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THE LAMAR NEWS

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor    VERNON, ALABAMA, MAY 5, 1887       VOL. 
IV. NO. 27

HIS WIFE – Poem – [Justin McCarthy}

A REGISTERED LETTER – Short Story – [Puck]

TELEPHONE INSPECTOR – A Tennessee Judge Who Wished to be Accommodating – 
Anecdote about a judge that misspoke

THEY SPRUNG IT ON HIM – anecdote

JUDGE BLECKLEY’S MAN SERVANT – Anecdote of Judge Bleckley – [Atlanta 
Constitution]

DEFORMITY IN MILAN
All the monsters physical I have seen elsewhere throughout my whole life would 
not, if collected together, approach by even a few hundred all the persons 
similarly afflicted whom I have met in the streets of Milan during the last 
three months.  I could not go into one of the public gardens, traverse one of 
the plaza enter one of the churches or sit in a tram-car, without finding 
myself confronted with at least one or two hunchbacks. It is, in fact, a 
veritable city of Quasimodo. Add to these bewhiskered and chimney-pot-hatted 
dwarfs, some four feet high, brushing pompously past you, and diminutive 
women, young and old, still lower of stature, waddling along the pavements, 
cripples of regular and irregular sizes of both sexes, and you might well ask 
yourself in wonder, as I asked my artist friend, now comes it that we find 
such an inordinate amount of deformity in a county where the rudest clodhopper 
has a soul and passion for beauty, whether it be in flesh and blood or on 
canvas? The answer was brief and to the point: “These deformities are 
traditional. Lombardians are well known to be so clannish in their habits (and 
have been so for as many a generation) that they often intermarry within the 
forbidden degrees of kindred.“ – [Cor. American Register]

FOR ONCE THE DUKE COULDN’T FIDDLE – anecdote about the Duke of Edinburgh

A LAD’S WONDERFUL ADVENTURE – story about a boy stuck in a tree

THE HAUGHTY WIFE – anecdote about a banker’s wife

TO PREVENT BEDSORES
Then a person is obliged to lie constantly in one position as is the case with 
a broken leg, the pressure coming constantly on the same place bedsores must 
be guarded against.  The lower part of the back is most frequently attacked. 
The nurse should pass her hand under it at least twice a day to see that the 
draw sheet is free from wrinkles and creases.  Morning and night she must 
bathe it with a small sponge dipped in alcohol, or a solution of tannic acid, 
and when it is dry rub it with corn starch or buckwheat flour. It may seem 
impossible to her to get her hand underneath, but most beds will yield a 
little to pressure and by working in a roll of old linen under the back above 
the place to be bathed, she will obtain a little space to work in. If in spite 
of precautions the back becomes sore an air cushion with a hole in the middle 
must be used to prevent the sore from coming in contact with nay surface, or 
it cannot heal. – [Elizabeth Robinson Scovil in Good Housekeeping.]

THE INCREASE OF IDIOCY
The tendency of the race to decay is now one of the most apparent facts which 
the public is required to meet, and I learn from the report of the secretary 
of the interior that idiocy is increasing with fearful rapidity. The census 
for 1870, for instance, includes 345,527 idiots, which is an all-sufficient 
number even for the whole United States. In 1880, however, the number was 
76,895.  In the first-mentioned census the ratio was 836 to each million, 
while in the latter is it 1,533, being an increase of more than double in ten 
years.  Going still further into those shocking facts we have as a detail 
2,122 idiotic deaf mutes, of whom 60 percent are males. There are 1,186 blind 
idiots, in which the male sex also predominated. In addition to this repulsive 
array ware the victims of a three-fold misfortune and 217 cases are given of 
idiots who are both mutes and blind. The causes of this widespread decay are 
too evident to require detail, and I only mention the general facts to show 
the internal danger with which the nation is threatened. – [N. Y. Letter]

TRYING TO LIMIT HER FREEDOM
In a school section in Northumberland County where a young lady is engaged as 
teacher there ahs been quite a dispute as to whether it would be prudent to re-
engage her or not. It was claimed that she had too many admirers of the 
opposite sex and that the section had thus been deprived of a portion of her 
time that should have been spent in the discharge of her duties as a teacher. 
Accordingly as the school meeting the trustees hand an agreement drawn up to 
the effect that she should not keep company during the coming year with any 
young men during school hours, as her undivided time should be devoted to the 
school.  Upon her refusing to sign this agreement it was decided to leave it 
to a vote of the meeting as to whether she should be compelled to sign it or 
not. A show of hands was taken and it resulted in a tie, when the chairman, 
being a young man, gave the casing vote in her favor. – [Toronto Globe]

Among the negroes born as slaves in Connecticut only three or four now 
survive. One of them is Collins L. Fitch, of Watertown. Uncle Collins is now 
eight-five years old, and, after raising a large family, is living on a small 
farm. The other night Matthew Elliott called upon him and said, “Uncle, I 
don’t want to die in debt, so I have come to pay you the $1,000 which my 
family owes you.” He laid down $1,000 and went away. Uncle Collins was born a 
slave in New Haven in 1801. His master bound him out Matthew Elliott, of New 
Preston, for whom he labored faithfully till he was twenty-one, and even 
after, though the state had given him his freedom. Mr. Elliott was abundantly 
prospered, and left his son Matthew a goodly inheritance. It is this son who 
now shares his bounty with the decrepit slave. The people of the town, where 
Mr. Collins is held in high respect have tendered him their congratulations.

EUGENIE’S JEWELED WREATH
A story is published in London to the effect that there is a splendid jeweled 
wreath now in the possession of a New York jeweler which one belonged to the 
Princess Eugenie. It appears that the wreath was ordered from a Parisian 
jeweler by the empress a few days before the Battle of Sedan. The empress took 
it with her to Chiselhurst, but after the death of the prince imperial in 
Zululand she returned it to the jeweler, receiving from him the price she had 
paid for it, namely, 7,000,000 francs, or $200,000.  It was afterward 
purchased as a souvenir, but a Bonapartial, who, however, sold it to the New 
York jewelist. The wreath contains 2,000 brilliants, all finely cut and 
mounted in old silver lined with gold. The central brilliant, which is set in 
a bouquet of violets, weights fifteen carats. The other stones weight from one 
to eight carats, and are environed by leaves of the same Napoleonic emblem.

MRS. SABIN’S NINE ADOPTED CHILDREN
One of the interesting married ladies in Washington society is the wife of 
Senator Dwight M. Sabin, of Minnesota. Mrs. Sabin was Miss Ellen Amelia 
Hutchins, of Norwich, Conn., of an old family of Eastern Connecticut. She is 
very beautiful and popular, and is one of the most attractive ladies of the 
Senatorial circle. The domestic life of Senator and Mrs. Sabin is touchingly 
pathetic. Mrs. Sabin was left an orphan when very young, which created a 
tender place in her heart for children bereft by cruel death of the tender 
care of parents and sheltering comfort and training of home. Having no 
children of her own she has taken unto herself a liberal family of nine 
children by adoption for support. These homeless little ones form an 
interesting picture of the amount of happiness which a kind and motherly heart 
can bring into this world. Two of the little ones, Blanche and Ethel Raymond, 
seven and nine years old, are the children of the late Delegate Raymond, of 
Dakota. – [Chicago Herald]

HOME LIFE FOR THE BLIND
In an address before the College for the Blind at Upper Norwood, Henry 
Fawcett, the blind postmaster general of England, said that, speaking from his 
own experience, the greatest service that could be rendered to the blind was 
to enable them to live as far as possible the same life as if they had not 
lost their sight. They should not be imprisoned in institutions or separated 
from their friends. Few who had not experienced it could imagine the 
indescribable joy to them of home life. Some persons hesitated to speak to the 
blind about outward objects. There could be no greater error. The pleasantest 
and happiest hours of his life were those when he was with his friends who 
talked about everything they saw just as if he was not present, who is a room 
talked about the pleasures when walking spoke of the scenery they were passing 
though, and who described the people they met. When with the blind, people 
should talk to them about and describe everything they saw. The speaker 
concluded by remarking that there was plenty of good will to assist the blind, 
but what was required was better organization.

THE LIFE OF MAN
At the age of 25 a man should have acquired his maximum height varying 
normally from five feet six inches to six feet.  His weight should slowly 
increase thought the adult period, being at 30 a little less than the maximum, 
which should be reached at 40.  The weight is more variable between the normal 
limits but the average among men of medium height 26 years old may be placed 
at about 140 pounds. The power of endurance should be greatest between 20 and 
30; that is, a man should be better able to endure severe hardships between 20 
and 30 than at any other time of life. The system may perhaps bear the burden 
of more protracted by less vigorous exactions during the period of maturity; 
but intense hear or cold of short duration, and such work as lifting heavy 
weights, taking short but rapid runs, and indeed every exercise which taxes 
severally but briefly the muscular and nervous systems, are best borne at the 
adult age.

HICKORY NUTS – joke

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THE LAMAR NEWS
E. J. MCNATT, Publisher

THURSDAY MAY 5, 1887

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RAIN AND MEETING
There will be public speaking in Lamar County at the following places in which 
distinguished speakers from Columbus will address the people in behalf of the 
Tombigbee Railroad: Vernon, Thursday, May 12, Anderson’s Mill, Saturday, 14. A 
large attendance is solicited.

Regan and Maxey, of Texas, have both declared themselves in favor of the 
prohibition amendment to be voted on in August. The best men in the country 
are taking their stand firmly on the moral side of this great question.

Mr. Dorsheimer has sold his paper, the New York Star, to a syndicate composed 
of E. A. Burke, of New Orleans, A. H. Belo, of Galveston, H. W. Grady, of 
Atlanta, and Senator Keroan, of N. W. The paper will be henceforth a 
representative of the New South.

Arrangements are being made to hold a mass meeting in Victoria Park, London, 
Eng. on May 21, to protest against the crimes bill. Thirteen Irish constables, 
who have recently resigned, have sailed for America.

The United States Supreme Court has made a decision in the Crandall case which 
makes suicide an accidental death and in consequence the heirs are entitled to 
any life insurance that may be placed on the life of the person.

A. K. Cutting, the bum editor who came very near causing a war last year 
between the United States and Mexico, is now a type setter on the New Orleans 
States. For a time, A. K. created quite a furor by cutting such an important 
figure in diplomatic correspondence, but he has finally settled down to earn a 
living by work instead of notoriety.

The contract for printing and binding the new code of Alabama has been awarded 
to Marshall & Bruce, of Nashville, Tenn. The work is to be in two volumes, one 
with the criminal and the other with civil statues. The two volumes will cost 
the state $2.70 per set and will be sold to lawyers and others who purchase 
copies at $4 a set. The contract calls for the delivery of five thousand of 
each volume at the capitol on the 5th day of August.

And now we are assured that Vincent, instead of being hunted down in regular 
detective style, voluntarily surrounded, and came to Alabama of his own 
accord. The Montgomery papers say that Judge Richards, of Texas, a brother-in-
law of the ex-treasurer, wrote a relative at Opelika, Ala offering him $1,000 
of the $5,000 reward to play the role of captor. The Opelika man refused and 
Deputy Sheriff Ray was approached. He took the job, got $1,000 for his pains, 
and turned over the balance to Mrs. Vincent – [Fayette Journal]

Columbus, April 27 – Rev. W. C. BLACK, of Meridan, delivered his lecture on 
Genesis and Geology here last night, of the benefit of the Young Mane’s 
Christian Association. The large audience was delighted with it.
	
The stockholders of the new street railway held a meeting today and selected 
the streets upon which rails will be laid. The road will haul freight as well 
as passenger.

The prospects for the growth and development of Alabama grows brighter each 
day. Within six months, in North Alabama alone, $40,000,000 have been invested 
in lands and in manufacturing enterprises. The eyes of eastern capitalists 
have been turned to the south, and on careful investigation they see no better 
field of, investment than right here in Alabama. Our state contains about one 
third of the population of London, England, but in mineral and agricultural 
wealth it is as rich as the entire British Empire. The wealth is now being 
developed, and the grand old state will, in time, take the stand as one of the 
most prosperous and wealthy o the states of the American Union.  Cities and 
towns are springing up, almost like Jack’s bean stalk, in a single night. 
Before the war of rebellion we would have looked in vain on the map for such 
cities as Birmingham, Anniston, Sheffield, and Cullman, they were then unheard 
of and unthought of. When such men as “Pig Iron” Kelley predicted that Alabama 
is destined to double her population in the next decade, the statement is 
worth listening to. This section of the south is one the high road to 
prosperity, and we are glad to see that our people themselves are in earnest 
about it. Every railroad enterprises should be encouraged within the state, 
for the railroads develop our mineral wealth, carried us into the heart of our 
trackless forests and rich timber lands, and is the factor for bringing our 
coal to market. Alabama, which ranks only fifth as an iron producing state 
should rank first as the state is richer in this mineral than Pennsylvania. – 
[Huntsville Mercury]

Columbus, Miss. April 26 – The result of the election today in this city is 
the occasion of great rejoicing tonight. Columbus by an overwhelming majority –
 only six votes against declared in favor of the donation of $100,000 of her 
bonds to the Tombigbee Railroad. This ensures at an early day the completion 
of the road to its connection with the Kansas City Road and its extension 
immediately thereafter to a point on the Tennessee River, where it will other 
desirable railroad connections.
	The section of country to be traversed by the Tombigbee Road is rich 
in timber and mineral, coal, and iron of high quality. The purpose of the 
projectors of this road is to make of Columbus a manufacturing center for 
timber and iron, as well as cotton products. The second survey of this road 
will be completed in a few days and work will begin next week.
	The Georgia Pacific Railroad began running passenger and freight 
trains through to Atlanta yesterday giving cheaper freights north and East.

The annual Alabama Press Association will meet in Birmingham on the 25th of 
May.

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.

Ad for The American Agriculturalist

ATTORNEYS
SMITH & YOUNG, Attorneys-At-Law Vernon, Alabama– W. R. SMITH, Fayette, C. H., 
Ala.   W. A. YOUNG, Vernon, Ala.  We have this day, entered into a partnership 
for the purpose of doing a general law practice in the county of Lamar, and to 
any business, entrusted to us we will both give our earnest personal 
attention.   – Oct. 13, 1884.

S. J. SHIELDS – Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in Chancery.  Vernon, Alabama.  
Will practice in the Courts of Lamar and the counties of the District.  
Special attention given to collection of claims.

PHYSICIANS – DENTISTS
M. W. MORTON.  W. L. MORTON.  DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons.  
Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala.  Tender their professional services to the citizens of 
Lamar and adjacent country.  Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we 
hope to merit a respectable share in the future.  Drug Store.

Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala.  Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, 
I hope to receive a liberal share in the future

FARMER’S INDEPENDENT WAREHOUSE.  We have again rented the Whitfield Stables, 
opposite the Court house, for the purpose of continuing the Warehouse and 
Cotton Storage business, and we say to our friends and farmers of West Alabama 
and East Mississippi, that we will not be surpassed by any others in looking 
after the wants of our customers to make them conformable while in Columbus.  
We will have fire places instead of stoves for both white and colored; 
separate houses fitted up for each.  We will have also good shed room for 100 
head of stock more than we had last year; also a convenient and comfortable 
room for our friends who may come to Columbus.  We do not hesitate to say that 
we can and will give you better camping accommodations than any other house in 
the house in the place.
	Mr. J. L. MARCHBANKS of Lamar County, Ala., and MILIAS MOORHEAD, of 
Pickens County, Ala., will be at the stable and will be glad to see their 
friends and attend to their wants, both day and night.  Out Mr. FELIX GUNTER 
will be at the cotton she where he will be glad to see his old friends and as 
many new ones as well come.
	All cotton shipped to us by railroad of river will be received free of 
drayage to warehouse and have our personal attention.
	Thanking you for your patronage last season, and we remain the 
farmer’s friends.
	Yours Respectfully,
J. G. SHULL & CO, Columbus, Miss.  

PHOTOGRAPHS –  R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss.  
Price list:
Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00
Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00
Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00
Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00
Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00
Satisfaction given or money returned.

Restaurant, Aberdeen Mississippi Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to call 
on Mrs. L. M.  KUPPER who keeps Restaurant, Family Groceries, Bakers and 
Confectionery, Toys, Tobacco, and Cigars. Also coffee and sugar.  Special 
attention paid to ladies.

Ad for Mme. Demorest’s Patterns and Sewing Machine

J. B. MACE, Jeweler, Vernon, Alabama.  (PICTURE OF LOT OF CLOCKS) Dealer in 
watches, clocks, jewelry and spectacles.  Makes a specialty of repairing.  
Will furnish any style of timepiece, on short notice, and at the very lowest 
price.

Our stock of Furnishing is full and complete in every respect.  (Elaborate 
drawing of goods sold)  Largest Cheapest best stock of dress goods, dress 
trimmings, ladies & misses jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, 
boots, shoes, & hats, tin ware, etc., etc., at rock bottom figures at A. COBB 
& SONS’S

The Coleman House (Formerly West House).  W. S. COLEMAN, Pro. Main St. 
Columbus, Miss.  Is now open for the entertainment of guests, and will be kept 
clean and comfortable, the table being supplied with the best the market 
affords.  Rates per day…$1.50, Rates for lodging and 2 meals….$1.25, Rates for 
single meals…...$0.50, Rates for single lodging…..$0.50.  call and try us.

LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE.  J. D. GUYTON, Prop’r., Columbus, Mississippi. 
(picture of horse and buggy)

Ad for New Home Sewing Machine (picture)

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THE LAMAR NEWS

THURSDAY MAY 5, 1887    
(Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, 
Alabama, as second-class matter.)
         
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LOCAL DIRECTORY 

CHANCERY COURT
THOMAS COBBS			Chancellor
JAS. M. MORTON			Register

CIRCUIT COURT
S. H. SPROTT				Circuit Judge
THOS. W. COLEMAN			Solicitor

COUNTY OFFICERS
ALEX. COBB				Probate Judge
R E BRADLEY				Circuit Clerk
S. F. PENNINGTON			Sheriff
L. M. WIMBERLEY			Treasurer
W. Y. ALLEN				Tax Assessor
D. J. LACY				Tax Collector
B H WILKERSON			Co. Supt. of Education
Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALBERT WILSON

CITY OFFICERS
L. M. WIMBERLY – Mayor and Treasurer 
G. W. BENSON – Marshall
Board of Aldermen – T. B. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS MIDDLETON, W A BROWN, R. 
W. COBB

RELIGIOUS
FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each 
month, 7 p.m.
MISSIONARY BAPTIST – Pastor W. C. WOODS.  Services second Sabbath in each 
month at 11 am.
METHODIST – Pastor – G. L. HEWITT.  Services fourth Sabbath in each month.  11 
a.m.

SABBATH SCHOOLS
UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m.  JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt.
METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 9 o’clock a.m.  G. W. RUSH, Supt.

MASONIC:
Vernon Lodge, No. 588, A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 
1st Saturday, 7 p.m. each month. – T.W. SPRINGFIELD, W. M.
		    W. L. MORTON, S. W. 
		     JNO. ROBERTSON, J. W. 
		     R. W. COBB, Treasurer,
	                    M. W. MORTON, Secretary		 
Vernon Lodge, NO 45, I. O. G. F. Meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays 
at 7:30 p.m. each month.
		J. D. MCCLUCKEY, N. G.
		R. L. BRADLEY, V. G.
		E. J. MCNATT, Treas’r
		M. W. MORTON, Sec.

MAIL DIRECTORY

VERNON AND COLUMBUS - Arrives every evening and leaves ever morning except 
Sunday, by way of Caledonia.
VERNON AND BROCKTON – Arrives and departs every Saturday by way of Jewell.
VERNON AND MONTCALM – Arrives and departs every Friday.
VERNON AND PIKEVILLE – Arrives and (sic) Pikeville every Tuesday and Friday by 
way of Moscow and Beaverton.
VERNON AND KENNEDY – Arrives and departs every Wednesday and Saturday.
VERNON AND ANRO – Leaves Vernon every Tuesday and Friday and returns every 
Wednesday and Saturday.

LOCAL BREVITIES
A refreshing rain fell on yesterday.

See Warwick’s items elsewhere.

Commissioner’s Court next Monday.

Cotton growing weather for several days.

Singing at the Methodist Church last Sunday night.

There was quite a crowd of farmers in town Monday.

A. COBB & Son have received a five ton wagon scales.

Dr. R. J. REDDEN of Cansler, spent Monday in Vernon.

Mr. M. M. BROWN and wife of Molloy were in town Monday.

Dr. D. W. BOX of Molloy was in town Monday and Tuesday.

To sensitive people a mortification is almost as bad as a calamity.

Glad to see Mr. JERRY PENNINGTON is able to be on the street on Saturday.

Esquire JNO. GILLMORE has about completed his commodious kitchen.

It has been suggested that a picnic on the 13th inst would not be out of order.

The public speaking on the 12th will probably being about 11 o’clock a.m.

Mr. WILSON GILLMORE is making an addition to his house on Avenue B and 
Aberdeen Street.

Mrs. W. L. MORTON who has been quite sick, we are pleased to state is 
convalescing.

Don’t forget the railroad meeting to be held in Vernon on the 12th inst. Come 
all! Come all!

Let’s have a strong pull, a long pull and an altogether pull then Hurrah for 
the railroad.

The spirit of improvement seems to have made itself felt by all of our 
property owners.

Now is the time when ye urchin carryeth salt in his trousers pocket to take 
the ache out of the green plum.

Glad to note that Mrs. JNO. GILLMORE who has been quite sick is some better at 
this writing.

Miss IDA GUYTON, one of Vernon’s fairest flowerets, has returned from a visit 
to relatives near Kennedy.

Our editorial table is decorated this morning with a beautiful bouquet for 
which the donor will please accept our thanks.

Happy is he who learns to do the plain duty of the moment quickly and 
cheerfully, wherever and whatever it may be.

For Sale: A good farm horse, works well in double or single harness. E. W. 
BROCK

As water runs down from the swelling hills and flows together in the lowly 
vale, so grace flows not but into humble hearts.

The second survey of the Tombigbee Road will be completed to a connection with 
the Kansas City Road the latter part of next week.

The colored people of this vicinity will celebrate the 8th of May on next 
Saturday. This date is reverenced by them as anniversary of their freedom.

The railroad surveying corps passed through Vernon on last Saturday. The 
survey is within about seventy-five yards of the court house on the East.

Well, A. COBB & Son’s is headquarters for ladies fancy goods of every 
description, by going there, you get the best styles and nicest goods at the 
lowest prices.

The funeral of Rev. PETER MCGEE, late deceased, will be preached by the Rev. 
T. W. SPRINGFILED at Bethlehem church 8 miles south of Vernon on the 5th 
Sabbath in this month.

As an evidence of the rapid advance of real estate in Vernon, Mr. A. J. 
WHEELER has refused an offer of $500 for a two-acre lot lying southeast of the 
court house, through which the survey of the Tombigbee road runs.  He holds it 
at $700.

The timely use of simple remedies will often prevent consequences more serious 
than a mere outlay of money. Therefore do not procrastinate if you are 
suffering with cough, cold or diseases of throat and lungs, but use Coussens’ 
Honey of Tar, and be speedily relieved. This preparation is universally known 
as excellent, and this hint to sufferers is sufficient.

MEMORY OF MRS. RASBERRY
Mrs. ELIZABETH RASBERRY wife of ISAAC RASBERRY and daughter of JESSE TAYLOR, 
died April 22nd. 1887, after a long and painful suffering which she bore with 
Christian resignation. She had been twice married but had no children, and was 
about forty years of age; had lived a consistent member of the church since 
her youth, and died a triumphant death and gone to join her mother who died 
when she was very young.  Peace be unto her ashes.
Sister, thou art gone to rest,
Thy toils and cares are o’er,
And sorrow pain and suffering now
Shall never distress thee more.
A Friend

MEMORY OF JAS. HOLLADAY
Mr. JAMES HOLLADAY, an old man and full of years, died on Saturday the 23rd 
day of April 1887.  He was 72 years of age; had lived in this county from his 
infancy. He was a good and peaceable citizen; had been a member of the Baptist 
Church for many years, a good and charitable neighbor and a kind husband. He 
has left an aged companion and many relatives and friends to mourn his loss.  
But we trust that our loss is his eternal gain. Therefore we should be 
content, and may the good Lord bless and comfort his faithful and disconsolate 
companion until they shall meet where parting is no more, is the prayer of the 
writer.
A Friend

We can find no fault with Mary Anderson either as a woman or actress, and 
delight to give honor to whom honor is due. For that reason we bless the name 
of the manufacturers of Coussen’s Honey of Tar, the purest, simplest and most 
effectual cure for coughs, colds, and diseases of throat and lungs. A trial 
will convince you. Coussen’s Honey of Tar is the cough cure.

We hope that “JOSEPH ISAAC” will continue to send us the Kennedy items.

We would be pleased to have a good live correspondent at each post office in 
the county, and will remunerate for same when an opportunity offers.

If you want a good job of work done in house or out doors, call on R. R. JONES

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

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

Statesmen, Ministers, Lawyers, Representatives of all professions and classes 
may be attacked by piles, and all the world knows that an infallible remember 
can be found in Tabler’s Buckeye Ointment, which is acknowledged to be the 
only preparation ever offered the public for piles, which makes a lasting cure.

KINGVILLE ITEMS
Kingville, Ala., April 29, 1887
Mr. E. J. MCNATT:--
Dear Sir:  We shall again attempt to give you a few hastily gathered items for 
publication int eh Lamar News, but before we proceed we beg leave to call the 
attention of teachers to the second swords in the fifth and the sixth columns 
of section No 10-x on page 19 in Webster’s Blue Back Spelling Book – Revised 
Edition. These words, as you see, are spelled “q-u-y” and “q-u” and any 
teacher or other persons would confer quite a favor upon us be giving the 
correct pronunciation of these words in the next issue of the Lamar News. We 
would not have any of our many talented teachers of Lamar to view us in the 
light of a critic – we are far from being such.  We are only anxious to hear 
the correct pronunciation of these words from some one who know. They are 
little words and yet, they are worthy your attention. Now don’t all speak at 
once, but let us hear from you, like it is said the cow ate the grindstone –
 “by degrees”. Now to the dots.
	Log rollings have been on a boom this week.
	Messrs. W. A. JOHNSON, JOHN NOLEN and “SEEB” ROWLAND are, we are 
informed, back from their Tuscaloosa trip, the result of all which is plenty 
of millstones in our community.
	Quite a number of water and muskmelon patches have recently been 
prepared and planted in our community and now Mr. Ed., just be patient until 
they get ripe, then put plenty of money into your pocket, and come down and 
what a time we will have eating melons.
	Kingville has two mail days each week – Wednesday and Saturday. Our 
mail man like all other industrious people tries to be on time. Speaking of 
our mail man calls to our mind an anecdote which Bill Arp the distinguished 
writer of the Atlanta Constitution tells upon himself.  Many years ago when 
Bill was quite a small boy he carried the mail in the state of Georgia.  On 
one occasion as he was passing a house the lady stepped to the door and 
said, “Hello my son! Are you the mail boy?” Bill’s answer to his interrogatory 
was: “Yes, madam, why did you think I was a female boy?” Bill said that the 
old lady darted back into the house without any further ceremonies – she was 
mad.
	WARWICK

KENNEDY ITEMS
Kennedy, Ala. April 26, 1887
Mr. Editor:
	Seeing in your columns communication from other places, we feel it our 
duty to hold up the Kennedy Banner; and, if you will aid us by giving space in 
your paper for this epistle, we will esteem it an act of “Brotherly kindness” 
and we will remunerate you by wiring again sometime. Now, we will make an 
effort either to please the ear, or to delight the fancy, and, if the style of 
our composition should be a little dry, we ask the readers of the News to 
pardon us, and will do better whenever we learn how.
	Well.  We are pleased to note that Kennedy is considerably on 
the “Build Up.”  The saws and hammers tell us, by their continuous clash and 
chatter, that there is a spirit of enterprise dwelling in the hearts of our 
zealous and energetic citizens. We are not accustomed to boast, but, if we 
were, we would say that Kenney is according to size, one of the most lively 
and enterprising towns on the Georgia Pacific railroad.
	Mr. MARION COONS will soon have completed his dwelling on the northern 
border of town.
	Dr. JOHN O. KENNEDY is having a handsome dwelling built which will add 
greatly to the already picturesque town, Kennedy. We don’t know, but we 
believe the Doctor means - means “business.”
	Mr. J. D. DARR has created a business house in Kennedy. We presume he 
intends to be numbered with the merchants of this place next winter.
	S. E. WEIR & Co. have lately made an addition to their store; we 
presume they anticipate a large trade next fall and winter, and we think their 
hopes are well founded, i.e.  We think they will realize them if the farmer 
faileth not.
	We are pleased to see our friend J. S. PHILLIPS, who has been 
indisposed for several days, able to attend to business again.
	Kennedy was visited by quite a heavy rain on last Friday; the ground 
was covered 3 or 4 inches deep in water for a short time.
	Trains are running though to Birmingham now; quite a number of young 
people assemble at the depot on last Sunday night, to see the first through 
Passenger arrives; and, though it was a little behind time, they were not 
disappointed
	Well, the waste basket is often the destiny of long communications, 
and, as this is our first, we would feel a little sad, were it to meet that 
fate; so by asking friend Warwick to write again, we will desist.
	Yours truly,
	JOSEPH ISAAC IN HASTE

STATE ITEMS
The total capital stock of the companies incorporated in Jefferson County, 
this state since January 1 amounts to $23,000,000.

Birmingham, April 26 – The grand lodge of Odd Fellows and Good Templars met 
here today and listened to speeches at Lakeview Park.

A syndicate of New York, Georgia, and Alabama people last week purchased 6,000 
acres of land near Chepultepee, Blount County paying therefore $50,000.

The Anniston Watchman tells how they make money in Anniston by publishing this 
pleasant paragraph: “Less than three months ago Hon. John M. Caldwell bought 
ninety acres of land west of the city for about $12,000.  He has sold less 
than six acres for enough to pay for the whole, and can get over $200,000 for 
the remainder.

Detroit, April 21 – The Free Press of this city issues a London edition which 
has a circulation of 100,000 copies, which is not half their American 
circulation. It is regarded as the most influential paper in the great 
northwest. In this weekly issue, editorially, this week, it says: Recently the 
Free Press has been overwhelmed with inquiries from England, Scotland, and 
Wales, about the United States and especially about the coal and iron region 
of Alabama. In order to fully and correctly answer these queries, Mr. C. B. 
Lewis will go to Alabama about the first of May and making his headquarters at 
Montgomery, will write a number of letters descriptive of the mineral regions 
and the booming towns of Birmingham, Selma, Anniston, and Montgomery. These 
letters will appear in both the London and Detroit editions of the Free Press.

NEWS ITEMS
P. T. Barnum says that during his life as a showman, he has received 
$80,000,000 from the people.

Women are employed on the staff of more than 200 hundred newspapers in the 
United Sates.

By a vote of 629 to 6 Columbus on the 26th decided to donate to the Tombigbee 
Railroad $100,000 in 6 percent bonds, payable in twenty years.

Mrs. Jenness Miller, leader of the dress reform movement, is said to receive 
more letters than any other woman in the United States, except Mrs. Cleveland.

James H. Marr, Chief Clerk to the first assistant postmaster general, died on 
the 25th. Had he lived until June he would have been in continuous public 
service fifty-six years.

It is now possible to construct complete sewing machines at the rate of one 
every minutes, or sixty in one hour, 300 watches in a day; a reaper every 
fifteen minutes or less, and one locomotive a day.

A remarkable instance of an invalid’s recovery through faith is reported from 
Puebla County, O Miss Sarah Fuble had been bedridden for thirty –one years 
because of an infection of the spine, and for nearly a year she has been 
speechless and blind. She is now entirely cured. Miss Fouble says that about 
the middle of March she went into a trance, during which an angel appeared to 
her and bade her pray for her recovery. On awakening from the trance she 
prayed long and earnestly and fell quietly asleep.  In the morning she walked 
down to breakfast, to the great astonishment of the family, and has not known 
a day of illness since. She now spends the greater part of her time now 
singing and praying.

There is a burnt stump of a cedar tree near Oakville, W. T. which is probably 
the largest on record. It is a hollow shell 50 feet high and 87 feet in 
circumference at the base. The cavity is 23 feet at the largest distance.

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

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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 
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BEYOND THESE CHILLING WINDS – Poem – [Nancy Amelia Priest, in the Observer]

SAVED BY AN AXE – Short Story

A NEW USE FOR EGGS
Everyone is familiar with the value of the yolk of an egg as a hair wash, but 
perhaps may not be aware of its virtue in clothing cleansing. Beaten up with 
alcohol, eau de cologne, or ether, like ox gall, it keeps better and is more 
powerful; or in simpler cases, it may be used alone or merely mixed with 
water, to be rubbed on with flannel, for removing from colored materials the 
satins of mud, or of coffee, and chocolate, when prepared with milk. It is 
frequently applied to velvet collars and cuffs, etc., and proves a cleaner, as 
well as a spot extractor. When it has done its work it is washed off with 
soap, and the material thoroughly rinsed in pure water. Egg has a specially 
good effect on those annoying patches of wheel grease belonging to the 
compound class of stains, as they represent a mixture of stale grease from 
iron and other substances.

WIT AND HUMOR

SAVED BY SHAKESPEARE – Story

TOUCHING JAY GOULD’S HEART 
A little black-bearded man was walking briskly up Broadway yesterday afternoon 
when a shivering tramp, who had been loitering in front of Trinity Church, 
stepped in front of him and said something in a low tone. The little man made 
no reply, but stepped to one side and continued his journey uptown. The beggar 
slouched after him, and said in a louder tone than before: “Please cap, gi’ me 
a few cents for a bowl of soup.” Even to this appeal the little man paid no 
attention, and would doubles shave succeeded in escaping from the importunate 
tramp had he not been stopped by a friend who engaged him in conversation. The 
beggar crowed up as closely as possible to the two men and began a pitiful 
tale of distress. He was heard to say “and everything I possessed went in Wall 
Street. Jay Gould and those fellows got it” The little slack-bearded man’s 
hand went quickly down in his pocket and brought out a coin, which was placed 
on the dirty palm of the mendicant, with the words; ‘There no, go away, 
please.: The fellow shuffled away, evidently without knowing that the little 
man who gave him the money was Jay Gould himself. The other gentleman was 
Cyrus W. Field. – New York Times]

IN THE SOUTH SEAS – A RECORD OF STRANGE ADVENTURES AMONG THE NATIVES
	There was a story ever popular in old-time whaling circles of the New 
London whaling captain who returned from a three years cruise without either 
bone or oil. “But I had a darned pleasant sail.” was his explanation to the 
disappointed owner of the ship. That’s about the case with the little brig 
Hazard, just returned from a long trip to the south Pacific Islands. Capt. 
Tierney left Honolulu in the middle of April last in search of laborers for 
the sugar and rice plantations of the Sandwich Islands. The Hazard was fitted 
out by the Planter’s Labor and Supply Company, organized to secure laborers 
from Portugal and from the South Sea Islands, to say nothing of the Chinese 
labor supply which drifts to these Islands to no small amount. The Hazard 
brings 128 laborers twenty-two of whom are women, costing the company $200 
each, which represents the cost of the cruise of the vessel and other 
expenses. Three-fourths of the men are returned laborers who have been at work 
in Fiji and Queensland, and are, consequently experienced hands. Most of the 
speak English. The pay on the sugar and rice plantations of these islands is 
$60 per annum for men and $48 for women, including board, quarters, medical 
attendance, etc. The contracts provide that laborers on the expiration of 
their contacts shall be returned to their homes free of cost. For this purpose 
the Hazard left Honolulu in April for the Union group of islands in the South 
Pacific, and after a pleasant run of fifteen days, landed there a number of 
islanders whose terms of service on Hawaiian plantations had expired. The 
landing was at the principal Island of Packapoo. The natives of the east and 
west ends of the island were ganged in a religious war, which according to 
Captain Tierney’s information, promised to rival that of the Kilkenny cars. 
Leaving Packapoo, the Hazard sailed for the New Hebrides to secure men for 
boating purposes. It is a fact, perhaps not generally known in the States that 
the Sandwich Islands have few good harbors. Vessels discharging supplies for 
the plantations, or receiving sugar from them, lie at anchor a quarter of a 
mile off shore. Surf boats, manned by from six to ten men, dodge the reefs and 
force their way through the incoming surges slowly and at great risk to life 
and property. Good boatmen are essential, and there are none more experienced, 
daring and powerful than the South sea islanders. At the island of Tanna, New 
Hebrides, Capt. Tierney’s boats were fired upon from the shore. Finally 
communication was established and it was ascertained that the boats being 
painted white, were thought o belong to a vessel from Salmon, and therefore 
unwelcome. Red paint prevented a further misunderstanding. Six men were 
secured and brought on board the Hazard, which weighed anchor and proceeded to 
other islands in the group. Sandwich Island is one of the handsomest its peaks 
rising 4,000 feet and covered with verdure to the very summits. Several 
volcanoes were in various states of activity, and shocks of earthquakes were 
occasionally felt. The New Hebrides have supplied five thousand laborers 
within the past few years, and the report was current that the French 
government intended to establish a protectorship there.
	Visiting the Torres Islands, the Hazard was attacked by natives, who 
fired from the high bluff under which she was anchored, and forced all hands 
to seek shelter. They had been fairly treated in trade but were a treacherous 
and bloodthirsty set. Cruising though the Santa Cruz group, the Hazard 
encountered a French war vessel engaged in the search for relics of the vessel 
of the great explorer La Peronzo lost in 1786. The crew had received some 
cannon, two anchors and twenty fathoms of chain, all heavily encrusted with 
coral. At Santa Cruz, the larger island of the group, large numbers of people 
came alongside in their boats, no less than eight of which, manned by over 300 
natives, were around the ship one afternoon. The blacks wore large, muscular 
fellows, armed with bows and poisoned arrows, the captain was fortunate in 
avoiding any trouble, and secured several boatmen. The natives were ready to 
trade and barter, but would not permit the ships’ boats to approach their 
village. They eat the betel nut, which blackens their teeth, while the lips 
are a bright red. They used lime on their hair, and their appearance, with 
black teeth, red lips and tawny, shaggy heads, is that of demons, as they 
flourish and gesticulate wildly.  – [Honolulu Correspondent of the Boston 
Herald]

MRS. WHITMAN AND THE STRANGE BEAST - anecdote

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