Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News July 14, 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, 10:06 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History July 14, 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, JULY 14, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 36 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 PEAS ARE OUT.” After nearly four years sojourn with the good people of Lamar, honestly and zealously engaged in the promotion of your interest to the best of our ability, we retract what we have aforesaid; this county cannot support two papers as they should be. “The peas” have all been ___ and therefore we have procured a more lucrative locality elsewhere. Wheresoever our lot may be __ we shall ever hold in high appreciation the support of __ the NEWS by the good citizens of the grand county of Lamar, and our wish shall be their future advancement and prosperity. In conclusion, we will say to the few who have paid in advance for the NEWS and whose time has not expired for them, we will refund the money __ fill out the unexpired substitution with “The Weekly ___” to be published at Pratt Mines, which will contain one more weekly communication from Lamar. Texas is stirred up from the ___ to the circumference on the question of prohibition. The matter is discussed everywhere, and orators for and against the measure are stumping the State. The business of the whole country is in a flourishing condition, and according to the Manufacturer’s Record the South has made more progress within the last six months than at any time heretofore. Alabama takes the lead in the establishment of all kinds of industries. While in Washington City, Secretary Lamar presented CAPT JMS. H. BANKHEAD, of this place, with a splendid picture of himself to be presented to Lamar County. It is well known that this county was named for him on the suggestion of Capt BANKHEAD, when he was a member of the legislature. – [Fayette Journal] A remarkable drinking contest took place in a saloon in Carson, Nev. recently; remarkable because the liquor was water. The wager was $20, and the man who won it drank seven large glasses of water, and was none the worse for it. The other fellow drank nine glasses and became ill. A few days ago the police in Washington took into custody Benedict Krebs, a crank who was under the impression that the President has defrauded him of a vast sum of money, and who has been threatening to kill President Cleveland with a shotgun when he attends church. Krebs was held at the station for medical examination as to his mental condition. In a communication from Columbus to the Birmingham Chronicle of the 11th ult; we find the following: Capt C. A. JOHNSON is still in New York in the interest of the Tombigbee Railroad. Dr. B. A VAUGHN who was with him for some time after he reached the metropolis has returned and says that although positive arrangements for the completion of the road had not been made when he left, still it is settled that the road will be completed to the Kansas City road in time to haul off a part of this year’s crop. CAUGHT IN A CHURCH STEEPLE - [Montgomery Advertiser] Ex-Senator Wm. E. Cockrell, the notorious escaped convict, was captured in Macon, Miss last week. They story of his capture is somewhat thrilling and peculiar. Wm. E. Cockrell was formerly, and in the days of Radical rule, a Republican in the Alabama Legislature from Greene County. He subsequently got out of politics but remained in the Republican Party and went to stealing. He played the burglar very successfully for a time, but was finally cornered and checked in his evil career. In 1880 he burglarized the Treasurer’s office in Greene, was convicted, and sent to the coal mines to settle the fine and costs. A few months ago, he escaped, having served his time faithfully at Pratt Mines until within a few weeks of the expiration of the sentence. He was a “trusty” and had been for a long time, and had no trouble in making his escape. All he had to do was to pick up and walk off, which he did rather unexpectedly to the authorities. The Advertiser published a full account of his escape at the time. Nothing further was seen or heard of Cockrell until he was captured in Macon, Miss a few days ago. For sometime past the citizens of Macon have been made victims of a series of burglaries, and for a while the burglar kept himself under cover and eluded the officers and authorities. One day last week a Negro boy was sent up in the church steeple to grease something about the bell. He did not proceed far before he turned and came down and out, screaming like the devil was after him. he ran out of the church followed by a man who ordered him to “hush”, “let up”, etc. The boy had run upon a strange man in the steeple. It was not the devil was Wm. E, Cockrell. A game of baseball was going on near the church and the excitement attracted the attention of the boys. When Cockrell saw the baseballists he turned and ran in another direction, but he was closely followed by the knights of the ball and bat and they caught him on the fly. An investigation was made and a number of articles that had been stolen from the citizens by the unknown burglar were found, stored away in the church steeple, where Cockrell kept his plunder and concealed himself except when he went out under cover of night time. The mystery of the burglar was cleared away and Cockrell was lodged in prison. But his name and character remained unknown until a day or two ago, when he was identified as our own missing statesman and convict. It is a notable fact that Cockrell was captured in a similar way in the town of Linden, Ala a few years ago. He was out on a stealing expedition at the time, and after committing a number of burglaries was finally found and captured in a church steeple. A special to the New Orleans Times-Democrat from Macon says that Cockrell will be held to answer for his crimes in that place, and then turned over to the Alabama authorities. He is also wanted in Greene County for crimes done in the past and that explains why he escaped from Pratt Mines when his term was so near out. Cockrell has made his own record and will have to stand by it. He chose the way of the bad and will no doubt have many days yet in the coal mines. He must meet the pay day and penalty with coal pick and shovel. Ad for Peruna Ad for Arbuckle 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 Lamar News published weekly at Vernon, Alabama. E. J. McNatt, Editor and Prop’r “I am sowing the secret of success on my Mississippi plantation” said Colonel Muldoon, First Assistant Secretary of the Interior, recently. “It is alfalfa. I sow twenty acres every spring, and I shall keep on until I have 1,000 acres in alfalfa meadow. I cut four crops last year, and had good grazing for my seventy head of Jerseys all the fall and winter. The average yield was a ton and a half per acre. Baled, I could ship it to New Orleans for $5 a ton and net about $12. This is as profitable as any crop we cab raise in the South. It requires no irrigation with us, and grows splendidly on our soil. For a restorer of worn-out land nothing is better.” The country is likely to have a rest from the numerous traveling shows that have usually perambulated from one end of it to the other. The new inter- State commerce law adds so heavily to their expenses that all the poorer ones will succumb. There will still be enough of amusement, furnished largely by local attractions, which will be better patronized than heretofore. The best standard shows will travel, as they always have done and be probably all the better for having fewer competitors to draw away their patrons. The increased traveling expenses of shows under the new law are estimated at $2,000,000 a year, which sum more than wipes out the profits of many of them. Mr. John Murdoch, in an article in the American Naturalist, confutes the common notion that Esquimaux (sic) always eat their food raw, and devour enormous quantities of blubber. At Point Barrow Mr. Murdoch found that food was habitually cooked, although certain article s like the “black skin” of the whale, were usually eaten raw. Taking into account the fact that the Esquimaux have not butter, ream, fat, bacon, olive oil, or lard, he doubts whether much more fat is consumed by them than by civilized people. At Point Barrow the fat of birds and the reindeer was freely partaken of, but comparatively little actual blubber either of the seal or whale was eaten. “Seal or whale blubber was too valuable – for burning in the lamps, oiling leather, and many other purposes, especially for trade.” For some ten years past, New Orleans, St. Louis, and other Southern cities have been trying to bring cents into circulation, and desperate indeed have been the efforts to accomplish this. Several houses, says the New Orleans Times-Democrat, have declared in favor of cents, to find their introduction far more difficult than was imagined. A newspaper imported some barrels of the coins and put them forth, only to find out that they were returned in a very short time. The idea of carrying the measure through by one grand movement, all acting together, failed. The people were not acquainted with cents and refused them and many dealers, particularly the small ones, with whom cents would have come into play and who would be most benefited by their circulation, held back. But although these sporadic efforts failed, the end sought for its being slowly but surely accomplished. The cent which could not be forced suddenly on the community is growing into favor. A large number of houses are now willing to accept it and made their change accordingly and the public is beginning to recognize that the cent is of some value after all. Strange to say, at the beginning of this movement, the small dealers still held back. Coppers will be taken in payment by almost any large dry-goods house in the city, but the candy and banana peddler on the corner opposite ignores this movement and is afraid of the copper currency. CAN SIT PERFECTLY STILL It is said the Japanese can sit stiller than any other people, their habit of self control being from earliest childhood and part of their conscientious duty. I watched two Japanese students at the terrific thunder and lightning tragedy of “Clito” and through the whole play I was in rapt admiration at the way in which these Japanese gentlemen maintained their most perfect and invincible calm. Such self control as theirs must command respect and wonder. No lurid scenes of Athenian splendor; no jealousy, terror or despair, not even murder and death, could relax a muscle of their grave and rigid faces. Not a word during the performance did they exchange; not once did they move their programmes. They enjoyed the good acting and the attractive stage setting probably to as great, if not a greater, degree than many of their neighbors, but their faces did not proclaim it. How it makes one wish that a greater proportion of our audiences were of that artistic beautifully self governed people who can sit perfectly still. – [Boston Post] OWED TO THE INTERSTATE – Poem – [Boston Herald] DANDIE – Poem - [ M. F. BRADY in St. Nicholas] ROSE MARIE - Short Story – [The Albany Journal] PROFIT IS FOR PROFIT The most inveterate scalper that ever operated in the Chicago grain market is Millionaire Hutchinson. A scalper, the uninitiated should be told, is a trader who umps in and out with rapid deals, satisfied with small profits, and making as few losses as possible. Most operators want to double their money, and mainly stand for long profits. Not so with Hutch. His orders to his brokers are to close out as soon as they can show a profit to his credit. “What do you men by a profit, Mr. Hutchinson?” inquired a young broker the other day, on receiving his first order from the scalper. “Great heavens!” was the rejoinder, “haven’t you been here long enough to know what profit is?” “Yes, I know what a profit is, but I don’t know what you consider a satisfactory profit.” “A profit” Hutch then explained, “Is a profit. Any profit should be satisfactory to a man who isn’t a hog. Youngman, $50 is a profit – yes, $10 or $5 or $1 or even ten cents. And if you can’t do any better, one cent is better than nothing at all. Go along and fill that order, and e sure you earn me a profit, no matter how small.” The broker said he had been trading on Hutchison ‘s account for seventeen successive days, filling several small orders each day, and in all that time he had not made a loss. Sometimes his profits were only sufficient to pay commissions and a dollar or two over, but he old man was always satisfied. – [Chicago Herald] INTERPRETING THE SCRIPTURES – joke REV. DR. TALMAGE – THE BROOKLYN’S DIVINE SUNDAY SERMON Preached To Soldiers From Thirty-One States At The National Drill Encampment In Washington INDIAN INFANT MARRIAGE – A BOMBAY COURT RELUCANTLY COMPELLED TO ENFORCE A CRUEL LA----[From the London Times] Calcutta, March 13, 1886….(can’t read article – cut off) THE KISSANE CASE – (can’t read) PAGE 3 RELIGIOUS READING HOME OF THE BLESSED -Poem – [John Damascane] NO FEAR, NO HOPE –anecdotes - [Old Testament Anecdotes] THE FUNERAL PROCESSION OF JACOB – [Kitto’s Bible Illustrations] YOUNG MEN Christian Worker Addresses The Young Men’s Christian Association – [Christian Boston] Poem – (cut out – can’t read) PROHIBITION’S PROGRESS – [Washington Critic] A PRACTICAL TEMPERANCE SERMON - sermon A DRUNKARD’S FEEBLE OFFSPRING – [Boston Herald] WOMAN’S WORLD PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR FEMININE READERS ONE DRAWBACK - Poem – [Life] A SWEET TELEPHONE VOICE – [The Cincinnati Observer] ONE WOMAN’S CAREER Harper’s Bazaar describes the career of Mrs. Eliza J. Nicholson, of the New Orleans Picayune, who is the only woman living who is at once the controlling proprietor and editor-in-chief of a great metropolitan daily journal, as she was the first woman connected with the press in the South. She became literary editor of the Sunday Picayune’ in the face of much adverse criticism that a woman should occupy such a position, though now there is not a newspaper in New Orleans that ha snot several ladies on its staff. She subsequently married the proprietor, Colonel Holbrook, who died, bequeathing her the paper, burden with a debt of $80,000. Her lawyers and relatives advised her to take the thousand dollars award her by law, and abandon the paper and its debts. The business manager, Mr. George Nicholson, alone counseled her to keep it. She took his advice, and trough excellent management and the aid of a devoted staff, paid off the debt, built new offices, greatly improved the paper and is now at the head of a superb establishment. After tow year she married Mr. Nicholson, who continues to manage the financial affairs of the paper, while she has sole control of the editorial columns, the politics of which she directs and every part of which undergoes her daily scrutiny. The Picayune has never been more prosperous than now, and is a splendid tribute to a woman’s administration. With all this Mrs. Nicholson is a gentle, feminine woman, and a graceful poet, in fragile health, a loving wife and a devoted mother to her two pretty boys. HISTORY OF FEATHERS –article about birds and feathers FEMALE FIREMAN – story about female that became a firefighter FASHION NOTES Large quantities of lace will be used upon the coming season’s millinery. Tiny butterflies in green gold, set with gems, are appropriate for scarf pins. A Paris correspondent writes that the high hat has received its quietus there. Bride’s gowns are more simple made than has hitherto been deemed necessary. The Princess of Wales is setting a fashion of wearing lightly perfumed gloves. Fancy duck and Marseilles vests in blues, drabs, and buffs will be much worn this season. Parasols are quite large, with ten broad gores, and handles large enough to serve as alpenstocks. In the trimming of bonnets the careful avoidance of anything like monotone is very noticeable. Bands of velvet, soutache or pause materiel are greatly fancied across the font and sides of dresses. Drab is still much worn in millinery and then are many natural feathers that match it exactly in tone. “Sweet Simplicity” is the fashion in Paris. Gowns are cut to hang in straight and flat folds allegedly classical. Real peacock feathers are being utilized as dress trimmings, although it is notoriously unlucky to wear them in any way. I-lain cloth jackets are considered very stylish with lapped and strapped seams, bone buttons and striped silk linings. The balayeuse has completely disappeared from the bottom of gowns. A flat band of broad braid takes its place. New violet, fawn, and green cloth dresses are embroidered in silk cord and silver for visiting and church wedding toilets. A bodice of watered silk is very stylish in bright color to wear with a lace costume. A wide watered sash is also worn with it. Capotes for summer have a gauze crown sometimes embroidered and sometimes beaded. The brim maybe beaded or a garland of flowers. A novelty in hats in sailor and other shapes has instead of ribbon, the straw itself sewn in designs around the crown. Some of the combinations of colors are very pleasing. Gray, brown, fawn, and black gloves are chosen for street wear with tailor made costumes. They are widely stitched in the back and fastened with three or four gold or silver buttons. Among the stylish bonnet shapes of the present season is one which has the appearance of having two crowns, which are joined together at the center of the back, then joined being covered by a strip of velvet carelessly twisted. QUEER INDIAN NAMES The Commission employed to take a census of the Umatilla Indians finds the following to be the translation of some of their names. “Rough” and “Noisy”, the names of two boys. “Tree Shaded By Wind” “Cry All the Time”, the names of women; “One Who Starts to Go One Place and Then Goes Another”, “Grizzly Bear Sleeping On a Hill”, the names of men. The names of four women translated into English were “Rattling While Running”, “Dressing While Running”, “Afraid of a Yankee”, and “Throw A Leg Over the Moon”. NEWSY GLEANINGS Los Angeles, California has a crematory “in full blast” Amsterdam is to have a great exhibition of food and cookery. The Department of Agriculture is about to issue a report on the English sparrow. There are -----persons confined in the penal institutions of the United States Mr. Alexander, eighty-two years old, living at Athens, Ga, had his first tooth pulled last week. Jennie Wade, the only resident of Gettysburg killed during the battle, is to be honored with a monument. Comptroller Chapin, of New York places the cost of the last session of the State Legislature at $90,934. At a New England dairy show there is said to be on exhibition a machine which produces butter in two minutes. Experts state that the best modern siege guns cost $97,000 and it costs $900 to shoot one of them only once. The syndicate which is now about to develop the telephone in China has, it is said, a backing of $29,000,000. The receipts of the Brooklyn Bridge during the four years it has been open to the public have been over $1,900,000. The immigration to California the past year is reported in round numbers at 19,000 people, mostly in Southern California. A Delaware woman committed suicide by lying on her back in the bathtub with her mouth open under the open faucet. The personal estate of the late J. D. Perrins, a proprietor of the celebrated Worcestershire sauce, amounted to nearly $1,900,000. A marble firm at Mattewan, N. Y. has received from San Francisco a model of a monument which a lady whished placed over her husband’s grave at West Point, cut from a loaf of bread. CANNOT LAND The Secretary of the Treasury has directed that the ex-convicts sent by the French government to San Francisco, Cal. from New Caledonia, shall not land. A negro cook at the Los Angles, Cal. jail kept eighty-two prisoners at bay the other day and prevented their escape. Fifteen desperate characters overpowered the jailer and got away before the cook heard the disturbance. He faced the remained with a carving knife, which he threatened to use with all his skill on the first convict that came within his reach. A woman doesn’t know half as much about voting as a man does about rocking a cradle, yet there are more women who want to vote than there are men who would rock cradles. Advertisements 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 The citizens have purchased a new organ for the M. E. Church. Prof. J. R. GUIN has resumed his school at Fernbank. MRS. NANNIE DENMAN we are pleased to learn is convalescent. There are 4 new railroads being graded through Pratt Mines. After several months absence OSCAR POE is again at home. Sorry to state that Mrs. MCLAIN remains in quite feeble health. MR. BROWN MORTON is spending a few days with relatives and friends in this place. Pratt Mines has a population of 5,000, besides an average of 600 convicts. Regret to note that Rev. G. L. HEWITT’S youngest son has been quite sick for several days. Hope him a speedy recovery. REV. N. J. DYER, of Fayette Co, will preach at the Baptist Church at this place on next Sunday night at 7:30 o’clock. MISS KATIE SNYDER after spending several weeks in Vernon left for her house at Verona, Miss, last Thursday morning. Circuit Clerk BRADLEY has the framing of his commodious residence up. The Esquire assures us that he will not be “above us” even if he does live on an elevated place in Vernon. E. W. BROCK will pay the highest market price for chickens, eggs, wool, dry and green hides, and good fat cattle in merchandise or in payment of accounts. Bring them in. MRS. ELIZABETH WHITE, near 90 years of age, died at her home near Pikeville last Saturday. The deceased has practiced medicine for many years and will be sadly missed by the citizens of that section. Esquire BRADLEY has just completed a new well on his residence 41 feet deep. My household affairs will be offered for sale at astonishing low prices for the next five (5) day. – E. J. MCNATT Ad for White’s Cream Vermifuge We were honored last Thursday by a very pleasant visit from Prof. W. K. BROWN, of Jasper accompanied by our worthy townsman Rev. G.L. HEWITT. Prof. B. comes highly recommended by leading citizens of Jasper and elsewhere, he having served for the past three years as principal of the Jasper High School. He is a graduate of the Normal College of Nashville, Tenn. Ad for Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid 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 We shall hope and expect those indebted to us for subscriptions and adverting to come to Circuit Court in September prepared to settle the same. We know it’s only a small amount to each, but in the aggregate it amounts to a considerable sum to us. Those who wish to settle before September can make settlement with W. G. MIDDLTON Esq. who will receipt for the same. HAND IN THE PRINTERS DOLLARS The printer’s dollars – where are they? A dollar here, and a dollar there scattered over numerous small towns all over the country, miles and miles apart – how shall they be gathered together? Come home, ye are wanted. Come in single file, that the printer may send you forth again to battle for him and vindicate his credit. Readers are you sure you haven’t a couple of the printers dollars ticking about your clothes? – [Whitesboro, Texas News] STATE NEWS ITEMS The Huntsville Independent will be issued daily on and after the 12th inst. Major G. A. Joiner has become associate editor of the Talladega Mountain Home. George R. Cather has retired from the editorial tripod of the Ashville Aegis, in favor of this son, who has just completed his nineteenth year. The Avondale Enterprise has been enlarged from a five to six column paper. It is all printed at home, neatly gotten up, and a red-hot advocate of Prohibition. The Birmingham News will soon Madam Rumor says, become a morning paper. Editor Baine, of the Hayneville Examiner has been appointed Post office inspector for Alabama. Mr. J. A. Rountree has purchased the Morgan News, and has changed the name to that of the Alabama Enquirer and News. Two negro boys shot and killed two colored children near Selma on the 1st inst, out of sheer devilment. Counterfeit coins have been circulating in Anniston. Cotton worms have made their appearance in Bullock County. The city council of Tuscumbia has issued an ordinance requiring owners of property on Main Street to lay pavements in front of the same. The recent winds have damaged the growing crops. The Montgomery county jail has forty three prisoners. Jacksonville has but one vacant residence. The G. P. R. R. it is thought, will build a double track. Birmingham is to have another paper called the Morning Herald. The Editor of the Moulton Advertiser offers to present a years subscription to the person bringing him the best five ears of corn. A cotton stalk was taken from W. F. Lash’s farm on the 1st inst, near Montgomery with ninety six bolls and blooms. Mr. L. says he has ten acres that will average with it. The Fourth was pretty generally observed throughout the state. The grape crop is reported a failure. The 4th was a big day at Blount Springs. Fears are entertained in various sections that the crops will be damaged by the protracted rains. Crops in Franklin County are the best for years. Pratt Mines is now on the list of money order offices. NEWS ITEMS Jacob Sharpe, the New York boodler, has been found guilty. The loss by the fire at Marshfield, Wis., is $1,250,000. Elizabethtown, Ky. had a destructive fire on Wednesday, caused by a lamp explosion in a drug store. The strike at Rochester, New York, is ended. Jacob Sharpe is to be sentenced on the 13th inst. The Internal Revue office at Jackson, Miss has been abolished. The New England states felt an earthquake shock on the 30th ult. The Jackson, Miss. grand jury has found true bills against James S. Hamilton and L. W. Eubanks for the murder of R. J. Gambrell on May 5th at Jackson, Miss. A Frenchman recently rode into Watsville, Me. A big Newfoundland dog hitched to a small two wheel cart, which the animal had hauled inside of three days from a town in Canada, a distance of about 150 miles. The owner said the dog could outstrip in a day’s journey the best of horses. There was a mule in the city yesterday which is forty-five years old and looks as if it was good for many more years. It is now in active service on the Birmingham & Huntsville railroad. The mule was owned by one man for thirty years, and became so much attached to him that it shed tears when they parted. Memphis, July 7 – Fifteen hundred shared of the Chicksaw Land Company’s stock, representing $150,000 was sold today in a block by J. A. Vanhoose, general manger, to a strong syndicate, composed of New York, Birmingham and local capitalists. A hospital for animals will soon be erected in London, and at the same free dispensaries will be opened, where the horses, donkeys, cats, dogs and birds of the poor can be treated when ill. Ad for Dr. Bigger’s Huckleberry cordial THE ANTIQUITY OF MASSAGE – [The Court Journal] – repeat article CITY CATS HUNGRY FOR CATNIP – [Alfred Trumble in New York News] – repeat article WHERE OUR SENATORS WERE BORN – [Philadelphia----] – repeat article SENSATIONS OF VISION – [Chicago News] – repeat article PRUSSIAN HOUSE OF LORDS – [Detroit Free Press] – repeat article FILLIPING THE TOAD - [Boston Budget] - repeat article AUTOGRAPHS OF CONGRESSMEN The pages of the National House of Representatives conduct a fair business procuring the autographs of members. They charge the autograph hunter $10 for the signature of the whole house. In the senate the charge is only $5 because of the fewer members. – [Washington Letter] AS TO THE TOWER OF BABEL The Great Tower of Babel is being gutted by the Arabs, who dig its brick for building purposes. It is the quarry of Hiliah, but is not fruitful of antiquities. – [Library Magazine] (CUT OUT) 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 Additional Comments: This is a resubmission of the newpaper I submitted in March 2005, I have added more details and information from the paper. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1362gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 38.1 Kb