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Lamar News February 4, 1886

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THE LAMAR NEWS 

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor         VERNON, ALABAMA,  FEBRUARY 4, 
1886          VOL. III. NO. 14

THE BORES – [by EUGENE FIELD]
There’s the man who lets you shake his limpy hand – 
He’s a bore
He’s the man who leans against you when you stand – 
God his gore
There’s a man who has a fear
That the world is, year by year,
Growing worse – perhaps he’s near
Bolt the door.

There’s the fellow with conundrums quite antique
He’s a bore
There’s the man who ask you “What?” when e’er you speak
Though you roar.
There’s the man who slaps your back,
With a button-bursting whack –
If you think he’s on your track,
Bolt the door.

There’s the punster with this everlasting pun
He’s a bore
If the man who makes alliterative “fun”
Worse and more
There’s the man who tells the tale
That a year ago was stale
Like as not he’s out of jail – 
Bolt the door.

MY PROPERTY
	Aunt Fanny had just come to make a usual summer visit and I had 
proudly taken her through the house to have her admire the improvements made 
since her last visit.
	“It is very nice and convenient, dear,” she said, as she seated 
herself in the easy-chair I offered her, “but did --- never regret giving 
those bonds to ---- husband, May?”
	“Most assuredly not, auntie.  Why?”
	“Because I thought it very unwise that some day you would bitterly 
regret it.  It was your poor father’s property and should have been retained 
in your own name I am sure.”
	“Now, don’t worry, auntie, please.  You came to have a pleasant visit 
with us.  Ella has been dearly frantic with delight since I told her your were 
coming.”
	“The child, yes.  She is a dear little thing, to be sure!  But do you 
know that if your husband should die today --- would inherit the property you -
---him.  If she were your own child it would be different.”
	“But she is mine, all I have, certainly.  I love her dearly, and I 
hope to be a good mother to her, notwithstanding all the bitter things written 
and said against step-mothers.”
	“Yes, and you are a good mother to her.  But to suppose still 
farther.  If ---, too, should be taken away then ---property would not revert 
to you, but go to her relatives, of whom you know nothing.  Would that be 
right?”
	“Perhaps not.  But why do you say such dreadful things?  She and her 
father are as likely to live as I.  And the wife is entitle to dower.”
	“Yes, the interest from one-third of what her husband leaves.  Just 
the interest, mind you.  And you gave him the means to go into business.  You 
know he failed once, and may, possibly again.”
	“But he paid up every penny” I ---back, proudly.
	“I know, and it was right; but, consequently you married a poor man 
with a child as well as a wife to support on a clerk’s salary.”
	“You forget, auntie, that he still ---this beautiful home when all his 
creditors had been fully paid; the ---in which Ella was born and there his 
poor wife died."
	“I forgot nothing and what I remember with the greatest bitterness is -
--unadvised set of yielding up your ----patrimony, intrusted to me by your 
dying father for you, and that you took no obligation for it whatever.”
	“But, I replied, “he invested it in business which supports us 
nicely.  Besides, it was not his fault.  He trusted me to have interest 
beating ----, or to be the company in the -----, as if I would!  And I told 
him never t mention the subject to me again, and he never has.”
	“Then all I have to say is you were very sill as well as imprudent.”
	But it was not all she had to say.  ----to telling me that a certain 
match making mother had said that my husband would have preferred one of her 
daughters if she had held property in her own right as I did.  That he needed 
the money and married me simply to obtain it.
	“Don’t, aunty, please.” I said with a little shiver.
	“Nor would I, but to convince you that he should have secured your 
little property to you, if only for the opinion of others.”
	“It is all right just as it is.  Ah!  Here comes Ella,” and my dear 
old worldly wise aunt forgot to lecture in her delight at seeing the little 
fairy who nearly smothered her with kisses.
	But I had received a hurt that rankled like a thorn in the flesh.  And 
so Mrs. Jones thought he married em for my money?  And perhaps others have the 
same opinion?  Of course I knew he did not, and said it over and over again to 
myself as I helped our one servant to prepare the evening meal.
	And when my husband came with his hearty, cheery welcome for Aunt 
Fanny I looked wistfully in his face for an answer to my mental question, for 
question it would become in spite of my firm determination to ignore it as 
such.
	Once more during Aunt Fanny’s stay did she attempt to renew the 
conversation, interrupted by Ella’s entrance.  But I only said;  “If you 
please, auntie, I would rather not say anything more about that.”
	And she who thought she was only striving for my interest, replied 
coldly:  “Pardon me May, I shall not offend again.”
	“Offend you, who have been father, mother and auntie all in one”  And 
I kissed her as I had ever done since she drew me away from her only brother’s 
coffin, hiding her own grief to assuage mine.
	“Do you remember, auntie, dear, when I used to have sulks and you 
would take me out hunting – hunting sunshine, you called it?”  I often think 
of it when things go wrong, as they must occasionally, and wish you with me to 
go hunting sunshine.”
	“Yes, I remember.  You were a great comfort to me, and I am afraid I 
have never quite forgotten the man who coaxed my brother’s only child away 
from the lonely old maid.”
	“And the best friend a wayward girl ever had,” I replied.
	But somehow, after Aunt Fanny’s visit my thoughts and feelings were 
not the same. Had I been unwise, as she said, in giving up everything to my 
husband?  And had he been too eager to accept it?  I was fearful it was even 
so. He should have made me understand that I had reserved rights and not taken 
my property to control unadvisedly, especially to invest in a business subject 
to all the fluctuations of the market.  And now he never spoke of it only as 
his own and I had helped him to it all, and he had forgotten it.
	In my morbid state of feeling I found so many bitter things of which 
to complain to myself.  We had been married four years and during that time 
many improvements had been made in the house and around it, incurring an 
expense of some thousands of dollars.  My slightest wish in regard to a 
convenience or modern change was satisfied almost as soon as expressed.  And 
it was, as I said to my aunt:  “a beautiful home.”
	But what if it was?  It was with my money it had been embellished and 
made more valuable, and he could easily afford to be lavish in expenditure.
	“My money used to beautify his home,” I said bitterly, glancing at my 
handsome surroundings.
	When mine and thine are having a battle, love and tenderness flee from 
the contest.  And at times I was frightened at the hard, bitter thoughts I was 
hiding from my husband, or fancied I was hiding from him.
	“What is it May?” he once said with a look of wistful 
tenderness.  “Are you quite well?”
	“Never better” I replied, lightly, too thoroughly ashamed of the imp I 
was harboring to give it a name.
	It was just a month since Aunt Fanny left us – a wretched month to me- 
when one evening my husband came in and gave me a folded paper.   “Look dear, 
and see if it is all right?”
	It was a certificate of deposit in the bank for just the amount of the 
bonds I had given him four years ago.
	“If you prefer the bonds I can obtain them for you, but the interest 
is very low now, and that reminds me, you will have to trust me awhile for 
your accumulated interest.  This is all I have saved from my business, but you 
are to have the interest, every penny.”
	“But whatever am I to do with it?” I asked, in amazed bewilderment.
	“Why, keep a check book and spend your own money as you please.” he 
replied laughing heartily.  “And no is the embargo removed, and may I tell you 
how grateful I am for the use of the money, and how much more for the loving 
confidence displayed in tending it?”
	I could not reply, for the little good left in me was groping, 
dismally, in the valley of humiliation.
	“I will consider silence consent, then.  Have you never suspected how 
I secured your patrimony to you in case anything happened to me before I could 
repay you?”
	“But I would not have any security, you know that!” I said, eagerly 
snatching at the last ray of self-respect.
	“But you did all the same.  This house with its two lots was deeded to 
you and the deed recorded the same day I received your bonds.  So you see I 
have not only been using your money, but living in your house – Etta and I – 
for the past four years.”
	“Oh, Why did you?” I asked.
	“Why did I live in your house?  Because I had nowhere else to live, 
and besides, I rather liked it.”
	“You know what I mean.  Why did you deed the place to me?”
	“Because it was right to do so.  I was acting as your guardian, and 
had no right to use your property without giving security.  Don’t you see?”
	“Yes, and now I am to deed it back to you?”
	“No, I like it just as it is.”
	“I must write to Aunt Fanny, tonight,” I said more to myself than him.
	He indulged in a low whistle.  I had unwittingly betrayed myself, and 
compromised with a full confession, even to the grievous report that he had 
only married me for my little fortune.
	“Did you believe that?” he asked gravely.
	“I tried hard not to believe it, but just now I seem to myself such a 
perfect type of total depravity that I wonder you took me under any 
circumstances.”

ORCHIDS
	The orchid family of plants is peculiarly interesting on account of 
the strange forms assumed by its flowers.  Many of them imitate in perfection 
the butterflies and bees and the curious winged insects that inhabit the 
tropics.  The plants themselves in tropical climates are frequently dry stems, 
parasitic upon the trunks of trees; but in the flowering season they burst out 
into the most superb and gorgeous blossoms, that set a whole forest aflame 
with their colors.  For these reasons they are most highly prized by the 
florists, and a fine group of orchids is considered one of the choicest 
treasures of great botanical collections.  In our own country we have about 
seventy-five species, some of which are very showy and handsome.  But the 
orchid fancier goes farther afield for his beauties.  He must have them from 
the wilds of Australia or Van Dieman’s Land, or from the jungles of India, 
from the banks of the Amazon or from the Islands of  tropic seas.  Linnaeus 
knew only 100 species of orchids; Persoon, in 1806, knew 477; Sprengel, in 
1830, had enumerated about 800; and in more recent times the number has risen 
to nearly 3,000.  The genera, also, are very many in number, but those which 
are most popular with cultivators are comparatively few, although they contain 
a great number of species. – [Utica Herald]

THE CROW AND THE RAM
	An old Crow was watching a flock of sheep grazing in a valley when a 
large eagle suddenly flew among them and carried off a young lamb.
	“It seems to me that I ought to be able to do that” remarked the 
crow.  “I’ll try it at any rate.”
	With those words the Crow flew down, lit on the back of a large Ram, 
and after violent exertions succeeded in flying away with him to the top of a 
neighboring mountain four miles high.  After being deposited, the ram remarked 
in a tone of playful nonchalance:
	“Well, having gotten me up here, what do you propose to do with me, 
you black pirate?  If you don’t get down this mountain in a hurry, I’ll butt 
you into mince meat.”  The poor crow, accepting the situation, fluttered 
sorrowfully down the mountainside and supped in the valley on a belated 
fishing worm.
	MORAL:  Don’t’ undertake an army contract before carefully estimating 
the probable net profits. – [Life]

MAKING EFFIGIES OF WAX – A QUEER BUSINESS THAT IS CARRIED ON IN PHILADELPHIA.
Reproducing the Faces and Figures of Celebrities for Exhibition.
	Of all queer businesses carried on in this city that of manufacturing 
wax figures takes the honors.  It has only been started lately and but few 
people know that it exists at all.  The first room in the factory is where the 
modeling in clay is done.  Here is the sculptor who makes the busts of noted 
men from photographs.  He uses the ordinary modeling clay common to all 
sculptors and does not differ very materially from them in his methods, except 
that he rarely has the good fortune to have a living model sit for him.  He 
relies solely upon photographs, and if he is making a bust of Cleveland or 
Grand or any prominent man he obtains all the photographs he can, full face, 
three-quarter and profile.
	After he has finished a bust and caught a likeness he forthwith 
destroys all semblance to the man he intends to produce by removing whatever 
beard or moustache he may have and by taking all the fair off the head.  This 
leaves the bust as the original would appear if he was perfectly bald and 
clean shaved.  The effect is startling, particularly in the case of full-
bearded men like Blaine or Roscoe Conkling, and Cleveland or General Custer 
are hardly recognizable without their moustaches and hair.  It is necessary, 
however, to do this in order that the effigy in wax may be made.  The next 
process is that of taking a plaster cast of the head after it is sufficiently 
dried.  This is done by covering the face with a thick coating of plaster of 
Paris, waiting until it dried and then removing it and proceeding in like 
manner with the rest of the head.  The plaster mould is next taken into the 
wax-boiling room, where it is treated inside with a preparation to keep the 
wax from sticking to it.  Melted wax is then poured into the mould.  Before 
the wax has quite cooled the plaster is broken away from it, leaving the head 
ready for the fair workers and finishers.  The hands of the figures are made 
by coating a real hand and wrist with plaster of Pairs and cutting the mould 
off with a piece of string before it has quite dried.  To prevent the plaster 
from pulling out the little hairs on the back of the hand and wrist they are 
carefully shaved off.  But few Temple Theatre people have any hair on the 
backs of their hands.
	The process of putting in the hair is very tedious.  Each hair is 
pricked separately with a needle.  Yesterday one of the hair-workers was just 
beginning on Adelina Patti’s head.  It was bald, except for a narrow fringe of 
long hair at the base of the neck.  The eyes had not been put in and the face 
looked like anything but the countenance of the lovely diva.  Edwin Booth’s 
head was in a further state of completion and with the exception of a large 
bald spot over the left ear, had its quota of wavy ringlets.  The bodies of 
the figures are made of papier-mache and are manufactured in this room from 
plaster casts taken from living models.  They are dressed in the room by 
expert seamstresses and tailors.  The finishing touches to the heads are given 
by J. G. Sarter, the originator of the Eden Musee in New York. Mr. Sarter is a 
portrait painter and has a good eye for a likeness.  He puts in the eyes and 
teeth and paints the faces.  When they pass out of his hands they almost look 
as if they could speak. – [Philadelphia Times]

THE RETORT COURTEOUS
	“My dear fellow,” says an Indiana sheriff to his prisoner, “I must 
apologize to you for the sanitary condition of this jail.  Several of the 
prisoners are down with the measles, but I assure you that it is not my fault.”
	“Oh, no excuses,” replied the prisoner.  “I t was my intention to 
break out as soon as possible anyway.” – [ New York Sun]

EXPLAINING A PROVERB
	“Papa, what does this mean:  “It is better to give than to receive?” 
asked a Harlean boy of his fond parent.
	“It means, my son, that your mother finds more pleasure in lecturing 
me than I do in hearing her.” – [New York Journal]

A LONG YEAR
	It is over twenty-nine years since we were able to view Saturn in 
perihelion before and that is the length of a Saturnian year.  While in 
perihelion he is under certain conditions nearest the earth, and under 
circumstances most favorable to scientific observation.  His journey around 
the sun of 9,000,000,000 miles covers almost a generation of the lives of the 
men and women of this planet, and when he makes each fresh appearance with his 
present distinctness, it is an event indeed.   The science of astronomy is 
enlarging as constantly and as rapidly as any other science, and the 
observations that astronomers will now be able t take of the splendid planet 
under its present favorable conditions, ought to add much to the information 
concerning it, and certainly none of the heavenly bodies has inspired more 
eager or intelligent research than the one whose return we celebrate.  But 
what a journey is made by this luminary, whose mean distance from the sun is 
881,000,000 miles or more than nine times the distance of the earth.  If it 
has a race of beings fitted to exist at such a distance from the source of 
heat and light, wheat lengthy seasons they must enjoy.  Under such conditions 
there would be some satisfaction in having a seaside cottage or a mountain 
chalet, for what they would call their heated term would extend over a number 
of years.  Bu the fact is a hundred millions of miles or so make very little 
difference in those almost unimaginable distances.  Probably distance lends 
enchantment to the view. But when our earth is dead the Saturn and the other 
great planets in the course of some millions of years will take their turn in 
physical development, and perhaps in some countless ages hence the wandering 
ghosts that have vanished from the earth will reappear in new forms of life 
upon the yet imperfect, but magnificent world rolling in space and waiting for 
its day to dawn. – [Providence Journal]

 A KIND VOICE
	There is no power of love so hard to get and keep as a kind voice.  A 
kind hand is deaf and dumb.  It may be rough in flesh and blood, yet do the 
work of a soft heart, and do it with a soft touch.  But there is no one thing 
that love so much needs as a sweet voice to tell what it means and feels; and 
it is hard to get and keep it in the right tone.  One must start in youth, and 
be on the watch night and day, at work and play, to get and keep a voice that 
shall speaks at all times the thoughts of a kind heart.  But this is the time 
when a sharp voice is apt to be got.  You often hear boys and girls say words 
at play with a sharp, quick tone as if it were the snap of a whip.  When one 
of them gets vexed, you will hear a voice that sounds as if it were made up of 
a snarl, a whine, and a bark.  It is often in mirth that one gets a voice or 
tone that is sharp, and sticks to him through life, and stirs up ill-will and 
grief, and falls like a drop of gall on the sweet joys of home.  Watch it day 
by day, as a pearl of great price, for it will be worth more to you in days to 
come than the best pearl hid in the sea.  A kind voice is to the heart what 
light is to the eye.  It is a light that sings as well as shines.  Train it to 
sweet tones now, and it will keep in tone through life. – [Elihu Burritt]

BRINGING THE DEAD TO LIFE
	Some facts mentioned by Dr. Richardson, the English physiologist, 
suggest the possibility of restoring persons to life after actual death.  By 
combining artificial circulation with artificial respiration, a dog was 
restored to life sixty-five minutes after having been killed by an overdoes of 
chloroform, the heart having become perfectly still and cold; and frogs 
poisoned by nitrate of amuyl were restored after nine days of apparent death, 
signs of putrefactive change having appeared in one case.  A quite startling 
effect is produced by peroxide of hydrogen in reanimating the blood and 
restoring heat to a really dead body.  These observations, in the opinion of 
Mr. W. Matteau Williams, justify the conclusion that a drowned or suffocated 
man is not hopelessly dead as long as the bodily organs remain uninjured by 
violence or disease, and the blood remains sufficiently liquid to be set in 
motion artificially and supplied with a little oxygen to start the chemical 
movements of life.

SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS
The use of electricity as a motor is a coming fact.  The University College of 
London has already founded a department of electrical engineering.
	
By carefully conducted experiments, Mr. J. C. Arthur has demonstrated that 
bacteria are the direct cause of the disease known as pear blight.  Sap from 
an affected tree invariably produced the disease when inoculated into a 
healthy tree.

According to a German histologist, there are in the cerebral mass over 
900,000,000 nerve cells, each an independent organism and microscopic brain.  
Of these nerve cells he estimates that 5,000,000 die every day and that every 
sixty days the brain is replaced.

In countries having marked winter seasons, earthquakes are found to be more 
frequent in winter than in summer.  Dr. Knott, of the Seismological Society of 
Japan, finds only two possible meteorological reasons for this – one being the 
stress of accumulated snow, and the other that of high barometric pressure 
during the cold season.

The use of nitroglycerine as a substitute for alcohol for stimulating the 
action of the heart has been recommended by Dr. J. B. Burroughs.  The 
advantages claimed are, that only a minute quantity is required, that the 
nitroglycerine is practically free from taste and odor, that it acts 
immediately and that it is not likely to induce a craving for alcoholic 
stimulants.

A French chemist proposed coating the bodies of the dead with a skin of 
copper, which is readily effected by the well-known process of electro-
plating.  A second plating of gold or silver could be added if desired.  The 
treatment permanently preserves the corpses from chemical change, and has 
already been applied to several human subjects and to many animals.

A recent interesting exhibition of apparatus in Paris by Dr. Boudet, included 
modifications of the telephone adapting the instrument to a variety of medical 
uses.  In one form the pulsations of blood vessels and all sorts of internal 
operations were very strikingly made audible, the observer being able to hear 
at will the movements in any part of the body.  Dr. Boudet also employs the 
telephone as a measuring instrument for accurately estimating the nervous and 
muscular excitement in the different phases of a disease.

ITS ONLY DEFECT
“I’m an artist,” explained a young man, with an easel and palette under his 
arm, to a well-top-do farmer at the front gate.  “I was admiring the 
architecture of your new house.”
	“Yes,” replied the farmer.  “It’s about the finest building in these 
parts.  It cost enough to be. Kin ye paint, stranger.”
	“Oh, yes,”
	“D’ye see than chimly on the northwest corner?”
	“Yes,” it’s a false chimney, is it not?”
	“Yes,” assented the farmer impatiently, “that’s what everybody says.  
Now, I’ll tell you what I’ll do, stranger.  If ye’ll paint some smoke comin’ 
out o’ that chimley, I’ll pay ye well for the job.” – [New York Times]

HIS MOTHER’S PIE
	Mrs. Jones (newly married) – How did you like that pie we had for 
dinner today?
	Mrs. Jones (who recollects his childhood) – It was rather good, but 
not such a pie as my mother used to bake.  Why don’t you call over and get her 
recipe?  Did you bake it?
	Mrs. Jones – No
	Mr. Jones – Ah!  Who did then?”
	Mrs. Jones (triumphantly) – Your mother baked it and sent it over.  
She thought you would like it. – [New York Graphic]

It is predicted that in the course of the next five years, the steel nail will 
have as completely supplemented the iron nail as the steel rail has its iron 
predecessor.  Already one-half of the nails manufactured in Wheeling are made 
of steel, and the machinery and plant necessary for their manufacture are 
being set up in every nail center and at nearly every nail found foundry.  It 
is said that steel nails can be made about ten cents per keg cheaper than 
those made of iron, even where the manufacturer has to purchase his ingots.

A Baltimore negro has literally worn two fingers off in many years of 
shoveling coal.  The case is reported by a physician as a curiosity.  There is 
no apparent disease and no inconvenience.

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY FEB. 4, 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.

Ex-President Arthur is not in good health.

The Presidential Succession Bill has become a law.

The expenses for the funeral of Gen. Grant were a little over $14,000.  The 
bill has been paid by the Government.

It is stated that the English Government, if defeated on the Irish Question, 
will not resign, but will appeal to the country.

The President has nominated Chas. J. Canda, of New York, to be Assistant 
Treasurer of the United States at New York City.

And now it is alleged that Gladstone will soon deny that he ever intended to 
propose the restoration of the Irish Parliament.

The decision of the Attorney-General that druggists must have state and county 
license to sell whiskey, even on a doctor’s prescription, has stirred up the 
pharmacists.

Queen Victoria prorogued parliament on the 21st and in a short speech on the 
condition and relation of the government used the words “My” and “I” thirty-
nine times.  So much for a government ruled by a woman.

OUR LAW MAKERS
	Of our eight representatives and two senators, neither of the latter 
and only three of the former were born in Alabama.
	John T. Morgan hails from Tennessee, and Pugh from Georgia.  Morgan is 
serving out his third term as Senator which will not expire until March 1889.  
Pugh was elected to succeed Houston, and then chosen for a full term and will 
hold until 1891.
	Jas. T. Jones of the first district comes from Virginia, and is now 
serving out his second term in Congress.
	H. A. Herbert of the second district is a South Carolinian, and has 
represented his people for the past ten years in Congress.
	Wm. C. Oates is an Alabamian by birth, and has thrice been elected 
from the third district.
A. C. Davidson of the fourth district is a North Carolinian, and this is his 
first term.
The fifth district is represented by T. W. Sadler, who was born near 
Russelville in this state.  This is his first term.
John M. Martin of the sixth district is also an Alabamian by birth and was 
born at Athens.  This is his first term.
Wm. H. Forney of the seventh district is the oldest member from Alabama. He 
was born in North Carolina, and is now serving out his sixth term.
The eighth district is represented by Jos. Wheeler, who is Georgian by birth 
and is now serving out his second term.
Only one of them was born in the hot month of June, and he is the greatest of 
them all, one in March, one in April, one in January, one in September, two in 
December, and two in November.  One does not know or does not say when he was 
born.
All were soldiers in the late war except one, all are lawyers except one and 
he is a farmer.  All were born Democrats and have never departed from the 
faith.
Morgan is 62 years old, Pugh 64, Jones 54, Herbert 52, Oates 51, Davidson 60, 
Sadler 55, Martin 49, Forney 63, Wheeler 50.
Nearly every nation on earth has a member of one or other house.  Senator 
Beck, of Kentucky, came from old Scotland, and Senator Jones, of Florida, was 
born on the Emerald Isle beneath the beautiful Sam Rock.
Africa, Germany, Italy, and England have recruited our ranks with their choice 
men, and who are now thoroughly Americanized.
It is proper to state that J. H. Berry, a Senator from Arkansas, is an 
Alabamian by birth and was born up in Jackson County.

AN ADDRESS
BY THE SOLDIER’S MOUNMENT COMMITTEE
To the People of Alabama:
	It is proposed to erect in the city of Montgomery, the capital of the 
State, and on the public grounds, a fitting monument to the memory of the 
gallant sons of Alabama who gave their lives to the cause of constitutional 
government in the late war between the states.  These were our fathers and our 
brothers.  From every county in the state, from every township of every 
county, they came at the state'’ call to do its bidding.  Duty summoned them, 
and they did not stop to count the cost, but casting one last lingering look 
of wife and child, on mother and sister and sweetheart, they turned their 
backs on the happy homes, the green fields, and the peaceful pursuits so dear 
to them, and went out to all the dread circumstances of war – the weary march, 
hunger and thirst, the dreary bivouac, cheerless camp, sickness and privation, 
the horrors of the hospital, the battle’s pitiless rage and unmarked graves.
	The story of their achievement will emblazon history’s brightest pages 
until those shall be no more.  We can add nothing to their fame, which will 
outlast granite or bronze.  They have bequeathed to us and to all the 
generations of Alabamians a precious and priceless heritage of renown.  Their 
deeds on the battlefields, hallowed by their blood, glorify Alabama among the 
sons of men.  It is becoming that we, their neighbors and kinsmen while they 
were of us, joint heirs of their glory now they are gone, should lift up 
before the world a testimonial of our appreciation of what they dared, endured 
and suffered, that all mankind may know they did not live and die in vain, but 
left their unequaled example of patriotism, of fortitude and of valor to 
survivors worthy of their great sacrifice, and to descendents worthy to have 
sprung from their loins.  These men did not hesitate when the State called 
them into the service in which they fell.  There should be no difficulty in 
securing the necessary contributions for the proposed monument.  Every 
Alabamian must feel it a privilege to aid in this memorial.  Only opportunity 
is needed.  Contributors are ready.  The money is awaiting call.  The officers 
of the several counties and of the respective towns and cities have only to 
form themselves into committees and ask, to receive.  The work is for the 
State, not for Montgomery.  It is for us, not for our children.  It is for 
this year, not for the next.  It is to be done now.  Indifference would 
reproach us.  Delay would shame us.  Failure would humiliate us. Now is the 
accepted time – the only time.  The duty is on each man in the State; and the 
measure of each man’s duty is his influence and importance in his community.
	W. S. REEESE, Ch’m’n
	E. A. O’NEAL
	W. L. BRAGG
	W. W. ALLEN
	JOSIAH MORRIS
	W. W. SCREWS
	W. B. JONES

Mrs. LOUISA LEE BAYARD, the wife of the Secretary of State, died on last 
Sunday morning, the 31st ult, at her residence in Washington, of congestion of 
the brain.  She had been in bad health for several years and, it is thought, 
the death of her daughter two weeks ago hastened her own death.

SAM JONES COMPARISON – [Cincinnati Enquirer]
	A railroad man never fires up his engine unless he intends that engine 
to go out on duty, and the Lord never fires up a Christian that is going to 
stand in the round house.  There are different kinds of Christians.  Just as 
there are different kinds of engines.  There are engines in this town that 
haven’t been out in ten months, and there are others that go out every day in 
all their power and glory toward Chattanooga.  There is your regular road 
engine, and your little switch-engine, and that engine there in the roundhouse 
that seems to be a matter of show.  I have often thought these nice preachers 
in the city – I don’t know whether you ever saw one or not, but when you do 
you will know him – kid-gloved fellows, white-cravated, and they are the 
nicest things you every saw in the world, more elegant than anything except 
their sermons – resemble a locomotive.  It hurts a man to get up; Sunday and 
preach himself twice, but when he preaches Christ twice a day it doesn’t hurt 
him.  I never tried to preach but one big sermon and then I burst wide open. 
If you were to say “Hell” right here in that way to one of those preachers you 
would shock him nearly to death.  I have been criticized by these nice 
preachers, these elegant preachers, and I have said to them:  “Brother, I was 
in this round house the other day, and as I stood there there came in a 
locomotive all soiled, and black, and greasy, and dusty, and I asked, “What is 
the matter with that engine?”  ‘O,” he said, “that grand engine has just 
pulled in from Chattanooga with ten heavily-freighted passenger cars.’  I 
turned around to another bright, beautiful engine – its brasses shining, its 
machinery glistening. It had not been out of the round house for six months.”  
We can excuse dirt and dust if something has been done.  And then there are 
those little switch-engines running in and out, blowing whistles and 
frightening horses.  They remind me of those Christians you never see except 
at revivals, where they go shouting around.  Let us go out today and couple on 
to something.

An exchange chronicles the virtues of a Lowndes county hen, Biddy.  A colored 
man in the county owns a hen that, last year, by her own exertions, hatched 
and raised six broods of chickens.  At a low estimate Biddy brought her own 
$12.  We print this item for the purpose of encouraging other hens to follow 
the good example of their enterprising sister.

GENERAL NEWS

Turkey is making great naval preparations, fearing action by Greece.

The North Carolina gold mines are paying better than for twenty years.

Chaucey DEPEW says that Mr. VANDERBILT was often in need of small change.

Twenty-six Senators keep house in Washington; the others live in hotels and 
boarding houses.

New Years Day three years hence will begin the year 1889 with a total eclipse 
of the sun.

The Queen’s speech says there will be a vigorous enforcement of the laws in 
Ireland.

A widower and widow, recently married in Niles, Michigan, start out with 
twenty-six children.

There have recently passed over the Georgia-pacific Road 1,500 colored 
laborers from North and South Carolina en route to Mississippi and Louisiana.
Mr. T. C. LEAKE, JR., Vice-President of the Memphis & Atlantic Railroad, 
states that the contract will be let by the 15th of February for the building 
of sixty-six miles of the road, starting from Holly Springs in the direction 
of Birmingham.  This will put the road six miles this side of the Mobile & 
Ohio road.

DAVID R. ATCHISON died at his home in Clinton Co., Mo., on the 26th ult aged 
seventy-nine.  The deceased, was United States Senator from this state from 
1843 till 1855, and was Vice-President of that body.  He also bears the 
singular distinction of having been President of the Untied States for one 
day.  He was born ion Fayette County, Kentucky, and early in life removed to 
this state, settling in Platte County.

Lists of Patents granted to citizens of Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi, for 
the week ending Tuesday, January 26, 1889, compiled from the Official Records 
of the United States Patent Office, expressly for the Lamar News, by W. A. 
REDMOND, Solicitor of Patents, No. 637 F. Street, N. W. ,Washington, D. C., of 
whom information may be had.
FLORIDA – JNO. W. EMERSON, Opopka, Rotary Engine; L. S. LINGINGSTON and A. 
MCBRIDE, Orange Springs, Cotton gin.
GEORGIA – CHARLES C. PINKNEY, Valdosta, Fifth Wheel for vehicles; P. M. 
TAYLOR, Atlanta, Platform for railway track scales.
MISSISSIPPI – JAMES A. RODEN and N. C. MORGAN, Doerbrook, Seed planter.

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.

Largest Cheapest Best stock of dress goods, dress trimmings, ladies and misses 
jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, boots, shoes, and hats, 
tin ware, etc. etc. at rock-bottom figures at A.  COBB & SONS.

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.

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

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.

New Cash Store, Vernon – Alabama.  We have just opened a large, fresh, and 
well selected stock of General Merchandise, consisting of dry goods, notions, 
family groceries, &c.  We have on hand also, a large and well selected stock 
of School Books.  The bottom knocked out in prices.  We only ask a trial.  
Chickens, eggs, butter, and all kinds of country produce wanted, and on hand. –
 GEO. W. RUSH & Co.

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.

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 FEB. 4, 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
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 3 o’clock p.m.  G. W. RUSH, Supt.

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All advertisements collectable after first insertion.
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Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, Alabama, 
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We wish it distinctly understood that in no case does the mere publication of 
a communication commit this paper to an endorsement thereof.

LOCAL BREVITIES

Sow oats.

Trade good.

The weather is better.

Keep the golden rule this year.

Advertising is the best thing you can do.

The time for gardening will soon be here.

Industry blended with economy is indispensable to success.

This is a good year for the practice of economy.

Teach your children to respect their seniors.

Circuit Court convenes on Tuesday, 1st day of March.

A good number of suits have commenced in the circuit court this week.

Eggs are a scarce commodity in this market.

When a man advertises he means business.

Every carpenter is pushed up to all he can do.

Educate your children, and don’t forget their moral training.

Sow your oats as soon as possible, but don’t sow any wild oats.

Mr. JAS. R. MACE, the Jeweler, can now be found a the stand formerly occupied 
by S. F. PENNINGTON & Bro.

We ask the public to please excuse our mistake, we are trying to do better.

Several Drummers were in town last week.

We were pleased to meet our old friend GEORGE GRISSOM, of Franklin County, in 
our town last week.

All kind of country produce will be taken at it s cash value for subscription 
to the News.

Lean pocket books and the brevity of credit makes economy as convenient as 
slipping up on the ice.

The Tax Assessor will commence his rounds in a few weeks, as will be seen from 
his advertisement in this paper.

RUSH & Co. are moving into the home formerly occupied by Messrs. A. COBB &  
Son.

The News will move last of this week into the house recently occupied by J. B. 
MACE, Jeweler.

The Probate Court was in session Saturday and Monday last, some large estates 
being settled.

JAS. B. MACE has on hand a few Christmas toys, which he will sell at a great 
sacrifice.

We regret to learn that Mrs. D. J. LACY is quite sick at her home five miles 
South of this place.

Mr. J. L. TACKETT, of Mountain Glenn, Ark., is visiting parents Mr. and Mrs. 
LANK TACKETT of near Vernon.

Mr. W. F. GREEN, of Pikeville, is now connected with the News.  Mr. GREEN is 
an experienced printer and his skillful work, we predict, will be appreciated 
by the readers of the News.

We were pleased to meet Mr. JAS. G. YOUNG of Detroit in town Monday.  Mr. 
YOUNG shows his appreciation of the News by having several copies sent to his 
friends.

New stores and new goods are the topics of the conversation on our streets, 
and from the appearance it would seem that hard times are getting on the 
background.

Vernon contains sixteen business houses now in which some business is carried 
on, two hotels and three livery stables.  Since Prohibition went into effect 
the business interests of the town have doubled.

NOTICE – GEORGE W. RUSH & Co have recently moved to the corner house next to 
A. COBB & Son’s mammoth store, where they will be pleased to have their 
friends and customers call and examine their well selected stock of goods.

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.

Complaint is made quite often of the length of time it requires main matter to 
go from Vernon to Detroit.  The schedule from Moscow to Detroit does not seem 
to work well with the others to that place.

The mails to this place last week were exceedingly light.  Scarcely any papers 
come during the week being piled up in some office through carelessness or on 
account of the carriers being unable to carry them on the heavy roads.

Circuit Clerk MIDDLETON requests that we announce that the Circuit Court will 
not open until Tuesday morning, March 2nd, and that parties, witnesses and 
jurors will not be expected to attend on Monday.  The State Docket will not be 
taken up until the 8th of March.  Parties and witnesses in State cases need 
not attend until the second week.

The News expects to reach every family in Lamar County within the next six 
months, and we would call special attention of advertiser to this statement.  
Arrangements have been made by the editor for improving the paper in many 
respects.  Being satisfied from past support by the people of the county that 
they appreciate a county paper we feel no hesitancy in spending money to 
improve the News.  We propose to make a personal canvass in each neighborhood 
in the county at an early day with the expectation of adding the names of 
those who are not subscribers to our subscription list.

ALABAMA NEWS

Property is going up in St. Clair County.

Tennessee mules are full sale in Eutaw.

Opelika seems inevitably doomed to be a constant prey to the fiery demon.

The taxable city property of Birmingham has increased in valuable about 
$200,000 over last year’s assessment.

The Birmingham Age predicts that a political blizzard wills weep over the 
United States Senate Chamber within thirty days.

The city council of Huntsville passed an ordinance making it a misdemeanor for 
a minor to enter a saloon or house of ill fame.

The State Colored Normal School at Tuskegee has received a gift of $7,000 from 
two Boston ladies – Misses MASON.

The Sumter County convicts have been hired to the Warrior Coal & Coke Co. at 
$12,15 per month each.

Mayor JEMISON says the population of Tuskaloosa has increased 100 since the 
establishment of public schools in that city.

A good many families have left Alabama recently for Texas.  It is a notable 
fact, however, that about as many have returned from Texas.

Mrs. GEORGE L. ALLEN, of Eufaula, aged 75 years, was burned to death, buy her 
clothing taking fire from the grate while her back was turned to the fire.

The receipts of the Tuskaloosa toll bridge over the Warrior were $4,600 during 
1885.

Col. VANCE LARMORE, a prominent citizen of DeKalb County, was killed near 
Valley Head on the 28th ult by a tree which fell on him and broke his neck.

There are said to be eight hundred colored preachers within eight miles of 
Morgansville, in Lowndes and Montgomery Counties.

Editor WHITE of the Moulton Advertiser, says he will pay any woman who has 
intelligence and beauty combined, a handsome salary to edit his paper for him.

The Haynesville Examiner records the death of an old negro woman who had 
passed her 130th year, and up to a few years ago was hale and hearty.  She was 
a great, great, great grandmother.  Her youngest son died some months ago aged 
85.

A correspondent of the Bibb Blade furnishes that paper with the following 
letter from a teacher to the County Superintendent of Education:
“Prof. Smith, Dear Sir
	Will you pleas send mee woord when the bord meat I started on Saturday 
an on asertaning of by warters I could not get therr pleas answer soon.
from yors
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pleas excuse paper.

It is states on good authority that most of the ailments and diseases of 
cattle, sheep and horses at this season are due to impropriety in the water 
supply; either it is impure or scant, or is too cold.  Owners of stock would 
do well to look after, and guard against these defects in the water supply – 
[Ex.]

There were several applicants for the vacancy in the office of treasurer for 
Pike County.  The Governor has very properly given the position to the editor 
of the Troy Messenger, Mr. W. J. BLAN.  Mr. BLAN it will be remembered, had 
both hands blown off last year by a premature explosion of a cannon.

Rev. RED D. HALE, who was at one time pastor of the Northport, Ala Baptist 
Church and well known throughout this section of the state has become famous 
in Louisville, Ky as an evangelist.  A late issue of the Courier-Journal gives 
a biographical sketch of his life, which is very interesting, and alludes to 
Mr. HALE as the “Baptist Moody.”

TAX ASSESSOR’S NOTICE
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
I will attend at the Precincts in the various beats of said county, for the 
purpose of assessing the State and County Taxes for the fiscal year 1886 as 
follows:
FIRST ROUND
Lawrence’s	Monday	February	22	1886
Sizemore’s	Tuesday	February	23	1886
Brown’s	Wednesday	February	24	1886
Good’s		Thursday	February	25	1886
Moscow	Friday		February	26	1886
Trull’s		Monday	March		  8	1886
Vail’s		Tuesday	March		  9	1886
Millport	Wednesday	March 		10	1886
Stein’s		Thursday	march		11	1886
Strickland	Friday		March		12	1886
Wilson’s	Saturday	March		13	1886
Town		Tuesday	march		16	1886
Bett’s		Wednesday	March		17	1886
Military Springs Thursday	March		18	1886
Pine Springs			April 13 and 19
Millville			April 14 and 17

SECOND ROUND
Lawrence’s 	Monday	March 		22
Sizemore’s	Tuesday			23
Brown’s	Wednesday			24
Goode		Thursday			25
Moscow	Friday				26
Cansler		Saturday			27
Military Springs Tuesday			30
Bett’s		Wednesday			31
Trull’s 		Monday	April		  5
Vail’s		Tuesday			  6
Millport	Wednesday			  7
Stein’s		Thursday			  8
Stricklnad’s	Friday				 9
Wilson’s	Saturday			10
Henson Springs			April 15 and 16
Will also be at Town during Court, March 1st to 8th.
W. Y. ALLEN, Tax Assessor


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pamphlets, etc. address C. E. Bull & Co., 15 Cedar St., N. Y. City.

Down With High Prices.  CHICAGO SCALE CO.  151 S. Jefferson St., Chicago.  
(Picture of small scale) - The “Little Detective” ¼ oz. to 25 lbs., $3.  
Should be in every house and office.
(Picture of scale) - 240-lbs Family or Farm Scale, $3.  Special prices to 
agents and dealers.  300 different sizes and varieties, including Counter, 
Platform, Hay, Coal, Grain, Stock and Mill Scales.  2-ton wagon scale, 6x12, 
$40.  4-ton, 8x14, $60.  Beam box and brass beam included.
(Picture of scale) – Farmer’s Portable Forgo, $10.  Forge and kit of tools 
$25.  All tools needed for repairs.  Anvils, vises, hammers, tongs, drills, 
bellows and all kinds of Blacksmith’s Tools.  And hundred of useful articles 
retailed less than wholesale prices.  Forges for all kinds of shops.  Foot-
power lathes and tools for doing papers in small shops.
(Picture of corn sheller) – Improved Iron Corn-Sheller.  Weight, 130 lbs. 
Price $6.50.  Shells a bushel a minute; fanning mills, feed mills, farmer’s 
feed cooker, &c.  Save money and send for circular.
(Picture of Sewing Machine)  A $65 Sewing Machine for $18.  Drop-leaf table, 
five drawers, cover box and all attachments.  Buy the latest, newest and 
best.  All machines warranted to give satisfaction.  Thousands sold to go to 
all parts of the Country.  Send for full price list.

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.

SHERIFF’S SALE
Within legal hours on Monday, February 8th, 1886, as Sheriff of Lamar County 
Alabama, I will sell at the court house door of said county to the highest 
bidder for cash, 2 gray mules, 1 bay mule, 1 gray pided mule as the property 
of G. W. METCALFE, and 1 clay-back horse the property W. R. METCALFE, to 
satisfy 2 executions, the first in favor of S. E. MINGA and against W. S. 
METCALFE, and others and the second in favor of the Bodine Manufacturing Co. 
and against G. W. METCALFE, and W. R. METCALFE issued from the circuit court 
of said county.
	This January 27, 1886.
- S. F. PENNINGTON, Sheriff

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT
The State of Alabama – Probate Court – Lamar county
27th day of January, 1886
Estate of CHARLES C. LOYD, this day came THOMAS B. NESMITH, administrator of 
said estate, and filed his statement, accounts and vouchers for final 
settlement of his administration.  It is ordered that the 15th day of February 
A. D. 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. – January 23d, 1886
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 March 
13th, 1886; viz: No. 11476 AARON C. WILEMON, for the N ½ of NW ¼ Sec 28 T 12 R 
15 W.
	He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence 
upon, and cultivation of said land, viz:
	J. R. RAY, WILLIAM WHITE, C. V. JOHNSON and JOHN W. JOHNSON, all of 
Detroit, Lamar County, Ala.
- W. C. WELLS, Register

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

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Wetherill’s Atlas Ready Mixed Paint.  Guaranteed.  Before you paint you should 
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FOR THE FARM AND HOME

AN EXPERIMENT IN POTATO CULTURE
	A Massachusetts gardener last spring tried the following experiment in 
potato culture.  One hill was planted with one good-sized tuber whole, another 
was given half of a potato as near like the first as possible, the third had 
an under-sized whole potato, and the fourth hill half of one similar in size 
to the third.  The results are as follows: The first hill yielded 4 10-16 
pounds; the second smaller sized ones and only 1 14-16 pounds; the third 
proved almost identical with the second, the weight of the yield being exactly 
the same, and the fourth produced 10 ounces of small potatoes.  The hills were 
near together and their treatment was the same.

THE QUESTION OF MANURE
	This is a specially good time to think and study upon this question of 
manure.  A southern farmer whose land is exceedingly rich and whose corn crop 
the present year yields 80 bushels per acre, remarked to the writer, who 
recently visited his farm:  “I am busy gathering everything I can to make 
manure of.  I am raking the woods for decayed leaves, mowing down weeds from 
the stubble fields and the creek bottom, and putting them in pens under the 
cows and horses. My corn makes a good crop but with a little manure I can get 
100 bushels per acre, and that is what I am aiming at.  Good culture, the best 
I can give, brings me 80 bushels, and I can go on doing as well as that, but 
by and by it will be hard work to keep it up.  I find it is better and easier 
to improve good land than to bring up poor land, and I am going to manure the 
best land I have.  Many a northern farmer will think this strange talk and 
work for a farmer and a tobacco grower in the south. – [New York Tribune]

STOCK SHELTERS
	The Breeder’s Gazette earnestly advocates the building of shelters for 
stock, even in the sections where the winters are open and mild.  Figures show 
that the loses in stock from exposure are not always largest in the coldest 
countries; but in those sections where cattle receive little attention, and 
where chilling rains take the place of severe cold weather.  In the New 
England states the annual losses of cattle from disease, stress of weather and 
other like causes, amount to but two per cent, according to the Department of 
Agriculture.  In the Gulf States where very little provision is made for 
animal comfort, the loss amounts to eight per cent.  After all it is not 
against the “cold snaps” that cattle need protection, so much as against the 
ordinary storm weather that comes along almost at any time.  The cold and 
drizzling rains that make the winters in some parts of the south so 
unpleasant, even for human beings, are very discomforting to stock.  When the 
skin is continually wet, there is a constant loss of heat that tells rapidly 
upon animal vitality.  A healthy man can stay out in cold weather and enjoy 
the clear, crisp air, but a dull, eating rain fills him with discomfort an is 
sure to drive him under cover. – [Rural New Yorker]

TAKE CARE OF YOUR IMPLEMENTS
	Cultivators, mowing and harvesting machines and all summer implements 
are never past the season of use.  How many remain in the fields or yards 
exposed to the weather?  More than one-half, it is estimated.  How many are 
partially taken apart to be stored, and all bright surfaces properly protected 
immediately after the season of use? The estimate is only one machine in ten.  
Are you one of the great army who wholly abuse or imperfectly care for your 
machines?  If so, and your other farm operations are after the same slipshod 
manner, you are doing what would swamp any man who so neglected his business 
in any other calling in one year.
	The average life of a mower or reaper is three years.  Properly cared 
for it will be a good machine at the end of ten years, and with less cost for 
repairs during that time that illy-cared for machines will have cost in a 
single year.  Water quickly rots woodwork.  The sun shrinks the joints, iron 
and steel quickly corrode if left in the dew, rain, and sun.  Hence you lose 
not only in the decay, but such machines never do good work.  You cannot 
afford to allow this.  The remedy is a cover where they may be carefully 
stored away and protected.  The farmer who before using an instrument is 
obliged to spend half a day or more cutting the rust with oil of vitriol, 
washing it off with water and then scouring it bright, does not understand his 
business.  Such an implement never thereafter does perfect work.  Every farmer 
should be able to take apart and properly put together every implement he 
uses.  It is one of the first lessons he should learn, after the machine is 
brought at least so far as the working parts to be protected are concerned.  
The gummed portions should be cleaned with kerosene or turpentine, dried, and 
these and all bright surfaces painted with kerosene and lampblack of the 
consistency of paint.  Then if carefully laid away where the covering will not 
be brushed or washed off, the whole will come out perfect and ready for use 
when wanted.  No gummy substance like linseed oil paint should be used.   It 
takes time to clean when the implement is wanted.
	For plows, hoes, rakes, or other bright surfaces an ounce of camphor 
dissolved in turpentine or alcohol, four ounces of lard oil, and one ounce of 
black lead stove polish, intimately mixed, make in this preparation one of the 
best and cheapest perfect preservatives, which is quickly removed by simple 
use, but it is no better than the kerosene and lamp black paint.  Some very 
careful farmers have a can of the lamp black and kerosene mixture in the 
field, and every plow share and mold-board is painted with it every night, and 
then turned upside down.  The first furrow in the morning cleans it 
perfectly.  The same is true of cultivators.  If this pays, and it does, it 
certainly will pay with more costly machinery. – [Chicago Tribunes]

SHEEP AND THEIR COMFORT
	It is held to be a cardinal principle with the English shepherds that 
sheep achieve the best results under tolerably moist skied, where there is at 
least enough timely precipitation to soften and nourish the fleece to keep it 
pliable.  They want frequent, gentle showers to keep the fibers from becoming 
harsh.  But the British sheep are naturally a rather dry topped race.  Their 
wool is stiff and wiry and needs occasional lubrication from the clouds, just 
as an unhealthy head of hair requires wetting with cold water, cold tea or the 
like to enable the owner to extricate it from a tangle.
	But the merino has an extreme dislike for water touching its skin, and 
that dislike is founded on instinct, and ought to be respected.  There is 
hardly a more pitiable spectacle on the farm than a lot of lambs wading about 
in high ragweed; and clover, with only their heads in sight above the tops, 
seeking in vain near the ground for a bite of that fine and tender herbage 
which they delight in, and forced to content themselves by cropping 
indifferently the topmost leaves; their wool a much of macerated yolk….(LARGE 
CHUNK CUT OUT)

RECIPES

ROLL JELLY CAKE – Four eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup of flour, one 
teaspoonful baking powder, a pinch of salt.  Mix all together and pour into a 
large tin.  When baked spread jelly on and roll up.

LAMB CHOPS - Trim carefully.  Lay in a little warm butter for an hour, turning 
several times.  Then boil on a greased gridiron, taking care they do not 
drip.  Butter, pepper and salt each, lay in circle on plate and serve.

COCOANUT AND TAPIOCA PUDDING – One cup tapioca soaked over night; one quart 
milk, yolks of four eggs, whites of two, one cupful sugar, two tablespoonfuls 
grated cocoanut, bake one-half hour.  Make frosting of whites of two eggs, 
three tablespoonfuls sugar, two tablespoonfuls of grated cocoaut; spread over 
pudding when baked.  Set in oven until a light brown.

LIVER AND BACON – Soak liver in cold water twenty minutes, wipe dry and cut in 
medium strips.  Cut as many very thin strips of bacon and fry the bacon three 
minutes in its own fat.  Salt, pepper, and dredge the liver in flour before it 
goes in.  When it is done lay in two rows the length of dish, with a strip of 
bacon between each piece of liver.  Strain the fat, and return to the pan with 
a cupful of hot water, the butter rubbed into the flour, and when it has 
boiled pour over the liver.

PEARLS OF THOUGHT

Want of prudence is too frequently want of virtue.

Three things to avoid – idleness, loquacity and flippant jesting.

A man’s own good breeding is the best security against other people’s ill 
manners.

The seeds of love can never grow but under the warm and genial influence of 
kind feelings and affectionate manners.

Keep your conduct abreast of your conscience, and very soon your conscience 
will be illuminate by the radiance of God.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, a charming human being; it 
refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of day.  Still night is 
full of magnificence, and for many it is more brilliant than day.

Stories heard at mother’s knee are never wholly forgotten.  They form a little 
spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.

The man who is jealous and envious of his neighbor’s success has foes in his 
heart who can bring more bitterness into his life than can any outside enemy.

Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, tough in her 
softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying 
testimony.

WHAT TIN FOIL IS
	It may not be generally known that tin foil, as now so widely know to 
the trade, is not a foil of tin alone, but composed mainly of lead, with but a 
slight alloy of tin.  The manifold appliance of tin foil to articles of 
consumption and medicine is not regulated with any law such as exist in 
European countries, forbidding the use of lead or composition, or otherwise 
impure tin foil, in all cases where it may, through oxidation or contact with 
the goods, become poisonous and injurious to the health of the consumer.  Too 
little attention has been paid to his subject thus far.  It is hoped that that 
ignorance and not willful oversight of the fact that led many manufactures and 
dealers to use an article accompanied with such risks for the sake of saving a 
trifle in the cost.  Beside this saving it, in most instances, imaginary, as 
the German pure tin…(LARGE CHUNK CUT OUT)

WHERE BEARS ABOUND
	(LARGE CHUNK CUT OUT)…arly snowfall on the summit of…Creek mountains 
has started…down to the lower levels.  …will have their bear steaks….skin caps 
or overcoats, or the …ill have lodgings furnished for….ter in the tunnels and 
prospect.
	Bears have increased greatly in number in this state since the great 
wind storm of January 1880, which threw down so much timber and rendered the 
woods almost impassable in some parts of the state, and preventing the hunting 
of bears with dogs.  In some parts of Southern Oregon “the woods are full 
of ‘em.”  A gentleman who has lately been out to Coos County says there are 
more bears than hogs in that county.  He saw a “neck of woods” out there 
called Packard’s Home Market.  It appears that a settler named Packard had a 
lot of hogs running in the woods which get fat on mast.  He was asked what he 
going to do with them, and said he had a “home market’ for them, meaning a 
gang of Chinamen working close by.  Just at this juncture the bears found the 
fat hogs and killed and ate them all, and since that time the place, which is 
littered with ham bones, and short ribs, has been called Packard’s Home 
Market.   – [Portland Oregonian]

AN UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION
	A young countryman gave a graphic description of a narrow escape that 
he had recently from an enraged bull:
	“I seized him by the tail,” he explained, “an’ there I was.  I was 
afraid to hold on, an’ I dassn’t let go.”
	“Between the horns of a dilemma as it were” ventured a young lady, 
very much interested.
	“No, ma’am,” replied the countryman.  “I wasn’t between the horns at 
all, an’ besides, he wasn’t a dilemma.  He was a Jersey” – [Puck]

WISE WORDS

The best mind cure is to make up one’s mind to be contented.

Many people mistake stubbornness for bravery, meanness for economy, and 
vileness for wit.

The harvest gathered in the fields of the past is to be brought home for the 
use of the present.

The misery of illness is nearly manifest in high life as in the rags and filth 
of extreme poverty.

Promises made in the time of affliction require a better memory than people 
commonly possess.

History that is good, faithful and true will survive for ages; but should it 
have none of these qualities, its passage will be shed between the cradle and 
the grave.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe 
themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy – 
their own self-love.

Depression of spirits, when it is real and when people cannot help it, is not 
the result of circumstances, but, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred from 
dyspepsia, or from a discordant liver – in short, from bodily causes.

To tell what a man says, pay attention to the tongue.  To ascertain what he 
means, pay attention to the eye.  To talk in opposition to the heart is one of 
the easiest things in the world; to look this opposition is more difficult 
than algebra.

We may be pretty certain that persons whom all the world treat ill entirely to 
serve the treatment they get.  The world is a looking glass and gives back to 
every man the reflection of is own face; frown on it, and it will in turn look 
sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly companion; and so 
let young people take their choice.

Suspension of judgement at certain times should be sedulously cultivated. When 
we remember how frequently complex conditions are involved, and how difficult 
it is to understand and appreciate those conditions and to accord to each its 
proportionate value, we may well pause and reflect before committing ourselves 
to judgements which may prove to be wrong.

MARINE MARVELS
	“In eastern waters,” says Charles F. Holder in his work, “Marvels of 
Animal Life,” is found a giant clam (Fridacau) that often weighs five hundred 
pounds, the animal alone thirty.  The largest shell’s are nearly five feet in 
length, and are often used for ornamental purposes or as a playhouse for 
native children.  When alive the great clam gives shelter in its folds to a 
number of crabs, one especially, known to naturalists as the Ostracotheres 
tridaenae, nearly always being found in the huge mollusk.  In the pearl 
mussels, common on the coasts of Mozambique, these crabs are found.  In the 
Atlantic waters a large acephalous mollusk affords protection to a number of 
crabs, and in the Pinna marina, a beautiful fan shell, a crustacean, of a pale 
rose color, lives.”
	“One of the most interesting exhibitions of the jelly fish,” Mr. 
Hottler says, “was witnessed by Mr. Telfair in 1840, near Bombay.  The natives 
had reported at various times that a gigantic flaming monster had been seen in 
the sea, and some said they had observed it in the sky many years before, 
evidently meaning the comet.  Finally Mr. Telfair himself saw the monster, 
that proved to be a jelly fish of enormous dimensions.  Its tentacles at night 
seemed a fiery train over three hundred feet in length, presenting a dazzling 
spectacle to those who rowed ver it.  Each tentacle appeared like a red-hot 
wire, gleaming with a brilliant light, while the body resembled an enormous 
incandescent sphere, throwing out a light for many feet about it.  The jelly 
finally ran ashore upon the beach or was washed in.  For several days after it 
stranded it was visible for a great distance, and illuminated the forms of 
those who stood about it with great brilliancy.  It was estimated to weigh 
including all the tentacles, two tons, and was the largest invertebrate animal 
ever seen.

A BEAR RIDDEN LIKE A HORSE
	People living in the neighborhood of New Chinatown witnessed a novel 
sight yesterday, when a Chinaman went galloping along the streets on the back 
of a monster bear, which was going at a pretty lively rate.  Old Bruin was 
bridled and saddled in regular fashion, and his slant-eyed rider wore a heavy 
pair of spurs.  The rider and his steed halted in the main street of the 
Chinese quarters, and the bear was led through one of the stores back into a 
little shed. Learning of the curious riding animal, a Chronicle representative 
went to new Chinatown to see it and the rider.  The bear was found to be of 
the black species, and was a regular Jumbo in size, standing nearly as high as 
a cow.  In conversation with the owner, it was learned that he had captured 
his bear when it was a small cub; that he carried it to his cabin, cared for 
it tenderly, and when it grew large enough he trained it to draw a small wagon 
and to perform numerous tricks.  The bear has always been well treated, and 
runs about as it pleases; but always returns to its master when called, just 
as an intelligent dog would. When the bear became strong, the Chinaman began 
riding him, and never had any trouble.  He now riders him whenever he goes 
hunting and fishing, and finds the brute a better companion than a dog, for he 
will go into water and bring out game, or carry to his owner ducks or quails 
he had killed.  The Chinaman lives near the Ten-mile House, on the Humboldt 
road, and yesterday was his first trip to Chico with his trick bear. – [Ohio 
(Cal.) Chronicle]

First Scotch boatman – “Weel, Geordie, hoo got ye on the day?”  Second ditto 
(drouthy, he had been out with a Free Kirk minister, a stickt abstainer) –
 “Nae ava.  The auld carie had nae whusky, sae I took him whaur there was nae 
fush!” – [Punch]

Many hospitals and curative institutions use only Red Star Cough Cure for 
throats and lung troubles.  It cures.  Price twenty-five cents.  St. Jacobs 
Oil cures rheumatism.

A man in Chicago advertises 500 rheumatic plasters for sale – achers of ‘em, 
as it were – [Current]

IS EVERY BODY DRUNK
	Among the many stories Lincoln used to resists was the following:  
Trudging along a lonely road one morning on my way to the county seat, Judge—
overtook me, with his wagon, and invited me to a -----.
	We had not gone far before the wagon began to wobble.  Said I “Judge, 
I think your coachman has taken a drop too much.”
	Putting his head out of the window, the judge shouted:  “Why, you 
infernal scoundrel, you are drunk!”
	Turning around with great gravity, the coachman said:  “Be dad!  But 
that’s the firs’ rightful s’cision your Honor’s giv’n ‘n twel’ mont!”
	If people knew the facts today they would be surprised to learn how 
many people real in the streets who never “drink a drop.”  They are the 
victims of sleeplessness, of drowsy days, of apoplectic tendencies, whose 
blood is set on fire by uric acid.  Some day they will reel no more – they 
will drop dead, just because they haven’t the moral courage to defy useless 
professional attendance, and by use of the wonderful Warner’s safe cure 
neutralize of the “drunkenness in the blood.” – [The American Rural Home]

CUT HIS OWN LEG OFF
	A good number of years ago people were startled by a report respecting 
a young man in the western part of what was then Upper Canada.  He went to the 
woods one winter morning to fell timber.  During the day he felled a tree 
which lodged.  He attempted to fell another on the first one to bring it down, 
but did not succeed.  He went up to one of the leaning trees to attempt to 
dislodge them, when suddenly the upper tree fell and caught the young man’s 
foot between the two, at the same time throwing him over backward so that his 
shoulders just touched the snow.  He was alone, for in the bush his voice 
could not reach his friends, and it being a cold day he soon must perish.  But 
he was a man of strong will and was equal to the occasion.  He took his knife 
from his pocket and cut the flesh around the bone of the imprisoned leg.  As 
he came to an artery he held it until the cold congealed the blood and then 
proceeded.  If he felt his strength beginning to fail he bathed his face with 
snow.  When he had the bone bared he reached his axe, and with one blow 
severed it and was free.  He crawled out of the woods and across a field to 
the road, where a passing team took him home.  That young man, said Mr. 
Dougall Q. C., of this city, was afterward a member of the Dominion Cabinet, a 
Cabinet minister, and is now know as Mr. Justice O’Connor, who is on the bench 
at the Belleville assizes. – [Belleville Ontario]

The late Dowager Lady Chesterfield’s husband was so hard up that he was 
obliged to let Chesterfield House, and was unable to finish Bretby, his 
country seat, and his son had to sell Chesterfield House; but Lady 
Chesterfield, who had a life interest in the property after he son’s death, 
finished Bretby and left $590,000 besides clearing the estate.

“Miss Little is very slight, aint’ she!” asked Jaimson.  “Yes,” said Johnston, 
who had been jilted by her the evening before; “Yes, and she is not satisfied 
with being slight herself, but would slight me, also.” – [Stockton Maverick]

The mule has one more leg than a miling-0stool, and he can stand on one and 
wave the other three round in as many different direction. – [Goodall’s Sun]

Said Aaron to Moses “Let’s cut off our noses.”  Aaron must have been a 
sufferer from catarrh.  The desperation which catarrh produces is often 
sufficient to make people say and do many rash things and many continue 
suffering just as if no such cure as Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy existed.  It 
cures every case from the simplest to the most complicated, and all the 
consequences of catarrh.  A person once cured by Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy 
will not be apt to take cold again, as it leaves the mucous membranes healthy 
and strong.  By druggists.

The man who rises by his profession – A builder of elevators.

For dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of spirits, general debility in their 
various forms, also a s a preventive against fever and ague and other 
intermittent fevers, the “Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisays “made by 
Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York and sold by all Druggists is the best tonic; 
and for patients recovering from fever or other sickness it has not equal.

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