Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News May 19, 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 February 3, 2007, 3:00 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of ARchives And History May 19, 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, MAY 19, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 29 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One copy one year $1.00 One copy six months .60 All subscriptions payable in advance. 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 5 cents. THE SONG OF THE BOOMER How dear to my heart is the boom we are having! How dear are the boomers who help it along! Who sing of improvement, and rustling and paving, when hundreds of others join in with the song. The kickers must vanish, the loafers must perish, the cranks and the croakers must all amble down and we will encourage and fondle and cherish, those longheaded boomers who help on the town’ those long-headed boomers, those professive boomers, those free-headed boomer who brace up the town. – [Hartselle Index] MASS MEETING A mass meeting of the citizens of Vernon, was held in the court house on the night of the 13th inst., for the purpose of formulating a plan to secure donations and right or way through Vernon for the Tombigbee R. R. Company. The meeting was organized by electing T. B. NESMITH, Chairman, and W. A.YOUNG, Secretary. On motion the chair appointed the following gentlemen as a committee to secure right of way and donations five miles each way from Vernon, and select the place on which to build the Depot, to wit: R. C. RECTOR, T. W. SPRINGFIELD, L. M. WIMBERLEY, S. F. PENNINGTON, W. G. MIDDLETON, G. W. RUSH, E. J. MCNATT, A. COBB, S. B. THOMAS, and D. J. LACY. The meeting then adjourned until Saturday night the 21st, inst., when there will be a meeting held for the purpose of organizing a canvass for donations and right of way through the county. The committee appointed and named above, met on the 14th, and organized for active work, electing L. M. WIMBERLEY chairman and W. G. MIDDLETON secretary. Outside of right of way and Depot grounds the committee thinks they will raise five thousand dollars in Vernon. REV. HAWTHORNE ON PROHIBITION Rev. Dr. J. B. Hawthorne, of Atlanta, writes to the Religious Herald, of Texas, as follows: “I suppose that sensible men are now satisfied that the --- of the city made no mistake when they exterminated --- doggity curse. The paid --- who have published false --- of our condition have --- been exposed at last. The effect of prohibition upon the --- of our people exceeds --- we had prophesied or hoped for. Think of a city of --- that ---- passing --- (can’t read rest of column)……. And it is almost impossible to find a building of any sort for rent. Vast amount of money have been sent here recently for investments in real estate and manufactories. Charters have just been granted to three new railroads, which will be completed within the next two years. “Verily, it pays to do right.” MRS. GRANT ILL New York, May 13 – The friends of Mrs. U. S. Grant were much emprised today to learn that the widow of the great General has been near death’s door for some days. Her ailment was of such a malignant character as to necessitate the immediate removal from her house on Sixty-Sixth Street of all her grandchildren who were with her at the time. BIBLE STATISTICS – Statistics about the Bible The Boston Globe angrily says: Doe sit ever occur to you that Mr. Blaine is quite numerous and noisy in the papers? Mr. Blaine is going West; Mr. Blaine passed through Chicago; Mr. Blaine is visiting his daughter; Mr. Blaine is sick; Mr. Blaine is seriously ill;’ Mr. Blaine is better; Mr. Blaine as arrived in Chicago fully restored to health; Mr. Blaine’s’ brother has died; Mr. Blaine will no t see anyone today because he is depressed; Mr. Blaine -- - was- has- is going – coming- will – will not – ding, dong, dong ding ,dang, ding, dong. Gov. Seay believes in giving the women a chance. He has appointed three of them notaries public. The Kentucky Democratic Convention endorsed President Cleveland’s Administration, and unanimously nominated General E. S. Buckner for Governor. We were in Bucker’s brigade during Bragg’s Kentucky campaign, and congratulate our esteemed commander on this well deserved recognition of his services. – [Blount County News] Tennessee has had great success in prohibition work all along and has been aided and encouraged by her legislature for years. There it seems the Democratic Party is loyal to people instead of the saloon, while in Alabama, just the reverse may be said of the party. – [Ex.] Chief of State Police Brayton, of Rhode Island, in his report to the General Assembly gives statistics that uniformly testify to the good effect of Prohibition through that state. During the last six months of 1885 under license there were committed to the State Work Home 309 persons, against only 141 during the last six months of 1886 under Prohibition. These commitments were almost wholly caused by the use of intoxicants, and since the average cost for their maintenance is about $210 each per week, here is a saving to the state of over $18,000. The Montgomery Dispatch speaking of Ike Vincent’s appearance in court said: He wore a smile, a Derby hat, a diamond ring, a careworn expression and premature gray hairs; all of which go to show that “good clothes” will not shield the wicked from the penalty of the law which declared that the “way of the transgressor is hard.” We would invite President Cleveland to our Press Association meeting, but we know he hasn’t time to come. We give it out to the world just the same he is well worthy an invitation. We can’t work the Atlanta dodge. – [Ex.] 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 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. 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. 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 LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE. J. D. GUYTON, Prop’r., Columbus, Mississippi. (picture of horse and buggy) Ad for Collins Ague Cure 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. 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. 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. 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. Ad for Marriage Guide Ad for The Excelsior Cotton Gin Feeders and Condensers (picture) PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS Vernon, Ala. By E. J. MCNATT Entered at the Post-office at Vernon, Alabama, as second class mail matter. THE YESTERDAY – Poem – [Pat Henderson] WINNING HIS WIFE – Short Story THE CONFESSIONS OF A LADY These are the days that try a woman’s skin, and she who is able to keep her hands and nose white and her lips and cheeks red has in possession a secret that her sisters and cousins must be forgiven for envying. Cold weather is the ruination of complexion, and there is absolutely no way of preserving a good one or improving a skin of negative charm is much washing is persisted in. It may shock the neat to say it, but the ladies who know how to treat their face do not apply water to it more than once a day, nor allow soap to touch it oftener than once a week. An ablution is made in the morning, and that ends the matter. Just the temperature of the water depends entirely on the nature and texture of the skin, and each bather is the best judge of the matter. Some complexions would be ruined with hot water; others require a tepid sponging, and there are still other faces that glow and thrive under a regular dash of cold water. Pretty Miss Gertrude Griswold, of McCaul’s Opera Company, souses her face before and after rinsing with water as hot as she can bear it, following the boil with a dressing of rose-water and glycerin. This harmless wash is dried up with fine rice powder rubbed on with a fine cambric handkerchief. The face is kept clean by wiping off the dust or soil and applying powder when necessary. Speaking about powder Miss Griswold said “My only amusements are powdering and rocking” and she has a complexion that is as fresh and smooth as a baby’s. The leading lady in Barett’s company, Miss Eastlake, allows very little familiarity between her face and water arguing that the skin is too delicate to endure through much washing. She knows the way the grain runs and all rubbing is with it. Miss Ellen Terry is one of the daily face washers by consumes rose- water and glycerin by the quart and confesses that she literally breathes through the fumes of English breakfast tea and clouds of rice powder. Emma Abott has a beautiful white skin, which she keeps so by bathing in strong glycerin, an unusual habit, as the oil is generally irritating to the face. Ladies who visit Paris for the purpose of studying fashionable life, invariably return addicted to the use of cream of cucumber, which prevails among the fair sex of that city. There are as many creams and ointments for keeping the skin smooth and healthy as there are manufacturers, and though all may not be valuable, and one is good that can be depended upon to ward off chapping and dry-skin. After summing up the cost, vexation, and risk of novel preparations, pure glycerin diluted with half the quantity of water is at least a reliable remedy against redness and eruption. If the skin shows a tendency to darken, weaken the oil. One washing a day is enough for any beardless face, and in justice to the owner it should not precede exposure to the outer air. ICY SIDEWALKS IN LOUISVILLE - anecdote The old question of dividing the state is again being discussed by Californians. The question of irrigation is one of the factors in the problem. Los Angles is anxious for division as in case of a division it would probably be the capital of the new southern state. CAUGHT BY A BIG SQUID – adventure story THE ANCIENT EMPIRE OF CAMBODIA The countries now know as Cachin-China, Annam, Cambodia, Laos, and Siam, and probably the whole Indo-Chinese Peninsula, were occupied primitively by a dark- colored race, remnants of which are still to be found in the mountains, on whom their conquerors, all having the same feeling toward them, have imposed names which in their several languages man savages. At a period in the past which probably answered the beginning of the Christian era. Two conquering peoples took possession of the richer parts of the country and drove these tribes back into the mountains. They established the kingdom of Thiampa in the south, and that of Cambodia, in the central region. Cambodia, now small in extent and weak, was formerly a powerful empire, and held under its allegiance, either directly or as tributary sates, more than half of the Indo- Chinese peninsula. Its splendor is attested by its numerous monuments of rand dimensions and beautiful architecture. Yet this Khmer people which has left such admirable traces of its power and civilization, is an enigma to the world. We know very little of it origin, and hardly more of the period of its power. Its history, as we have it, present various phases of struggle and alliance with its neighbors, China, Siam, Thiampa, and Tonguin. It is supposed to have attained its highest state of splendor in the arts in the eleventh century. At the beginning of the eighteenth century it divided Thiampa with Annam and Tonquin. From that time on it suffered a succession of losses of territory till, in 1863, Norodon, its king, placed it under the protectorate of France. [M. Maural, in Popular Science Monthly] Gen. Pittle, President Grevy’s Military Secretary and Chamberlain, who died recently in Paris, distinguished himself at the Battle of the Alma, in the Crimea, and received several wounds at the storming of the Malakoff. He as also severely wounded at Solferino, 1859, and at Gravelotte, 1870. He quarreled with Bazaine for not breaking out of Metz, and escaped from the city on hearing of the proposed surrender and joined Gen. Gaidherbe. Gen. Pittle was a distinguished littérateur and published several volumes of poems. He also translated Giorthe, Heine, and many of Robert Burn’s poems into French. DECORATIVE NEEDLE-WORK – (can’t read) DUNGEONS OF TORTURE – (can’t read) PAGE 3 STUDY OF A BLUEJAY – article about blue jays THE MONITOR A PRIVATE VESSEL - (can’t read) HOW HE GOT EVEN – A Dude’s Brilliant Idea and the Trouble It Caused. – anecdote THE POOR GROOWING RICHER Edward Atkinson is publishing in the Century his studies of “The Relative Strength and Weakness of Nations,” from which we quote: “In the conclusion of this branch of the study of the facts and figures of this country, may it not be held that the alternate periods of activity and depression which have affected the industries of this country since the end of the Civil War, have been mere fluctuations or ebbs and flows in the great rising tide of progress, ending in an adjustment to ever new and better material conditions of life. Is it not true that while the rich may have become relatively no poorer, the poor have been steadily growing richer, not so much in the accumulation of personal wealth as in the power of commanding the service of capital in ever-increasing measure at a --- proportionate charge? Can it be denied that labor as distinguished from capital has been and is securing to its own use an increasing share of an increasing product, or its equivalent in money? A Frenchman at Eastis, Me., recently inherited $45,000 by the death of a relative in France. He had married an Indian woman, and on hearing of the fortune awaiting him in France left his wife, and made the journey there and back, a sister of his coming with him. He brought his wife a present of a gold watch and chain, and went back to his homer in the woods to live as usual. A MOUNTAIN BULLY – adventure story – [Louisvile Courier-Journal] SILENT PEOPLE AS MISJUDGED BY THE NOISY REMEMBERED TOO WELL – Anecdote MOVING A RHINOCEROS – article about moving Bohu, the Rhinocerous MEANT NO OFFENSE – Anecdote SHE WANTED A GOAT - anecdote A COSSACK FUNERAL Many a touching little burials service have I witnessed among the Cossacks, but none more moving than one which I accidentally saw in the beginning of winter. We had been making a rapid forward movement, and had captured a pass in the Balkans. In the late afternoon, after the engagement was over, I was aiming my way by a shortcut across the hills to a point where I expected to find the head-quarters, when I cam upon a singular scene. Near the top of a bare knoll, strongly relieved against the sunset sky, three riderless horses came out in a sharp silhouette. A little to the right of them, and on the very summit of the knoll, two Cossacks were stooping over, busy with something, I could not see what. The landscape, desolate, somber, and brown in the near foreground, deepened to intense purple in the middle distance, and beyond and on either side of the knoll, which was the dominate object in the scene, the jagged mountain-tops sharply cut the wintry sky. The glory of a rich sunset mystified the details of the masses, while it seemed to sharpen their contours and heighten their contrasts. It was one of those evening when there steals into the mind a sense of the solemnity of the hour almost amounting to religious fervor, and when one contemplates the departure of the daylight with an inexplicable feeling of sadness, and a scarcely formed but sill vivid realization of the fathomless mystery of the near future. As I approached the group the two men rose to their feet and, without looking in my direction, uncovered their heads and stood motionless. Between them a long low mound disturbed the rounded outline of the hill, and a rude cross made of an unhewn tree trunk added it unexpected silhouette to the shaped of the men, seen at irregular masses against the deep crimson of the western sky. I involuntarily paused, and walked cap in hand until their silent prayer was finished, and they had slowly turned away toward the three horses; then, skirting the knoll crowned by the mound and cross, kept on my way. All that friendly hands could do to honor the victim of the day’s fight had been religiously done by his two comrades. In the midst of the turmoil of war he had been given a decent dignified Christian burial. And what more impressive could there be than the one I saw in the twilight of the glorious Balkan sunset? The place, the hour, the simple ceremony, the symbol of Christian faith, and proof of comrades love – it was the poetry of a soldier’s burial. – [F. D. Millet, in Harper’s Magazine] A MEAN MAN FROM PENNSLVANIA – anecdote Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for Plowboy steel pens Ad for Globe Cotton and Corn Planter and Fertilizer Distributor (picture) Ad for Plowboy newspaper PAGE 4 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. Large profile (picture) of a man (not sure who this is – maybe the editor) LOCAL BREVITIES Locals scarce. Mulberries ripe. Whooping cough is still prevalent in town. Hon. ALEXR. COBB is on a business trip to the Magic City this week. We have had several days of real summer weather. Quarterly Conference held in the Beaverton circuit at Bethel last Sunday. Presiding Elder Rev. Mr. SLAUGHTER went several days in town the past week. We should donate liberally if we expect to get the R. R. through Vernon. An interesting singing on Sunday night conducted by Messrs. W. G. MIDDLETON and WILLIE SUMMERS. The severest hail storm of the season visited this locality on Friday last, doing considerable damage to all kinds of vegetation. A dispatch from Columbus states that there will be a third survey of the Tombigbee Road made before work is begun. Our people are thoroughly alive to their interest in the railroad and a goodly number will donate $500 each, besides giving the right of way. Ad for White’s Cream Vermifuge JAS. M. MORTON, Esq. made a trip to the G. P. R. R. last week. Mr. T. MACKENZIE, an optician, a resident of Tuskaloosa, is in town. Mr. W. A. COBB left on yesterday for Kennedy. “Uncle” ANDY WHEELER proposes to give right of way and sufficient ground to build the depot on his land east of the court house. Mr. WM. R. BRADLEY after a few weeks pleasant visit to home and friends, returned to Columbus on Sunday last. We learn Children’s Day was observed at Nebo Church on last Sunday. Dr. W. L. MORTON received slight injuries last week from a collision on the M & O. R. R. wile returning from Mobile. I will sell my Rose of Sharon, Short Horn Bull at a bargain, or will be pleased to have some one keep him, on reasonable terms. – J. D. MCCLUSKEY, May 18, 1887 The following is the form of notes where donations of money are made to the Tombigbee Railroad: That the undersigned for and in consideration of procuring the construction of a railroad to the Town of Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama within the next five years, will donate to the Tombigbee Railroad Company or its Assignee the sum of --- Dollars to be paid in four annual and equal installments. The 1st due and payable when the railroad is built to, and the first train shall run into Vernon the 2nd due 1 year thereafter, &c until the whole is paid. The right of exemption of real and personal as regards the collection of this note being hereby waived. GREAT SNAKES ALIVE! – What a Snakey Country and What a Pile of Dead Snakes Mr. Editor: Perhaps some of the incredulous will be slow to believe the following snake story, but its truthfulness can be established by reliable witnesses. On last Friday morning, Mr. WM. R. BRADLEY in company with some of the Vernon boys, while hunting in the bottom lands of Yellow Creek, killed thirty- five snakes, and if it has been a good day for snakes they would probably have “wiped out the whole generation of vipers” (not from Dan to Bersheba) but from Morton’s Mill to Cobb’s Mill. They had previously killed nineteen, which make a grand total of fifty-four snakes that “have ceased from among the walks of men” and “gone to that bourne whence no snake will ever return.” We think the young men who achieved such a glorious victory and dispatches so many of our deadly foes, deserve, and should receive the thanks of the community. TEACHER’S INSTITUTE State of Alabama, Lamar County The undersigned teachers of Lamar County met on the 7th day of May, A. D. 1887 for the purpose of organizing a Teacher’s Institute to be held at Vernon, Ala., on the 24th and 25th days of June, A. D. 1887 and as often thereafter as the members of said Institute may deem practicable. PROCEEDINGS 1st. House called to order and a brief Introductory Address by Prof. JOHN R. GUIN. 2nd – Motion before the House for the election of a President; B. H. WILKERSON, County Supt. of Education, put in nomination and elected. 3rd – Motion made to elect a Secretary; Prof. J. C. JOHNSON put in nomination and elected. 4th – Committee appointed by the President to select subjects for discussion. Prof. W. J. MOLLOY, GARLAND H. SMITH and JOHN M. AYERS, Committee. The Committeemen selected and returned the following subjects to be discussed on Friday and Saturday, the 24th and 25th of June, A. D. 1887, by the following named teachers: Orthography by County Supt. B. H. WILKERSON; Method of teaching Physiology and Hygiene by CLIFTON C. HOLLIDAY; Theory and Practice of Teaching by JOHN R. GUIN; English Grammar by J. R. BLACK, and Mathematics by J. C. JOHNSON, School Government will be discussed by the entire Institute. We respectfully invite all who are interested in educational interests of Lamar County to meet us at 10 am on the 24th day of June 1887. B. H. WILKERSON, GARLAND H. SMITH, J. L. STANFORD, J. R. GUIN, J. C. JOHNSON, JAMES E. STOKES, JNO. M. AYERS, W. J. MOLLOY, miss JALA GUIN, Miss MARY E. MORTON, B. S. HOUNOLL, D. F. BROWN, W. C. PEARSON, THOMAS J. WILSON, WM. MILLER. Respectfully Submitted, J. C. JOHNSON, Secretary STATE ITEMS Northport has raised $1200 subscription for the new railroad. Silas Shaley of Lee County died recently of hydrophobia. He was bitten by a mad dog six weeks before. Birmingham Age: Very often things about which the least fuss is made are among the most worthy of note. One of these is that Tom Seay is making a good governor of Alabama. Birmingham, May 11 0- Hon. Jefferson Davis and family have been invited to attend a meeting of the state Press Association here on the 25th instant. A strong effort will be made to get Mr. Davis and Miss Winnie to come. Mobile, Ala. may 12 – The grand encampment of Odd Fellows elected the following officers: A. E. Coupoe, Montgomery, Grand Patriarch; E. Erswell, Birmingham, Grand High Priest; E. L. Cahall, Mobile, Grand Senior Warden; A. H. Turner, Huntsville, Grand Junior Warden, L. R. McKee, Montgomery, Grand Scribe and Treasurer; W. A. Shields, Mobile, Grand Representative; T. W. Russell, Mobile, Grand Sentinel; James E. Seat, Huntsville, Grand Marshal. Carrollton Alabamian: Dr. W. G. Hinston has found a considerable bed of marl on his place near his tanyard. The doctor has prepared a small quantity of fertilizer from this marl which appears to be equal to any in the market. The doctor will give however a more critical test and if his most sanguine expectations are realized, he has a regular “business”. Huntsville Independent: The work of the United States marshals from this city is breaking up illicit distilleries is greatly impeded by the difficulty experienced in getting horses. It is almost impossible to hire them near the scene of operations as their owners are afraid of suffering from the malice of the “moonshiners’ if they assist the officers. It has been determined to secure horses here, and although some time may be lost in riding by horse instead of by rail, it is believed the work will be more effective, as the distillers will not be so likely to be apprised of the officer’s movements. NEWS ITEMS It is 3,150 miles from Washington to San Francisco. California is the third state that prohibits convict labor. The Crown Prince of Germany has cancer of the tongue. Mrs. Beecher and her daughter, Mrs. Seoville, are in Florida. A revival of religion is reported at Salvador in West Africa. 150,000 negro citizens of Florida own property valued at $2,000,000. The total number of negro Methodists in the United Sates is 1,196,000. Trees have been found in Africa which are computed to be 5,000 years old. One-fifth of the population of Philadelphia is enrolled in Sunday Schools. The new State Department at Washington has 150 rooms and cost $5,000,000. Three publishing houses in New York issued 370 different trashy novels this year. There are 700 religious and denominational newspapers in the United sates. Dr. Roy Palmer, the author of the beautiful hymn, “My faith looks up to Thee” died recently. The German Roman Catholics of New York number 185,000 and worship in 12 churches. Two Associations have been formed in France composed of pious women for the conversion of infidel women. Jose Sevilla lately died in Peru leaving $500,000 to found an institution for the education of poor girls in New York City. 817,000 sewing machines were made in this country last year – 170,000 of these were sold abroad. The business failures for the past week number 182, against 191 the preceding week. Four men were scalded to death recently at Paducah, Ky. by the bursting of a boiler. Perry is leading in the Senatorial race in Florida. New Mexico and El Paso Tex. are being visited by some severe shocks of earthquakes. The unveiling of the monument in the Confederate dead will take place at Hopkinsville, Ky. today the 19th inst. THE LIAR – Sermon about liars - [Greenville Advocate] Ad for Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment 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 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 Ad for The Empire News 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 New Home Sewing Machine (picture) 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. KINGVILLE HIGH SCHOOL will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra, and U. S. History, per month, $2.00 HIGH SC HOOL: Embracing Higher Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, Latin, per month $3.00. No incidental fee. Board in best families from $1.00 to $2.00 per month. Tuition due every three months. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention will be given to those who wish to engage in teaching. For further information address B. H. WILKERSON, C. Supt., Principal. Kingville, Ala, Oct. 20, 1886 THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL under the Principalship of J. R. GUIN, will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of Ten Scholastic months Rates of Tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Grammar, Primary Geography and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.25. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing Brief English Grammar, Elementary Geography, Elementary Arithmetic, Letter Writing and Hygiene, per month, $1.50. PRACTICAL: Embracing English Grammar, Practical Arithmetic, Complete Geography, English Composition, U. S. History and Physiology, per month, $2.00. HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Rhetoric, Elocution, Algebra, Natural Philosophy, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Hygiene, Physiology, Latin, &c, per month $2.50. Discipline will be firm. Special attention will be given to young men and women who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7.00 per month. No incidental fees. Tuition due every five months. Correspondence solicited. Address J. R. GUIN Fernbank, Ala. 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. 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 Arbuckle’s Coffee Wrappers File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1328gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 36.4 Kb