Lamar County AlArchives News.....Lamar News February 10, 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 December 11, 2006, 10:43 pm AL Dept Of Archives And History February 10, 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, FEBRUARY 10, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 15 Poem – (Can’t read the title) CHANGED THROUGH ALL – Short Story REMARKABLE VERDICT – (This article is badly torn and smudged – can’t read) FISHING FOR SHERIFFS – Work of the Chinese Fishermen Along the Pacific Coast ANDREW CARNAGIE – article is torn and smudged – can’t read SWEET SINGER OF CONNECTICUT Ella Wheeler-Wilcox, the great poetess from the West, whose beautiful “pomes of Passion” have made her famous the world over, is one of the best-known ladies and thoroughly orthodox New England city. Her face is a familiar one on the streets, and she is gazed at probably more than any twenty women in the city. Strangers in town are not considered as having seen half of the city’s attractions unless they have had the attractions unless they have had the pleasure of staring at Mrs. Wilcox either as she rides along in her carriage or dashes through the bustling thoroughfares on her blooded steed. Mrs. Wilcox is one of the best equestrians in the county, if not in the state. Beautiful and postle as she looks when on horseback she is seen at her best when walking alone. With heart held high and with a firm step – a stride that Mary Anderson might almost envy – her graceful willowy figure the admiration of all beholders she makes her way, turning neither to the right nor to the left, never looking back to gaze at the new spring bonnet of some sinister who is going in an opposite direction. Millinery store windows flaunt their attractions in rain, and announcements of great bargains in dry goods have no charm for the poetess. She appears oblivious to all that is going on, and has the appearance of one who is in deep communion with the muses. Mrs. Wilcox is popular with those of her sex in this city whose minds are able to rise above the literary exigencies of the cook book or the fashion gazette. Mr. Wilcox is one of the most popular men in Meriden and is a man who would be popular in any town before he had been there a week. He is a member of the fashionable home club and several other social organizations, and is one of the “big” men of Meriden from a “society” standpoint. – [N. Y. Morning Journal] FOR LOVE OF A LITTLE CHILD A Cincinnati paper says: In a pottery factory here there is a workman who had one small invalid child at home. He wrought at his trade with exemplary fidelity, being always in the shop with the opening of the day. He managed, however, to bear each evening to the bedside of his “wee lad” as he called him, a flower, a bit of ribbon, or a fragment of crimson glass – indeed, anything that would be out on the white counterpane and give a color to the room. He was a quiet, uncomplicated man, but never went home at night without anything that would make the wan face light up with joy at his return. He never said to a living soul that he loved that boy so much. Still he went on patiently loving him, and by and by he moved that whole shop into positively real but unconscious fellowship with him. The workmen made curious little jars and cups upon their wheels, and painted diminutive pictures down their sides before they stuck them in the corners of the kiln at burning time. One brought some fruit in the bulge of his apron, and another engravings in a rude scrap-book. Not one of them whispered a work, for this solemn thing was not to be talked about. They put them in the old man’s hat, where he found them; he understood all about it, and believe it or not, cynics, as you will, but it is a fact that the entire pottery full of men, of rather coarse fiber by nature, grew quiet as the months drifted, becoming gentle and kind and some dropped swearing as the weary look on the patient fellow-worker’s face told them beyond mistake that the inevitable shadow was drawing nearer. Every day now some one did a piece of work for him and put it one the sanded plank to dry, so that he could come later and go earlier. So, when the bell tolled and the little coffin came out of the lowly door, right around the corner, out of sight, there stood 100 stalwart workingmen from the pottery with their clean clothes on, most of whom gave a half day’s time for the privilege of taking part in the simple procession and following to the grave that small burden of a child which probably not one had ever seen. CHANGED HIS MIND One of the “boys” now hanging out in Detroit was nabbed in Pennsylvania a few months ago for some swindling game, and was locked up by a county jail pending examination. He was the only prisoner in the building, and he hadn’t been in there fifteen minutes before he felt than an hour’s work would let him out. It was a tumble-down affair, built half a century ago, and the turnkey was a young Quaker. As he received his prisoner, he said: “I think I shall place thee on they honor not to escape.” “All right” replied the prisoner, “I want to stay right here and see this case through.” He had the son of the corridor and an open cell and about two hours after supper he had no trouble wrenching a couple of boards off the corridor window. Waiting ---- the jail to get quiet he lifted the ----- climbed out on the sill for a drop to the ground, but at that instant he heard a voice from beneath him, saying: “On second thought I concluded that thy honor might not be as safe as my vigilation. Get thee back, or I will blow thy head off.” The prisoner not only “got thee” but the old crib held him safely until he was taken into court. – [Detroit Free Press] The bison has reappeared on the plains of Texas. KING LUDWIG INSANE – The Autopsy On the Remains of Bavaria’s Mad Ruler The Medical Record prints the following in regard to the autopsy on the body of the late King of Bavaria: Great interest attaches to the question of the alleged madness of the late King Louis of Bavaria. Many have hinted that his eccentricities were purposely exaggerated by those about him, and that he was not in reality insane. A leading English medical journal takes this view. The full report of the autopsy, which we give below, will therefore be read with close attention. It seems that on June 8 Prof. Von Guddon, Dr. Hagen, Prof. Grashey, and Dr. Hubrich deposed under oath (1) that King Louis was suffering from a well-advanced form of mental disturbance, known to alientists as parances (Verrucktberlt); (2) that this form of disease was one of gradual, progressive development, and was, in his majesty’s case, then incurable; (3) that through this disease the fee will of thinking was completely destroyed, and he was personally incapacitated for governing. “Such was the unanimous opinion of the physicians mentioned. The postmortem was made by Prof. Rudinger, in the presence of Prof. Grashey and Drs. Kerschensteiner, Halm, Hubrich, and Rubert. Marked changed of various forms and of degenerate nature were found in the skull, brain, and menages. These changes were partly abnormal developments, partly chronic inflammations of old and recent date, and are described as follows: “The scalp was very thick and enormously vascular. The skull was disproportionately small and unsymmetrical. For example, the diagonal diameter from the left brow to the right side of the occipital was 17.2 centimeters. The skull was extraordinarily thick, its thickest portion being only 18 millimeters. The coronal and sagital sutures on the inner surface of the skull were completely ossified. The longitudinal sinus was too much dilated postertiorily and narrowed anteriority. There were several large and small bony protupers ances on both sides of the inner surface of the frontal bone. The duramatter was in general much thickened, especially over the frontal bone, where it was vascular and roughest. The left potraons bones showed a projection which corresponded to a depression in the temporal lobe. The tentorium was irregularly thickened, and on stretching appeared porous and friable. All the blood vessels of the vase were filled with a dark fluid blood. The brain, without the dura, weighed 1.349 grams, or about 43 ½ ounces. The arachnold on both convexities of the cerebrum was thickened and milky-looking. At one place, about at the junctions of the left frontal and the ascending frontal, the pia and arachnoid membranes had become thickened and raised by fibrous proliferation. The skull over this point was almost as think as paper. In certain localities on both sides the convolutions appeared shrunken, viz, at the beginning of all three of the frontal convolutions, the mesal parts of the anterior central convolutions, and in the region of the middle of the post-central fissure. The brain substance was vascular and soft. No microscopic examination has yet been made. The account thus given apparently does reveal degenerative changes. Taken in connection with the personal and family history, they place the insanity of the King beyond all reasonable doubts, and make it quite unnecessary to suppose that there was any dark conspiracy in connection with his tragic end. HAD WORKED FOR HIM When General Grant was in Little Rock, in 1879, he was greeted by such a concourse of people that the ceaseless hand shaking began to tell upon the old commander. He stood at the door of his room in the hotel and undertook the merciless task of shaking hands with every colored gentleman in the county. Colonel Zeb Ward, at that time lessee of the Arkansas penitentiary, noticing the general’s fatigue, approached him and said: General, we are about of a size, about the same age, and if I do say so myself, somewhat resemble each other. Now suppose I stand here and shake hands awhile. The general gratefully accepted the proposition. Colonel Ward began to shake hands with a grip that made the negroes wince. “I has allus hearn,” said one of them as he passed out, “dat Gen’l Grant was one o de stongest men in de kentry, an now I know it sho.” After while an’ old negro came along. He had been crowding his way, in great expectancy, to see the general. Just as he extended his hand he looked into Colonel Ward’s face. Quickly withdrawing his hand, and while an expression of disgust settled upon his face, he stepped back, shook his head and said: “Uh, huh, kaint ketch me. Dis heah ain’t Gen’l Grnat. Dis heah a Zeb Ward whut owns de Pennyutenchy. I worked fur dis man too laung not ter know who he is. He’s has me whipped too many times fur me ter furgit him. Knowd he was of hed man but I didn’t know dat he was mean enuff tur dome round heah or passin’ hisself off fur Gen’l Grant, jest ter dat turkey an’ drink find kicker. Com on Sandy,” addressing an acquaintance, “les git arway from heah an’ go down to de bottons. I’se gussed wid dis head whole percedin’ . Down teck hbolt of dat white man’s hands, I tella yer. All right of yer want’s ter rush inter de jaws o de pennytenchy, go ahead.” – [Arkansas traveler] THE CAMPBELLITE WAGON “I don’t care how good a ---- a man is,” said a well known ---mercial traveler, “he will occasionally – meet a man vastly his inferior when ---- drive him out of a town. Some --- ago I was traveling for a well-known agricultural house, and on one occasion I was about to make an exhibit to our celebrated wagons at a country fair. When I arrived I found that I had a rival. He was a big, burly, red-herded fellow, with a nasal twang and a disgusting habit of getting up and making a speech, setting forth the advantages of the wagons he sold. The farmers all saw at a glance that my wagon was superior to his, and I was in a fair way to sweep the field, when suddenly affairs took a turn for the worse. One of my wagons had been exposed to the hot sun until the tires became loose, and to tighten them I had the wagon run into a small pond. While standing near my rival who was making a --- , I head him say: “Come on here, now, you sensible people, and look at something genuine. Don’t pay any attention to the Campbellite wagon..” He kept on referring to mine as the Campbellite wagon, until I thought an explanation was due. Advancing, I said: I see that you call mine the Campbellite wagon. Now, sir, I want an explanation. Without paying any attention to me, he said, “yes, gentlemen, don’t buy the Campbellite wagon. Probably some of you would like to know how it got its name. In this way: You see he has to stand it in the water to keep the tires on. The people shouted. Whenever he takes it out of the water, you see, the thing is lost. The Campbellite wagon will do for a bayou, but nor for dry land. Gentlemen, the man who sees that wagon thinks you all live in swamps. I tried to say something, but the people yelled so I could not be heard. They turned from me to my rival. People who were bout to close trades with me backed out, and the president of the fair association came round and advised me to take my wagons away. – [Arkansas Traveler] SOMEWHAT ROUGH ON THE JUDGE A CHEERFUL GIVER There is on Prairie Avenue a little coterie of gentlemen, who, like members of other coteries living in other fashionable –and unfashionable, for that matter – thoroughfares in the city, most frequently at each other’s homes and devote an evening to “a small game of draw. This particular party is composed largely, if not wholly, of members of south side clubs. The game is never more expensive than the players can afford, though they could afford to “bet ‘em liberally” if they were so inclined. It is never continued to an unseasonable hours, and it usually winds up with a “jack pot” that is liberally “sweetened” till opened, and it is worth winning. One Saturday evening, not long ago, this faint pot grew to unusual proportions before any player found the necessary pair of jacks, and meantime it was proposed and agreed that the winner should put it in the plate next morning at church. When counted it was found to contain $126. It was won by an elderly gentleman who is a regular church-goer and a liberal contributor to church support but he saw at once that a deposit of this kind when the warden came around would attract attention and perhaps provoke annoying comments, so he asked leave of the party to make it up in a nice package and hand it to the sexton. That was agreed to on condition that it was to be labeled simply with the legend “From A. J. Pot.” This was done, and next morning it was handed in. The sexton took it immediately to the pastor. It so happened that the donation came most opportune, and the pastor was so highly pleased that he announced from his pulpit that “a magnificent friend of the church – a Mr. A. J. Pot - whom it was not his pleasure to know personally, he was sorry to say” had that morning sent in a small generous donation of $128 to the church fund. – [Chicago Mall] PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY FEBRUARY 10, 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. Bill Nye, the humorist, is ill in Ashville, N. C. and has been compelled to abandon literary work altogether. His friends fear that his health is hopelessly destroyed. Immigration tends southward from all the wide world. It is the land of promise – her climate, her agricultural resources, her mineral wealth and natural beauty make her the bride elect of labor. Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt has discovered much to his chagrin, doubtless, that the laws of this country will not permit the employment of a chief engineer on a vessel sailing under the American flag who is a foreigner. Mr. Vanderbilt had sent to England for a chief engineer for his new yacht Alva. The third declaration filed yesterday was for the Decatur, Southwestern Coal and Lumber Railroad Company. The ------(ARTICLE TORN BADLY)------of Montgomery; J. D. Roquessacre, of Eufala, and J. C. Wooten of Columbia, Tenn. The line of road is to begin at Decatur and run in a general southerly direction to Selma and thence to some point on the state line between Alabama and Mississippi in the direction of Vicksburg. The capitol stock is $100,000. A special to a Western Journal from Washington says: The delay of action on the interstate commerce bill does not --- a veto. The President always acts deliberately. The routine of his office is to refer all bills involving an interpretation of the law to the Attorney General. This he has done, but no matter how the attorney General may report upon it the best information is that he will sign it. Just now the hope of those who oppose the bills is that it will be vetoed on constitutional grounds. These would be more hope however, in this direction had the oleomargarine bill been vetoed. The President signed this bill, and in a special massage to Congress apologized for the act. This he may do with the interstate commerce bill. He may not sign it all, and let it become a law without his autograph, but the final belief is that he will not veto it. LAST ARTICLE IN COLUMN IS VERY LIGHT AND SMUDGED – Can’t read …..officers, soldiers and sailors as may have been personally name dint he army resolution of Congress for any specific service in said war, and said war, and the surviving widows of such officers and enlisted men, provided that such widows have not remarried; provided that every such officer, enlisted man, or widow, who may become 62 years of age, or who is or may become subject to any disability or dependency equivalent to same cause prescribed by the pension laws of the United States is sufficient reason for the allowance of a pension, shall be entitled the benefit of this act, but it shall not be held to include any person not within the rule of age or disability or dependency herein defined, or who incurred such disability while in any manner voluntarily engaged in, aiding or abetting the late rebellion against the authority of the United States, (Section 4,716 revised statues), is repealed so far as it relates to this act, or pensions under this act. THE STORY FETCHED HIM Washington, January 27 A few days ago Congressman Allen, of Mississippi, who is nothing if not a humorist, called upon the President and asked for the appointment of a friend to succeed to the Republican who had been in office many years. The president was not inclined to be at all communicative. He was anxious to change the subject and talk about civil service reforms. After about half an hour’s conversation, Mr. Allen grew somewhat tired of the situation, and turning to Mr. Cleveland in a good-natured way, said: “Mr. President, this reminds me of a story which one happened in my state. There was a wealthy planter who, after accumulating a good sized fortune died quite suddenly. He had a number of children, who of course, expected to come into possession of the estate. They had looked forward with some pleasure when the courts would set aside to each heir his respective shares. The will was contested. Several trips to town and two or three trials before the court about exhausted the patience of the heirs. The prospects of receiving their share of the estate within a reasonable time was fast fading into the dim and misty distance. One day one of the sons was met on the highway when returning from court by a neighbor who had been the friend of the deceased father. He asked the son how he was coming on with his case. “The case was continued today” he replied. “This is the ninth time I have gone to the court with the hope of getting the matter settled, but it seems I can no nothing. It has caused me a great deal of trouble and expense, and when I think of it seriously I often wish the old man had never died.” The President saw the point, and Allen’s friend was appointed next day – [By Times-After Leased Lines] At the annual session of the Women Christian Temperance Union at Alexandra, Va, January 26th, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Resolved – That our ……..(can’t read) NEWS ITEMS Walt Whitman says that he will accept a pension if his friends obtain it. Rev. A. E. I. Albert, colored, proposed as Minister to Liberia. Strange to tell, half of all the sugar made is produced in Europe. Damus has produced a new play, which advocates so-called women’s rights. The Masons of Missouri are building a house for widows and orphans. Gov. Taylor has appointed his brother and late opponent, Adjutant General of Tennessee. The United States produces about $200 per annum for each citizen; England produces $175, France $129, and Germany $100. Blain’s Constitutional Amendment to extend suffrage to women, was defeated by 16 to 34 votes. One of the editors of the New York Herald, Mr. Country, has been appointed Secretary of Legislature to Mexico. The railroads, as it is….(torn) Jay Gould has purchased 200,000 acres of pine land in Louisiana. The receipts of the New York post office, were $3,000,000 over the expenses last year. A new National bank is soon to be started in Birmingham, which, from present and cautions, is to be as warmly and solidly backed as any enterprise of the kind the city ever boasted London, Feb. 1 – The British ship Kapaunds, which left London on Dec. 11 for Fremantle, Western Australia, with emigrants came into collisions near the coast of Brazil with the British bark Ada Melboure, and both vessels were sunk. Three hundred and four of those on board were drowned. The remainder were saved and have arrived at Bahia. The Kepunda was an iron ship of 1084 tons. She was commanded by Capt. Masons. Ad for The Times-Democrat of New Orleans (newspaper) Ad for John Stratton Accordions Ad for Collins Ague Cure ATTORNEYS SMITH & YOUNG, Attorneys-At-Law Vernon, Alabama– W. R. SMITH, Fayette, C. H., Ala. W. A. YOUNG, Vernon, Ala. We have this day, entered into a partnership for the purpose of doing a general law practice in the county of Lamar, and to any business, entrusted to us we will both give our earnest personal attention. – Oct. 13, 1884. S. J. SHIELDS – Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in Chancery. Vernon, Alabama. Will practice in the Courts of Lamar and the counties of the District. Special attention given to collection of claims. PHYSICIANS – DENTISTS M. W. MORTON. W. L. MORTON. DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons. Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala. Tender their professional services to the citizens of Lamar and adjacent country. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we hope to merit a respectable share in the future. Drug Store. FARMER’S INDEPENDENT WAREHOUSE. We have again rented the Whitfield Stables, opposite the Court house, for the purpose of continuing the Warehouse and Cotton Storage business, and we say to our friends and farmers of West Alabama and East Mississippi, that we will not be surpassed by any others in looking after the wants of our customers to make them conformable while in Columbus. We will have fire places instead of stoves for both white and colored; separate houses fitted up for each. We will have also good shed room for 100 head of stock more than we had last year; also a convenient and comfortable room for our friends who may come to Columbus. We do not hesitate to say that we can and will give you better camping accommodations than any other house in the house in the place. Mr. J. L. MARCHBANKS of Lamar County, Ala., and MILIAS MOORHEAD, of Pickens County, Ala., will be at the stable and will be glad to see their friends and attend to their wants, both day and night. Out Mr. FELIX GUNTER will be at the cotton she where he will be glad to see his old friends and as many new ones as well come. All cotton shipped to us by railroad of river will be received free of drayage to warehouse and have our personal attention. Thanking you for your patronage last season, and we remain the farmer’s friends. Yours Respectfully, J. G. SHULL & CO, Columbus, Miss. PHOTOGRAPHS – R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss. Price list: Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00 Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00 Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00 Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00 Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00 Satisfaction given or money returned. Restaurant, Aberdeen Mississippi – Kupper Ad for Ayer & Sons Advertising Agents Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ A. A. POSEY & Bros, livery, Sale and --- Stable, Aberdeen, Miss. They have also just received a find stock of Buggies, in which they give such bargains as to deny competition. Prices including harness ranging from $30 upwards. 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. PAGE 3 (PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PAGE IS VERY VERY LIGHT AND SMUDGED – EXTREMELY HARD TO READ) THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY FEBRUARY 10, 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 County Court today. Now’s the time to plant early vegetables. Circuit Court commences on the 3rd Monday in March. What has ----(smudged – can’t read) Will the --- to Arbor Day on the 22nd of this month? Capt. M. W. LOYD of Pine Springs was in town for the past two days. --- JAS. MIDDLETON is off on a visit to Franklin County this week. Mr. THOMAS B---, engineer of Kansas City Railroad was in town first of the week. ------ Methodist church of the --- to the comfort of the ----- ---- for the News ---- by spreading----- Miss ---- ARMSTRONG of Moscow passed through yesterday, we must always ------- REST OF COLUMN IS UNREADABLE Dr. M. M. SEAY of Fernbank was in town first of the week. A little paint would add much to the appearance of a few houses in Vernon. Mr. E. W. BROCK made a business trip to Columbus this week. Much to our disgust, the News is one day late this week, owing to our paper not reaching us on time. Quite a number of new names have been added to our subscription list since our last issue, for which we return thanks. Mr. J. M. SPRINGFIELD, of Buttahatchie, Miss was in town this week to commune with Prof. JOHNSON the geologist. Several citizens of our county will leave for Birmingham first of next week, with the view of investing in and --- for the Magic City. The railroad excitement keeps growing and real estate in Vernon is beginning to take a firm rise. If you want property in Vernon, now is the time to buy. There is strong probability of a railroad from Decatur to Columbus by this place. Books of subscriptions will be opened in Vernon on the 25th day of March, as will be seen from the advertisement in another column. Prof. Johnson of Miss. State Geologist is in town looking after the Mineral in this vicinity. Our minerals are not known to the outside world on account of not being properly look after by our state in the way of surveys and analysis. We want to see Vernon filling up with good citizens, manufacturers, working men and women, busy and happy children, and in short, pushing forward with the rest of the state in the march of progress toward prosperity. Quite a number of the citizens of Moscow and Cansler were in town this morning. Among the number were J. R. GUYTON Esq., Dr. D. D. HOLLIS, J. T. THOMPSON Esq., Mr. J. F. MAY and Col. GEO. E. BROWN. A lead mine of excellent richness has been found on outbank edge to where the Aberdeen road crosses it. Considerable excitement exists in the neighborhood and at this place on account of the find. A company will soon be founded to develop the mine. Ad for The Empire News Co. Burglars entered the dwelling of Mrs. HENSON on the Kansas City Road one night last week and carried a trunk out and exposed it and took $20 of money that was in the trunk but left some valuables in the way of jewelry. We are informed that some arrests have been made but do not know the result of the investigation. Prof. B. H. WILKERSON, our efficient County Superintendent of Education, gave us a pleasant call last Saturday. The Prof. informed me that he is in such need of an office in town in which to meet and examine --- and to keep his books and papers. We hope that our enterprising board of County Commissioners will when they meet next Monday, make some ---- to the comfort of the teachers and our Superintendent. NOTICE – Under and by virtue of a Commission issued by the Honorable C. C. LANGON, Secretary of State of the State of Alabama, to SAMUEL BLACKWELL, C. C. HARRIS, and E. J. ODEN, constituting them a board of Corporation to open book of subscription to the capital stock of a proposed railroad to be known as Decatur-Southwestern Coal & Lumber Railway Company, we the said Blackwell, Harris, and Oden will open books of subscription to the Capital Stock of said proposed Railroad Company at Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama on the 25th day of March 1887. Samuel Blackwell, C. C. Harris, E. J. Oden GRAND AND PETIT JURORS The following is a list of Grand and Petit Jurors drawn for the Spring term of the Circuit Court: GRAND JURORS A. H. BURROW Lawrence Beat W. J. KIRK Sizemore Beat WATSON BROWN Brown Beat S. W. MOSLEY Henson Beat SEME GARTER Millville Beat G. R. TURCAN Pine Springs J. T. THOMPSON Moscow B. M. MOLLOY Betts J. F. HAYES Trulls JIM MILLER Vails W. C. WILLIAMS Millport W. T. WALKER Steens G. W. ALLEN Strickland N. S. FERTSIN Welson PETIT JURORS – FIRST WEEK J. E. PENNINGTON, JOHN SEAY, JAS. A. CASH, HARRISON BUTLER, THOS. SIZEMORE, G. H. STANFORD, W. S. METCALFE, W. F. HAMILTON, T. J. LOWERY, THOS. MIXON, PLESS MAY, R. S. JACKSON, JNO. T. HILL, L. C. SMITH, ELAY BOYD, J. Y. LOFTIS, M. A. TAGGART, J. J. PHILLIPS, G. M. MORTON, CALVIN GUIN, C. G. JOHNS, M. R. SEAY, S. M. CURRAY PETIT JURORS – SECOND WEEK JOHN B. WHEELER, R. E. HACKSON, J. W. CLEARMAN, N. F. MORTON, H. A. BROCK, D. S. BLACK, J. D. GANN, P. HENLEY, CCHARLES DUNCAN, S. H. BROWN, W. G. SPRINGFILED, J. W. NOE, G. E. BANKHEAD, LEE KENNEDY, HENRY HILL, J. T. MCMANUS, M. BROWN, B. L. FALKNER, H. R. CADDLE, BARECOMB GLOVER, JOE JONES, JASPER C. HINE, N. L. TRULL, JOHN M. DELK. STATE ITEMS The recent freshet on the Warrior washed away 200,000 feet of timber. Property in some parts of Gadsden has increased in value 600 percent within the past thirty days. The Tuskaloosa Times says: Work on the Macon (Miss) & Tuskaloosa Railroad will soon be commenced. Some of the farmers of Chambers County have just begun to gin their cotton crop. There are 1647 coke ovens in Alabama; the largest number of any southern state. Once “all roads lead to Rome” now all roads lead to Birmingham. Birmingham has two hundred and fifty-six licensed real estate dealers. The population of Anniston is 6,000 – that of Oxford 2,000, while Oxguns has a population of 500. Capt. M. C. Burke, our present State Auditor, is a candidate for U. S. R. R. Commissioner, under the Interstate Commerce Act. An 18-year old boy struck his pocket knife into his teacher while he was whipping him, in the public school at Montgomery last week. The wound was not serious. Montgomery, Feb. 8 – In the House today a few unimportant bills were passed. The House Bill to incorporate the East Birmingham Land Company was passed. Also, a bill appropriating $20,000 for an additional building at the Tuskaloosa Insane Hospital for colored people. The day was almost entirely consumed in the discussion of the reverse bill, which was completed. The bill to create a river commission for Mobile River was passed. Montgomery, Feb 5 - ---- of Incorporation of the Florence, Tuskaloosa, and Montgomery Railroad Company was filed at the Halls of the Secretary of State today. The --- (TOO LIGHT 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 CHANCERY NOTICE The State of Alabama, Lamar County In Chancery, At Vernon, 11th District, Western Chancery Division JOSEPH S. JACKSON vs. MARGARET LOU JACKSON In This Cause, it is made to appear to the Register, by the affidavit of JOSEPH S. JACKSON that the defendant MARGARET LOU JACKSON is a non-resident of this state, but resides in Tuskaloosa County, Miss, but her post office is unknown to complainant, and further, that in belief of said affiant, the defendant MARGARET LOU JACKSON is over the age of twenty-one years. It is therefore ordered by the Register that publication be made in the Lamar News a paper published in the town of Vernon, Alabama once a week for four consecutive weeks requiring her the said Margaret Lou Jackson to plead, answer or demure to the bill of complaint in this cause by the 10th day of March 1887 or, in thirty days thereafter, a decreed proconfesso may be taken against her the said MARGARET LOU JACKSON. Done at office, in Vernon, this the 8th day of February 1887 JAS. M. MORTON, Register 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 THE MODEL MAN – Poem LAND OF THE MAN IN THE MOON – Poem HIS OWN AT LAST – Short Story HE SAW THE CARD A United States Senator, who, years ago, used to flirt with chance, but who has since become a staid and conservative citizen, said to a Washington Critic reporter one day last week” “Here is a card story that you won’t believe, but it happened just the same. Just after the war I was in Washington on a visit, and one night I went around to a gabling house with several acquaintances. I happened to know the man who ran the place, and stopped in the ---room for a few minutes to talk to him while the rest of the party passed into the card-room. In a short time I followed. There was a faro layout there and a crowd gathered about it, and as I cane up the cards had just been put in the box for a fresh deal. The instant I looked at the box I saw under the first card, which you know does not count, the jack of clubs. It was as plain to my eyes as though the top card were made of glass. Before it a dealer began I asked that other ----- (REST OF ARTICLE LIGHT AND CAN’T READ) LIFE ON THE PLANETS - A Scientist Gives Reasons for Believing They are not Inhabited PRESIDENTIAL BILLARDISTS – Article about Presidents that played Billards JOKING THE SPORTING EDITOR - Anecdote CIVIL LIBERTY AND EQUAL RIGHTS We quote the concluding sentences of a timely editorial with the above title in the Century: “We have prided ourselves on the fact that our society was mainly composed of workingmen; and the great mass of our workingmen have as American horror of the coward who stabs in the back or throws dynamite. But there are professional agitators, who are ignorantly inciting working-room to note which differ only in degree from those of the anarchists and some of their disciples, having no better instruction than the agitators are in the habit of furnishing are inclined to apologies or defend acts committed in the name of labor which they would condemn at once if a professional anarchist were the door. They should learn the meaning of civil liberty that it is the inca…. (CANT’ READ) SHE RANG THE BELL - Anecdote Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for Plowboy Ad for Globe Cutter Ad for The Plowboy Newspaper File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/lamarnew1199gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 45.0 Kb