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THE LAMAR NEWS

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor     VERNON, ALABAMA, SEPTEMBER 9, 
1886        VOL. III. NO. 45

SING-SONG – Poem – [Indianapolis Journal]

TWO OF A KIND  - [Helen Forrest Graves]

CEYLON’S SACRED TREASURES
	At the side of the lake stands the famous temple containing the so-
called “tooth of Buddha.”  It is a curious building with a circular raised 
library attached, from the columned gallery of which the kinds of Kandy were 
wont to exhibit themselves to the people.  We attended an evening service in 
this edifice, and were conducted by the priest through some little frescoed 
halls to a massive silver door.  Flower sellers were offering for sale to the 
votaries, male and female, as they entered, blossoms of the champak, the 
frangipani and the iron-wood tree, which are laid upon a silver table before 
the great shrine – the only offerings made.  Every morning the priests clear 
away piles of these simple sacrifices, which are constantly renewed, so that a 
faint perpetual perfume of delicious fragrance forever fills the dark changers 
when the silver door was opened there was disclosed another silver table, and 
behind it a bred receptacle containing the sacred relic, hidden under seven 
successive daghabas of precious metal, adorned with the most costly jewels.  
The total value of these coverings must be something very great, for nowhere 
can you see finer sapphires, rubies, and specimens of the true oriental cat’s-
eye, than are encrusted into the gold and silver.  In the outer chambers are 
two raised seats, where the chief priests squat to preach Bana, or doctrine, 
and a band of native musicians on each occasion lead off the service with tom-
tom, pipe and cymbals.  The temple is ornamented with curious frescoes, 
ancient and modern, grotesquely representing the previous lives of Buddha and 
the sufferings of those who have been bad Buddhists, and in glass cases may be 
seen many seated figures of Buddha in marble, jasper, gold and jade, and one, 
which is especially notable, carved from a black of rock crystal – [London 
Telegraph]

“ONE-STAVE” BARRELS
	Flour handlers and others who use barrels are interested in a “one-
stave” barrel, manufactured near Detroit.  While the size and shape of this 
barrel are the same as the ordinary kind, the body of the barrel consists of a 
single sheet of timber held by hoops.  The timber used is elm, which is cheap 
and abundant.  Canada is the main base of supplies.  The logs will be rafted 
over during the season of navigation, and brought by rail in winter time.  The 
logs are taken from the boom or yard into the sawmill and cut into two-barrel 
lengths.  Thence they go into a steam chest, where they remain until 
thoroughly steamed.  In this condition the log is converted into thin sheets, 
or veneering, used in the body of the barrel.  By a special process a two-foot 
log becomes rolls of wooden sheeting in a minute’s time.  There remains upon 
the mandrel an eight-inch core, which is utilized in making barrel heads.  
These sheets go next to a sanding machine, by which both sides are made 
perfectly smooth.  After passing through a cutting and grooving machine they 
are so cut by a goring machine as to adapt them to the shape of a barrel.  
Thence they go to a drying-house.  From the dry-house they go to the sizing 
saws, where they are out the desired length, when they are ready for the 
cooper shop or for shipment.  They are shipped in bundles and in the “knock-
down” to be put up at their point of destination.  Three thousand of them can 
be stored and forwarded in an ordinary box car.  The headings are shipped in 
barrels. – [Boston Budget]

THE WAY TO TELL THEM
	“The quickest way to tell who are the best railroad men,” said a 
prominent official, “is on pay day.  The man who draws his full month’s 
earnings at once can almost invariably be put down as a trustworthy, 
temperate, industrious and valuable man.  One of our men issued orders last 
month against his pay for a larger amount than was due him.  His place will 
probably have to be filled soon.  Every time an order is filed against a man’s 
name it injures him in the eyes of his employers.  Of course, there are times 
when sickness makes it necessary, but such cases are usually distinguished by 
a previous good record. – [Elmira Advertiser]

HIS LITTLE GAME – The Young Man Who Wasn’t Particular About Wages
An Agreement Which Proved A Disastrous One for the Employer
	Years before last a bright-looking young man entered our counting room 
in response to an advertisement for an assistant shipping clerk.  He told the 
usual tale of how he desired a position more than wages for the time being, 
and was willing to accept a nominal salary to start in on.  The old man was 
feeling in particularly good humor that afternoon, and said pleasantly to the 
new comer.
	“Well, sir, what would you consider a nominal salary?  What would you 
be willing to accept in beginning?”
	The young man picked at the lining of his hat with his fingers, and 
deferentially replied:
	“I want to show you, sir, that I mean business, and I will work for 
one cent for the remainder of this month, providing you think it would not be 
too much to double my salary each month thereafter.”
	“That’s a novel proposition, surely,” said the old man with a 
smile.  “Do you know what you are talking about, my dear boy.”
	“Well, sir, my principal aim is to learn the business,” responded the 
young fellow, and I would almost be willing to work for nothing, but I’d like 
to feel and be able to say that I was earning something, you know." “I’ll take 
you," remarked the old man.  "One cent, two cents, four cents, eight, 
sixteen," he enumerated.  "You won't get much for awhile.,” he added.
	He took him up to the cashier.  “This is John Smith,” he said.  “He 
will go to work as an assistant shipping clerk tomorrow.  His salary will be 
one cent this month.  Double it every month from now on”
	“In consideration of my working for this small salary might I ask you 
to assure me a position for a definite period?” inquired John Smith.
	“We don’t usually do that,” replied the governor, “but we can’t loose 
much on you anyhow, I guess, and you look like an honest fellow.  How long do 
you want employment?”
	“Three years, sir, if agreeable to you.”
	Well, by Jove, the old man agreed, and young Mr. Smith, on pretence of 
wanting some evidence of stability of his place, got the governor to write on 
and sign a paper that he head been guaranteed a position in the house for 
three years on the terms I have stated.
	He worked along for six months without drawing a cent.  He said he 
would drawl all his earnings Christmas.  The cashier one day thought he’d 
figure up how much would be coming to the young man.  He grew so interested in 
the project that he kept multiplying for the three years.  The result almost 
staggered him.  This is the column of figures he took to the old man.  Fist 
month, .01.  second, .02, third, .04, fourth, .08, fifth, .10……..thirty-sixth, 
$275,7769,626.88; total salary for three years, $552,554,253.65.
	The governor nearly fainted when he understood how, even if he was 
twice as rich as Vanderbilt, he would be ruined in paying John Smith’s salary.
	He concluded to discharge the modest young man at once.  Smith had 
figured up how much would be due hi, and reminded the old man of his written 
agreement.  Rather than take chances in courts and let everybody know how he 
had been duped, the governor paid Smith $5,000 and bade him good-bye.  I’ve 
heard he tried the same dodge in Chicago after leaving here. – [Courier 
Journal]

It is believed that over £1,000,000 is spent yearly in pilgrimages to Mecca 
and Medina.  Many of these Monhammedan pilgrims travel immense distances.  
Thus nearly 6,000 of them are from the Soudan and neighboring parts of Africa, 
7,000 are Moors, 1,400 Persians, 16,000 Malays and Indians, and some 25,000 
Turks or Egyptians.  These are the figures for the year 1883.

CHASED BY A PLANT
	One of the most familiar plants in Southern California is the tumble-
weed.  In the fall the gardens of some localities are covered with them, the 
plant being a low bush, about two feet in height, and spreading out to several 
feet in width.  So small and weak are the roots that when the plant goes to 
seed the breeze detaches it and the plant goes rolling along like a all, 
scattering its seeds, broadcast over the land miles from where it originally 
grew.  In Arizona the tumble-weed sometimes attains mammoth proportions.  I 
have seen them five feet across,----- would easily upset a man when traveling 
at a good rate of speed.
	The following incident shows that a man may be chased by a plant.  “I 
was traveling through Arizona on horseback some years ago,’ said the 
narrator, “and one day found myself in a desert plain almost destitute of 
vegetation.  The only thing in the way of a shrub were numbers of dead tumble 
weeds, may of gigantic size, and, curiously enough, they were piled in great 
heaps as if some one had hauled them together to burn them; but as there was 
no object in doing this, I concluded that the wind had done it, and I found 
later that my supposition was correct.
	“I had gone about ten miles in this tumble-weed country when I noticed 
a storm coming up to the west.  There was not the slightest shelter, so I kept 
along, but finally saw a big pile of tumbleweed and made for it, thinking to 
get under its lee, and I just about made it when the rain commenced.  The pile 
was about ten feet high, and I thought I had a good shelter and dismounted; 
but I had hardly reached the ground when a gust of wind came that shook the 
heap as if it had been made of paper, and a big tumbleweed on top rolled off 
onto the horse.  Fortunately I had not left him, and as he leapt back and 
reared I hung on and in a second was on his back, and not a bit too soon, as 
then the gale struck us, and the way that heap dissolved partnership was a 
caution to sinners.  My horse was wild with fear and was off-leading, while 
behind came thirty or forty mammoth tumble-weeds, rolling along like gigantic 
cannon-balls,.  I never saw such a sight in my life, and I soon found that I 
was being chased by hundreds of them.  I looked back and saw one jump twenty 
feet into the air as it hit a rock, and every little prominence sent them up 
where the wind would catch them and bowl them like foot-balls.  I dodged 
several and at last got out of the squall.  I haven’t the slightest doubt that 
if I had been struck by one of the plants it would have knocked over horse and 
all – in fact, I heard later of a man that was caught in such a squall and 
actually bowled over by one of them. – [San Francisco Call]

TOBACCO AND THE EYES
	The New York Mail and Express says: Dr. Cyrus Edson’s opinion that the 
recent poisoning of the crew of the bark Syringa, and the accompanying 
ophthalmic, were due to the excessive use of tobacco, has renewed the fervor 
of the anti-tobacconists.  For years it has been known to surgeons that abuse 
of tobacco may lead to failure of sight, and this fact has been made use of by 
the anti-tobacconists.  The British Medical Journal a few years ago published 
a widely quoted article on this point, in which it said:
	“In the report of forty cases of tobacco amplyopia by Mr. Shears, of 
Liverpool, it appears that atrophy of the optic nerves is very rarely met with 
as the result of excessive smoking, although tobacco in the essential agent in 
producing failure of sight.  Great moderation in smoking and especially the 
employment of forms of tobacco, is all that is necessary to insure recovery. 
Workmen in tobacco factories do not appear to be subject to deterioration of 
eyesight.  In one large manufactory where 12,000 men and women are employed, 
Mr. Sears has found that not a single person on the premises suffered from 
failure of eyesight, although many of the hands had been working there for ten 
years.”

THE RIGHTS OF BABYHOOD
	Babies have a right to be.  It is a common saying that we owe our 
parents a debt of gratitude for bringing us into the world.  Too frequently 
children are born to such an inheritance of suffering and woe that it is a 
doubtful question whether they owe any gratitude of the uncertain boon of 
existence; but, in any case, an infant has a right to a kindly reception, to 
loving thoughts, to dainty stitches, to its own little niche in the family 
structure.  If the portion of worldly goods for she infant’s inheritance is 
small, yet there are these precious jewels that every father and mother should 
strive to give the little one – a strong fame, a good head, and an earnest, 
hearty welcome. – [Babyhood]

NOW – Poem - [Susan Coolidge]

HUMOROUS
All played out – open-air concerts.

How to make both ends meet – don’t buy any bone.

The girl with the sweet tooth becomes the woman with the false one.

“Spring lamb, eighteen cents per pound,” is a sigh of tough weather.

“I am generally up to my neck in business,” said the teacher of swimming.

Why is a good square meal to a hungry man like a bucket?  It goes down well.

There is a time for all things.  The time to leave is when a young lady asks 
you how the walking is.

A fashion writer says all the fashions are for slender women.  They are 
certainly not designed for slender purses.

“Above all, Arthur dear, mind you buy me a thick engagement ring; the thin 
ones can’t be seen under the glove.”

Fish are so plenty in some parts of Canada that in order to tell a first-class 
lie the sportsman has to swear he didn’t catch any.

It may be supposed that the man who has been sent to House of Correction 
twenty-three times, is not ashamed of his convictions.

“For a young woman to begin to begin to pick lint off a young man’s coat,” is 
said to be the first symptom that the young man is in peril.

Uncle George – And so you go to school now, Johnny?  What part of the 
exercises do you like best?  Johnny – The exercise we get at recess.

“I wish I were as tall as you,” remarked Binks to Jinks.  “Oh, I’m not always 
as tall as I seem” “No?”  “No.  Sometimes I’m very short.  Can you lend me 
five?”

“The Boston baseball club has four pitchers.”  If it patronizes a 
corresponding number of tumblers, we predict that it will not win the 
championship, but perhaps the pitchers are not often full.

“How is your so getting along, Charley?” “Oh, pretty well’ only that he is a 
little puffed up with his own importance.  Knows more than his father, you 
know.”  “Ah! Then the boy is not quite an idiot!”

“Are you trying to think of something funny, my dear?” asked the paragrapher’s 
wife.  “I am,’ he said, as he hove a deep sign and ran his fingers through his 
long hair. “Then suppose you think that you are going to buy me a new bonnet, 
my dear; that will be something funny for you to do.”

ORIGIN OF BILLIARDS
	Billiards were invented, says a good authority, by a pawnbroker.  
About the middle of the sixteenth century there was one William Kew, a 
pawnbroker, who during wet weather was in the habit of taking down the three 
balls, and with the yard measure, pushing them, billiard fashion, from the 
counter into the stalls.  In time the idea of a board with sidepockets 
suggested itself. A black letter MS. Says: “Master William Kew did make one 
board whereby a game is played with three balls, and all the young men were 
greatly recreated therest., chiefly the young clergymen from Pawles, hence one 
of ye strokes was named a Canot, having been by one of ye same clergymen 
invented.  This game is now known by ye name of billyard, because William 
or “Bill” Kew did first playe with his yarde measure.  The stick is now called 
a kew or “kue.”  It is easy to comprehend how “Billyard” has been modified 
into Billiard, and the transformation of “kew” or “kue” into one is equally 
apparent.

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY AUGUST SEPT 9, 1886

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Hon. H. H. BROWN, of Tuskaloosa, is a candidate for Clerk of the Lower House 
of Representatives at the House of Representatives at the ensuing Session of 
the General Assembly.

Will the Montgomery Dispatch please tell us who was its candidate before the 
recent Congressional Convention held at Fayette C. H.?

The last issue of the Marion Herald tells of Mr. JAS. PEARCE as a probable 
independent candidate for Congress.
	What does PEARCE mean?  Haven’t the “Hill Counties” got a candidate?

The Democratic and Conservative Party of the Seventh Congressional District of 
Alabama will hold a convention at Gadsden, Wednesday, September 15th, 1886, to 
nominate a candidate for Representative in the 50th Congress.

The Montgomery Dispatch devotes nearly a column to severe criticism on Capt. 
Bankhead’s public record while warden of the penitentiary.  It will be 
remembered that the Fayette Journal and some of the papers of the district 
copied editorials from the Dispatch to aid in the defeat of Col. Martin’s 
renomination.  Now it is furnishing fuel for an independent, we presume.

Hon. A. C. Davidson of Selma has been re-nominated to Congress from the 5th 
District, and Hon. H. A. Herbert has received the same endorsement form his 
constituents in the third district.  The Democrats of both districts have 
displayed excellent judgement in making these nominations.

CAPT. BANKHEAD
The recent Congressional Convention at Fayette C. H., resulted in the 
nomination of HJ. H. Bankhead.  Mr. Bankhead was born and resided in this 
county for a number of years and has quite a strong following here.  He 
possesses an untiring energy and is not crushed by defeat.  To his 
perseverance and untiring convassing may justly be attributed his nomination.

There is great need of additional improvement on the Court House.  There is no 
place for the Petit Jurors to retire to during their deliberations.  When a 
case is submitted they must retire to the shade of some tree and recline upon 
the ground and make up their verdict.  The want of two jury rooms occasions 
great inconvenience and is a shame to the county.  Our commissioners are men 
of broad ideas and all that is needed to have this improvement is to call 
their attention to the pressing want for these rooms.

LETS HAVE PEACE
The last political battle for the year is now over and it is to be hoped that 
good will peace, and harmony will once more prevail.  The contests have been 
sharp and bitter and the vanquished have been slow to yield and the victors 
somewhat jubilant.  It is all over now, and heart burnings and bickerings 
should cease and old time friendships that are broken in these days of 
earthquakes, chills and fevers should be mended.  ‘Tis true that when we 
choose our side and come to the sill that we are anxious for the victory but 
we should remember that the whole thing does not rest on any one ---- 
shoulders and that the sacrificing of friendship is but the height of folly.

SAM JONES SAYINGS
You pack your preachers in an ice-house and shame them all the year because 
they don’t sweat.

Many of us are to decent to be religious.

My prayer is for a coup of the heart of God.

I can never call names, but every fellow knows his number when I talk.

I had rather be a man in the true sense of the word than the best angel in 
heaven.

The church is the place to be solemn, provided you have lived right.

If I have lived right, I’ll wear a smile as broad as heaven’; but if I’ve been 
a swindling or doing wrong, I’ll have one as broad as a graveyard.

Christ was full of sympathy for the sinners, but he gave the amen corner to 
bringer.

I want to be a good man and a good husband, but Lord keep me from being a nice 
preacher.

God never made two men alike, but one was no account.

I’d rather die on a well-fought field of battle than run away and speculate on 
the spoils of the war.

A cross is the Lord’s will one way and yours another.

Some men want the Lord to quit lying and drinking for them.  That’s your job.

Some people think they can’t be too pious unless they are everlastingly on the 
beg.

I pray for my daily bread, but I have to hunt for my corn pone with the sweat 
running down the hoe handle.

Dignity is nothing but the starch of a shroud.

Some of their meelish soldiers sing; Surely the captain may depend on my, but 
a corporal guard from the devil would run off a regiment of them.

Every society woman who claims to be a Christian has got to get out of society 
some time in her life or go to hell.

I would rather a daughter of mine would get a snake bite than a society bite.

Society is a heartless old wretch sapping the spiritual life from thousands of 
people.

When a man is bragging that his father is a colonel you can put it down that 
his father is ashamed of him.

Many a man will lie down in hell and say, “My tongue damned me.”

Some of us will get up a big muss in heaven by talking about our neighbors.

I’m not singing the Sweet By and By, but the sweet now and now.

Please recognize me down here.  When I get in glory with a palm in my hand if 
you don’t want to recognize me you needn’t do it.

I pray the Lord to give a heaven to heaven in.

Every true man is an eternal millionaire.

The greatest gift of God is a game preacher.

If a horse is sound from head to foot he don’t mind the curry-comb, but if 
there are unsound spots when you come to curry him he kicks.

Some preach there is no hell, but old fellow, you won’t be in hell ten minutes 
before you’ll wake up and say, “My God!  What a mistake I’ve made.”

Hell is a sin intensified, and sin is hell in all its respects.

The devil has no better servant than the preacher that is laying feather beds 
for fallen Christians to light on.

If I were an old sinner I’d have all the fun I could while I’m here for I tell 
you it will be too warm where you are going to have much fun.

Charleston, S. C., September 1
	An earthquake such as has never before been known in the history of 
this city swept over Charleston last night shortly after 10 o’clock, causing 
more loss and injury to property, and far more loss of life than the cyclone 
of the year before.
	The city is wrecked, the streets are encumbered with masses of fallen 
bricks and tangled telegraph and telephone wires, and up to an early hour it 
was almost impossible to pass from one part of the city to another.
	The first shock was by far the most severe.  Most of the people with 
their families passed the night in the streets, which even this morning are 
crowded with people afraid to re-enter their homes.  More than sixty people 
were killed and wounded, chiefly colored.  Among the whites killed and fatally 
injured are Mr. J. LYNCH, Dr. R. ALEXANDER HASSMOND and AINSLEY ROBSON.
	Fires broke out in different parts of the city immediately after the 
earthquake and some are still burning, but there is no danger of it 
spreading.  There is no way to leave the city at present.  The principal 
business portion the city was destroyed and hundreds of persons were rendered 
homeless.
	Men were frantic, and women were beseeching mercy from the Almighty.  
The main station house, City Hall, Hibernian Hall and many other well-known 
public buildings, including St. Michael’s Church were irreqarady damaged.

CHRISTIAN CHEERFULNESS – By WM. L. TAYLOR, D. D. LL. D.
	The job of the Lord is your strength. Neh viii.10.
	Everything done by God for his people is to promote their joy on 
earth.  The gospel, really understood by us, would make us joyful in the 
Lord.  It is said that the very reverse is the case.  That religion is a 
melancholy thing.  But they who hold this neither understand what they say nor 
the teachings of Holy Writ, and a very slight investigation would be 
sufficient to prove that they are egregiously wrong.  The root of human misery 
is sin, and yet one hears many people aver that the world was conscious of no 
degradation until the gospel came, when he misery of man began.  The source of 
depravity lay back in depravity in the ages, and it will not do to make the 
gospel responsible for that which exited long before the angel’s hymn was 
heard in Bethlehem.  Finding men already sinners, the gospel offers repentance 
and consolation, and it is the rankest nonsense to charge it with the very 
evil it is intended to obliviate and cure.
	Here is a man condemned to death, for instance, and the gospel holds 
out to him the hope of mercy.  How is this hope of forgiveness and immortally 
to fill him with misery?  On the contrary, will it not fill them with 
cheerfulness?  Let your whole life, then, be a holy festival, a long festival 
of joy and consecration to God.  If ewe do so, all gloom will be banished form 
our hearts and all of us who accept Christianity in its fullest sense will 
find the Christian’s life from whatever side we regard it, a continual 
festival of cheerfulness and joy.  But you cannot see the beauty of the 
stained glass windows from the outside, and who can judge of the cheerfulness 
of the Christian life except those who live it?  The joy is not of a 
demonstrative character; it is a calm and holy joy felt in the spirit.  Yet it 
should be shown, and Christians should not walk about laughing their heads 
like a lot of bulrushes.  They should not do it, for undeniably the gospel 
produces joy.  Every individual worker in his harvest field should show it.  
The cheer of their hearts should lie over all their work like the glorious 
sunshine over the landscape.  Seek, then, this joy in the Lord, and, In the 
language of the apostle, “Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, 
Rejoice.” – [The Pulpit Treasury]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMISSIONERS COURT
Regular Term, July 12, 1886
It was endorsed by the Court that
W. R. BROWN be allowed for stationery		  3.18
J. C. BROWN ‘’   ‘’       ‘’	 ‘’   pauper		13.00
KATE JONES ‘’	‘’	‘’	‘’		25.00	
R. W. COBB	‘’	‘’   stationery		  5.83
S. F PENNINGTON – repair court house		10.00
J. W. DRAPER		for pauper		15.00
W. W. PURNELL	“	“		96.29
SAMUEL LOGGAINS	 - as commissioner	  6.50
R. W. YOUNG			“		  6.50
ALBERT WILSON		“		  7.95
W. M. MOLLOY		“		  8.00
ALEXANDER COBB		“		  6.00
W. Y. ALLEN			“		  4.00
W. Y. ALLEN			stationery	  1.25
	Order of Review granted for a new road from Moulton Road to Fayette 
County line.
	Order of Review granted for a new road from Columbus & Fayette Road to 
Fayette line now W. K. DAVIS” in Stern’s Beat

ALSO AUGUST 9TH 1886
It was ordered by the court that:
J. F. SANDERS be allowed for bridge lumber	2.10
J. E. CUNNINGHAM for mile boards		1.00
G. B. SPRINGFIELD for feeding prisoners	4.03
JAMES P. YOUNG for registering voters		 .85
JAMES P. YOUNG for bridge lumber		3.24
WM. MCCULLOUGH for registering voters	  .85
J. E. SISSOM		“ 	“		1.00
J. I. BURKSDALE for bridge lumber		11.10
LEON NALL for 5 trees for bridge sills		 1.30
MARSHALL & BRUCE for stationery		 9.31
J. I. BURKSDALE for hauling lumber for bridge	2.75
MCADAMS & PHILLIPS cost for arresting prisoner &c.	3.20
A. J. PARSONS, lumber for bridge		15.00
W. W. PURNELL, for care of paupers		24.20
W. G. RICHARDS & SON, nails for bridge	1.00
HALEY & DENMAN	“	“		4.76
A. A. WALL, for election notice			14.00
E. J. MCNATT, for public printing		 4.00
SANDERS & WHEELER for lumber and nails for bridge	22.25
JAMES MIDDLETON, registering voters		2.50
ALEXANDER COBB for registering copies of election	25.00
JAMES MIDDLETON for ex-officio fee as clerk	125.00
ALEXANDER COBB for ex-officio fee as probate judge	125.00
ALEXANDER COBB fee for road services	90.00
S. F. PENNINGTON ex-officio fee as sheriff	200.00
Mrs. MCGILL for pauper			12.50
ALBERT WILSON as commissioner		 4.95
W. M. MOLLOY	“	“		 4.95
R. W. YOUNG 	“	“			3.90
SAMUEL LOGGAINS	“	“		3.90
W. Y. ALLEN		“	“		3.90
ALEXANDER COBB	“	“		3.90
The above is a copy of the orders and disbursements at said courts.
ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate

SALE OF LOTS
	By virtue of a mortgage executed in the undersigned by R. R. BAGLE and 
wife on the 23rd of August, 1886 to secure the sum of $500.00 due the 20th of 
August, 1886.  I will sell for cash at Millport in Lamar county at the stat 
(sic) on house the following described lots situated in said place, to wit:  
Blocks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16,  18, 20, 22,24, 26, 282, 60,33, 34,,37 39 
and 40, and all blocks of lots numbered 39, 11, 21 and 31, lying west of lands 
owned by RANDOLPH in Section 23, Township 17, and Range 15 West, containing 
twenty-five acres of unsold lots, formerly the property of J. A. DARR, and of 
which the Georgia Pacific owns an undivided half interest, and situated in the 
town of Millport, Lamar County, Alabama embraced ins aid Mortgage to WM. V. 
EZELL, for cash to the highest bidder on Monday the 11th of October, 1886.
Apply to D. C. HODO, Carrollton, Ala – WM. V. EZELL, Mortgagee

MASONIC:
Vernon Lodge, No. 588, A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 
1st Saturday, 7 pm each month. – T.W. SPRINGFIELD, W. M.
		    W. L. MORTON, S. W. 
		     JNO. ROBERTSON, J. W. 
		     R. W. COBB, Treasurer,
	                    M. W. MORTON, Secretary		 
Vernon Lodge, NO 45, I. O. G. F. Meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays 
at 7:30 p.m. each month.
		J. D. MCCLUCKEY, N. G.
		R. L. BRADLEY, V. G.
		E. J. MCNATT, Treas’r
		M. W. MORTON, Sec.

Ad for Pianos and Organs – (picture of organ) Mr. J. Garrison, of Cullman, Ala 
who handles bur first class pianos and organs.

PHOTOGRAPHS –  R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss.  
Price list:
Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00
Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00
Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00
Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00
Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00
Satisfaction given or money returned.

RESTAURANT, Aberdeen, Mississippi.  Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to 
call on Mrs. L. M. KUPFER, who keeps Restaurant, Family Groceries, Bakery and 
Confectionery, toys, tobacco, and cigars.  Also coffee and sugar.  Special 
attention paid to ladies

ATTORNEYS
SMITH & YOUNG, Attorneys-At-Law Vernon, Alabama– W. R. SMITH, Fayette, C. H., 
Ala.   W. A. YOUNG, Vernon, Ala.  We have this day, entered into a partnership 
for the purpose of doing a general law practice in the county of Lamar, and to 
any business, intrusted to us we will both give our earnest personal 
attention.   – Oct. 13, 1884.

S. J. SHIELDS – Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in Chancery.  Vernon, Alabama.  
Will practice in the Courts of Lamar and the counties of the District.  
Special attention given to collection of claims.

PHYSICIANS – DENTISTS
M. W. MORTON.  W. L. MORTON.  DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons.  
Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala.  Tender their professional services to the citizens of 
Lamar and adjacent country.  Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we 
hope to merit a respectable share in the future.  Drug Store.

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

The Coleman House (Formerly West House).  W. S. COLEMAN, Pro. Main St. 
Columbus, Miss.  Is now open for the entertainment of guests, and will be kept 
clean and comfortable, the table being supplied with the best the market 
affords.  Rates per day…$1.50, Rates for lodging and 2 meals….$1.25, Rates for 
single meals…...$0.50, Rates for single lodging…..$0.50.  call and try us.

LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE.  J. D. GUYTON, Prop’r., Columbus, Mississippi. 
(picture of horse and buggy)

J. B. MACE, Jeweler, Vernon, Alabama.  (Picture of watch)  Dealer in watches, 
clocks, jewelry and spectacles.  Makes a specialty of repairing.  Will furnish 
any style of timepiece, on short notice, and at the very lowest price.

Our stock of Furnishing is full and complete in every respect.  (Elaborate 
drawing of goods sold)  Largest Cheapest best stock of dress goods, dress 
trimmings, ladies & misses jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, 
boots, shoes, & hats, tin ware, etc., etc., at rock bottom figures at A. COBB 
& SONS’S

Barber Shop.  For a clean shave or Shampoo call on G. W. BENSON, in rear Dr. 
Burn’s office.  Vernon, Ala

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

ERVIN & BILLUPS, Columbus, Miss.  Wholesale and retail dealers in pure drugs, 
paints, oils, paten Medicines, tobacco & cigars.  Pure goods! Low prices!  
Call and examine our large stock.

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.

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…(too small to read).

B. A. Fahnestock’s Vermifuge….(too small to read) 

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY SEPT. 9, 1886    
(Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, 
Alabama, as second-class matter.)
         
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
One copy one year		$1.00
One copy, six months		     .60
All subscriptions payable in advance

LOCAL DIRECTORY 

CHANCERY COURT
THOMAS COBBS			Chancellor
JAS. M. MORTON			Register

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

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

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

RELIGIOUS
FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each 
month, 7 p.m.
MISSIONARY BAPTIST – Pastor J. E. COX.  Services second Sabbath in each month 
at 11 am.
METHODIST – Pastor – G. L. HEWITT.  Services fourth Sabbath in each month.  11 
a.m.

SABBATH SCHOOLS
UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m.  JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt.
METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 9 o’clock a.m.  G. W. RUSH, Supt.

MAIL DIRECTORY

VERNON AND COLUMBUS - Arrives every evening and leaves ever morning except 
Sunday, by way of Caledonia.
VERNON AND BROCKTON – Arrives and departs every Saturday by way of Jewell.
VERNON AND MONTCALM – Arrives and departs every Friday.
VERNON AND PIKEVILLE – Arrives and (sic) Pikeville every Tuesday and Friday by 
way of Moscow and Beaverton.
VERNON AND KENNEDY – Arrives and departs every Wednesday and Saturday.
VERNON AND ANRO – Leaves Vernon every Tuesday and Friday and returns every 
Wednesday and Saturday.

LOCAL BREVITIES
Pleas of guilty seemed to be all the go Monday and Tuesday.

Hon. W. R. SMITH is again in attendance on the court this week.

We will give names of all new subscribers to the News next week.

Call in gentlemen and renew your subscription to News.

Many new names have been added to our subscription list this week.

Capt. J. H. BANKHEAD Democratic nominee for Congress is in town.

Watermelons have been quite plentiful this week.

If seems as if Collins’ ram had been turned loose.

DANIEL COLLIER Esq. of Fayette C. H. is in attendance on the Circuit Court 
this week.

Call and get a copy of the “Alabama Marvel” before you leave Saturday.

The three capital cases on docket this week will cost the county several 
hundred dollars.

Another earthquake visited Vernon Friday night last.  I caused some excitement.

Dr. JOHN A. BROWN and little daughter of Columbus, Miss, visited relatives in 
town Friday last.

Col. S. M. MEEK of Columbus Miss. is in attendance upon the Circuit Court this 
week.

Mr. T. L. CREW of Moscow has been quite sick at his daughter’s, Mrs. E. W. 
BROCK, or several days.  We are glad to note that he is improving rapidly.

Mr. AUSTIN JORDAN brought a load of watermelons in a few days ago that 
excelled any of the season in size and quality.

Mr. J. N. MILLIGAN of Caledonia, Miss. paid this office a pleasant visit 
Tuesday.  Mr. Milligan is selling county rights to “Crosby’s Combination Wool 
and Clothes Washer.”

The Kansas City Road is being located through the county.  The railroads in 
Lamar in the next two years will be paying more tax than the citizens of the 
county now pay on their property.  By February it is expected that this road 
will be complete from Memphis to Birmingham and will be of much more 
convenience to this county than the Georgia Pacific.

Cotton has commenced to open.

We regret to learn of the sickness of Mr. BUD POE.

There was no preaching in town last Sunday.

A letter from Paris, Texas has been crowded out of this issue.

Circuit Court will convene at Hamilton, Marion County 11th of Oct.

Real estate is looking up along the Kansas City survey.

Most of the parties this week have confessed judgement.

The case of the State vs. BEARD was taken up today.

But small attendance at prayer meeting last night.

About half of the parties indicated at this term of the court have been 
arrested already.

A person can never realize how insignificant he is until the earth begins to 
quake under him.

The Grand Jury adjourned sine die this morning, finding only 38 indictments.  
Prohibition will prohibit.

A little girl of Mr. S. H. JACKSON’S was bitten by a ground rattlesnake a few 
days ago.  We are glad to learn, however, she is speedily recovering.

Several of the G. P. R. R. officials are in town this week, witnesses against 
a party charged with wrecking a train.

Wanted:  10,000 brick 1st of Oct. – W. A. YOUNG

We were pleased to receive a visit from Mr. SHERMAN LOWREY, of Franklin 
County, on Wednesday.

Mr. MAYFIELD of Franklin County, father of Mr. WILLIAM MAYFIELD of this county 
paid us a pleasant visit yesterday.

If our space would permit we would be pleased to make mention of those good 
gentlemen who have called this week and made settlement for the News.

JOHN HANKINS who was under bond to appear at this term of the court, on charge 
of murder, failed to put in appearance and a forfeiture was taken on his 
bond.  The bond is $1,250.

EDDIE YOUNG seems to posses a charmed life, falling from the top of a two 
story building on the evening of the first inst., making a clear fall of 
thirty feet.  His injuries were right serious but not of a dangerous 
character, both wrists were badly dislocated, and an ugly wound on the 
forehead.  He is now recovering rapidly.

Ad for Peruna.

IN MEMORIUM
	LEVINA CATHARINE BLACKWELL was born in South Carolina, March 16, 1837, 
and departed this life June 15, 1886, aged forty-nine years and three months.  
She was married to JAMES E. BLACKWELL, January 19, 1854, professed religion in 
1856, and joined the M. E. Church South the same year.  Since then she has 
lived a model Christian.  She told her husband when he started to the late war 
that she would pray for him twice a day for him until he returned, and when he 
came back from the war she told him she had kept her promise.
	She was the mother of seven children, all of whom except one have 
professed religion and are now members of the Methodist Church.  She requested 
her husband, the night before her death, to tell all of her children that if 
she never saw them again on earth she would meet them at the pearly gates of 
heaven.  She said there was not a shadow intervening between her and her 
Savior, and if it was God’s will she had rather go than stay here and suffer 
as she had suffered for ten or twelve years.  Sister BLACKWELL was a good 
woman -–oved by all who knew her.  I preached the last sermon that she heard 
on earth on Sunday afternoon at Free Hope Church.  Wednesday following, a 
large congregation of weeping relatives and friends met at Walnut Grove 
Cemetery to pay the last tribute of respect to the remains of our departed 
sister.  She ahs gone from us, but we mourn not as those who have no hope.  
She can not come back to us, but we can go to her.  May God bless the grief 
stricken ones, and my they all meet her in heaven.
	F. V. L. FINCH

ANALYSIS OF THE GOSPEL BY THE “LIME KILN” CLUB OF MOSCOW
“Bro.” Cumback’s Address – {“Negro Sermon”) – For the News  
(Story written in dialect  - not a real sermon)(IF INTERESTED LET ME KNOW AND  
WILL COPY IT FOR YOU)

ITEMS OF INTEREST
A sewing machine that can be carried about in the pocket is a recent invention.

The legislature will meet on Tuesday after the 2nd Monday in November.

A Republican Congressional Convention is to convene in Selma on the 22nd inst.

An earthquake destroyed two villages in Greece, the other day.

Track laying, we learn, will be begun soon on the Georgia Pacific at Day’s Gap.

California will make 25,000,000 gallons of wine this year.

Thousands of laborers and mules are at work grading the Kansas City R. R. 
through Walker County.

An illicit distillery has been discovered in the county jail at Atlanta.  The 
worm was an India rubber tube and the whiskey was from corn bread.

N. N. Clements, Jr., son of Hon. N. N. Clements of Tuscaloosa, died in that 
city of typhoid fever on August 27th.

The son of the immortal Robert E. Lee devotes himself to his farm and ----nug 
bachelor retreat in King William County, Va.

Philip Pierce, a negro of Jacksonville, Fla. Wants to bet $50 that he can suck 
forty-eight raw eggs and drink a gill of whisky within an hour.

We learn that the Southern Idea is to move from Russellville to Belgreen and 
will consolidate with the Franklin Democrat.  It will resume its old name and 
management.

Miss Louisa Cash, of Rhea County, died on the morning of the 30th after a fast 
of seventy days and nights, during which time she has not eaten a mouthful of 
food.

Lawrence Donovan, a young pressman, jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge early on 
the morning of Aug. 28th, to win a bet of five hundred dollars.  He was picked 
up uninjured.  The place where he jumped was 28 feet higher than where Brodie 
jumped.

A corporation has been organized in Brooklyn, N. Y. to prevent premature 
burials.  It is proposed to construct a large receptacle, where bodies may be 
deposited until the fact of death has been demonstrated beyond dispute.  
Medical aid will be at hand in the event of resuscitation.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Foster who are visiting at Hornellsville, N. Y., are the 
parents of a very remarkable child, who is 16 years of age.  The young man is 
only 16 inches high and weighs but 8 pounds when dressed.  He is probably the 
smallest child of his age in the world.  The boy is as intelligent as the 
average boy of his age.  He enjoys good health, and is as playful as nay 
child.  The father weighs over 200 pounds.

Ad for Peruna

Ad for Marriage Guide

WHAT IS DONE WITH THE NEWSPAPERS?
	Messrs. Geo. P. Rowell & Co., receive at their newspaper Advertising 
Bureau, No 10 Spruce St., New York City, nearly one hundred and fifty thousand 
newspapers every three months, more than seventeen hundred every day.  On 
occasions in the winter, when the snows interfere with the regular running of 
the mails, as soon as the blockade is removed it is not infrequently happens 
that as many as twenty-five bushels come in of a single morning, counting 
possibly as many as then thousand papers in one mail delivery.
	“What becomes of all the papers?  What do you do with them?” are 
questions which are often asked.  The papers come from every quarter, and are 
assorted throughout the day and night by the Post Office employees.  Those 
addressed to Geo. P. Rowell & Co’s Newspaper Advertising Bureau are thrown 
into large small bags, attached to a table, made to support them with the 
mouth held open. (Picture of item just described). And these, when filled, are 
tied at the top and set aside to wait until called for.  The bags are brought 
to the office each morning (picture) after which the papers are taken out and 
heaped upon a table. (picture) Then the wrappers are taken off. (Picture).

THE VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, Under the Principalship of J. R. BLACK, will open 
October 5, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months.  Rates of 
Tuition as follows:
PRIMARY:  Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and 
Primary Arithmetic,  per month   $1.50
INTERMEDIATE:  Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical 
Arithmetic, Composition, and U. S. History;  per month $2.00
ADVANCED:  Embracing Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, 
Elocution, and Latin, per month  $3.00
Incidental fee 20 cts, per quarter.
Discipline will be mild but firm.
Special attention given to those who wish to engage in teaching.
Good board at $7 per month.
Tuition due at the end of each quarter.
For further information, address:  J. R. BLACK, Principal, Vernon, Ala

State Normal School.  Florence, Alabama.  T. J. MITCHELL, A. M. President. 
Established by the State for the purpose of training Teachers, Male and 
Female.  Graduater teaches in the Public Schools without further examination.  
The Course of study embraces all of the branches 
------ taught in high schools and colleges.
TUITION  
To normal pupils     Free  
To other pupils, per session   $7 to $12
Incidental fee to all     $2.00
Music, per session      $5 to $10
Board, per Month      $10 to $12
President Mitchell is a distinguished Normal an institute worker.  The single 
success of all his institutes, as well as the strong endorsements Dr. Curry 
and others, mark him as peculiarly fitted for the place.  Fall term opens Sept 
6, ’86.  For further particulars apply to the President, or to Robert 
McFarland, President of the Board of Directors.

Ad for Ayer & Sons Advertising Agents

Ad for Avery Sewing Machine (picture of Sewing Machine)

Ad for New Home Sewing Machine (picture of sewing machine)

Ad for Collins Ague Cure

Ad for John F. Stratton – Importer of whole dealer in Accordeons (picture of 
accordion)

Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ (picture of Organ)

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LADIES DEPARTMENT

BEAUTY IN THE SADDLE
If woman, conscious of loveliness, convinced that the gods have appointed her 
a trustee of beauty for the delectation of the sterner sex and the discomfort 
of her fellow-women, ahs a keen perception of the environment most favorable 
to beauty, she certainly will not hesitate to seek the saddle as her throne, 
and the soft, warm, melting, landscape for a background.  As the glove fits, 
so must the habit.  Then, well mounted, with a free rein in a firm bridle 
hand, she is off with a dash.  Good!  The color comes, the eyes sparkle, and 
the tresses would prove truant to the bomb.  And this in the sunlight.  Here 
ninety percent is to be attributed to nature and ten percent to the artistic 
tailor.  Get away from half lights and dreary 5 o’clock teas.  Mount and be 
off.  A dash around the park in pursuit of health and happiness!  Into the 
saddle, young maids and matrons! You will then rival the stars, to be followed 
in your course by the eyes of honest admiration. – [New York Herald]

WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO
As a wife and mother women can make the fortune and happiness of her husband 
and children and if they did nothing else, surely this would be sufficient 
destiny.  By her thrift, prudence and tact she can secure to her partner and 
to herself a competency in old age, no matter how small the beginning or how 
adverse a fare may be theirs.  By her cheerfulness she can restore her 
husband’s spirit shaken by the anxieties of business.  By her tender care she 
can often restore him to health if disease has overtasked his powers.  By her 
counsel and love she can win him from bad company if temptation in an evil 
hour has led him astray.  By her example, her precepts and her sexes insight 
into character she can mould her children, however adverse their disposition, 
into noble men and women.  And by leading in all things a true and beautiful 
life, she can refine, elevate and spiritualize all who come within reach; so 
that, with others of her six emulating an d assisting her, she can do more to 
regenerate the world than all the statesmen or reformers that every legislated.

SPARE THE BIRDS AND BEASTS
	The Millinery Trade Review, after criticizing the use of bird’s 
plumage on ladies hats, makes other suggestions saying:
	And while they are bout it, let them not stop at plumes on hats.  Le 
them recollect the beautiful tortoise shell comb Miss Fashion wears in her 
hair was originally taken from a poor innocent creature who used this material 
for its only defense.  The kid gloves she has on her hands were stripped form 
a babe whose parents had hoped that its maturity would be spend in the 
harmless amusement of bounding about on suburban rocks and foraging freely on 
fence board circus posters.  The satchel she carries on her arm but a short 
time ago formed part of an amphibious animal whose only crime consisted in 
basking in the sunshine on the mud flats of the St. John’s River Florida, 
occasionally frolicking in its waters or waiting for an incautious black 
picanniny of whom to make a meal.  The silk dress she robes herself in was 
made from the winding threads that formed protection for thousands of nature’s 
beautiful creations, who were cruelly scalded within their secluded retreats 
lest they might eat their way out and spoil the continuity of the valuable 
fibres.  The sacque that shields her fair form from the rude wintry blasts 
once helped to protect a beautiful animal, whose native home is amid the icy 
regions of Alaska, where he was ruthlessly scarified for a species of skin 
game; an animal susceptible of domestication and capable of a high degree of 
culture, vying with the average Italian in musical ability, as was 
demonstrated by several that have been exhibited at various museums, where 
they handle the barrel organ with marked skill.  The protemonale she so 
daintily carries in her hand, and the case that accompanies her on calls of 
ceremony were once part of beautiful tusks that excited the cupidity of 
Asiatic or African hunters, who murdered a possible Jumbo to secure them for 
commercial purposes.

SPANISH BOAT-WOMEN
It is remarkable that though the wine-boats are rowed exclusively by men, may 
other river boats are managed entirely by women and girls.  Small, light, flat-
bottomed boats, used as ferryboats, or for passengers going up and down the 
river, or for carrying market produce are not only worked, but are often 
owned, by women.  With white awnings spread over the heads of the passengers 
in hot weather, these boats are picturesque objects end for the high shore, as 
they flit about on the deep green water of the Douro where it flows through 
the town.  The boat girls always push the oar instead of pulling it.  They 
seem incapable of fatigue, they are buxom and not ill favored and they wear 
the becoming Portuguese costume.  When they desire smartness, as on market 
days, the correct number of petticoats, ie. Fourteen, many old and of thick 
material.  These stick out all round in a manner rather perhaps curious than 
pleasing, and the effect is rather heightened by a form of padding that goes 
all the way round just below the waist.  This heavy costume is completed by a 
sort of bodice, usually made of stout linen covered with some bright colored 
material, laced up the front, and tight-fitting.  It stops short about an inch 
above the waist, and the white under-skirt bulges out all around.  This sort 
of white skirt, with large loose sleeves, is a real and most effective work of 
art.  Round the neck and on the shoulders it is caught into numerous gaglogs, 
and some fine needlework is inserted in front; over this a handkerchief is 
crossed.  Another handkerchief is put on the head on the top of which is 
placed a round felt “pork-pie” hat.  The bright silk handkerchief and the 
black hat are the objects on which all the rustic wealth is lavished.  The hat 
is trimmed with velvet, and the between the brim and crown is a row of little 
clack silk tufts.  A hat is made to last two years amongst the well-to-do 
peasants.  Its construction is very solid, the fleet being nearly a quarter of 
an inch thick, heavy and hot.  These picturesque Portuguese costumes can be 
seen at their best in the numerous rowing boats that come down the Duro to 
Oporto on market days.  The women then put on all their jewelry, fine 
ornaments that have descended from mother to daughter for generations.  A 
large gold heart, from an inch and a half to six inches in length, and finely 
wrought, is one of the oldest forms of these ornaments.  The heart is 
suspended to a string of gold beads, light and well wrought on their surface 
with a design of clearly Moorish origin.  The beads also are heirlooms, and 
some lucky individuals have as many as twenty rows, each strung on common 
string.  Crosses of filigree work of ancient design are also worn, together 
with modern cheap lockets of poor German gold. – [Art Journal]

FASHION NOTES
Silver jewelry of all kinds remains in vogue.

India silks in plain colors are always covered with lace.

Gingham and sateen dresses are trimmed with lace.

Festoons of jet beads are arranged upon the front of vistas.

Beaded and open work parasols appear for midsummer war.

Bright red jackets and bodices are no longer strictly correct wear.

Cotton canvass stuff is very extensively used for all kinds of dresses.

Fine white mull dresses have alternate flounces of lacer and embroidery.

Black silk dresses may have revers, vest, collar and cuffs of black velvet.

Fana are large or small, round, oval, or fan shaped as suits the fancy.

Escuarial lace, with bead embroidery, is employed for panels, vests, collars 
and cuffs.

The nearer the appearance of one’s hair to tumbling down the more fashionable.

Ribbons for sashes are of satin-faced velvet and double faced satin with picot 
edges.

Pongees are shown in the natural tint of the silk in colors, embroidered, 
printed or plain.

Corselets of silk or velvet are worn with woolen bodices.  The fabric should 
be fine and soft.

Thin black tissues, worked with jet, have stripes which may be cut in lengths 
for trimming.

Openwork striped tissues and transparent canvass have corresponding taffetas 
or faille to complete the costume.

Fine checked linen is a very desirable summer material, and has almost the 
effect of silk when jade up.

The skirts of many new dresses fall plain and undraped in the back set in very 
full plaits at the waist line.

White dresses with deep embroidered flouncing on the skirt have the flounce 
looped high over the hop on the left side, showing three narrow flounces 
corresponding to the wide one, or else of plain material.  The bodices of 
these dresses are belted or made with basque.

GENERAL LEE’S FORESIGHT
Unlike the vast majority of his Southern countrymen Lee had a very clear idea 
of the tremendous odds against which the South would have to contend, and was 
not sanguine as to the result.  This is shown by an anecdote never before in 
print and entirely reliable.  Just after receiving his commission from the 
Virginia Convention he called upon a family in Richmond whom he had known for 
many years.  Two of the sons had already enlisted and the third – a mere boy – 
wanted to do so.  The mother, naturally anxious, said: “General, how long do 
you think this awful war will last?” The answer was give with solemn and 
significant emphasis, which the questioner never forgot “My little madame, I 
am afraid it will last until we are all driven into the hills and mountains.” –
 [St. Louis Republican]

TEN YARDS OF LACE – An Interesting Little Story Which Points a Moral – 
[Chicago Ledger]

A NOVELTY IN CHINATOWN –
 A JOSS HOUSE FOR WORSHIP OF CHINAMEN IN NEW YORK
Pedestrians up and down Chathum Street, or as it is now know, Park Row, New 
York City, have noticed an unusually large number of Chinamen arrayed in 
holiday attire passing in and out of the narrow hallway of 202 Mott Street.  
It is not an imposing looking entrance.  It opens directly upon a steep 
stairway, and the only suggestive feature is a strip of red paper over the 
doorway, which looks as if it was a label town off a package of firecrackers.  
It bears the name of “Joss” and tells the devotedly inclined Celestial that 
the temple is upstairs.  Early last week the new interior fittings of the 
temple, the altar, tables and chairs, arrived here from China and were put in 
place.  Now the unpretending third floor of 203 Mott Street contains some of 
the finest specimens of Chinese art in that city.  The altar is of carved 
ebony, practically a large frame for the picture of Joss and his attendant 
deities, executed on satin in the most elaborate style of Chinese art, and a 
heavy table for holding the incense burners and votive offerings.  As a whole 
the rings represent the universe.  Along the bottom, under the table, is the 
sea, with fish, aquatic plants, and the huge turtle upon which, according to 
Chinese mythology, the earth is supposed to rest.  From each side rise trees, 
shrubs, and heavily carved foliage, with birds and animals among the 
branches.  The branches interlock over the open, and the whole is backed with 
heavy plate glass mirrors, representing the heavens thickly studded with 
golden stars.  The chairs and tables are in the same style of rich Oriental 
carving, and the room is lighted by carved lanterns hanging from the ceiling.  
The walls are hung with Chinese mottoes, the air is heavy with incense, and it 
is hard to believe that we are in New York and not in Cathay.
	The whole affair cost the Chinese residents of New York between $6,000 
and $8,000 and is entirely self-supporting.
	They have queer features in their religion which was quaintly 
explained to me by the old priest in charge.  I noticed that a large portion 
of the worshipers would come in, make their obeisance to the altar, burn a few 
prayer sticks and go out.  Some, however, remained a longer time and gave the 
priest sums varying from twenty-five cents to a dollar.  In response to my 
inquiry he said:
	“A man can say all he wants to in three minutes, so he have three 
minutes for nothing.  If he have good deal to say, he pays twenty-five cents 
for the next three minutes, fifty for the next three, and so on.  No good to 
pray too long.”  Then he added after a moment’s reflection: “In Melican Church 
man talks an hour and everybody pray two hours or two hours and a half, then 
make collection beg to pay the minister.  Chinese way, 500 or 600 people pray 
two hours we make two or three thousand dollars.’  The system strikes me as a 
good one.  It pays the expense of the temple and discourages garrulity.  With 
it s dingy exterior of the Chinese of New York have now one of the most richly 
furnished places of worship in the city. – [Constitution]

SAWED OR RESAWED
Fly catchers – base-ballists

Loop holes – watch out for them.

Meridian casts the shortest shadows.

A striking circumstance – a base-ball bat.

Is a housewife shooing flies a blacksmith or a shoemaker.

Why pay a bill tomorrow that you can put off until next month?

The soda-fountain man is the only person who can “hiss’ at people without 
giving offense.

Los Angles, Cal, allows no young lady on the street after nine o’clock p.m.  
He can be on the street – the gate between them.

The most modest man ever heard of was in a rowboat in a storm.  He got swamped 
and drowned because he refused to hug the shore.

Many high Chicago buildings minus elevators are objects to because of the 
climatic influences incident to their upper regions.

The Marquis of Lorne is out against home rule.  No wonder.  He knows the 
disadvantages of it ever since he was married.

Glycerin and rose water is a good remedy for chapped lips, and young ladies 
will find it much safer than being ticked by a mustache.

A Kentucky negro has been sent to prison for life for stealing thirteen 
dollars, and yet the Thirteen Club contend that the number is not unlucky.

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