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Lamar News January 14, 1886

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THE LAMAR NEWS 

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor          VERNON, ALABAMA, JANUARY 14, 
1886          VOL. III. NO. 11

A RIVER DREAM – [R. E. BOULTON, in Cassell’s Magazine]
The blue, blue sky above,
The blue, blue water under,
Two eyes more blue, and a heart that’s true,
And a boat to hear me with my love
To lands of light and wonder.

The sunny fields around,
The river rippling by us,
A smile more bright than noonday light,
Our brows with meadow garlands crowned,
And never a care to try us.

A drifting with the tide,
A wind that whispers greeting
An isle of rest in the faded west,
With only the waves on the shore beside
--------------------fondly treating.

THE PRINCESS PHILIPPINE – by Mrs. ANNIE A. PRESTON
	The Princess Philippine dwelt in an ancient, gray, stone castle 
standing on the banks of a small river that divided a beautiful green valley 
in northern Germany.  Broad, fertile fields and green pastures, dotted by 
herds of the famous black cattle and by flocks of snowy sheep, with her and 
there a peasant’s or a herdsman’s cot, lay each side the stream.  On either 
hand deep forests stretched up the sides of the high mountains that sheltered 
this fine estate, of which the Princess Philippine was sole heir, from the 
rough blasts of winter.  The Princess Philippine had neither father, mother, 
brother nor sister, but she had an indulgent guardian and when a mere child 
had been bethroed by her parents to his son, the brave, young Prince Basil who 
lived just on the other side the high sheltering mountains.
	With such charming surroundings it would seem as if the young princess 
ought to have been a very happy little maiden, but I am very sorry to relate 
that she allowed her life to be made miserable by her uncontrollable and 
unreasonable fear of spiders.  Spiders love the dust-filled crannies of a vast 
old castle like that of Castle Philippi, and why should the spiders that had 
held possession for more than 700 years be put to rout on account of the whim 
of a chit of a girl?
	The Prince Basil asked the princess something of the kind on the 
occasion of one of the frequent calls he made at the castle, accompanied by 
his lady mother.  The Princess Philippine was exceedingly angry at this 
question, saying that he had no regard whatever for her fine sensibilities, 
and she was surprised to see that his mother sat by and smiled at him instead 
of culding him for his rudeness. So, sad to say, the young couple had their 
first quarrel, and the young prince rode home in high dudgeon, declaring there 
was no reason in a spirited young fellow being tied to a girl who would not 
walk in the park, sail on the river or ride in the forest on account of her 
silly dread of spiders, who even would not walk about the ------of her own 
fine east ------- she was enveloped from him ------in a sheet-like wrap of 
glazed white linen.
	“I have danced attendance upon a ghost as long as I can endure it,” he 
said, “and now I am going away to see the world.”  And so he went.
	The parents of the young Prince Basil were greatly chagrined at this 
estrangement , for in Germany betrothal has always been held almost as sacred 
as a marriage, and they said:  “We will leave her entirely to herself for a 
season and see.  Perhaps she will come to her sense enough to realize how 
foolish it is for her to set herself up as being different from all the rest 
of the world.”  So with one accord all her neighbors and friends declared, “We 
will leave her alone with her morbid fears.”
	Philippine now shut herself up with her attendants in her own 
apartments, that were all hung with pale blue satin, and passed her time in 
making sure no spiders of any kind invaded her ----(TOO LIGHT – CAN’T READ)
	One morning there came riding up to the castle drawbridge a knight in 
armor, mounted upon am mild white charger and followed by an attendant whose 
steed was as black as coal. The knight demanded to see the Princess Philippine 
and when after much delay he was shown to her presence he informed her he was 
her cousin, six times removed, had proposed paying her a long visit.
	“Very well,” she said, “I never have heard of you, but that may not be 
strange.  Pray make yourself comfortable and give orders that the rooms you 
may choose for your own may be thoroughly swept and dusted and made free from 
spiders, for I suppose there is not in the world such another spider-invaded 
place as this same old Castle Philippi.”
	Day by day the knight made himself at home about the premises, giving 
orders to the servants and managing as if the estate was his own, but when he 
began to make free with all the secret drawers and papers in the great 
library, sitting over them until far into the night, the old servants shook 
their heads and said, one to another, “Ah, his presence here bodes no good.”
	After some weeks he demanded another audience with the princess, who 
by this time had almost forgotten his existence, so taken up was she in 
watching to ascertain if indeed a spider had taken a tenement under the 
embrasure outside her bedroom window.  When shown into her presence the knight 
informed her in a stately way that he had found papers that established his 
claim as rightful heir to the estate, that he had already taken possession and 
would like her to deliver the keys immediately.
	The princess’s manner was as formal as his own, and her tone as 
haughty, when, after a little pause, she replied:
	“Sir Knight, doubtless thou art not aware that in the possession of 
the crown prince are papers showing that with this estate goes a signet ring.  
The ring is always in possession of the rightful heir and that ring I have.”
	The knight was exceedingly angry, but he brought all his arts of 
fascination to bear upon the princess, thinking to induce her to show him the 
ring, but all in vain.  Quite out of patience, at length he told her is she 
did not give up the ring immediately he would set every person on the estate 
to gathering spiders from field, forest, river, and castle and would fill her 
apartments, her clothing, nay even her couch with them.  The princess quaked 
with fear at even the thought of this, and enveloping herself in her linen 
wrap precede the knight to the arsenal that was high up in one of the western 
towers.  Here behind a coat of mail that was hanging upon the wall she touched 
a spring that opened a secret drawer within which was a small golden key.  
With this key closely clenched in her hand, and the wily knight close at her 
side, she proceeded to the great picture gallery.  There behind the life-size 
portrait of her own beautiful mother she found another secret drawer, and 
taking therefrom an ivory casket she unlocked it with the golden key, 
disclosing the coveted prize.
	“Let me examine it, please,” entreated the knight.
	“Never,” cried the princess, now that the ring was in her hand, 
impressed by the instructions regarding it she had received from her parents, 
and dismayed at her own weakness in being frightened in her own castle, amid 
her own people by a stranger.
	The knight, quite forgetting all his assumed courtly ways, sprang to 
take it from her, when, quick as thought, she threw it out of one of the deep 
narrow windows that the knight had opened on account of the closeness of the 
air, in the long disused gallery.  It flashed like a coal or fire in the 
sunlight and was gone.
	“Mad girl!” shouted the knight, angrily.  “It has fallen into the 
moat!” and leaving the princess he rushed down the stairs.
	With her heart beating wildly, and her eyes sparkling with excitement, 
the young girl leaned out the narrow window and looked far below to where the 
gray walls of the strong square tower were reflected in the still black waters 
of the moat.
	“Ah!  What is that?” she cried, for just below her, even within reach 
of her hand the signet ring hung securely caught in the meshes of an ancient, 
closely woven spider’s web.  Although the spider was close by, curiously 
regarding this singular prey, the princess did not mind, but reached down and 
secured the ring without fear.  As she did so, standing there in front of the 
portraits of her parents, she seemed to hear their voices, explaining once 
more the significance of the ring, and setting forth her duty to all the 
dependent people living on her estate.
	“To whom much is given much shall be required,” she said half 
aloud.  “Dear me!  How selfish I have been.” – and securing the ring to a 
chain fastened about her neck, she, too, ran down the winding stairs, quite 
regardless of her linen wrap that lay forgotten on the dusty oaken floor of 
the gallery, and astonished her servants by dispatching a courier with a 
letter to the crown prince.
	The knight meanwhile had set all the laborers about the estate to draw 
the water off from the moat and search the muddy bottom for the ring.  While 
they were thus engaged, with the knight in the greatest excitement and 
followed by his servant, pacing back and forth across the drawbridge, a 
company of horsemen arrived who had been sent from court.  The Princess 
Philippine met them in the garments, laces and jewels of her beautiful mother 
and on one dimpled finer sparkled the signet ring.
	The grand old courtier who bowed over her proffered hand, said “Your 
face and your bearing establish your identity for I knew your parents and 
grandparents, but this signet ring substantiates your rightful ownership to 
the estates beyond a doubt.”
	The designing knight and his servant were banished from the country.  
Young Prince Basil was sent for and most gladly returned home.  The crown 
prince and princess and a great retinue for court came to the wedding and the 
feast surpassed anything that had been in the castle for hundreds of years.  
	At the wedding dinner the Princess Philippine found an almond with two 
kernels.
	“These stands for you and me,” she said to her husband, “you shall 
have one kernel and I will have the other.”
	“Thanks, my love,” said the prince.  “Let me have the kernel that 
represents yourself and I will wear it, that you may never again be lost away 
from me.”
	“Here is your Philippine,” said the princess,” and with it I give my 
signet ring, that stands for all my possessions, for since I threw it away and 
it was saved for me by a spider, against all whose kind I have all my life 
waged war, it humiliates me every time my eyes falls upon it, and I think I 
ought to pay some penalty for my foolishness and for my ill-treatment of 
yourself.”
	“But did I not cry ‘Philippine” my dearest one the moment my eye fell 
upon you on my return,” said the prince – “to show you that I never held anger 
against you in my heart.”
	At this all the young people who found double almonds began to eat 
them with some chosen friend, and since they all had not signet rings to 
bestow, it came to be a custom that the one who should cry “Philippine” after 
an absence should receive a gift, and the custom continues among young people 
in all countries to this day. – [Springfield Republican]

SOUTH CAROLINA’S PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS
	A member of a New York firm who has received an order for dredges for 
use in excavating phosphate in South Carolina reports that industry as 
especially prosperous, and that 500,000 tons of this material is now being dug 
up as against 350,000 tons in 1883.  The phosphate rock bed of South Carolina 
now supplies the world with the chief part of all the phosphate of ----used in 
the manufacture of commercial fertilizers, and this industry was unknown there 
until 1868.  The greatest length of this phosphate bed is about seventy miles, 
the city of Charleston being about the center of the most accessible 
deposits.  It crops out at the surface in many places and is found distributed 
over large areas at the bottom of many of the rivers.  It is mined in three 
ways – by open quarrying and digging in the land; by drudging and grappling 
with powerful steam machines in deep water; by hand picking and with tongs in 
shallow streams.  Its average price is about $6 a ton, and the state levies a 
tax of one dollar a ton on all that is shipped, making it an important item of 
revenue.  These phosphates are the remains of ancient animal life, and 
fragments are brought up not only representing the tapir, horse, elephant, and 
mastodon, but amphibious ones, such as the seal, dugong, walrus, etc.

Sea weed paper is a late Japanese invention.  It is made sufficiently 
transparent to use for window panes and colored to vie with stained glass.

COUNTERFEIT EXPERTS
WOMEN WHOSE SENSE OF FEELING IS MARVELOUS
ABLE TO PICK OUT SPURIOUS MONEY AS THOUGH BY INSTINCT
	There is a very large amount of counterfeit paper afloat, and some of 
it finds its way to the Treasury, when it is discovered in the redemption 
division, says a Washington letter to the Pittsburg Post.  It is here that all 
the money sent in from outside sources is counted and examined.  The counting 
and sorting is done by ladies, and they are the most expert in the country.  
They can tell a counterfeit instinctively, with eyes open or shut, and there 
is not a bank cashier in the United states, or even among the large contingent 
now sojourning in Canada, who could compete with them in the matter of 
determining counterfeits.  They can tell a spurious bill as far as they can 
see it, and the mere handling of the paper is enough for them to decide upon 
its genuineness.  The silk paper upon which Treasury notes are printed can 
only be made by expensive machinery, and it is a felony to even manufacture 
the blank paper without due authority.  Under the circumstances all 
counterfeits are printed upon inferior paper, which lends this great facility 
in the matter of detection.  A guide was once taking a party of visitors 
through the redemption division, and was expatiating upon the expertness of 
the fair money handlers in this respect. He solemnly assured the party that 
one of the girls had detected a counterfeit in the middle of a pile of money 
six inches thick by merely seeing the thin edge of it.  To a stranger it seems 
more like diablerie than the possession of trained vision and a delicate sense 
of touch in the detection of counterfeits.
	These female experts receive $75 a month for their services.  They do 
nothing until 4 in the afternoon, and their hands move with a rapidity seldom 
acquired by the most expert bank clerks.  But they make no mistakes.  A 
miscount or a counterfeit overlooked comes out of the wages of the one making 
the error, and two or three mistakes a month would wipe out a girl’s salary, 
as some of the bills handled are very large.  The great drawback of the 
position is the poison absorbed by the continuous handling of money.  The 
backs of all Treasury notes are printed with a pigment which consists chiefly 
of Paris green.  Small particles of this substance are absorbed, and in a year 
of two the girl who may have entered the Treasury smooth skinned and healthy 
finds herself a victim of lassitude, and with her hands and face broken out in 
malignant sore.  Each employee is furnished with a sponge to moisten the 
fingers while counting.  A new one is supplied every morning, and by evening 
its color will have changed to a dull black by the action of the poison.  
Notwithstanding this drawback there is never any difficulty in filling 
vacancies.

“CHURNING” FOR CLAMS
	Two-thirds of the clams are got by “churning.”  The clam gang wades 
out over the bed and shovels up mud and clams and everything that comes along 
into big wire baskets, which, when about full, are lifted out of the water, 
and a rinsing and shaking washes out the mud and leaves the clams.  Two men 
and a boy attend to each basket, one man shoveling in the mud, the second 
getting out the clams, and the boy “culling” them.  Churning can only be done 
at about halftide, when the water is two or three ------, as by the time the 
workman has to put his head under water, when he bends over at shoveling.  He 
soon has to give up the job.  The suction on the shovels is tremendous, and 
they are made exceptionally strong.  When there are good tides, on the full 
and change of the moon, the clams may be -----the manner of the non-
professional digger; a shovelful of mud is turned up at a time, and the clams 
it contains are staked out with a clam hoe.  Consideration of either of the 
above methods is sufficient for a true understanding of the happiness of the 
clam at high water.  The clam ordinarily lies in the mud from two to eighteen 
inches; a clam that would bury itself much deeper than eighteen inches is not 
to be looked up with favor. – [Providence Journal]

A GOOD PLACE FOR DENTISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS
	Throughout South America all the dentists and nearly all the 
photographers are immigrants from the United Sates, and if there is any one 
among them who isn’t getting rich he has nobody but himself to find fault 
with, because the natives give both professions plenty to do.
	Nowhere in the world is so large an amount of confectionery consumed 
in proportion to the population as in South America, and as a natural 
consequence, the teeth of the people require a great deal of attention.  As a 
usual thing Spaniards have good teeth, as they always have beautiful eyes, and 
are very particular in keeping them in condition.  Hence the dentists are kept 
busy, and as they do in the United States, the profits are very large.  In 
these countries it is the custom to serve sweetmeats at every meal – dulces, 
as they are called – preserved fruits of the richest sort, jellies, and 
confections of every variety and description.  Many of these are made by the 
nuns in the convents, and are sold to the public either through the 
confectionery stores or by private application.  A South American housewife, 
instead of ordering jams and preserving up a supply in her own kitchen during 
the fruit season, patronized the nuns, and gets a better article at a lower 
price.  The nuns are very ingenious in this work, and prepare forms of 
delicacies which are unknown to our table.
	The photographers as well as the dentists are Americans, and have all 
they can do.  The Spanish-American belle has her  photograph taken every time 
she gets a new dress, and that is very often.  The Paris styles reach here as 
soon as they do the North American cities, and where the national costumes are 
not still worn there is a great deal of elaborate dressing.  The Argentine 
Republic is the only country in which photographs of the ladies are not sold 
in the shops.  Elsewhere there is a craze for portraits of reigning beauties, 
and the young men have their rooms filled with photographs of the girls they 
admire, taken in all sorts of costumes and attitudes. – [New York Sun]

HOW COCOA IS GROWN
	United States Consul Bird, in a report from La Guayra, Venezuela, thus 
describes the cultivation of cocoa in that country:
	“Cocoa, or cacco, as it is termed in Spanish, from which the chocolate 
of commerce is made, is the fruit of a tree indigenous to the soil of 
Venezuela and within this country is comprehended a large part of the choicest 
cocoa zone.  The tree grows to the average height of thirteen feet and from 
five to eight inches in diameter is of spreading habit and healthy growth.
	“A cocoa plantation is set in quite the same manner as an apple 
orchard except that the young stocks may be transplanted from the nursery 
after two months growth.  No preparation of the soil is deemed necessary and 
no manures are applied.  The young trees are planted about 105 feet 
equidistant, which will accommodate 200 trees to the acre.  Between the rows 
and at like spaces are planted rows of the Bucare, a tree of rapid growth, 
that serves to shade the soil as well as to shield the young tree from the 
torrid sun.  Small permanent trenches must be maintained from tree to tree 
throughout the entire length of the rows, so that, at least once in each week, 
the stream descending from the mountains may be turned into these little 
channels and bear needful moisture to trees and soil.  At the age of five 
years the plantation begins to bear fruit and annually yields two crops, that 
ripening in June being termed the crop of San Juan and that maturing at 
Christmas being known as the crop of La Navidad.  The average age to which the 
tree attains under proper care may be estimated at forty years, during which 
period it will give fair to full crops on fruit; but, of course, it must be 
understood that, as in our fruit orchards a new tree must be set from time to 
time to replace once that may be decayed or blighted.  After careful inquiry, 
it may be safely stated that the average crop of the cocoa plantation of ten 
years of age, and under a proper state of cultivation will amount in 500 or 
600 pounds per acre.

WHEN DAY MEETS NIGHT – [by CHARLES W. COLEMAN, in HARPER’S]
Out to the west the spent day kisses night,
And with one parting glow of passion dies
In gold and red; a woman’s wistful eyes
Look out across the hills, a band of light
Plays on her parted hair, there softly dwells,
And throws a glory o’er her girlish dream!
The sheep slow nestle down beside the stream,
And cattle wander with their tinkling bells.

The clouds, sun-flushed, cling /round the day’s decline;
The woman’s eyes grow tender; shadows creep,
Gold turns to gray; a sharp dividing line
Parts earth and heaven, Adown the western height
The calm cold dark has kissed the day to sleep;
The wistful eyes look out across the night. 

HUMOROUS
“If the heart of a man is opprest with care, it won’t help him any to go on a 
tear.”

Proud flesh – The haughty aristocrat.

The bird for literary men – The reed bird

One of the starting points – The point of a bent pin.

All communications with spirits ought to be sent through the dead-letter 
office.

The woman question:  “Now isn’t this a pretty time of night for you to get 
home?”

“Good gracious!” said the hen, when she discovered porcelain eggs in her 
nest, “I shall be a bricklayer next.”

“The battle is not always to the strong.” said the judge as he awarded the 
butter premium at a county fair.

An organist who advertised for vocalists for a church choir, headed his 
advertisement:  Good chants for the right parties.

She was plump and beautiful and he was wildly fond of her.  She hated him, 
but, woman-like, she strove to catch him.  He was a fly.

The forty-two inmates of the Clark County, Ind. poorhouse are fed at a cost of 
two cents a meal.  There is very little inducement offered to a man to become 
an Indiana pauper.

Gay old gentleman to boy on twelfth birthday:  “I hope you will improve in 
wisdom, knowledge and virtue.”  Boy, politely returning compliment, totally 
unconscious of sarcasm:  “The same to you sir!”

Mrs. Montague:  “Do you sing, Mr. De Lyle?”  Mr. De Lyle (with a superior 
smile):  “I belong to the college glee club.” Mrs. Montague 
(disappointed):  “Oh, I’m so sorry.  I hoped that you sang.”

“They have discovered footprints three feet long in the sands of Oregon, 
supposed to belong to a lost race.”  It is impossible to conceive how a race 
that made footprints three feet long could get lost.

Dude – “You love me, then, Miss Lydia?” Lydia – “Love is perhaps somewhat too 
much to say.  At least I have sympathy for you, because your face resembles so 
much that of my poor dead Fido."

“He’s not what you call strictly handsome,” said the major, beaming through 
his glasses on a homely baby that lay howling in his mother’s arms, “but it’s 
the kind of face that grows on you.”  “It’s not the kind of face that ever 
grew on you,” was the indignant and unexpected reply of the maternal 
being:  “you’d be better looking if it had!”

“Julia, I don’t see why you are going to marry Harry Bascomb.  He hasn’t any 
money, and it is not likely that he’ll ever have any.”  “Fanny, I’d soon to 
marry for money.  Harry is handsome and a fine athlete.  He would bring to me 
a sense of protection – “O, that’s all right, Julia!  Everyone to their mind.  
You may marry for protection; I intend to marry for revenue.”

A MIGHTY SENTENCE
The opening sentence of the Bible, “In the beginning God created the Heaven 
and the earth,” contains five great universal terms, and speaks of as many 
boundless totalities – God, Heaven, earth, creation, and the beginning.  It 
is, perhaps, the most weighty sentence ever uttered, having the most gigantic 
members.  In its comprehensive sweep it takes in all past time, all 
conceivable space, all known things, all power and intelligence, and the most 
comprehensive act of that intelligence and power.  This sentence is a 
declaration on nearly all the great problems now exercising scientists and 
philosophers. – [The Independent]

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY JAN 14, 1886

ANNOUNCEMENT

For Circuit Clerk – We are authorized to announce S. M. SPRUILL as a candidate 
for the office of Circuit Clerk of Lamar County, subject to the Democratic 
Party.  Election in August, 1886.

Alabama will be well represented at the National Press Association in May.

Montgomery’s Mayor says that he was misunderstood in his invitation to the 
liquor dealers of Atlanta to come to Montgomery.

It is time for the young democracy to prepare for organization.  The plot of 
the boldhends (sic) to siege all the offices in the state thickens and grows 
space. – [Birmingham Age]

It is now “the thing” among country editors to have dreams about the 
gubernational candidates. Of course the editor always dreams that his man gets 
there.  No fellow has yet dreamed about a dark horse winning. – [Age]

The Democratic executive committee of Lowndes County have gotten together and 
decided to stir up things, politically.  A county convention has been called 
for February 8th, when candidates for the legislature and county offices will 
be nominated.  This is the first political wave made in state politics.  The 
candidates for governor may now find something to do in Lowndes.

TROY, ALA. – Jan. 4 – The anti-liquor men of Troy have fought a good fight.  
Whisky is downed.  But one saloon keeper has made the effort to procure 
license for a month past.  He has left no stone unturned to procure the 
requisite number of names to his recommendation.  He lacks now more than one 
hundred and his list is being hourly scratched, growing small by degrees and 
beautifully less. Troy is now and will continue to be a dry city.

Alabama makes poor show in point of nativity in her Representatives and 
Senators in Congress.  OATES, SALDER and MARTIN were born in the state, FORNEY 
and DAVIDSON were born in North Carolina; PUGH and WHEELER were born in 
Georgia, MORGAN in Tennessee, HERBERT in South Carolina, and JONES in 
Virginia.  Their average age is fifty-four years.  Altogether the 
Representatives and Senators from Alabama are high above the average 
representation of the States in point of ability and experience in Congress.

The high license law in Eufaula has closed five saloons in that city.  The 
number of liquor dealers there now stands five retail and one wholesale.  The 
number has been reduced in Tuskegee, Gadsden, and Tuscaloosa.  Reports from 
the country are to the effect that great many retail dealers will have to shut 
up shop for failure to obtain the recommendation of twenty free holders.  It 
is highly probable that fully half the saloons outside the incorporated towns 
will be closed. – [Montgomery Advertiser]

We never read of so many weddings before in all our life.  The whole state 
blazes with matrimonial fires.  They light up the hill tops as well as the 
valleys – the cottage and the palace.  Well it is good.  Let the young folks 
pair off judiciously and live soberly and uprightly, and be happy and 
prosperous – [Selma Mail]

The editor of the LaFayette Sun says he can’t run a newspaper on “rotten 
potatoes” and all those subscribers who have been bringing him in “rotten 
potatoes in payment for subscription may as well consider their names dropped 
from the list.”

The face of the average darkey who has heretofore been farming on his own 
account, wears a gloomy aspect, because the repeal of the crop lien law 
interferes somewhat with his getting “vances” from the merchants. – 
[Greensboro Watchman]

The Macon Telegraph says :  “In the South white and black carpenters work side 
by side.  I never saw this in the North and yet we are charged with 
discriminating against the negro.”  There are some places North and West where 
the negro is practically forbidden to settle – he gets no work to do.

“This beats the devil!” said a liquor shop proprietor in Illinois to a lady 
who followed a drinking man into the liquor shop and persuaded him to come out 
without patronizing the bar.  “Yes, sir,” responded the enterprising 
lady, “and it was my intention to beat the devil.”

ALABAMA NEWS

The Warrior River rose sixty feet at Tuscaloosa on the 4th.

Georgians continue to settle in Cullman County in great numbers.

Sheffield now has a regularly organized city government.

Alabama has fewer Christmas causalities than any other state.

The mad dog scare is reducing the number of worthless dogs.

Montreal is to have a large ice palace this winter than ever.

The Warrior River rose sixty feet at Tuscaloosa on the 4th. (sic)

There has been 232 shade trees, principally elms, planted on the streets of 
Montgomery city this season.

The boys of Eufala are putting up $50 forfeits not to take any drinks 
during ’86 and to be better boys generally.

A bull dog jumped on a little boy a few days ago at Mobile and chewed off both 
of his hands.

A twelve pound turnip, measuring 27 inches in circumference has been presented 
to the Selma Times.

The best paying subscriber the West Alabamian (of Carrollton) has, is a man 
named Turnipseed.

A Birmingham mechanic gets a fair and wealthy bride in response to advertising 
for a wife.

The Moulton Advertiser has just completed its 37th year and is still in 
vigorous health.

Mrs. LOGAN of Mobile is in charge of the colored Exhibition for Alabama at New 
Orleans.

The Decatur News proposed that the Alabama Press Association visit Washington 
next Spring.

The cotton receipts at Montgomery since Sept. 1st amount to 104,701 bales, 
being 12,609 bales less than at this time last year.

The Florence Gazette in a recent issue speaking of a “dry” ordinance in that 
town, adds: “the pigs are penned, the horses stabled and the 
whiskey “bottled,” now “muzzle” the dogs.”

The Birmingham Age says twelve recent babies at Pratt Mines!  The dialect of 
the town is now strictly confined to Ootsie-tootsie, itsy bitsy and keechee-
weechee.

Editor SNODGRASS of the Scottboro Herald, is confined to his bed from an 
attack of pneumonia.  However, the Herald goes on all the same, for he has a 
daughter or two capable of running a newspaper.

COLONEL HARVEY says he will have the trains running on the B&T  R. R. to 
Russellville by the 15th inst.  The road is graded beyond that point now, and 
when it reaches the coal fields we will expect a boom at Sheffield. – Ex.

A man who was said to be drunk and lying with an arm on one of the rails of 
the Memphis & Charleston rail road, near Hillsboro, had the arm cut off by a 
passing train going west one day last week.

It is believed about Montgomery that Major J. G. HARRIS, one of the editors of 
the Alabama Baptist, will be appointed register of the United States land 
office, in place of THOMAS J. SCOTT who has just resigned.

The Alabama railroads sustained some damage from the recent heavy rains.  A 
number of washouts caused some delay of trains, but all damage was quickly 
repaired and the roads are all in good condition again.

A difficulty at Corona, in Walker County, occurred between a negro whose name 
is unknown, and a white man named NORVILLE, in which the latter was seriously 
hurt.  A young man named CUNNINGHAM , Sunday night, attempted to arrest the 
negro and was killed  by him.  The murderer is still at large.

GENERAL NEWS

A war on Sunday amusements has been begun at Cincinnati.

Prohibition is rapidly advancing in favor over the country.

The majority in Congress favors the discontinuance of the coins of silver.

 A terrific snowstorm has wrapped old Scotland from border to border line.

JAS. C. FLOOD of San Francisco made the princely Christmas gift of $6,000 to 
charitable institutions.

Three gentleman in Choctaw county have already announced themselves as 
candidates for probate judgeship.

Ten persons are missing from the ill-fated steamer, Chipley, which met with 
disaster on the Chattahoochee, below Eufala, a few days ago.

The probate court records show that 361 marriage licenses were issued last 
year in Lowndes county; 322 to colored and 30 to white persons.

Governor Forskor, of Ohio, has been appointed fraternal delegate to the 
General conference of the M. E. Church, South, by the Board of Bishops of the 
Northern Church.

A dreadful list of fires, casualties, and horrors from all over the world 
crowed the Press Dispatches.

Chicago has now a population of 758,000 and expects to outstrip London – some 
day.

Mr. Blaine’s second volume of “Twenty Years in Congress” is nearly finished.

A Chinese syndicate recently offered $2,000,000 for Palace Hotel in San 
Francisco.

E. W. BROCK, Vernon C.H. & Crew’s Mill: Cheap dealer in boots, shoes, hats, 
clothing, dry good, & notions; hardware, cutlery, Queensware, Glassware, Inks, 
Pat. Medicines, Oils, Dyestuffs, Perfumery, Extracts, and groceries of all 
kind.  Real estate in various parts of the county.  My motto is “Quick sales 
and small profits.”  I request all persons to call and price my large and well-
selected stock, before purchasing elsewhere.  I will sell as low or lower than 
any other house in the county.

NEW MUSIC BOOKS – “GOOD TIDINGS COMBINES” By A. J. Showalter.  This is the 
latest and best of all the Sunday School books for popular use.  It contains 
36 pages, and on ever page there is a gem of sacred song.  Bound in 
substantial boards.  Price 25 cents per copy; $2.50 per dozen.  THE NATIONAL 
SINGER. By A. J. Showalter & J. H. Teaney.  This book is the result of much 
careful work by the most experience musicians who write for character notes.  
It is the bet of all the singing school books, as it contains enough new music 
of every grade and variety to interest and instruct any school or convention, 
and also all of the more popular standard hymn tunes of the church.  This is a 
feature that is wanting in every other popular character notebook.  The 
National Singer supplies this and every other want to make an ideal signing 
schoolbook.  Price 75 cents; $7.50 per dozen.  THE MUSIC TEACHER.  A new 
monthly musical Journal edited by A. J. Showalter.  Every student of music, 
chorister and teacher should read good musical journals.  The Music Teacher 
aims to instruct as well as entertain.  Price 50 cents per year.  Specimen 
copies free.  Agents wanted.  We can furnish any other music or music book no 
matter where published.  It would also be in your interest to write us when 
you want to buy a piano or organ, or any thing else in the music line. – A. J. 
Showalter & Co., Dalton, Ga.

Barber Shop – For a clean shave or shampoo, call on G. W. BENSON, in rear of 
Dr. BURN’S office, Vernon, Ala.

For a complete stock of clothing, hats, shirts, &c., &c. go to BUTLER & TOPPS 
Columbus, Miss.

Masonic.  Vernon Lodge., NO. 289 A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at 
Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 p.m. each month. 
 J. D. MCCLUSKEY, W.M. 
 		 M. W. MORTON, Sec.
Vernon Lodge., No. 45, I. O. O. F. meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th 
Saturdays at 7 ½ p.m. each month.
W. G. MIDDLETON, N. G.
M. W. MORTON, sect’y

ATTORNEYS
NESMITH & SANFORD      THOS. B. NESMITH, Vernon, Ala.  J. B. SANFORD, Fayette 
C. H., Ala.  Attorneys-at-Law.  Will practice as partners in the counties of 
Lamar and Fayette, and separately in adjoining counties, and will give prompt 
attention to all legal business intrused to them or either of them.

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, intrusted to us we will both give our earnest personal 
attention.   – Oct. 13, 1884.

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.

Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala.  Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, 
I hope to receive a liberal share in the future.

PHOTOGRAPHS – A. 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.  Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to 
call on MRS. L. M. KUPPER, who keeps Restaurant, Family Groceries, Bakery, and 
Confectionery, Toys, Tobacco, and Cigars.  Also Coffee and sugar.  Special 
attention paid to ladies.

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.

CADY’S LIVERY FEED AND SALE STABLE  Columbus, Mississippi.  stock fed and 
cared for at moderate charges.

New goods, new prices.  W. L. JOBE’S, the jeweler.  Columbus, Mississippi.  I 
have just returned from the North with a large and well selected stock of 
watches, clocks, jewelry, and silver plated ware which I will sell as low as 
the quality of the goods permit.  When in Columbus don’t fail to call and 
examine my goods and prices.  Cash orders will receive prompt attention.   – 
W. L. JOBE.

WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama.  Board and Lodging can be had at the above 
House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor.

The Great Bazaar!  Aberdeen, Mississippi.  S W Corner, Commerce and Meridian 
Streets.  Crockery, china, glassware, tin ware, fancy goods, stationery, 
jewelry, notions, candies, toys and Holiday goods of all kinds at wholesale or 
retail.  Special attention given to the wholesale department.  Trial orders 
solicited and prices guaranteed.  Terms:  Thirty days, net, 2 percent off for 
cash.  No charge for package.  THOS. A. SALE & CO.

New Store!  M. H. HODGE, Kennedy, Alabama.  Has a large and well selected 
stock of general merchandise consisting in part of dry goods, groceries, 
notions, hardware, Queensware, boots, and shoes, Highest Market Price paid for 
cotton.

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.

Go to ECHARD’S PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY, Columbus, Mississippi, when you want a fine 
photograph or ferrotype of any size or style.  No extra charge made for 
persons standing.  Family group and old pictures enlarged to any size.  All 
the work is done in his gallery and not sent North to be done.  Has a handsome 
and cheap line of Picture Frames on hand.  Call at his Gallery and see his 
work when in Columbus.

STAR STABLE – Aberdeen, Mississippi.  A. A. POSEY & BRO., having consolidated 
their two Livery Stables, are now offering many additional advantages at this 
well-known and conveniently located Livery Stable.  Owing to their 
consolidation, they have on hand a number of good second-hand buggies which 
they are selling cheap.

COTTON STORAGE WAREHOUSE, E. C. LEECH, Columbus, Miss.  I take this method of 
informing the public that I have rented the splendid Brick Warehouse (formerly 
occupied by Turner & Sons) with all the appointments complete.  Every facility 
is here presented for the accommodation of the farmer; Good camping 
arrangements, with polite, competent clerks.   We are desirably located, being 
situated in the business center of town.  We have in our employ for the coming 
season, MR. D. H. MONTGOMERY, late of Oktibbeha, and MR. J. M. KNAPP, who will 
be glad to meet their many friends at this house.  Give us a call, and we will 
give satisfaction.  Fifteen years experience is a sufficient guarantee for a 
prompt discharge of the duties incumbent upon a warehouseman.  – E. C. LEECH.

We are now open and ready for business.  If you want a fine photograph, 
ferrotype, or any other kind a picture, from the size of a locket up to life 
size, the place to visit is at the COLUMBUS ART STUDIO, over W. M. MUNROE & 
CO’S Book Store.  We have the best facilities in the south for making fine 
work.  Everything in our Gallery is new and of the latest improvement.  We pay 
special attention to taking Children’s pictures.  Give us a call.  Don’t 
forget the place, COLUMBUS ART STUDIO.  Over door to the Post Office.

MORGAN, ROBERTSON & CO., Columbus, Mississippi.  General dealers in staple dry 
goods, boots, & shoes, groceries, bagging, ties, etc. etc. Always a full stock 
of goods on hand at Bottom prices.  Don’t fail to call on them when you go to 
Columbus.

JOHNSON’S ANODYNE liniment. The most wonderful family remedy ever known.  For 
internal and external use.  Parson’s pills make new, rich blood.  Make hens 
lay….(to small to read)

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY JA. 14, 1886             

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.

STATE OFFICERS
Governor				E. A. O’NEAL
Auditor					M. C. BARKLEY 
Treasurer				FRED H. SMITH
Alternate ------				T. N. MCCLELLAN
Supt. of Public Education		S. PALMER
Secretary of State			ELLIS PHELAN

JUDICIARY
B. O. BRISKELL				Chief Justice Supreme Court
G. W. STONE				Associate Justice Supreme Court
R. M. SOMERVILLE			Associate Justice Supreme Court
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

CHANCERY COURT
THOMAS COBBS			Chancellor

CIRCUIT COURT
S. H. SPROTT				Circuit Judge
THOS. W. COLEMAN			Solicitor

COUNTY OFFICERS
ALEX. COBB				Probate Judge
JAMES MIDDLETON			Circuit Clerk
S. F. PENNINGTON			Sheriff
L. M. WIMBERLEY			Treasurer
W. Y. ALLEN				Tax Assessor
D. J. LACY				Tax Collector
JAMES M. MORTON			Register
B. F. REED				Co. Supt. of Education
Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALVERT WILSON

CITY OFFICERS
L. M. WIMBERLEY			Mayor and Treasurer
G. W. BENSON				Marshall
Board of Aldermen – T. R. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS. MIDDLETON, W. A. BROWN, 
R. W. COBB

RELIGIOUS
METHODIST – Pastor – D. W. WARD.  Services fourth Sabbath in each month.  11 
a.m.
FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each 
month, 7 p.m.
CHRISTIANS – Pastor -  G. A. WHEELER.  Services, second Sabbath in each month 
at 7 p.m. 

SABBATH SCHOOLS
UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m.  JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt.
METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m.  G. W. RUSH, Supt.

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Special advertisements in local columns will be charged double rates.
All advertisements collectable after first insertion.
Local notices 10 cents per line.
Obituaries, tributes of respect, etc. making over ten lines, 2 ½ cents per 
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Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, Alabama, 
as second-class matter.

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All subscriptions payable in advance

LOCAL BREVITIES

Candidates more plentiful.

Spring drummers are again on hand.

Commissioner YOUNG was in town this morning.

The boys are bringing in wild ducks nowadays.

A Literary Society was organized on last Friday night.

Uncle ANDY WHEELER and wife are off on a visit to relatives in the county.

The High School will be a free ------for the next three months.

The  NEWS is two days late this week owing to failure to get paper from 
Express office.

We will puyblish a lsit of the Grand and Petit Jurors drawn for the Spring 
term of Circuit Court in next issue.

Rev. G. L. HEWITT and family have arrived and are warmly welcomed in our midst.

No religious services in town on last Sunday on account of the extreme weather.

MULES FOR SALE.  F. W. BROCK has a lot of mules and horses for sale – stock of 
all grades and at giving away prices.

Water has been very scarce for some days, all the pumps in town being chuck 
full of ice, and their owners have had to call on their more fortunate 
neighbors who had well buckets.

The cold weather stopped all communication and business for several days, and 
like all other cold snaps is well to have been the “coldest ever seen.”

After the Christmas goodies comes the doctor with his pretty little powders 
and sugar plums.

In another column will be found the card of the Montgomery Advertiser.  The 
Weekly Advertiser has twelve pages and contains the cream of the daily.  It is 
one f the best papers in the South.

Died of pneumonia Wednesday night, Mr. BEN SMITH, seven or eight miles west of 
this place.  The deceased received a severe wound during the war, which was 
thought to have caused his death.

In announcing candidates for the last election, several announcements were 
sent in without the cash accompanying them, a few which are still unpaid, 
consequently we have decided not to insert anyone’s announcement this year 
without cash in advance for the same. 

We call special attention to the advertisement of Messrs. Rush & C., which 
appears in this week’s paper.  The business is under management of the popular 
business man, Mr. RUSH & Co., which appears in this week’s paper.  The 
business is under management of the popular business man, Mr. GEO. W. RUSH.  
We predict large sales cheap goods by this firm.

JAMES T. ALLEN  Vernon Ala., having recently attended the Alabama Normal Music 
School is prepared to teach classes in Lamar and adjoining counties.  Write 
him for terms and have a class this winter.

MARRIED – On 31st ult., at W. R. PALMER by Rev. JOS. BALDWIN, Mr. JEREMIAH 
LUCAS and Miss VIRGINIA B. PALMER.

Dec. 30th, at M. E. BRYAANT’S by Rev. G. M. G. DUNCAN, Mr. F. T. SCRUGGS and 
Miss VIRA BRYANT.

WILSON CREEK, ALA.   -   Wilson Creek, Jan 13, 1886.
Editor NEWS:
	As Warwick has put the ball in motion, I will give it a push – Down 
here we talk of WILSON P. KEMP Esq. for Representative and JOURD LAMPKINS for 
Judge of Probate, JOHN MOLLOY for Co. Supt. Ed, for Circuit Clerk G. W. 
SPRINGFIELD, the last named is a bad criple and charity says give it to him.  
And if old man JOURD will not have the Judge’s office, we would love to try 
old “Uncle MOSES DENMAN.  However we are in favor of new officers, if not 
better ones.  We also want a first class road from Vernon to the R. R.  - 
$1,000 will do the work.  It will beat buying iron safes.
	Yours truly,
	A VOTER

THE AUDITOR’S REPORT
	State Auditor BURKE makes an interesting report to the Governor, 
relative tot he taxes for the year 1885.
	Lamar County paid but $24 license tax last year.  It appears the State 
taxes were $5,016.10 in this county, and that the people paid taxes on 432,932 
acres of land valued at $422,432 or about $1.20 per acre; and on 1548 horses 
valued at $76,548, or little more than $48 per head; and on 840 mules valued 
at $43,468, or little over $54 per head.  Lamar County pays on $30 worth of 
paintings, while Montgomery County assesses $2,605.  Lamar pays on $4,310 
worth of guns and revolvers, and on $28,789.50 worth of cattle.  There were 
assessed 23 miles of railroad in Lamar County, which with the rolling stock, 
was valued at $188,730.

BLOWHORN ALABAMA – Jan. 12, 1886
Mr. Ed. of the NEWS
	By your permission, I will reply to Warwick of Fernbank, by adding to 
the lust for Judgeships, &c.  We hear H. S. HANKINS and the Rev. ELIAS CHAFFIN 
spoken of as candidates for Representatives – both farmers and competent good 
men.  We also want W. P. HUGHEY for Co. Supt. of Ed.  Simply because a man is 
not a lawyer or doctor, to say he is not competent to fill an office of 
honor.  It is talked up here to fill our various offices by good old Farmers 
of the right stripe, and they will look after the interest of the farmer – who 
is the back-bone of the whole world.  JUDGE BEDFORD WILLIAMS of Fayette County 
was a miller and a farmer.  The old farmers of the county called him to the 
front as a candidate for Judge of Probate.  I remember there was much fun made 
of him at the start, but alas! See the Judge he made, the best ever up to that 
time.  Now has Lamar no BEDFORD WILLIAMS in it.  Is there not some worthy and 
competent old farmer that will let us hear of them through the NEWS.  We up 
here would love to see JAMES COLLINS name announced in the NEWS for Judge of 
Probate, or JOHN W. SIZEMORE Esq. Put some good fellow in who never thought of 
an office.
	The above is not mine.  It is the talk that is going the rounds, but 
it corresponds with the writer’s feelings.
	PE. DE.

The best New Year’s gift to God is a grateful heart for His tender mercies and 
a heart full of charity for our fellow man.

MILLINERY NOTICE
	I am just in receipt of an excellent stock of hats and school bonnets 
for students of the Industrial College.  While in the eastern cities I had the 
opportunity of acquainting myself with the most fashionable and popular styles 
of millinery goods.  My stock comprises the latest prevailing fashions  I will 
be pleased to see my former customers, together with those who desire the 
latest styles in millinery at the least cost.  Morgan’s building, former stand 
of Mr. Prescott. – MISS MATTIE WOOD, Columbus, Miss.

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addition to his county paper and religious weekly, every citizen not able to 
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the family as good papers.
	The Montgomery Weekly Advertiser is now one of the largest and best 
weeklies in the South.  (t has twelve pages every issue of the latest news of 
the country.  The Daily advertiser receives the complete Associated Press 
Dispatches, which no other Alabama daily does, and it has also a special news 
service of paid correspondents all over Alabama.  The weekly contains the 
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WRIGHT’S Liver Vegetable…..(CAN’T READ)

THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL now under the Principalship of JNO. R. GUIN, will 
open Nov. 2, 1885, and continue ten scholastic months.  Able assistants will 
be employed when needed.  Said school offers great advantages.  Tuition as 
follows:  
Primary:  Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, Primary 
Arithmetic, per month………….$1.25
Intermediate:  Embracing Practical Arithmetic, English Grammar, Intermediate 
Geography, Higher Reading, English, Composition, and U. S. History, per 
month………..$2.00
High School:  Embracing Botany, Physiology, Elementary Algebra, Physical 
Geography, Rhetoric, Natural Philosophy, Elocution, and Latin, per 
month……..$3.00
	A reasonable incidental fee will be charged.  Board can be had at $7 
per month.  Tuition accounts are due at the end of every two months.  For 
further particulars, address.
- JNO. R. GUIN, Principal, Fernbank, Ala. – October 28, 1885.

ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County, Alabama, I will 
offer for sale at Kennedy on the 6th day of February next the following lands  
N W ¼ of S W ¼ and S ½ of S W ¼ Sec 10 N W ¼ and N W ¼ of S W ¼ and S E ¼ of S 
W ¼ and S W ¼ of N E ¼ and N E ¼ of S E ½        Sec 15 T 17 R14, as the lands 
belonging to the estate of C. K. COOK, deceased.  Said sale will be made for 
one-0sixth in cash and the remainder on a credit of twelve (12) months from 
day of sale.  The purchaser will be required to give note with at least two 
good securities for purchase money.  This the 4th day of January 1886.
- J. G. TRULL, Administrator of the estate of C. K. COOK

FINAL SETTLEMENT
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, January 2nd, AD 1886
Estate of JAMES B. BANKHEAD, deceased, this day came JOHN B. ABERNATHY 
administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts, and vouchers 
for final settlement of his administration.  It is ordered that the 30th day 
of January, AD 1886, be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at 
which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement, 
if they think proper.
- ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate of said county.

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Land Office at Huntsville, Ala., Nov. 13, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of 
his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof 
will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar County at Vernon, Ala., on the 
12tjh day of February, 1886, viz:  No. 9862  ALFRED N. FRANKLIN, for the N ½ 
of N W ¼ Sec 19 T 12 and R 15 West.  He names the following witnessed to prove 
his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz:  J. W. PAUL, 
JOHN R. EVANS, JOHN H. RAY and S. M. LEE, all of Detroit, Lamar County, 
Alabama.
- WM. C. WELLS, Register

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION     (NOTICE NO. 4643)
Land Office at Montgomery, Ala. December 21st, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of 
his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof 
will be made before Judge of the Probate Court at Vernon, Ala. on February 
12th, 1885 (sic), viz:  JEFFERSON G. SANDERS homestead, 10087 for the N W ¼ N 
W ¼ Section 8 T 15 R 15 West.  He names the following witnesses to prove his 
continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz:  J. E. 
PENNINGTON, HIRAM HOLLIS, JAMES W. TAYLOR, WILLIAM AUSTIN, all of Vernon, Ala.
- THOS. SCOTT, Register

ADMR’S NOTICE
Letters of administration over the estate of S. M. PROTHO deceased, was by the 
Hon. ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate of Lamar County, Alabama, granted the 
undersigned on the 17th day of December 1885 This is therefore to notify all 
persons having claims against said estate to present them for payment properly 
authenticated within the time prescribed by law or they will be bared, all 
persons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment to me.  This the 
17th day of December 1885.
- W. A. PROTHO, Adm’r

APPLICATION TO REMIT A FINE
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will make application to the 
Governor of the State of Alabama, to have remitted a fine of any dollars 
assessed against him in the Circuit Court of said county, at the fall term, 
1885, for the offense of giving away spirituous liquors in a prohibited 
district in said county, Dec. 23rd, 1885.
- SAMP LOLLAR

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Land Office at Huntsville, Ala., December 9th, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of 
his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof 
will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar County, Ala, at Vernon, on 
January 29, 1886, viz:  No. 8740  ISAAC METCALFE for the S ½ of S E ¼, and N E 
¼ of S E ¼ and S E ¼ of S W ¼ Sec. 21 T 12 R 14 West.  He names the following 
witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said 
land, viz:  ZACK SWERNIGER, GEORGE W. METCALFE, MONROE CRUMP, and FILLMON 
TRULOVE, all of Pikeville, Ala.
- W. C. WELLS, Register

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, November 1885
Estate of B. J. GUIN, deceased, this day came P. C. GUIN, administrator of 
said estate and filed his statement accounts, and vouchers for final 
settlement of his administration.  It is ordered the 11th day of January AD 
1886, be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all 
persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement, if they think 
proper.
- ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate of said county

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SONG AND FANCY BIRDS

A LOOK AROUND A NEW YORK BIRD FANCIER’S STORE

SOMETHING ABOUT THE PRICE PAID FOR CANARIES AND OTHER BIRDS
	In an interview with a New York Sun reporter, a bird fancier 
said:  “Of course we do far more business in canaries than in all the other 
birds put together.  They range I price from the cheap German canary at $2.50 
and the Hartz Mountain bird at $3.50 to the fine Andreasburg canaries at from 
$7.50 to $10 each.  These last are of a peculiar breed which is raised only in 
Andreasburg.  They are very hardy, and are the best singers in the world. They 
are sold only once a year at bird market held in December, and at other times 
tit would be almost impossible to procure one.  They are bred in the spring 
and are kept until winter before they are sold, in order that they may be 
taught to sing well.  Tunes are taught to them by grinding an organ near them.
	“These gray back birds are gold and silver-spangled lizards or English 
canaries.  They are a hardy bird, and are bred in Norwich and Manchester.  
They sing very sweetly.”
	“The ordinary American robin sells for $2.  He is not much of a 
singer, but some people like to have him about the house.  This red-breasted 
English robin, not much larger than a canary, is worth $3.  A mocking bird 
from Virginia is worth $10 when in good voice, and the imported nightingale is 
worth $15.  English or German blackbirds and thrushes are worth $6 each.
	“Here is a little gray bird that doesn’t look very valuable, but his 
price is $25.  He is a bullfinch, and he can sing “Polly Perkins.”
	Mr. Reiche ducked his head in little nods from side to side before the 
bird, and said very softly, “Come, Hans,” and whistled a few noted.  Hans 
ruffled up his feathers and sang “Polly Perkins” very sweetly.
	“An untaught bullfinch” said Mr. Reiche, “is only worth $2.50.  It 
takes months to train one, and it is necessary that the bird should be 
exceedingly tame.  It is taken from its nest in February, as soon as it is 
able to eat, and is kept separate from other birds.  The teacher sings to it 
every day for three or four months until it learns the tune.”
	“Here is a cage of African and Australian finches.  They are named 
according to the coloring of their feathers.   There are black head and white 
head nuns, nutmegs, tigers, and cut-throats.  The latter are so-called from 
the crimson band under the throat.  Tigers are worth $4 and the others $3 a 
pair.  These Spanish finches from Cuba bring $5 a pair.  German skylarks sell 
for $4.  Parroquets (sic) bring $5, $10 and $15 each, the last being the very 
rare Madagascar variety.  Australian shell parroquets(sic) are $5 a pair.  
They are these little green birds, and they become very tame.
	“Cockatoos vary according to their abilities.  This yellow-crested 
fellow is worth $35, as he is a good talker.”
	Mr. Reiche tapped on the cage and said: “Hello cockatoo.”  “Hello 
yourself” replied the bird.
	“This rosehead Molucca bird is worth $25.  It doesn’t talk.  Parrots 
vary according to their scarcity and their ability to talk, good talkers being 
worth form $30 upward.  Other parrots are:  Blue Amazon $10; Cuban, $5; 
Maracaibo, $8; common Amazon, $9; double yellowhead, $15, and gray parrot, $15.
	“This is hardly a bird,” said Mr. Reiche, as he tapped a tank 
containing a good-sized alligator.  “That fellow is from Florida, and we have 
a demand for them from zoological gardens in Europe.  Salable ones are from 
five to ten feet in length, and the price is from $1.50 to $3 a foot, the 
longest being worth the most.  I sell two or three hundred a year.”

WHY THE VASE LOOKED SMALL
Bromley – That is a beautiful vase you have in your hall, DeBagg.  Is it a new 
purchase?
LeBagg – yes, my wife bought it last Tuesday.
“I admired it very much.  Quite a work of art, and so large!”
“Very.  But there was an attachment came with it that made the vase seem very 
small.”
“Indeed!  What was it?”
“The bill”. – [Call]	

ACCOMODATEING A LANDLORD
	“I like the house,” he said, “but it is too large for my family, and I 
would want to rent it in conjunction with another party.”
	“I don’t know about that,” replied the landlord, dubiously.  “I would 
much prefer that the house be let alone.”
	“Very well then, I will let it alone.” and a little later he was 
looking at another house. – [Life]

MANAGING A PIG
	Every farmer’s boy who has ever attempted to lead or drive, coax or 
force a hog, knows the meaning of the proverb, “AS obstinate as a pig.”  That 
Irishman has become famous who so thoroughly understood porcine nature as to 
drive his pig to Dublin by pretending that he was going to Cork.
	If there is one thing in which the hog is more stubborn than in 
another, it is in the matter of locomotion.  If he is wanted to move, he 
stands still, and a push forward causes him to retreat double the distance of 
his involuntary advance.  He is stiff-necked in doing the very opposite of 
what he is coaxed to do.
	A pig just taken out of the stye was surrounded by three Scotchmen, 
who were trying their best to get it into a roomier place, sixty yards 
distant, that it might be killed.  The pig would not budge an inch towards the 
open door of the slaughter pen.
	Then the Scotchmen became angry.  One laid hold of the pig’s ears, the 
other seized a foreleg, and both pulled, while the third man twisted the 
tail.  The pig squealed and gained several inches skyward.  The man at the 
tail, maddened at the pig’s stubbornness, belabored it with a stout stick.
	“What in the world are you doing with the pig?” shouted a stranger, 
coming up.  “What are we doing with the pig, is it?  It is nothing we are 
doing with it, but we’ve been trying to get this perverse daughter of an ugly 
father into yonder shed.  And we are likely to be beaten.”
	“Leave her to me,” said the stranger, “and I’ll put her in, unaided.”
	“There’s not a man in Lochaber can do it,” growled one f the pig 
fighters.
“Perhaps not,” replied the stranger, smiling.  “I am not a Lochaber man, but a 
Lesiune Man, and I think I can manage the pig, if you will let me try.”
	“Try away; let us see what you can do!”
	“Keep away, then!” said the stranger, slipping up behind the pig; and 
catching her by the hind legs, he lifted her up as though she were a 
wheelbarrow.  The pig, resting on her forefeet with her snout close to the 
ground, remained quiet.  The stranger, giving her a slight push, and trundling 
her backwards and forwards once or twice, to see if he had command of the 
animal barrow, steered her right into the shed, and at its furthest corner let 
the hog go.
	A clergyman who had seem the stranger’s triumphant wheeling, studied 
out the philosophy of the feat.  When caught up by the hind legs, the weight 
of the animal was thrown almost wholly upon the fore-feet.  The slightest 
impulse moved it forward, as it had no “purchase” by which to stand still, or 
to move backward.
	Its quietness was partly due to the brute’s astonishment, and to a 
sense of its utter helplessness, and partly to the weight of the viscera 
thrown forward into the thorax, interfering with the use of the vocal organs. 
As soon, however, as it was let go, the hog yelled lustily.

SCHOOLS AND PRESS OF MEXICO
	It is a lamentable fact that but a small portion of the Mexican people 
are able to read and write.  The total number of illiterate persons is not 
definitely known, there being no accurate census returns to which references 
can be made.  The most reliable estimate that can be arrived at places the 
number at 7,000,000 or fully two-thirds of the entire population.
	It is safe to say that of all the daily papers published in the City 
of Mexico, no one of them has a circulation of 500 copies outside of the city 
of publication, while it is more than probable that the combined outside 
circulation of all the dailies will not exceed that number.  I have been in a 
Mexican city of 12,000 inhabitants, where not a single copy of a daily 
newspaper was subscribed for by the entire native population, and where not 
fifty newspapers of an kind were received at the post-office, except those 
addressed to residents and visitors of foreign birth. – [Indianapolis Times]

WHAT MAKES COMPLEXION
	A pigment under the epidermis makes the complexion.  The colored 
person has a black pigment, and the blonde a still lighter pigment.  When 
there is not pigment in the skin, an Albino is the result, with pink eyes, 
white hair, and white skin.  When there is an excess of pigment, freckles, 
moles and birth-marks appear.  Freckles are not alone due to the action of the 
sun.  Some people have them in abundance on the parts of the body not exposed 
to the sun.  The hairs are hollow tubes, and have a supply of pigment sent 
into them which determine the color of the hair.  The pigment comes from the 
blood.  White hair may be from absence of pigment or from the presence of air 
in the tubes.

THE TALK OF A DENTIST

HOW ALL WORK ON THE TEETH HAS BEEN PERFECTED

Nearly A Ton Of Gold Annually Buried With Dead People

	“A ton of gold goes under the ground nearly every year.” said a 
prominent Philadelphia dentist, “buried in the teeth and plates of people who 
have at one time or another been in the dental chair.  The repair and 
refurbishment of the teeth has got to be a profession of the highest skill and 
proficiency.  High standing in the profession is repaid with richest rewards.  
The establishment of the university department of dentistry has given a great 
impetus to the study.  Scores of able and expert young men matriculate 
annually.  They come from all parts of the world – South America, Cuba, 
Mexico, the continent and Japan.  This city is foremost in dental operations 
and dental surgery.  Some of the work turned out here is wonderfully perfect.  
Many men and women prefer false teeth to the natural ones, if the latter are 
the least bit defective, and few people have a perfect set of teeth.
	“Instruments?”  Why, yes, the instrumentation of a first0class dentist 
is comprised in several large cases, like that,” pointing to a series of 
handsome rosewood cases, and pulling out drawer after drawer, filled with 
delicate steel p[robes, chisels, borers, and forceps.  The manufacture of 
these is a great trade in itself.  There is the dental engine, one of the 
greatest inventions in the profession, indispensable now, with its flexible 
screw.  The electric mallet, another modern invention unknown to the old-
fashioned tooth-carpenters, is used by nearly all dentists and requiring a 
battery to run it.  The rubber dam or appliance placed over the tooth and 
mouth of a patient to prevent moisture and saliva reaching the part operated 
on is the greatest of the modern discoveries.  Anyone who has been in the 
dentist’s chair under the old plan, which necessitated packing the mouth of 
the patient with napkins, and since under the rubber dam, can see what 
infinite torture this scientific adaptation has relieved him from.
	“Twenty thousand dollars a year.  Yes, there are dental surgeons in 
this city who make that much by their profession.  A clientage very often 
includes a whole family and the care of the teeth of each from infancy until 
adolescence and beyond.  American dentists have the highest repute abroad – 
Dr. Evans, for instance, whose patients in Paris and elsewhere were empresses, 
kings, queens, and princes of the blood.
	“Gold is the best material yet found for filling teeth.  Silver and 
composition of various kinds, being cheaper, are used, but the royal metal is 
the only one which ought to be used.  The manufacture of gold foil or leaf for 
our business is immense, and hundred of thousands of dollars worth are 
consumed every year.
	“The teeth should be looked to often by a good dentist.  Individual 
care early in life saves much dental work and expense.  It used to be the idea 
that the deciduous teeth, as they were temporary affairs, needed no 
attention.  They should be treated with greater attention than the second 
set.  They are not filled now as much as formerly, but extracted when caries 
attacks them.  The biblical expression, ‘skin of the teeth’ is true.  There is 
a delicate enamel, resembling epidermis in its microscopic delicacy, and 
covers the teeth with a beautiful mosaic, which is susceptible of a perfect 
polish, which you may see glistening on the teeth of some young people and 
Africans.  Acids go for this and once broken in upon caries ensues.  Good and 
bad teeth are hereditary; but early care and professional skill will do much 
with even a bad natural set of teeth.  A Philadelphia father I know – client 
of mine – has in each of his children’s rooms over the lavatory the following 
motto:  “Say your prayers; wash your face; comb your hair; brush your teeth.”  
It is a good one. – [Philadelphia Times]

A POETIC TAIL
	A thoughtless boy with a shining pail went singing gaily down the 
dale, to where a sad-eyed cow with a brindle tail on clover sweet did herself 
regale.  A bumble bee did gaily sail over the soft and shadowed vale, to where 
the boy with the shining pail was milking the cow with the brindle tail.  The 
bee lit down on the cow’s right ear, her heels flew up through the atmosphere –
 and through the leaves of a big oak tree the boy sailed into eternity. – 
[Oregon Reporter]

The Japanese rake is formed of wood or bamboo, the teeth being made by 
splitting the end into the requisite number of prongs and bending them in an 
arc.

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