Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News December 2, 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, 7:52 pm Microfilm - AL Dept Of Archives And History December 2, 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 (sic) – (This is the date on the paper, real date is Dec 2 as it states on the 2nd page) SOME DAY – Poem THE UNDERTAKER’S STORY – Short Story – [London Truth] DOES GOLD GROW? Years ago I wrote and published in a London magazine an article in which I undertook to prove that gold grows – grows the same as grain or potatoes, or anything else. I reckon I did my work crudely, not knowing anything about chemistry or even the ordinary terms of expression about such matters, and so my earnest and entirely correct sketch was torn all to pieces and laughed to scorn. Well, I have at last found positive proof of my general statement right here in these mountains by the Pacific Sea. Briefly and simply, I have found a piece of petrified wood with a little vein or thread of gold in it. How did that gold get into this piece of wood? Was it placed there by the finger of God on the morning of creation, as men have claimed was the case with the gold found in the veins of the mountains? Nonsense! Gold grows! Certain conditions of the air, or certain combinations of earth and air and water, and whatever chemicals may be required, and then a rock, a piece of quartz, or petrified tree, for the gold to growing and there is your gold crop! Of course, gold grows slowly. Centuries upon centuries, it may be, are required to make the least sign of growth. But it grows just as I asserted years ago; and here at last I hold in my hand such testimony as no man in this world will be rash enough to question; a portion of a petrified tree with a thread of gold in it. – [Jauquin Miller] PETRIFYING HUMAN BODIES A New York undertaker and embalmer said to a Mail and Express reporter that he believed the time was not far distant when the lost art of mummifying bodies would be discovered. “What struck me with that idea was the great state of preservation the body of Prellier, killed by Maxwell in St. Louis, was found when exhumed to undergo an examination by the physicians. The body had been buried some time, and the lawyers for the defense imagined that it would be so decayed no post mortem examination could be made in a scientific way to discover the traces of disease such as Maxwell said he had. The embalmer had done his work well and the body was in a fine state of preservation. I think some fluid will be discovered that will petrify flesh, and thus the ancient Egyptians will be outdone. That is my great hobby - to petrify the human body after death. It will hand down to ages yet unknown the exact features and proportions of the present race. Our skilled chemists who dream their lives away over the retort, it looks to me, should turn their attention in this direction. The bones of mastodons have been preserved for thousands of years and why not humans. Anything the brain can conceive of It think can in a measure, be accomplished in time.” Joke QUEER RESTAURANTS – Two of New York’s Odd Eating Houses Described Places with a National Reputation Whose Surroundings are Unsavory. A New York letter to the Troy Times says: Moretti’s is a restaurant that has achieved a national reputation, although as unpretentious as Oliver Hitchcocks’ beanery. It is on Fourteenth Street, near Third Avenue. You enter a narrow and dirty hallway, ascend a dusty light of stairs and are ushered into a dining room filled with tables covered with linen anything but snowy in color. The chairs are rickety, there is little ventilation and the rooms are usually filled with the fumes of garlic, coffee, and tobacco. The walls are line with pictures of illustrious Italians, from Caveur down to Campanini and Cristadoro. The portraits are rusty and musty, the restaurant is stuffy, the plates and cups are nicked and cracked, the waiters are sloppy and outward appearances are far from appetizing. Yet some of the most noted men and women of New York dine there. Moretti himself does the cooking, and everybody praises and apparently enjoys it. The proprietor frequently leaves his stew pans and chafing dishes and wanders out among his guests in his shirt sleeves. He usually has a cigar in his mouth. He always wears a soiled apron and invariably looks as though he had just come out of a stable. Yet millionaires and literati press his hand with delight, and the ladies of the haut ton greet him with their sweetest smiles. He has been the rage for years. The artist Page first discovered him nearly thirty years ago. William Henry Fry, Charles A. Dana, William Stuart, George Arnold, Fitz Greene Halleck, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Ward Beecher, William Henry Hurlbet, Joseph Howard, Jr., and me of that ilk quickly recognized the importance of the discovery and the cook began to get on his feet. Politicians, merchants, brokers, and men about-town took the cue and followed suit, and Moretti became famous. His place has been thronged for years. It is almost impossible to secure a seat at a table at the 6 o’clock dinner hour. All the dishes are Italian in connection and description. To the uneducated American palate, they are simply nauseating; yet bon vivents revel in them. You get soup, fish, meats, game, macaroni, salads, and desserts, all flavored with oil and garlic, and to a farmer’s boy all tasting alike. Half the native Americans who drop in there masticate the food with an imaginative relish, and are sick for days afterward. Yet all vie with the bon vivants in praising Moretti’s provender. Each man wants to be though an expert in tasting cookery, and therefore eats and commends everything set before him. Men eat cheese and game birds at Moretti’s table who would pitch them out of the window if they were served at home. Moretti is as shrewd in a business way as he is in the gastronomic line. He makes no effort to branch out in gorgeous magnificent like Martinelli and Morelli. He sticks to his original plant and lets his cooking speak for itself. He enjoys his squalid surroundings, and makes no effort to gild them. He takes no vacations. He spends no money in pleasure. His life is bounded by his cookshop; beyond its confines there is no happiness for him. Morning, noon and night, both summer and winter, you will find him stewing and sweating in his Italian kitchen and lading out his dollar meals. How much he is worth is a secret known only to himself. The figures must run up among the hundred thousands. Lately, however, competition has reared its head. A beetle-browed little Spaniard of the name of Pedro, some years ago started a small restaurant on Duane Street. It is in a little squatty wooden building within a stone’s throw of O’Donovan Rossa’s den on one side, and of the Five Points on the other. Pedro devotes his attention to Spanish dishes. His table linen is rarely clean, and his crockery looks as though it had just come out of a tenement house. Untutored stomachs would declare the cooking to be execrable. The smell of garlic is about suffocating, the bread is the color of mahogany, and the wine as sour as cider vinegar; yet William Stuart, Charles Gaylor, and other veteran gourmands assert that the cooking is perfection itself, and go into ecstasies over his dinners. Stockbrokers give select dinner parties in his shanty, and armies of flies welcome them. Tom- cats scattered among them come littering the yards near by furnishing class music, and Pedro himself, arrayed in badly soiled garments, dishes oils podrida and other choice Spanish dishes, streaming with onions and garlic. Ladies frequently grace the swarthy Spaniard’s gastronomic sanctum, and Pedro is on the highway of fame, gathering in a fortune. He already sells more champagne than Moretti, but whether this is owing to the digestible or indigestible asture of his dinners in a question. One thing is certain. It takes a well trained stomach to appreciate his cooking. A thorough Western cowboy would probably shoot him on sight if confronted by one of his dishes. MAKING BASEBALLS The interesting fact was learned by a New York Mail and Express reporter that the hides of about 1020 horses and the skins of at least ten times as many sheep are cut up into coverings for baseballs in this city every season. By one manufacturer alone three tons of yarn are used a year for the inside of baseballs. The hide and skin used in perfectly white, being alum tanned, and comes from Philadelphia. Out of one horse’s hide the coverings for twelve dozen balls are cut, and out of one sheepskin three dozen. Two strips of the leather are required for each ball, cut wide at the rounded ends so that they fit into each other when put around the yarn ball. Each piece, for a League ball, is seven inches long, by two inches wide at the rounded ends. The pieces are cut with a die. Old fashioned blue Shaker yarn is used for the inside of a League ball, which is wound tightly around a small rubber ball, weighing exactly one ounce. The improved League ball ahs now double coverings of horsehide, which is regarded as a great improvement. It is also stitched with gut. The balls are made entirely by hand and it requires no little skill to shape them perfectly round. This is done by placing them in an iron cup about the size of the ball and striking it with a mallet at different stages of the winding. Men do this work; they easily make ten dozen League balls in a day and from forty to fifty dozen ordinary baseballs in the same length of time. Their wages are $2.50 a day. Women saw the coverings together on the ball; this requires considerable skill and strong finger muscle; they can sew from two and a half to three dozen League balls a day, and from 14 to 16 dozen of the cheaper grades; they are paid by the piece, ninety cents a dozen for the League work and ten cents a dozen for the others. They earn about $12 a week. The balls are sewed with that is known as Barker’s flax, which comes in red, blue, orange, and pink colors. The finest balls are sewed with pink. Horsehide covered balls are made in fourteen different varieties. DOCTORING AN AFRICAN KING Dr. R. W. Felkin says in the Scottish Geographical Magazine: It is no joke to be a doctor to the King of Uganda, for whenever I took him a new supply of medicine I had always to take a dose myself, and to administer one to seven of the persons who might happen to be present. Should one of these seven unfortunates die within a week it would be considered that I had attempted to poison the King. If the King had to take a pill, I had always to hold two in my hand; he chose one and I had to swallow the other I had a friend with me who kindly undertook the office. I soon noticed, however, that Mtesa always chose the smallest, and so I arranged accordingly. One day, Mtesa played me a nice trick. I had been to the palace to take him a lotion, and had waned him particularly not to drink it. After I had left he sent a page after me with a gourd of mwengi, asking me to taste it, and say if he might have some. I did so, and said “Yes”. It being a very hot afternoon, my friend drank the remainder; but it soon became evident that the King had doctored the wine, for my friend became violently sick. It turned out afterward that Mtesa wished to see what effect the lotion would have upon me. CARRIED OFF BY AN EAGLE The Greenville (Ill) Sun contains the particulars of an attack by a bald eagle upon the 7-year-old son of Washburn Wright, near mulberry Grove. As the boy was on his way to the pasture the bird swooped down on him, and fastening its talons in his clothes, raised him in the air, soaring several feet with him, when this clothing parted and the child dropped to the ground. The youth’s screams brought to him his father, who was fortunately near-by and his presence frightened the eagle away. JOKE AT NIGHTFALL – Poem HUMOROUS – jokes PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY DEC. 2, 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 rapidity and excellence with which the work of construction of the Memphis & Birmingham Railroad has rarely ever been equaled anywhere. The Alabama Fairs seem to have proven more successful this year than at any time since the war. The Huntsville, and the State Fair at Montgomery have, we believe, given a healthful impetus to Alabama husbandry. In memory of the Confederate dead of Alabama, a Bazaar will be held in Montgomery this week and next for the purpose of raising funds for the completion of the Confederate Monument on Capitol Hill. Col. Will S. Hays, the sweet singer of Louisville, who has had the honor of having a steamboat named after him, still has the negro minstrel fever, strong. He says that he has been offered $100 a week and expenses for a six months engagement to take the tamponrine end in the first part of a performance and do his old plantation negro act. But Col. Will, it is said, has more ambitious ideas. He hopes to be a the head of a big company of his own, and thinks he can furnish the originally lacking in the average minstrel company. THE WHIPPING POST The Legislature has actually gone so far as to seriously vote on a whipping post bill for brutal husbands. Why the bill doesn’t reach women who whip their husbands is a little strange. But seriously who suffers under such laws? The wretch who is tied and lashed in the presence of a shouting mob suffers indeed, but it does not stop here, when the little son or daughter of such a man walks the streets or highways they are known as the children of the man who was whipped at the public post. They are better known by this name than their real, and when grown they are the children of the same man. They may change their home a thousand miles an d in less than six months the fact that the father has been whipped under sentence will be known. It is the wife and children for generations even that suffer. Disgrace a man in his own eyes publicly and what has he to be a better man for society forever shuts him off and a life of sin and hate will be the result. This law is now being tried in other states and the results are bad. The effect of this law is just opposite to the spirit of the law that forbids the circulation of things in the past to the damage of a man’s character. Our legislature will be pressed for time, but if such measures as this consume their time it would be better that the session was one day in place of fifty. Society will not be helped by the passage of such a law and now where there is one neglected and ill treated wife, pass the law and you will have ten hearts that will ache and disgrace, will cut off every incentive to rise higher and be useful members of society. We will in all probability have a constitutional convention next year. The majority of the Legislature favor it and nobody opposes ; so let’s have it. Much good will may be done by constitutional changes, and as well. When the present session of the legislature is over there will be but little left of the present code that the constitution being changed. If we had a new constitution with a hundred day session of the legislature. (sic) WHAT A WIFE OUGHT TO KNOW Very few men have the time or the patience to make a shilling go as far as it can – women have. Especially a woman whose one thought is to save her husband from having burdens greater than he can bear; to help him by that quiet carefulness in money matters which alone gives an easy mind and a real enjoyment of life; to take care of the pennies, in short, that he may have the pounds free for all his lawful needs, and lawful pleasures, too. Surely there can be no sharper pang to a loving wife than to see her husband staggering under the weight of family life; worked almost to death in order to dodge “the wolf at the door,” joyless in the present, terrified at the future; and yet all this might have been averted if the wife had known the value and use of money, and been able to keep what her husband earned; to “cut her cost according to her cloth: every income is limited unless you can teach yourself to live within it; to “waste not: and therefore to :want not.” But this is not always the woman’s fault. Many men insist blindly on a style of living which their means will not allow; and many a wife has been cruelly blamed for living at a rate of expenditure unwarranted by her husband’s means, and which his pecuniary condition made absolutely dishonest had she known it. But she did not know it, he being too careless or too cowardly to tell her, and she had not the sense to inquire or to find out. Every mistress of a household especially every mother ought to find what the family income is, and where it comes from, and thereby prevent all needless extravagance. Half the miserable or disgraceful bankruptcies never would happen if the wives had the sense and the courage to stand firm and insist on knowing enough about the family income to expend it proportionately; to restrain, as every wife should, at too lavish husband,; or failing that, to stop herself out of all luxuries which she cannot righteous afford. Above all, to bring up her children in a tender carefulness that refuses to mulet “the governor” out of one unnecessary half- penny, or to waste the money he works so hard for in their own thoughtless amusements – [Review] The “Kansas City” has brought men of every clime, to Walker. The Italians, especially seem to make glad the hearts of our merchants. – [The Citizen] Two negroes have a store at the junction of the railroads in this place. They carry a very small stock of merchandise, but among it they had some tobacco. A festive tramp recently stepped into the establishment, and after a few minutes conversation he “sized up” the merchants, represented himself as a revenue collector, and told them that the would have to arrest them because they had no tobacco license. The negroes were alarmed, and finally the tramp agreed to take a dollar and a quarter cash, and a cheap watch, promising to soon return with a tobacco license properly made out. The negroes have been waiting for him ever since. - [Union Spring Herald] ALABAMA NEWS Eufala wants the next state fair. A young man named Crowley living several miles from Greenville, accidentally shot himself several days ago. There was a fourteen-year-old boy at the State Fair weighing 186 lbs. The ladies of Montgomery will hold a bazaar during the 1st week in December for completing the monument. The burning of gins grow common. A child was recently scalded to death in Clay County from pouring a pot of coffee on himself. A ten-year-old boy in Henry County found and drank a quart of whiskey. He died next day from the effects of it. Decatur was incorporated in 1838. The State Treasury has a pleasant balance of $340,727.94 on hand. 100 fine hogs have died at Paine Rock from Cholera. There are at present 733 patients in the Insane Hospital; 350 men and 383 women. Of this number 99 are colored. The Sloss Furnace Co have sold out to some New York men at two and a half millions of dollars. The Times of Eufala is urging Hon. Reuben F. Kolb for State Commissioner of Agriculture. His appointment would certainly give very general satisfaction. A Memphis syndicate and J. E. Brown, of Scottsboro, have bought about fifteen thousand acres of ore and coal lands on and near the Cumberland Mountain in Jackson County. The 26th gin house destroyed by fire in this state this fall, was that of W. T. Heston of Tuscaloosa County. Ten bales of cotton were also burned. The fire was the work of an incendiary. Two white men, with blackened faces, entered the dwelling of Mr. Bryant, near Kansas, Walker County, a few nights ago and robbed him of $275 in money. The Bibb Blade, speaking of the Dispatch’s proposition to amend the present law on the subject of concealed weapons, says The suggestion of the Dispatch is a good one, as aside from the very good reason given, such a law would be more sacredly kept than the present one. Men will go armed, and they will carry their arms concealed. There are thousands of cases that are never prosecuted and the present law is worthless because it cannot be enforced. On the other hand, men would pay a moderate license to legalize the carrying their arms, and the state would realize a much larger revenue than under the present law. Men who feel that they need to go armed would not object to wearing a license where it could be seen, and prove a source of much revenue to the counties. Then make it a felony to carry a pistol without license, and the law could be rigidly enforced, and would fall equally upon rich and poor. Dr. J. B. Luckie, the laboring man, candidate for the Birmingham mayoralty, in his announcement card says: “Deeming, on general principle that after a certain time a change is always desirable, I therefore put myself for ward. It will be remembered that this was the identical argument used by the present incumbent in the late contest between himself and Mr. Jeffers.” The doctor ought to be an old enough politician to know that it ain’t fair to hold Mayor Lane to account for what he said when a candidate. Whoever heard of a candidate remembering what he said before election? ITEMS OF INTEREST The Italian colony in New Orleans is said to number some 10,000 people. Ex-President Arthur was a native of Vermont, and in his 57th year. Cincinnati had a $700,000 fire on the 29th ult. The biscuit is here to stay. The wheat crop of the world for 1886 is estimated at 2,122,583,665 bushels. The crop of 1885 was 2,114,568,752 bushels. The growth of the personal character is largely molded by the gradual recognition of moral laws, by the sense of the mystery involved in the inevitable struggle between duty and pleasure. Don’t waste life in doubts and fears, spend yourself on the work before you, well assured the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. “Really the young ladies seem to prefer the company of the worst young men in town.” Remarked a most exemplary young fellow who is striving successfully to make a man of himself,. He Be that as it may the day is almost here when social ostracism will be so inexorable that a pure, deserving girl will not dare receive the attentions of an immoral man. Every mother ought to hurry to the support of the social purity movement. It is the Christliest aspiration of all. It means clean hearts clean and lives (sic). – [Ex] 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, entrusted 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. 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. Ad for Peruna 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 DEC 2, 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 R E BRADLEY Circuit Clerk S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor D. J. LACY Tax Collector B H WILKERSON 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 What about the Christmas tree? Now its winter, pay the printer. Chimney building is the go in Vernon this week. TYLER GILLMORE is moving out of town this week. Rev. G. B. TAYLOR while felling a tree had his arm broken last week. Miss ELIZA MORTON is teaching again in the Thomas neighborhood. A fault once denied is thrice committed. The greatest wealth is contentment with a little. Reflection is the satisfaction of the spright, the enemy of rouges. Steel rails are on the way for the Kansas City road’s Memphis & Birmingham division. Sheriff PENNINGTON made a business trip to Columbus, Miss. first of the week. Don’t forget to save two dollars to pay for the supper of yourself and sweetheart at the church festival. Mrs. G. L. HEWITT is spending the time that Mr. HEWITT is absent at conferences with the family of Mr. N. F. MORTON. No trouble to price and show goods, walk in. Most anything you want as low as it can be bought at Geo. W. RUSE & CO. The Municipal election on Monday resulted in the election of L. M. WIMBERLEY, Mayor, W. L. MORTON, T. B. NESMITH, R. W. COBB, JAS MIDDLTON, and W. G. MIDDLTON Councilors. About half of the voters failed to vote. Down south where playful breezes stay among perpetual flowers the good people do not enjoy an immunity from coughs, colds, and diseases of throat and lungs for which they find relief by using Cousens Honey of Tar. This is the family remedy in that section as well as in the north, because of the undoubted virtues as a cough medicine. Just try it. Special bargains in clothing, buttons, and shoes. GEO W. RUSH & CO. Mrs. W. S. METCALFE of Henson Springs, was in town first of the week, and brought her daughter to attend the high school. Have just priced our goods lower than ever before. Call and see for yourself. Geo. W. Rush & Co. Sickness the common fate of all, is not regarded as an angel visitant in whatever from it comes. An efficient remedy for a cough, cold or diseased of throat and lungs can be found in Consens Honey of Tar, which is known throughout our broad land as the only effectual cure for a cough. Use Cousens Honey of Tar. Messrs. J. L. MILLER and D. B. ROBERTSON of Gentry, were in town yesterday. Mr. J. E. SANDERS has sold his interest in the mill south of town to his brother-in-law, Mr. SAWNZEY, and will move down near his father’s, L. H. SANDERS. People who find it hard to wake up in the morning, and accomplish it only after much struggling, yawning, and partial relapses, will find the difficulty disappear upon having their room well ventilated during the night. If you wish a good article of plug tobacco ask your dealer for “Old Rip.” 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 MARRIED: Mr. H. B. HILL and Miss ELLA HILL at the residence of the bride’s parents, on the 25th of Nov., Hon. Alexr. Cobb officiating. Mr. W. J. HANKINS and Miss L. M. NEWELL, at the residence of the bride’s parents, on the 25th ult., by Rev. T. W. Springfield. 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. The ordinary routine of life is often up hill work, and at our best we need all our health and strength to meet our daily trials. No one likes to be relegated to the circumscribed space of an invalids chair and to a person afflicted with piles, such a remedy as Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment is invaluable. The location of depots on the Kansas City road has been a source of great anxiety by individual property owners. The depot that will be most accessible to Vernon is at Crews Mill. Houses are being erected at this place and the present indications are that the town will precede the railroad. This is very gratifying to the people of Vernon. This place is the natural and proper place for the largest town between Jasper and Holly Springs and we predict that in five years there will be a town of one thousand inhabitants. The large scope of country from Luxapalilla to the Military road and south to Yellow Creek and the entire Northern portion of Lamar and to Hamilton in Marion county will trade at this place. There is no need of any further (---)avil over the place for it is fixed and the natural advantages of the place can’t be surpassed in the world. WATCH THE MAN WHO Is on the fence. Has no opinion. Takes no papers. Has the big head. Sneers at religion. Is cruel to animals. Frowns on charity. Lies about everybody. Goes back on a friend. Is jealous and spiteful. Is spasmodically moral. Won’t pay when he can. Does not favor enterprise. Favors corruption in office. Is afraid to speak his own mind. Hides behind a non de plume. Won’t patronize home industries. Talks about you behind your back. Thinks he is bigger than his party. Knows more than the rest of mankind. Thinks what he don’t know is not worth knowing. Only twenty–three days until Xmas. (sic) 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 LADIES DEPARTMENT A NEW STYLE IN HAIR DRESSING There is no use in denying it; a new grief is added to the formidable sum total of hum woe by the style of female hair dressing that has suddenly come late vogue – that indescribable, intangible illimitable sort of roll at the back of the head which starting with a wild torrent of short and scattered hair at the level of the collar, is presently concentrated into a ridgepole that goes soaring up toward the top of the head until, at the point of junction with the bonnet, it reaches a very considerable degree of altitude above the sea-level of the head, still maintaining its ridgepole character. It is a perfectly exasperating way of dressing the hair; without a suggestion of grace or beauty; but on the contrary with a large number of suggestions of ungratefulness and a generally hideous effect. – [Boston Record] HIRED SEASIDE FINERY While chatting with the proprietor of a well-known Long Branch Hotel the other day, he said; “I have just dropped on to one or tow of the latest wrinkles of those people who pose as swell summer tourists on excessively small incomes. A dressmaker whom my wife went to see today told her that she had a great variety of dresses for the summer season which she would hire out on reasonable terms, and change for others once every week. Now, ain’t that an idea! You see, Miss De Smith can go to Long Branch with seven morning and seven evening dresses, and after a week she secures another fourteen, and can bloom out in an entirely new set for the following week. All these costumes are made upon a sliding scale basis, with big seams and wide flounces, which facilitate their being changed to fit many sizes. You see that with four sets of dresses the customer can change them from one watering place to another, and thus serve four people simultaneously, giving each a constant succession of new toilets. For about $25 a week the girls can have the use of a wardrobe that couldn’t be duplicated under $2,000. Think of that for American enterprise.” - [Baltimore American] THE PURSUIT OF COMFORT The main purpose of a summer vacation is comfort, but comfort cannot be secured by several trunkfuls of new dresses and new millinery. Inordinate dressing may gratify a foolish vanity, but it will not secure physical pleasure or contentment. Of later years the best people have shown a wise determination to stop this silly display of fashion at summer resorts. The butterflies of fashion may still attempt to rival the lilies of the field and the rainbows of the sky in colors and combination of color, but the people of common sense, of culture and of refinement, dress plainly and comfortably. When people go away on their annual holidays, therefore, they should take only what clothes they will need. Novices in travel are always known by the large amount of unnecessary baggage with which they burden themselves. Plain dressing has so many benefits that it is useless to mention them. Without it, that free abandon, that careless, happy-go-lucky feeling, which every summer health-seeker likes to experiences, cannot exist. To a person dressed up like a fashion plate, or to those who change their costumes three or four times a day – especially a hot day – complete happiness or comfort is out of the question. If you want to enjoy your vacation, be sure not to overdress yourself. – [Baltimore American] LENA LITTLE LIFE Lena Little, who is singing herself into so much fame in London as the purest and most classical contralto now living, is a New Orleans girl and still a very young one. All her early days were passed in the quaint, dim old “French Town,” as the lower part of that city is called, and developed while still a mere child a voice of most exquisite purity and timbre. It was in the second decade succeeding the civil war when money was scarce in the Crescent City and her parents could only by mush self-denial succeed in paying for her lessons. Van Huffien taught her and said she must go abroad and study, and at the objection that she could not afford it cried enthusiastically that any one would teach such a voice for mere delight in it and demand no money. She finally succeeded in raising the money to make the journey, not hoping to do more than perfect herself, in order to be able to give singing lessons in New Orleans and perhaps sing in a church choir. Whether she found teachers willing to give her instruction for the evanescent reward of listening to her sing is doubtful, but her ideas of her powers and future enlarged, and now, after six years, her voice, originally a mezzo, has deepened into a perfect contralto, and she is flattered and feted in London as only a singer who has captured her audiences ever is. She is much lie a Creole in appearance, which is frequently the case with girls of Anglo-Saxon descent whose families have lived for several generations in Louisiana,. Kiss Little is tall and slender, with a soft dead-white skin, and big dark eyes shadowed by clearly penciled brow. Her hair is dark, and she has a fine air of dignity and grave serenity. - [New York World] RICE AT WEDDINGS As to rice throwing the custom cannot be earlier than the use of rice in this country. Now, the author of a French work on “The Kingdom of Macassar,” published at the end of the seventeenth century, found that rice was thrown out of the back windows of the house all day during a marriage in Macassar. The bride and bridegroom were not pelted, the object was to distract the attention of the envious evil spirits. Left to their own devices the evil spirits might have played all sorts of practical jokes, might have carried the bridegroom off bodily to the chamber of the princess of Persia, or conveyed the bride to the arms of the Prince of Baghdad, or a humpbacked groom. How the rice affected the demons is not very obvious. An acute observer has divided the practices of savage religion into “spirit scaring” and “spirit squaring.” Were the Macassar bogies scared or squared, frightened or bribed by the showers of rice? That is a question for Herbert Spencer; but either hypothesis is more plausible than the common idea that rice is an emblem of fruitfulness and secures an abundant crop of olive branches. Symbols and ceremonies are apt to glide into realties, and realities into symbols. The symbolic rice in Bethnal Green was lately thrown with such hearty good will that it nearly put out the eye of one of the bridegrooms. He was led to a surgery adjacent, and will now have to pass in the ward of a hospital what would otherwise have been his honeymoon,. Perhaps the well directed and galling fire of rice was kept up by an unsuccessful rival, who may be congratulated on the ingenuity of a device which has hitherto escaped even the villain of fiction. It is curios to read how the bride escapes from the worst of the missiles – thanks to the protection of her veil. The veil is as old as part of the marriage as any known to civilization’ but its origin is obscure. According to one theory, the veil, like other female head coverings, is worn “because of the angels;” according to another, it survives from the age when a husband was forbidden to see the face of his bride – an odd state of affairs. Perhaps bridegrooms will now take to wearing veils as they come from the altar of Hymen in Bethnal Green. – [Saturday Review] FASHION NOTES Cotton etamine comes in all the fashionable shades. Silver wedding presents in handsome cases are having a great run. Spanish lace is still worn, but has a powerful rival in Chantilly lace. The groom is expected to make his bride a gift of jewelry or silver, usually the former. Biscuit colored batiste, embroidered in white, with long red bows, is in favor for little girls. Biscuit color is the most popular color for children’s suits, of the shade which resembles dirt. Kensington crape is a yellow-white material, about three quarters of a yard wide, suitable for bureau covers. The season requires but little trimming on dress skirts, and the handsomer the material the less trimming is used. Bread white ties of mull or French lawn, daintily embroidered on the ends, are again very fashionable for neckwear. Tightness seems to be the aim of manufacturers of undergarments, and elaboration and elegance is the order of the day. An English writer says children’s bonnets are of the granny order, made in satin, with plenty of lace and corded ribbon. Bonnets grow smaller and hats are spreading and enlarging, and the trimming of both are towering as high as possible. Flower bonnets are still extensively worn. Clusters of bright red pepper pods are seen upon gay bonnets fresh from Paris. Wedding dresses are now made of light silks with stripes and brilliant floral bouquets. These draped with white lace are especially beautiful. Black lace mitts coming far up on the arm, and terminating in scalloped tops in open-work meshes, are run through with narrow colored velvet ribbon. Many new dress goods patterns, both in silk and woolen, and extremely inharmonious contrasts in ---; some are pronounced hideous in discordant hues, but they will all be worn. With the fashion of wearing caps at breakfast, the hair is dressed again to accommodate the hat or bonnet, which are often cut away at the back to show plaits, curls cascades, etc. A silk canvas, much lighter and prettier than the woolen sort, has appeared in London;’ but it is nothing more imposing than grenadine. It comes in all colors and has to be made up in the same fashions employed for the woolen canvas. They have curious burial customs in Greece. At Athens a son is dropped into the coffin. The greatest attention is given to this point. In removing the body, the feet always go first, and priest sprinkle perfumes in the room where the corpse lies. A TEST CASE – Regarding Legal Advertisements and --- Using Ready Print Sheets (article) FAIRIES – Commentary about belief in fairies ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1085gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 62.0 Kb