Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News March 17, 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, 11:28 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of ARchives And History March 17, 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 17, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 20 (FRONT PAGE IS MISSING) PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Publisher THURSDAY MARCH 17, 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. During the late session of the Legislature Governor Seay vetoes nine bills and his vetoes were sustained in every instance. WALTER JACKSON, alias “Jack The Bear” has been sentenced to be hanged in Jasper on the 15th of April, for the murder of Pope Wooden in December last. All the stock of the Tombigbee Railroad has been taken and the board has closed the books. The road will be built rapidly and will add greatly to the trade of the place. HENRY WARD BEECHER, the great Brooklyn divine, died at his home in New York on the 8th inst. After an illness from paralysis, from which he never recovered consciousness after his mind first became stupefied. [From the Mont. Advertiser] The prayer of Mrs. Beecher on Monday that her husband should not long survive, since his death was certain, was answered on yesterday morning and the great preacher passed unconsciously out of existence. His fame will not be of that high and enduring quality that it can wait upon after ages for a verdict and in his own time he was so active and belligerent a participant in all the larger political and religious movements that there will be much conflict of opinion about him now that he id dead. To many he will stand as one of the conspicuous figures of hypocrisy in the century. To others, he will appear a man of high principles and indomitable courage in the right. All will agree that to him as much as to any man in his generation was given the magical power of fitting apt words to apt thought and uttering them in a style to powerfully attract and persuade. He has an assured ran as an orator and as such he will be longest remembered. PROHIBITION IN ALABAMA Mr. JOHN T. TANNER, of Athens, asks the Advertiser for information in regard to the action of the Legislature on the whiskey question. The principal action of that body on whiskey matter was to prohibit its sale in any shape or form in every county where prohibition was asked for. This action went to the extent of seeping it out of Montgomery, except in this city, out of Butler, Green, Conecuh, Calhoun, Bullock, Hale, Randolph, and Sumter Counties. The bill known as the Omnibus bill is published in today’s issue that is the name of the localities in which by act of the late Legislature the sale of liquor is prohibited. Previous Legislatures --- passed prohibition laws for --- area of territory, including --- except the city ….(rest of column is torn) …..Coosa, Dale, Geneva, Lamar, Lee, Shelby, and Washington counties, and the Omnibus bill published in this issue of The Advertiser virtually makes prohibition in Macon, Walker, Baldwin, Crenshaw, and several other counties. This is more than one half the counties besides the hundreds of localities in the other counties in which the sale of liquor is prohibited. Without involving the people of the state in the angry contest that will grow out of a general election on the liquor question, and at a time when state and county offices are to be voted for, the Legislature, in answer to the expressed will of the locality interested, has legislated liquor out of at least three fourths of the state. This certainly ought to satisfy the most exacting, and we believe the people of Alabama will endorse what the legislature had done. The Senate passed a bill proposing an amendment to the Constitution, to be voted on the next general election, prohibiting the sale on manufacture of liquor in this state. It did not pass the House because the election could not be held at a time separate and apart from all other elections. This is the liquor situation in Alabama, and all friends of temperance ought to congratulate themselves on the excellent showing. – [Mont. Advertiser] Governor Lee has been on a visit to the Northwest, and since his return to Richmond, Republican papers have stated that the object of his visit was to get up an interest in his behalf for the second place on the Democratic ticket next year. This, Governor Lee indignantly denies, as his object in going to the Northwest was to accompany a party of capitalist to Virginia on important business matters. Governor Lee said he though the nomination of a Southern man for the second place on the ticket would have a happy effect more especially as the south had been doing some heavy Democratic voting for twenty years for a Northern man for President and a Northern man for Vice-President. If the National Democratic Convention should, for many reasons, decide to give a Southern man the second place upon the ticket” said Governor Lee, “there are many men whose claims and qualifications are so much greater than mine that the matter does not disturb me in the least. The Convention will decide what ticket can best win, and I am for that ticket.” Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ 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 17, 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 LAST CALL Some have become offended at our --- calls upon them through the columns for their dues to this office. We are greatly in need of money to enable the continuances of the News and to meet our obligations. Otherwise we would cheerfully indulge them for years longer. We expect to make out each one’s amount and present it during Circuit Court, and expect each and everyone arrears to --- the same. If you – not the money bring with you -- any sort of produce to the amount. Consequently you need not plead poverty in this matter. A large oat crop has been planted. A heavy frost last Monday night. Now is always a good time for good ---. Do your part and the boom will be. Col. NESMITH had a very fine cow to sell this week. Many farmers are burning logs and getting ready to plant. Mr. W. B. SPANN came up from Cansler Tuesday. Mr. ROBERT J. YOUNG left for Birmingham yesterday where he will probably make his future home. Prof. G. W. YOUNG’S school closed in an exhibition Friday. Exercises all day and night. The city authorities are having a --- number of hitching posts planted in the south part of town. Up to our going to press we have not heard who the Governor has appointed solicitor for this circuit. Rev. T. W. SPRINGFIELD has been on valuable duty for several days past, attending to the store of Mr. E. W. BROCK in addition to the post office. Mr. EMMET MORTON, of Caudle, was in town last Saturday. Mr. J. D. MCCULLOUGH has returned from a course of lectures at Alabama Medical College. The grading on the Kansas City Road will be finished by the 15th of April, it is said. The I. O. O. F. met in regular session at Lodge Hall last Saturday night. Extensive preparations are being made by merchants and others for the men during court week. We have received a copy of the Winnsboro Sentinel, edited by our former townsman, Prof. J. S. TOMLIN. Little EDNA COURTNEY has been confined to bed for several days from a severe attack of chills. Mineral excitement is Lamar in pretty high at present, most everyone that comes to town bring with them a specimen of iron ore. Negations are now pending, tending to the securing of the building of the Decatur Road by the Illinois Central Company. Dr. R. L. BRADLEY is busily engaged in clearing off some lots just north of the Hotel, with the view of building a nice residence. Circuit Clerk BRADLEY has purchased a four-acre lot west of the residence of Mr. R. W. COBB, where he will erect a handsome dwelling. NOTICE – Mr. A. H. SANDERS the Photographer who stopped in Vernon several weeks ago, wishes to announce to the people that he will be in Vernon during Court. We spent half an hour in the beautiful and growing town of Fayette C. H. on Monday last, and during our stay we had the pleasure of meeting and forming the acquaintance of Mr. J. B. JONES, proprietor of the Fayette Journal. The new postal law makes it larceny to take a newspaper from an office and refuse to pay for it. Under the provisions of the law, a number of persons were recently sent to jail in Illinois for trying to evade the payment by scheduling their property. We are informed that the Kansas City authorities have located one depot and two sidings in our county. The first on the place of H. W. MILLER on Beaver Creek, next a depot at Crew’s mills, and a flag station at Col. GEO. E. BROWN’S, a depot is also said to have been located just across the state line in Miss. Hon. THOS. W. COLEMAN, lately appointed chancellor for the Southern Division, was in town last Saturday, and we are informed bought a house and lot in Vernon. Chancellor COLEMAN has made considerable money in Birmingham real- estate and knows when and where to buy. Our local capitalists had better look sharp, or strangers will have the good property in Vernon first thing you know. Ad for Honey of Tar MARRIED On the 3rd inst, at the residence of J. D. CARTER, Mr. DAVIS YOUNG and Miss ARDELLA CARTER. Rev. G. M. G. DUNCAN officiating. On March the 6th near Millport, Mr. T. M. SHELTON and Miss M. A. CUNNINGHAM, by the Rev. J. R. ISBELL. At the residence of J. M. OAKS by JNO. ROBERTSON, J. P. on the 24th Feb. Mr. T. G. MORRISON and Miss N. A. OAKS. On the 9th day of March at the resident of LEVI MCDOOLS by the Rev. J. R. ROBERTSON, Mr. A. A. JONES and Miss D. A. F. MCCOOLS. At Kennedy on the 1st inst. Mr. J. S. DUNCAN to Miss MOLLIE KENNEDY, Rev. R. G. ISBELL officiating. Ad for Honey of Tar NEWS ITEMS Montgomery claims a population of 30,000. Montgomery’s municipal election comes off in April. Mrs. June Storms, postmistress at Evergreen died suddenly on the 6th. She was one of the first of president Cleveland’s appointments. Dr. Reuben Searcy, one of the ablest and most prominent citizens of Tuscaloosa died on the 10th inst. Dr. E. D. Standiford has announced that he will be a candidate to represent the State of Kentucky in the Senate of the United States. The Board of Supervisors of Columbus, Miss sold the jail and grounds around it for $4500 to the Tombigbee Cotton Factory Co. The county will erect a handsome jail in place of the one just sold. Dora Wingard, a colored woman who lives in Montgomery has confessed to murdering her four year old child by drowning. She first claimed that it was accidental. The tax collector of Birmingham says that every second man he meets has not been int eh city long enough to pay poll tax. Notwithstanding the failure of the river and harbor bill there are the following sums for Alabama rivers and harbors left available from last year’s bill: Escambia and Conecuh Rivers, $12,000; Choctawhatchie River, $13,000; Mobile Harbor, 70,000, Alabama River; $13,000, Black Warrior, $103,00; Cahaba River, $7,000; Warrior and Tombigbee River, $37,00. We do not come along this way but once and it is our duty to relive all the suffering and sorrow that we meet if possible. Therefore be it resolved that each of us who comes across a sufferer with piles will tell him there is a balm in Gilead in the use of Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment. It is a great remedy. A THIRD PARTY It is quite plain that the United Organizations of public opinion now are those of the laboring people and the prohibitionist. The political parties proper are considerably at “logger heads” with themselves. If the Knights of Labor are able to avid serious disturbances in their national organization arising from rebellious numbers” they will no doubt have much to say in 1888 at the polls. The prohibition vote would in that even be inclined to an alliance with the Knights. The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette appeals to Republican to steer clear of the prohibitionists. It says there may be in the future a prohibition party. Analyzed the situation that journal declares: If the Republican Party is lead away on side issues there is no possibility for it to carry the next presidential election, and with the President next time will go both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court. We are unwilling to give up the government in all its departments to the Democratic Party, for the sake of carrying on experiments that we are sure would be futile in Legislation, that at times appeals to a benevolent sentiment, but that is brought before the people at large, perverted by mercenary malignant. The argument against such “experiments” as the President has intrusted in to the Democratic administration falls flat on the public appreciation. It is comforting to discover the weakness of the complaints of Mr. Halstead. They indicate the real strength of the President. If civil service reform be impracticable under existing laws the courage of the President in executing them as they stand has been a great gain; if economy in the government be found Democracy the President is entitle to the thanks of the country for his single handed enforcement of it; if the execution of a public trust, regardless of personal consequences, be a test of statesmanship, the President has risen to the level of the test. The admirable conduct of Mr. Cleveland may, strange to say, precipitate a third party movement. His administration is seriously condemned by the whiskey men who have reasoned of their own superior to all national considerations for their bitter opposition. The division of the Democratic Party demanded by the Courier Journal, the division of the Republican Party contemplated by the Commercial-Gazette, the political complications of bother parties with the labor and prohibition question are the essential condition to be adjusted before the Democrats and the Republicans can fight or stand up “give and take battle again”. – [Birmingham Age] 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 NEW BRITIAN AND ITS PEOPLE – [Popular Science Monthly] New Britain is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. The contours of the lofty mountains are very graceful, and the variety of tints of the rich tropical verdure is as attractive as it is unusual. The dense foliage is interspersed with patches of grass of an emerald hue. At Matupi in Blanche Bay there is an active volcano, a curious volcanic island, and a region of hot springs. I traveled by land once from Nodup to Blanche Bay, and the heat and fatigue were more than compensated by the beauty and varied character of the scenery traversed. The New Britain people go entirely naked. They are not a fine race, and want the activity and vigor of the Solomon Islanders. Foreigners have introduced a good many fire-arms among the inhabitants of Blanche Bay and Kamberirah, but as a rule the spear, usually formed with brightly colored feathers, is their weapon. They build good houses and make excellent nets and ingenious fishing baskets. They are the only cannibals I know who are not ashamed of their fondness for human flesh. A German settler told me that overtures were made to him to arrange the purchase of the body of a man who had been accidentally killed by a neighboring tribe with whom the would-be buyers were not friendly. The reason given was a desire to eat what otherwise might be wasted in a commonplace interment. The curious and little understood ceremonies of the duk-duk are extensively performed in New Britain and the neighboring Duke of York group. One thing about them is certain and that is, that those who are initiated into the mysteries obtain considerable influence over the rest of their tribesmen. There is another very remarkable custom, about which I was given information by the Rev. Mr. Rooney of the Wesleyan Mission, which labors in this part of Melanesia. It may be described as follows: If A injures B, B burns down C’s hut, or makes a hole in his canoe, or sticks a spear in the pathway so that C is nearly sure to run against. it. B lets C know that he has injured him, and the reason of it; when C is expected to settle the account with A, the first aggressor. On the whole the New Britain people are the least attractive of all Melanesians whom I know. They are very dirty and do not possess the skill in fashioning pottery, or carving wooden bowls, of their neighbors in the Solomon’s and the Admiralty Islands. – [Captain Cyprian Bridge in Popular Science Monthly] MISSISSIPPI’S PET INSTITUTION A Mississippi letter for the Globe Democrat says: Mississippians feel proud, and very justly, of their state library. It occupies the ground floor of the east wing of the capitol building. The apartment does not appear spacious at the first glance, but that is because it is so broken up by alcoves. Room, without crowding, is found for 38,000 volumes. There include the legal text-books and reports from all the states in the union, making a collection which ranks third in completeness in the whole country. Only the law libraries in Washington and New York take rank above that of Mississippi. There are, besides the law books, which form the great bulk of the library, the standard works in general literature. The library is as inviting as a parlor. A bright carpet covers the floor. The large open-grate stove shines with polish. Woodwork, the glass and the pillars show no dust. Paper, ink, and pens are marshaled in order on the desks and tables. Even the spittoons look too clean for use. It is hardly necessary to say that the presiding genius, the guardian of order and cleanliness, is a woman, bright-eyed, as trim in figure and as neat in dress as her surroundings. Miss Mary Morancy is the state librarian. Old lawyers say her knowledge of the contents of the library is marvelous. They consult her as they would a carefully annotated index for what they want. She keeps up with the latest law publications, and her judgment goes a great way in the additions which are frequently made to the books. Mississippi is not the last state in the union in recognizing the rights and the merits of woman. One of the first bills introduced in the House this session was “to protect the wife from ill-treatment on the part of her husband.” The State University has opened its doors to both sexes, and now there is before the assembly a proposition warmly urged to establish a state college for women. THE LIFE OF A CONVICT “The study of human nature” said Principal Keeper Patterson, of the state penitentiary at Trenton, N. J. to a reporter in the lobby of the National Hotel the other night, “inside prison walls is more interesting than pleasant. The class of human beings one comes in contact with is usually so depraved and burdened that it oftentimes surprises even those accustomed to the life. We believe our system to be as good as any in existence, and yet we are not as severe in some ways as the people of the eastern penitentiary.” “Are there not a number of criminals sent you who instead should go to asylums? Do you not have any cranky character to contend with?” “Well, we do in a certain sense. Criminals are as a rule, one-sided characters; their moral character is, so to speak, lop-sided. But it is not the man who goes into the prisons that are mentally unbalanced; it’s those who come out. The fact is, a man who serves a five or even a three years sentence out, is apt to leave the penitentiary unsound in mind, if not in both body and mind. Imagine, for instance, the life they lead, day in and day out. To the mess-room in the morning, where they can not speak a word to anyone; to the workshop for the day, where talking is strictly forbidden; the mess-room again for supper, where the same order is enforce; and then to solitary confinement in their cells, where there is no one to talk to. Think of it. Such a life for years is it not enough to drive a man insane: Why, man alive, you can not realize it, but the percentage is simply frightful of those who go into jail strong in both mind and body and who come out wrecks in one or both.” [Washington Post] MISSING LINKS Lady Randolph Church hill is a clever pianist and often plays at charity concerts. Mrs. A. S. Cole, of Peoria, Ill, chased her husband to Portland, Ore., and took him home with her. Mrs. Penseyers, of Buffalo, N. Y. married a fourth husband and then killed him because she was jealous. George Alfred Townsend, after dictating for some hours to a stenographer, found out that the fellow was insane. The friends of the late Sojourner Truth, of Battle Creek, Mich. are making an effort to erect a monument over her grave. Queen Victoria has ordered a tea set of fifty pieces of Burmese ware, to be made for her by a New Bedford, Mass manufacturer. M. Stambouloff, the statesman whom the Czar is said to fear more than any other man in Bulgaria, is only a trifle over thirty-seven. Miss Ella Martin, a New England girl, is editor of the North Nebraska Argus. The Argus has a sharp tongue as well as keen eyes. Tar as a fuel for ocean steamers is about to be experimented upon by a German who has constructed a novel furnace for the purposed. In a recent case at Seattle, W. T., Judge Green held that the territorial law pronouncing the smoking of opium illegal was unconstitutional. A Danish hound on exhibition in a Philadelphia museum stands as high as a man. He is the largest dog in the world, and cost his owner $5,000. M. Pasteur, being urged by his family to rest for a time from his labors, replied: “When I am not working I seem to myself to be coming a theft.’ John Crossman, who died at China, Me., recently at the age of ninety-six years, leaves six sons and one daughter, thirty-two grandchildren and forty great-grandchildren. In 1849 a deposit of $19 was made in the savings bank at Dover, N. H. It remained in the bank until the other day, when the book was presented and the account closed by the payment of $195.88 Willie Abronson is the name of a little Russian Jew, 12 years old, at present stopping in Philadelphia, who has traveled over Russia, Germany, and England and is able to black boots in three languages. Mrs. Anna L. Murphy, widow of the San Francisco millionaire, is a woman to be commiserated. She cannot live comfortably on her allowance of $2,000 a month from the estate, and petitions to have it increased. The Baltimore American, speaking of the wicked city of Cincinnati, says that its inhabitants “put sugar on their oysters, and anybody who will put sugar on oysters will put vinegar or lyonaise dressing on ice cream.” Industrial people the imperial family of Austria are - the Crown Prince has lately published a big book, the Archduchess Maria Valeric is writing a play, and the Archduke Karl Salvator has just got a patent for a new repeating rifle. Dr. Eaton, of Benson, Minn. is justice of the peace as well as physician, and the economical people around there manage to have him tie hymeneal knots when he is called out eight or ten miles into the country on medical or surgical business.. A. O. Norton, a leading merchant of New Haven, Conn. was fined $50 and costs in the City Court for giving his customers a change to guess the number of seeds in a squash. The nearest guessers were to receive prizes. He was arrested on the charge of disposing of goods by chance. He took an appeal to the Superior Court. One of the latest ideas in the matter of the arrangement of furniture for receptions is to have three gilded bamboo chairs so arranged that their backs form an acute-angled triangle. In some instances the chairs ate tied together in this position with handsome bow and ends of various colored satin ribbons. William Rockefeller, of the Standard Oil Company, has purchased the entire estate of the late William H. Aspinwall in the towns of Mount Pleasant and Oswing, on the Hudson. The property comprises about eight hundred acres and all the building and appurtenances thereon. The price paid is not known. Jay Gould is said to figure that if he should give fifty men $5,0000 each to go into business for themselves, one-half would fail and lose all within five years, and the other twenty-five would be mad because he was able to make it $10,000 and didn’t do it. He argues that men appreciate their own earning far more than a gift. A remarkable family experience has occurred at Findley’s Lake, Chautauqua County, N. Y. It was the taking of a photograph of Mrs. Benjamin Boorman, of that place; her son, Edwin Boorman; his daughter, Mrs. G. R. Osborne; her daughter, Mrs. D. J. dean, and Mrs. Dean’s baby. The picture represents five generations, all in good health. Miss Ranson, a Cleveland artist, has just completed a portrait of ex-President Garfield, which is said to be a perfect likeness of the assassinated President, just as he appeared when he delivered his inaugural address from the front of the Capitol. Mrs. Garfield, when she saw the portrait, pronounced it the best likeness of her husband she has yet seen. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Parsons, of Fairmont, Neb. are the parents of a diminutive boy baby weighing only two and a quarter pounds. It is only thirteen and a half inches in length from the crown to the feet, and measures across the back of the hand seven-eights of an inch, while the nails on hits little toes, as the father says, look like small dots. It is now two weeks old, is perfectly formed, vigorous, healthy, and takes it rations with as much enjoyment as bigger boys. J. L. Cole, a hardware merchant of Buffalo, has a remarkably intelligent dog, a small white cur of uncertain pedigree. This dog knows any number of difficult tricks, and so confident is Mr. Cole in its abilities that he is now willing to be a large sum that the dog can walk a tightrope across the Niagara Gorge, and he’ll give him a chance, provided the railroad companies or the Niagara Falls hotel folks will contribute $1,000 toward the expense of stretching the rope and net. A THRILLING SITUATION – incident in big canyon on Fraser River - [Victoria (B. C.) Colonist] ELEGANT DINING AND BREAKFAST ROOM – [J. C. Flood’s California Mansion, described in Good Housekeeping] NAVIGATION OF THE AIR – One Mode of Travel that Baffles Human Ingenuity – The Flight of Birds HOMELY MATERIALS – [From the Art Journal] – Description of an art studio BUYING ZUNI BLANKETS As we entered the village everyone there was busy doing something. Some old squaws were sitting outside their houses crooning snatches of Indian songs in a low, guttural tone, their hands meanwhile moving with wonderful rapidity, passing balls of colored woolen thread backward and forward between other threads which were stretched vertically inside a square wooden frame. Whole we were watching them some of the natives gathered around, and one of them, an old buck, addressed us saying, in broken English: “Halloo sojurs; where goin?” After we had answered him to his satisfaction we tried to find out what the squaws were making, but we could not get the desired information until we had produced some tobacco and signified that if he would tell us we would give him some. When the old fellow saw the tobacco his face beamed with smiles in an instant, and he replied …… After bargaining with him for a few minutes one of our party bought the blanket for $15 and he never regretted it. Their blankets far excel those manufactured by their white brethren. The Zunis take the wool as it comes off the sheep, color it, spin it into threads, and then turn it over to the squaw, who make the blankets., everything being done by hand alone. The prices for blankets range from $5 to $60, according to size, and they are well worth the money. I have seen one tied by the corners hold a quantity of water for days without letting a drop come through, and its color did not suffer in the least. – [Cor. San Francisco Chronicle] WOMEN CAN AFFORD TO REMAIN SINGLE The common talk is among young men that they cannot afford marriage because wives are such an expensive luxury, and altogether such an impediment that no one can afford to have one unless he is very rich, or is willing to remain very poor. This kind of twaddle is so much in vogue that it will probably seem heresy to take any other view of the case, but bearing in mind the innumerable stories of beating and mutilation, and even murder, inflicted upon woman by drunken and ugly husbands. It seems to be about time to start a crusade to bring about a resolve on the part of women not to get married. They run about twenty times as much risk in such an operation as the man does, and if the latter cannot “afford” to take unto himself a wife the majority of women can well afford on their part to remain single. Within twenty years we predict that clubs for women, and an increased independent in earning a livelihood, and a generally better status for unmarried women will result in a serious diminution of the marriage rate. And, when women are not to be got for the asking, men will be more careful of them. A little corner in the marriage market would not be a bad thing. – [Boston Record] Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for Globe Cotton and Fertilizer Distributor Ad for The Plowboy newspaper File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1245gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 50.7 Kb