Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News April 28, 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, 3:52 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History April 28, 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 28, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 26 HOW OR OTHER WE GET ALONG – Poem – [Philadelphia Times] ----ORONE OF THE FAMILY – Short Story THE YOUNG MEN OF THE SOUTH The idea prevails largely in our current literature that the young men of the “new South” are full of force and energy, eager to grapple the difficulties of their situation, and quite prepared to wring success from unwilling fortune. The picture is not wholly one of fancy. There are such young men among us, and they are illustrating what may be done in the new order of things amid which they are thrown. But they are not very numerous – are, in fact, painfully exceptional. The great bulk of our young men are of the opposite type. They go about business, if they go at it at all, in a half- hearted way, as if they regarded failure as a foregone conclusion. A great many do not engage in any steady vocation, but accent any little job by which they can earn a few dollars. Perhaps there never were so many men who can not be said to be pursing any regular calling. An ambition to get behind a counter or to secure a traveling agency for some business house is that which generally takes possession fo the minds of our young men. There is a turning away from agriculture as if it were not a calling which promises to patience, energy, and industry the very best rewards. We must own it that the bold, ambitions young men, who is willing to forego present case and display, and who will not be content with any expedient that may meet the present emergency, is an exception among us. There is as good a chance to lay the foundations of a fortune now as there ever was, if young men will only exercise the proper industry and economy. – [Atlanta Sunny South] DISPOSING OF A DAUGHTER. – anecdote TWO FOR HIS HEELS – joke ANCIENT VILLAGES IN ARIZONA Mr. Stevenson’s researches this season resulted in the discovery of several ancient villages, one of which is located on the Little Colorado. This village extends over an area of three miles. Many of the houses stand two and three stories high, built of square, flat stones laid in mortar. Several of the larger buildings, forming one group, are situated along the banks of a small canon. This canon presented many evidences of the handiwork of the aborigines who inhabited the dwellings along its banks. In the walls of this canon are many small niches and cavities which had been walled up, leaving only a small aperture through which to place small articles. The plaster, some of which the party dug out, still retains the finger-marks and impressions of the masons who built them. These little bins must have been for the purpose of storing wild seeds and grain, for such were all they contained. Agriculture in the sense as now understood, was unknown to these people. The domestication of animals was also unknown to them. Away from this group of dwellings, up the canon for several miles, were found houses and corrals of various shapes and sizes. Surrounding this village is a series of volcanic hills or knolls from fifty to 300 feet in height. On the summit of each was found either a round or octagonal-shaped tower or fortification. This was evidently the object, from the fact that only one entrance was found to any of them, and they were in all cases furnished with portholes about breast high, and were seldom so constructed inside as to indicate permanent dwellings. It was quite impossible to conjecture the age of this village, and none of the Indians now inhabiting that country could enlighten the explorers on the subjects. They only refer to them as the homes of the ancients. – [Washington Letter] Justice Gray of the Supreme Court is the largest man that walks Pennsylvania Avenue. He has to stoop for most doorways. He is a tremendous worker, nor tired, but rather retired. He is a stout, rosy, happy bachelor. That he is the last makes him rather diffident with young girls. It hurts him to have to say, “How d’ye do, how d’ye do, little girls,” to young persons. He is, however, very popular, and his matrimonial fate is an object of interest. He denies that he is engaged to be married. PRESIDENT KIRLAND ENDORSED THE FLIP – Anecdote BEATEN AT THEIR OWN GAME – joke SIOUX PONIES “Unpromising looking! Well, they are not pretty as a rule, though I’ve seen some dandies, “said the cowboy. “Turn Jay-Eye-See out in a Dakota winter, and give him just what food he rustled for – cottonwood twigs and bark and scanty buffalo grass mostly – and I don’t guess he’d show up in very marvelous shape in the spring. I was at Sully once, just as retreat was sounding off – sundown, you know. An Indian rode up on a pot-bellied, scrawny- skinned splay-footed, matted-haired calico, and gave a letter from the adjutant at Fort Hall to the Sully adjutant. To an interpreter who happened to be standing by, the Indian, a Brule Sioux, remarked that he had ridden a good way that day and his pony was tired. The adjutant noticed that the Hall letter was dated that morning, and his interest being aroused, asked the messenger when he left his post. He replied that he started just after first sergeant’s call (after day break). Subsequent investigation proved his truth. He had ridden that sorry nag 104 miles in less than thirteen hours, and much of the way the road would have been hard on a bird. I tell you we treated that mangy-looking brute as if he had the bluest blood of all the barbs in his veins. – [Pioneer Press] GENERAL LEE’S HEN In Long’s life of Lee an interesting story of a hen is told. A few chickens were once presented to the general. In the lot was a laying hen whose life was spared. The hen accompanied the army to Gettysburg, riding in the baggage wagon, and after that battle was with the Confederates for nearly a year. At last the hen grew fat and lazy, and one day the steward, finding his supplies very low and knowing that the general expected a distinguished guest for dinner, killed the hen, and she was served up on the altar of hospitality. General Lee was surprised to see so fine a fowl set before him, but he little dreamed that his pet hen had been slaughtered. When the hen was missed, however, the steward had to confess that he had been placed in a position like unto that of the boy who had to capture the ground hog. There was company for dinner and no meat. The Deer Creek Rip-Saw and Broading is the name of an Ohio paper. SAYINGS OF OLD WOMEN If on going out of the house you forget something, you must under no circumstances turn back if you can possibly avoid it. If you do you must at any rate sit down a moment before going out again. If the first person you meet is an old woman, it is a sign of a coming misfortune; wile on the contrary, a funeral procession denotes good fortune. Pigs to your left bring you luck, to your right the opposite; to avert which, grasp something made of steel and the spell will be broken. If on setting out on a journey you meet a sow with pits your enterprises will be sure to be successful. To meet two magpies portends marriage; three, a successful journey; four unexpected good news. If your left hand itches you will take in money; if your right, you will pay it out. A ringing in the right ear means that someone is speaking well of you; in your left, you may be sure that evil tongues are busy with you. If your right eye itches you will see some beautiful sight; if the left, you will have cause to shed tears. If your nose itches you will hear some news or will fall into the mire. – [Philadelphia News] GIRLS WHO MAKE A NOISE WITH THEIR FEET Next to a low, sweet voice in woman I most admire a light foot-fall. That elastic tread which won’t bend a daisy’s head, with a movement suggestive of a cross between a swan and a snow flake, is the kind referred to, but oh, how rarely seen! For some reason or other Boston girls thump down on their heels in a way that makes the very sidewalk tremble. As a general thing there is so much noise in the streets the rattle of their “wooden shoon” cannot be heard, and you only know what is happening by a slight seismic convulsion which might be mistaken for a baby earthquake. But when these pounders come late to a concert you realize the immense advantage cherubim has over seraphim. The audience is breathless with listening to the most perfect singing; the number will be finished in a moment, yet in spite of that, or the disturbance she must create, down stamps the late-comer to a seat as near the stage as possible. To add to the discord, her boots squeak, and she hits a register that sends forth a most brutal noise; then she crowds into a skip and makes tow people rise to let her pass. Unless you are a very little lower than the angels you wish the witches would fly away with her! Boston girls are inveterate matinee patrons but I sometimes wish there were no matinees for them to go to, or else there could be a derrick to hoist them into their seats and prevent theses invariable disturbances. – [Boston Herald] A SUBSTITUE FOR CURTAIN POLES For hanging curtains at bedroom windows, don’t use heavy poles and rings, if the draperies are of lace, muslin, or other light material. It is obvious, once the attention is directed to it, the support is strong out of all proportion to the thing to be supported; and this is contrary to all decorative canons. The very prettiest and simplest substitute is a narrow strip of pine wood, such as is commonly put into the lower hem of Holland shades. On these strips the lace or muslin is to be gathered. They cost two or three cents each, and can be had at any place where shade and curtains are sold. A hem almost half an inch wider than the stick should be made in the top of the curtain goods, and the stick inserted, the fullness being evenly distributed along it. A space of half an inch should be left bare at each end, and small shingle nails, one at each end, driven through into the window frame. The nails should not be driven in up to their heads, but left a little free, so that they may be easily removed when the time comes for washing the curtains. This simple little plan has been adopted by a large firm of house decorators, and has been by them introduced into some very handsome houses. A pretty variation may be made by leaving a heading above the hem in which the stick is inserted. In this form, the little strips of wood have even found their way into the parlor. – [Marion Foster Washburne, in Good Housekeeping] ROSSER GETS EVEN WITH CUSTER General Tom Rosser was a gallant Confederate soldier. I saw him in the Girard House the other day. Years and his work on the Northern Pacific railroad have told upon him. He looks much older than he did when he left the Southern states poor to become an engineer for Jay Cooke. Rosser was rather a picturesque character as a leader of a division of rebel Calvary. In a great degree he resembled Custer, whose classmate he was at West Point. Once at Ruckland Hills, in Virginia, as he was driven out, he left a message with some ladies at a farm house for the gallant leader who died on the Big Horn……(rest of article is torn) PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Publisher THURSDAY APRIL 28, 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. Sam Small is recovering from a spell of sickness and is making new engagements. The President has appointed Gen. A. R. Lawton, of Georgia, as Minister in Austria Hungary. Mr. Blaine is getting well at Fort Gibson, and no doubt feels that he is now as prominently before the people as Mr. Sherman. The funeral of the late Elder Geo. M. Lyle will be preached at Mineral Springs Church in Pickens County on the 1st Sabbath in May with Masonic services. The regular schedule of the Georgia Pacific passenger trains leave Columbus at 5 a.m. and arrive in Birmingham at 11 a.m. Leaves Birmingham 3 p.m. and arrive at Columbus 8 p.m. Edward A. Moseley, of Boston, has been elected secretary of the Inter-State Commission. He is a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Legislature and one of the committee on railroads commissionship. NOTICE Persons affected by attachments served on their property by the Sheriff or Constables, have the right to select the newspaper through which the advertisement of the day of sale shall appear. Our sheriff being one of the proprietor’s of the Courier, he is certain to place such advertisements in it unless notified to do otherwise. We will be extremely favorable to such parties favoring us with their advertising. The mayor of Montgomery refused the Salvation Army the use of the city hall until he could consult the ministers of the city and see what they thought about it. It ought to be remembered that this is the same man who invited the whiskey dealers of Atlanta to come over to Montgomery when prohibition closed them out in their own city. He did not consult the ministers of the city on the subject either. PROHIBITON Chicago, April 21 – A News special from Des Moines, Iowa says: Gov. Larrabee has written a letter in reply to an inquiry from the central committee of the prohibitory campaign of Texas in regard to the workings of prohibition in Iowa. The Governor says that eighty out of ninety-nine counties of the State Prohibition is enforced and in the remaining nineteen counties it is partly enforced; that no property has been depreciated by its enforcement as the saloons make room for better and more legitimate business, that the enforcement of the law has had no noticeable effect upon the population beyond causing the removal from the state of some incurable dispensers and perhaps incurable consumers…….(rest is torn) IS IT JUSTICE? It will be remembered that our contemporary secured the commissioner’s court advertising at one-tenth the price, allowed by law for the same. Since then we have made a bid for all the advertising ordered by our Tax-collector at the same rate (one-tenth) but to our astonishment we find that he has given the advertisements of delinquent tax sales to the Courier and allowed full rates, as will be seen from amount of printer’s fees. We are aware of the fact that Capt. LACY is also one of the proprietors of said paper, but is it justice to the poor tax payer? While the Democratic primary election in Montgomery was pending, we carefully refrained from saying anything about it. But, now that it is over and ended, we must say that, in our opinion, the Executive Committee made a great mistake, in confining the voting to white men. It is bad faith and bad policy to refuse the vote, at such a time, of a negro who has acted with our party. Surely, if President Cleveland can appoint colored Democrats to office, we can let them vote at our primaries. The fact is, there are some men in Alabama who are not yet informed that the negro in this country is a free man. – [Florence Gazette] FLORENCE, TUSKALOOSA AND MONTGOMERY R. R. The above railway was organized on Monday the 16th inst., at Florence, Ala, with he election of Judge W. B. Wood, President; Gen. P. D. Roddey, Vice President; and Sterling A. Wood, Secretary. In addition to above our city will be represent by Messrs. B. Friedman and W. C. Jemison. This road will probably be a continuation of the Tuscaloosa Northern, but of this we shall have more to say in the future. With a road from the Tennessee to Tuscaloosa, through the rich coal belt, the future of our city is assured. – [The Daily Tuscaloosa Gazette] THE LOG CABIN Dr. John Matthews in an interesting communication in the Alabama Christian Advocate says: “The log cabin has sent more men to Congress, to the judges seat, and other high places of power, than has the mansion; still the self-inflated and pompous traveler points to the rude cabin and laughs over his as the lack of culture.” Dr. Matthews here states a truth that will hardly be controverted. There are elements of success in the “log cabin” that must be looked for deeper than in the material of which the house is constructed. What is it? It is a problem of conditions. The log cabin is the home of the poor and humble. It is not a question of taste, but one of necessity. This, it has been said is the “mother of invention.” Educated men have come out of log cabins, but then they come upon the stage of life with a practical knowledge of many things not contained in the college curriculum, - knowledge eminently useful in the activities of this practical world. Life generated above water will never live beneath it. No one reared to manhood above the natural level of his kind will not train below them. The tendency of all things is to grow up. This is a representative government, and the majority voters are in humble life. Naturally they prefer a judgment upon their liberty, lives and property, and a representative to make laws for them, who has felt as they feel and knows from actual experience the wants, needs, and necessities of those who suffer the burdens and privations of life. The Savior came and dwelt upon the earth, that he might be “touched with our infirmities, and tempted like as ourselves” in ore that he might be fitted to sit at the right hand of the Father, to judge the quick and the dead. If Jesus Christ had to come and dwell with Lazarus and Mary, Simon, Amos and Zachius, that He might know of their suffering, sorrows, needs, necessities and aspirations how can finite man hope to, understand these things without it. – [Greenville Advocate] 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 28, 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 Overcome evil with good. Cheerfulness is a good tonic. The best restorative is hope. Fast grows the springing grass. Strawberries and ice cream in order. The blackberry crop promises to be fine. The county jail has only one occupant. Our farmers report most flattering prospects for good crops. The health of the citizens of our town and county are reported good. Commissioner MALLOY gave us quite a pleasant call on Tuesday. Regret to note the illness of Mrs. HATTIE MORTON. Mr. and Mrs. JAS. P. YOUNG spent Sunday in town with their son. W. A. YOUNG, Esq. Mrs. MCLAIN pulled (?) out in the yard on first of the week. May she continue to improve. Mr. W. Y. ALLEN our whole-hearted Tax Collector will ----- thanks for --------. For Sale:------- E. W. BROCK (can’t read) Dr. EMMETT MORTON ----- this ---- in this place later of next week. If you want a good job or work done -------, call us. R. R. JONES (last 2 items on column can’t read) There is talk of having a picnic when the surveyors reach Vernon. By all means let’s have it. In another column will be found Rev. G. L. HEWITT’S appointments for the Vernon circuit Attend prayer meeting on Wednesday nights. We learn there are about 200 hands employed in getting out cross-ties on the Kansas City road near Mr. W. M. MOLLOY’S. Mrs. MACE, Mrs. RECTOR, and Master MURRAY LEE are expected home this week, after a two month visit to relatives in Indiana and elsewhere. The railroad surveyors are within 4 miles of Vernon on Yellow Creek,. Who knows but that Vernon will get the road yet? Esquire R. E. BRADLEY informs us that he and some of this old neighbors on Beaver Creek had the misfortune to lose a great deal of fencing by fire first of this week. Everything in nature is just as it should be. This is illustrated by the fact that the foliage comes on the pretty shade trees at the time we need the shade. Dr. BURNS informs us of an enthusiastic rail road meeting held in Columbus last Monday night in which our townsman, Dr. W. A. BROWN made an able speech. Letters of administration were granted W. M. MOLLOY on last Tuesday, by the Hon. ALEXR. COBB, over the estate of A. H. GIBBS and MARY ANN GIBBS, deceased. Se notices in another column. We notice that some of our marriageable fellow citizens are growing in the practice of gallantry, and are making spring more lovely to the young ladies and themselves by buggy drives. It is delightful weather for “talking velvet.” Many of the denizens of this place went to the creek latter part of last week in search of a “mess”: of fish. As usual, a number of us came home with the stereotyped complaint “the fish wouldn’t bite.” A few days ago, a fowl known as a Loon was found by Mr. BUD GUIN in his field one mile south of town. Taxidermist, Mr. MACE has stuffed it, and will have it on exhibition at his shop. Go and see it. This place was visited on Friday of last week with the heaviest rain of the season, preceded by dark threatening clouds and heavy winds. Mr. L. M. WAFFORD informed us that the community five miles northwest of here was visited by a considerable hailstorm on that evening. Our advice to you is not to catch a cold if you can help it, but having caught it rid yourself of it promptly by using the remedy known all over the world as Coussens Honey of Tar, a simple preparation equaled by none for purity and efficacy. When used according to directions a positive cure is affected for coughs, colds, and diseases of throat and lungs. I have now completed the rounds and will soon be engaged in making the tax book. All persons who have not yet made their assessments will please come forward at once and make their returns without further notice. Very truly, W. Y. ALLEN, Tax Assessor In some neighborhoods in the rural districts, the county doctor with saddle bags, and general rusticity, was considered an important personage, but his occupation’s gone. When a remedy is needed for coughs, colds, and diseased of throat and lungs the only cure for these Coussen’s Honey of Tar, is readily obtained, used, and permanent relief secured. KINGVILLE ITEMS Kingville, Ala. – April 28, 1887 Mr. E. J. MCNATT: Dear Sir: We shall again attempt to vie a few items from Kingville for publication in the Lamar News. ---------you may expect our customary in by -------(can’t read last 2 items in the 2nd column)------- Our farmers for the past week have been trying to obey the injunction which says that hey shall eat their bread by the sweat of their brow. There will be singing at the Academy next Sunday evening conducted by Mr. GLASGOW. Messrs. W. A. JOHNSON, JOHN NOLEN and “Seeb” ROWLAND are off on a business trip to Tuscaloosa this week. Our school is well attended yet, notwithstanding most of the Patrons have to keep their “larger” children at home to help them work in the field. On last Sunday Kingville was honored for a short while with the presence of Prof. J. R. BLACK of the Vernon High School. The Prof. we are pleased to mention, is one of Lamar’s most talented and enthusiastic educators. Monday and Monday night’s cold “spell” almost made a doubting Thomas of us so far as Bill Arp’s defiction (sic) of the word April is concerned. Hoping that we may do better next time, we again subscribe ourself faithfully, WARWICK STATE ITEMS There is said to be a great demand for residences in Florence. There is said to be a great demand for houses in Tuscaloosa. Congressman Oates wills ail with his family for Europe between the 1st of and 15th of May. Mr. Hector D. Lane is now associated with his brother, Chas. Lane, in editing and publishing the New South of Huntsville. Two men by name of Salms and Turner have been arrested and put in jail at Jacksonville charged with the shooting of Miss Buchanan. Large quantities of walnut and cherry lands are being purchased in Logan County by men from Indiana. A farmer while at work in his field near Dardanelle, Yelle County, last week, plowed up a forty-pound chunk of lead. Thomas Barrow, a farmer living near Searcy, was killed last week by the fall of a limb from a tree which he was felling. The negro who killed policeman Pugh, of Montgomery, last year, has tried and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Birmingham is excited over the performance of J. Randell Brown, a mind reader, whose exhibition are said to be most wonderful. Thos. Brown, aged 76 years, living near Stevenson, Jackson County, is the 6th of a family of 15 children all of whom are said to be living, and not one of them ever took a dose of medicine. The Abbeville Times announces that next week it will publish “a list of our town liars” and intimates the list will be a long one. The Times will no doubt be looked for with unusual interest. Last Sunday at Lanoke, while a little child of Mr. Fuel was running about its father’s house playing with a knife, it stumbled and fell and the knife was driven through its hear. It expired instantly. Birmingham – April 23 – John Stewart, a young Atlanta man, on a telegram from that city, was arrested as he got off the Georgia Pacific train this afternoon, charged with larceny after trust. The Fort Payne Journal says the boom that town has been waiting for so long and anxiously has at last come, that Cincinnati and Kansas City capitalist have bought $100,000 worth of mineral lands near the place and will soon begin the building of coke ovens and a furnace. The Times of Eufaula says “Colonel Oates is his speech at the Academy last Friday night mentioned as a historical fact which is not generally known, that it was Alabamian who fired the last gun prior to Lee’s surrender on Appomattox, and that it was a citizen of Abbeville who gave the command – Captain James W. Stokes, who was at the time in command of the Sixtieth Alabama.” The Chilton View says when visiting a printing office keep the following rules in view. Enter softly, sit down quietly, subscribe for the paper and pay the -- - in advance if you have not previously done so, keep six feet away from the devil, hands off the manuscript, don’t talk to the compiler, unless business demands it, don’t carry off the exchanges and don’t read the type on the galleys. Jasper Eagle: A wedding has occurred in Jasper at last. Last Wednesday evening two throbbing hearts were made to thump as one, and two beloved souls were given single thought. The blushing bride was gorgeously ------to the poetical name of JANE PATTON. The groom bore the proud cognomen of Ross – SPRINGFIELD ALBERTS ROSS. George Washington Davis, the village barber, shoemaker, preacher, and stove-repairer, performed the ceremony in a peculiar, grand sublime and flourishing manner, and as a final finish the Reverend George said in a tone of august solemnity: “When folks is jined together let no man bust a cinder.” The curtain dropped and we all went home. VERNON CIRCUIT - FAYETTE C. H. DISTRICT M. E. CHURCH SOUTH – Appointments Vernon 11 a.m. and 7 ½ p.m. 4th Sunday Springfield Chapel 11 a.m. 1st Sunday Moscow 3 ½ p.m. 1st Sunday Lebanon 11 a.m. 2nd Sunday Newman’s Chapel 3 ½ p.m. 2nd Sunday New Hope 11 a.m. 3rd Sunday Mt. Nebo 3 ½ p.m. 3rd Sunday District Conference will embrace the 5th Sunday in July. GEO. L. HEWITT, Pastor HE GAVE UP ALL HOPE – joke NEWS ITEMS Jeff Davis is eighty years of age. Moody will continue preaching daily in Chicago for some time longer. Sam Jones will soon begin revival work in San Francisco. A colored preacher hung at Marion, Ark., last week, ate a piece of pie on his way to the gallows. The corner-stone of the Sam Jones Female College will be laid at Cartersville, Ga., on the 3rd of May, with imposing ceremonies. Rev. Baxter says the millennium will begin between 1887 and 1900 and great wars between nations will take place, and after all sorts of terrible things have happened, a great earthquake will destroy the earth. A crowd of men went into Augusta, Woodruff County, one night recently bent on hanging Joe Simmons, the negro murderer of J. R. Byrd. The Sheriff however had gotten wind of their approach and removed this prisoner to Newport. On Friday last at Texarkana, as a freight train was entering the yards from the Texas and Pacific Road, a brakeman on board caught a small negro boy who was stealing a ride and threw him from the car. The child fell upon the track between the cars and was crushed to death. New Haven, Conn. – A ten thousand dollar libel suit was today brought against New Haven Union by George H. Ford, proprietor of one of the fashionable jewelry stores of the city. The suit is a peculiar one and has created considerable comments. Next June New Haven will formally dedicate the Soldier’s Monument and a number of citizens there have for some time been engaged in making arrangements to ensure the ceremonies being imposing and attractive. It was decided it would be impossible to make the celebration a success unless President Cleveland and his wife were present, so it was determined to invite them. Jeweler Ford, who was on the invitation committed for the Chief Magistrate, did so with the aid of a local artist. It was so gorgeous that Ford placed it on exhibition in one of his show windows. While thus exposed to view, it was discovered that the wording of the invitation was extremely ungrammatical, and the Union called attention to the fact in its column. This did not please Jeweler Ford and he has brought suit asking for $10,000 damages. The best grammarians in the city decided that the Union was right, and the gentleman in charge of the arrangements for the day of dedication had another invitation prepared, which read more correctly, and which was recently tendered to President Cleveland. Ford claims the Union has held him up for contempt and ridicule in an editorial, but just how much he has been injured cannot be determines until his case is tried. Joke ADM’S NOTICE Probate Court Estate of A. H. GIBBS, deceased Letter of Administration of said decedent, having been granted to the undersigned on the 29th day of April, A. D. 1887, by the Hon. Alexander Cobb, Judge of the Probate Court of Lamar County. Notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present the same within the time allowed by law or the same will be barred. W. M. MOLLOY, Administrator ADM’S NOTICE Probate Court Estate of MARY ANN GIBBS, deceased. Letter of Administration of said decedent, having been granted to the undersigned on the 29th day of April, A. D. 1887, by the Hon. Alexander Cobb, Judge of the Probate Court of Lamar County. Notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present the same within the time allowed by law or the same will be barred. W. M. MOLLOY, Administrator 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 Ad for Stratton Accordeons 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. G. W. RUSH J. W. CLEARMAN 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. GEO. W. RUSH & CO. 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 NOT ALL THAT GLITTERS Although there is great show and any amount of “social position” and “rank” in Washington, there is not an equal amount of wealth to support it in two-thirds of the cases. The majority of those who shine in society and are the most prominent and irrepressible are dependent on government salaries, and it takes close management to make them suffice for plain living and a place in society. Many of the senators are wealthy’ but they are the only ones, as a class, who have great wealth and the moneyed people, as the rich winter residents who come only as private citizens are called, are easily counted. Each session Washington runs over with heiresses, and penniless girls, and widows who come to Washington as to a great matrimonial market, and wear themselves half out in the struggle to get into and keep in society. Rich men never come to hunt for wives in this modern Smithfield, and when a New York millionaire did take a Washington bride it was a pretty girl in straitened circumstances, who had never been known in the society of army and navy Germans and legation balls. And now, when its richest young bachelor and clubman wants a wife he goes to Scotland for her, and leaves scores of disappointed aspirants here to wonder why he need travel so far. Young army and naval officers are the most mercenary lot of all, and they invariably save up their leaves of absence to spend in Washington during the winter months. One miscreant in caplets once horrified some married ladies saying; “It pays us poor fellows on short commons to pass a season in Washington sending bouquets and spending all our money on the girls; for all the rich girls go there, and their fortunes are only equivalent for the social position that we can give them.” Sometimes these gay speculators get terribly sold, as not every papa that passes for a millionaire is really one, and heiress is a name very easily ticketed to a girl who dresses well. Recently there has been a notorious case of one of these uniformed fortune-hunters getting the supposed heiress after a long siege, only to find too late the at the fortune was all in the air, vanished, gone up like smoke. To balance this there is the case of another young officer, who, although engaged to a great heiress now in Europe finishing her French and buying her trousseau, longs to be released from those golden fetters to marry a penniless orphan employed in one of the departments here. People who believe in the old-fashioned love stores admire and sympathize deeply with this crooked course of true love. A joke is often told on one very punctilios army officer, who in the course of frontier experiences found his ex-laundress the wife of a Congressman. The laundress rise and the growth of her husband’s fortune could not bring the ladies of the fort to recognize her, and this particular officer, although now a general, could remember some stormy schemes, when, as a poor young lieutenant, he had scored and upbraided the laundress about matters of starch, buttons, and plain mending. She fell in his way next at some celebration or even where her husband, the Congressman, was in one of the front carriages of the procession, and she, the gorgeous figure on the platform crowded with the distinguished people of the day. the general in his uniform was introduced and her voice and face sent his memory chasing backwards. Just about as the identity was becoming clear her talk went on to the winter that she had just passed in Washington. Her comments on society and people at the capital wound up consolingly with this: “O, Yes! I found, too, that army officers go in quite good society at Washington.” When this got into army gossip it furnished as much amusement as a remark that once rose above the hum of voices of a dinner party where when the same women, who looked 60 and one a ravenblack wig over a face seamed with wrinkles, simperingly said: “…. I mean to wear baby blue until I -----.” [Washington Letter] WHAT PONANZA MACKAY SAYS ----------- I get to much newspaper--------- I do not seek it, and I do------ of the papers------ free with my chairs and those of the family. My two boys are abroad getting ready for college. My wife has received much hospitality, and has tried to repay it in kind. And I have gone on quietly attending to business here in the western world, which I love and where I feel at home. Some of the things which have been printed about us are outrageous, but I do not take the trouble of answering all the newspaper fictions which I see and hear of. It would keep me busy wiring letters of denial if I noticed them.” “I suppose you saw the statement in the Paris News to the effect that Mrs. Mackay and you were to be enemies forevermore because you would not buy a $450,000 place for her in England?” “Yes, and what arrant nonsense that is! The editor of the Morning News knows better than that. I am surprised that he should allow such stuff in his paper. There is no reason on earth why I should purchase a home in England. My business interests, my pleasures, my habits, and m friendships all call me to the western world. It is well enough to travel in Europe, but for steady living the United States are good enough for me.” – [N. Y. World] HOW THE BARBER KEPT TALLY – joke HOW TO PRESERVE THE TEETH I had a curbstone conversation one day with a prominent dentist on State Street as he stood waiting for a car. I ventured to suggest to him that probably his profession was not very much interested in methods of preserving the teeth from decay. “On the contrary,” he said, “we do everything we can to teach the people how too make our services unnecessary. Paradoxical as it may seem, it is to our interest to do so; for what little we can do in that line only educated them into t a greater care for their teeth, and that always brings them to us for help. Now, right here – I see my car is still a block away – I will impart to you the greatest secret for preserving your teeth, and dispensing with desists that is known to our profession. Go to any establishment where dental stores are sold and buy three or four spools of white floss, and a cake of white wax. The expenses will be 50 cents, and they will last you a year. Unwind two yards of the floss and wax it well, then double it, twist it, and then wax it again. Keep that in your vest pocket, and un it between all your teen every day or two. It requires considerable force and some ingenuity to do it but it can be done; and if it makes your gums bleed at first, all the better. After awhile all the sensitiveness will leave the teeth and the gums, and the process will produce the same refreshing feeling that washing your face in the morning does. If you get your teeth once put in good order, and then use this silk floss regularly, you will never need a dentist again. Toothpicks and tooth-brushes are good to cleanse the face of the teeth, and the wider openings between the teeth; but where the dentist makes his money is between the teeth that are close together. The silk floss cuts off his revenue altogether. Ta-ta, here’s my car.” I shouted after him that I knew what he said was true, for I had been doing that very thing for fifteen years. – [Chicago Journal] The widow of Nana Sahib, the leader of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, died recently at Katmandu, the capital of Nepaul. She was the daughter of a Hindoo school- teacher and shared her husband’s ambition to ascend one day the throne of India. She lived for many years on a small pension granted her by the government of Nepaul. FARM NOTES Plum shoots grafted upon wild plum stocks do well. The ---- wool clip of Washington Territory is over 8,000,000 pounds. Texas fever is reported in Missouri, but only a few cases have been heard of up to this time. To properly keep straw and hay in stacks the stacks must be constructed so as to shed water. The editor of the Orange County Farmer trained his tomatoes to poles and they grew six feet high. A very successful western dairyman says he has only ---- for his cows, and that is crushed oats and bran. Every farmer must know what kind of swine breed well and are wanted in the markets. That is the kind which can be bred with profit. Six thousand Percheron horses have been imported into this country first and last. Of these more than 1,000 were brought over last year. Three-fourths of bother branches of the legislature of South Carolina are farmers. The number of lawyers and professional politicians is very small. The sweetest and best-flavored pork in the world is produced on the island of Maderia. The hogs there subsist mainly on fruits, nuts, grass, and roots. It is estimated that 50,000,000 eggs are consumed everyday in this country, or about one for each inhabitant, which includes, however, those used in the arts. A tract of land on the shore of Cayuga Lake, near Canoga, N. Y. has been leased to Rochester partiers for the raising of frogs for the New York market. Comb honey may be ripened by placing it in a dry, warm room properly ventilated. If placed in a damp room it will receive moisture, swell, and burst the capping. The value which competent judges have assigned the various features of butter is as follows: Flavor, 25; keeping qualities, 20; texture, 25; color, 15; appearance, 15; total, 100 points. The exports of frozen meat from New Zealand are stated in the London Economist to be about 700,000 carcasses of mutton annually. The business is confined mostly to the winter months. It is estimated by those who have made the subject a study, that the losses occasioned by insects injurious to agriculture in the United States, read the enormous sum of $400,000,000 every year. A pound of Minorea eggs will require only six eggs, while with some other breed eight eggs are necessary to a pound. This shows the unfairness of selling eggs by the dozen instead of by weight. Young stock, once allowed to run down, never fully recover from the effects thereof. Of inferior feed and lice the first generally brings the second. Poor feeding is scandalous; vermin added it is brutal. The use of oxen for doing farm work is said to be more general in Connecticut than in any of the western states. Nearly all the plowing, harvesting, and drawing manure, wood, and stone is done by oxen. The coming buttermaker, according to the National Stockman, must have a clean mouth and breath as well as clean clothes and a clean apron, be honest, neat, smart, level-headed and able to keep accounts. Commenting on the opposition of Professors Brown and Sanhorn to the use of ensilage, the editor of the American Dairyman says; The poorest ensilage we have ever seen has been in the silos of agricultural colleges.” While milk is standing for cream to rise, the purity of the cream, and consequently the fine flavor and keeping of the butter will be injured if the surface of the cream is exposed freely to air much warmer than the cream. A BULLY’S PUNISHMENT One of the notorious characters of this section, says a Chihuahua telegram, is Three-Toed Watson, whose right first name nobody knows, and whose last name probably was not Watson in the States. He is one of the gang called rustlers who keep on the edge of civilization and make it morally ragged. Three-Toed Watson came here with the railroad, and he made himself unpleasantly conspicuous in all the free fights and fandango affrays that have varied the otherwise monotonous course of Chivatito. By shooting two men and freely flourishing a frontier revolver in the saloons Watson has acquired the coveted notoriety of being a bad man and chief of the camp, and also established the custom among barkeepers of never charging him anything for whisky or mescal. When the railroad went on Three-Toed Watson did not follow with the gag. It is not an easy thing to get acknowledges as chief in a railroad camp, but, having got there, the privilege of free whisky, free lunches, and general box-ship of the saloons are too valuable to a frontier- tough to be lightly thrown away and abandoned. Watson is very liberal with his privileges, and never takes a drink without asking all hands to join him. A refusal to drink with him is a deadly insult, as it conveys to the mind of Three-Toed Watson the inference that the person refusing considers him no gentleman. After tonight’s experience, however he probably will not be quite so pressingly liberal. Two mining engineers were sitting at a table in a saloon where they bully was running things, and when Watson ordered everybody up to the bar one of them, a German named Winkler, politely declined. Mr. Watson produced a ponderous pistol, and, poking the muzzle into Winkler’s face, he roared:’ “Yer wont’ drink with me, yer Dutch tenderfoot! Reckon yer don’t know me. I’m a howling blizzard of the perarie, I am, and when I’m turned loose it’s dirty work cleaning up the ranch. I’m a gentleman, and you’ll drink whisky long o’me or make a soft seat for the coroner.” Mr. Winkler shut one eye and squinted into the pistol-barrel, and quietly remarked: “Well, if you insist, I’m with you.’ Getting up from the table he walked over to the bar and stood beside Watson, who flourished the pistol once more under his nose and then returned it to the holster. Holding a whisky glass in his left hand, Winkler took from his vest-pocket a draughtsman’s six H lead pencil, sharpened to a needle- point. Turning to Three-Toed Watson, he said: “Look here, sir. You are a bigger man than I am, and could whip me if you wanted to without any weapons. I didn’t want to drink, but you pulled a pistol, and would have shot me if I hadn’t stepped up here. I carry no arms, you see; nothing but a pencil.” Here Winkler poised the pencil, which he grasped firmly with his right thumb, and fingers, directly opposite Watson’s face as though to call attention to the insignificance of his armory and emphasize his remarks, at the same time looking the bully steadily in the eye. “Now, I want to tell you,” he continued, “that you are an infernal coward and a scoundrel, and I can lick you with a lead pencil.” And just as the bully reached for his gun the pencil darted forward like a flash into his left eye, the point passing accurately through the pupil. Three-Toed Watson yelled in agony and fell upon the floor, writing and shrieking. Mr. Winkler put the pencil back into his vest pocket, replaced the untasted whisky upon the bar, and went out. Watson may pull through if he had luck, but that eye will be of no more use to him, and his privileges as a bad man are gone. – [New York Sun] DYNAMITE Few people know what dynamite is, though the word is in common use. It is a giant gun-powder, that is, an explosive material varying in strength and safety of handling according to the percentage of nitro-glycerin, it contains. Nitro-glycerin, whence it derives its strength, is composed of ordinary glycerin and nitric acid, compounded together in certain proportions and at a certain temperature. Nitro-glycerin, though not the strongest explosive known, being exceeded in power by nitrogen and other products of chemistry, is thus far the most terrible explosive manufactured to any extent. Nitroglycerine by itself in not safe to handle, hence dynamite is preferred. It is extensively made and consumed in the United States under the various names of Giant, Hercules, Jupiter, and Atlas powders, all of which contain anywhere from 250 to 80 percent of nitro-glycerin, the residue of the compound being made up of rotten stone, non-explosive earth, saw dust, charcoal, plaster of Pairs, black powder or some other substance that takes up the glycerin and makes a porous spongy mass. Nitroglycerine was discovered by Salvero, an Italian chemist, in 1845. Dynamite is prepared by simply kneading with the naked hands 25 percent of infusioial earth and 75 percent of nitroglycerine until the moisture assumes a putty condition not unlike moist brown sugar. Before mixing, the infosorial earth is calcined in a furnace, in order to burn out all organic matter, and it is also sifted to free it of large grains. While still moist it is squeezed into cartridges, which are prepared of parchment paper, and the firing is done by fulminate of silver in copper capsules provided with patent exploders. Nitro-glycerin is made of nitric acid one part and sulphuric acid two parts, to which is added ordinary glycerin, and the moisture is well washed with pure water. The infusion is composed of small microscopic siliceous shells which have lost their living creatures. The cellular parts receive the nitro- glycerin and hold it by capillary attraction, both inside and out. the earth is very light. Water is expelled from it by means of a furnace and then, in the form of a powder, it is mixed with nitro-glycerin. Nitro-glycerin has a sweet, aromatic, pungent taste, and the peculiar property of causing a violent headache when placed in a small quantity on the tongue or wrist. It freeze at 40 degrees Fahrenheit, becoming a white, half crystallized mass, which must be melted by the application of water at a temperature about 100 degrees Fahrenheit. – [American analyst] SOWERS USED THE -----anecdote MOPPING There is a little skill required to perform even this piece of work so that the effect is satisfactory. Formerly, before painted floors were almost the rule in every house, it was a much more arduous performance; but to keep a painted floor looking its best one needs some experiences Unobservant or heedless workers push the mop against the base-boards, which, after a few moppings, show a soiled streak the whole length of them, which annoys a good workman. Better leave a space the width of one board untouched by the mop, and afterward or before, wipe it up with a cloth by hand. In mopping a floor, whether it is painted or not, the best effect depends on its being well rinsed. No matter how much strength is laid out on it, if the last water in which the mop is wrung out is not clean the floor will look dingy. Freshly painted floors are best cleaned when a third or a-half skim milk is added to the water. The oil in the milk makes the paint shine as clear will not. Soapsuds are a little too strong to use on fresh paint, removing not only the dust, but the paint also, but after the coat of paint is well hardened it may be used to good advantage. It is easier to clean a floor quite often than to let it get the start of you so as to require a severe effort of strength to being it to look well. Knit underwear, after it has been worn and cast aside, makes excellent material of which to manufacture mops. The mops should be thoroughly rinsed after using, and dried in the sun. WARM FEET GOOD COFFEE The best coffee is made from mixed Mocha and Java berries, carefully roasted and ground. Pour a coffee-cupful into a pot that will hold three pints of water; add the white and ok of an egg or two or three clean egg-shells or a well-cleansed and dried but if fish skin the size of a nine-pence. Pour upon it boiling water and boil ten minutes. Then pour out a little from the spout in order to remove the grains that may have boiled into it, and pour back into the pot. Let it stand eight or ten minutes where it will keep hot and not boil; boiling coffee a great while makes it strong, but not so lively or agreeable. If you have no cream boil a saucepan of milk, and after pouring it into the pitcher, stir it now and then till breakfast is ready, that the cream may not separate from the milk. MISSING LINKS The French government costs the taxpayers $96,000 every hour. A collector of coins at Senola, Ga., owns a Spanish coin that is 140 years old. It is said that Mormons spend $250,000 a year in maintaining a lobby at Washington. A farmer near Winona, Miss., claims to have raised 140 bushels of corn from one acre of ground last season. An Oregon paper mill gets paper stock and jute butts from Calcutta for the manufacture of manila paper. A Brooklyn blind boy takes dictation on the type-writer faster than any known expert in the possession of good eyesight. The Russian minister at Washington is allowed $25,000 a year by his government for the purpose of giving entertainment. Several Georgia farmers are seriously considering the question of employing Chinese in place of negroes on their plantations. More than $20,000,000 has been invested in the mines of Montana, and fifty thousand people are dependent upon the mining enterprises. “Irish lemons” is the latest name bestowed upon the homely but useful “spud” by the farmers in the great citrus belt of Southern California. There is a Uintah Indian in Utah who owns three farms, subscribes for an reads a weekly newspaper, and in everything but color resembles a white man. A perfectly white buzzard is the curiosity of which Union Springs, Ala. boasts, and the residents of that town are so proud of it that no one will shoot at it. The earliest chair of law at any American seat of learning was established at the College of William and Mary in 1779, thirty-six years before that of Harvard. The bird spider of tropical America has a body only four and one-half inches long, but is no slouch for all that. Its legs are even inches long, it lives on young birds, and it seems to hatch not less than 1,500 eggs at a time. Mr. Brandenburgh of Philadelphia will go down to posterity as the owner of the largest dog in America. Koloss is a Danish hound of noble ancestry, is nine feet long and five feet high. He has an immense head, and a huge body of a tawny color streaked with dark gray. A mine-owner near Sheridan, M. T., reports the discovery of a new metal. It carries considerable gold in places, but h e latter cannot be separated from the strange material by any process of working gold ores. The mineral when melted is as white as silver, but much harder. Emma Abbott says she one met Ouida, the famous novelist, and describes her as “a big, bold, voluptuous looking woman, with the blackest eyes and hair and a very high color, just such a persona as might be supposed to be inspired with the sentiment embodied in her novels.” The question whether turkeys are animals is perplexing a county courting Georgia. Recently an old poultry-vender was arrested for violating the state statute against cruelty to animals because he carried turkeys with their heads downward. He claimed that turkeys were not animals, and that he did not know it was cruel to carry turkeys with their heads downward. A machine that sews on buttons is the latest invention. It is claimed that is will perform the work of four or five girls, and will do it better, because it never slights its work, but puts in just the number of stitches it is gauged for. It will sew on buttons with two or four holes equally well, and at the rate of six per minute, with twelve stitches in each. MONSTER MEN Messrs. Spencer and Ridenour, who recently returned from their rich copper discoveries, have told us of a discovery they made when in the Grand Canon, (sic) which is almost too marvelous to believer. In the basin of the canon, which was once on a sand bed, and probably thousand of years ago a broad, level plain (but the narrow passage way is now hemmed in by walls 118 feet high). They came upon an imprint in the rock, denoting a rare foot, with toes, instep and heel as plain and unmistakable as the orb of day. It measured twenty-six in length and twelve in width. The average depth of the imprint is four inches, while as the ball of the foot it is six inches. The men had only three pack mules and prospecting tolls with them, or they would have taken out the rock containing the foot print, but it is their intention to return in a few days prepared to perform the work and bring these evidences of a monster human race to the public gaze. An Indian with the party, when he came upon the tracks, remarked “Big Father here heap years gone.” The gentlemen making the discovery are well known as reliable and truthful. – [Peach Springs (Arizona) champion. A GEORGIAN’S GRAND SCHEME - anecdote THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for Globe Cotton and Corn --- and Fertilizer Distributor Ad for Plowboy newspaper File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1276gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 69.2 Kb