Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News June 9, 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, 9:41 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History June 9, 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 9, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 31 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. Thomas Jefferson was the first nail manufacturer in the United States. The fund for the Beecher Statute Brooklyn now amounts to $15,000. Jay Gould’s new private car now under construction will cost of $20,000. It will be seventy feet long, has five apartments and will be called the “Atlanta.” Mrs. Polk, the widow of James K. Polk, tenth President of the United States, is more than eighty-eight years of age, but she is in good health, and possesses a memory of unimpaired vigor. All the labor organizations of the United States are agreed as to the retail liquor traffic being the worst enemy of the laboring classes. Saloon keepers have grown rich on the earnings of laborers. Let the iniquitous traffic be put down. It is the most prolific source of poverty in all the world. – [West Point Leader] Every citizen of Alabama should feel proud of the gallant Lomax Rifles, of Mobile – the winners of the first prize of $5,000 in the great Washington drill. The Lomax was the only company from Alabama contesting, and to win over so many distinguished competitors is indeed a great victory. The cashier of a Chinese bank tried to leave with the funds for Japan or some place on the America plan the other day, but it is not believed that the custom will become popular. The government walled up the cashier in a cell to starve to death and chopped the heads off all his family. And next fall they are going to decapitate everybody in the empire bearing his name. Sixty-eight years ago five English gentlemen in a tavern at Baltimore organized the order of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Today it numbers in the United States over 500,000 members. It has disbursed since its organization $41,000,000 in relief to its members, and expended in various ways for the prosecution of its work $110,000 and has never been more prosperous than now. The President of the Tombigbee R. R. speaks very despondent as to our probability of securing the road. He affirms that unless they receive more liberal donations from the people along the line of the last survey the company will be unable to builds the road, except by the shortest route to a connection with the Kansas City road, which will necessitate its going up Buttahatchie. The citizens along that route, we are told, says donated liberally, and will present their every efforts in trying to secure the road. The following were the winners and their prizes at the Washington drill: First prize, $5,000, Lomax Rifles. Second prize, $2,000, Company D. Fist Minnesota. Third prize, $1,500, Belknap Rifles, San Antonia, Texas. Fourth prize, $1000, National Rifles, Washington. Fifth prize, $500, San Antonio, Texas. In the individual drill, JH. S. Stacks, of the San Antonio Rifles won the first prize. Chas. X. Conrad, of the Washington Light Infantry won the second prize. J. R. Wagner, of the Louisville Legion won the third prize. The New Orleans Picayune congratulates the boys who were successful at the national drill in this wise: “The Southern soldiers bore off the palms in the national drill at Washington. And this is not the first time. On every field of mimic war on which they have contested for honors with the northerly military, they have carried away the lion’s share of the prizes, proving that in a nation that is foremost in the whole world in the native soldierly instinct and military aptitude, its Southern sons are preeminent. We congratulate the gallant Alabamians and Texans on their peaceful and friendly triumphs.” The remark is now freely made that the killing of Gambrell guarantees the defeat of the present city government at the next election. The Democrats of this city have had the power for years past to elect the municipal officers if they had worked together. Whenever the Democrats make up mind to unite in one solid phalanx, they have the power to elect every officer in Jackson. Nothing would be easier Jackson is about the only town in the state governed by Republicans officials. Isn’t it time to make a change? – State Ledger. We would think so. However, we do not see that Republican rule in Jackson is any worse than the so-called Democratic rule in many of our towns and cities. A great many of our municipal governments are as rotten as they can well be, and are a disgrace to a civilized people. – [West Point Leader] Ad for Arbuckle coffee wrappers “Owing to a press of other business Rev. J. B. Steadham has relinquished the post of editor and proprietor of the Russellville Southern idea, and is succeeded by Mr. W. F. Green, formally of the Marion Herald. – [Florence Gazette.]” We hope for our young friend, Willis, the prosperity he so richly deserves. Ad for White’s Cream Vermifuge 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 The Coleman House (Formerly West House). W. S. COLEMAN, Pro. Main St. Columbus, Miss. Is now open for the entertainment of guests, and will be kept clean and comfortable, the table being supplied with the best the market affords. Rates per day…$1.50, Rates for lodging and 2 meals….$1.25, Rates for single meals…...$0.50, Rates for single lodging…..$0.50. call and try us. J. B. MACE, Jeweler, Vernon, Alabama. (PICTURE OF LOT OF CLOCKS) Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry and spectacles. Makes a specialty of repairing. Will furnish any style of timepiece, on short notice, and at the very lowest price. Our stock of Furnishing is full and complete in every respect. (Elaborate drawing of goods sold) Largest Cheapest best stock of dress goods, dress trimmings, ladies & misses jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, boots, shoes, & hats, tin ware, etc., etc., at rock bottom figures at A. COBB & SONS’S LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE. J. D. GUYTON, Prop’r., Columbus, Mississippi. (picture of horse and buggy) Ad for Collins Ague Cure Go to ECHARD’S Photograph Gallery, Columbus, Mississippi when you want a fine photograph or ferrotype of any size or style. No extra charge made for persons standing. Family groups and old pictures enlarged to any size. All the work is done in his gallery and not sent North to be done. Has a handsome and cheap line of Picture Frames on hand. Call at his Gallery and see his work you visit Columbus. THE TRAIN IS COMING (picture of a train). Get ready for a ride but before starting call around and let DR. G. C. BURNS sell you a nice bill of goods at hard pan prices. COLUMBUS ART STUDIO Over W. F. Munroe & Co’s Book Store, Columbus, Mississippi. Fine photographs of all sizes at very reasonable prices. Pictures copied and enlarged. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Call in and examine samples. FRANK A. COE, Photographer WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama. Board and Lodging can be had at the above House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor. ERVIN & BILLUPS, Columbus, Miss. Wholesale and retail dealers in pure drugs, paints, oils, paten Medicines, tobacco & cigars. Pure goods! Low prices! Call and examine our large stock. A. A. Posey & Bros Livery, Sale and Feed Stable, Aberdeen, Miss. They have also just received a fine stock of buggies in which they give such bargains as to defy competition. Prices including harnesses ranging from $30 upwards. Ad for Marriage Guide Ad for The Excelsior Cotton Gin Feeders and Condensers (picture) PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS, Vernon, Ala By E. J. McNatt Entered at the Post-office at Vernon, Alabama as second-class mail matter. A PICTURE – Poem MISS CLEVELAND’S POEM – Poem Lard and grease have, as is well known, a corrosive action on brass or copper, and this is a drawback to their use as lubricants for these materials. It has been pointed out that, while both melted India rubber and Vaseline without corrosive action on brass, each alone has a disadvantage. Thus melted India rubber is too glutinous, and in course of time hardens. Vaseline neither hardens, but is deficient in tentacle and adhesiveness. A mixture of the substances is therefore recommended consisting of one part by weight of melted India-rubber and two parts of Vaseline. The rubber should be pure, not vulcanized, and cut into shreds, then melted at the lowest possible temperature in an iron cup while being pressed down against the hot cup and stirred into a uniform glutinous mass. The Vaseline, of a common thick brown sort should be added to the India-rubber, and the whole thoroughly stirred and blended together. DISINFECTANTS – Remedies for Stopping the Spread of Contagious Diseases While looking over the papers in his desk recently Chief Sanitary Officer Charles W. Francis found a list of the best disinfectants to be used in preventing the spread of contagious diseases. The list was prepared in 1879, during his term as health commissioner, the yellow fever raging at the time in the south, with some scattering cases in the city, and others at quarantine. The following is the list, together with the directions as to the purpose of the articles and how they are to be used: Carbolic Acid (fluid) – To disinfect vaults, cesspools, drains, and sewers, garbage and decaying matter, also bedding and clothing to be used as follows Dilute at the rate of from forty to one hundred parts of water to one of acid. Half a pint to be poured in every vault. For large masses of filth pour in solution every hour until every part is disinfected. To disinfect clothing mix the acid with an equal quantity of strong vinegar, then dilute as above. For air of sick-room suspend a piece of cloth soaked in diluted solution. Carbolic acid (crude) – To disinfect grounds, drains, or the air of a foul place, for the sprinkling of streets, gutters, etc., dilute or thoroughly agitate the acid in forty to fifty parts of water and saturate with same. Charcoal Powder – To absorb the putrid gases of any damp or offensive place, sprinkle when dry and fresh. Chloride of Lime – To give off chlorine to destroy putrid effluvia and to stop putrefaction in collars, vaults, and tables. Use dry and sprinkle on the floors of apartments, or better, use in solution, and wash the floors and woodwork with it. Strong vinegar poured on it increases its efficiency. Chlorinated Soda – For disinfecting clothing and cleaning the surfaces of corpses. Use a pint of the solution to two quarts of hot water. Heavy Oil of Coat Tar – For drains, sewers, foul heaps, etc. Mix with saw-dust and spread thickly upon the ground or paint the inside walls with it. Permanganate Potash - To be used in disinfecting clothing and towels, bedding, etc from patients sick with infectious diseases. Throw the clothing to be disinfected into a tub of water in which one ounce of this disinfectant has been dissolved in every three gallons of water. Quick lime – To absorb moisture and putrid fluids and free from foul smells. Use fresh stone lime finely broken and sprinkle or place in places or pan, or whitewash with pure lime in damp rooms. Sesqui chloride of iron, for vaults; take a solution of 1.30 specific gravity and throw it into vaults, or better still, use what is known as metropolitan disinfecting fluid, which is the solution of the sesqui chloride of iron with 10 percent of carbolic acid. Sulphuric acid for the disinfection of infested apartments, carpets, etc. to which boiling heat can not be applied. The windows and doors leading out of the infected room to be close, then fumigate with burning sulphur. The room must remain under the action from two to six hours. A common tenement room will require about two pounds of sulphur to be burned on a sheet-iron pan supported by an iron stand nine inches high. Sulphate of Iron (Copperas) – To disinfect the same as carbolic acid. One of the best disinfectants is made by dissolving eight or ten pounds of the sulphate in five gallons of water, and add one pint of fluid carbolic acid. Stir or agitate the mixture briskly to make a complete solution. Use in the same manner as was directed for carbolic acid, only pour double the quantity morning and evening into water-close pans. Sulphate of zinc may be used for the same purpose as permanganate potash. Use two ounces of the sulphate to one sill of water. – [St. Louis Republic] THE TABBY IN ANCIENT HISTORY The Egyptian name for the cat was chaou, or according to some Egyptologists, maon, the latter name being imitative of the animal cry. The familiar name of “puse” apparently, has also come to us from the Egyptian. The origin of the word “tabby” is, perhaps, not generally known. It is a corruption of the Turkish utabi (old French tables, Spanish tabi), a particular kind of waved silk imported from Bagdad, and so named after the locality where it was made. One of the most ancient representations of the car is to be found in the Necropolis of Thebes, which contains the tomb of King Hana, of the eleventh dynasty. A statue of the kind represents him standing erect, with his favorite cat, Bonbaki, at his feet. Plutarch, in his treatise on “Isis and Osiris” states that the image of a she cat was placed at the top of the Sitrum as an emblem of the moon; partly perhaps, because she moved about by night, but chiefly because her eyes dilate and grow large at the full of the moon, contacting again at the moon’s decline. Cats are mentioned in a Sanskrit manuscript 2,000 years old, and in Egypt their antiquity is known to be even greater, as shown by monumental drawings and the discovery of their mummified bodies in very ancient tombs. The Egyptians not only took great care of their cats while alive, but honored them when dead, going into mourning and shaving their eyebrows. It has been conjected from a painting taken from a tomb at Thebes, and now in the British museum, that the cat was taught by the ancient Egyptians to retrieve. The painting in question depicts an Egyptian fowler gliding in a flat-bottomed boat through a reed bed and throwing sticks at water fowl, apparently with as much skill as a native Australian throws the boomerang, while a cat is represented as looking up at him with a wild duck in her mouth, and another bird, apparently a water hen, under her fore feet. A St. Louis clergyman preached last Sunday night against the ballet in opera. He probably thinks, and rightly too, that old ladies should be at home in the evening. – [New Haven News] A PLEA FOR THE BIRDS – article about birds COAL-MINER’S WAGES The Pennsylvania miner has no cottage or garden, unless he lives a long distance from his work. His home is usually in a cheaply built wooden house, one of a long row just alike, with outside unpainted and inside unfinished – no cellar, no door-yard, no shade trees about them. Most of these houses have but two rooms, one up stairs and one down, the lower serving for kitchen and sitting room and, sometimes, when the family is large, for bedrooms as well. He lives in a company house on company land and pays rent for the same at varying rates, $4 to $9 per month. His rent is always taken from his wages before he is paid. He must also, as a rule, pay for the coal he burns in his house, in some localities as high as $2.75 per ton. He works in darkness. In the summer he goes into the mine just as the sun is rising and comes out just as it is setting. In winter he rarely sees daylight at all. It is often so wet in the gallery that his clothes are soaked from morning till night. Sometimes the vein is only three or four feet thick and he must work in a sitting or reclining position. He is exposed to constant danger from falling rock, fire damp, explosions, or of being buried alive. His work is hard, it is dangerous, it requires skill, and ought to be well paid. In fact, however, it is very poorly paid. The average of miner’s wages is not greater than those of the ordinary day laborer in Massachusetts. Miners who work on contract – that is, who are paid by the ton of coal mined – in the anthracite mines, earned in 1884, on an average $8.84 per week; those who worked by the day $7 per week; in the bituminous mines, $7.10 per week. Out of these scanty earnings he must buy his own tools and pay for keeping them in repair, and must also buy the oil and the wicks for his lamps and the powder or other explosives he uses. – [George A. Denison, in Worth and Wages, Holyoke, Mass] Only 20 percent of the population of Pennsylvania are farmers, and her lands were returned in 1880 at $49 per acre, and the average general produce of each farm-worker was $400. Georgia has --- percent of her population on ---- and her farming lands averaged --- per acre, and the average of farm labor is $140 per annum. RICH MEN’S SONS – article about responsibility of rich men’s sons TASTE AT HOME – article about art THE MODERN PRODIGAL’S RETURN - anecdote DARING, DIMPLED DIANAS – anecdote TRICKS OF THE “PERFESH” – anecdote PAGE 3 MISSING LINKS (can’t read) PRESIDENT’S SONS Fred grant was not the only President’s son at the Logan funeral. Away up in the gallery, with a military overcoat thrown over his shoulders, I saw General John Tyler, whose face looks as much like that of his father as Fred Grant’s does like that of the General. General Tyler was, I judge, of the same age as Fred was when his father was President, and he was spoken of in the society annals of the time as the handsomest man in Washington. Now he lives quietly here at the capital, and he has a sinecure position in the treasury department. There are a number of other descendants of presidents still living in the United States. John Tyler has a brother or two. Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert practices law in Chicago, and General Harrison’s grandson is a member of the Untied States Senate. General Garfield’s boys promise well, as do also those of President Hayes. Young Alan Arthur was here the other day, and he is a bright young fellow, having as much politeness as had his father. George Washington never had a child. Thomas Jefferson’s children were all of the other sex. James Madison left no sons to perpetuate his name, and I have never heard o Monroe’s having children. The Adams family did better, and the death of Charles Francis Adams, the son of John Quincy, recalls the fact that the brains of the family outlasted three generations, and that the fourth still exists in full intellectual vigor. Andrew Jackson died childless. Martin van Buren, had a son more brilliant than himself, who was known as Prince John van Buren, but who died before he could leave his mark upon the people of the time. Buchanan died a bachelor, being disappointed in love in early life. Harrison had a son who became a member of Congress, and I think, though I’m not sure, that Andrew Johnson’s children were all girls. – [Cleveland Leader] MAIDS IN CONSPIRACY – article about clique of girls ZEE OR ZED - anecdote THE TRAINING OF OUR DAUGHTERS The careful and judicious mother in every station of life will think seriously how she can best train her young daughters to a practical knowledge of those things which will most contribute to their future usefulness and happiness. A young girl may have a special taste or capacity which she should be encouraged to develop, but not to the exclusion of all other branches of education; and through while under the mother’s eye, perfect-ness may not be attained in any department; a wise training of the powers will tend towards a harmonious, and happy development of character and abilities in after-life. No mother, therefore, should excuse herself from giving her daughter suitable instruction in those household duties which so much affect the comfort of a family. Whatever position in life she may occupy, the knowledge thus gained, and the imperceptible influence on the character, not merely of the knowledge itself, but of the early impressions of its importance, are genuinely valuable. It is by no means necessary to keep your daughter in the kitchen half the time to accomplish those results; nor is it essential that she should be skilled on her marriage day in every kind of cookery, and be able to get up a first-class dinner on short notice. This should not be expected any more than that she should go to the blackboard, and unerringly demonstrate the forty- seventh proposition of Euclid, three or for years after she has graduated at some excellent seminary. If the elements of domestic knowledge are thoroughly mastered, and a suitable amount of practice given in important details, the intelligent girl will know how to order her household aright when the proper time comes, and to put her own hand to labor if there be occasion. Mothers who are themselves genuinely interested in the management of their own households will find but little trouble if they would avail themselves of the natural imitativeness of children. The little ones like to be useful if they see toners around them useful; they like to follow that mother about the house under pretense of helping, though often hindering her. We know a child of only six years – and there are many others in quiet homes all over the country, exhibiting similar tastes – who already bids fair to be the nicest little housekeeper in the world. Ever since she has been old enough to understand her mission – three years at least – she has been eager to do what she fancies is useful to others. She takes her tiny duster and flourishes it over the chairs and so far with positive results. After breakfast she demurely gathers up the teaspoons from the table, and thinks it very nice to wipe them on the soft cloth ate they are washed; and nothing suits her better than to make miniature pies and have them actually put upon the dinner tale; with her little broom she forestalls the servant, and sweeps down the front door step before breakfast in the morning. She puts a particular room in order every day, and quite of her won accord has assumed so much care of her father’s wardrobe, young as she is, that her mother will gradually be supplanted in that duty. Most all young girls delight to have some small household duty committed to their care; and if this disposition should be fostered, instead of being discouraged, as it often its, on the ground that they cannot do the thing as well as an older person, they would with rare exceptions, grow up with sufficient knowledge of those home matters, and interest in them, about which now-a-days there is so much complaint that young ladies know so little and care less. – [Mrs. G. Hall, in good Housekeeping] SPURIOUS FLORAL TRIBUTES I am glad to see that there is a pronouniaminet in Vienna against floral tributes to artists on the stage. Occasionally they are spontaneous, but as a rule they are gotten-up affairs. I remember being behind the scenes some years ago, when a lady, who was then (and deservedly so) a stage queen, was acting. He husband arrived with some twenty or thirty bouquets and a huge basket of flowers. The former he distributed among the door-openers, the latter he placed in the orchestra. At the end of the firs act the bouquets were thrown, but no sooner was the curtain down than they were picked up and take back to the door-openers to be thrown again at the end of the next act. When the place was over the basket of flowers was solemnly handed up from the orchestra. This same actress was once playing the part of a boy. A bouquet was thrown to her while the heroine of the piece was on the stage, and she had to hand it to the latter in accordance with stage etiquette. No sooner, however, had the curtain fallen than she asked for the bouquet. The heroine declined to give it up, and said that perhaps it had been thrown to her. “But there is a ring in it,” cried the boy. “Well,” said the heroine, “perhaps the ring, too, was for me.” In the end the boy had to explain that the bouquet and the ting were both her own, and that she told her husband to throw them to her. She had contemplated drawing the ring coram publico from the bouquet with grateful surprise. But her husband had muddled it, and thrown her the votive offering when the heroine was on the stage. – [London Truth] Church-goers in many Maine towns fifty years or more ago, both male and female, used to walk barefoot to church, carrying with them their shoes and stockings which they would put on before going into church. The Lawison Journal remarks: “A stern economy was observed by the men and women who laid the foundation of Maine’s prosperity. That is why we are obliged to go barefoot now.” WELL-KNOWN WOMEN Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has been failing in health ever since the death of her husband. Ellen Terry is never a prey to that horrible nightmare of disease, “mal do mer.” At Queen Victoria’s table there is always one servant to every two guests. Mrs. James Brown Potter kindly gives the Princess of Wales the honor of her approval by saying she is “a dignified and gracious figure.” Miss Whitacre, of Chicago, must be a great musical success, at Lucy Hooper in a late letter from Paris speaks of her voice enthusiastically. The daughter of “Grace Greenwood” (Mrs. Lippincott) was interrupted in her career as an opera singer, commenced so successfully last winter, by a severe illness. Lotta (Miss Crabtree) has a beautiful summer home at Lake Hopatooing. The house itself is an elaborated old-fashioned cottage. Alma Tadema is to paint a portrait of Many Anderson in some historical character. The mother of President Cleveland died when he was on the threshold of his prosperous career. One of the most sympathetic allies of Marie Christine, Queen Regent of Spain, is Queen Victoria. The Empress of Russia is the highest type of a bright, vivacious woman, adored by all who know her. One of Martha Washington’s letters old at auction not long since for $151. Madame Patti was offered $6,000 a night to sing in concerts in South America. Mrs. Beck, wife of the well known Senator at Washington, is the great grandniece of George Washington. The widow of General Grant is sixty years old. A daughter of the celebrated English artist, Milais, is also a niece of Mrs. Lester Wallack. THE MALADIES OF CAGED BIRDS – article about sickness of birds in cages SAD STORY OF JENNY LIND’S LATER DAYS I was speaking the other day with an elderly Swedish gentleman about the stories one hears in America of the sensation Jenny Lind created there in 1850 – of how people still told of hearing her marvelous voice in the streets outside the halls in churches in which she sang. He had known her ever since childhood, and is an intimate friend of an old gentleman still living in Stockholm who was the tenor in the old operatic companies he first belonged to away back in 1837, and who was once engaged to be married to her. He told me many curious things of her later life. She is plan and white-haired now, with a severe expression of countenance. She is very pious, and most of her talk is devoted to bemoaning the days when she was sinful enough to appear on the stage. She is intolerant toward young singers, sneering at their voices and their vocation alike, and rebukes any one who ventures to address her by the name of Jenny Lind – or even refers to the name. I was told of a case some years go, when she was visiting here in London, when her host brought to her a young Swedish soprano who had won fame and respect in Europe and America, and was proud of this opportunity of paying homage to Jenny Lind. She made the mistake of alluding to this name, and was so cruelly snubbed in consequence that Mme. Goldschmidt was never again asked to that house. – [London Letter in the New York Times] A St. Louis paper tells of a Mrs. Champagne of that city who doesn’t know her father. It’s a queer sort of champagne that doesn’t recognize it’s own pop. – [Boston Herald] IN THE OZARK REGION – article about hunting in the Ozarks NAST AND PHELPS –article about Thomas Nast A Cienfuegos, Cuba newspaper contains the particulars of the kidnapping and release of the little son of Senor Roig. The father came upon the bandits after sixteen days search. The party numbered twelve and were headed by Matogas. Senor Roig offered Matagas $2,000 if he would release the boy, but the bandit said he could not abate his original demand for $7,000, for if he did so, he argued, all other persons whom he may kidnap would insist upon the same consideration. the eleven other bandits at this juncture picked up their arms and threatened to forsake Matagas command if he did not accept the $2,000 offered and release the child. Then the chief yielded. The child says the robbers treated him kindly, and even gave him new clothes. A RICH MAN’S WHIM - anecdote Ad for Rubber Stamp Ad for Plowboy Steel Pens Ad for Globe Cotton and Corn Planter (picture) Ad for Plowboy newspaper PAGE 4 LOCAL DIRECTORY CHANCERY COURT THOMAS COBBS Chancellor JAS. M. MORTON Register CIRCUIT COURT S. H. SPROTT Circuit Judge THOS. W. COLEMAN Solicitor COUNTY OFFICERS ALEX. COBB Probate Judge R E BRADLEY Circuit Clerk S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor D. J. LACY Tax Collector B H WILKERSON Co. Supt. of Education Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALBERT WILSON CITY OFFICERS L. M. WIMBERLY – Mayor and Treasurer G. W. BENSON – Marshall Board of Aldermen – T. B. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS MIDDLETON, W A BROWN, R. W. COBB RELIGIOUS FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each month, 7 p.m. MISSIONARY BAPTIST – Pastor W. C. WOODS. Services second Sabbath in each month at 11 am. METHODIST – Pastor – G. L. HEWITT. Services fourth Sabbath in each month. 11 a.m. SABBATH SCHOOLS UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m. JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt. METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 9 o’clock a.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt. MASONIC: Vernon Lodge, No. 588, A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 p.m. each month. – T.W. SPRINGFIELD, W. M. W. L. MORTON, S. W. JNO. ROBERTSON, J. W. R. W. COBB, Treasurer, M. W. MORTON, Secretary Vernon Lodge, NO 45, I. O. G. F. Meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. each month. J. D. MCCLUCKEY, N. G. R. L. BRADLEY, V. G. E. J. MCNATT, Treas’r M. W. MORTON, Sec. MAIL DIRECTORY VERNON AND COLUMBUS - Arrives every evening and leaves ever morning except Sunday, by way of Caledonia. VERNON AND BROCKTON – Arrives and departs every Saturday by way of Jewell. VERNON AND MONTCALM – Arrives and departs every Friday. VERNON AND PIKEVILLE – Arrives and (sic) Pikeville every Tuesday and Friday by way of Moscow and Beaverton. VERNON AND KENNEDY – Arrives and departs every Wednesday and Saturday. VERNON AND ANRO – Leaves Vernon every Tuesday and Friday and returns every Wednesday and Saturday. Large profile (picture) of a man (not sure who this is – maybe the editor) LOCAL BREVITIES Prepare for the hot months. Mr. E. W. BROCK is on a business trip to Crews Mills. Mr. A. J. HAYS Jr. of Olinda gave us a call on Saturday. Nashville drummers in town earlier part of the week. Mr. JAS. A. DAVIDSON, of Detroit was in town Monday. The jovial presence of Mr. THOS. HOLT of Fayette C. H. enlivened our town earlier part of the week. There is a strong feeling existing to abolish the corporation of Vernon. We should think so! News from nearly every part of the county brings the glad tidings that crops are splendid. The colored people of this vicinity had among them first of the week, their presiding elder, of Birmingham. Singing last Sunday night at the Methodist church conducted by Messrs. R. L.B RADLY and M. F. DENMAN. The patriotic Superintendent of the Union Sabbath School, JAS MIDDLETON, Esq. from sickness was unable to fill his accustomed place on last Sabbath. Mayor WIMBERLEY informs us that he has secured options on about 2000 acres of land along the line of the Tombigbee survey. We are pleased to learn, through circuit Clerk BRADLEY, that our friend LEE METCALFE, who has been so dangerously ill in Birmingham, is convalescing. Mrs. S. J. SHIELDS, formerly of this place, has returned with the view of making Vernon her future home, much to the delight of her numerous friends. It is a given up fact that Messrs JAS MIDDLETON and S. H. JACKSON are the most fearless man in our midst – especially among bass. Dr. W. L. MORTON left on Tuesday for Vernon, Miss to accompany his lovely and accomplished daughter Miss MAGGIE home, who has been attending college there for several months past. Our tax collector, Capt. LACY, paid Montgomery a visit last week and paid into the state treasury $---. On his return he spent several days with an uncle in the Magic City. We have an order to print 100 copies of a book, in pamphlet form, of an abridgement of practical mathematics on the method of cancellation by Prof. J. R. BLACK. Pleased to note that Miss EUNICE MCLAIN who has been quite indisposed for several days, is almost well again. There will be prayer meeting conducted by Rev. G. L. HEWITT at the residence of Esquire JNO. GILLMORE’S tomorrow evening at 4 o’clock. The Rail raid has not come yet, but the low cash prices of our goods have. – GEO. W. RUSH & Co. Rev. G. L. HEWITT and Mr. GEO. W. RUSH in company with Rev. Mr. SLAUGHTER, P. E. attended quarterly meeting at Springfield church last Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. HEWLETT of Maysville, Ala., daughter of Mrs. MARY C. MCLAIN, after spending a few days in our midst with relatives and friends, leaves for home today. Flour, meat, corn, and everything we offer for sale, at bed rock prices. – GEO. W. RUSH & Co. C. BRADSHAW Esq. of Birmingham spent several hours in town yesterday. We learn that his business in this section is to lend money to such parties as will secure him with real estate. We are authorized to announce that the Teacher’s Institute will not convene in Vernon on the 24th inst, as previously published, owing to that day being the annual time of celebrations of the Masonic fraternity, and the time has been changed to the 8th and 9th of July. AN APPEAL [For the News] There is a loud call To abolish the town ordinances all – If men are allowed to curse and squall, Get drunk – burn their money all, Let his board bill grow tall, And not be fined at all As has been the case with a Wall. VEAL-EMBLANCE The following list shows the names and amount donated by each, to the Tombigbee Railroad. W. L. MORTON $500 T. B. NESMITH 500 L. M. WIMBERLEY 500 R. W. COBB 200 M. W. RUSH 200 S. J. SHIELDS 100 J. W. CLEARMAN 100 G. C. BURNS 100 R. E. BRADLEY 100 HUGH PENNINGTON 100 B. R. REED 50 TOTAL $2,450 Land: (acres) A. A. SUMMERS 350 W. B. STRICKLAND and others 200 E. W. BROCK 100 W. J. LAMPKINS 100 T. B. NESMITH 50 S. P. KEMP 50 SANDERS AND SWANZY 40 M. W. MORTON 20 TOTAL 1,130 A. J. WHEELER a valuable lot in Vernon W. B. MATTHEWS 100 timber trees ATTENTION TEACHERS OF THE SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT There will be a congressional teachers institute held at Fayette C. H., Ala., commencing June 27th and continue one week. It will be conducted by Prof. T. J. MITCHELL, president of Florence Normal College, who has no superior as an Institute worker. Free entertainment will be given to the teachers who attend. Teachers from a distance who contemplate attending should notify the county superintendent A. M. Nuckols, by the 20th of June. The teachers of Fayette County who bring stock, and who can would do well to come in vehicles of some kind and bring forage with them, as there are but few citizens prepared to take care of stock. I can furnish stall for twenty-five or thirty horses. Let all come any way. The teachers of other counties in the district are earnestly solicited to come. Newspapers of the sixth congressional district will please copy. A. M. NICKOLS Supt of Fayette County STATE ITEMS Sheffield has a new paper called The Enterprise. Not much cotton planted in Walker this year. The Knights of Labor, 8,500 strong turned out in Birmingham last Monday. The Grand Jury of Pickens examined 182 witnesses and returned 55 true bills. Decatur entertained the Alabama Press Association on their way to the Mammoth Cave. The 6th Annual Meeting of the State teacher’s Association will be held at Tuscaloosa, 4 July. Ripe peaches at Eutaw. Fine crops all over the state. Colic epidemic at Huntsville. 8 railroads pointing to Florence. Flint is moving for an iron furnace. Big improvements all over Winston. Big creamery going up at Birmingham. 4 or 5 railroads pointing to Gadsden. Lee County has $1575 in her treasury. A cigar factory will be established at Bessemer. A horse died in Eutaw last week 28 years old. The Decatur Free Lance is illustrated. Ri—ce birds are devastating the oat fields in South Alabama. New York and Chattanooga money is being invested in Gadsden. C. D. M. Young, City Marshall at Decatur, had his right arm broken the other night while trying to lock up a negro. The tax assessor of Walker Co. has made sufficient progress in posting the assessment to see that the valuation of the county’s taxable property will not fall below $2,225,000. The commencement exercises of the Southern University at Greensboro begin on the 12th. There have been 127 students in attendance this year. The Sheffield & Birmingham Coal Company organized at Sheffield. The company owns 12,000 acres of valuable coal lands in the Warrior coal fields. The Greensboro Watchman says, At the last term of the Hale County Chancery Court there were seventeen divorces granted. Of these there was one white couple divorced, and the remaining sixteen were colored individuals. Moulton expects the Meridian & Decatur R. R. to be built through Lawrence County pretty soon and the land speculators are very busy in that section of the woods. Sam Nabors, a twelve-year old boy of Birmingham, while hunting on the 13rd, fired at a bird and the ball passed through a plank fence, struck a young man on the other side killing him instantly. John A. Cambron, postmaster at the Bell factory post office, was committed to jail in default of bond by U. S. Commissioner James H. Bone last Thursday charged with violating the postal laws by opening and embezzling letters. After a through test it is said that Tuscaloosa coal makes the best quality of coke, and her fire clay makes brick that are indestructible. The body of engineer Howard Rose who was killed in the collision below Calera, was sent to this home at Cleveland, Tenn. Today in charge of two members of Brotherhood of Locomotive engineers. It is reported today that the Kansas City railway company will erect a passenger station in this city larger and finer than the union depot. A local correspondent of the Alabamian says the Wisconsin colony in Pickens County plant their cotton in the hill, and make from eight to twelve bales to the plow. He says they are highly spoken of, and wants many more such people in the county. A correspondent of the Gadsden Times writing from Seaborn says Mr. D. M. Goggans, mail rider between Attalla and Duck Spring, died suddenly at Seaborn a few days ago. He had delivered the mail and started back for Atalla, when he suddenly fell dead. The farmers of Alexander City and country thereabout will have a grand farmer’s rally and basket dinner in the beautiful grove of the Alexander City High School, on Saturday, June 18th Maj. Thos. J. Key editor of Southern Agriculturist, will deliver an agricultural address. The Messenger says Thos. Gilbert colored who lives on Mr. Herring’s plantation near Troy is 119 years old. He had had his third wife, and is the father of thirty-four children. He is in good health and was in town on Saturday last. Was born the year the Revolutionary War closed. He helped General Jackson open up the old Three Notch road. Birmingham, June 3 – Last night the dead body of a negro convict named Cash Moses was found in one of the shafts at Pratt Mines. There was a cord wrapped around his neck and he had evidently been strangled to death. It is said that suspicion attaches to two other negro convicts, but there is no other positive proof. The Coroner went out today to hold an inquest. It is said that three of the stingiest men in the state were in town Saturday. One of them will not drink as much water as he wants unless it be from another man’s well or branch. The second forbids any of his family from wiring anything but a small hand as it is a waste of ink, to make large letters. The third stops his clock at night in order to save the wear and tear on the machinery. All of them declines to take their county paper on the ground that it is a terrible strain on spectacles to read newspapers even in day time. – [Covington (Ga.) Enterprise] MAKING TOBACCO PIPES – repeat article CLIMATE OF THE ISTHMAS – repeat article NITRO-GLYCERINE A HEAT STIMULANT – repeat article THE SEINE’S WASHING BARGES – repeat article Ad for White’ Cream Vermifuge Ad for Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment VERNON CIRCUIT - FAYETTE C. H. DISTRICT M. E. CHURCH SOUTH – Appointments Vernon 11 a.m. and 7 ½ p.m. 4th Sunday Springfield Chapel 11 a.m. 1st Sunday Moscow 3 ½ p.m. 1st Sunday Lebanon 11 a.m. 2nd Sunday Newman’s Chapel 3 ½ p.m. 2nd Sunday New Hope 11 a.m. 3rd Sunday Mt. Nebo 3 ½ p.m. 3rd Sunday District Conference will embrace the 5th Sunday in July. GEO. L. HEWITT, Pastor 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. 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. Ad for Commercial College Ad for Accordeons THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL under the Principalship of J. R. GUIN, will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of Ten Scholastic months Rates of Tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Grammar, Primary Geography and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.25. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing Brief English Grammar, Elementary Geography, Elementary Arithmetic, Letter Writing and Hygiene, per month, $1.50. PRACTICAL: Embracing English Grammar, Practical Arithmetic, Complete Geography, English Composition, U. S. History and Physiology, per month, $2.00. HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Rhetoric, Elocution, Algebra, Natural Philosophy, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Hygiene, Physiology, Latin, &c, per month $2.50. Discipline will be firm. Special attention will be given to young men and women who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7.00 per month. No incidental fees. Tuition due every five months. Correspondence solicited. Address J. R. GUIN Fernbank, Ala. G. W. RUSH J. W. CLEARMAN Cheap Cash Store, Dry goods, Clothing, boots & shoes, school books, &c. Coffee, sugar, tobacco snuff crockery and tinware All at Bottom prices. Give us a call. GEO. W. RUSH & CO. 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/thelamar1357gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 47.9 Kb