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The Lamar News April 1, 1886

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THE LAMAR NEWS

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor            VERNON, ALABAMA, APRIL 1 , 
1886           VOL. III. NO. 22

GOLD – [J. J. HOLLINS, in Detroit Free Press] – (poem – will transcribe later)

THE CANDELABRA – A BIRTHDAY STORY – (short story – will transcribe later)

A FORMAL CALL IN PERSIA
	From the paper in the Century by S. G. W. Benjamin, who has just 
returned from the court of Persia, where he was U. S. Minister, we quote the 
following:  “The manners of the courtly occupant of this Teheran mansion are 
guided by an etiquette that is indeed a law of the Medes and Persians, which 
changeth not.’  The visitor sends notice an hour or two previous to calling.  
If the visit is one of importance, notice is sent the previous day.  You will 
go in a fashion suited to your social position and the rank of the host.  
Whether on horseback or in a carriage, you will be accompanied by a number of 
mounted attendants.  As you approach the house, servants, mounted or on foot, 
come forth to meet you, and one returns with speed to announce your coming.  A 
dozen attendants escort you to the reception-room.  According to your relative 
rank, the host meets you at the foot of the staircase, at the door, or at the 
upper part of the room.  The question of seats is one also requiring the 
utmost circumspection in observing the various shades of rank.  If your rank 
is superior to that of the host, you are invited to occupy a sofa alone, at 
the upper corner, while the host sits on a chair or on the floor at your 
right.  The left is more honorable than the right in Persia.  If of equal 
rank, he occupies the sofa with you; but if you are inferior, then the 
positions are reversed.  The upper corner of the room is in any case the most 
honorable position.  If a number are present of various rank, each one knows 
his place at a glance.  The passing of refreshments is also a matter of 
undeviating strictness, the number and quality depending upon the time of day 
and the character of the guest.  The kalian, or water-pipe, offers a fine 
opportunity for a display of Persian manners.  According to precept and 
custom, a Mohammedan cannot smoke the same pipe with a Christian, and, except 
on rare occasions when the host is a man of progressive views, a separate pipe 
is furnished for a European visitor.  But among Persians it is the custom for 
the highest in frank to receive the pipe first, offering it to each in turn 
before smoking himself.  For an inferior to accept the offer is an incredible 
offense against good manners.  But each in turn after this ceremony takes a 
few whiffs at the pipe, all taking care to eject the smoke from the bowl 
before offering it to the next.  The attendants on such a n occasion leave 
their shoes at the door and retire backwards.” 

NOT MUCH OF A JOB
Bagley – Don’t try to bully me, sir!  I won’t have it!  Who are you, anyhow, 
to put on airs around me?
Blowhard – I, sir?  I am a self-made man, sir and I want everybody to know it.
Bagley – Everybody does know it, sir, and everybody considers you a very poor 
workman. – [Call]

OUT ON THE PICKET LINE – A SOLDIER’S INCIDENTS OF THE CIVIL WAR.  
Swimming The Rapidan After Tobacco = The Two Cavalrymen’s Fate
Thomas J. Murray, in the Washington Republican, gives the following incidents:
When our command was in front of Washington, and the vicious system of picket 
firing had been put an end to, I frequently met on the outpost many of my 
college mates from Georgetown University who were in the Union ranks.  They 
used to twit me for deserting my “unionism” for I used to wear the red, white 
and blue cockade when at college, but I got even with them one evening when a 
section of my company gobbled up a whole line of Federal pickets.  That was on 
the occasion when General McClellan held a grand review of his troops beyond 
Arlington Heights, and I presume the forward movement we made was intended by 
General Johnston to ascertain whether General McClellan was preparing an 
immediate onset on our lines.  At any rate I can say it now, although it was 
absolute neglect of duty as sergeant of the guard who had charge of the 
prisoners the same night, I winked at the escape of my old schoolmates, and 
perhaps some of them now living in the city recollect the matter well.  When I 
had become more seasoned and disciplined in warfare, they would not have 
escaped so easily.  Then I would have held my own father if he had been 
opposed to our cause.
A funny incident that I recollect – as incident to the topic herein talked of 
occurred on the Rapidan River in 1863, when the armies of the Potomac and of 
Northern Virginia were face to face.  At that time, having full confidence in 
the strategy of General Lee, we believed that we would finally win the fight.  
And that was in spite of the fact that rations were getting awfully low.  But 
the pickets on either side of the river thought there was a dearth on the one 
side of the tobacco, and on the other side of coffee, and in spite of the 
official orders they determined to exchange commodities.  Strict orders had 
been issued by the Confederate generals against any intercourse between the 
opposite armies, and, in a measure, the edict was properly regarded.  But it 
happened that a young fellow belonging to a federal regiment stripped off his 
clothes an swam across the Rapidan to exchange with the rebels on the next 
bank.  He had nearly got through with his “dicker” when the brigadier-general 
of the confederates came along, and the Yank hid behind a clump of bushes.  
The general knew his men and their practices, and, forcing his horse behind 
the bushes, he discovered the discomfited federal.  The Confederate general 
agreed to release the illicit trader on the condition that he would “do so no 
more.”  But apart from that there are tragic circumstances brought to my 
mind.  I have seen many episodes in the war between the states but I have 
never seen one that enlisted my sympathies more than the incident I will 
attempt herein to describe.
On a cold day in the latter part of December 1862, the writer’s company was 
picketing on the bank of the Rappahannock, immediately at the point where 
Burnside’s lower pontoon bridge was laid.  The river here is two or three 
hundred yards wide, swift and deep up to the bank.  Two Federal cavalrymen 
came down to the opposite bank and shouted to us that they had lots of coffee 
and sugar which they wanted to trade for tobacco.  They were told to come over 
as they said they had a boat.  They came across, and after the trade was 
completed they started back.  Now the men were dressed in their heavy 
overcoats, with capes and high cavalry boots and spurs.  The boat was a small 
plank scow, and we saw when they come over that it was leaking badly.  They 
bailed it out before they started on their return trip.  When within 40 yards 
of the opposite bank, in spite of the frantic efforts of the men to paddle it 
to shore, it went down under them, and, dragged down by their weight of 
clothing, they sank like plummets of lead in full view of their comrades, who 
were unable to render the slightest assistance, having no other boat.

GRANT AS A DRILLMASTER
	General Grant in the first volume of his “memories” thus describes one 
of this early experiences during the Civil War in drilling troops:
	“Up to this time my regiment had not been carried in the school of the 
soldier beyond the company drill, except that it had received some training on 
the march from Springfield to the Illinois River.  There was now a good 
opportunity of exercising it in the battalion drill.  While I was at West 
Point the tactics used in the army had been Scott’s and the musket the 
flintlock.  I had never looked at a copy of tactics from the time of my 
graduation.  My standing in that branch of studies had been near the foot of 
the class.  In the Mexican War in the summer of 1846, I had been appointed 
regimental quartermaster and commissary and had not been at a battalion drill 
since.  The arms had been changed since then and Hardee’s tactics had been 
adopted.  I got a copy of tactics and studied one lesson, intending to confine 
the exercise of the first day got the commands I had thus learned.  By pursing 
this course from day to day I thought I would soon get through the volume.
	“We were encamped just outside of town on the common, among scattering 
suburban houses with enclosed gardens, and when I got my regiment in line and 
rode to the front I soon saw that if I attempted to follow the lesson I had 
studied I would have to clear away some of the houses and garden fences to 
make room.  I perceived at once, however, that Hardee’s tactics –a  mere 
translation from the French with Hardee’s name attached – was nothing more 
than common sense and the progress of the age applied to Scott’s system.  The 
commands were abbreviated and the movement expedited.  Under the old tactics 
almost every change in the order to march was preceded by a “halt” then came 
the change, and then the “forward march.”  With the new tactics all these 
changes could be made while in motion.  I found no trouble in giving commands 
that would take my regiment where I wanted it to go and carry it around all 
obstacles.  I do not believe that officers of the regiment ever discovered 
that I had never studied the tactics that I used.

HOW HERRING ARE CURED
	In Mr. Perley’s Report of the Fisheries of the Bay of Fundy, the 
manner of curing herring is thus described:
	The fish are scaled by being washed in bushel baskets with a square 
bottom, open like a coarse sieve, the men standing in the water up to their 
knees.  The best fish have very few scales, and only half a bushel of them are 
taken in the basket at once; they are then salted in large tubs, the salt 
being stirred through them by hand.  The quantity used is half a bushel of 
salt to two and a half barrels of fish, which are a tub full.  They lie in 
salt twenty-four hours, and are then washed in fresh water to prevent their 
becoming “salt burnt” after which they are strung on rods with their heads all 
one way, and then hung up in the smoke-house.
	In Clements the smoke-houses are usually thirty feet square with 
fourteen foot posts and a high roof.  No fish hang nearer the fire than seven 
feet, but the most careful curers do not hang them nearer than eight feet.  
Rock maple is used in smoking; when it can not be procured ash is used, being 
considered next best.  The process of smoking usually occupies eight weeks, 
and it requires the whole time of one person to watch the fire and to attend 
to the smoking, in which much judgement and great care are required.  The 
smoke is usually made up at nightfall, unless the weather is warm and wet, 
during which time no fires are made.
	In fine weather the smokehouses are thrown open during the day to 
cool, and the greatest care is taken all the time to keep down heat, and to 
render the smoke as cool as possible by numerous windows and openings.  After 
being smoked, the fish are packed in boxes, eighteen inches long, ten inches 
wide and eight inches deep, measured on the inside’ and there should be twenty-
four dozen fish in a box of prime herring.  If the fish are large and of the 
best quality, it requires some pressure to get this number into a box.  The 
Digby herring are in some instances cured in pickle, unsmoked and packed in 
half-barrels. – [Scientific American]

A SPINNING SONG – (poem – will transcribe later)

HUMOROUS – (jokes – will transcribe later)

A WOMAN’S SEARCH FOR GOLD
	Mrs. Mallen lives all alone in a little cabin on the top of a mountain 
in Colorado.  The house is 10,000 feet above the level of the sea and over 
3,000 feet above the nearest town of Buena vista.  They call the mountain Gold 
Hill because there are veins of gold in it, and Mrs. Mallen works with pick 
and shovel to get the gold out.  She built the house herself, cut the timber 
with her own brown hands and made the furniture from designs of her own.  Two 
soap-boxes cut into the shape of chairs serve as a seat; the bed is made of a 
swinging laterlacing of pine branches.  Mrs. Mallen has lived all alone in 
this cabin for two years, and fiercely resents any intrusion on her privacy.  
She carries water from a spring nearly a mile away, and on Saturdays carries 
up the steep mountain path a load of supplies that would stagger the strongest 
man.  She supports herself by doing odd jobs about the village, and when she 
has earned enough to live for a week she goes back to her cabin and makes 
sallies from there, pick in hand, to search for gold.  Mrs. Mallen is robust, 
but not particularly handsome woman. – [Cincinnati Enc.]

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THE LAMAR NEWS
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The coming of ex-President Jeff Davis to Montgomery promises to be a grand 
event.

Six hundred and thirty five removals of fourth class postmasters were made 
from March 4th, 1885 to March 3d, 1886, inclusive.

A number of telegrams from Washington have been sent announcing that Secretary 
Manning was very low and had sent for his family.

The Geneva South Alabamian says Judge Clayton and Judge Carmichael addressed 
the people a few days ago upon the general condition of the State.

Henry Ward Beecher has requested the prayers of the congregation of Plymouth 
Church for the salvation of Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, who has fallen from 
grace as a Mugwump and is now waging war against President Cleveland.

There are many important measures now pending before Congress, among them the 
tariff on which a majority of neither of the great political parties can 
agree; the silver question affords a wide field for buncombe, especially on 
Saturdays, which is designated as “wind day” in the House.

The dudes, tramps, and hotel loungers of Washington are expressing their wrath 
against the President for nominating a New York nigger as recorder of deeds 
for the District of Columbia.  These chaps put on more airs than the real 
estate owners of the District, and remind us of the devil when he took the 
Savior on the mountain and offered him the world if he would fall down and 
worship him, when Old Nick didn’t own an inch of land in all creation .

Four of the most valuable members of the House of Representatives, all of whom 
would have been re-elected without difficulty if they had yielded to the 
wishes of political friends, have made known their intention to retire from 
public life.  The members in question are Randolph Tucker, John S. Barbour, 
Abram S. Hewitt, and Patrick A. Collins.  The majority in the House cannot 
well afford to lose these conspicuous and able Democrats. – [Advertiser]

[Fayette Journal]
	We had the pleasure of a visit from GEORGE C. ALMON, Esq. of Franklin 
County this week.  Mr. ALMON is a candidate for Senator from this district, 
and our bag and citizens who have had the pleasure of forming his 
acquaintance, speak of him in very high terms.  Were it not that we have a 
worthy man in our own county whom we all wish to see again I Legislative 
harness, we don’t think we could do better than support Mr. Almon.  Mr. Almon 
received the unanimous endorsement of his party in Franklin last Saturday.  
See his announcement elsewhere.

President Cleveland, in refusing to comply with the request of the Republican 
Senate, is following the example of Andrew Jackson, who in 1833 sent the 
following letter to the Senate:
Washington, December 12, 1833
To the Senate of the United States:
	I have attentively considered the resolution of the Senate of the 11th 
instant requesting the President of the United States to communicate to the 
Senate a copy of the paper which has been published, and which purports to 
have been read by him to the members of the executive department, dated the 
18th day of September last, relating to the removal of deposits of the public 
money from the Bank of the United States and offices.  The executive is a co-
ordinate and independent branch of the government, equally with the Senate, 
and I have yet to learn under what special authority that branch of the 
legislature has the right to require of me an account of any communication 
either verbal or in writing, made to heads of the departments, acting as a 
Cabinet council.  As well might I be required to detail to the Senate the free 
and private conversation I held with those officers on any subject relating to 
their and my won.  Feeling my responsibility to the American people, I am 
willing upon all occasions to explain to them the grounds of my conduct, and I 
am willing upon all occasions to give to either branch of the legislature any 
information in my possession that can be useful in the execution of the proper 
duties confided to them.  Knowing the constitutional rights of the Senate, I 
shall be the last man under any circumstances to interfere with them.  Knowing 
those of the executive, I shall at all times endeavor to maintain them 
agreeable to the provisions of the constitution and my solemn oath to support 
and defend it.  I am constrained, therefore, by a proper sense of my own self-
respect, and of the rights secured by the constitution to the executive branch 
of the government, to decline a compliance with your request.
-	ANDREW JACKSON

STATE SENATOR
[Marion County Herald]
	The General Assembly of the State of Alabama, in its wisdom a number 
of years ago, associated the counties of Lamar, Fayette, Marion and Franklin 
into a little sisterhood and christened it the 12th Senatorial District of 
said state.  Each member of this family of counties has had the honor of 
furnishing a representative in our state councils, except Franklin.  Now 
Franklin, which has by force of circumstances, been compelled to stand aside 
and give the preference to each of her sister counties, Lamar, Fayette, and 
Marion, Franklin comes forward and presents a candidate to the Democracy of 
the District in the person of JUDGE GEORGE C. ALMON, who is in every respect 
worthy of the most cordial support. Mr. Almon is a man richly endowed with a 
high order of intellect.  His political afflictions and party faculty is in 
perfect harmony with the Democracy of the State, and his scrupulous fidelity 
to every trust makes him eminently suited for a most efficient Senator.  As 
common courtesy and justice demands that Franklin county should have the honor 
of furnishing the next Senator for the 12th District, and as she has united 
upon Judge Almon we hope to see harmony prevail in the Convention and Judge 
Almon unanimously nominated.
	We would like to know what Franklin county has done that she should be 
ignored now, when every principle of right and justice accords to her our next 
Senator – has she failed in a  single instance to do her whole duty by the 
Democratic nominee of each and every Convention?  She has uncomplainingly 
consented to be last in the award of honors, and now sheer justice entitles 
her to the honor of furnishing the next Senator for the 12th Senatorial 
District.  We believe that we voice the sentiments of three-fourths of the 
Democracy of Marion County when we say that she will vote solidly for Judge 
Almon first, last, and all the time.

JAMES T. ALLEN.  Vernon Ala having recently attended the Alabama Normal Music 
School is prepared to teach classes in Lamar and adjoining counties. Write him 
for terms and have a class this winter.

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.

BARBER SHOP – For a clean shave or shampoo, call on G. W. HENSON, in rear of 
Dr. BURN’S office, Vernon, Ala.

NOTICE TO DELINQUENT TAX PAYERS
D. J. LACY, tax collector of Lamar County, Alabama, has this day filed in my 
office a list of defaulting tax payers of the year 1885, and the 1st Monday in 
April 1886, being a day for examining and passing upon said report and 
rendering decrees for the sale of any or ad of lands assessed and reported as 
above to pay the taxed due on said lands, to wit:

(NOTE:  I WILL GIVE NAMES AND BEATS, BUT PRINT IS SO SMALL AND FAINT, I CAN’T 
READ ALL THE LAND DESCRIPTIONS AND TAXES DUE.  If interested in details, 
please email me at howven@sbcglobal.net and I can make a photocopy of paper 
for legal descriptions for you.)
TOWN BEAT
JAMES OLDSHUE
OWNER UNKNOWN
OWNER UNKNOWN

LAWRENCE’S BEAT
D. F. FOWLER
D. FOWLER
OWNER UNKNOWN

HENSON’S SPRINGS
OWNER UNKNOWN
W. R. WEST
OWNER UNKNOWN

BETT’S BEAT
T. D. BOOTH
T. E. DOWDLE

VAIL’S BEAT
MRS. JOEL GIBSON
M. M. HALL
J. V. VASSER

MILLPORT BEAT
L. PALENGER’S ESTATE
OWNER UNKNOWN
COL. VERGO

STRICKLAND’S BEAT
L. P. HUMBER
S. RANDOLPH

WILSON’S BEAT
C. L. HILL
M. A. HARRIS
ALFRED POE

TRULL’S BEAT
H. H. HOLLOWAY
S. M. MEEK

When and where all persons interested in any of said lands can contest and 
report if they see proper.
-	ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate

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

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.

Ad for The Times-Democrat – New Orleans

Ad for The Chicago Cottage Organ

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.

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.

Ad for Pianos and Organs – J. GARRISON of Cullman, Ala.

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.

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY APRIL 1, 1886    
         
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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

Big for Vernon:  Two newspapers.

Snow yesterday, last day of March.

The streets are being worked this week.

Dr. W. L. MORTON paid Columbus a visit Friday last.

The high water has interrupted the mails this week.

A campaign newspaper is now the talk – Let ‘er come!

Many bridges have been swept away by the flood this week.

There is only one prisoner now in jail – FRANK BOLIN who is under sentence to 
the Penitentiary.

Rev. G. L. HEWITT preached an interesting sermon in town on last Sunday.

Mr. N. F. MORTON has returned from Birmingham and says that it is a wonderful 
place.

Our attorneys will gather their saddle-bags and be off to Hamilton last of the 
week.

The Marion County Herald comes out in a strong editorial for the Hon. GE.O. C. 
ALMON for Senator from this district.  See it copied elsewhere.

We are told that large filed of corn will be to plant over on account of the 
excessive washing away of the plowed ground by the recent rains.

Miss ELIZA MORTON is the happy owner of one of those fine organs made by the 
Wilcox A. White Co.  The organ gives complete satisfaction to the most 
exacting.

The mail pouch sent out from Columbus, Miss has a large torn place and the 
attention of the officials at Columbus ahs been called to the fact but the p—
rch is still…(torn)…

April fools are in order.

See “Notice of Probate Will” of W. P. RUSH, deceased.

This morning, the 1st day of April, a heavy frost and plenty of ice.

The candidates who have announced in the News are fast taking the lead.

Do not put off until tomorrow what ought to be done today.

JAS. M. MORTON Esq. attended court at Fayette last week.

We received a pleasant call from Mr. J. C. REEVES Monday.

To fear God and love your neighbor embraces more commands than two.

CAPT. SHIELDS and SHERIFF PENNINGTON visited Fayette C. H. latter part of last 
week.

The town boys are playing marbles now while the farmers are at work, but when 
fall comes the thing will change.

A post office has been established at Augora, in southwest corner of this 
county.

More new gardens and other improvements being made than usual.  Vernon is 
still on a boom.

Have all of the candidates been announced?  If not come forward and let the 
dear people know you are a candidate.

The cotton plating season is near at hand, and those of our farmers who plant 
for more than eight cents will get left.

Remember that on Saturday the 10th day of April, the Democratic Executive 
Committee meets in Vernon.  After which, some life will be thrown into 
politics.

Dr. EMMET MORTON, who graduated with distinction at the Alabama Medical 
College, has returned home.  He is a young man who will wear such honors well.

MARRIED:  Mr. W. A. GIFFORD and Miss M. E. PENNINGTON, by D. G. W. HOLLIS M. 
G. on 25th ult, at the residence of MARTIN PENNINGTON.

A move is on foot to get a daily mail from some station on the Georgia 
Pacific.  By having a daily mail and hack line we would get the daily papers 
the day printed, besides the hack line would give many conveniences.

A BOOM FOR VERNON.  It is rumored that a movement is on foot with a select 
number of politicians to honor Vernon with another newspaper.  The candidates 
in question are Hons.  J. H. BANKHEAD, for Congressional honors; JNO. B. 
SANFORD, for Senatorial honors; D. W. HOLLIS, for Representative; and GEO. E. 
BROWN, for Probate Judge.

Our attention has been called to the fact that parties have married in Lamar 
county whom we gave no account of in the News.  This fault is not ours.  We 
can only obtain from the Marriage Record the names of parties whose licenses 
have been returned, and sometimes it is a month before license are returned, 
and in this way only we have failed to note their marriage, thinking it would 
be rather stale news.  We would be pleased if all marriage licenses could be 
returned as soon as served.

A correspondent of the North Alabamian in an article giving a report of the 
Franklin County Convention has this to say of Judge Almon:
	Mr. ALMON was born and raised in our sister county of Lawrence, came 
to this county several years ago where he entered the practice of law, married 
here, and has spent his entire professional life in this county.  He is 
earnest and successful in his profession, is a thorough, working Democrat, ahs 
done the party earnest and faithful service in every campaign since he has 
been with us.  He has refused the repeated and earnest appeals of his many 
friends to run for office time and again, and this is the first time he has 
ever consented to become a candidate before the people for any office in (TORN)
…gift.  He, by appointment of…Cobb, served out the unexpired….of Judge Moore 
as Probate Judge….county, and although urged to,…the next term he refused, pre…
to interrupt his regular…  But he served long enough…himself one of the most 
faithful…servants the county ever… He will be nominated and elected…the State 
Senate without doubt.

THE SHILOH SCHOOL
Mr. Editor:
	On Friday last, the writer had the pleasure of attending the closing 
exercises of the Shiloh School, six miles north of Vernon.  This school is in 
the heart of one of the best, and most prosperous neighborhoods in the county, 
and has been, the past season, under the efficient management of Prof. G. W. 
YOUNG of Fayette County.  The Prof. seems to have a natural talent for 
teaching, and this, with a long experience in the business, ahas given him the 
reputation of being one of the best teachers in the state.  The examination of 
the different classes showed that the Prof. had been untiring in his labors, 
and the pupils had not been idle. 
	After the examination was over, an intermission of one hour was given, 
for recreation, when the ladies spread a bountiful dinner, which was by no 
means a small feature in the day’s exercises.  The afternoon was spent in 
recitations, declamations, dialogues, etc, in which the pupils acquitted 
themselves handsomely.
	A** M***
Vernon, Ala., March 29th, 1886

FROM THE INDIAN TERRITORY
KULLY CHANA, march 18, 1886
Editor Lamar News:
Dear Sir:
	Thinking it might interest some of the many readers of the News to 
hear from the Indian Territory and Arkansas, I write a few items in my rude 
way.
	The white men of the Choctaw Nation are energetic hard working people, 
going ahead improving the Indian lands, as if it were deeded to them.  Those 
that have been here some time, are doing well – the most of them have from 50 
to 150 acres of land in cultivation, from which they gather from 800 to 1250 
pounds of cotton per acre, and from 30 to 40 bushels of corn per acre.
	While there is no law that has any justification over the white man 
here except for murder and theft, everything is quiet.  All pay their just 
debts and get along as well as if there was ever so much law.
	The Indians are indolent people; never do anything only ride around to 
whisky shops, where they drink to their content.  The Indian government is 
slack and wanting in many respects.  It is getting closer on the white man 
every year.  The required permit must come or remove beyond the Choctaw line.
	Last but not least is the excitement over the railroad from Fort 
Smith, Ark. to Paris, Tex., the greatest ever known.  The farmer, the 
merchant, the politician and all talk railroad.
	Respectfully,
	P. R. WILEMON

LIVINGSTON, ALA., March 13, 1886
Editor Livingston Journal:
	The clipping from an exchange that appeared in the last issue of your 
paper referring to me as a candidate for Congress renders it necessary, in my 
judgement, that I should make some declaration of my intentions on the subject.
	It seems to me, after dispassionately considering the matter, that the 
duties I owe my family, and to clients, who have interested me with important 
business matters, should prevent me from entering a canvass that would require 
so much of my time; and responding to this sense of duty.  I now state that I 
will not voluntarily be a candidate for the nomination.
	Very respectfully,
	JNO. J. ALTMAN

OVER THE STATE
The largest tax payer in Jackson pays the State and county $410.

The State Medical Convention is to be held at Anniston this month.

SAM BLACKWELL, of Morgan County, will be in all probability be a candidate for 
Congress in the Eighth district.

The Greensboro Methodist Sunday School has 181 pupils, officers and others on 
its roll.

The Selma Times strongly urges for general adoptions of the Marengo and 
Montgomery primary election plans.

McIver, of Tuskagee, has withdrawn from the race for secretary of state and 
Col. Keifer is till in the ring.

Judge WILLIAM RICHARDSON of Madison County, is a candidate for Congress in the 
8th District.

A man in Cleburne County recently lost his wife by death one Tuesday and he 
was married the next Tuesday.

The Republican Executive Committee of Alabama, met at Montgomery on 23rd, and 
called a State Convention to meet June 23rd.

Miss JERNIGAN has been appointed post mistress at Kirkland.

The political pot is boiling in Lee County.

A German Nobleman is going to establish a colony in Alabama.

Alabama coal is being carried into the South American Republics.

The Executive Committee of Conecuh County has ordered a primary election to be 
held on the 15th day of May.

The New South, is the name of a new pictorial paper of 16 pages just made its 
appearance in Birmingham.

The young men of Birmingham will organize in a few days a bicycle club of 
fifteen members.

Prohibition prevails at Centre, Cherokee County.

A large hotel is being built on Monte Sano, near Huntsville.  The cost will be 
about $30,000.

The Mormons have secured several converts in Clay County.

Contracts are out for the Memphis, Birmingham and Atlantic R. R.


Colonel A. G. HENRY of Guntersville, has given $500 to the Southern University 
of Greensboro.  This is the second gift of his to this university.

33,000 tickets were ordered printed for the Moody & Sanskey meetings in Selma.

Mrs. J. W. WARD, of Dale, appeals to the Governor for communication of the 
sentence of execution passed upon her husband for murder.  The Governor 
declines to interfere.

There are1,000 laborious at work on the Georgia Pacific road and the entire 
gap of forty two miles is being worked.  It is expected to be completed in 
time to haul off this year’s cotton crop.

Pike County will make use of thirty percent more compost and homemade 
fertilizers this year than ever before.

A farmer’s club of Montgomery County recently adopted the following 
resolution:  “Resolved, that we, the members of this club, respectfully ask 
Senator Morgan to vote for the educational bill or resign his seat.”

The question of convention or no convention for county officers seems to be 
agitation the people all over the state.  They seem to be swayed generally by 
the way their favorite candidate leans, and he leans whichever way he thinks 
his best chances are.  If this is all, we lose interest. – [Eutaw Mirror]

The University of Alabama now has a post office of its own, and mail intended 
for that institution, its officers or cadets should be addressed to 
the “University of Alabama” instead of Tuscaloosa, Ala, as heretofore.  Mrs. 
Gorgas, the librarian of the university, is postmistress.

The Gadsden News says: Last Sunday was a grand and glorious day in this 
history of our mountain-bound city.  Nearly one hundred and fifty souls – 
souls that had before helped to swell the ranks of Satan: That had caused so 
much grief and sorrow and suffering among those who loved them dearest; that 
had led so many to stray away from the Good Shepherds flock, and made our city 
an almost impregnable stronghold for the devil in the worldly pleasures and 
evil ways of wickedness – joined the different churches in the city, and 
proclaimed to the world that henceforth they would fight under the banner of 
the Cross.

The members of the Alabama Delegation in Congress has selected Hon. John M. 
Martin, our representative, as the Alabama member of the Congressional 
campaign Committee.  This is a distinction which rarely falls to the lot of a 
new member, and we congratulate Mr. Martin upon the honor while, at the same 
time, we feel proud to be represented in congress by a gentleman of such 
marked ability, and gratified that this ability is acknowledged by his 
colleagues. – [Tuscaloosa Times]

ITEMS OF INTEREST

President Cleveland was 49 years old on the 18th of March.

The capitol at Washington has cost about $100,000,000.

Happy marriages are composed of three parts of love, one part money, and the 
balance is good health and good common sense.

Except the one now in office, there is not a man living that ever occupied the 
position of President of the U. S., having been regularly elected by the 
people.

Chicago and Hell have generally been considered synonymous.  If so, Messrs. 
Hones and Small may now be said to have captured Old Nick’s head quarters.

The State election in Rhode Island will take place on the 7th of April.  The 
people will be asked to vote on two amendments – one to allow soldiers and 
sailors of foreign birth who served in the late war to vote without property 
qualification, and the other prohibiting the manufacture and sale of 
intoxicating liquors in the state.

New York, March 25 – Jay Gould was asked yesterday if the Missouri Pacific Co. 
might submit to a compromise rather than prolong the contest.  He 
replied:  “There can be no compromise.  I am bound to fight this question to 
the bitter end.  I have asked the opinion of Judge Dillion as to our legal 
rights. He says the company has a legal remedy against the Knights of Labor in 
suits for damages.  We shall sue members of the organization, and the papers 
in the case are being prepared.  We propose to recover damages from every 
member who has any property.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS

FOR SENATOR
We are authorized to announce the name of GEORGE C. ALMON of Franklin County, 
as a candidate for the State Senate from the 12th Senatorial District, 
composed of the counties of Lamar, Marion, Fayette and Franklin.  Subject to 
the action of the Democratic convention.

FOR REPRESENTATIVE
We are authorized to announce J. D. MCCLUSKEY as candidate to Represent Lamar 
County in the next General Assembly.  Election next August.

We are authorized to announce R. L. BRADLEY as a candidate to represent Lamar 
County in the next General assembly of Alabama.  Election 1st Monday in August.

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 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

We are authorized to announce W. W. PURNELL as a candidate for Clerk of the 
Circuit Court 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.

We are authorized to announce B. MCADAMS (cripple) as a candidate for County 
Superintendent of Education for Lamar County.  Election next August.

We are authorized to announce W. J. MOLLOY as a candidate for the office of 
County Superintendent of Education of Lamar County.  Election 1st Monday in 
August.

NOTICE TO PROBATE WILL
State of Alabama Lamar County
In Probate Court, March 29th, 1886
This day came GEORGE W. RUSH and filed in this court a paper purporting to be 
the last Will and Testament of W. P. RUSH, late deceased, and the 20th day of 
April, 1886 being a day appointed for examining and passing upon said paper.  
This is therefore to notify J. D. RUSH, heir at law of said estate, and all 
others interested to appear in this Court on said 20th day of April 1886, and 
contest all matters pertaining to the same if they see proper.
	Given under my hand on the 29th day of March, 1886.
	ALEXANDER COBB, judge of Probate.

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 PENNINGTON and W. G. MIDDLETON; 
all of Vernon, Ala.
	THOS. J. SCOTT, Register

ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
Within legal hours, on Saturday the 7th day of April 1886, by order and decree 
of the Probate Court of Lamar County, Alabama, as Administrator de bonis non, 
of the estate of W. K. KIRK, deceased.  I will sell to the highest bidder, at 
public outcry, at the court house door of said county, on credit of twelve 
months, as the property of said estate, the following lands, to wit:  (large 
legal description – if interested, contact howven@sbcglobal.net for photocopy 
of notice )
	Also an undivided half interest in the West half of lot numbered 32 in 
the town of Vernon, Sec 16 T 15 R 15.
	Purchasers must give notes with at least two good sureties.  This 
March 25th, 1886.
-	W. A. BROWN, Administrator.

ESTATE OF JOEL E. GIBSON
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, March 5th, 1886
	In the matter of the estate of JOEL E. GIBSON deceased, THOS B. 
NESMITH, administrator of said estate, having filed his report in writing and 
under oath, alleging said estate insolvent, and this being the day for passing 
upon said report and it appearing to the court that notice had not been given 
as required by law.  It is therefore ordered that the 1st day of April 1886 be 
and is a day to which the hearing of the same be confined when and where all 
persons interested can appear and contest the same if they see proper.
-	ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate

The COLEMAN House (Formerly West House) W. S. COLEMAN Pro., Main St. Columbus, 
Miss.  Is now open for the entertainment of guests, and will be kept clean and 
comfortable; the table being supplied with the best the market affords.  Rates 
per day  $1.50.  Rates for lodging and 2 meals  $1.25. Rates for single meals  
$.50.  Rates for single lodging  $.50.  Call and try us.

Ad for Tutt’s Pills

Ad for Smith’s Bile Beans

Ad for New Home Sewing Machien

Ad for Collins Ague Cure

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LADIES DEPARTMENT

ONE OF FASHION’S FOIBLES
	Every woman who writes letters, and few of them grow too old or 
indifferent to make up a combination of postscripts, must now be provided with 
a seal and its adjuncts.  The outfit consists of a small tray, and on it a 
matchbox, a lamp, or candle and stick, a box containing sticks of wax of 
various colors and the seal itself.  These outfits come in great varieties and 
many of them are very handsome.  The cheapest are of polished copper ware and 
the most expensive are mad eof sterling silver and elaborately ornamented.  
The prices run from $1.50 up to $15 and $20 a set.  The seals cost about the 
same, the prices varying according to the handle.  Some handles are made of 
copper, some of carved wood and others of ivory and silver.  The engraving of 
the seal plates increases the price.  The stationers and jewelers are doing a 
brisk business just now in working at coats-of-arms, crests, monograms, and 
initial letters.  A monogram costs between $2 and $3, and crests and coats-of-
arms are charged for according to the amount of delicate detail there is in 
the work.

ONE WOMAN SOLVES THE PROBLEM
	The Spectator heard the other day of one instance which affords a 
practical answer to the question often asked by women who are left 
unexpectedly without means.  What shall I do for a living?  The lady who has 
afforded this answer was reared in a luxurious home, surrounded by ample 
wealth, and endowed with all the refinement and culture which wealth and the 
best society can afford.  Nature had happily also endowed her with that which 
wealth cannot afford, namely, common sense; and she availed herself of her 
advantage to go to a cooking school and become a mistress in the culinary 
art.  Misfortune befalling the family, has thrown her upon her own resources, 
with one or more dependent upon her.  Instead of falling into the long line of 
applicants for school teacher’s positions, or burdening the mails with 
children’s stories and poems, to be rejected by cold-hearted editors, she has 
called her cooking skill into requisition.  She has quietly let it be known 
among her old-time friends that she wills eve them in their kitchens on 
occasions.  When any one of the circle in whose parlor she once was and still 
night be a social ornament desires to give a specialty nice dinner or tea they 
send for her.  She brings her cooking wrapper in a little hand-bag, takes 
charge of the kitchen as the pilot does of a steamship on entering port, 
relieves the mistress of all care, anxiety, and concern, and sends up a 
charming meal, such as a less cultivated cook could not provide.  She is in 
such great demand that her prices have already doubled. – [Christian Union]

THE FUNNY SIDE OF DRESSMAKING
	“Dressmaking has its humorous side as well as anything else,” remarked 
a little black-eyed dressmaker on North Clark Street.  “There is the thin 
woman who will dress in snaky stripes, the scrawny girl who insists on a 
decollate gown, the matron of embonpoint who pleads for flounces to the waist, 
the matchlike maiden who wants a torturingly tight bodice, and the fluffy-
puffy little body who wants gathers.  But I never give in to them,” she 
continued with a snap of her eyes.  “I think too much of the human race I 
believe we all have one duty toward humanity.  Mine is to keep women from 
committing artistic suicide.  The little idiots come into my parlors, look at 
a fashion-plate, discover the picture of a lady in green gloves holding her 
fingers as if they were covered with molasses-candy, and decide that they want 
a dress like hers.  Now, there are nineteen chances out of twenty that the 
dress was never meant for her at all.  If they think so much of dress, why 
don’t they make a study of it?  There is a certain rich lady here, with the 
face of a Madonna, who came to me with goods for a plaid dress.  I wouldn’t 
make it for her.  ‘Madame,” I said, ‘you must dress in gray silk.’ I had my 
way.  There wasn’t a bit of trimming on that dress – nothing but draperies – 
and she looked like a goddess.  Then another mistake is the universal adoption 
of color because it is announced to be fashionable, regardless of the fact 
that the majority of the wearers are making perfect guys of themselves.  
Heliotrope is a point in question.  There is a young bride on State Street who 
came home from Europe last week with a dress of heliotrope.  Her skin is as 
dark as a Spaniard’s, and her hair and eyes are jet black.  She would have 
been magnificent in dark red or a could of black lace – but heliotrope!” and 
this of the dressmaker nearly died… - [Chicago News]

A COUNT OF NO ACCOUNT
	I am reminded of the sad story of a St. Louis girl who married a 
Russian, a Count Smirnoff, so called at least, who got into great disgrace and 
ruined the happiness of his wife forever, says a writer in the New York 
World.  She was a Miss Blow.  Her father was Henry T. Blow, a man of wealth 
and prominence at St. Louis twenty-five years ago.  He was in Congress during 
the war, and was later on appointed United State Minister to Brazil.  He died 
soon after the close of the war, and his five children were left nearly a 
hundred thousand dollars each.  While traveling abroad his eldest daughter, a 
very handsome young lady met Smirnoff.  He was a dashing fellow, with Count 
before his name, a designation that carries very little weight in Europe, 
where there are as many Counts as there are counties in the United States most 
of them as poverty stricken as tramps and willing enough to confer the empty 
honor of a title for something wherewith to be clothed and fed.  They were 
married, and she lived with him long enough for him to get all of her 
patrimony and waste it at the gambling table and in riotous living.  He 
finally turned up in prison, and his wife, now broken-heated and ruined, 
returned to her old home in St. Louis.  I saw her there about three years ago. 
She was till a young woman, but was completely crushed by her misfortunes.  A 
great change had taken place since she had gone to Europe as the beautiful 
bride of Smirnoff.  Her father had died, two brothers had inherited 
comfortable fortunes, which they had spent; one had died and the other was 
dependent on a maiden sister for support, while her own fortune and happiness 
had flown away forever.  A good many stories like this could be told of 
American girls who have married foreigners.

FASHION NOTES
Red is to be much worn by children this winter.

Hoods on street wraps are much worn in Paris.

Long circulars, lined with sable, are much called for.

Persian lamb is a fur which is much used in trimming walking costumes.

Egyptian lace is to be much used for under skirts in evening costumes.

The conspicuous features of winter millinery is wool fabrics and rosary beads.

The great fault of capes and sleeveless mantels is that they do not protect 
the arms.

Turquoise blue and deep sapphire make the two extremes of the blues shown this 
season.

Something new in shoulder capes is one of astrakhan, trimmed with a border of 
black lynx.

Astrakhan cloth and satin ribbons, in bands of equal width  trim some of the 
French hats.

The new bonnet shapes are close and snug in effect, although a trifle larger 
than last season.

Serviceable buttons for rough and ready jackets are made of cross rows of 
narrow soutache braid.

Chinchilla is a popular fur again and is seen as trimming and in the 
comfortable should capes.

Persian nets and edgings come in wool and the Angora styles, in the colors of 
Persian shawls or scarves.

The storm cloak, in waterproof cloth with a jaunty cape, will be much worn for 
rough weather by gentlemen.

Great variety is seen in the wraps of the season, which are more dressy and of 
richer material than ever before.

Sashes continue to be imported, and each new invoice shows new elegances and 
new and exquisite combinations of color.

Little girls wear a great deal of red and brown, but no matter how much color 
their frocks have, their stockings must be black.

There are some black dress stuffs for evening wear which are very sumptuous 
and beautiful.  These are brocades with the figures outlined in jet or cut-
steel beads.

Bonnets of felt, cut in narrow strips and braided after the manner of coasrse 
straw, are noveltieis.  They are cottage shapes, faced with velvet and brimmed 
with velvet, silk or satin ribbons, feathers or birds.

A complete set is composed of bonnets and muff of the same material and like 
trimming, and in some cases the muff attaches itself to the strings of the 
bonnet and is pinned to the belt with fancy pins.

Feather fans in oblong form, with long ivory, bone, celluloid, or carved wood 
handles, are coming in vogue for dressy occasions.  Several different kinds of 
feathers compose the fan, and frequently the feathers are made more brilliant 
than natural by the addition of tinsel and bright dyes.

CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS

Horseflesh is largely used for food in Manchester, England.

The weight of Jumbo was 7 ¼ tons and his height 11 ½ feet.

A military balloon just invented in France is shaped like a whale and presents 
an extraordinary appearance when raised in the air.

The people of Ceylon use honey instead of salt for preserving meat.  A 
traveler says meat so preserved is of exquisite flavor.  It is kept in earthen 
pots and remains good for several years.

At a recent grange fair in Lunenburg County, Va., the wife of Rev. Mr. Allen 
exhibited a curiosity in the shape of a lady'’ bonnet made entirely of fire-
cured tobacco.  It was a beautiful specimen of ladies handiwork.

The first Sunday School in the United States was held in Roxbury, Mass., in 
1674.  A Sunday School was established in Ephrata, Pa, in 1740.  The first of 
modern Sunday Schools in this country was instituted by Bishop Asbury, in 
Hanover county, Pa., in 1786.

The Greeks devoured the flesh of the hedgehog.  When it has been well fed it 
is sweet and well flavored, and the flesh is eaten in many places in England  
and on the Continent.  An American gentleman who partook of this dainty 
stewed, on the other side, says it reminded him a good deal of quail.

Mr. Hallam observes that though the English law never recognized the use of 
torture, yet there were many instances of its employment in the reign of 
Elizabeth and James.  The further adds that during the latter part of the 
reign of Elizabeth “the rack seldom stood idle in the tower.”

Attention has been called to two races of men that must soon become extinct.  
At the present rate of decrease, the Maoris of New Zealand – now reduced to 
less than 45,000 men from 100,000 in Capt. Cook’s day – must have disappeared 
by the year 2000.  The Laplanders are estimated not to exceed 30,000 in 
number, and are gradually becoming fewer.

GENERAL GRANT AS A CADET.
	In the North American Review General J. B. Fry, in an article 
entitled “An Acquaintance With Grant” makes the following interesting and 
picturesque statement:
	One afternoon in June, 1843, while I was at West Point, a candidate 
for admission to the Military academy, I wandered into the riding hall, where 
the members of the graduating class were going though their final mounted 
exercises before Major Richard Delafield, the distinguished engineer, then 
superintendent, the Academic board, and a large assemblage of spectators.  
When the regular services were completed, the class, still mounted, was formed 
in line through the center of the hall, the riding master placed the leaping 
bar higher than a man’s head and called out “Cadet Grant!”  A clean-faced, 
slender, blue-eyed young fellow, weighing about 120 pounds, dashed from the 
ranks on a powerfully built chestnut-sorrel horse, and galloped down the 
opposite side of the hall.  As he turned at the farther end and came into the 
straight stretch across which the bar was paled, the horse increased his pace, 
and, measuring this strides, for the great leap before him, bounded into the 
air and cleared the bar, carrying his rider as if man and beast had been 
welded together.  The spectators were breathless!  “Very Well done Sir,!” 
growled Old Herchberger, the riding master, and the class was dismissed and 
disappeared; but “Cadet Grant” remained a living image in my memory.  A few 
months before graduation, one of Grant’s classmates James A. Hardie, said to 
his friend and instructor, “Well, sir, if a great emergency arises in this 
country during our lifetime, Sam. Grant will be the man to meet it.”  If I had 
heard Hardie’s prediction I doubt not I should have believed in it, for I 
thought the young man who could perform the feat of horsemanship I had 
witnessed, and wore a sword, could do anything.

FROGS WIHOUT END
	The Winnipeg (Manitoba) Free Press tells of an artesian well that 
belched forth frogs by the million.  It is on the premises of John Benson, on 
Notre Dame Street.  They choked up the tank and the squirming mass had to be 
shoveled out, but the supply was practically unlimited.  They came in as fast 
as they could be taken out.  The frogs could be seen bobbing up serenely 
through the tub in a continuous procession; and it kept two men busy ladling 
them out.  The hens up the neighborhood had a regular jubliee over the 
unexpected supply of things, while several restaurants keeper negotiated with 
Mr. Benson for large quantities of them.

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