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THE LAMAR NEWS

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor    VERNON, ALABAMA, MARCH 31, 1887       
VOL. IV. NO. 22

THE REAPERS – Poem – [Will Walker Harmey in Harper’s]

I DON’T INTRUDE – Short Story

MAMMA’S SHIP –Short story – [Derrick Dodd in San Francisco Post]

PLENTY OF FUEL - article about worlds coal supplies

FARM TOPICS – 
Sheep More Generally Neglected Than Any Animal Kept on the farm – [Veterinary 
Science] 

A Practical Farmer Gives Some Valuable Hints on the Care of Hogs – Two Ends of 
Farming

NEGLECTING SHEEP
	In most cases sheep are neglected to a great extent than any other 
animals that are kept on the farm.  Work horses are generally well sheltered, 
fed, and cared for.  They are protected from the cold and from storms; are 
allowed oats and corn in addition to the best hay produced on the farm; are 
supplied with water several times each day; are curried and crushed every 
morning and evening, and covered with blankets whenever it is very cold and 
they have been at work in the field or on the road.  Breeding mares also 
receive much care and attention, as their owners are constantly thinking about 
the profit to be derived from their colts.  Since dairying has become a 
profitable industry the owners of milch cows generally take excellent care of 
them. They have ascertained that kindness, protection against storms, liberal 
feeding, pains in supplying pure water, and furnishing salt at proper times 
pay.  No dairy farmer can afford to treat his cows with neglect.  Those who 
raise cattle for beef find it profitable to keep them comfortable at all 
times.  They notice that their gain is in proportion to the food they consume 
and the care they receive.  They have learned that early maturity is one of 
the results of attention and liberal feeding.
	A visit to a breeding farm shows that all the animals are well housed, 
bountifully fed, and carefully tended.  They are kept in buildings that many 
poor families would like to occupy.  The pasture where they feed in summer 
contain a variety of grass and clover, and are supplied with pure, cold water 
conducted from springs or drawn from wells.  The animals are not obliged to 
travel half a mile to obtain a drink and then quench their thirst at some 
stagnant pool.  There are open sheds where they can stand when the sun is hot, 
and trees that afford a cooling shade.  The object of every feeder is to 
improve the quality of the animal he keeps. Even swine-raisers have discovered 
the advantages of protection, cleanliness, good food, and proper care for the 
despised hog.  One does not often see now pigs running in the road or 
wallowing in the mud of gutters.  During the summer they are ordinarily in 
clover pastures that are provided with shade tress and watering troughs.  At 
other times of the year they are kept in clean yards or covered pens.  Next to 
the horse, the hog has the best shed raised on the farm.  The hog is no longer 
the scavenger of the farm. He has clean food to eat, pure water to drink, and 
a dry place to sleep on.  Even his comfort is looked after.
	But the sheep, the most tender as well as the most dependent animals 
kept on the farm, are the ones that are the most neglected.  It appears to be 
the general opinion that any kind of land is good enough for a sheep pasture.  
A land-grant railway company after it has disposed of all its lands that are 
thought to be of any value for cultivation or for grazing cattle and horses, 
adverse the remainder at a nominal price as “suitable for sheep-raising.” 
Knowing that sheep husbandry has prospered in Scotland and Vermont, while it 
has declined, in most of the states having a very productive soil, some people 
have arrived at the conclusion that ledges of rocks, sand banks, huge 
boulders, cobble-stones, and stunted bushes are excellent for sheep.  They 
have also leaned that deep snows, severe storms, and long winters are very 
favorable to success in sheep raising.  Many seem to think that the land they 
occupy is not well adapted to sheep because it produces good crops of grass 
and is free from stones, stumps, and bushes.  If they keep any sheep, it is 
for the purpose of utilizing some land that is too rocky and barren to produce 
paying crops that require cultivation and which is of very little value for 
pasturing cattle and horse.  Someone has said that “the worst pun is the best 
one,” and many seem to think that the poorest land for other purposes is the 
best for sheep.
	Few persons seem to think that it is necessary or even advisable to 
improve a sheep pasture.  They believe that these animals can “pick up a 
living” on land where any kind of vegetation grow.  How to keep sheep without 
any coast is a problem that many persons have been trying to solve.  Volumes 
have been written to prove that sheep will live for months without water, 
providing they are in a region where there are heavy dews.  Few sheep-raisers 
are at the trouble and expense of sinking wells and putting in pumps operated 
by wind-power for the purpose of raising water for their flocks.  If there is 
a creek or pool within half a mile they will oblige sheep to go to it to 
obtain drink. Some think that they should be satisfied with the moisture 
supplied by dew, as humming-birds are.  Every few months someone “rushes into 
print” to declare that sheep will live for years without salt.  The straw of 
wheat, barley, rye, and flax, is thought to be good enough food for sheep 
during the winter.  They advocate allowing them to remain in a rocky pasture 
till the frost kills and the snow covers the grass and they return them to his 
place early in the spring for feat that the hay will not “hold out’ for the 
cattle and horse.  During all the year they complain that “the bottom has 
fallen out of the wool business.” – [Chicago Times]

Plain Facts About Hog Cholera


A NOVELIST WHOSE WORKS CAST A SHADOW ON THE PACIFIC
	I think I was led into a moralizing mood by Henry James, whose stories 
gave me a day’s reading.  They cast a shadow across the sunlit sea, and the 
worst of it is that one cannot easily lay aside a book written by Henry 
James.  He is a very “Ancient Mariner,” and holds you with his glittering eye 
until his tale is told, however uncomfortable it makes you.  All of these 
stories – “Daily Miller”, “An International Episode” “The Dairy of a Man of 
Fifty” “A Bundle of Letter” – are subtly fed from a single root, which might 
be labeled – “All is vanity.”  Each might have for its vignette a flower-
fringed promenade, turning to a thorny path and ending nowhere.  Is it so in 
real life?  Then so much the worse for real life.  So at least it appeared to 
me as I read these pages on the Pacific.  Long-fellow had told the great 
difference it made in his friend’s poem, as he read it by sunlight or 
moonlight.  I read Henry James’ works in London, where there is little 
sunshine, and they appeared impressively realistic and largely true, but they 
can’t stand this tropical sunshine.  Life is not so fruitless as these 
characters make out. “Daily Miller” did not die of the Roman fever.  She is on 
this ship and quite recovered from her infatuation, as well as the fever, is 
going out with Winterborune to visit his sugar estate near Honolulu.  Miss 
Alden, now Lady Lambeth, was in San Francisco when I left; she concluded that 
after all it wasn’t the poor fellow’s fault that he was a nobleman and that 
there was no international law to prevent her marrying him.  Her relatives all 
came to the wedding breakfast, and strange to say, she told me with her own 
pretty lips that Henry James was present.  There is a certain truth about the 
story of the “Man of Fifty” though it is only half told.  The same must be 
admitted about the “Bundle of Letter’s although I don’t like to admit it, and 
will insist that so many people of feeble instincts could rarely be got 
together, even in a Pairs boarding house.  Henry James is not cynical, yet the 
most pathetic thing about his writing is his humor.  I have many a time felt 
proud of such a countryman, the only living novelist, save Howells, worthy to 
be mentioned with Tougeunief.  But he falls short of the great Russian by not 
compensating his reader for catastrophes to happiness by the triumphs of heart 
and heroic faith. – [M. D. Conway, in letter written on board ship, in 
Philadelphia Times}

MISS EASTLAKE’S QUAINT GOWNS
	Miss Eastlake affects the quaint gowns which are unlike the 
fashionable garb that the average woman of today clothes her figure in.  These 
gowns, by the way, have created more or less discussion, both in and out of 
print.  To my mind, however, the ----  form no slight part of the same 
individuality that on every side besets the lady.  To se Miss Eastlake arrayed 
in anything by the soft, dark, clinging plushes that are cut so as to hang 
principally from the shoulders, with the broad, deep frill of fine embroidery 
or lace gathered around the neck, that have become famous in London as 
the “Eastlake collar” would seem like taking the pretty children that Kate 
Green away know so well how to draw in picturesque attire, and decking the 
instead, like a French doll that the --- Parisian child selects in one of the 
giant toy shops of Paris.  The word --- which has been applied so often to 
Miss Eastlake is not the proper word --- in describing her at all. That is, ---
 in this ago in England and America understand the word.  That Miss Eastlake 
is a believe in --- is true, for she is a firm believer in the science which 
treats of all that is beautiful in art and nature, which is the true 
definition of the word, but that she is limp, clinging, languid, or sickly 
sentimental, either in manner or appearance, is a libel of the utmost 
magnitude. – [Boston Herald]

ONLY ONE – joke

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THE LAMAR NEWS
E. J. MCNATT, Publisher

THURSDAY MARCH 31, 1887

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We hope to give our readers flattering news of our anticipated rail road in 
the next issue of the News.

Only a little over two miles of track-lying on the G. P. between Columbus and 
Birmingham.

President Cleveland has vetoed 135 bills since his inauguration – more than 
all the vetoes of all the presidents put together.

Mr. Edmunds says that the Democrats will be compelled to re-nominate Cleveland 
in 1888; he does not consider the re-nomination of Blaine at all essential to 
Republican success.

Fears are entertained that Mrs. Beecher will not long survive her husband.  
She is reported as being thoroughly prostrated although she has bravely 
endeavored to bear up under her great affliction.

Senator Sherman, of Ohio, paid Birmingham a visit last week and stopped at the 
Florence Hotel..  Mr. Cowin, the proprietor, refused to allow the colored 
people to call on him in his room, whereupon the distinguished Senator paid 
his bill and removed to other quarters.  He addressed an audience of 1,200 
people at the Opera House that night.

John Sherman may not get the Republican Presidential nomination in 1888, but 
even if he fails, the country will admire his persistency.  John has been in 
every fight for the presidency during the past twenty years, and each time was 
bit between the eyes and carried out on a shutter. – [N. O. States]

Sense from Sam Jones: “If I wanted to get good square judgment on something I 
had done I would rather go to a newspaper office for it than to any other 
court of justice.  I know that the newspapers probe into men’s characters, but 
the pure need not fear all the presses in American.  The way to be safe from 
so-called newspaper attacks is to be a Christian.  The reporters are the best 
detective force in this country.  They have brought more criminals to justice 
and punished more shame than all other agencies combined.”

Tuskaloosa, Ala. March 19 – The Tuskaloosa Northern Railroad was organized 
here today under its legislative charter, with H. H. Peck, of Cincinnati, as 
President; W. C. Jemison, Vice-President; George A. Searcy, Treasurer, and S. 
A. Wood, Secretary.  Work on the construction of the road, which is already 
located, will begin at once.  A junction with the Georgia Pacific and Kansas 
City railroad, win Walker County, will be made at the earliest day possible, 
and then the work will be pushed on to the Tennessee River.  The survey 
already being made by Chief Engineer McCain for the Tuscaloosa Land --- will 
be used by the ---- (can’t read)

The Selma Times has this to say of Alabama’s defaulting Treasurer:
	The people of the South have always looked with scorn on the maudlin 
sentiment North that a criminal a hero.  Bouquets and bon-bons sent to jail 
birds here have filled us with astonishment.  The forger, the burglar, the 
sneak thief, the bank cobber, the prize fighter, the murderer have each in 
turn there been the heroes over whom weak men shed tears, and on whom silly 
women lavish their affection.  Down South heretofore, the thief has been 
simply a thief, and the murderer a murderer.  No Southern girl ever wanted to 
marry a spies.  But it seems that is changed.  Vincent was the darling of 
Montgomery society. Wine, women and wassail brought him to a felon’s cell.  
Now we are told that bouquets make fragrant his cell that cigars of the finest 
brand tickle his palate, that carpets of finest eastern texture make soft his 
narrow foot falls, and that – but we forbear, for after all he is but a vulgar 
thief.  Reveling in the confidence of a whole State, he abused that confidence 
rioted in pleasure, robbed the unsuspicious, fled like a galley slave, was 
apprehended in dishonor, fills a felon’s cell, and will, hereafter, if justice 
be done, aid materially in the development of Alabama’s marvelous mineral 
wealth.

Washington, March 23 – The Interstate Commerce Commission, as appointed last 
night be the President, taken by the general public in Washington on trust.  
With the exception of Commissioner Morrison very little is know here 
personally of the five members, so very little comment is made.  Judge 
Cooley’s reputation as an eminent jurist is buoying him.  Judge Schoonmaker 
and Capt. Bragg are considered good men by those who know them.  Mr. Walker is 
absolutely unknown, except to Mr. Edmunds, to whose influence the appointment 
is unquestionable due.  Taking it all in all, the opinion as expressed by the 
few who are wiling to commit themselves is that the commission is as good a 
one as the circumstances would permit. It is universally conceded that the 
task of selecting the commission was the most difficult of its kind.  Mr. 
Cleveland has yet encountered.  The varying political and sectional interests 
to be consulted; the relatively small salaries, etc., made it an unenviable 
job.  There is, of course, a good deal of minor criticism.  Southerners 
complain that their Representatives should be given the two year place, and 
Democrats complain that Cooley, a Republican, should be, by name, put at the 
head of the commission. 

	On the 23rd, at the Mobile Cotton Exchange, was presented to Beebe 
McCaw the colored boy hero of the Gardener disaster, a handsome memorial in 
the name of the citizens of Demopolis, Ala.  Col. D. E. Huger, president of 
the exchange, made the presentation, as requested in a letter from Demopolis 
signed by Messrs Jno. Parr, M. Mayer and H. C. Monier.  There was no 
formality, simply a presentation in return for which young McCaw expressed 
thanks.”
	The present consists of a large railroad timepiece, a silver watch of 
the Elgin make, and a silver chain.  The watch is engraved.
	“Citizens of Demopolis to B. B. McCaw. - For heroic conduct at the 
burning steamer, Gardener, March 1, 1887.”
	Accompanying this was a small box containing $110 in gold pieces.
	Had he stolen a horse it would be otherwise.

A man was just cremated in Buffalo who will find it difficult to prove his 
exact afflcity in the next world.  He was born a Jew and married two wives in 
that faith in St. Louis, then he went to Utah and became a Mormon and married 
two wives.  His first wife got a divorce, and pretty soon he got one from the 
other two and joined a Protestant church in Omaha.  This didn’t suit him, and 
he became a spiritualist, and after this he became an agnostic and died. 

NEWS ITEMS

Rockhill, S. C. was nearly destroyed by fire recently.

Business failures for the past two weeks are estimated as 502.

High waters are doing great damage in Dakota Territory.

Two more New York defaulters skipped to Canada recently.

The Czar of Russia is in constant dread of being assassinated

Senator Jon Sherman made a speech at Nashville, Tenn. on the 24.

Baltimore claims a population of 484,466 inhabitants.

Nashville is on a boom and real estate is climbing up enormously.

Colonel Robert Ingersoll says he will deliver to more anti-religious lectures.

Great excitement in Ireland owing to the arrest of Keller, a popular priest.

Austria, Germany, and Italy have formed an alliance offensive and defensive.

Atlanta, Dalton, Gainesville, Griffin, Rome, Thomasville, and several others 
Georgia towns are on big booms.

By a fire in Buffalo, N. Y. last week the Richmond Hotel was destroyed and 
twelve persons perished.

Walter E. Lawton, of the fertilizer Co., Broadway, N. Y. has skipped his 
defacations amount to $500,000.

Dr. T. G. Ford, a New Orleans convicted of slaying his wife’s seducer, has 
been pardoned by the Governor of Louisiana.

Aberdeen, Miss, March 23 – Charley Taylor, United States prisoner, charged 
with robbing the post office in Columbus, Miss, and arrested in Nashville in 
December, escaped from the Monroe County jail here last night by sawing 
through the iron bars.  Sheriff J. H. Marshall discovered the escape at 3 
o’clock in the morning, and places his whole force of deputies in the field ---
- of the prisoner before daylight offering $50 reward for him.

Gen. Logan’s son, John A. Logan Jr. was married to an Ohio millionaire’s 
daughter in Yanaugatown on the 22nd inst.  The bride’s wedding gown cost $600.

An extra session of the Missouri Legislature has been called by the Governor 
to meet the 1st of May to consider the neglected rail road matters.

The welfare of a paper consists solely and simply in satisfying the public.  
The public is made up of so many and varied factors a newspaper can only 
address itself to the average, and it is with the average, that is, the real 
public, in view that nay matter is represented or discuss.  There are, of 
course, desirable exceptions to the plan, as when the paper offers to perform 
the functions of teacher, or guide, or educator, when its aim and purpose are 
higher.  It then exerts an influence other than that of the mere newspaper. – 
[Chicago Inter Ocean]

A Northern man has invented a hovel style of ear trumpet for deaf persons.  It 
is an ordinary looking walking cane hollowed out and containing a small ear 
tube in its head.  When the wearer wishes to use the cane for an ear trumpet 
he has simply to press a little spring and the tiny ear-tube shoots into 
position.  At other times the cane can be used as an ordinary walking stick.

Ad for Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment.

Ad for Ayer & sons Advertising Agents

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.

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.

Ad for Mme. Demorest’s Patterns and Sewing Machine

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 31, 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
Good attendance at Court this week.

Read Grand Jurors report elsewhere.

The Board of Education meets next Monday.

Chills are becoming quite common in this vicinity.

We call attention to the notice of Prof. Wilkerson in this issue.

Master DICK MORTON is clerking for Mr. HUGH PENNINGTON this week.

We were pleased to meet Hon. J. H. BANKHEAD, Congressman elect, in town on 
Tuesday.

In next issue will appear an advertisement for the Grocery Store of Dr. W. C. 
BROWN.

Judge COBB was confined to bed on Friday and Saturday from a severe attack of 
colic.

The negro charged with wrecking --- ain on the G. P. R. R. was acquitted on 
Tuesday.

For lack of space, we postpone the treasurer’s and Superintendent’s report 
until next week.

The Treasurer’s’ report show a balance on hand of $35.00 and the Do. St. Ed., 
a balance of $2,427.37.

The fruit crop we have been informed has been almost totally destroyed in this 
section by the late cold snap.

We have got so far into the boom that some of the capitalists have been ---- 
options on town property.

Mr. JNO. A. BROWN and little daughter of Columbus, Miss after spending several 
days in town, returned home end of the week.

Mr. J. F. MCDANIEL will leave in a few days for Jeffersontown, KY, where he 
has a contract on a railroad.  He gave us a pleasant call on Saturday last 
week and ordered the News sent him out there.

One dollar cash pays for the News.

The trial of THOMAS B. BEARD for the murder of C. K. COOK is attracting much 
interest.

Representatives of the Kansas City road were in town Monday assessing the 
taxes of said road.

LOST: a piece of log-chain with a hook on one end.  Finder will please return 
to G. W. RUSH.

March came in like a lamb, but present indications are that it will blow 
things into the middle of next month.

The Grand Jury adjourned last Saturday at noon, after having investigated 87 
cases, returned 54 bills, and examined 107 witnesses.

We learn that the hail storm which visited this locality on Sunday last, fell 
to the depth of six inches about three miles north of this place.

Dr. W. L. GUIN, of St. Joseph, Mo. Formerly a citizen and also sheriff of this 
county, is visiting relatives and many friends in this place.

Mr. SANDERS, the artist, will only remain in Vernon one week from next 
Saturday.  He goes from here to Kennedy.  Those desiring pictures would do 
well to call at once.

In addition to visiting attorneys mentioned in last issue, Col. S. M. MEEK of 
Columbus is added to the bar this week.

A man is reported to have hunted up the preacher in Hanceville the other day 
to pay his quarterage, and he was not a member of the church either.

If you want a good gin or nay part or piece about it; or a good scale of any 
style; or steam engine, call on the undersigned, W. B. MCMANUS

The railroad surveyors have been taking field notes in this vicinity for 
several days, and many people are now jubilant over railroad prospects that 
they can almost hear the engine whistle.

A one-year old grandchild of Mr. RICE BROWN was seriously burned on Friday 
last by falling into the fire.  We learn the child is doing as well as could 
be expected.

Rev. G. L. HEWITT left on Tuesday, for Corona, to meet Mrs. HEWITT, and little 
ones who have been absent for several months on a visit to relatives in 
Jefferson County.  We suppose they will be at home in few days.

A sad occurrence was witnessed four miles west of this place on last Monday, 
Mrs. NED LAWRENCE while in a field where brush and leaves were being burned, 
her clothing became ignited and she was soon so badly burned that she died on 
Tuesday.

GREEN PEARSON who ahs been running a “blind tiger” near Buttahatchie on the 
Kansas City, was arrested by Sheriff PENNINGTON and posse latter part of last 
week and is in jail.  He was also found to have a concealed pistol for which 
he will have to account.

The last news from Capt. TILLEY, the rail road surveyor, who was in Vernon 
last Thursday, -----Texas, in Marion County, and was highly pleased with the 
route so far as traveled.  The survey will be commenced at Columbus within ten 
or fifteen days and go the most profitable route to Decatur.

NOTICE - All persons holding claims against the school fund of Lamar County 
for services rendered during the scholastic year 1882 will please inform me of 
the amount of their respective claims immediately so that I can make the 
necessary arrangements for partial payment of the same.  Parties may address 
me either at Kingsville or Vernon, Ala.  
Very Respectfully,
B. H. WILKERSON, Co. Supt. Ed.

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THIS WEEKS CALLS
The following named gentlemen paid the News pleasant calls this week:
MONDAY
COL. WM. M. STONE of Pine Springs, Mr. GREEN E. BANKHEAD, of Cansler, Dr. J. 
W. COLLINS, of Kingville,
TUESDAY
DANIEL COLLIER, Esq., of Fayette C. H., Mr. A. J. LOWRY of Pine Springs, Mr. 
R. G. NOLEN of Kingville, Dr. J. B. GUIN, of Wayside, and Mr. J. W. ABBOTT of 
Fernbank.
WEDNESDAY
Messrs. M, M, BROWN of Molloy, W. B. PEARSON of Tuskaloosa, S. W. KEMP of 
Molloy, H. R. CADDEL of Columbus, and Mr. MILLS of Tuskaloosa County.

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GRAND JURORS’S REPORT
To Hon. S. H. SPROTT, Judge Presiding:
	The Grand Jury empanelled and sworn at this tem of having endeavored 
to discharge the duties incumbent on them, respectfully submit the following 
summary of their labors.
	We have invested all violations of law which have come to our 
knowledge so far as the attendance of witnessed could be procured and returned 
bills in all cases of felonies, and all cases of misdemeanors which in our 
opinion the public good required prosecution.  We have investigated 87 cases 
returned 54 bills, and examined 107 witnesses.  A number of cases have been 
docketed where we could not pressure the attendance of a single witness; they 
having evaded the process of the court as we have good reason to believe.  We 
hope the good citizens of the county will do all in their power to charge of 
public sentiment in this respect.
	The Justices of the Peace have not been as prompt as in reporting 
their dockets to the Grand Jury as they should have done.  This report should 
be made within the first three days of the first week of the Court; and we 
hope that they will do this hereafter, or the Grand Jury might adjourn before 
they report, and they be indicted.
	We have made a personal inspection of the condition of the county jail 
and found that all the requirements law relative to the safe keeping and 
comfort of the prisoners have complied with, so far as lay in the power of the 
jailor.  The reports to us from Probate Judge and Circuit Clerk show that this 
has generally been the case since the last term of the Court.
	The County Treasurer and Superintendent of Education have both 
submitted a statement of the condition of their respective offices which we 
hereto attach and submit as a part of this report.
	The books of the different county officers have undergone such an 
examination as the limited time at our disposal permitted, and we found them 
well and neatly kept and no illegal fees charged.
	We have examined the bonds of all the county offices and report them 
to legal form and sufficiently secured.
	In conclusion, we tender our thanks to your Honor for the able and 
explicit charge received which has facilitated our work greatly; we further 
state and tender our tanks for the efficient aide of Mr. A. G. SMITH, 
solicitor, aided by Mr. E. W. COLEMAN, and would state we very much regret the 
loss of T. W. COLEMAN, former solicitor, but feel much gratified by his place 
being so ably filled by Mr. SMITH, present incumbent.
	All of which is respectfully submitted, asking a discharge,
	T. W. SPRINGFIELD, Foreman 

STATE ITEMS
W. H. SKAGGS has been again nominated for Mayor of Talladega.

A planning mill to cost about $10,000 is being built at Renfro, Ala.

The Montgomery ladies are sending delicacies and bouquets to Ike Vincent.

Burglars are plying their vocation successfully in Eufaula.

The Presbytery of North Alabama meets at Gadsden, on Wednesday, 6th April.

Real estate has advanced In Tuskaloosa and its clever people are displaying a 
progressive spirit.

Walker County has several coal companies, and these organizations are composed 
of the wealthiest men in the state.

The Knights of Labor are numerous in Birmingham and are building a suburban 
town named Powderly.

Blount Springs is to have a magnificent hotel and other improvements.

Avondale, one of the suburbs of Birmingham, is making ready to be incorporated.

The route of the dummy line connecting Calera with South Calera has been 
surveyed.

The U. S. Court at Birmingham adjourned without paying witness fees.  No funds 
to do so.

The Tallapoosa County Bank has just been organized.  Its capital is $50,000. 

W. H. Hassenger and others, of New Orleans, La, are in Birmingham, Ala with a 
view to erecting a rolling mill.

No settlement with the striking Walker County coal miners has yet been arrived 
at.

The Birmingham Age has been enlarged to a seven column quarts, and is now the 
largest daily paper in Alabama

$16,000 have been subscribed towards erecting the cotton mill at Tuskaloosa, 
previously reported, HJ. H. Pitts is interested.

The last term of the Circuit Court cost the county one thousand, forty-two 
dollars and sixty-five cents. – [Fayette Journal]

The Elyton Land Company pays taxes on $401,400 worth of property inside the 
city limits of Birmingham.

Parties from Evansville, Ind. contemplate building gas works at Birmingham, 
Ala.

J. M. Tompson and S. G. Painter will erect a large six-story building at 
Birmingham, Ala.

James Ross, who lives in the western part of Lauderdale county, a few days ago 
accidentally shot and killed his brother.

The Sloss Iron & Steel Co., Birmingham, Ala will hold a meeting on April 7th, 
to consider increasing their capital stock 8,000,000.

Blount’s County Commissioners have been arrested and placed under bond for 
failing to make their annual report in January last, which is a violation of 
the law.

The Gate City Land Co., capital stock $600,000, has been incorporated at 
Birmingham, ala, to start a manufacturing town about five miles from 
Birmingham.  Fred Sloss is interested.

The Florence Gazette says the limestone on the McNabb furnaces are soon to be 
begun, has been analyzed by experts, and found to contain 93 percent of 
carbonate of line, a very rich percentage, and rendering it of great value as 
a flux for iron purposes.

A very shocking accident occurred near Anderson, Blount County, on 23rd, a Mr. 
Jno. A. Bates had just returned to the field to plow when a cold rain and 
sleet began to fall, and he stopped by a large tree for shelter, when another 
tree fell upon him and crushed him into the ground.  When he was found one of 
his hands was still on his plow handle, though his legs and arms were badly 
broken in several places, and the brains from his shattered skull were found 
sticking to the tree by which he was supposed to have been standing.  He was a 
good man and leaves a wife and five little children.

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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

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

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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

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 SC
HOOL: 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

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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.

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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FARM NOTES

A good animal should be a heavy feeder.

If you want to raise “stunts” keep the calves in the patch with the pigs.

Many farmers trust too much in luck and the moon and do too little close 
figuring.

Never drive a horse fast on a full stomach.  Hurry by going slow the first few 
miles.

A blockhead armed with a saw and pruning shears is as destructive in an 
orchard as a bull in a china store.

Milk sold at 5 cents a quart pays about the same net as butter sold for 28 
cents a pound, says an eastern expert.

Show us where lives the farmer who makes it a rule to borrow tools, and we 
will show you broken gates, lousy calves, and dirty stables.

If you receive trees or plants shipped from a distance, it is well to place 
the roots in water for from twelve to twenty-four hours before planting out.

Sheep will eat nearly all kinds of weeds, and may be made to do good service 
in some fields.  They should, however, always be given a feed of grain at 
night.

The largest barn in the world is probably that of the union cattle Company, of 
Cheyenne, near Omaha.  It covers five acres, cost $125,000, and accommodates 
3,750 head of cattle.

If the manger or feed box be so foul as to omit a sour smell from any cause, 
it should be carefully cleansed and washed with a solution of soda or potash 
until perfectly sweet again.

To protect young fruit trees in unfenced lots or along the roadsides drive 
three stakes around the tree and wind barbed wire around them close enough to 
keep an animals teeth away from the tree.

Use the scales on the farm in order to more accurately keep an account of all 
sales and purchases, as well as the amount of food allowed.  Every meal should 
be weighed, and the gain or loss of flesh carefully observed.

In buying pigs for breeding stock the best is the cheapest, though it costs a 
little more money.  The reason why breeders justify themselves in saving runts 
is because some men are thoughtless enough to buy them at a low price.

A contemporary says: Dip soft wood posts, such as willow and popular, into 
coal tar, and the wood is made to last in the ground equal to the best 
seasoned oak.”  Any person can satisfy himself of the fallacy of this by the 
experiment.

Ivy or any vine that runs perpendicularly up a tree does not injure it unless 
branches from the vine extend along the branches and by its mass of leaves 
smother the leaves of the tree.  Vines like Wisteria, that coil around a 
trunk, do injure trees.

The Scientific American is right when it says: “Nothing will purify and keep a 
stable so free from odors as the free use of dry earth, and every one keeping 
horses or cattle will find that it pays to keep it on hand, to be used daily.  
A few shovelfuls of earth scattered over after cleaning will render the air of 
the apartment pure and wholesome.

When confined to close quarters fowls require more care and attention.  
Unlimited range is not absolutely necessary in order to raise prime fowls, for 
some breeds will not roam beyond certain limits, though hundreds of acres may 
be stretched before them, but if ample range can be had it is more convenient 
and greatly lessens the cost of keeping.

Once a week, during dry weather, if sulphur and powdered charcoal be mixed 
with soft food for the young chickens it serves as an admirable cleanser of 
the stomach.  It saves them from becoming crop bound, it aids digestion very 
materially, and assists to keep away lice, for the sulphur permeates the whole 
body and works outwardly through the skin pores.

Never again will growers get the prices formerly paid for fancy fruit.  Time 
was when pears readily sold for $3 a bushel in the orchard, and even higher 
prices were often obtained by shipping to eastern cities.  Pears are now so 
common that $1 a bushel net to the grower is considered a good price, while 
large quantities not up to the standard are sold at 50 cents a bushel.  And 
yet probably never before was so much money made in fruit as now.  Lower 
prices have compelled fruit growers to study the best methods of production 
and to economize as much as possible.

A DELUDED ARISTOCRAT – article about Mme. La Mere

CHANGING CLOTHING
	Many persons lose life every year by an injudicious change of 
clothing, and the principles involved need repetition almost every year.
	If clothing is to be diminished, it should be done in the morning, 
when first dressing.  Additional clothing may be safely put on at any time.
	In the Northern states the undergarments should not be changed for 
those less heavy sooner than the middle of May; for even in June a fire is 
very comfortable sometimes in New York parlors.
	Woolen flannels out to be worn next to the person by all during the 
whole year, but a thinner material may be worn after the first of June.
	A blazing fire should be kept in every family room until 10 o’clock in 
the morning, and rekindled again an hour before sundown up to the first week 
in June, and from the first day of October.
	Particular and tidy housekeepers, by arranging their fireplaces for 
the summer too early, oftentimes put the whole family to a serious discomfort, 
and endanger health by exposing them to sit in chilliness several hours every 
morning, waiting for the weather to moderate, rather than to have the 
fireplace or grate all blacked up; that is, rather than be put to the trouble 
of another fixing up for the summer, they expose the children to croup, and 
the old folks to inflammation of the lungs.  The old and young delight in 
warmth; it is to them the greatest luxury.  Half the diseases of humanity 
would be swept from existence if the human body were kept comfortably warm all 
the time.  The discomfort of cold feet or of a chilly room many have 
experienced to their sorrow; they make the mind peevish and fretful, while 
they expose the body to colds and the inflammations which often destroy it is 
less than a week. – [Hall’s Journal of Health]

An Indianapolis preacher says base ball encourages loaferism.

DOMESTIC ECONOMY
Clara Bell Discusses on Fancy Work – How to Entertain Guests
Some Choice Recipes for Croquettes, Cakes, OPies, and Puddings
FANCY WORK
	Among the fancy work I have seen here, writes Clara Bell from 
Narragansett Pier, none is better than that of ornamenting linen doylies that 
come ready stamped with the designs of various kinds, by embroidering or 
outblue stitching the same with colored ----silks or cottons.  Greenaway 
figures of children and little people, flounces of flowers and fruit, 
chickens, ducks and geese, pug dogs, rabbits, squirrels, little goats, and 
tiny baby elephants, in all sorts of odd groups and single figures are the 
subjects found on those ready-stamped linens, to be had in all the so-called 
art embroidery stores, the magazines for fancy work which abound not only in 
New York, but in all our large cities.
	Dried rose leaves make a nice filling for a perfume bag or sachet, 
and, as the petals of all the roses you get may be carefully dried in your 
room in the shade, you may make the bags to hold them while enjoying your 
rocking chair on the piazza or your hammock on the lawn.  First make a bag 
eight inches wide and fifteen long of thin silk, and fill it three-quarters 
full with your rose petals when dry.  Now take a piece of linen lawn or fine 
Swiss muslin, and make a slip cover for your silken sack.  Hen the top, put a 
frill of lace around it, and, slipping it over the silken bag, tie it with a 
ribbon low enough to give it a meal-bag shape.  A spray of roses may be worked 
or appliqué on the outside of the muslin cover, and a motto, “Sweets to the 
Sweet.” Or Sweetest When Crushed: or some such legend, traced in colored silk 
stitches under, over, or through the device.  These rose-bags laid in bureau 
drawers or placed under the pillows of an invalid are pleasant and yield a 
healthy perfume. 
	Tussore silk and pongee are lovely materials for chair scarfs, pillow 
covers, work-bags, fancy work-aprons, and many other fancy toilet and 
household articles.  Cingress canvas is another favored stuff for such 
purposes.  It is a coarse grenadine fabric, the threads of which can be easily 
pulled out for drawn work, while embroidery and appliqué show to fine 
advantage on its coarse surface.  It is thirty-six inches wide, cream-colored, 
and costs 60 cents a yard.  Tussore silk costs $1 a yard; pongee about the 
same.  They are both about a yard wide.
	The taste for quaint conceits in the way of ornamental and useful pin-
cushions is on the increase.  The newest are made of colored silks and velvets 
to represent fruit lying on their leaves.  The steaks and ripening shades are 
then put on with paint.  The stalks are of gutta-percha, such as milliners use 
in making artificial flowers.  Apples, pears, peaches, melons, cucumbers, 
tomatoes, plums, grapes, and nectarines are produced by the artistic worker in 
these novelties.
Unbleached huckaback is chosen by some workers as the foundation of which the 
designs for quilts are embroidered in silk or cottons.  First, the whole of 
the huckaback foundation is ---- with a darning stitch in gold filosole or red 
silk.  The stitch is easily made by passing the needle and thread under the 
two little raised strands of the fabric, either lengthwise, crosswise or 
diagonally.  If diagonally, it will require a second running in the opposite 
direction.  This accomplished, the squares of the quilt or pieces, no matter 
what the shape, may be decorated with sunflowers, daisies, danlias, or deg 
roses, outlined in buttonhole stitch with two shades of silk, and the center 
of the flower filled in with French knots of darker silk or any tasteful 
pattern can be worked on the foundation in any stitch preferred, in either 
silk or cotton.

UNDUE ATTENTION TO GUESTS
	Do not exercise your mind too much about amusing your guest, is the 
good advice of a writer in Chamber’s Journal.  I have often though that in 
some foreign countries, and notably in many parts of America, the relation of 
host and guest was a sort of double slavery.  The host has the comfort and 
amusement of his guest so painfully at heart that both undergo for the time 
being an amount of social misery that entirely spoils the freedom and pleasure 
of the visit.
	In our country it is different.  Go to spend a week in an Englishman’s 
house, and you may be sure that neither your host nor hostess will bother you 
about trifling matters unless you seem to desire it.  Everything goes on as 
though you were not there, and yet per contra, the house and its belongings 
are practically yours so long as you remain.  I consider it the extreme of bad 
taste to pursue a visitor with continual offers of amusement.  If treated as a 
member of the family and suffered to amuse himself as he will generally do 
very well, and will feel much happier and move at ease than when he is too 
closely looked after.
	I have heard persons complain bitterly of undue attentions and 
continual running after, from which they have suffered far more acutely than 
if actually neglected.  “Where is Mrs. Dash? Who is sitting with her?” cries 
the hurried hostess.  “Good gracious! Is it possible she has been left by 
herself? Go at once, May, or Julia, or Tommy, and sit with her and amuse her 
until I have time to come?” And all the while, perhaps, the hapless Mrs. Dash 
is struggling to get a letter or two written, or a bill or account made up, 
and is congratulating herself upon the unwonted luxury of a few delicious 
moments of absolute quiet.  She is reveling in the thought of being alone, 
when lo! Miss May, aged 10, comes awkwardly in, and stand sniffling in the 
window or sits otherwise upon the piano stool, strumming with one hand at the 
notes, which is her idea of keeping the visitor company until mamma comes.  Or 
master Tommy, aged 12, enters with a burst of noise and proceeds to relate to 
the afflicted guest how he and Jack Jones are in the same Latin class, and 
said Jones is beyond him in Euclid, though inferior in something else’; and 
how Brown licked Black for calling him a dunce –with a variety of the 
information by no means interesting to unconcerned parties.  To this annoyance 
there are few of us who have not been subjected.  A greater error of judgment 
can scarcely be committed. To make a guest feel comfortable and at home, leave 
him pretty much to his own devices.  To be always striving to amuse him is a 
poor compliment to his own resources.

CHOICE RECIPES

BEEF CROQUETTS – Two cups of cold beef chopped very fine, half a cup of bread 
crumbs, two eggs, one tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce, parsley, salt, 
and pepper.  Mix the meat and bread together, add the seasoning, and moisten 
with the egg.  If the compound is still too dry work in a little melted 
butter.  With floured hands form the compound into croquettes, roll these 
first in egg, then in cracker crumbs, and fry to a good brown.

APPLE CUSTARD PIE = Peel sour apples and stew until soft, then mash them fine, 
beat two eggs for each pie to be baked; put in at the rate of half-cup butter 
and one cup sugar for two pies.  Line the pie-tins with paste; put in the 
apples, eggs, sugar, and butter and a grated nutmeg, after they have been 
mixed.  For top crust put strips across n squares or triangles, and bake in a 
quick oven.

DANDY PUDDING – Two quarts of sweet milk, one tablespoonful of corn starch 
dissolved in some of the cold milk, six eggs, beat the yolks with enough sugar 
to sweeten, say three tablespoonfuls. Stir in the eggs and sugar before the 
milk gets hot, then the corn starch.  Let the mixture come to a boil, stirring 
all the time to prevent burning.  Flavor with lemon.  The pudding should be 
about the consistency of thick cream when done.  Beat the whites with a little 
sugar, flavor, spread on the top and brown.

APPLE SLUM – Pare and slice one quart of apples, put them into a kettle with 
half teacup of water, half cup of molasses, half cup sugar, let them stew 
while preparing the crust.  For the crust, take one pint flour, one 
teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half teaspoonful soda, a little salt, and milk 
to make it stiff enough to roll about an inch thick.  Lay it on top the 
apples, cover close and let it cook in oven half an hour with a moderate 
fire.  Do not lift the cover until done.  Serve hot with butter and cream.

FRENCH MUSTARD – Put an anion to soak in a cup of vinegar, let stand three 
days, strain and add one teaspoonful each of salt, sugar, and cayenne pepper, 
mustard to thicken, and boil five minutes.

TEA CAKES – Mix for fifteen minutes four eggs with half a pound of sugar, half 
a grated nutmeg, and as much powdered cloves as will lie on the tip of a 
dinner knife.  Then add half a pound of dry and sifted flour and mix 
thoroughly have a greased or waxed tin, drop a tablespoonful of the dough at 
intervals upon it, and bake a pale brown in a moderate oven.

COOKED CUCUMBERS – Peel and put into ice water for a few minutes, then slice 
thicker than for the table and put into salted boiling water and cook until 
tender.  Drain, and add butter, salt and pepper, with cream enough for a 
dressing, and pour over buttered toast.  Serve quickly and eat at once.  
Excellent.

LEMON PUDDUING – Line a deep dish with sponge-cake or, if not convenient with 
pie-crust rolled very thin.  Fill with a mixture made by thickening; one quart 
of boiling water with four tablespoonfuls of rice flour.  Add to this the 
grated rind of one lemon and the juice of three, quarter of a pound of butter, 
and sugar to taste.

SCALLOPED CODFISH WITH CHEESE – Soak a pound of salt codfish in tepid water, 
then boil it.  When cold, pick into flakes with a fork and season with 
pepper.  Heat a cup of milk to a boil, stir into it a tablespoonful of butter 
rolled into two of prepared flour; mix with the picked fish, and pour into a 
bake-dish.  Strew grated cheese thickly on top, and bake in a quick oven to a 
delicate brown.  It is yet nicer if you add a raw egg to the mixture before 
cooking it.

DECLINE OF CARD GAMBLING – anecdote – [Boston Traveler]

THE POINT – joke

OLD FOLKS AT HOME – article about home and the picture it makes – [Puck’s Sun}

HOW SHALL WE DRESS
	For fall dresses, basques, polonaises, and redingotes, (along tight-
fitting outside garment), are still worn.  Basques are shorter – often pointed 
before and behind, and very short on the hips.  An old polonaise may be 
modernized by cutting off the front into a basque shape, leaving the back as 
it is and puffing it very full.  An apron front of velvet, brocade, or 
anything which will harmonize with the material may be inserted.  These aprons 
are gathered full around the waist, and hang long and loose, cut at the bottom 
in battlements, or pointes - or fitted plain, and lopped full and high upon 
the hips.  For plain skirts to wear with plaid or figured over-dresses, a deep 
plaited flounce is best.  For a plain suit, a skirt with a plaiting – of 
either side or box plaits –about three inches deep, with narrow or broad tucks 
above, is very neat.  For silk, a broad rucher, plaited very full above the 
flounce, is simple and dressy.  Sleeves are for the most part long and plain.  
Some are puffed on the shoulders, but this style is not generally becoming; it 
makes one appear high shouldered.  A bow, of many loops, of narrow velvet 
ribbon, is worn on one or both shoulders,.  Narrow ribbon velvet, of black, or 
bright colors, is worn around the neck, and tied so as to leave long loops and 
ends at the left side.  It is used in rosettes for trimming hats and bonnets, 
and also loping overskirts.
	Jersey waists, which fit to the form like underwear, are very useful 
and economical for ladies and children. They come in black, scarlet, dark blue 
and maroon colors, and any skirt can be working with them. Small bonnets are 
made of material to match the dress, are of velvet, and trimmed with small 
fruits, flowers, or feathers, with narrow ribbon or velvet strings.  They are 
o f small, close shape mostly.  Good taste in material is generally marked by 
simplicity of design, if plaid or figured – but of good quality.  Plain colors 
are always preferable, and a lady with a nice black silk for best, and well 
fitted dark flannel for the street, and simple home dresses, with a few 
ribbons and laces of nice quality for ornamentation, is well dressed for any 
occasion.
	Plain collars of velvet, with cuffs to match, trimmed with white lace 
turned upward, and ties with a bow and long ends of a narrow ribbon, are worn 
with any dress, fit the color is in harmony. – [Ethel Stone, in American 
Agriculturalist for November]

James B. Kelly, a Pittsburg mechanic, has fallen heir to a German estate and 
title of nobility by the death of his uncle, the late Duke of Gasconne, of the 
former French Province of Lorraine.  The estate was given by Napoleon 
Bonaparte to his grand uncle, Albert McMahon, one of his soldiers.  When the 
Province of Lorraine passed afterward into the German power the estate was not 
confiscated.  Old McMahon died in 1870, leaving the estate and title to his 
son Albert, and the latter died in July last.  Search for his heir has just 
been successful.

A REMARKABLE WOMAN – article about Miss Emily Payton – (can’t read all of 
article)

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