Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News June 2, 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 11, 2007, 9:34 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History June 2, 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, JUNE 2, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 30 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 next Press Convention will be held in the beautiful city of Selma in 1888. The only regret with the average editor is that Press Convention do not come oftener and last longer. Judge Somerville, of Alabama is most favorably spoken of to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Bench. Birmingham has fifteen papers and periodicals, daily, weekly, and monthly. Three of them are dailies. President Cleveland refused to allow whisky sold on the drill grounds at Washington. The whole country says, bravo! Apprentice your boys to some good trade where they will have to toe the mark; then when grown they will be a source of pride instead of being a worry and source of expense. Judge Bailey, of Marion, who has made aerial phenomena a specialty, says Montgomery is so situated and so protected by the country’s configuration that it will never be struck by a cyclone. – [Advertiser] The Alabama editors should tender their double-breasted thanks for the unstinted hospitality and generous and hearty welcome which they received at the hands of the citizens of Birmingham during their stay in their midst. A funny exchange says that the latest amusement is termed the “Editor’s Delight,” and is performed in the following manner; Take a chest of note paper, fold it up carefully and enclose a bank note sufficiently large to pay up all arrears and a year in advance. And what adds immensely to the feast is to send along the name of a new subscriber with cash to balance. Keep your eye on the editor, and if you detect a smile, the trick is a success. WHAT IS COMING The friends of Mr. J. B. STANLEY, of the Greenville Advocate, are already saying that he shall be the next Secretary of State. This office has long been appropriated to the press by the politicians, and Mr. Stanley is eminently fitted for it. The incumbent, Col. Langdson, has had the office two terms and according to party custom will hardly be a candidate next year. The position is not one of profit, but honor, and Mr. Stanley has done useful work for party and the people of Alabama. His friends are from state line to state line, and he will go before the convention, if he consents to run, with a handsome support. It is a long time ahead to talk of the nomination and probably Mr. Stanley will not approve it, but friends are ready at work for him and are determined to put him in the office. – [Chronicle] The first Japanese woman to enter journalism is named “Satan San.” If the male journalists of that section are willing to give her a fair chance as all of them are in this country, she will soon be happy enough to change her name. – [Boston Globe] Educate your daughters to know the true aims and objects of life; teach them to be modest, industrious and thoughtful; give them all the opportunities and pleasures your means will allow and by all means send them to the best schools your purse can afford. There is a whole temperance sermon in the reply of a butcher who was asked for a dollar toward paying a temperance lecturer. “There’s your dollar,” said he, “I have sold more in one day since this town quit licensing saloons than I sold in a week when the saloons were in full blast.” A cyclone, accompanied by heavy rain and hail passed over Montgomery at 12 m on the 25th lasting about fifteen minutes, coming from a northwestern, playing havoc, unroofing the courthouse and other buildings, tearing down the new exposition building at Riverside Park, just being erected, and a number of adjacent buildings. The damage to the crops is considerable, being confined to the neighborhood of Montgomery. No lives were lost. Many telegraph wires were blown down. THE LOCAL PRESS One of the most important helps to progress and prosperity is the local newspaper. Its work is quiet, steady, persistent, and at all times effective. It has, in fact, done more to build up the country than any other one agency that could be named. It is great power, taken in the aggregate, and its potency is increased as it is backed by the moral and pecuniary support of its readers. It is remarkable fact that the local press is not properly appreciated, especially by business men who are helped to a great extent by its influence than any other class. It is at all times and in all communities under valued. The result is that it is not what it ought to be, and that is, independent in every sense, and therefore better able to be a fitting representative and exponent of the best thought and aspiration of the locality in which it is published. We have in Alabama a number of papers, published in our interior towns; that would reflect credit on any city in the Union. What an immense amount of practical good, in the way of advancing the material interests of the sate, they could accomplish if only given a generous and liberal support by the people among whom they circulate. Our merchants, our business men, our capitalist, should take a practical view of the question involved in the maintenance and patronage of their local papers. Those papers return to them far more than they receive in the way of subscriptions and advertising. – [Birmingham New South] A sermon that does not strengthen good purposes, comfort the sorrowing, nor induce those who hear it to do something is a failure. 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 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 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. 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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 RED DOG – Poem A TRUE HELPMATE – Short Story JOE BLACKBURN’S STORY Senator Joe Blackburn, of Kentucky, was as is well known a dashing Southern leader in the late war. At a social gathering a few evenings ago the Senator paid a glowing tribute to the exalted character of Abraham Lincoln. He said he considered Mr. Lincoln the fairest man that ever presided over a nation, and that his taking off by the hand of an assassin was the most cruel blow the South received from the war. Then the Senator related the incident of his first meeting Mr. Lincoln, which in substance was as follows: “When I was 19 years of age I located in Chicago and commenced the practice of law. One of my first cases was in the United sates Court, which was presided over by Justice McLean, of the United States Supreme Court, and Judge Drummond, of the Illinois Circuit. The opposing counsel was Isaac N. Arnold, then at the head of the Chicago bar, who was subsequently a prominent member of Congress and the author of the first biography of Mr. Lincoln. I had filed a demurrer to Mr. Arnold’s pleadings in the cause, and when the case was reached on the calendar I was quite nervous at having such a formidable and experienced antagonist, while the dignity of the tribunal and the presence of a large number of lawyers in the court all aided to increase me timidity and embarrassment. I was young, inexperienced, and naturally felt diffident and nervous, in fact, I was willing that any disposition should be made of the case so I could be rid of it. I was ready to adopt any suggestion of the opposing counsel which would relive me of the embarrassing situation. I wanted to get away from the ordeal as soon as possible. Mr. Arnold made an argument in which he criticized my demurer in a manner that greatly tended to increase my confusion. However, I had to make an effort. I said but little, and in a very bewildered manner, and was bout ready to sit down and let the case go by default, as it were, when a tall, homely, loose-jointed man, sitting in the bar, whom I had noticed as giving close attention to the case, arose and addressed the court in behalf of the position I had assumed in my feeble argument, making the points so clear that when he closed the Court at once sustained my demurer. I didn’t yet know who my volunteer friend was, but Mr. Arnold got up and attempted to rebuke him for interfering in the matter, when I, for the first time, heard he was ‘Abe Lincoln’ of Springfield. Mr. Lincoln, in his good-natured reply to Mr. Arnold’s strictures on his interference, said that he claimed the privilege of giving a young lawyer a boost when struggling with his first case, especially if he was pitted against an experienced practitioner. Of course I thanked him and departed from the court as proud as a young field marshal. I never saw Mr. Lincoln again, and he died without ever knowing who the young struggling lawyer was he had so kindly assisted and relieved form defeat in the maiden effort before a United States tribunal. – [Washington Critic] GRADY AT HOME – The Georgian’s Gorgeous Presence Overpowers a Timid Newspaper Man - anecdote THRIFT OVERREACHES ITSELF - anecdote THE ALASKA INDIANS They have the universal trait of love of finery, and the two things being equal otherwise the more gandy will always receive the preference in the purchase. Anything of a slightly – character in the possession of a white man, which they can not explain in any other manner, is always considered an ornament of some kind. The professor had among the trading material some bright nickel-plated pickerel spoons attached to bright red flies, concealing the fish-hook which was fastened to the spoon, and these were found to be a dead loss on our hands, for none of the Indians knew of their use or had ever heard of them before. One day the professor was trying to trade some of them for an ethnological specimen that an old fellow had brought in to sell us. He gazed at the pickerel spoons in deep admiration for a few minutes, and then, as if trying to explain their use to his own mind, he took the two spoons in his hand by the shells and standing before a mirror in the room he applied them to the lower lobes of his ears to see their effect as earrings, and at once seemed satisfied to take them for that purpose; for it was the only one he could get out of them. I have but little doubt that had a vessel with an ample consignment of pickerel spoons on board been wrecked before this on the Yakutat coast and the fishing gear fallen into the hands of the natives, that subsequent travelers would have found the savages wearing them as earrings. Certainly until some drink had caught a pickerel with one they would never have surmised their use. Another salient point in their character is the perfect indifferences with which they will break their contracts. I had made arrangements with one fellow for a certain morning to start upon a canoe journey into the flat lands of the St. Ellas Alps or a voyage of discovery. There were three of my party, and on the morning in question we were all prepared, our blankets rolled, our rations cooked and boxed, etc and all on the beach awaiting our friend from the village across the inlet, but who did not put in an appearance till next day, nor send any explanation to us by the many canoes passing between the places, but when he did come he informed us that a death in the village was the cause of the delay. Had any other Indian known the route I think I would have drawn the line on his employment. – [Frederick Schwartha, in New York Times] FOOD AND FEEDING IN CONVALESCENCE In recovery from severe illness, when the diet has consisted principally of milk and beef tea, there is generally a craving for vegetable food. With the doctor’s permission, a baked potato may be given. It must be thoroughly cooked, mashed smoothly, sprinkled with salt and served with a little hot cream poured over it. Some physicians recommend fish in the early stages of convalescence as a light and nutritious food. Fresh cold or haddock, boiled, not friend, may be tried to begin with, and if this is borne well a little sale codfish, shredded and stewed in cream with a little nutmeg grated over it, will be found very acceptable. Oysters are always digestible and, in the proper season are a valuable addition to the diet list. They may be prepared in any way except fried and are delicious steamed. Persons who do not care for milk, like them scalded in their own liquor and spread on buttered toast better than when made into the ordinary stew. If the prejudice against frogs legs has been overcome, or does not exist, they will prove a delicate morsel. They should be parboiled for a few minutes, then stewed until tender and served with a well flavored white sauce. Juicy, tender beefsteak, mutton chops, nicely trimmed, with the superfluous fat removed, the breast of chicken, game, grouse, quails, or partridges in their season – are all suitable for the convalescent. Pork should be avoided as to rich and veal as indigestible and less nutritious than other meats. Well cooked vegetables are a very necessary addition to the bill of faire. Green peas, asparagus, cauliflower, onions (if the mere mention of the word is not too shocking to ears polite). parsnips and celery are all admissible when they can be had, while tomatoes are a never ailing resource either fresh or canned. – [Elizabeth Robinson Scravil, in Good Housekeeping] A CUSTOM THAT HAS GROWN TO ABUSE – article about buying wedding gifts THE PHILOSOPHY OF DEATH A curious philosophy is being developed by religious thinkers in respect to the law of nature. They hold that this law is “destructiveness” that is in fact the condition of things. The spider eats the fly, the sparrow eats the spider, the hawk eats the sparrow, and man eats everything, and it may be added that time or death eats man. That destruction is the law of nature may be true in the sense that the world and all that is init are constantly changing. The problem of the mystery of the cruelty of things opens a wide field for theological discussion and a great many singular doctrines may be drawn from it. – [San Francisco Examiner] GARRETT’S MANSION – Personal Gossip About the Proprietor of the Baltimore and Ohio (can’t read) PAGE 3 NINUTU ISLAND (Can’t read) -----SOUTH IN THE UNION ARMY (Can’t read) LINCOLN AS A LAWYER His weak as well as his strong qualities have been indicated. He never learned the technicalities what some would call the tricks of the profession. The sleight of plea and demurrer, the leger lemain by which justice is balked and a weak case is made to gain an unfair advantage, was too subtle and shifty for his strong and straightforward intelligence. He met these maneuvers sufficiently well, when practices by others ---- ever could get in the way of handling them for himself. On the wrong side he was always weak. He knew this himself, and avoided such cases when he could consistently with the rules of his profession. He would often persuade a fair-minded litigant of the justice of his case and induce him to give it up. His partner, Mr. Herndon, relates a speech in point which Lincoln once made to a man who offered him an objectionable case; “Yes, there is not reasonable doubt but that I can gain your case for you. I can set a whole neighborhood at loggerheads. I can distress a widowed mother and her six fatherless children, and thereby get for you six hundred dollars, which rightfully belongs it appears to me, as much to them as it does to you. I shall not take your case, but I will give a little advice for nothing. You seem a sprightly, energetic man. I would advise you to try your hand at making six hundred dollars in some other way.” Sometimes, after he had entered upon a criminal case, the conviction that his client was guilty would affect him with a sort of panic. On one occasion he turned suddenly to his associate and said, “Swett, the man is guilty; you defend him, I can’t.’ and so gave up his share of a large fee. The same thing happened at another time when he was engaged, with Judge S. C. Parks, in defending a man accused of larceny. He said “If you can say anything of the man, do it, I can’t; if I attempt it, the jury will see I think he is guilty, and convict him.” Once he was prosecuting a civil suit, in the course of which evidence was introduced showing that his client was attempting a fraud. Lincoln rose and went to his hotel in deep disgust. The judge sent for him; he refused to come. “Tell the judge,” he said, “my hands are dirty; I cam over to wash them.” We are aware that these stories detract something from the character of the lawyer; but this inflexible in convention and fastidious morality was to be of vast service hereafter this country and the world. The Nemesis which waits upon men of extraordinary wit or humor has not neglected Mr. Lincoln, and the young lawyers of Illinois, who never knew him, have an endless tore of jokes and pleasantries in his names; some of them as old as Lowlegglass or Rabelals. But the fact is that with all his stories and jests, his frank companionable humor, his fight of easy access ability and welcome, he was, even while he traveled the Eighth Circuit, a man of grave and serious temper and of an unusual innate dignity and reserve. He had few or no special intimates, and there was a line beyond which no one ever thought of passing. Besides, he was too strong a man not he court-room to be regarded with anything but respect in a community in which legal ability was the only especial mark of distinction. Few of his forensic speeches have been preserved, but his contemporaries all agree as to their singular ability and power. He seemed absolutely at home in a court room; his great stature did not encumber him there; it seemed like a natural symbol of superiority. His bearing and gesticulation had no awkwardness about hem; they were simply striking and original. He assured at the start a frank and friendly relation with the jury watch was extremely effective. He usually began, as the phrase ran, by “giving away his case” by allowing to the opposite side every possible advantage that they could honestly and justly claim. Then he would present his own side of the case, with a clearness, a candor, an adroitness of statement which at once flattered and convinced the jury, and made even the bystanders his partisans. Sometimes he disturbed the court with laughter by his humorous or apt illustrations; sometimes he excited the audience by that florid and exuberant rhetoric which he knew well enough how and when to indulge in; but his more usual and more successful manner was to rely upon a clear, strong, lucid statement, keeping details in proper subordination and bringing forward, in a way which fastened the attention of court and jury alike, the essential point on which he claimed a decision. “Indeed” says one of his colleagues, “his statement often rendered argument unnecessary, and often the court would stop him and say, if that is the case, we will hear the other side.” Whatever doubts might be entertained as to whether he was the ablest lawyer on the circuit, there was never any dissent from the opinion that he was the one most cordially and universally liked. If he did not himself enjoy his full share of the happiness of life, he certainly diffused more of it among his fellows than is in the power of most men. His arrival was a little festival in the county-seats here his pursuits led him to pass so much of this time. Several eye-witnesses have described these scenes in terms which would seem exaggerated if they were not so fully confirmed. The bench and bar would gather at the tavern where he was expected to give him a cordial welcome says one writer, “He brought light with him.” This is not hard to understand. Whatever his cares he ever inflicted them upon others. He talked singularly well, but never about himself. He was full of wit which never wounded, of humor which mellowed the harshness of that raw and raw life of the prairies. He never asked for help, but was always ready to give it. He received everybody’s confidence, and rarely gave his own in return. He took no mean advantage in court or in conversation, and satisfied with the respect and kindliness which he everywhere met, he sought no quarrels and never had to decline them. He did not accumulate wealth; as judge Davis said, “He seemed never to care of it.” He had a good income from his profession, though the fees he received would bring a smile to the well-paid lips of the great attorneys of today. The largest fee he ever got was one of five thousand dollars from the Illinois Central Railway, and he had to bring suit to compel them to pay it. He spent what he received in the education of his children, in the care of his family, and in a plain and generous way of living. – [The Century’s Life of Lincoln] QUEEN OF THE POOR During two whole days of the past week the queen of Greece was not to be seen, writes a Paris correspondent of the London Times under date of Oct 30. She escaped Parisian curiosity and that persecution of fantastic journalistic interviews which is tin course of making the king of Greece one of the greatest talkers of the day. The ‘Queen of the Poor’ as she has been called, devoted these two days to visiting some of the chief charitable institutions of which Pairs is so proud, and it has not been easy to trace her stops during the forty-eight hours thus snatched from amusements and pleasure and bestowed on the afflicted an outcast. Her first visit was to the asylum St. Jean de Dieu, in the Rue Lecourbe, for deserted and incurable children. There are about four hundred inmates, blind, lame, scrofulous, disabled in everyway, beings miserable at the very birth and doomed miserable to the grave. The queen went in incognito but who could have been mistaken as to the royal greatness of her character on seeing her tall figure bending down on those most diseased or loathsome, and offering that truest of alms, which consist in overcoming repugnance and drawing to ward the unfortunate beings whom their own parents abandoned to filth and squalor. She admired Father Gaetan as he went among these of hundred outcasts and diffused the compassion which is the only relief they can feel. Her majesty singled out for special sympathy Albert, a poor boy of 7, blind, pallid, scarcely alive, and attached with a kind of veneration to father Gaetan. Little Albert, placed near the queen while she listened to a concert arranged for her, climbed on her lap and whispered: “I am sure by the tone in which the father speaks to you that you are a great lady. Tell him that I have been good all the last few days; that will please him,” The queen listened with tears in her eyes to the confidences of this unfortunate, and then rose to speak a word of affection to the little musicians, who defiled before her. The blind ones marched in a long line, the fist having his two hands on the shoulders of a child not blind, the second with his hands on the shoulders of the first blind one, and so on. They knew they were marching before a living image of charity. “I have been most pleased,” remarked the queen to a visitor last night “to see Abe Gaetan and little Albert. They are constantly in my mind.” MASCULINE ROUT - anecdote Olive Harper writes of the ex-Empress Eugenia, whom she saw just before her departure from England. “Her beauty has much faded, but it had taken on a womanly softness born of suffering, and to me, at least, it would have been far more attractive than any youthful charm she had then lost. Her hair was till abundant, her eyes and lips still lovely, and that nameless grace and incomparable attraction was still hers. The beauty of intelligence like hers never fades.” The same correspondent says that Queen Victoria’s pictures flatter her grossly, but I am sure I don’t want to raise a war between two countries by giving a fair and square description of her personal appearance. A BRIGHT NEWS AGENT – How He Persuaded Secretary Evarts to Buy a Book A NEW PRECIOUS STONE – article about crystals SOME THINGS A GIRL SHOULD LEARN A girl of 10 years of age should, if her parents can possibly afford it, be taught the value of money by having a certain stated allowance. She should have her own pocketbook and her own money, and whether the sum be great or small it would be an invaluable lesson in practical economy; in how to spend money and how not to spend it, and in respectful self-dependence. With her pin money she should be expected to pay her own car-fare, buy her own gloves and collars and “notions” generally, do her own “treating” and be in fact her own financier. In no ther way can she be so successfully taught the proper value of money. A girl who never has any money of her own, who must ask papa every time she wants 10 cents for car-fare or money for a new ruching, is a poor, spiritless creature, robbed of considerable individually and deserving of pity. Unless she marries a man-angel she will probably be that most humiliated of all women, a beggar-wife who has to coax, cajole, beg money from her husband, explain piteously what she does with it, and made to feel all the misery and unjust dependence. A girl should be taught the responsibility of possessing things. She should realize the full import of that old familiar saying “What’s mine is my own.” The loss of self-preservation makes a man most careful of things that are his own. A girl’s books, pets, flowers, toys, ornaments should be her own to do with as she wills – for which she will be responsible to her own conscience. She should be made as early as possible a responsible agent; and taught to rely on herself; to do for herself; to buy for herself. If her taste in dress is bad, improve it by kindly criticism and loving advice. Do not foster helplessness by assuming for her responsibilities. There was a time when sickly or delicate, young women who fainted easily, and could not get a whole strawberry into their dear little mouths were all the fashion in womanhood. In those days it was vulgar for a young woman to say she was hungry or to eat with a wholesome relish and a good sensible appetite if gentlemen were present. Girls aimed to look languid, and were vain that they could not walk, and were not strong enough for nay greater physical exertion than standing at the front gate for three or four hours at a time talking to a young man. Those days are gone by forever. Healthy, wholesome, energetic, agile, strong young women are the fashion. Fainting is as much out of date as a coal-scuttle bonnet. The girl of today is not afraid to let her best young man see her eat a dozen fried oysters. She will walk with him from Canal Street to Carrollton and back and be less “blown” than he at the end of the trip. In fact, helpless women are out of style; they no longer exist, even in the novels. The wisest mother is she who today is helping her beautiful, sweet, and modest young girls to become brave and self-reliant women, not bold nor forwardly self- assertive, but surely not afraid to face any of the duties and dangers and responsibilities of a woman’s lot. – [New Orleans Picayune] FAVORITE GEMS – article about the different types of gems A LAD WITH A BIG APPETITE - anecdote AMONG THE GAS WELLS A group of burning wells north of Washington, Pa. has presented many grand and beautiful night-scenes. Though many miles apart, they appear at a distance, to be close together, and their light intermingles. On a dark night with all of them burning, they make a great show. These wells in full blast – with those flanking them on the right and on the left, with the broad glare of those at Wellsburg, W. Va. showing twenty miles to the northwest, and with those at Murraysville, Pa. thirty miles to the northeast – make a scene that would terrify a stranger, if he should come upon it unaware of the existence of such things as burning gas-wells. It would only need columns of fiery lava to convince him that the whole region was full of volcanoes. And his terror would doubtless be complete when he saw a great fiery column shoot to skyward unless he was made aware of the real cause of the phenomenon., when he would remain to admire what a moment before had filled him with alarm. The explanation of the sudden burst of flame is that it necessary often to “blow out” the wells and the pipes leading to the regulator, to keep them from being clogged by the salt which gathers in the pipes from the salt-water thrown up by the gas. The flow of the gas is topped for a moment; and when again released, the gas drives everything before it into the open air. This escaping gas is burned at the regulator. The effect of the suddenly increased pressure is to shoot a tongue of flame, hissing and roaring, high in air. On a misty night, when the light is broken up and diffused, the snow-covered hills sometimes adding their reflection, the whole sky is brilliantly illuminated, and the scene is grand an beautiful. – [Samuel W. Hail, in St. Nicholas] Ad for Tapeworm Cure Ad for Plowboy Steel Pens Ad for Globe Cotton and Corn Planter Ad for Plowboys 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 Blackberries will soon be plentiful. Become more liberal and help advertise your county. People are anticipating better times in the near future. Rev. W. C. WOODS preached in this place on Sunday last. Postmaster ARMSTRONG, of Moscow, was in town yesterday. The Kennedy High School closed on Friday the 20th. Mrs. JUDGE BELL and children of Fayette C. H. are visiting relatives and friends in town. Mr. MORGAN WOOD and wife and Mr. FELIZ WOOD, of Birmingham are visiting their uncle JAS. MIDDLETON. Sunday School Convention of the colored people was held at Moscow last Sunday. The finest corn we have seen this season was in the garden of Rev. J. R. COX, of Fayette C. H. The present prospects for a good corn and cotton crop are very flattering. WALTER NESMITH Esq. paid Coross, Ala professional visit latter part of last week. Singing at the Baptist Church Sunday night conducted by Messrs. DENMAN and LIVINGSTON. The exquisite quietude of our town was greatly disturbed on Monday night by hideous yells and oaths. Shame on the perpetrators. Mr. W. S. METCALFE left on Sunday last for Birmingham, where he goes to see his son, LEE, whom we regret to note is dangerously ill. Capt. S. J. SHIELDS left for Aberdeen on Friday last and ---- to return soon accompanied by his accomplished wife. Forty citizens of Columbus, Miss and twenty-five of Fayette County were handed the ----- of the International Drill in Washington. Capt. G. A. JOHNSON and mother and Capt. JOE LEIGH of Columbus, Miss passed through town last Friday going up the line of the Tombigbee Railroad survey taking options on the mineral ------- the line. Rev. Mr. SLAUGHTER, P. R. is the guest of Rev. G. L. HEWITT. Dr. W. A. BROWN passed through town this morning on his return from Walker County. Prof. and Mrs. J. R. BLACK are quite happy – it’s a fine son, nine pounder, and will be called LEE MCCLELLAN. Mr. HENRY HANKINS thinks he had found a gold mine on his place 3 miles from Vernon. We regret to learn that DOCK PENNINGTON, son of Mr. ABB PENNINGTON received a severe cut on the foot one day last week while chopping wood. Ad for White’s Cream Vermifuge KINGVILLE ITEMS Kingville, Ala., June 1, 1887 Mr. E. J. McNatt: Dear Sir: June has come and found me without anything much to write, notwithstanding all this I will give you a few items. The people of Kingville are about as usual; that is they are enjoying excellent health. There has been a good deal of rain within the past two or three weeks, in consequence of which some of our farmers are apprehensive that General Green is likely to assume command of their bottom lands. There was preaching at the Academy Sunday last by Rev. CHARLEY GRAHAM. A very attentive and appreciative audience was present. There are still 10 boarding students in the Kingville School. The voice of the reapers is heard in our midst. Mr. BILL CASH one of our very bet farmers says that if the wheat crop had failed this year he “would have come up without the bell on,” but as it is, he is likely to war the bell at least for the next twelve months. Quite a number of the Kingville school “boys” seem to think that it will be judgment day with them next Saturday at Vernon before the Educational Board. Mr. Ed. In my last I gave names of persons living in Fernbank whom I saw while down there, but the names of Dr. M. R. SEAY and Mr. WHEELER did not appear, therefore, I call your attention to his from the fact that I wish to let them know that I remember having seen them, too. I know you just happened to overlook their names. I stated in a former communication that nay critic who did not like the style of my communication could write some better ones just out of spite. I have heard of one who stated that he didn’t think that a “smart man” would write any such communication as one of mine was. With profound regret for all such critics, I will say that I am glad that I live in a free country, “where none dare to molest or make afraid.” Very Respectfully &c., WARWICK Some of the occupants of the county jail in Birmingham recently became dissatisfied, to sniff the pure, fresh air, read the blue page of heaven, and gamble on the inviting green without. They diligently went to work receiving brick, mortar, and other impediments between them and the outer world, and just as everything was in readiness for their fight, the sheriff, by use of these inspirations which makes that class of individuals suspected of possessing the gift of divination, concluded to make an examination of the premises before lying himself to his easy pillow. The hole to livery was discovered by this lynx-eyed official, and as it was too late to call in the services of masons, he plugged the aperture with flesh and blood in the shape of a deputy as a continel, and the jailed ones enjoyed not that night the freedom for which their souls panted. PRESS CONVENTION – Partial Report of Proceedings On behalf of the Press Club the editors of Alabama were welcomed to the city of Birmingham, on the 25th ult., by J. L. Watkins, and after a few well put sentence he introduced Mayor A. O. Lane, who delivered the address of welcome. Mayor Lane’s address was concise, eloquent, and expressive. He animadverted on the phenomenal growth and present importance of the city in terms that brought forth the heartiest applause, and referred to the aid that the press of the state had extended to the struggling city in its time of need, in such a way as to make the hearts of all visiting editors glow with pride a the great work they had helped to accomplish, and closed by extending the heartfelt welcome. H. L. Martin responded to the welcoming address on behalf of the association. Mr. Martin’s address can not be described by saying it was eloquent. That was only one of the attributes. He praised Birmingham in the highest terms and returned thanks for the courtesies extended. His speech was greeted with the heartiest applause throughout, and at the end of the deafening sounds of applause attested the appreciation in which his address was held. Gov. Seay was called to the front, and made a stirring speech in which he too complimented Birmingham, and the press of the sate and referred to the action of the press as having done so much toward the development of the hidden wealth of the country. The president here announced that the association were invited to an excursion to Lakeview. When the meeting finally adjourned, the association found the dummy cars awaiting them in front of the opera house, and embarked and it was a happy throng that sailed around the curves of the Highlands. There was photographed a group of the excursionists while there. All returned refreshed by the pure air of the suburbs, for the business session, which commenced at 8 o’clock Wednesday evening. After transacting the business of the evening a large party visited the furnaces and rolling mills returning about 12:30 pm. The members of the Press Association were taken in hand Thursday morning by the reception committee. Carriages were procured, and the visitors, with their lady friends were driven around northern part of city to Avondale, where they rested for a while and spent an enjoyable hour in admiring the natural beautifies and progressive signs of Birmingham’s thriving suburbs, returning about 12:30 by the South Highlands route. At 2 o’clock President Meeks called the Association to order, and Hon. J. L. Burnett then delivered an oration; subject: “As the Press, so the People: which was loudly applauded by all. The banquet Thursday night to the association, and the invited guests from outside the sate, was truly a grand affair, an occasion which was all that its most ardent friends could have desired. Friday morning at 9 o’clock, the members of the Association and the lady guests were tendered an excursion to Pratt Mines. An engine, baggage car and two coaches conveyed the party to the Easley furnaces, where the first stop was made. The great mechanical improvements in course of construction there were themselves of admiration for all, and gave them another insight of the growth of Birmingham and its vicinity. While there a very good photograph of the train and party was taken by Mr. Laroche, of Harper’s Weekly. The ladies and gentlemen grouped themselves around the engine and along the train, and the artist pronounced himself perfectly satisfied with his effort. Another photograph was also taken at slope No. 3 and several sketches made at Easley furnaces. Col. T. T. Hillman escorted the party and spared no effort to make the trip as pleasant as possible, and to give all information regarding these great enterprises which were being viewed. At 1:30 pm the party returned to the city, after a very interesting and enjoyable morning’s ride. At 3 o’clock Friday afternoon President Meeks called the Association to order for final business meeting of the session. President Meeks re-elected and Selma selected on the next place of meeting. – J. B. Randell elected Orator. On Friday 9 o’clock pm there’re was said to have been a large assemblage gathered at O’Brien’s Opera House to the Press Association Ball then ever before in the history of Birmingham. Representatives of the press, from all parts of the sate, were present to join in the merry dance with the fair belles and gallant beaux of the Magic City. The excursionist to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, left Birmingham Saturday at 11:30 on the regular passenger and arrived in Decatur 2:50 pm They remained in Decatur until Sunday morning, the n proceeded to the Cave, arrived there about noon Sunday. Returning they left the cave Monday. The farmers have been getting all the rain they can wish. Mr. JESSE DOWNING, one of the oldest citizens of Columbus, Miss. has been notified that his name has been placed on the pension roll as a veteran of the Mexican war. On our return from the Press Association at Birmingham, we attended a Sunday School Convention near Fayette C. H., we felt that we were blessed in being permitted to be present to hear the able addresses of a number of the most prominent citizens of Fayette county on the important subject of conducting Sabbath schools and to mingle with the kind and intelligent citizens of that vicinity; and last but not least to partake of the magnificent basket dinner. STATE ITEMS Alabama has 20 furnaces now in course of construction. Birmingham talks of building a big Baptist College soon. Birmingham raised a large sum as an entertainment fund to celebrate the visit of the Press Association. The Headlight is the name of a new papers started at Jasper. Elbert Magruder, colored, shot and killed his wife in Macon County last week. Birmingham is to invest $1,500,000 in furnaces on the co-operative plan. Cordova, Walker County is to have a fine hotel. Blountsville has a new M. E. Church which cost $2,500. The Montgomery Advertiser called the Washington drill, the “coon” drill. W. B. Duncan and other northern capitalists have purchased all the street railroads in Mobile, and will run them under one management. The colored people of Birmingham are going to establish a savings bank. The Elyton Land Company is sued for the possession of 160 acres of land valued at $1,000,000. Counterfeiters are said to be plying their vocation in Winston County. Herbert Taylor shot and killed Col. W. C. Wharton, a one-armed lawyer, at Wedowee, a few days ago. The Crenshaw County jail at Rutledge was destroyed by fire last week. Gov. Seay and Ex-Gov. O’Neal were in attendance on the Press Association. The services of Prof. M. B. Du Bose, of Wetumpka, Ala have been secured as principal o the Fayette County Male and Female Institute. A negro killed the deputy sheriff of Randolph county a few days ago while the officer was trying to arrest him. The Lawrence county grand jury found 77 indictments at its lat session. Senator John T. Morgan is spoken of as Judge Wood’s successor on the U. S. Supreme Bench. It is reported tin Birmingham that Capt. B. W. Long, the largest individual coal land owner in that section, has sold 40,000 acres near Cordova proper for $400,000. Ad for Dr. Biggery Huckleberry Cordial Ad for White’ Cream Vermifuge Ad for Cure all. 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 Ad for The Daily Commercial – A Republican newspaper 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. Ad for Arbuckles Coffee wrappers Ad for accordions 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 New Home Sewing Machine File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1356gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 54.2 Kb