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THE LAMAR NEWS

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor    VERNON, ALABAMA, MARCH 3, 1887       
VOL. IV. NO. 18

-- HUSKY, HAUGHTY LIPS, O SEA – Poem

DAUGHTER OF BABYLON – Short Story

TOO UGLY TO CATCH FISH – anecdote of Robert ---, of Georgia

HISTORICAL RELICS – Some of These on View at the State Department
	Though visitors seldom enter it, the library of the State Department 
contains some of the most valuable historic relics in the possession of the 
Government.  Here is kept the original draft of the Declaration of 
Independence, and there has been added within the past few years the identical 
desk upon which Jefferson wrote it. Jefferson’s desk is a small mahogany box-
like writing-desk, about eighteen inches wide, two feet long, and three inches 
thick.  One might easily take it on his lap to use it, but it was probably 
laid upon the table while the Declaration was penned upon it.  It has a series 
of small compartments, on one side for pens and writing material, and when 
opened its top is covered with green baize.  Pasted upon one of its inner 
leaves is a note in Jefferson’s own handwriting, dated in Monticello, in which 
he says the desk was made by a Philadelphia carpenter and that it was the one 
on which he wrote the Declaration. This note closes with the following 
sentence: “Politics as well as religion has its superstitions; these, gaining 
strength with time, may one day give imaginary value to this relic for its 
associations with the birth of the great charter of our independence.“
	In the same case containing this desk on the shelf above it lies the 
staff of Benjamin Franklin and the swords of Washington and Jackson.  Benjamin 
Franklin’s cane is a thick, gold-headed stick, of knotted crab tee.  It is 
painted black, highly polished and on its end it has a brass ferule.  Its head 
is designed, as says Jefferson’s will, in the form of a cap of liberty, and 
its gold is very yellow and shoes but little alloy.  This cane supported 
Franklin during all state occasions, and when he died he willed it to 
Washington, says, “If it were a scepter, General Washington has merited it, 
and would become it.” Washington willed it to his nephew, Charles Washington, 
and the grandson of Charles Washington gave it to the United States.
	George Washington’s sword, shown here, is the one which he wore when a 
Colonel, and the one that hung at his side throughout the Revolution.  It is 
not a flashy article, and there is no glitter or gold about it, but its edge 
looks very sharp, and his blade, slightly tarnished, not over an inch wide, 
was evidently made to do good service.  Its sheath and blade lie bedside it.  
This belt is of yellow buckskin, the plain silver clasp of which is marked 
with the letters “G. W.; and the sheath is of a dark leather stamped with 
different ---.  George Washington mentions this sword in his will, in which he 
gives one to each of his nephews, with the request that “they be not 
unsheathed, except for self defense, and the defense of their country and its 
rights.”  Andrew Jackson’s sword is a very expensive article.  It will weigh 
twice that of Washington’s, and it has a heavy gold handle, and its sheath is 
of gold and steel.  Its wide blade, slightly curving, shines like a mirror, 
and at the middle it shows evidences of having been broken in two, and welded 
together again.  Its sheath is somewhat scratched, and it has evidently been 
pretty well used.
	Another curiosity in this room is an immense shell or torpedo from six 
to eight inches in diameter, and over a foot long, which Ellen Washburne, our 
Minister at Paris, picked up during the bombardment of Paris and sent to the 
State Department as a relic.  It is a murderous-looking shell, and its 
description says that it was thrown into the city during the siege. Just below 
this, in a box about two feet wide, and three feet long, is a plaster cast of 
one of the first treaties on record.  It sis a copy of the treaty between the 
Athenians and Chalcideans, made 446 years before Christ, when Socrates was 22 
years old, and Pericles was in his prime.  The original of this was engraved 
on a slab of Pontalic marble, found in the south wall of the Acropolis at 
Athens. – [Cleveland Leader]

NAPOLEON’S CARRIAGE
	The carriage in which the First Napoleon made his famous retreat from 
Moscow and in which he, as Emperor, set out from Pairs in the campaign which 
closed at Waterloo, is now preserved in London among the effects of the Duke 
of Wellington.  It is a two-seated conveyance, and the top, or cover, is lined 
with thin sheet-iron.  There is also a front curtain of iron, which can be 
lowered at will.  The wheels are large and heavy, and the steps at either side 
silver finished and of a curious design.  The rear seat was the one used by 
Napoleon.  Under the cushion of the seat he carried blankets and pillows.  The 
back of the front seat opens, and the right hand forms a small cupboard, in 
which were tin plates, knives, spoons, water can and a small fluid lamp.  On 
other left is a long opening, extending forward nearly to the “dash board,” 
and into which the Emperor of the first nation of Europe was wont to extend 
his feet and legs, in order that he might lie at full length.  The blankets, 
pillows, spoons, knives, and lamps that wee used by the Emperor are still 
preserved. – [Philadelphia Press]

General Custer’s widow is now living in New York, getting along as best she 
can upon the slim pension the Government awards her.  She is a useful, heard-
working little body and is connected with the Women’s Decorative Art 
Association.  She possesses manly of the relics of the late war which her 
husband left behind.  The most interesting, perhaps, is the flag of truce, 
under cover of which General Lee surrendered to General Grant.

ANDREW JACKSON’S NOSE
	When I was at Alexandria last week, writes a Washington correspondent 
of the Cleveland Leader, I heard an old man’s statement of how President 
Jackson’s nose was pulled by Lieut. Randolph, in the summer of 1883.  Said 
he: “President Jackson was passing Alexandria on his way to celebrate the 
building of a monument to Washington’s mother at Fredericksburg.  The steamer 
stopped at Alexandria to get the mail.  Jackson was sitting in the cabin back 
of a table smoking a pipe, and there was hardly room to pass him.  His pipe 
was a long-stemmed one, and it hung almost to his knee.  A few men, including 
Maj. Donelson, Jackson’s adopted son, were standing about, and there were 
others who had come on board to see the president and to look at the boat.
	Among these was Lieut. Randolph, a connection of the noted Randolph 
family to which John Randolph belonged.  He had been dismissed from the navy 
by Jackson for some trouble in his accounts.  He was a straight young man, and 
not bad looking.  He came on the boat and pushed his way through the crowd 
until he reached the cabin.  Then he entered, and went up to Jackson as though 
he would speak to him.  President Jackson did not know him, but held out his 
hand, asking him to excuse him from rising.  As he did so, Randolph, with a 
quick gesture, seized Jackson’s nose and gave it three strong pulls.  It was 
done so quickly that no one had a chance to interfere.  Old Hickory threw his 
pipe up into the air as if to strike Randolph with it, but before he could do 
anything Randolph had started off, and he was helped by the bystanders on to 
the wharf.  He quickly mounted a horse and rode off into the country.  
Jackson’s excitement was intense.  His nose was as red as fie, and I am sure 
it did not regain its color for days.  He said angrily, “If I had had an idea 
that I was going to be assaulted I should have been prepared.  Randolph is the 
first villain who has ever escaped me.”  Here upon a bystander said, “If you 
will pardon me for the crime, I will kill Randolph within the next fifteen 
minutes.”  This Jackson refused to promise.  I think an indictment of assault 
with intent to kill was filed against Randolph in the courts at Alexandria, 
but this was afterward nolled by Maj. Donelson.”

GARFIELD AND TUCKER
	Mrs. Garfield did a very graceful and a very sensible thing in asking 
John Randolph Tucker, of Virginia, to act as the guardian of her infant 
children during their legal minority.  Graceful, because Tucker was one of 
Garfield’s truest friends; sensible because a better man could not have been 
found for that responsible position.  When Tucker came up from his 
professorship in “the University” as the Virginias call it, a brilliant, 
scholarly, big-hearted, old-fashioned Virginia gentleman, to sit in the House 
of Representatives, he sought out the more cultivated among his colleagues and 
made then his friends.  This was not difficult, for no one ever knew him long 
without loving him.  Among them all he found no one so congenial as Garfield.  
Although they differed diametrically in most things, yet they had much in 
common.  Garfield was a big-brained, big-heated boy, his enthusiasm tempered 
only by his culture.  Tucker was personally as delightful as Garfield, 
excelling him in his ability to tell a good story, and was intellectually his 
peer in every respect.  At the same time he was morally strong, as honest as 
he was fearless, although he was no better equipped for political life than 
Garfield.  Of course, their political views differed in toto.  Tucker was a 
States-rights man; Garfield was a nationalist.  Tucker was a free-trader; 
Garfield a protectionist.  But one day, after their friendship had become a 
fact, Garfield came over to tucker’s desk on the Democratic side of the House 
and said; “Tucker, you know I am a protectionist, but I want that there should 
be free trade hereafter between you and me in matters literary.” ”With all my 
heart” responded Tucker, and from that time to the day of Garfield’s death 
they were the closest of friends.  They both loved literature – all letters 
ancient and modern, but perhaps most of all, the Greek and Latin classics.  
Every day they managed to steal them from even the most engrossing of their 
legislative duties for an excursion into those ever-blooming fields.  
Sometimes they met in the library, sometimes in a committee-room or again on 
the floor of the House itself. – [Washington Cor. Philadelphia Record.]

“THE HEWGAG”
	The “hewgag” is the latest novelty among musical instruments.  It is a 
twin to the “kazoo” but it is bigger, costs more, and looks like an infernal 
machine.  The “hewgag” was intended to be a modification of the banjo.  
Attached to an ordinary banjo drum at one point in its circumference is a bar 
having ten piano-like keys. Running beneath the keys and the drum is a simple 
string of catgut, fastened to the extreme end of the bar of piano keys and to 
the opposite point in the circumference of the drum. Parallel with the string 
stretching across the under side of the drum is a slender shaft of wood, which 
can be turned by a handle projecting from the edge of the drum.  The shaft of 
wood has on it a toothed wheel.  As the shaft turns the teeth strike the sting 
and cause the vibrations.  The sound emitted is a cross between the filing of 
a saw and grinding a coffee-mill.  Pressure upon the piano keys while the 
shaft is being turned varies the notes. – [Philadelphia Press]

MARK TWAIN AND CABLE – Gossip about Their Career – Mr. Clemens as a Washington 
Correspondent.
	Mark Twain and George W. Cable have been reciting extracts from their 
works to large audiences here this week, writes a Washington correspondent of 
the Cleveland Leader.  The two men are as different as the poles and both are 
surprises.
	George W. Cable is under medium height, very straight, very slender, 
and as sallow as many of the creoles whom he portrays in his novels.  He has a 
face rather effeminate than manly, and his board of silky black and his long 
mustache twisted with its ends hanging down below his chin and making a bow 
over his mouth, carries out this illusion.  His nose is straight and small, 
his eyes bright, black, and piecing, and his forehead medium.  His hair is the 
color of jet, and as glossy as oiled ebony.  He does not weigh, I should say, 
over 130 pounds.  He has a good voice, well trained, and melodious.  He 
articulates distinctly, and his gestures have all the grace of a woman.  Ten 
years ago the world know nothing of Cable; now he stands in the front rank of 
the  American literati. He was at one time a merchant, then tried newspaper 
writing on the New Orleans Picayune, and while doing so began to study the 
early history of New Orleans.  He became interested in the creoles, and wrote 
several sketches of them for the Country Magazine.  These attracted attention, 
and he found the field upon which he had entered one worth developing.  In the 
carrying out of his idea he has shown that he is an accomplished novelist and 
has made a reputation which will last.
	Mark Twain is just as big and awkward as Cable is small and graceful.  
He has a big head stuck on by a long neck to a pair of round shoulders.  He 
came on to the stage as though he were half asleep, and he looked to me as 
though nature, in putting him together, had, somehow, gotten he joints mixed.  
He has a big face, a nose large enough to represent any kind of genius, and 
eyes large, black, and sleepy. He has a thick, bushy mane of hair which is now 
iron gray, and a bushy mustache which overhangs his characteristic mouth.  As 
he stood on the stage he reminded me much of mammoth interrogation point, and 
as the drawled out his words with scarcely a gesture his voice made me think 
of a little buzz-saw slowly grinding inside a corpse.  He did not laugh while 
he uttered his funniest jokes, and when the audience roared he merely stoked 
his chin or pulled his mustache.
	Still he could not help being satisfied and I do not doubt the 
contrast of his first days in Washington, when he came here years ago and had 
hard work making money enough to pay his board bills, came forcibly before 
him.  Though it is not generally known, Mark Twain was once a Washington 
correspondent.  He came here from the West with Senator Stewart and for a time 
wrote letters to the Alta California and the New York Tribune.  He used to 
drink a good deal in those days, and was hardly considered a reputable 
character.  It was shortly before this that he made the trip from which he 
wrote “Innocents Abroad” and this book he wrote here from the notes he took 
during his tour.  The book made him both famous and wealthy.  His manuscript 
he first sent to several prominent publishers, but they all rejected it, and 
he was bout giving up in despair when a Harford company took hold of it. The 
result was they made $75,000 off the book and sold more than 200,000 copies of 
it.  It was after this that Mark Twain tried editing the Buffalo Express. A 
man who worked on the paper at the time told me today that this venture of his 
was not a success.  He loafed around the office, guying the office-boy, and 
telling jokes and stories rather than wiring, and the only fruit of his 
Buffalo experience was his marriage, which, like “Innocents Abroad” turned out 
well.  His wife brought a pot of gold into the family, and when he got to 
Elmira he found that his father-in-law made him the present of a brown stone 
front, and thrown in a coachman with a bug on his hat.  Twain did not remain 
in Elmira, however, but went to Hartford and began to write “Roughing It.” 
This was also successful and established his fame.
	Mark Twain probably makes so much out of his books as any other writer 
in the country.  He has his Hartford firm publish his books for him, and he so 
arranges it that he gets a royalty or those printed in Europe.  He is better 
known in foreign lands than any other American writer, and he is an internal 
character.  Many of his scenes are taken from real life, and his descriptions 
of travel are in the main true.  He is a hard worker, and while at Hartford he 
writes in his billiard room in the attic.  Like Troppoe, he believes that 
there is nothing like a piece of shoemaker’s way on the seat of one’s chair to 
turn out good literary work, and, like Blaine, has had a fixed amount of 
writing for each day’s duty.  He rewrites many of his characters, and some of 
them have been scratched out and interlined again and again.  Mr. Clemens – 
everyone knows Mark twain’s name is Clemens – will be 49 years old on the 30th 
of this month.  He is a Missouri man by birth, and has taken care of himself 
ever since he was 15.  He has been a practical printer, a steamboat pilot, a 
private ---, a miner, a reporter, a lecturer, and a book-maker.

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THE LAMAR NEWS
E. J. MCNATT, Publisher

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Bill Arp sententiously calls the land speculation of Alabama “the craving 
appetite for money not earned.”

Senator elect Reagan, Texas, is seventy years old and has seen more ups and 
downs than most men.  He plowed a mule for several years after being post-
master general of the Confederacy.

The governor has appointed and the senate affirmed Dr. A. T. Henley as 
penitentiary inspector, and C. C. Langdon and W. H. Barnes as trustees of the 
Agricultural and Mechanical College, J. E. Webb, trustee of the University and 
R. E. Searcy trustee of the Insane Hospital.

Gov. Ireland, of Texas, is in Washington to testify before the Senate 
committee to investigate the charges of intimidation against certain 
Republicans of Washington County in that state.  The governor says that the 
entire charges are false from beginning to end.

Ex-Governor St. John in his New York speech said that the Church deacons who 
voted for liquor candidates for the Legislature would on judgment day be 
bunched with the barkeepers.

A woman named Prout, who had lived in Jersey City many years in destitute 
circumstances died within a short time of her discovery by two sons and their 
announcement to her that she was rich by inheritance.

The following is from Gov. Taylor, of Tennessee.  The political ring of that 
State is punching him in the short ribs, and he retaliates:
	“I wish to say to the people of Tennessee that I propose to look after 
their interest to the best of my ability.  I am not controlled by any clique 
or ring, and no clique or ring can or shall control me.  If they propose to 
embarrass my administration because I will not use the office of the people 
for their advancement then I accept the issue.  Already attempts have been 
made to besmirch me.  All I can now say is that I am ready.  The people shall 
decide between us.”

The House of Representatives in the State General Assembly has passed a bill 
which will put to work an Immigration Agent, who if properly selected, will 
advertise the resources of Alabama industriously and generously.  It cannot be 
opposed on the grounds of economy, for it will make no draught on the State 
Treasury, the expenses are to come out of a surplus to the credit of the 
Agricultural Department, now lying idle.  Such an act will bring our farm 
lands into market, increase their value, and to the State a desirable 
population.  With this bill passed and Riley’s Hand Book of Alabama 
distributed as it should be by the State the money spent will be a grand 
investment for the development of our resources.  The world needs only to know 
this wonderful and beautiful field for industry to send forth laborers for the 
harvester. – [Greenville Advocate]

Senator Payne thinks that the country’s prosperity would not be endangered if 
there were an additional $100,000,000 in circulation.

Key West, Fla is only 60 miles north of the tropical border; and it is said, 
the only city in the United States where neither snow nor frost has never been 
seen.

It is gratifying to the whole people of this senatorial district to know that 
after all the party disturbance of last summer that the man who was elected 
has taken such a high stand in the senate.  In point of industry, fidelity to 
his people and influence he is said by competent judges to have no superior, 
and but few equals.

The bill passed by our Legislature, requiring school funds to be deposited by 
the several County Tax collectors, in the state treasury, and drawn thence by 
warrants, is a wise measure.  Its tendency must be to reduce the bonds of the 
county superintendents, which are now enormous, when compared with their 
salaries and moreover, that is the place where state money should properly be 
kept. – [Florence Gazette]

COLUMBUS, MISS – Feb 24 – The Tombigbee Railroad, which is a Columbus 
enterprise, and is to traverse the Alabama iron and coal fields between this 
place and the Tennessee River, is considered an assured fact.  A committee of 
citizens have been before the people for a few days soliciting subscriptions 
for stock and have met with an almost universal response.  B the 1st of march 
they expect to be in a condition to take a contract to break dirt.  Once under 
way the road will be pushed rapidly to completion.  Already favorable 
proposals have been made to put the road in condition for the reception of the 
rails.  The certainty of this road being built has given real estate here an 
additional boom.  Property that was on the market a few weeks ago has been 
withdrawn, owners expecting higher prices when this road is begun.  The people 
of this place are determined that Columbus will keep up with the procession.

The Legislature must certainly think that the office of Solicitor is a regular 
bonanza.  As the matter now stands, the Senate amended the House bill so as to 
make the state pay Solicitors        $---,000 per annum, and payments to be 
made quarterly.  There are nine Circuit Solicitors and one County Solicitor 
who come under this proposition, which makes an aggregate of 30,000 per year.  
The state agrees to pay this.  In addition the sum of $500 to come out of fees 
is allowed to a Deputy Solicitor, in any county court.  Nearly all the 
counties have these courts, and it is safe to predict that if they have not, 
it will not be long, after this law is enacted, before they do.  Only a few 
are in such shape that they cannot be established.  Say fifty counties have 
the county court system.  The fees in each will amount to $500 per annum, 
sufficient to pay the deputy, and here is an additional sum of $25,000.  The 
county of Jefferson has a county Solicitor, which is paid a salary out of the 
fees, and all over the salary goes into the county Treasury.  Mobile also pays 
a County Solicitor, and the law is about the same as Jefferson.  The proposed 
change in manner of compensation, may be good thing for the state, but it will 
take a large amount of fees to meet the requirements of the bill as it now 
stands, and opens up accounts with court officers in a way that is sure to be 
confusing. – [Mont. Dispatch]

Evening News is the tile of a new daily paper just started in Birmingham.

NEWS ITEMS
There are now 16,000 negro teachers in the United States.

There are fourteen different explosives more powerful than gunpowder.

33,000 physicians have graduated in the United States in six years.

The United States wool yield for 1886 is 322,000 for 1886.

Outside of ------ in Congress there are only four masters of short hand in the 
city of Washington.

------ (can’t read)

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 21 – A special from Litchfield, Ill says: a sad incident 
occurred in this city last night by which one person was burned to death and 
another fatally injured.
	A lamp, in the hands of Mrs. Wm. Mazey exploded while she was going 
upstairs preparatory to retiring for the night, and scattered its contents 
over her clothing, which became ignited and enveloped her in a sheet of 
flame.  Upon hearing her cried for help, Mr. Mazey rushed to her assistance, 
and in attempting to extinguish the flames was fatally burned.  When 
assistance arrived Mrs. Mazey had been burned to death, and her husband was so 
seriously injured that he cannot live.

NEW YORK, Feb 25 – At the prophetic conference today in Cosmopolitan Hall, 
Rev. M. Baxter, of England and Oxford man and a minister of the Church of 
England, gave an address on “Prophesy.”  Mr. Baxter believes that the 
fulfillment of the last prophecies is at hand, and that in three years will 
begin the decade during which the ten kingdoms of the East are to be restored, 
also that in 1897 Christ will come on earth.  In 1900 will come Christ’s reign 
of 1000 years, and 144,000 persons who are waiting in faith for his advent 
will be gathered up into the air.  The rest of the Christian are to remain on 
earth to suffer for a time.  Mr. Baxter exhibited a chart to show how Europe 
will be parceled over into the ten kingdoms.  England will lose Scotland, 
Ireland, India, and her other depend. France would gain Belgium, Holland and 
Switzerland, etc. Napoleon would appear again.  Christ would at first rule a 
small kingdom in Asia Minor for three years.  All the world would go to 
Jerusalem to celebrate holy feasts.  The year 1900 is to end the present 
dispensation, and the world would then be 7000 years old, and will have the 
sabbatical year, the millennium.

A MODERN MIRACLE
Pittsburg, Pa., Feb 20 – The all absorbing subject of conversation in this 
city is the story of Miss Maggie Reading, who was the subject of a miraculous 
faith cure at Banksville yesterday.  For the first time in three years Miss 
Readling left her home today and came to the city to visit friends.  She was 
met by your correspondent as she stepped from the train.  She conversed about 
her cure in a matter-of-fact way, without the least excitement.  Beyond a 
slight hoarseness, she seems in perfect health, and firmly believes she has 
been permanently cured. Dr. T. B. Graham, a noted physician of the East End 
attended Miss B. Reading during her illness.  He examined her ankle, several 
weeks ago, and said it had been drawn out of shape as the result of an 
affection of the spine, and was positively incurable.  The young lady was 
advised by neighbors to try medicine, but refused.  Dr. Graham was seen today 
and when asked for his opinion of the wonderful result, he simply replied:
	“I have nothing to say.”
	Alderman Readling of Banksville, a very intelligent and gentleman, the 
grandfather of Miss Readling.  A more perplexed man could not be found in the 
little village tonight.
	“I will frankly admit to you now,” said he, “I was astonished when I 
saw that young lady walk.  I did not expect it, but I did not say so before, 
because it was in our family.  I examined her feet frequently; besides being 
distorted, it was limp.  The ankle joint was out of place, and the foot was as 
cold as ice.  The foot was made whole instantly at 2 o’clock yesterday.  I saw 
it with my own eyes.  What can I believe? If it was not a by faith, what was 
it?  I firmly believe that my granddaughter is sincere.  We are now forced to 
believe what she saw in her trance.  She gives a perfect description of people 
who died years ago, some of them before she was born, and those whose picture 
she never saw nor knew anything about.  AT one time during her trance of four 
weeks she recovered for about ten minutes, members of the family were in the 
room.  We were talking together when she said: ‘Hurry up. I must go back in 
the gates of heaven.  Aunt Malia came with me and wasn’t to take me back 
again.” She then relapsed into a comatose state.  Her Aunt Malia was a 
daughter of mine who died years ago.”
	The statement of the parents of the girl in reference to her illness 
were in substance to the same effect as those made by the grandfather.
	A report was circulated today that the father of Miss Readling had 
received a telegram from a well known author in New York offering $25,000 for 
the privilege of writing a book on her life and experience.  When asked if the 
offer would be accepted, Miss Readling said:
	“No! I am not seeking notoriety.  The Lord has restored me to health, 
and I am satisfied.”
	Miss Readling’s mother was questioned closely about the health, 
actions, sayings and disposition of her daughter before and after the trance.  
Nothing was learned that would show any deception.  Mrs. Readling is strong in 
the belief that her daughter was cured by the Almighty.
	Rev. Mr. Archibald, who conducted the religious service just after the 
cure yesterday, witnessed the change and says it is a mystery he is unable to 
solve. – [Atlanta Constitution]

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.

Restaurant, Aberdeen Mississippi – Kupper

Ad for Ayer & Sons Advertising Agents

Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ

A. A. Posey & Bros Livery, Sale and Feed Stable, Aberdeen, Miss.  They have 
also just received a fine stock of buggies in which they give such bargains as 
to defy competition.  Prices including harnesses ranging from $30 upwards.

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.

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THE LAMAR NEWS

THURSDAY MARCH 3, 1887    
(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 W. C. WOODS.  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 p.m. 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
Gentle spring.

March came in like a lamb.

The schools are doing finely.

Fruit trees are in full bloom.

Subscribe to your county paper.

You owe it to yourself and your business to take the paper.

What have you done to make good schools.

What have you done to secure a good neighbor?

A heavy frost last Monday and Tuesday night.

Every citizen is in part responsible for his town.

Have you done your part toward making a good pastor?

If you want to build up your town, build up your business.

If you want fine schools, secure the finest teachers and pay accordingly.

An intelligent stranger looks at the town paper to see what manner of town it 
be.

If you want a fine newspaper enable the newspaper man to establish it on the 
soundest financial basis.

If you want pastors show your appreciation in hard cash as well as fault 
finding.

When a man’s character becomes notoriously bad he wastes time in trying to 
defend it.  He should use his efforts in keeping out of jail.

Mr. EDDIE MORTON in the interest of the mammoth house of A. COBB & Son left on 
Tuesday morning with a drove of beef cattle for New Orleans.

No Union Sunday School last Sunday.

Miss MARY COOK left for her home in Texas last Wednesday.

Work more and buy less is the way to victory.

Dr. W. A. BROWN left Wednesday morning for Mobile with a drove of cattle.

We were pleased to receive a call from friend DAVID R. RECTOR while up from 
Columbus Friday.

Miss ROSA METCALFE, who has been attending the High School for several months 
returned home Sunday last.

Rev. G. L. HEWITT occupied the Methodist pulpit at 8 o’clock Sunday evening 
last.

Fruit trees, violets, jonquils, hyacinths, and yellow jasmines are in bloom.

We are informed by Dep’t Sheriff PENNINGTON that real estate is on a boom near 
the old furnace.

An interesting communication from Macedonia, Miss was received too late for 
publication in this issue but will appear in next.

The Manufacturer’s Record, of Baltimore, is before us.  Those desiring fuller 
and fresher information of the development of Southern industrial mining and 
railroad enterprises would do well to subscribe for the Record.

BORN: To Capt. And Mrs. D. J. LACY an heir a few days since; we did not 
ascertain its sex.  Guess as it’s such a rare occurrence in the family the 
Capt’s mighty happy.

The New South, published at Birmingham, gets better and better with every 
succeeding month.  Those who desire to keep abreast with the progress of the 
Southern states will do well to send #1 to Birmingham and get it for one year.

We have ordered a lot of new job type, and will soon be prepared to do all 
kind of plain job printing.  Save money and patronize home enterprises by 
sending your orders to this office.

Judge FALKENR says since he has joined the Democratic Party he has received a 
supply of garden seed and some valuable documents from our Representatives in 
Congress.

The Planters Journal, formerly published at Vicksburg, in the interest of 
Southern Agriculture ahs moved its main office to Birmingham and its last 
received shows that it is still dong yeoman service for the southern 
agriculturists.

Mrs. MACE and daughter Mrs. NANNIE RECTOR left Sunday morning for 
Crothersville, Ind. where they expect to remain for sometimes visiting Mrs. 
MACE’S parents and other relatives.  Mr. J. B. MACE accompanied them to 
Columbus.

The Legislative Halls of the beautiful Capitol at Nashville, Tennessee are 
damp, and it is no wonder therefore that Coussant Honey of Tar is in such 
demand among her law givers.  They want to be relieved of coughs, colds, and 
diseased of the throat and lungs, and know that Couseen’s Honey of tar is the 
only permanent cure.  If suffering with a cold try it.

The undersigned has made arrangements to accommodate a number of the colored 
people with Board and Lodging during the two weeks of Circuit Court at 
moderate prices.  Call at home east of the Hotel.  JOE BANKHEAD

Ad for Honey of Tar

“HIT ‘EM AGIN”
The man who reads his neighbor’s paper would feel very much insulted if the 
neighbor should offer to lead the borrowing reader a dime or two to pay for a 
week’s subscription.  Such is human nature.  A man’s meanness will permit him 
to impose on somebody else for a pittance until he is reminded of his meanness 
then he gets red in the face with indignation.  He would act be more fearfully 
hurt if somebody had kicked him.  All the same he will sneak around and read 
the paper of some other neighbor until this one gets tired and bounces the 
petty borrower out with an epithet or two. – [Meridian News]

Mr. ALONZO PENNINGTON, who has been residing in York, Ala for some time gave 
us a pleasant call on Wednesday.  He informs us that he is just recovering 
from a severe spell of typhoid fever, of nine weeks duration.  We are also 
pleased to learn that he contemplates making Vernon his future home.

TEMPERANCE ALPHABET
A bad key – whiskey
Before you drink, think of your mother.
Call God to witness your drinking.
Do the B & C and you won’t drink
Engage not yourself with drinking men.
Forget not that alcohol brutalizes.
Go not where whiskey is sold.
Have nothing to do with saloonists.
Infringe not nature’s law by drinking.
Judge him only safe who abstains entirely.
Keep from drinking habits.
Let all form of alcohol alone.
Make yourself an enemy to alcohol.
Never touch taste, or smell liquor.
Oh! Beware of all that will intoxicate.
Peace never comes through drinking.
Quiver with fear even at the sight of rum.
Remember, alcohol is a deadly poison.
Suspect always a drinking man.
Treat not, neither allow yourself to be used for somebody else to treat to 
liquor.
Venerate the man who drinks not.
Withstand all efforts to have you drink.
X-tend your hand to help others from drinking.
You follow the above and you are safe.
Zebras are spotted, so are whiskey drinkers, and become the prey of saloon men.

STATE ITEMS
The City Hotel at LaFayette was destroyed by fire on the 22nd.

Calhoun Co. went dry on the 18th by a majority of 364.

John Koeing, a tinsmith, committed suicide in Mobile on the 22nd.

There is a project on foot to run a dummy line between Eutaw and Forkland.

The Selma Land & Improvement Company has called 20 per cent of its stock.

C. A. Holley, Sheriff of Tallapoosa died on the 25th.

The Age says the people of Birmingham are forced to walk angle-deep in mud 
along the sidewalk where lots are worth $1250 a front foot.

The receipts of the ladies bazaar in Montgomery for the benefit of the 
Confederate monument amounted to $1,500.

The Alabama Legislature believes in prohibition.  No county or beat has asked 
for it in vain.

S. E. Greene has been nominated by the Governor, and confirmed by the senate 
as judge of the criminal court of Birmingham.

There is a quilt on exhibition at Montgomery made by the ladies of Greenville, 
it is made of the richest material, and is of the most beautiful design and 
valued at $150.

Hon. Jno. R. Goldwaite well and favorably known through the State as a man of 
extraordinary talent and learning died at his home in Troy, on the 20th ult.

Mayor Reese, of Montgomery, has sent out a circular calling for a convention 
to meet in that city on March 15th for the purpose of memorializing congress 
in regard to opening the Coosa River.

In Birmingham real estate agents now meet all passenger trains the same as 
hotel porters, and when the stranger turns his baggage over to a porter, he is 
quickly informed where he can execute first class bargains in corner lots.

A bill has passed the House to increase the salary of the Governor to $1000.  
This increase cannot go into effect until the term of the present incumbent 
expires as the constituent expressly prohibits increase or decrease during 
period for which elected.

SELMA, Feb 25 – Fire on the 24th ult. Destroyed a large part of the dry goods 
stock of M. Meryer & Co, on Broad Street, and injured the building,.  The 
total insurance was $35,000 and the total loss about 45,000.

NEW ORLEANS, Feb 24, 1887
To The Editor of the Times-Democrat
	I have received from Brussels by mail the following news, dated Feb 11.
	“Do not attack they importance in cable-grams, relative to war.  They 
are all for the purpose of speculation.  All news at present is extremely 
assuring.  The crowded speculators are endeavoring -------.  Be assured there 
will be no war.   The price of bread is falling, a borometer (sic) which no 
one seems to have noticed.”
	This proves again that all the cable grams that are supposed to come 
from Brussels are fabricated in the offices of the money lenders in London and 
not Brussels, as they are headed.

Ad for Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment

NOTICE – Under and by virtue of a Commission issued by the Honorable C. C. 
LANGON, Secretary of State of the State of Alabama, to SAMUEL BLACKWELL, C. C. 
HARRIS, and E. J. ODEN, constituting them a board of Corporation to open book 
of subscription to the capital stock of a proposed railroad to be known as 
Decatur-Southwestern Coal & Lumber Railway Company, we the said Blackwell, 
Harris, and Oden will open books of subscription to the Capital Stock of said 
proposed Railroad Company at Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama on the 25th day of 
March 1887.
	Samuel Blackwell, C. C. Harris, E. J. Oden

GRAND AND PETIT JURORS
The following is a list of Grand and Petit Jurors drawn for the Spring term of 
the Circuit Court:
		GRAND JURORS
T. W. SPRINGFIELD	Town Beat
A. H. BURROW		Lawrence Beat
W. J. KIRK		Sizemore Beat
WATSON BROWN	Brown Beat
S. W. MOSLEY		Henson Beat
JESSE CARTER		Millville Beat
G. R. TURMAN		Pine Springs
J. T. THOMPSON	Moscow
B. M. MOLLOY		Betts
J. F. HAYES		Trulls
JIM MILLER 		Vails
W. C. WILLIAMS	Millport
W. T. WALKER		Steens
G. W. ALLEN		Strickland
N. S. PARTAIN		Wilson

PETIT JURORS – FIRST WEEK
JOHN B. HANKINS, J. E. PENNINGTON, JOHN SEAY, JAS. A. CASH, HARRISON BUTLER, 
THOS. SIZEMORE, G. H. STANFORD, W. S. METCALFE, W. F. HAMILTON, T. J. LOWERY, 
THOS. MIXON, PLESS MAY, R. S. JACKSON, JNO. T. HILL, L. C. SMITH, ELAY BOYD, 
J. Y. LOFTIS, M. A. TAGGART, J. J. PHILLIPS, G. M. MORTON, CALVIN GUIN, C. G. 
JOHNS, M. R. SEAY, S. M. CURRAY

		PETIT JURORS – SECOND WEEK
JOHN B. WHEELER, R. E. HACKSON, J. W. CLEARMAN, N. F. MORTON, H. A. BROCK, D. 
S. BLACK, J. D. GANN, P. HENLEY, CCHARLES DUNCAN, S. H. BROWN, W. G. 
SPRINGFILED, J. W. NOE, G. E. BANKHEAD, LEE KENNEDY, HENRY HILL, J. T. 
MCMANUS, M. BROWN, B. L. FALKNER, H. R. CADDLE, BARECOMB GLOVER, JOE JONES, 
JASPER C. HINE, N. L. TRULL, JOHN M. DELK.

Ad for Bargain in Music

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

If you wish a good article of plug tobacco ask your dealer for “Old Rip”

CONSTABLE’S SALE
State of Alabama, Lamar County
A. J. LOWRY agent for J. T. JAGGERS vs. W. T. CARDEN
	By virtue of an attachment issued by W. K. TURMAN, a justice of the 
peace on the 24th day of January A. D. 1887 in favor of the said J. R. 
JAGGERS , for the sum of $36.00.  I have this day levied on the following real 
estate of said CARDEN to wit: S ½ of N E 1/4 n ½ of S E ½ Section 11, T 13 R 
16 west, all of which will be sold on the premised on the 15th day of March 
1887.
	A. J. LOWRY, Constable

E. W. BROCK’S Cash store.  Prices away down from what you paid before, and 
prices that knock out all competition.  Am too busy to writ new advertisements 
every week, so just come on and get what you want at prices to suit yourself.  
E. W. BROCK.

Persons visiting Columbus desiring anything in the Millinery line, will do 
well to call on Miss TILLIE BAILEY (Below Morgan, Robertson, & Co)  Miss 
Tillie’s taste, together with her experience, cannot be surpassed in Columbus 
or elsewhere

CHANCERY NOTICE
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
In Chancery, At Vernon, 11th District, Western Chancery Division
JOSEPH S. JACKSON vs. MARGARET LOU JACKSON
	In This Cause, it is made to appear to the Register, by the affidavit 
of JOSEPH S. JACKSON that the defendant MARGARET LOU JACKSON is a non-resident 
of this state, but resides in Tuskaloosa County, Miss, but her post office is 
unknown to complainant, and further, that in belief of said affiant, the 
defendant MARGARET LOU JACKSON is over the age of twenty-one years. 
	It is therefore ordered by the Register that publication be made in 
the Lamar News a paper published in the town of Vernon, Alabama once a week 
for four consecutive weeks requiring her the said Margaret Lou Jackson to 
plead, answer or demure to the bill of complaint in this cause by the 10th day 
of March 1887 or, in thirty days thereafter, a decreed proconfesso may be 
taken against her the said MARGARET LOU JACKSON.
	Done at office, in Vernon, this the 8th day of February 1887
	JAS. M. MORTON, Register

Ad for The Empire News

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 run over his Barber Shop in the rear of the 
store of Haley & Denman, where will be please to serve his many customers

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.

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.

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 Ague 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 Pianos and Organs

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“YUBA BILL” – The Original of Bret Harte’s Here

He was a dude of the extreme kind.  He couldn’t have been more so.  His 
overcoat was short, his undercoat long, his collar high, his trousers so tight 
that it would seem he must have greased his legs to get into them, his shoes 
pointed.  As he entered the reading room at the hotel everybody looked at him, 
and a smile went round.  There was a brindle dog in the room at the time.  AS 
the dude paused at the news stand the dog went up to him, sniffed of him, 
looked up at him once and walked away with dropping tail and an air of intense 
disgust.  The disgust probably arose from the fact that the dude wasn’t the 
person the dog was looking for, but the animal’s whole appearance seemed to 
say: “This let’s me out.  I can’t stand that thing!” And the crowd howled with 
laughter. – [Boston Post]

INSOMNIA IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS

OHIO RIVER PHILOSOPHY
Soap don’t cost as much as diamonds, but lots o’ people don’t seem to be able 
to afford both.
A man that needs 40 cents worth of whiskey to give him an appetite for a 15-
cent dinner always has the dyspepsia.
I never feel comfortable when there’s a man around that smiles all the time.  
The only dog that bit me never stopped waggin’ his tail.
When I see a fallow sifin’ two quarts of ashes an’ smokin’ a 10-cent cigar at 
one time, I know he’ll get rich because he’s so economical.
You show me a man tha’s allas workin’ in politics an’ I’ll show you one that 
gets a darned sight more and better to eat than his wife and children do.
I don’t often ask riddles, but wot do you think a family is likely to have for 
dinner wen (sic) the old man earns $3 a week, spends $4 for beer, $2 for 
cigars, and buys a raffle ticket?
There’s a great deal of talk about folks killlin’ themselves by overwork.  
There’s more people struck by lightenin’.  Most such critters work eight hours 
a day, an’ dance, drink or play poker ten more.  Then, wen (sic) they break 
down, their wives put on the tombstone Died of Overwork.
You can’t rely on signs.  Lots of folks say that a man with big ears is 
generous and stupid.  Wen I was a boy I went to a cirkis, and they had a 
little mule no bigger than a ten-weeks’ calf.  They asked for boys to ride the 
critter, an’ I sez, “He’s only a mule, en’ he’s got big ears. He must be 
stupid, an’ he won’t play me no mean tricks.” Wen they took me home my father 
licked me for bein’ a fool, an’ sed he’d like to give the mule a medal. – 
[Walt Buel in Cleveland Sentinel]

The Egyptian chariots had linch-pins of bronze, and were put together with 
pins and nails.  Screws, so far as known were not invented.

WIT AND HUMOR

CONGRESSMAN LANHAM’S BIG DISTRICT
A Washington correspondent has been chippering with Congressman S. W. T. 
Lanham, of Texas, and finds that the eleventh district of the state, which he 
represents, contains about 122,000 square miles.  He writes, “These figures 
convey but a vague impression of the magnitude.  It will be better understood 
when I say that it is as large as the combined area of Maine, New Hampshire, 
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, 
Maryland, and Ohio.  This seems incredible, but it is true, as the reader may 
ascertain for himself.  These states are represented in Congress by sixty-one 
members and the same area in Texas by Lanham.  It will be understood that this 
district embraces the western and north-eastern part, nearly half of the 
state, which is but sparsely settled.  The entire state of Texas has an extent 
of 562,292 square miles.  To realize what an empire it is, if we add to the 
ten already named the great states of New York, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, the 
whole thirteen would still lack 12,000 square miles of equaling Texas.  It is 
larger than the whole of France, with her 56,000,000 people.  It is larger 
than England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales combined.  There are three counties 
in Mr. Lanham’s district, each of which is larger than Massachusetts and 
Connecticut together.  The three counties have a considerably larger area than 
the state of Indiana, which has 129 counties.

PERILS OF RAPID CIVILIZATION
When, however barbarous people come in contact with a higher civilization, 
they almost invariably undergo a decay pretty nearly proportional to the 
intimacy of the contact, or rather to the readiness with which they endeavor 
to conform themselves to the manners of their new neighbors.  Here is an 
important point.  There is no mysterious influence, no “blight” caused by 
civilization.  There is much loose talk about barbarian “melting away” before 
the light of progress.  It may do for the poet to speak of the withering 
breath of civilization as blasting the child of Nature, but the real cause of 
the depressing effect of our civilization upon the savage lies in himself, and 
in his sudden attempt to assimilate what is foreign to the whole tenor of his 
personal habits, confirmed as they are by centuries of inherited experience.  
The instances, plentiful enough, of race decay following civilization, are all 
in people in whom circumstances have led to a sudden and unnatural conformity 
with the manners of a stronger and more advanced nation.  This has occurred 
generally where the savages have been brought to contact either with a 
conquering people or with missionaries, the latter cause operating for the 
most part only when the barbarian tribe was small and the Christianizing 
influences therefore especially strong as in the Sandwich Islands.  In one 
notable case the method of contact ahs been by the barbarians themselves 
becoming conquerors. – C. F. Withington, M. D. in Popular Science Monthly for 
December]

A WORD TO BARBERS
	A face well lathered is half shaved.
	After you have thoroughly soaped your customer’s face, seize him by 
the nose, and begin operations.  This enables him to breath through his ears.
	It is considered very unprofessional for a barber to brush his 
customer’s coat.  If the boy happens to be absent let the customer brush his 
own coat.
	Never fail to remind a man that his head is full of dandruff.  A 
tonsorial artist who neglects this plain duty doesn’t know any more about his 
business than a barber.
	Always keep on your table a six month’s old copy of the Police Gazette 
and also a copy of the Fireside Companion.  These two publications are 
indispensable to every well regulated barber shop.
	If you have been eating onions and drinking gin be frank with your 
customer and tell him so.  Otherwise, he may think it is the sewer.
	If, while cutting hair and watching a dog fight on the street at the 
same time, you find that your shears come to an abrupt stop, neglect the dog 
fight for a moment.  Otherwise, you may cut off somebody’s ear.
	When a man comes in whom you know to be a stranger, always ask him if 
he “has a cup?” He will say no, of course, but his manner will indicate that 
he is pleased.  As a rule none but bankers, brokers, statesmen, and editors 
indulge in the luxury of a private cup. – [Philadelphia Call]

ONE KIND OF CHRISTIANITY
On a holy-day not long since a lady belonging to our “upper ten” went to 
Trinity Church, and seeing a lady alone in a favorable pew went forward and 
entered the pew.  The occupant looked up from her prayer-book and said: “This 
is my pew” and if others come there will be no room for you.” The lady in 
question bowed and left, and on seeing only one person directly in front of 
the seat she had just left stepped into the pew.  At the same moment the first 
Christian(?) leaned forward and spoke a few words to the second, who said to 
the stranger: “I think friends may come, who will require those seats.”  Upon 
which the stranger left the second pew and while standing for a moment in the 
aisle, wondering if she could have made a mistake in the church, an old friend 
and one of the most distinguished members of the congregation opened his door 
inviting her to enter.  After the service he told her that she “would be 
welcome to a seat there at any and all times.”
	The two Christian women were evidently surprised at the stranger’s 
friendly reception, and afterward expressed their chagrin, particularly as 
their not recognizing the thought-to-be intruder was a reflection upon 
themselves.  Should this meet the eye of either of those ladies it is to be 
hoped at another time they may consent to be more courteous and more worthy to 
be numbered among Phillips Brook’s flock. – [Boston Courier]

ARTHUR’S TWO HUNDRED WIVES
We most always have some Indians here, says a Washington letter writer.  They 
want to see the president once in a while, and the President and Secretary of 
the Interior want to see them.  The Indians always have a good time.  They are 
brought here in good style, carefully shown all the attractions of the town, 
and lionized by the people in a certain sort of society.  They don’t usually 
get the thing they come for; but they always get something, and sometimes it 
seems better than the thing asked for.  Some New Mexico Indians, recently at 
the capital, carried back with them ideas somewhat more extravagant than 
usual.  They began the story with the remark that President Arthur was the 
wealthiest man in the world; that in his great treasury gold and silver were 
as plentiful as the sands on the plains of New Mexico, and that in this great 
storehouse the President has 200 wives, who have nothing else to do but count 
out paper money for him all day long.

LITERATURE IN ARKANSAW
An Arkansas literary society recently discussed the question:
	“Resolved: That a circus is superior to a district school as a 
civilizing agent.”
The circus packed the convention from the start.  Only one orator got up to 
speak for the district school.  He was the teacher, and the President fined 
him twice and then made him sit down.  The fines were for calling Pompeyeye 
Ponpayne, and saying there were more schools in Boston than in Little Rock, 
and he was made to sit down for uttering atheistic sentiments when he denied 
that “root hog or die” was to be found in the Bible.  To crown his disgrace 
the President, in summing up, referred to his remarks as indicating to what a 
low state of knowledge and morals the habit of attending district school would 
bring a man.  He then decided the question in favor of the circus, collecting 
the fines from the unhappy pedagogue, and the society went out and spent the 
money for bread. – Burette in the Brooklyn Eagle]

NEW FACTORY LAW IN RUSSIA
Hitherto owners and managers of mills and factories in Russia have been free 
to deal with their workpeople as they pleased.  But on the first day of this 
year a new factory law came into operation for the regulation of the work of 
children.  A complete staff of Inspectors has been appointed to enforce the 
following stipulation of the new law: 1. Children under ten years of age must 
not be allowed to work in factories.  2. Workers from the age of twelve to 
fifteen years must not work more than eight hours a day.  Night work for 
children can only be authorized in establishments where the process of 
manufacture can not have a bad influence on the health.  Even if allowed, the 
work must not exceed four hours. 3. The work of children must be regulated in 
such a way as not to prevent their going to school three hours every day. 4. 
The owners of factories are obliged to admit inspectors and their assistants 
into their works at any hour of the day.

SHE KNEW HER BUSINESS – Anecdote

A PERFECT GENTLEMAN – Anecdote

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