Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News May 26, 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, 3:02 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives Adn History May 26, 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 26, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 29 (sic) 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 President has appointed James W. Hyatt, of Connecticut, Treasurer of the U. S. to succeed Conrad N. Jordan. Thirty-five additional post office inspectors will be appointed July 1 for which a competitive examination will be held in Washington about June 15. The New York Star says that Hon. Hilary A. Herbert, of Alabama, is first-class material from which to make a vice-president. “President Cleveland is the biggest interrogation point that has confronted the bourbon democrats for many noons.” – [Chicago Inter-Ocean] Gov. Gordon has issued pardons to John Kelley, of the Florida Legislature, and his brother, Charles Kelly. They were under sentence to serve twenty years in the Penitentiary of Georgia for their part in a shooting in 1871. They succeeded in raising themselves to positions of honor and trust in their new home by strict integrity. In Mr. Carlisle’s recent interview with the Courier-Journal, it says that he believes tariff reduction will be practically begun by the Democrats of the nest House, with the help of enough Republicans to overcome the effects of the Randall faction’s treachery. Yes, it’s all right for Republicans to vote with you, but when they voted with Randall to aid in defeating the fleet traders, it was an awful crime. – [Mercury] A western exchange tells its readers how “to mind their P’s” in the following paragraph: “persons who patronize our paper should pay promptly, for the peculiar prospects of the press have a peculiar power in pushing forward public prosperity. If the printer is paid promptly, and his pocketbook kept plethoric by prompt paying patrons, he puts his pen to his paper in peace; his paragraphs are more pointed; he paints his pictures of passing events in more pleasing colors and perusal of his paper is a pleasure to the people. Paste this piece of proverbial philosophy in some place where all persons can perceive it.” Through recent dispatches received at the Department of State from the United states Legation at Teheran it is learned that the Shah continues to manifest much interest in the relations between the United Sates and Persia, and expresses the desire and hope that the resources of that kingdom should be developed by the aid of capital furnished by the citizens of a neutral friendly country such as the United States. Opportunities for the construction railways in Persia by American companies are spoken of, and in particular a line of railway from the Persian Gulf to the capital, Teheran, is suggested. The Improvement Companies of Florence, Sheffield, Decatur, and Huntsville, have made a wise selection in employing Charles P. Lane, Esq. to travel through the northern states and present the advantages of these points and North Alabama, what is doing and will be done, to the citizens north of the Ohio River. Sam Small has created a sensation in Minneapolis by attacking Sarah Bernhardt. In one of his sermons he told his hearers that they would endanger their salvation by going to see a woman whose only claim to notoriety was her bad reputation. Bernhardt had but small success in Cincinnati and Chicago, and now the evangelist’s attack upon her will probably cause her to leave the West in disgust. – [Ex.] CHARACTER IN THE GAIT It is a peculiar fact that a persons’ gait is indicative often of his character, disposition and habits, also that by it his occupation can frequently be discovered. The usually short, jerky steps of the average merchant are easily recognized. Doctors, druggist, dentist usually have a sort of dyspeptic walk, which at once gives away the profession to which they belong. Tailors and shoemakers are, in their gaits, somewhat similar, and move along with a “stitch in time saves nine” style, peculiar only to themselves. Lawyers have an earnest, decisive step, and technically speaking, gain a point at every step. Men of leisure, real estate men and aldermen walk as if they owned the earth and had a first mortgage on the sun. The way they plank down their feet, heel and toe at once, and with their toes turned out at an angle of 45 degrees, is not noticeable in any other class of men. Ministers and literary men have soft, angelic tread at times, while at other times their careless shuffling gait bespeaks the absent mind. – [Barber in Globe Democrat] 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 AN EDITOR’S MEMORANDUM Printer-Advertiser: the editor of a Texas paper gives the following figures from a statistical memorandum of his life: Been asked to drink 11,362 Drank 11,362 Requested to retract 416 Did retract 416 Invited to parties and receptions by parties fishing for puffs 3,336 Took the hint 36 Didn’t take the hint 3,300 Threatened to be whipped 170 Been whipped 0 Whipped the other fellow 4 Didn’t come to time 165 Been promised whiskey gin, etc if he would go after them 5,610 Went after them 5,610 Been asked what’s the news 300,000 Told 26 Didn’t know 200,000 Lied about it 39,974 Been to church 2 Changed politics 32 Expect to change still 50 Gave to charity 5.00 Gave for terrier dog 25.00 Cash on hand 1.00 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 Ad for The Empire News Ad for The Daily Commercial of Chattanooga, Tenn. 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 MISSING LINKS Mrs. Hicks-Lord has a dress with diamond buttons. A thirteen-year-old boy of Benton, Cal., weighs 250 pounds. Governor Ames, of Massachusetts, has four Harvard graduates on his staff. Rosina Vokes is a second cousin of Lord Salisbury, and she is very proud of the connection. It cost the United States government $334,637 last year to pay the salaries and mileage of Senators. It is complained in New York that fashionable people slide into private entertainments without paying. Mr. Labouchere says that Princess Beatrice’s baby “is no more a prince than any little brat in the streets.” There is on exhibition in the office of a New York steamship company a model of an ocean vessel that cost $5,000. Mrs. Grover Cleveland is an old friend of Lawrence Barret and goes to see him act whenever she has a chance to do so. There is a law in Switzerland which compels every newly married couple to plant trees shortly after the ceremony of marriage. Miss Edgerton, the only woman who has received a doctor’s degree from Columbia College, is passing a part of the winter in Boston. England seems to believe that some country may need bombarding before long, and she is getting ready for anything that may happen. One of the leading questions in New York City now is whether people who reside in rented houses should be considered as “of society.” Mrs. Bradley Martin, of New York, wears such a big diamond star on her head that she looks like a traveling dew-drop at evening parties. Mrs. Cleveland says “if you please” to her domestics, and thanks them when she is properly served. It is sweet music to attending ears. Somebody has discovered that Oliver Goldsmith’s grave and monument are in a sad state of neglect. His fame, however, is very well preserved. Queen Margaret of Italy does all her shopping in person with no more fuss than any of her subjects, and goes early in the day to avoid the crowd. A New York society woman has had the check sent her for a magazine article handsomely framed and hung up in her boudoir. It called for $2.95. It is said that a person can live cheaper, and at the same time more aristocratically, in Geneva, Switzerland, than in any other city in the world. Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, says he pardoned 125 men out of jail, all of whom enlisted under Farragut. Not one of them survived the war. General Lew Wallace’s “Ben Hur” is soon to be published in German, having been translated by a Catholic priest living at Lafayette, Ind., General Wallace’s home. It will require 35,000 feet of lumber to manufacture boxes for the transportation of the records of the military headquarters from Phoenix, Arizona territory to Los Angeles, Cal. Smelting-works to cost $50,000 are to be erected at Tacoma, Washington Territory. They will be the only institution of the kind upon the Pacific coast outside of San Francisco. Dom Pedro, of Brazil, has introduced a Seminite (sic) professor in the Rio de Janeiro University, and he now proposes to have chairs established ranging over the languages, from the Coptic to the Benguela. Some merchants at Rock Island, Ill., oppose the free delivery of mails in that city on the ground that when people visit the post-office three or four times a day the streets present a livelier appearance and more purchasing is done than if their letters were delivered free. A new French shell, filled with melenite, is said to be a hundred times more powerful than the shells filled with powder. The strongest fortifications would crumble to pieces when attacked with this destructive shell. It is not explosive in handling, and the shells do not explode till they come in contact with the object aimed at. Mr. Labouchere, the free lance among London gossips, makes not of an instance of the queen’s thrift. The five Arab horses sent to Her majesty by the Sultan of Muscatt were worth as much as through their hoofs had been of gold – say $17,500. What the queen sent to the sultan cost her $2,500. Mrs. Anna Lea Merritt, whose “Eve” was called by the London times “the finest picture by a woman in the Academy” and whose portraits of James Russell Lowell and Oliver Wendell Holmes are highly commended, is about to visit this, her native country, and to have an exhibition of her works in new York. “Coal-Oil Johnny” who was made immensely rich by the discovery of petroleum, and who scattered his wealth with such a lavish hand, has descended step by step until he now has no place to lay his head save in a dreary cell in the Mount Holly (N. J.) jail. The quondam possessor of millions is now a common tramp. Dr. W. H. Hale, an Edinburgh physician, who is traveling in this country, has a cane which he says cost $3,500. The head contains over three pounds of 18- carat gold, and is mounted with sixty-five diamonds. Col. Frederick Grant has a small aquarelle painting in a split frame. It represents a group of Indians and shows evidence of artistic skill and training. “It is one of a series painted by my father,” said Col. Grant to a reporter. Judge Greene, of Washington Territory, refuses to grant an Indian woman a divorce from her husband, at Snohomish court, because the parties had not properly severed their tribal relations, and were therefore not within his jurisdiction. Mr. Edmund Hersey holds that there should be a clause in the Experiment Station act requiring as far as possible important experiments to be photographed, and copies to be deposited at Washington, where they may be compared with each other. Pinckney Robertson, a bright mulato, who during reconstruction days in South Carolina was a power in politics there, and while lobbying at the state capital held four different clerkships, each one paying him $6 a day, is now a porter in Atlanta at $4 a week. A new way of fastening on ladies hats is to bore the tops of the ears, put in gold hoops and have the hat strings tied through them. Thus, step by step, we tread the pathway to perfection, and ere the darkness of death envelopes all the world, man will have utilized his nose in pulling on his boots. ARTIFICIAL IVORY How is artificial ivory made? Of late years the scarcity and dearness of genuine ivory have driven inventors to manufacture artificial compounds capable of replacing it for many industrial and domestic purposes. These compounds, which may almost without exception be classes under the named “celluloid: are formed of divided cotton waste, or some similar substance, soaked in either vegetable hapths., nitrobenzol, camphor, or alcohol. Sufficient of these solvents is used to make a soft, plastic mass, which is subject to hydraulic pressure and mixed with oils, gums, and cooling matter. Any degree of flexibility can be given to it, and it can be made white and transparent, or of any brilliant color. It can be made hard as ivory, or retained in so fast a condition as to be capable of being spread in layers over textile fabrics in the same way as paint is laid on. It can be pressed and stamped, planed like wood, turned in a lathe, cut with a saw, carved, woven, or applied as a varnish. When dyed the dye runs through the whole substance, and cannot therefore be rubbed or washed out. An artificial ivory of creamy whiteness and great hardness is now made from good potatoes washed in diluted sulphuric acid, then boiled in the same solution until they become solid and dense. They are then washed free in the acid and slowly dried. This ivory can be dyed and turned and made useful in many ways. A QUEER STORY – anecdote NOT A DESERT One of the party who was recently out to Oregon, examining the country through which the Oregon Pacific proposes to build on its way east to meet the Northwestern or some other eastern line, says with reference to the section in southeastern Oregon, and western Idaho known as the northern end of the great American desert, that it is no desert at all. It is covered with a luxurious growth of grass, and comprises large tracts of fertile soil. The “desert” is eighty miles wide, sloping a little from each side toward the center. In the low portion there is a string of shallow lakes which dry up in the summer time. The only thing needful to make this tract fit for settlement is water, which can probably be procured by boring. At present herds of cattle feed out on the desert for eight or ten miles and stay out till nearly choked and then they come racing back to where they can get water. Then they loaf around the water for a day or so before they start out to graze again. With this racing and thirsting they keep themselves poor. As soon, however, as the rains come the cattle fatten on the rich grasses of the desert. The proposed extension of the Oregon Pacific railroad runs across the end of this tract, and it is more than likely that in a few years the desert will be transformed into fertile farms and literally made to blossom like a rose. – [Chicago Times] The glass manufacturers at Pittsburgh, Pa. by using natural gas have produced exquisitely beautiful objects of glassware, which have found a market in Europe. THE MORNING BATH “Putting a new song in the mouth and gladness in the heart.” For clearing the brain, as well as the complexion, for dissipating the lingering vagaries of the night and settling the blood tingling to the fingertips, for putting a new song in the mouth and a gladness in the heart that no wine can give, for making one feel that in spite of the lamentations of the pessimist and the indifference of the agnostic, life is worth living to the uttermost, there is nothing that can take the place of the morning bath. It is said that in Alaska, the Indian boys take a plunge bath every morning, even when it is necessary to break the ice, the nearest sheet of water serving for their bath-tub, and that on coming out, the switch themselves day with rods and branches. But this heroic treatment, while it may agree with Alaskan youths and no doubt tens to make Spartans of them, would e a hazardous experiment for the heirs of our “higher civilization.” Even a plunge into cold water in a comfortable bathroom gives too great a shock to the system to be safely indulged in, except by those who have been accustomed to it from infancy; and however safe it might be, it would be impracticable for the majority of those who live outside the city limits, as comparatively few country houses are supplied with bath-tubs. But a tub of water is by no means necessary for an invigorating bath. Dr. Dio Lewis, in lecturing to his classes, urged the importance of the morning bath, even if not more than a pint of cold water could be obtained for the purpose, the benefit depending more on the friction than on the amount of water used. For ordinary bathing the foot of a coarse cotton stocking or a knitted wash-cloth made to fit the hand, like a mitten, is much better than a sponge, but for the upper part of the body nothing is better than the naked hand. One should never stand with bare feet while bathing; either give the feet a good rubbing with wash-cloth and towel on first getting out of bed, putting the stockings and shoes on at once, or put on a pair of warm slippers and let the feet wait till the rest of the bath is taken. Then “girding the loins”: dash the water over the throat, chest, shoulders and back, down to the waist, and after rubbing vigorously with a moderately coarse towel put on the upper under- garments and continue the process, using the washcloth instead of the naked hand for the rest of the body. It is not necessary to consume more than ten minutes in the operation, and this sort of a bath, even if taken in a fireless room on a November morning will put the bather in a glow that will last till the remainder of the toilet is made. Of course for a delicate child or an invalid it would not be advisable to begin this regiment in cold weather, but if practiced during the summer it can safely be continued through the winter in a room where there is sufficient heat to take off the chill. And a child or an adult who has had a vigorous rubbing from head to foot is much more likely to come to the breakfast table rosy and smiling than one who has washed only the face and hands. The best time for a warm bath is a night, shortly before retiring, as the relaxing of the system opens the way for colds. Many a serious cold is brought on by exposure after a warm bath. I have in mind a young girl who one bleak afternoon took a warm bath and a little later went sleigh riding. The result was a cold on the lungs that very nearly proved fatal. An excess of bathing, even in summer, is more or less debilitating. Scarcely a summer passes that we do not hear of some one who has been harmed by too much salt water bathing; and one may be equally harmed by too much bathing indoors. Persons who perspire freely often injure themselves, in their over-fastidiousness, by changing the undergarments two or three times in the course of the day and accompanying every change with a bath, as the process necessarily reduces the vitality. But with mankind in general the tendency is to do too little rather than too much bathing. In winter, especially, there is a shrinking from contact with water that is not at least lukewarm; yet there is nothing like cold water for strengthening the throat and lungs and fortifying one against colds, and if in addition to the weekly bath with soap and warm water, that very civilized being is supposed to take for simple cleanliness sake, the masses cold be persuaded to take a good rubbing off daily with cold water it would go a long way toward renovating the race physically, intellectuality, and spiritually. For those ho lead a sedentary life this tonic is even more essential than for those who are much in the open air. – [Mary B. Sleight, in Good Housekeeping] TO PREVENT BEDSORES “DOWNED” BY A DUDE – anecdote PARROTS IN NORTHERN INDIA A FORGETFUL SPEAKER – anecdote MRS. CLEVELAND’S BEST FRIEND – article about Miss Tillie Martin WATTERSON’S JOKES – anecdote DETECTIVES’ WORK (Last Column Can’t Read) PAGE 3 HUSBAND AND WIFE – Poem MADGE’S MISTAKE – Short Story AN ACTRESS BAIT Apropos of good brains and bad actresses, William O. Kinzey has gone insane. He was the owner of one of the Sixth Avenue Dry goods stores; and you may not on the instant understand why he and his misfortune should be connected with the two other subjects. It takes a great deal of first-rate mind to run an establishment of the kind which has become characteristic of New York retail trade. These stores are bazaars, in which the stock ranges from satins to washtubs; from overcoats to jewelry; for cook-stoves to jewel caskets. Under one roof are gathered branches of trade which used to be a separate as fire and water. The extent of business of that sort is not so straining on the intellect of the proprietor, but the complexity is bewildering, and can only be managed successfully by trusting to a deputy to each department. Kinzey undertook to do it alone. That was what drove him crazy. He had brains of a fair quality, but not enough in quantity to do the thinking of a dozen men. He has gone to a lunatic asylum. But hw was sane three years ago, when I formed his acquaintance at a Long Branch hotel, and when he didn’t prove mentally so weak as to form an association with an actress who was like Bernhardt in all except talent. This woman had been somewhat conspicuous on the stage. She had considerable beauty, and a vast amount of audacity. She was spending the summer at the sea-shore. Kinzey was practically a widower, through the deception of his wife. The actress succeeded in entertaining, but not in bewitching him. She was mistaken when she concluded that she had achieved the latter subject. “You are a great business man,” she said to him one day, “and I am a goose about business matters. I only know how to spend dollars, not show to get them. Now, I want to make my way faster on the stage than I do. I want to start out next fall as a star. That would require about $5,000. Do you know a man who would advance the capital.” She gazed into the merchant’s eyes with pleading, yearning, innocence, pathos, and all the other kinds of expressiveness which she could simulate; and he afterward recalled that her toilet had been prepared with especial reference to captivation. “What security could you give for a loan of that size?” he asked, in a quite mercantile tone. “Oh, I would love him for a year.” she replied. Again she tried to melt him with her eyes. He was not thawed. Said he, “I haven’t the remotest idea where you can find such a man.” – [New York Cor. Philadelphia Record] ENDURANCE IN THE WATER – article about animals in the water A RAILROAD INCIDENT – Old Bud Tried to Stop a Locomotive in old Mexico ONE CAUSE OF BAD GRAMMAR – anecdote I SPY – How Bill Nye Played It When He went To School THE LATEST CRAZE IN LONDON The craze for photographing sections of the human form divine has not yet reached new York, but it’s bound to come. I have been looking over an English collection. There were hands – some of them stuck through holes in a dark screen and clasped and raised; others were taken singly, holding a flower, others again, exhibited the palm in such a way that a fortune teller could “read the lines.” There were bare feet. If any one ever saw a bare foot that was pretty on anything but a baby, then they have seen Lizzie Weatherby’s (Mrs. Nat Goodwin). She ahs a beautiful foot without a blemish, and might be justified in having hers photographed. But the English feet that had been subjected to this process that I saw ere something wicked. One belonging to Lady Gladys Lonsdale, was handsome but it was as big as the foot of a bill at Christmas. Then the backs that are taken – just simple, plain backs, with moles perhaps, or without; and sections of shoulders and napes of necks, scruffs of necks – scrags of neck, the mutton sellers call ‘em – or an ear, just one detached ear, for that ear is stuck through a slit in a piece of velvet. – [New York Mirror] FLAGELLATION STILL PRACTICED The church of the Penitentes, in Santo Domingo, Mexico, a correspondent writes, is 250 years old, and in it flagellation is still practiced by the remnant of the Aztecs that worship there. The day of flagellation is Good Friday. Although the penitents are all Catholics, all the Catholics are by no means penitentes. Indeed, it is said they are discouraged by the priesthood. They strip their bodies to the waist, and having provided themselves with scourges, they beat themselves and each other over the shoulders and back with them until the flesh is terribly lacerated. This is done walking in procession, one of their number voluntarily leading and bearing a heavy wooden cross bound to his neck, under which he staggers nearly bent double, his flesh lacerated by the scourges of this followers. Many have died of exhaustion under this penance. If the victim lives to reach the church, the cross is suspended therein, with the bleeding sufferer still bound to it, where he remains until he faints under loss of blood. The penitent often pays the penalty of his life in this vicarious atonement for his sins. Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for Plowboy Ad for Globe Cotton and Corn Planter 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 Delightful rain on Sunday evening. Several new subscriptions added to our list during the past week. Mrs. JAS. MIDDLETON is visiting relatives in Fayette County this week. Col. NESMITH is accompanying the R. R. surveyors this week. W. A. YOUNG, Esq. attended a trial at Caledonia first of the week. Rev. G. L. HEWITT delivered an excellent sermon in this place on last Sabbath. Commissioner LOGGAINS and sister, Mrs. SARAH SANDLIN of Pine Springs, paid this office a pleasant call on Thursday last. Mr. IRA GUIN and Dr. EMMET MORTON of Caudle, Ala enlivened our town by their presence on Saturday and Sunday last. Esquire J. H. VAIL and Mr. JACOB MOUCHETT, of Gentry, paid us a pleasant visit a few days since. Our readers will please excuse scarcity of reading matter in this issue, owing to our attending the State Press Association in Birmingham. A number of the citizens of Vernon met at Judge COBB’S mill on Saturday last and had a most enjoyable picnic. The dinner being such as would tempt the most fastidious. There was quite an abundance for all present. Dancing was indulged in, in the afternoon. We regret that business was such that we were denied the pleasure of attending – nevertheless we extend thanks for a special invitation. KINGVILLE ITEMS Kingville, Ala., May 18th, 1887. Ed. Lamar News. – It is now 4 o’clock a.m. and I shall again attempt to write a few things for publication in the Lamar News. It is a quiet pleasant morning at Kingville, the chickens and whippoorwills are filling the air with their beautiful strains and occasionally the voice of the bluebird is heard in the distance. Notwithstanding the scarcity of news, I shall attempt to give a few hastily gathered items. The health of the people of this community is, so far as I know, good. There was a singing at the Academy Sunday evening last conducted by Messrs. I. H. REDUS and A. J. WALLACE. I have been informed that there was quite a good turnout, and that the music was excellent. Prof. REDUS anticipates singing here on the 3rd Sabbath prox. Rev. C. A. WHEELER has an appointment to preach at the Academy next Sunday night. Crops are looking well, and especially m Irish potatoes crop – watermelons and muskmelon vines are growing too. School is good. There was some hail here last week, but not so much as at some other places. I went down to Fernbank Saturday, and it always makes me feel good to go there. While there I saw Capt. BILLY RICHARDS, Uncle CHARLEY CARSON, J. R. KEMP, R. T. VERHINE, G. M. RICHARDS, A. S. FIELDS, E. B. V. ATKINS, D. J. R. SEAY, J. W. LEECH, PROF. J. R. GUIN, N. S. PARTIAN and the two telegraph operators “besides a great many visitors from a distance too numerous to mention. It was Mason day down there and they decided to give a big dinner there on Friday the 24th day of next month. The corner store of the new Masonic Hall will be laid on that day with appropriate ceremonies also the newly elected officers will be installed. They want every body to come and bring enough dinner for himself and two or three of his friends. I hope Fernbank will pardon me for “writing her up: this week for I think she and every other bank in Lamar County needs “writing up” at least one a week. Each community in Lamar County can and should have an energetic progressive correspondent, and as each new one comes in, let him go at it, as Bill Arp the distinguished writer of the Atlanta Constitution says “in self defense.” Bill visited Richmond the capital of Virginia the other day for the first time since the war. He saw a dog fight at the depot which reminded him of the time, 23 years ago when he and Colonel Towsers stopped to look at a great big wagon crate of cogs and see the dog men catching more with their long poles and nets. The dog law had just been passed and the city marshal was enforcing it and had about fifty in the long wagon and was still catching more. There were big dogs and little dogs, and al the breeds and varieties and they were all fighting and very new dog that was thrown in went at it in self defense. I thank Mr. JOSEPH ISAAC on Kennedy station and Mr. P. R. WILEMON of the Indian Territory for letting the readers of the News hear from them. May others go and do likewise. For fear of intruding upon good nature, I will close – for this time. Very respectfully WARWICK NEWS ITEMS There are said to be over 600,000 opium consumers in the United States. Neither wine, ale, porter nor brandy has ever been manufactured in Japan. Many of the Apache in Arizona have made $1 a day through the season as farm laborers. The real estate valuation of Eufaula according to assessment just made is $912,625. A full-blooded Indian has been ordained a deacon in an Episcopal Church in Southern Minnesota. The Pennsylvania Prison Society is celebrating its one hundredth anniversary. A farmer of Phoenicia, N. Y. after a bitter scratching succeeded in chocking a wildcat. Pittsburg business men have subscribed $1,000 to the Dwight L. Moody birthday testimonial fund. The disagreements of an unhappy couple in Greensburg, Ind. terminated in the murder of the husband by the wife. Mrs. C. Martin, of grand Rapids, Mich., after a quarrel with her husband poisoned herself and two children. Justice Knapp, of Great Falls, N. H. has appointed his niece clerk of this police court, the first woman holding such a position in the state. The largest insurance carried on the life of any individual insurance men say is that of $1,000,000 on the life of Dr. Hostettler of Pittsburg. The man who is suspicious lives in a constant state of unhappiness. It would be better for his peace of mind to be too trustful than too guarded. Sunset Cox will build a new house this summer. It will cost him just about the profits of the sale of his old Washington home, $19,100. (NOTE: THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES ARE REPEATS FROM EARLIER EDITIONS OF THE PAPER THAT THEY HAVE REUSED) THE HUMAN BODY’S WEAKNESS – article about human body INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SILKWORMS –article about silkworms THE HABIT OF DINING LATE PLATING SILVER UPON WOOD A BRITISH RURAL OFFICIAL – (can’t read) COLARADO’S BRIGHTEST GEM – article about Green Lake THE DISTANCE OF THE STARS THE GULF STREAM’S INFLUENCE WHEN ENGLAND HELD SLAVES GROWTH OF THE WHITE RACE The Birmingham Age saws the ---- trade is badly demoralized because the freight rates being subjected to instant change. The citizens of Anniston subscribed $400,000 in one day toward the organization of an enterprise. Good for the model town. The Montana Wool Grower estimates that there will be nearly a million sheep sheared in that Territory this year, producing at least 8,000,000 pounds of wool – 1,000,000 pounds more than in 1886. The first stop in debt is like the first step in false hood, almost involving the necessity of proceeding in the same course, debt following debt, and like follows like. Hayden the -----(can’t read) Savage races are found to be originally temperate, but as soon as they come in contact with the civilized men and learn the effects of strong drink they use it to excess and rapidly become drunkards. Some savage people have been destroyed by this terrible vice. The Indians on the Digger Reservation, in Nevada, held a big dance recently and invited many of their white friends. A number of the latter went in and witnessed the dance, but on attempting to leave they found the old chief guarding the door, and were told that it would cost twenty-five cents each to go out. 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 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 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION LAND OFFICE AT MONTGOMERY, ALA., May 7, 1887 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judge of the Probate Court at Vernon, Ala. on July 2, 1887 viz: WILLIAM AUSTIN, Homestead 10,180 for the NW ¼ SW ½ Section 8 T 15 R 15 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: JAMES E. PENNINGTON, S. P. PENNINGTON, HIRAM HOLLIS JR., and GREEN B. SANDERS all of Vernon, Ala. J. G. HARRIS, Register 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 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. 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/thelamar1329gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 46.2 Kb