On Saturday last, as the steamboat
Hornet was getting under way at Coffeeville bound to Mobile, the flue of
one of her boilers collapsed and the explosion was terribel. One man
named John Hes, was killed instantaneously; another named Riley survived
by two days and another man dangerously wounded. The engineer Mr. Marsh
was severely injured but not considered dangerous. Many of the hands
jumped overboard. The boat is not materially injured. The explosion
burst all the boilers and the scene is represented as most awful and
distressing. Capt. Mead narrowly escaped; he was standing at the helm
and a volume of hot water passed within a few inches of his head with
the velocity of lightning. The catastrophe must have been caused by a
want of water in the boiler.
[Republican Compiler (Gettysburg,
Pennsyvlania), March 21, 1827, Submitted by Nancy
Piper]
STATE NEWS ITEMS
The Geneva Record is a new paper
just established at Geneva Ala.
S. J. SHIELDS, Esq. has
been appointed County Solicitor for Lamar County.
Just now the State
papers are full of a good deal of bosh about Senator John
Sherman.
Cotton seed Oil mill's
are to be built at Sheffield, Montgomery, Demopolis, and
Mobile.
The Jasper Eagle comes
out in a new outfit and presents a handsome appearance. Long may it
soar.
Only about 3 miles of
track yet to be laid on the Georgia Pacific between Days Gap and
Birmingham.
The Vernon papers are
getting excited over the prospect of a railroad being built by that
place in the near future.
Dr. J. B. Ford,
defaulting Superintendent of Escambia County has returned and given
himself up to the authorities.
A Mormon Church has been
organized in Cullman County, and Sunday School is being held regularly
every Sabbath.
Cold weather and a
general slaughter of the fruit is reported in North Alabama, Tennessee,
Virginia and West Virginia.
The Gainesville
Messenger makes a poultry exhibition in expressing its joy over the
prospect of an early connection with Meridian by railroad.
The trial of Vincent,
Alabama's "Honest Ike" the defaulting State treasurer was to have
commenced in the Montgomery City court on yesterday.
A woman by the name of
PARTHENA WHITLEY, of Fayette County was sentenced to the penitentiary
for two years for bearing false witness against a neighbor.
The whole amount
recovered by the state from Vincent's bondsmen was about $40,000 of
which Mr. Pratt paid $37,000. Vincent's default was upwards of
$200,000.
The coal mines at
Blocton, Bibb County, caught on fire the 19th inst, and all efforts to
extinguish it so far have failed. A creek running near by is being
canalled into the mines to put out the fire.
The Blount County Jury
indicted the members of the commissioner's court for not publishing a
semi-annual report of receipts and disbursements of the county treasure
as required by law. The question is now many more are in the same fix as
the Blount county commissioners. The publication of these reports would
prevent a great deal of the defaulting that is going on over the state,
and such indictments cannot but serve a good purpose. - Ex.
A surveying party will
begin at once for the locating and building of a railroad from Decatur
to Columbus, Miss, and also to Aberdeen, Miss. The distance is 130
miles. About one third of the way is through an agricultural valley and
the remaining through the rich coal fields and beds of brown hematite
ore. - [Fayette Journal]
[Marion Herald (Marion County, AL) - April 12, 1887
- pg 1, Submitted by Veneta McKinney]
STATE
NEWS ITEMS
Capt. Jno. Grant, a
member of the Alabama legislature in 1866 and a well known character
died at New Orleans a few days ago.
The Birmingham Age says
fourteen persons from different states, registered at one of the hotels
in that city in one day.
Mr. Jas. R. Randall, the
well known and talented Editor of the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle will now
take charge of the New daily at Anniston.
A fire at the Pratt
mines on the 8th inst considerable damage done as everything combustible
above ground was destroyed. The loss is estimated at $25,000 fully
insured.
J. M. and A. M. PEOPLES,
two well respected citizens of Franklin county, Ala. was arrested a few
days ago for counterfeiting. It is said that they have been flooding
Alabama and Mississippi with bogus money for several months
past.
Birmingham continues to
boom. Hundreds of pretty homes are springing up all around the city,
from one to five miles in all direction in the country. Two or three
rides in the suburbs will do as much to convince the visitor of the
rapid growth of the city as even a sight of the crowded
streets.
[Marion Herald, (Marion
County, AL) April 19, 1887 - pg 1, Submitted by Veneta
McKinney]
STATE
NEWS ITEMS
Somerville Ala has a big
goldmine boom.
Tuscaloosa's big land
sale came off on last Wednesday.
Greenville is to have
street railroads and a cotton mill.
Large masses of iron ore
has been discovered near Decatur, Ala.
The Eutaw Mirror has
just closed its 8th volume.
[Marion County Herald, (Marion County,
AL) April 26, 1887 - pg 1, Submitted by Veneta
McKinney]
STATE NEWS ITEMS
The Demopolis Guards have
disbanded.
The trial of Vincent has
been postponed.
Work on the Muscle
Shoals is progressing rapidly.
The big well of the
Calera Charcoal and Furnace Company has reached a depth of more than 700
feet, and gives evidence of petroleum gas.
Jasper is to have
another paper soon, this one to be devoted to the interest of Walker
County.
A most daring safe
robbery was committed in Lebannon, DeKalb County, Ala. on the 22nd April
last and several thousand dollars stolen. They cracked the safes at four
of the leading stores and took several horses. They were evidently
experts in the business of safe blowing, as their work was very cleverly
done. A posse of fifty men started in pursuit of the robbers who are
supposed to be hiding on Lookout Mountain.
[Marion Herald, May 5, 1887 -
transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney]
STATE NEWS ITEMS
Talladega has been scourged by a $20,000 fire.
Isbell has a quarry, a
bucket factory, five saw mills and will soon boast of two
furnaces.
The sale of lots by
the Florence Land Company last month were quite good, as 464 lots were
sold for $178,215.
[Marion Herald, May 12, 1887, pg 1 -
transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney]
STATE
NEWS ITEMS
Blount Springs, Alabama's
famous watering place will be opened on June 1st.
The Free Lance, a new
paper published at Decatur is making things quite lively for North
Ala.
Another Tuscaloosa cadet
died not long since from the effects of measles.
A terrific hail storm
passed over Pickens, Noxubee, and Sumpter counties on the 10th inst,
doing considerable damage.
The Walker county miners
who have been on a strike for some time have returned to work at the old
rates.
Alabama now has not less
than twenty furnaces in process of construction and that number will be
increased in the next few months.
The object of the
purchase by a North Carolina syndicate of 50,000 acres of land near
Attalla is to plant a Dutch colony on it.
A regular "get up and go
ahead boom" seems to have struck Winston County, as the Herald says,
some wonderful improvements are being made, the attention of the people
has been attracted an can be seen coming from all directions.
Birmingham Age: A
northern new paper says an English iron manufacturer who has become
frightened over the competition of Alabama iron recently made the
following remark to a friend: "you may laugh, but I say that the day
will come when the Panama Canal shall have been opened that the iron
products of the Ala. and Tenn. section will be shipped on barges from
points in those states, to be transshipped to the mouth of the Miss. for
Melbourne, Calcutta, and Shanghai, underselling the English products."
We say, let it come.
Our friend W. F. GREEN
has taken charge of the Southern Idea, published at Russellville. He has
many friends here to congratulate him in his
success.
[Marion Herald, Marion County, AL, June 2,
1887, Transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney
]
STATE NEWS ITEMS
Montgomery is building an
iron furnace; the only one in the black belt.
Gov. Seay continues to
make himself more popular with the ladies by appointing them to the
office of N. P.
Decatur turned on her
first current of electric lights at an entertainment of one hundred and
ten members of the Press Association on the 4th ult.
The next meeting of the
Press Association will be held at Selma.
Gov Seay addressed the
Press Association in Birmingham on the 25th.
A new paper just
established in Belgreen, Ala. called the Franklin News. We received a
copy last week and gladly placed it on our exchange list.
The prevalence of Yellow
fever seems to have aroused the coast and some of the inland towns of
Florida to prepare against an invasion of this terrible scourge. A great
many of them have quarantined and established strict sanitary
regulations.
The weekly Headlight is a
new paper published at Jasper, Ala. We received a copy on last week and
found it to be a lively sheet, full of hope and a determination to leave
nothing undone that will tend to the advancement of the cause of Walker
County and her citizens.
Gus Edmison, the fiendish
brute who murdered his wife not long since in Morgan County and then
fled the county was captured near Scottsboro, and lodged in Huntsville
jail a few days go. The parties who made the arrest wisely concluded
that the climate of old Morgan was at present by no means ----- for the
gentleman as Judge Lynch has been known to interfere in cases not half
so terrible as this one. We sincerely hope that justice will be done and
the guilty one to pay the penalty.
Mr. Edward A. Oldham, the
able editor of the Winston (N. C.) Sentinel has sold his interest in
that paper to accept the Editorial management of Anniston Hot
blast.
The "booming" towns in
Alabama are at present enjoying a lull. The tempestuous wave that struck
Tuskaloosa has rolled over and left the beautiful city of Oaks quiet and
serene, but probably on a firmer basis. Birmingham, the boss boomer, is
still booming away but the speculations are not so wild as heretofore
and when property changes hands the price is somewhere in the
neighborhood of its actual intrinsic value. The fictitious boom of the
Magic City is on its last legs and will soon be known no more. Decatur,
a boom is at fever heat, notwithstanding the reaction will surely come
it will be benefited by it in the long run. All's quiet along the Etowah
at Gadsden. - [Weekly headlight.]
[Marion Herald, Marion County, AL, June 16,
1887, transcribed and submitted by Veneta
McKinney]
STATE NEWS ITEMS
Russellville wants a
brass band.
An exchange says there
are 100 prisoners in the Birmingham jail.
There are eleven
subordinate Agricultural Wheels in Morgan co.
Fire clay has been
discovered near Tuskaloosa.
The survey of the
Tuskaloosa and Northern R. R. will be completed by the first of
August.
J. P. Carter of Pike
County was killed by lightning on the 1st inst.
The grand jury of
Green County found 62 true bills at its last session.
The Baptist State
Convention will meet at Union Springs July 14th.
Ernest Hinds, an
Alabama boy got the eighth place in a class of sixty-four graduates at
West Point recently.
A bale of cotton from
Winston County was sold at Starkville recently which had been ginned and
packed for 14 years. Winston may be a little slow, but she gets there
all the same.
Huntsville has
forbidden fish wagons entering the town. Great thing to live in peace,
fish wagons never enter this town often enough to produce sickness in
any serious form.
[Marion Herald, Marion County, AL, June
23, 1887, Transcribed and submited by Veneta McKinney]
STATE NEWS ITEMS
Fine crops throughout
the black belt.
No new cases of yellow
fever are reported up to the 25th inst.
Wm. Pullen, aged 91
years died near Blountsville on the 15th inst.
The Cherokee County
dog law goes into effect July 1st.
Marengo County already
has nine candidates for the office of sheriff.
Editor O'Brien arrived
safe at Queenstown, Ireland on 17th inst.
The recent failures in
the wheat corner collapse amount of near $2,000,000.
The Eutaw mirror comes
out in a nice new summer dress. It looks bright and newsy in its new
robe.
The Salvation army are
said to have possession of Opelika and it seems as if they are making it
rather warm for the anti-prohibitionists in that vicinity.
The Moulton Advertiser
says: There are a dozen candidates for Commissioner of Agriculture and
not one of them knows how to run a straight furrow.
Track laying on the
Kansas City road was completed from Cordova to Jasper on last week.
Three cheers for Walker and her prosperous little towns.
Mr. Hagerwick,
President of the United States Rolling Stock Company announces that the
advisory board of his company have decided to remove their entire plant
from Ohio to Decatur.
The town of Jasper, as
in fact the whole of Walker county seems to be moving on and upward, and
as best as we can judge from the present state of affairs she will
continue to ascend the hill of prosperity with her colors
flying.
The State Agricultural
and Mechanical College at Auburn, Ala was destroyed by fire on the 24th
inst. The fire was discovered at daybreak by a colored porter who at
once gave the alarm but all efforts to save the buildings were in vain.
The entire loss is estimated at $125,000 and only $30,000
insurance.
The Weekly Headlight says: Walker County is not
consuming as much western corn and meat this year as it has heretofore.
There is no better section in Alabama for raising livestock than in the
hills and valleys of Walker. And if our farmers progress as rapidly as
they have in the last here years in raising their own produce we will no
longer have need to draw on foreign markets for our meat and bread
stuff. What a glorious country we'll have when we raise our own
vegatables and furnishing the balance of the world with
coal.
[Marion Herald, Marion County Alabama,
June 30, 1887 Transcribed and submitted by Veneta
McKinney]
STATE NEWS ITEMS
An artesian well is
being bored at Akron Station.
Birmingham is to have
another daily newspapers.
More than 50,000 new
names have been added to the pension list during the past
year.
Calera has chemical
works in operation and also a show manufactory on a pretty large
scale.
Over 200 homestead
entries have been made in Winston County within a month.
The tax assessment just
completed for Jefferson county show s an increase for 1887 over 1886 of
more than 300 percent.
Bessemer is quarrelling
with the L. & N. R. R. for not establishing an office and agency at
that place.
A stock company is being
organized at Tuscaloosa to build a fine hotel.
A lead mine has recently
been discovered in Winston County. This gives Alabama another step -
--ard the front as the leading and richest state for mineral in the
Union.
Montgomery County is
said to have a dry streak this year, or in other words a section of
country where the crops have suffered very much for rain.
A strong company in
Birmingham has bought the Sloper Automatic Water Gas process for Alabama
and they now propose to furnish all the people with gaslight.
While searching for iron
ore in a mound near Duck Hill last week, Mr. J. R. Howard came across
the skeletons of seven men, buried with their heads together, supposed
to be the remains of mound builders. - [Yazoo Sentinel]
[Marion County Herald, (Marion
County, AL) July 7, 1887, Transcribed and Submitted by Veneta
McKinney]
STATE NEWS ITEMS
Hartselle's new oil well
has reached a depth of 400 feet, and the prospect of its paying
quantities is very good.
Artesian water is being
shipped daily from Montgomery to Birmingham.
The interest now due on
State bonds and payable in New York amount of $155,000.
Col. James Hodgson,
Editor of the Mobile Register has been reappointed by Chancellor Coleman
as Register in Chancery at Mobile.
The United States
Circuit Court of Montgomery adjourned on the 5th inst, until its regular
fall term in November.
The Birmingham Rifles
have decided to enter for the maiden prize at the Chicago drill in
October.
G. W. McGown of
Talladega County has raised 1,041 bushels of wheat this season from 50
bushels of seed.
Dr. J. W. Payne of
Scottsboro is wearing a pair of silver shoe buckles that was worn by his
grandfather one hundred years ago.
R. W. Tramwell, a
railroad conductor has sued the Birmingham Age for libel, and claims
$50,000 damages. The Age published a special from Opelika saying the he
had skipped leaving a number of hands unpaid.
A charcoal furnace is to
be built at Attallla by a New Orleans Company.
A Mr. Willis of Sumpter
County died recently from a bee sting.
The Governor has
appointed R. F. Kolb, of Barbour County, to the office of State
Agricultural Commissioner. The appointment is said to be a good one and
will no doubt give entire satisfaction.
The Dramatic Club of
Carrolton has contributed $100 to the Monumental Association of
Montgomery. This shows that the general interest in the Confederate
Monument is still alive in Alabama, and Carrolton sets a noble example
that every town in Alabama ought to follow.
Mr. Mark Hope, of
Gadsden, cut his foot with an ----- and died from blood poison in a few
days afterwards.
The Fourth of July was
celebrated at Blount Springs and wound up with a grand military
ball.
Alabama Baptists are
still hotly discussing the removal of the Howard College.
About 200 negroes left
Montgomery on the 5th inst for Birmingham. They go to work on one of the
new railroads.
A negro has been passing
counterfeit coin in Anniston.
Cotton worms have made
their appearance in Bullock County.
Joseph Drake, a brick
contractor of Decatur was fatally injured by falling from a scaffold
recently.
The flux is raging in
Mobile and the medical men of the city forbid the use of Irish
potatoes.
The first bale of new
cotton for Georgia was exhibited in front of the cotton exchange in New
York on the 8th inst.
[Marion County Herald, (Marion County,
AL) July 14, 1887, Transcribed and Submitted by Veneta
McKinney]
STATE NEWS ITEMS
The Salvation Army is
making a raid on Montgomery.
The Eufaula Times and
News is advertised for sale.
Greensboro has an
epidemic of measles.
Anniston claims to have
the largest cotton mills in successful operation of nay city in
Alabama.
The first bushel of new
corn raised in Wilcox County was carried to mill on 2nd July.
Tuskaloosa claims the
honor of having the best banking facilities of any town in West
Alabama.
Alabama devotes one-third
of her income to the schooling of her children.
The company boring for
gas in Hartsell seem to have met with grand success. It is to be
controlled by Decatur parties who will run it in the interest of that
thriving city.
Walker County has nine
saw mills with a capacity of 100,000 feet per day, and still they cannot
meet the increasing demand for lumber. This is satisfactory proof that
Walker is enjoying a steady prosperous growth.
Rumor says that the L.
& N. R.R. Company has offered the brakeman named Baldwin, whose neck
was broken by falling from a car $20,000 if he will compromise the case.
Baldwin is the first and only man in the world who has been so fortunate
as to survive a broken neck. He should have the twenty
thousand.
Sad news reaches Double
Springs that one of Mr. H. J. HITLER'S sons was drowned in Mr. LACY'S
mill pond in Beat 5 last Saturday. - [Winston Herald]
Mr. PAGE HARRIS, the
oldest resident in Hale County, died near Green springs recently, aged
94 years. He was the father of Maj. J. G. HARRIS of
Montgomery.
Vol. 1 No 1 of the York
News, a new paper just started at York Station, Sumter County, is lying
on our table. The News is edited by L. D. GODSEY, Jr. is Democratic to
the core, and will doubtless do some good work for Sumpter. We gladly
place it on our X list.
[Marion Herald (Marion County AL) Aug. 4,
1887 - Transcribed and submitted by Veneta McKinney]
