Lamar County AlArchives News.....Lamar News January 6, 1887 ************************************************ 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, 9:55 am Microfilm - AL Dept Of Archives And History January 6, 1887 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, JANUARY 6, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 10 SEE BREEZE – Poem – [The Week} WHAT HE BELIEVED IN – Short Story – [Cleveland Leader] LUCKY CHANCES – anecdote – [Cassell’s Family Magazine] A BOY’S ESSAY ON CATS – story in dialect of boy and his cats AN INFALLIBLE INDICATION When Mr. Cammock got ready to be married there were few of his friends that placed much faith in the stories of his intentions, and one day last summer up at Saratoga some of the chief men of Wall Street were on the piazza of the United States Hotel discussing the gossip about Mr. Cammack, when of a sudden the bear leader loomed up in person before then. He wasn’t alone. A handsome lady was by his side. But even this innovation in Mr. Cammack’s promenading habits didn’t go far toward convincing anybody that Addison was on the verge of being a benedict till William H,. Vanderbilt, bringing his easy chair’s legs down with a thump said this: “Cammack is going to be married. I’ll wager 100 to 1 on it. Do you notice that he is carrying the lady’s shawl on his arm. That is a sure sign, an unerring sign. When a man gets that far he’s gone. I’ve noticed it a hundred times. It never fails – never!” William H. Vanderbilt was an observer and a philosopher. – [New York Times] REMINISCIENCE – A RUSSIAN VETERAN’S RECOLLECTION OF NAPOLEON ON A BATTLE FIELD Maj.-Gen Yadovitch of the Russian army is one of the few men now living who saw the great Napoleon on a battle field. The old General saw the French Emperor at Borodino. At that battle Yakovitch, then a mere boy, served with a battery in the grand redoubt which was the centre of the Russian line. He gives a vivid description of the battle. When morning broke a sea of gray mist shut out the field from view. The voices of the enemy were heard, the neighing of their horses, and the rambling of artillery wheels. Then came the thunder of cannon, making the very earth tremble. Three times all the Russian gunners were killed, and three times new men took their places. Bullets flew thick as hail, and men dropped dead of mangled every moment. At last a strange sound was heard in the distance, like rain pattering on withered leaves. It grew louder and louder until it filled the air like the roar of a story sea. All at once a great wave of bright swords and helmets and horses’ heads came surging up over the breastworks. It was the Imperial Guard. Before the shock of that mighty wave the Russian centre crumbled away, a shattered wreck. When Yakovitch came to his senses and opened his eyes he saw around him the corpses of his father and comrades. Suddenly the tramping of hoofs called his attention to a group of gayly- dressed officers, and Napoleon’s staff came ring over the field. The young Russian peered anxiously into their faces. In his graphic language he thus describes them. There were the hard faces of Rapp and Darn, and broad-chested Sebastian and Nansouty, with the saber-scar across his cheek, and the low, broad forehead and bull-dog jaw of grim old Ney, the bravest of them all. There, too, was Murat, with his white plumes and his braided jacket, his long, dark curls hanging down his neck and his riding whip in his hand, just like a circus- rider. And then the group parted suddenly and there was the man himself in the midst of them, with his face hard and immovable as marble amid all that blood and agony, and a far away look in those cold gray eyes of his, as if he saw Moscow somewhere up in the sky, but could see nothing between. “A glorious victory!” cried Murat, waving his hand. “What a stir there’ll be among the good folks in Pairs when the bulletin arrives!” `”We’ve lost half our army in doing it, though,” growled Ney, “Hadn’t we better fall back a little and wait for the reinforcements?” “Then Napoleon turned his head slowly, just as a state might do, and looking him full in the face said: “Thou advising a retreat, Michel? That is something new, indeed? No? – No falling back now? I must date my bulletin from Moscow. As for the army, you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.” “Yakovitch says that when he heard this he knew that Napoleon’s day was past, for no man save one doomed to destruction could have spoken so lightly of the slaughter of thousands of brave men. In three months from that day the French Emperor was flying for his life across the border, with the Cossacks at his heels like hungry wolves.” - [Foreign Ex.] WHAT FAST HORSES COST A correspondent writes to the New York Tribune: On a railroad train far up in Vermont I fell in with J. P. Atkinson, a wealthy farmer of that state. Inquiring the price of improved farm land, I was surprised to hear him quote such low figures as $15 to $20 per acre. He told me that the same land that could now be bought for this price formerly brought as high as $70. His explanation of this reduction in value was given in this language: “The young fellows won’t work, the old men can’t. Those who will work have gone off to the West. Those who remain car more about fast horses and other fast things than about farming. Look about at any of the railroad stations and you will see scores of sulkies standing around. When a farmer or a farmer’s boy gets a fast horse the farm goes to doge pretty quick. You can’t hire farm help even at big prices. Men have got above it, want to live by their wits of on what their fathers accumulated. When David Hill took the famous old county he caused a loss in the value of farm property there equal to a million dollars. He found Black in a dray at Lowell, Mass. It would have been better for the state of Vermont if he had never found him. Why, it literally demoralized the farmers all over the state. THE SCOTCH GIRLS These Scotch people are very fine looking and their faces have great strength of feature and at the same time much refinement. The Scotch girls are exceptionally fine looking, and even among the lower classes you see very many refined faces. In the stores there are lady clerks who would pass muster as well-bred girls anywhere, and many of the bar-maids in the whisky-shops are beauties. The women of Scotland do a great deal of work. A white-capped, middle-aged rosy-cheeked lady usually presides over each of the largest hotels, and nearly all of the railway restaurants are managed by women. Both sexes in Scotland have, as a rule, good, healthy physiques. There are more tall men and women than in America. They have better complexions, a more active walk, and are, as a rule, stronger and healthier. – [Edinburg Letter in Cleveland Leader] BOY IDEA OF BOY – Description of the Animal By One of His Own Kind. – [Providence Journal] A GREAT CATTLE RANGE The great plateau between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierras, comprising the territory of Utah and the state of Nevada, is apparently destined to become the greatest cattle range in the country. Already immense tracts of land, some embracing nearly two hundred and fifty thousand acres, have been purchased, and owners of large herds in Texas and other southwestern states are looking for ranges in this wide section of natural pasture land. The pressure of settlers who wish to engage in agriculture and found homes upon the lands in the great fertile plains of the west and south has been to crowd out the cattle kings who have for years monopolized the largest part of the states which by nature are better fitted for the raising of crops than for the pasturage of herds. Thus there has begun a hegira of cattlemen toward the west, which bids fair to aid materially in the development of those great sections of our country that have hitherto been left almost exclusively in the hands of Indians and peripatetic gold hunters. This movement of stockmen toward the west is a matter of considerable importance to the people of this coast, for the region that will be appropriated by them is by nature tributary to California, which should be benefited by the establishment of great moneyed interests in a locality from which up to this time little benefit compared with the extent of country has been derived. The cattlemen also are the precursors of the husbandman, who, when a country has become to some extend settled, would readily seek in it opportunities for agriculture; and it may confidently be expected that there will, before many years are passed, be more agricultural land discovered in Utah and Nevada than has been believed to exist there. – [San Francisco Bulletin] In a French paper there is a matrimonial advertisement from a widow with 200,000 francs, who seeks a husband in one who must, at least, have a like sum of money, with other equally pleasant recommendations. Her postscript is empathic. She says, if a negro, he must have double the sum also required. MEN OF MILLIONS How The People Talk of Millionaires Behind Their Backs I enjoyed the distinction, one day this week, of riding in a smoking car from Menlo with $230,0000,000 – at least, so a statistical friend of mine computed it. We had Mr. Flood, and D. O. Mills, and Mr. Stanford, and Mr. Crocker, with a number of minor millionaires. “Jim” Flood seems to have taken a new lease of life. He looks rosy and youthful, and is beginning to resemble the granger in gait, costume, and manner. Mr. Mills had the gout and is about to fly to New York to get rid of it. Mr. Mills loves champagne. He cannot resist the temptation to quaff his favorite wine by the bumper, and the result is that, a few days after the booze, the gout grips him by the toes and makes him long for death as a release from this sufferings. Think of this, ye poor devils, who only know champagne by the label, and then reflect upon the miseries of a millionaires existence. At Milbrae, half a dozen of Mr. Mills’ paintings were put in the baggage car on route to his New York house. They were masterpieces, and at a rough guess I should say the six cost not less than $50,000, a nice nucleus for a gallery. Among them was the celebrated painting “Anthony and Cleopatra” a colossal canvas, and a marvelous work of art. The pictures were not covered, so the plebeians had a chance to examine then while the baggagemen, assisted by a corps of Mills’ servants, were handling them with care. “Why the dickens don’t he remain, and spend his money in the country he made it in?” growled one of my fellow passengers. “Ay, see what Stanford is doing for the state; think of that university grant.” Echoed another. “I never see Mills that I am not reminded of the bursting up of the Bank of California,” added a third, “and that he was one of the main causes of Ralston’s despair and suicide.” Indeed, I was surprised to hear from nearly ever one in that smoking car a dig at Mr. Mills, and when that capitalist strode haughtily in, after having looked at the disposition of his pictures in person, the vindictive scowls with which he was met made me feel positively uncomfortable. Mr. Flood scratch his mosquito scars, and looked quizzically at his brother capitalist, wondering, I could not help thinking what people said of him behind his back. Flood is the main cause of so many wealthy people building along the line of the Santa Clara Valley Railroad. If those really fine houses were not back on the foothills there would be no cause for complaint; but lying near the salt marshes, as so many of them do, the mosquitoes have it all their own way. And they do scarify some of those bloated bondholders in good shape. They feed on their champagne and burgundy nourished bodies every night, and send them to town in, the morning looking as if they were about entering upon a severe and well-distributed case of confluent small-pox. – [San Francisco Letter] THE CRAZY KING’S VALET The Daily News of Muncih tells a story illustrative of the queer freaks of the late mad King of Bavaria. He had an excellent valet de chambre, whose services he pried greatly, but who one day committed some petty fault that threw the quick-tempered monarch into such a tempest of fury that the beat him with his fists and said: “Get out! I do not want ever to see our face again.” The man went as rapidly as he could. Then the King had a succession of valets, each one of whom seemed worse, more stupid, and incompetent than his predecessor, until the King was frantic all the time. The Baron Scheider, chief of the palace, urged him to take his old valet back again, but he refused on the ground that his dignity would not permit him to do so, when he had said he wished never to see the man’s face again. Then the Baron had a happy idea. “Very well, your Majesty,’ he said, “you need not see his face again. We will make a blackamoor of him.” To that the king assented cheerfully, and thereafter, until his death, he was faithfully served by an apparent negro, who was, however, in reality a native of Munich, his old white valet. CHLORAL AND ITS EFFECTS The action of chloral hydrates is very similar to that of opium, but it does not lessen pain nor contract the pupils of the eyes to the same extent. It does weaken the action of the heart and lessen the portion of heat in the body to a far greater degree than opium. It induces sleep in does that are not dangerous, and the unpleasant effects of moderate doses of opium are avoided by its use. The fatal dose is a very large one. Its taste and odor are alike unpleasant to most people; hence the risk of acquiring an appetite for it are not so great as with the later drug. The habit, once formed, is much easier to give up than that of opium-eating. The treatment of a case of chloral poisoning is almost exactly the same as is an overdose of opium. One important fact to be remembered in such a case is to scrupulously avoid the loss of animal heat. Not attending to this point has cost many lives. The patient should be kept warm; the stomach must be emptied of its contents, and stimulants should be given to keep up the action of the heart until the poison has a chance to escape by the lungs and kidneys. – [St. Louis Globe-Democrat] To make orange jelly, cut holes in the stem side, take out the pulp, steep the skins two hours in cold water, strain and scrape carefully, range them on broken ice and fill with the French jelly. When cold, cut in halves. PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY JANUARY 6, 1887 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. OUTLINE (Note: This article is written as one long paragraph. I am dividing it out to make it easier to read) The President’s condition is very much improved. Secretary Whiney desires application for an office sent to him. Speaker Carlise doesn’t think there will be any legislation this winter to reduce the surplus in the treasury. Father McGlynn can not officiate at mass and can not preachy nor perform any of the functions of a priest. The K. of L. District assemblies of ten states, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Texas, Missouri, Colorado, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New York, will send to Mr. Powderly a request to call a special session of the general assembly to consider certain acts done by the late convention at Richmond. The keepers of gambling dens in Decatur, Ills, have been indicted. The prohibition congressional convention which met at Eau Claire, Wis., Tuesday nominated Hugh Price, son of the deceased congressman, for the unexpired term, and Peter Truax for the term commencing March 4th. Jefferson Long, convicted at North Platte, Neb., of inciting murder, was refused a new trial and sentenced to be hanged May 20. Lord Harrington was expected to arrive in London last night. Queen Victoria is at Osborne. The executive committee of the Freedman’s Aid Society of the Methodist Church North, in session at Cincinnati, have examined the charges preferred against Prof. Calkins of the Chattanooga University and requested the trustees of that institution to ask Calkins’ resignation. Lewis F. smith, master workman of Kings of Labor Assembly No. 17 Philadelphia, received a letter from a member of Assembly No. 17 to delay action on a proposition to withdraw from the Knights of Labor organization. R. L. Miller and son, of Taswell, Va have been indicted for setting fire to their hotel at Pocahontas during last October. Two men perished in the building when it was burned. The stock market on Wall street was active yesterday and at the closing hour the advance ranged from one fourth to four and three fourths cents, the greatest advance being in Nashville and Chattanooga stock, with Richmond and West Point stock following a close second. The Bell telephone company has sued out an injunction against the Emmer Telephone company to prevent the latter from operating telephones in Charlestown, W. Va, and other Virginia, West Virginia cities. John Grady, of Chicago, came home intoxicated Tuesday night and sank down in his backyard where he froze to death. Justice Tenney, of Inglewood, Ill, has been collecting finds which he has pocketed. His action is styled judicial larceny. London rumors say that the Abysianian General Rassaloula has captured Karsala, while other rumors are that the Abyssinisan army has been defeated at Labderait by the Dervisches. Col. J. C. Wirt, a manager of the western division of the Adams Company states that all parties connected with the big robbery of October, six in number, have been arrested and are in custody. The total loss was $32,700 of which $12,000 will be recovered. The robbery was planned by Haight and executed by Whittrock. The others were accessories after the act. Mrs. Haight has been arrested. – [English Politics] THE TARIFF The present session of Congress has again given the black eye to the tariff resolution; but the prospect for something reasonable and conservative to be done is better than heretofore. The wild free trade and horizontal ideas of some are beginning to soften and the rigid views of the protectionists are making in the same direction. To great changes one way or the other would be a public calamity and result in ruin. It is gratifying to note that there is an element in the democratic party that are ruled by their best judgement and not by the circumstances that would make them succeed themselves. To great amount of protection and indiscriminately laid is bad in morals and in sight; but many enterprise have been fostered and built up and honest citizens have invested their means and labor and to strike down that protection all at once is neither good morals or just legislation. The tariff is a great big question with almost as many exceptions and complications as there are business interests in this government, and the statesman who can take in the whole situation at once has not yet appeared on the public arena. And the bitter caustic epithets applied by some time serving politicians toward the sensible and conservative faction o the democratic party is censurable if not to say contemptible. If the thieving and robber tariff is more than one can stand if has not too great conscientious scruples let him go into that filed, thieve, rob and get rich, otherwise let time work out the reform needed. Ad for Peruna Ad for Accordeons Ad for Harris Remedy Co 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 JAN 6, 1887 (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 p.m. 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 The Judicial court is full of businesses these days. Wanted at once, 4000 oak or cypress boards. Apply at this office. CAPT. W. G. RICHARDS of Fernbank was in town first of the week. For Sale – A heavy wagon. Easy terms. W. A. YOUNG The High School is in session again and the fun of the holidays are over. Mr. ROBERT J. YOUNG is with his brother in town for some days. If you wish a good article of plug tobacco ask your dealer for “Old Rip.” Men with bundles on their back can be seen every day going to the Kansas City Road to procure work. Some considerable moving to town and the parties should advertise to let their friends know whey they are located. The News will move to its new home, just opposite its old, tomorrow where its readers are cordially invited to call. Ex-Sheriff J. W. WHITE and family have moved up to Miller’s mills on the Kansas City road. Capt. WHITE still operate a tanyard at that place. Red liquor will down the best man in the world if he only sticks to it. This hint may be pasted in the hat of a good many gentlemen who are monkeying with this buzz-saw. Commissioner’s court was in session Monday. The business was disposed and the court adjourned about 3 o’clock. For economy and dispatch, the present court cannot be excelled. 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 be undersigned amounting to $1 and upward. E. J. McNATT. The land sales came off on Monday as advertised by the U. S. Marshal, apt. A. B. HAMLET. Dep’ty making the sale. Capt. HAMLET has the reputation of being one of the best Deputies in the South. Cards are out to the reception of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. YOUNG soon after their marriage the last week in January. The reception is to be at the new house in town and the young folks anticipate a nice time. The prospect of a railroad by Vernon is brightening now and the real estate of the town is being marked up. Mark what we say- Two years from today a lot will be worth more than an acre now. WHY NOT! “On last Friday evening on the Tuskaloosa road five miles from Columbus, a man by the name of JOHN BRASWELL, citizen Fayette County, without any provocation deliberately shot and killed a negro man.” – Vernon Courier. Why not that? Why, the fellow was drunk, says the Courier, and why not kill a negro, or any body else without provocation; and, why may not you or I, if drunk, do likewise? Drunkenness relieves a man’s brute nature of all the restraints of humanity, morality, religion, decency – why may he not, when drunk, perchance, commit murder, or other, heinous crime? MORAL: Fortify yourself in personal individual, prohibitions. Don’t get drunk, or drunkish, nor tempt, advice, induce, add or abet others to be come so. – [Jasper True Citizen] GENERAL NEWS One more $1,000,000 furnace to go up at Birmingham. Georgia has put out her ticket for 1888 – Cleveland and Grady. A telephone line is to connect Florence, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. There are 53,614 post offices in the United States. Montgomery has secured the monopoly of the State Fair for five years. The hogs in Jacksonville, Ala. are dying of quinay. President Cleveland’s share in his Baltimore Uncle’s estate amounted to $170. A lady in Montgomery, while working over a package of sausage found a heavy gold ring in it. Gov. Alger of Michigan, gave each of the 437 newsboys of Detroit, a new sit of clothes as a Christmas present. Anniston, Oxford, and Oxanna, heretofore three imposing towns, are to be incorporated into one city. B. S. Evans, a farmer of Hale, made 72 bales of cotton and 1,000 bushels of corn with 8 mules. This is good. The total receipts for the relief of the Charleston earthquake sufferers are reported at $20,000. Subscription to the Mrs. Logan fund have reached over one hundred thousand dollars, and still growing. Of the four candidates for President and Vice President in 1880, all are dead except English. Mr. Chas. Stewart Parnell is said to receive more letters and to answer less than any other man in Europe. Geronimo enjoys health in Florida but half a dozen of his uncivilized associates have died in spite of the climate. Logan had one virtue, that of inveterate hatred of the south, yet he was bold and frank to a degree, and had the courage that made him a lender. The Montgomery syndicate purchased a few days a few days ago 12,000 acres of choice Walker County lands. The enterprise was started by Mr. J. C. Hass, a successful business man in Montgomery. A plan was started in Chicago Wednesday by which it is hoped to raise a fund in Chicago large enough to pay off Gen. Logan’s debts. This fund will be in addition to the general subscriptions that are being made for Mrs. Logan’s benefit. Jay Gould now attends church regularly, and intends so his friends say, to lay up treasures above. He has spent the greater portion of his life laying them up below, and he no doubt thinks it about time to get ready to swiddle the devil out of what justly belongs to him. The foster daughter-in-law of Andrew Jackson, who did the honors of the White House during his Presidential term, is living at the Hermitage. She is 82 years old, and is failing mentally as well as physically. She lately said to a friend: “You know, honey, I am 127 years old, and am growing very feeble.” Subscribe for your county paper. Birmingham, Dec 29 – Considerable indignation is felt here over the Chattanooga Tradesman’s report of Alabama’s share in the number of new enterprises in process of construction. Activity in real estate is assuming wonderful proportions. Many thousand dollars worth of city and suburban property is being bought by visitors. Another of the ringleaders of the negro band of robbers who Christmas day murdered two men on the Georgia Pacific Railroad, near the Warrior River, was captured here early this morning. His name is Willis Brinkley, alias Jack the Rabbit. A posse from walker came after the fugitive today, but the local authorities declined to turn him over, being apprehensive of lynching in Walker. Two more highway robberies were committed last night, through with little results, except going through the pockets and getting the small change of Edward Trask, one of the City Court and George Ivy, suburban resident. 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 E. W. BROCK’S Cash store. Prices away down from what you paid before, and prices that knock out all competition. Am too busy to writ 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 MISSING LINKS Forty-two new chemical elements have been discovered in the past ten years. The schools of Reading, Pa, have adopted shorthand as an optional study. Every able-bodied Indian in Maine has a dog and every Indian who is not able- bodied has two. In Washington Territory a Chinaman has been made a school teacher for the benefit of his countryman. The letter-sheet is seen but little of ordinary correspondence. About 10,000 are paid every day in New York. A twelve-pounder brass cannon that saw service in 1776 is part of the armament of the new Canadian cruiser Arcadia. The newest weapon of war is an electric sword. Run a foreman through with it and death comes from the shock. A Vermont marble company has a contract for furnishing $75,000 worth of marble for the capitol at Washington. It will require 150 cars to transport the marble. George Dolby, who managed Dickens while in America and drank the wine which his principal was obliged to decline, is in Charing Ross Hospital. He is now old and very poor. A Presbyterian church, built from petrified wood found in Allen’s Creek, is one of the curiosities of Mumford, Monroe County, N. W. Leaf and moss fossils are to be plainly seen in the stone. Emperor William has again got off his death-bed to go to Baden for a three week’s vacation. When the old man is particularly feeble he takes to his death-bed, gets a good night’s rest, and is all right again. While excavating for a new bridge under the old canal aqueduct at Fort Wayne, Ind. Workmen found a Mexican silver coin of the date of 1782 and a horseshoe of primitive construction. They laid ten feet below the bottom of the river. George L. Perkins, of Norwich, Ct. is undoubtedly the oldest railroad man in active service in the country. He began his 99th year in August, and is the active financial head of the Norwich & Worcester Railroad , working as regularly now as he did twenty-five years ago. Lumberman get 90 cents a log at Wausau, Wis., for raising “dead” or water- soaked logs from the bottom of the Wisconsin River. They have already raised about 600,000 feet, and logs that have been dead for twenty years are said to be as sound as the day on which they were cut. A woman entered a crowded horse-car in Bridgeport, t., one day recently, and immediately two or three gentlemen sprang to their feet. The lady at once dropped into a seat, remarking as she did so, “It’s a great thing to be a woman, for a woman is always sure to get a seat if the car is full.” A shell of a large mollusk was found in the bottom of a well near Albany, Ga. A few days go. This fossil shell, says the News, discovered at such a depth below the surface, is another link in the chain of indisputable evidence that this section of the American continent was atone time the bed of the ocean. The New York Mail and Express mentions a pair of ladies shoes on exhibition in a Broadway window that are worth $100. They were made for a Murray Hill belle, who has a pretty foot and an equally attractive pocketbook. They are made, save the soles of plain lack satin. Rhinestones set in solid silver form the buttons. Louisville is taking great advancing strides socially. The Post says that the gentlemen to escort the ladies to parties, but for the ladies to go accompanies by chaperons and meet the gentlemen at the house of their host.” A club has been formed for promoting this innovation in southwestern society ways. An eyewitness to the hanging of thirty-eight Sioux Indians at Mankato says the copper-colored murderers came from their prison, danced across the street and capered up the stairway of the platform like a heard of wild animals. Each bore between his bronze lips a cigar, at which he puffed as the rope was placed around his neck and the knot adjusted under his ear. One of the rich men of Glasgow is Thomas Lupton, an American who went there poor, started a meat market, made a specialty of hams, and by shrewd and thoroughly Yankee methods of advertising has made much money. One of this advertising dodges was the driving through the Glasgow streets hogs clothed in canvas, on which was painted, “Tom Lupton’s Infants.” At the Mechernich Lead Works in Germany the tallest chimney in the world has recently been completed. It is 440 feet high, six feet more than the famous chimney of the St. Bollox Chemical Works, Glasgow, Scotland, which, until the German one was built, was without a rival. The fine of the Mechernich chimney is 11 ½ feet in diameter at the bottom and 10 feet at the top. A young Dakotian who lives near the Manitoba line, wanted to marry a girl that lived on the other side of the line, but her parents objected and forbade her leaving town. So she stood on the Manitoba side, her lover stood in Dakota, they joined hands, and a preacher with one foot on British soil and one foot in the United states married them, and they are now keeping house in Dakota. Andrew Carnegie is building on the summit of the Alleghenies, near Cresson Springs, a house, or castle, which will cost $1,000,000. The entire walls will be built up altogether of the undressed surface stone which is to be found on the place, and they are not to show in any place a single mark of the chisel or hammer. Mr. Carnegie’s orders are positive on this point, he having expressed a wish to have as far as possible even the mess on the rocks used in the walls undisturbed. The old shingles on the Unitarian church at Brooklyn, Ct. were recently approved to make room for new and better ones. One of the first pastors of the church nailed them with big-headed wrought-iron mails to the steeple in 1771, and under then Gen. Israel Putnam often has sat and listened to the discourses – rare in those days – giving liberal interpretations of the scriptures. It is stated that the shingles were “rived” by men who afterward fought with Old Put at Bunker Hill. The shingles are remarkably well preserved. Dr. Evans, the famous American dentist of Paris, who is now worth $10,000,000 is said by the Galena (Ill.) Gazette to have been a resident of that city, and from there he used to visit Hazel Green, Benton, New Diggings, Shullsurg, and other mining towns to yak out the teeth of the miners, and he will be remembered by many of the early settlers. He left Galena about thirty-five years ago. From yanking the teeth of miners he got to tinkering the teeth of royalty and became the bosom friend of Emperor Napoleon. A carpet merchant in Vienna has a curious collection of ancient woolen and line cloths, including more than three hundred specimens. Many of them have been taken from tombs, and are stretched on folios of cardboard to preserve them. Some of the fragments are only a foot square, but the large ones make up an entire Roman toga, which is said to be the only one the world. There are a great many embroidered dresses and a deal of knitting and jewel work. Double-chain stitch seem to have been as familiar to the Egyptian seamstresses, sewing with bone needles, as it is to modern women. There are some very quaint and unusually designs in the old collection of cloths, but there are also some very common things. It is curious to find that a common blue check patterns of our --- and work house aprons was in general use among the Egyptians more than a thousand years ago. MEDICAL INSTINCT – Ways animals heal themselves TWO FAMOUS JUMPS – HUSBANDRY – The Farmers Lot, Fast and Present – No Ground for Grumblers to Stand On. HOW TO DO UP SHIRT BOSOMS Take two tablespoons of best starch, add a very little water to it, rub and stir with a spoon into a thick paste, carefully breaking all the lumps and particles. Add a pint of boiling water, stirring at the same time; boil half an hour, stirring occasionally to keep it from burning. Add a piece enamel the size of a pea; if this is not at hand use a tablespoonful of gum-arabc solution (made by pouring boiling water upon gum-arabic and standing until clear and transparent), or a piece of clean mutton-tallow half the size of a nutmeg and a teaspoon of salt will do, but is not as good. Strain the starch through a strainer or a piece of thin muslin Have the shirt turned wrong side out; dip the bosoms carefully in the starch and squeeze it out, repeating the operation until the bosoms are thoroughly and evenly saturated with starch proceed to dry. Three hours before ironing dip the bosoms in clean water, wring out and roll up tightly. First iron the back by folding it lengthwise through the center; next iron the wrist-bands and both sides of the sleeves, then the collar-band. Now place the bosom-board under the boson., and with a dampened napkin rub the bosom from the top toward the bottom, smoothing and arranging each plait neatly. With smooth, moderately hot flat-iron being at the top and iron downward, and continue the operation until the bosom is perfectly dry and shining. Remove the bosom-board and iron the front of the shirt. The bosom and cuffs of shirts – indeed, of all nice, fine work – will look clearer and better if they are first ironed under a piece of thin, old muslin. It takes off the first heat of the iron, and removes any lumps of starch. It is said Queen Victoria can wash and dress a baby with any woman, and can generally diagnose the trouble when a child cries. The Queen’s skill in baby nursing was acquired from the famous Mrs. Lilley, who attended her Majesty at the birth of the nine royal children. This excellent person was a great favorite with the Queen, who honored her with her confidence upon the most delicate matters. When Mrs. Lilley died, in her ninety-second year, her Majesty was unaffectedly grieved, feeling she had lost a true friend. The old nurse to the last proved worthy of her mistress’ confidence. HOW BOOKS ARE WRITTEN Mr. W. D. Howells works from 9 am to 1 p.m. dining at 2 p.m. and is a man of leisure for the rest of the day. He writes about a half-column of the World per diem. With this stint he can turn out two novels and a great deal of miscellaneous matter in the course of the year. He is not satisfied without a great deal of revising and sometimes rewrites a whole chapter. The manuscript of “A Foregone Conclusion,” one of his earlier books, was entirely rewritten. Mr. Henry James, immediately after a breakfast of coffee and rolls in his room, sits down to his literary work, generally writing by the light of two candles, the London mornings being so dark. He composes slowly and painfully, rewriting and retouching his work continually, his artistic style being attained only at the expense of real toil. He works until noon, and then goes to his club for lunch. By regular application he manages to produce a great deal of manuscript. Mr. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) does not write in his library. His humorous fancies are evolved with more ease in the seclusion of his private billiard room. He makes it an invariable rule to do a certain amount of literary work each day, and his working hours are made continuous by omitting the formality of lunch. He is merciless to his own productions, and often destroys a whole day's writing without compunction. In this way he sometimes does a piece of work over and over again, but at other times the first draft is satisfactory. He is very industrious, but the mountain sometimes labors to bring forth a mouse. Mr. Edward Fawcett, who writes for fame and not for brad, has been won’t to do his literary work in the fourth story of a cheap tenement house some distance from his residence in the fashionable section of the city. He evidently believes in the practical application of Aldrich’s verses about the goddess and the garret. He is more painstaking about style than about subject matter. Mr. J. T. Trowbridge never composes his poems with pen in hand or his prose without it. The former takes shape in his mind during strolls across country and along the banks of the Hudson or while floating in his boat on the river. He often carries fifty or one hundred lines in his mind in this way. His verses are revised a great deal. In his earlier days he was always methodical, but of his years works according to inclination. Mr. George W. Cable is a very slow writer. He averages perhaps one thousand words per day, about half a column of the Word, and some days he does nothing but revise and perfect his work. He goes to his desk at 9 a.m. and writes until 4 p.m. with only a slight break for a light lunch. The poet Whittier confesses to never having had nay literary methods. He writes when he feels like it, and has neither the health nor the patience to work his copy over afterward, usually sending it to the publisher as originally completed. Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps believes in the value of a workshop outside of the house, and has an old barn near her father’s residence at Andover, Mass., whither she often retires when tint he mood for writing. Being an invalid she is unable to maintain any regular system of work. Miss Louisa May Alcott never had a study; any cozy corner answers to write in. She is not particular as to pens and paper, and an old atlas on her knee is all the desk she cares for. She has the power to carry a dozen plots in her head at a time, elaborating them whenever she is in the mood. Sometimes she keeps a plot by her in this way for years before it is put on paper. AT times she lies awake at night and plans whole chapters, word for word, and when daylight comes she has only to write them off as if she were copying. In her hardest working days she used to write fourteen hours in the twenty-four, sitting steadily at her work and scarcely tasting food until the task was done. Very few of her stories have been written in Concord. She goes to Boston, hires a quiet room, shuts herself up and waits for “an east wind of inspiration, which never fails.” In a month or so the book is done. She never copies and seldom corrects. Mrs. Frances H. Burnett writes in a “den” at her Washington house. Early in the morning she seats herself at the table and writes until noon. The morning stint of pen labor is rigorously insisted on, mood and ill-health not being consulted. If she is in a happy mental frame the hours are not heeded and the sentences flow freely from her pen, dusk sometimes coming before her manuscript is laid aside. If, however, the spirit does not exert itself in a particularly prolific fashion she devotes the afternoon to recreation, drives, walks, and social engagements. “The Lass o’ Lowrie’s”. “Pretty Polly Pemberton,” “The Fire at Grantley Mills” and “The Fortunes of Phillipa Fairfax” were all written in about fifteen months. – [N.Y. 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The best American makes include the opaque china of Trenton, made up after the models of the delicate French shapes; the Royal Worcester, also made at Trenton; the decorated tableware, which is admitted to equal much of the better French goods in design, tint and color; the hard French porcelain of Green Point, N.Y. The “Barboline” and “Limoges” made at Tarrytown, and the tiles of Chelsea, Trenton, and Pittsburg. Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for Globe Cotton and Corn and Fertilizer Distributors (picture) Ad for Steel Pens Ad for Publishers -The Plowboys File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/lamarnew1135gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 63.5 Kb