Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News March 4, 1886 ************************************************ 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 January 30, 2006, 7:55 pm The Lamar News March 4, 1886 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, MARCH 4, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 18 THE BARLEY FIELD – (poem – by Mary L. Goodrich in the Current – will come back later) JESSICA’S WOOER – (short story – later) HOW MANY EGGS WILL A HEN LAY? We often read of hens that lay 200 eggs a year, says the Farm and Garden, but such statements do more harm than good, by inducing the inexperienced to believe such to be a fact. Any one who is familiar at all with poultry knows that during the fall all hens undergo the process of molting or shedding of feathers. This requires usually about three months, or one hundred days. As there are only 365 days in a year, we have 265 days left after deducting the molting period. If a hen lays regularly an egg every other day she will lay 133 eggs; but she will probably lose three months in hatching out her broods; even if she is a non-sitter she will take a resting- place. As molting is a heavy drain on the system, but few hens lay during that process, through there are exceptions, and where the number of eggs exceed one every two days, it will be found that a corresponding reduction occurs during some portion of the year. While we admit that certain individual hens have been known to lay as many as 150 to even 175 eggs in a year, such cases are rare; and if one has a flock of twenty hens or more he should be satisfied if there is an average of one hundred eggs a year for the whole flock, or rather nine dozen. Four dozen out of the nine should realize thirty cents per dozen, three dozen should bring about twenty cents per dozen, and two dozen should realize fifteen cents per dozen, on average of about twenty-three cents. Of course this calculation may be wrong, but it will convey an idea of what may be expected. THE WEALTH OF CHILI The world’s supply of nitrate of soda and guano has been obtained from the arid rainless west coast regions of South America. Along the southern coast of Peru are a series of rocky, desolate islands in which no rain ever falls and only the gentlest breezes sweep. There are at present, as there have been for centuries, myriads of sea-birds along the coast, and they with thousands of sea lions, live, breed and die upon these islands. Guano is a mixture of the excrement of these seals and birds, the decomposed bodied of both and the bones of the fishes which have been their food. These deposits have been accumulating for centuries and in man places are hundreds of feet deep, baked into a solid mass by the tropical sun. These masses of guano were worked by the Peruvian Government from 1846, when their value as fertilizers became understood, up to the war with Chili in 1880. The annual shipments to Europe and the United States amounted to millions of tons, valued at between $20,000,000 and $30,000,000 all above the expense of working being clear profit. This should have enriched Peru, but it merely enriched her governing classes. During the war the Chileans seized the islands and annexed them to Chili. There have been no exports of guano since, but the Chilean Government is making preparations to resume the shipments, and it will probably be in the market again next year. USEFUL IN ONE WAY “Well, Bobby” said young Featherly, “we had quite a pleasant time at the house last evening.” “Yes, indeed,” replied Bobby. “Ma was speaking about it at the breakfast table this morning.” “So your ma enjoyed the evening, too, did she.” “Yes, she told pa that she can never think of you without laughing.” – [New York Times] FROM BULL RUN TO LIBBY – A REMIMISCENCE OF THE NOTED CONFEDERATE PRISON What It Cost A Congressman TO See The First Fight Of The War “It was a happy morning for Alfred Ely when Charles J. Faulkner walked into our office at Libby,” said Captain Warner, the former Quartermaster at Libby Prison, to a Chicago Herald correspondent at Centralia, Ill. “Ely had exhausted the vast resources of an inventive mind to have his government get him out of the predicament which had befallen him by reason of his venturesome trip to see the first Battle of Bull Run. The Lincoln Administration, while anxious and willing to return him to his people, could not make a general exchange of prisoners (a consummation repeatedly sought for by Ely). Without recognizing the seceding states a belligerent power, and, along with other men who had met a similar fate, he was forced to remain our prisoner. “I well remember the morning Faulkner arrived at Richmond. He, as you know, had been Minister to the Court of St. James’s and when the war broke out he came home and was arrested and cast into a Northern prison. He was afterward allowed to proceed on his parole to the South for the purpose of bringing about his exchange with Ely. The people in Richmond received him with open arms. He was exceedingly popular and when he made known the terms of his exchange the authorities said they would give a half frozen Ely for him. he came to the prison office and in the absence of General Winder I received him, and he at once made known his business. I was much pleased, not only because of Faulkner’s return, but because I was glad to see Ely return to his home. I at once went to hunt Ely, and fining hi, I said: “Ely, your redeemer ahs come.” I took him into the office and there introduced them. Of course the meeting was mutually agreeable. Some Northern people had intrusted to Faulkner a sum of money ($200) in gold dollars to be distributed among the most needy prisoners. The money Captain Gibbs, the prison commander, turned over to Ely, who, in company with Lieutenant Booker, office of the day, went among the man and faithfully discharged their duty. It so happened that a certain Carpenter thought Ely had not dealt fairly with him in the distribution of the money, and he got even with him in a manner which I shall now relate. Ely had done a great deal of writing while a prisoner and he wanted to take all of his papers along with him should he ever be released. He therefore asked me to allow the carpenter to make him a trunk in which to pack his effects. I did so, but Ely imagined that we would not allow him to take all, so he prevailed on the carpenter to construct a secret receptacle in the bottom of the box. Afterward he found out that there would be no trouble in his taking anything he wanted, and, for fear we would discover his trick, he tore out the fixture without telling the carpenter what he had done. After Faulkner came and Ely was exchanged the carpenter blowed the whole business to an officer, and a man was sent out in hot haste to capture both Ely and his trunk. He went aboard the truce boat and bored a big hole in the bottom of the box, but of course it was a false alarm, and the distinguished ex-prisoner was allowed to proceed on his way rejoicing.” Captain Warner, who related the above, now resides here. He is favorably mentioned in Ely’s book on Libby Prison as being kind to Union prisoners. Ely, as all remember, was the Congressman from the Rochester, N. Y. district, who went down to see the sights at Bull Run fight, and was taken a prisoner and taken to Libby. He is now residing at Rochester, N. Y. MISTAKE OF A PRESIDENT’S WIFE A humorous incident is told around town, says a City of Mexico letter. General Lallane sent President Diaz a sack of locusts to show the enormous size, and the messenger, instead of delivering them at the residence, where the cook, mistaking them for some new species of crab, served them up, and when on the table the mistake was discovered by Mrs. Diaz, but not before the family had partaken of some. TILL THEN, GOOD NIGHT – [Thomas Bailey Aldrich] – (poem - will come back later) HUMOROUS – (jokes - will come back later) WONDERS OF WATER The tannin of tea is thrown down by the lime of hard water, so that if tea is infused in hard water at least one-third is wasted. Hard water used for boiling meat and vegetables extracts their juices less thoroughly than soft water does. Potatoes contain 75 per cent of water; turnips, 90 per cents; milk, 873 parts. The quality of water when pure is not impaired by stagnancy nor liable to fermentation, decay or putrescence. It would keep 5000 years and be neither better nor worse for keeping. Four closed jars, buried seventeen centuries at Pompeii, and taken from there were found to contain atom for atom as the same free air we breathe. The same is said of water. An influx of organic refuse into a stream will affect it for several miles in its course, but at a longer distance the oxidation of the foreign matter will take place and will restore the water to a purified state. – [Philadelphia News] PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY MARCH 4, 1886 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 30.00 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 10 cents per line. Obituaries, tributes of respect, etc. making over ten lines, 2 ½ cents per line. Hon. S. H. SPROTT will be a candidate for re-election to the office he now fills in such dignified and able manner. We heard an attorney say that he was always ready to indorse a man for a second term who had been a faithful officer like Judge Sprott has been. We are ready to join in that endorsement and have no doubt but the people of Lamar will do the same. THE STATE CONVENTION The Democratic State Executive Committee met in the city of Montgomery on the 24th, with the various districts represented. Mr. Lyon and Col. Hodgson made handsome speeches in advocacy of Mobile as the place for the place for convention to be held. The committee, however, was practically unanimous for Montgomery, only two votes being cast for Mobile while Montgomery received eighteen. The date fixed for the assembling of the convention, is June 2nd. The number of delegates will be over 700, making the largest convention ever held in Alabama. The counties according to the ratio agreed upon will be entitled to delegates as follows: Autauga 4, Baldwin 4, Barbour 18, Bibb 8, Blount 13, Bullock 7, Butler 15, Calhoun 21, Chambers 10, Cherokee 16, Chilton 9, Choctaw 4, Clarke 8, Clay 8, Cleburne 6, Coffee 8, Colbert 8, Conecuh 7, Coosa 9, Covington 5, Crenshaw 11, Cullman 6, Dale 11, Dallas 21, DeKalp 8, Elmore 10, Elmore 10, Escambia 3, Etowah 13, Fayette 8, Franklin 6, Geneva 5, Green 8, Hale 16, Henry 17, Jackson 14, Jefferson 18, Lamar 10, Lauderdale 9, Lawrence 7, Lee 10, Limestone 11, Lowndes 17, Macon 9, Madison 16, Marengo 20, Marion 5, Marshall 11, Mobile 26, Monroe 4, Montgomery 29, Morgan 8, Perry 6, Pickens 16, Pike 15, Randolph 5, Russell 13, Shelby 12, St. Clair 8, Sumter 9, Talladega 10, Tallapoosa 17, Tuskaloosa 18, Walker 4, Washington 5, Wilcox 7, Winston 1. THE STATE COMMITTEE Montgomery Advertiser of 25th. The interest of the Democratic Party of this state could not well be confided to safer or more discreet gentlemen than those composing its present Executive Committee. Col. N. H. R. Dawson, who has ably and impartially presided over its deliberations and filled the important position of chairman for the last two years, in a letter to the committee yesterday tendered his resignation. His action was promoted by the fact that his name will go before the nominating convention as a candidate for Governor, and he did not think it proper to remain at the head of the committee, or even a member of it. The committee accepted his resignation with regret and adopted resolutions expressing the high esteem in which he was held by his associates, and not one word was said which Col. Dawson does not merit. In choosing a successor the committee selected one of the most thorough going Democrats in the Union. Col. Tompkins has answered every call that has been made upon him by the party, and there are few localities in this state where his eloquent voice has not been heard in advocacy of Democratic men and measures. He will make an able and energetic chairman. Hon. J. W. Bush, of Uniontown who was selected to succeed Col. Dawson, as a member of the committee, if one of the hardest-working members of the party in the state. [MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER] The opponents of Hon. J. M. Martin in the sixth district are claiming that he is pledged not to take a second term. Their complaint is based on the following extract from his speech at the time he was nominated. “I have determined, gentlemen of the convention, not again to seek, of my own volition, the nomination for Congress at your hands, for I am not willing that what I may do in the halls of Congress should be attributed to desire and work for a renomination.” That declaration does not debar him from Congress for a dozen terms in succession, if the people are proper to send him. Plainly construed, it was saying that he intended to do what was right according to his convictions and if he was sent back, his work in Congress, and not personal self-seeking would have to secure the place for him. The Board of Alderman of Houston Miss., at a recent meeting reduced the salary of Marshal to $10 per month. The Free South says this is evidence that the town does not readily need a marshal. Houston is a dry town now. There was a time when it was a wet town, that it needed two marshals, with the sheriff and constable thrown in, to keep the peace. Houston is much changed for the better. GET HIM A GUARDIAN It would be a wise thing for General Sherman’s friends to procure him a guardian, and see that he writes no more letters and has no more interviews published. His recent showing-up by General Fry ought to have satisfied him for while. The fact was demonstrated beyond question that he did write to the war record department that if General Smith had lived after the Fort Donelson fight Grant would have disappeared from history. He did not, perhaps, intend to disparage Grant, but only to show what circumstances sometimes have to do in the making of men. He denied having written such a letter. General Fry had to publish it, showing that Sherman had either forgotten it or told a falsehood in denying it. Recently at Pittsburgh, Sherman expressed himself very freely about Chas. A. Dans, of the New York Sun, because of some criticism in that paper of the Johnston-Sherman Treaty at the surrender of the Confederate forces in North Carolina. He said in effect that Dana was regarded as a spy during the war. It was exceedingly unfortunate for him to have indulged in such language, for Dana replies and shows that he was with Sherman on the day occasion complained of at Sherman’s own written request. The latter’s memory is failing. That was a fault of his as far back as the burning of Columbia. – [Advertiser] OVER THE STATE A prohibition fight is the go in Chilton County. There are sixty-eight unfinished new houses in Birmingham. The religious at Selma is looking up in all the churches. Anniston is a “dry” town, yet its business is increasing every day. There are six thousand dollars of delinquent taxes in Morgan County for 1885. The first home ever built in Birmingham is now used for a blacksmith ship. A complete law library is offered for sale by I. J. Jones at Fayette C. H. Preparations are already being made for the Press Association, which is to meet at Marion in May. Hon. W. W. Screws, of the Montgomery Advertiser, is being urged to run for Congress in that District. The town Marshal of Fayette has not made but one arrest since the first of January, and the arrested man imbibed wild cat firewater which he was packing around with him. Chambers County is to have a fair next fall. Calhoun County is going to make the stock law question an issue in the coming election. The Tuscaloosa papers are rapping each other over the head on the temperance question. There is a triangular fight among the Democrats for circuit judge going on in the 9th district. There are seven frost bitten convicts on a farm in Tallopoosa County, one of whom is not expected to live. The Age says more people are visiting Birmingham in view of prospecting than ever before in its history. Lieut. Butler, of the Guard, has organized a broom brigade of little girls, who will shortly appear before the public in the manual of arms for the benefit of the Selma Guard. The paupers of Lawrence County cost the tax payers about $1,200 per year. The Georgia Pacific Railroad pays Fayette County two thousand dollars tax, annually. The people along the line of the Georgia Pacific are rejoicing over the bright prospect of its early completion through to Birmingham. Maj. T. H. Dunn, has been awarded the contract from Day’s Gap eighteen miles east – on the Ga. Pa. – Fayette Journal. Last year $7,841,000 were invested in new enterprises in this state. A furnace company has organized at Sheffield with a capital of $150,000. Silver ore has been discovered in great abundance near Fayette C. H. After losing half a million by fires, Opelika has just purchased a $4,000 fire engine. A gang of wild geese, estimated at 500 recently passed over Tuscaloosa going eastward. The Mobile skating rink will old 6,000 people and it was engaged for Moody and Sankey 1st of this month. Ex-Gen. Wells has his eye on a seat in the United States Senate. Anniston has one of the finest cotton factories in the South. Mr. S. L. Russell, in Cherokee Advertiser, wants to see it made a penitentiary offense for a man to sell or buy guano. He also warns farmers against planting to much cotton this year. The Pensacola Commercial and some other papers in west Florida think the territory west of the Chattahoochee ought to belong to Alabama. This state would be delighted to annex that goodly section and its good people and would hail with delight their acquisition. The Clayton Courier learns from the county treasurer that Barbour county is out of debt except railroad bonded indebtedness, and has $12,000 in the treasury. Placing the Alabama cotton crop of 1885 at $40 per bale, and the Alabama pig iron product at $12 per ton, the value of the cotton would amount to about $2,500,000 and the iron to $2,729,129. THE SPREAD OF PROHIBITION The progress of the Prohibition movement in the Southern States of recent years has been very remarkable. Governor St, John in a recent speech expressed himself as delighted with his recent visit to the South, and assured his hearers that these hitherto abused Southern States were far in advance of the North and West in an earnest and vigorous warfare against the evils of intoxicating drink. He attributes very much of the buoyant business spirit of this section to the diminution of drunkenness. No doubt there is much truth in what he says: The curse of the Indian was firewater. The curse of the negro today is whiskey. The curse of our rising young men upon whom the prosperity of these communities depend is the temptation of strong drink. Prohibition in this country has had the effect of giving us systematic and persistent labor. It has added to the small savings of the farms etc. It has saved society from disorder and turbulence. It has emptied the jails and diminished the cost of administering justice. Unquestionably it has benefited society in every material way, and has elevated the moral tone of the people. It has removed a blight from home life and has strengthen the foundations of religion. Would that the public men of Alabama had the courage of their convictions and could proclaim a continuing against a vice when must ultimately be crushed out as a relic of barbarism! Would that the candidates for Governor night proclaim themselves champions of every possible legal method to stamp out the curse of strong drink! There are those who say that the Government has no right to meddle with the food and drink of men, and yet government has in all ages claimed the right to compel men to keep their faculties unparalyzed by this poison. Down to the outbreak of the war fourteen of our states enacted prohibition laws. Of these eight were Democratic, four Whig and two American. The war came on and the fierce passions of that era swept away the reforms that had made such progress. It became difficult to enforce prohibition laws, and the idea of local prohibition by local option in rural districts and high license in towns and cities grew in popular favor. Such laws have been adopted by a great number of states with most happy effect. Chief Justice Taney, in delivering the opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Thurlow vs. Massachusetts, said: ‘If any state deem the retail and internal traffic in ardent spirits injurious to citizens and calculated to produce idleness, vice or debauchery, I see nothing in the Constitution of the United States to prevent it from regulating or restraining the traffic, or from prohibiting it altogether if it thinks proper.” The State Courts when declared unconstitutional the prohibitory law passed on by them, have done with out exceptional on some technical ground and not as regards principle. Advocates of Prohibition base their argument upon the greatest good of the greatest number, the duty of government to conserve general welfare, the right of the state to exact obedience by the citizen, the known tendency of intoxicating liquors to produce morality, vice and crime, their certain source of taxation and their enormous national waste. Human brotherhood, Christian sentiment, moral need and progressive civilization, it is held demand the suppression of a traffic which cares for none of these consideration, but debases manhood, debar Christianity, and defiles the state. With John Stuart Mill, Prohibitionists believe that “to tax stimulants for the sole purpose of making them more difficult to be obtained is a measure differing only in a degree from their entire prohibition,” and the claim of “personal liberty” as opposed to a prohibition law they meet with a further declaration by Mr. Mill that “the liberty of one man ends, however profitable it may be to himself, when it intersects with the well being of another.” – [Mobile Register] We came mighty near having a big row on Monday last in this office. It occurred thus and sort. A country man came in and asked the senior about a new patent lamp-burner. The senior bid him “go to the devil” and the countryman became mighty indignant and said: “I can wipe the floor with any man, be he old or young, who bids me to go to the devil.” The senior was so convulsed with laughter that he was unable to explain, as we intervened, and told our county friend that no offence was intended, that our devil, Berry Scott, was agent for the banners, and the senior only referred to him. The explanation was satisfactory, the fellow enjoyed the joke, and shook hands with everyone in the office. – [Blountsville News] Masonic. Vernon Lodge., NO. 289 A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 p.m. each month. J. D. MCCLUSKEY, W.M. M. W. MORTON, Sec. Vernon Lodge., No. 45, I. O. O. F. meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7 ½ p.m. each month. W. G. MIDDLETON, N. G. M. W. MORTON, sect’y 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. ATTORNEYS NESMITH & SANFORD THOS. B. NESMITH, Vernon, Ala. J. B. SANFORD, Fayette C. H., Ala. Attorneys-at-Law. Will practice as partners in the counties of Lamar and Fayette, and separately in adjoining counties, and will give prompt attention to all legal business intrused to them or either of them. 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, intrusted to us we will both give our earnest personal attention. – Oct. 13, 1884. 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. PHOTOGRAPHS – A. R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss. Price list: Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00 Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00 Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00 Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00 Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00 Satisfaction given or money returned. RESTAURANT. Aberdeen, Mississippi. Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to call on MRS. L. M. KUPPER, who keeps Restaurant, Family Groceries, Bakery, and Confectionery, Toys, Tobacco, and Cigars. Also Coffee and sugar. Special attention paid to ladies. Barber Shop – For a clean shave or shampoo, call on G. W. BENSON, in rear of Dr. BURN’S office, Vernon, Ala. Collins Ague Cure…. (too small to read) New Cash Store, Vernon – Alabama. We have just opened a large, fresh, and well selected stock of General Merchandise, consisting of dry goods, notions, family groceries, &c. We have on hand also, a large and well selected stock of School Books. The bottom knocked out in prices. We only ask a trial. Chickens, eggs, butter, and all kinds of country produce wanted, and on hand. – GEO. W. RUSH & Co. The Great Bazaar! Aberdeen, Mississippi. S W Corner, Commerce and Meridian Streets. Crockery, china, glassware, tin ware, fancy goods, stationery, jewelry, notions, candies, toys and Holiday goods of all kinds at wholesale or retail. Special attention given to the wholesale department. Trial orders solicited and prices guaranteed. Terms: Thirty days, net, 2 percent off for cash. No charge for package. THOS. A. SALE & CO. 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. 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 group 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 when in Columbus. STAR STABLE – Aberdeen, Mississippi. A. A. POSEY & BRO., having consolidated their two Livery Stables, are now offering many additional advantages at this well-known and conveniently located Livery Stable. Owing to their consolidation, they have on hand a number of good second-hand buggies which they are selling cheap. MORGAN, ROBERTSON & CO., Columbus, Mississippi. General dealers in staple dry goods, boots, & shoes, groceries, bagging, ties, etc. etc. Always a full stock of goods on hand at Bottom prices. Don’t fail to call on them when you go to Columbus. JOHNSON’S ANODYNE liniment. The most wonderful family remedy ever known. For internal and external use. Parson’s pills make new, rich blood. Make hens lay….(to small to read) PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY MARCH 4, 1886 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One copy one year $1.00 One copy, six months .60 All subscriptions payable in advance LOCAL DIRECTORY CHANCERY COURT THOMAS COBBS Chancellor JAS. M. MORTON Register CIRCUIT COURT S. H. SPROTT Circuit Judge THOS. W. COLEMAN Solicitor COUNTY OFFICERS ALEX. COBB Probate Judge JAMES MIDDLETON Circuit Clerk S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor D. J. LACY Tax Collector B. F. REED Co. Supt. of Education Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALVERT WILSON CITY OFFICERS L. M. WIMBERLEY Mayor and Treasurer G. W. BENSON Marshall Board of Aldermen – T. R. 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 J. E. COX. 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 3 o’clock p.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt. 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 March came in like a lamb. See candidate’s announcements. (Large paragraph cut out) If you haven’t called to see us this week be sure and come to see us next. We wish to tell you something. We are pleased to learn that little JOHNNY COBB who has been quite sick for several days is convalescing. Drs. W. A. BROWN and R. S. KIRK left a few days ago with a drove of cattle for New Orleans. The Rev. G. L. HEWITT preached at the M. E. church in this place on last Sunday at 11 a. m. Miss RAMA LACY, who was called home several days ago from the High School owing to sickness in the family, has returned. We expect to have within a few days a supply of Crop Lien notes, with exemption waived. Also mortgages etc. Several important cases in the circuit court were continued on account of Col. NEWSMITH’S feeble health. A subscriber to the News writes us the following: “It will oblige many patrons if you will say how much one is annoyed by having some one appropriate his paper before he has seen it, especially one’s own county paper, which every good citizen should buy for his own family.” (paragraph cut out) A few more books of waives notes on hand. Mr. GEORGE RUSH is having his garden re-palled. Be sure to pay for your county paper during court. Mr. MURRAY COBB, after spending several weeks at his old home, has returned to Columbus. Mr. ROBERTSON, of the popular firm of MORGAN, ROBERTSON& Co., of Columbus, Miss, is in town this week. Col. J. J. SHERMAN, the guano man, of Columbus, Miss., was in town first of the week. Just received best & cheapest stock of clothing ever brought to this market. GEO. W. RUSH & Co. But few cases have been disposed of and times are quite dull about the court house. The High School has not given vacation during court as has been the custom heretofore. Quite a number of our friends have settled for their subscription this week, still there are others unsettled. DIED: Mrs. M. M. LEE, of Detroit on March 1st, at an advanced age. The deceased was the mother of Mrs. G. W. BENSON of Vernon. Would be pleased if our time and space would permit our mentioning the many friends who have honored our sanctum during court. We are informed that Mr. D. E. MORELAND of Cutbank, who has been sick for several months, is slowly recovering. We will give roll of honor after court showing names of persons paying cash for subscriptions to the News. Call at this office if you are in need of a first class sewing machine. If you cannot pay cash, will take a good note. Bargains. Pocket knives 15c to $100. Ladies Hose 7 ½ c, 30 c. Bleaching 1 yd. wide 8 c. ---rch 3rd ‘86. – GEO W. RUSH & Co. There has been a beat-house built in Brown’s beat for holding sections and Justice’s courts. N. W. STONE, of Military Springs Beat, is Foreman of the Grand Jury. A better one could not have been selected. Prof. B. H. WILKERSON contemplates teaching a three months school south of Luxapalila this summer. The trial of T. B. BEARD, for the murder of C. K. COOK, is set for next Monday. In this issue will be seen the announcement of Prof. B. H. WILKERSON, as a candidate for County Superintendent of Education, for this county. Prof. Wilkerson is known to the people of the county as a consistent Democrat and well qualified to fill this important office. NOTICE. MUST COLLECT! Parties having accounts and notes rendered previous to Dec. 25th, ’85 and unsettled, must come and make satisfaction in some way, or their notes and accounts will be found in the hands of the Justice of the Peace – and that right away. I mean business. – E. W. BROCK. THE FATE OF CANDIATES – [For Lamar News] Five candidates on a scrub race tore One’s wheel-horse made a bolt and that left four. Four candidates active as could be One’s boom collapsed and that left three Three candidates come to an interview One pulled out and that left tow. Two candidates made a red hot run. One was defeated, and the other won. – J. H. R. MILLPORT ITEMS Gardening is the topic of the day. ATKIN’S new mill is all the go. BILL PROPST’S arm is improving very fast, which was hurt while coupling ---rs. The ring of anvils are loudly heard in the two big shops. A few immigrants have passed the depot in route for the terminus of the road. There is not much cotton coming in town now on account of low market. The Misses WILLIAMS’ from Columbus accompanied by their cousin, Miss ALICE NABORS, are visiting their brother W. C. WILLIAMS of this. We are glad to acknowledge the fact that they are beautiful young ladies, but that is nothing uncommon to see in Millport. W. W. WELCH has been quite ill, but is up today and attending to his business – the post office. Wanted: Some one who know nothing to tell his neighbor about some other neighbor – “five dollars reward.” ‘Tis sweet to hear the little bird sing their merry song “Vinegar Bitters.” But still we go to Fernbank and take it straight. Vinegar Bitters, $1 a bottle at Wm. Vails – try it and be a man. Respectfully, - H. R. E. PIKEVILLE ITEMS Pikeville, Ala., March 1st ’86 DR. M. H. KEY of Hamilton was in town yesterday visiting the family of his son-in-law M. M. FRASIER. Capt. A. B. HAMLET, U. S. Deputy Marshall was in town Saturday and Sunday. Mr. JAMES M. RAY, who lives about a half mile south of town, had the misfortune to get his leg broken one day last week. He had cut a tree down and it had lodged on another tree and while trying to make it fall, the end flew up and striking him just above the knee nearly broke it in twain. Mr. E. W. WESTBROOK who lives about six miles east of town got his leg broken last week in nearly the same manner as Mr. ROY. Mr. E. C. BIDWELL, traveling sales man for the “new Home” Sewing Machine was in town last Friday. Mr. W. T. GUST, of Hamilton, is in town assisting in running Mr. M. M. FRASIER’S steam engine. - TOMAS SIMPKINS FERNBANK DOTS FERNBANK, ALA., March 1st, 1886 Mr. Ed. after a protracted silence of some weeks, we will again attempt to give you and the many readers of your most valuable paper the dots from Fernbank, but before we proceed we beg leave to say something about the increasing popularity of the Lamar News in this section of our county. To the people of Fernbank and vicinity, it is what might be justly termed a welcome Saturday morning visitor; and we are gratified to know that its strong claim upon the people of Lamar county are daily being felt more and more, and we look forward with pleasant and hopeful anticipation to the time when it will begin to make its weekly visits to every home and fireside in Lamar county. Besides any other things which might be said in favor of the News, it has from the beginning proven itself to be a fixture. We received the first issue of the News that was ever published in the county, and if we have ver missed a single issue we have no recollection of it now, and Mr. Ed. if it suits you, you can just extend our subscription to the time when you quit editing the paper, for we feel that we cannot do without it. In the issue of Feb. 25th, we see that the next issue will be read by more than a thousand people in Lamar County, which will doubtless secure you at least 250 or 300 new subscribers. You many expect more new subscribers from the sunny side of Yellow Creek soon. Now to the dots. Our school is still doing well, with an average daily attendance of 48 or 50 students. Fernbank, in the near future, will rank among the best school localities in the hill counties. The Union Church house and Masonic Hall will soon be commenced, which will add considerable beauty and attraction to our town. Mr. E. B. ATKINS, our popular Marshal, has recently greatly beautified Main Street, by setting out water oaks for shade trees. Mr. A. S. FIELDS has charge of the BURIS house. Capt. R. N. WALDROP is carrying that prepossessing smile which is so characteristic of candidates just before an election. JAS. M. WILSON Esq. is one of the jurymen from our beat and he is making the necessary preparations to be on time. We see in the last issue of the News the following language from a brother correspondent in Stickland’s beat: “And there is no chance to unite us before the credit system opens.” To this we would say that the opening of the credit system is likely to fail in uniting the voter of our beat as regards some of the county offices. And again in the same article we see this language: “I voted for Bell, and think I did right. What can Warwick say to this?” To this Warwick will say that his brother correspondent at Strickland’s beat must have been right or he would certainly have been convinced before now of this error. Warwick believes in people doing nothing but that which they think is right. So brother, let us hear often from Strickland’s beat through the columns of the News. We are happy to extend the right hand of fellowship to Brother SIMON of Kennedy Station, and hope he will continue to contribute to the Lamar News form that beautiful little village on the Georgia Pacific. Mr. Ed. for fear of wearying the patience of you and your readers, we will conclude by saying, Hurah for the Hon. THOS. SEAY for the next Governor of the state of Alabama. - WARWICK WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 The committee on invalid pensions heard arguments from representatives of the maimed soldiers league and also from representative HENDERSON, on the latter’s bill, increasing the pensions of those who lost limbs in the service. The bill proposes to pay $35 per month in all cases where a hand or foot was lost; $10 where the limb was amputated at the knee or the elbow joint or near thereto, as to be equivalent to amputation at the knee of elbow joint, and $45 where amputation at the shoulders or hip joints are near enough thereto to disqualify the solider from wearing an artificial limb. J. D. WILLISAMSON, of Tuskaloosa has been appointed post office inspector. MARRIED On the 25th Feb. 1886, JAS. F. HANKINS and Miss MARTHA K. BURROW, at H. H. BURROW’S by Rev. C. A. WHEELER. On 25th Feb., J. D. SPRINGFIELD and Miss CARRIE MOLLOY at B. M. MOLLY’S by Rev. G. L. HEWITT. On 28th Feb., H. L. COOPER and Miss L. J. REAL, at HENRY REAL’S by Rev. H. T. CLARK. ITEMS OF INTEREST “Why does marriage make men thoughtful?” asked a young lady of an old bachelor. “Well, I suppose it is because they are continually wondering what’ going to happen next.” The design for a monument to Gen. Grant has been selected. It is the one submitted by Mr. Whitehouse, of Chicago. It will cost $50,000 and is to be erected in Lincoln Park. The Rev. F. M. HAYWOOD, who preached the first sermon in Atlanta, Ga., and is now very aged, proposes presently to remove to Arizona in response to the call for a Baptist Minster in that territory. Senator Vest, of Missouri said in a speech the other day that “the rigors of the climate fo the west required the people to use intoxicating spirits. “Pull down your Vest.” Deputy United States Marshal Eugene Milliford and J. A. Milliford, acting under special authority from Collector E. W. Booker, have seized and destroyed an illicit distillery, near Coxville, in Etowah County. Gen. Bragg, of Wisconsin, is often described as plain, blunt man. Yet in the house the other day instead of telling Gen. Cutcheon he lied, told him he was disingenuous.” jokes – will come back later to transcribe HE HAS NOT FAR TO GO – (poem – will come back later to transcribe) ANNOUNCEMENT. FOR CIRCUIT CLERK We are authorized to announce S. M. SPRUILL as a candidate for the office of Circuit Clerk of Lamar County. Subject to the Democratic Party. Election in August, 1886. We are authorized to announce J. N. MCNEIL as a candidate for the office of Circuit Clerk of Lamar County. Election August next. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County. Election in August next. – W. G. MIDDLETON FOR PROBATE JUDGE We are authorized to announce J. E. PENNINGTON as a candidate for the office of Judge of Probate of Lamar County. Election next August. FOR CO. SUPT. OF ED. We are authorized to announce B. H. WILKERSON a candidate for County Superintendent of Education for Lamar County. Election next August. READ THIS – A FINE FARM FOR SALE I offer for sale my farm 6 miles north of Vernon on east side of Wilson’s Creek, containing three hundred ($320) and twenty acres. Well improved. One hundred acres under good fence; two hundred acres of good tenable land. Well timbered, plenty of good water and one of the healthiest localities in Lamar County. I have lived on it for the past ten years and there has not been a chill in my family during that time. If you want the best and cheapest plantations in this country, now’s your time to get it. For cash, it can be bought for $5 per acre. For further particulars, address: J. WESLEY CLEARMAN, Vernon, Ala. SOMETHING YOU NEED! The Cheapest and Best Weekly for an Alabama Reader In addition to his county paper and religious weekly, every citizen not able to afford a daily, needs a State weekly containing in full the latest news of his own commonwealth and of the world. Nothing is so instructive and improving to the family as good papers. The Montgomery Weekly Advertiser is now one of the largest and best weeklies in the South. It has twelve pages every issue of the latest news of the country. The Daily Advertiser receives the complete Associated Press dispatches, which no other Alabama daily does, and it has also a special news service of paid correspondents all over Alabama. The weekly contains the cream of all this costly news. The Alabama department contains everything fresh and full that can be of interest to an Alabama reader, and no paper in the South approaches it in value in this respect. Its market reports are especially looked after, and are fresh and reliable. Its type is large and clear, and easily read. In every way it is a model family weekly. But not only is it superior in quantity and quality, but its price is as low as the lowest. It has been reduced to One Dollar per year, to put it in reach of every Alabama family. Congress is now is session, and fights between the Republican Senate and the Democratic President are coming. The State campaign is also opening and the legislature will be in session next winter. It will be a great news year, and provision should be made to keep posted. The Advertiser is the Capital City paper, and has the finest facilities to supply the news. No prizes are offered, and no commissions can be given with this low price. The money’s worth is given in the paper itself. But any one who will send ten names with ten dollars will be given the paper free one year. Now is the time to begin. Sample copies sent free on request. Address SCREWS, CORY & GLASS, Montgomery, Ala. THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL now under the Principalship of JNO. R. GUIN, will open Nov. 2, 1885, and continue ten scholastic months. Able assistants will be employed when needed. Said school offers great advantages. Tuition as follows: Primary: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, Primary Arithmetic, per month………….$1.25 Intermediate: Embracing Practical Arithmetic, English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Higher Reading, English, Composition, and U. S. History, per month………..$2.00 High School: Embracing Botany, Physiology, Elementary Algebra, Physical Geography, Rhetoric, Natural Philosophy, Elocution, and Latin, per month……..$3.00 A reasonable incidental fee will be charged. Board can be had at $7 per month. Tuition accounts are due at the end of every two months. For further particulars, address. - JNO. R. GUIN, Principal, Fernbank, Ala. – October 28, 1885. ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE The State of Alabama, Lamar County By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of said county to the undersigned administrator of the estate of J. M. I. GUYTON, deceased, I will on Saturday the 18th day of March, 1886, in front of the court house door in said county, sell to the highest bidder the following real estate belonging to the said estate, to wit: An undivided half interest in west half of house and lot No. 32 in the town of Vernon. Terms, twelve months credit with two approved surities and vendors lien retained. This 18th day of February, 1886. W. A. YOUNG, Administrator of estate of J. M. I GUYTON APPLICATION TO SELL LAND State of Alabama, Lamar County Probate Court, February 8th, 1886 This day came J. G. TRULL, administrator of the estate of C. K. COOK, late deceased of said county, and filed application in writing and under oath, praying, for an order to sell certain lands in said application, described, for the purpose of paying the debts due and owing from said estate. It is ordered by the Court that 29th day of March, 1886, be a day for hearing and passing upon the same, when all persons interested can appear and contest the same if they see proper. - ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate (NOTICE NO. 4937) NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION LAND OFFICE OF MONTGMOERY, ALA Feb. 22, 1886 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler handled notice of his intention to make final proof in supports of his claim, and that said proof will be made before Judge of the Probate Court at Vernon, Ala on April 12th, 1886, viz: WILLIAM H. BICKERSTAFF, Homestead application No. 9385, for the s e ¼ n w ¼ n e ¼ s w ¼ Sec 4, T 15 and R 15 W. He names the following witnessed to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: J. W. GILMORE, S. H. SANDORS, ISAAC PENNIGNTON and W. G. MIDDLETON; all of Vernon, Ala. THOS. J. SCOTT, Register TAX ASSESSOR’S NOTICE (schedule same as other papers) ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE – estate of W. R. KIRK – (same as other papers) Ad for New Orleans Times Democrat – will come back to transcribe later PAGE 4 TOPICS OF THE DAY Mr. MOODY does not approve of church fairs. The evangelist says: “I think that they are an abomination. The idea of raffling and voting for the best looking man, and having girls sell cigars. I saw a church fair advertise that a man would kiss any girl for 25 cents. I had rather that you would worship in a barn than resort to any of these methods.” A colony of lepers is located at Tracadie, New Brunswick, in Gloucester County, on the shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. There is another small settlement of lepers in the British provinces, which is almost entirely unknown. It is situated in the western part of Cape Breton, near Lake Ainalie, the members being natives of the Highlands of Scotland. London increases its population by 46,000 every year. It has 1,000 ships and 10,000 sailors in its port every day. Its beer shops and liquor saloons would, if placed side by side, form a row seventy-eight miles long. Thirty- eight thousand drunkards are brought before its magistrates every year, and every Sunday seventy miles of open shops invite the purchaser to enter. Beggar lice is the name of a long, hard southern root which grows in bushy clumps and has a small blossom. These roots are dug in the sough and sold in bunches for tooth brushes. An old negro will dig forty bunches in a day and sell them for five cents apiece. “It keeps me and my little chillun out of the poor house.” said one. We sells tooth brushes to all sorts of folks, and tries to make an honest living by the help of the Lord.” At the recent opening of a new addition to the London Temperance Hospital – an establishment started to test the question as to the value of alcohol in the treatment of disease. It was stated that in only three out of upward of 3,000 cases last year had alcohol been used. In these three cases no sensible benefit had resulted, while the average mortality in the hospital since 1873 had been but five per cent. The number of patients treated since the commencement was 22,500. The whale fishery on the coast of Maine has come to an end. It not only proved an unprofitable industry, but the stench from the factories at Boothbay and Bristol was intolerable. The whales found off the coast were plenty in number, and were easily captured with bomb lances. While the blubber of an Arctic whale is generally two feet in thickness, that of the humpbacks, which is the species found on the Maine coast, rarely, if ever, exceeds three inches. The yield of a humpback is some twenty to thirty barrels and is a low- grade oil. During the existence of the industry nearly one hundred whales have been shot. Three steamers were employed and nearly one hundred men. The capital invested in steamers, factories, etc., was $30,000. A duel between a lady and a gentleman recently occurred at Warsaw. The latter had offered the lady his hand, which she refuted, whereupon he spread abroad reports injurious to her good name. Several gentlemen came forward in a knightly manner and volunteered to avenge her by challenging her calumniator to a duel. She replied that if a duel was required in order to vindicate her honor she conceived that she had a right and title to be one of the principals. The strong-minded damsel prided herself upon being a good shot, and resolved to punish her traducer, but not to injure him mortally. She sent him a challenge; he accepted it, and the duelists met in a place outside Warsaw. Happily both missed their aim. The lady wanted to fire a second time; but her second assured her that full reparation had been made. Her adversary was so moved by her masculine gallantry that he made her a formal apology, which she accepted. “Unquestionably a recognition by every individual of the early symptoms of canine rabies would be an extremely useful, valuable and life-preserving kind of knowledge, says the London Lancet. “A dog that slobbers with handing jaws and barks unnaturally is an easy description to remember, and ought to lead to the dog’s timely destruction. In the other form of kindness the animal is not dumb.’ but snappish, even while he retains perfect memory of his master and friends. In the variety also the bark is altered from the natural, and a dog’s master should be the earliest to recognize the change. Cauterizations of the dog bite is well enough in tits way but it is inadequate chiefly because the mischief has been done long before the caustic comes in contact with the wound, and partly because the caustic is rarely effectually and thoroughly applied. Undoubtedly the best thing that can be done is to such the wound freely, so as to draw as much blood and fluid from the bitten part as possible.” A German writer estimates the number of blind persons in the world at about 1,000,000. This is not a mere guess, but is based on accurate statistics, which show that on the average there is one blind person among every 1400. Hence, as this planet has about 1,400,000,000 inhabitants, this would make 1,000,000 blind folks. The European counters differ somewhat in the proportion of blind inhabitants. In Austria one person is blind of every 1785; in Sweden, of 1418; in France, of 1181; in Prussia, of 1111; in England, of 1037. Then follow, with a still larger percentage, Russia, Norway, and Finland. The largest number of blind persons is to be found in Egypt. At Cairo one person among twenty is blind, and Dr,. Frank of Vienna once encountered in one morning’s ramble almost one thousand blind men and women. Many are also found in China and Japan. Germany has the largest number of asylums for the blind, namely, 35; then follows England with 26, France 13, Austria-Hungary 10, Italy 9, Belgium 6 etc. America, Asia, and Africa together have only 6 asylums. THEIR CHRISTIAN NAMES (anecdote – will transcribe later) THOROUGHBREDS The English thoroughbred is essentially of pure Oriental blood, although doubtless somewhat mollified by unknown admixtures of that of the original British horse, before the days of stud-books, and the most careful breeding, which has prevailed during the past two hundred years. He is much larger than the Arab, and preferred by modern breeders as a source of the highest qualities of the horse – speed, bottom, style, action, and constitution. He has given the finest characteristic to all the breeds of England and America, excepting only the native breeds of ponies, and of the heavy draft horses of England and Scotland, which last affiliate closely with the heavy horses of Flanders and Denmark. Examples of this improvement are seen in the superb Cleveland bays, used chiefly as carriage horses, and in the excellent Suffolk Punch, an admirable horse-of-all-work, while the English hunter, which is not a breed, but a highbred grade, is doubtless the best saddle horse and heavy-weight carrier for-----, to be found in the world----, a typical war-horse for the use in modern warfare. – [American Agriculturist] CLIPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS Some of the crocodiles on the Fiji Islands are thirty feet long and weigh 1,000 pounds. A youth in Bohemia, being imprisoned for five years for theft, spent them in making a straw watch, five centimeters in diameter. It was an example of patience and ingenuity without parallel. While a Piute youth was asleep under a tall tree in the Eel River region, California, a huge nut fell with such force straight down on his upturned temple as to kill him. How many persons know that when they speak of a lumber room they are alluding not to odd bits of timber, but to the Lombards, or original pawn-brokers, whose apartments, filled with miscellaneous pledges, gave sanction to the use of this term? In the yard of a farmhouse at Augusta, Ga., there is an oak tree in appearance, but instead of growing acorns there are miniature formations of a singular nature. The usual cup for the acorn, and by which it is attached to the limb, is present, but is about the size of a pea, and contains four small seeds. Birds flock to the tree in great numbers and feast upon these seeds. A watchmaker in Newcastle, England, is aid to have completed a set of three gold shirt-studs, in one of which is a watch that keeps excellent time, the dial being about three-eighths of an inch in diameter. The three studs are connected by a strip of silver inside the shirt bosom, and the watch contained in the middle on is wound up by turning the stud above, and the hands are set by turning the one below. It is said that the first restrictive liquor law ever passed in this country was enacted in a little town in Rhode Island, and read as follows: “Every saloon-keeper who sells more than one gallon of liquor to a minor, shall be fined $1 and costs.: The first temperance pledge remembered in circulation in New England, was thus worded: “I solemnly swear to abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors on all occasions except on training days, wedding days, banquets and other great occasions.” MAKING BAGS Hardly half a century has passed since the first bag was turned out in New York in a sail-maker’s loft near the Battery. The man who first made a business of bag-making carried on business yet at the old stand, and his is one of the two New York houses that have refugees to join the loan pool and continue to do business independently. The exportation of American grain, that grew up suddenly, and the sewing machine gave an enormous impetus to the business. Machines that turn out a hundred bags an hour, sewn and finished, have replaced the slow and laborious work of hand-sewing of the early days. Now over a hundred kinds of sacks are made, form the coarsest gunny-bag for cocoanuts and cotton seed to the nobby shatuckett corn bag that make serviceable every day wear for Brazilian planters at the end of it journey. Thirteen kinds of sacks are made to hold coffee alone. But all of these are sold. Scarcely any of them come back. It is a curious fact, for instance, that of the two or three millions of coffee sacks of a certain make made and sent out annually from New York never one was known to return. Every bag of coffee that arrives in this port is resacked before it is started on its land journey South or West. Another sack is simply drawn over it and thus secured against catching cold in our variable climate, the coffee is shipped by rail. These sacks are peculiar and easily identified. Did any return by chance; but none ever do. “In forty years,” said the oldest bagmaker, “I never saw one come.” What became of them no one seems to know. Doubtless is some odd- corner they serve a useful purpose in afterlife of which our readers little dream. – [New York Express] Advertisements – will come back and transcribe at a later time. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar835gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 59.5 Kb