Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News September 30, 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003775 June 28, 2006, 7:25 pm The Lamar News September 30, 1886 Microfilm Ref Call #373 Microfilm Order #M1992.4466 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, SEPTEMBER 30, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 48 BETTER THINGS – Poem – [George MacDonald, LLD] BAFFLED – Short Story – [New York News] CHOCOLATE Chocolate is a kind of hard paste, the principle part of which is the pulp of the cocoa or chocolate nuts. The cocoa, from which it comes, is a tree that has been brought into great prominence only in comparatively recent years, although for many generations it has been exercising beneficent influences upon millions of the human race. The Spanish word is coco, signifying nut. The cocoa nut palm grows in warm climates, and attains the height of from 60 to 902 feet. The stem is similar to an apothecary’s mortar, being of equal diameter at each end, but tapering somewhat in the middle. The bark is smooth, of a pale brown, and the tree generally inclines on one side. The fruit is shaped like a cucumber, green while growing, then changing to a blush red color with pink veins, and contains from 20 to 30 nuts. The calyx of the cocoa nut palm is composed of five sepals; the petals are five, lengthened into a strap like form at the apex. The stamens are five each with double anthers, and a horn like appendage between each filament; the style is filiform with a five parted stigma, the fruit a five celled capsule without valves, the seeds embedded in a soft pulp. And thick, oily, wrinkled cotyledons. The species chiefly used in the manufacture of cocoa and chocolate are cacao, and the fruits are collected from both wild and cultivated plants, the size and form of which vary with the species. The cacao tree is carefully cultivated in many of the settlements of Spanish America, and particularly in Mexico, where, we learn from Humboldt, it was extensively reared so long ago at the time of Montezuma, and, whence, indeed, it was transplanted into other dependencies of the Spanish Monarchy. The names by which the plant and the food prepared from its seed are recognized in the present time are derived form the Mexican language. The Mexican word chocolate is derived from the sound of the stones as they crash together in the primitive method adopted by them for bruising the bean and incorporating the sugar and vanilla, and from this comes the English word chocolate. The seeds of the cacao were made use of as money in Mexico in the time of the Aztec kings, and this use of them is still partially continued. But the Cacao tree is not confined to Mexico. It is extensively grown in Central America, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Caracas, Ecuador, Demerara, Guayaquil, and Surinam; it is also extensively cultivated in Trinidad, Grenada, and is found in some of the other West Indian Islands, but that coming from Caracas being considered the best. ELECTRIC ALARMS IN VINEYARDS Mention was made some time since in these columns of the use of an electric alarm in vineyards, by which warning of the approach of a low degree of temperature at night was at once communicated, in time to permit of the lighting of prepared bonfires, in order to ward off all danger of damage from frost. By the method described it was necessary to keep a number of men under engagement, so that when the alarm was given no time might be lost in getting the fires started. This has proved the most expensive part of the plan, but at Glen Lillen viticulturist has, by an ingenious invention, entirely obviated this difficulty. Attached to the frost bell of the thermometer are wires leading to the heaps of combustible matter kept in constant preparation. A little gun cotton is put in each bonfire, and when the temperature reaches thirty-three degrees a spark is at once communicated to the cotton, and the bonfire is lighted without the intervention of human agency. The invention is a valuable one, as thereby a great saving is affected. – [San Francisco Chronicle] A LOGGER’S LIFE – Perils and Privations of the Maine Lumbermen How Logs are Driven From the Distant Wilds to the Lumber Mills ……..(skipping article, if interested, contact me) The Japanese believe in bathing. Public baths are so numerous at Tokeo that there is one for every three hundred inhabitants. SUBMARINES BOATS The problem of submarine navigation concerning which M. Verne romances fourteen years ago, may be now regarded as completely solved, and the clever structure imagined by the novelist is far surpassed in ingenuity by the actual vessels designed and built by M. Nordenfelt, a Danish inventor, and Mr. J. F. Waddington, of Birkenhead, Eng. The Nordenfelt vessel is run by steam, the Waddington boat by electricity. The former is cigar-shaped, steel-plated, 64 feet in length, 12 feet beam, and 11 feet deep. Two propellers working in a vertical direction supply the sinking force, and a system of balanced rudders keeps the boat in a horizontal position. The steam is supplied by a marine boiler for traveling on the surface, and is stored up for moving under water. The crew live in the air space in the hull, which is sufficient to sustain four men six hours. This boat has remained under water over an hour at a time without inconvenience to the men, and has been successfully operated at a depth of sixteen feet. She has been run 150 miles on the surface, without recoaling, at a maximum speed of eight knots, and under water 16 miles at a maximum speed of three knots. Although this is comparatively a low rate of speed, the vessel is regarded as a complete success. Mr. Waddington’s boat is also cigar shaped, but somewhat smaller than the other, being 37 feet long and 6 feet in diameter at the center, tapering off to the pointed ends. A tower is mounted on the boat, and her depth of immersion below the water surface is regulated by external inclined planes, placed one on either side and controlled from within. She is fitted with a rudder placed aft, and a self- acting arrangement serves to keep the vessel in its horizontal position. She is manned by a crew of two men and a supply of compressed air is provided for occasions when the boat remains submerged for any length of time. The motive power is electricity, which is stored on board in 50 cells. These drive a screw propeller, and the charge they carry is sufficient to propel the boat for 10 hours at a speed of nearly nine knots an hour, either below the water or on its surface. The cells also supply lights through glow lamps, and drive a pump for emptying the water ballast tanks, which are filled for submerging the boats. This vessel has been given several trials near Liverpool England with results that are declared highly satisfactory. – [Inter-Ocean] A STRUGGLE FOR PRINCIPLE – Joke PHOTOGRAPHY IN OPHTHALMOLGY Messrs. W. T. Jackson and J. D. Webster have lately succeeded in obtaining good photographs of the retina of the living human eye, illustrations of which are given in the English Photographic News. They were able to bring the time of exposure for the negative to within two minutes and a half, and it is very probable that technical skill will further reduce the time and difficulties. The chief obstacles to shortening the time of exposure, so far encountered, are the color of the renal reflection and the fact that the lens of the eye has the property of absorbing the ultra-violet rays. It seems highly probable that the photograph will here become a valuable adjunct to the physiologist, ophthalmologist, or even the general physician, as the eye affords the diagnostic aid in not a few diseases. - [Science] ALONE – Poem – [Rogert J. Burlette] HUMOROUS - Jokes TYLER’S SECOND WIFE – Anecdote – [Courier Journal] PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY AUGUST SEPT 23, 1886 RATES OF ADVERTISING One inch, one insertion $1.00 One inch, each subsequent insertion .50 One inch, twelve months 10.00 One inch, six months 7.00 One inch, three months 5.00 Two inches twelve months 15.00 Two inches, six months 10.00 Quarter column 12 months 35.00 Half Column 12 months 60.00 One column 12 months 100.00 Professional card $10. Special advertisements in local columns will be charged double rates. All advertisements collectable after first insertion. Local notices 10 cents per line. Obituaries, tributes of respect, etc. making over ten lines, 5 cents per line. For Congress, 6th Dist., J. B. BANKHEAD, of Fayette THE OLD, OLD STORY – Poem – [C. G. Ames] (words to the hymn) Charleston is busy at the work of restoration in spite of daily quakings. Texas Prohibitionists adopt a platform and will bring out a ticket. Every section of the civilized world is showing sympathy for the suffering people of Charleston by sending them substantial aid to them. The loss of property is now estimated at over $5,000,000. Sorrow overwhelms us, yet God finds music in everything. Out sighs and sobs waft prayers to Him that brings deliverance down. They are really songs of triumph in the minor keys. From a bruised and broken heart God’s touch causes melody to flow forth. – [Armitage] Three sons of a Mr. Morgan were drowned in the creek at Bush’s Mill, in Cherokee County, Thursday. They were bathing in the creek, and got into swimming water and were drowned. The oldest was fifteen years of age, the youngest eleven. They were all buried in the same grave. The Macon Telegraph claims that Mr. Bankhead, who was nominated in the Birmingham (Ala.) Congressional district to succeed Hon. J. M. Martin, is pledged not to vote for the Morrison bill, while the Alabama protection papers accuse him of being a free trader. A perplexed justice of the peace up in Houston County once said to the lawyers who were arguing the case before him, “Gentlemen how can I decide the question? I see you differ among yourselves?” – [Savannah News] “If I was to live my life over again,” said an American defaulter as he cocked his feet in the office of a Montreal hotel, “I’d be a lawyer instead of a cashier.” “For why?” was asked. “Well, I embezzled $7,000 and am an outlaw and an outcast. My brother –in-law, who is a lawyer, ‘managed’ a case so that it put him $48,000 ahead, and they have just elected him mayor of the town and got him to join the church. I advise young men to think of this.” DEATH RATE IN AMERICA The average duration in this country is less than 20 years. The heaviest death rate is among the children, 40 percent of whom die before the age of 5. Out of 100 Americans only 22 pass the age of 50, and only 4 out of 100 reach the age of 80. In England the death rate between the ages of 5 and 20 is only 8 percent. We lose 24 percent of our population between the ages of 20 and 50. England loses only 21 percent between the ages of 20 and 25. England, therefore, can show proportionately as many persons who reach the age of 75 as we can show attaining the age of 70. In France 48 people out of 100 reach the age of 50, as against our 24. Only s10 percent of our people reach three score and ten, while 24 percent of the French survive that limit. We lose half our population by the age of 20. The Irish only part with 25 percent. BOYS AND GIRLS AS MODELS - Mites Of Humanity Who Pose As Subjects For An Artist’s Pencil. – [New York Mail and Express] A SCULPTOR’S FIRST WORK Mrs. J. W. Thomas, a sister of the sculptor J. Q. A. Ward, has a curious statuette in alabaster, about six inches high, under a glass case in the drawing room of her handsome country-seat near Newburg-on-the-Hudson. It is the figure of an Irishman who used to do chores for her family thirty-five years ago in Brooklyn, and is wonderfully lifelike --- even to the patches in his trousers, the rent in his coat and the creases in his narrow brim, stove- pipe hat. The work was executed with a penknife by her brother, then in his teens, whole on a visit at their home. It so pleased her that she took it to the sculptor H. K. Brown. “Madam,” said he, admiring it, “this boy has something in him.” For six years afterward Mr. Ward was a pupil in Brown’s studio, laying the foundations of the most prosperous career yet achieved by an American sculptor – [Boston Budget] CENTRAL AMERICAN’S “TREE KILLER” One of the forest curiosities of the isthmus of Dorien and lower Central America is the matapalo or “tree killer.” This starts in life as a climber upon the trunks of large forest trees, and owing to its marvelously rapid growth, soon reaches the lower branches. It then begins to throw out many shoots, which entwine themselves all around the trunk and branches, and also aerial tendrils which as soon as they reach the ground, take root. Ina few years this gigantic parasite will completely envelope the trunk of the tree which has upheld it and kill it. The whole of the inner dead tree will then rot away leaving the hollow matapalo standing alone and flourishing. - [Boston Transcript] POINTING TO THE CRESENT “I see one of God’s fingernails” said little 3-year old, pointing to the crescent moon n the evening sky; “he’s been paring his nails and one has dropped through.” – [Boston Transcript] KINDS OF COLOR BLINDNESS There are four kinds of color blindness, proper – red, green, violet, and total, occurring in the order stated in frequency, violet being quite rare. APPLICATION TO SELL LAND The State of Alabama, Lamar County Probate Court, September 18, 1886 This day came W. S. PROTHRO Administrator, and filed his application in writing and under oath praying for an order and proceeding to sell certain lands in said application described, for the purpose of paying the debts due and owing from said estate and the 1st day of November 1886 being a day set for hearing and passing upon said application, this is to notify all persons interested to appear on that day and contest the same if they see proper. ALEXANDER COBB, judge of Probate NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala, September 6, 1886 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed his notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judge or in his absence before the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, Ala at Vernon on October 27th, 1886, viz: No 10849, FRANCIS M. COOKEN, for the N ½ of S E ¼ Sec 8, T 12 and R 15 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: C. HARRIS, W. G. NORTON, WM. CORNET, AND C. H. NORTON, all of Detroit, Ala. WM. C. WELLS, Register PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMISSIONER’S 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 Ad for Marriage Guide Ad for Chicago Scale Co. 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. WANTED: To know the whereabouts of SYLVESTER ALONZO BOX . It will be to his material interest to correspond with W. Y. ALLEN, Vernon, Ala or W. L. Harrill – Okolona, Miss. 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. Ad for Ayer and Son Advertising Agents 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 LOT OF CLOCKS) Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry and spectacles. Makes a specialty of repairing. Will furnish any style of timepiece, on short notice, and at the very lowest price. 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) PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY SEPT. 30, 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 See application to sell land in today’s issue. The editor and family are expected home about next Tuesday. INDIAN TERRITORY KULLY CHAHA, Sept 9, 1886 Editor Lamar News: Since reading the News regularly since February past, I find that the people of Lamar. (sic) Of course, I regret to know that this is the case, but as I cannot appease the wrangling of the people, I will write up for the Indian Territory. Thank goodness we do not have any political wrangling here, still the great portion of the people are Democrats and would vote that ticket if they voted any. We have no religious strife here though we have Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian and Christian. Each denomination preach what they believe and say nothing of the others, and sometimes, they labor together. We do not have any man here that would traffic or trade their wives as your Texas correspondent says of his Texas brethern, we have no confusion of horses and mules. We have no monopoly our monopolist in this nation, except among one-horse merchants who seem to think that farmers can get money off the bushes and trees, however farms can get along very well without their help. They hook up their teams to their wagons and go out to Fort Smith and trade there. The new railroad is being put through from Fort Smith to Paris, Texas, with dispatch. The traveling community will soon have a chance to pass through the Choctaw Nation by rail. Corn crops are very good in the Nation. Cotton on low land is good, but high lands is not so good. Respectfully P. R. WILEMAN FREE TO ALL – Our illustrated catalogue, containing description and price of the best varieties of Dutch bulbs, also Hyacinths, tulips, narcissus, &c, as bushes, small fruits, grape vines, trees, shrubs, &c. all suitable for fall planting. Satisfaction guaranteed. Write for a copy. – Nane & Neunces., Louisville, Ky. Ad for Smith’s Bile Beans SELMA SPIRITS SELMA, ALA. Sept. 14 – Some excitement has been created in East Selma by Miss Clara Owens, a young miss of about 14 years, who claims to communicate with the spirit world by what is known as the independent state process. Miss Owens did not know that she possessed this power until last April. At that time a day medium from Texas visited her father’s family, and after experimenting found that she was the only one of the family who possessed this extraordinary faculty, the manner in which she communicates is about as follows: Some one in the audience writes a question on the slate and she puts it under the table with one hand, while the other arm is extended in full view of the spectators. Almost immediately afterward she draws the slate from under the table with the answer written thereon. Sometimes the question is written on a card and put in a sealed envelope, where she can not possibly read what is written. After holding the slate under the table for about one second the answer will be written on it and will invariably be correct. She has never been known to fail to give the correct answer as yet, and crowds visit Mr. Owen’s red fence every night to see this wonderful child. One evening about five months ago she fell into a trance and had conversations with the spirits. It seemed that they extended to her an invitation to remain in the spirit world, but she declined. During that time she would not wake before 10 o’clock. About that time the family becoming greatly alarmed summoned Drs. West and McKinnon, who decided that they would not wake her before twelve o’clock. At that time she was wakened and immediately fell into a sound sleep. Next morning she did not remember anything that had happened the evening before. A lady whose father died a short while back, communicated with him, and says the answers were as correct as if he could have answered them himself. Miss Owens is creating a excitement among the residents of the eastern portion of the city, and her house is thronged nightly by a crowd of eager citizens who desire to communicate with their departed loved ones or friends. ITEMS OF INTEREST A girl may have plenty of bustle and still be lazy. A Montana paper advertises for a “sober editor.” Railroads are increasing rapidly throughout the world. The Bulgarian question may involve all of Europe in War. Wisconsin Republicans put out a ticket. Mobile has a negro faith doctor. The Governor pardoned twenty convicts one day recently. A vain of great richness ahs been discovered at Abacholchee. A democratic victory is telegraphed from Arkansas. The plumed knight of Maine, James G. Blaine, is highly pleased with the result of the elections in that state, saying the result with the administration in the hands of the Democracy, shows that the Republican Party is stronger than ever. Persons who are troubled with palpitations of the heart, or have attack of nervous excitement of the circulation, should not use tea or coffee. It is said that the cholera is increasing rapidly in Austria and it is feared it will sweep over the whole country. The office and all the material of the Atlanta Sunny South was destroyed by fire on the 10th inst. Wiggins, of Canada, predicts a sea-shaking, sky-splitting storm on the afternoon of September 29. Maybe it won’t come. 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. A BRITISH RURAL OFFICIAL – anecdote – [Caswell’s Magazine] COLORADO’S BRIGHTEST GEM Green Lake has been fitly called the brightest gem in Colorado’s diadem. It is situated three miles from Georgetown and is 10,090 feet above the level of the sea. The road to the lake at first winds along the brow of Leavenworth Mountain, and in the fair sunlight the mines, cabins, flowers, Clear Creek, Georgetown, and the many peaks of the surrounding mountains made a pleasing picture as we rode along. After going almost straight up the mountain for a short distance Green Lake burst upon our sight, and amid rugged gorges, huge boulders and lofty pines lay spread before us a scene of exquisite loveliness. It is almost a mile long and just half as wide, and the water from the shore looks deeply tinged with dark green; but get into a boat and glide over it and you find the water clear and transparent. The rocks on the bottom are covered with a mossy deposit. The marvel is how did such a lake get here, and another wonder is the greenness from which the lake takes its name. The basin that holds it is green, the sand is green, the moss on the rocks is green, and even the tiny drops that fall from the oar bear the same unexplainable tinge, but the water is clear, and in its wondrous depths can be seen a buried forest, with its trees still erect, but petrified, and instead of swaying to the mountain breeze, stand silent and cold as in the embrace of death. – [Detroit Free Press] THE DISTANCE OF THE STARS The distance of the stars from the earth is so vast, even when compared with the distances of the various members of the solar system from the sun, that the ordinary unit of comparison of mile or meter is by far too small to be available. Therefore, in these computations, as a basis of comparison, the distance of the earth from the sun, about 23,000,000,000 miles, is the unit, and stands for one. Alpha Centauri, the leading star in the constellation of the Centaur, is the nearest star to the earth, so far as known. Its distance is usually placed at from 20,000,000,000,000 to 29,000,000,000,000 miles from the earth. A star called Sixty-one Cygni is classed as second in distance, being put at 54,780,999,000,000 miles distance from our globe. Most of the stars, however, are millions of times farther away from us than these. Light travels about 186,000 miles in every second of time, and yet with this inconceivably rapid velocity it would take light about twelve years to traverse the space separating us from that star. From the greater portion of the stars light would be many centuries in reaching us. That is to say in these particular instances, the stars which we see are not the stars as they exist tonight, but as they existed before Columbus sailed on his voyage of discovery, or even before the creation of Adam. – [Globe-Democrat] THE GULF STREAM’S INFLUENCE It is well understood that Great Britain and other parts of northern Europe owe much to the warming influence of the gulf stream. The extent of the effect has been given in the calculations of Dr. James Croll, who has found that the amount of heat conveyed northyard in the Atlantic by this stream is equivalent to 77,479,550,000,000,000,000 foot- pounds of energy a day, which is equal to all the heat received by 1,569,935 square miles at the equator, and more heat than is conveyed by all the air currents. The heat of the Arctic seas and north Atlantic would be dismissed that much by the stoppage or division of the great ocean river – [Boston Budget] WHEN ENGLAND HELD SLAVES A thousand years ago nearly all the working people of England, plowmen, carpenters, shepherds, cooks and dairymaids were slaves. There was a regular slave market in Bristol which went on for hundreds of years – [Boston Budget] GROWTH OF THE WHITE RACE Only two centuries ago the white race were estimated to be one-tenth of the world’s population. Now it is claimed they are fully one-third. 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 Ad for Smith’s Bile Beans Ad for Peruna Ad for Tutt’s Pills Ad for Collins Ague Cure AD for Avery Sewing Machine Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ Ad for Scientific American Ad for New Home Sewing Machine Ad for Two Mule Sulky Plow Ad for The Star – weekly newspaper PAGE 4 LADIES DEPARTMENT REVIVING A GOOD OLD FASHION The propriety and good taste of doing away with abbreviated names among women is fast growing into favor and the good old fashion of giving the full name is regarded as the correct and dignified thing. Mollie and Mattie, and Tillie, and Maggie, are again Mary, Martha, Matilda, and Margaret – stately names, all of them, and full of significance, whereas their diminutives are silly and meaningless, and women are gradually awakening to the fact that it is far more elegant to reserve these pet names, if they be used at all, for the household, and to sign themselves always in addressing those outside this little circle with the full name they received at the baptismal font. In this respect our ancestors showed a proper mount of dignity, and it would be well now if the old form of addressing women as Mistress Ann Page, Mistress Catherine Smith, etc., were revived. The present custom of retaining the maiden names as a middle name after marriage and the use of the husband’s Christian name by widows are both sensible, as they identity the individual with a certain family. – [Chicago Herald] A FLIRT’S CONFESSION “I do not think that I ever flirted with the hope for intention of seriously winning men’s hearts. It was fun to receive their attentions and to be able to lure them away from other girls, and especially was this the case when the men were married or engaged. In most instances I think they went back to their own and their own received them. Why did I do it? Well, I think the reason was this: I really liked all agreeable men, and anything that looked like lack of appreciation on their part was so exceedingly distasteful to me that I straightway strove to overcome it. The young fellows just coming out came into my net as a matter of course for several years, but older men heard of me before being presented, and fought shy. I did not understand this them. I thought they disliked me, whereas it was probably caution or disapproval, and I set myself forthwith to disarm the caution and change the disapproval to liking. It was simply unpleasant to me to have anyone indifferent. I have cried time and again on my way home in the carriage, simply because some one whom I wanted to please seemed indifferent. Several times I was actually caught with tears on my cheeks by those of whom I was thinking, and I always managed to let them guess the reason of my tears. That was always effectual. It never failed to bring about the desired end, but I declare solemnly that I never did it on purpose - cried, I mean – and I never intended to be caught in tears. I suppose that most men will refuse to believe this, but it is true. I was simply at my wits end with wretchedness, because I thought some one had taken a dislike to me.” – [The Hour] A PERSIAN PRINCESS Lady Shiel, in her “Glimpses at Life and Manners in Persia,” says: “I went to see the Shah’s half-sister, a beautiful girl of 15, who lived with her mother in an obscure part of the ante-room, neglected by the Shah, and consequently be every one else. She was really lovely, fair and with indescribable eyes and a figure only equaled by some of the chefs d’ourvre of Italian art. This is so very rare among Persian women that she was one of the few persons I saw in the country with an approach to a good figure. “She was dressed in the usual fashion of trousers on trousers, the last pair being of such stiff brocade that if put standing upright in the middle of the room there they would remain. Her hair was cu reld, not plaited, and she was literally covered with diamonds. She was quiet in her manners, and seemed dejected. She was most anxious to hear about European customs. “And what seemed to surprise her most was that we took the trouble to undress every night going to bed –and she asked me was it true that we put on a long white dress to pass the night in. “All Persian women are astonished at this custom, and are quite unable to account for it. They never undress at night; they untie their thin mattress from its silken cover, draw it out from its place against the wall, and roll themselves up in the w--ed quilt which forms their blanket. The only time they change their clothes is when they go to bathe. If they --- to visit they of course put on the ---- garments, and take them off at night; but generally they lie down just as they are, and even in cold weather they wear their ‘chadeor or out-of-door veil, at night. ROBUST YOUNG AMERICAN WOMAN Some years ago, says the New York Sun, a young woman rather coveted an appearance of delicate health, as an evidence of refinement, and associated fresh and blooming cheeks and a vigorous appetite with a dairymaid style of beauty that seemed to her course or inelegant. She was also taught to look on little hysterical fears and tremors as prettily feminine, and, of all things, she most dreaded to be regarded as a tomboy or a hoyden. She might dance all night in a tight and long gown, about she must avoid the outdoor sports enjoyed by her brother, and stand in mortal terror of cows and mice. Therefore it happened that they typical American girl of those days was a thin and nervous creature, beside whom her English sister seemed full and rugged. She was a pretty, but a fragile specimen of her six, whose good looks were likely to be soon replaced by the lines of chronic ill health, or destroyed by the cares of motherhood. But all that has changed since the time when Dio. Lewis began to preach his doctrine of what he called physical culture. The girls of this period vie with their brothers in outdoor exercise. They wear stout boots, easy clothing, and garments appropriate to the weather, and which are made with careful regard to the protection of their health. First, croquet took them out upon the lawns, and then tennis;’ and mealtime they learned to row, to ride, to drive, to practice archery, to take long tramps, and to endure exposure, so that it has come to pass, that girls, like boys, are ashamed to be unequal to vigorous physical exercise. They want to be healthy and strong and mice and cows do not terrify them as of old. The result is that the well-trained American girls who are now approaching maturity; or who are already in the first flush of womanhood are distinguished for the symmetry and beauty of their physical development. Their lungs are stronger and their voices better than those of the women who preceded them. The race has grown taller and far handsomer, so that now we can say without boasting that the handsomest types of their sex anywhere to be found are the young American girls of today. Of course Dio Lewis only helped to bring about this happy result, for many causes contributed to it, but we accord him great praise for the part he took in inspiring our young women and their parents with enthusiasm for health and physical exercise. FASHION NOTES Lace dresses are more flowing than formerly. Embroidered nun’s veiling is very attractive this season. Beige and core-de-la-reine are combined for girl’s wear. Yellow and black on high walking hats is a favorite combination. A bouquet of carnations is one of the most stylish hat garnitures. Challi, etamine, toulard, and India silk are used for girls’ nice dresses. Tucks or folds on an under dress are very stylish in any heavy goods. Shot silk in light shades is used in combination with light summer woolens. Draped polonaises and overdresses, with basque bodices, are in equal favor. Veils of colored crape accompany the shirred crape bonnets so stylish this season. Plain skirts without gores, some being made with deep plaits at the side, are worn. Watered ribbons are used very effectively in trimming lightweight costumes. A large gray parasol is a very stylish affair this season. A huge bow ornaments the top. Egyptian and oriental lace are used for flounces over colored and white dresses. Wide sashes of surah are very stylish with street costumes as well as those for the house. Embroidered crape, gauze and muslin are sown in most elaborate designs and beautiful coloring. White canvas cloth combines with black velvet makes a very stylish costume of the seashore. Coast meshed nets have large or small polka dots. They are to be found in all the fashionable colors. They are made up over silk. Serges for children are made with blouse bodices and box-plaited skirts. These frocks are useful for seaside wear, and are made with square collar and cuffs of striped flannel. A velvet sunshade is not only senseless but it is very heavy, and when it is adorned by a bouquet of artificial flowers on the handle, it is worse. Some of the new woolen laces are of very fine quality and are quite glossy. Lace for millinery purposes is often edged with wire so fine that it cannot be detected. This wire prevents lace form becoming limp and clinging, and enables lace bonnets to preserve their pristine freshness. THE MOON Astronomers are continually making astounding calculations with regard to the moon. Prof. Darwin says there was a time, about fifty-four millions of years ago, when the moon was so near the earth that it revolved around it somewhere between two and four hours. It must have rubbed the tops of some of tour highest mountains. Telescopes were unnecessary in those days. All that an astronomer had to do was to climb a mountain and wait till the moon came along, then step on and investigate things at his leisure. Finally the moon started on its long spiral journey away from the earth, and we shall lose it altogether a few million years hence. – [Siftings] SHORT APHORISMS – Various proverbs POTATOES – the nature of the potato FACTS NOTED In Europe cocaine has been found efficient in the treatment of asthma. Near Cannelton, Pennsylvania, the ground heaves and pulsates just like a human breast. The statues of New Jersey now forbid the killing, wounding or catching of any song bird at any time. The Pittsburgh Humane Society is seeking to prosecute organizations which insure the lives of small children. The new law in New York prohibiting the employment of children in factories will force 30,000 children out of employment. The plenisphone, an instrument that unites the tones of the violin, cello, and double bass, is a recent invention of a Buffalo musician. Mrs. Ina B. McLane is one of the largest mail route contractors in the United States. She has over one hundred routes on the Pacific coast alone. The dies from which the first Untied States – the so-called Franklin – cents were cast are now used as paper weights in a New Haven counting room. AN ANCIENT VESSEL Discovery Of An Old Wreck Opposite The City The dredge Tomochichi has been at work for some time dredging at the wharf of the Propeller Towboat company across the river and opposite Drayton street, preparatory to driving piles and repairing the wharf. The dredge yesterday struck an ancient wreck, supposed to be that of an old war ship. There is every evidence that the vessel was strongly built. The timers are of oak. Both the planking and timbers and the greater part of the frame have been brought by the dredge. The wood is in a fine state of preservation, being as sound as when first put into the vessel. The dredge also brought numbers of old bayonets and gun locks, rusted and almost destroyed by age. The ring stopped from the anchor, and the stump of the vessel’s foremast can be seen at dead low water, and also the stump of the malin and missen masts. The wreck is buried deep in the mud, but how it came there is a mystery. From the appearance of the stuff brought up form the wreck it is evident that the vessel belonged top the last century. It is said that during the Revolutionary war a 74 gun British ship chased a Spanish war sloop into this harbor, and that the crew scuttled the sloop to prevent its capture. But at what part of the river she was sunk was never definitely settled. At the time she was supposed to have considerable money on boat, as usual with Spanish war vessels at that time. About fifty years ago a company was formed in Philadelphia and New York, and parties came out here for the purpose of finding the wreck and recovering the money supposed to have been sunk with her, but where they ever succeeded in finding the wreck or money is not known. The wreck is certainly that of an old war vessel. Everything about her shows it. The preservation of the wood is wonderful. – [Savannah News] MRS. FERDINAND WARD – (Article about wife of Ferninand Ward, ex-wizard of Wall Street in Sing-Sing Prison) [Baltimore American] ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1025gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 49.0 Kb