Birmingham state herald., 1896-09-08
:. OVER THE STATE.

Walker county has the. neat balance of $54S6.19 in her treasury.
 Hog cholera still prevails in the north ern portion of the state.
 The first bale of cotton sold in Florence this season brought cents..
 Nearly all of the cotton crop around Headand has been gathered.
 The Universalist church near Brewton is rapidly nearing completion.
 The Oxford Enterprise has been sold to Dr. T. w. Ayers of the Republican.
 Springs in Cherokee county which have hitherto seldom failed are going dry.
 Sheriff Mehorg of Calhoun has appoint ed MT. John T. Rowland as his chief dep uty.
 The Luverne Journal was scant picking last week. It's printer had to attend court at Elba
 The editor of the Headland Sun was off picking cotton last week to meet the fix ed charges of h:s office.
 Greenville is enjoying artesan water again. For a season it was forced to drink from the branch.
 Master Walter Barr of Troy had his toe so badly lacerated by the chain of a bicycle that amputation was necessary.
 Evangelist Culpepper will begin pro- tracted meeting at Troy shortly He will have tent with a seating capacity of 4000.
 Three of the men suspected of the re- cent highway robbery near Bridgeport are in jail and the other two have been spotted.
 While moving some poles near his resi- dence at Neville, Marshall county MT. G. E. Powell unearthed ten highland moccasins. He killed them all GreenSille Advocate: Money might be scarce this fall, but the pig pens of this county are filled with porkers and the corn crop is tolerably fair, and the farm CTS do not fear the bangs of hunger,
 Three young men, named Crawford, Thompson and Gentry, who claim to hail from Carroll county, Georgia, are in jail at Jasper on the charge of breaking into the house of Mr. A. A. Morrow, near that place.
 Blountsville Democrat: Col. S. w. John. of Birmingham has formed a partnership with w. F. Dickinson, Esq, of Oneonto in the practice of law in this county, and Will attend the courts at Oneonto and Bangor
 Culman Protest: The Montgomery Advertiser (semi-weekly) is sent free 10 citizens, of this county The papers are marked as if they had been paid up to about the middle of November. Who has paid the subscription? We can only an- swer 1t by saying that the goldbugs must have done it.
 Montevallo News: Why don't some one come in and help us run this paper? They can sit and tell us how it ought to be done, and we venture to say that if some of them had to get out one copy they would think a newspaper mans life was tough enough. Pay for what you read, brother, and we will give you more of it.
 Unontown Herald Colonel Fowler at- tended the meeting of the Hannacrats at Montgomery last week. Another man by the name of J. N. Diver is also ac- credited to Perry county, and then about half of the Mobile delegates are printed as being from the democratic county. It is thus made to appear that Perry was largely represented which was not cor rect, and now we protest against such a way of doing this
 A few mornings ago, while trying, to conquer young milch COW at Dr. Fore mans, says the Brundidge News Miss Cornelius Barlow was hooked and very badly bruised. A deep gash was re- ceived in the left side. pr. McSwean was summoned and dressed the wound. hay- ing to take several stitches. The patient is doing very nicely. However, she came near being killed A very. peculiar coin cident is that these surgical injuries do not come single-handed. At least a half dozen similar circumstances have oc- cured recently within radius of six miles.
 Brewton Standard Gauge: The Peters Lumber company, with its large number of hands, closed down September l. with the exception of construction and repair gangs on their railroads. The blaming mills will also continue to run. It is re- ported that the affairs of the company are in excellent condition, and that the business was turned over by the receiver on September 1 to the owner Mr R, c. Peters. It is thought that the mill will resume operations on it's new basis soon. MT. Peters is expected to arrive within the next month. Manager Leet Is now in Michigan.
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