Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News November 18, 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, 7:37 pm The Lamar News November 18, 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 28, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 52 (This date is wrong. Inside issue date is Nov. 18, 1886) TO MORROW – Poem A PIOUS FRAUD – Short Story WIT AND HUMOR – Jokes MISSING LINKS Artificial human ears are made of celluloid, a recent invention. Scientific inquiry is being made into the medical virtues of dog’s tongues. Amethysts and pink cameos are the fashionable fine stones of the season. China has 3,500 miles of telegraph line, and only seven miles of railroad. Salida, Col. is said to have sixteen saloons and “not one church spire insight.” Wild woodco ck have been seen lately in the parks in the very heart of London. Elizabeth Hickman, of Xenia, Ill. has a son seventy-four years old , who is a great-grandfather. Edward Everett Hale says three hours of daily brain-work will get out all of the best there is in a man. Ewing Watterson, Col. Henry Waterson’s eldest son works on his father’s paper and exhibits special aptitude for the business. Is it true that, when washing their faces, men always rub up and down and snort, while women apply the water and then stroke gently downward? Out of 56,000 prosecutions by the English society for the prevention of cruelty to animals during the last twenty-five years 55,000 have been successful. Since Alma-Tadema’s engagement to design a set of furniture for a New York banker another metropolitan millionaire has employed Sir Frederick Leighton to paint three ceiling panels for him. Said Pasha, the Grand Vizier of Turkey, is a man of exalted private character. He was a devoted husband, was prostrated with grief at the death of his wife, and is now giving the best of his life to his young children. Edwin Booth and his daughter have just placed in the Episcopal church at Middletown, R. I, a window in memory of the actor’s deceased wife. It is 13 x 9 feet and is pronounced admirable both in design and color. Dr. Wadsworth, the new Bishop of Salisbury, England, once had a piece bitten from the calf of his leg by a savage dog, and would have bled to death had not the lady with whom he was walking improvised a tourniquet from a couple of handkerchiefs. A Frenchman has constructed a six-chambered revolver an inch and a half long, the smallest fire-arm in the world. It is complete in all respects, fires cartridges with fulminate, and has power enough to send one of them through an ordinary pan of glass at four paces. A young gentleman of 8 years, on the Back Bay, who had already five brothers, was told one day last week that he had a sister. As the news seemed to affect him rather badly he was finally prevailed upon to tell what the trouble was. Sobbing he told his mother that he wanted all brothers, as he was in hopes of having a base-ball nine. The phrase “a wheel within a wheel” undoubtedly had its origin in the Bible. In Ezek.---- we find the expression, “a wheel in the middle of a wheel.” The revisers of the Bible have adopted the popular phrase “a wheel within a wheel” whether as a more correct transcript of the original or in deference to the common phrase is known only to themselves. A man in a lonely part of Iowa had brain fever in consequence of the death of his wife, and on recovering could not remember where he had buried her. During the interval the three persons who had assisted in the interment became scattered. Very desirous of locating the grave, the widower dug over most of a ten-acre field before finding the remains. A Michigan girl outdid her companions in a craze for autographic albums by having about a hundred letters from the same number of men bound in a volume for her parlor table. As the missives represented her extensive and usually sentimental correspondence she had arrived at the age of chirography the collection proved very interesting to callers. – [Boston Journal] The death occurred lately at Oxford Neck, Del of Nathan Mills, colored, at the age of 107. He always wore his shirt-bosom open in winter and summer for fear of taking cold if he fastened it. He was much respected by the white people of Oxford Neck. Of all his children only two survive him – Levin and Nero – both of whom are great-grandfathers. Nathan lived to see five generations of his children and grandchildren. The neighborhood of Oxford Neck is people with his descendants. A correspondent of a Boston newspapers says that Mr. Nast’s wife is the original of Columbia, the tall, beautiful woman with the classic face who has been so prominent in the allegorical pictures during and since the war. These pictures first gave Nast his national fame. In beauty of conception and execution they have never been excelled, and are chapters of the history of the nation’s mind – photographed moods, as it were. Columbia, let it be noticed, is altogether a different figure from the Goddess of Liberty. She is Nast’s special creation in the world of ---- The sea-shell business of California is little know n to the public. The product consists of mother-of-pearls, pear oyster, brilliant or curious shells from Japan, China, and the South sea, and the several varieties of abalone. PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY NOV. 18, 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. The vote in New York was in favor of calling a constitutional convention. Bob Taylor beats his republican brother Alf by from 25,000 to 40,000 majority. The prophets announced this result just about sixty days ago. The citizens of Montgomery are expecting the legislature to answer their prayerful request to make the keeping of gaming houses in Alabama a felony. If reports are true about the condition of Justice Woods, of the Supreme bench, he cannot live very long. It is said he is suffering from rapid consumption, and is unfit for work. In fact, it is doubtful if he will ever recover. The white rose is the insignia of the Democratic ladies of Tennessee, while the Republicans wear a red rose. The Taylor brothers have instituted the war of the roses and are fighting again the Battle of the feudal houses of Lancaster, and York. Montgomery, Nov. 9 – The Alabama Legislature convened today and perfected temporary organization. There was a Democratic caucus of the Senate and House tonight to select permanent officers and dispose of the so-called Democratic Independents as to their admission in the caucus. It looks as though they were going to be left out. Col. Thomas G. Jones will be speaker of the House, and Samford, of Opelika, President of the Senate. Governor-elect Seay, President of the last Senate, presided today. There are an unusual number of young legislators this session. The state fair opened yesterday. There are a larger number of exhibits, especially of stock, than ever before. The main building and annex, agricultural and machinery hall, are crowded with splendid exhibits. Every department is well represented. WHEN YOU STUDY, STUDY Lord Macaulay, the celebrated English historian, was a great student, and when he studied, he STUDIED. He used to get up at five o’clock and study till nine or ten. He got so he could read Latin and Greek right off hand the same as you can this. He had the power of putting his whole mind on his books. Many people put part of the mind on their work, and the rest on something else. But all this is wrong. Play study, study. Kin study all the facultion are needed; reason, to judge of what you read, memory, to recollect it, and so with all the rest. Macaulay became one of the most distinguished writers of his times, and it was mainly by dint of this early habit of his, of putting his entire mind at the disposal of the work before him. All cannot study alike, but we can all be deeply in earnest in whatever it is what we do, and only downright earnestness will cause us to succeed in life. MINUTES OF THE SECOND ANNUAL SESSION HOPEWELL OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST ASSOCIATION (Concluded) Articles of Faith with Scriptural Proofs………..(NOT TRANSCRIBED. If interested let me know) Corresponding Letter The Hopewell Old School Baptist Association, in her 2nd annual session with Nazareth Church: To the several Association with whom she corresponds, sendth Christian love, Greetings; Very dear brethren we are passing through the present session in peace and harmony. The correspondence has not been as full as we desire but was received with that Christian affection, to characteristic of the children of God, and we sincerely desire a continuation of the same. The next session of our body, will convene with Emmaus Church, 4 miles north of Vernon, Lamar County, Ala on Friday before the 3rd Sunday in October 1887 were we hope to set your messenger again. Dear Brethren, pray for us that God in his goodness would guide us through life, and give us grace to sustain us in death, for Christ’s sake, Amen. L. M. WIMBERLY, Clerk T. J. NORRIS, Moderator CHURCHES PASTORS DELEGATE’S NAMES 1ST DISTRICT Nazareth T. J. NORRIS, Benton’s Creek T. J. NORRIS, W. S. NORTH, G. W. NORTH Liberty Hill A. J. GIBSON, Aragonia W. R. BROWN, M. F. PATTON, JOSIAH EVANS Pleasant Ridge D. T. MOORE, Moore’s Bridge T. H. JONES, J. M. MCDANIELS, D. T. MOORE Zion J. W. NORTH, Labub I. FREEMAN, H. M. BANKSTON, D. SPINER Mt. Pleasant Not Represented Harmony D. T. MOORE, Cave Springs DAVID MOORE, W. A. VICE, G. B. MOORE 2nd DISTRICT Hopewell G. W. NORTH, Fayette C. H. J. R. WIMBERLEY, R. L. WHITE, G. W. BERRY New River ------Doublin----- J. D. CROW, J. W. PARKER Union T. J. NORTH, Wayside HORACE DODSON, J. W. SOUTH, E. F. SOUTH Little Hope J. W. BROCK, Brockton J. W. BROCK, H. A. ROCK Emmaus L. M. WIMBERLEY, Vernon L. M. WIMBERLY, J. C. CHANDLER, W. A. CHANDLER Table also includes numbers for Restored, Dead, Contributions, Excluded, etc… 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 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. 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 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 STUDIO Over W. F. Munroe & Co’s Book Store, Columbus, Mississippi. Fine photographs of all 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 NOV. 18, 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. 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. 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 Heavy rain yesterday morning. Next Thursday will be Thanksgiving Day. Improvements in Vernon are still going on. Yesterday was trial day in the Justice Court. See two notices of U. S. Marshal’s sale of real estate. Hard times is still the cry, with a great many. See three notices of Administrators sales of land. Colds are epidemic and they are bad ones too – there is no good ones. Rev. G. L. HEWITT preaches in town next Sunday night. Lookout for the locomotive when you hear the whistle going. Mr. J. N. MCNEILL’S new residence is nearing completion. In another column will be seen notice for publication by WM V. RUSSELL. Grow in health, wealth, and wisdom by subscribing for your county newspaper. Some person unknown cut down a beautiful shade on Main Street last Friday night. JAMES MIDDLETON Esq. and Mr. FRANK DENMAN are making some necessary improvements on their place. Railroads are having projected through Alabama in almost every conceivable direction and with all our advantages lightning will surely strike our town from some where. Large number of bales of cotton have placed through for Columbus this week. Why don’t Vernon merchants buy it all? “Uncle” ANDY WHEELER advertises his entire tract of land to be sold at auction on 15th day of December next. See “ad” in another column. We were pleased to receive a call from Mr. J. E. MCDANIEL of Columbus, Miss, on Tuesday. Sheriff PENNINGTON made a business trip to the Kansas City Road first of the week. A large crowd of citizens met at the Court House last Friday night and decided to connect the public school with the high school. If you wish a good article of Plug Tobacco ask your dealer for “old Rip.” Disease is no respecter of persons, and there is something about an effectual remedy for it that appeals to humanity characterized by the higher intellect, or ------ (can’t read) The question of forming a new county out of Walker, Winston, Fayette, and Marion is still agitated. Eighteen hundred and eighty-six began on a Friday, will end on a Friday and contains fifty-three Fridays. Four months in the year have five Fridays. Five changes of the moon occur on a Friday, and both the longest and shortest days in the twelve months are on Fridays. This might, indeed be termed a Friday year. We are sure that the sufferer with Piles who give Tallers Buckeye Ointment a trial will experience a complete cure, and go on his way rejoicing that there is a remedy for Piles, composed of simple ingredients which fulfill the purpose of this excellent preparation more completely than all the so called Pile remedies in existence. Since the strike in Chicago the dealers in dressed beef are having their cattle killed in Philadelphia at the barrack abattoir at the stock yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Forty men are engaged in transferring beef on the hoof to dressed beef ready for the retail market. “Ring out the old, ring in the new” has no reference to medicine. The --- novelties in that line which have only an -----in the same category as that old reliable remedy known as Coussans Honey of Tar. Which our grandfathers used when the boys and girls had coughs, colds and diseases f the throat and lungs. MARRIED: Mr. DUKE WILLIAMS and Miss ALICE NOBLES, At Mr. L. NOBLES, Nov. 14th, 1886, by J. H. CALDWELL J. P. There have been children born to the following named families recently: WM PETERS, ROBT MAHAN, and A. W. LOGAN. VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALE On Wednesday the 15th day of December next, in front of the court house door of Lamar County, I will offer for sale at public auction my entire tract of land; also half interest in my Mill and the land on which it is situated. Also some desirable town property. Lands will be sold in lots to suit purchasers. One half cash and balance on credit of twelve months from sale with approved sureties. Persons indebted to me will please call and settle. This Nov. 14th, 1886 ANDREW J. WHEELER, Vernon, Ala. 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 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. Free to all. Our illustrated Catalogue, containing description and price of the best varieties of Dutch bulbs, also hyacinths, tulips, narcissus, &c. as Rushes, Small Fruits, Grape Vines, Trees, Shrubs, &c. all suitable for Fall Planting. Satisfaction guaranteed. Write for a copy. Nane & Neyuner, Louisville, Ky. MRS. CLEVELAND’S LIVE TRINKET It is said that among the many odd trinkets that formed part of Mrs. Cleveland’s trousseau at a reception has a live bug about an inch and a half in length, looking like a bit of light speckled-----. Around the insect’s body is a tiny golden harness, to which is attached a fine ----. The lady fastens a thin chain to her left shoulder, and the bug wanders at its sweet will. This species of bug is called the “machette.” And is imported from Yucatan. They were a fashionable ornament some twenty or thirty years ago, and now that Mrs. Cleveland wears one they have once more sprung into popularity. Several of our leading jewelers are selling the “machetts” as fast as they can import them at the rate of $6 a piece. Madame Judie has just started the same fashion in Paris – [New York Commercial] BURLINGTON, IA., Nov. 9 – Prof. Foster, the meteorologist, will publish in the Burlington Hawkeye tomorrow his prediction of the great storm period, extending from Dec. 4 to 17, during which will occur some of the most destructive winter storms of recent years. These storms will be much of the nature as the great blizzard of last January. Heavy snow and high winds will greatly impede railway travel, and he advises the railways to prepare for blockades that will occur in the Western states about Dec. 5 and reaching the Eastern States Dec 9. These storms will break up the drouth (sic) in the Southeastern states. There will be energetic electrical disturbances that will affect telegraph and telephone lines and much property can be saved from loss by making preparation for severe weather of the storm period. ADM’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County Alabama made and entered in the premises on the 2nd day of November I will offer for sale for cash on the premises known as the HENSON SPRINGS Place on the 4th day of December 1886 the following lands as belong to the estate of H. K. HENSON Deceased to wit; N. W. ¼ of N. E. ½ except 2 acres in S. W. Corner of same and two in N. E. end of S. E. ¼ of N E ¼ Sec 13 T 12 R 15. Sale will be made within the usual hours of sale the title to said land is good and one of the best mineral springs on it than there is in the state. This 12 of November 1886. E. J. HENSON, Administrator of H. K. HENSON, Estate ADMRS SALE OF VALUABLE LANDS Under and by virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Pickens County Alabama, the Court having jurisdiction of the Estate of SARAH SHIRLEY deceased. We the undersigned Admr’s of said estate, will sell the lands of said estate lying in Lamar County, Alabama, at Kennedy Station in Lamar County between the legal hours of sale on Wednesday the 1st day of December 1886, at public outcry for ½ cash and ½ on credit of twelve months with security as required by law. The lands known as the JOHN F. HUDSON place and described as follows, to wit: N W ¼ and W ½ of N E ¼ and N E ¼ of S W ½. Most of said lands are sold by order of said Court distribution amongst the heirs at law of said Estate. November the 8th, 1886. THOMAS JOYNER & T. T. JOYNER, Admr’s of said estate. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION – Land Office At Montgomery, Ala. Nov 11, 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 January the 8th, 1887, viz: WILLIAM V. RUSSELL Homestead application No. 11218 for the S E ¼ Sec 13 T 15 S R 14 W. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: SAUL H. JACKSON, JOHN B. WHEELER, A. J. RECTOR, JAMES T. LAWRENCE, all of Vernon, Ala. J. G. HARRIS, Register ADMINISTER’S SALE The State of Alabama, Lamar County Under and by virtue of an order of the Probate Court of the State and County aforesaid made and directed to the undersigned as Admir. De Bonnis Non of the Estate of A. T. YOUNG. I will offer for sale at public auction at the Mill of J. P. & R.W. YOUNG on Saturday the 4th day of December 1886 on a credit of twelve months the following real estate to wit: S E ¼ of S E ¼ and to the creek of S W ¼ of S E ¼ and one acre more or less in S E corner of N W ¼ of S E ¼ to the creek on the West and to the public road on the north Sec 33 and 25 acres more or less off of south side S W ¼ of S W ¼ Sec 34, T 14 R 16 West. Also 5 acres off of N side N E ¼ Sec 4 and 15 acres of N W ½ of N W ¼ Sec 3 T 15 R 16. The purchaser executing note with two approved sureties. This Nov 10th, 1886 J. F. FERGUSON, Admr. U. S. MARSHAL’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE RANKIN & CO. VS. M. E. STANLEY CO. In the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of an Execution, placed in my hands to be executed, issued by the Clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama at Birmingham in favor of the plaintiffs in eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-three cents (824.23) debt, and fifty-two dollars and thirty-five cents (52.35) costs, on the 19th day of October 1886 and this day levied by me upon the property herein described. I will offer sale at the door of the Court House of Lamar County Alabama on Monday the 3rd day of January 1887 during the legal hours of sale to the highest and best bidder for cash as the property of said defendants, to satisfy and damages and costs in said Execution mentioned, the following real estate situated in said county of Lamar, viz: One lot 36 x 84 feet on which was located the store house of M. E. STANLEY & Co which burned; one house and lot 25 x 50 feet known as the GREEN RAY SALOON and now used as a shoe ship; one acre of land embracing the DETROIT TAN YARD, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the spring known as the TAN YARD SPRING, and from said spring southwest to the west boundary of the southwest to the west boundary of the N E ¼ of the N W ¼ of Section 13 Township 12 Range 16; thence along said line to the ABERDEEN AND TUSCUMBIA ROAD; thence along said road Easterly to the branch known as the TAN YARD BRANCH, then south to the place of beginning at the spring. Lot No. 5, one hundred yards square on which is located a one room frame dwelling; one lot 30 x 60 feet on which stood the JOHN RAY BLACKSMITH SHOP lying between MANLEY’S DRUG STORE and the store of F. W. WORTHINGTON and fronting on the Aberdeen and Tuscumbia Road all of the above property is situated in the town of DETROIT, Lamar County, Alabama; also the S W ¼ of Section 13 Township 11 Range 16 containing 160 acres; all located in the county of Lamar and state of Alabama. This the 13th day of November, 1886 A. H. KELLER, U. S. Marshal, by A. B. HAMLEY, Deputy ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County Alabama made and entered in the premises on the 1st day of November 1886, I will offer for sale on the premises at my residence on the 11th day of December 1886 the following tract of land to wit: N E ¼ of S W ¼ Sec 11 S ½ of S E ¼ of N E ¼ and N ½ of S E ¼ Sec 10 and N W ¼ Sec 14 and E ½ of N E ¼ Sec 15 all in T 15 R 16 lands belonging to the estate of S M PROTHRO deceased of whom I am administrator. Said sale will be made for one half cash the remainder on credit of twelve months from day of sale. This the 15th day of November 1886. W. S. PROTHRO, Admr. U. S. MARSHAL’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE H. B. BUCKNER & CO. VS. M. E. STANLEY & CO. In the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of an Execution, placed in my hands to be executed, issued by the Clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama at Birmingham in favor of the plaintiffs in the above sstyled cause for the sum of nine hundred and seventy-four dollars and thirty cents ($974.30) debt and forty-two dollars and ninety-six cents ($42.96) as the 19th day of October 1886 and this day levied by me upon the property herein described. I will offer sale at the door of the Court House of Lamar County Alabama on Monday the 3rd day of January 1887 during the legal hours of sale to the highest and best bidder for cash as the property of said defendants, to satisfy and damages and costs in said Execution mentioned, the following real estate situated in said county of Lamar, viz: One lot 36 x 84 feet on which was located the store house of M. E. STANLEY & Co which burned; one house and lot 25 x 50 feet known as the GREEN RAY SALOON and now used as a shoe ship; one acre of land embracing the DETROIT TAN YARD, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the spring known as the TAN YARD SPRING, and from said spring southwest to the west boundary of the southwest to the west boundary of the N E ¼ of the N W ¼ of Section 13 Township 12 Range 16; thence along said line to the ABERDEEN AND TUSCUMBIA ROAD; thence along said road Easterly to the branch known as the TAN YARD BRANCH, then south to the place of beginning at the spring. Lot No. 5, one hundred yards square on which is located a one room frame dwelling; one lot 30 x 60 feet on which stood the JOHN RAY BLACKSMITH SHOP lying between MANLEY’S DRUG STORE and the store of F. W. WORTHINGTON and fronting on the Aberdeen and Tuscumbia Road all of the above property is situated in the town of DETROIT, Lamar County, Alabama; also the S W ¼ of Section 13 Township 11 Range 16 containing 160 acres; all located in the county of Lamar and state of Alabama. This the 13th day of November, 1886 A. H. KELLER, U. S. Marshal, by A. B. HAMLEY, Deputy 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 Barber Shop. GEO. W. BENSON has removed his Barber Shop in the rear of the store of HALEY & DENMAN, where he will be pleased to serve his many customers. 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 KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL Located in the live and growing town of Kennedy on the Georgia Pacific Rail Road. The moral and religious influences surrounding this school are unsurpassed in any part of the state. Boarders can find pleasant homes in refined families at very reasonable rates. The first session will commence on Monday Nov. 1st, 1886, and continue for a term of ten scholastic months. TUITION PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Physiology, History of U. S., Practical Arithmetic, and Elementary Algebra, per month $2.00. ADVANCED GRADE: Embracing Higher Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Rhetoric, Elocution, and Latin per month, $2.50. An incidental fee of 25 cents, per session. Special attention will be given to those who expect to engage in teaching and preparing boys and girls to enter college. Tuition due at expiration of each quarter. For further particulars address J. C. JOHNSON, Principal, Kennedy, Ala. 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 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 New Home Sewing Machine G. W. RUSH, B. F. REED - RUSH & REED. Cheap Cash Store, Dry goods, Clothing, boots & shoes, school books, &c. Coffee, sugar, tobacco snuff crockery and tinware All at Bottom prices. Give us a call. RUSH & REED. Ad for Collins Age Cure 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 Ad for Marriage Guide Ad for Pianos and Organs PAGE 4 WIT AND HUMOR - (Not transcribing) THE SHORT HAIR CRAZE The craze among the ladies for wearing the hair short is becoming general and spreading all the country over. It has already become very popular , among other places in Rochester, N. R. where the most stylish young ladies are parting with their raven and golden tresses. There was a time when it was considered somewhat “fast” for a lady to wear her hair short, but since Miss Cleveland, the President’s sister, the present mistress of the White House, and, but common courtesy, the “first lady in the Land,” wears her locks shorn quite short and advocates the custom on the ground of comfort, convenience and health, it has become the style. Time was, too, when a short- haired lady was so rare that her appearance in public places attracted general attention. But that was a good while ago. The prominent hair-cutter are becoming quite proficient in cutting the hair of the rapidly increasing lady patrons. Some interesting and strange scenes are now seen in the hairdresser’s establishments and barber shops. “A handsome young lady just from boarding school came into my shop Tuesday and said she wanted her hair cut like Miss Cleveland’s” said a prominent barber. She had a picture of the President’s sister for me to look at; and with the suggestion given by her companion, who had seen Miss Cleveland, and with the aid of the photograph, I cut and trimmed her hair to her complete satisfaction. O, I don’t know who or what started the style. Perhaps Miss Cleveland had something to do with it, but I am inclined to believe that Miss Maud Granger, Miss Dora Wiley, and other actresses and singers who are great favorite s with women, started the style here. Of course it helps our business; but, leaving all selfish reasons aside, it sit not the most reasonable craze that has recently come into style? Why you have no idea what a constant trouble a heavy head of hair is to a woman. It has to be dressed two or three times a day, and this takes up a great deal of a woman’s time. With long and heavy hair, it is difficult for a lady to keep her scalp clean and healthy. “What do ladies do with their shorn tresses?” “They take them away with them. Some of them bring old corset-boxes for this purpose, and when no box of this shape is handy I do up the hair in a paper.” “Do they sell it?” “I don’t know. I don’t believe many of my customers have, for they invariably exhibited more of a fondness for the hair than for the money they would receive from the sale of it. No, I think they take it home and keep it. When it becomes stylish to wear the hair long again they will have switches made of it. “Yes, we have some queer senses in our shops now,” continued the hair- cutter. “A young lady who comes to have her locks cut off always brings a lady companion with her, and sometimes they bring two or three. Their conversation while I am at work would make you laugh. A girl was in here with her mother the other day and had her hair cut quite short. It was the first time the shears had ever touched the girl’s hair, and she shook with fear when I began and she felt the cold steel on her neck,. Two sisters were here one day last week and when I cut the hair of one the tears ran down the cheeks of the other like raindrops. Queer creatures, these women, aren’t they?” “Is there any particular style in cutting ladies hair now?” “Well, the most of those who have been here have had their hair cut very short on the back of the head – indeed almost as close as young men wear their hair –and moderately good length on top. They want it long enough on top to frizz, or curl, or to wear bands.” Any one who ever visited Kingston, Canada, will recall the round towers which form a part of its extensive fortifications. These, it is supposed, were copied from the similar structures on the coast of Ireland, which are about to be demolished. The Irish towers were built at the time when Lord Cornwallis was Viceroy of Ireland, at the suggestion of the Duke of Richmond, who had heard that the town of Martelio, in Corsica, had by means of similar defense successfully resisted the attack of a fleet. This Duke of Richmond afterward became Governor General of Canada, and it was during his career that these Martelio towers were built for Kingston, than the capital of the united provinces of Upper and Lower Canada. His death occurred in 1819 from hydrophobia, produced by the bite for a fox. SEA MONSTERS A School of Monstrous Fish Create Excitement in Galveston Brief mention, says the Galveston News, has already made of a school of enormous and curious fish that were imprisoned off the gulf shore between the bars in front of the Beach hotel, and the attempt that was made to secure them by a detachment of Sealy rifles, doing their first active service with musketry. What effect the battery of the Sealys many have had upon the sea monsters in not known, save that it was not effectual in bringing the enemy to any terms of capitulation or capture. In defiance of the citizen soldiery the mammoth monsters of the deep were seen disporting themselves again in the gulf once more and another bombardment was commanded with every conceivable appliance of firearms, save that the artillery were not called out with their big guns. A party was organized by Mr. S. P. Blunt, of the quarantine station to carry the war into the enemy’s camp and fight them in their own element with harpoons. For this purpose a whaling yawl and several harpoons were secured, and Mr. Joe Williams an expert harpooner and an old whaler was introduced to make one of the party, owning to his experience in battling with such adversaries. The party had not been out long before they sighted one of the monsters about the foot of 29th street, and proceeded to give chase. The fish, to use Mr. Blunt’s description, had the appearance of the upper portion of a street car passing though the water, its superficial dimensions appearing to be sixteen by eighteen feet, or at least this much of the surface was shown above water. The party rowed within one hundred yards of the monster, and from its appearance at that distance, and from two horns protruding from the head about two and a half feet in length, Mr. Joe Williams, relying upon his long experience as a whaler, pronounced it at once to be what is commonly known as a devil fish. Only one, however of the several that were previously seen , was discovered by the harpooning party, and he was swimming in an easterly direction in about seven feet of water, the maximum depth inside the inner bar, where the monster had got by some unaccountable means and was unable to get out again, as in this depth he left a wake of much and sand behind him in swimming, and the water on the inner bar over which he would have to pass to get again into the water was only a depth of about four and a half or five feet with the then prevailing tide. It was swimming about two hundred yards from shore, and was sagacious enough to keep at the maximum depth between the bar and shore. Wile the party were giving these the squall came up, causing them to abandon the chase and look to their own safety in getting to shore, thus breaking into a fair prospect of capturing the sea monster, as he could not have gotten over the bar with the tide in the condition in which it them was. From a description of the cephalopter a vampyrus (devil fish) in the American Encyclopedia, which tallies very much with the description given by Mr. Blunt of what he saw, it appears that Mr. Williams may have been correct in naming the rare visitor. The devil fish, as described in the encyclopedia, has what is known as pectorals, making the transverse diameter fo the fish greater than the longitudinal thus accounting for the peculiar dimensions given – 16 by 18 feet. A specimen of this fish, caught in the Atlantic, near the entrance of Delaware bay, in 1823, weighted about five tons, and was 17 ½ feet long by 18 feet wide; the skin on the back was blackish brown, and on the belly black and white; the mouth was 2 ½ feet wide, the greatest breadth of the skull 5 feet, and the distance between the eyes 1 1-9 feet. The cranial appendages, or horns were 2 ¼ feet long and a foot wide. The description of the color and the size of the mouth above given also corresponds in detail with the description given of the monster, the subject of yesterday’s search. The same authority also states that the devil fish is occasionally seen on the coast of the southern states in summer and autumn and wonderful stories are told of its strength and ferocity, its extraordinary shape and size having transformed a powerful but inoffensive animal into a terrible monster. Other epodes are met with in the tropical parts, both in mid-ocean and on sandy coasts, which they approach to bring forth their young…….The truth appears to be that the devil fish, though powerful and hideous, is a timid and harmless creature, avoiding rather than attacking a man, but when attacked and defending itself is dangerous. 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