Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News April 21, 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, 3:47 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History April 21, 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 21, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 25 A CITY COURTSHIP – poem CORPORAL JOHN – Short Story – [Wallace P. Read, in the Atlanta Constitution] LINCOLN AND GEORGE HARDING In the case of the McCormick reaper, the leading lawyers were Stanton and George Harding. It became necessary to have a lawyer resident in Illinois. Thee parties knew of no lawyer out there but Mr. Arnold, who afterward was Mr. Lincolns’ biographer. They found that he was engaged on the opposite side of the case. Inquiry was made of Elihu Washburne, in congress, where there was a man capable of taking hold of such an important suit. Perhaps no patent case ever came up prior to that time of such importance – it was to test the cardinal invention by which the vast fields of wheat and other grain were to be mowed by machine. Washburne said there was a man named Lincoln at Springfield, Ill., who had considerable reputation in the state. He was secured, and he came on to Cincinnati with a brief. Stanton and Harding saw a tall, dark, uncouth man, who did not strike them as of any account, and, indeed they gave him hardly any chance. Stanton was as civil with him as he afterwards was with some of the generals. Mr. Harding said to me on one occasion that to remember how Lincoln received Stanton’s asperities and answers, and how kind he was nevertheless, was one of the most touching thing in his memory. Neither of these lawyers gave the country lawyer any chance to speak of. He received his humble fee, and with that, it is said, he was enabled to acquire the leisure to have his memorable debate with Douglas. Time passed along, and this uncouth man received the nomination of a national convention and was elected president. A feeling of chagrin probably passed over the two great lawyers that the man they might have mad e friend was to exercise such enormous power. After Lincoln had been inaugurated Mr. Harding thought he would call upon him. Lincoln took him by the hand with warmth and joy, and said “I do not know whether you voted for me or not, but I hope you did. I always made up m mind that I was going to do something for you and Stanton.” So he offered Mr. Harding the office of Commissioner of Patents, and he made Stanton Secretary of War. – [Gath, in Cincinnati Enquirer] A BABY’S WINTER OUTFIT To the many mothers who find the question of ways and means one difficult to solve, the story of how a mother made her baby’s winter outfit at very small cost may give suggestions of help. Baby Hal, a year and a half old, was plentifully supplied with warm in- door clothing, wearing a woolen shirt, flannel skirt, white flannel dress, cambric petticoat and dress, with gingham aprons of pin-head check for playing about the floor. But the matter of out-door raiment it was which his mother pondered. A discarded coat of Hal’s papa, very shiny, but of excellent fabric, supplied the material for baby’s cloak. It was ripped, sponged, pressed, and turned wrong side out, and cut in short-waisted Gretchen shape into a very pretty and stylish little garment. A half yard of velvet of the same brown, costing 75 cents made a deep collar, cuffs, and wide belt. A clasp for the belt at 30 cents, a half-dozen buttons at 12 cents, and a yard and a half of farmer’s satin for lining, costing 53 cents were the other materials purchased. The cost is as comfortable and pretty a garment as could be desired and cost just $1.70. It is very becoming, the dark velvet setting off the fair hair and flower-like face; and as it comes quite to baby’s feet, and the upper part has an inter-lining of wadding, it is quite warm enough for even a New England winter. For head-gear to match, the brown velvet which mamma had worn two winters as a bonnet was put over a Normandy-cap frame, wadded and lined with silk. A full plaiting of lace was put around the front and a pretty, warm hood was the result, without one cent of outlay, everything coming out of mamma’s boxes of odds and ends. The afghan to match cost just 10 cents, expended in buying a package of seal-brown Diamond eye. With this was colored a soiled white woven Shetland shawl. A much-worn scarlet felt skirt furnished an inter-lining over which the shawl was folded and securely sewed, and the effect of the brown and red is warm and pretty. A pair of brown woolen stockings, ribbed and costing 50 cents, are drawn over Hal’s shoes and away above his knees, and keep the little feet and legs very warm as he rides in his sled. Next year, when he runs about out-of- doors rubbers will go over these. The idea of over-stockings was brought from Montreal, where winter comfort is reduced to a science, and I find them much preferable to the ordinary leggings, warmer and easier to wear under rubbers. Red mittens, the gift of an aunty, complete Hal’s costume, protected in which he goes out on the coldest days with safety, and I think that no one seeing his attire would fancy that its materials were furnished by the old clothes closet. WOOLEN UNDERCLOTHING Among the many means by which we seek to guard ourselves from the effects of chill there is one which hardly, even now, receives sufficient attention – the use of woolen underclothing. The majority of persons of the male sex do, indeed, show their appreciation of its wholesome qualities; but there remains a considerable moiety of these and a far greater number of women and children, who prefer an undersuit of smooth but relatively meager linen. Yet the superior advantages of wearing wool next the skin are easily apparent on reflection. They do not depend merely on its greater warmth and closeness of application. It is further capable, according to its texture and in virtue of its composition, of better adaptation in respect of temperature to the needs of various climates and the changes of seasons than any other dress material. Moreover, whether it be fine or rough, dense or light woolen clothing, it is evident, exhibits a special facility for absorbing and distributing moisture. It is this property especially which renders it the natural covering of the naturally perspiring skin. If one be engaged, for example, in active exercise of limb, a linen fabric will absorb what products of transudation it can till it is wet, but will leave much moisture unabsorbed upon the clammy surface, whereas, a flannel, from its more spongy nature, will rest upon a skin which it has nearly dried, and be but damp itself. It is obvious, then, that in the extent of an after-chill, and this occurs in summer as in winter, the body is, in the latter case, most favorably disposed to resist it. Flannel is not loss cleanly than linen, though it may appear less white; and if the wearer bate daily, it is surprising how long it will retain its purity. The disadvantage of skin irritation to which it sometimes gives rise is usually associated with coarseness of quality or freshness of manufacture, and is with nearly all who have experience it a merely transient condition. Women, as well as men, we repeat, but above all children and the aged, who are alike particularly apt to take cold, should certainly adopt a woolen material for their customary undergarment. It is easily possible to adjust the texture to the season, so that it shall be warm enough in winter and not too warm in summer. – [The Lancet] There are in New York City 524 miles of gas pipes, 486 miles of water pipes, 391 miles of sewer pipes, 14 ½ miles of steam supply pipes, and 15 miles of underground electric wires. VERY FRENCHY – anecdote - [Paris Cor. Inter-Ocean] SAW A SEA SERPENT The officers and crew of the schooner Edward Waite, of Portland, Me., which arrived at this port recently, are positive that they fell in with a genuine sea serpent on the voyage from Cardenas to this city with a cargo of sugar. The vessel was yesterday, docked at South Street wharf, and the bronzed-faced mate, William Page, who has been a sailor for thirty years, told the story of the remarkable adventure in a straightforward manner. ‘Our voyage,” said he, “from Cardenia to Cape Hatteras was uneventful. We passed that point and were more than half way to Cape Henry when we sighted a strange disturbance in the ocean. It was my watch and there were several men on deck at the time. We thought at first that it was a shark, but as it did not “blow” we concluded it was a shark, although some of the men who were watching it said it was too large for a shark. The thing, whatever it was, came nearer and nearer, as if charging for the vessel, and we began to get a little excited. We noticed, also, as it came within a reasonable distance that the thing’s head was out of water. It came nearer and nearer, leaving along, wide wake behind it, and stirring the water into foam like the paddles of a river steamer. It passed the schooner within less than 250 yards and we had a full view. We were so much interested that I forgot to call the captain, who was below asleep, but all of the watch saw the thing as plainly as I can see the schooner there in the next dock. It was a sea serpent and no mistake. We could only measure its size by the line in the water, but I should say it was fully ninety feet long with a head as large and something like a horse’s head. The most remarkable thing about it was the color and size of its eyes. They were of a bright saffron hue and half as large as a man’s hand. It held its head above water all the time we saw it, which was about half an hour, when it passé dour of sight in a southerly direction. We were at the time in latitude 35, 40 and it was a clear day. We could not have been mistaken.” – [Philadelphia Record] A vermin exterminator of Boston recently offered to clear a large brewery of a vast quantity of flies which had collected by the millions in the beer hogsheads, for $250. The proprietor agreed to the terms and the man went to work. “Roll these barrels into the ice-room,’ he said. The barrels were rolled into the room where ice was made. “Freeze ‘em” said the vermin exterminator. The brewery men were surprised that they had not thought of that simple remedy. They tried it, and in a short time swept out countless numbers of frozen flies. MARK TWAIN’S INNOCENTS ABROAD Elisha Bliss, late president of the American Publishing Company, Hartford, was the first publisher who gave favorable consideration to Mark Twain’s “Innocent’s Abroad” and caused it to be issued. Notwithstanding the rollicking satire, the laughter provoking character and the obliviously popular elements, of the “Innocents” its author had the greatest difficulty in getting it before the public. He had gained considerable reputation as a humorist by his little volume containing the “Jumping Frog” and other sketches, before setting out on his travels to the Quaker City, and after he had returned and prepared his copy, he had naturally very little doubt of its prompt acceptance. He was doomed to continued and bitter disappointment. He offered his manuscript to one publisher after another in New York, but not one would take the risk of putting it in book form. Then he sent it to Boston, with the same result, and finally to Philadelphia, only to be again rebuffed. By this time he was, as may be inferred in no amiable mod. He confessed that his literary vanity had been sorely wounded, and he was so dissatisfied with his work that he was ready to throw it into the fire. Having offered it to the leading publishers of three of the principal cities of the union to no purpose, it was not strange that he was troubled and hurt. While in this irritated, self-disgusted mood, he met the late Albert D. Richardson, to whom handed the manuscript to see if it was so irredeemably bad. Richardson pronounced it very clever, full of the extravagant drollery which the American people relish, and expressed his astonishment that any publisher of intelligence and experience should have declined it. “You cannot be any more astonished than I am.” Remarked Clemens dryly. ”Those publishers have astonished as much conceit out of me as a long siege of sickness.” Richardson, who had published several books through the American Company, said that he was going to Hartford, and that he would take the manuscript with him and he was sure that the company would be glad to take it. He put it into the hands of Bliss, then Secretary, who was immensely pleased with it. But some of the other officers and directors were adverse, and made so many objections that he finally declared that he would publish it on his own personal account. They came around when they saw that he was entirely in earnest, and afterwards pretended that they favored the book from the start. The extraordinary success of the “Innocents Abroad” is well known. The sales to date, including prated editions, is said to have reached 200,000 copies. The American Company probably cleared from $60,000 to $70,000 by its publication. – [Boston Transcript] TILTON’S DREADFUL JOKE – Anecdote about Theodore Tilton THE CHARMING CREOLE’S FIRST BALL – Anecdote PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Publisher THURSDAY APRIL 21, 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. 3RD OF MAY We notice that great improvements have been made at the Mobile Fair Grounds, and that arrangements are being made for the accommodations of large crowds. It will be a splendid time to visit Mobile. “If we do what we can” says a pious writer, “God will not be failing to do for us that which we cannot.” It is well to remember this assurance when we seem to ourselves to be making but little progress. Jefferson Davis delivered an eloquent eulogy upon Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston at the unveiling of the equestrian statue of the great Confederate General, recently at New Orleans. It is estimated that fifteen thousand persons were present. Mr. John Warren, who has spent the past 40 years on the Tuskaloosa Observer and the Times, has retired from the newspaper business, and with his son and Dr. W. A. Cochrane gone into the real estate business in that city. We wish him success in his new business. Politeness can be cultivated and is a debt we owe society. One can be uniformly polite and yet not hypocritical. Burke says: “Where we can be neither friends nor brethren, let us be kind and pleasant acquaintances.” No man has yet written better on the subject of the monument than Rev. W. C. McCoy. What could be finer than this? - “The moss-grown cenotaphs of ancient Roman valor held no dust more sacred than do the honored dead today.” The Tuscumbia North Alabamian gives this excellent advice: “Our Farmers should remember that all farm supplies can be produced cheaper on the farm than they can be purchased and in planting their crops this spring they should be sure to put down plenty of corn. Any crop of grain is more valuable than cotton. You can’t afford to buy corn at 60 cents a bushel and bulk-meat at 15 cents a pound to be paid for next fall in cotton at 8 cents a pound. Produce your own corn and pork.” It will be remembered by at least some of our readers, that the Record book containing Vincent’s bond as State Treasurer could not be found after he had disappeared, and it was supposed that he either carried the book off with him or destroyed it. A few days ago, when Vincent stated positively that he left the book on the safe in the vault. Several gentlemen went to the Treasurer’s office made diligent search for it, and found that book behind the safe, between the safe and wall, where hit has been securely hid for four long years. The finding of this bound brings to light, the additional names, which it seem no one could remember were on it, when the state was trying to recover from the bondsmen. They are Messrs. B. L. Dyer, D. G. Allen and G. L. Griffin. They are we suppose as liable now, as they ever were, and it is yet possible that the state will be reimbursed, at least to the extent of the reward paid for Vincent’s capture, and the cost incidental to his prosecution. END OF THE DROUTH (sic) The gratifying news comes from Texas that general rains have fallen in that state and that the long drouth there which threatened such disasters to the crop has ended, especially is this so in Northern and Eastern Texas, where the situation was growing very critical, as farmers were afraid of longer delaying the putting in of the cotton, etc. THE PRESIDENTS – THEIR FINANCIAL STANDING Of the earlier Presidents Washington was the wealthiest. When he died his estate at a moderate valuation was worth fully $300,000. Adams was a poor man, but independent in his last years, thanks to the good management of his wife. Jefferson was wealthy when became President, but lost his property and died insolvent. His home was sold and his daughter was saved from want by the generosity of South Carolina, which gave her $30,000. Congress bought his library, and with the proceeds his debts were paid. All his descendents are poor. Madison left a handsome property, and was wealthy when President. Congress bought his manuscript papers, paying $30,0000 for them. Mrs. Madison’s son, Payne Todd, squandered the property, and in a few years after her husband’s death she was poor. In 1816 his estate was valued at $280,000. James Monroe died insolvent. He sold his Virginia estate after the death of his wife, and died in New York. John Quincy Adams left $50,000. His successor, Andrew Jackson, was a rich man for his day. The Hermitage which he left to his adopted son is now the property of the state of Tennessee. Martin Van Buren left a fine estate valued at $300,000. Jas. K. Polk left about half this sum, and as he had no children to make use of it, his widow has enjoyed since he died. John Tyler was not a rich man, though he owned a fine farm in Virginia, and a number of slaves. He had a large family, and was so long in public life that he went to the White House poor. What he saved in office enabled him to live comfortably afterwards. His second wife had means, and their eight children were well educated. Mr. Fillmore, by a second marriage, became a wealthy man. Franklin Pierce left no child to inherit his property, which was valued at $50,000. James Buchanan was worth $250,000 at the time of his death which he left to his nephews and nieces. Abraham Lincoln’s estate was valued at $75,000. Andrew Johnson had $150,000 when he left the White House. A part of this was lost by the failure of the Freedman’s Bank. President U. S. Grant never had any money until he became Lieutenant General. His salary and the generous gifts of his friends made him a millionaire. All of his property was lost in the Grant Ward Failure. His wife is again independent though the sale of his book. Rutherford B. Hayes is very wealthy. President Garfield left a small property, worth not more than $40,000. The gifts to Mrs. Garfield made her rich. President Chester A. Authur at the time of his death was worth $100,000. President Cleveland, the president incumbent, is worth about $150,000. Esquire W. G. MIDDLETON informs us of his attending a very enthusiastic meeting held in the city of Columbus on last Tuesday night, in the interest of the proposed $100,000 donation to the Tombigbee R. R. Co., to be voted upon on the 26th. 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 21, 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 Nice rain Sunday night. ---- growing weather. -----ving green surrounds us. Tuesday will be Memorial Day. Light frost Monday morning. Beautiful sunshine for several days. We can almost see the leaves and ---- unfolding. Produce will be taken in exchange for the News. Beautiful spring brings good pros---- merry birds and sweet flowers. Garden sass beings to appear on the --- to the great joy of the household. W. A. YOUNG, Esq. made a business trip to Kennedy Tuesday. If you want a good job of work done in or out-doors, call on R. R. JONES Esquire W. G. MIDDLETON made a business trip to Columbus via Fernbank first of the week. Mr. L. S. METCALFE of Columbus was several days in town first of the week. Next Sunday being the 4th, we may expect preaching at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. by Rev. G. L. HEWITT. Sheriff PENNINGTON and Mr. MURRAY COBB left for Birmingham a few days ago with the prisoner JAS. RUSSELL. Mr. GEO. W. RUSH and Miss DABIE—in paid Columbus a visit first of the week. Mr. W. B. MCMANUS caught a fish first of the week that measured 34 inches and weighed 10 pounds. Chancellor COBB on his last round appointed W. H. KEY Esq. of Hamilton, Registrar in Chancery for the 13th ---- of the Northwestern Chancery -----. The high school has suspended. Mr. and Mrs. M. F. DENMAN made a visit to Columbus this week. Our railroad prospects are brightening. The I. O. O. F. at a meeting Saturday night decided not to have a festival. Dr. G. C. BURNS and lady visited Columbus this week. May, the lovely Spring month of sunshine and flowers, mosquitoes and gnats, parties and picnics, will soon be upon us. Rev. W. C. WOODS filled his appointment on last Sunday, the morning services were concluded by Rev. G. B. TAYLOR. We learn that there are to be two more surveys made from Columbus in the direction of Decatur. One up Luxapilila and the other up Yellow Creek. Our sanctum was honored on Tuesday by a call from Rev. JNO. E. COX, of West, Va., accompanied by our general postmaster rev. T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Rev. Mr. COX delivered two excellent sermons in this place on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Mrs. W. L. MORTON who visited her daughter Miss MAGGIE and other relatives at Corena, Miss returned on Thursday last. A dispatch from Columbus to the Times Democrat says that the next survey of the Tombigbee R. R. Co. will go 10 miles parallel with the Ga. Pa. road. MEMORIAL DAY Tuesday the 26th last will be Memorial Day, Let all this day and offspring bring, The fragrant flowers of early spring, And scatter o’er the lonely grave Of some true, gallant Southern brave. Tread softly reverently, tread, Above the grave on these our dead; And may earth’s gentle summer showers Keep long in bloom these fragrant flowers’ We fondly place a floral wreath Over the hero laid beneath’ His work on earth’s forever done, His battles fought, his laurels won With tender hands we lay these flowers Where rests the brave and true of ours And may the South ne’er see the day When she’ll forget the Boys in Grey. KINGVILLE ITEMS Kingville, Ala. April 15, 1887 Mr. E. J. McNatt: Dear Sirs: Notwithstanding the scarcity of news in our community we shall again attempt to give you and your readers a few hastily gathered items from Kingville. Bill Arp says that the word April comes from a Latin word which means “to open” and we presume that knows what he is talking about. April has come and spring has opened beyond a reasonable doubt. We stated in our last communication that the fruit crop of all kinds was likely to be a failure, but upon a more careful examination we find that there will be come apples and plums. Dr. J. W. COLLINS informs us that there is at present some sickness in our community, of which we are very sorry. The Dr. tells us of a very sad accident which happened some 3 or 4 miles south of here yesterday. Mr. KELLIE FOSTER was trying to shoot into a hawk’s nest and both barrels of his gun firing almost simultaneously the gun kicked back and striking him in the face mangled it terribly. There was preaching Sunday night at the house of our friend and neighbor W. J. TRULL, Esq. by the Rev. Mr. DYER. It is unnecessary for us to say that it was an eloquent and interesting sermon from the fact the Parson preaches no other kind of sermon. We have recently been informed of the death on the night of the 7th inst., of the Rev. PETER MCGEE who lived some 11 miles northwest of Kingville. Mr. MCGEE has long been an earnest Minister of the Free Will Baptist Church, and one of Lamar’s best citizens. He leaves many relatives and friends to mourn their loss, but, bless God, we have an inward assurance that their loss has proven to be his eternal gain. “Uncle Peter” was a good man, and let all prepare to meet him in that beautiful Land, where no storms ever beat on that glittering stand, while the years of eternity roll. Rumors are afloat that the Rev. Mr. ISBELL has recently been making efforts to establish a Normal or school of High Grade either at Kennedy or Millport, with all of which we are every much pleased. Give Lamar County one school firmly established upon a Normal basis, and but a short time will be required for her teachers to be at least 100 percent better qualified for teaching than they are at present. We cannot do more for Prof. ISBELL and his Normal School enterprise than we did for TOM SEAY and JOHN BANKHEAD before they were elected to the office which they now hold. We said, Hurrah for them, and we will also say, Hurrah for ISBEELL and his Graded School enterprise. In our last communication we unintentionally failed to request our Brother-Bad-Pop Shore – 1884 Correspondent of Caledonia, Miss, to let us hear occasionally from him and the Caledonia folks. Come now, Brother Pop, let us hear from you at least once a week. We would be very much pleased to re- extend the right hand of fellowship to all of our old Brethren Correspondents, and also, to as many new ones as can consistently join in with us in giving the news from the different sections of our country. We are not overly good in composition and writing, therefore, some of our critic friends may think or even say well, if I couldn’t write better than Warwick I’d quit. Yes, and we have heard of a great many good people who never did learn to compose or write much simply from the fact that they never commenced or quit too soon after having once commenced. If any one does not like the style of our communications let him write some better ones just out of spite. For fear we do make somebody mad we will quit –f or this time. Yours very truly, WARWICK STATE ITEMS Eufaula has a wonderful revival in progress. The Baptist Sunday School of Mayfield, Ky. numbers 400. A revival is in progress in the Baptist Church at Marion. A large turpentine still is to be erected near Evergreen soon. The Methodist of Evergreen are building a parsonage. Troy is enjoying a great religious revival. Birmingham is to have her streets and avenues paved. Clayton is to have a bank with a capital stock of $50,000. Another Furnace Co. was organized recently at Tuscaloosa. The Inter-state drill which was to have been in Montgomery in June has been postponed until May ’88. H. H. Carr, a Birmingham contactor, has skipped out leaving his creditors to mourn his loss to the tune of $2,300. Thos. Covin, son of Rev. Simeon Covin, of Covin’s Switch, fell from a trestle in Walker County on the 13th inst, and was instantly killed. The Georgia Pacific Railroad is now receiving and shipping freight to Columbus, Miss. Passenger trains will run through about May 1st. It is probable that the three insurance companies the Birmingham, the Iron & Oak and the Royal, will be consolidated into one company. Maj. E. A. Burke, of New Orleans is to build at once, four three story brick stores and twenty-five residences at Bessemer, near Birmingham. The citizens of Anniston gave Pig Iron Kelly a grand banquet on the night of the 12th inst. The occasion was one of the grandest in the history of the town. The pressed brick manufactory, big ice factory, new four story hotel, electric lights, street railroads car factory, stove factory, cotton factory, nail factory, two new iron furnaces, soda factory, and three new railroads at once. – [Gadsden Times and News] When the railroads kill an editor now, they have to pay for his body. Editorial passes waive all claims for damages. After the roads have paid for a few high priced editors they will wish the Interstate Commerce Bill had never been passed. – [Leadville Herald Democrat] Last week the county commissioners of Jefferson County sold the old court house to B. B. Gilreath for $1750. The conditions of the sale require the purchaser to remove the entire building from the lot within a specified time, so that work will begin on the new court house some time in July. So faithful and efficient officer as Auditor Burke must command the sympathies of the whole people in so grievous an affliction as the loss of his wife. Mrs. Burke was Miss Inge of Tuscaloosa, a noted belle in her maidenhood. The remains were sent there for interment. On 6th inst. a negro tenant living in a house of Mr. Jake Rhodes’ place about eight miles east of Greenville went off leaving five children, the oldest 11 years of age, fastened up in the house. While absent the house took fire, and before any one could get there the children had all burned to death. Cause of fire unknown. The auction sale of lots at Bessemer began on the 12th and over $400,000 worth of lots were sold before night to New Orleans, Charleston, and Birmingham people. Prices were from $30 to $75 per front foot. A Welhein & Son of Reading, Pa bought one block of ground upon which they will erect a rolling mill. Another instance of the refining influence of motherhood is giving us in an old mother cat belonging to Mr. Vol Burns of Sardis, this county. The cat in wandering about the fields near Mr. Burn’s residence came across a lonely and forsaken young rabbit. Instead of following her natural instinct to kill and devour the little thing, she carried it carefully and tenderly in her mouth to the bed of her own young and placed it among them, where she cares for it as it if was one of her own kittens. – [Fayette Journal] NEWS ITEMS Francis Murphy has been doing good temperance work in Chicago. The village Farnham, Va. was entirely destroyed by fire on the 13th. Eben S. Sterne, President of the Tennessee Normal College, died on the 10th. The Vanderbilt’s are about to invest largely in the South. South Carolina will get a large share. Jay Gould does not use tobacco in any form, but here are those who dare to intimate that he will smoke hereafter. In Atlanta, there were forty-nine drunks recorded in the police stations during the month of January against seventy-seven one year ago. Prohibition is ahead. The Zunbar Medical College of England in the six years history has qualified and sent out seventy ladies as medical practitioners for missions fields. A woman named Corrigan, residing near Noors, County Letirim, was lately delivered of four children at one birth – three girls and a boy. They are all doing well. The family are miserably poor, the father being a small farmer. Dr. Hunter J. F. Melicous, who attended the mother, will apply for the Queens bounty. The children lie on straw, covered with rags, beside the five. The landlord has forgiven the father a year’s rent in consideration of the increase of the family. Anecdote Anecdote Anecdote Ad for Cossen’s Honey of Tar Ad for White’s Cream Vermifuge Ad for Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment Ad for The Daily Commercial of Chattanooga, Tenn. – A Republican newspaper 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 Ad for The Empire News 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 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 Marriage Guide PAGE 4 KALANOS TO ALEXANDER – poem – [The Academy] TRUE TO HIS WORK - Short Story A STRANGE SUPERSTITION Over near Middleton, writes a New Haven correspondent to the New York Times, is a farmer named Edgar G. Strokes, a gentleman who is said to have graduated with honor in a New England college more than a quarter of a century ago. He enjoys, perhaps, the most notable bit of superstition to be found anywhere in this country, in or out of Connecticut. He owns a farm on which he lives, and it is valuable; not quite so valuable, though, as it once was, for Mr. Stokes eccentric disposition has somewhat changed the usual tactics that farmers pursue when they won fertile acres. The average man clears his soil of stones; Mr. Stokes has been piling rocks all over his land. Little by little the weakness or philosophy has grown upon him; and not only from every part of Middlesex County, but from every part of this state he has been accumulating wagon-loads of pebbles and rocks. He seeks for no peculiar stone, either in shape, color, or quality. If they are stone that is sufficient. And his theory is that stones have souls – souls, too, that are not so sordid and earthly as the souls that animate humanity. They are souls purified and exalted. In the rocks are the sprits of the greatest men who have lived in the past ages, developed by some divinity until they have become worthy of their new abode. Napoleon Bonaparte’s soul inhabits a stone, so does Hannibal’s; so does Caesar’s, but poor plebeian John Smith and William Jenkins, they never attained such mortality. Farmer Stokes has dumped his rocks with more or less reverence all along his fields, and this by one name and that by another he knows and hails them all. A choice galaxy of the distinguished lights of the old days are in his possession, and just between the burly bits of granite at the very threshold of his home is a smooth-faced crystal from the Rocky mountains. This stone has no soul yet. The rough, jagged rock on its left is George Washington. The granite spar on the right is gloried with the spirit of Good Queen Bess. The smooth-face crystal one of these days is to know the bliss of swallowing up the spirit of good Farmer Edgar Garton Stokes. It was not until recently that mystified neighbors obtained the secret of the vast accumulation of rough stones on the Stokes farm. Mr. Stokes has a family. They all seem to be intelligent, practical business people. There may be a will contested in Middletown one of these days. NEVER MIND THE HAT, MY BOY – Anecdote CARDS AND CROQUET - anecdote THE KING AND THE MILLER - anecdote ABSTEMIOUS MEN The most successful thinks are usually frugal in their habits of eating and drinking; yet this is not always true, as in the case of Dickens and Bayard Taylor; but these men died long before their time. Careful living would, without doubt, have enabled them to extend their lives many years, and to give much riper productions to the world. Sir Isaac Newton was a close student, and lived to be more than four- score years of age. He used to say that he could not think clearly until five hours had elapsed after a meal. The most eminent men of our time are very careful livers. A. T. Stewart, the merchant prince of America, lived frugally, and Jay Gould, the richest man on the continent today, is said to be the most abstemious. Commodore Vanderbilt was exemplary in this respect, as were Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Everett, and John C. Calhoun. It is said that when Henry Ward Beecher expects to make an unusual effort in public he postpones a meal, if it comes near the hour of his lecture, and waits until he is rested afterward before he eats anything; and he had every prospect of being a hale old man. We might mention Ralph Waldo Emerson and Bronson Alcott, who are among the wisest men of their time, and whose wisdom takes in the very important concern of caring for the needs of the body in the very best sense. People cannot eat their loaf and keep it, at the same time. They cannot squander their vital force in high living, and continue to give their best effort to the world. A man ought to be able to write his best after he is seventy, for then he has experienced enough to show him how to begin to live. When we think of such men as Hemboldt, Longfellow and Whittler doing their best work in the evening of their lives, we feel conscious of a lack in the abridged existence of Dickens, Poe, and Byron. We feel satisfied when men die of old age; but mourning memory lingers long at the grave of genius out down by dissipation before its time. – [Health] GEN. SHERMAN’S SLANG The endorsement made by Gen. Sherman on official papers and documents will, in the course of time, be a matter of much study, and, doubtless, some little amusement to the men who have to rake over them for reference after the general has departed. Gen. Sherman uses very frequently slang in indorsing official papers, and is quite profuse in attaching to them quotations from the popular operas and plays of the day. There is one expression of his more commonly met with than any other. Almost number less instances are found where he says he cannot see “in all June” why this or that should not be. An endorsement by Gen. Sherman upon a request of Gen. McDowell shows very clearly how official papers reach the secretary of war’s after being referred to the general of the army. Gen. McDowell requested that he be allowed to have painted a portrait of himself, to be hung up in his headquarters in San Francisco. In his endorsement, Gen. Sherman says that Gen. Ord and Gen. Scholfield had been allowed to have their portraits painted a special privileges but if this kept on there would not be a second lieutenant in the army who would not want a portrait painter to take his likeness at the expense of the government. Thus the general says in the language of “Pinafore!” The line must be drawn somewhere, and I propose that it be drawn right here, and that no more portraits be painted at government expense.” After such an endorsement as this, it is perhaps unnecessary to state that Gen. McDowell was not allowed to sit for his picture at Uncle Sam’s expense. – [Washington Letter] Mr. G. H. Darwin has taken pains to estimate the tresses caused in the interior of the earth by the weight of continents and mountains, and he concludes that either the materials of the earth have about the strength of granite at one thousand miles from the surface, or that the supposed crust is much thicker than is generally supposed. He confirms Sir William Thornton’s theory that the earth must be solid nearly throughout tits whole mass, and he attributes the lava of volcanoes to the melting of solid rock which exists at high temperatures at points where the pressure is diminished, or to the existence of comparatively small vesicles of molten rock. SULLIVAN’S EARNINGS AESTHETIC STYLE OF DRESS GEOGRAPHY A game-cock near Rome, Ga. which was carried off by a bald eagle recently was distinctly heard to crow while in the eagle’s clutches. Three days afterward the rooster once home again, apparently little the worse for his adventure. 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