Some news around the State of Alabama on April 1, 1880

Some State of Alabama News in 1880

(Transcribed from The Bibb Blade (Six Mile, Alabama) April 1, 1880)

• Florence is to be lit with lamps.
• Shelby’s circuit court is in session.
• Rev. M. T. Sumner leaves Marion for Athens.
• Many complaints of wheat rust in the State.
• Many improvements are being made at Calera.
• Selma’s telephone exchange will soon be in order.
• Monroe County is going to try to compromise its debt.

• 600 mortgages have been filed for record in Macon County.
• A well of petroleum has been discovered near Huntsville.
• Marion young men are going to organize a shooting club.
• The Marion Standard wants a bridge across the Cahaba.
• The Tuskaloosa cotton mills use 85 bales of cotton per month.
• Marion is much exercised over thoughtless outrages upon its cemetery
• The Scottsboro Citizen (Jackson County) has forty-three candidate’s announcements.
• A Jackson County man has invented an apparatus for attaching plows to wagon wheels.
• A Boston firm will soon issue a book on Switzerland, by Miss Julia Tutwiler of Tuskaloosa.

Buildings along a wide dirt road in Fort Payne, Alabama ca. 1880-1889 by O. W. Chase (Alabama Department Archives & History)

• In a recent storm near Greenville, a house was totally destroyed and 5 of its inmates seriously injured.
• Several dead bodies, says the Marion Standard, were seen during the late flood floating down the Cahaba River.
• Montgomery has been visited by the great Sanitary Engineer, Waring, and thinks of adopting a system of drainage proposed by him.
• Eufaula has a cotton exchange, an advertising agency and an ice factory, all of which are new enterprises in the bluff city.

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