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THE LAMAR NEWS

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor    VERNON, ALABAMA, MARCH 24, 1887       
VOL. IV. NO. 21

FORWARD – Poem – [By Susan Coolidge]

NISSA – A FRENCH STORY – Short Story – [Revue de Deuz Morudes]

EDWARD ATKINSON ON THE FOOD QUESTION 
	Edward Atkinson has an article in the December Century on “The Food 
Question in America and Europe’ in which he gives some remarkable facts and 
figures.  We quote as follows: “The food question in Europe may be one of 
possible revolution and repudiation of national debts and also the disruption 
of nations as they now exist; and to this branch of the victualing department 
attention may well be called, because its conditions are so greatly in 
contrast to those of the United States.  But this phase of the question will 
be treated separately in a subsequent article.  May we not find in these 
costly armies, excessive debts, and excessive taxes not only the cause of 
pauper wages, but also the cause of the fine effectual and costly quality of 
so-called ‘pauper labor’? May there not also be found in these figures the 
incentives to socialism, to communism, and to anarchy? What hope for men and 
women, the whole of whose produce would barely suffice for subsistence, when 
ten, twenty, and perhaps even thirty per cent is diverted from their own use, 
and even food is denied them sufficient to maintain health and strength, in 
order that these great armies may be sustained?
	The victualing department is therefore presented in these three phases:
	First. In our own country the only question is how to save the waste 
of our abundance, and how to teach not only the working people, but event eh 
prosperous, the right methods of obtaining a good and wholesome subsistence at 
less cost in money than they now spend for a poor and dyspeptic one.
	Second. In Great Britain and Ireland the victualing department 
underlies a system of land tenure which is now on its trial, and which has led 
to such artificial conditions that great areas of good land have been thrown 
entirely out of cultivation, while half the of the people are being fed from 
fields five thousand to fifteen thousand miles distant.
	Third. Upon the continent of Europe the victualing department stands 
face to face with a forced method of distributing and wasting a food product 
which, as a whole, is insufficient to maintain the whole population in vigor 
and health even if it were evenly distributed, as food must be equally 
distributed by weight if not by quality, in order than men and women may be 
equally well nourished.
	When a famished democracy becomes conscious of its power, what will be 
the end of the privileges, which are not founded on rights, and of national 
debts which have been incurred by dynasties without the consent of the people 
who are now oppressed by them? How will standing armies be disbanded, which 
now seem to be incapable of being sustained as they are impossible of being 
disarmed?
	Such are some of the appalling questions to which we are led when we 
attempt to analyze the way in which men, women, and children now obtain the 
modicum of meat and bread which they must have every day in order to exist, 
and that daily ration of dairy products or fruits, of sugar, and of spice 
which is needed for common comfort.”

The deafness of the late Lord Ailesbury, says the London World, was a 
complaint of long standing.  I call to mind a memorable scene in the House of 
Commons some twenty years ago, at the time when he was, I think, Vice-
Chamberlain.  An irregularity had occurred at the drawing-room during the 
morning, and at might some sharp questioning of supposed-to-be responsible 
functionaries ensued. The person actually concerned set absolutely unmoved 
behind the front ministerial bench, “Bruce, Bruce!” was called, but he neither 
heard nor moved a muscle.  Someone leaned over to him and tried to make him 
understand “the hang of it’ but it was perfectly useless.  The “incident” 
closed in a chorus of laughter.

A Crawford County, Pennsylvania, lad shot a partridge and being in need of 
money, took the head to a Justice of the Peace and said that it was the head 
of a hawk that he had shot.  The justice, after due examination, paid the 50 
cents bounty to the wicked boy.

TWO TRAINS PASS ON THE SAME TRACK – article about near accident – [Train Talk 
in Chicago Herald]

A KNOWING BULL-DOG – article about a dog that would hold lighted cigarettes in 
his mouth – [Philadelphia North American]

HOBART PASHA’S BOYHOOD – [London Standard]
	
ADVANTAGES OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
	“Give me a fulcrum,” cried the ancient sage – “give me a fulcrum, and 
I shall move the world.”  “Grant me a few postulates,” says the modern 
reasoner, “and I shall read you the riddle of the universe.’ An 
unchallengeable postulate, however, is almost as difficult to find as a stable 
extra-terrestrial fulcrum.  The scientific “sprit of the age” walks by sight 
and not by faith.  It revels in facts.  It numbers, and weighs, and measures.  
It catalogues and describes; it compares and classifies.  To make profess 
among the secrets of Nature its highways is experiment and its watchword is 
demonstration.  For any interpretation of a natural phenomenon it demands 
proofs that can appeal to the senses, and it looks with wholesome suspicion, 
if not contempt, on mere “arm-chair speculation.
	The marvelous success in advancing knowledge, and in gaining power 
over the forces of Nature that has resulted from its use, is convincing 
evidence that the scientific method of interrogation is sound, and that it 
should always be adopted wherever possible.  But it is not always possible to 
apply the method.  The nearer we approach the region of subjective phenomena, 
the more difficult it becomes to test particular interpretations by an appeal 
to experiment.  The galvometer may reveal agitation in a sensory surface, but 
it tells nothing about sensation.  The convolutions of a dog’s brain may be 
tampered with, but he will not describe to us his feelings. Consciousness 
alone can discriminate the facts of consciousness; and the character, or 
succession, or relation of these can only be described in terms of 
metaphysic.  Theories of physics relationship here must at first be tentative, 
and at the best they will require to be stated in very general terms.  The 
argument must consist in the application of general principles; and, in 
choosing these, analogy balanced by common sense must be our guide.  In 
drawing our conclusions, we may be satisfied if these can be held with some 
moderate degree of probability. - [James Cappie, M. D., in Popular Science 
Monthly]

Somehow or other it shocks a young man’s implicit trusting faith in a girl to 
have her tell him incredibly that she had a box at the theater when she went 
to Langtry the night before, and then to learn from the other young man who 
took her there that it was a box of caramels he bought her on the way to the 
show. – [Somerville Journal]

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THE LAMAR NEWS
E. J. MCNATT, Publisher

THURSDAY MARCH 24, 1887

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This, the year of Beecher’s death is the 50th anniversary of his marriage, the 
50th of his ordination and the 40th of his pastorate of Plymouth Church.

A. G. Smith, Esq. of Sumter County was appointed on the 12th by Gov. Seay to 
fill the vacancy created by the resignation of the Hon. T. W. Coleman.  Mr. 
Smith will doubtless make this the sixth judicial circuit, an able solicitor.

James M. Trotter, the colored man recently appointed by the President recorder 
of deeds for the District of Columbia, writes a Boston friend: “An unseen but 
mighty providence is using me for some great purpose.”  The colored folks will 
please take note providence picks its men of the colored race to do great work 
out of the ranks of the Democratic party.

Isaac H. Vincent, our defaulting State Treasurer, who skipped out for the 
pleasant clime of Mexico in January, 1883, leaving Alabama nearly $250,000 
minus, was arrested on the 13th inst, in Howard County, Western Texas, by 
Deputy Sheriff Ray, of Weatherford, Parker County, and brought to Montgomery 
on Tuesday and lodged in jail.  Ray got the reward of $5,000, offered by the 
Legislature.  There are 39 indictments against Vincent.

Jay Gould has been ruminating over the miseries entailed by riches.  “Ah,” 
said he to a New York Times man, “I often recur to the days when I was a boy 
up in Delaware County.  I was a pretty happy lad.  There wasn’t much wear and 
tear in life then.  How good it would feel just to go out and drive the cattle 
home from pasture once more! And how delicious it would be to stoop down by 
the old cow again to do the morning’s milking and just squirt a stream of her 
fresh, hot milk in between my lips as I used to do! That was nectar. That’s 
what gave an appetite for breakfast.” This is all mighty pretty, romantic kind 
of talk, but away down in the lower recesses of his left kidney Jay knows he 
prevaricates when he intimates that he would like to throw up his big pull of 
U. S. 4’s and 6’s, just to get back on his pa’s farm to drive the cattle home 
and squirt cow milk between his lips. – Ex.

DEPUTY RAY’S SAY – [Birmingham Age, 17th]
	Deputy Sheriff E. C.  Ray, of Parker County, Texas, the man who 
captured Ike Vincent, was in the city yesterday and was seen by an Age 
reporter.  Mr. Ray does not look much like a daring detective, but on the 
contrary, is a mild looking, medium-size man, apparently thirty-five years of 
age.  He is a native of Randolph County, his father having emigrated to Texas 
when Mr. Ray was about fifteen years old.  Mr. Ray had told the story of the 
capture so often in Montgomery that he was tired of the subject, but kindly 
gave the Age reporter the particulars, which are given in his won words. He 
said:
	On February 16th last, I was on the Texas Pacific railroad train and 
saw Vincent.  I recognized him at once, because I had seen him here in Alabama 
about five years ago.  I was born in Randolph County in this state, my father 
afterward removing to Tallapoosa County, and thence to Texas when I was in my 
teens.  I came back here on a visit several years ago, and when here saw 
Vincent several times.  I have a good memory for faces, and had read 
descriptions of him too, so that when I saw him in February I was sure he was 
the man.  I noticed particularly the scar on his forehead.”
	I had no authority to arrest him at that time, but I set to work to be 
sure of my man.  I wrote to the governor of Alabama to know if there was a 
reward still out for him.  He replied that there was, and then I planned to 
capture him.  I took steps to secure requisition papers, and then watched the 
trains on the Texas Pacific railroad as regularly as I could. I did not see 
him again until last Sunday morning.  That morning between four and five 
o’clock the train came into Big Sandy, about 500 miles this side of El Paso.  
Just as I was stepped on the train, Vincent came out from the cars.  At once I 
crowded my gun on him, and told him to hold up his hands.  This he did 
instantly, and I straightway went through his pockets.  I found no weapon and 
only about two dollars in money.  I think he must have believed me a 
pickpocket or train robber at first, from his actions and from my own, as well 
as the hour and circumstances.  He appeared dazed.  As son as I found I had 
him safely, I told him I was going to take him to Alabama, and then he 
realized what had happened.  It old him I must take him to jail and put him in 
chains until the requisition papers arrived.  This seemed to horrify him, for 
he wilted like a child, and begged not to be treated harshly.  He promised if 
I would not chain him or humiliate him in any way, he would waive the right of 
requisition and come with me quietly to Alabama.  I immediately got aboard the 
train on which he had come in, and brought him direct to Marshall, Shreveport, 
Vicksburg, Meridian, Selma, and to Montgomery.  I did not sleep, or scarcely 
take my eyes off him until I reached the jail in Montgomery.  I told no one 
who he was, and as he was not recognized by any one I had no trouble.  Vincent 
talked very little and seemed completely broken down by his arrest.
	Mr. Ray received the $5,000 reward before he left Montgomery.  He had 
heard so much of Birmingham that he determined to see the place before he 
returned to Texas, and came up here Tuesday night.  He spent yesterday looking 
around the city and left for Texas on the 5:30 train on the Alabama Great 
Southern railroad.

Ad for Ayer & Son Advertising Agents

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)

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THE LAMAR NEWS

THURSDAY MARCH 24, 1887    
(Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, 
Alabama, as second-class matter.)
         
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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
Call in and get a free copy of the News.

Court is not attracting much attention this week.

Three murder cases set for hearing next week.

No religious services in town Sunday on account of the incessant rain.

The high school has vacated until after court.

Mrs. HANKINS was in town first of the week, the guest of Mr. E. W. BROCK and 
family.

Those who settle their arrears to the News during court will not be charged 
the credit price.

Those desiring photos, will find it to their interest to give Mr. A. H. 
SANDERS a call, east of the C. H.

We will send the paper weekly for the year to any address within the U. S. for 
the small sum of one dollar.

The Rev. T. W. SPRINGFIELD is foreman of the grand jury – much to the horror 
of the “bully boys.” Master ------ is attending to the post office in his 
stead.

Many of our old friends have called on us this week, expressing their interest 
and kind congratulations in behalf of the News.

Mrs. JEROME and little son, of Arkansas, sister of our townsman, G. W. BURNS, 
are visiting relatives in Vernon.

The following are the names of the visiting attorneys attending Court this 
week: J. H. MCGUIRE, DANIEL COLLIER, and J. B. SANFORD, of Fayette C. H., --. 
H. KEYS of Hamilton, H. J. STANDFORD of Beaverton and EZZA COLEMAN of Eutaw.

Ad for Honey of Tar

The spring rains go to show that spring reigns.

The small boy rejoiceth for fishing is in order.

A good sized blizzard struck this place on Monday last.

Whopping cough is prevalent in Vernon.

Early gardens somewhat nipped by the heavy frosts of the past week.
 
Hope the fruit crop has not been seriously injured.

We will give our readers a synopsis of the proceedings of the Court next week.

Next Sabbath is Rev. HEWITT’S regular appointment for this place.

Mr. E. W. BROCK made a trip to Columbus a few days ago.

A number of subscriptions to the News received this week.

Mrs. S. J. SHIELDS of Aberdeen, Miss is visiting friends in town.

Dr. W. A. BROWN, we regret to learn is quite ill.

Those who had the opportunity of hearing Judge SPROTT’S charge to the grand 
Jurors on Monday speak in highest praise of the same.

Mr. M. C. CROSSLY says he would not give a cent for an account on any man that 
proposed to pay his debts by wages on a railroad.  He says they invariably 
come out poorer.

DIED: On the 15th of March 1887 of apoplexy SERENA J., wife of J. R. HILBURN 
and daughter of Mr. MARSH and ELIZABETH AVERS.  She was called away without 
any warning, leaving a heart-stricken husband and five little children with 
many friends to mourn their loss.  By T. T. HILBURN

The editor of the Livingston Journal, who has known our newly appointed 
solicitor from his infancy, says:
	“Possessed of a fine ability, a through knowledge of the law, untiring 
industry and unimpeachable integrity, Mr. SMITH cannot fail to discharge the 
duties of solicitor in a manner acceptable to the people and creditable to 
himself.  There are in Alabama few men of his age who gives promise of so 
successful a career. From among the several applicants for position, Gov. Seay 
could not have made a better selection.

Ad for White’s Cream Vermifuge

Below we give a list of those that were applicants for the solicitorship of 
this circuit:
	S. MCEACHIN, of Birmingham, HENRY FOSTER, of Tuskaloosa, J. P. 
MCQUEEN, of Eutaw, L. D. GODFREY, of Gainsville, A. G. SMITH, of Livingston, 
J. M. MCGUIRE, of Fayette, S. J. SHIELDS, of Vernon, and E. D. WILCOT of 
Pickens.  Every county in the district had an applicant for the office with 
the exception of Walker and Winston.

NEWS ITEMS
Parson Talmage complains that the number of marriages in this country is 
ridiculously small when compared with the time squandering in buggy riding.

President Cleveland was fifty years old on the 18th inst., and his will soon 
be twenty-three. (sic)

Sunset Cox’s Turkish tale is to be published either this month or next.

Buffalo, N. Y. had a $450,000 fire on the 15th and on the same day Raleigh, N. 
C. had a $160,000 blaze.

Henry Middleton died in Charleston on the 11th.  He was born in 1798, and was 
the oldest inhabitant of Charleston.  He belonged to the distinguished 
Middleton family of South Carolina.

Stonewall Jackson’s memory is to be kept green by a monument on the 
battlefield at Chancellorsville, where he received the wound that caused his 
death. The people of Fredericksburg are taking the lead in the movement.

STATE ITEMS
Greenville goes dry on the 31st of December 1887.

The prohibitory laws goes into effect in Washington County after the 1st of 
May.

The members of the Alabama Legislature contributed in the aggregate $254 to 
the Montgomery Confederate monument.

Mrs. Jas. T. Russell has been appointed a notary public in Mobile County.  She 
is the second woman appointed to office in the state.

Birmingham is daily putting on metropolitan airs.  The cashier of one of the 
land companies has skipped with the funds. – [N. O. Item]

The county superintendent of Fayette County has on hand $4,642.39.  

$20,000 was paid for mineral land in the northern part of Fayette County by a 
company a few days ago.

There are 300 Walker County men living in Birmingham.

The recent grand jury of Fayette County investigated 84 cases, examined 110 
witnesses and turned 4 true bills.

Two students of the Mobile Medical College – Grant and Trammell – got in a 
fight over a game of pool, and Grant shot trammel through the leg.

It requires two offers to preserve order in Buzzard Roost, which is the 
appropriate name of a favorite negro resort in Birmingham.

The town council of Sheffield property, to exempt for twenty-five years all 
railroads and manufacturing enterprises that locate in that place.

The Dent heirs have instigated suit against B. M. LONG, of Walker County to 
recover the land on which Cordova is situated.  The suit involves thousands of 
dollars.

Some ore land in Franklin was sold a few days ago at $150 an acre.

Blount County people are greatly elated over the prospect of the building of a 
railroad through Murphee’s Valley to the Tennessee River.

Dr. J. H. Reeves, a farmer near Eufaula, takes of the hub of the horn of a 
calf when it is five to six months old and thereby he is getting a hornless 
lot of cattle.

Vincent’s trial for embezzlement comes up on the 11th of April.  He will be 
tried on thirty-nine indictments.

The State Dental Association meets in Tuskaloosa April 5th.

The Eufaula Light Infantry has disbanded, owing to a lack of public interest 
in the organization.

The bridge question at Tuskaloosa has been settled by the county commissioners 
reducing the toll one half.

Col. Newton N. Davis, who was colonel of the Twenty-fourth Alabama regiment 
during the war died in Lowndes county on the –th of this month.

E. C. Raston committed suicide in Birmingham on the 6th by cutting his 
throat.  He was from Ohio, had been on a spree and was crazed by drink.

Alabama has 1647 coke ovens.  That is about three coke ovens to every saloon 
in the state.  This is a pretty good record, but in a few years the difference 
will be still greater.

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Ad for Empire News

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

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

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.

Ad for The Marriage Guide

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

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MISSING LINKS
There are probably fifty centenarians in the United States.

The mountains on the upper San Joaquin River, California are covered with 
deer, bears, and lions.

A Maryland paper laments over the sad fate of a citizen who had “two of his 
legs cut off” by a train.

According to a recent estimate there are twice as many pet dogs owned in New 
York City as there were one year ago.

Mrs. Quincy a. Shaw, of Boston, has established twenty kindergartens and seven 
day schools, which require a yearly expenditure of $60,000.

Abject poverty is the only spur which can goad a European nobleman into 
marrying an American women, says a letter writer on the other side.

Degajaff, the eminent nihilist, who murdered Col. Soundekin three years go, 
has escaped from Siberia, and the Czar offers $6,000 for his head.

Twenty-four hours after a recent wedding in Walla Walla, Wyoming territory, 
the bride brought suit for a divorce on the ground of drunkenness.

Miss Emma Folger, a near relative of the late Secretary Folger, and at one 
time amanuensis for Charles O’Connor, is now a schoolteacher at Nantucket.

The annual revenue from the sale of ice harvested on a fifty-four-acre pond 
near Truckee, Nov. is $75,000.  A single crop of ice averages fifty thousand 
tons.

A colored girl in Laurens County, South Carolina, the Savannah News says, is 
named “fair Rose Beauty Spot Temptation Touch Me Not.”

Gen. Sheridan’s mother permanently settled the disputed question of where her 
distinguished son was born by locating that even t in Albany, N. . March 6, 
1832.  Among well-informed people it is generally thought that Mrs. Sheridan 
ought to know.

Some curious occupations are given in a San Francisco register.  Among others 
are seen “hog ranch,” “manipulator,” “sticker 
hand,” “barter,” “corker”, “mountaineer,” “restaurateur,” and several others 
of equal accuracy of fact and equal carelessness of grammar.

A citizen of Seattle, W. T. has this card standing in the newspaper 
there: “Whereas, I have left my wife and her board; whereas, I have become 
attached to another and more attractive woman, I hereby give warning to the 
public that I will in future pay my own bills without any assistance from her 
whatever.”

The death is recorded of James Kennedy, once manager of George Stephenson’s 
works at Newcastle-on-Tyne.  He planned the fist three locomotives on the 
Stockton and Durlington Railroad in 1826, and built the Liverpool, the first 
locomotive with horizontal cylinders applied directly to the crank shaft or 
axle.

An organization has just been founded in New York City which meets with 
guarded approval. It is composed of men exclusively, and is known as the 
Hissing Club.  Its members are pledged to attend, as appointed by the 
executive officers, all first performances for the purpose of using the 
sibilating of disprovable is if becomes necessary.

According to a Japanese paper a man named Tskada, who resides in Nagoya, has 
discovered a method of making flannel out of old cotton cloth.  It occupied 
him many years in bringing his invention to perfection, but he succeeded at 
length, and has established a factory, where he intends carrying on business 
upon an extensive scale.

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When Judge Sterrett of the Supreme Court was on the Common Pleas bench in 
Pittsburg he refused to grand licenses to sell liquor in a certain part of the 
city.  Among the applications thus refused was that of our Bumpus, a big mean 
physically, who was inclined to use his muscle in the settlement of dispute.  
He wrote a letter to Judge Sterrett, saying: “If you don’t grant me that 
license I’ll lick you!”  Judge Sterrett replied: “If you lick me I’ll grant 
you a license.” Bumpus didn’t try.

It is stated that a very wealthy London amateur Yachtsman has had an English 
Naval architect of reputation in this country all summer secretly examining 
the types and models of the beat Yankee craft with a view to building a yacht 
to contest for the America’s cup next season.  The new sloop is intended to 
combine the best points of the American and English models, but will be more 
like the former in the main lines of her hull, with much less draught that the 
cutter.

Very singular is the discovery in Rome of a remarkable statue, a little larger 
than life-size of Antinous, the famous favorite of Hadrian, who was denied 
after his death by the Emperor, and worshipped under the form of a new 
Bacchus. The statue is of Greek marble.  The head has not been separated from 
the trunk, and the figure is in an excellent state of preservation, except 
only the tip of the nose and the forearms.  It is entirely nude, and the left 
leg rests against a vine stem with its tendrils and bunches of grapes.

IN WASHINGTON’S HOUSE – description of Mount Vernon

A SOUTHERN MULE CONCERT – concert of mules at Chickamauga during the War.

ESTHETIC ANIMALS – It is A Fact That Many Brutes Are Quite Human in Their 
Tastes

NEED OF ECONOMY
	One of the hardest lessons in life for young people to learn is to 
practice economy.  It is a harder duty for a young man to accumulate and save 
his first $1,000 than his next #10,000.  A man can be economical without being 
mean, and it is one of his most solemn duties to lay up sufficient in his days 
of strength and prosperity to provide for himself and those who are of may be 
dependent upon him in days of sickness or misfortune.  Extravagance is one of 
the greatest evils of the present age.  It is undermining and overturning the 
loftiest and best principles that should be trained and held sacred in 
society.  It is annually ending thousands of young men and young women to ruin 
and misfortune. 
	Cultivate then, sober and industrious habits, acquire the art of 
putting a little aside every day and for your future necessities; avoid all 
unnecessary and foolish expenditures.  Spend your time only in such a manner 
as shall bring you profit and enjoyment, and your money for such things as you 
annually need for your comfort and happiness, and you will prosper in your 
lives, your business, and will win and retain the respect and honor of all 
worthy and substantial people.

WIT AND HUMOR

A MIGHTY PETROLEUM FOUNTAIN – Oil found in Baku, Russia

LOGAN’S SMART GRANDSON
Senator Logan has a smart little grandson whose name is Logan Tucker.  He is 
being carefully trained, and one of the teachings most earnestly inculcated is 
that he must not accept money from visitors.  One day not long since a friend 
of the family called and presented a stranger, to whom the little man was 
introduced.  The gentleman took him on his knee, asked his name, age, etc, the 
usual formula with children, and then, taking a bright silver dollar from his 
pocket, offered it to him.  It was a big piece of money and a big temptation.  
The boy had successfully resisted nickels, but was plainly tempted now.  He 
glanced appealingly at his mother, to be met by a shake of disapproval; then 
at grandma, another shake; then at granddad a more decided shake still.  hen 
turning his wistful eye toward the gentleman he viewed him all over from head 
to foot till apparently satisfied, when, turning toward the general, he 
said; “Why not, grandpa  He don’t want any office.” – [Washington Post]

 A CATSKILL ROMANCE – Story of a romance in the Catskill Mountains

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