Lamar County AlArchives News.....Lamar News January 13, 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, 10:01 am Microfilm - AL Dept Of Archives And History January 13, 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 13, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 11 GARDEN OF POSIES – Poem I CAN BE HAPPY – Short Story POLITENESS REWARDED “Will you be kind enough sire to hold this ram for me while I open this gate? It is fastened on the inside and I must climb over.” This modest remark was made by a man who was standing at a gate of a lonely road running out of New Dorp, Staten Island, and it was addressed to a stalwart sailor who had just come up. The only other object visible on the long, straight road was the large black ran, whose massive crooked horns were being held by the man as the two stood quite still in front of the gate. “Why, sartinly, shipmate,” said the obliging tar, as he seized thebig horns and relived the first holder. The latter climbed quickly over the gate. “I think you very much,” he said politely when he got to the other side. “You will be surprised to hear that I never saw that ram before today. The brute attached me about half an hour ago., and we have been tussling together ever since. As long as you stand before him holding his horns firmly he can’t hurt you much. Good-by. I hope you will be as lucky in getting away from him as I have been.” The New Dorp man, when telling this story last night, neglected to repeat the sailor’s reply. He did not know what became of him. – [N. Y. Sun] THE VALUE OF SHADE TREES That our ancestors emanated from the shades of a tree land is one of the few points on which Moses and Darwin agree, and it seems hardly probable that the descendants of a forest race should be damaged by a little tree shade, especially where that shade is confined to the six warmest months in the year. After October, when sunshine becomes preferable to the shade, trees do not obstruct the rays of the sun. They merely moderate its summer glare, and at noon, offer the best possible refuge from the brooding heat. No human contrivance can rival the anti-caloric arrangements of a leafy canopy – free access to all the winds of heaven, and a roof impervious not only to the direct light of the sun’s rays, but also to their warmth, which is felt through a single roof as plainly as through a flimsy sunshade. But a shade tree, with its hundred straits of light-absorbing leaves, interposes an effectual barrier to the hottest sun; and, moreover, plants have a direct refrigerating influence, analogous to that of animal bodies in generating warmth. Even under the blazing sun the juice of oranges, watermelons, apples, etc is from ten to fifteen degrees colder than that of stagnant water, and on cloudy summer days the air of a treeless district is considerably warmer than the atmosphere of a shady forest on sunny days. - [Dr. Feliz Oswald in Lippincott’s Magazine] WIT AND HUMOR – jokes SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON The writer of an illustrated article on “The New Washington” in the March Century, characterizes Washington society thus: “Leaving aside the question of political morality, few people who have passed a winter in Washington will deny the charm of its society. Acknowledging all its faults, its crudeness narrowness perhaps and its lack of form, it must yet be acknowledged that it differs from all other American society from the fact that it is not founded on wealth. It is the only society which is rally republican., though it has little resemblance to the “republican court” of the first administration – the only one in America which has a well defined basis. And that basis is public station, temporarily conferred whether directly or indirectly, by the expressed wishes of fellowmen. The holding of such public station necessarily implies intelligence, and such it is intelligence, as distinguished from lineage or wealth, which is the fundamental basis in Washington society. Such Society does not feel obliged to adopt certain customs because it is reported second hand that they are good form in London. Its opinions are robustly independent, its information is extensive, and its subjects of conversation are many and varied. It is not to be imagined that such a society is well defined, or that its rules are clearly establish – though it is true that the “Etiquette of Social Life in Washington” has been most elaborately formulated in a little pamphlet, a fresh edition of which is perennially produced, and which is said to sell in great numbers. It is, undoubtedly, open to the criticism of being raw, to the same extent – but no more –that society in London is subservient and snobbish, and in New York illiterate and commercial. Nothing can be more ridiculous than the public levees of the President, where the doors are thrown open that every person in the street may enter them in a crash, and stand in a slowly moving procession for two hours, in order that during half a minute of the time the President may be seen and his arm may be wrenched. But this is not peculiar to Washington alone. Such “public receptions” are inflicted upon presidents in all cities which they visit. Hardly less incongruous are the Wednesday afternoon receptions of the wives of the cabinet officers, when their doors are thrown open and hundreds of strangers tramp through their parlors to “pay their respects.” The wives of Judges, Senators, and Representatives have to endure the same thing on other afternoons of the week. It has come to be considered as part of the price of public station. But no matter what office a man may hold, no one may come to his dinner table without an invitation. And it is in dinners that Washington society excels. Diplomats and travelers from every part of the worlds, men distinguished in political life, on the bench and in war; men of science and men of letters; women of intelligence and culture, with the native grave and beauty for which American women are justly celebrated – there is no such a wealth of choice in any other American city, and there are no other dinner parties so entertaining as those of Washington.” SOAPING A GEYSER – A SLUMBERING FOUNTAIN SET TO WORK BY A DISH OF SOAP – I learned of a curious circumstance while at the Upper Geyser Basin which is not generally known to the public and which is unquestionably true. Many of the geysers are inactive, others merely bubble and steam without erupting, while others again spout with clock-like regularity. I held the watch on Old Faithful again, and again, but this beautiful geyser, true to its name, sent up a magnificent stream nearly two hundred feet high, every fifty- five minutes. Not once was there a failure or the slightest variation in the time. I saw it in the moonlight, and no spectacle on earth can compare with this sublime spectacle. The Castle Geyser also treated me to a rare exhibition, but I was informed by the proprietor of the hotel that the “Splendid”, on of the finest geysers in the basin, and which once had a record almost as good as Old Faithful, had completely failed, and had lain dormant for nearly six months. I strolled over to the Splendid and saw a man busily at work dropping bars of soap into the crater. “What in the world are you doing that for?” I inquired, totally unable to restrain my curiosity. “Just wait and see,” replied the stranger. He kept steadily at work, dropping bar after bar down the yellow- coated throat, until the monster began to rumble and sputter, and finally behaved in a very boisterous manner. Eleven, twelve, thirteen, and as the fourteenth bar was swallowed up, away went the Splendid 150 feet in o the air, as magnificent and as grand as I had ever seen him. “There!” exclaimed the experimental stranger. “I reckon I have made as big a discovery as either of those scientific cusses, Wiggins or Proctor, ever did in their lives. It was an odd way of setting geysers to work and no doubt strictly original with the gentleman whom I saw trying it. He set the Fan going and started the lion, lioness, and cubs to growling. The Bee-Hive, once the most beautiful of them all, is rapidly sinking into decay. The handsome cone still remains, but the geyser is no longer active. The dropped a half a box of soap down the chimney of the Bee- Hive, which certainly started it rumbling and grumbling, and actually brought the scalding half-way up the cone; but it came no further, and gradually sunk away into the depths of the earth from which it had been unwillingly forced. - [Yellowstone Park Letter] FIFTY-THREE PAMPERED PETS – [Chicago Inter-Ocean] THE CLERK SAW THE POINT On one of the excursion steamers running out of Detroit the other day the clerk found a passenger who had neither ticket nor money. He began to berate the man for a dead-bat, telling him he ought to be ashamed of himself, etc but the strapped passenger held up his finger and said: “Have I been among the passengers and thrown out hints that the boilers of this boat were rather old and liable to explode?” “Not that I know of.” “Have I been around predicting a storm, and thus distracting from the pleasure of the trip” “Haven’t heard of your doing so.” “Have I slipped up to this one and that one to slur your boat for being slow, and have I said that you were carrying at least ninety more passengers than your license allowed. Twice thus far this boat has neglected to answer signals of vessels coming down. Have I said I would make complaint under the law? Have I counted the life preservers, and found the complement short? Have I overhauled the small boats and found that none of them could be launched?” “Oh, I see!” An old steamboat man – shake?” stammered the clerk. “Excuse me for not identifying you. Just make yourself at home and ride as far as you please. If you happen down stairs come into the office and try some of my cigars.” – [Detroit Free Press] PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY JANUARY 13, 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. Congress is further improving our postal system. The Senate has passed a bill reducing the cost of money orders to three cents. An enterprising young woman has a farm in Asthon, Dakota, which she runs without assistance, and last year she raised 1200 bushels of grain. She is regarded as a first class prize and gets about one offer of marriage a month. It is said by some of the knowing ones, that the population of Birmingham will be increased 25,000 within the next year, if houses can be built for them to live in. About 1,500 carpenters are employed in that city at the present time and the papers say they need more. Col. A C. Hargrave of Tuscaloosa, commissioner of the University Gland Grant, one day last week paid into the State Treasury about $19,000 of funds arising from the sale of lands granted the University by the act of Congress to increase the endowment of the University of Alabama from the public lands of this state. The Secretary of the treasury has issued the one hundred and forty-fifth call of the redemption of bonds. The call is for ten million dollars of the three per cent loan of 1882. It matures February 1st. The bonds called can be redeemed upon presentation at option of holder. We clip the following from a fairly reliable exchange: It is reported by a fairly reliable newspaper that a widow in Oakland, Cal. Has sued a newspaper for libel because in its obituary notice of her husband it spoke of his having “gone to a happier home.” That widow evidently ahs her eye on a fellow who believes in domestic tranquility. ALABAMA’S BOOM The well informed people of the globe know something of Alabama, the wonderful boom in the mineral regions is now the wonder of the world. Skeptics from remote places of the earth’s surface occasionally come to see what it is that is raising an uproar and when they come and see the grandest country in the world, they too, will begin to spread the news of the inexhaustible riches of the state. Transactions in the local stocks in the vicinity of Birmingham one day last week beats anything on record, Wall street not excepted. The money of the East is coming and will continue to come. There is something for it to come for and rest assured that money always takes car of itself. It is said that a great deal of the new railroads now being built from this direction into Birmingham cost over one hundred thousand dollars per mile, and that shrewd men in financial world say that these roads are splendid investments. The half of this state’s wealth has not been told and all that is needed to get a man to put his money in Alabama enterprise’s top get him to come and see. Emperor William, of Germany on Jan. 1st, celebrated the eightieth anniversary of his entrance into the Prussian army. He received in person the congratulations of all his commanding generals, the Crown Prince Frederic William acting as spokesman for the army, certainly it must have been a touching spectacle. The noble old Emperor listening to his son begin: “The army celebrates with our Majesty the day upon which eighty years ago, you entered the army.” Then followed a glowing speech on his active and competent leadership, closing with. “May O. then, again, tell Your Majesty, that our strong and united nation, in grateful love and faithfulness, always ready for sacrifice, trusts in its Emperor and leader in war, looks with joyful countenance upon him as their preserver of the peace, and cherishes the wish that God’s blessing in fullness may dwell upon him.’ The Emperor embraced his son and Count Von Moltke, whom he thanked for unparalleled services. THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW A new page has been turned and still may we not gather something from the old year with which we may profit ourselves amid those around us? Memory still lingers to solace and to comfort, still hovers to avenge the injuries of the past year, still points to it as a landmark for guidance with words of admonition. Memory’s endearing tablet passes not away with the year’s flight; it skulks not behind some darkened screen but stands boldly forth a testimonial of praise and reward to the just and innocent, and scourge to the conscience of the evil and guilty. The dying year has been one of desolation to many happy homes for not a whole month in any of the twelve, buy has seen cold and stormy days. And yet the mist and shadows of the darkest hours, are now silently passing away,. The ice fetters have been broken and the furious storm loses its power to harm. Kind readers, as we begin a new year, let us begin it with a true spirit, the proper motives and the unrealizing energy worthy of moral creatures. Are we not more fortunate thus to have some opportunity to atone for our many omissions, to make amends for the many misdeeds we have committed, and retrace our steps from every evil and unsightly walk we have so blindly entered? There is an “all seeing eye,” a God from whom we cannot hide, whose judgement is sure and might. Let us not forget that we still exercise an influence to a great extent by our exmple and by our precept. Let us work and wit, with brave and patient hearts hopeful withal, until by and by, amid the joyous throng, we press forward, and around the Supreme Ruler’s throne receive the victor’s palm. – [H. W. in Alabama Baptist.] Ad for Tabler’s Buckeye A BRITISH RURAL OFFICIAL. – Anecdote COLORADO’S BRIGHTEST GEM Green Lake has been fitly called the brightest gem in Colorado’s diadem. It is situated three miles from Georgetown and is 10,000 feet above the level of the sea. The road to the lake at first winds along the brow of Leavenworth Mountain, and in the fair sunlight the mines, cabins, flowers, Clear Creek, Georgetown, and the many peaks of the surrounding mountains made a pleasing picture as we rode along. After going almost straight up the mountain for a short distance Green Lake burst upon our sight, and amid rugged gorges, large boulders and lofty pines lay spread before us a scene of exquisite loveliness. It is almost a mile long, and just half as wide, and the water from the shore looks deeply tinged with dark green; but get into a boat and glide over it and your find the water clear and transparent. The rocks on the bottom are covered with a mossy deposit. The marvel is, how did such a lake get here, and another wonder is the greenness from which the lake takes its name. The basin that holds it is green, the sand is green, the moss on the rocks is green, and even the tiny drops that fall from the oar bear the same unexplainable tine, but the water is clear, and in its wondrous depths can be seen a buried forest, with its trees still erect, but petrified, and instead of swaying to the mountain breeze, stand silent and cold, as in the embrace of death. – [Detroit Free Press] THE DISTANCE OF THE STARS The distance of the stars from the earth is so vast, even when compared with the distance of the various members of the solar system from the sun, that the ordinary unit of computation of mile or meter is by far too small to be available. Therefore, in these computations, as a basis of comparison, the distance of the earth from the sun, about 93,000,000 miles, is the unit, and stand s for one. Alpha Centaura, the leading star in the constellation of the Centaur, is the nearest star to the earth, so far as known. Its distance is usually placed at from 20,000,000,000,000 to 29,000,000,000,000 miles from the earth. A stare called Sixty-One Cygel is classed as second in distance, being put at 54,780,999,000,000 miles distance from our globe. Most of the stars, however, are millions of times farther away from us than these. Light travels about 186,000 miles in every second of time, and yet with this inconceivably rapid velocity it would take light about twelve years to traverse the space separating us from that star. From the greater portion of the stars light would be many centuries in reaching us. That is to say in these particular instances, the stars which we see are not the stars as they exists tonight, but as they existed before Columbus sailed on his voyage of discovery, or even before the creation of Adam. – [Globe-Democrat] THE GULF-STRAM’S INFLUENCES It is well understood that Great Britain and other parts of northern Europe owe much to the warming influence of the gulf stream. The extent of the effect has been given in the calculations of Dr. James Croll, who has found that the amount of heat conveyed northward in the Atlantic by this steam is equivalent to 77,479,550,000,000,000,000 foot-pounds of energy a day, which is equal to all the heat received by 1,560,935 square miles at the equator, and more heat than is conveyed --- the air currents the heat of the --- seas and north Atlantic would be diminished that much by the stoppage or division of the great ocean river. – [Boston Budget] WHEN ENGLAND HELD SLAVES A thousand years ago nearly all the working people of England, plowmen, carpenters, shepherds, cooks and dairymaids were slaves. There was a regular slave market in Bristol which went on for hundreds of years. – [Boston Budget] GROWTH OF THE WHITE RACE Only two centuries ago the white race were estimated to be one-tenth of the world’s population. Now it is claimed they are fully one-third. 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 13, 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 News was printed in its new home this week. Mrs. J. E. MORTON spent last Saturday in Columbus. The moving in town will soon be over. Mr. WILDER MORTON of Fayette C. H. is in town again. If you wish a good article of Plug Tobacco ask your dealer for “Old Rip.” See the notice of mortgage sale in another column. Saturday will be Rev. W. C. WOODS regular appointment to preach in this town. We are informed that Dr. EMMET MORTON will move up on the Kansas Road near Cansler, and when he --- he will carry with him the best wishes of a host of friends. Quite a number of patrons of the News have come forward and settled their indebtedness, for which they have our thanks. MARRIED: Mr. J. W. PRESLEY of Arkansas, and Miss MARY E. JACKSON, of this county, --2nd January, at Mr. J. E. JACKSON, by Mr. J. W. PETERS. Mr. J. Y. LING and Miss L. J. SAND---, on 2nd inst., at bride’s residence, by Rev. J. C. KEMP. Mr. J. B. SIZEMORE and Miss VIRGIE -----, at bride’s father, on 18th inst. Grandfather Clock, is an object of –evrnce among the modern things beauty and are in every complete --, and a house is scarcely deemed complete without a bottle of Consans Honey of Tar to use when any of the house circle are afflicted with coughs ---- (can’t read) Ad for Cream Vermifuge (can’t read well – very light) The News is unavoidably late this week, in consequence of repairing our office. GENERAL NEWS James G. Blaine is suffering from a severe attack of gout. Gold is reported to have been discovered in McCraken County, Ky., at a depth of 81 feet. Alabama’s output of iron in 1880 was 130,000 tons, and in 1886 her output was 386,000 tons. An increase of 2586,000 tons. An ax and toll factory is one of the enterprises to be started in Birmingham soon. The plant will be worth $500,000 and will be located at East End. A. B. Flowers of Montgomery has invented a cotton press. Having killed all the sheep in Limestone County, the dogs are now slaying the goats. The ladies of the Livingston Methodist Church gave a supper last week and realized $75. A manufacturing company, with $2,000,000 has purchased 4,000 acres of land in and near Florence. Revenue officers recently captured 2 stills, 2 moonshiners and 400 gallons of beer in Marion County. Work is progressing on the Edwards Furnace at Woodstock, and it is expected to make iron there again by May. A gynecological and surgical association for the state has been organized at Birmingham, with Dr. H. N. Raesera President. The year 1887 will be the most eventful one in history of Alabama’s Industrial Development. The discovery of more gold in Morgan County in this state has had the effect of increasing the value of land up there and prospectors are flocking to that locality. Sad news of distress and famine comes from Texas; 30,000 people, in 21 counties, are crying for food, fuel and clothing. It is said that 23 years ago a man of Griffin, Ga., borrowed $1 of his neighbor. The other day a son of the lender received a postal note for $325, explaining that it was in payment of principal and interest. Honest man. Powderly, is to be the name of a new town on North Mineral and A. G. Sweet of Birmingham. The lots cover 30 acres, and are to be sold only to employees of the Company, who are to pay $1 per week, and is to build and live on his property. The public debt was reduced eight millions of dollars in December. A fifty-year old horse is advertised for sale in Gadsden. The printers on the Birmingham papers struck on the 2nd and the editors had to take the cares, but the paper came out on time all the same. Poll tax now becomes delinquent on the 1st day of December whereas it heretofore became delinquent on the 1st day of July 1887. The Baptist of Troy are preparing to erect an $8,000 church, and the Methodist of the same place one to cost $7,000. Both are to be of brick. The Tuskegee post office has been raised to a third class one. Citizens of Greensboro are moving numerously to Birmingham and Sheffield. The state has increased her manufacturing properties in 1886 from $7,841,000 to $19,848,000. Sheffield is now known in financial circles as “the great to be.” Parties who have visited there are enthused, and say it is a delightful location. 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 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. MORTGAGE SALE The State of Alabama, Lamar County Under and by Virtue of a mortgage made and executed to the undersigned by P. E. and E. D. WRIGHT, on the 7th day of January 1887, to secure certain indebtedness therein mentioned and recorded in Volume 10 page 121, of the record of deeds in office Judge of Probate of said county, I will on Tuesday the 8th day of February 1887 in front of the court house door of said county during the legal hours of sale, sell for cash to the highest bidder to satisfy said indebted the following real estate, to wit: S. N. ½ of S. E. qr. And S E qr of S E qr less 8 acres of cotton 30 acres more or less. This Jan 6th, 1887. E. W. BROCK, Mortgagee 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. 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. 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 Pianos and Organs Ad for Peruna Ad for Collins Ague Cure Ad for Marriage Guide Ad for Peruna Ad for Stratton Accordeons (picture) Ad for New Home Sewing Machine (picture) PAGE 4 MISSING LINKS Belle A. Donough is the name of a drug clerk in a New Jersey town. Churches in this country are estimated to use 60,000 gallons of wine every year for sacramental purposes. A German entomologist declares that spiders destroy more insect enemies of trees than do all the insect-eating birds. The conscience fund in the treasury at Washington is approaching the round sum of a quarter of a million of dollars. Philadelphia housekeepers, tired of vain efforts to get good servants, are now experimenting with colored help from the south. A wealthy New York physician declares it as his belief that “the oyster is the most healthy article of food known to man.” There is an artesian well 1,000 feet deep in Aberdeen, Neb. that throws out numbers of fish that look like the ordinary brook minnow. A soldier who ascended the Pyramid of Cheops recently, without a guide, slipped and fell to the base. He was picked up a shapeless mass. The Crown Prince of Germany is a thrifty person and not ashamed to turn an honest penny by selling milk from his dairy farm near Berlin. Capt. Eads, the improver of the Mississippi delta, has bought a large tract of land at Bar Harbor, Ms with the intention of building a residence there. In climates where the variation in temperature is 70 degrees, 400 miles of railroad track will change over 300 yards in length – nearly a yard to a mile. An oak that was cut before Shakespeare’s day furnished a bit of timber now to use as a bench in an English farmer’s kitchen. The timer did duty as a roof beam in a church for 364 years. It is still as sound as sound can be. A boy in Runnells County, Louisiana, captured a small animal known to naturalists as a stoat, a species of ermine. Its fur is white, and it is remarkable for its length, being able to enter a rat hole and is fourteen inches long. The Shasta County (California) Indians have a superstition that cat-fish were put into the river for the special purpose of killing off the Indians. They ear most other kinds, but throw back into the river all the cat-fish they catch. Bonvin, the painter arose at his marriage banquet and, addressing his wife in an inflated style, remarked: "Never forget, my wife, that you have entered a family of the gown and sword. Was not my mother a seamstress and my father in the rural police?” A Paterson, N. J. justice, after repeating the formula of an oath to a young woman, ended as usual by saying “Kiss the book.” “I will not.” Was the unexpected reply. “The last witness that was sworn was chewing tobacco and one before him had fever blisters on his lips.” She was permitted to affirm. An old Mississippi pilot tells the St. Louis Globe-Democrat that the affection exhibited by Mark Twain and his venerable mother, now a resident of Knokuk, Iowa, is very refreshing. She always had firm faith in her son, Samuel, and always said of him: “He was always a good boy, Samuel was, though prone to be mischievous. He’s always the same to me – the best son a mother ever had.” A Piute Indian in Virginia City furnishes the following local price list for game: “Whitney man pay um two bills for teal duck and four bit for mallard, maybe Piute being um. White woman kick like a mule; no want to pay um Piute only one bit for mallard and four bit for goosen. Injun no sell um goosen less than one dollar quarter. Piute want um four bits, one for big jack labitty and two bits for little.” Among old papers recently found in Kingstown, N. Y. was a letter written in 1776 by James Hasbrouck to his friend Peter Von Gassbeck, of Europe. In the letter he writes that Gen. Les has erected a battery in “The Broad Way, near the Bolding Green.” Is it possible, says the New York Sun, that our historic bowling green was not a bowling green after all, or was Jas. Hasbrouck simply a poor speller. An Albany, N. Y. lady suspected that her cook was playing sweet with the grocer’s clerk. A maid who played spy reported that the clerk brought the cook French candy every day, wrapped in tin foil. The maid procured two specimens of the “French candy” and the maid and mistress each ate one. Within half an hour they were well repaid for their curiosity, for the supposed candies proved to be yeast cakes. A very old Indian relates that about forty years ago a battle extending over several days, each having about one thousand lodges, was fought in the vicinity of Portland, in Triall. Remains are still visible of trenches sunk by Chippewas, who were victorious, but the Sioux took in their retreat to Devil’s Lake. They had flint-lock muskets and the number killed was large on both sides. The Sultan of Morocco is fond of tricycling, but too lazy to work the pedals himself; so he has had a gorgeous machine constructed, propelled by slave labor. He sits cross-legged upon an embossed couch, curtained and canopied with silk and silver and gold. At his right hand is a clock, and at his left a compass, in order than when beyond the reach of the muezzin’s call the faithful Mohammedan may observe the exact hour of prayer and the exact direction in which this orisons are to be addressed. Mme. Nilson’s reported marriage to Count Miranda is off, if the New York Times Topics is correctly informed. It seems the prima donna preferred to remain fist lady to playing second violin to an adventurer, though he had a charming daughter. At the same time, as she is not adverse to a little gamble now and then, she thinks it better to pay for her own chips than to province them for her partner, who, it is well known in Paris, has mixed much with the kings and queens of Baccarat. An imposing person answered an advertisement for a cook published in a Buffalo newspaper, and, when the mistress of the house asked if she had references, presented the following document: “This is to certify that --- is a fine cook and a perfect lady, fit to associate with the most refined society as her numerous friends will testify.” This first-class endorsement was not argued. But a postscript said “I hereby certify that --- is a perfect lady. I have known her several years. Richard Roe.” A recent issue of the Electrical Review gives the details of an invention that is destined to work a radical change in the hotel system of waking guests. It is an electrical enunciator, working both ways, from rooms to office as well as office to rooms, and is particularly acceptable, as by its means one guest may be awakened in the morning without arousing everyone else on the floor. An instantaneous alarm can also be sounded by it in every room in the hotel. El Cronista de Morelos, a paper published in Mexico, avers that it is customary among the Indians of the Jonacatpec district of that country to exchange wives. Occasionally these trades are permanent, but more often they are for a stipulated length of time, at the expiration of which each woman returns to her former husband, and the even is celebrated in each family by a feast, at which the pulque flows freely. Where the wives cannot be traded even a dog, cat, or pig is added on one side to make the barter fair. In the district of Tumango, at Tescalliacac, the still more novel custom exists of selling or trading off mothers-in-laws. A very fair article of mother-in-law can be bought for a lamb or suckling pig. THE CHINESE MONKS LACONIES Brief was an epistle of Emile de Girardin to his second wife, with whom he lived on most unfriendly terms. The house was large enough to permit them to dwell entirely separate from one another. One day Mme. Girardin had an important communication to make to her husband. Taking a small sheet of paper she wrote “The Boudoir to the Library: Would like to go to Switzerland."” M. de Girardin, imitating her conelse style, responded: "The Library to the Boudoir, Go.” That was all. One of the most laconic wills on record ran thus: “I have nothing, I owe a great deal –the rest I give to the poor.” A similar terse epitaph to the following would have suited that will maker: “Died of thin shoes, January 1829” – [Chamber’s Journal] John Jones, of New Hampshire, saw pensions going rather freely, and concluded that he might as well capture one. Having had the good luck to run his thumb against a burlow some years before, he applied for a pension upon the ground that he had lost his thumb in the service during the war. He is to be tried soon. BRIC-A-BRAC – [poems] THE HABITS OR A CENTENARIAN In Wurtemberg girls under sixteen years of age are not allowed to dance round dances. THE FIRST DEER – A Severe Attack Of Buck Ague That Strange To Say, Resulted Fatally DOING VANDERBILT IN WAX The Eden Musee, which is a wax-works exhibition building lately erected in Twenty-third street by a company of French capitalists, and intended to rival me. Tussauds’ exhibition in London, is to be under the management of young Mr. Weinschenchk. This young man is the nephew of the late manger of the port St. Martin Theatre in Paris, and has Parisian ideas of great men. He was easily convinced a couple of days ago that Mr. Vanderbilt is a truly great man, and that we were all languishing to see him done in wax. Mr. Weinshcenkck jumped at the proposition. He had got models of all the crowned heads and all the great thieves and murderers. Now he must have Vanderbilt. He called at the palace and was admitted. He entered the potentate’s presence all smiles and shrugs. “Well,” said Mr. Vanderbilt, gruffly, “what do you want?’ “Monsieur, your pardon cef you please,” began the waxworks man, “I myself zo honor do to give our some wax.” “Give me some whacks?” repeated Vanderbilt, suddenly turning pale and measuring his distance from the button of the electric bell. “Yes, sare – to do you up in wax. I find you a good subject and just fit for zo wax, and I want to take you from life.” “Do me up? Fit for whacks? This is a crank slugger.” Said the railroad king, and he touched the button. “I will place you in a leetle hole in ze wall all by yourself – right next zo Chambair of Horreur. I will layt you out like fire wiz my wax.” A tall footman in red pluck kneebreeches, silk stockings , pumps, and a gift laden cutaway coat entered at this moment. It was the bouncer of the palace. “Algerman,” said the noble lord of themaro, “bounce me this fellow who takls of laying me out with whacks.” Algernon measured little Weinscheneck, who began to grin like a tiger, and hesitated. The delay saved him. The waxworks man hit on the happy idea of expressing himself in French. He only wanted to model Vanderbilt for his collection. He was understood and got permission. The monopolist has been “done up” in whacks, and rather likes it. – [New York Star] WHAT THEY CARRIED Curious and Cumbrous Articles Picked Up by Soldiers on the line of March “They were lots of funny things about the war,” said Colonel Fredrick Martin, of the Brooklyn Elevated, the other day, “now that you think of them when the tears are dried away, and about the funniest things I recall were the queer articles the boys used to pick up on the march and the eccentric way in which they’d tote ‘em along to finally adorn some ditch by the wayside. Stragglers were the worst at this, but all the fellows were bad enough. Whenever the army went through a first family residence the boys would capture what struck each as most attractive, and some of their tastes were peculiar. They had a great weakness for cradles. You may ask me what a man treading his way to the front wanted with a mahogany cradle, and I’m blest if I know, but they took ‘em. First one man would back a cradle and carry it a dozen miles; then he’d begin to cuss and finally drop it. “Now, you’d suppose that any ordinary idiot would just look at a cradle as it lay in the road and pass on, but they wouldn’t. Some one would be certain to pick it up and lug it a few miles farther into the Confederacy. ‘I recall one cradle that traveled 100 miles on blue backs before it went to increase the blaze of a mess fire. Somehow they seemed to think vaguely that there was a chance of getting the infant soother home, but they never succeeded. “The funniest thing I ever saw carried was a looking-glass as high as your head and two feet wide. I saw it first in the parlor of a Central Virginian mansion, and next on a soldier’s back, headed for Petersburg. Then I lost sight of it for two days, and found it again propped up against a tree forty miles further along. The next day I saw it traveling tenderly on a straggler’s back. He had his gun in one hand, and had somehow strapped the glass so he could get along without holding fast to it. “Well, this fellow must have got tired, for the next day a third man had it, and on the next a fourth. This chap toted it into the lines at Petersburg. He set it up against a tree, took a long, regretful look at full length of his shabby self, and turned away with a sigh. “It was just as well that he did. The next minute along came a mimic bullet, buzzing like a hornet, and hit the glass square in the center and smashed it into a fame full of cracks radiating from around the hold. “The heavier and the more useless things were, the more they clung to them, even combing to escort pianos into untimely graves in mudholes; but the man who could steal a rocking chair was a white-robed angel in his won mind and the object of universal envy. “Another funny thing was to have the sutler strike camp loaded with condensed milk. I’ve seen a whole regiment sitting on a fence, each man with a milk-can in one hand, dipping out the sweet, thick stuff with his forefinger and licking it off with an expression of beatitude that would make a Raphealite saint look sick in comparison.” – [New York Sun] A FALSE SUSPICION – Anecdote ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/lamarnew1136gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 52.2 Kb