The age-herald., 1898-02-22

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 Wholesale Vaccination
 Chocolocco letter in the Oxford Champion
 Dr. Davis is vaecinating a great many people here. He vaccinated fourteen in one family and twelve in another.
 Many Candidates
 From the Roanoke Herald
 It is hard to find man who is not candidate for something. Roanoke has a number of good fellows who are candidates for matrimony. and several of them are getting on the ragged-edge.
 Polite and Respectful
 From the Piedmont Inquirer.
 The "train reception committed" at the Southern depot, continues to be about as large usual, notwithstanding the busy season of the year. There is always a quorum present. This shows to passen- gers board the trains that we are a polite and respectful people, and also that we have plenty of leisure.
 Music Under Difficulties
 Cambridge letter in the wedowee Toiler.
 We had very nice singing few nights ago north of town, and all enjoyed them- selves except few who were taken so i'll with red eye fever and had to be carried to the red-eye hospital for treatment where our faithful pr. J. F. was called to wait upon the unfortunates. He said after giving them the old reliable remedy, salt and water, they were soon restored to their feet to go their way and sin no more
 A Burning Issue
 Paint Rock letter in scottsboro Citizen.
 whiskey or no whiskey has been a lead ing topic in Paint Rock for the past few weeks. Last December the corporate au- thorities put retail liquor license at $500 The saloonist was willing to pay it, but could not get the number of endorsers nec- essary inside the corporation. Then they went outside of the corporation, soon ob- tained the number of signers. built in few feet of the corporate limits, got their license, and are now dispensing the lover joyful'' to any that wants 1t. It was a great mistake in Paint Rock to miss the $500, and still have whiskey at our doors. A Hold-Up in Tuslkaloosa From the Tuscaloosa Gazette. The northbound passenger train was con- siderably delayed yesterday morning by @ peculiar circumstance. Just before reach ing Kings trestle the locomotive hit COW and lifted her up bodily. After being carried along some little distance she fell across the track and got tangled up in the wheels. The front wheels of the engine did the revolving knife act with great facility, but the ponderous drivers refused to do the work of sausage mill, and when great hunks of COW got wedged in, the wheels began to mount up and It was a case of stop train or go off the trestie. The train stopped. It took just about an hour to get the remnants of that dessicated COW from out the wheels of the engine. AReporter Mystified From the Troy Journal
 Rev T. Y Abernathy was called to per- form the marriage ceremony for two par ties claiming the names Benj. H. Dickson and Miss Marie Mckay, Tuesday night. They were married in the library of the Methodist Episcopal church and requested 1 that 1t be kept out of the newspapers, as this was to play a part in romance The bride left the next morning on the Central for Columbus. He left on the Midland for Alaga. He refused to be successfully in> terviewed by this writer, but his answer 1 to questions of importance indicated that it was more than romance" that was | sought Neither of them put the place of residence on the hotel register. Who? why? where? for what? Since she left here she wrote back to the Paragon hotei and asked that they LOOK a1ter Her Shh handkerchief left in the room she occupied and signed her name Miss Mckay" The Fire King and the storm From the WeGowee Toiler.
 l There was a serious con1agration on the outskirts of Wedowee on Tuesday after noon It just swept things. 1t seems that Col Divers forces had been clearing on l a new ground and left treacherous oid tree on fire, tree so old and harmless tod GR- uuences from it. But the winds came on Tuesday, and it is believed that the evll spirit of the old tree brought them, for they twisted away the burning bark and branches and apparently with malice aforethought, ignited an adjoining strip or rough woods, which in turn. connected with Brother Robert Ford's new ground. Now, be it known, that Brother Ford is good man and does not indulge in bad language or unseemly actions, but Brother Fords faith is not right. He placed his faith in the sorriest specimen of the colored race | that he could pick out and left the said sorriest specimen to guard a dangerous point, at which he hung up his newest and best coat and vest, and went away to look after the safety of the farm. When he returned the curtain must fall, for It would not be fair to record what hap pened Suffice to say the whole string of fence was gone, and negro was gone and a new coat and vest were gone, and Broth- CT Fords temper was gone. The coat ana vest and the string of fence were never re- covered, but the negro and Brother Ford's temper met soon afterward, when the storm had its climax and the fire went out. But the funniest part of the incident was that big wad of greenbacks the savings of long continued laboD were sup posed to have been consumed in the in side pocket" This supposition was what made the fire go out. It made the eie- ments darken. It were better not to tell all about it. But the thoughtful lady who presides at the home of Brother Ford had looked after the vest pockets, just as all good housewives look after vest pockets.