Lamar County AlArchives News.....Lamar News December 23, 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, 9:47 am Microfilm - AL Dept Of Archives And History December 23, 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, DECEMBER 23, 1886 VOL. IV. NO. 82 WELCOME HOME - Poem – [J. Hooker Harsersley] THE LOST RING – Short Story HORACE GREELEY - A BROOKLYNITE TELLS OF A NOVEL EXPERIENCE WITH THE PHILOSOPHER – Anecdote about Mr. Greeley CARE OF THE SICK A feeding cup is useful when the sufferer is not too ill to drink, as liquids can be given without the head being raised from the pillow. When there is unwillingness to take food a little gentle persuasion will sometimes overcome the difficulty. It is useless to say in an authoritative tone “You must take this,” that instantly rouses every spark of self assertion in the unwakened mind and the sick person immediately determines that he will do nothing of the kind and no power on earth shall make him swallow it. When the drink is refused and the nurse finds that persuasion is of no avail, if she takes it away for a few moments and then offers it again with no allusion to the past refusal, it will sometimes be taken without any objection. A spoonful may be taken when a drink from a cup is indignantly rejected or vice versa. When food is persistently refused, as in some forms of mania, and it becomes necessary to administer it by force, the hands should be held by one person while the nurse holding the spoon full of liquid in her right hand, with her left gently compress the nostrils of the patient. This compels him to open his mouth to breathe and then the fluid can be poured in. It should be given just after the sufferer has exhaled a breathe, or it will be sputtered out, and as he inhales the air the food will slip down without his being able to prevent it. In feeding an unconscious or insensible person put the top of the spoon between the teeth and try to separate then, the action will sometimes rouse the sufferer sufficiently to induce him to open them. When this cannot be done insert the tip of the finger at the corner of the mouth and draw it away from the gum sufficiently to pour in a little liquid. It will trickle in between the insertions of the teeth and find its way down the throat unless all power of swallowing is gone. Feed very slowly and be sure that one spoonful has been absorbed before giving another. Never allow any food, especially milk, to stand in the sick room. It should be kept on a shelf outside a window in an adjoining apartment. – [Elisabeth Robinson Sewell, in Good Housekeeping] DOG-DAYS “The application of dog-days as applied to August’s heated form,” said a prominent dog-fancier yesterday, “probably originated hundreds of years ago, when droves of dogs were kept in oriental cages, with the idea that the animals were a sanitary necessity, as they consumed a large portion of the household refuse. These dogs being unsheltered during midsummer were subject to intense heat, which affects a canine’s brain very quickly, and sends him off into a mild sort of fit. The animal then dashes around frantically, making a great deal of noise, and attracting considerable attention, but usually no harm whatever. In years past it was no uncommon sight in Philadelphia for a dog to dart through the city, alarming the residents on every side; but now it is a very rare thing, as all superfluous dogflesh is disposed of by the dog-catchers, and those puppies that are unmolested are generally thought something of and well cared for. “A man who knows anything about dogs can doubt one of these spells and can check it quickly. The animal will tick his tail between his legs, whine piteously and act as if stated. The only remedy is to hold him under a hydrant, allowing the stress to flow over the head, thereby cooling the brain. All dogs are unable to be attacked, particularly fine-bred dogs which have been overexerted and overcoated. - [Philadelphia Record] AN OUTLAW BEAUTY – THE INTEREST CAUSED IN SOUTHERN COLORADO BY THE APPEARANCE OF A DASHING FEMALE News has been received in Denver, says the News of that city, of the presence of the noted Texas female bandit in Colorado. She and her male companions, with a complete camp outfit, are camped within four miles of Monte Vista, near Del Norte, in the southern part of the state. She and her gang made their appearance there about two weeks ago, and so far have resisted all attempts at interview, and many efforts have made to ascertain their business in that locality. The citizens were naturally curios about their presence, and when all advances were repelled by the woman and her companions, the citizens came to the conclusion that they were there for no good, probably robbery. Not wanting them in their midst, and not knowing exactly how to get rid of then, a meeting was held and a man commissioned to come to Denver to consult Gen. D. J. Cook. The gentleman arrived in Denver, and held a long conversation with the general, but what plan, if any, was agreed upon to rid the neighborhood of the suspicious characters, is not known. Through the courtesy of Gen. Cook a reporter had an interview with the gentleman from Monte Vista. “Everybody in our neighborhood,” he said, “don’t take much stock in the woman, believing her to be a man or a boy who has assumed the female garb for a purpose, and that purpose is robbery. She (I’ll call her a she) and her companions went into camp, I think, about two weeks ago. Monday morning two hunters truck the camp, and were going forward to it, when they were stopped by a girlish voice commanding them to halt. When they recovered from their surprise they noticed a slim, girlish figure calmly seated on a thoroughbred horse, a revolver in each hand, seemingly awaiting their approach. “They halloed that they were friends and meant no incivility in attempting to approach the camp. “She made no reply but waved them off with her pistol. No sooner had they turned their backs on the hospitable newcomer than she put her horse into a gallop and circled around then, riding with such skill and grace as to elicit the admiration of the bunters. When they came to Monte Vista and told their story it was discredited, but since then everyone in the place has had a glimpse of her and several of her male companions, and two or three have had a few moments conversation with her. I am one of the favored few in the latter respect.” “What is she like?” “I should judge him or her to be about 18 or 19 years old, long blackhair that is allowed to float down her back, black eyes, a thin, brown, attractive face, white teeth, and rather thin lips. She is not over 5 feet 6 inches in height, ahs a slim but well-rounded figure, and her whole make-up reminded me of a wild cat. She had on when I saw her a tight fitting gray dress, short enough to disclose her buckskin moccasins and leggings. Around her waist was a white leather belt supporting two scabbards, in which were two large ivory-handled revolvers. On her head she wore a white sombrero or cowboys hat, one side of which was pinned up with a silver bridle bit. She was mounted on a thoroughbred gray stallion, and was one of the prettiest pictures I have seen for a good while. “I asked her who she was, and she replied in a not unmusical voice, but with a decided southern accent, that she was the ‘Texas Queen.” I further asked her what her business was and she replied that it consisted in attending to her own business. I then asked her why she would allow no one to enter her camp, and she replied that she would allow no one to interview her, and if she allowed one person to come into her camp everybody else would want to do the sane thing, and she wasn’t going to allow anyone to meddle with her surroundings. “While talking to her I had gradually approached, but she took in my every movement, and when I was within about ten feet of her she wheeled her horse and was off like an arrow. She circled around me for several minutes, gradually narrowing the circle until she was in about twenty feet, probably of where I stood, and suddenly reined her horse back on its haunches. Placing the bridle-reins in her teeth she drew her revolvers, and motioning with her left hand to two small trees which stood on either side, and about the same distance from the trail, probably about fifty yards head, she surged her horse to full speed, and when what seemed to me directly between the trees she fired both revolvers, and without turning to look around rode on in the direction of her camp. “I was curious to see the result of her marksmanship, and on going to the trees found a bullet in each one about the same distance from the ground. She ahs also displayed her wonderful marksmanship to several others in our place, and all of them assert that they have never seen any one, even in this land of good shots, so remarkable skillful with the pistol. “Has anyone else found out any more about her than you have?” “I think not. She ahs been seen several times mounted on a superb bay horse, which is as well trained as her gray and probably as fleet. To tell you the truth, we don’t know what to make of her. She won’t allow anyone to get near enough to capture her, and as she hasn’t done anything to warrant us in using force to arrest her, we don’t know what to do. There is one thing more, however, we don’t want her in our neighborhood and for that reason I came to Denver to consult with Gen. Cook. We are not scared, but we are naturally curious, and want the mystery explained. Not one among us who has seen the ‘queen’ but believes it is a man masquerading in female attire.’ “Did you ever hear of the female outlaw of Texas, who was chased into Arkansas and then into Indian Territory, where she was at last accounts?’ “No, I never heard of her.” The gentleman was shown a slip from a St. Louis paper giving a description of the beautiful outlaw and an interview with her, in which she said that she had never been interviewed, and declaring her intention of killing the first reporter that attempted to interview her. “That settles it,” he said, “That is the identical girl. I was under the impression that the ‘queen’ was a man, but the fellow who wrote that certainly had better opportunities to know who and what she is than I have had or anybody in our community. He has described her characterization exactly and especially her aversion to being interviewed. What he said about her fancy shooting is true, as I and others can swear to.” “Will Gen. Cook go to Monte Vista?” “I suppose he will. He says if we want him to go and arrest her and her companions, he’d do it. I will have to consult with the boys when I get back and if we agree in having the party run in, we’ll telegraph the general and he’ll come. Strange to say, Gen. Cook had never heard of the Texas female outlaw. After reading her description and characteristics he is incline to the belief that the strange character camped near Monte Vista is one and the same person. When asked if he were going to attempt her arrest he said he hadn’t heard anything about it, but if he attempted to interview her he would do so. He says he is satisfied that she and her male companions are horse thieves, and the sooner they are run out of the country the better off the country will be. Whether she is a horse thief or not he thinks Colorado can get along very well without any of her class. IN AN OLD ENGLISH KITCHEN Just outside the gate and across the way from the shop of the potato and pork merchant’s there stands, as it has stood for a couple of centuries, the old Falstaft Inn. We went in under the sign through a low doorway, overgrown with ivy. At the end of the hall was a lovely old kitchen with a floor of cool tiles and a gorgeous dinner service of purple, red, blue, and gold displayed in ---(CAN’T READ)—bustling about to get things ready for her good man and the children. A leg of lamb was roasting before the fire. A string, or thin iron chain, I believe it was, was fastened from the mantle shelf, and from the other end hung the meat, dangling directly in front of the grate bars. A plate was set underneath to catch the drippings. I had a bit of that lamb with some mint sauce for my dinner, and I can attest that it was most excellent eating. I wish I had some of it at this moment. A trim young woman, wearing the whitest of mob caps, the cleanest of white aprons, stood before the – broiling a chop. She had a long-handled, double tin broiler or gridiron. In her hands. The chop was shut up in this, and she patiently held it before the fire as we would hold up a wet towel to dry, turning it round now and then and what with the tea-kettle, the bursting of the skin of the leg of the lamb, the sizzling of the savory chop, most comforting, if deafening, noise filled the cozy room. The girl turned a rosy face at us and smiled comfortably. The smile, the goodly old kitchen, the rows of delf on the wall, the nodding red hollyhocks out in the garden, the recollecting of that swinging jolly old Falstaff, of the charming windows and deep window seats warmed me to the heart with enthusiasm. – [Catherine Oaks, in New Orleans Picayune] CHARACTER IN CURL PAPERS Curl papers show character. Subtle distinctions of personality, based on the curl papers of a young woman, may be as positive as they are intricate and interesting. Your creature of principle, who eschews curl papers as deceptive in results must of course be left out of this category. And the fortunate feminine whose hair kinks and curls better on a rainy day, or in a sea breeze, or on a melting summer afternoon then at any other time, cannot be counted either. But among the devotees of the curl paper, variations of character may be safely and successfully catalogued by a study of the times and the manner of its use. Of course a society belle never uses paper for her friend. It is done up on a pretty patented arrangement of – or something else, and this genus of curl paper is never seen outside of its wearer’s own private apartment. But in the ordinary heme paper is usually – to curl the front half. And it may be set down as an infallible rain, that the young person who appears at the breakfast table with her forehead adorned by frizzes, in proposed ----(CAN’T READ) PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY DEC. 23, 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. Praeto, a Sioux Indian, connected with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, had his neck broken yesterday in Madison Square Garden, New York, while trying to stop a runaway horse. Praeto only arrived from Dakota Friday night. Talk about hard times in Alabama what do you think of this from the Wilmington (N. C.) Star: “A Wilmington merchant, who reveals a good deal, said on Saturday that he did not know of a single township in North Carolina that could pay its debts if all the land and crops were sold. The choice of an ancient Athenian citizen was limited to Athenian women. Only when thus married could his children possess the right of citizens. An Athenian woman was likewise not allowed to marry a foreigner. The penalties for seeking a spouse beyond the national boundaries were severe. – [Boston Budget] Hon. Leopold Morse, in a Liverpool hotel the other day, was advised in a offensive tone by an Englishman of whom he asked a question, to address such inquiries in future to the ----(CAN”T READ) “and furthermore, “ added our ex- Congressman, “since you say my addressing you was a rudeness, let me give you a lesson in manners. In America a gentleman thinks it only decent to answer if he can, a decent question. The rudeness was yours, sir, whoever you may be.” The Eutaw Mirror makes it out the following lecture on the virtue of economy: “The position of legislator seems to make one feel very rich, for with a few exception they vote away money as though it grew on trees. It occurs to us that if they had a more intimate knowledge of the struggles our people are making for a bare living, and the payment of honest debts, they would be in favor of bringing things down to hardpan. Public workers are no better than private citizens and when times are hard should share hardships. How few of us are paid the worth of our labor? There’s no use talking about increasing taxation, we can’t stand it.” Gov. Seay, in his recent message gave the Legislature and people of Alabama these golden pregnant sentences: "“e will out of our savings, continue to nurture our public schools. War has been the bloody and expensive arbitrament of the past; the advance of true enlightenment, the triumphs of mind are daily binding in a closer brotherhood the great family of man. Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage; a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The school-master is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.” PROHIBITION EXCITEMENT Montgomery, December 14 – A special to the Advertiser from Greenville says: The local election for prohibition in Greenville yesterday resulted in a victory for liquor. For a week or more Messrs. Cheves and Beauchamp, temperance lecturers from Kentucky, were engaged in the campaign. This morning as they alighted from a hack at the depot to take the north-bound train, J. D. Perry, mayor of the city assaulted him, beating him violently over the head. Cheves was finally rescued and is now in the care of physicians. His skull has two holes in it and there are bruises on his person. Mayor Perry was on the liquor side in the contest and claims that Cheves insulted him in some speeches made last week. The mayor has not been arrested. AN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR WOMEN Hon. S. W. John has introduced a bill to establish as Industrial Educational College in Alabama. The college is to have four departments: - the collegiate, Normal, Industrial, Music, and the Fine Arts. Preference is to be given to the Industrial, if the State cannot equip all. The subjects to be taught are book- keeping, type-writing, shorthand-reporting, industrial drawing, designing, engraving, telegraphy, printing, and the minor but very important arts of cutting, fitting, and making garments, cookery, etc. these industries can all be well-filled by woman and a knowledge of them will by no means impair her usefulness nor her fitness for any sphere. Let us have such an institution. $50,000 could not be better appropriated. It might soon maintain itself and an honor to the State and her daughters. When I consider the temptations amid which we now live, the probation which we now have to face, and the difficulties with which we now have to content, it seems to me that there is a great tribulation coming upon the faithful in the form not so much unbelief as of wordiness, because the world is becoming more and more full of interest, of brilliancy, of life, of vitality. We must always remember that it is God’s world not the devil’s world’ that all the manifestation of life and beauty come from the germ which God himself has planted in society and in human nature. We are not to treat the world as if it were a creation of the evil one. Nevertheless it is becoming more and more – for those who have money – a distracting world, an absorbing world, exacting more and more of our time, and of the labor of our brain. Hence it is becoming a world that shuts out God from too many of us. To take in all facts of life, all the realities of life, visible and invisible, this is our business and this will be our best safeguard against worldliness. – [Allen Beecher Webb, D. D.] Washington, Dec. 13 – F. B. Genover and B. Genover, St. Augustine, Fla, C. J. James Florida, and Hon Willett, Austin, Tex. are at the National ---. Attorney General Garland received a telegram this morning announcing the death of his brother, Rufus K. Garland, at his home near Prescott, Ark. Miss Nellie Nevada Moore is the chief architect and builder of a charming house in which she lives near Pittsburg. She wears trousers when doing man’s work, but, when that is over she dons skirts again. A wall of brownstone, topped with a bronze fence, keeps stray kine off the $2,500,000 promises of James C. Flood on Nob Hill, Frisco. The Moulton Advertiser says that “the great and good Montgomery Advertiser, to our surprise, is opposed to taxing gambling in futures and bucket shops $5,000 each; but the Dispatch, true to its platform of principles and true to the people, warmly supports the bill.” Two more Congressmen are added to the death-toll, Messrs. Dowdney, Democrat, of New York, and Price, Republican of Wisconsin; the former dying with apoplexy, and the latte with cancer of the stomach. Since the present, the 49th Congress, was elected, there have died Vice President Hendricks, two members of the Senate, and nine members of the House. It is too sickly a place, this place they called Washington City. Ad for Peruna Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ 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. Ad for the American Agriculturist PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY DEC 23, 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 County Court today. Xmas is coming. The young folks are anticipating a gay time Christmas. The paying is now going on in earnest. The Rev. W.. C. WOODS preached in town Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. E. W. BROCK made a trip to Fayette County this week. We have only 100 mortgages at this office. Let everyone put something on the Christmas tree for Santa Claus to deliver to the little ones tomorrow night. The little ones are anxiously to see what Santa Claus will bring them tomorrow night. If you wish a good article of Plug Tobacco ask your dealer for “Old Rip.” Mr. W. R. GUIN, who has been attending college at Buena Vista, Miss. gave us a pleasant visit Friday. Extensive preparations are being made for the Christmas tree Friday night. About the happiest man we have seen in some time was that of our friend Gen. RUSH at the post office Monday evening on relating that it was "another boy.” When the railroad is finished from Birmingham to Memphis; and the Vernon --- must put on and off at Crew’s Mill we will be in thirty-six hours closer communications with the outside world. We hope old Santa will not forget a single little as well as the grown up readers of the News the coming Christmas and that every heart be made glad. Let each one try to do and say something that will gladden some other. To each reader we say a merry Christmas. Representative BRADLEY paid the News a pleasant visit Monday. Pictures taken in cloudy as well as in fair weather at Sander’s Art Gallery. It is whispered that the wedding won’t be until late in January. Santa Claus will find a big lot of Candles, apples, oranges, nuts, popcorn, trumpets, roman candles, fire crackers, & c, at HALEY & DENMAN’S. The young folks had a nice time at Esq. BRADLEY’S one evening in the first of the week. Two more counties have been added to the prohibition list - Bullock and Hale. A. H. SANDERS, the photographer, is in town according to his announcements. A large number of railroad hands have passed through town the past few days – off to take Christmas. We are pained to hear that MR. MURRAY COBB has been seriously sick in Columbus and hope that his recovery will be speedy. Sheriff PENNINGTON is off in a hurry this week to Aberdeen, there being some objection to some citizen of Lamar changing his residence from this state to Texas. Mr. L. T. STEED of Detroit, the boss brick mason who can lay more brick and plane them better, is working in town and has the help of “Uncle” JOE BANKHEAD. The citizens of Vernon were some what alarmed yesterday when they saw something looking like a railroad ---(CAN’T READ) Strong efforts are being made to get a depot established on the Kansas City at Angora, and doubtless the efforts will be successful being about proper distance from Crew’s Mills on the east and Quincy Miss on the west. The land on which it is asked to be located belongs to D. W. R. HOLLIS Esq. NEW ARRIVALS Since our last issue Vernon hs had four new arrivals, and are distributited as follows: To Mr. and Mrs. C. L. GUYTON, a girl; to Mr. and Mrs. T. C. SMITH, a boy; to Mr. and Mrs. G. W. RUSH, a boy; to Dr. and Mrs. M.ORTON, a girl. As far as we are informed, the mothers and children are doing well. “Peace hath her victories as well as war.” And among them we note the triumphs of Coussens Honey of Tar, over all re-called remedies for colds, coughs, or disease of throat and lungs. Having tried it we know this is the best preparation ever made for a deep-seated cough, and will never fail when used according to directions. GREAT CLOSING OUT Sale of Horses and Mules at public outcry in Vernon on Friday Dec. 31, 1886. Terms one half cash and --- payable Nov. 1st, 1887. Waive right notes and approved security required. E. W. BROCK Our thanks are due the Hon. Secretary of the Treasury of the United States for a copy of his annual report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. No woman can have her patience more severely taxed, then by a fretful child, whom nothing can please, and a dose of White’s Cream Vermifuge will relieve the child if it is troubled with worms. Therefore do no allow your child to be tormented further when such a remedy is at hand. Hoarseness is very annoying to the sufferer as well as those compelled in endure his attempts at conversation. But no one need suffer now that or more serious rest of a cold who will use Coussen’s Honey of Tar the best remedy ever offered the public for coughs, colds and diseased of throat and lungs. Try it and be convinced Jailer HURBERT, of Montgomery is going to feed his prisoners on turkey and all sorts of dainties on Christmas. The Sheffield Clarion says: The boom continues, real estate is changing hands at an astonishingly rapid rate, and every third man in town wants to be a real estate agent. Mayor REESE, of Montgomery, is doing his level best to keep Birmingham from getting the state fair. Capt. B. H. SCREWS wants to know hwy the general assembly have ignored his claim to a set in the house for Montgomery County. He says that his opponent foots up several hundred votes in beats where no election was held, and the other beats sent up four hundred votes where there were only a dozen or so votes. If Capt. Ben doesn’t sit down and stop talking, the presiding officer will hit him on the head with his gavel. – [Mobile Register] 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. 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 Persons visiting Columbus desiring anything in the Millinery line, will do well to call on Miss TILLIE BAILEY (Below Morgan, Robertson, & Co) Miss Tillie’s taste, together with her experience, cannot be surpassed in Columbus or elsewhere. ADMINISTATOR’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. ADMR’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County Alabama we will offer for sale on the premises on the 3rd day of January 1887 all the lands remaining unsold that belong to the estate of T. W. WOODS late of said county deceased. Terms of payment will be made known on day of sale. The sale will be at the late residence of said deceased., this 13th day of December, 1886. T. M. WOODS & G. W. WOODS, Admr 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. 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 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 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 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 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 Ayer & Sons Advertising Agents 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 PRISON PHOTOGRAPHY (CAN’T READ FIRST PARAGRAPH) This building contains two rooms, the front one being used as a loading place for extra guards while off duty. Its walls are completely covered with a --- of illustrations, thousands of them, that have been cut from such papers and periodicals as Puck, The Budge, Harper’s and Leslie’s, and other journals. The clippings are neatly cut and pasted to the wall, by an ingenious little negro convict who has charge of the place in “treaty.” A door in one corner leads to another room on the north – this room has high, bare, white walls, excepting an immense skylight, which covers one-half of the ceiling. This is the prison photographic studio, wherein are registered the form and features of every prisoner that is sent to the Joliet prison, no matter what be his degree of crime. In this room he must take his place before the lightning camera of the prison artist. The room is fitted up with screens and curtains for reflecting the light down upon a chair, which is fastened solidly to the floor directly beneath the skylight. The rays of light are so strong that should a prisoner prove unruly during the operation of having his picture taken, the artist, at a favorable moment, can catch the truthful expression of the man’s features in the hundredth part of a second by simply pressing a button attached to the camera, which loosens the drop- shutter, causing it to flash across the lens. The result is an instantaneous portrait. S. W. Wetmore, assistant clerk of the prison, is the photographer who takes the convict pictures, and so far as can be ascertained he enjoys the distinction of being the only exclusive prison photographer in the world. The authorities of several other prisons in this country have recently commenced photographing their prisoners, but call in an outside photographer to take the pictures. On Jan. 1, 1894, Warden McClaughbry commenced having the pictures of all new arrivals taken, in order to make the prison records more complete, and to furnish a reliable method for the future identification of professional criminals and escaped convicts. The process in use at the prison is the best that science has yet invented in modern photography. The wet-plate process is too slow and a thing of the past, and so are dry-plates, so far as prison photography is concerned. The Eastman paper negative and roller-holder process is used exclusively at the prison. The roll of paper is prepared in the same manner as a glass dry-plate – i.e. the gelatine silver emulsion is spread on the paper. The roll is then placed in a holder with a winding key at one end and an empty spool to receive the exposed paper at the other end of the holder, the paper first passing behind the lens, and, as each picture is taken, is wound on the empty spool. In this way one roll of Eastman’s paper answers the purpose of ninety-eight glass dry-plates, 4 x 5 inches in size, for making cabinet pictures -–or, in other words, the artist can make the negatives of ninety-eight people in succession without once leaving the side of his camera. The paper is then cut into the right lengths, developed, fixed, and printed from, just the same as a dry plate, but the paper is oiled after development, to render it transparent. The photographic dark room at the prison is situated in the warden’s house, where the convict negatives are carefully filed away, and indexed. Before filing two prints are made from each negative. One copy is given to the receiving and discharging officer of the prison for the purpose of identification, and the other is placed in the photograph cabinet in the warden’s office, which already contains nearly two thousand convict’s portraits. In case of an escape the negative of the fugitive is at once hunted up, and in a few hours time several hundred copies of the man’s photograph will be sent broadcast through the mails for his recapture. A quick way of duplicating the photographs now in use at the prison is by the bromide of silver paper process. No sunlight is needed –the printing is done by a gas-jet in the dark room – the print is then developed and fixed. In this manner five hundred copies can be made from a single negative in one day. William Pile escaped from prison two years ago. He kept in the country, shunning towns and highways until he had been gone for several weeks, finally hiring out as a farm hand way down in Central Illinois. One day, soon after his employer sent him to town after a load of drain tile, giving him an order on the station agent for the tile. Pile went to the station and presented his order, cut the moment the station agent laid his eyes upon the man, he thought of a photograph of an escaped convict he had received several weeks before. He took the picture from his pocket and it fitted Pile exactly. The agent had Pile arrested and returned to Joliet, receiving the reward offered for his recapture. This was the first town Pile had entered since his flight from the prison. It was your correspondent’s good fortune to visit the prison on a recent date while the prison artist was engaged in taking the pictures of 152 new arrivals – convicts who had arrived during July and August – and of witnessing the modus operandi of reproducing their “mugs” on paper. Everything was in readiness at 9:30 am. The artist handed a list of names to a guard and requested him to bring in a gang of thirty or forty new convicts from the chair-shop. The officer soon had the raw recruits in line and marched them across the yard to the gallery, where they were seated on a bench along the wall in the outer room. Capt. Luke, the receiving officer, then took the list of names, and entering the operating room – where all was ready, the camera and chair in position – called out the name of the first man on the list, and the guard picking out that man hustled him into the room. “I’m right down here. What’s yer name? What’s yer register number? See that little red star on the wall? Place yer eyes on that and don’t move till I tell yer - hold up that head a little.” While this volley was being fired into the ears of the trembling convict, the captain grabbed the man by the shoulders, squared him back in the chair, yanked his head around in the direction of the star on the wall, chucked him under the chin to elevate his head, and then pulling around a wooded arm attached to the head-rest, and containing a place in which to put some pasteboard figures to represent the prison number of the convict, pushed it against the man’s chest, so that the number would show in the resulting picture. All these manipulations were gone through with in a moment’s time, and then came the ominous ”click” of the instantaneous shutter on the camera – the exposure was completed. A second later and the captain yells: “Next.” And in comes another victim. They follow each other in rapid succession like sheep coming to a shearing. The faces that came before the camera during the few hours your corespondent was present would have been a study for the student of human nature, especially if he had a penchant for physiognomy. Criminals of all ages from the boy of 15 to the gray-haired old offender of 80, the sly pickpocket, the dangerous burglar, the scientific safe- blower, the adroit sneak-thief, the clever confidence bilk, the embezzling clerk, the man of too many wives, and the red-handed murderer, all were there, with sentences ranging from one year to the life term. They all had to face the camera – though much against their will – and leave their features recorded there. THE GLOUCHESTER FISHING FLEET ANATOMICALLY A FAILURE – joke WIT AND HUMOR – jokes EVERY DAY APPLE PIES – article about liking apples MIKE WAS BAD – joke THE PRINCE OF WALES – The extraordinary Power in Racial Circles – (This article is very light and very hard to read) FEAR DOES NOT REASON – article about fear ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/lamarnew1133gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 55.9 Kb