Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News June 30, 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, 9:57 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History June 30, 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 30, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 34 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 Montgomery Evening----- of Wednesday says: “The --- has authoritative information that the long pending suit of the state of Alabama against ---- Wolffe, of New York, arising out of ex-State Treasurer Ike H. Vincent’s defalentions, was settled today by Messrs. Moses Brothers, bankers. The claim was paid by Messrs. Moses Bros, for Mr. Wolffe, to the State authorities. The following flags are said to be in possession of the War Department: Flag Eighteenth Alabama regiments, by Lieutenant S. F. Joslyn, Thirteenth Illinois infantry, General Osterhaus’ division, Fifteenth Army Corps, Battle of Mission Ridge, November ---, 1863. Flag of thirty-eighth Alabama infantry, at Mission Ridge, November 25, 1883, by Second Regiment Ohio volunteers, Colonel A. G. McCook. Flag of Thirty-eighth Alabama volunteers of Battle of Resaca, Mau 15, 1864, by Captain Fox, Twenty-seventh Indiana volunteers, National Standard, battle Of Resaca, May 14, 1864, by Army of the Cumberland, Flag Sixty Alabama, by B. T. Davis, Twenty-second Massachusetts Volunteers, Flag Fifth Alabama. --- - Eleventh Pennsylvania, Volunteers at Chancellorsville, Ala. May 3, 1863. Flag Sixt----Alabama, by A. Greena--- One Hundred and Fourth Ohio Volunteers. ALABAMA TOWNS The Savannah News thus speaks of Alabama towns: The real estate booms in the new Alabama towns have been succeeded by a building boom. Birmingham, Anniston, Decatur, Bessemer and other towns are improving with wonderful rapidity. Less than a year ago the site of Bessemer was a forest. Now, besides numerous dwellings, there are four immense blast furnaces, a $500,000 rolling mill and a four-story brick and stone newspaper office in course of erection. At Birmingham there are many ---- of houses under construct, and hundreds of thousands of dollars are being invested in industries of one kind and another, the same spirit of improvement is observable at Anniston and Decatur. While millions of dollars of northern capital are being invested in these towns, Southern men and Southern capital are mainly instrumental in building them up. The impression has, to some extent, been spread aboard the southern men have little share in Alabama’s industrial enterprises. It is a mistaken one. Southern energy and talent are entitled to the credit for most of them. No one of the growing new towns have a mushroom growth. They have a solid foundation, and are certain to realize all of the expectations entertained of them. It is true that in about all of them speculation has forced the prices of real estate higher than they ought to be, but prices will soon find their level, if they have not already done so. The improvements which are now being made are so great that in a comparatively short time the demand for vacant lots will be as great as it has ever been, and prices will doubtless advance again. There is every reason to think that the future of new Alabama towns will be a great one. TALKING PASTORS UP AND TALKING THEM DOWN The Religious Herald of Hartford makes a suggestion on a certain kind of pastoral support which it holds to be more important than an abundance of bank notes. The suggestion might be profitable any time, some parishes in the vicinity of Boston may find it specially timely just now. The illustration, which the Herald takes as the basis of the suggestion, is the case of Dr. James Shaw, pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church of Rochester, N. Y. After he had been settled several years, there began to be expressions of dissatisfaction with his qualities as a preacher, and many of the members were discussing the question whether it might not be best for them to get another pastor. The congregation fell off, and the state of things was becoming quite deplorable. At this junction two prominent business men who attended the church, talked over the situation, and concluded to advise the church to change its course at once. They said: “Mr. Shaw is not a great preacher, but he is a good man, and we all have confidence in him. Now, instead of talking him down, let us talk him up.” This advice was given and acted on. A marked change was soon apparent. The congregation rapidly increased, and the church prospered. Dr. Shaw has been the pastor 47 years and is still active and influential, and the church has a membership of 1,500. The story carries its own moral with it. If more churches adopted the practice of talking their pastor up, instead of talking them down, there would be fewer instances of pastoral relations hastily and unwisely severed. FAMILY GOVERNMENT Family government though wise and good and every way in all respect of its author, the family arrangement along, would fail of accomplishing its high and momentous purpose. Of the family, therefore, as well as of individual man, it may be said, it was not good that it should be alone. Of its self it would not accomplish the end for which it was established, b the raising up of a good seed; therefore in the prosecution of his plan of mercy, God has a help meet for the family and gave it to the race that under its influence men might be fitted for the purpose for which they were made, which is to know God their creator, redeemer and sanctifier, and convey that knowledge to others, that they may be prepared for His service on earth and his presence in the future. That “help meet’ is the Sabbath. “I gave them my Sabbath to be a sign between men and them that they might know that I am Jehovah that doth sanctify them.’ Hence the Sabbath must be observed strictly, or children will fail of its benefits, and family governments prove a failure. The command is “Hallow” (that is keep, observe in a sacred manner) my Sabbath, and they shall be a sigh between men and you, that you may know that I am Jehovah your God. Children that are taught from their earliest childhood to keep, observe in a sacred manner the Sabbath, in connection with other duties heretofore mentioned, will become familiar with those truths, that are not only able, but will make them wise unto salvation’ like the boy of the Bible whose grandmother and mother taught him the scriptures when young which led to him being a good and great man. But let men work seven days in a week, or be employed continuously in worldly business and cares from month to month, and from year to year, and they will remain ignorant of God, their Savior, and destitute of that holiness without which they cannot enjoy Him. Their children will not be government, or instructed, according to His will; now will they be trained up in the way they should go. Give them the Bible, and they won’t read it. Preach the gospel to them but they won’t hear it. Circulate religious literature among them, and it will be neglected, should any or all of these fail to impress so as to lead to the keeping of the Sabbath, there would be no good fruit. The good word of the Kingdom would be as of water failing upon the rock and making no impression; would be as seed sown by the wayside, which the fowls of the air pickup; or among thorns, which spring up and choke it; or on stony places where it has not depth of earth, and where it will wither away. Diligence in useful, appropriate business six days in the week is a duty, and, next to religion is the great safe guard of man; especially in youth. Yet if against the known will of God, it is continued seven days in the week for the purpose of making money, it will notwithstanding all the means of grace, drown men in perdition. Or if they stop business on the Sabbath only to spend the day in idleness and sloth, in traveling, amusements, dissipation and wickedness, this will work out damnation, such will live worldly-minded and worldly-minded they will die. Hence the command,” May Sabbath ye shall keep; for it is a sign between men and you, throughout your generations, that ye many know that I am Jehovah that doth sanctify you. Ye shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy unto you.” “Six days may work be done, but on the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord.” For in six days the lord made haven and earth, and on the seventh He rested and was refreshed” It is to the interest of mankind, physically and morally, to keep the Sabbath. God has made man and beast with a nature that can’t be employed continuously seven days in the week to advantage. By so doing, health will be injured and life shortened. LOVER OF CHILDREN Ad for Arbuckles Coffee Wrappers 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 Jones Pays the Freight 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 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 REV. DR. TALMAGE – The Brooklyn’s Divines’ Sunday Sermon – Subject: “The Tempest” A QUEEN’S ROMANCE – How a Fall Down Stairs Brought a Throne and Crown Among the presents which Emperor William received on his birthday one of the most remarkable was a poem of the Queen of Roumania. In a hundred short verses Carman Sylva had described the chief incidents of the old soldier’s lifetime. She had, moreover, coped it out herself in her own hand on white parchment, beautifully ornamented with cornflowers. The career of this lady, who is as perfect a scholar as she is true a queen and tender a woman, is deeply interesting as sketched by an authority. By birth Elizabeth of Roumania is a princess of the house of Wied, and her father, a man of high ability and careful culture, gave her an education at once deeper and freer than that which usually the portion of the children of royalty. The death of a young brother clouded her childhood, and to dissipate the gloom, she was sent to her aunt, the Grand Duchess Helena, of Russia. From the quiet studies of the castle of Neuwied, she was thus suddenly transported to one of the fist salcus of the brilliant court of Russia. The summons home came with her father’s illness, and the “Wild Rosebud of Wied” restored to her native heath, watched in his sick room and long mourned his death. When there was no kingdom of Roumania in existence she had laughingly said; “I don ot want to marry unless I can be the Queen of Roumania,’ and as so often happens the careless thoughts of youth found their accomplishment. Running down the palace stairs at Berlin one day her foot skipped and she would probably have been killed but for Prince Charles of Hohensollern, who saw her danger and caught her in his outstretched arms. When Roumania chose him for ruler he claimed the princess as his bride. During the Russia-Turkish war she wore the uniform of the Red Cross, and as a nurse helped to soften and assuage the sufferings which war inevitably brings in its train. At the close of the struggle Pleyna had given a royal throne to the Prince and Princess, and their crowns were made cut of cannon captured from the enemy. The love and admiration of her subjects she has always had, and their sympathy also when the loss of an only daughter brought desolation to her new home. She has sought consolation in duty, in earnest endeavor for the good of Roumania and in those studies which inheritance and education alike have made dear to her. HE WAS BURIED ALIVE A horrible case of trance has occurred at Ndesia, in Russia, and, owing to the position of the person, has caused considerable sensation. Major Majuruff, an artillery officer and Aide-de-Comp to the Governor-General of Odessa, aged 35, died, as was supposed, three weeks ago, somewhat suddenly, and was interred forty hours afterward. His funeral was marked by much military pomp and by the presence of all the civic and military notables. A few days ago, while the family vault in the necropolis was being removed for the Russian Fete des Morts, the coffin lid was noticed to have been partly forced open. It was immediately removed, and the body was found face downward. The face was dreadfully lacerated, and the flesh gnawed from the hands. The corpse was still bleeding, which confirms the statement of a workman that his attention was first attracted by a noise in the coffin, and the unfortunate Major died only on the instant of the appalling discovery. THE LATEST CAT STORY Here is a cat story which certainly is not outdone in the evidence of intelligence it affords by any dog story that has been told of late, and can be vouched for. Mistress Puss lives in a family as its best beloved pet and has much careful attention. Each year when the family goes into the country of course Mistress Puss goes too, and thus she has become used to traveling and its discomforts. She has become used also to the various signs of approaching migration and knows what it means when the carpets come up and trunks are packed. This particular season Mistress Puss, being the happy mother of a prosing kitten, was very anxious and nervous as the time for flitting drew near, and at least become so troubled that she attracted the attention of the family by her peculiar behavior. On the following day they found the cause. She had packed her little one into a partially filled trunk lest it should be overlooked in the moving. – [Boston Post] FORTUNES IN INVENTIONS – Men who Hope to Become Rich By Inventing Something The Feverish Dream of An Inventor – A Scene In a Division of the Patent Office IT IS WELL TO REMEMBER That anxiety is easier to bear than sorrow. That talent is sometimes hid in napkins, audacity never. That good brains are often kept in a poor looking vessel. That an insect has feeling and an atom a shadow. That most brilliant roses bloom among the sharpest thorns. That the time to bury a hatchet is before blood is found upon it. That no man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. That mistakes are often bought at a big price and sold at a small one. That leisure is a very pleasant garment, but a bad one for constant wear. That the best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new ones. That if it were not for emergencies, but little progress would be made in the world. That it is often better to go a good ways round than to take a short cut across lets. That the statement so often made in print that “rest makes rust” is the veriest rot. That the lightest of labors are a burden to those who have no motive for performing them. That men often preach from the house tops while the devil is crawling into the basement window. That contentment is a good thing until it reaches the point where it sits in the shade and lets the weeds grow. That tears shed upon a coffin will not blot out the stains that may have been cast in life upon the stilled heart within it. That many a man sets up a carriage only to find less of enjoyment in it than he has had in holding the ribbons from his “one hoss shay.” That if we would do more for others while we may we should have less regrets, when too late that one had not been done when “it might have been.” – [Good Housekeeping] THE SEA SERPENT The history of this animal, whether real or imaginary, is certainly interesting. It was often seen, it is said, on the coasts of Norway and New England. the waters in those localities appear to be its favorite resorts. According to reports it was seen everyday for a month in the former region in 1819, lying on top of the water, apparently doing in the sun. It was subsequently observed near the same place in 1822, and 1827. Its appearances in American waters were in 1815, 1817, 1819, 1833, 1835, 1848, and many times in recent years. The length of the creature, as given in the reports of persons who said they saw it, varies from seventy feet to a figure several times greater. Pontoppidian, in his “Natural History of Norway” assigns it a length of 600 feet. Other authorities make it even longer than this. It is said to have a slender, snakelike appearance, with a head the size of a horse, and a long and narrow neck. Some persons declare it has fins. Nearly the whole of the body, as well as the tail, was upon the surface of the water usually when seen, and it swam with an undulating motion, the head being kept erect and from a dozen to twenty-feet out of the water. Naturalists are divided in opinion as to whether the sea serpent is mythical or real. Many of the most eminent and conservative, however, are inclined to believe that such a creature exists. – [Glove Democrat] THE COST OF ROYALITY The Austrian imperial family is tolerably well off, having a revenue of £920,000. The British royal family comes next, with a cost to the country of £900,000. Italy pays her royal family £660,000 which is a very large sum in proportion to the means of the country. Spain disburses on the same account £400,000. Belgium pays £133,500 a year to her king, and he is cheap at that; while Portugal pays £127,000. Monarchy costs Sweden and Norway £117,500 annually; Denmark £62,000; Holland £63,000; Greece £42,000, and Roumania £40,000. Germany supports twenty-two royals, princely and ducal families, and the direct cost of their maintenance is £3,500,000. Turkey comes next to Germany in its loyal expenditures, the total amount absorbed by the Sultan and his family being about £3,200,000. The imperial family of Russia costs that country £2,450,000 which amount probably does not include the Czar’s life insurance policy. A DECIDED BLONDE – joke FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS The mainspring of a Waterbury --- is twenty-four feet long. The spring for an ordinary watch is twenty-six inches. Over 7,000 houses are owned in New York City by the Astor family, who--- a large number of architects considerably busy. In Mexico some of the doctors --- lamps burning in front of their houses every night to let people know that --- will answer night calls. In boring an artesian well at ----, they found charred wood at --- feet, and pieces fo shell and parts of --- skeleton of a bird at 580 feet. The first four successors of ---- Abubecker, Omar, Othman and – chief agents in establishing his --- and extirpating unbelievers, all --- violent deaths, and his family was --- extirpated within thirty years of disease. Morris Diamond, a New York --- keeper, has written seven poems – 3,120 words, on a single postal stamp. It took him nine hours to do it, wiring is legible, particularly with the aid of a magnifying glass. Once Mr. Diamond get about 1,000 words in the same space. The --- must be about eh size of “--- type.” Cocoanut growers say that each --- a grove produces one nut a day, -- in one year. Owing to the great demand of the trees it is impossible to --- nuts, and they are allowed to --- they fall. The natives gather then and carry them to the husking --- where the nuts are stripped of the – outside shells. A nut is most --- just after it has dropped from the tree. Some one has taken the time and trouble to figure out the various – of coins that might be used in changing a quarter, and places – 215. The pieces used in making ---- changes are the 20-cent piece, ------- piece, and 1-cent piece. To be --- all the changes would require 20-cent piece and twenty-five ----- pieces, in all fifty-three pieces of -------- representing $1.58. Tunnage and poundage were --- duties levied on every tun of ---- pound of other goods, imported --- exported, and were the origin of “customs.” They commenced in --- land about 1346, and were granted --- kings for life, beginning with ---- IV. Charles I gave great offe--- levying them on his own authority. They were granted to Charles II --- lifetime, June 24, 1660. Bu the time of George III, Chapter 13, these --- duties were repealed , 1787, and --- arrangement of excise and customs were introduced. STRANGE RELIGION OF THE WILD KURDS Not far from Mosul in Mesopotamia there are a few Kurdish villages --- one finds neither mosque nor --- synagogue nor medrash, church, nor ---- house. Moslems – saying --- sional government official are seen there, travelers not al all, ordinarily, there is nothing in the ----ance of these places of the people --- tract the attention of wayfarers – from the white dresses of the women and the vests of the men. But --- in the year the village assumes a holiday aspect in reapportion of a small ceremony annually enacted there. The houses are plentifully decked with lands of yellow flowers, and the --- take y positions outside – the --- spotless gowns, the men with a --- black cord around the necks. – the procession of some thirty persons – from the residence of the “pior” or – and beings slowly to premablus--- village. In front march half a --- weird-looking personages in long – robes and strange black headgear --- come half a score “kawals” in --- mantels… (can’t read the rest of article)….. PAGE 3 SKIN OF THE ELEPHANT – Demand for Ivory Will Result in his Extinction NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN Striped cotton frise cloths are very stylish White corduroy will furnish material for some handsome suits. Aigrettes for the hair consists of a tuft of ostrich plumes in one or two shades. “American silks are cheap and good and pretty,” says Mrs. John Sherwood. Minatare portraits on ivory are now in great demand among people of plethoric pocketbooks. It is figured out that Pairs has over 400,000 unmarried women between the ages of fifteen and forty. Moire antique is a favorite fabric for dull dress occasions, just at present, and Paris is sending exquisite toilets of this fabric in most artistic colorings. Mlle. Maria Deraismes is said to be the only Freemason in France. She is a good speaker, a terse writer, and a strong advocate of suffrage for women. A club of girls in Dorsetshire, England, are under vows to make their own clothes and never allow a servant to make their beds or dust their drawing rooms. Wraps for summer wear are rich in jets, but have open work shoulder pieces, sometimes of beaded grenadine or lace covered with pendants of cut beads. Pearl tulle is a very delicate fabric for a youthful bride’s costume. It is finely dotted with small beads or pendants, and is certainly becoming and appropriate. Wattreau designs on enamel, which was for so long a favorite jewel in France, are again being reproduced for new jewelry, and are set in either pearls or brilliants. Fancy ribbons are in demand for children’s hats. White with a sprinkling of tiny rose buds or forget-me-nots is a very charming new ribbon for children’s wear. The polonaise, always so graceful and becoming, is again one of the most stylish modes, and is seen is some of the most stylish and elegant costumes imported. Very charming are the boas of ostrich feathers which Parisian ladies are wearing just at this season. They are in any neutral color and make a most becoming setting for the face. Shirred and belted round waists, similar to those in vogue a generation ago, are a feature of many costumes of this material. They are fuller than the old time waists, however. The popular sun-shade must have at least two colors to be anyway stylish; but if last years must do service this season, deck it out in colored bows on the top and on the handle. The newest white wool dresses for young girls are made with a Gretchen guimpe of embroidery or lace, with a full skirt, either plain or with bands of velvet to simulate stripes. Blue and reds are still the favorite combination for seaside costumes, although the interweaving of blue and white makes a very cool and durable costume for seashore war. Braided garments are very stylish and are imported largely. The whole costume in braided pattern sets are elegant. Costumes of these have a finish of pickling in large scallops on pointes. Gauze crowns with fancy straw brims are very stylish in the summer bonnets. The crowns are shirred into the top, and spangles, beads, and straw ornaments are used to make a gay and bright effect. The silk jersey is a very serviceable garment for summer wear, and will continue to be stylish. The latest novelty in this garment is the embroidery of beading forming the border and collar and cuffs. The princess is still the most graceful model for a comfortable house dress. It is equally appropriate for rich or inexpensive goods, and may have a very simple of a dressy effect, according to the garniture used. Scarf mantles are much favored for dressy wear. They are usually made of repped silks or beaded fabrics, and trimmed with festooned ropes of beads and long fringes which fall the whole length of the garment. In the new fancy woolen materials, small white patterns frequently occur. In some fabrics irregular white stripes form a sort of check pattern, in others large white dos are scattered over plain or striped colored ground. Jackets made of rich camel’s hair stuffs, with revers thrown back similar to those on a man’s coat, and covered with gold gallon or braiding, and with a vest of gold-braided wool or some rich material, are worn as wraps with some very dressy toilets. A pretty fashion in light-weight fabrics, such as lawn or Swiss muslin, is to stripe the petticoat with ribbon velvet or watered ribbon. The sash is of the same with ribbon, perhaps a finger wide, tied in a full bow, with half a dozen loops and ends at the right side. All-gold jewelry is fashionable; all silver jewelry is fashionable; enameled jewelry is fashionable; so is that showing an elaborately carved finish; pierced work is fashionable; so is gold-wire decoration; there is a demand for ornaments of Roman gold and an equally active one for those of bright finish. Mrs. Jenness Miller, of dress-reform fame, says that out of forty or fifty fashionable women in a Turkish bath-room she did not see a perfectly shaped figure. Some had small waists, others had cramped, pinched feet, and the majority were suffering from the torturing practice of tight lacing. A charming fancy is seen in some pattern costumes of bastiste. The trimming is an embroidery in silk floss in color or white. Wide flouncing and a narrow band for wait trimming constitute all the garniture. Ten yards of plain fabric make the plain drapery and the waist, which is shirred in surplice fashion. FARM AND GARDEN NOTICEABLE EFFECTS OF PHOSPHATES Where some strips through a grain field are left unfertilized with phosphate or other concentrated manure, they often appear as if actually stunted by the larger growth on either side. This is often probably the fact. The fertilizer is in close contact with the seed gives it such a vigorous start that its root encroach on the unmanured soil from which they drain part of the too scanty supply. The small amounts of these concentrated fertilizers used show that it does not need a great quality of manure to give a crop a good send-off when it is applied in contact with the seed. The same amount of fertilizers spread over the entire surface would make much less a show, though before the season was over the roots might and probably would reach most of it. – [American Cultivator] KEEPING THE FLOWER GARDEN A small garden with few well-chosen well-grown flowering pants, if kept in scrupulous order and neatness, will be far more gratifying to its owner and to his friends, than a large collection of plants without order, arrangement or neatness. Of course, there is a choice in plants, and a garden of the common flowers, well kept, is far more creditable than a jungle of expensive novelties, left to care for themselves. “Good keeping”: in the house. Both depend upon hundreds of small things, easily done if attended to at the right time. In a large garden a special tool house will be found most useful, but in a small one a place for the tools must be found in some other building. The wall of a woodshed or of a barn, or a suitable, large cupboard-like structure, built against a board fence or a building may be made – indeed, any place that will hold the tools. It is far more important that the tools are brought back to their places after using, than that their places should be showy. In every garden, even a very small one, there occur various materials, collectively known as “rubbish” which must be disposed of. It is a mistake to have a rubbish heap in some corner, and throw all the refuse matter from the garden upon it. There should be a t least three places of deposit for the different kinds of rubbish, if the premises are large enough, otherwise it must be removed altogether. – [American Agricultural] REARING CALVES Excellent calves may be reared upon skimmed milk, notwithstanding the belief that calves need cream. Fat is not required for a growing animal, but bone and muscle and a large, well developed frame. This is especially the case with cows, and the bony, thin Jersey cows reared upon skimmed milk have surpassed immeasurable the Short-horns, fed and pampered upon the whole milk of two foster dams besides their own. To rear a good calf one may follow this method, viz: Remove it from the dam as soon as it is on its legs and before it has sucked to some place where it is out of sight and hearing of the cow. Teach it to drink from the pail the freshly drawn milk until the fifth morning, after which time it gets a mess of skimmed milk warmed to eighty degrees. If the kind-hearted mistress thinks this is “hard line’ for the poor young thing, add some new milk to it and gradually reduce this until in a few days the whole meal is skimmed milk. Do not be misled into giving oatmeal or anything else in the milk, for this mistaken kindness will most probably cause a severe fit of spasmodic colic and painful diarrhea Give nothing but milk warmed to eighty degrees until the calf is a month old, and then teach it to lick a little fine oatmeal and wheat bran; gradually increase this additional food until in two months four ounces a day is given with eight quarts of milk. Carefully avoid over-feeing, which induces diarrhea and stunts the calf. A cow thus reared has given eight and one-half pounds of butter the first week of milking at twenty months old, and has increased up to fourteen pounds weekly at five years. – [New York Times] BEST SOIL FOR FRUITS The apple thrives in many soils, but best in wet, moist, well-drained loam. The pear, plum, and quince require heavier soil, but it should be free from standing water. The cherry delights in a light sandy loam. The peach can only be successfully grown in New England upon high, hill-drained lands. Grapevines give the best fruit when planted upon high gravelly soil, especially when some nitrogenous manure is applied early in the season. The raspberry and blackberry mature their wood better upon light land than upon heavy, moist soil but like the grape, require the addition of nitrogenous nature to secure growth of cones sufficient to mature a large crop of fruit. The currant and gooseberry require a moist, heavy soil for the best results, but are liable to be thrown out by the ---- if the soil is not well under drained. The best soil for the strawberry is a moist sandy loan. Upon light sand soil there is a tendency to the production of a large number of berries, but there not being moisture enough in the soil very few will mature. For small fruits it is generally best to apply the manure or fertilizers broadcast and harrow in, as may also be done for the large fruits if the land is to be cultivated with some other crop for a few years. If trees are to be planted inland not cultivated for other crops, the manure or fertilizer would be more economically applied only about trees, increasing the area covered as they increase in size. Unfermented manure should never be placed in contact with the roots of any tree or plant, but if decomposed and well mixed with soil no injury will result from the use of a limited quantity. The best way to use coarse mature is to apply it to the surface about the trees, slightly covered with soil. The quantity to be used must be varied with the condition of the soil, but should be used sparingly upon the peach until it begins bearing. Perhaps the best material to use where the soil is not sufficiently rich for the production of fruit is fine-ground bone and potash, four parts of the former to one part of muriate of potash. This is at the rate of one pound to the tree, mixed in the fine soil used around the roots, and one pound applied near the surface will insure a good growth unless the soil is unusually poor. The holes should be dug a little larger than the roots will extend and loosened a little deeper than they are to be planted. – [New York World] FARM AND GARDEN NOTES Pekin ducks are decided to be the most profitable bird of the duck tribe that can be raised. Experiments show that the native thick-skinned grapes are better winter keepers than our improved varieties. Do not use fertilizers too lavishly on potted plants. A small quantity applied frequently is better than a full allowance at one time. Most kinds of trees raised from seed need some protection from the sun and wind during the first and second years of their growth. The manure heap is called the farmer’s best savings bank, into which all small amounts of material may be converted into valuable deposits. Fruit trees should not be pruned, says Ben Perely Poor, when the sap will keep the saw wet, unless the wounds are covered with a solution of green shellac dissolved in alcohol. Team help is too valuable at seeding time to stop the team and take a man’s time for a day to draw a load of phosphate which might just as well be drawn before the busy season opens. Farmers who use phosphates should make an estimate of the amount they need or can afford, and draw it early, so as to have ready when needed. If kept dry it will not deteriorate, but rather improve by keeping over one year. It is a pleasure to some to train certain kinds of bushes into standards, so they may form miniature trees, the currant or gooseberry so trained or grafted is a curiosity. In this case it is a very easy thing to graft both kinds of fruit on the same stock. The wisteria is a curiosity trained into a standard, so it the bittersweet. Fortune’s Forsythia is naturally a shrub that suckers a great deal. It is nevertheless one of the few shrubs that is improved by being trained as a standard. Variations in the composition of milk are dependent also upon age and bodily health. Professor Willard calls attention to the fact that other things being equal, young cows yield a milk more rich in solids that do old cows, a view not adopted by all American dairymen, some of whom believe that an old cow’s milk is as good if not better than a young one’s. English dairymen agree with Professor Willard and generally observe the rule of turning off their milk cows at from seven to eight years of age. Sow lawns grass seed as soon as possible. If one has only small patches to cover, rake the soil to a perfect level and sow the seed as evenly as may be. Then rake again, sow again and rake again. The object is to secure a full even stand. We regard blue grass and red top as the best varieties to sow. Many advise that a small proportion of timothy seed by added for the reason that it sprouts before the others and therefore covers the bare spots earlier. Three bushels of seed to the acre of either blue grass or red top are little enough. E. W. Stewart estimates that one hundred pounds of meal are about equal in feeding value to four hundred pounds of potatoes. Thus at one cent a pound for the meal the four hundred pounds of potatoes would be worth one dollar, or fifteen cents per bushel. Potatoes should not be fed raw in large quantities to stock. They contain a large proportion of starch which must be acted upon by heat to insure complete digestion. Three or four quarts of raw potatoes may be fed daily to stock with good results, but when large quantities are to be fed they should be steamed or cooked. All kinds of stock need salt, but it is especially necessary for milk cows, and it is important that it be given regularly. If left where they can get it under shelter, they will only eat what they need, a little almost daily to supply the small percentage of salt found in milk. As long as a calf gets milk as even part of its diet, it has no craving for salt, and probably does not need any. Regularity in salting cows increases the flow of milk, but if obliged to eat more than they need by having salt mixed with food, there will be at first an increase in milk production follows quickly by a decrease and often serious injury to the cow. By most Northern people the sweet potato is eaten only sparingly, and as it has to be bought often at a high price, it is regarded as a rather expensive luxury. But it is very easily grown, and with equal care and culture will out yield the common potato, especially on poor ground. Its rampant vines choke down weeds, making little culture necessary. In some of the Southern states the sweet potato is planted for stock feed for pigs which, when the crop is ripe, are turned in and do their own harvesting. The sweet they contain is very fattening, but it does not make very solid pork. The vines of potatoes are greedily eaten by cows, and have none of the poisonous qualities of our common potato, which is of a family containing many poisonous plants. HIS FIRST MONEY – Mayor Hewitt was asked the other day how he earned his first money. He said that he got it by reading to a rich man some three or four hours a day for a year. He did not get the appointment by influence, but by competitive examination. The man came to the school and heard the boys read and made his selection of Hewitt as the best reader. He was then but sixteen years of age. For his year’s reading he received the munificent compensation of $15. Ten dollars of this sum was used to buy his student’s gown, and the other five was kept by his mother for incidental expenses. During his college years Mr. Hewitt worked about seventeen hours a day, engaged in teaching or coaching other students. At the close of this collegiate career, he had saved about $1,000. With this he went on a European tour, and on his return he had $3 of it remaining. – [New York Sun] DECEIVED IN HER FEELINGS – joke NEWS FOR THE ASTORS – Anecdote – written in dialect A MISTAKE THAT SHE REMEMBERED - joke Ad for St. Jacob’s Oil Ad for Latin Vulgate Ad for Huckleberry Cordial Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ad for Harter’s Iron Tonic Ad for Hostettler’s Stomach Bitters Ad for Scott’s Emulation of Cod Liver Oil AD for Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Ad for Little Rock, Ark. real estate Ad for The Strongest man in Ohio Ad for Dr. H. Green and Sons – Dropsy Ad for Marvelous memory Ad for J. P. Stevens & Bro. Jewelers, Atlanta, Ga. Ad for Tapeworm cured Ad for Opium habit cured Ad for Dr. Williams Indian Pile Ointment Ad for opium and whisky habits cured PAGE 4 LOCAL DIRECTORY CHANCERY COURT THOMAS COBBS Chancellor JAS. M. MORTON Register CIRCUIT COURT S. H. SPROTT Circuit Judge A. G. SMITH 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. MCCLUSKEY, N. G. R. L. BRADLEY, V. G. E. J. MCNATT, Treas’r M. W. MORTON, Sec. MAIL DIRECTORY VERNON AND COLUMBUS - Arrives every evening and leaves ever morning except Sunday, by way of Caledonia. VERNON AND BROCKTON – Arrives and departs every Saturday by way of Jewell. VERNON AND MONTCALM – Arrives and departs every Friday. VERNON AND PIKEVILLE – Arrives and (sic) Pikeville every Tuesday and Friday by way of Moscow and Beaverton. VERNON AND KENNEDY – Arrives and departs every Wednesday and Saturday. VERNON AND ANRO – Leaves Vernon every Tuesday and Friday and returns every Wednesday and Saturday. LOCAL BREVITIES Vegetables are plentiful. The fruit crop is almost a failure. The watermelon crop is promising. “Frying chickens” are slowly ripening. Don’t eat too many beans and Irish potatoes. A nice rain fell at this place on yesterday. Horse-back riding is very popular to our town. Better times are anticipated by our people next fall. There is a subscription being made to paint the Methodist Church. The Masonic Celebration at Fernbank on the 24th inst. was a success. Mrs. NANNIE DENMAN was are sorry to state is still sick. Sociable at Dr. W. L. MORTON’S residence on Saturday night last. Dr. W. A. BROWN was in town first of the week. Our young friend JACK YOUNG was in town on Sunday last. Mr. EDDIE MORTON is having an addition made to his dwelling. Mrs. ADDIE RUSH has been quite sick for a few days. Hope she may soon be well. In today’s News will be found a communication from Kully Chaba, Ind. Ty. Mrs. MOLLIE YOUNG joined the Methodist Church at this place on last Sunday. The showers for the past few days will be quite beneficial to all kinds of vegetation. If you find salt in ye small boys trousers pocket, remember green apples are in the land. Mr. and Mrs. JAS. P. YOUNG was the guest of their son W. A. YOUNG, Esq. first of the week. Services at the Methodist Church on last Sabbath was well attended notwithstanding the heat and dust. Mrs. T. L. CREW of near Moscow, accompanied by her son JOE and Misses ELLA and VIRGIE made a visit to her daughters Mrs. W. A. YOUNG and Mr. E. W. BROCK of this place on Saturday and Sunday. Some of the parties who donated money to the railroad have by mutual consent changed their donations to land. The ceiling of the M. E. Church is nearly completion under the workmanship of Mr. J. P. MORTON. An interesting communication from Warwick came too late for publication in this issue. Mr. and Mrs. N. F. MORTON applied for letters of dismission from the M. E. Church of this place on last Sabbath. Little DAVID MARTIN infant son of Mr. and Mrs. GEO. W. RUSH was baptized by Rev. G. L. HEWITT last Sunday. Dr. EMMET MORTON one of Lamar’s model young men made a few days visit to his old home and friends leaving on Monday morning last. While here he honored the News with a pleasant call. Two Frenchmen were in town yesterday with a bugle and a large bear. The bear made many performances, and last of all climbed the large oak just in front of the courthouse. They received $3 for their music and performance, and will exhibit again this morning. The following is the building committee for the Baptist Church at this place, Messrs. S. F. PENINGTON, Chairman, W. G. MIDDLETON, Treasurer, J. D. MCCLUSKEY and E. W. BROCK. The subscription at present, reaches about $300 in money, work and building material. FOR THE NEWS If corn that is used in making whiskey is given to hogs, bacon would not cost half as much as it does. Think of this ye Alabama farmers who buy your bacon, and vote to prohibit the use of hog food for making whiskey. Our better half on reading the above over our shoulder asked the question, “if more hogs are produced ought not bacon to be cheaper?” and when we assent, asks, “well, don’t whiskey make hogs?” we -----. Observer. Ad for White’ Cream Vermifuge STATE ITEMS Union Springs has been paying $3 per bushel for peaches. A beautiful wire fence manufactory is to be put up at Decatur. A hen recently died in Russellville at the ripe old age of 13 years. Big demand for Irish potatoes at Birmingham at $3 per bushel. Elder J. A. Carlyle is holding a religious meeting in a tent at Huntsville. 3 more big industries, employing 100 men planted at Decatur last week. The headless body of George Floyd was recently found in the woods near Grove Hill. J. L. Powell, ex-probate judge of Butler County, is behind with the state about $6,900. It is hinted that low tariff Morgan and high tariff Randall will stump Alabama on that issue. Mrs. Walter Legge, while under the influence of whiskey, committed suicide at Birmingham a few days since. The Montgomery Advertiser says that everything and everybody in Alabama is on a boom except the farmer that plants all cotton. A brutal negro at Birmingham recently cut one of this wife’s ears off, pulled one eye out, shot her in the right side, and then stabbed her in the face and neck. As might have been expected, a movement is on foot to have Prof. Connerill, Superintendent of the Huntsville Colored Normal School removed. His attempt to force social equality on the railroads will cost him the good position he held. Tuscumbia is talking about establishing a free school system. The only question is the way seems to be the method of raising funds for its support. Green Harrington, the negro that murdered the Littlejohn family near Clanton some time ago for money has been caught and burned at the stake. Tuskaloosa, June 24 – The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, after a session of six days, adjourned this afternoon. They have made a thorough investigation into the affairs of the university and have adopted many wholesome measures. They have abolished tuition fees, and in addition to the appropriation for water works and steam laundry have provided for the erection of two new houses for professors and anew chemical laboratory. No changes have been made in the faculty of the institution. Gov. Seay and the other member so the board will leave on the night train. MY LITTLE SISTER – continued short story from last issue FROM INDIAN TERRITORY Kully Chana, June 10, 1887 Editor Lamar News Dear Sir: We would not like to worry you with our badly written letter, but since there is considerable excitement among the Indians of the five civilized tribes of the question of making allotment of their land of 160 acres each and selling the remainder to the government of the U. S. Some are highly in favor of doing it and some oppose it. The General Commissioner Atkins says that he will not take action against an alleged intruder in any of the nations without giving them a hearing for themselves and if they are found to be intruders then he says they must have pay for their improvement and recommends that the property or improvements be appraised and then that it be sold to a citizen and the nation pay the intruder the appraise price out of its treasure. The authorities of the several nations says that it would drain their treasure of all its contents and really they argue that it would never have so much and they also say that there would be nothing to hinder the same parties from going and making another settlement and then if they should be ordered out they must be paid for all word done so they are rather scared over the matter and it is highly probable that the Nation will be opened for actual settlement which would be a blessing to the Indians as well as to the many poor white men who are here on account of being crowded out of the states for want of means to buy land. Respectfully P. R. WILEMAN The News will be sent to any address for one year for $1 payable next fall. Parties wishing to buy good Steam Mills or Gins or any make of scale or any piece of the above named. I am prepared to take all orders at the lowest prices and on easy terms, repairing gins a specialty. Thanks for past favors. Respectfully W. R. MCMANUS Ad for Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment 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 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 Empire News 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 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 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/thelamar1360gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 56.4 Kb