in a first-class | manner. The Clifton Iron company su-
 perintendent expresses himself as highly
 pleased with the work.
 The baseball fever seems to be epi-
 demic in Alabama. The columns of the | weekly press ''teem" with accounts of l fierce battles on the diamond. The scores
 are anywhere from 40 to 30 downward. l The barrel has not been tapped at Ope- l lika. The Industrial News says: l There being but little election whisky | af1oat as yet, the crowds in town today 1 were-barring much squirting of politics. | quite orderly .tlt,
 i MOBILE. | Col. J. 0. Clarke Will Conduct State Cam | paign. 1 Mobile July 21-(Snecial Until last