Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News October 21, 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 September 4, 2006, 7:24 pm The Lamar News October 21, 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, OCTOBER 21, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 51 BOYCOTT – Poem LOVE’S CHANGES – Short Story CHANGES IN THE SOUTH There is an impression in the north, says the Savannah (Ga.) News, that educated and cultivated southern women are less than able to take care of themselves when overtaken by misfortune than northern women of the same class are. The impression is not well founded, and those who have it know nothing about southern women; and have not had access to correct sources of information. There is another incorrect impression entertained at the north with respect to southern women. It is that they do not hold labor in as much esteem as northern women do, and are not so ready, therefore, to undertake to support themselves when thrown upon their own resources. It is doubtful if there are in any section of the country, in proportion to the number of the class to which they belong, so many refined and cultivated women who are earning their own support or helping to earn it as there are in the south. It is true, probably, that when slavery was an institution, and there was little poverty among educated people, southern women of the better class were not often found engaged in work of any kind that was not purely a matter of choice. There was no occasion for them to work. When misfortune came, however, they were not found wanting in any of the qualities which were necessary to meet the requirements of their changed condition. They faced the situation pluckily and hopefully and did willingly whatever they could find to do. Everywhere in the south, tin town and country, there are young women educated and cultivated, belonging to the best families and moving in the best circles, who are quietly earning their own support, and helping to support others dependent upon them. They make no parade of what they are doing, and those whose lot is exceptionally hard, seldom complain. The ----- made great progress in the -----. She is richer now -----. Her wealth is perhaps not so apparent as it was in slavery times, because it is much more generally distributed. If the truth could be known it would appear, doubtless, that the women of the south, by their example, self- reliance, readiness, and willingness to do with their own hands whatever became necessary for them to do, and by the encouragement they have given the men, have done their full share toward creating the wealth and making the comfortable homes that are now to be found in the south, and they are still working, and have as profound an appreciation of the dignity of labor as there is to be found anywhere in the world. They are not wasting any time in regretting the past or in envying their more prosperous sisters of the north. Their misfortunes and their struggles have not robbed them of their beauty, the sweetness of their natures, or made them less courteous or charitable. No, southern women are not helpless and dependent, and they are not wanting in esteem for labor. In all that is best and noblest in woman they have no superiors. A BUILDING WITH A HISTORY Among all the public buildings in New York City today there is not another that has so ancient and eventful a history as the Hall of Records or Register’s Office, in the City Hall Park. It was erected about the middle of the last century, when Broadway was a country road, when the only theater stood on the sight of the present World Establishment, when Conter Street was a lake, William Street a swamp, canal Street a river, and the Dowery a lonely lane, running up through huckleberry bushes. During the Revolutionary war this building was the chief British prison for distinguished patriots. Here Capt. Nathan Hale, the intrepid Yankee, was confined after his capture with a plan of the British defenses of Long Island in his shoes, and in the public common adjoining, exactly where the city hall now stands, he was hanged as a spy. Here that tough old rebel, Ethan Allen, of Thiconderogn fame was imprisoned after his capture while trying to take Montreal with thirty men; and his treatment and that of others caused the building which now stands near the city hall station of the elevated road, to be regarded by the patriots with about the same abhorrence as attached to Andersonville after the late war. When the British evacuated New York, in November 1788, the jailer, Cunningham, having won the same infamous reputation as the confederate jailer - -- was asked by his patriot prisoners, “What is to become of us?” “You can go to the devil” shouted Cunningham as the slang the keys into the middle of the floor and made off. It was forty or fifty years after that before the Bastille of the Revolution was remodeled and the bell transferred to the bridewell. It now sings prisoners to rations and prayers over on Blackwell’s Island. United Sates Senator Kenna of West Virginia is an excellent shot, and keeps the finest pack of deer-hounds and beagles owned by anybody, probably in the United States. He has bought down nine deer in one day’s hunt. He knows the best fishing streams in the Alleghenies, and likes nothing better than to set out for a day’s sport to see who of half-a-dozen fishermen, can bring the biggest string of trout. DISCOURAGING AN ARTIST – Story of Alex E. Sweet – [Ark-Traveler] THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HEMLOCK The last merchantable tree in the vast hemlock forests that have supplied the mills on the Dyberry Creek. One of the tributaries of the Lacawaxen River, for more than a quarter of a century was cut last week by “Bill” Kimble, who drove the first log down the stream that was out in that great forest in 1860. This tract of hemlock was nearly the last of any extent in Wayne County, whose forests ten years ago were yielding 100,000,000 feet of that lumber a year. Fifteen years ago more leather was tanned in Wayne County than in any other country in the union. The disappearance of the hemlock has caused all but two or three of the tanneries to be abandoned. All who were engaged in the business made large fortunes, and nearly all of them are now engaged in the same business to Elk, Forest, Warren, and other western counties, where the greatest hemlock forest in the world still densely cover the hills. The tanning industry of those counties now complain the entire sole-leather product of the world. The cutting away of the hemlock woods in Wayne County has had a disastrous effect on the water course, many large streams having becomes almost entirely dry within the past decade. – [Middleton Press] FOR WOMEN WHO RIDE – Describing how a woman should ride on horseback) AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE – Joke – [San Francisco Chronicle] The famous “Codex Argenteus” the four gospels translated by Bishop Ulphilas, is preserved in the University of Upsala. It is written on 132 leaves of parchment in letters of silver on a ground of faded purple. It is kept in a glass case and under lock and key. It dates back to the second half of the fourth century, and, besides being of value to the religious world, it gives the secular world all the knowledge it now possesses of the early Gothic, the parent of all the Germanic tongues. The latest eccentricity for a young and wealthy bachelor of Philadelphia, whose pranks have amused society for years, is that of going to a fashionable restaurant for a later supper, and insisting upon providing his own tablecloth. About three times a week he appears between midnight and 1 o’clock am and covers one of the tables in the man’s café with a more or less gorgeous table-cloth, generally made of some fancy shawl of Earn manufacture. On this he orders spread a little support for two or three, and appears to take delight in the sensation caused when a newcomer first sees the startling cloth. He has now kept this up for weeks and has nto used the same cloth twice. CHEAP WIVES Young men desiring inexpensive wives will do well to proceed immediately to Rochester, N. H., where they will find what a bagman would call a “full line” of marriageable girls at prices that defy competition. The young men of Rochester, like other New England young men, are not inclined to marry New England girls. Whatever may be the reason of this abstinence form marriage, the Rochester young men recently claimed exemption from matrimony on the ground that they could not afford to support wives. In so doing they did not remember that the New England girl is a reasoning being, endowed with a knowledge of arithmetic and capable of making estimates. The Rochester girls met together and drew up a scheme setting forth the proper household expenses of a family of six – this being, in their opinion, the very best family compatible with a domestic ---- order. They estimated that --- a family could be comfortable--- on $468 per annum, with ----additional allowance to the wife of $40 per annum for her wardrobe. Copies of this scheme were made and sent to all the unmarried young men of Rochester, and the later no longer pretend that they can not afford to marry. It is barely probable that the total sum of $448 would suffice to pay the personal expenses of a husband in addition to all the other family expenses. The Rochester young ladies have it is understood, estimated that a man’s clothing ought to cost him not more than $80 a year, and that $7.50 will supply him with all the cigars that he can possibly smoke. There is probably an error here. Only three hundred cigars at 2 ½ cents each could be bought for $7.50, and few men would be content with one cigar every week day. The average New Hampshire husband may be expected to smoke at least $14 worth of cigars annually, and in most cases $50 would not more than pay the cost of his clothes. If we increase the estimate in accordance with these figures we shall find that a family of six can live in Rochester, N. H. for about $575 a year. There can be no mistake about this, for the Rochester young ladies have demonstrated it on paper. If the Rochester young men know what is best for themselves they will marry Rochester girls without a moment’s delay, for as soon as it is know that desirable wives can be had in Rochester at such a ridiculous cheap --- the town will be invaded --- of appreciative men. ----to marry have ever ---- offered, and if the Rochester girls are made of good materials they ---- the cheapest investment ever offered to the public. – [New York Times] ACTRESSES LOVE BEER “People of the best society, when they come to dine with us, are as easy and careless as a lot of school-children; we get stiff and formal as we descend the social scale.” “Who are your best customers?” “Gamblers and their beautiful consorts are individually the best customers we have had this season. They spend their money like water, don’t care a rap for details, give liberal tips, and are almost constant customers. Most of them are exceedingly common beneath their good clothes and solemn manners, but they are invariably accompanied by handsome women, who know what they want in the way of wine and food, and don’t hesitate to ask for it. Politicians are occasionally good patrons. But perhaps the most utterly reckless of all our of all our customers is the man who is undergoing the first throes of the acquaintance of a popular actress. It makes no difference whether he is 20 or 60 years old. His actions are always the same. He comes here early in the day elaborately attired and noticeably nervous and remarks that he would like to have a little supper at 11:30 for two, never failing to mention incidentally the name of the stage divinity whom he is to bring to supper. Then he orders enough for eight people, with sufficient wine for as many more, has the room decorated with flowers, and subsequently drives around in great shape and ushers the lady in carelessly, trying to assume the air of a man who does that sort of thing every night. Both of them are more or less bored by the immense pretensions of it all, and most of us in the house are aware that the actress, in nine cases out of ten, prefers beer and Schwritzer kase with a man about town who knows how to talk and amuse her rather than the endless display of a set supper, with its carefully cooled champagne and accurately warmed red wines. By the way, there are half a dozen actresses who sap and dine out a great deal, and whom I know by observation and experience prefer cold tea to wine of any sort. But their preference generally runs in the direction of beer. If an actress drifts into our main restaurant after the play with a man whom she likes and who treats her with a measure amount of indifference the chances are that the will sit down and have a rattling good time over a place of oysters and a bottle of beer. She will talk cleverly, giggle happily, and enjoy herself thoroughly on a supper that costs less then $2. Take her the following night with an aspiring millionaire’s son and place her in a $5,000 dining room, with a $50 supper, and the chances are that she will assume preposterous airs and bore herself to death, while she signs for a bottle of beer and a bohemian companion.” - [New York Sun] Muller, A German chemist, has fed animals ten weeks with dry and with steeped unground Indian corn. The former showed an average increase in weight of nearly seven pounds more than the latter. PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY OCT. 21, 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. H. Bankhead, of Fayette Some of our exchanges are saying “cotton coming in and business lively. “ While we can easily say “cotton passing the mills and business improving.” The General Assembly of Alabama will convene at the capitol in Montgomery on Tuesday, November 9th. Governor Seay and the state officers will be sworn into office, the Stare Fair will be in operation, and there is a strong probability that President Cleveland and some members of his cabinet may visit Alabama’s capital on that occasion. The editor, who is also the publisher of this paper, while thankful for advice as to how he should conduct the columns of this paper, must say that he can’t do as all his friends would have him do. And being responsible for EVERYTHING that appears in the columns of the News, we must insist on conducting it as is most congenial to our taste. We have our own views on the political issues of the day and as to whether we espouse the cause of one man above another, we beg leave to take into consideration the feelings and sentiments of our readers and not fill up with matter pleasing to some and obnoxious to others. Said a merchant yesterday: “Do you know that prohibition is changing the character of business in the interior towns? Wherever prohibition has been adopted the money formerly expended for whiskey is devoted to something else, and this has given rise to larger general business, and in some instances, new business. One country merchant told me this week that he sells fifty pairs of children’s shoes, where he formerly sold one. The fathers used to drink up the shoe money and the children went barefoot. He said also that he sells quantities of women’s hats and bonnets, and never sold anything of the kind before prohibition was adopted. The husbands had no money, so the wives made their own bonnets of calico and splints, now there is no gallon jug under the bed, and the women have decent headgear and even ribbons. That is a solid fact, and is a whole sermon if you choose to lengthen it out a bit. – [Mobile Register] MRS. CLEVELAND ON TEMPERANCE It rarely occurs that a woman needs for herself the restraining influences of a temperance pledge; but if by placing ourselves under the obligations of such an organization we can better help our fathers, brothers, lovers and friends, I think there should be no hesitation in the matter. I know something of the good Templars and that they do much good work. It is quite certain you can do no harm by casting your lot on the side of Temperance and may do much good. I do not consider it a small matter by any means, and I am glad you asked me the question. It is encouraging to know of every sister who wants to add her strength to the cause which, happily, some day will rid our land of ruined men and broken families. Very truly Frances Cleveland THE NEW SOUTH Baltimore, October 14 – The Baltimore Manufacturer’s Record, in its quarterly review of the south’s industrial growth to be published tomorrow its says that “even the west in the days of its greatest progress probably never saw such tremendous strides of progress as some portions of the south are making. The centre of interest for sometime has been in iron and steel industries, and in these the activity has been wonderful, though in other lines of diversified manufactories there is also remarkable progress. Among the principal iron and steel enterprises now underway are five new furnaces, basic steel works and 1,400 coke ovens, by the Tennessee and Pratt Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, who already have five furnaces in operation. This company has a capital of 10,000,000 and when the new furnaces are completed they will have a daily capacity of about 1,400 tons daily of pig iron. Two furnaces are now building by the DeBardeleden Coal and Iron Company, one by Mr. Samuel Thomas and associates of Pennsylvania; two under contract at Sheffield, Ala, two by Nashville and New York capitalists at South Pittsburg, Tenn., one by the coal and coke company of Birmingham, one at Ashland, KY, one at Aeta, Tenn., one at Calera, Ala, and $800,000 Iron company at Florence, Ala, Bessemer Steel works at Chattanooga, Tenn., and Richmond, Va, two stove works, each with a capitol of $200,000 at Birmingham. Two iron pine works, one the largest of the Untied States at Chattanooga and similar enterprise at Wheeling, Ala. a $600,000 company has been organized to build an iron manufacturing town at Bessemer, Ala. A $300,000 company, composed of northern and southern capitalists, has purchased a large portion of South Pittsburg, where two furnaces are in operation, and where three more are to be build, and also iron pipe works and other iron manufacturing enterprises, while other iron centres and enterprises are to be near Birmingham – one by the Birmingham Land Company and another by the Tennessee and Pratt Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company. During the last nine months there have been organized in the south forty-two ice factories, fifty foundries and machine shops, many of them of the large size, one Bessemer Steel rail mill, sixteen miscellaneous iron works including iron pipe works, bridge and bolt works, &c. five stove foundries, nine-gas works, twenty-three electric companies, eight agricultural implement factories, 144 mining and quarrying enterprises, twelve carriage and wagon factories, nine cotton mills, nineteen furniture factories, twenty-one water works, forty-four tobacco factories, seventy-one flour mills, three hundred and sixty-two lumber mills, not counting small, portable sawmills, including – and planning mills, stove, handle, shingle, hub and spoke , and small block factories, etc; in addition to which there was a large number of miscellaneous enterprises. The Manufacturers Record says during the first nine months of 1886, the amount of capital including the capital stock of the incorporated companies represented by new manufacturing and mining enterprises or chartered at the south and in enlargement of old plants, and rebuilding of mills that were destroyed by fire, aggregates about $---,834,000 against $52,396,300 for the corresponding period of ’85. The American Ga., Recorder says: “The most independent feature of earth is a farmer, a man who has one hundred and sixty acres of land, out of debt, with a little good stock, good health, a good wife, and sense enough to keep out of debt. The most dependent human being in the world is a farmer who is mortgaged, whose stock is of scrub order, who is too lazy to work, and who sits on a dry goods box talking politics when he ought to be at home attending to his won business.” This is “gospel truth.” Says the Mobile Register. FUN TO RUN A NEWSPAPER The people who really know how to run a newspaper right, you know, are as numerous as the sands on the seashore, but for some unaccountable reason they never get hold of a newspaper to run. It’s readily a great deal of fun to run a paper. The eyes of the whole community are watching the editor, and his actions, his business and his paper are criticized to an extent almost incredible. If he happens to be away from town on business he is accused of neglecting his business and “riding’ out his pass.” I f he ver goes away he is said to be too “close to go away to learn anything for the benefit of his town, because he might miss a nickle at his home.” If he works all day in his office and spends his evenings at his books and getting up his “copy” he is called “distant, cold and not in sympathy with the public interests of his town., because he is never around.” If he is “around” hunting locals and visiting business men, he is “lazy and shiftless and undeserving of support, because he can never be found in is office.” If he misses an item, the one interested in that particular item says his paper “never has anything in it.” If he has the courtesy to give the W. C. T U. or church and temperance people a small part of his space “he is a temperance crank and fanatic.” If he thinks it is better for the general welfare to license the liquor traffic instead of prohibiting it, “he is an odious whiskyite.” If he published impartially views on both sides of great questions, he is accused by each side with favoring the other and “stop my paper” is the nightmare of his dreams. Oh, yes, it’s lots of fun to run a paper. – [Juanita (Neb.) Herald] DO NOT SWEAR 1. It is mean. A boy of high moral standing would almost as soon steal a sheep as swear. 2. It is vulgar – altogether too low for a decent boy. 3. It is cowardly, implying a fear of not being believed or obeyed. 4. It is ungentlemanly. A gentleman, according to Webster, is a genteel man – well, refined. Such a one will no more swear than go into the streets and throw mud with a chimney sweep. 5. It is indecent – offensive to delicacy and extremely unfit for human ears. 6. It is foolish. “Want of decency is want of sense.” 7. It is abusive – to the mind that conceives the oath, to the tongue that utters it, and to the one at whom it is aimed. 8. It is venomous – showing a boy’s heart to be a nest of vipers, and every time he swears one of them sticks out his head. 9. It is contemptible – forfeiting the respect of all the wise and good. 10. It is wicked – violating the Divine law, and provoking the displeasure of Him guiltless who taketh His name in vain. – [Ex.] A writer in an exchange says: “in one gutter I saw a pig, in the other the semblance of a man. The pig was sober; the man was drunk. The pig had a ring in his nose; the man had one on his finger. The pig grunted; so did the man. And I said aloud, “we are known by the company we keep”, and the pig heard me and walked away, ashamed to be seem in the company of a drunken man.” It is estimated that a much larger proportion of the cotton crop this year is the product of white labor than ever before. This is an encouraging fact. The more of our young men who cultivate the soil the better for the future of the South. Birmingham, Ala. was considerably excited in the latter part of last week over the consolidation of the greatest coal and iron property in the world. It consists of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, the Pratt Coal and Iron Company, the Alice Furnace Company, and the Linn Iron Works. The three last names are in Birmingham and vicinity. This being under one management the entire property and puts a large capital into the treasury of the consolidated company. Five new furnaces of a daily capacity of 200 tons each, and 3,000 coke ovens re to be built at once. 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. FARMER’S INDEPENDENT WAREHOUSE. We have again rented the Whitfield Stables, opposite the Court house, for the purpose of continuing the Warehouse and Cotton Storage business, and we say to our friends and farmers of West Alabama and East Mississippi, that we will not be surpassed by any others in looking after the wants of our customers to make them conformable while in Columbus. We will have fire places instead of stoves for both white and colored; separate houses fitted up for each. We will have also good shed room for 100 head of stock more than we had last year; also a convenient and comfortable room for our friends who may come to Columbus. We do not hesitate to say that we can and will give you better camping accommodations than any other house in the house in the place. Mr. J. L. MARCHBANKS of Lamar County, Ala., and MILIAS MOORHEAD, of Pickens County, Ala., will be at the stable and will be glad to see their friends and attend to their wants, both day and night. Out Mr. FELIX GUNTER will be at the cotton she where he will be glad to see his old friends and as many new ones as well come. All cotton shipped to us by railroad of river will be received free of drayage to warehouse and have our personal attention. Thanking you for your patronage last season, and we remain the farmer’s friends. Yours Respectfully, J. G. SHULL & CO, Columbus, Miss. Remember This. (picture of boy in clothing) when you want clothing, hats, underwear, that BUTLER & TOPP deal only in these goods. You can get a better selection and a great variety to select from than is kept in any house in Columbus. We carry suits from $6 to $30, and hats from 50 c to $10. Call and see us. BUTLER & TOPP 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 Barber Shop. For a clean shave or Shampoo call on G. W. BENSON, in rear Dr. Burn’s office. Vernon, Ala 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. 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. LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE. J. D. GUYTON, Prop’r., Columbus, Mississippi. (picture of horse and buggy) Our stock of Furnishing is full and complete in every respect. (Elaborate drawing of goods sold) Largest Cheapest best stock of dress goods, dress trimmings, ladies & misses jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, boots, shoes, & hats, tin ware, etc., etc., at rock bottom figures at A. COBB & SONS’S The Coleman House (Formerly West House). W. S. COLEMAN, Pro. Main St. Columbus, Miss. Is now open for the entertainment of guests, and will be kept clean and comfortable, the table being supplied with the best the market affords. Rates per day…$1.50, Rates for lodging and 2 meals….$1.25, Rates for single meals…...$0.50, Rates for single lodging…..$0.50. call and try us. COLUMBUS ART -------Fine photographs for --- sizes at very reasonable prices. Pictures copied and enlarged. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Call in and examine samples. FRANK A. COE, Photographer WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama. Board and Lodging can be had at the above House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor. ERVIN & BILLUPS, Columbus, Miss. Wholesale and retail dealers in pure drugs, paints, oils, paten Medicines, tobacco & cigars. Pure goods! Low prices! Call and examine our large stock. 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 OCT. 21, 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 Still very dry and dusty. The Aberdeen Fair is in session this week. Cotton is still on the grove. Remember the printer. Call to see us when you come to town. Circuit Clerk BRADLEY has moved his interesting family to town. Orders received daily for the books on the “Wonderful girl.” Cotton wagons pass constantly these days. In these days there is no such word as “Fall” except for the man who does not advertise. Our energetic townsman, Mr. A. J. PARSONS is having an addition made to his house. Preaching in this place last Sunday at 11 am and at night, by Rev. J. E. COX. Mr. BUD POE made a business trip to Fayette C. H. latter part of last week. Mr. MURRY COBB of Columbus visited relatives in town first of the week. Miss BETTIE LARNELL one of Caledonia’s fair daughters is visiting relatives in this place. If you wish a good article of plug Tobacco ask your dealer for “old Rip.” Sheriff PENNINGTON and Dr. W. A. BROWN left first of the week taking two county convicts to Birmingham. Mr. E. W. BROCK joined the Missionary Baptist Church at this place by letter on Sunday night last. The leaves are turning from green to yellow and red, and the song of the katydid is heard no more in the land. Mrs. J. D. CAMERON of Starkville and daughter, Mrs. MARY WYATT and children of Vernon, Miss are visiting relatives in town. Mr. N. F. MORTON left Tuesday for Pickens County where he will spend two or three weeks repairing the mills of Dr. WILLIAMS. The price of cotton is looming up a little. Some sold at 8 ¾ in Columbus first of the week. We are pained to learn of the serious sickness of Rev. MR. FINCH of Luxapilia circuit. We are informed that Mr. PINK PENNINGTON Sr. has sold his farm and contemplates moving to Mississippi. Messrs. BUTLER & TOPP dealers in fine clothing and gents furnishing goods, inform their friends in this week’s issue that they are still in the lead. In this issue will be seen the card of the Kingville High School, under the principalship of our most worthy County Supt. Prof. B. H. WILKERSON. Mr. ROBERT LAWRENCE’S little boy was snake bitten a few days ago. It has not been long since his other little son met with the same misfortune. JAS. MIDDLETON, Esq. has moved down to the place lately bought of Mr. O. F. GUYTON. Mr. FRANK –ENMAN and wife will reside with Mr. MIDDLETON. NOTICE. Persons indebted to me will do well to call at once and settle up. I am bound to collect and will commence at once to enforce payment. If you would save cost and trouble come at once. Respectfully, E. W. BROCK We call special attention to the card of the Columbus Art Studio. Those who desire artistic work of this kind would do well to call at the Art Studio. The Rev. GEO. B. TAYLOR with Messrs. WALKER & DONOBOO of Columbus Miss, will be pleased to have his friends call on him while in Columbus, --- and sell you anything --- as cheap as can be had here. (can’t read) We unintentionally neglected to credit the Tuskaloosa Gazette on the article commenting upon a piece credited to the Mobile Register in last week’s News. SCHOOL NOTICE. On the first Monday in Nov. next the undersigned will open a school at Molloy for a term of six months. Tuition from one to two dollars per month, good school-house – good board from five to seven dollars per month. For particulars, address W. J. MOLLOY, Molloy, Ala. The I. O. O. F. called a meeting on last Saturday for the purpose of reviving the organization of Rebeccas. Several members were added. They will meet again next Saturday at 9 o’clock p.m. The gin house of Mr. J. G. TRULL together with about thirty bales of cotton was burned on last Saturday night. The burning was the work of an incendiary, occurring late in the night. The burning created great indignation among the people, Mr. Trull being an honorable and inoffensive citizen. He has the sympathy of the entire community. Free to all. Our illustrated catalogue…. Ad for Hawley’s CORN SALVE STATE NEWS There are eight prisoners in the Morgan County jail at Somerville. Montgomery is making a big effort to get President Cleveland to visit the State Fair in November. Birmingham has forty-four lawyers and twenty-two doctors. Dr. John Little, Sr. died at his home in Tuskaloosa Oct the 1st, at the advanced age of 87 years. The Wetumpka Times is about right in its advocacy of paying circuit solicitors salaries instead of fees. Richard King, colored, made an attempt Tuesday night at Mobile, to assassinate his colored brother, Sam Jordan by shooting him in the abdomen. The governor has accepted the resignation of Judge Cobb, Judge of the fifth circuit. Who is the Democratic nominee of his district for Congress. Capt. W. H. Sheppard, who lives about five miles north of Tuscaloosa lost his gin and nine bales of cotton by fire on Friday last. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. It is reported that the Columbus Index is soon to move to Birmingham, leaving Columbus with but one newspaper, the Dispatch. Four hundred and fifty pounds is the amount of cotton picked by a white boy, near Greenville, Ala, one day recently. The Post office at Point Clear has been burglarized. The Mobile Gold Life Insurance co., has made an assignment. The Knights of Labor number nearly one thousand members in Selma. Martin Gately was killed by a train near Mobile, a few days ago. The ten prisoners in jail, at Hayneville tried to escape last week. A bag of counterfeit gold coin was found in the cellar of a vacant house in Cullman on the 9th inst. Some Montgomery ladies have ------the Southern ----for the county fair. George A. Joiner has been appointed commissioner of the Deaf and Dumb Institute Talladega, Vice Mr. Story deceased. (cut off) Coleman, the man who escaped jail at Tuskaloosa was re-arrested and carried back on the charge of carrying concealed weapons, committed suicide in the Tuskaloosa jail Saturday night last. His mind is believed to have been unsound. A curiosity in the shape of a full-grown white buzzard has been seen frequently of late on Capt. Troup Randall’s prairie plantation near Union Springs. The gentleman has given strict orders to his tenants that it shall not be killed. A United Press telegram from Selma says: There is on exhibition at the Uniontown fair a negro, seven years old, from the plantation of Hon. A. C. Davidson, near Uniontown, who moulds figures from mud that would do credit to a sculptor. He commenced attracting attention when but five years old. He then moulded wonderfully, and his power has increased very much since then. Through the influence of some gentleman his mother was induced to let the boy and the figures be placed on exhibition. This is quite an attraction, and no one visiting Uniontown should fail to see this curiosity. A society, composed of seventeen young ladies, ahs been organized in Greensboro, its principal feature being to prevent the members from speaking evil of anyone. They hold weekly meetings and collect a fine of one cent for every “mean thing” the members have said about people during the week. We did not learn how much had been paid into the treasury, but we are told that the amount was sufficient to buy all of the ladies a badge. One of the members informed us that they were liable to a fine if they said a boys was ugly, a dude conceited, stuck up, his clothes didn’t fit, or had big feet, etc. and we decided at once that the organization was a good one, and it has our best wishes for success. – [Greensboro Watchman] We stand in a good way of again being bored to death with a rehash of the Culling affair. ITEMS OF INTEREST There are 365 colleges in the U. S. Henry Ward Beecher will sail for home on Oct. 23rd. They say that Senator Pugh is really coming to Alabama. Ben Turner’s political circus is an attraction that must not be forgotten. Charles A. Dana’s salary as editor of the N. Y. Sun is $15,000. The consumption of lead pencils in the U. S. is at 250,000 a day. Daniel Webster’s living descendants are two granddaughters and one grand son. The cost of picking the southern cotton crop by hand is $40,000,000 a year. To extinguish kerosene flames, if no cloth is at hand, throw flour on the flames. Flour rapidly absorbs the fluid and deadens the flame. The Foreign Mission Board has appointed Nov. 7th as a day of special prayer for Missions. Powderly re-elected grand Master-workman of the K. of L. Charles L. Litchman, of Massachusetts, elected secretary, and Frederick Turner, treasurer. Mr. J. R. Boling living in Chickasaw County, Miss planted one acre in sorghum cane, upon land not fertilized which made 174 gallons. This beats cotton in time, labor, and profit. Lightning struck in the middle of a potato patch at Plattsville, Ulster County, during a recent thunderstorm, and scorched the vines in a circle of fifteen feet. Directly in the center of the circle the tubers were uncovered, and many of them were baked. – [New York Sun] Mr. Abram S. Hewitt of New York has agreed to accept the Tammany nomination for mayor and has written a letter announcing that fact. Mr. Hewitt stipulates however that ------ Shock of earthquake shortly after 4 o’clock am of the 15th inst. Which made windows rattle abut did no other harm. The same shock was felt at Summerville. The famous Oratory Church in Paris is being ----- In 1386 William Buckles, a Hollander first salted a barrel of herrings. His grateful countrymen will soon celebrate the fifth centennial of his spicy achievement. On the night of the 12th instant the town of Sabine Pass was visited by the severest cyclone ever known on this coast, causing the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and Sabine Lake to completely submerge the town and surrounding country, destroying every habitable house excepting two and --- away all household effect---- and causing the, loss of home, clothing, &c and leaving the reminder of----- homeless and ---- That is a wonderfully small baby, the latest blessing to David K. and Emily Peck Mix, who are now visiting the baby’s grandmother in New Haven. The infant is a little over two months old and weighs two and one-half pounds. She was born at Long Lake in the Adirondacks, where her parents have heretofore resided, is a well-formed child and healthy, and can eat, sleep and squally like a baby five times her size. She is thirteen inches in height, her wrist is seven-eighths of an inch in circumference, the back of the hand measures one inch across; her ankle is an inch and a quarter around, and her foot an inch and a quarter long. She ahs blue eyes and quite a thick growth of dark hair. NOTICE The Board of Education will henceforth meet on the first Saturday of each month for the examination of teachers, positively at no other time. Hence all teachers wishing certificates of qualification must apply on those days. Physiology and Hygiene are required by law to be taught in all public schools and no teacher need expect to receive any public funds for teaching any school in which these branches are not taught. Parties desiring to correspond with me can do so by addressing me at Fernbank, Ala. Respectfully, B. H. WILKERSON, Co. Supt. Ed. 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. KINGVILLE HIGH SCHOOL will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra, and U. S. History, per month, $2.00 HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Higher Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, Latin, per month $3.00. No incidental fee. Board in best families from $1.00 to $2.00 per month. Tuition due every three months. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention will be given to those who wish to engage in teaching. For further information address B. H. WILKERSON, C. Supt., Principal. Kingville, Ala, Oct. 20, 1886 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 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 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 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 THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL under the Principalship of J. R. GUIN, will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of Ten Scholastic months Rates of Tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Grammar, Primary Geography and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.25. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing Brief English Grammar, Elementary Geography, Elementary Arithmetic, Letter Writing and Hygiene, per month, $1.50. PRACTICAL: Embracing English Grammar, Practical Arithmetic, Complete Geography, English Composition, U. S. History and Physiology, per month, $2.00. HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Rhetoric, Elocution, Algebra, Natural Philosophy, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Hygiene, Physiology, Latin, &c, per month $2.50. Discipline will be firm. Special attention will be given to young men and women who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7.00 per month. No incidental fees. Tuition due every five months. Correspondence solicited. Address J. R. GUIN Fernbank, Ala. Ad for Ayer and Son Advertising Agents AD for Vick’s Floral Guide Ad for New hOme Sewing Machine Ad for Marriage Guide Ad for Collins Age Cure Ad for Pianos and Organs PAGE 4 WIT AND HUMOR - jokes THE MAN WHO ADVERTISES – Poem (jokes) BEING “TREATED AS ONE OF THE FAMILY” – (Article about being treated as one of the family) LAWYER AND CLIENT – joke The first proclamation for public fasting and prayer in New Hampshire published in a newspaper appeared in May 1704. MY FIRST LOVE-LETTER (story about first love letter) A GOOD SCHEME – Joke IMITATION GRANDFATHER CLOCKS The real grandfather clocks are still much sought after, not only by the nouvean riche, but b those whose aristocratic ancestors failed to hand down the tall timepiece which stood in their hallways in the days of yore. The word real is used advisedly, for the demand for these old-fashioned timepieces has given rise to the manufacture of imitation grandfather clocks. A year or two ago some were brought to this market from the New England states, but at present Baltimore is the only place where the imitation clocks are manufactured and sold as genuine. Many of our largest jewelers, however, are making clocks the cases of which are constructed of mahogany, walnut, rosewood, and cherry in imitation of the ancient timepieces, but those are invariably sold for just what they are. Indeed, the fact is that it has been found impossible to build an imitation grandfather’s clock so that the deception could not be detected by experts, the defects being found in small details. In New England a century ago a large number of these clocks were made, and while they are said to have been excellent timekeepers in their day, much of them as are in existence now have long since outlived their usefulness, except as ornaments or curiosities. The real antique grandfather clocks, with metal works, are dated from 1790 to 18100. The style known as the “Dutchman” represents by fat the finest of these antique clocks. These were made in Holland and some of them that are still in existence are dated as far back as 1700. Many of them are of exceedingly fine and intricate workmanship, chiming old Dutch airs, striking the hours and quarters, and showing the phases of the moon’s calendar. They are perfect timekeepers and are worth from $400 to $1,000 each. Early in the eighteenth century England also manufactures similar clocks and quite a number of them were incased in frames by Chippendale, the famous cabinet-maker of a century and a half ago, and those now command fancy figures. A clock made for a London firm, which is incased in a Chippendale case of rare beauty, but simple in design, is now exhibited in an establishment on Union Square. In addition to keeping correct time, it shows the motion of the planets, the calendar, many astronomical data, and plays thirteen……(rest of article is torn) HEN’S INFATUATION FOR A COW – Story of a cow and a hen MRS. CLEVELAND’S TITLE – story about Mrs. Cleveland Madison County, Ky. has within its boundaries sixty-seven brandy and two whisky distilleries. WHAT --------SURGERY – article about medicine and its risks RESPECT FOR THE GIANT – (article badly torn – can’t read) According to the calculations made by a scientific writer lately, it requires a prodigious amount of vegetable matter to form a layer of coal, the estimate being that it would really take a million years to form a coal bed 100 feet thick. The United States have an area of between 300,000 and 400,000 square miles of coal fields, 1000,000,000 tons of coal being mined from these fields in one year, or enough to run a ring around the earth at the equator five and one-half feet wide and five and one-half thick; the quantity being sufficient to supply the whole world for a period of 1,500 to 2,000 years. Ad for Iron roofing, siding, ceiling… ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1081gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 53.6 Kb