Lamar County AlArchives News.....Lamar News January 27, 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 27, 2006, 4:07 pm Microfilm - AL Dept Of Archvies And History January 27, 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 27, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 13 MILLIONAIRE AND BAREFOOT BOY – poem – [Harper’s Magazine] THE LAWYER’S SECRET – Short Story JOHN CHINAMAN AND HIS “LOOSTA” – Anecdote about a rooster HADN’T CONSULTED HIM – joke THE DOWN-HILL OF LIFE – A Dogged Resignation Comes To Men At The Age Of 65 “Those who study the passing chronicles of life in the newspapers of the day, foreign as well as English, must have been struck by the increasing number of suicides to be attributed to the hopelessness and misery of advancing years, “ says a writer in All the Year Round for October. The dismal record of suicides has its bearing upon the general state of affairs. With advancing prosperity the number of those who thus fly the ills of life remains a pretty constant quantity; but any check to material progress at once swells the ranks of the self-slaughtered. Thus, in 1879, suicides made a great spring from an average of sixty-nine to eighty-one per million, and it is instructive, if not inspiriting, to note that by far the greater number of cases occur when the medium line of life is passed. Thus the number of cases between the ages of 45 and 55 is far in advance of those at an earlier period, while the same remark applies to the next decade, although here there is a slight decrease from the one immediately before it. After 65 a dogged resignation seems to take the place of despair, and the number of suicides rapidly diminishes. Now, if we take the population returns for the last census, we shall find that, out of nearly 26,000,000 the population of England and Wales, the number of men and women then in existence and aged 50 years and upwards is just about 3,750,000 or rather more than one-seventh of the whole population, and we come to the remarkable face that this elder seventh furnishes at least half the number of suicides. And this is surely a strange fact which makes us speculate as to the possibility of making life more endurable to the rank and file of humanity, especially to those who are verging into years. The one encouraging fact is that, according to general testimony, the first steps toward age are the worst. From 40 to 55 has been well called the old age of youth – full of regrets and vain revolt against the inevitable. But the following decade, the youth of old age, is often marked by renewed vigor and enterprise if only we are content to follow the advice of good old Hoyle and play the stages of the game – to follow the score that is, and not attempt a grand game when there is only the odd trick to be won. GREELEY’S FARM The recent sale of Greeley’s Chappaqua Farm recalls some of its early associations. Greeley always had a desire to own a small piece of land and would have purchased earlier had there been any suitable means of transit. Soon after the beginning of his married life he moved up to a nook on the East River called Turtle’s Bay, about two miles from the Tribune office, and this was then as far as conveyances could be had. This was really the happiest part of Greeley’s life. His home was graced by a lovely little boy named Arthur, but familiarly termed “Pickle” and then Margaret Fuller, the cleverest woman of her day, was a member of the family. She had got tired of Boston and pined for a wider field, and hence gladly accepted Greeley’s invitation to a place on the Tribune. The pay was very small, but such a woman was above pecuniary considerations. Greeley gave her a home, and if her earnings averaged $5 per week additional it supplied her wants. The changes of life, however were soon felt in this little circle. Mrs. Fuller went to Italy and witnessed the capture of Rome by the French, while Greeley’s family was visited by the cholera, which carried off that lovely boy. Greeley thus mentioned this bereavement in one of his letters to his former contributor: “O Margaret! The world is growing dark around us. You mourn that Rome has fallen; we mourn that Pickle is dead.” Greeley then turned from this blighted spot, and as the Harlem Road had been sufficiently extended, in 1859, he bought a building lot just large enough for a house, being determined to test the place before enlarging his purchase. Finding it both convenient and healthy he gradually increased his domain until, instead of the original one-eighth of an acre, it included seventy-eight acres, it included seventy-eight acres being the largest farm ever worked by a New York editor. Most of Greeley’s improvements were chimerical. He built a dam, for instance, in order to supply the house with water. After one thousand dollars had been thus invested the dam broke and the scheme was abandoned. Sixty thousand dollars were spent tin improvements, and yet, today, the farm is not worth one-third of that sum. ENGLISH COOKERY In England very little benefit is extracted from an present long list of vegetable substances. Bread and potatoes, cabbage, and in the agricultural districts, beans, with a little bacon and cheese, and milk for the children, almost exhaust the list of food attainable by the working village population. What is called butcher’s meat rarely makes its appearance in the cottage of an agricultural laborer, but it is quite certain that if the humble, and whole spoken intervals at his disposition were more skillfully treated, he would be greatly the better. In manufacturing t--- (CAN’T READ REST OF ARTICLE) MISSING LINKS Skilled labor is in big demand on the Pacific coast. Chatauqua circles are being organized all over Nebraska. Sixty styles of hats are advertises by a milliner in Philadelphia, Pa. An electric apparatus is to be used to guard the body of Mrs. A. T. Stewart. Nevada beef is being shipped to California in an almost unbroken string of cattle cars. Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris will soon come over from England on a visit to her mother. In Mexico there are ten mineral districts having nearly ten thousand known veins of gold. An English firm has just received a verdict of $10,000 in a libel suit against a New York lawyer. There is nothing, affirms Mrs. Grundy, quite so artificial today as New York fashionable hospitality. Joseph Pulitzer’s profits this year as proprietor of the New York World, it is said, will reach $600,000. Ten thousand acres of undeveloped land in Mississippi will be put in cultivation by northern capital next year. Two hundred fine residences were erected in the fashionable quarters of Washington during the past summer. The naval department of Japan has ordered eight Krupp guns from Germany. They are said to be of the latest type. The Algonquin club of Boston has purchased land on Commonwealth avenue for $120,000 and will put up a house costing $180,000. A citizen of Waterbury, Conn recently obtained a divorce from his wife because she beat and kicked him and pulled his hair and whiskers. The pupils of the Reading, Pa., schools are to be taught physiology, and a lot of manikins have been secured by the teachers for that purpose. Samuel Cross, of Cherry Camp, Va., has a thirty-six year old horse that is a s active as any young horse and has just cut a brand new set of teeth. A peat bog near Shrewsbury, N. J. has been on fire since the 4th of July. The fire was started by exploded firecrackers and it is impossible to put it out. Mrs. Lillie Devereax Blake considers “delightfully inconsistent a stature of liberty embodied as a woman in a land where no woman has political liberty.” The King of Portugal recently bestowed upon the King of Spain theree military orders, and his Royal babyhood was so delighted that he tried his beat to swallow them. In Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, there are living a man and his two sons who are married to three sisters and stranger still, the old man is married to the youngest woman. George Kersey, of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is 13 years old an seven feet high. His brother, aged 20 years, is six feet and three inches high, and the father and mother each measure six feet. The Duke of Tochefoucauld is expected to spend the winter in Washington, and this furnishes sufficient basis for a revival of the rumor of his engagement to the daughter of Senator Mitchell of Oregon. In one respect the next Congress will be an improvement on the last – it will contain a member of the Smith family. His front name is Henry, and he is the Labor Representative of the Fourth Wisconsin District. Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spoffortd perpetrates the worst abomination in the shape of a newly-coined word in her story in Harper’s Weekly. She uses “tallth” for height. The coinage will scarcely pass current. A London publisher wrote to 1,000 school girls asking them to name their favorite authors. In the replies Dickens received 330 votes; Scott 226; Kinglsey and C. M. Young 91 each; Shakespeare 73; George Eliot, 41, and other authors a less number. Prince Bismarck has resumed his little dinner parties. He invites a few gentleman to each, prefers to see them informally dressed, insists upon frank talk, and gives them two wines only, a good red wine first and a very dry champagne afterwards. Owing to the overcrowded condition of the school buildings in Philadelphia, Pa., a school is kept in a cellar. Two hundred and fifty children are forced to go underground to a room where the ceilings are low and the air, heated by five stoves, is almost unbearable from closeness. A New Haven infant over two months old weighs only 2 ½ pounds. She is well formed and healthy, and of fine vocal equipment. Her height is 13 inches, her waist 7/8 of an inch in circumference; the back of her head measures 1 inch across, and her foot is 1 ¼ inches long. It is said that the paper furnished under t he new contracts on which the silver certificates are being printed, is of inferior quality. Instead of two, thre is but one silk thread running the length of the bill, and there are no scattered silk threads to be seen. An expert says that it will not wear well. Remarkable things are found in books sometimes. Here is a list of a few discovered in a Koran that was stripped preparatory to rebinding by a London binder the other day: A flea, beetle, spider, fly, several seeds, some grains of corn and a mysterious insect, which no one has been yet able to identify. A Louisville broker telegraphed to a customer in a neighboring town: “I can sell your stock at 51.” The customer received the message, but it read: “I can sell you stock at 51.” This dropping of the “r” in the message caused a loss of several hundreds of dollars to the customer., who threatens to sue the Western Union for the damage. Mrs. Parnell has arrived at the old homestead in Wicklow, Ireland, near the Vale of Avoca, immortalized by Moore in the “Meeting of the Waters.’ She has been received with filial tenderness by her illustrious son and her daughter, Miss Anna Parnell, who has been mistress of the homestead since Mrs. Parnell left for America, many years ago. Robert Stewart, who recently died in Pennsylvania, aged 106, was the oldest man in the state. He was one of the pioneers who did so much to clear up the wilds of the Alleghenies before the days of rapid transit. The veteran never rode in a railroad car until he was 100 years old, in 1881. He then went to Phillipsburg to have his photograph taken. Carrie Welton, a somewhat eccentric lady of Waterbury, Conn. Who was frozen to death while ascending Pike’s Peak two year ago, left $150,000 to the Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Her relatives contested the will, but the case has just been decided in favor of Henry Bergh, representing the society. The light from an electric lamp tower in Davenport, Iowa, falls full upon a flower garden, about one hundred feet away, and during the past summer the owner has observed that lilies which have usually bloomed only in the day have opened in the night, and that morning glories have unclosed their blossoms as soon as the electric light fell on them. In Talbot County, Georgia, one day recently, a colored man digging a grave alongside of another that had a sort of a little shed covering it was scared out of his wits when he saw four large eyes glaring at him from under the covering. He dropped his spade, and, with an unearthly yell, leaped from the grave yelling: “Fore de Lord! Dem people dun cum from dar graves, and is watchin’ ob me under dar. Oh, Lawdy, I’m gwine to die, too!” An investigation revealed two very large owls under the grave cover. IT WAS PAST TELLING – anecdote 150 MILES AN HOUR – article about future of railroad travel PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY JANUARY 27, 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. The contest over the United States Senatorship in Indiana is exciting and uncomfortably close. The Democrats have seventy-five votes, lacking only one vote of enough to elect. John Roach who according to malicious Republican newspapers was “ruined and killed” by the Democrats, leaves to his poor pauper family a fortune amounting to $2,000,000. The Democrats of the House committee on invalid pensions being in a majority, have voted to make a majority report adverse to the bill granting pensions to the bill granting pensions to the widows of Blair and Lagis. It is a commendable fact that Democratic representatives have at last plucked up courage to make a stand against those unauthorized appropriations. FOR THE LADIES The last number of the Scientific American contains illustrations of a new invention called a “combined stool and bustle” and there is no doubt of its being just the thing ladies have long needed. The bustle consists of a stool shaped frame of wicker work, making a seat about fourteen inches wide, and wide being very light, is strong enough to bear the weight of a person. This bustle is buckled around the waist in the usual way, and when covered by the top dress gives that garment a most charming hump and slope behind. The legs of the chair bustle reach within a foot of the ground, and when a lady wearing one of them is out shopping, and gets tired, all that she has to do is to sit down and make herself comfortable, the bustle being so constructed that the act of sitting down, throws it into proper position, and it catches the lady on the drop, without any danger of missing fire and causing embarrassment. – [Ex.] The report that Senator Logan’s death was hastened by the charged touching his relations with Gen. Grant, is revived by the New York Sun, which prints a letter from its Washington correspondent, who recently called on Mrs. Logan, and spoke of the generals’ death. According to this correspondent, both Mrs. Logan and her daughter declared that Boyston, the correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette who first started the stories about Logan, did more to kill him than anybody else in the world. “Yes,” continued Mrs. Logan, greatly affected, “General Boynston’s cruel attack on him was the last blow.” We fancy Gen. Logan had a great many harder and harsher things said about him than those Gen. Boynston’s letters implied and we hardly think it charitable or fair in Mrs. Logan and her daughter to attribute Gen. Logan’s death to any such cause. It is likely that Mrs. Logan’s husband died of rheumatic fever, and that Boynston’s letter had just about as much to do with her great bereavement as a ship’s motion has with the rise and fall of tides. Just about. – [Montgomery Dispatch] An exchange remarks that poor housekeeping is one of vulgarity and a woman who does not know how to keep a house is made to be thought vulgar by any one who enters her threshold. That’s stating the case pretty strongly, but it is not too much to say that the model woman is no stranger to the accomplished art of housekeeping. PROHIBITION IN ATLANTA A great deal has been said by anti-prohibitionists about the prohibition law in Atlanta being a failure, damaging the city etc. Just read the following extract, taken from the valedictory address of the retiring Mayor Hillyer, delivered on the night of the third instant. A greater refutation of the charge that prohibition damages a city could not be made, and we commend this extract to all our readers. Further comment is unnecessary. Here is the article. In summing up Mayor Hillyer says: I have lately had occasion, as you may remember, in a message to this body relative to the sale of beer in this city, to speak somewhat at large, and emphasis on the all important subject of prohibition, which renders it unnecessary that I should elaborate the subject at any length at this time. What I then said seems to have met with almost universal approval or new quiescence. If any single statement has ever been challenged it has escaped my eyes or attention up to this time. In this high presence, I here bring the testimony down to date, that the city collectively, was never in better condition than she is today, and that our people as individuals have very greatly prospered both materially and morally, since prohibition was adopted, that their progress and improvement moves with an accelerated pace as time goes on, and the end of the year just closed found our people more advanced therein that ever before.* * * Allusion has been made in print to alleged prosperity in other cities where the liquor traffic is still tolerated. I assert confidently that Atlanta has prospered more than any of them in our state, and I think it highly probable that Atlanta has during the last two years, advanced and increased more in houses built, and population, and in the general elements of prosperity than all five of the next largest cities in Georgia, that hold on to the bar-rooms, put together, is there any other city, where they have bar- rooms, that has a surplus of over $225,000 in the treasury on a clean balance sheet, at the end of the year and can sell four and one half per cent, bonds at par? If I had found the city free from bar-rooms, and was retiring with bar- rooms re-established in it, I would be a irritable man the balance of my days,. I found the city with near one hundred and thirty bar-rooms. I leave it with none. When I remember the acrimony and fierceness of the contest by which the result came about, but that not a solitary tragedy, or riot, or anything to bring reproach on the good name of our fair city occurred; that wounded feelings have healed and all are again practically united, I am thrilled with pride to be one of such a people and with gratitude to the Giver of all good, who holds our destiny in His hand and who doeth all things well. AT LAST – Poem – [Nellie Watts McVey in Frank Leslie’s] THOUGHT READING EXPLAINED – [All the Year Round] (This is a repeat article, so not transcribing it) PHYSICAL CARE OF A SINGER – [New York Graphic] – (Repeat article – not transcribing) BATHING PET DOGS AT LONG BRANCH A FLORIST CHAMELEON DISCOVERED It costs $8000,000,000 a year to maintain the standing armies of Europe. 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 27, 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 Judge COBB ---(can’t read)--- barn erected on his premises. Drummers were plentiful in town first of the week. A few bright and warm days in January suggest work to the gardener. Now is the time to plant oats. They come in when corn is scarce and high. If you wish a good article of Plug Tobacco, ask your dealer for “Old Rip” We failed in our last issue to mention Miss MARY COOK as the guest of the family of Hon ALEXR. COBB. Services were conducted on last Sabbath at 4 p.m. at this place by Rev. G. B. TAYLOR and J. W. PETERS. Rev. G. W. HEWITT has had quite a neat crib and stable built within the last week. Owing to the inclemency of the morning on last Sunday, Rev. G. L. HEWITT failed to fill his appointment at this place at 11 am. We were informed by B. M. MOLLOY Esq. while at Crew’s Mill on Tuesday that he had about completed his contract of grading on the Kansas City Road. Work has begun on the Kansas City road at Birmingham. It is expected that train will run through by Aug. 1st. Ad for Coussens Honey of Tar Mr. R. H. REDDEN, the photographer left this morning with his tenets and ---- for Crew’s Mills where he expects to reside a few weeks. We ….(TOO LIGHT, CAN’T READ) Mr. J. W. ABBOTT of Fernbank was in town yesterday. Miss HATTIE DENMAN is the guest of her sister Mrs. SPRINGFIELD. A large crowd was in attendance on the county court last Monday. Iron Prospectors from abroad found a large deposit of fine ore two miles south of Crew’s Mills last week. There being five Sundays in this month, rev. G. L. HEWITT made an appointment to preach at Moscow next Sunday 11 am Dr. R. J. REDDEN of Cansler is being recommended by his friends for the appointment of Penitentiary Physician. Dr. Redden is abreast the times in this profession and a man of noble qualities and the Gov. will not err in giving him the appointment. Parties desiring hauling to or from Columbus, will please apply to T. C. SMITH. Vernon, Ala. Also be pleased to get plantation hauling by the day on reasonable terms. – T. C. S. Hon. R. L. BRADLEY leaves for Montgomery today. Mr. A. H. SANDERS photographed a group of the high school on yesterday. Mrs. HANKINS is visiting the family of her son-in-law Mr. E. W. BROCK. Dr. W. A. BRIOWN is off on a prospecting tour in the counties of Walker and Jefferson. Mrs. BROCK and children spent several days at the home of her parents this week. Ad for Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment We are informed that Major KING, contractor on the Kansas City Road near Caudle’s Mills, severely stabbed Dr. THOMPSON, who was under the influence of liquor first of the week. News reaches us of another cutting affray 10 miles west of town first of the week, between Mr. JIM PORTER and Mr. JEFF ADAIR in which ADAIR was dangerously cut. The committee appointed to confer with the railroad Prospectors of the Tombigbee R. R. Co have returned much enthused over the prospects of a railroad through or near Vernon in the near future. This commencing at Columbus, Miss, coming eastward to the Jaggers Coal Fields, and the committee tells us that the company is unable to build the road unless they can get some donations and the right–of–way. We believe our people will aid in that and any other way not injurious to themselves influencing such enterprises. MARRIED Mr. E. B. ATKINS and Miss MATTIE REED 16th inst at Mrs. REEDS, by Rev. W. T. RICKMAN. Mr. D. R. BARNES and Miss LULA BARNES, 13th inst at Mr. JACK BARNES, by Rev. J. R. ROBERTSON. Mr. W. D. DOWDLE and Miss MINNIE B. MCLAIN 11th inst at Mrs. ELIZABETH MCLAIN by Rev. S. P. MCREYNOLDS. Mr. A. J. BEASLEY and Miss L. A. VICE 6th inst at Mr. S. VICE by Rev. E. HOWELL. On Tuesday the 25th inst at the residence of the bride’s parents Mr. and Mrs. T. L. CREW, 13 miles north of this place, W. A. YOUNG Esq and Miss MOLLIE CREW were united in the holy bonds of matrimony by Rev. G. L. HEWITT. About 12 o’clock a bountiful and sumptuous repast was served, soon after which the happy bride and groom hied away to their new home. The News extends congregations, and wishes Mr. YOUNG and his bride a long life of peace and happiness. This editor by special invitation was present and enjoyed himself hugely. STATE NEWS The New South, of Birmingham, Ala. is doing splendid work on behalf of Southern Industrial interests. Senator Almon, of Belgreen, will establish a branch law office in the city of Sheffield at an early day. Real estate also advancing in Huntsville. Much of the oat crop in Hale County has been blited (sic) by the cold weather. A colored man from Chattanooga carried the measles to Ashville, and now it is almost as epidemic in that town. Tuskaloosa, the old state capital, is enjoying a regular revival in the real estate business. Wanted: Five hundred business houses and two thousand dwellings houses in Birmingham at once. – [Age] Property has advanced 100 per cent in and around North Port in the first week. Henry County claims to have the finest iron ore deposits in the state. The Union Springs Herald says about $40,000 worth of property was destroyed by fire Tuesday night. The Calera Furnace and Coal Co. made a successful start last week. Dr. J. J. D. Renfroe, the editor of the Alabama Baptist, has accepted the call in the South Side Baptist Church in Birmingham and will assume the duties of pastor at once. We learn that on the 1st of February a daily paper is to be established in Tuskaloosa called The Daily Gazette. Houses that were held at 1,000 in Decatur 5 months ago are worth $8000 now. The Ashville Aegis thinks that “when the smoke from furnaces will be seen from every hilltop, and the hum of industry resounds from every valley in North Alabama, there will be enough hell right around us without wanting any more.” The Montgomery and Florida rail is being rapidly built and it is thought the extension will be completed by February the 25th. The colored people’s World Exposition will be held in Birmingham. Every state in the United States is sending pilgrims to the shrine of Alabama. Tuskaloosa, the old state capital is enjoying a regular revival in the real estate business. Mr. William Lacy, -----(Can’t read) Mobile capitalists are the owners and backers of a scheme to build a town five miles west of Sheffield, on the Memphis and Charleston railroad, and the Tennessee River, which is below the Muscle Shoals obstructions. Ad for Coussens Honey of Tar NEWS ITEMS A $100,000 distillery was totally destroyed at Terre Haust, Ind, a few days ago. The round house of New Orleans City railway company on Canal Street, together with eight-teen miles, sixteen coaches and a number of sheds was burned on 31st. Lost $50,000. The dispatches tell us that Hauley has been reelected to the United State Senate from Connecticut and Dawson from Massachusetts. According to the latest estimate eleven American maidens are now engaged to marry foreign males. Franklin Nye, father of the well known humorist, Bill Nye, died at River Falls, Wisconsin, on 21st of congestion of the lungs. It is stated at Brooklyn that a fight will soon be inaugurated by the Knights of Labor against the governorship for official recognition of that order. Chief Justice Sir Michael Morris of the common pl---ase division, has been appointed Lord Chief Justice of ----(can’t read) 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 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. 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 New Home Sewing Machine (picture) PAGE 4 WIT AND HUMOR – jokes A LEGEND OF COLOGNA – legend of lady buried alive AN EVEN THING – anecdote MEANING OF “MORMON” It is not generally known, perhaps, that “Mormon” is a pure Greek word, signifying a monster. How Joseph Smith, the founder of this troublesome sect, hit upon the word is not authoritatively known. Probably if he had been aware that is was adopted by the ornithologists as a scientific name for certain web- footed water birds whose grotesque ----- (can’t read) COSTLY WORK OF ART – Variations in Price of ---- Superb Picutres THE SOUTHERN DUDE There is nothing in heaven or to the earth beneath like the southern dude, says a Washington letter-writer. He occupies a niche in humanity all by himself, and he would not deign to look down upon his Northern brother. The southern dude is a study. I saw one at the National hotel the other evening, and he made me feel very tired. He was a tall, dark-complexioned, tender young thing, on whose cheek probably twenty summers had had their play. On his head he wore a tow-crowned straw hat with an immense brim, and one eye- glass was glued in position while its owner stood in the front entrance of the hotel and “gave the girls a treat.” The words in quotation are his own, and when I heard them, I felt like kicking him into the “erstwhile.” He wore a black broadcloth suit, and although the thermometer was up in the nineties, his hands were covered with tight-fitting black kid gloves. His coat was out in the Prince Albert style, with the lower button only fastened, and that left an immense expanse of shirt front, upon which nestled three tiny diamonds. “Mr. Dude” gazed at those diamonds on an average of four times a minute for an hour to my certain knowledge. His boots were square-high. In his hand he carried s mall gold-braided cane, which occasionally he sucked with a listless air. Finally he dodged into a druggist’s and started a wild, turid debauch with a glass of plain soda. PENETRATING POWER OF LIGHT If it were possible to rise above the atmosphere which surrounds the earth we should see nothing but an intense and sharply defined ball of fire, while everything else would be wrapped in total darkness. There could be no diffusion of light, without an atmosphere or some similar medium for it to act upon, but if the air around us extended to a height of seven hundred miles the rays of the sun could not penetrate it, and we would be left in darkness. At the depth of seven hundred feet in the ocean the light ceases altogether, one- half of the light being absorbed in passing through seven feet of the porous water. – [Blackfeet Review] HOW THE THISTLE TRAVELS – article about thistles FURS The entire fox family furnishes a large contingent of the fashionable furs for the coming season, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. Black fox, blue fox, cross fox, gray fox, and red fox are in high vogue for trimmages, muffs, and boas. The blue fox, from its delicate color, is adapted to the enrichment of the different fabrics in blues, grays, and mixed colors. Red fox harmonizes with the brown tints that are now so much worn; and while muffs and boas made of it may be somewhat pronounced, yet, as a trimming, it is certainly very pleasing. Cinnamon and black bear furs have a prominent place in the furrier’s stock. The former resembles stone masten, and is rich- looking and effective. Alaska sable or black marton deservedly holds it place. Its cognomen of sable consigns its plebian origin to oblivion. A mantle or dress trimmed with “Alaska sable’ has a grand sound when spoken of Lynx, badger, and Australian opossum are also to be much used for trimming and utility purposes. Black lynx, black fox, and black Persian larab are employed for mourning garnitures and trimming. Seal is still the leading fur for jackets, sacques paletotx, newparkets, and dolmans, and is trimmed with beaver, otter, Persian lamb, and Alaska sable, and also with balls and fringes of seal. Sealskin ------from forty to forth-four inches long are the favorite garments. Bons are from two to three and a half yards long, and are thick or thin, according to the taste of the wearers. Very few capes are shown the boa having displaced them, owing to its superior becoming---. Circulars of Sichmend or satin, liens with Siberian squirrel or mink have a collar of black lynx, black fox, or beaver, the latter being always used in conjunction with mink. The effort to revive mink fur for general wear has proved unsuccessful, the softer beaver or otter in short furs being preferred, owing to the greater beauty of coloring, while long-haired furs have taken the precedence on account of the soft effect they produce.HOW TO KEEP THE WITCHES AWAY - joke BARTHOLDI – The Great Artist’s Home and Studio in Paris A two-story house, a very severe somber style of brick and some trimmings, situated to one of the small side streets leading into the Boulevard Montparnaire, that classical artery where so many artists of every kind move and have their being, was built some years ago by M. Bartholdii, the sculptor of the statue of Liberty, and has been his home and studio ever since. From the exterior it looks gloomy and prison-like, and in the interior the aspect does not change until you reach a small back garden, which with its flowers, plants, and statutes present a cheerful appearance in the rear of the house. On crossing the court door, one is at once struck with what seems to have been for years the predominating thought and occupation of the inmate, for there on one side lies the index of the immense right hand of the Statue of Liberty, and a small model of the whole statue on the other. Passing the porter’s lodge, which, like all other parts of the house, is built in the medieval style of carved wood balconies and inside staircases, one enters into a quaint vestibule of stained glass, Perapeiian mural paintings and wide glass door looking out into the small garden. The chief quaint attraction here is an immense staffed stork, like Poe’s raven, perched over the door, just as you see them at twilight settle down for the night on the domes of the cathedral at Strasberg. It is, of course, known to all that Bartholdi is an Alstian. This vestibule leads to the sculptor’s reception room, which also, from all sides reminds one of his colossal work, for besides a large library, artistic cabinets on which rest terra-cotta reproductions of his earlier works the busts of Mr. William R. Evarts and Mr. Richard Butler, the place is filled with models of the great statue in various sixes and states of completion. On one side of the room, near the garden stands a large glass case, which I was asked to look into. There appears the statue and bay in the foreground, in the background a panorama of New York, the suspension bridge and Brooklyn so faithfully represent in their local aspect and details that a New Yorker or Brooklynite would grow homesick to look at it. From there one passes into the studio. A sculptor’s studio is always more severe and especially has dainty than a painter’s. At best, sculptors is dirty work and its severity does not admit of the thousand an one kick knacks that my look graceful and in place in a painter’s den. As Coarette aptly calls sculpture, It is the male of painting. All around on small, carved wood galleries are copies of Bartholdi’s works, on a pedestal stands a fine on the Belfast Lion, which ranks next to the Statue of Liberty in importance. Beyond this studio is what might be called the sculptor’s kitchen, for it contains all the tools and implements of work, clay, plaster, and water to mold the artist’s conceptions into life. It is in this house that the great statue of Liberty was conceived, where it found shape, and where its first rays began to radiate in hope of shedding its light over the world. – [Paris Cor. Brooklyn Eagle] THE FEAR OF DEATH – article about fearing death Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for Iron Roofing Ad for Plowboy Products Ad for The Plowboy Newspaper File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/lamarnew1148gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 48.5 Kb