Lamar County AlArchives News.....Lamar News February 24, 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, 10:50 pm AL Dept Of Archives And History February 24, 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 24, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 17 NELLIE, YOU’S BEING BAD – Poem – [New York Mercury] IT IS YES – Short Story STATESMEN AT WHIST – Article about a Washington whist quartet – Garfield, Frye, Randall, and “Alec” Stephens THE MODERN YOUNG MAN’S MAKE-UP – poem KRUPP HAMMERS – Article about hammers TO EUROPE IN FOUR DAYS – Article about proposed idea to shorten travel time to Europe to four days IN HIS LAIR – I sit down in my pleasant den this morning as light as cork. It is a pleasant den, this lonely lair of mine. It makes a visitor think of a nightmare. It is decorated after my own designs. Whenever I found anything too big to crowd into a drawer or pigeon hole I nailed it on the wall. The door is my photograph album whereon are tacked the counterfeit presentaments of all my friends who have sent in their miniatures. Whatever the other members of the family absolutely refused to allow in any other room I have nailed up on the walls of my lair. I am no nigg--- with nails. When I nail a small steel engraving, unframed to the wall, the easiest way to get that picture down is to pull the wall away from it. The lair looks like a household scrap book. And I think that is hwy I like it. – [Bob Bardette] AMERICANIZING PARIS JOURNALISM WOMEN ARE JOURNALISTS Joe Howard’s letter in the Boston Herald says: I was sitting less than an hour ago in the office of a powerful journalist. A lady’s card was brought to him, and a few minutes after, when his secretary reported that the lady was seeking work, he sent word to dismiss her. Then turning to me he said: “I have concluded to give no more work to women. They are utterly useless as writers on a daily journal; you can never depend on them’ they are capricious, whinny, unreasonable, and unreliable.” I expressed some surprise that he should deem them unreliable, but he said that his experience taught him that women’s intuition are very quick, and that they interfered seriously with the preparation of reports or sketches which would be acceptable to a newspaper whose conductors wanted news and not opinions. In my own experience I have found many difficulties in the way of utilizing women, and, on the other hand, some of the best work I have had done was by women. Some years ago, while editing a daily paper here, I had occasion to treat extensively of labor matters, to look into trade unions, and discuss the problem of strikes. I tried several professional agitators, but in every instance found their prejudices interfered with the honesty of their work. Accident brought in my way a lady by the name of Sheppard, and after one or two trials I turned the whole matter over to her. She attended to it so thoroughly, and mastered it so absolutely, and treated it so sensibly as to more than satisfy me not only, but to attract the attention of the senior Bennett, who asked me if I had any objection to giving him the name of the writer of those articles. THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK Wall Street is said to be the pulse of the nation. The good times are discounted by the great operators of the street. The great prosperity of ’79 and ’80 first showed itself in prices on the stock exchange. The drought of ’81 and the bad times which followed causing depression in securities which was not felt in the general business of the country till later. For two years prices have been on the down grade, but early in February a changed feeling manifested itself in the street. The “bears” – that is the sellers of the market – failed in their efforts to still further depressed prices and the “bulls” took a hand in the game of speculation and succeeded in establishing a higher range of values. Then the iron market became more active. Sagacious business men say that the price of iron tells the story of the industrial situation. When the quoted values of that metal fall, it means that all the industries of the country are suffering,; but when there is a new demand for tools and engines – that is, for iron and steel – it shows that the business of the country is reviving. The price of iron steadily went down from 1881 to 1884, but the February of this year told a different story. The demand for iron increased and there was an advance in this price. There are, it is true, some bad business indications. There are many failures, wages are being reduced, the bank currency is contracting, and gold is being shipped abroad but after all we have plenty of currency and the surplus of last year’s crops is large. Our population is increasing, and the condition of our machinery for doing work was never better. The American people are hopeful as well as enterprising, and if the crops this year are at all good they will be as prosperous as ever in the closing months of this year. IT WAS A GLIDE BALL The St. Louis correspondent of the Sporting Life gives this explanation from Manager Ferguson, of the Metropolitan club, regarding his damaged eye: “You see,” said Mr. Ferguson, “I was trying to catch on to a phenomenon and bring him here on this tri, and do all the western clubs with hands down. I heard of a young pitcher in New York, or thereabouts, and decided to give him a trial. When I took hold of him he showed a great speed, had curves till you couldn’t rest, but his command of the ball was anything but perfect –t he latter I found out to my great sorrow. The Indians, of course made fun of the young fellow, and told him he had the greatest glide ball ever used on the diamond. I was facing his pitching one morning, and had one of the boys behind the bat. I asked him to throw me an out curve and see whether I could hit or not, but it seems the catcher signed him for one of those glide balls. When the ball got to me it was red hot and it took me – whack! - right under the left eye. I thought at first that the grand stand had fallen on me, but when I got up and dusted off my clothes I realized that I had stepped a glide ball with my eye. O yes, I released the pitcher.” When a Philadelphian wants to say that a woman is mentally out of balance he remarks: “She has lost her buttons.” HOW COMETS GO TO PIECES The effect of the sun’s attraction in the dismemberment of comets is well known to astronomers. The nuclei of the large comets of 1680, 1843, 1880, and 1882 must have had great force of cohesion between their parts, in order to withstand the tendency to disintegration at the times of perihelion passage. Had the nuclei been either liquid or gaseous, or even the difference between the sun’s attraction on the central and the superficial parts would have pulled the comets asunder, spreading out the fragments into somewhat different orbits, like the meteoric streams of August and November. This view of the gradual dispersion of comets…(rest of article is torn) A STORY ABOUT OLD SAM HOUSTON When Houston was running for Governor the warden of the penitentiary bitterly opposed his election. After the election, and when it was known that the old veteran had been chosen, the warden became exceedingly friendly. He came to General Houston and endeavored to plead his own cause for a reappointment. The general received him most cordially and expressed himself as very much delighted to see him,. He inquired in what way he could serve him. “Well,” said the warden, “I came to ask for reappointment.” “Ah”, said the General, “I am glad you have done so; but what claims have you to the position?” “Well, Governor, I have held the place for a number of years, and the prison has greatly prospered under my administration. I have maintained the strictest economy in all expenditures. I have been honest in al the years I have held the trust and what more can a man present as claims to office than honesty, ability and economy?’ After the warden had sounded his praise for some time he paused for breath, General Houston all the time paying the most earnest attention to what he was saying. When he paused, the General asked: “You have been in this position a long time?” “Yes, sir; certainly” “You have been economical?” “I have” “And honesty?” “No man can question my honesty.” “And how many years have you been there?” “Six.” “Six years of faithful, economical, honest work in the penitentiary – that is a long time, sir. Well, Mr. Warden, I believe I will pardon you out. I guess you have been there long enough. I’ll pardon you. Good day sir.” – [Austin (Texas) Statesman] JOKE PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Publisher THURSDAY FEBRUARY 24, 1887 RATES OF ADVERTISING One inch, one insertion $1.00 One inch, each subsequent insertion .50 One inch, twelve months 10.00 One inch, six months 7.00 One inch, three months 5.00 Two inches twelve months 15.00 Two inches, six months 10.00 Quarter column 12 months 35.00 Half Column 12 months 60.00 One column 12 months 100.00 Professional card $10. Special advertisements in local columns will be charged double rates. All advertisements collectable after first insertion. Local notices 10 cents per line. The Arkansas House of Representatives has passed a bill which aims a killing blow at crop mortgages and excessive charges for advances. It prohibits mortgages on growing crops, and forfeits both principal and interests when goods furnished under mortgages are charged at a higher rate than will cover cost and carriage, and a profit of 25 per cent. There is no denying the fact that hostility to the sale of intoxicating liquor is running high in Alabama. The Alabama Senate the other day voted, by an overwhelming majority to submit to the people an amendment to the Constitution abolishing the liquor traffic. This resolution will, no doubt, be adopted by the House, and then at the next general election the people will vote upon the amendment. At that election the anti-liquor amendment will necessarily be the issue, and the experience of other states --- that it will be a hot----. [Mobile Register] --- following shows the --- ----growth of the “Magic City” --- years ago a village, today a city. ---City Treasurer’s report for the year ending December 31,--- appeared at the top of --- and out came note-book --- pened and the following notes jotted down. The re--- of the city during the centennial year were from fines $883.65, street tax $234, real estate tax $2,082.40, licenses $3,552.50, the total from all sources being $7,967.29 and the total expenses was $7,965.45. During the year 1886 the total receipts of the city from all sources were more than $70,000 and th total of expenses $84,000 being ten and twelve times the amount of receipts and expenses for the year 1876. In 1873 the town was considerably larger than it was in 1876 as the treasurer’s report for that year shows a total receipt of $16,559.021, and a total of expenses of $17,653.18. The receipts of the city then decreased to the minimum in 1876 and began increasing in ’77 and ’78 and 1879 they reached d a figure which proved that the town was enjoying a permanent growth. At the city hall, on Thursday afternoon a large assemblage of our citizens were present at the meeting called by the directors of the Tombigbee railroad. Mr. J. O. Banks was called to the chair, and stated the object of the meeting. Capt. C. A. Johnston was introduced and responded in a few well chosen remarks, and spoke of the advantages that the building of this road would accrue to Columbus. He said that it was known to all that every day our young men were leaving for other fields, where opportunities were offered them for investment and advancement and that the only way to stop this was for your people to go to work and begin the town. That we hoped to raise $100,000 by private subscription, and then of the people of the county to raise another $100,000 which would complete the road to whatever place it was projected to connect it with the Kansas City road. He said now was the time to go to work and hoped that our citizens would lead their hearty co-operation and assistance. He was followed by Dr. Vaughan who in a lengthy but interesting discourse, held the closest attention of his audience. He spoke of the charter of the company, which is said to be in its provision, the best of its king, and that numerous offers had been made to buy it. But no, when Capt. Leigh and Capt Johnston, drew up the charter, whatever advantages were to be derived from it they wanted the people of Columbus to receive the benefits; that their object was not to make money as they never expected to make one cent by t only had the welfare of the people at heart. Gov. Sims was then called to the floor, and in a few words moved that the books be opened and hoped those present would take stock in the railroad. Several gentlemen, then signed the books and took shares ranging $000 to $500 and upward. The amount of stock taken by our citizens up to date is $42,000. From present appearances it looks as if the road will be built. The directors are enthusiastic and are in good spirits, sanguine that the subscription asked will be subscribed. This is strictly a Columbus enterprise and everybody who ahs not subscribed should do so at once, and lead every assistance in their power to push this enterprise through. – [Columbus Index] ALABAMA’S BOOM From north to south, east to west, the state of Alabama is on a magnificent boom. It is greater in some sections than others, but the work is just begun, which in its completion will witness every part of our glorious Commonwealth in a condition of prosperity. Let every citizen of Alabama feel and exhibit a commendable pride in the development and true progress of the greatest of the Southern states, in point of hidden mineral wealth; a state which one day will take the lead in the Union of States. Three cheers for grand old Alabama in her new development. Thousands of well to do farmers of the North are tired of the long winters which they must endure in that section, and they are seeking the balmy sunshine of the South for comfort, and they find our lands to be the most productive of the country. There has never been applied to them the highest type of scientific farming. Even our worn out lands, under such a system, can be revivified and made to blossom as the rose. And our new and hitherto unoccupied lands may be, in a short time, brought to the highest state of cultivation. – [Opelika Times] It may sound a little funny but our legislature is actually discussing a bill to put the laborers of Alabama into something very like slavery. The bill proposed to make the violation of a labor contract by either employer and employee, a penal offense, punishable by fine or imprisonment. The bill means slavery to a laborer who gets in debt in the black belt. It is certain that no laborer will ever buit a job if he is getting few pay for his work. Down in the canebrake country there are negroes who never get out of debt at all, and their only hope of ever getting even with the world is to jump a pile of old debts and come yup where they can get wages for work. The most industrious farm laborer cannot support himself and family on the third of the crop he makes when he has to pay more than 100 percent for all the supplies he must buy. The remedy for the farmer is to reform his business methods and not try to fasten his serfs to the soil. We do not like this bill, nor any bill of the kind. God masters make good laborers, and good wages make good workers. Nothing else will do it. No law can make men contently work against their own interest; and this bill is foolishness, if constitutional. – [Birmingham Chronicle] There is grand future for all of North and East Alabama. Within the next half century there will be a wonderful development of this God favored land. We map out a block of country which can have no bounds to its wealth and diversified industries. From Gadsden on the Coosa to Florence on the Tennessee, and from Decatur to Tuskaloosa on the Warrior lies a country whose natural advantages and riches are beyond computation. At the end of 25 years from this writing the territory names will contain sixty millions of people and her iron furnaces will be numbered by the thousand. Our great water power will be utilized, and the hum of millions of spindles will be heard all over our beautiful country. The wealth of the old world will be poured out into our lamps, and every person in North Alabama will become a million-heir (sic). The tramp of the eastern monarch is already heard as he plants his feet upon our shores, and car loads of greenbacks are coming here very day for investment. Railroads will be built in every direction, and we will have a city one hundred miles square –the biggest and riches t city ever known in the world. These figures may appear fabulous to some people but they will look like ciphers to our children two decades hence. – [Moulton Advertiser] Ad for Mexican Mustang Liniment – for man and beast Ad for Stratton Accordions 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. PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY FEBRUARY 24, 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 Peach trees are blooming, preparatory we fear, to a killing frost. Tuesday last was Mardi Gras day and also Arbor Day. A Mobile drummer spent a couple of days in town latter part of last week. See advertisement of the Mexican Mustang Liniment in this issue. Rev. W. C. WOODS filled his appointment in this place on last Sabbath. Call and settle your account at once. Resp. GEO. W. RUSH & Co. Messrs Haley & Denman are erecting an awning in front of their store. We were pleased to receive a call from Esq. M. M. HANKINS on Friday last. One of our citizens was out withy a straw hat on Saturday last – crowding the season. For sale – One milch (sic) cow with calf one month old. Will take corn in payment. We learn that crews of the sub-contractors on the Kansas City road are receiving money for their work as promptly as expected. It really seems as if the winter was over, so balmy is the air, so warm the sunshine, so gay the birds, so right the opening flowers and fresh the springing green of the fields. Our colored “cousins” in East Vernon ought to be pretty well trained in vocal music are the close of Circuit Court, judging from the time they spend in exercising their vocal monstition. (sic) Capt. J. M. HENRY and MR. J. E. SISRON of Fernbank, enlivened our sanctum on last Saturday, both renewed their subscription to that county paper – the News. Since our last issue we have received a number of new subscriptions. Some have been received from other states not accompanied by the cash, some consequently we can not comply with their request, as we do not ---- outside our county. Dr. R. J. REDDEN of Cansler was in town Monday. The legislature adjourns next Saturday. Real estate in Vernon has advanced 25 per cent within the last en day. New Good at rock bottom for cash or produce. GEO. W. RUSH & Co. Se Constable’s Notice in another column. Our hidden resources are just beginning to come into notice. We have had a good deal of rain this week. Mr. MURRAY COBB left yesterday on a business trip to Columbus, Miss. Messrs. C. B. MORTON, MARION COKER, and WM. CORNETT of Detroit were in town yesterday. The rounds of circuit court for this circuit, commenced in Winston County last week, and then Walker, Fayette, and Lamar in succession. There is a project on foot in Columbus, Miss to build a blast furnace and a railroad from there to this county over which to ship the ore. On the 16th last, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. COBB were the happy recipients of a fine son. May he live long and be useful is the wish of the News. The Railroad surveyors are expected in this part of the county about the last of March. Township Trustees of this county will be appointed instead of being elected as heretofore. Within less than 18 months the iron horse will be seen and heard plying its way through the Hale & Murdoch old furnace place, two miles west of Vernon. The lines in another column entitle “A Warning” was furnished by a much beloved and Christian lady of this place. Patrons indebted to News can either settle at this office or with Mr. JERRY PENNINGTON. Mr. LEWIS a geologist from Kentucky has lately examined the supposed lead mine of But Bank, eight miles northwest at Vernon, and pronounced it genuine. He will return in a few days prepared to bore and as certain its quantity. Mr. Lewis had with him a piece of gold taken from a gold mine in Colorado by him, valued at $40. The undersigned has made arrangements to accommodate a number of the colored people with Board and Lodging during the two weeks of Circuit Court at moderate prices. Call at house east of the Hotel. – JON. BANKHEAD. Mr. G. W. RUSH and wife, after spending several days with relatives in Walker County, returned home on Monday last. We learn that Mr. RUSH received a severe attack of cholera-morbus while gone, but has almost recovered from the attack. One citizen who have been prospecting in Birmingham and Anniston for several days, have returned. They formed a ‘syndicate’ we are informed and purchased one let in Anniston and two in Birmingham. They have much to say of the Magic City. GOLD WATCH FREE TO ALL! In 1886 we gave away one million of our beautiful cards and scrap pleasures. We have the prettiest lot of Sunday School, Reward, Birthday, Fringed and Visiting Card, Scrap Pictures and Fancy Tissue Papers of any house in the trade. To introduce samples at once we make this liberal offer. The person telling us the longest verse in the Bible before March 15th will receive a lady’s watch worth $60 solid gold, hunting case, stem winding. If there be more than one correct answer, the second will receive a gentleman’s gold watch, worth $60, hunting case, stem winding; the third, a solid style watch worth $25; the fourth, a gold=finished watch; each of the nest en n persons, an open-faced, nickel watch. Eyeglass 24 cents in stamps or silver with your answer for which we shall send you a pack of samples of our level cards and scrap pictures, price list, agents terms and a 28-page book of over 150 illustrations and a plate gold ring, made from heavy 18k pure rolled and plate. WE warrant every one for five years. Name this paper and write at once, as it will not appear again. Address W. C. Grimold & Co., Room 2, PO Building, Centerbrook., Conn. STATE ITEMS 45,000 acres of land near Tuscaloosa were recently sold for $450,000. The moving of Howard College to Anniston is spoken of. Real estate is selling as fancy prices in Talladega. The prominent negroes of Birmingham have organized into the Alabama Colored Land Company. Prohibition virtually prevails in Blount County. The citizens of Selma are confident of the realization of their highest hopes for the city. Birmingham is going to have a 250,000 Court house. Government work on the Warrior will soon begin. The Institute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, at Talladega is one of the leading institutions of its kind in the United States. The tax rate in Alabama is 6 mills. Ashville will build a branch road to Whitney – private enterprise. A street railway is being built between Sheffield and Tuscumbia. Tuscaloosa is putting up an ice factory; also a boom. A bill appropriating $100,000 for the erection of a public building at Huntsville has been passed Congress. Speculators are investing extensively in ore lands about Guntersville. Florence has a street railroad company with $50,000. 140 bales of cotton were recently burned near Selma. NEWS ITEMS “I wouldn’t be a fool, if I were you” said Jones to a friend. “If I were me you wouldn’t be a fool,’ was the reply. She is a bottomless pit. No hoe who seeps into it can tell when or where he will stop. The only certainty is that the end is death. It is hoped that war clouds to be lifted from Europe. There was a collision off the coast of Brazil a few days ago, in which two vessels sank and 304 lives were lost. There were 31,500 Teachers employed in the state of New York last year. Attorney General Garland is now the only bachelor member of the Cabinet. One hundred and fifty negroes left Strother, S. C. for the west last week. C. B. White of Volusia, Florida last week plucked 1,650 oranges from a five year old tree on his place. A stay of execution has been granted Brooks, alias Maxwell. The most beautiful woman in this country is said to be the wife of Gov. Davis of Minnesota. Germany meditates upon a treaty of permanent peace between herself and France. A Buffalo special states that Canada is preparing for war with the United States. Senator Edmunds favors the repeal of internal taxes on whisky and tobacco. The Chinese government has agreed to pay $125,000 for damages incurred by the attack on American missionaries. A remarkable family lives in Sequatchie Valley, Tennessee. The parents are young, having been married only seven years, but they already have fourteen children. There are tow sets of triplets, three pairs of twins and two children who came singly. The oldest is six years old and the youngest is a baby in the arms. A WARNING – for the News – POEM A Joint Stock Company is being formed in Vernon for the purpose of mining and manufacturing iron, dealing in real estate and building a railroad to the Kansas City. Articles of incorporation were prepared yesterday and one hundred thousand dollars of the stock subscribed for. The matter is being kept very quiet and it is hard to learn anything definite about the project. – [Contributed] 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 $60,000,000 were spent in the erection of buildings in New York last year. 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 T. W. SPRINGFIELD Town Beat A. H. BURROW Lawrence Beat W. J. KIRK Sizemore Beat WATSON BROWN Brown Beat S. W. MOSLEY Henson Beat JESSE CARTER Millville Beat G. R. TURMAN 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. PARTAIN Wilson PETIT JURORS – FIRST WEEK JOHN B. HANKINS, 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 If you wish a good article of plug tobacco ask your dealer for “Old Rip” CONSTABLE’S SALE State of Alabama, Lamar County A. J. LOWRY agent for J. T. JAGGERS vs. W. T. CARDEN By virtue of an attachment issued by W. K. TURMAN, a justice of the peace on the 24th day of January A. D. 1887 in favor of the said J. R. JAGGERS , for the sum of $36.00. I have this day levied on the following real estate of said CARDEN to wit: S ½ of N E 1/4 n ½ of S E ½ Section 11, T 13 R 16 west, all of which will be sold on the premised on the 15th day of March 1887. A. J. LOWRY, Constable 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 Ad for The Empire News 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. Ad for Collins Ague Cure Remember This. (picture of boy in clothing) when you want clothing, hats, underwear, that BUTLER & TOPP deal only in these goods. You can get a better selection and a great variety to select from than is kept in any house in Columbus. We carry suits from $6 to $30, and hats from 50 c to $10. Call and see us. BUTLER & TOPP Ad for Pianos and Organs PAGE 4 WIT AND HUMOR – jokes FAIRY STORIES FOR CHILDREN – [Julian Hawthorne – North American Review] – article about fairy tales and their dangers KNOW THYSELF – little known trivia facts arranged in a poem. HOUSEHOLD HELP – The Skeleton of the Kitchen Closet The servant girl; how to find her in her perfection or her imperfection or how to do without her! This is the perpetual spectre that haunts our households, which beings premature grayness and wrinkles to our wives and mothers and sends many a man in desperation to a cheap restaurant. The fact is plain that the supply of domestics competent to do the duties of the average respectable family kitchen is unequal to the demand, and will be increasingly less as more families attain to the ability to support a servant. And as it is in every other department of labor so here, the higher the order of service required the more nearly impossible it is to procure the skilled worker. The first-class cook is very apt to make her own terms, with only now and then a show of resistance to the tyrant by some valiant economist, and to change her place with a facility which leaves the domain of the kitchen in a perpetual state of semi-anarchy. The question what the housekeepers are going to do about it is unlikely to receive any complete answer just yet, but there are two directions in which the American women may turn as offering some promise of the solution of the problem. One of these is a more earnest effort to educate girls who are willing but ignorant into fitness for good service. While there is an increasing reluctance on the part of young women, native or foreign, to become domestics so long as any other possible occupation is open, there is yet a pretty large number of unskilled servants capable of doing only the drudgery of the house who are not too unintelligent to be trained to something higher, and many of whom do succeed, after some years of rough experience, in becoming tolerably expert as plain cooks, but not good enough, it may be, for the preparation of elaborate dinners, but equal to baking the bread and roasting the meat. When it is considered how utterly void of acquaintance with the demands of a well ordered household many of the girls are who are set in charge of our kitchens – fresh landed immigrants, who, likely enough, were filed hands in their native lands, guileless of any cookery more elaborate than the boiling of a potato, to be eaten with salt – it is a high compliment to their readiness to learn to say that they often become most trustworthy and satisfactory servants, upon the mistress throws responsibilities which she herself would shrink from a summing. Why should there not be schools for cooking and for housework, in which all such inexperienced girls should be able to serve an apprenticeship, such as would fit them to be, at least, second-class servants, and in which, now and then, a woman with a genius for her business might develop with that rare culture – unrealized visions of whose coming flit before many a housewife’s mind – a first-rate cook? In no trade requiring so much intelligence, and so many virtues, are there so few opportunities for learning the business before actively engaging in it as that of a domestic, and in none is the call so loud and desperate for experience laborers. The wise woman of America would do well to consider if the domestic training school does not offer some gleam of light upon their present darkened souls. Another source of relief is the possibility of some device for dispensing altogether with the delusion and snare, the inexperienced cook. American residents in Paris have frequently had occasion to accept the services of those trained caterers who, at a not extravagant price, will provide families with a varied bill of fare, brought to the house promptly at the meal hour, and in a thoroughly palatable state of heat, or cold, as the nature of the dish requires. There is no reason why every moderate sized city should not support such a caterer, who could feed his patrons better than the average family is now fed, and at a coast little, if any, above that which is now incurred, while all the worry of marketing, and all the anxiety about the cook’s temper or skill would be done away with. Undoubtedly some of our precious family traditions would have to be laid aside under this experiment. BERMESE TOBACCO – article about developing Burmese tobacco The Circassian beauty of the dime museum is a Pennsylvania girl who speak s low German; the Zulu chiefs are ex-waiters for ten-cent basement saloons; the tattooed man was variegated in a New York sign-painter’s shop, and the white elephant is neither white nor sacred. Has honestly no show on earth. – [N. Y. Com Advertiser] FAIRY LODGE – The following description of an ideal children’s pay-house by Mary A. Lathberry, in the St. Nicholas for April may be found to contain helpful hints for some of both of our grown-up and growing-up readers……(NOT TRANSCRIBING ARTICLE – if interested contact me) A LITTLE ROMANCE – story about a romantic couple GRANTS FORFEITABLE – How the Public Domain has Been Squandered – (land that is forfeitable and available for roads) UNCLE PETER FAILS ON A DUDELING – Anecdote Ad for Brown’s Bitters Ad for Plowboy Ad for Plowboy newspaper File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/lamarnew1201gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 47.4 Kb