Lamar County AlArchives News.....Lamar News December 9, 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003775 October 6, 2006, 9:44 am Microfilm - AL Dept Of Arcives And History December 9, 1886 Microfilm Ref Call #373 Microfilm Order #M1992.4466 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, OCTOBER 21, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 51 (sic) – (This is the date on the paper, real date is Dec 9 as it states on the 2nd page) THE HIGHWAY COW (poem) – [Chicago Ledger] GLORY OF SILENT JOE – Story of Joe Miller – [New York Sun] THE FIRST TURNPIKE In the time of Charles II, restrictions were laid on the weight of carriages and their contents by limiting the number of cattle by which they might be drawn; power has given to raise an assessment for the repairs of the roads, and the plan of imposing tolls began to be adopted. From this time we begin to hear of turnpikes, and as time went on turnpike acts were passed and turnpike roads began to be talked about. With increased traffic and better roads the stage wagon replaced the packhorse in the conveyance of merchandise – the huge tilted wagon that survived till railway times, with its six or eight sleek horses, the smart wagoner riding his cob by the side of it, flourishing his long cartwhip, as the road wound through undulating ground with cornfields and pastures, still mostly unenclosed, and by ways branching off with way posts, t the junction pointing to some village whose spire shows over the hillside. In the year 1767 the system of collecting tolls was extended to the great roads in all directions, and the customary statue labor was appropriated entirely to the cross or country roads. This date marks the beginning of the era of stage coaches, and the full development of an organized system of posting from stage to stage along the public roads. From this time the roads of England began to rouse the wonder and envy of other nations. In France especially, just before the Revolutionary era, the roads were execrable, and the few public conveyances clumsy and badly horsed. Everything had to give way to equipages of the grand seigneurs, and the starving peasantry were dragged from their sloppy fields to draw the gilded coach of the Marquis or Count out of the quagmire of the public road. – [All The Year Round] AN AMERICAN ARMY IN 1777 Here is a picture of one of the men of Valley Forge: “His bare feet peep through his wornout shoes, his legs nearly naked from the tattered remains of an only pair of stockings, his breeches not enough to cover his nakedness, his shirt hanging in strings, his hair disheveled, his face wan and thin, his look hungry, his whole appearance that of a man forsaken and neglected.” And the snow was falling! This was one of the privates. The officers were scarcely better off. One was wrapped “in a sort of dressing gown made of an old blanket or woolen bed-cover.” The uniforms were torn and ragged; the guns were rusty; a few only had bayonets; the soldiers carried their powder in tin boxes and cowhorns. The horses died of starvation, and the men harnessed themselves to trucks and sleds, hauling woods and provisions from storehouse to hut. At one time there was not a ration in camp. Washington seized the peril with a strong hand and compelled the people in the country about, who had been selling to the British army at Philadelphia, to give up their stores to the patriots at Valley Forge. – [St. Nicholas] TOO RISKY – joke KEEPING ABREAST OF THE MARKET – joke PLANTS THAT EAT. SOME FORMS OF VEGETATION WITH AN APPETITE. – article A TRAIN’S FAST TRIP – story of a fast train BEARS IN MAINE – story about bear cubs in Maine THE EAGLE AND THE TORTOISE – [Life] - story about an eagle and a tortoise LIFE’S MAGNET – Poem – [Tudor Williams in the Current] HUMOROUS – jokes CHOOSING BETWEEN TWO EVILS – Joke ITS VARIOUS USES – joke PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY DEC. 9, 1886 RATES OF ADVERTISING One inch, one insertion $1.00 One inch, each subsequent insertion .50 One inch, twelve months 10.00 One inch, six months 7.00 One inch, three months 5.00 Two inches twelve months 15.00 Two inches, six months 10.00 Quarter column 12 months 35.00 Half Column 12 months 60.00 One column 12 months 100.00 Professional card $10. Special advertisements in local columns will be charged double rates. All advertisements collectable after first insertion. Local notices 10 cents per line. Obituaries, tributes of respect, etc. making over ten lines, 5 cents per line. The free schools of the state will receive over $650,000 from the state treasury during the present scholastic year. It is said that Miss Rose Cleveland has written a poem of 400 lines, for which she has been paid the sum of $500 by the publisher of a magazine. The title of the poem is “The Dilemma of the Nineteenth Century.” Practice to make God thy last thought at night when thou sleepest and thy first thought when thou wakest; so shall thy fancy be sanctified in the night, and they understanding be rectified in the day; so shall thy rest be peaceful and thy labors prosperous – Quarless An Indiana editor now in Washington, says of the very much mixed political situation in the Hoosier state: “The Democrats do not intend to permit any trifling business in the legislature, and in the even that the Republicans win a majority on joint ballot by playing with loaded dice, the Democrats will blow out the lights, break up the game, go home –and a senator will not be elected.” The Montgomery Dispatch keeps up its war on the gambling bells of that city. A bill has been introduced in the Legislature which declares that any person who keeps, exhibits, or is interesting or concerned in keeping or exhibiting any table for gamin of whatsoever name, kind, or description, not regularly licensed under the laws of the state, must, on conviction, be deemed guilty of a felony, and fixed adequate punishment for the offense. It is the same as the law now in force with reference to the keepers of gaming tables, (and refers alone to the class of gamblers) excepting that it makes it a felony. We would like to see a similar change made in the Georgia law. – [Atlanta Capital] SOUTHERN GIRLS The election of Miss Jem Weakly, as one of the Secretary of the Alabama State Senate, suggests the mention of the fact that Southern women, especially the younger ones, are gradually falling into the habits of their Northern sisters. They are seeking and assuming business positions in order to make themselves independent. We are no advocate of woman’s rights, falsely so- called; we are not in sympathy with the Phoebe Cousens and Mary Walker sort of women habits, but will be glad when the day comes that the women of the South, so long kept back by the conventionalities of society, assume their role in the various business departments of life, develop their mental and physical faculties and organs, and at the same time make themselves independent and contribute to the support of these near to them. It is a false idea of prosperity and a misconception of woman’s proper sphere that keeps her out of the telegraph and printing offices, the counting rooms and from behind the counter and other places where light and tidy work is performed. But by all means keep her off the forum, out of the pulpit and from astride of a horse practicing medicine. Such women, we don’t think will do to tie to. – [Decatur News] WANTED, SENSIBLE WOMEN Specialized education does not necessarily create companionable nor even sensible women; else by parity of reasoning, would all professional men be personally charming and delightful which undoubtedly they are not. A girl may be a sound Grecian, a brilliant mathematician, a sharp critic, a faultless grammarian, yet be wanting in all that personal tact and temper, clear observation, ready sympathy and noble self-control which makes a companionable wife and a valuable mother. Nor is unprofessional or unspecialized instruction necessarily synonymous with idleness and ignorance; while a good all around education is likely to prove more serviceable in the house and in society than one or two supreme accomplishments. Many of us make the mistake of confounding education with acquirements, and of running together mental development and intellectual specialization. The women of whom we are most proud in our own history were not remarkable for special intellectual acquirements so much as for general character, and the harmonious working of will and morality. The Lady Fashawee and Elizabeth Frys, the Mary Carpenters, and Florence Nightingales, whose names are practically immortal, were not noted for their learning, but they were none the less women whose mark in history is intelligible, and the good they did lives after them and will never die. And taking one of the at-least partially learned ladies of the past – is it her Latinity and her bookishness that we admire so much in Lady Jane gray, or is it her modesty, her gentleness, her saintly patience, her devotion – in a word, is it her education or her character –the intellectual philosopher, or the sweet and lovely and noble woman? – [Fortnight Review] Sheffield, Ala., December 3 – The matter of locating the principal shops of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad and of running their line through Sheffield, which was referred to the board of directors has been settled, the proposition being accepted, and it is now a question of a short time when trains on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad will run through this city, and the sound of the hammer will be heard in their shops to be erected. The company was formed last night to erect a large cast iron pipe works, nail works, etc. The corporation is to be known as the Sheffield Pipe and Nail Company, to be organized for the purpose of making cast, wrought iron piping, bolts, nuts, nails, screws, and other articles made of iron and steel. The company is a strong one, consisting of such men as the Hon. Henry G. Tompkins, of Atlanta, Ga., Moses Brown, of Montgomery, Ala; W. L. Champers, J. R. Adams, and Hon. David Clopton, of Montgomery, and others. The capital stock is $100,000 and every dollar taken, Hon. H. B. Tompkins is at the head of the enterprise, and that is enough to insure its success. The company has sold in the last few days, about $200,000 worth of lots. Now that the success of Sheffield is assured beyond all reasonable doubt, it is but justice to say that much is due to Capt. Alfred H. Moses, the manager and Col. E. W. Cole or the great interest they have taken in Sheffield’s process. Ad for PERUNA AD for Munn Patents ATTORNEYS SMITH & YOUNG, Attorneys-At-Law Vernon, Alabama– W. R. SMITH, Fayette, C. H., Ala. W. A. YOUNG, Vernon, Ala. We have this day, entered into a partnership for the purpose of doing a general law practice in the county of Lamar, and to any business, entrusted to us we will both give our earnest personal attention. – Oct. 13, 1884. S. J. SHIELDS – Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in Chancery. Vernon, Alabama. Will practice in the Courts of Lamar and the counties of the District. Special attention given to collection of claims. PHYSICIANS – DENTISTS M. W. MORTON. W. L. MORTON. DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons. Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala. Tender their professional services to the citizens of Lamar and adjacent country. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we hope to merit a respectable share in the future. Drug Store. FARMER’S INDEPENDENT WAREHOUSE. We have again rented the Whitfield Stables, opposite the Court house, for the purpose of continuing the Warehouse and Cotton Storage business, and we say to our friends and farmers of West Alabama and East Mississippi, that we will not be surpassed by any others in looking after the wants of our customers to make them conformable while in Columbus. We will have fire places instead of stoves for both white and colored; separate houses fitted up for each. We will have also good shed room for 100 head of stock more than we had last year; also a convenient and comfortable room for our friends who may come to Columbus. We do not hesitate to say that we can and will give you better camping accommodations than any other house in the house in the place. Mr. J. L. MARCHBANKS of Lamar County, Ala., and MILIAS MOORHEAD, of Pickens County, Ala., will be at the stable and will be glad to see their friends and attend to their wants, both day and night. Out Mr. FELIX GUNTER will be at the cotton she where he will be glad to see his old friends and as many new ones as well come. All cotton shipped to us by railroad of river will be received free of drayage to warehouse and have our personal attention. Thanking you for your patronage last season, and we remain the farmer’s friends. Yours Respectfully, J. G. SHULL & CO, Columbus, Miss. PHOTOGRAPHS – R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss. Price list: Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00 Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00 Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00 Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00 Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00 Satisfaction given or money returned. Restaurant, Aberdeen Mississippi – Kupper Ad for Peruna J. B. MACE, Jeweler, Vernon, Alabama. (PICTURE OF LOT OF CLOCKS) Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry and spectacles. Makes a specialty of repairing. Will furnish any style of timepiece, on short notice, and at the very lowest price. Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, I hope to receive a liberal share in the future. LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE. J. D. GUYTON, Prop’r., Columbus, Mississippi. (picture of horse and buggy) Our stock of Furnishing is full and complete in every respect. (Elaborate drawing of goods sold) Largest Cheapest best stock of dress goods, dress trimmings, ladies & misses jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, boots, shoes, & hats, tin ware, etc., etc., at rock bottom figures at A. COBB & SONS’S The Coleman House (Formerly West House). W. S. COLEMAN, Pro. Main St. Columbus, Miss. Is now open for the entertainment of guests, and will be kept clean and comfortable, the table being supplied with the best the market affords. Rates per day…$1.50, Rates for lodging and 2 meals….$1.25, Rates for single meals…...$0.50, Rates for single lodging…..$0.50. call and try us. COLUMBUS ART STUDIO Over W. F. Munroe & Co’s Book Store, Columbus, Mississippi. Fine photographs of all sizes at very reasonable prices. Pictures copied and enlarged. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Call in and examine samples. FRANK A. COE, Photographer WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama. Board and Lodging can be had at the above House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor. ERVIN & BILLUPS, Columbus, Miss. Wholesale and retail dealers in pure drugs, paints, oils, paten Medicines, tobacco & cigars. Pure goods! Low prices! Call and examine our large stock. Go to ECHARD’S PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY, Columbus, Mississippi, when you want a fine photograph or ferrotype of any size or style. No extra charge made for persons standing. Family group and old pictures enlarged to any size. All the work is done in his gallery and not sent North to be done. Has a handsome and cheap line of Picture Frames on hand. Call at his Gallery and see his work when in Columbus. MORGAN, ROBERTSON & CO., Columbus, Mississippi. General dealers in staple dry goods, boots, & shoes, groceries, bagging, ties, etc. etc. Always a full stock of goods on hand at Bottom prices. Don’t fail to call on them when you go to Columbus. Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment…(too small to read). B. A. Fahnestock’s Vermifuge….(too small to read) PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY DEC 9, 1886 (Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, Alabama, as second-class matter.) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One copy one year $1.00 One copy six months .60 All subscriptions payable in advance. LOCAL DIRECTORY CHANCERY COURT THOMAS COBBS Chancellor JAS. M. MORTON Register CIRCUIT COURT S. H. SPROTT Circuit Judge THOS. W. COLEMAN Solicitor COUNTY OFFICERS ALEX. COBB Probate Judge R E BRADLEY Circuit Clerk S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor D. J. LACY Tax Collector B H WILKERSON Co. Supt. of Education Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALBERT WILSON CITY OFFICERS L. M. WIMBERLY – Mayor and Treasurer G. W. BENSON – Marshall Board of Aldermen – T. B. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS MIDDLETON, W A BROWN, R. W. COBB RELIGIOUS FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each month, 7 p.m. MISSIONARY BAPTIST – Pastor J. E. COX. Services second Sabbath in each month at 11 am. METHODIST – Pastor – G. L. HEWITT. Services fourth Sabbath in each month. 11 a.m. SABBATH SCHOOLS UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m. JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt. METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 9 o’clock a.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt. MASONIC: Vernon Lodge, No. 588, A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 pm each month. – T.W. SPRINGFIELD, W. M. W. L. MORTON, S. W. JNO. ROBERTSON, J. W. R. W. COBB, Treasurer, M. W. MORTON, Secretary Vernon Lodge, NO 45, I. O. G. F. Meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. each month. J. D. MCCLUCKEY, N. G. R. L. BRADLEY, V. G. E. J. MCNATT, Treas’r M. W. MORTON, Sec. MAIL DIRECTORY VERNON AND COLUMBUS - Arrives every evening and leaves ever morning except Sunday, by way of Caledonia. VERNON AND BROCKTON – Arrives and departs every Saturday by way of Jewell. VERNON AND MONTCALM – Arrives and departs every Friday. VERNON AND PIKEVILLE – Arrives and (sic) Pikeville every Tuesday and Friday by way of Moscow and Beaverton. VERNON AND KENNEDY – Arrives and departs every Wednesday and Saturday. VERNON AND ANRO – Leaves Vernon every Tuesday and Friday and returns every Wednesday and Saturday. LOCAL BREVITIES During the past week we have had Ice Frost Rain Sleet Snow Wind Frozen Thawing Weather Slopslosh And sunshine. Christmas is near at hand. The year is growing old. The wise will advertise, Read everything in this paper. Very little sickness in town now. Sunday was one of the coldest of days. Subscriptions always in order and acceptable. The late cold spell blighted the beautiful chrysanthemums. Farmers have their cotton about all marketed. Who will bring us a Christmas turkey? Don’t all speak at once. The fireside has been the most popular resort to be found for the past week. Little MURRAY LEE RECTOR is blessed with grandparents – he having eight in number living. All of whom we have spoken to on the subject say, yes, by all means let’s have a Christmas tree. The High School will close for the Xmas (sic) holidays with an examination on the 22nd last. The children are anticipating a merry Christmas. Happy children, may they never be disappointed in the happiness expected for them in the great store house of the future. If a cold wave rudely crosses your path you can say, “Blow winds, and crack your checks!” If you have a bottle of Coussen’s Honey of Tar, which will cure all the bad colds, coughs, and diseased of throat and lungs that ever rode on the back of a blizzard. Try Coussen’s Honey of Tar for your cough. If you wish a good article of Plug Tobacco ask your dealer for “Old Rig” Christmas slippeth along, and already, we imagine, the little girls and boys are thinking of a merry time and lots of toys, to brighten life and increase their joy, and in their glee, they only pause, to complete their draft on Santa Claus. NOTICE. Persons indebted to me will do well to call at once and settle up. I am bound to collect and will commence to enforce ----. If you would ----and trouble come at once. Respectfully, E. W. Brock All those indebted to the News as subscribers or otherwise, are very respectfully requested to come forward without delay and settle. The year is crawling to a close and we wish to receive a little pay for that which we have done. In a recent letter from our friend JOHNNIE GUIN, Principal of the Fernbank High School, he informs us that he had enrolled 85 pupils up to Nov. 22nd, and expected to reach 100 by Xmas. Johnnie is a worthy young man and we wish him much success. Free to all. Our illustrated Catalogue, containing description and price of the best varieties of Dutch bulbs, also hyacinths, tulips, narcissus, &c. as Rushes, Small Fruits, Grape Vines, Trees, Shrubs, &c. all suitable for Fall Planting. Satisfaction guaranteed. Write for a copy. Nane & Neyuner, Louisville, Ky. Tell me not in mournful numbers that piles cannot be cured. Use Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment and experience the permanent cure which is always effected by this preparation. There are numerous so called remedies, only one Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment good for piles only, but so good for that disease that all sufferers with it need only use the great remedy. MARRIED Mr. R. B. JONES and DORA BRAZIL on the 25th of Nov. at the residence of Mr. MIKE HOWELL, by Rev. J. R. ROBERTSON. Mr. J. A. SHAW and Miss M. D. ROBBITT, on the 25th Nov. at Mrs. CAROLINE BOBBITT’S, by Rev. J. R. ROBERTSON. Mr. S. J. MORDICAI and Miss PARILLEE MCNEES on 21st Mrs. MARTHA MCNEES, by Rev. M. R. SEAY. E. W. BROCK’S Cash Store. Prices away down from what you paid before, and prices that knock out all competition. Are too busy to writ (sic) new advertisements every week, so just come on and get what you want at prices to suit yourself. E. W. BROCK If we had a whole dictionary of adjectives at our tongues and to use in recommendation of Coussens Honey of Tar, as a cure for coughs, colds, and diseases of throat and lungs, we would simply pick out the little “best” and apply it sincerely to Coussens Honey of Tar, because it is the only permanent cure for a deep seated cough or cold upon the lungs. CAPTIVE – Poem – [V. L.] SCHOOL NOTICE. On the first Monday in Nov. next the undersigned will open a school at Molloy, for a term of six months. Tuition from one to two dollars per month, good school-house – good board from five to seven dollars per month. For particulars, address, W. J. MOLLOY, Molloy, Ala. ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County Alabama, made on the 20th day of November 1886, I as Administrator of the Estate of H. C. MCNEES late of said county, deceased, will on the 20th day of December next offer for sale at public outcry at the town of Fernbank, in said county, the following tract of land, to wit; N E ¼ Sec 7, E ½ of N W ¼ Sec 8, E ½ of E ½ Sec 18, N ½ of N E ¼ Sec 19, N W ¼ of N E ¼ Sec 20, S E ¼ of S E ¼ E ½ of N E ¼ less 2 acres, 25 acres off of North end of S W ¼ of N E ¼ and 17 acres off of the south end of N W ¼ of N E ¼ and 15 acres off of the south end of N E ¼ of N W ¼ and a ½ of S W q Sec 17, all in T 17 R 15, said lands will be sold for one fifth in cash the remainder on credit of one and two years from day of sale, the purchaser giving note with approved securities, said land lies in and around the town of Vernon, and will be sold in lots to suit the purchasers this 22nd day of November, 1889. N. S. PARTIAN, Admr. VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALE On Wednesday the 15th day of December next, in front of the court house door of Lamar County, I will offer for sale at public auction my entire tract of land; also half interest in my Mill and the land on which it is situated. Also some desirable town property. Lands will be sold in lots to suit purchasers. One half cash and balance on credit of twelve months from sale with approved sureties. Persons indebted to me will please call and settle. This Nov. 14th, 1886 ANDREW J. WHEELER, Vernon, Ala. ADM’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County Alabama made and entered in the premises on the 2nd day of November I will offer for sale for cash on the premises known as the HENSON SPRINGS Place on the 4th day of December 1886 the following lands as belong to the estate of H. K. HENSON Deceased to wit; N. W. ¼ of N. E. ½ except 2 acres in S. W. Corner of same and two in N. E. end of S. E. ¼ of N E ¼ Sec 13 T 12 R 15. Sale will be made within the usual hours of sale the title to said land is good and one of the best mineral springs on it than there is in the state. This 12 of November 1886. E. J. HENSON, Administrator of H. K. HENSON, Estate ADMRS SALE OF VALUABLE LANDS Under and by virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Pickens County Alabama, the Court having jurisdiction of the Estate of SARAH SHIRLEY deceased. We the undersigned Admr’s of said estate, will sell the lands of said estate lying in Lamar County, Alabama, at Kennedy Station in Lamar County between the legal hours of sale on Wednesday the 1st day of December 1886, at public outcry for ½ cash and ½ on credit of twelve months with security as required by law. The lands known as the JOHN F. HUDSON place and described as follows, to wit: N W ¼ and W ½ of N E ¼ and N E ¼ of S W ½. Most of said lands are sold by order of said Court distribution amongst the heirs at law of said Estate. November the 8th, 1886. THOMAS JOYNER & T. T. JOYNER, Admr’s of said estate. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION – Land Office At Montgomery, Ala. Nov 11, 1886 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed his notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judge or in his absence before the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, Ala at Vernon on January the 8th, 1887, viz: WILLIAM V. RUSSELL Homestead application No. 11218 for the S E ¼ Sec 13 T 15 S R 14 W. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: SAUL H. JACKSON, JOHN B. WHEELER, A. J. RECTOR, JAMES T. LAWRENCE, all of Vernon, Ala. J. G. HARRIS, Register ADMINISTER’S SALE The State of Alabama, Lamar County Under and by virtue of an order of the Probate Court of the State and County aforesaid made and directed to the undersigned as Admir. De Bonnis Non of the Estate of A. T. YOUNG. I will offer for sale at public auction at the Mill of J. P. & R.W. YOUNG on Saturday the 4th day of December 1886 on a credit of twelve months the following real estate to wit: S E ¼ of S E ¼ and to the creek of S W ¼ of S E ¼ and one acre more or less in S E corner of N W ¼ of S E ¼ to the creek on the West and to the public road on the north Sec 33 and 25 acres more or less off of south side S W ¼ of S W ¼ Sec 34, T 14 R 16 West. Also 5 acres off of N side N E ¼ Sec 4 and 15 acres of N W ½ of N W ¼ Sec 3 T 15 R 16. The purchaser executing note with two approved sureties. This Nov 10th, 1886 J. F. FERGUSON, Admr. Ad for Ayer & Sons. U. S. MARSHAL’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE RANKIN & CO. VS. M. E. STANLEY CO. In the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of an Execution, placed in my hands to be executed, issued by the Clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama at Birmingham in favor of the plaintiffs in eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-three cents (824.23) debt, and fifty-two dollars and thirty-five cents (52.35) costs, on the 19th day of October 1886 and this day levied by me upon the property herein described. I will offer sale at the door of the Court House of Lamar County Alabama on Monday the 3rd day of January 1887 during the legal hours of sale to the highest and best bidder for cash as the property of said defendants, to satisfy and damages and costs in said Execution mentioned, the following real estate situated in said county of Lamar, viz: One lot 36 x 84 feet on which was located the store house of M. E. STANLEY & Co which burned; one house and lot 25 x 50 feet known as the GREEN RAY SALOON and now used as a shoe ship; one acre of land embracing the DETROIT TAN YARD, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the spring known as the TAN YARD SPRING, and from said spring southwest to the west boundary of the southwest to the west boundary of the N E ¼ of the N W ¼ of Section 13 Township 12 Range 16; thence along said line to the ABERDEEN AND TUSCUMBIA ROAD; thence along said road Easterly to the branch known as the TAN YARD BRANCH, then south to the place of beginning at the spring. Lot No. 5, one hundred yards square on which is located a one room frame dwelling; one lot 30 x 60 feet on which stood the JOHN RAY BLACKSMITH SHOP lying between MANLEY’S DRUG STORE and the store of F. W. WORTHINGTON and fronting on the Aberdeen and Tuscumbia Road all of the above property is situated in the town of DETROIT, Lamar County, Alabama; also the S W ¼ of Section 13 Township 11 Range 16 containing 160 acres; all located in the county of Lamar and state of Alabama. This the 13th day of November, 1886 A. H. KELLER, U. S. Marshal, by A. B. HAMLEY, Deputy ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County Alabama made and entered in the premises on the 1st day of November 1886, I will offer for sale on the premises at my residence on the 11th day of December 1886 the following tract of land to wit: N E ¼ of S W ¼ Sec 11 S ½ of S E ¼ of N E ¼ and N ½ of S E ¼ Sec 10 and N W ¼ Sec 14 and E ½ of N E ¼ Sec 15 all in T 15 R 16 lands belonging to the estate of S M PROTHRO deceased of whom I am administrator. Said sale will be made for one half cash the remainder on credit of twelve months from day of sale. This the 15th day of November 1886. W. S. PROTHRO, Admr. U. S. MARSHAL’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE H. B. BUCKNER & CO. VS. M. E. STANLEY & CO. In the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of an Execution, placed in my hands to be executed, issued by the Clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama at Birmingham in favor of the plaintiffs in the above sstyled cause for the sum of nine hundred and seventy-four dollars and thirty cents ($974.30) debt and forty-two dollars and ninety-six cents ($42.96) as the 19th day of October 1886 and this day levied by me upon the property herein described. I will offer sale at the door of the Court House of Lamar County Alabama on Monday the 3rd day of January 1887 during the legal hours of sale to the highest and best bidder for cash as the property of said defendants, to satisfy and damages and costs in said Execution mentioned, the following real estate situated in said county of Lamar, viz: One lot 36 x 84 feet on which was located the store house of M. E. STANLEY & Co which burned; one house and lot 25 x 50 feet known as the GREEN RAY SALOON and now used as a shoe ship; one acre of land embracing the DETROIT TAN YARD, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the spring known as the TAN YARD SPRING, and from said spring southwest to the west boundary of the southwest to the west boundary of the N E ¼ of the N W ¼ of Section 13 Township 12 Range 16; thence along said line to the ABERDEEN AND TUSCUMBIA ROAD; thence along said road Easterly to the branch known as the TAN YARD BRANCH, then south to the place of beginning at the spring. Lot No. 5, one hundred yards square on which is located a one room frame dwelling; one lot 30 x 60 feet on which stood the JOHN RAY BLACKSMITH SHOP lying between MANLEY’S DRUG STORE and the store of F. W. WORTHINGTON and fronting on the Aberdeen and Tuscumbia Road all of the above property is situated in the town of DETROIT, Lamar County, Alabama; also the S W ¼ of Section 13 Township 11 Range 16 containing 160 acres; all located in the county of Lamar and state of Alabama. This the 13th day of November, 1886 A. H. KELLER, U. S. Marshal, by A. B. HAMLEY, Deputy THE VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, Under the Principalship of J. R. BLACK, will open October 5, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of Tuition as follows: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Composition, and U. S. History; per month $2.00 ADVANCED: Embracing Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, and Latin, per month $3.00 Incidental fee 20 cts, per quarter. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention given to those who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7 per month. Tuition due at the end of each quarter. For further information, address: J. R. BLACK, Principal, Vernon, Ala Barber Shop. GEO. W. BENSON has removed his Barber Shop in the rear of the store of HALEY & DENMAN, where he will be pleased to serve his many customers. APPLICATION TO SELL LAND The State of Alabama, Lamar County Probate Court, September 18, 1886 This day came W. S. PROTHRO Administrator, and filed his application in writing and under oath praying for an order and proceeding to sell certain lands in said application described, for the purpose of paying the debts due and owing from said estate and the 1st day of November 1886 being a day set for hearing and passing upon said application, this is to notify all persons interested to appear on that day and contest the same if they see proper. ALEXANDER COBB, judge of Probate KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL Located in the live and growing town of Kennedy on the Georgia Pacific Rail Road. The moral and religious influences surrounding this school are unsurpassed in any part of the state. Boarders can find pleasant homes in refined families at very reasonable rates. The first session will commence on Monday Nov. 1st, 1886, and continue for a term of ten scholastic months. TUITION PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Physiology, History of U. S., Practical Arithmetic, and Elementary Algebra, per month $2.00. ADVANCED GRADE: Embracing Higher Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Rhetoric, Elocution, and Latin per month, $2.50. An incidental fee of 25 cents, per session. Special attention will be given to those who expect to engage in teaching and preparing boys and girls to enter college. Tuition due at expiration of each quarter. For further particulars address J. C. JOHNSON, Principal, Kennedy, Ala. KINGVILLE HIGH SCHOOL will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra, and U. S. History, per month, $2.00 HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Higher Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, Latin, per month $3.00. No incidental fee. Board in best families from $1.00 to $2.00 per month. Tuition due every three months. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention will be given to those who wish to engage in teaching. For further information address B. H. WILKERSON, C. Supt., Principal. Kingville, Ala, Oct. 20, 1886 THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL under the Principalship of J. R. GUIN, will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of Ten Scholastic months Rates of Tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Grammar, Primary Geography and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.25. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing Brief English Grammar, Elementary Geography, Elementary Arithmetic, Letter Writing and Hygiene, per month, $1.50. PRACTICAL: Embracing English Grammar, Practical Arithmetic, Complete Geography, English Composition, U. S. History and Physiology, per month, $2.00. HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Rhetoric, Elocution, Algebra, Natural Philosophy, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Hygiene, Physiology, Latin, &c, per month $2.50. Discipline will be firm. Special attention will be given to young men and women who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7.00 per month. No incidental fees. Tuition due every five months. Correspondence solicited. Address J. R. GUIN Fernbank, Ala. Ad for New Home Sewing Machine RUSH & REED. Cheap Cash Store, Dry goods, Clothing, boots & shoes, school books, &c. Coffee, sugar, tobacco snuff crockery and tinware All at Bottom prices. Give us a call. RUSH & REED. Ad for Collins Age Cure Remember This. (picture of boy in clothing) when you want clothing, hats, underwear, that BUTLER & TOPP deal only in these goods. You can get a better selection and a great variety to select from than is kept in any house in Columbus. We carry suits from $6 to $30, and hats from 50 c to $10. Call and see us. BUTLER & TOPP Ad for Marriage Guide Ad for Pianos and Organs PAGE 4 LADIES DEPARTMENT THEIR START IN LIFE The original occupations of prominent actresses have been curious and diverse, says the New York World. Maud Granger, who was as fond of rolling up her pretty eyes as Mary Anderson now is, earned her first money by going out by the day as a sewing woman. Jenny Lind used to help her mother to keep a boardinghouse in Sweden. Clara Louise Kellogg’s mother used to give Spiritualistic seances to raise the money to train her daughter’s voice. Sarah Bernhardt made buttonholes for a little, unfashionable dressmaker in Paris. Rhea was a harum-scarum French holden of 14 when she went on the stage in the provinces, and was continually in disgrace and down for fines because of her lively behavior at rehearsals. There was a stuffed tiger used in the play, a French farrage of oriental impossibilities, and one day at the rehearsal she stole behind the leading gentleman with the tiger in her arms and clapped it on his back in the midst of his most impassioned love scene. He was so startled he fainted, and on the books of the Lyons theatre is still to be seen this entry under the head of “fine:” “Mille, Rhea, for frightening M. Blank with a tiger, 5 francs.” A MEXICAN CUSTOM When a Mexican lady is widowed (says a correspondent of the Kansas City Journal) a family council is immediately called, her male relatives and those of her husband charging themselves with the education of her sons and the care of herself and daughters quite as a matter of course. Though the widow and her grown-up daughters may be accomplished as well as poor, nobody dreams of the possibility of their doing anything toward supporting themselves, and the proffered aid is calmly accepted as an hereditary right. Even if the widowed mother is healthy she can be no means be independent. Custom, which here rules with iron hand, prescribes that the entire superintendence of her property and the education of her children shall be delegated to her male kindred, and what she is really an aged woman she must reside with her relatives. So thoroughly are Mexican gentlemen imbued with this idea of womanly dependence that they do not regard the care of any number of bereaved families as an just burden, but, on the contrary, when a man married he virtually contracts to befriend all the female kindred of his lady love and to province for then, if need be. This sort of knightly courtesy makes matrimony a serous matter, and perhaps accounts for the number of eligible bachelors with which Mexico abounds; but, bandiage apart, it is a beautiful custom, and a strong proof of the innate chivalry of Mexican gentleman is found in the fact that the estates of widows and orphans are invariably administered with scrupulous honesty. WOMEN WHO DOCTOR THEIR HAIR A fashionable New York modiste ahs given a Mail and Express reporter some points on women doctoring their hair to obtain certain effects in color. Said she: “Women are blessed with such luxuriant hirsute adornments they rarely ever become bald. If they did not attempt to doctor their hair it would never fall out, unless some scalp disease caused it. In nearly every hair store you visit will be found a hair lotion specially prepared to do something wonderful either in the way of producing extraordinary growth or changing the color from a sand to a golden, or as desired. Women have a fondness for experimenting with their hair, and cannot resist the temptation to try all the nostrums offered. I say nostrums; some of the stuff may be good, used in moderation, but moderation is rarely observed. Women are all allopthetic (sic) in hair remedies. I have seen many a beautiful suit of hair ruined by applications of lotions. I know a young married lady who moves in the highest circles. She had long, wavy blonde hair, the envy of nine-tenths of her friends. She concluded that she wanted it a shade lighter –some one had told her that it would add to its beauty. She began by using borax and a lot or prepared stuff, guaranteed by each person who sold it to do tits work effectually and without harm. Her hair is now an ugley shade of sorrel and completely dead. It is also much thinner, and will al come out, I think, in a few years. Her case is but one of many. If women would only take into consideration the fact that health as a rule, gives vitality to hair they would not use so many ineffectual remedies. It is enough to have a race of baldheaded men – may the females be spared.” THE DEPARTMENT WOMEN There are 4000 women in the government departments at Washington, and among them are some of the best-looking and most intelligent ladies of the capital. They come, as a rule, from good families. Many of them are the widows of noted generals, the daughters of ex-Governors, and ex-Congressmen, and now and then you will find the relative of a President or a Cabinet Minister. May of these have traveled widely and the great majority are educated and refined ladies. They do all kinds of work and ---- salaries ranging from $700 to $1800 a year. As money counters they are much more expert than the men, and the rapidity with which they can count thousands upon thousands of dollars without making a mistake makes your brain whirl as you watch them. These money counters get about $75 a month, and they count millions of dollars every month. At one side of each one on the table life great piles of greenbacks, done into packages as they come from the press. I am speaking now of the redemption bureau of the Treasury. These bills are old and dirty. The strip of paper around each package of 100 bills states where they came from and who counted them in the country. The young lady takes this off, and, moistening her fingers with a wet sponge in front of her, she counts the bills like lightning, and if the package is not right she reports to the chief, and the banks from which the bills come must stand the loss. The girls seldom make a mistake, and if they do so or pass a counterfeit without noting it they must make the mistake good, and the amount if taken out of their salary. They can tell, however, a bad bill simply by feeling it, and a bank cashier will make a hundred mistakes where they make one. – [Washington Letter] MAKING HER THINGS LAST Every housekeeper knows how careful treatment keeps table linen and household furniture. Girls do not always know or remember that great care of their own little possessions will often enable them to dress nicely on very little money. A lady says, ”When I was a girl there was one of my young friends who was distinguished for ‘making her things last,.” Her dress, hats, gloves and ribbons were a marvel of durability. I used to wonder how she managed to make them last so without their looking shabby, but I ceased to do so after I had visited her at her own home. The reason why her clothes wore so long was that she took such care of them. Her dresses were brushed and folded away carefully, and the slightest spot on them was removed as soon as it was discovered. Her hat was wrapped in an old pocket handkerchief, and put away in a box as soon as done with, the strings and laces being straightened and rolled out most symmetrically each time. Her gloves were never folded together, but were pulled out straight and laid flat in a box, one upon the other, each time they were used, the tiniest hole being mended almost before it had time to show itself. But the thing that impressed me most was the care she bestowed on her ribbons. When making up bows she used to line the upper part of the ribbon with white paper, and this not only prevented the ribbon from becoming limp and creased by kept it clean, so that when the bow was soiled on one side she could turn the ribbon, and the part that had been covered came out looking new and fresh. That girl married and brought up a large family. Her husband had to fight his way, and did no bravely, and was unusually successful, for he became wealthy. But his prosperity was due quite as much to his wife’s care and economy in saving money as was to his in making it. FASHION NOTES Lace mitts are again worn. Striped and checked materials are all the rage. Lace mantles are profusely trimmed with beads. Egyptian and Oriental lace are used for flounce over colored and white dresses. Satin duchess skirts are worn with bodices and draperies of escurial (sic) grenadine. Cashmere and camel’s hair serge are serviceable materials for traveling costumes. Batiste and zephyr dresses are trimmed with bands of white or colored embroidery. Matinees of lace, lined with colored silk, are worn with dark silk skirts with a demi-train. Lustrous silk wrap white materials are employed for mourning dresses for informal occasions. Embroidered crape, gauze, and muslin are shown in most elaborate designs and beautiful coloring. Large buttons are used to trim dress panels. The rosary beads, now what passe, are utilized as buttons. Brocaded sateen, in light colors and white, have delicate vine, bud and fern designs in the same color as the ground. Beaded bodices glistening like Lohengrin’s armor, and made in cuirass form, are charmingly becoming to divinely tall beauties. Lawn and cambric dresses have skirts made with narrow flounces, with short drapery in front, that at the back being puffed. Coarse meshed nets have large or small polka dots. They are to be found in all the fashionable colors. They are made up over silk. Thin black tissues richly embroidered with get and lined with some color, as lilac, mauve, gray or red, are among the latest Parisian novelties for mantles. Poulards are now shown in so great a variety of coloring and designs that they commend themselves to every person of taste. Their extreme lightness renders them especially attractive for midsummer wear. FACTS ABOUT BELLS - Article about bells and a short history of the bell. HOGS THAT DISTINGUISH A TUNE – [Lyons (N. Y.) Republican] – article about a hog that can come to a tune A NEW WAY TO FIND GOLD A private letter published in the Kansas City Times tells of a party of geologists who were camped in Southern Kansas one night when a meteor fell near them. In the morning they found a huge mass buried in the ground, and still quite warm. They managed to break off a chunk of about a pound and a half weight carried it to Denver and had it assayed. It panned out about 20 per cent of gold, 64 percent of iron and 11 percent nickle, with copper and other metals. The party are going back with dynamite and tools to get the rest of the meteor, which they calculate weighs five tons. If the assay holds out they’ll get a ton of gold. POPULAR SCIENCE Does the sunlight falling upon an ordinary wood fire have any effect upon its burning? It is a popular notion that the fire buns more feebly when the sun shines full upon it. It is now alleged by scientific men that there any be some such influence produced by the action of the sun. An English statistical writer says that while population in Europe and the United States has risen thirty-four percent, since 1850, working power has increased 105 percent, and as a consequence of this vie men can now accomplish as mush as six in 1870 or eight in 1850. The world’s steam power is now five and one-half times what was in 1850. The motto of science is still excelsior. Held by wire ropes to the tip-top point of Sonbliff Mountain, a peak 10,000 feet high in the Tyroiese Alps, is a new blockhouse. A wire ropeway 8,000 feet long leads down the mountain. In this block-house is to dwell a meteorologist, and his observatory is higher than any other meteorologists in Europe. A paradoxical observation is that while menthol, a remedy for neuralgia, imparts a sensation of coldness, the parts rubbed with it are rally hotter than the surrounding skin. This confirms the newly-advanced theory that sensations of heat and of cold are conveyed by two distinct sets of nerves, the menthol seeming to powerfully stimulate nerves of cold. Rev. F. Howlett, of the London Astronomical Society, has confirmed long entertained doubts concerning the correctness of the generally accepted theory that sunspots are depressions in the solar surface. Though himself an observer of the sun for many years, neither he nor friends requested to verify his results have been able to see any spot as a notch when at the sun’s edge. In Germany, Strasburger has successfully grafted stramonium species, common tobacco, henbane, strops belladonna, and petunia upon the common potato plant. The most remarkable result is that when datma stramonimun was grated upon a potato plant, the normal appearing potatoes borne by the latter were found to be impregnated with stropine. It is not stated, however, whether the tobacco plants infested the tubers with nicotine. Tschudy had already grafted the tomato upon the potato, producing potatoes from the bottom and tomatoes from the top of the same plant. IN A DOLL FACTORY – [Caswell] – Description of a doll factory In Europe cocaine has been found efficient in the treatment of asthma. ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/lamarnew1132gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 51.1 Kb