Lamar County AlArchives News.....Lamar News December 30, 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, 9:51 am Microfilm - AL Dept Of Archives And History December 30, 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 30, 1886 VOL. IV. NO. 9 WHO --- (Can’t Read) – Poem THE TEST OF LOVE – Short Story THE NIAGARA WHIRLPOOL The whirlpool, well called “the angriest bit of water in the world” is three miles below the great Falls of Niagara. At this point the river, bending toward the Canada side, is contracted to a width of about 220 feet. The waters rush violently into a deep depression in the steep cliff that rises on the Canada side, then they emerge, turning back almost at a right angle to the American side. This spot seems to be a portion of the bed of an ancient channel. Here the angry waters boil and churn with a fierceness almost incredible. The waves are never at rest. They toss and whirl and toy with the heaviest timber. It makes one dizzy to look at the fierce tumult of the waves. The great maelstrom covers a space of about a quarter of a mile square. Its depths are enormous and unknown. One thousand feet of cord was found too short to reach the bottom. The whirlpool is in the form of a large circle. The average force of the volume of water moving through the canon above is 185,000 feet square. This compact mass of water moves with incredible swiftness, entering the whirlpool on one side, spinning around like a top, and then passing madly on. – [Philadelphia News American] THE SOUND MAN Nobody loves the soured man. He is not an agreeable companion; his sympathies have been warped, his temper made surly, his disposition embittered; he is at outs with the world. No one very well remembers what he once was. All have forgotten the time when his pulse beat warm and high, when his hand had a firm and hearty grasp, when he loved and hoped. Everybody knows that he is cold, cross-grained, impractical, and cynical now. The world pushes him aside, society votes him a bore, and his best friends shake their heads and wonder that they ever supposed that he would amount to anything. He is a failure and everybody knows it as well as he does himself. – [Wilmington (Del) Weekly] MISSING LINKS Sod school-houses are still used in Cheyenne County, Nebraska. Of the 290,750 miles of railroad in the world, no less than 174,000 or 60 percent are in English-speaking countries. The Czar of Russia adds an abnormal fear of hydrophobia to all the dangers, real and imaginary, which surround his royal path. It is thought that the destruction of the mountain forests in North Carolina will soon make an end of trout-fishing in those regions. A German physician asserts that half of the female sex are slightly touched in the head. He never could induce one to marry him, no doubt. Clever women, according to M. Ludevle Halevy, the French playwright, are never wanting on the French stage. It is the other sex that wants talent. Ella Russel, a fair American debutante upon the London operatic stage, is turning the heads of the young lords crazy, although that is not hard to do. Miss S. M. Burnham, of Cambridge, Mass., has received two diplomas from the New Orleans exposition – one for rare marbles and another for her book on them. Baron Rothschild rode by special train from Glasgow to London at sixty miles an hour when he heard of his mother’s alarming illness in Paris. In London he learned of her death. Mrs. Henry Jones, of Bridgeport, Ct. a lady 83 years of age, is the only surviving child of Noah Webster. She is said to be a bright and interesting woman, with her mind still perfectly clear. The marble quarries at Rutland, Ct., furnish employment to three thousand men, who draw nearly $1,200,000 in salaries every year. The product last year was 1,500,000 cubic feet of marble. Geronimo is said to be an excellent poker-player. He will find the United States army officers more expert at this game than at the game of war, and if he values his Apache scalp will give them a wide berth. Rumella is a Turkish coinage, and means “the land of New Rome” that is, the country near Constantinople. The ou in Roumania and Roumelia is French, and not necessary. In English it is better to spell Rumelia and Sudan than Roumelia and Soudan. In the latest number of London Truth there is “A Queer Story”, which is plainly meant to convey the idea that the steamship Oregon was blown up by parties interested in an over-insured cargo. Assumed names are employed, and the vessel is referred to as the Paragon. While a gang of track repair men were working on the Mississippi Valley Railroad a panther sprang upon a negro, who immediately hugged it with all his might and yelled so loudly that the astonished panther did its best to escape. It didn’t however, but was killed. Goethe’s house in Frankfort is now visited by all tourists who pass through that city. Among the recent additions to the curiosities stored in it is a Punch and Judy box which used to amuse the poet as a child. Another addition is the manuscript of an essay on art, and a copy of the first edition of “Hermana and Dorothen” presented by Goethe to his family. Alfonso’s widow has had to banish from Madrid an officer who was continually on duty about the royal palace. He fell violently in love with his sovereign, and making no concealment of his passion, revealed it in various ways. One day he made his way to the queen’s boudoir, and throwing himself at her majesty’s feet poured forth his tale of passion. An artificial jack-rabbit, which runs a quarter of a mile, is the latest invention in sporting devices. It is the property of Merssrs. Pinard, of San Jose, Cal. The rabbit has automatic machinery to simulate the jumps of the genuine animal. It is drawn over the ground by a fine cord, passing over a reel wheel. The new invention is intended to deceive hounds, leading them a lively chase, to the amusement of spectators and the disgust of the mystified dogs. Julilan Hawthorene assails “Quida” with all the vim of a man who means what he writes. Referring to her recent article in the North American Revenue upon female suffrage, he says “Why not draw the line at “Ouida?” There is nothing in her, mentally, morally, or physically which any man or woman can respect. The dignity of human nature (such as it is) is lowered by the fact of her existence, and every overtact of the unfortunate creature has been a mischievous and unclean act.” In Lima, there is a constant shaking of the ground. The houses are uniformly three stories in height. The first story is of brick or stone, the walls being fully three feet thick. The upper two stories are made of bamboo lashed together. It takes a pretty sever earthquake to destroy one of these buildings. The peculiar thing about a shake is that the first time you get one you are apt to take it coolly. The next time you are afraid, and ever after that you rare demoralized. Earthquakes are something that no man can become accustomed to. “One of the most respected scientific authorities in Europe,” says the Boston Herald, “has recently advanced the opinion that the greater part, if not all, of these earth tremblings are occasioned by the action of superheated steam. It is his belief that water gradually works its way downward by crevices or fissures in the earth and finding lodgment in some subterranean chambers, is heated so as to produce an almost inconceivable volume of power. The force which this could exert upon superimposed matter would, in his opinion, be sufficient to account for the vibration of the earth’s crust.” Prof. Wyman, the distinguished anatomist, used to tell a story that illustrates the fallibility of human evidence. One day a clergyman brought to him a live young rattlesnake which he said a parishioner of his, a gentleman of unimpeachable veracity, had ejected from his stomach. The clergyman grew very indignant when Prof. Wyman doubted the possibility of this, saying that his parishioner was absolutely sure that the reptile had been living in his stomach for years. To settle the matter, therefore, Prof. Wyman cut open the stomach of the snake and turned out of it a number of grasshoppers, beetles, and grubs. “It seems,” he said to the clergyman, “that your parishioner has a liking for a peculiar kind of diet.” A L. Jarrett of Baltimore is 78 years old, has been clerk of the court since 1840, and has just been re-elected for six years. He tells of a little incident that happened in Jackson’s time (from 1829 to 1832) when a delegation from Virginia insisted on the appointment of a certain individual to an important position. The president stood with his back to the stove, and when the argument was ended he simply said: “Gentlemen, it seems to me that I know the applicant for this place better than you do yourselves. I may make mistakes, but I never appoint a hypocrite under any circumstances, and he is one and I know it.” The man from Virginia did not get the office. A remarkable turtle story comes from one of the seaboard towns of Rhode Island. It seems that one of the inhabitants of the place recently caught a huge mud turtle. The captor cut off the head of his prey and dragged the carcass to his house, about a half mile from the scene of the fray, and left it upon a stone wall, where it peacefully reposed over night. In the morning, what was the gentleman’s surprise to find that he had two turtles instead of one, and, still more interesting, the second, which was a match for the first victims in appearance and size, was alive. It proved to be a female, and the pathos of the situation appeared when it was made evident that the devoted female had tracked her head mate out of the marsh and followed him to his resting place upon the stone wall. A GENUINE MADSTONE – article about a “real” madstone – [Nashville Advertiser] THE BALIFF INSULTED HIM – Anecdote HOW PEMMICAN IS MADE – Description of an Important Article of Food in the Northwest The meat, cut in long flakes form the warm carcass of the buffalo and dried in the sun, is afterward beaten into shreds by flails upon a floor of buffalo hid on the open prairie, says the author of “The Winnipeg Country” describing the preparations of penimican. The hide is then sewn into a bag, the meat jammed in, the top sewed up, all but one corner, into which more meat is crowded; and then the fat, which has meantime been fried, is poured in scalding hot, filling every crevice. A species of cranberry is often added with the meat. The whole forms a bolster-shaped bag, as solid and as heavy as stone, and in this condition it remains, perhaps for years, until eaten. Each bag weights from one hundred to one hundred and twenty pounds. One who has tried it will not wonder that it was once used in the turmoil of the contests between the Northwest and Hudson Bay companies to form a redoubt, armed with two swivel guns. We have two ways of preparing this - one called “rub-a-boo” when it is boiled in a great deal of water, and makes a soup; the other more favorite dish is “rousseau” when it is thrown into the frying pan, fried in its own fat, with the addition, perhaps, of a little salt pork, and mixed with a small amount of flour or broken biscuit. But sometimes, when our philosophers are hard put to it, and forced to take their meal in the canoe, the pemmican is eaten raw, chopped out of the bag with a hatchet, and accompanied simply by the biscuit, which ahs received the sobriquet of Redriver Granite.” These wonderful objects, as large as sea biscuits, are at least three quarters of an inch in thickness, and against them the naturalist’s geological hammer is always brought into requisition. But the “infidel dish” as we termed rousseau, is by comparison with the others palatable, though it is even then impossible to so disguise it as to avoid the suggestion of tallow candles; and this and the leathery, or India- rubber, structure of the meat are it chief disqualifications. But even rousseau may lost its charms when taken as a steady diet three times a day for weeks, especially when it is served in a frying pan, and breakfast or dinner oven, one sees the remnants with the beef or port all hustled together in the boiling kettle, the biscuit, broken bannocks, and unwashed cups placed in the bread bag; the plates, knives, and forks tossed into the meat dish; and all combined in the ample folds of an old bit of gunney cloth, which ahs served daily at once an dish-cloth and table-cloth, thrown into the canoe to rest until the next meal, when at last Billy finds time to wash the dishes – the tablecloth never. A BUTTERFLY PARADISE – article about a place of pretty butterflies – [Indianapolis News] THE BETTER PART OF VALOR – joke PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY DEC. 30, 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. We have received a copy of State Superintendent Palmers Annual Report, and we find it a very interesting and valuable publication, of nearly 200 pages. He shows that the disbursements by the state for school purposes during the fiscal year ending 30th last September, were $543,044 of which sum white teachers received $304,661; colored teacher $198,221; county and city superintends $13,862; normal school, white $12,500, colored $13,000. ALABAMA’S ROOM The excitement over the mineral riches of the mineral regions of our state is now world wide. Men of every nation and clime are investing in the Birmingham district and the most fabulous fortresses have been made there in the past twelve months. Nothing like it exists now on this continent. The oil cities of Pennsylvania perhaps equaled it for excitement and money a few years back, and then came Denver and Leadville, the grand mining cities of the West. They too have been shorn of their glory and outstripped by the young iron city of Alabama. “Here we rest’ belongs to the state of the past and we care but little whether this or Mulberrytown be the meaning of the Indian word. The date of both have past. Alabama today to the outside world means a place of growing rich and push and enterprise. CONSTITUIONAL AMENDMENT The proposition of holding a constitutional convention next year is growing decidedly in public favor. The old motto of “here we rest” seems to be growing in disfavor with the young and progressive politicians of the state. The extra-ordinary progress being made in industrial pursuits and enterprises demand that the organic law be so changes as to foster and encourage the industrial enterprises of the state. The expense of holding the convention would be trifling compared with the good that might be done the state at this time. The exemptions laws are but a great weight on the credit and commerce of the state and have proven that their greatest effect is to bankrupt the credit and morals of the people. The systems of keeping up the public roads is disastrous to the prosperity of the state. A road tax properly adjusted is what the present necessities demand. Pay a per capita tax of one dollar and a bill and than the property of the state the balance. It is but a correct proposition in political economy that the presence of every county should keep up the public highways. Build a turnpike by a man’s farm and increase the value on it fifty per cent, and can’t he afford to pay a reasonable tax for the same? The farms in the neighborhood would increase in value in proportion to their distance from the roads. It is the property of a country that user the roads. The only reason of --- force that can be brought to bear against a tax is that it would viciously put men back on the road who have worked out their time. When in fact the average work done by hands on the roads in this county for years would be about four days per annum valued at two dollars. With a personal tax at one and a half dollars on those liable to road duty and then a property tax who would be hurt? We say God speed the progressive ideas of the young legislators of Alabama. Upon their shoulders the whole fabric must soon rest, and fi they get up steam and smash the whole thing in to splinters, let it come, it will be none the wore to go that way then to stand still and die of inactivity. The system of public instruction is not in keeping with the ability of the state and decided changes are here needed. CHRISTMAS This day marks the returning anniversary of a day which has been celebrated from the earliest era of the Christian faith, being the natal day of Jesus Christ. The name then being celebrated, to the memory of Christ. It is a period when all cares and troubles are, for a season, laid aside, when rich and poor, all ages and conditions, give them selves up to a generous and social enjoyment. To our early English ancestors, the day was a most noted one, and the good old mother country still keeps up the honored custom of its observance. Some of the sweetest of the Washington Irvin are bated on many polished papers of the English customs of this season. We now quote some lines from a thrilling poet, to show what a season it was in the good land across the waters. (QUOTES POEM) In that bad day when Crown ruled England, he and his devilishly sanctified Roundheads stove to make Christmas a memory of the past; but it still survives, when the Protector and persecutions have almost flouted into oblivion. Long may the day be observed, the Yule log burn and the bright holly berries glisten o’er the heads of beauteous girls and gallant boys, To its readers, one and all, the News renders the choicest compliments of the season. KINGVILLE ITEMS Kingville, Ala, Dec 28, ’86 Mr. E. J. McNatt, Ed. News: Dear Sir – After a continued silence of some months, we shall attempt to give you a few items from Kingville for publication in the Lamar News. We will say, in the outset, that the health of our community is good. Since our last writing, we left out much loved Fernbank for the purpose of seeking employment elsewhere; and we are now familiarizing ourselves with good people of Kingville, which place is situated about mid-way between Vernon, our county seat, and Kennedy station on the Georgia Pacific Railroad. The older people in this community have had a merry, quiet, and sober Christmas, while the little folks have been wonderfully merry over presents received from Santa Claus. The people of Kingville and vicinity seem to be an energetic, enterprising people, in consequence of which prosperity is showing her lovely smiles while Adversity is lurking around seeking whom he may ensnare. While the remembrance of our two years May with the many good people of Fernbank and vicinity is pleasant, indeed, we are rapidly coming to the conclusion that all the people who are noted for generosity and hospitality do not live in Fernbank. As some of the readers of the News are aware, we made the prediction some months ago that Fernbank would be, in the near future one among the best locations for a good school in the hill counties; and we think by reference to late issues of our county papers the reader will be convinced that our prediction was just about correct. Now, while Vernon and Fernbank are on a firm basis so far as High Schools are concerned, let Kingville Kennedy, Millport, Hudson, Molloy, Moscow, Cansler, Pine Springs, Beaverton, Henson Springs, and Detroit put forth their efforts in the right way, and never be contented until they place a 9 or 10 months school every year upon a firm basis at each of the above mention places. As to Kingville, we say that with just a little effort her school will soon be second to none in the county. Her average daily attendance before the Christmas Holidays was from 40 to 43; and then not more than half her local patronage was in attendance. The reader, at first thought, maybe like the good old darkey was, who objected to a part of his colored pastor prayer. The good pastor was for such things as he thought he and his congregation needed, and among other things he prayed for “a bushel of pepper.” Whereupon the objecting brother interrupted by saying “that’s too much pepper my brudder.” Now, if the reader, at first thought thinks that we want to many nine and ten months schools in Lamar County, a few moments reflection will convince that we must have such schools before we can properly educate the children of our county. The children of the state of Alabama will have, during the present scholastic year, about $495,000 public funds derived from the difference sources of revenue, taxation, etc; and is it not a duty we owe to our children and to future generations to double or triple that amount by supplement? Justice to our children answers, et. Let every friend of education in Lamar County put forth during the present scholastic year his earnest effort in her behalf, and by so doing, raise her standard to a higher and healthier plain. With many wishes for the cause of education in Lamar County, we are, Yours truly, B. H. WILKERSON Ad for Collins Ague Cure 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 Ayer & Sons Advertising Agents Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ 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 30, 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 New arrivals this week. Get the News for another year. 1886 with all its joys and sorrows ---- have fled. --- will soon bring a fresh white --- for the penning of good resolves. Remember the firelogs ---- when --- down by your cozy hearth. Confide with somebody – even if you have only a contented spirit, share it. Showing kindness is a continual --- feast. --- not sorrow – it can live with-----. Miss ELIZA MORTON spent the holidays home. What did Santa Claus bring you? ---- over and ‘tis time to go again. The school boys will soon return to --- resume their studies. Mr. and Mrs. GLENN of Mormon Springs, Miss. have been among the --- in town this week. We owe it to each other to ---; to God to endure bravely, to --- to recover position when the ---penetrates us. The boys indulged in --- out --- up the premises of Misses RE---, ANNIE METCALF, ALICE BLACKE and LOCKIE DENMAN during the – of the week. The young folks have had a pleasant time at each of the following ---- during the last few days at Mr. SPRINGFIELD’S, on last Friday; L. M. WIMBERLEY’s, on Saturday Mr. J. D. MCCLUSKY’s, Monday at Mrs. SARAH GUIN’S Tuesday and B. E. BRADLEY’S last night. Prof. JOHN and Miss JALA GUIN are spending the holidays in Vernon. Vernon High School will open the 3rd of January. The Sunday School children were awarded prizes on last Sunday. Large crowds have been in town this week to pay their taxes. Dr. D. W. BOX spent several days in town first of the week. For Sale – A heavy wagon. Easy terms. W. A. YOUNG The board of education meets next Saturday. Wanted at once, 4000 oak or cypress boards. Apply at this office. The Church festival received the same fate as did the Christmas tree. The trade in fire crackers was enormous for a few days in Vernon. Mr. ALLEN JORDAN of Columbus spent a few days in town this week. U. S. Deputy Marshal A. B. HEMLET will sell some valuable real estate in town on Monday. Mr. D. R. RECTOR came up from Columbus to spend the holidays at home. Mrs. Judge COBB left first of the week for Columbus to visit her son MURRAY, who is dangerously ill. If you wish a good article of Plug Tobacco ask your dealer for “Old Rip.” Miss MATTIE SEAY of Fernbank, is spending the holidays with her friend Miss EMMA GUIN. Mr. TYLER GILLMORE moved first of the week to the place recently purchased by him of Mr. ABNER PENNINGTON. Mr. W. B. BRADLEY of Columbus is spending the holidays with his parents in town. The January moving takes place soon and the News as well as many others will be found in new quarters. Mr. ROBERT YOUNG who has been in the revenue services at Edwardsville for the past year is expected home on a few days visit today. Judging from the number we see around the Photograph Gallery, the people intend to have their pictures taken while there is a good artist in town. The Methodist Sunday School have succeeded in getting a new stove, which will add much to the comfort of the school. Owing to the inclemency of the weather on last Friday, the Christmas tree, which was so earnestly desired by all, was not prepared for Friday night. For a good looking party of young ladies and gentlemen Vernon will compare well with any town twice its size said a much traveled man a few days since. NOTICE. On the 15th day of January we expect to place in the hands of Mr. JERRY PENNINGTON for collection, all notes and accounts for subscriptions and advertising due and unpaid to the undersigned amounting to $1 and upwards. E. J. MCNATT We have purchased the house formerly occupied by Mr. P. C. COMBS and anticipate, from the skillful workmanship of Mr. W. H. BICKERSTAFF to have within a few days a cozy office to be occupied by the News for many years to come. MARRIED. On the 23rd inst. At the residence of Mr. ISAAC PRIDDY, Mr. M. M. STRAWBRIDGE and Miss M. J. PRIDDY, by the Rev. M. D. CLEARMAN. At the residence of Mr. W. M. MOORE, on the 23rd inst by the Rev. L. C. NABORS, Mr. F. M. MOORE and Miss ELIZA OTTS. The Festival of Christmas fitly comes at the time of the year. In its genial cheer, humanity pauses to yield to the sweet influences of home, of love, of peace. As in the Chris-child is blend Humanity and Divinity, so we spread the least for sure to sea and be merry and open the door of the heart for spiritual communion with waiting angels. A hack and two horses were attached by Sheriff PENNINGTON yesterday morning, as thought to be the property of a Mr. BAKER of Columbus, who was indebted to Mayor WIMBERLEY to a certain amount, but upon enquiry it was proven to be the property of a Mr. COLEMAN. GREAT CLOSING OUT Sale of Horses and Mules at public outcry in Vernon on Friday Dec. 31, 1886. Terms one half cash and balance payable Nov. 1st, 1887. Waive-right notes and approved security required. E. W. BROCK 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 J. F. FERGUSON Admr. De Bonis Non of estate of A. T. YOUNG, and W. A. YOUNG Admr. Of estate of S. G. YOUNG from the Probate Court of said county the undersigned will sell at Young’s Mills in said county on the 14th day January 1887 within the legal hours of sale on credit of twelve months the following described real estate to wit: N W ¼ of N W qr and S ½ of N W qr and E ½ of S W qr and E ½ of N W ¼ of S W qr Sec 1 and S E ¼ of N E ¼ and 4 acres off of N E. qr of N E ¼ Sec 2 T 15 R 16 containing 264 acres. A large farm is cleared on some and land is well situated as to local advantages. Purchases giving the requisite security. This Dec. 22nd, 1886. J. F. FERGUSON, Admr. W. A. YOUNG 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 Barber Shop – GEO. W. BENSON has run over his Barber Shop in the rear of the store of Haley & Denman, where will be please to serve his many customers 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 WIT AND HUMOR - jokes STRENGTH SAVING METHODS – article giving health advice to get lots of rest A VIRGINIA ROMANCE INCREASE AMONG THE INDIANS A Minneapolis gentleman, who has lived much among the Northwestern Indians, advances the theory that they have been steadily increasing instead of diminishing in numbers, notwithstanding the occasional mortality caused by small-pox and other disease. He maintains that when the whites first settled on the American continent the Indians occupied narrow strip of territory along the eastern and southern rivers and gradually followed the buffalo inland. In the days of Daniel Boone the state of Kentucky was traversed by myriad of buffaloes, but no sign of an Indian village has been found all the tribes uniting in its preservation as a great pasture for the native herds. He regards this fact as evidence that the comparatively few Indians occupying the Atlantic coast have gradually moved west with the buffalo and multiplied as they traveled. The first government report mentions 60,000 Indians, while the last total number reported was 230,000. – [St. Paul Pioneer Press] THE HARVEST MOON The Many and Complicated Movements of Our Satellite HE’S THAT KIND HIMSELF A SUMMER IDYL – Poem A VILLAGE IN A LAKE The Submerged Homes of a Mexican Community Seen Under the Water JEWISH HUMOR The humorous point of view from which we survey one another qua Jews and that from which we survey our neighbors qua gentiles, are, of course, among the more local and characteristic features of the subject. It would be impertinent to dilate in this journal on what every Jew realizes so thoroughly; if he does, no amount of explanation will help him. To make the comic character of a play or noel a Jew is a sufficiently common device; as unsuccessful, it must be added, as it is common. Perhaps these merry Andrews of fiction have their uses, and serve to rouse the laughter of the gentile public; perhaps we have a comic side which we ourselves are incapable of perceiving, and yet we are by no means sparing of another in this respect. As far as we can judge we should say that only a Jew perceives the full humor of another’; but it is a humor so fine, so peculiar, so distinct in flavor, that we believe it impossible to improve its perception to anyone not born a Jew. The most hardened agnostic deserter from the synagogue enjoys its pungency where the zealous alien convert to Judaism tastes nothing but a little bitterness. In these days, indeed, of slackening bonds, of growing carelessness as to long cherished traditions, when the old order is changing and giving place to new with startling rapidity, it is perhaps our sense of humor as much as anything else which keeps alive the family, felling with the Jewish race. – [Jewish Chronicle] ORIGIN OF SLANTING ROOFS To find the source from which the European nations have derived the art of building in stone, we must look to the land of the Pharaohs. From Egypt the craft passed to Greece, and from the Greeks it was taken up by the Romans, to be by them disseminated through the north and west of Europe in the process of colonization. The similarity, in regard to the constructive parts of the ancient Greek buildings to some of those found in Egypt of older date, affords strong confirmation of the tradition that the Greeks borrowed the art from the Egyptians. The Greeks, however, in adopting it added a new feature, the pediment, and the reason for this addition is easy to find. Egypt is practically rainless. All the protection from the climate required in a palace or temple in such a country is shelter from the sun by day and from the cold by night, and for this a flat roof, supported by walls, or pillars, with architrave, is quite sufficient. But, when, as in all European countries, rain has to be taken into account, a slanting roof becomes a necessity. The Greeks, with their eye for symmetry, province for this by forming the roof with a central hinge, at an obtuse angle, from which it sloped down equally on either side. The triangular space thus formed at the trave was occupied by the pediment, its birth to the exigencies of climate, was thenceforth regarded as so essential to the artistic completeness of the work that it was said that if a temple were to be erected in the celestial regions, where rain would not be possible, the pediment could not be omitted. – [Francis H. Baker, in Popular Science Monthly] THE APPEAL OF NEW BOOKS As we have no evidence that the higher powers watch over the births of literature in order to insure a survival of the fittest, nor that books as well as “gems of purest ray serene” are not born to be unrecognized, and, above all, knowing that many of the best works have barely escaped a non- appearance or a still-birth, we may be absolutely sure that the appeal of new books and new authors has a claim of justice as well as of pathos. A well known instance is that of “Jann Inglesant” a novel which some of us think is one of the most remarkable literary products of our time. It seems to have escaped the notice of the reading public and of the professional critics for a long while, till the keen eye of Mr. Gladstone fell upon it and discovered its graphic an poetic beauty, its rare learning and profound thoughtfulness, and its thrilling power as a spiritual draw. A word of commendation from him not only saved its life, but probably insured its immortality. How many a great book has been rescued from oblivion only by the “success” of a subsequent and perhaps inferior one by the same author. It is useless to depend upon the critics to judge for us. These professional tasters are rarely of any other than three kinds. One glances at a volume only just enough to dash off a “genial” or non-committal notice with the appearance of being not wholly ignorant of its contents. A second muses in its pages to find salient points for his slashing ridicule or magisterial condemnation. And a third selects such books for the display of his own special knowledge. In a word, the new book, supposing it has secured the intermediate services of a publisher and got itself born, is committed to a stream sluggish and bulrush-hidden and swarming with crocodiles; and every Moses has not his Pharaoh’s daughter – [F. M. Babrist in Lippincott’s Magazine] Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for Iron Roofing Ad for Plowboy Ad for Fertilizer Distributor (picture) Ad for Newspaper of The Plowboy File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/lamarnew1134gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 54.0 Kb