The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-30
NEWS OF THE STATE.

Circuit court lis in session at Oneonta.
The Colbert county fair is great sue
cess.
Both coal arid water are scarce at
Scottsfboro.
Alabama City has been made money
order office.
Protracted meetings are being he'd all
over the suates
Gadsden is confident of securing the
armor plate plant.
Handsome farm wagons are now manu-
featured at Cullman.
Three hundred Athenians attended
Mash willie Alabama Day.
G. M Quarles died at McLainville,
Sumter county, Wednesday.
There are at present 1926 men employed
at the Elliott car works at Gadsdan.
Hon. John B. Weakley has decided to
enter the race for mayor of Florence.
Inc SOupnSTIb BEN lelepnOne company
will extend its lines to Huntsville and
Decatur.
The wife of Probate Judge James, of
Calhoun county, died at Horton, Ark,
recently.
THE gins throughout north Alabama
are crowded with cotton, and some are
running day and night.
john Goodwin, aged 70 and an cd and
r,specr ed citizen of DeKalb county, died
at Valley Head recently.
The Eutaw quarantine AUTHORITIES have
decided to admit express packages from
districts not infected with yellew fever.
Blount Springs is now ovesrun with
guests, refugees from Montgomery. The
hotels and cottages are full to overflow
ing.
A little girl of Mr. and Mrs. James
Rowell, of Mia, Jackson county, was
severely burned recently, and is not *
pectcd to survive.
The contractors of the Le.g1So on pike
in Colbert county have opened a practi-
caIey inex1rauztI ble gravel and ebert bed
NEAR South FLORENCE.
The Pump and Lumber company at
Florence have just received and placed
the largest planer in che south. It's ca
.pacty is $4,000 feet day.
The Kaoln Mines and Fire Brick
works ait Fort Payne have purchased
$l2, 900 worth of new machinery and will
resume operations at once.
Alex Messenger, a negro. has been ar
rested in Colbert county for selling
whisky. This is the second time he has
been in the i;orHs for the Same offense.
A deer ran through the principal street
at New Orleans wednesday. 1t was pur-
sued ard captured, and hunters are now
booking for others like 1T In the vicinity.
d. T. Naughter was found guilty of
the murder of Powell Hancock and sem
fenced to ten years in the pententiary
by the Ashvilie circuit court last week.
The killing occurred Nov. 1. 1890.
A bicycle wedding occurred near Flor
ence recently. The bride and groom
and clergyman weiie the only ones pres
emit and each of these came to the place
where the wedding occurred on bicycles.
Arthur Hale shot his brother, Tobe
Hale in the leg with pistol near Gads-
den a few days ago. lobe was endeav-
ering to bring about settlement of the
troubles between Will and his wife and
flle shooting was the result of the bad
feeling engendered. They are negroes.
Last Sunday boy boarded a pfsce of
bark at the top of The mountain near
later Knob. and started down the dilute.
Within few yards the bark went to
pieces and the youth continued THE de-
scent with only a rather ettenuat.d pair
off trousers between his anatomy and the
chute At the close of THE trip, brief
though 1t had been, the trousers were
still more attenuated The boy lay face
foremost on THE ground for a half hour.
while his comrades picked the spilnters
out of him. He says he will have his
pants half-soled the next time he shoots
the chute.-Scot.sb Progressive Age.