Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News March 10, 1887 ************************************************ 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 January 4, 2007, 11:17 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History March 10, 1887 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, MARCH 10, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 19 TWO – Poem THE KITTY CONSENTED – Short Story SALVATION ARMY CLOTHES A certain very stylish young lady, who drives a good deal, got into a horse-car in the exclusive suburb where she lives, the other day, wearing her new coachman jacket of rather gay red cloth, trimmed effectively with brass buttons. She was going to make a morning call on a friend only a few streets away, and as she wished to show the young lady her new accoutrements she wore her gay jacket and a rather striking hat which goes with it. Scarcely had she seated herself in the car when an eager-voiced old woman sitting near said sociably: “You belong to the Salvation army, don’t you?” The swell young lady was a little startled, but she said “Naow” coldly, and turned a little away from her neighbor. “But you must: persisted the old lady. “Them’s Salvation Army clothes!” Fortunately by this time the car was at her friend’s corner, and stopping it the persecuted wearer of spring fashions hurried out and into the house and into her friend’s army, where, after a “good cry” she rose to the sense of the essentially funny nature of the situation. – [Boston Record] AN EMANCIPATED PRESS One of the features of the present phase of journalism is especially satisfactory. The newspapers are more free from the influence of the politician that ever before. Even the strong party papers display a robust independence. They criticize freely the measures and leaders of their own party. Indeed they are themselves the leaders of the organizations they support. The political chief in Congress is much more influenced by the opinions and wishes of the editors in New York, Boston, and Chicago than the editors are by his. Except in the case of a few obscure sheets that live upon municipal patronage, the daily papers do not care for the views of this or that party “boss” or leading statesman, save as a matter of news. Their opinion s and polities are their own. This independence of the dictation and influence of professional politicians extends to the weekly press, which has largely outgrown its old subservience to the dispensers of county patronage and become manly and self-reliant. – [K. V. Connaly, in the Manhattan for April] Huxley’s acceptance of Darwinism is given to these words: “I adopt the theory of Darwin under the reserve that proof should be given that physiological species can be produced by selective crossing.” GLEANINGS There are 3,650 post offices in the State of Pennsylvania. The new American Episcopal Church in Paris cost $500,000. The Chinese have known the use of artesian wells from time immemorial. There are only eight lawyers in Philadelphia that have been in practice over 50 years. Bismarck wants to have established more direct passenger communication between Berlin and London. There are 340 hunting packs in England, comprising 10,000 hounds. Their annual cost is $1,750,000. Englishmen eat brown bread with their oysters, while Americans only eat lemon juice and pepper on them. The Brower gold mine in North Carolina has yielded more than $1,000,000 and upward. By paying his daughter $400 a year to run his kitchen, Lord Coleridge saved enough money to make the trip to America. John Swinton says the saddest sound heard in New York is the hammering of the tough beef-steak set on boarding house tables. A Chinese doctor at Victoria, B. C. is reported to have made some remarkable cures in cases where white physicians have failed. Hundreds of people are said to be actually starving in the North of England, with many thousand more hungry and destitute. The hot water cure has become a craze. A New York druggist claims he has 1,000 disciples now swallowing tumblerfuls before breakfast. Miss M. E. Braddon, the most prolific of English story writers, in private life is Mrs. Maxwell, and owns up to have reached the mature ago of fifty-six. The total number of hogs slaughtered annually in the United States is estimated at 30,000,000, the average dressed weight being 175 pounds each. Pearl-rimmed eye-glasses of violet color are now used extensively by fashionables of both sexes in New York. The originator was a Vassar school girl. Bacon at 16 cents a pound, says the Fort Worth Gazette, is a greater barrier to the advancement and growth of Texas than either short crops or lack of water. Eating a small piece of soap at stated intervals is recommended by a Berlin physician as a better remedy for dyspepsia and sour stomach than soda, magnesia or lime water. The best cabinet Rhine wine of the vintage of 1868 is reserved especially for the imperial table at Berlin. It is worth $7.50 a bottle. It is made from grapes picked one by one out of the Rhineish vineyards on account of their perfection. Many towns on the Pacific coast forbid Indians to come within their limits after nightfall – not because the noble red man is dangerous, but because he is a thief and a sneak, and his wife, who accompanies him, more upon his order and for his profit. General Berdan of sharp-shooting fame, to whose daughter Mr. F. Marion Crawford has just been married, was sometime ago offered a field marshalship by the Sultan, but he declined it, saying he could never wear any other than the American uniform. Dom Pedro, when recently staring on a pleasure trip on a small steam yacht down the Bahai el Todos Santes, from Rio de Janeiro, fell overboard, and was hauled out of the briny by a naval engineer officer and an army officer. Both were made Barons. Recent vital statistics show that under the age of fifteen there are more boys than girls, but after the fifteenth year there are more women than men, and between the ages of ninety and one hundred the proportion is three to two in favor of women. A literary man asked a friend who was personally familiar with the home life of the Lyttons whether he though Lord Lytton ever did really bite his wife. The reply was: “That I cannot say, but I know that if I had lived only a week with her I should have done so.” Washington is the paradise of smokers. A drummer says: “There are more cigars and tobacco used there than any other place in this country of its size.” This is explained by the fact that a great many of the Government employees have nothing, to do but sit around, smoke and talk of politics.” A Bostonian writes: “I cured myself of an annoying habit of stammering by inhaling a deep breath between every few words, and by never allowing myself to speak unless the lungs were fully inflated. A little careful attention soon made the practice a habit, and now I never stammer unless much excited.” After much experimenting Dr. Richardson has found a satisfactory means of causing painless death, and has introduced it into the Home for Lost Dogs in London. The animals to be killed are placed in a chamber charged with a mixture of carbolic oxide and chloroform vapor, when they tranquilly fall asleep and wake no more. President-elect Cleveland is a fine dancer and will, it is said, “trip the light fantastic toe” at his inaugural ball. He will be the first President since Lincoln who would or could go through the merry, many figures of the cotillion or reel. General Jackson and wife danced at a ball, given in their honor, to the tune of “Possum up a Gun Tree.” – [America Chronicle] Oscar Wilde suggests that for the future ladies should leave off stays entirely and adopt the Eastern garb, notably as regards the continuations and slippers. Like other geniuses, he is forgetful of details, and does not say how slippers are to be worn on a muddy day in November. For men he recommends the period of the Charleses as being the most becoming (not to say the most expensive age from which to copy. Representative J. Randolph Tucker, the intimate friend of Garfield, relates that the latter once asked him if he knew where the National motto, “E Pluribus Unum” came from. Tucker admitted that he did not. “Well, it comes from a description in Horace, of the preparation of a Roman salad.” and he turned to it. There, surely enough, was the list of ingredients, and the remark that the result was “e pluribus unum.” Lord Salisbury deserves his success, for during his recent campaign in Scotland he appeared on a railway platform and addressed a crowd, clad from his waistband upward in full evening dress, and below in full Highland costume. True, this remarkable attire, such as Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed in, was the result of a fit of absentmindedness, but that fact little mitigated the horrors of the situation. Nor did the mind of Cecil hear much comfort in the strident whisper of his valet behind him, “My Lord! You’ve forgotten these!” – brandishing a pair of trousers meanwhile. No, after the ordeal he deserves the solace of success. It has been laid down as an axiom in diamond lore that the precious stone was capable of absorbing rays of light and afterward emitting them in the dark. While this was abundantly proved by theory it has been difficult to put it to an actual test, for naturally the great diamonds of the world are not accessible for the purpose. Recently, however, a private person, the fortunate possessor of a stone of 92 karats, valued at $300,000 lent his diamond for scientific investigation. These have been very satisfactorily conducted, and the phosphorescent quality of the stone may be regarded as proved. The stone was exposed for an hour to the direct action of the sun’s rays, and then removed to a dark room. For more than twenty minutes it emitted light strong enough to make a sheet of white paper held near it perfectly visible. COULDN’T GO WITH HIM – Joke A Minnesota paper has dedicated itself to the “abolition of poverty, ignorance, wickedness, unchastity, drunkenness, injustice, perversion of law, oppression and evil.” In the opinion of a genuine Kentuckian there is no part of our national history so important as the fact that old Pete Anderson’s son Calib married Tobe Watkin’s daughter, and afterwards owned Step High, the horse that Ben Salus rode from Lexington to Frankfort in 1859. A fashionable lady has sent a card around to her friends to announce “the birth of four children to my favorite dog; their intended names will be Juno, Titlan, Hercules, and Goliath.” This was either a good satire or the very acme of the present dog-loving fever. – [N. Y. Graphic] At a theatre in Dublin a gentleman requested a man in front of him to sit down, adding, sarcastically, ‘I suppose that you are aware, sire, that you are not opaque.” “I shall sit down when it suits me” was the response, “and if you want to handle my name mind it’s not O’Paque at all, but Mr. O’Brien.” WIT AND HUMOR PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Publisher THURSDAY MARCH 10, 1887 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. The bill creating a new chancery division to be known as the Southern Division has passed both Housed and will no doubt speedily be a law. The counties in the new division will be Mobile, Baldwin, Washington, Choctaw, Clark, Monroe, Marengo, Wilcox, Dallas, Perry, Hale, Greene, Sumter, Pickens, Bibb and Chilton – in all sixteen counties. There will be a new chancery for this division to be appointed by the Governor and several applications are on the file for the position. From the Columbus Index The Georgia Pacific is pushing work on its line, and will have trains running though to Birmingham by next month. On the evening of the 15th nine miles of track on the extension east was completed beyond Day’s gap. An iron bridge has been built over Lost Creek, and also the trestle over Indian Creek finished, so as to admit of trains passing coming west by Little Warrior has been bridged and track laying progresses to within three miles of the big Warrior River, leaving eleven miles uncompleted. Forces are working on both ends laying track of about one half daily. There are several trestles now being constructed between the ends of track not yet finished. That part of the road to east of Day’s Gap is in very good condition. ARBOR DAY Kingsville, Ala, Feb 26 ’87. Ed Lamar News: Dear Sir: - As I have an opportunity I shall attempt this morning to write a communication concerning Arbor Day, for publication in the Lamar news. Since my last communication the State Supt of Education ahs issued a proclamation earnestly requesting the observance and celebration of Arbor Day among the schools through the state on the 22nd inst. Notwithstanding the dismal appearance of the morning on Tuesday last, the students of the Kingville School came prepared for taking a part in the celebration of Arbor Day, and quite a number of them brought trees which they set out, each student naming his own tree. Just how the inquiry will naturally arise in the mind of the reader what was the name given to each tree? In answer to this question should it arise, I will give the names below. They are as follows: Christian Never Dies, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Grover Cleveland, Sam P. Jones, J. R. Graves, J. C. Kirkland, G. A. Wheeler, Sylvester J. Givens, T. W. Springfield, Woods Springfield, J. H. Halbrook, and B. H. Wilkerson. It was with great pleasure and admiration that I looked upon the young people assembling for the purpose of celebrating Arbor Day, and planning trees on the school grounds and connecting with them the names of persons whose energy, devotion perseverance &c they admired. I dare say scarcely any honest worker with hand and brain, for the benefit of this fellowmen would desire a more pleasing recognition of his or her usefulness than a monument, a symbol of his or her production, ever growing, ever glooming, and ever bearing wholesome fruit. Just here I think it not out of place to introduce the names of a few historic trees within the limits of the United States. I shall commence with the Elm tree at Philadelphia, under which William Penn made his famous treaty with nineteen tribes of barbarians; the Charter Oak at Hartford, Conn. which preserved the written guarantee of the liberties of the Colony of Connecticut; the wide-spreading oak tree of Flushing, Long Island, under which George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends or Quakers, preached; the lofty cypress tree in the dismal swamp under which Washington reposed one night in his young manhood; the huge French apple tree near Fort Wayne, Ind. where Little Turtle, the great Miami Chief, gathered his warriors; the Elm tree at Cambridge in the shade of which Washington first took command of the Continental army on a hot summer’s day; the Tulip tree on King’s Mountain Battlefield in South Carolina, on which ten blood-thirsty ---- were hung at one time; the tall pine tree at Edward, N. Y. under which the beautiful Jane McCrea was slain; the magnificent Black Walnut tree, near Haverstraw, on the Hudson, at which General Wayne mustered his forces at midnight, preparatory to his gallant and successful attack on Stony Point; the grand Magnolia tree near Charleston, S. C., under which General Lincoln held a council of war previous to surrendering the city; the great Pecan tree at Valier’s plantation, below New Orleans, under which a portion of the remains of General Packenham was buried; “the Burgoyne Elm” at Albany, N. Y. which was planted on the day the British General Burgoyne was brought a prisoner into Albany, the day after the surrender; the weeping willow in Copp’s burring ground, near Bunker Hill, which has grown from a branch taken from the tree that shaded the grave of Napoleon at St. Helena, now waves over that of Cotton Mather, so noted in Salem Witch craft; the Ash trees planted by General Washington at Mt. Vernon, which form a beautiful row of immense trees which are the admiration of all who visit the home of the “Father of his county;” the pear trees planted, respectively, by Governor Endicott of Massachusetts, and Governor Stuyvesant, of New York, more than two hundred years ago. All these trees have a place in our national history, and are inseparable from it because they are so consecrated. My eyes have never seen any of these trees, but patriotic emotions are excited at a thought of them. Let all who are friends to the cause of education in Lamar County put forth one united effort in her behalf. Yours truly, B. H. WILKERSON Ad for Ayer & Son STATE CASES The following is a list of State Cases on the Docket for the Spring Term 1887 of the Circuit Court of Lamar County: FIRST DAY – MONDAY MARCH 28TH State vs. LOCKHART BRIDGES et al sci fa State vs. RICHARD JONES, carrying concealed weapons State vs. FAYETTE SMITH, retailing State vs. FAYETTE SMITH, sci fa State vs. FAYETTE SMITH, illicit distilling State vs. FAYETTE SMITH, sci fa State vs. G. C. BURNS, converting revenue State vs. ELISHA BALDWIN, abusive language State vs. FRANK MAY, public drunkenness State vs. FRANK MAY, assault and battery State vs. FRANK MAY, assault and battery with weapon State vs. GEORGE SANDERS, def State vs. ED AUSTIN, forgery State vs. ERES MATTISON, assault and battery with weapon State vs. WILLIE MCMURRAY, abusive of language State vs. RISTER POLLARD, disturbing religious worship State vs. LONNIE ABBOTT public drunkenness State vs. LONNIE ABBOTT, ITB State vs. JOSEPH SISSON SECOND DAY – TUESDAY, MARCH 29th State vs. BALUS STEWART, IRM State vs. LEM BARROW, BWM State vs. C. V. MCCAFFERTY, SU State vs. BUD THOMBERRY, public drunkenness State vs. JOHN T. HARRISON, grand larceny State vs. WM. B. PEARSON, violating revenue law State vs. BUNK BARNS, carrying concealed weapon State vs. BILL HORTEN, carrying concealed weapon State vs. ISABELL SHAW, arson State vs. JAMES GILMER, abusive language State vs. JIM LINDSEY, abusive language State vs. A. B. BANKHEAD, carrying concealed weapon State vs. FRANK HAMMOND, disturbing religious worship State vs. GEORGE WEEKS, selling liquor to minor State vs. GEORGE WEEKS, carrying concealed weapon State vs. TOM PRESLEY, grand larceny State vs. BOB SHIRLEY, assault and fornication State vs. D. D. DOBBINS, abusive language State vs. JOHN L. POUNDS, carrying concealed weapon State vs. SILVANUS HANKINS, def (two cases) State vs. J. MORDICAI, disturbing religious worship State vs. REESE, assault and battery with weapon State vs. CLAYTON, retailing THIRD DAY – WEDNESDAY MARCH 30TH State vs. JOHN E. MCDANIEL, carrying concealed weapon State vs. JOHN E. MCDANIEL, et al sci fa State vs. JOHN WRIGHT, carrying concealed weapon State vs. GEORGE HILL, et al A Q M (two cases) State vs. GEORGE HILL, abusive language State vs. ---- FLEMINGS, forgery State vs. ---- FLEMINGS, sci fa State vs. GEORGE HILL, carrying concealed weapon State vs. BURCINY RANDOLPH, grand larceny State vs. W. H. FOACST, burglary State vs. JOHN HANKINS, murder State vs. JOHN HANKINS, et al sci fa State vs. BUD CHRISTIAN, R W M State vs. MAYOR LONG, grand larceny State vs. MAYOR LONG, R O State vs. THOMAS B. BENARD, murder State vs. FRANK MCLEMORE, murder State vs. SAM TAYLOR, retailing (two cases) State vs. SAM TAYLOR, et al sci fa (two cases) FOURTH DAY – THURSDAY MARCH 31ST State vs. LEA FLEMINGS, carrying concealed weapon State vs. HORACE FLEMINGS carrying concealed weapon State vs. GREEN HOLLIS abusive language State vs. JIM ALDRIDGE, carrying concealed weapon State vs. JIM ALDRIDGE, et al sci fa State vs. GEORGE POWELL, perjury State vs. WM. RIDGEWAY, assault and battery with weapon State vs. BILL DUNCAN, carrying concealed weapon State vs. ROBERT SHEMPERD, assault and battery with weapon State vs. ROBERT SHEMPERD, et al sci fa 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 groups 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 you visit Columbus. 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. 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. 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. 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. Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, I hope to receive a liberal share in the future FARMER’S INDEPENDENT WAREHOUSE. We have again rented the Whitfield Stables, opposite the Court house, for the purpose of continuing the Warehouse and Cotton Storage business, and we say to our friends and farmers of West Alabama and East Mississippi, that we will not be surpassed by any others in looking after the wants of our customers to make them conformable while in Columbus. We will have fire places instead of stoves for both white and colored; separate houses fitted up for each. We will have also good shed room for 100 head of stock more than we had last year; also a convenient and comfortable room for our friends who may come to Columbus. We do not hesitate to say that we can and will give you better camping accommodations than any other house in the house in the place. Mr. J. L. MARCHBANKS of Lamar County, Ala., and MILIAS MOORHEAD, of Pickens County, Ala., will be at the stable and will be glad to see their friends and attend to their wants, both day and night. Out Mr. FELIX GUNTER will be at the cotton she where he will be glad to see his old friends and as many new ones as well come. All cotton shipped to us by railroad of river will be received free of drayage to warehouse and have our personal attention. Thanking you for your patronage last season, and we remain the farmer’s friends. Yours Respectfully, J. G. SHULL & CO, Columbus, Miss. 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 Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to call on Mrs. L. M. KUPPER who keeps Restaurant, Family Groceries, Bakers and Confectionery, Toys, Tobacco, and Cigars. Also coffee and sugar. Special attention paid to ladies. J. B. MACE, Jeweler, Vernon, Alabama. (PICTURE OF LOT OF CLOCKS) Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry and spectacles. Makes a specialty of repairing. Will furnish any style of timepiece, on short notice, and at the very lowest price. 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. LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE. J. D. GUYTON, Prop’r., Columbus, Mississippi. (picture of horse and buggy) Ad for New Home Sewing Machine (picture) PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY MARCH 10, 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 Don’t forget the News when you come to court. Rev. T. G. SLAUGHTER, Presiding Elder is now among his friends here. The prospect for Vernon to get a Railroad is better now than ever. All the vacant lots in town are being found and property owners are rising in prices. Public spirit and pluck will bring about a realization of all that the most sanguine citizen can hope for Vernon. Mr. EDDIE MORTON has returned from New Orleans, where he took a large drove of cattle last week. Mr. J. WESLEY CLEARMAN is now a member of the GEO. & RUSH CO. We are glad to welcome Mr. CLEARMAN to our town. It is rumored here that the Illinois Central R. R. has commenced a survey for a road from Aberdeen to the coal fields along the OLD SYKES SURVEY. Our merchants seem to anticipate a large load this spring judging from the large stock of new goods daily coming in. For the convenience of witnesses, etc we publish a list of state cases, sowing on what days they are set for hearing. Col. J. H. MCGUIRE of Fayette C. H. was n town last Saturday. Col. MCGUIRE is an applicant for the appointment of Solicitor of this circuit if a vacancy should occur. The temperance boom continues and it is said by man who travel around that there is no small town in Alabama making more and improvements than the town of Vernon. In our last issue we unintentionally neglected to note an additional member to the family of Esq. and Mrs. W. G. MIDDLETON. The mother and little daughter doing well. No one who is interested in the development of our state can well afford to miss the mammoth Alabama edition of the Times-Democrat which appeared on the 22 ult. Only eleven days until Court. Many of our citizens are paling their gardens anew. Seize the opportunity to subscribe for the News when you come to Court. Planting interests are ahead of this time last year, and our farmers anticipate harvesting an abundant crop the coming fall – it is certainly needed. There is a great deal of much needed work on our sidewalks. Let every one take an active part and put it through. Dr. HOLLIS, of Fayette County, was down first of the week on a visit to his mother. The Dr. has just returned from attending a course of lecture by advanced students and practitioners. We are always glad to not the success of our Lamar County boys. Mr. GEO. HUGHEY and wife left for their home in Ark., last Thursday. They are native Alabamians and we are glad to hear of the ---- attending them in their adopted state; Mr. HUGHEY is a member of the present legislature of that state. A movement is on foot which is to benefit our people, particulars of which will soon be unfolded to the public. Men of means and rains have the new project in hand, whose watchword is success. Mr. B. S. HONNOLL, a student of the Kingville High School gave us a pleasant call on yesterday. He was enroute to his home in Lowndes Miss, where he will spend a few days of recreation. Persons in ordinary circumstances cannot afford to be sick when a heavy bill from a doctor is the result. The latter can be obviated if you have a cough, or cold by the timely use of Conssen’s Honey of Tar, which has long been in use, and is universally conceded to be the only pure and simple remedy for a cough or cold. NOTICE. Mr. A. H. SANDERS, the Photographer, who stopped in Vernon several weeks ago, wishes to announcer to the people that he will be in Vernon during Court. Jay Gould can afford the luxury of a strike – the strikers themselves can stand the want of employment temporarily – the business world can recoupe rates from the losses incident to suspension of trade, but no one who suffers with cough, cold, or disease of throat and lungs can afford to be without Coussen’s Honey of Tar. It is a necessity to them. MARVELS IN MILLINERY [For the Lamar News] Specialties in this line are simply a revelation! Accessories were never so exquisite or style so adapted to facial requirements. Exquisite lace bonnets embroidered with finely faceted beads of every delicious shade imaginable are live rare jewels. There seems no end to the crystal conclets which embellish present day headgear. Charles X pink, crushed strawberry, old rose cameo, gold, topaz, heliotrope, and electric blue sashed to sapphire. Lace is a feature in fashionable hats. It comes in all the current colors and is acceptable to all classes of combination. Lace bordered handkerchiefs of tinted mall are artistically disposed amid garnitures of flowers on the new straws. The prevailing caprice in hat-trimming is the high massing thereof in the front or on the left side. The hats and bonnets shown by the “Little Duchess who queen’s it right royally over the millinery domain at Ridley’s and whose creations are the very some of artistic skill show an arrangement of garniture which appeals to the most exacting fancy. Latitudes allowed in mourning millinery make one feel the sack-cloth of sorrow less burdensome than formerly. Long veils of Courtland crape and other fabrics of this class are so fashioned that small weight attaché d to the bonnet. The dull jet crescents which hold those veils in place, and the “rosary beads” which finish the brims of bonnets, are finer and lighter tin weight than ever before. Many bonnets are fashioned of the lighter times of Palestley’s fabrics. CRESCENT Ad for Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment FROM MISSISSIPPI Macedonia, Miss, Feb 24th, ‘87 Editor Lamar News: - I have been a subscriber to the News since Nov. ’86. As my Lamar friends and relatives do not write often it is quite a treat to see your column weekly. I am very much ---- over the mineral honor of my old native state, Ala. I notice Fayette, Lamar, Walker, Jefferson, Bibb, Franklin, and many other counties are on rising ground which ---- makes the citizen of each respective county feel that was long---- (CANT’ READ- LARGE CHUNK) ---- I have been a citizen of Miss. Some fifteen years; I find her soil much more productive, the yield per acre is much larger, but this alone is the dependence when her sail is gone all is gone, notwithstanding the boom in soil. Farmers are greatly embarrassed on the account of debt, tied up to the merchants. Ten percent will keep mine tenths of them there in spite of the present system of Farmers Alliance, which is rapidly taking hold here, may go in but few are able to grasp its benefits. But our county went prohibition with many others we have hopes of Legislation on tobacco. Stock Law is taking hold and many other good thinks to numerous to mention. Bill Arp came to see us at Tupelo but her boom was so high no one had time to talk to him, so he left. What is Millville doing? I hope to hear from her citizens through your columns. Tell me of Miss MOLLIE PENNINGTON – Is she a common lady? If I write any more I will try and do better. Yours, W. A. LEE NEWS ITEMS Kentucky Democrats hold a convention May 4th to nominate a candidate for Governor. Michigan will be temporarily the focus for all the temperance oratory of the country. The vote on a prohibition amendment will be taken in April. Hon. Thos. W. Coleman, of Eutaw present solicitor of the Sixth Circuit is added to the list of applicants for appointment to the newly created chancellorship. The resignation of Secretary Mahning takes effect on April 1, and for ten days after that date either of his assistant secretaries could act. New York, March 5 – The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has had a stroke of apoplexy, and now lies unconscious. While hoping that the attack may not prove fatal, grave fears are entertained by his family and intimate friends that in this world have all ended. Mr. Beecher resides with his son Co. Henry Beecher, at the corner of Hicks and Clark Streets, in Brooklyn. ABERDEEN, March 5 – The First National Bank of Aberdeen, Miss was organized here Thursday and the entire organization was completed today. The enterprise was inaugurated by Messrs. F. F. and B. C. JENKINS, private bankers and brokers. At the meeting today Messrs. J. M. ACKER, J. P. BENSON, GEORGE CL. PAINE, C. C. EWING, A. H. BROWN, and F. P. and B. C. JENKINS were elected as directors by a board of sixteen stockholders, all representing the heading and most progressive citizens. The officers of the bank are F. P. JENKINS, President; Hon. J. M. ACKER, Vice-President, and B. C. JENKINS, cashier. The Institution will enter upon active business within two months with a cash capital of $50,000. Mrs. CAROLINE PENNINGTON, an esteemed resident of Aberdeen, died in Memphis Saturday from affection (sic), and her remains will be interred here tomorrow. Ad for Bargain in Music 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 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 MME. DEMOREST’S RELIABLE PATTERNS are the only ones that will give a perfect fitting garment. MME. DEMOREST’S SYSTEM OF DRESS CUTTING. Chart and Book of full directions, enabling any one to cut and fit perfectly. Price $3.00. Sent by mail post paid, on receipt of price. MME. DEMOREST’S PORTFOLIO OF FASHIONS and What to Wear. Is a large magazine of 80 pages of Fashion notes and Styles, illustrated with about 1,000 cuts. Sent, post-paid for 25 cents. The DEMOREST SEWING MACHINE. This style only $19.50 (picture of sewing machine) Nearly 50,000 sold and giving perfect satisfaction. Don’t pay other companies $40.00 profit on a machine not so good as the Demorest but buy direct of the manufacturers. Sent C. O. D. Price for Circulars. Demorest Fashion and Sewing Machine Co., 17 East 14th Street, New York City 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 house east of the Hotel. – JOE BANKHEAD Ad for The Marriage Guide 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 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 PAGE 4 – MISSING PAGE File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1244gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 46.8 Kb