The age-herald., 1897-08-14

Smallpox is reported at Round Noun tain, Cherokee county r
 The Pike county commissioners have decided to buy pack of biooGhounds.
 The 26th has ben set for the exam,na tion of the teachers of the public schools of Gadsden.
 The Gadsden Times-News says all the merchants of that city are preparing f}rA big fall trade.
 Dipthera is reported as raging at Round Mountain, Cherokee county, and deaths are frequent. 4a
 Burglars entered the resistance of J, B. Randall, at Calcra, the oi her night, ea2d stole valuable watch. 9i The Ashville Aegis says that Alfred Hodges is baling his big hay crop and shipping it 10 Birmingham.
 The Fort Payne Journal says the ptcs-> pect for corn ard cotton in DeKalb scoun- ty is all that could be desired.
 The Banner says that Albertvilfe is sive with housekeepers from Georgia, South Alabama and other points. .e 
 The agricultural college at Albertvi1s opened Monday under the most favorable auspices, says the Albertvile Banner. a
 The Opelika arid Auburn dummy line was sold under mortgage Monday and bougiJs in by c. c. Torbert for $6,450.50
 When an Annrlton citizen visits either Birmingham or Montgomery he is met by l.. .to,5f
 Seldon Bryant who was shot in a scuf- ae With Irwin Shaw, at sfeele's, July IA. died from the eects of the wounds the other day. ti sff;
 The fruit growers of Baldwin county met recently and organized a county fruit growers association. The next meeting will be held Sept. "A.
 Sim Pearson of Tallapoosa county, used 2,6oO pounds of guano on one acre of co'st and expects iao gather four bales. He says the dry weather, cut off the crop considerably.
 The wheat threshers are running in DeKalb county ard the kernals are pro- nounced fine and plump Sand mounta n some time in the future is going to show up as wheat country. @s
 Jas R. McGhee has returned from Texas to his old home at McGhees bend, Cherokee county. Alabama is very hard to excell as good place to live and do business. .s
 w. B. Hardness has been appointsd postmaster elt Epes. Sumpter county. The appobz.ment YVES not from a political stan1pcirit as MT Hardness is a demo- cnt, and has always affiliated with that panty.
 MT. W. H. Lawrence. prominent citi-l zen of Cherokee county, dropped dead in church the other day while discussingl the advisability of holding protracted mett- ing His death is supposed to have re- suited from fpeart disease e1ii
 The Eufaula Times says: "The gov ernor has accepted the Eufaula light in fantry. They will belong to the First regiment of the state troops, and win be known as Company G. It wil1 be several days before the 5uns and equipments ar rive"
 An old negro woman died at ths poor farm, near Centrev.lle, ths first of the week said to be 115 years old. She had lived or the poor farm for forty years. The oldest citizens of Bibb say she was a very old woman wherl they first knew her.
 The mayor of Columbia discovered in a shanty under the new wagon bridge used by the bridge gang a quantity of dynamite sufficient to blow up twenty bridges. It was left for the government boat to take up anli for some cause the removal was overlooked.
 The mischievous boys about Selma have inaugurated the practice of steal ing watermelons, not for profit or that they really want melons but to have fun. The usual result occurred Wednesday night when MT. Howard Brunson pep pered young Dsrrie Holt, son of a we'll known citizen, with a load of bird shot.
 The defendants in the damage suit of Danforth & Armstrong vs the Term sss e and Coosa railroad in the circuit court of Etowah county have asked for change of venue on the grounds of a conspiracy : to defeat justice on the part of the sole surviving plaintiff c. T. aDnforth. and Dr. D. H. Baker who. ik is alleged, con- spired to corrupt the jury trial
 Sam Fields. a negro turpentine hand, shot and killed his wife in Dothan Thurs day morndng. Fields tried to make his escape, but bloodhonnds were pu or his track and he was captured within an hour He gave as the reason for the kill ing s'hslt his wife and her child en Che has no childiren) aggravated him; that she had threatened to kill him. but he loved her to good to quit her, and decided ehe best thing so do was to kill her. He was given preliminary trial asid was re- n1ayded to jan.