Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News April 7, 1887 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003775 January 18, 2007, 3:32 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History April 7, 1887 Microfilm Ref Call #373 Microfilm Order #M1992.4466 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, APRIL 7, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 23 LONGS FOR SPRING – Poem NEVER WON A FAIR LADY – Short Story – [Lilian Campbell Davidson in Cassell’s Magazine] A POWERFUL BOTTLE The following story is told of the General Traffic Manager of a Southern Railroad. Some time ago, as he was returning to New York from the South, the train on which he was riding stopped at Elizabeth, and among the passengers who boarded it was a richly dressed lady who entered the car in which he sat, and anxiously glanced around for a seat. The train was crowded and Mr. O – immediately arose and gave the lady his – the outer half of the – seat, and stood in the aisle near by. When Newark was reached, the gentleman who occupied the other half got out and left eh car. The lady at once arose, as if to give Mr. O – his portion of the seat, shook out her skirts, seated herself gain with her back to the aisle, and put her little hand-satchel on the other half of the seat. By this time many of the passengers had become interested in the situation. When the train reached that portion of the meadows between Newark and Jersey City on which the phosphate works are situated, the terrible stench, so familiar to those who habitually travel on the Pennsylvania and Mossir and Essex railroads, penetrated the cars. Quick as thought the lady seized her satchel., got out a bottle of smelling salts, and clapped it to her nose. Mr. O saw this, and leaning over, he said to a couple of gentlemen in the seat immediately behind her, “Gentlemen, what in the name of heaven has that woman got in that bottle?” The lady instantly turned, and said, “It is not this bottle, sire, which smells,” Amid the universal laughter he retired to another car, but not until he had shot back, “Madam, as long as I live I’ll never forget the smell from that bottle.” – [Harper’s Magazine for October] DISTURBANCES AT THE NORTH POLE Congress has practically decided to send out an expedition to relieve Lieutenant Greeley and his party, and bring them back to their own country. Old sea captains say that in all probability an expedition could now reach the North Pole. There have already been disturbances in that region of a very unusual character. Icebergs rarely make their appearance in the North Atlantic before June or July; in May they are very rare; but this year they made their appearance early in February, and vessels were destroyed by them off the banks of Newfoundland during that month. The recent heavy fogs and rainy weather have been attributed to the presence of these icebergs in mid- ocean at this unusual season of the year. The earthquake and volcanic eruption last summer at Java may have had its analogue somewhere in the frigid zone, breaking up the huge fields of ice, driving the bergs far out to sea. Volcanic eruptions and hot springs of water are as liable to make their appearance in the frigid as in the torrid zone. There is abundant evidence of continuous volcanic action as far north as Iceland. Should these guesses of the sea captains prove true, perhaps the road may be opened this summer to some point nearer the Pole than has ever been reached. It is a curious fact that we know more about the Polar region of the plant Mars than we do about that of our own earth. With a very ordinary modern telescope the amateur astronomer can distinctly see the extent of the ice ocean which surrounds the poles of Mars. But we will never be able to explain our poles fully until some motor is invented which will enable us to navigate the air. – [Demorest] THE GEOLOGY OF THE GREAT WEST In his report to the Secretary of the Interior, Mr. J. W. Powell, director of the Untied States Geological Survey, gives some interesting facts. In Colorado, valuable beds of anthracite and of bituminous coal have been found, surpassing in quality any heretofore discovered in that regions, and indications of large deposits of iron are visible. Evidences of the former existence of a large fresh water lake in Western Nevada have been discovered. Traces of a vast continental glacier have been found of so well defined a character as possibly to change the present geological conclusions of previous explorations. In the work done is included a survey of the Cascade Range in Oregon and Northern California. Mr. Powell says that this region in perhaps the holder of the grandest and most extensive display of natural phenomena in the world, and its explorations and thorough investigation will add greatly to the facts of geological science. A man at Charleston, S. C. has a petrified oyster, which he offers to hire out for church social stews. GLEANINGS Nearly one-fifty of all the children in Providence, R. I. of school age, did not attend school a single day during the year 1883. From 1334 to 1831 sumptuary edicts as to dress were issued at Berlin. The last forbade women without rank to wear silk dresses. There are eleven states in which women vote for school directors. Most people will be surprised to learn that Kentucky is one of the states. Theodore Irwin, of Oswego, n. Y., is ranked among the greatest living book collectors. Among his other treasures is a Guttenberg Bible. Mr. Peel, the new Speaker of the British Parliament, sitting in official dress, is said to look exactly like one of the sculptured warriors of Nineveh. The Empress of Austria has learned to set type, and she glories in the fact that she can keep up with the smartest of the Viennese compositors of the other sex. Captain Waddell, who commanded the famous Confederate cruiser, the Shenardoah, has been elected commander of any oyster police-boat on the Chesapeake. Miss Susan Fennimore Cooper, daughter of the dead novelist, is a model maiden lady, who conducts at Cooperstown an industrial school for 100 orphans. In Paris there are hundreds of cases of involuntary suicide by absinthe month by month, which are passed by as unnoticed as cases of death from phthisis or pneumonia. The German Admiralty now thinks that it must alter its coast defenses, inasmuch as Krupp’s improved monster guns are found to penetrate easily the strongest armor plates. There is a great drop in the price of patent medicines, owing to rivalries among apothecaries. The $1-a-bottle species, for instance, now sell at 15 cents apiece and still yield the seller 50 percent profit after the manufacturer has taken out his 75. The Boston Advertiser says that the State of Massachusetts has made a net profit of $2,285,602 from its enterprise of filling the Black Bay lands in Boston, and that the filling of the South Boston flats, although only partly completed, has nearly paid for itself. Astronomers are respectfully referred to the theory of the Maya peasantry of Yucatan in regard to the asteroids. They say the sky is inhabited, among other tribes of spirits, by a friendly race called Balams, who are great smokers, and the shooting stars are the cigar stumps they throw away. A critic in the Russian Invalid asserts that seventy miles a day may be continuously done by Russian cavalry without any fear for horses or men. A few years ago General Gourko, at Warsaw, inspected a couple of ----- of Don Cossacks, who had cleared 340 versts in three days – about seventy-four miles a day. A lady from interior New York, while recently in Washington, visited the House of Representatives, taking a seat in the gallery. She was quickly driven out by the tobacco smoke rising from the lobby and cloak rooms below. She thinks Congress the biggest smoke house in the United States. – [Utica Herald] Dr. Otto Krummel, of Gottinen, who has been investigating the area of oceans, estimates the superficies of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans at 194,787,425 square miles, and the total superficies of all the seas on the globe at 231,915,905, while the total superficies of the continents and islands he puts at 34,354,950 square miles. Noah Chenowowrht, of Cowboy, Kan., has a horse which he can send to the store, three miles distant, when he has not time to go himself. A note containing a list of the articles wanted is tied to his mane, and the packages are placed in a sack and tied around his neck. He goes and comes in a hurry, not even stopping to nibble a nice bunch of grass or gossip with the other horses along the road. The population of Ireland is now very nearly the same as it was in the year of the Union, 5,100,000, the great increase up to 1841, when it reached 8,199,000, having been entirely lost. But, whereas, in 1852, on the passing of the reform bill, Ireland had 32.32 percent of the population of the United Kingdom, it has now by 14.81 percent, and its electors, who were 11.32 percent of the whole in 1832 are now but 7.45. The Lancet reports a lecture on tea and coffee, in which people are advised to put the coffee for breakfast in an earthenware vessel, pour cold water over it, let it stand over night, and bring it to the boiling point by putting it in a water bath or double boiler in the morning, thus preserving all the aroma. As the editor pronounces the lecture as being “perhaps the most brilliant since it series was begun.” The writer has no doubt tried the plan. The Western Magazine – one of the editors of which is a lady – declares in all seriousness that as a rule, women never – or hardly ever - shut the door behind them when entering or leaving a railroad car. It declares that its statement is the result of acute personal observation, and that railroad brakemen and conductors corroborate the fact, vowing, furthermore, that not one woman in a hundred “knows enough to know” what a car door is made for. Vanity Fair is disposed to take the side of the women, declaring that all those who are real ladies “by instinct and education” do shut doors behind them habitually. We are inclined to side with the V. F. England is quietly drifting toward a republican form of government. The goal is distant, but the tendency is unmistakable. The movement is only the more significant because it makes so little noise. Mr. Gladstone shows his statesmanship by grasping the situation and anticipating results which appear inevitable. His new franchise bill opens wide another door of the people. To the present 3,000,000 legal voters he would add 2,000,000 – in round numbers 1,300,000 for England and Wales, 200,000 for Scotland and 400,000 for Ireland. He would do this by merely carrying out the essential principles of the present franchise laws. – [Mew York Journal of Commerce] The diving for the remains of the Greek and Persian ships sunk in the great sea fight at Salamis has caused a flutter in archeological circles. Little is known of the great galleys with their banks of oars of the ancient world. We have descriptions present to us in the delightful gossip of Athenasus of two ships built by Ptolemy Philopater, and one built by Hiero, tyrant of Syracuse. But the description is wholly of the interior. We read of rooms in these ships with columns of Milesain cypress and capitals of gold and ivory, of marble statues of Venus, of purple hangings and exquisite carvings of gardens with tress and plants, and all variety of bath rooms. One of these vessels had forty banks of oars, but it is difficult to form an idea of what they looked like externally from these descriptions. In 1867, while on the voyage from Honolulu to Hong Kong, the late Mme. Anna Bishop and her party were shipwrecked on a barren coral island, where they remained for twenty-one days. In the wreck they lost all their personal effects. Finally they set out in a boat twenty-two feet long for one of the Ladrone Islands, 1,400 miles distant, and accomplished the journey in thirteen days. They had but a scanty supply of food and water, which was exhausted before they reached their journey’s end. While they were almost starving a large fish leaped from the water and fell into the boat. There were twenty- two persons in the party, and the fish was cut into twenty-two pieces which were eaten raw. Madam Bishop has referred to her share on that occasion as one of the most delicious tasting morsels that she ever ate. THE WONDERFUL SUNSETS The strange sunsets and sunrises, with long lasting ruddy twilights, green and blue sun, and strangely tinted moon, continue deservedly to attract attention. The strangest thing of all is that they continue still to be seen. They began in September, and now as I write, late in January, I see after sunset a red glare reaching to the northern horizon. Consider what it means. For the northern skied to be reddened in this way after sunset, the region of dust or whatever else it may be which is illuminated with ruddy light must be at least twenty miles above the earth’s surface. I have nothing to add to the various suggestions which have been afforded, except to note that if the whole earth had been peppered with volcanic dust from Krakaton, the evidence respecting meteoric dust on which the views recently accepted have been chiefly based must be reconsidered. For it becomes clear that one large volcanic outburst can do more to bring matter simulating the appearance of meteoric dust to the earth’s surface that would suffice for fifty years of meteoric supply as hitherto calculated. The smaller volcanic explosions taking place every year would therefore quite easily account for every particle of supposed meteoric dust hitherto collected. – [Prof. R. A. Proctor] THE ARABS AT MEALS A lady writing from Jerusalem to the Lewiston (Me) Journal says: “Meats generally are boiled and pulled apart with the fingers. Knives and forks are quite unknown. The Arabs are astonished at the skill with which foreigners handle knives and forks. The oriental seizes a piece of neat from the dish with his fingers, tears off the morel of his choice and puts the rest back into a dish. Or if he has an honored guest, he fingers out a nice piece of meat and insists on inserting it in his guest’s mouth! One can easily see how necessary it is to wash one’s hands after eating soup with one’s fingers! Well, here comes a servant in petticoats, a sort of hungry looks Esau in a red skull cap, and barefooted. He fetches a pitcher and a basin and pours the water over our fingers, the water dripping into the basin. So did Elisha, the son of Shapel, who poured water on the hands of Elijah. Jesus, you remember, after a memorial support of this sort, girded himself with a napkin and did even more menial service – washing not only the guest’s hands by their feet. There could be no higher proof of humanity to an Oriental mind! MONEY NO OBJECT – joke PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Publisher THURSDAY APRIL 7, 1887 RATES OF ADVERTISING One inch, one insertion $1.00 One inch, each subsequent insertion .50 One inch, twelve months 10.00 One inch, six months 7.00 One inch, three months 5.00 Two inches twelve months 15.00 Two inches, six months 10.00 Quarter column 12 months 35.00 Half Column 12 months 60.00 One column 12 months 100.00 Professional card $10. Special advertisements in local columns will be charged double rates. All advertisements collectable after first insertion. Local notices 10 cents per line. The time set for opening the Georgia Pacific Railroad through to Columbus, Miss., is now fixed for May 1st. A man in Lauderdale County was fined $50, and about $50 costs for giving a boy a drink of liquor. Just verdict. On his trial Vincent will be defended by Gov. Watts and Capt. Faulkner. What course the defense proposes to pursue and on what plea, there is not a single intimation given out. The news from Washington is that President Cleveland’s health is in a precarious condition owing to his corpulence and sedentary habits. One of the leading physicians recommends a course of gymnastics. The New York Examiner gently pleads for the sowers of wild oats by suggesting truly that a wise discipline is not so easy nor so common that we may reasonably expect the young to be exemplary in that respect. Senator John Sherman told the working people of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the night of the 25th ult., that their only chance to be redeemed from monopolists was in voting the Republican ticket. John has an incurable attack of Presidential fever and he is determined to be the Republican nominee in 1888. “I don’t get all my papers,” so say some, when requested to pay. We mail the News to each and every subscriber regularly and there, our responsibly ends. People who take papers assume the risk of the mails. Let all remember this and be --– accordingly. The Moulton Advertiser, by far the oldest paper in the State, has the following to say of a certain paper that is trying to monopolize the legal printing in an adjoining county by a very reduce rates: “We believe that a man should be paid a legitimate price for what he does, and the journal that endeavors to destroy this custom must itself go down with the scorn of all decent men heaped upon its stinking carcass. Like the buzzard, it may grow gat on filth and offal, but no enterprise - no order, no cause – can prosper with such ends in view. Rather than seek to tear down other laudable enterprises, we will shut up shop – go into our holes, and like a bear, suck our paws until death calls us home. If we read the signs of the times correctly, the year 1887 will be a memorable one in the history of Alabama. Railroads too numerous to mention have been projected, and several are in the course of erection. Manufacturing industries of all kinds, especially or iron and cotton, are springing up all over the state. Real estate has advanced wonderfully in value, and almost every town in the state has been on a “boom” of some sort or kind. All this in --- face of short crops the past --- gives token of better - days ahead; especially -- applicable to the agriculture section. The min-lands of Alabama have attracted the attention of the World and are now at their zenith, and it is impossible for one rich agricultural and timber lands to longer remain unnoticed. All that is necessary to bring about a period of prosperity in the agricultural section is to settle up the country with immigrants – to do this is only necessary to show the healthiness of the climate and the fertility and cheapness of the soil. Alabama with a complete system of railroads, growing manufactories and diversified farming industries, will in fact as well as in name herd the sisterhood of states. HAMILTON’S FIRE [Special Correspondence to Age] Hamilton, Ala., March 31 – Last night about 1:30 o’clock the court house at this place was discovered to be on fire. It was completely enveloped in flames, and nothing could be done toward saving any of the records, papers, county library, etc., which were in the offices, and not in vaults or safes. The building was a wooden structure and cost about $4,000. The county library was valued at about $1500, and is said to have been as good as nay in the state. The records are absolutely beyond replacing and dated back to the time the county was first established. There were also about one or two thousand dollars worth of blank records in the office of the probate judge. The tax assessment for the past year, and all the books and papers belonging to the tax assessor’s and collector’ offices were destroyed. In fact, everything was destroyed that belongs to the court house. Besides the great loss of the county, several individuals sustained considerable loss. W. H. KEY, Esq. had about $75,000 in money in the office, which he had collected for various parties, all which he will have to restore from his own pocket. He also had several valuable law book burned and about $4,000 worth of notes that had been placed in his hands for collection. About $2,500 worth of these notes belonging to Messrs. FRAZIER & GAST, merchants of this county, the others to different parties. MATTHEWS & GUYTON’S mercantile ledger, which was in Mr. Key’s hands, was also burned. A. J. STANFORD, Esq. lost about $100.00 worth of law books in the conflagration. It was only by Herculean efforts that the stores around the court house were saved, the resin being drawn from several of them by the heat. The wind was very high, which rendered the fighting of the flames very difficult. It was feared at one time that the whole business portion of the town would be consumed, but luckily the wind shifted and the buildings were saved. It was a grand and awful sight, and represented a lost to Marion County of at least $40,000 and is a severe burden to the already debt-burdened county. At this writing it is impossible to estimate the loss, but it is believed that $40,000 is a conservative estimate. Nothing is known as to how the fire originated. It may have been the act of an incendiary or it may have originated in some of the offices. Ad for Ayer & Son Advertising Agents CIRCUIT COURT State vs. FAYETTE SMITH retailing. Fine fifty dollars State vs. FAYETTE SMITH sci fa. Judgment of one cent. State vs. FAYETTE SMITH illicit distilling. Nol pros. State vs. FAYETTE SMITH sci fa. Dismissed. State vs. G. C. BURNS converting revenue. Nol pros. State vs. FRANK MAY public drunkness. Fine five dollars. State vs. GEORGE SANDERS . Def. Not guilty State vs. ED AUSTIN forgery – Sentenced 1 year hard labor for county. State vs. PRES. MATTISON assault and battery with weapon. Fine ten dollars. State vs. WILLIE MCMURRAY abusive language. Fine twenty dollars. State vs. RISTER POLLARD disturbing religious worship. Fine ten dollars. State vs. LONNIE ABBOTT public drunkness State vs. LONNIE ABBOTT I T B. Fine one dollar. State vs. BAINS STEWART. I B M. Not guilty. State vs. C. V. MCCAFFERTY S U F. Not guilty. State vs. BUD THORNBERRY public drunkness. Nol pros State vs. WM B. PEARSON violating revenue law. Not guilty. State vs. BUNK BARNS carrying concealed weapon. Fine $15. State vs. BILL MORTON carrying concealed weapon. Fine $25. State vs. JAMES GILMER abusive language. Fine $5. State vs. JIM LINDSEY abusive language. Fine one cent. State vs. FRANK HAMMOND disturbing religious worship. Fine $50. State vs. GEORGE WEEKS carrying concealed weapon. Fine $50. State vs. BOB SHIRLEY adultery. Not guilty. State vs. D. D. DOBBINS abusive language. Fine $5. State vs. SILVANEUS HANKINS Def. (two cases) Fines $50 and $5. State vs. DOCK REESE assault and battery with weapon. Fine one cent. State vs. TOM PRESLEY grand larceny. Sentenced to 20 days hard labor for county State vs. JOHN R. MCDANIEL carrying concealed weapon. Fine 25 dol. State vs. JOHN R. MCDANIEL et al sci fa. Fine one cent. State vs. JOHN WRIGHT carrying concealed weapon. Fined $5 and remitted State vs. GEORGE HILL et al A O M . Nol pros. State vs. BEN FLEMINGS forgery. Sentenced to 10 days hard labor. State vs. GEORGE HILL carrying concealed weapon. Nol pros. State vs. MAJOR LONG grand larceny. Acquitted. State vs. MAJOR LONG R. O. Fine one dollar. State vs. THOMAS R. BEARD murder, Mistrial. State vs. FRANK MCLEMORE murder, Nol pros. State vs. SAM TAYLOR et al sci fa (two cases) Fine one cent in each. State vs. ISA FLEMMINGS carrying concealed weapon. Fine 20 days hard labor. State vs. HORACE FLEMMINGS carrying concealed weapon. Acquitted. State vs. GREEN HOLLIS abusive language. No. pros. Sate vs. WM RIDGEWAY assault and battery with weapon. Fine one cent. State vs. BILL DUNCAN carrying concealed weapon. Acquitted. State vs. PRIME BARNES B. F. Sentenced 10 days hard labor. State vs. ALEX SIZEMORE D. F. acquitted. State vs. JAMES RUSSELL forgery. Sentenced 2 years in penitentiary State vs. JAMES RUSSELL false pretense. Sentenced 10 days hard labor for co. State vs. GREEN PEARSON retailing. Fine $50. State vs. GREEN PEARSON carrying concealed weapon. Fine $50. State vs. SILAS NAWLS false pretense. Fine $35. State vs. BEN F. SYMONS carrying concealed weapon. Fine $50. State vs. JOHN GAULT assault and battery with weapon. Fine $5. State vs. C. B. COBB assault and battery with weapon. Fine $10. State vs. ALEX MCCOLLUM abusive language. Fine $5. State vs. GABE SMITH abusive language. Fine $5. THE TRAIN IS COMING (picture of a train). Get ready for a ride but before starting call around and let DR. G. C. BURNS sell you a nice bill of goods at hard pan prices. 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) PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY APRIL 7, 1887 (Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, Alabama, as second-class matter.) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One copy one year $1.00 One copy six months .60 All subscriptions payable in advance. LOCAL DIRECTORY CHANCERY COURT THOMAS COBBS Chancellor JAS. M. MORTON Register CIRCUIT COURT S. H. SPROTT Circuit Judge THOS. W. COLEMAN Solicitor COUNTY OFFICERS ALEX. COBB Probate Judge R E BRADLEY Circuit Clerk S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor D. J. LACY Tax Collector B H WILKERSON Co. Supt. of Education Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALBERT WILSON CITY OFFICERS L. M. WIMBERLY – Mayor and Treasurer G. W. BENSON – Marshall Board of Aldermen – T. B. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS MIDDLETON, W A BROWN, R. W. COBB RELIGIOUS FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each month, 7 p.m. MISSIONARY BAPTIST – Pastor W. C. WOODS. Services second Sabbath in each month at 11 am. METHODIST – Pastor – G. L. HEWITT. Services fourth Sabbath in each month. 11 a.m. SABBATH SCHOOLS UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m. JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt. METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 9 o’clock a.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt. MASONIC: Vernon Lodge, No. 588, A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 p.m. each month. – T.W. SPRINGFIELD, W. M. W. L. MORTON, S. W. JNO. ROBERTSON, J. W. R. W. COBB, Treasurer, M. W. MORTON, Secretary Vernon Lodge, NO 45, I. O. G. F. Meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. each month. J. D. MCCLUCKEY, N. G. R. L. BRADLEY, V. G. E. J. MCNATT, Treas’r M. W. MORTON, Sec. MAIL DIRECTORY VERNON AND COLUMBUS - Arrives every evening and leaves ever morning except Sunday, by way of Caledonia. VERNON AND BROCKTON – Arrives and departs every Saturday by way of Jewell. VERNON AND MONTCALM – Arrives and departs every Friday. VERNON AND PIKEVILLE – Arrives and (sic) Pikeville every Tuesday and Friday by way of Moscow and Beaverton. VERNON AND KENNEDY – Arrives and departs every Wednesday and Saturday. VERNON AND ANRO – Leaves Vernon every Tuesday and Friday and returns every Wednesday and Saturday. LOCAL BREVITIES Gardens look sick. Were you fooled 1st of April? Next Sunday will be Easter. The leaves are growing slowly. The season of picnics is coming. Another freeze on Monday night. The wheat crop has doubtless been severely injured. You may as well count on the railroad at last. The opportunity to have a railroad ------------ Business circles sure were lively with a prospect of another railroad. The weather has been quite changes for some time. Hon. K. T. BROWE, of Marion County was in town Friday last. Tomorrow is Good Friday, time to --- planting spring garden seed. Sorry to hear that Mrs. G. W. BEN--- is quite sick. Mr. JAS. LAWRENCE of near this place called us last Wednesday. We regret to hear that Mr. JERRY PENNINGTON is quite sick. Capt. S. J. SHIELDS was appointed county solicitor for Lamar last week. The fruit trees are dropping their ---------- and very few will --- mature fruit. ---- (can’t read) After quite an icy wave we have had a day or two of sunshine. Prayer meeting every Wednesday night. Commissioner’s Court will convene in this place next Monday. Rev. G. L. HEWITT’S appointment for this place will be due next Sunday 7:30 p.m. Our merchants are receiving new goods, and the boys and girls will soon be decked in spring attire. The farmers seem to be taking a better start this season than usual. God indication of a fine crop this year. Mayor WIMBERLEY is having much needed work done on the northern portion of Main Street. The mist of tender green has become somewhat faded by the cold, a few days of sunshine and the landscape will don a new suit. Elsewhere we give an account of the burning of the court house at Hamilton. The News deeply sympathizes with Marion County and her enterprising citizens in their loss. In this issue we give list of cases disposed of at the recent term of court. Those omitted were continued until next term. Capt. LACY informs us that he had the good fortune to secure a fish last week, caught by an old colored man living near him that measured 2 feet and 5 inches in length. In a local of last week’s paper we stated that it was Mrs. NED LAWRENCE who was so severely burned and died, we have since learned our mistake. It was Mrs. MARTIN LAWRENCE. Those desiring their money’s worth of said call at the near store of Dr. G. C. BURNS, where they will be waited upon by the polite and affable salesman Mr. WILLIE BURNS. See advertisement in another column. The 2d inst. was Palm Sunday commemorative of Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem after his forty days temptation. The --- of April will be Good Friday commemorative of His crucifixion and death. The 10th of April will be Eater Sunday commemorative of His glorious resurrection. The resurrection was the crowning work of Christianity. STATE ITEMS There are 14 inmates in the Butler County jail. A good many cases are reported of measles and a few of mumps in Butler County. There have been two destructive fires in Troy recently, one on the 23rd and the other 26th ult. The merchants of Haynesville are all farming this year. A southwestern line of railroads will tap Ashville at an early day. One thousand of Butler County’s best citizens petitioned the Legislature for prohibition. The Mayor’s election in Montgomery promises to be lively. Marion is luxuriating in ripe strawberries and Irish potatoes. The State Episcopal convention will hold its 25th Anniversary at Greensboro in May. Negotiations are now pending to capitalize Nobe Brok’s Works at Anniston with $100,000 cash. The Greenville people have been feasting on early spring vegetables, including green peas and Irish potatoes. Blountsville, in Blount County, has a prospect of a railroad at an early day. The Hartselle Land Company will increase their capital stock on the 11th day of April. Real estate has advanced 100 percent in and around Hartselle, Morgan County, within the last ten days, and is still increasing. A building and loan association is to be founded at Huntsville. A post office has been established in Cullman County called Pinnacle. Speculators are investing extensively in --- land about Guntersville. A farmer living in the neighborhood of ----, Jackson County, made ---- . Several freight boxes fell through the bridge over Yellow Creek near Livingston last week and were totally demolished. Y. M. Burnston, tax collector of Sumter County, has been suspended by Gov. Seay for failure to make reports to the --- according to law. Cullman County goes dry on the 1st of May. Mr. Abram Harris, of Palm, killed a hog last week that netted 525 pounds. After January 1888, no whisky will be sold between Montgomery and Mobile on the line of the railroad. Measles is raging in the Six Mile neighborhood in Bibb County, there being fourteen down in one family. Peter Lowe, a drunken negro, committed suicide at Decatur last week by throwing himself in the river. The ladies of Limestone County have contributed $160 to the Confederate monument at Montgomery. Cotton seed oil mills are to be put up at Sheffield, Montgomery, Demopolis and Mobile. There are 255 civil and about 200 criminal cases on the docket of Etowah County to be tried at this term of the Circuit Court. Only three miles of tack are to be laid on the Georgia Pacific, between Day’s Gap and Birmingham. Farming lands within a mile or so of Union Springs, sold at auction a few days ago for $50 an acre. A Mormon Church has been organized at Ashbur K. Harris’s, on Big Creek, Cullman County. A Sunday school is held every Sunday. The prisoners tried to burn their way out of the DeKalb County jail last week. They succeeded in burning a hole in one of the doors but were discovered in time to prevent their escape. The farmers over in Clay County say they cannot afford to raise cotton at the present prices to buy their corn, meat, flour, etc in market hence they are preparing to plant more grain and less cotton. A Decatur special says a surveying party will begin work at once for the location and building of a railroad from Decatur to Columbus, Miss. A negro child closely resembling a bear is one of Lowndes county’s wonderful productions. It smother came in Friday to find out from the probate judge if a license was required to exhibit it. – [Haynesville Examiner] Trade is increasing at Union Springs since prohibition took the town. The president has appointed Miss M. L. Clay post mistress at Huntsville. Bullock County recently sent twenty negro men in one bunch to the coal mines. If you want a good gin or any party or plaice about it; or a good scale of any style, or steam engine, call on the undersigned., W. B. MCMANUS LOST: a piece of log-chain with a hook on one end. Finder will please return to G. W. RUSH. 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. Ad for Simmons Liver Regulator. The great unfailing specific for liver Disease Ad for book – “Medical, Social and Sexual Science” Ad for Accordeons Ad - $25,000.00 will be paid for Arbuckles’ Coffee Wrappers Ad for Bargain Music NOTICE – Under and by virtue of a Commission issued by the Honorable C. C. LANGON, Secretary of State of the State of Alabama, to SAMUEL BLACKWELL, C. C. HARRIS, and E. J. ODEN, constituting them a board of Corporation to open book of subscription to the capital stock of a proposed railroad to be known as Decatur-Southwestern Coal & Lumber Railway Company, we the said Blackwell, Harris, and Oden will open books of subscription to the Capital Stock of said proposed Railroad Company at Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama on the 25th day of March 1887. Samuel Blackwell, C. C. Harris, E. J. Oden 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 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 Ad for Collins Ague Cure 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 Collin’s Ague Cure Remember This when you want clothing, hats, underwear, that BUTLER & TOPP deal only in these goods. You can get a better selection and a great variety to select from than is kept in any house in Columbus. We carry suits from $6 to $30, and hats from 50 c to $10. Call and see us. BUTLER & TOPP Ad for Pianos and Organs PAGE 4 MAUSOLEUMS OF THE LIVING - How Busy, Bustling, Active Men Have Prepared for Death with Costly Structures No name appears on the most costly and striking mausoleums in Woodlawn Cemetery. The structure is in Central Avenue, on the highest elevation in the grounds, and commands a view of the entire four hundred acres of the cemetery. The circular plot, 250 feet in diameter, it which it stands, cost $60,000. The mausoleum, exclusive of the ground, cost $50,000. It is a model, exteriorly of the Pantheon, the most famous of the wonderful buildings that once stood in the Acropolis at Athens. It is thirty-seven feet in length and nineteen feet in width. It is constructed of Westerly granite, surrounded by thirty Doric pillars. The solid bronze door cost $5,000. The roof is composed of five pieces of solid granite, each piece thirty feet in length and six feet in width – rare products of the quarry. The total amount of stone used was eight hundred tons. The opened door reveals an aisle ten feet in width, at the end of which is an ornate stained-glass window, representing the heavenly choir, through which a soft mellow, light pours upon the interior like the subdued light of a cathedral. There are twelve catacombs, six on each side of the aisle, arranged for the reception of one body each. Each catacomb is eight feet in length and two feet and a half in depth. The face of each catacomb is a heavy slab of polished marble. The colors of the slabs vary. Some are native stone and some imported; all very costly. Heavy bronze handles are imbedded in each stone. The ceiling of the vault is of polished marble. The owner positively refused to have his name appear anywhere on the exterior of the building. This is the elaborate position which has been made by Jay Gould for the disposition of his body after his death. That mausoleum is only one of very many instances where well-known living men have made careful provision for death. Indeed, there ins not one of the many beautiful cemeteries of New York and vicinity that does not contain evidence that the busiest men have thought of death, and have made ample preparation, so as to be certain that their wishes in the matter shall be carried out, even going so far as to, in many cases, bequeath money to the cemetery authorities in trust, to be used for the care of their places of burial. Very near to Jay Gould’s plot is that of his business associate and friend, Washington E,. Connor. Next to that is the mausoleum plot of H. H. Cook, the millionaire, who owns the striking granite mansion at Seventy-eighth street and Fifth Avenue and a residence at Newport. Mr. Cook paid $70,000, for his plot, and has contracted for his mausoleum. On Chapel Hill, close by the receiving tomb, is the mausoleum of Henry A. Hurburt, the well-known banker and financier, one of the directors of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Mr. Hurbut’s mausoleum is a more modest structure than Mr. Gould’s but similar in style of architecture. It has two columns on each side of the massive door. It is of white Italian polished marble, and the interior is lighted, like Mr. Gould’s with stained-glass windows. It is near the burial-place of De Long, William F. Havomeyer, after holding a beautiful plot in Greenwood many years, finally removed the family plot to Woodlawn, where there is a plot set apart on Beech Lawn in the center of the plot is a figure of Hope, eight feet in height, mounted on a pedestal rising thirty feet high from a base nine feet square. Several family plots have been removed to Woodlawn from other cemeteries…..(rest if cut out)….. STAND-AND-DELIVER STORIES – [Reno Letter in the San Francisco Chronicle] – Anecdotes of western stories GIVING A “STRAYER” A FEW HINTS – anecdote MEXICO’S GRAND PALACE – Where Thousands of Human Victims Were Slaughtered The “Palace Del Gobemo” of Republican Mexico was built by its singly oppressors. The magnificent structure, occupying an entire square 675 feet in length, built around half a dozen interior patios, or open courts, was commenced by the Aztecs and finished by Cortez ad his Spanish vice-royal successors. It is situated in the east side of the square, which is south of the cathedral. This square is the most beautiful in the city, being laid out after the European fashion, ornamented with flowering shrubs and eucalyptus trees, and adorned with statues by the unfortunate Carlotta. This is also the place where the famous Tecall, or sacred palace of the Aztecs, was situated, and where at least twenty thousand of human victims were annually slaughtered. Passing in at the central entrance of this building, where dusky soldiers were walling their beats, and many others “off duty” were lounging around, giving it more the appearance of a monarchial palace than a republican capitol, we saw before us the central patio or court. It is about one hundred feet square, surrounded by large, heavy stone pillars, thirty feet high, supporting on its roundhead arches a magnificent balcony. This also being faced with arches produces a very imposing aspect. Here we are introduced to the officer of the day, who kindly showed us the interesting parts of the palace. An opportunity was here afforded us for seeing Maximillian’s carriage of state, concerning the magnificence of which so much has been said. As the guard opened a heavily-locked door our eyes fell upon a carriage of great splendor, at least en feet high and twenty feet long, ornamented with rich gildings covering all the wood-work, figures of cherubs, arms of Mexico, surmounted by heavy silver work and eight very large panels of plate glass. These are thick enough to deflect a rifle-ball not striking it perpendicularly, and even then the only danger would be from the pieces of broken glass. The inside was trimmed with rich white damask and silver braid. This elegant carriage, drawn along the paseo with its prancing steeds, with uniform drivers, liveried footmen, and the royal personage clad in rich robes of states, was designed to impress the lovers of parade and show. A magnificent flight of stone stairs, twelve feet wide, leads up from the patio to the main rooms in the second story. Going up this stairway we find the offices of the Republic. The president and the secretaries of the army and navy have offices here. Here also is the Hall of the Senate, and above on the roof the central meteorological observatory with the best telescope in Mexico. We passed through several anterooms in which were huge marble vases, exquisite in workmanship, with the arms of Mexico upon them. This coat-of- arms, which was also painted on the window-shades, consists of an eagle with extended wings sitting on a cactus plant and contending with a serpent. It is the old symbol of the Aztecs. We then came to the ambassador’s half, three hundred feet long and twenty-five wide. T his room is lighted by fifty candelabra and six very large chandeliers covered with crystal pendants. It is also arranged so as to be capable of division into smaller rooms by means of crimson curtains. Mexico has sought to impress its own history on its foreign ambassadors by putting on the walls of this pantheon the portraits of its republican heroes. First comes Hidalgo, an insurgent priest, who was killed while endeavoring to secure the liberty of Mexico. His portrait is accompanied by that of another priest, Morales; then Guerrero; Iturbide, who attempted to become emperor; Juarez, the famous Indian president; Diaz, who is likely to become president again next June; Mina Arista, who was prominent in the negations that brought the war with the United States to a close, and lastly, another priest, named Matamoras. One American has been admitted to this hall namely, Washington and this hall is a large painted, twenty-seven feet long, showing the Battle of Puebla, on the Cinco de Mayo, when the Mexican defeated the French. It is to be remembered that in this battle, when the national existence was at stake, the Mexicans, especially the Indians, fought with more courage than ever before. At one side of the painting, a bust of Fen. Largoroza, the leader of the Mexicans in this battle. Thus this imposing room is designed to preserve the important facts and factors of the history of the republic., to immortalize his Mexican heroes, to stimulate patriotism, and insure the devotion of all observers to the future welfare of the state. – [Cor. Denver News] LOCKED UP IN HIS OWN GROCERY - anecdote DRINKING WITH A SOUTHERN MAN – [Detroit Free Press] RESPIRATORY LOCOMOTION –article about breathing and the cuttle-fish THE KINKEAD HILLLS What are known as the Kinkead Hills, in Jackson County, are being brought into notice on account of their peculiarities. Their tops form the highest land in the state. Some six miles from the Mississippi River, near their southern slope, a break occurs showing an appearance as if the hills had been suddenly forced apart, forming an outlet for the waters behind them. The only rocks found in this vicinity for miles around are marble, red sandstone, and conglomerate, with a single exception. Near the fissure in the hills, a few rods from a country school house on the farm of Mr. Henry Austin, lies a great slab of gray sandstone. The Murphysboro Era of a late date describes this rock, which it does not doubt, “is a genuine relic of prehistoric times.” No other rock of a similar description is found within a radius of fifty miles. It has a slight pink tinge, is a level slab in shape of an oblong square, with a surface about 180 feet square, and four feet thick. It lies in a dense forest, with old oaks, bushes, and other hard woods growing near it. The children from the school near by had played in its neighborhood for years, when they one day found that under the soil of their play ground lay a huge rock. Upon removing the covering of soil, composed wholly of decayed laves which must have been ages in accumulating, the face of the rock was found to be covered with human footprints, turkey and coon tracks, while in the center and at the north end are carvings and tracings, evidently the work of a man. The footprints are twenty-seven in number, comprising those of men, women, and children. All are well developed perfect in form, and from half to one inch deep, the steps being made in true Indian style - straight without the least turn of the foot, toes open, the big toe showing plainly aside from the others as perfect as if the work of but yesterday. – [Galesburg Republican] An experiment for saving the eyes during reading consists of printing dark blue letters on pale green paper. The effect is said to be very restful. BILL ARP ON WOMEN There is no record anywhere in any history of a happy married state where a man had more than one wife. Lamech had two, but the scriptures say nothing more about him. Adam didn’t have by tone and Noah one, and they started the business of peopleling the world. Old Father Abraham had one and when he took another on the sly, old Aunt Sarah got after him and she failed out the second one with a thrash pole and run her off. Jacob had two, and if ever a man deserved two he did; but they didn’t get along well, even through they were sisters. Moses didn’t have but one. King David had several, but he was curst with ‘em, and actually committed murder to get one of ‘em, and lived in anguish ever after, for he said “My sin is ever before me.” Old Solomon must have had an awful time of it, for he had a thousand, and they kept him so harassed and bedeviled that he flew to his inkstand and wrote that he had found one good man, but a good woman in a thousand he had not found. Of course not. How could a woman be good when she was only a thousandth part of a wife? But Solomon repented of his folly and said it was all vanity, and advised all men to “live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest,” and to “beware of strange women.” I never think of these surplus wives who are sealed to the Mormons without a feeling of sadness and pity, for every new one causes the others a pang of shame. They are all in prison and their dependence is like that of the caged bird that tamely looks to its keeper for food. There is no escape, for woman is a proud creature and will suffer in silence rather than parade her folly to the world. Did you ever notice how a woman will suffer and be strong, especially if she has a child or children to keep her company. – [“Bill Arp” in Atlanta Constitution] SOCIALISM IN MASSACHUSETTS The Boston Journal has received from an unknown source a copy of a pamphlet which announces that the joint committee of the judiciary will give a hearing on a bill, “The object of which is to provide a home of this own for every family in the state.” It is further states that the bill is planned to assist those who desire help by a loan of $2,714,000 by the commonwealth. The bill contains forty-six sections, a reading of which discloses the following scheme: The commonwealth is to issue bonds to corporations guaranteed by the authorities of the several cities and town, at the rate of $5,000 each; and $1,000 additional for each 1,000 inhabitants over 5,000. These corporations are to be formed by actual citizens of the city or town in which they are formed, who shall become members thereof by paying $6. These corporations are organized for the sole purpose of purchasing land and building thereon cheap houses, which are to be sold to members of the corporation having no houses of their own, to be paid for in forty-eight regular installments, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the redemption of the bonds loaned by the cities; but no interest is required of those who purchase houses. The houses to be built are of the cheapest character……….. long as the cheapest houses can be disposed of those of higher cost will not be built. In other words, the bill involves a scheme to make the commonwealth find the capital with which to build houses to be sold to those who have none of their own. The loss to the State is at least the interest on the funds that it loans to these corporations. PLANTATION PHILOSOPHY – (written in dialect) IT COULD BE DONE – Anecdote HAS THE EARTH A RING – (cut off can’t read) Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for Plowboy Ad for Globe Cotton and Fertilizer Distributor Ad for Plowboy Newspaper File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1273gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 60.5 Kb