Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News November 25, 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, 7:40 pm Microfilm - AL Dept Of Archives And History November 25, 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, NOVEMBER 4, 1886 VOL. IV. NO. 1 (sic) – (This is the date on the paper, real date is Nov 25) JUDGE NOT – Poem – [Mrs. Hattie Couch Foster] THE HIRED GIRL – Short Story – [Helen Forrest Graves] BEAUTIFUL AUSTRALIAN CAVES A number of large and beautiful stalactite caverns have been discovered near Queensland, Australia. In one, the walls, according to an exploring party, were beautifully white while the stalactites and stalagmites joined in exquisite tracery, reminding them of Chinese carved ivory. Another, fifty feet by thirty feet, with plain walls broken only y niches, and meeting in a vaulted roof of immense height, they called the cathedral. In some of the dark passages their candles were extinguished by the host of bats. From others they descended sixty feet into lower caverns, but everywhere the ground sounded hollow beneath their feet, so that the whole mountain appears to be traversed by subterranean passages and caves in every direction excavated in the limestone rock by the action of hot springs. Our Indians are up to the times. A leading chief of the Ogalalla Sioux is named “Two Strikes”. He is not a Knight of Labor, however. – [Alta California.] Perhaps he belongs to a base ball nine. THE CATERER – How Some Entertainments Are Supplied With Food. Caterers Of Every Grade Who Carry Eatables To City Households The caterer, says a correspondent of the Troy Times, is now a power in New York. A few years ago a well-stocked household was considered sufficient unto itself, but now the caterer and his assistants are called in for anything out of the regular order of things, from a luncheon of six people to supper for five hundred guests. There are caterers of every grade, from good-natured and hard-working negroes who serve meals to bachelors living in cheap rooms, at prices ranging from thirty to seventy cents a meal, up to the Pinards, who pretend to be a peg higher even than Delmonico. The humbler caterers may be seen trudging along in the morning from their homes in the poorer quarters of the city, lugging oblong tin boxes that have been jam-panned a seal-brown at a date more or less remote, and wending their way toward sleeping bachelors all over town. The tin boxes are about a foot square and two feet and a half high, with a big handle on the top. Within are tin shelves,. Under the bottom shelf are alcoholic lamps. On the shelf is a platter with chops, steak or ham. The space between that shelf and the next is only three inches, but the shelves above it are about five inches apart to give room for the cups, saucers, coffee and milk pots and sugar bowl. All of these things have their slots, into which they fit closely. The top shelf is used for the table cloth and napkins. The front of the box is a door. It swings open and exhibits the breakfast to the hungry lodger when the caterer bustles into his room. More pretentious kits than this are sent out by the hotels and restaurants. A breakfast may be carried miles through the snowy streets and laid on the table hot and inviting. The catering department of the big restaurant is a very important one. There is a prejudice against boarding houses in New York. At all events, it is exceedingly unfashionable to live in one, and the people who are not supplied by caterers from choice are from awe of the form of fashion. Contracts to serve meals may be made with the big restaurants at rates far below the regular figures on the bill of fare. But perhaps the caterer is most highly appreciated by people who entertain. Instead of bulldozing the regulation cook into preparing a dinner for a number of guests, a note to the caterer settles it all. There is then no hurry, no delay, no wrangles with servants, and the surety of a good dinner well and promptly served. Half an hour before it is time for the guests to arrive a wagon of the hearse pattern with a chimney through the roof drives up. Nimble assistants carry in the wine from the refrigerator in one end of the wagon and the edibles from the hot compartment in the other end. Everything is there, from the flowers to the salt. The regular servants retire and the caterer takes possession of the kitchen, pantry, and dining room until the guests have gone. Then the wagon drives up again, and in twenty minutes all traces of the dinner party, whether to six or a hundred guests, have disappeared. This plan of giving dinners grow more and more popular every year. The extent to which the fashionable New York housewife depends on the caterer, not only for food but for nearly everything else in the way of entertaining, is growing more and more noticeable. These useful servants take all the details of the work of party-giving off the hands of the hostess. They lay the dancing cloth, provide musicians, have the dancing orders composed and printed, decorate the rooms, put up the storm awnings, number the carriages, provide extra chairs, coat checks, supper and help, and virtually gives the entertainment. All the lady of the house has to do is to walk down to her parlors and receive their guests when they begin to arrive. The coast of all this is very much less than one would imagine, and the relief from the din, hubbub and annoyances that prevail when the house servants undertake the work is decided. FREAKS OF NATURE Old Mr. Bentley (who is very much interested in anything of a curios nature) – Here’s a curios thing, wife. A farmer in Iowa cut down a maple tree one hundred years old, and found imbedded in the center a live toad. Old Mrs. Bentley (who is more interested in darning socks) – Well, well, is that so? A maple tree a hundred years old imbedded in the center of a live toad. That is curious, Joshua, Read surthin’ more. A CAPE BRETON PARSON He was a tall, angular parson of the old severe Presbyterian type. As the local idiom has it, “You would know by his English that he had the Gaelic,” He was preaching in a brother parson’s pulpit to a congregation who were strangers to him. Descanting on the lamb as a type of gentleness, meekness, etc., he said: The lamb is quaite and kind. The lamb is not like the other beasts, the lion and the tiger and the wolf. Ye swill not be runnin’ away form the lamb. No. The lamb is kaind; the lamb will not eat ye, whatever. “And there is food in the lamb, too. Oh, yes, you will be killin’ the lamb and the sheep when the cold weather will come in the winter. You will be wantin’ some good strong food in the winter, and it is then you will be killin’ the lamb. “And there is clothing in the lamb – he is good for nothing. You will tek the wool off him, and you will mek clothes for yourselves. And how would you and I look without clothing?” etc. At the close of the exercises he gave out the following very particular notice, to explain which I must state that ravages had been made among the Presbyterian flock by the influence of a divine of a different persuasion: “And there will most likely be a family from N. that will be baptized here after meeting on Friday night, but here he leaned forward, and added, in a loud stage whisper – “ye’ll no be saying a word about it, dear brethern, as I do not think they want it known.” – [Harper’s Magazine] WHERE IS HE – Joke RUSSIAN PEASANT COURTSHIP When once a parobok (young Russian peasant) with his parent’s consent, of course, has made up his mind to marry a certain girl, nothing can make him go back on his decision. Disregarding any obstacles that may happen to be in his way, he is as firm as a rock in carrying out his purpose. Whenever an opportunity of seeing the sweet object offers itself to him it is generally taken advantaged of, and thus something like a courtship springs up between the young lovers. This, however, is of no long duration and is of the simplest character. The parobok frequently visits his dyevka, but this is generally done when the parents of the latter are in the land of dreams. A stable or a pig shed, a corner of which is often found to be occupied by a peasant girl as a summer residence, answers the purpose of a reception room or a parlor. It is there, in that improvised parlor, where young lovers reveal their hearts to each other. EASY WAY TO ESCAPE SUFFOCATION A correspondent of the New York Times notes a most important means of escape from suffocation by smoke, a strange fatality by which many lives are lost annually. He points out that if the handkerchief be placed beneath the pillow on retiring to rest, as to be within easy reach of the hand, it can, in case of an alarm of fire, be readily dipped in water and tied over the mouth and nostrils. As an amateur fireman, he ahs gone through the densest smoke protected in that manner, and he alleges that such a respirator will enable its wearer to breathe freely in an otherwise irrespiriable atmosphere. TO LEARN THE COLORS In the course of a trial of an engineer at the Gloucester, England, assizes , on a charge of manslaughter, of which he was acquitted, the counsel for the defense incidentally gave an easy rule for remembering and distinguishing railway signals: “White for “right,” red for “wrong” and green for “gently go along.” LIFE’S BITTERNESS – [George Barlow} HUMOROUS – Jokes PATRIOTISM AND RUM – Anecdote SETTLING OLD ----- - Joke PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY NOV. 25, 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. Congress re-assembles on Monday, 6th December. The bill giving employees a lien for their wages is a good one and will become a law. The Department of the Interior has our thanks for a comprehensive annual report of the commissioner of pensions. Ex-President Arthur died at his home in New York, Lexington Avenue, No. 123, on the 18th inst. Thos. W. Ellis, of the Birmingham Hornet fame, who has been confined in the insane hospital at Tuscaloosa was discharged from the custody of that institution on a writ of Habeas Corpus on the 13th inst. President Cleveland has issued a proclamation setting aside the 25 of November as a day of which to return thanks to the Beneficent Father of all for his mercies during the last year Gov. O’Neil has also designated the same day on which to offer praise to the all wise Ruler of the Universe. The Supreme Court Judges have recommended that the Governor call the attention of the Legislature to the fact of the accumulation of books useless to the court and suggest that a law be passed empowering the court to give to the Law Department to the State University these books. Gov. O’Neal has supplemented the president’s thanksgiving proclamation with his own in fitting words. There are few indeed, if any, in our land of peace and plenty but what have abundant blessings to be thankful for, and let us all refrain from our usual avocations, rest, divide our bounty with the poor, eat turkey, be thoughtfully thankful and really happy for one day at least – the 25th day of November. TWO GOOD BILLS Two bills introduced in the House by Representative J. W. Foster, of Henry County, will, if they become laws, work considerable change in existing remedies of those who hold liens and equitable titles to personal property. The bill to amend the act of 1878 – 9, p. 76, which is the law providing for the trial of the right of property, authorizes the holders of lien or equitable title to personal property to interfere and try the right of property the same as nay other claimant. The other bill, which is short, provides that the holders of liens or equitable titles to personal property shall have the right to maintain the actions of detinue and trover . Under the first bill landlords who have a lien for rent and advances, and mortgagees whose mortgages are on crops unplanted at the execution of the mortgage, can maintain a claim on trial of the right of property, whole under the present law their remedy would be an action on the case or a resort to chancery court. The last bill enables all persons who hold liens or equit-atitles on personal property to maintain the actions of detinue and trover, which, under the present law, as a rule, cannot be done. While these bills practically abolish some nice distinctions which have been beautifully drawn by our able jurists they will tend to cheapen and simplify the remedies of all who hold such liens or titles. – [Montgomery Dispatch] OUR EXEMPTION LAWS If a constitutional convention would abolish the present exemption laws another step toward prosperity and thrift would be made by the entire state. That this will be done if a constitution convention is called is by no means certain. The dead head and non debt paying class have too many votes in this state with which to threaten law makers to allow this good word to be done. The effect of our present exemption laws is simply to enable one half of the people to live on the labor and productions of the other; and just so long as our present laws remain in force, we will have a class of thriftless and indolent citizens; so more hardships would result without exemption laws than result by them. With the abolition of the exemption laws a new system of business would come about, trade would be invigorated and reckless buying on credit would cease and things would get on a more solid basis. The oppressive mortgage system which is one of the fruits of the exemption laws would cease. It would put men to work and to earning an honest living who now procure their goods and provisions on credit and pay their creditors by “scheduling.” To favor the total abolition of the exemption laws will meet with much disapproval by some who constantly brood over the illustration of taking the last mouthful of provisions from women and children, not regarding the illustration on the other side that the exemption laws allow the property and earnings of others to be purchased and paid for by claiming our exemption and hereby cheat the creditor and producing class out of their money. ITEMS OF INTEREST Choctaw County only polled 05 votes. They need darkeys down there. There is nothing like a large and energetic army of colored voters to make white folks appreciate their suffrage rights. A colored woman of Montgomery is suing the M & E P. R. because she was insulted while riding in a car on that road. She claims to have been compelled to listen to outrageous language and to submit to other indignities. She wants $25,000. Out of 2,490 patients bitten by animals, who have been treated by Pasteur only ten have died. A. Goshen, N. Y. electrician, has invented a machine by which the temperature of the atmosphere can be foretold at any and all parts of the country. A Tennessee farmer made an application of one handful of ground sulphur and the same of salt to about a peck of ashes, mixed together thoroughly, then applied to the collars of apple trees that were badly infested with the borer. He says the remedy killed the worms and saved the trees. – Southern Cultivator. The manufacture of a keyless lock which any one may fit on a chest is one of the latest advances in the line of the lock-making industry. Queen Victoria’s new carriage is said to be a gorgeous affair. The principal feature of the interior decoration of the vehicle is a design in which the rose shamrock and thistle are interwoven. Mrs. Fleming of Wood County, Ohio, lighted an extra candle the other night when the preacher and his wife called and after they had gone away her husband Josiah boxed her ears for the display of extravagance. Although they have been married forty-two years she has sued for a divorce. A young woman has been arrested in Chicago for begging while arrayed in a “lightning-change” costume, by some means of which she could transform herself in an instant if necessary. An old maid has been found in Auch, France, who is now a 109 years old. It is not stated how old her cat is, nor how many good offers of marriage she has had to decline. The nurse of the baby Alphonso XIII of Spain is said to be a famous girl now. When the royal youngster received the decorations from the King of Portugal she exclaimed, “Now I trust his little Majesty, will keep his nose clean.” AT THE CAPITAL – (list of solicitors for each county, provisions in the legislature, state Democratic caucus notes, etc. If interested, I can transcribe it for you.) 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. 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. 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. Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, I hope to receive a liberal share in the future. 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. 25, 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 BREVITIES Hope for the best. Business must be advertised. Advertise if you’d be wise. The newspaper is a safe friend. Only one month till Christmas. Let’s have a real nice Christmas tree. The dust has subsided for a time. Sunday Schools are doing very well. We are having foretastes of winter weather. The High School is being well attended. New pews are being placed in the Baptist Church. Santa Claus is already counted on as “the coming man.” The long winter evenings are nigh – have a good paper to read. The school children already count the weeks until Christmas. See administrator’s ale in another column of N. S. PARTIAN. (cut out) Drs. W. A. BROWN and E. L. MORTON are off for the Kansas City this week. The legislature will probably adjourn tomorrow until after the holidays. Mrs. J. E. MORTON left on Saturday last to visit her sister Mrs. MARLER in Apalachicola, Fla. Dr. W. L. and EDDY MORTON made a business trip to Columbus first of the week. Mr. N. F. MORTON has returned from a trip to Pickens County where he has been building a mill. The red crepe myrtle leaf and yellow china-tree foliage add pleasant bits of color to the landscape. Mrs. BRADLEY of Birmingham mother of our worthy Circuit Clerk, is with her relatives in town. W. A. YOUNG, Esq. went up on the Kansas road to attend a court last Friday and returned Sunday night. Rev. G. L. HEWITT will leave for conference Saturday. The conference convenes in Florence this year. There seems to be a perfect exodus of laborers from every neighborhood to the Kansas City Road this week. The grade on the Kansas City road has been raised so that very little dirt work is to do. Much dissatisfaction on this score is heard from contractors. The season of the year for sausage meat, spare-ribs, and backbone is rapidly drawing near, and he who has a pen of fat porkers is the happiest man in the land. The good Methodist ladies are thinking of having a church festival during the Christmas holidays for the benefit of the church. No doubt the attendance would be large and a great deal of innocent amusement afforded. If you wish a good article of Plug Tobacco ask your dealer for “old Rip” Mr. D. W. SMITH, who moved to Texas twelve years ago has returned with his family to his native home, Alabama. He is stopping in Vernon at present. Owing to the delay in our paper reaching us we are compelled to use old numbers on the outside. The editor has made three trips to the Kansas City Road since our last issue and has taken on a full share of railroad excitement, and has accepted a contract of grading. The school teachers will doubtless rejoice on the passage of Senator Almon’s bill authorizing County Supt’s of Education to pay teachers at the expiration of each month. This is a good bill and should be made a law. Men who engage in other work are paid off at the close of the week, or month. Let us discard a beginning and begin by a conclusion on the whole matter which is that Cousen’s Honey of Tar, for coughs, colds, and diseases of the throat and lungs are unequaled. There are numberless imitations of this excellent remedy, but only one Coussan’s Honey of Tar, a positive cure for coughs, colds and diseased of throat and lungs. NOTICE. Persons indebted to me will do well to call at once and settle up. I am bound to collect and will commence t once to enforce payment. If you would save cost and trouble come at once. Respectfully, E. W. Brock White’s Cream Vermifuge is good for the chaps certain, when the chaps are troubled with worms. When their presence is indicated in the stomach by the usual unmistakable symptoms, only give the boys and girls a dose of White’ Cream Vermifuge and worms will as surely as nigh does the day. Remember White’s Cream Vermifuge will expel worms. Vernon’s boom still continues. There is but one vacant house in town and that is the calaboose, it not having had an occupant since the sale of whiskey was prohibited here nearly --- years ago. Before that time, some unfortunate victim of intemperance made the night hideous within its walls almost every week. Where is the man who is acquainted with the town of Vernon and its immediate surrounding, who can say that there is no good in prohibition? Who steals my purse steals trash, but he who deprives me of the use of Cousson’s Honey of Tar, makes me poor in health. When I have a cough, cold or disease of throat or lungs, I want Coussan’s Honey of Tar, because I have seen it trick for those ills with unvarying success and know its virtues. 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. ALABAMA NEWS There are only 129 prisoners in the Nevada State Penitentiary. Montgomery’s police force costs her $27,000 annually. Huntsville receives 20,090 bales of cotton annually. Corn is selling at fifty cents per bushel at Greensboro. A colored woman died in Barbour County the other day at the reputed age of 116. The public schools of Talladega have 135 pupils. There are 60,190 acres of government land in Franklin County. Franklin County has 78,018 acres of land in cultivation. It is said that 3,000 negroes went to see the circus at Greensboro the other day. The Brierfield Nail Factory ships 400 kegs daily. Montgomery has a steam sausage factory in full blast. A Marengo man who works some of the best land in the “cane brake” country with eight mules and twenty hands, made five bales of cotton. The churches and schools of Tuscaloosa are prospering. J. H. Watts escaped from the Somerville jail last week. He locked the jailer in and carried the key with him. The Age says that Birmingham is infested with burglars and warns the citizens to look out for them. Double Springs, Winston County has U. S. Commissioner and a U. S. Deputy Marshal located there. J. V. Kersey died in Birmingham from an overdose of morphine but whether taken accidentally or otherwise is a mystery. The wife of Henry Johnson colored who is 42 years, gave birth to her first child on the 1st Nov. 1886. 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. ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County Alabama, made on the 20th day of November 1886, I as Administrator of the Estate of H. C. MCNEES late of said county, deceased, will on the 20th day of December next offer for sale at public outcry at the town of Fernbank, in said county, the following tract of land, to wit; N E ¼ Sec 7, E ½ of N W ¼ Sec 8, E ½ of E ½ Sec 18, N ½ of N E ¼ Sec 19, N W ¼ of N E ¼ Sec 20, S E ¼ of S E ¼ E ½ of N E ¼ less 2 acres, 25 acres off of North end of S W ¼ of N E ¼ and 17 acres off of the south end of N W ¼ of N E ¼ and 15 acres off of the south end of N E ¼ of N W ¼ and a ½ of S W q Sec 17, all in T 17 R 15, said lands will be sold for one fifth in cash the remainder on credit of one and two years from day of sale, the purchaser giving note with approved securities, said land lies in and around the town of Vernon, and will be sold in lots to suit the purchasers this 22nd day of November, 1889. N. S. PARTIAN, Admr. 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. 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. Ad for Ayer & Sons. 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 ------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 FOR THE FARM AND HOME KEEPING PEAFOWLS Peafowls are not only ornamental but excellent for the table. They are slow in reaching maturity, and the hen seldom lays before she is two years old. The chicks, however, grow very rapidly at first, but as they begin to feather almost at the start of life they require frequent feeding or they will perish. They soon begin to fly, and roost on the highest positions they can find. The hen lays from ten to twenty eggs, according to age and treatment. The young chicks should be fed the same as young turkeys, but meat, finely chopped, should be given three times a week after the first week. The male is a quarrelsome bird in the barnyard, and often makes short work of young chicks. They are more ornamental than profitable, though the tail feathers may be pulled for sale as soon as the molting season begins. SUMMER CARE OF WORK HORSES The grooming – as it is called – of horses, is quite as important as the feeding, and in summer time when the teams are worked hard, it is indispensable to their welfare. When a horse is working, the exertion from the skin is profuse, and pours from it in the form of perspiration. When this dries on the skin it leaves a quantity of impure matter adhering to it, which is apt to close the pores and prevent the escape of the perspiration. This produces disorder, in the form of congestion of the myriad’s of capillary vessels which form a close network near the surface of the body, and the excretion and secretions being stopped, the skin becomes harsh, dry, contracted and diseased. The impure matter – being unable to escape – gathered in places and forms pimples, blotches or tumors, and if it is not removed, there is danger of poisoning the blood, and with the appearance of farcy and glanders, finally death. All this may be prevented by careful attention to the skin, by occasional washing, regular currying and brushing, and proper care to avoid galling by the rubbing of ill-fitting harness. As prevention is the best cure, it is well that owners of horses would exercise all possible precautions to avoid the frequent disorders which result from neglect in the direction pointed out, and thus save much annoyance and loss. HINTS ON HAYING In general says a Cultivator contributor, it is a good practice to keep close up with the scythe while haying. Or in other words to stop the mower, and proceed to getting in as soon as the hay is made enough for the purpose. Much unnecessary labor is often saved by so doing. Especially is this so late in the season, when the weather is likely to be showery. One need not fear to get hay in quite green rather than to have it wet with rain. The real juices of the grass will not be of much injury to the hay. Water is a great damage to hay or grass after it is cut. When there is no water on the hay it will not be injured so much by three weeks heating in the snow as by lying three days in hot, rainy weather upon the ground. The heating in the mow injures only a small portion, that being the top, where the vapor collects and cools, while that out in the rain is damaged all alike. A good practice in haying is to mow in the morning what can be readily handled during the day. Early in the day air that which was out over night, and haul in before the dew falls. Rake and bunch the hay cut in the fore part of the day, during the hottest part of the afternoon. This will make very much during the night, and only needs turning up from the bottom to be in condition to get in early the next day. When the indications are for a dully day on the morrow, it is advisable to get in as much of the present day’s mowing as possible. In bunching hay in good weather the horse rake will answer every purpose. SAVING LIQUID MANURE The convenience of being able to buy and use artificial fertilizers when it is desired to put in crops at a time when one has no barnyard manure ready to use, or when he does not want to leave other work long enough to draw manure, should not lead to the neglecting to try to make all that it is possible to make upon the farm or to the allowing of any waste thereof. As the liquid excrements from a full grown horse or cow in each year are said by chemists to contain from $12 to $14 worth of fertilizing elements at the rate they are sold in artificial fertilizers, it is very important that they should not be wasted. The plan of conducting them from pipes in the barn to a cistern and then distributing from a tank on wheels, like a city watering carat, has never become popular, and it has certain serous objections, not the least of which is the highly concentrated character of this fertilizer. Where this is not done there should be a sufficient quantity of dry earth or peat to absorb them. Just how much to use for this purpose would be a difficult problem to solve, as much of the liquid would be absorbed by the solid excrements, and much of the water might be evaporated with loss of but little, if any, of the valuable salts which are principally nitrates and potash. One good load for each animal would not seem to be too much, and it might be safer to double that amount, if the two loads would add $12 value to the manure heap, or even half the amount as there would be some loss by the amount voided in the pasture or on the road. PROTECTING YOUNG TREES Mr. W. D. Boynton, of Wisconsin, writes to the Indiana Farmer: Young trees need protection the first summer. It is, in fact, the most critical time with them. The winters are bad enough, but the summers are often worse. The sun and drying winds are fully as fatal in summer as the alternate freezing and thawing of winter. Mulching is a great thing for the roots, but the tops and the trunks of young trees taken from the thickly planted nursery are in no way protected, and they miss such protection very much. The greatly reduced root can not supply the top with the requisite moisture or sap, while the sun and wind make constant and heavy drafts upon it. I find that planting corn among young newly set trees is a great help to them the first summer. Trees four or five feet high will be well shaded by corn growth during the driest, hottest weather of summer. Growing corn also breaks the force of the wind. It prevents the stems from being wrenched about in the usual way of exposed trees. It may always be noticed, too, that thick corn growth gathers and retains moisture. The air is more vaporous and cool near the ground, which is a desirable condition for tree-growth. I think this is an excellent way to shelter a hedge-row of young evergreen or other trees. Any plant with a mutilated root needs protection from the sun and wind’ some need it much more than others; some for but a few days, as they quickly establish vigorous roots, while others need a whole season or more to recuperate in. To this latter class belong young trees. We may be sure that we have not done our part until all newly set trees are in some manner protected form the scorching sun and drying winds of our intense midsummer. The young orchard may be regularly planted to corn and cultivated as any other field, omitting the horse cultivation in those spaces in which the roots of trees are located. HOUSEHOLD HINTS A well-ventilated bedroom will prevent morning headache and lassitude. To remove mildew, soak in buttermilk and spread on the grass in the sun. If the oven is too hot when baking, place a small dish of cold water in it. To prevent flat-irons from scorching, wipe them on a cloth wet with kerosene. Sal volatille or hartshorn will restore colors taken out by acids. It may be dropped upon any garment without doing harm. To cleanse spots from broadcloth or woolen goods take half an ounce each of glycerine, alcohol and sulphuric acid, two ounces of aqua ammonia, half an ounce of powdered castile soap and add water enough to make one quart of the mixture. Use with brush or sponge and rinse with pure water. To clean marble the following is recommend: Common soda, two pounds, powdered pumicestone and finely-powdered chalk one pound each. Pass through a fine sieve and mix to a thin paste with water. Rub it well over the marble and the stains will be removed, then wash the marble over with soap and water and it will be as clean as it was at first. RECIPES STEWED LAMB AND PEAS – Have the bones taken out of the under side of a shoulder and bind into a good shape with tape. Cover the bottom of a pout with chopped salt pork, stew with minced young onion, lay in the meat and pour in a quart of weak broth made from the extracted bones and other trimmings. Cover closely and stew tender. Take out the lamb, unbind it, and keep it hot, covered, over b oiling water. Strain the gravy left in the pot, return to the fire with two quarts of green peas and cook until they are done. Strain and lay about the meat. POTATOES CREAMED WITH PARSLEY - Peel the potatoes, cut them into dice and lay in cold water for half an hour or more. Put over the fire in cold salted water and stew tender; drain out the water and supply its place with a cup of hot milk in which has been stirred a tablespoonful of butter rolled in flour. Then, for each cupful of potato, allow two tablespoonfuls of green parsley, very finely minded. Bring to a hasty boil, pepper and salt to liking, and dish. LEMON CAKE – One and one-half cups of sugar, one-half cup of butter, three eggs, one-half teaspoon of soda dissolved in milk, two heaping cups of sifter flour, a little salt, the grated peel and juice of one lemon; bake in two shallow pans and cut into squares. STEWED APPLES WITH RICE. – Scoop out the cores and peel some fine russet apples, and stew them in clarified sugar. Boil some rice in milk with a pinch of salt, a few strips of lemon peel and sugar enough to sweeten it. Leave on the fire until the rice is quite soft and has absorbed nearly all the milk, remove the lemon peel and place in a dish; arrange the stewed apples on the rice and put it in the oven until it is of a pretty golden color. A FORTUEN IN A HORSE. – Anecdote TRAMP ARISTOCRACY – Anecdote IN THEIR PRISON - A Glimpse at the Indian Captives at St. Augustine {Letter in Boston Transcript] I sit on the glacis, musing, and I am startled by a sudden genuine Apache war-cry on the ramparts over my head, and here, behind me come two braves in war paint or dress, bearing on their heads a fantastic wood arrangement resembling horns, their faces covered a la kuklux, with a yellow veil and dress of same stuff, slashed with dark red, belted with gleaming metal. They trot along, and suddenly wheeling around several times and shaking a noise of bells, they give the war cry, which is taken up by their friends inside the walls, and the shrilling yell floats over in strange contrast to the quiet scene. These Apaches were only captured a few weeks ago and brought direct to this place of imprisonment. They are a part of Geronimo’s band, who is now raiding in Mexico and the Arizona border in revenge for their supposed death. The oldest chief, Nana, is apparently seventy years of age, a villainous- featured old wretch; but owing to his good conduct and sense of honor in keeping his word, the government substituted Chihuahua. He is about forty- five or fifty years old, and has a – well, for an Indian, a good face. Already he has learned to politely doff his slouch hat, and adopted arm uniform. The squaws are the jolliest set imaginable; they come to get water from the well outside the fort, and I noticed one’s perplexity early one morning, and went and made signs and showed her how to work the handle. They all have money, and most of them wear rosaries as necklaces. It was interesting when the tide went out to see how soon the squaws and girls set about hunting shells, which duly appeared as necklaces. Nana has two wives but excuses himself on the ground that he only likes one. The squaws carry the babies, or papooses, strapped in wooden frames, taking them out occasionally to pull the limbs straight. A baby is a helpless enough object in a cradle, but in this impromptu cage on its mother’s back it is simply ludicrous. I noticed jars of clay for carrying water. These are attached to straps and borne on the back, the strap or band stretched across the forehead. My gracious! But for pure, simple filth and vermin, commend me to an Indian. The squaws perform the friendly office of carbolic soap for one another, sitting on the side of the moat in early morning. The reputed murderer of Judge McComa’s family has one of the most villainous families imaginable. The physical average of the Apache is far below that of the northern Crow or Sioux. Their stolid indifference was indicated when Lieutenant Richards took out a gang of them in a tug over the bar. They were apparently unmoved, except one who was sea sick, although it was their first experience in any sort of craft on any water. HE WANTED TO EXCHANGE – Joke ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1084gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 57.5 Kb