Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News April 14, 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, 3:43 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History April 14, 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 14, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 24 SHE AND I – Poem – [James Berry Bencol] FLORENCE MET HER FATE – Short Story LAWYER’S RUSE EXPOSED. ……… Grimes was in his day one of the most distinguished lawyers in New Orleans. Though not as leaned as some of his associates at the bar, he possessed qualities of mind which rendered him a formidable antagonist. His personal appearance was much in his favor, and the gravity of is manner and his perfect self-possession contributed a great deal toward his standing as an advocate. His chief characteristic was audacity, which never failed him in any emergency. He was also a lawyer of very fertile resources, and if engaged in arguing a very weak case, he was not above resorting to trick or artifice to accomplish his purposed, which the following anecdote will illustrate: In a case of appeal before the Supreme Court he pretended to quote from time to time from certain authorities, and was for a awhile permitted t do so without interruption, the bar being accustomed to such breaches of professional propriety on his part. But on this occasion a recently appointed judge was on the bench, and when Mr. Grimes spoke of a particular law, he asked where it could be found. The old judges resent smiled when they heard the question, for they were familiar with the ruses practiced by Mr. Grimes, but that gentleman, not at all disconcerted, responded that he thought it was in Story, giving volume, page, etc. The imperturbable lawyer proceeded with his appeal, and in the interim a copy of Story was procured by the doubting judge, who was soon in earnest search of the authority in question. Failing, of course, to find it, he took advantage of the first pause in t eh speech of Mr. Grimes to tell that gentleman he had been unable to meet with the law quoted. Whereupon Mr. Grimes exclaimed: “Is that so, your honor? Have I made so great a mistake?” “You have indeed,” said the judge. “Neither I nor any associates have ever heard of a law like it.” “Well, may it please the Court” remarked MR. Grimes, very coolly, “if there is no such law in the books, there ought to be for it would be found alike in equity and common-sense, which do not always govern the rulings of our courts of justice.” And he concluded his argument as if nothing unusual had occurred. The sarcasm with which he sought to cover up his exposure was not lost on those to whom it was addressed, but the incident which elicited it was related to his detriment for many years afterward. – [Editor’s Drawer, in Harper’s Magazine] The town of Cheltonham, England, was lately excited over the alleged appearance there of “an old woman’s ghost who wants to show somebody where she buried £300 before she died. The municipal authorities under the advice of the ghost, have offered £50 to anyone who will find the treasure; and regular ‘ghost trains’ are un in from the suburbs for the convenience of those who want to see the old lady’s shade. SHAKESPEARE STUDY Dion Boucleault, the actor, writes to the New York Sun as follows: Among the many solemn humbugs by which the world is fooled, there is not one more shallow than the pretense of some tragic actors to be considered wheat are called “students of Shakespeare.” If this claim means anything it presumes that the works of this poet are of such mystic and misty profundity that deep research and kindred inspiration are required to discover his hidden meaning, and these factors are ordained to expound this bible of the stage. Humbug! A tragedy is a great literary effort designed, not to be read or meditated upon, but to be represented before a mixed audience. Its language, therefore, should be clear and unmistakable as it flows from the mouths of the speakers; its action should be clear and perspicuous. If it is not so, then the poet is at fault. He is not a prophet; his business is to tell great truths about what is, and not to tell lies about what is to be; so he has no reason to be obscure. There are no two ways about him; he has no reason for misleading or for mystifying the people. The so-called student of Shakespeare is a narrow-minded fellow who seeks to torture the palpable meaning of trivial passages in the text into what are termed “new readings” for the purpose of rendering himself conspicuous at the expense of the poet, to whom he imputes obscurity, the very worst fault a dramatist can exhibit. If such fellows could arouse the sleeping spirit of the grand old man, recall him like the ghost in “Hamlet” to revisit the glimpses of the moon, and then submit to him their new readings, I can imagine his reply: “What on earth does it matter? Either interpretation wills eve. I cannot remember which I intended. My dramas were written under the spur of necessity to meet the crying need of the theater of which I was one of the managers. They will be found to contain errors and blemishes. Let them be so, and do not encourage infatuated worshipers to turn defects into beauties. Nature is full of imperfections, and if it pleased the great author to leave his work so to eternity, why seek to find perfection in every miserable little heap of dust? These trivial details you bring to my notice do not affect the purpose and shape of my play; and if they concern neither the action not the passion nor the characters, why make so much ado about nothing? I am neither honored nor flattered by the blind worship bestowed on my works by some writers. If my existence had depended on these text grubbers, I should have been shelved two centuries ago between Ben Johnson and Masalinger, or buried with Beaumont and Fletcher. I owe my existence to the stage, to the actor. No dramatic poet has any existence in the closet. Out of my thirty-six plays, about a dozen survive. The rest are preserved for the admiration of those who never read them. Each of these dozen will be found to afford a conspicuous and all absorbing character of the great actor or actress. Whenever a well- written play affords such an opportunity, it will hold its life on the stage. “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” and “Love’s Labor Lost” are read as a matter of duty to the author of “Hamlet” and “Othello” I owe my existence to such actors as Edmund Kean and Gerrick, who joined spirits with me, embraced my passion, and embodied my characters. They changed my language and reshaped my work to fit their qualities, and they did well. This is the way to study Shakespeare. The actor’s power to represent a passion is a gift, not a deliberate artistic effort, obtained by study. It is a faculty, to be developed and improved by practice. The poet only affords the actor an opportunity to display his powers; one is the complement of the other in the grand result. The actor who is built on a poet- such is the so-called student – is merely a mouthpiece, not an artist, for she should obtain his inspiration as the poet gets his, out of his inner gifts. I, who say this, am both an actor and poet, and I speak of what I know. Then – may I be forgiven for saying so – there are some young women whose education has stopped short somewhere between writing and spoiling, who are thrust up into conspicuous positions on the stage, and, taking refuge behind their good looks, profess to be students of Shakespeare. O the humbug of it all! And how the dear world is fooled by it! HOW HE FOOLS HIM – [Evansville Argus] – Anecdote DELICATE GIRLS – Rosy Cheeks and Elastic Steps Better Than Pale Faces and Headaches From an address by Dr. R. M. Hodges before the Massachusetts Medical Society: A justly distinguished master of the Girls High and Normal School in this city is reported to have said that a principal qualification of the office he held should be a good medical education. The first hour of his school day was spent in going from room to room, at the call of teachers, to see pupils who had fainted, or vomited, or were in “spasms” or hysterics, or in some other way had come to a pass which alarmed the inexperienced. These phenomena he clearly recognized as due to fatigue, insufficient sleep, and the want of an adequate breakfast – a mean which those girls were too tired to eat, or which they did not think worth wasting time upon, when home duties demanded their co-operation, a morning lesson was to be looked over, or a neglected task to be made up, and a long walk intervened between their homes and the school. These special provocative of “delicate health” in young women are in a great part social. The deleterious influences of a multiplicity of engagements, of the exacting demands of ambition, fashion and gayety – and not infrequently an early betrothal – a re-intensified by the capacity for endurance which belongs to the so-called weaker sex. A girl can tire out her partners in the “German” one after another, and a feeble wife can carry her baby twice as long as her athletic husband. The more strain there is upon the strength of women the more completely do they forget themselves and their martial wants. They submit and give no signs of their emotions to the depressing influences of misfortune or an unhappy home. They suffer and are silent with what have been called “bad husband headaches.” The stifle a wounded pride which is deep in proportion to the smallness of the family income and yield to the aggressive attacks of neurotic influences the least wearing of which is the mental.) Only when the limited energy their bodies possess is exhausted, and which, when one lost, they rarely have the physical capacity or power of mechanism to replace. The bodies and brains of young women in the wealthiest and most luxurious circles of society constantly reveal their imperfect nutrition. Refined emaciation, fine anemic complexions, eyes made brilliant by dilated pupils, decorous concealment of undeveloped busts and slender arms, excitable and restless temperaments - wanting sometimes in self-control, but oftener sobered by over conscientiousness - are the ---- butive symptoms, which betray a lack of food, sleep, fresh air and repose. Some of those who embody these conditions delight to think that Providence has distinguished them for the common herd by certain peculiarities of constitution, and they cherish with great self-satisfaction their supposed idiosyncrasies in regard to what they ear and in reference to various habits of life. They do not know, or are unwilling to admit, that “want of tone” of which they complain, is only another name for the inertia of exhaustion. – [Boston Transcript] PROVES HER AUTHORITY – anecdote A National Homestead Monument Association has been organized at Mitchell, D. T. for the purpose of commemorating the beneficent provisions of the Homestead Law. It is proposes to erect a shaft 160 feet high in the center of a quarter section of land – 160 acres – and to ask every settler to contribute at least 1 cent for every acre he has secured under the law. CLERKS IN SHOE STORES – anecdote WHAT THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY IS (article is torn) The Standard Oil Company……. Is so much talked about ………. Understood, has its ……. This city, and its ….. said …. Is said to be as high…. millions. Whatever be the ….. pays 6 percent, and the ….. the neighborhood of par. ….. considered in the oil regions ….. master spirits of this company….. both very young, Mr. Rockefeller …., Mr. Archibald, the latter is…. 50 years of age. He is the son of a Methodist preacher in the oil region and developed a genius for comm….. and executive work when a mere …. In a country bank, and his employ…. gave him the capital to start an oil refinery. He attends to the details of this huge company, which ahs hardly a parallel on the globe for breath of conception and infinitude of particulars. If this were an English company it would rank always with the East India Company of the time of Warren Hastings. It is to be observed that the chief operators against it as themselves speculators. Mr. James Keene was one of the leading spirits in the rival pipe line. The standard’s pipe is a separate corporation known as the National Transit Company, and its pipes lie buried side by side and are six inches in diameter, and it is said that the right of way was acquired for about $500 a mile. Their telegraph is an enormous concern also. The flow of oil is about 60,0000 barrels at the time. Its profits are derived from storing and forwarding the oil, which pays 15 cents a barrel per annum for storage and 20 cents a barrel for transportation to the seaboard. They are also the greatest exporters in the United States, and often send out a ship full of lamps to teach some … people how to turn American … It is said that they are content with a profit of half a cent a gallon on the oil. Several of the young men in this company are free-hearted, generous men, and it is well known in the oil regions that Mr. Archibald provides for his former employer, who was unfortunate in business. – [“Louncer” in New York Tribune] PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Publisher THURSDAY APRIL 14, 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. There has been a discovery of a natural spring of Lemonade near Columbus, Miss. A $12,000,000 Land, Coal & Railway Boom struck Chattanooga last week. The Co. owns a 500-acres of land. Chattanooga is beginning to regard Birmingham as one of its suburbs. A Harvard professor has made the calculation that if men were really as big as they sometimes feel there would be room in the United States for only two professors, three lawyers, two doctors, and a reporter on a Philadelphia paper. The rest of us would be crowded into the sea and have to swim for it. Every person will be far happier who earnestly cultivates a constant habit of looking after the bright side, or for bright spots even. When overwhelmed with disaster or sorrow think how much worse it might have been. When considering our own circumstances and wants, let us reflect how many others are worse off, and be thankful that their lot is not ours, and taking courage, still aspire. The Post office Department officials are having prepared a series of new designs of embossed stamps for stamped envelopes of 1, 2, 4, and 5 cents denominations. The head of Franklin has been selected for the 1 cent, and heads of Washington, Jackson, and Grant for the 2, 4, and 5 cents denominations respectively. The general design of the new series is uniform. The upper side and following the oval shape of the stamp is the legend, “United States Postage” instead of “U…(rest is torn) ……… OF SOUTHERN LANDS ………….. large transactions in mineral lands in this state have ….. a good deal of attn… abroad. The prices real…. notably in the transaction … Anniston – were considerably above figures which the average mineral lands of this state have been bringing heretofore, and the conclusion reaches, which is a correct and sound one, is that this class of property in the South is steadily appreciating, and must soon approximate its real value. The truth is the mineral wealth of this state is just beginning development. As the extent of this wealth becomes known, North and European Capital seek it because it offers greater inducements than the mineral lands of Pennsylvania, Ohio, or any other section of the country. The natural center is here at Birmingham, and as it development, through railways building and the establishment of manufactories, professes, this point, of course, becomes more prominent and more important. The inflow of Northern and European capital here means simply that the world outside has discovered that the mineral lands of Alabama offer inducements for investments superior to those offered elsewhere capital is quick to find a good thing, and never fails to take advantage of opportunities. Its instincts are as unerring as those of the lower order of animals. So, when it comes to Alabama in such a rush as it has been doing lately, it may be safely concluded that our mineral lands are more valuable, even, than recent sales make them out. – [New South] KINGVILLE ITEMS Kingville, Ala., April 5, ‘87 Mr. E. J. MCNATT, Dear Sir: - Here comes Warwick again – this time from Kingville – desiring to give you and your readers a few items which have been hastily itemized from Kingville; so, by your permission here he goes. The health of the people of this community is good in consequence of which, Dr. J. W. COLLINS Kingville’s very popular physician is doing but little practice. The fruit crop of all kinds is likely to be a failure, though wheat, so far as examined, is excellent. Farmers have commenced working in earnest planting being the order of the day among them. Notwithstanding agriculture being the chief occupation of our people, Mr. W. A. JOHNSON and Dr. J. W. COLLINS may be often seen behind their respective counters selling dry goods, groceries, notions, etc., at a small advance on the – well, they say they are selling some things at cost. Warwick has just been to drive the cow out of his corn crib; and as he succeeded in making her squeeze her ugly self out at the small door three or four feet high, he is again ready to continue writing his Items, although reminded of the fact that a man is likely to have some trouble in anything he goes at. Warwick scarcely ever writes a communication in which he does not say or wish to say something about schools and education, therefore, the Principal of the Kingville school will pardon him (Warwick) for giving below the names and addresses of the different boarding students of his school. They are as follows: Mr. A. J. WALLACE, Mr. W. R. and Miss MCIRWIN of Fernbank, Mr. W. A. MCREYNOLDS of Pickens County, Misses M. J. and DONIE COLLINS of Anro, Mr. B. E. TURNER of Kingville, Mr. W. H. CASH and Mr. C. L. LAWRENCE of Jewell, Messrs, J. M. BROWN, J. T. BROWN, C. T. CALVIN of Vernon, Mr. B. S. HONNOLL of Caledonia, Miss., Messrs. A. A. PEARCE, W. R. IRVIN and Miss M. A. TURMAN of Pine Springs, and Messrs. D. F. and J. C. BROWN of Detroit. There was singing at the Academy Sunday evening, conducted by Messrs. A. J. WALLACE and WM. GLASSGOW. The music was said to be excellent. At night the Rev. C. A. WHEELER preached an interesting sermon to a large and appreciative audience on the subject of “Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth.” Warwick wishes to hear something through the columns of the News from his old comrades and fellow-travelers – Vidi of Fernbank, W. J. M of Crossville, P. R. WILEMAN of Indian Territory, Millport’s Correspondent, “The backwoodsman of Some Eastern Clime, The Kennedy, Blowhorn, Beaverton, Pine Springs, and Detroit correspondents, JOSEPH SHAKESPEAR of Vernon, and last, but not least, our Bell and Everett man Right Here in Strickland’s Beat, will you not comfort Warwick by letting him hear from you through the columns of the News? He would appreciate the favor. Very Respectfully & c. Warwick The news comes from all our Alabama cities and towns of renewed life and activity. The people are in the best of spirits; confidence has returned and all are preparing for a bright and glorious future for every department of industry. NOTICE The State Superintendent of Education has recently sent to our County Superintendent for collection the following transcript of notes held by the Educational Department at Montgomery against Principals and their securities for Sixteenth Section lands in Lamar County: SIXTEENTH SECTION NOTES – LAMAR COUNTY WM. ABBOTT, Principal, WILLIS ABBOTT and JNO. MOSELY securities, unto Nov. 29, 1850, and Nov. 26, ’51. Amt. $47.50. Township 16, Range 15. WM. SEMS, Principal, WM. MCGEE and S. MOSELY securities; date Jan 31, 1857 and Jan. 31, ’66. Amt. $40.37 ½. Also 31 Jan. 1861, amt. $40.50. Township 16, Range 15. S. C. MUNGER, Principal. E. J. ,MUNGER and DAVID PONDER securities; date Sep. 25, 1858 and Sept. 25, ’59. Amt. $25.28. Also $25.28 on 25th Sep. in each year of 1860 – 1- 2. W. C. ATKINS Principal, JAMES HEAD and H. H. STRATION; Oct. 5, 1858 and ’60. Amt. $50.25. Also in 1861-2. Amt. $50.00 each; all in Township 17, Range 16. D. H. HOLLADAY, Principal, L. KENNEDY and J. D. THOMPSON securities. April 5, 1856 and April 5, ’58. Amt. $62.87. Also in ’59 and ’60, amt $62.87 ½ each. Township 14, Range 16. N. A. BEAN, Principal. ELIAS BEAN and JOHN MERCHANT securities; April 5, ’57, ’58, ’59 and ’60. ‘Amt. $26.30 in each year. Township 14, Range 16. S. J. THOMPSON Principal, A. H. MARTIN and J. RASBERRY securities, April 5, ’57, ’58, ’59, and ’60. Amt $29.59 each year. Township 14, Range 16. JAS. MORROW, Principal, ELIAS BEAN and S. J. THOMPSON securities, April 5, 1858-59 and ’60. Amt $4.84 ½ each year. Township 14, Range 16. D. G. HAWKINS, Principal, J. H. JONES and LEN SMITH securities. May 5, 1861- 2 – 3- 4; Amt $46 each year. Township 14, Range 16. HENRY PRITCHARD Principal, HENRY WALLIS and J. STRAWBRIDGE, May 5, 1861 – 2 – 3 – 4; amt eighteen dollars each year. Township 14, Range …. ANDERSON LOWRY Principal; A PEARCE JOHN DANNER, J. G. BANNER, Aug 23, 1856 – 8. Amt fifteen dollars and sixty-four cents. Township 13 Range 16. Any person who claim any of the above lands and who hold no Patent from the State to the same would do well to correspond with Prof. B. H. WILKERSON at Kingville, Ala. 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 14, 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 Their blooms the flowers. The woods are growing lovely. Not a vacant dwelling in town. The small boy now invests in fishing poles. The white dress has been lovingly folded. The straw hat is receiving its share thought. The voice of the dove is heard in the land. Don’t put off until tomorrow shat should be done today. Rev. G. L. HEWITT arrived home on Monday last. Mr. G. W. BENSON moved Friday of last week near Molloy, Ala. Mr. G. L. HEWITT preached an able sermon on Sunday night. Mr. G. C. BURNS has had some good work done on Aberdeen Street. The Kansas City road will build two ----dons in Fayette County. Rev. J. S. HUCKABEE, of Fayette County, delivered an interesting discussion in this place on Monday night. Dr. T. C. SMITH moved on Tuesday into the house recently vacated by G. W. BENSON. Rev. T. W. SPRINGFIELD preached at --- Hope Church last Sunday and --- two deacons. To fear God and love your neighbor embraces more commands than ----. Mr. JAS. J. CASH, informed us that he caught a fish that measures 26 inches in length and weighed 7 lbs. The --- conference will be held at Vernon, commencing on Tuesday --- the fifth --- in July. See advertisement of the Commercial, of Chattanooga, in this issue. Sunday will be Rev. W. C. WOOD’S day to preach in this place. Dr. M. W. MORTON is having and L room added to his dwelling (sic). See notice to parties who hold no Patent from the states on certain lands in this county. Spring is here – push, pluck, and perseverance swill bring its reward from bounteous nature. Capt. J. D. MCCLUSKEY made a trip to the thriving town of Fernbank last Saturday. The attorneys with their saddlepacks shied away to Hamilton this week to attend court. Mrs. MARY --- and her friends are hopeful that upon the advent of settled weather she will become convalescent. Mr. J. GARRISON of Cullman, Ala, agent for the celebrated Wilcox & White Organ, spent Friday and Saturday in town. The first degree of Odd Fellowship was conferred upon Prof. B. H. WILKERSON of Kingville, at the meeting on Saturday night last. Mr. P. C. COMBS was in town yesterday for the first time in several weeks. He was painting Mr. G. W. RUSH’S buggy. MARRIED. Mr. S. A. SHACKELFORD and Miss NANCY HUDSON on 27th March 1887 at Mr. M. J. HUDSON by W. J. TRULL, J. P. Rev. JNO. E. COX, editor of the Freewill Baptist Herald of West Va., is expected here next Wednesday, and will probably hold a series of meetings. Rev. PETER MCGEE an old and respectable citizen eight miles south of here died last Thursday night, was interred on Saturday at Walnut Grove Church. Rev. R. W. CLARK and Mr. JNO. RIGGAN of Marion County, were in town Friday and Saturday last making final settlement of the estate of SAMUEL RIGGAN. A boy is something like a piece of iron, which in its rough state isn’t worth much, nor is it of very much use; but the more processes it is put through the more valuable it becomes. Mr. MURRAY COBB was in town Saturday and Sunday last. He has been confined to his bed for some weeks past with a severe spell of typhoid fever but is again able to resume his position with Morgan, Robertson, & Co. at Columbus. – [Fayette Journal] There will be a special meeting of the I. O. O. F. next Saturday night for the purpose of deciding whether or not they will have a festival on the 26th inst., which will be the 69 anniversary of the Order. It is hoped there will be a good attendance. The railroad surveyors were going in the direction of Buttahatchie when last heard from – but it is to be hoped that they will meet a northwestern gale that may send them in this direction. We are glad those Knights of Labor, the Bees never strike for higher wages, but are always on hand to get in their work among the flowers. As a consequence we have plenty of honey, which is largely need in manufacturing Coussen’s Honey of Tar, the best remedy in the world for coughs, colds, and diseases of throat and lungs. We were pleased to receive a call on Thursday last from Capt. WM. E. ODUM of Walker County, with a number of hands en route for the K. C. R. R. where they had contracted for trestle work. Since the burning of the Hamilton Court House, it is removed that the County site will be moved to the S. F. R. R. STATE ITEMS Vincent’s trial has been postponed till 25th inst. The Grand Jury of Chilton found fifteen indictments. Huntsville is to be lighted by electricity. The Governor has appointed Dr. J. H. Gunn mayor of Calera. Mr. Tom Cowin, of the Florence Hotel, Birmingham, has received several insulting letters from Senator John Sherman’s sympathizers in Ohio. Tuscaloosa’s big land sale comes off April 30th. It is a lucky day for Birmingham when some one is not murdered or killed. Daniel Turner stole a horse and buggy from a widow woman in Pike County last week but he was soon captured. Mr. John Chappel, one of the oldest men in Fayette C. H., died at his home near Windham’s Spring in his 97th year, on the 24th of March. Mrs. O. M. Hudley, of Huntsville has donated a lot which cost $1,800 to the Christian Congregation of that city on which a church will be erected. A dripping well of asphalt has been found in Winston County. Workmen can’t furnish dwelling houses fast enough at Decatur. A man named Lancaster, who lives near Cordell, draws a pension of $50 per month. A dozen or more new railroads are being incorporated and surveyed in Alabama. The survey on the Birmingham & Huntsville road was begun a few days ago between Huntsville and the Tennessee River. Montgomery is excited about the National Drill to be held in Washington next month. Three colored companies are to be admitted, and the two Montgomery companies decline to participate. Mrs. John Snodgrass has in her flower pit a rose bush called “Lady Bakala’ to which our attention has been called as a thing of beauty and grandeur. It has borne up to date, over 500 beautiful roses and is till blooming away. – [Scottsboro Herald] Dr. R. A. Jones, of Marengo, a physician of reputation has received the appointment of State physician for convicts from Governor Seay. The choice is considered wise. The important office of Examiner of Public Accounts is to be filled by Jones A. Reeves, of Cherokee County, who is esteemed worthy of the responsibility by the Governor. Greenville is going to build street railroads and a cotton mill. The Alabama River is lower than usual at this season of the year. There is a girl near Montgomery, with peculiarly shaped ears. The lobes are fourteen inches long, and hang below her shoulders. On each tip is a bulbous growth resembling a walnut. It is said her female ancestors have always worn ear-rings and her affliction is thus accounted for. Mr. Jim Sledge’s stables, seven miles from Greensboro burned April 1 about daylight. Thirteen mules the finest saddle horses in the country, hogs, etc. perished in the flames. All the provender was lost. Loss, 2,500 to 3,000. No insurance. George Mooney, aged 18 years, who worked for Mr. Ben Phillips in Paint Rock valley, Jackson County, met with a horrible death last week. The young man after finishing his day’s work got on his mule to start to the house, when the mule threw the boy, his feet becoming entangled in the gear and the mule ran away, the unfortunate being dragged quite a distance and terribly mangled. Dr. Beard, formerly County Superintendent of Escambia County, who defaulted and ran away some time last year has returned and been placed under a $1,000 bond. A revival has been in progress at the Tuskegee Normal School for the past two weeks. It has gone on till over 100 students have been converted, embracing all the adults in the school who were not previously Christians. The remarkable thing about the revival, next to its extent, is the quiet way in which it has been carried on. Not a sermon has been preached. 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. NEWS ITEMS The cholera has made its appearance in Chile and Peru. The Hon. Jas. G. Blaine, of Maine, it is said, is going to make a Southern ---- -. The balloon for the Pairs exhibition of 1889 will carry up 100 persons. The Legislature of Ohio has passed an act making the salary of the Governor $8,000 a year. Capital punishment has been abolished in Maine and imprisonment for life substituted in all cases of murder in the first degree. Portions of Texas are still suffering from a protracted drouth (sic). There is a young woman in Dakota which successfully working a 160-acre farm; and she declares that she could work one twice as large if the men who want to marry her would stop bothering her. Mayor Hewitt proclaims that he is a temperance man but not a prohibitionist. He advocates high license. Several Catholic priests are in jail in Ireland because they refused to reveal the secrets of the Confessional in Court. The Chicago Journal of Commerce makes the estimate that the steel rail mills of the Untied states have a capacity of production equal to 30,000 miles of new road per annum, and that 15,000 miles will be added to the mileage this year, with 15,000 miles of repairs to old roads. Mr. Denslow, a lecturer in New York gravely advocates the transportation of criminals to heathen countries, stating the belief that it will benefit the savages more than all the missionaries that could be sent them. Truly it is a new idea by which to get rid of them. The Sunday liquor law was not enforced until after Congress adjourned. The Fort Smith and Little Rock railroad has passed into the hands of Jay Gould, and it is confidently stated that ground will be broken within a few days on a new road to connect Fort Smith with Shreveport. Ad for Buckeye Pile Ointment Ad for The Daily Commercial – a Republican newspaper Ad for Dr. Simmons Liver Regulator Medicine (with picture of box) Ad for Marriage Guide 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 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 MISSING LINKS Baltimore people read by gas that costs only 50 cents per thousand feet. Lead pipes are said not to be affected by water if kept constantly filled. If alternately filled and emptied the pipes are readily affected. Judge Tourgee has for the subject of his lecture this winter, “Give Us a Rest.” The title is exceedingly popular with most lecture audiences. The exclusive right of selling opium on the Isthmus of Panama has been purchased by a Chinaman for $16,000. The government will use the money in reducing the national debt. There is one post-office to every 633 people in Canada and the Dominion has more post-offices to the same number of people than any other country in the world. In this republic there is one post-office to every 1,022 inhabitants. William Weightman, of Philadelphia, is considered a solerably weighty man financially. He is one of the heads of the great quinine concern of that city, and has shaken about $20,000,000 out of the people. Cornell University will confer no honorary degree hereafter, and to become a doctor of laws under the new rules of that institution it will be necessary for a man to tell who Blackstone and Chitty were and what Kent and Stevens wrote. It is said that the lazy Sultan of Morocco has the most luxurious tricycle in the world. He sits cross-legged upon an embossed couch, curtained and canopied with silk and silver and gold, while the machine is being propelled by slave labor. Admiral Porter proposed to write another book as soon as his health has grown better. He received $20,000 bonus for his naval history and gets a royalty of 20 per cent on all the books sold. Thus far he has received about $50,000 in all. Allen Thorndike Rice, editor of the North American Review, is a brunette. He wears small, black side-whiskers, is of medium height, has a frank, open expression and very expressive eyes. He always dresses neatly and is very pleasant and quiet in his manners. In Harrisburg, Pa., recently, a 2-year old child got hold of a bottle of whisky and drank two ounces. It then fell into a drunken stupor, and its life was saved with difficulty. It came out of the stupor with every indication of having a tremendous head, and demanded water continually. The fence law of Georgia, which has had the effect of keeping hogs from roaming unrestrained though the woods has also had the effect of greatly increasing the number of skunks in the state. Hogs are particularly fond of young skunks and devoured many of them when the woods were open to stock. A resident of Dunbury, Ct. touched his finger recently to a well charged electric-wire “just for the fun of the thing” and was instantly knocked down, and didn’t recover for several hours. He was considerably frightened and more so when told that if he had grasped the wire he would have been dead. German steamers and sailing vessels are crowding out the British competitors on the Chinese coast. German masters and sailors are willing to work for much less pay than British seamen of the same class, while their steam vessels are so fitted as to be run very cheaply. The consequence is that they are taking the coastwise and foreign trade. A titled foreigner complains that Americans do not understand the method of address to lords. Some call one of these importations plain “Mr.” others say “Your highness” and others “Your Honor.” “Your lordship” and “My Lord” are common means of address. But there are others, among the most sensible people, who say “yes, sire’ or “I am glad to know you, sir.” CROPPING DOGS EARS A man in Terre Haute, who recently secured a divorce from his wife, now employs her as a servant girl, and she has more money and better clothes than when she was his wife. If some men would treat their wives as they do their servant girls there would be fewer divorces. – [Texas Siftings] THIEVES OF THE PRAIRES - Coyotes And Wolves The Pests Of The Montana Cattlemen – article about wolves and coyotes THEY FOUGHT – article about boys and men fighting AN INDO-CHINESE FABLE THE INNOCENT CELECSTIAL – Sam L. (Lee)Tries Roller-Skating And Spreads Himself. NATURAL GAS FIRES For mili-purposes, the gas is distributed under the boilers, and wherever needed, by a system of small pipes, the blaze supplying the heat directly but for household uses, in stoves and fireplaces, the gas-pipe is usually placed at the bottom of the grates, which are filled above with something to receive and hold the heat. In rooms where the open grate, burning the soft bituminous coal, ahs always been used, a pleasing variety in the arrangement of gas-fires is found. Some people do away with the grate altogether, and supplant it with a clever imitation in cast-iron of the old- time back-log. But the commonly accepted plan is to retain the grate, filling it generally with coarsely broken fire-brick, which, when heated, looks much like anthracite coal. Foundry-slag, properly arranged, presents a perfect representation of a cast - coal fire, and is, therefore, more beautiful, and desirable. Others resort to the novel plan of filling their grates with porcelain doorknobs, for which purposes they are bought by the peck or bushel. The quantity of gas burned is regulated by a valve at each fire-place; and the case with which a gas-fire is made regulates, and put out, coupled with its freedom from smoke, dust, and ashes, has warmed the heart of womankind toward it with a very great affection. – [Samuel W. Hall, in St. Nicholas] HEALTHFULNESS OF COUNTRIES DRIVING OUT THE WITCHES Screws of steel-blaze smoke curled upward from wigwams of the Indian reservation in the cold, clear, frosty arise early yesterday morning. Six sharp, successive reports of as many rifles had awakened the echoes and the Indians a half hour earlier. The volleys were fired by six watchers selected for that purpose, who has assembled at the great council-house in the green where the alarm was sounded Instantly the whole reservation turned over on its right side, and bounding out of bed fires were kindled and the Indians began to deck themselves in their gaudiest attire from moccasin to war plume. Chiefs, braves, squaws, maidens, children, and papooses were soon wending their convergent ways over road, street, and bridle path to the great council- house, where was to be partaken the morning feast of maize, beans, and pork that had seethed and simmered in wash boilers on stoves until the food man pronounced them well done. It was an odd spectacle. Beads, feathers, and buckskin made up after the never-changing fashion plate of the unimproved red man constituted the male attire, while liberal daubs of green, red, and yellow paint gave the face almost any desired form of hideousness. Squaws and maidens in blue moccasins…………, shawls, many-colored and of the brightest hues, drawn tightly over the head of the wearer, and ribbons of all the colors of the rainbow tied at available spots, constituted the dress of the women. It was a great day, in the estimation of the pagan Indian, as the annual hunt of the witches was to be undertaken. There is a tradition among these primitive people that sickness and disease is brought on by the malevolent influence of witches and evil spirits, and the only antidote is to drive them out. A priest known in ancient times as Kilzineake, who taught that the Great Spirit had less to do with the world than with these imps and elfs, was the head center of these invocations, feasts, and fires. According to this old tribal custom the Indians, when their morning meal was in due process of assimilation, formed themselves into figures on the floor of the council-house for the dance. They beat themselves, leaped about with hideous noise and loud caterwaul, invoking the Great Spirit to cast the evil spirits out of them for the year. When this ceremony had ended a processional march was made to all the wigwams of the reservation. Priest and chiefs, who alone possess power to banish witches, were invited into the wigwams of pagan Indians, and by strange incantations in Indian tongue the witches were driven out. Sometimes the witches make a stubborn resistance, as was the case in the last illness of “Aunt” Cynthia Farmer, when a fire and smudge were kept up for weeks around the house and dogs were burned as a peace offering, but all to no avail. As a rule only a few minutes are occupied at each house or wigwam, but the greater part of yesterday was consumed by the exercises. Medicine Man Webster chanted the weird banishing song and another big chieftain in a set invocatory address, both in the Indian tongue, uttered the final words that caused the witches and the evil ones to fold their tents and silently steal away. Last night the climax was capped by a – and powwow, that ended only when morning dawned. A big log wood fire was lighted on the green, and all the catalogue of national dances was exhausted for joy over the day’s success, which the Kilsincaka said was greater than that of nay previous year, though wheat means of measurement he had was not made exactly clear to some of his hearers. – [Syracuse Standard] A FUNNY DUAL – anecdote Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for Globe and Corn Fertilizer Distributor’s Ad for Plowboy newspaper File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1274gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 54.7 Kb