Lamar County AlArchives News.....Lamar News February 17, 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, 10:47 pm AL Dept Of Archives And History February 17, 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 17, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 16 LIGHT IN THE AIR ------- EXHIBITION CAUSED BY BURNING GAS IN COLD ATMOSPHERE (Article is partially cut off – can’t read) UNPROFITABLE CUSTOMERS – (Article is partially cut off – can’t read) MISSING LINKS College professors in the United States get an average salary of $1,530. The dirk, as well as its name, is of Celtic origin. It was the side arm of the Highland men. Mr. Herbert Spencer says that Thomas Carlyle’s conversation during his last years “was one long damn.” Not a case of hydrophobia has occurred in Berlin for three years. But every Berlin dog is muzzled. It is said that the name Dakota is an abbreviation of the Indian word “Pa-ha- cots: meaning “many heads” or “plenty.” Gen. Albert Pike, now considerably over 70, lives quietly in Washington, somewhat infirm, and occasionally suffering from gout, but his mind is still clear and his memory and appetite are good. Boston papers lament Hon. John D. Long’s lack of taste in dress. His hat they aver is always bad, and his clothes never fit and are apt to be of incongruous patterns. If only his dress were equal to his address! Aunt Jane Walker of Brighton, Me., is a spirited old lady of 73 years. She saw a raccoon a short distance from the house, and as the dog refused to tackle him she armed herself with a club and soon “polished him off.” James Pryor, lately deceased, was the last of the famous London-Cambridge coach drivers. He used to drive the “Rocket” and came of a family that had driven coaches on that road for more than two hundred years. Wagner’s music holds a good deal more than some people suspect. Mme Adam writes to the Paris papers that she hears in Wagner’s music “the tramp of Bismarck’s soldiers, their songs of triumph, and the groans of the vanquished.” Col. Will S. Hays, of Louisville, who was very well known fifteen years ago as the writer of sweetly sentimental ditties, has joined a negro minstrel troups, and will travel about the country singing his own songs in the make-up of an aged Kentucky darky. Murdock Macrea, the Scotch shoemaker, who was successful in the litigation against the American millionaire Winans, who endeavored to interdict him from grazing a pet lamb at the roadside, is very destitute, since the costs awarded him were swallowed up in legal expenses. The late King Ferdinand of Portugal made it the business of his life to collect from every country in Europe books, pamphlets, and prints of all sorts and descriptions which had been forbidden by the government or the police, and he left a prodigious and perfectly marvelous collection of the forbidden literature of Europe during the last thirty years. Among the epithets applied so Mr. Gladstone in parliamentary life are the followings “Iago,” “Old Collars,” “peddles”, “Rogue,” “Torpedo,” “Man of Curuning,” “Vain Old Veteran,” “Tree-Chopping Sam,” “Mock Mohdi,” “Three Courses,” “Favorite of Heaven,” “Fiend of Disgrace,” Sight for Angels,” “Posture,” “Figurehead,” “Wizard of Willy Tongue.” The youngest performer in the London theatres is the infant that takes part in the baby song in the last act of “My Sweetheart.” It is 18 months old, and is the fourteenth child of a working gunmaker in Edinburg. It is put to bed every afternoon at 4, is brought to the theatre at 9, and is in bed again half an hour later – earning for this duty, it is said, more than its father. A gentleman walked into the dining-room of one of the Boston clubs in the early part of last week, and, there being twelve at table, he refused to make the thirteenth, having some scruples on the subject. He was the subject of some pleasant bantering upon the superstition, which he accepted in good part. He took his dinner at a side table, and later in the evening drew up to the main table. Of all the gentleman present be apparently had the strongest hold on life. Two days later he died without warning. A STORY OF A KING IN A TRAP – (Charles II and Edward Hyde) AROUND PERUGIA – A Hilly Country, Honeycombed With Etruscan Burial Vaults The old town of Perugia is well worth visiting on many accounts, writes a correspondent of the Journal of Commerce. Traveling by rail from Rome to Florence one sees large clusters of houses perched high on the hillside. They are crowned with campaniles and domes, surround by high walls, and provoke one’s curiosity to make their closer acquaintance. But on consulting his guide-book the tourist finds that these elevated settlements contain a few objects of interest, better examples of which can be found elsewhere. He also learns which is as much to the purpose, that they have no good hotels. Now, Perugia is very old, very quaint, full of venerable historical associations, a center of Etruscan tombs and other antiquities, 1700 feet above the sea, and has a first-class hotel. This modern structure occupies the highest ground of the town, and commands a magnificent view of the Umbrian Valley. East, south, and west I survey all the details of a landscape of variety and beauty unsurpassed. It is intersected by the Tiber and some smaller rivers, which flash in the morning sun. Many villages are visible as brown patches, among them Assisi, famous as the birthplace of St. Francis. Mountains bound the view on all sides. Some of them are still tipped with snow, and their summits would easily be mistaken for clouds, if the latter were not scurrying past in the south wind. This wind will soon melt the snow, and is already making Perugia uncomfortable. As I write a haze is beginning to blot out the more distant villages. A heated term is threatening. But Americans are not to be frightened by that. Only I wish the roads were not so white and dusty. This country is a vast cemetery. No one can say how many races were buried here before the Etruscans passed --- in their turn and left the ground honeycombed with their tombs. When one sinks a well or digs a cellar for a house she is apt to strike his spade against a rock, which gives back a hollow sound. It is the roof of an Etruscan burial vault. From this subterranean chamber the air has been excluded for more than two thousand years. I am told that strange things are sometimes been in these tombs at the moment when they are opened and then vanish forever. They say that glimpses are caught of old Etruscan lords and ladies sitting at banquets, and that these disappear the instant the outer air touches them. When the finder proceeds so open and examine the tomb he discovers nothing but a heap of dust in place of the vision that had startled him. These are obviously fables, for the most part. Though I believe that it is true that an Etruscan knight in full armor collapses to dusty nothingness in percisley this way when his tomb was invaded a few years ago. We have been to see the sepulcher of the Volumni, about five miles below Perugia and found it and its contents very strange and interesting. It is supposed to date back to the third century, B. C. A decent of some thirty steps leads down to it from the roadside. First, a chamber about twenty-five feet square is entered, and from this smaller apartments branch to right and left. The sepulcher is hewn out of the tufa rock. It is very damp and cold. Heads of Medusa, dolphins, and serpents are carved with much skill on the top and sides of this tomb. All around stand small stone urns, each one bearing in alto relieve the representation of a fight. One man is always killing another unless the scene is varied by the sacrifice of a bound and helpless woman or child on an altar. The covers of these urns are higher works of art. They are surmounted with recumbent figures of the man and woman. These are dressed in the costume of their age and sex, and each has in his or her hand a bowl for tears. Lifting off a cover I find inside the urn about a hat full of ashes. I run my fingers through this mass and feel fragments of burnt bones. That I am rudely stirring up all that remains of some gallant warrior or some haughty beauty, and I withdraw my hand with a sense of remorse. A great many personal ornaments of exceeding richness and grace have been taken from those receptacle, and are sparsely exhibited by the custodian. But if one wishes to realize the full extent of the arts and sciences familiar to the old Etruscans he should inspect the splendid collection in the university museum at Perugia. EIGHT CLERKS TO MAKE THE FREIGHT RECEIPT – article about Madras Railway H. A. Kuyaer, who lectured before the Boston Scientific society a few nights ago, stated that a diamond worth $300,000 is being cut in Amsterdam – the chief city in the world for such work – and that the gem is to be given to Queen Victoria on the fifth anniversary of her ascension to the throne. A JAPAN NEWSPAPER –Article about Nichi-Nichi Shinbun (Twice Daily News) in Japan SOME POINTS ABOUT FEET – Article about a woman’s small foot EASTERN ECONOMY - Anecdote “RATTLESNAKE JIM” – A Curious Character and the Business He Pursues – Story about James Jeffry, lawyer TURKISH WOMEN – Article about Turkish women in Calata A TERRIER’S TROPHY – Story about a terrier stealing a vender’s medicine The public passion for novelties has been illustrated lately by a display and sale of grass-grown pottery in one of our Washington Street bric-a-brac shops. The small vases of poxonware are soaked in water and then sprinkled thickly with a peculiar --- of grass seed, which soon sprouts and covers the red earthenware with a green coat. By keeping the vases filled with water the grass remains green for three months. In one wash 200 of these pottery curiosities were sold, and an admitting crowd gathered closely about these living vases in the windows. Lawyers are not all bad. They have feelings if you can only go deep enough. A lawyer up in the country was called to defend a Mexican for some serious crimes, and he got him off. “What fee did you get?” somebody asked him. “Well, the fellow was very grateful – very grateful. After the ---- he came to me and he emptied her pockets. He had $30 and a watch, and a jack- knife.” “And you – “ “I took the $20 and the watch. I gave him back the jack- knife. - --- you didn’t expect me to rob the poor devil?” – [San Francisco Chronicle] PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY FEBRUARY 17,1887 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. Auditor Parks estimates the amount of escapes at $40,000,000 and the under valuation of property $50,000,000. The Canadians are angry, excited, and furious on the fishery question, and declare and protest that no American shall catch their codfish and mackerel. The St. Louis Republican says, that if all the codfish and mackerel in the Canadian waters were caught and made into one huge fish-ball, the writer would not fire a gun to get it. It is rumored in Washington that Secretary Lamar will soon resign; that Mrs. Lamar, it is said, is adverse to the gay, social life which a cabinet lady is expected to lead, and according to this report, she has induced Secretary Lamar to retire to private life. It is also reported -----(rest is torn) --------- use of money has grown to be an avowed and controlling influence. This can not fail to provoke a popular uprising that will retire from places thus unworthily filled all who are suspected of being the willing tools of this official treachery. The American people are patient – too patient at times – but they do not fail in the end to assert their rights. The State Auditor, Mr. Burke, speaks plainly and to the point in his 44th circular to the tax assessors. He justly claims that the high tax rate in this state is attributable mainly to the escape of large amounts of taxable property from assessment and taxation. It is in the power, says he, of the assessors and it is their duty to secure a lower rate by making a full and accurate assessment of all the property in the state at a fair valuation, as they are required by law to do. He further insists that sections 34 and 35, page 34, Revenue Code, must be complied with. Assessments be made as the law directs, and not by copying from the old book of assessment. I earnestly appeal to you, says he, to make a full and accurate assessment of all property, personal and real, in your county, at its true value, and it will be my unpleasant duty to proceed by law against any Tax- Assessor who fails to do so. While the above is pointed it is to the purpose and if the assessors and the people will do their duty, our tax rate in a few years will be comparatively low. The people are mistaken if they think that to five in their property at a law valuation will reduce their tax. It takes just so much money to defray the expenses of the government, and if the valuations are low the tax rate will be high; on the other hand; if the valuations are just and fair, the rate of tax will be low. So much tax as is necessary to run the government must be paid anyhow. And while the law is light on the assessor, it is also light on the tax-payer. The new law provides that no person shall be entitled to any exemption, nor shall any property be exempt from taxation, unless such property is entitle d by the taxpayer upon his assessment list and returned by him, under oath, to the tax-assessor. COLUMBUS, MISS. Feb 10 – There was a large and enthusiastic railroad meeting at the City Hall this afternoon, of which Col. J. O. BANKS was made chairman, in the interest of the Tombigbee Railroad, which is to run in a northeasterly direction from Columbus, crossing the Kansas City railroad, which will soon be running from Memphis to Birmingham, in a few weeks. The directors of the Tombigbee Railroad are all Columbus men, and are among the wealthiest citizens of the place. They ask only $1,000,000 by private subscription, and will then ask the City of Columbus to give them another $100,000. With this amount they can build the road to the intersection of the Kansas City road, which is twenty-five miles. At the meeting this evening $45,000 was subscribed. No one has doubts but the money will be raised in a day or two, and work will begin shortly. This road will be built by Columbus money and brain. ANOTHER RAILROAD – Tennessee Valley In our great enthusiasm over the Rome & Decatur and Aberdeen & Decatur railroads, we together with the community had about lost sight of the proposed line from this place in a south-western direction. But on last Monday Maj. F. C. Gordon the prime mover of all the meat enterprises recently resurrected in Decatur, together with a number of other distinguished gentlemen from this and other places, temporarily organized themselves into the Decatur, South- Western, Mineral & Lumber Railroad Co. The line is backed by some of the largest capitalists in the state, and as to its being built at once there seems to be no doubt. The line will pass through Morgan County, through Winston, Walker and Tuscaloosa Counties, connecting with the Kansas City and Birmingham road at the point where the Meridian road connect with the same. This will give the most direct route possible from here to New Orleans, but the main object of the road is to get a direct line into the great Warrior coal fields, which this will give. It is an undisputed fact that Decatur is to be the greatest manufacturing city in North Alabama, and the money invested in a road that will bring a profit that nay capitalist would ---- of. Besides the immense beds of coal and other minerals this line will pass through it will open up the commerce of the country some of the finest forests of timber in the country and will be the direct cause of developing and settling up more thickly to the country through which the road will pass. Arrangements are being made for the work of surveying the line to commence as soon as possible, and are many months shall have passed by, the pick and the shovel will be at work on the above named railroad, the work to commence at Decatur. The Church Temperance Society, established five years ago, has now among its Vice-Presidents fifty Bishops. It already has organizations in thirty-five dioceses. It publishes a monthly paper, has created a temperance literature on scriptural principles, has drafted and introduced a new license law for the state of New York, has largely influenced the government of the city of New York in the enforcement of the law’ and during the past year has carried on in the same city, in connection with the Sunday evening services, the work of personal rescue and reform. No other fact need given in defense of this movement that n that in our own country $900,000,000 are annually spent for strong drink against $505,000,000 for bread. – [Living Church] Ad for Peruna Ad for John Stratton Accordeons Ad for Demorest’s Sewing Machine – (picture) 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 Feed Stable, Aberdeen, Miss. They have also just received a fine stock of buggies in which they give such bargains as to defy competition. Prices including harnesses 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. Ad for the American Agriculturist PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY FEBRUARY 17, 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 Prof. A. L. BOX of Cutbank, paid us a pleasant call Monday. Next Sunday will be Rev. W. C. WOODS day to preach in this place. Several singings in town during the past week. Improvements still continue in Vernon. May they keep on continuing. Regret to note the Miss HATTIE SPRINGFIELD is still quite unwell. Mr. and Mrs. GEO. W. RUSH left yesterday on a visit to Walker County. Gardening is becoming quite common. Prof. W. J. MOLLOY of Molloy, Ala. gave us a pleasant call Tuesday. County Supt. Ed. WILKERSON called on the News Monday. Dr. EMMETT MORTON, of Caudle, Ala. Spent latter part of last week with parents and relatives in town. Our farmers are preparing their land for another crop. Large numbers of shunk collars have been brought to town within the last few days. Two Mobile drummers were in town first of the week. Quite a number of hands have passed through town this week enroute to the Kansas City Road. See advertisement in another column of Demorest’s Fashion and Sewing Machine Co. The new postal law makes it larceny to take a newspaper from a post office and refuse to pay for it. It is authoritatively announced that trains will be running through to Birmingham on the G. P. R. R. by the 20th of March, if not before. The farming interest of our county is badly crippled by consequence of a goodly number of our farmers who will continue to work on the railroad instead of working a crop. Miss MOLLIE YOUNG is visiting in Vernon this week. Commissioners Court was in session Monday with a full board in attendance. We were pleased to receive a visit from Mr. A. B. DUNCAN, of near Caledonia, last Monday. The following named gentlemen left on Monday last for Birmingham: Rev. G. L. HEWITT, W. A. YOUNG, Esq, Messrs. E. W. BROCK, R. J. YOUNG, and WM. MILLER. Our citizens have seized time by the foreluck in regard to “Arbor Day.” They have had young water oak trees set out on the streets near the business part of town. This is a good move, nothing adds more to the appearance of a town that its shade trees. STATE ITEMS LaFayette will have a $25000 bank. Montgomery has a young men’s Hebrew association. It is probable that Decatur will get the U. S. courthouse. Huntsville has received the rails for her street railroad. A company has been organized to bore for oil about Huntsville. Eutaw is wheeling into line with an improvement company to encourage immigration. The Greene County Criminal Court has been abolished. Calera is going to have water works built at once. Five hundred coal miners are on a strike in Walker County. An iron furnace is being built at Coalburg, two miles from Birmingham. Mrs. Bridges, wife of Conductor Bridges who was killed at the Tallapoosa bridge disaster, has entered suit for $50,000 against the Central railroad. Jas. McClain, of Cicero, Cleburne County, made three ineffectual attempts recently to kill himself. Wm. Camp of Randolph drew $1,000 pension money recently. Eufaula is to have a street railway and another National Bank. Stuart & Pollak, of Mobile have made an assignment; Liabilities $20,000. The Episcopalians of Birmingham are preparing to build a handsome church edifice. The Birmingham National is the name of a new bank organized in the Magic City with a capital of $250,000. The Sheffield & Atlantic Railroad Company ahs been incorporated. Everybody around Sumerville is exploring for gold. John Coldwell, a desperado, has been captured, and is now in jail at Athens. The Wetumpka Times wants a sober, steady printer. No other need apply. The Rev. C. W. Ware, of the Camdeo Home Ruler, has become the business manager of the Alabama Baptist. Marion is awakening from her lethargy, and a cotton factory is among the probabilities. Three colored children were recently burned to death near Greensboro. Decatur, Florence and Sheffield are still proclaiming their booms. A $1,000,000 wagon and carriage factory is talked of at Birmingham. Senator Cross says he has found coal oil is paying quantities in Bibb County. Gadsden has a horse 50 years old. Blountsville had a jail delivery on the 7th. A new National bank was organized in Tuskaloosa a few days ago. Capital stock $100,000. Anniston is to have a new daily, it si to be called the Hot Blast. Ex-Treasurer Ike Vincent was seen in El Paso, Texas recently. The United States circuit court will convene at Birmingham March 7th. A bill has been introduced in the Legislature to a young Minister of the Gospel from road and jury duty. The Alabama Dental Association will meet in Tuskaloosa on Tuesday April 5th and the Alabama Medical Association on the 11th of the same month. The Eutaw Whig and observer reached its 67th birth day on the 10th instant. Its present editor, William G. Monroe, Esq. has been connected with it forty one years, and is as determined as ever to make it, what it always has been, a good newspaper. The iron trade is flourishing and its future prospects highly encouraging and this means more furnaces in Alabama. Senator Morgan, of Alabama has introduced a bill to provide for a World’s Fair for the colored people of the United States some time next year. A New York syndicate has purchased the entire town of Anniston, Ala. It contains about 6,000 inhabitants, together with mineral lands and iron furnaces. The town and land cover 2300 acres, and the total investment amounts to $6,630,000. Mr. B. S. Oliver, of Russellville, has invented and patented a machine, that harrows, scrapes, hoes, and plows cotton all at the same time, and that too is the most approved manner. The machine has been thoroughly tested and does the work of five mules and eight men. It requires the work of one mule and man to operate it. So cotton raising may become profitable again inasmuch as labor saving machinery is coming into use in its cultivation and picking. - [Southern Idea] NEWS ITEMS Miners at Red Gulch, I. T. are advertising for wives. Texas has created a new county and called it Jeff Davis. Iron ore is paying quantities has been discovered near Natchex, Miss. Miss Matilda Johnson has just died in London, 116 years old. Eighty-nine years ago her intended husband died suddenly and she made a will giving her entire fortune to the military Hospital and directing the “Love Killed Her’ should be engraved on her tombstone. Miss Van Zandt the morganatic and lunatic wife of the Anarchist murder Spies, ahs written a characteristic biography of her scamp of a husband. Volcanoes have broken out in the petroleum regions of Russia. Ashes lie from seven to fourteen feet deep over a square mile of territory. Murders, robberies, strikes and suicides are alarmingly on the increase in the northern, eastern and western states. Chattanooga, Tenn. is on a substantial boom. The real estate transfers for January amounted to $2,613,385. Mary Crow, of Marion County, Va is said to be 111 years old. She is cutting a new set of teeth, is hale and hearty, and gray hair is turning black. APPALLING FIGURES That we are a thirsty people is pretty generally submitted, but few suspect just how much fluid, besides water, it takes to keep the throats of our population in a satisfactorily moist condition. The records of the Internal Revenue Bureau throw some light on the question, and being official besides, leave no room for doubt or dispute. If all the beer drank last year by our people was impartially allotted to every man, woman and child in the nation, it would give each one ten and three-quarter gallons. To this must also be added one and one-fifth gallons of spirituous liquors. But pursuing these figures a little more closely gives us other results worth mentioning. Not every man or every woman drinks beer and whisky, and none of the children. It is safe to assume that one third of our population, or about twenty millions of our citizens, absorb all the strong drinks of the country. This would make the allotment of beer to every drinker at least thirty-two gallons and nearly four gallons of whisky. But they indulge in other luxuries also. Enough cigars are smoked in the country to give forty-two to every inhabitants besides several cigarettes and three and a quarter pounds of chewing tobacco. It is estimated the cost to the American people of drinking and smoking, if equally distributed among that portion of our population which does drink and smoke, would give an average cost to each of $57, or enough to buy all the food they can consume in a year. The army ration costs the government $35 per annum, and it gives the soldier more than he can eat. In short, the drinking portion of our population consumes enough beer, tobacco, and whisky to buy them food supplies for the entire year. But, study the following recently compiled by a Hartford (Conn.) contemporary as showing how we spend our money: (TABLE – not typing it – if interested contact me) 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. Ad for Bargain in Music 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 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. ˝ 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 BULL RUN – The Famous Battlefield as it Appears Today The first battle of Bull Run stands first in the alphabet of great American battles. Greater battles have been fought hereabouts; a greater battle, indeed, on this same ground. But the first has fastened itself on us. There is a savage fascination about it which --- who lived on that day cannot ---(REST OF THIS LONG PARAGRAPH IS TORN)----- But this is trenching on history and we must draw the line. You can see where the South retreated to where stood Jackson, “Like a stone wall.” Back of this house, where the old schoolmaster lives with his oldest sister, about a hundred yards and almost at the top of the gentle sloping hill, on the outer edge of the tall, rank corn, and against a young growth of pines, is the place where Jackson got down to pray. And here is was he sat on his horse, was wounded, held his men in stubborn line that day, while the storm of battle beat against them, and so won his singular name. On the front of this sloping hill that lies here, between this house and the place where Jackson sat on his horse during the battle, the dead --- when the fight was done. The corn is rank and tall. But I do not see, as some pretend to, when looking over the field of Waterloo, that the blood of brave men has put any particular mark of vitality upon it. The truth is, if some one did not point out to you all this you would know nothing whatever of the Battle of Bull Run. Nature covers up all such scars; time heals the wounds on the breast of our common mother, as well as our own. Wander about here for a week, as I have done, and save for the one little brown stone monument here, the old earthworks at Manassas and some scarred old trees I have picked up one bullet and one button from a soldier’s coat; that is all. Bu ton the earthworks near Manassas, under a peach tree, while picking up peaches, I found an Indian arrow head. Think of it, and follow these two facts: What other battles, what other races had fought for the fields of Virginia ages and ages before? Not many people come to visit this battlefield. I have seen a thousand at Waterloo for a single visitor here. The great trench where the dead were buried on this sloping hill, immediately under where Stonewall Jackson sat his horse during the battle, is still a trench. This is a sore that refuses to heal. It has become a little drain or rivulet. The bones of the dead were mostly taken away at the close of the war, and this opened the trench anew. This portion of the battlefield is a pasture now. A little line of trees has grown along the banks of this trench. Under these rank young trees, a good many sleek spotted cattle stood yesterday chewing the cud and lazily switching flies. You never hear a sound of any kind around here at night, no coming and going of carriages, as at Waterloo and other great battlefields of Europe. The trees are turning a little red in the blush of early autumn. There is a heavy gray atmosphere over all here which makes the stillness seem more still; a weary ghost of the smoke of war. In the corners of the old Virginia, warm fences the wild berry grows rank and red, as if dripping in blood. The very earth is red, as if the bosom of mother earth bleeds perpetually for her --- dead who fell in the battle here---- - [-- Miller in Chicago News] MISSING LINKS Geronimo’s blood is Mexican, they say, not Indian. A Genesee, N. Y. farmer owns a seven-footed pig. There is a new color out which they call condor yellow. There are 1,510 inmates of the Georgia State Insane Asylum. There are three thousand Mexicans living in San Francisco, Cal. A league has been organized at Salt Lake, Utah, to oppose Mormonism on every issue they may raise. Prince Bismarck’s mustache is now as white as a mustache can be and live, and his gout has again downed him without seeking pardon or leave. An old man who has seven sons, all steamboat captains and all in comfortable circumstances, was received into the Jersey City, N. J. poorhouse lately. Henry E. Abbey has cleared $100,000 out of his Bernhardt venture in South American – enough to lift him out of the slough of debt and leave a surplus of several thousand. The introduction of natural gas as fuel into Pittsburg, Pa., has enabled its ladies to wear delicate silks that were out of the question when soot and grime were so common. Mexican workingmen have adopted the idea of their brethren in this country and are organizing societies and clubs in all parts of the republic. No strikes are reported as yet, however. Instead of “Much obliged,” “Thanks”, or “Thanks awfully much,” the Anglomaniancs in New York now say “beholden” or “Very much beholden to you.” So, at least, observes the Buffalo Express. A Carson, Nev. Newspaper says that in the Carson river, above Empire, the fishing is good, but below the town the fish will not bite, “having lost their teeth from salivation by the mill chemicals.” A Kingston, N. Y. newspaper tells of a colored man who, having earned $1040 invested 90 cents of it in three dozen bananas, ate them all on the spot, and then adjourned to a saloon to moisten them with a dozen glasses of beer. The Hon. Henry Wentworth Monk, M. P, of Ottawa, Ont. Wants to build a capital of the earth in Palestine, and he thinks the job could be done for about $10,000,000. An irreverent contemporary suggest Monkey as a good came for the proposed capital. Mrs. U. S. Grant is desirous of selling her cottage at Long Branch. Housekeeping all the year round tells on her strength, and with the cottage out of her possession she could, she thinks, obtain a beneficial respite from household cares by traveling about in the summer. Moonshiners say they can stay in jail six months in the year, sill three, and loaf three and make more money thereby than at any other business. They get 75 cents to $1 a gallon for their whisky and sell it as fast as they can make it. Very little is ever found when stills are seized. An Iowa man bought a tree claim in Kansas, and supposing from the name that his property was covered with old trees and stumps, he took a stump-puller along when he went to see his purchase. Discovering his mistake, he sent back home for some willow sprouts to plant on his claim. One of the most amusing incidents of the second race for the America’s cup occurred when a dashing young Boston lady, impatient at the slow progress made by her beloved Mayflower, jumped up on the rail, and, frantically waving her handkerchief, exclaimed: Blow, sweet Borax, Blow!” At a recent revival meeting down in Virginia an old farmer arose to his feet and paralyzed the congregation with the following preface to his experience. “Dear friends, I am glad to have this opportunity to mingle together and to spend these happy hours where I couldn’t if I wasn’t.” THE NEWEST PERPETUAL MACHINE The public has heard so much about vain attempts to discover perpetual motion that the idea of it is looked upon as a chimera. It is no wonder, then, that the “perpetual motion advertised in big black letters around a tent in the Toronto fair ground failed to attract many visitors. Yet the “perpetual motion” exhibited is really a good idea whether of much actual utility or not, it may yet be too early to say. The inventor is Mr. Forster, of Guelph. Like many of the greatest discoveries, this is a very simple one. The motive power is simply air, contracted and expanded by the natural variations of temperature. A large cylinder of sheet iron is connected by a tube with a small cylinder with sides of oiled silk, so as to swell or stretch like the side of a pair of bellows. The double air chamber is hermetically sealed. To the upper part of the smaller chamber are attached chains revolving over pulleys, and winding up a spring which furnishes the power for work. Whether the air expands or contracts the winding continues. It is claimed that a daily range of ten degrees will furnish enough power to keep a pendulum going. A greater range will allow of power being retained for use in steady weather. NOURISHMENT AND FOOD FOR THE SICK There are several beliefs popularly held concerning the care of sick people, that should long ago have been exploded. One of these is than an invalid will “relish something right off the table,” better than he will ‘sick folks messes.’ This may be true in a few rare instance, but the fact remains that the appetite of nearly every convalescent is apt to be tempted by some delicacy prepared expressly for him, rather than by a portion of the food served at the family board. There is something, too, in the thought of the loving consideration that prompted the concoction of the special dainty which lends a flavor not to be imparted to food cooked without particular reference to the one who should occupy, for the time being, the most important position in the house. Abstain from overloading a patient’s plate. This caution is peculiarly necessary with sweets, as a surfelt of those is apt to cause future aversion. – [Christine Terhune Herrick, in Good Housekeeping] AMERICAN WOMEN ON FOOT – An Account of a Walking Club That Had Great Success for a Time – [San Francisco Chronicle] A MODEST, BUT A GOOD TRAVLER – Story about P. P. Wright – [Chicago Herald] DWARFS IN CENTRAL AMERICA EDITING WITH THE SCISSORS – article about work of an editor PURE GRIT – Some Experiences of the Seamen of the Confederate Alabama I was one of the first men who signed papers with the much-vaunted confederate cruiser, the Alabama, and my service in her did not end until she sailed into an English port with the Confederate flag flying. You will thus realize that I participated in the capture of several dozen federal merchandisers, and whalers. There was a sameness about our manner of making captures which we were glad to have broken now and then. It was but rarely that a vessel was overhauled during the night. If we were in chase of her we simply kept her in sight, or tired to, until daylight came. While we could not anticipate any stubborn resistance the right seat of a skipper might, fire a volley into a boat’s crew or go to some other uncomfortable extreme. As a rule we had only to close in our victims, fire a solid shot across his course, and he would heave to and put the best face possible on a bad matter. The first lieutenant would be sent off to him with a boat and half a dozen marines, and in the course of half an hour his fate would be decided. If it was thought best to bond him the papers were made out and signed and he was permitted to go his way. If his craft was to be destroyed the men were allowed to bring up their clothing and knick-knacks, the officers to pack their personal effects, and inside of an hour the craft would be ablaze, and we would be sailing away in search of another victim. When we ran around in search of whalers we came upon a Yankee skipper who didn’t know what surrender meant. We were just well to the west of the stormy cape, when, one morning after breakfast, we raised a whaler. He was headed up the coast, and about noon we overhauled him. He paid no attention to the first shot, and it was only when the second one hulled him that he came into the wind. It was then seen that he had fifteen or sixteen men aboard and that all were armed with muskets and meant to defend the ship. The lieutenant was sent off with his boat, but no sooner was he within fair musket range than the whaler opened fire on him, killing one man and wounding two at the first volley. The officer pushed ahead, and demanded a surrender, but he got another volley and the reply that the whaler “would go to the bottom before he would surrender to a d-rebel.” The boat was recalled, and our gunners were introduced to hull the whaler with solid shot. We approached him within rifle-range and opened fire. Every one of the balls plumped through his side at and above the water- line, and he answered with his muskets, severely wounding two men. He was repeatedly hailed to surrender, but in reply he encouraged his men to maintain their fire we soon had the sea pouring into his starboard side through a dozen holes, and when it was seen that he would soon go down we ceased firing and again demanded his surrender. I can remember just now how he looked as he sprang upon the rail – tall, gaunt, hair flying and eyes blazing, and shouted in reply: “The Ben Scott don’t surrender! Come and take us – if you can.” Five minutes later his craft settled down bow first. We lowered the boats to save his crew, and strangely though not a man was lost. When we brought them aboard the Yankee skipper walked up to Semmes, bare-headed, bare- footed, and coatless, and said. “If I’d only have had one old cannon aboard, we’d have licked ye out of your butes! Here we are, and what are ye going to do with us?” He was voted a jolly good fellow, and them men were better treated than any other ever forced aboard. In order to give them their liberty the very next capture we made was bonded and they were put aboard to sail for home. – [Detroit Free Press] AN UNNATURAL MOTHER ORIGIN OF SOCIAL CUSTOM Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for Plowboy Ad for Plowboy newspaper File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/lamarnew1200gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 56.2 Kb