Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News April 22, 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, 9:11 pm The Lamar News April 22, 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, APRIL 22, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 25 WHAT CONSTITUTES THE NOBLE MAN (Poem - will transcribe later) THE FALL OF RICHMOND - A WOMAN’S ACCOUNT Mary Tucker Magill, in the Independent, gives an account of what was done to Richmond in the last days of the Confederacy, from which we quote as follows: Never did the sun shine more brilliantly than on the 2d day of April, 1865, a day long to be remembered by all those who anchored their hopes to the dying cause.” It was the Sabbath day, and as I was watering the Rev. Dr. Hoge’s lurch, I saw a friend who was an official in the commissary department. “What new!” I asked. “All quiet” was the answer. “A --- of Sunday rumors; even the croakers are quiet and peaceful, and were undisturbed by a few shots along the line early this morning. I did see some stragglers looking at the bulletin board as I passed; but I did not stop.” “You think Richmond is safe?” I asked. “Never safer. She made a narrow escape from being starved out a few weeks ago; and this frightened the people into -----their possessions into the city; and I was assured this morning by Captain H. that we had not been so safe for months.” I expressed my joy at the assurance; and we passed into the church together. My seat was very far forward, and I scarcely noticed what I remembered afterward, that there was a slight confusion during the service. At the summons of the sexton, one person after another left the church. Among these was the mayor of the city and the medical director of the ----. Dr. Hoge had finished his sermon and the closing prayer, and was reading the ---, when the sexton handed him a ----. Thinking it was some notice to be read out, the reverend gentleman laid it beside him and finished his task; and then, in turning to his seat, read the note. A second before the choir had time to ---the first note of praise, he turned back to his reading desk; and those who ---him can never forget the change which that moment had wrought. “Winds of sorrow” seemed to have rolled over his face in that second of time. So quick was the change that the whole congregation rose to their feet as one man, and stood as with suspended shriek, ------their doom from his lips. It was delayed for one moment, while, with ---revering face, he struggled to command himself sufficiently to speak. His voice came at last, shaking and quivering as he said: “My friends, I have just had news - news which rings my heart for myself, and you and for your children. I may not see you again for a long time. I thank you for many kindnesses. Farewell! Go directly to your homes, and remember amidst all these waves of sorrow that your father holds the helm.” Then, although he had not told us, we knew that the fate of Richmond was -----. Thereafter followed a scene which beggars description. There was a noisy demonstration, though a man could be heard cryi8ng here and there; but faces were distorted with grief, though few tears were shed. Now that the inevitable had arrived, I do not remember any recriminations or bitter --- icisms. We were one in sorrow and sympathy. If errors had been made, this was no time to re---- them. Friends grasped the hands of friends as on the eve of a long parting - a parting where life’s hopes lie -----. There were comforters who told that General Lee had said that a move on Richmond would be the best thing for the Confederacy; and we women --- on it as a “drowning man catches ---draws,” and believed it.” We said to each other that this was the turning point; and we tried to smile and convince each other and the men that ---, after all, was the very best thing that could happen.” The scene in the ---- no pen can describe. Men, with --- upon their faces, hurried to the government offices. The banks were ---, and depositors were withdrawing their gold, while the directors super--- the removal of the bullion. Officers rode madly about the streets, given ---; loaded wagons crowded the ----; householders busied ---- in secreting their valuables against the sacking of the city, which was confidently predicted. Richmond had for so long been the bone of contention between the two armies that the accumulated horrors of the whole war were anticipated. We women moved about, seeking out our friends and trying to buoy them up with the report of what General Lee had said. IT is true that we received very little encouragement; but in spite of this, and of our sinking hearts, we uttered brave words and deceived ourselves into declaring that we were “perfectly satisfied and confident that our cause was safe.” Amid these scenes the day wore away, and gave place to a night whose terrors have rarely been surpassed in our happy land. The army was leaving the city all night; friends parted from friends, husband from wife, father from child; tender maidens sent away their lovers with smiles girding their tears, with brave words and fainting hearts. Hundreds of citizens determined to leave with the army, and every available vehicle was pressed into service. But soon a more formidable enemy than the besieging army asserted the mastery over the city. Who gave the order for firing the tobacco warehouses will never be known. Probably it was done without authority, and due to the recklessness of some individual. The houses occupied a position in the heart of the city, and from them the fire spread rapidly; and, as a fearful addition to the horror of the hungry flames, a mob of hungry men, women, and children went from place to place, breaking open warehouses, and appropriating whatever fell to their hands. With a desire to prevent the mob and the incoming army from getting hold of the spirits, which was stored by the government, orders were given by the city officials to pour it into the streets. The gutters ran with it; and men, like swine, stooped and drank from the mire; and soon the flame, recognizing a kinship with the fiery stream, leaped to meet it , and roaring , crackling, and dashing in blue, red, and yellow waves, the two demons whirled down the streets, carrying destruction with them, and driving the frightened crowd before. At daybreak our shaken nerves were shattered by repeated terrific explosions following in rapid succession. It was the blowing up of the ironclads, whose advent had been welcomed with such hope. Unable to rest in the house, a friend and myself started out just after daybreak to see what the condition of things was. Soldiers crossed each other hurrying after their comrades, or, with sullen faces, returning home; hundreds of men and women came pouring up the streets with the spoils of the night upon then; here was a woman rolling a barrel of flour before her, followed by a child groaning under a basket too heavy for his strength; there was a man with a box of bacon, and another with a box of shoes; and, for a background to the scene, the lurid smoke rose toward heaven and through its angry blackness the rising sun sent its beams. As the day progressed the horrors increased. Some recklessly wicked person had cut the hose, and so all attempt to put out the fire was hopeless. It had progressed from the business portion of the town to the homes of the people. Fugitives filled the streets, who had only escaped with their lives from their burning buildings. Then a succession of rapid and terrific explosions frightened us anew. We thought the enemy had entered, and were at their dread work of vengeance. We soon found that it was the arsenal and the Tredegar works, which were not to be cheated of their wok of destruction, and were pouring their murderous shot and shell into the helpless., dying city, as if to vent their impotent rage. One more horror did I witness. About 10 o’clock, just before the entrance of the Federal army, a cry of dismay ran all along the streets which were out of the track of the fire; and I saw a crowd of leaping, shouting demons, in parti-colored clothes, and with heads half shaven. It was the convicts from the penitentiary, who had overcome the guard, set fire to the prison, and were now at liberty. Many a heart which had kept its courage to this point, quailed at the sight. Fortunately, they were too intent upon securing their freedom to do much damage. With the Federal army came protection. What we had looked forward to as our worst evil was a blessing, by bringing reason to our distracted people. By organized exertion the fire was controlled, and by night sank down to a smoldering, angry mass, ready to beak out at a moment’s notice. The fire had licked up everything consumable around three sides of the Capitol square, and the old Capitol building stood alone, like a Greek monument in the midst of the ruins of Athens. Upon the green grass of the square were collected hundreds of men, women and children, who had been “burned out”. In utter destitution they lay there, and looked up at the stars and stripes which floated over them, a token of their defeat and humiliation. One week passed. Another Sabbath found us still looking for “good news” from the fugitive army. We went to church, but were forbidden to offer prayers for the success of our arms. Our hearts vented themselves in silent petitions. When absent friends were prayed for we all “wrote between the lines.” A Baptist minister prayed. “O, Lord! Thou knowest what we so earnestly desire and dare not ask for in words. Grant it , oh, Lord! Grant it!” About eight o’clock we were sitting together silent, with tense nerves and aching hearts, when the sound of a gun broke the stillness. Another and another followed. We counted breathlessly until we had numbered one hundred; and that was all. All? No, not quite. Putting my head from the window, I asked a soldier who was passing. “What is the meaning of that firing?” The answer came: “Them guns is fired to celebrate the surrender of General Lee’s army, madam.” And that was all. A DANGEROUS PRACTICAL JOKE Recently some manufacturer has adapted a method of “loading” cigars of a certain brand with a chemical cartridge which takes fire soon after the weed is lighted. There is no sudden explosion which shatters the wrapper and sends fragments of burning tobacco in all directions, but from the end of the cigar a stream of fire shoots out to a distance of about three feet in a direct line. It makes a man look for a few seconds as if he were a gas tank and held a piece of broken gas pipe in his mouth. The man is in no danger so long as he keeps still and lets the cigar sputter away. To hold the weed firmly in the teeth at such a moment is a better test of a man’s nerve than to hang ton to the end of a burning Roman candle. The chief danger to be feared is that some man may drop a cigar and start a conflagration if he attempts to smoke indoors. In one department of the city government the clerks have found much amusement lately in dealing out cigars of the new brand and waiting for the displays of pyrotechnics. They suddenly abandoned that form of diversion a few days ago on account of an unexpected accident. One of the clerks had presented a cigar to an official, but it had been consigned to the official’s pocket until a more convenient time for smoking. That time came when the official got on the front platform of a street car and borrowed a ”light” from a stout German. The heads were close together, and the official was sucking the fire from the end of the German’s half burned weed, when there was a fizz like that which attends the flight of a rocket. A stream of fire played directly into the German’s face, scorching his cheek and obliterating one large, red side whisker in an instant. The German jumped off the car with a howl of anguish. He was followed by the astonished official, who began to make an apology. “You make one pig joke,” screamed the German, “but I haf you arrested.” The official was obliged to show his shield and give the name of the clerk who had furnished the obnoxious cigar before the German would believe his explanation. A day or two later the clerk received a letter from the German’s lawyer stating that a suit for damages had been authorized,. Fearing tat his position in the department would be forfeited if the facts came to the notice of a commissioner, the clerk made haste to settle. The sum of money which was needed as a salve to the German’s outraged feelings made a big hole in the clerk’s monthly pay. Warmed by his experience, the other clerks have since been experimenting with cigars “loaded” only with the teeth extracted form rubber combs. The fumes of burning rubber mixed with tobacco smoke have turned the stomachs of several case-hardened smokers. - [New York Tribune] AN ANTISEPTIC CLIMATE One of the most curious results of my observations is that the climate of Damaralnad possesses what we might call an antiseptic character for several months of every year. The quality is an attendant of the long annual drought. Every living thing suffers during that period from the excessive heat, and much comfort is impossible, even in the shade, while, in places exposed to the warm winds, the thermometer has rise to 129 degrees; and the sand, unmoistened for six months, becomes so hot that I have seen eggs hardened in it. This arid heat is opposed to the propagation of ferment, for it dries up everything that is exposed to the wind before it ahs time to sour. No manifestations of tuberculosis’s are known. Wounds of every kind heal remarkably quickly and well, without enough suppuration taking place to make the bandages stick. The manner in which large, neglected wounds heal of themselves would forma n interesting study for a professional surgeon. I observed a case of a Herero whose right lower arm had been shattered in battle by a musket-ball. The healing process had worked itself out in such a way that the whole lower arm with all its muscles had become withered and useless, while the upper arm bone was whole and veered at its lower end only with the brown skin. All the muscles and ligaments of the elbow-joint had vanished, while the should muscles remained, so that the unpleasant spectacle was presented of the man appearing to gesticulate with his bones. A woman lived at our station whose feet had been barbarously cut off in some war several years before, so that her captors might more easily get off the iron ornament which the Herero woman wear on their ankles. Although the woman had to lie helpless for a long time, her wounds eventually healed up, and now she has been hopping around on her knees for thirty years. - [Popular Science Monthly] AN ELEPHANTINE CHILD Mr. John Hout, who resides near Ellicottvill, has probably the greatest prodigy in the shape of a child ever seen anywhere in this section. The child in question is a boy, whose third birthday occurred Wednesday last, at which time he weighted 105 pounds in his shirt sleeves and stockings. He is only about four feet tall. His limbs and feet resemble those of an elephant in shape and size more than those of a human being, and his entire body is correspondingly large. He is healthy and robust, never having been sick a day in his life, and there seems to be no diseases to account for his prodigious size. Both of his parents are of small stature, neither of them weighting to exceed 135 pounds. - [Port Jervis (N. Y.) Union] LIFE’S JOVIAL SIDE - HUMORUS SKETCHES FORM VARIOUS SOURCES (will transcribe later) THE DREAMS OF THE BLIND - PECULIAR VISIONS OF THE SIGHTLESS IBN THEIR SLUMBERS Scenes Beheld in Childhood and Youth Recalled, but Events of After Life a Blank. “Dreaming the happy hours away” is the refrain of a once particular song. There are a few people, nevertheless, who do not profess to prefer the pleasure s of the waking hours to those of slumber, however bright may be their visions. But to the blind who have in other days looked out upon the beauties of nature and met their fellows in the fullness of sight, the happiest hours are those which bring to them oblivion of sleep and the sweet consolation of dreamland. Superintendent hall, of the working home for blind men in West Philadelphia, said in a conversation upon this subject: “I have no greater pleasure in life now that I have lost my sight, than in dreaming, for then, and then only I catch glimpses of the world about me. I am no longer blind. The scales fall from my eyes and I see like other men; see as I did in years gone by before the terrible affliction came on me and shut out the light of day. I never dream that I am blind. In dreamland I never seem to have been blind. I am at the Hone” to be sure, but instead of having lonely my fingers and my ears to guide me I can see the inmates, and what is stranger yet, although in reality I have never seen one of them, in my dreams they all appear familiar to me by sight and not by their voices.” The curious experience of Mr. Hall seems to be that of all personas who have been blind after the early years of life have passed. The blind who have been so afflicted from birth never dreamed of seeing anything. The impressions of their dreams are regulated by the impressions made and ideas obtained by the sense of touch, of hearing, of taste and smell. One of the most intelligent inmates of the West Philadelphia home, who came into the world blind, says that, although he has read a great deal, he never dreams of the things he has read about, and never dreams of anything or person with which he has not in some way come in personal contact. He dreams of music, of the voices of persons he knows, of such incidents as might happen at the home or some place in which he has actually been, but never of incidents in other places or in other lands. Of a landscape, a picture, a tree or a human being he never dreams. Even although he has read descriptions of localities, of natural beauties, of the appearance of a street or a city no idea of what they look like is formed in his mind, and none comes to him in the fancies of his sleep. A blind man has been known to dream of a ghost, and he thus tells the story: “I head a voice at the door, and I said: “Bless me, if that ain’t John.” and I took him by the sleeve; it was his shirt sleeve I felt, and I was afraid of him. Then I dreamed that he continued to frighten me, as I knew that he was dead. I thought that I was being pushed by his ghost. Then I woke up, and felt no more.” Our blind friend at the home often dreams of being out in the street or in the country, but he did not dream that he saw the street or the scenery in the country, but he felt the open air of the country, and recognized the street because he was dreaming of one along which he had frequently walked. Curious and full of interest as are the dreams of the blind of every condition, there is a class of blind people whose sleeping impressions are of especial interest - that class of unfortunate people who become blind when quite young, at a period when external objects, and the outward would generally, had just begun to make an impression upon them. Such blind people sometimes, but not always, dream that they can see; but in their vision they see things with the eyes of childhood, and they never dream of any scene or object except those which, like dim recollection, have remained in the memory from what they actually saw before they became blind. A blind man who was stricken at the age of five years and never visited the country dreams of seeing city streets, city houses or city parks, but never of country scenery, of a railroad, or of a river, and so vice versa. As often as not this class of blind persons dream as if they had never been blind at all, and at other times as if all memory of blindness had passed form them. - [Philadelphia Record] THE PRESIDENT’S MUSICAL TASTE “President Cleveland has a good ear for music, but his favorite tunes are popular enough, good ness knows” writes a Washington correspondent of the Boston Traveler. “Since he has been in the White House he has said that there were two melodies that he was always glad to listen to. When questioned in regard to them, he replied that they were ‘Auld Lang Syne’ and “Listen to the Mocking Bird.” He enjoys the lighter music, and is particularly fond of negro melodies. A minstrel entertainment pleases Mr. Cleveland beyond anything else, but he will not shy at a comic opera, providing the music is bright and clever and the girls pretty and interesting. The President is very much like the rest of us in this respect. He hasn’t been a regular patron of the theatre since he has been in Washington, but that is probably owing to the fact that the entertainments haven’t been to his liking when he has had the leisure to attend. Mr. Cleveland doesn’t take much interest in the emotional drama, the melodramatic or tragedy, because he goes to the theatre to be amused, and as a pleasant relaxation from the duties and responsibilities of his high position.” A Chicago man pays $10,000 a year for one pew in church. PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY APRIL 22, 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, 5 cents per line. The passage by the Senate of the bill admitting Washington Territory as a State, with a female suffrage provision in its Constitution, is a big triumph for the suffragists, although there is little probability the bill will pass the House. Secretary Manning is reported to be progressing favorably toward complete recovery, and it is believed by those nearest to him if he has no setbacks he will be able to resume the general direction of the treasury department before the hot weather begins, and to take up his daily office work again immediately after the summer vacation. Hon. J. M. Martin made a telling speech in congress on the 13th in the contested election case of Hurd vs. Barnes of the 10th Dist. Of Ohio. Mr. Hurd it will be remembered was the tariff reform Champion of the 49th Congress; and the Democrats loose much in his not being in his rightful seat in the House. Mr. Martin has taken high rank for a first term member. The Barbour county folks have for some reason come to the conclusion that it was a duty the county owed the state to furnish the next governor, and with all earnestness they have been getting ready to furnish the man. They began to organize under the leadership of two of their most distinguished citizens. After a pitched battle, one was found to be a “dead cock in the pit,” and the other finds that he is not the governor and the probabilities are that he never will be. And we predict a surprise for the people of Barbour on the 9th of June when they are informed that the chair can be filled without going to Barbour. THE FAYETTE MASS MEETING Fayette C. H., April 18th, 1886 Mr. Editor: We notice there is a good deal dissatisfaction among the Democrats of this (Fayette) County in regard to the Mass Meeting held at the court house in this place on the 10th inst. It is true, the meeting was held pursuant to recall by the Chairman of the Democratic executive committee, but at the same time, there are many good and staunch citizens and Democrats that has never nor never will fail to heartily support the nominee of the Democratic party let him be whom he may, who could not and cannot yet see the propriety of calling a Mass Meeting in this county when at the same time orders were out for beats and a county convention, which would have all come off some two weeks before any of the higher conventions; therefore giving delegates ample time to make preparation. Before appointing delegates and instructing them who to cast the vote of this county for, they should have had an expression from the Democrats through the county. The facts we think are these: The Chairman of said county committee is an aspirant for the office of State Senator and it was very apparent that his opponent viz Judge G. C. Almon would certainly be entitled to a portion of the representation from this county in the district convention, which if settled by a county convention and in the manner adopted for the selection of candidates for county offices in said convention (which we think would have been the proper course), Mr. Almon would have had an opportunity and received an expression from this friends and thereby had what he is entitled to, a portion of the delegation from Fayette County. But to call a Mass Meeting to settle the matter it was very presumable there would be very little interest taken in it and only a few would attend and they who live near the courthouse and of course favorable to Mr. Sanford from respect as neighbors. Now we have nothing to say against Mr. Sanford only, we think his call for a Mass Meeting was wholly unnecessary, and was calculated to deprive Mr. Almon of the representation he was entitled to in this county and which did result in a sold delegation from this county for Mr. Sanford; the end sought for we think in the call. True Blue Thousands are expected to visit Montgomery to see and hear our beloved Ex- President Davis - as loyal a citizen of the United States, and noble a southern gentleman as ever graced the highest position in all the modesty of genuine greatness. His visit there will be on the 28th. The Alabama doctors held their annual convention, as everybody knows, in the dry town of Anniston. When it became known to the local clergy that the doctors should have wine at their banquet, they got together and petitioned the M. D.’s to leave wine off the programme. The matter was brought up in the convention and hotly discussed and the end of it was that the M. D.’s decided to have their wine dry town or no dry town. The doctors seem to think a banquet is not much of a banquet without a little of the “rosy.” The appointment of Senator Howell E. Jackson, of Tennessee, to succeed the late John Baxter as Judge for the sixth circuit of the Untied states, is one that will give very great satisfaction. The circuit is composed of the States of Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee. He is a fine lawyer and of a judicial turn of mind and character. MY LADY AND HER LITTLE LESSON The caprious month of sunshine and showers, of smiles and tears, Inconstant April, with her scented bloom, her pale green snood and flowery robe, beings once more almost forgetfulness of stern old winter, with his rugged arms and chilling breath. The birds sing as if the cold northeasters never blew, nor rains had never washed a burgling from the parent nest. The flowers bloom as if frost had never blighted nor snow had never should the breast of nature and the earth unfolds her colors as if a grave had never been dug in her bosom. It is the same sweet story told and retold, the same deep season, old yet new, new yet old, that each retuning year brings to man as he sits reverently at the feet of God and “he who runs may read,” that even as this returning bloom comes to the cheek of the dead world before us, so will come another life, a glorious resurrection, after we have slumbered for a little while. - [Greenville Advocate] OVER THE STATE The Birmingham Age sees no reason why Hon. J. M. MARTIN should not be re- elected to Congress. The Birmingham Chronicle favors Capt. J. H. BANKHEAD for Congress. Col. E. N. JAMES, of Wilcox County, is called upon to become a candidate for Congress in the Fourth District. The Grand Lodge of Knights of Honor met in Mobile in annual session on the 13th. At an invitation of the Rev. Mr. Porter, in Troy the other day, 300 sinners expressed a desire to quit the devil’s ranks and come out on the Lord’s side. Fayette will hold a county convention on next Saturday to nominate candidates for county offices and members of the legislature. After scanning impartially over the names of the gentlemen who are already in the filed for governor, we unhesitantly declare in the interest of Hon. THOS. SEAY, believing him to be as fully competent for the high office of governor as either of the other distinguished gentlemen spoken of, against whom we have nothing to say. - [Livingston Journal] Fayette County has held her Mass Meeting and elected delegates to the State, Congressional and Senatorial Conventions. The following are delegates to States and Judicial Convention: J. B. SANFORD, ROBT. F. PETERS, WALTER WEAVER, PRESTON THORNTON, L. C. SHERLY, J. G. COLLINS, DANIEL COLLIER, and J. H. BEANHEAD. They go uninstructed. The Congressional delegates are instructed to vote for Capt. BANKHEAD as long as his name is before the convention, and those to the Senatorial for Col. SANFORD. The Dadeville Star declines to set the politics in motion in Tallapoosa county because “a newspaper should be run in the interest of its readers, and to adopt the old traditional custom of indiscriminately proposing me all over the country., irrespective of their competency and fitness for the offices, for the purpose of exciting their vanity and to get their influence in the future, we do not think would be doing justice to our readers.” The Star is correct, but some editors in this state think the sole object and mission of the newspaper is politics. ITEMS OF INTEREST Terrific storms have been raging on the Lakes. There are 50,000,000 barrels of flour consumed in this country every year. All quiet and work resuming in the West. The miners postpone their strike in the St. Louis District. The debate on the tariff will soon commence in the House. Both parties are pledged to simplification of the laws, and reform and reduction in the tariff rates. It is not improbable that there will be a quorum of the New York board of aldermen of 1884 in the state penitentiary. General Logan’s bill for the increase of the army from 25,000 to 30,000 by the addition of five thousand privates to fill up the skeleton companies, failed in the Senate on the 7th inst, after a prolonged debate, by a vote of nineteen to thirty one. Gen. Crook has sent seventy-seven of the recently captured Apache Indians and squaws, to the military prison in Florida. Among these prisoners are some of the worse cut-throats and murders of women and children that ever cursed the border. Twelve more members of the Board of Alderman of 1884, in the city of New York, have been arrested on bribery in the Broadway surface railway question. The last general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South was held in Nashville in 1882. Since that time four of the Bishops, namely Bishops Paine, Kavanaugh, Pierce and Parker have died. The conference which begins its session in May in Richmond will have to decide on their successors and it is probable that Alabama will furnish one of them. - [Advertiser] THE FLOOD OF 1886 Many lives have been blotted out, many homes destroyed, millions of money lost and many a happy being plunged into misery. The destruction of interests at Prattville amounts to a loss of not less than $100,000, including the total ruin of the great cotton mill. The bridge at Wetumpka, worth $25,000 was washed away. It was considered a monument to the skill of a negro builder and had stood more than 45 years. 23,000 acres on the line of the Alabama and Tallapoosa Rivers have been under water. 40,000 acres have been submerged. 1,000 head of cattle have been drowned. Gadsden was flooded, Rome engulfed, Tuskaloosa deluged, Eufaula under water, Selma afloat, beautiful Anniston in deep waters, the boom of Birmingham was almost dumb before the many waters and the river at Montgomery presented a scene as grand as old ocean with her awful roar. MEMPHIS AND BIRMINGHAM RAILROAD COMPANY Notice is hereby given, that by virtue of a commission issued to us by the Secretary of State, of the State of Alabama, we will open books of subscription to the capital stock of the Memphis and Birmingham Railroad Company at the court house of the county of Lamar, Alabama, at Vernon on Friday, the 28th day of May, 1886, at 2 o’clock pm JOHN A. GRANT WM. A. WALKER, M. A. PORTER Board of Corporators. Ad for The Montgomery Weekly Advertiser Ad for Peruna Ad for Fernbank School AGENTS WANTED FOR REV. SAM P. JONES SERMONS There never was such a book before, and never will be again; something new and starling. 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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. 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. RESTAURANT, Aberdeen, Mississippi. Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to call on Mrs. L. M. KUPFER, 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. BURNS office, Vernon, Ala. 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. 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…(too small to read). PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY APRIL 22, 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, ALBERT 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 Fair blooms the flowers. There are but ten known candidates for Circuit Clerk. Be sure and attend your beat meeting on the 1st of May. Prof. JOHN GUIN of Fernbank spent Saturday and Sunday at his mothers. The voice of the dove is heard in the land. J. D. MCCLUSKEY Esq. made a trip to Fayette C H. on first of the week. Large numbers of suckers are being caught in the traps on Yellow Creek. Mrs. Judge COBB has returned from visiting relatives at Fayette C. H. The Georgia Pacific Railway is selling excursion tickets from all points to Columbus and return for one fare. Mr. ALLEN JORDAN retires from business in the store of E. W. BROCK, to the regret of his employer and friends. Some good work is being done on the ditch known as Masons & Dixons line in town. Mrs. DELLA HILL spent a few days in town this week visiting parents Mr. and Mrs. A. A. SUMMERS. Railroad prospectors are traveling up the Buttahatchie valley securing the right way for a Railroad. DIED: On the 15th at her home near Military Springs, Mrs. MARTHA CRIBBS, wife of H. C. CRIBBS, Esq. The fruit crop promises to be good predictions to the contrary helped by a snow storm. When you go to Columbus to hear Sam Jones, don’t forget to have a superb Photograph taken by Echard. Dr. R. L. BRADLEY has an appointment to sing at Macedonia on the 1st Sunday in May. A large crowd is anticipated. One of our citizens is in possession of a very elegant letter from a well- known gentleman who informs him that he will be a candidate for “governor.” There is talk of the congressional convention being called to meet at Birmingham sometime during the summer. This move will in all probability meet with no opposition except in the counties of ------ Capt. SHIELDS has returned from Aberdeen. Spring is here - push, pluck, and perseverance will bring its reward form bounteous nature. DIED: At his home in Fayette County, on the 17th inst., Rev. EDWARD CORBETT. The deceased was held in high esteem by all. Quite a number of Vernonites left yesterday for Columbus, to hear the evangelist Sam Jones. Others will leave today. “True Blue” whom we know to be a staunch Democrat and one of the best citizens of Fayette C. H., informs us in a communication to the News the secret of Fayette’s Mass Meeting. We agree with the Fayette Journal in opposition to the rotation system, and think it a very thin shadow of a reason for any county to base its claims upon. But in this case, other things being equal, we should give Franklin county the man. So you may roll up a full vote from Marion for GEO. C. ALMON, of Franklin - [Marion Herald] A party consisting of Mrs. A. A. WALL, Mrs. A. J. HAMILTON, and two daughters Miss ELLA and little ICIE, of Hamilton, Marion County, and Mr. REUBEN BANKHEAD of Cansler, spent Saturday in town being on their way to attend the preaching of the Rev. Sam Jones, but learning that Mr. Jones would not be there for several days returned to their homes. Every person visiting Columbus, we advise them to call at Echard’s Photograph Gallery and have some of those elegant photo’s to give to relatives and friends, which will be appreciated beyond money value. 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. Ad for Francis Catarrh Cure COUNTY CONVENTION - ALL OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE To the Democratic Conservative voters of Lamar County: You are requested to assemble in convention in the town of Vernon on Saturday, the 8th day of May next, for the purpose of electing delegates to the State, Congressional and Senatorial Conventions; and to transact such other business as may come before the Convention. The basis of representation is one for each thirty, and traction over fifteen votes cast for the Democratic candidate for Governor at the last general election. This basis gives the beats the following representation to wit: Town 9 Military Springs 4 Lawrence 3 Betts 4 Sizemore 2 Trulls 3 Browns 3 Vails 2 Henson 2 Millport 3 Goode 1 Steens 3 Millville 4 Stricklands 4 Pine Springs 2 Wilsons 5 Moscow 8 To insure meetings and a full representation in the convention, the voters of the several beats are requested to meet at their place of voting at 2 pm on Saturday, the 1st day of may next, for the purpose of electing delegates to the County Convention. The Committee respectfully and earnestly urge the voters of the county to attend the beat meetings being a part of a State that progress and prosperity are fast bringing into notice we should not through indifference allow the offices of the State to be filled by incompetent men, or turned over to those who once brought our State to shame. Vernon, Ala., April 10th, 1886 By Order of Committee W. A. YOUNG, Chairman. 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’s PICKENS COUNTY ITEMS Mr. E. J. MCNATT: Dear Sir: As you have no correspondent in your county near us, and as we live just over the Lamar line in Pickens county, we beg leave to be admitted as one of your correspondents from this county. We have seen a few copies of the News, and like it very much’ therefore we are anxious to become one of your correspondents and subscribers. We have never before written a correspondence for publication in any paper’ consequently you may expect us to be grief in our remarks. The general health of our community is good, and our farmers are busily engaged on their farms. Quite a number of them are done planting corn, and are now preparing their cotton land. Notwithstanding the recent cold weather, the fruit crops of all kind are exceedingly promising. We have an interesting literary school just over the Lamar line taught by Prof. B. H. WILKERSN, of Fernbank. We have also a good Sabbath school, superintended by the Rev. G. L. LONCHETTE. Mr. S. W. HULL, Mrs. ADDIE TRAPP and Miss CARRIE BIGBY teachers. We have preaching every 1st Sunday by REV. G. L. MOUCHETTE. With many wishes for the success of the News and the happiness of its many readers, I subscribe ourself hopefully, SELLA. NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT The State of Alabama, Lamar County Probate Court - April 19, 1886 Estate of ARTHUR T. YOUNG, deceased, this day came W. A. YOUNG, administrator, of the estate of S. G. YOUNG, deceased, who was administrator of estate of A. T. Young, deceased, and filed his statement, accounts and vouchers for final settlement of his administration over said estate of A. T. Young. It is ordered that the 7th day of May A D 1886 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement, if they think proper. Alexander Cobb, Judge of Probate of said county. TAX SALE Land accessed for: JAMES OLDSHUE D. FOWLER W. R.. WEST MRS. JOEL GIBSON M. M. BULL L. BALENGER’S COL. VERGO S. RANDOLPH R. HUMBER C. L. HILL M. A. HARRIS ALDRED POE H. H. HOLLAWAY S. M. MECK 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. To the voters of Lamar County: I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, at the approaching August election; and respectfully solicit a liberal share of your votes. Very respectfully. R. E. BRADLEY I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, at the approaching August election and respectfully solicit a liberal share of your votes. Very respectfully. JOHN T. BURROW 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. ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County to me direct, I will expose for sale at public outcry at Kennedy on the 1st day of May enxt, the following described lands belinging to the estate of C. K. COOK, deceased, to wit: 17 acres more or less off of the west side of the N W ¼ of N E ¼ Sec 15 T 17 R 14 and SW ¼ of SE ¼ and SE ¼ of SW1/4 of a W ¼ Sec 15 T 17 and R 14; also about six acres east of the branch including all the dry land in SE ¼ of NE ¼ Sec 19 T 17 R 14. Said sale will be made for one-sixth in cash and the remainder on a credit of twelve months from day of sale. This the 3rd day of April, 1886. - J. G. TRULL, Adm’r estate of C. K. COOK 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. 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 Ad for Chicago Scale Co. Ad for Tutt’s Pills Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ Ad for Smith’s Bile Beans Ad for Paint Ad for Avery Sewing Machine Ad for New Home Sewing Machine Ad for Collins Ague Cure PAGE 4 CULTURE OF CABBAGES The culture of cabbage is one that pays a large profit whenever it is well done. An instance of a profitable crop of this vegetable growth in Michigan, a state which is taking a leading position in regard to vegetable culture, is given as follows: It was MR. Wilson, of Tecumseh, who planted 10 acres, for which the Lonawee County Agricultural Society awarded a special prize. The method of Mr. Wilson was as follows: He manured the 10 acres of stony, sandy, loamy, three-year-old soil with 150 loads of barn-yard manure, 2,000 pounds of super phosphate, and 3,000 pounds of salt. The land was thoroughly plowed and harrowed and planted July 1 and 2 with 50,000 flat Dutch plants, trimmed to a single leaf, and puddle with mud. The land was cultivated six times and kept mellow and clean. No pests or diseases troubled the plants, which bid fair to head well when the examiners visited the field about the 1st of October. Perhaps some reason for this success may lie in the fact that Lonawee County boats one of the liveliest Farmer’s Clubs in that State or in the United States. – [New York Times] BERRIES ON THE FARM Many of those who own farms or gardens and might, by a little care, and at small expense, have a continuous supply of berries of different kinds on their tables, during the summer and fall, and thus add much to the comfort and health of their families, too often have none, except the meager supply which are found growing wild. In fact, many such do not fare as well in this respect as the families of many laboring men in our towns and villages. A family supply of strawberries, especially, may be grown on so small a plot of ground, that any landowner, certainly, cannot have any excuse for not being supplied with them in their season for want of room. Planted in the spring, in rows three feet apart, with plants one foot in the row, and then left to form a matted row fifteen to eighteen inches in width, and given clean culture, a good crop may reasonably be expected the following year. – [American Rural Home] SEASONABLE DUTIES OF FARMERS Those who have families of children should interest themselves in the district school, and see that it is well taught and sustained. No farmer who is a parent can afford to neglect his duty in this matter, and should manifest a lively interest in the school where his own and neighbor’s children receive their rudimentary, if not principal, education. Able school trustees and commissioners, with capable and efficient teachers, are important requisites, and it is the incumbent duty of every parent to aid in securing those desirable auxiliaries to public and home education. To this end, attend the school meeting, vote for the best men for school trustees, and aid in making liberal provision for a first-class school in your district. And do not fail to visit the same occasionally, and encourage the teacher. In this and other ways you can do much to improve the school, and every judicious effort in that direction will redound to the benefit of all interested – parents, pupils and teachers. Good officers and teachers can best be censured through the personal attention and influence of parents who manifest lively interest in their selection and management. Furthermore, provide your family with pure and useful books and periodicals. Money invested in reading matter of the right quality pays large dividends. The rule should be to “get the best,” – only such publications as are instructive, useful and elevating. Avoid all trashy story papers, and other reading of a senseless and sensational character – of the nickel novel and love-and –murder genera. They are demoralizing, and worse than poison for young people. Instead of such useless trash, secure standard works pertaining to rural and domestic affairs, as well as history, science, and literature. – [American Agriculturalist] FARM AND GARDEN NOTES A fair supply of meat for the hens will add to the yield of eggs and will prevent feather eating. No breed of hens is “everlasting layers.” A hen that will lay 180 to 200 eggs a year is first-class. In sowing timothy with wheat and other grains the best results are obtained by having the ground dragged and rolled first. Don’t forget that all fowls are without teeth and must be supplied with sand and gravel in order to carry on the work of grinding the food. A putrid carcass polluting the air of a pasture will spoil not only the milk of the cows running there, but also the entire contents of the vat into which the tainted milk is poured at the factory. True potato seed is raised by planting the seed from the balls or fruit. Each plant will produce a dozen or more tiny potatoes, which may be selected from and the specimens be developed by culture. South Carolina last summer bag--- ,000 bunches of grapes in paper… (torn) A Connecticut farmer has several bushels of apples picked last fall in as sound and good condition as if just plucked. The fruit had been carefully rolled in paper. For choice varieties the hint may be worthy of attention. When pigs are allowed to sleep in damp places the result will often be stiffness of the joints, rheumatism and diseases of the spine, due to taking cold. Dryness and warmth are essential to the thrift of young pigs, especially on the approach of cold weather. The only truly economical manner of feeding stock, and from which the very vest and most profitable returns, are to be expected, is to convert the grains into meal and feed only in such quantities (at regular intervals) as each animal has capacity to consume and digest. Butter is largely an oil, which is so well fixed that it is hardly susceptible to chemical change; therefore, the principal parts not being subject to decomposition, we must look to the watery fluids which are contained in the milk, which, when not completely extracted, spoil the butter and render it worthless, or to be branded only as grease. To young stock, growing fast, feed good, strengthening food, which will produce muscle and help in forming a large, strong frame. While the chicks are still growing they should be fed often and with a variety of food. They are often fed on fattening food to keep them in good order, but this is not what they want, and such treatment will often produce ill-formed, weak- limbed fowls. Of the several remedies for the cabbage maggots tried at the New York experiment station, the kerosene emulation, prepared as follows, has been found most effective. One pound of common soap is boiled in four quarts of warm water; when all is dissolved and while the suds are boiling they are removed form the fire. One quart of kerosene oil is then added and thoroughly missed by stirring vigorously until the mixture is cold. One pint of this emulsion is dissolved in ten gallons of hot water and applied to the roots of the plants. HOUSEHOLD HINTS Mats, tablespoons, salt cellars and pepper crusts may be arranged to suit one’s taste. Let the table when no one is present but the home circle, be the model of what it should be when surrounded by guests. To take mildew out of linen, rub the linen with fine soap; then scrape some fine chalk, and rub it also on the linen. Lay it on the grass as it dries, wet it a little, and it will come out in twice doing. Uncooked meats should not be placed directly on ice, as the juices are withdrawn in this way. Neither should they be kept in wrapping paper, but put, uncovered, in a dish or pan and then placed on the ice. RECIPES SOUTHERN BUTTER-BREAD = Two cups of white corn meal, one cup cold boiled rice, three eggs – well beaten, one tablespoonful of melted butter, two and one-half cups of milk or enough for a soft batter, one teaspoonful of soda. Beat well for three minutes and bake quickly in shallow pans. Very nice for breakfast. EGG SAUCE – One cup of chicken broth, heated and thickened, with tablespoonful of butter rolled thickly in flour; poured over two beaten eggs; boiled one minute, with tablespoonful parsley stirred in’ then seasoned and poured upon pounded yolks of two boiled eggs placed in bottom of bowl. Stir up and it is ready. BAKED CUSTARDS – One quart of milk, four eggs, five tablespoonfuls of sugar beaten with the eggs, nutmeg and two tablespoonfuls flavoring extract. Scald the milk, pour upon the other ingredients, stir together well, flavor and pour into stone-china cups. Set these in a pan of hot water, grate nutmeg upon each and bake until firm. Eat cold from the cups. POTATO BALLS. – One pint hot, mashed potatoes, highly seasoned with salt, pepper, celery salt, chopped parsley and butter. Moistened, if needed, with a little hot milk or cream. Beat5 one egg light and add part of it to the potatoes. Shape into round, smooth balls. Brush over with the remainder of the egg and bake on a buttered tin until brown. Be careful not to get them too moist. – [The Home] WASTED ELOQUENCE A paragrapher remarks that conversation is “the idle man’s business and the business man’s recreation.” This reminds us of the commercial traveler who “talks to live and lives to talk.” He said the greatest disappointment he ever met with was when he entered a grocery store and talked ten minutes incessantly to the proprietor, expiating upon the merits of a new brand of goods; the grocer at last took from his pocket a slate upon which he wrote the cabalistic words – “I’m deaf.” The c. t. says he retreated in dismay from the store, not waiting to “punch the heads” of the giggling clerks who shouted after him – “Call again and bring an ear trumpet with you.” – [New England Grocer] HE WENT TOO FAR – (anecdote – will transcribe later) A MAVERICK The word “maverick” is used in the cattle ranges of the West to designate an unbranded and hence ownerless animal. The San Francisco Maverick, itself an unbranded journal, gives this as the origin of the word: “A few years since Sam Maverick went from Massachusetts to Texas, where he entered largely into stock business. After buying several herds he neglected his ranges and left his stock to shift for themselves. Mr. Maverick, with humanitarian feeling, refrained from branding his young stock, believing in the implicit honesty of his neighbors. When the genuine stockmen of the region ran across an unbranded animal on the round up they would say, “That’s one of Maverick’s; let’s brand it.” “The word sprang into popularity and its limited meaning was broadened and enlarged by constant use throughout the cattle ranges and mining camps of the frontier. If a man was unpronounced in his opinion on any subject, people would say, “He holds Maverick views.” SHE STOOD HIGH “John, dead, our Susie is fairly sick over her algebra. But she is getting along so nicely and has ninety in her report this week, and ninety-five in Latin and 100 in philosophy the dear girl.” “Good enough, wife. But what is the matter with the breakfast today? Worst meal we have had in a month.” “Well, John, I felt out of sorts this morning, the cook is away, and I let Susie attend to the things. The poor girl really knows so little about housework, you know.” – [Boston Traveler] Mr. Wesley Sisson, a well-known lawyer of Chicago, was so helpless with sciatica and inflammatory rheumatism that he could not feed himself. Nothing relieved his sufferings until he used St. Jacobs Oil. It conquered all pain and he rose a cured man. Honduras is not a particularly healthy country to live in as it is said a stay of three months on the coast is sure death, exclusive of the danger from reptiles. Chief Engineer John R. Cantlin, of the Philadelphia Fire Department, says that he was cured of a terrible cold by Red Star Cough Cure, and that he has given it to his men with most satisfactory results. The man who never gets mad is supposed to be a half-brother to the woman who never looks behind her. The latest scientific discovery is made by Professor Felix Adler who says that heat engenders crime. THAT SETTLED IT They were discussing in the Illinois Legislature a bill to prevent the destruction of quail for three years. Speeches of various sorts were made. One farmer advanced the suggestion that there were too many quail. If they should be preserved for three years they would eat up all the crops. Then up rose an honest granger, with this valuable contribution to natural history: “Mr. Cheerman, I’ve follered agricultuooral pursoots exceptin’ for seven years, when I was a runnin’ of a saw mell, and I have observed this about quail, whenever there is too many quail, the good Lord He freezes them out.” That settled it. STUCK TOGETHER – Mr. Alma Hill, of Brownswood, Ga., has about 200 head of sheep on his place and a good many cockle burs. One day he was in the field and saw fifteen sheep side by side, their heads all pointed the same way, looking as if out for a drill. He yelled at them to move, and the whole gang moved at once. It was some time before he ascertained that the burs had got into their wool and they were stuck together. ADVERTISEMENTS – WILL TRANSCRIBE LATER. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar839gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 66.1 Kb