Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News May 13, 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, 9:17 pm The Lamar News May 13, 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, MAY 13, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 28 THE CHRISTENING (Poem) PARLOR ROMANCE – (Short Story) - [Benjamin Northup in New York Graphic] A record of six hundred births shows that a little more than half the number occurred between 6 am and 6 pm – the greatest number during any one hour being between 7 and 8 am and the least number, twelve, occurred between 12 m and 1 pm. UNEQUALLED CRIME – THE ADAGE THAT “MURDER WILL OUT” AGAIN CONFIRMED Questions Raised by the Discovery of a Terrible Triple Tragedy in Ireland The result of a trial which recently terminated in Cork, Ireland, adds confirmation to the old adage that “murder will out.” William Sheehan was convicted of the murder of Catherine, Hannah, and Thomas Sheehan, his mother, sister, and brother. The crime was committed in October 1877, but was not discovered till the summer of 1884. At that time a farmer named Broderick discovered at the bottom of a well seventy-two feet deep the bodies of the three Sheehans. They were fully identified by their old neighbors by their clothing and articles in their pockets. The skull of each was broken, clearly showing that they were not drowned, but had been thrown into the well after they were murdered. It was known throughout the neighborhood that the four Sheehans were living on a farm belonging to a widow, a near relative, during the fall of 1877. On a certain day there was no one living in the house but William, who stated that the remainder of the family had left for America, which was to be their future home. Their friends thought it strange that they should leave without saying anything about the matter, and the wonder was increased when neither they nor certain relatives living at some distance from the farm received any letters from them. William affirmed that they left in the manner they did because they objected to his marrying a Miss Browne, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. The night after the alleged departure of the three Sheehans for America William gave a musical party at the house, which Miss Browne and her brother attended. In a few days William married the girl, and continued to live on the farm till July, 1888 when he was evicted for non-payment of rent. He then left with this wife for Australia. After the finding of the three bodies in the well, John Duane, who with his wife and son were working for the Sheehans during the month of October 1877 was arrested on suspicion, and being thoroughly frightened, related the story of the murder. He stated that he and his family lived in a cottage on the farm, and that on the morning of the disappearance he saw William Sheehan, accompanied by David Browne, brother of the future Mrs. Sheehan, strike Thomas Sheehan to the ground with a blunt instrument, locally called a “griffayun” after which the two men entered the house and killed the women in the same manner. The three bodies were then taken to the barn and the door locked. David Duane, son of John confessed that on the night of the musical party he was attracted to the house by the music and a desire to have a good time, that he quietly seated himself beneath a window where he could see and hear without being observed. He remained in his place will the party broke up and the visitors went away. Not wishing to be discovered then for fear of being reproved, he still sat quietly. Soon he saw William Sheehan, David Browne, and a man he did not know go to the barn, open the door, take out three bodies, drag them to the well on the next farm, and throw them in. The officials being in possession of this evidence traced William Sheehan to Auckland, New Zealand, where he was arrested and brought to Cork for trial. On his passage home he told many conflicting stories about the disappearance of his relatives. His father-in-law attempted suicide as soon as he heard of his arrest. Sheehan was convicted chiefly on the testimony of the two Duanes, but there was much circumstantial evidence to corroborate their testimony. This remarkable case serves to raise some interesting questions. A numerous family drank for six years the water furnished by a well that contained the bodies of three human beings. Its tastes and smell finally became so offensive that they were obliged to clean out the well or to fill it up. How many wells in this country that have been abandoned and filled up on account of the condition of the water they furnished contained human bodies! The three persons whose bodies were found in this well suddenly disappeared, and it was reported that they had gone to a distant country. How many persons that suddenly and mysteriously disappear without any apparent cause, and from whom no tidings ever come, are murdered! Unless a body is found under circumstances that serve to make it probable that a murder was committed, no on e is accused of committing a crime, and in the majority of cases no one is suspected. Still, if a murder is deliberately planned it is a very easy matter to disposes of a body. A week rarely passes that someone of considerable prominence does not mysteriously disappear from this city. Hundreds of obscure persons disappear in the course of a year, whose absence is never noticed even by persons who lived near them. In a large city there is a vast population who have no regular abiding place. Many of them might drop out of sight forever and never be missed b y more than two or three persons who might desire to be rid of them. How many murders are committed of which the public never have any knowledge? - [Chicago Times] A MARKET IN MADAGASCAR “The market opens early in the morning. Among the fruits were citrons, lemons, and oranges, pineapples, plantains and pistache nuts. Among the roots manioc was most abundant. Rice was very plentiful and of varied quality. There were also maize, millet and other grains. The chief article of manufacture was foreign cotton cloth, white and printed. The native manufacturers comprised knives, hatchets, axes, hoes, spades, files, nails, scales, and weights, native cloth, lambas, mats, blankets, and hats of plaited straw, &c. Most of the articles were spread upon the ground, some on a little sort of raise platform of earth or sand, the sides of which were edged in a remarkable manner with the shoulder bones of oxen stuck in the ground, the broad part upward. The venders sometimes sat in the center of the platform and sometimes by the sides. The butchers were busy cutting up the meat, which was spread upon the ground on broad plantain or other leaves. It was sold in pieces, not y weight. Mixed up with these articles were all kinds of poultry, including guinea-fowls, which are native, and turkeys, which have been introduced. In one place there were different kinds of black or brown parrots; and in another a man was very anxious to persuade me to buy three young tenrees, apparently the spiny tenrees, which he had in a cage. A large black and white lemur, the rugged lemur, a splendid animal, quite tame, was very attractively exhibited. I observed various kinds of salt; also, tobacco in leaf and manufactured, as well as snuff-boxes, or tobacco-boxes, made of small pieces of polished cane, and a sort of perfume resembling ointment. I went into several of the houses where numbers of lambas, or native scarfs, of varied pattern and quality were for sale. The patterns of some of the native fabrics were both tasteful and attractive. The money-changers were busy cutting up dollars and half and quarter dollars and smaller pieces, cut silver, valued by weight, being the universal currency. They cut the dollars up by laying it on a block, placing a large knife with a hammer. This process was carried on at the threshold of the doors in the market. The greatest drawback to the interest which the novel spectacle of a market in Madagascar presented was the great number of huts in which a barrel of arrack, a fiery kind or rum made in the island, was placed for sale. There was generally a tap in the end of the barrel, and one or two men were constantly inviting customers. – [Rev. Wm. Ells] THE WALL STREET PICTURES A speculator in four years has paid one firm in Wall Street the sum of $250,000 in commissions, says a New York letter. He was a wealthy man when he went into the street with a laudable but unwarrantable desire to increase his patrimony by speculating in stocks. Now, so heavy have been his losses that he would be satisfied if he possessed the sum he has paid out in commissions. As it is, he will cheerfully accept a clerkship in the paid firm, who wish to avail themselves of his numerous acquaintances to increase their custom. If he had been contented with a handsome sufficiency for the day, amounting really to a superabundance, he would now be in affluence instead of in the position of comparative destitution he is. On the other hand, a young clerk a few years ago commenced to speculate in the street with $200, the savings of a year’s abstinence from smoking, and now is worth in real estate over $1,000,000 and several more in securities. In Wall Street speculation, more than in anything else, what is game for one man is ruin for another. EASILY AVOIDED M. and Mme Prudhomme find their new rooms ill-heated by the furnace, and decide to buy a stove to keep them warm. M. Prudhomme reflects: “Stoves are sometimes dangerous. We must be careful not to run any risk of asphyxiating ourselves by coal gas.” He reflects some more: “Ah, Tha’s easily avoided. WE will never light it.” He smiles at his cleverness, and buys it. – [Fresh Fun] REST AWHILE – Poem HUMOROUS Seriously, is the dog star a Skys Terrier? Parrots should speak only in polysyllables. All that is left of Athens is a spot of Greece. Circuit Court – Sneaking around the house to avoid the dog. It is the professional flute-player who has to whistle for his money. Woman is not much of a philosopher, but she is proverbially a clothes observer. The only leading lady that society recognizes is the one who conducts a pug with a string. “Pa, why does a man break a promise so readily?” “Because, my son, it is so easy to make another one.” “Meals are more active,” wrote the market reporter whose wife had hastened his exit that morning with a flying flatiron. Young men who think their sweethearts are divine love to make divinity students of themselves every night in the week. A philosopher says: “No man is rich who wants any more than he has got.” If this is reliable the majority of rich men must be dead. A thief entered a house, and while prowling about fell over a chair and broke his leg, and had to arouse the family to call a doctor. Policeman – “You have been standing here for an hour. Move on!” Absent minded checker player – “Beg pardon, sir! It’s your move.” A surgical journal tells of a man who lived five years with a ball in his head. We have known girls to live twice as long with nothing but balls in their heads. Never despise a friend because he happens to have grown rich. Go to him, take him aside, tell him gently of his faults and ask him to lend you five dollars. “Our air is much purer than yours,” said a Frenchman to an Englishman. “Aye,” was the reply, “but there’s some substance in ours – look at the thickness of it!’ A clergyman who was officiating at the funeral of a young girl began his discourse with, “Oh may this bereaved father find consolation for the death of his only daughter” – and then happening to remember that there was another daughter, the offspring of a second marriage, he added, hastily – “by his first wife.” A CONFIRMED DOG DRUNKARD A German saloon keeper on Third Street has a dog that is a most dissipated canine. The dog is slowly but surely drinking himself to death. He not only looks on the beer when it is amber, but risks a sight when it is stale and flat. He watches the trough directly under the ice-chest where the beer kegs are placed, and when the trough becomes filled with the amber- colored liquid, the intemperate animal will lap it up. He refuses water, and drinks beer morning, noon and night. After drinking heavily he will go to sleep, and the first thought on waking up seems to be of beer, as he goes directly to the trough and satisfied his thirst. He is becoming quite corpulent, and is a confirmed old drunkard. His only apparent amusement and enjoyment in life are to drink and to sleep. – [St. Paul Planner Press] PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY MAY 13, 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. TRUE DEMOCRACY – GLORY ENOUGH FOR ONE DAY THE RING IN LAMAR AND FAYETTE BROKEN Hon. George C. Almon Nominee of the Democratic Party Hamilton, Ala., May 13 – The Senatorial Convention is over and the Hon. G. C. Almon is the regular Nominee of the Party. The convention met at one o’clock yesterday and was fairly captured by the Almon men. The Fayette and Lamar delegates bolted and the convention proceeded to transact business for which it was called. After the nomination and the adopting of resolutions in regard to future organization, and the making of rousing speeches, the convention adjourned sine die. The Almon cheers were deafening and Hamilton has never seen such a day. The defeated and chagrined Sanford delegates from Lamar and Fayette met at 6 pm and proceeded to organize a corcus. After offering the nomination to all the prominent men about and it being refused, proceeded to nominate J. B. SANFORD of Fayette. The Lamar and Fayette delegates after cooling awhile last night began to recognize the frit of their folly, and were the worst backed set of men ever seen in Marion County. Much speculation is indulged in as to how they will explain to their people why they bolted the convention. The reason in short is that they just gave their man away and during the stings of defeat indulged in a proceeding which is a shame to the Democrats of the counties of Lamar and Fayette. There can be no disguise of the revolution in the relation of capital and labor now overtaking the times. It is not fuss and fustian signifying nothing” the country must meet. To such Wall Street influence, too much bulling and bearing, too much fictitious booming and false “lying low” in the air. Wrecked railroads are bought yup by the wreckers, stock is watered and labor is required to make such property pay dividends on its face value. Combinations are formed and pools made, and labor required standing still and looking on at arrangements made by capital to reverse the natural order of supply and demand that it may create arbitrary values and tide itself over anarchy ventures on these. The people will frown down an aristocracy of stock manipulators now as in the days of Washington they resented an aristocracy of tax-gathers. They do not propose to throw off the House of Hanover to take in the House of Gould. THE ANARCHIST The recent scenes in Chicago and other cities give a sort of Europian tirge the features of this land of free institution, and brings right home to us the turbulence and violence of the malcontents beyond the Ocean. Al of which fool sentiment here has encouraged there while in the faculty of our egotism we believed our country too good for such passions to live in, and attributed such outbreaks to the defects of Europian governments. Blended by our pharisceims and thanking God we were not as other nations we palliated such acts as the Phoenix Pork murder in Dublin, the explosions in London, the works of Nihists in Russia, and Anarchists in Germany. But now it seems that our plutocracy here elicits as much hostility as the aristocracies of Europe; and we are brought face to face with the errors of a too speedy naturalization of foreigners and of allowing our country to be the refuge of all the rebellious and dangerous elements of the Old World. We hope now that our Northern friends will call a halt in their prescription of Jefferson Davis and the Southern people who remember our valor and patriotism in the days of secession days with veneration and without disloyalty to Un- Union, and turn their attention to the utterance of Herr Mort and his disciples which are hurrying to action in their very midst thoughts and sentiment dangerous to society, life, liberty and property. Hon. John A. Pope proved himself to be a man of firmness and of unflinching courage while presiding over the Senatorial convention. He protected the minority in their legitimate rights. The great strike in the Southwest, through the intervention of the Congressional Committee appointed to look into the matter, has ended, and all railways in that section are running trains on a schedule time. Holy Horrors! What will the Fayette Journal do now? Fayette, the county of bolters; Bell for Judge of Probate and the Journal’s hero Sanford a bolt for State Senator. Say Bro., how are you going to take both sides of the question? Every citizen of this state should feel that to cast a vote is a very responsible act. Let every one investigate the men who offer themselves to be servants for the people, and see to it that they are suited for the respective places they aspire to fill. The Hon. Wm. M. Stone, of Pickens County has announced himself a candidate for Congress from this district. Mr. Stone has been prominent in the politics of the state for more than thirty years and has a state wide reputation for integrity and ability. Joe Bennefield, the Winston County mooonshiner has been sent to Chester (Illinois) penitentiary to serve out a two years sentence. Bennefield was first arrested by Thos G. Hewlett, who led the deputies in the East St. Louis riot a few weeks ago, and was formerly Deputy Marshal in this state. The Convention on Saturday elected a solid Bankhead delegation. While our preference is for Col. Martin, we recognize the ability and worth of Capt. Bankhead, and can say that his obtaining a full delegation is a fitting tribute from his old county which has witnessed the light and shadows of his public career and have a pride in knowing that he has taken a high place in the race for distinction among brilliant and able competitors. THE OHIO DEMOCRATIC SENATORS Chattanooga, May 7 – Fourteen of the Democratic members of the Ohio State Senate arrived in this city today in a special car. They are occupying the car which now stands in the Cincinnati Southern railway yard. They left Columbus, Ohio secretly Tuesday night and met at Convington, Kentucky where they took a car for Chattanooga. They left the state of Ohio in order to get beyond the jurisdiction of any process that might be issued to the sergeant-at- arms of the Senate. They state that they are merely standing by their constitutional rights and have no intention of disposition to obstruct legislation; that the appropriation bill has been passed and an important measures disposed of, and they now leave the Senate to preserve the constitution of their state and defeat the plans of scheming politicians. They are firm in their determination not to yield an inch and will remain until a compromise is effected. Birmingham, May 6 – Tom Ellis hasn’t had to wait long for an imitator in a less tragic style. Jim Duncan, a bar-tender this morning knocked out a woman of the town named Mamie Johnson, bruising her badly with the butt end of a pistol. He tried to shoot her, too, it seems, but she caught the weapon her fingers sending the ball through the floor. The affair happened at Hays’ saloon, on First Avenue and Seventeenth Street, where Duncan worked. He was drunk and had been out on the street. When he came in he found the woman talking to Hays and he at once began abusing her, nobody knows for what, and when she answered in the same style he fill to clubbing her. Having punished her to his satisfaction, he gave himself up and was jailed. Her injuries are not serious. She had been drinking too. Tom Ellis spent last night in a six by six cell. The guards have got an idea from somewhere that there were files hidden in the jail and were searching for them. Ellis had the only light and he turned it down just for a joke, he says. One of the guards told him if he did that again they’d put him in a cell. Thereupon he put out the light and he had to take the threatened penalty. Ellis says the lamp was his and he had a right to do with it as he wanted to. OVER THE STATE Messrs Jones and Johnston of Livingston were defeated for liquor license on last Friday. The forty first annual convention of the Association of Southern Baptists met in Montgomery on the 7th inst. J. T. Kirk and B. Almon of Tuscumbia have formed a partnership for the practice of law. The people of Pike County are going to donate lands to induce the building of a railroad through that county from Montgomery to a post in Florida. Talledega is to have a public school system, and $10,000 is to be raised by issuing city bonds to erect a public school building. George B. Davis convicted in Russell County of the murder of Archie Reams in February last is to be handed on 25th June. Walker County is in hard luck. Her new court house burned just before day on the 6th inst. Making the third she has lost in the same way within ten years. Like the last fire of some two years ago, this one was evidently the work of an incendiary. The walls were left standing. Most of the records of the Circuit Court Clerk’s office, including criminal dockets, were burned. The Probate record was saved. The officers were just moving in and hadn’t put the broke and papers in the vaults. The following names persons were tried last week by U. S. Commissioners D. N. Cooper and W. L. Goodwin, charged with violation of the revenue law: HOUSTON BURLISON, of Marion County, bound to court at Huntsville’ JOHN BURLISON, of Marion County, case continued to May 17th, WILLIS HANEY, of Marion County, bound to court at Huntsville, AMOS SPILLERS, of Marion County, bound to court at Huntsville, WILLIAM EADS of Marion County, bound to court at Huntsville; HIRAM SMALLWAOOD of Lamar County, case continued to May 22nd. Athens, May 7 – The government has sent a gun boat to Constantinople to take away from the Turkish capitol M Conduriett, the Greek minister. Greek troops being hurried to the front will al possible speed. The Senate on May 1st confirmed the nomination of T. D. Burnett, to be United States District of Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, and F. W. Booker Collector of Internal Revenue. Ex-Congressman G. W. W. Hewitt has been nominated for the legislature in Jefferson County. Ku-Kluxing is still in vogue in Franklin County. The Franklin County Democrat says a crowd of masked men went to the house of old man Tom Clark last Saturday night, took him out and whipped him unmercifully. It is said they broke several ribs and came very near killing the old gentleman. Judge H. M. B. H. the present Probate Judge of Fayette Co, was a candidate for re-election and was defeated for the nomination before the Democratic Nominating Convention, which met at Fayette C. H. on April 30th, by Hon. W. A. Musgrove, by one vote. Bell ahs bolted, and in a card to the Fayette Journal declares that he will run independent - that errors were committed, and appeals to the people to support him. The county jail has no occupant at present. What county can beat that? - Lamar News Winston can. Her jail is empty, and has never held but two prisoners since its erection, two years ago. The mass meeting at Somerville on Monday resulted in a split, and two sets congressional convention – one for Wheeler and one for Richardson. Two county executive committees were appointed, Rev. Jos. Shackelford is chairman of the Wheeler patriots and J. B. West leads the Richardson braves. The wigwams are ablaze on both sides and the war whoops are heard all over the county. So says a North Alabama paper. A man running a small farm near Abbeville sold a bale of cotton some time since in Fort Gains, receiving his pay in fish, sugar, coffee, meat, etc. Pretty soon the merchant wrote him a letter stating that his cotton did not come up to the sample, and for him to please come over and arrange the matter, which elicited the following reply: Dear Tom: In reply to your letter, I take my pen in hand to let you know that I and all the children are all well and hope this will find you all enjoying the same God’s blessing. When I got home I found the fish spoiled, the sugar sanded and the meat short-height. Come over and we will arrange it. EX-PRESIDENT ARTHUR IS QUITE ILL Labor is distributed in Europe, and the political rights of the American citizen are envied by the European peasant to correct his wrongs.. Ad for Montgomery Advertiser (Something you need) 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. AGENTS WANTED – for Rev. Sam P. Jones Sermons – There never was such a book before, and never will be again. Something new and startling. First you laugh fit to kill yourself, nest you set up a deal of thinking, then you get mighty solemn. The most extraordinary book of sermons ever published. As delivered in Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Atlanta Augusta, Waco, Memphis, Nashville, &c, &c. Strikingly illustrated with best portrait of Sam Jones ever engraved, and over sixty interesting character sketches. The Only Authentic Edition. Only full reports yet printed. Do not mistake it for one of the small pamphlet editions. Sam Jones has repeatedly denounced these garbled and abbreviated reports as without his sanction, and as doing him rank injustice. Write at once for illustrated circulars and terms, and name your choice of territory; or to secure it instantly, send 75 cents for complete agents outfit, which will be forwarded by return mail, postpaid. Postage stamps accepted. Liberal terms guaranteed. Address Herbert & Cole Publishing Co. 810 & 812 Olive Street. St. Louis. 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. 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. S. J. SHIELDS – Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in Chancery. Vernon, Alabama. Will practice in the Courts of Lamar and the counties of the District. Special attention given to collection of claims. PHYSICIANS – DENTISTS M. W. MORTON. W. L. MORTON. DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons. Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala. Tender their professional services to the citizens of Lamar and adjacent country. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we hope to merit a respectable share in the future. Drug Store. Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, I hope to receive a liberal share in the future. 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 MAY 13, 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 We regret to learn of the illness of Mrs. SUMMERS. Send us 40 cents and receive the News until November 1st. Every citizen should take their county paper during the campaign. How nice it is to see the beautiful flowers with which the woods are filled. Mr. P.C. COMBS has been busily engaged this week making bee hives. E. B. KIRKSEY Esq. of Columbus, Miss. Was in town yesterday. Bring us some honey in exchange for the News. The delegates to the Senatorial Convention left Tuesday for Hamilton. A nice selection of ladies hats just received by Mrs. MCNATT, Vernon, Ala. Bring us your butter, chickens, and eggs you have for sale and get the News in exchange. A great many of our citizens have been fishing for several weeks, but we have not seen as many fish as we could eat at one meal this season. The Commissioners’ Court met on Monday and adjoined Tuesday at noon, all the members present. The time of the Court was fully occupied. Mr. JOHN TURNER has again been pronounced insane and application has been made to send him to the Insane Assylum in Tuskaloosa. The 2nd quarterly meeting of the M. E. Church South will convene at Bethal Church on Saturday before the 4th Sabbath in this month, holding two days. May, the lovely Spring month of sunshine and flowers, mosquitos and buffalo gnats, parties and picnics is upon us, and the boy hastens to join the Sunday School in order to attend the annual picnic. The three days meeting commenced on Sunday last, conducted by Rev. J. E. COX, G. L. HEWITT and A. PENNINGTON was very interesting and well attended. In this issue we call attention to the announcement of R. N. WALDROP. Capt. MADLROP is known to most of our readers, and should he have the good fortune to be elected will make an efficient officer. Mr. R. W. COBB has returned from New Orleans. Mrs. J. S. TOMLIN and children are visiting relatives at Fayette C. H. All kinds of produce will be taken in exchange for the News. Prayer meeting every Wednesday night. Eight of the ten candidates for Circuit Clerk have announced. We shall look for others in soon. Mr. J. N. MCNEIL and wife are visiting parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. MCNEIL near Kennedy. The High School has vacated this week so that the Principal might attend the Convention at Hamilton. We delay this issue one day so as to be able to publish result of the Senatorial Convention. Dr. W. L. MORTON is absent attending the Grand Lodge of the I. O. O. F. at Montgomery, Ala. as Representative of Vernon Lodge No. 45. Wanted: Three pea-fowls one or two years old. Cash will be paid for same on application to this office. A supposed mad dog was killed on the place of Mrs. S. A. GUIN this week. Franklin County will never present any worthier son for Senatorial honors than she has done this time. Some of the candidates for the Legislature contemplate “stumping” it soon. It is highly probable that another announcement will appear in our next issue for the office County Superintendent of Education. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. MORTON have gone to housekeeping in their new and cosy home on Aberdeen Street. The Rev. J. E. COX of Fayette C. H. pastor of the Missionary Baptist Church of this place was accompanied by his Christian lady, Mrs. COX. A few of the ladies of our town deserve credit for cleaning the church for meeting this week; also for furnishing and arranging beautiful flowers in front of the altar. Married: On the 6th inst, at the residence of Mr. D. U. HOLLIS, Mr. J. D. MCLEOD and Miss SUSIE HOLLIS. The Rev. J. R. HOLLAWAY officiating. Mr. G. W. RUSH one of the delegates to the Senatorial Convention was accompanied by his wife and little MARY EUNICE, who are visiting relatives in Hamilton. 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. Some of our candidates are awaiting their announcements so as to get “clubbing rates”. To such parties we make the following liberal offer: Clubs at 5 $4 each, clubs of 10, $3; clubs of 20, $2; clubs of 40, $1; and clubs of 80, $___. Fernbank has surely grown very much since our last visit there. We have a communication stating its population about 5,000, its school with an attendance of 200, and says Fernbank has shipped about 50,000 bales of cotton. We can’t make room for it this week. Another candidate desirous of representing the “dear people” of Lamar in the next General Assembly, in the person of Mr. JASON H. SHAW, of Sizemore’s Beat. Mr. Shaw proposes, if elected, to do away with the grand jurors and give the Justice’s of the peace power to investigate such cases as are carried before the Grand Jury. We would have been pleased to have given full proceedings of the County convention, but have been deprived of that opportunity owing to the secretary carrying all proceedings with him to Hamilton. THE COUNTY CONVENTION The County Convention was called to order at 12 m on last Saturday by W. A. YOUNG, chairman of the Executive Committee. The Convention proceeded to organize by electing L. M. WIMBERLEY permanent chairman and J. S. TOMLIN secretary. On motion a committee was appointed on credentials. On motion the election of delegates to the State Convention was taken by Beats resulting in the election of J. S. STANLEY, W. A. YOUNG, R. J. REDDEN, L. M. WIMBERLY, J. D. MCCLUSKEY, W. H. KENNEDY, and R. L. BRADLEY leaving five tied on a vote of thirty-one each. Several motions were made and the house got into a great confusion and a motion was made to elect THOS. B. NESMITH and J. S. GUYTON which carried and their nominee completed the delegation. The convention next proceeded to the election of delegates to the Congressional Convention which resulted in the election of the following named gentleman, to wit: R. J. REDDEN, M. W. LOYD, J. B. ABERNATHY, W. A. BROWN, JAS. SMITH, A. L. HARRINGTON, W. C. WILLIAMS, G. E. BANKHEAD, SAM CURRY, and D. J. LACY. After balloting was commenced on the delegates to the Senatorial convention a resolution to divide the delegation between Judge ALMON and Mr. SANFORD in proportion to their strength was offered by Dr. J. S. STANLEY. A point of order was raised and sustained by the chair; and then Dr. STANLEY moved a suspension to hear and pass on the resolution which was voted down, and the election proceeded resulting in the election of the following named gentlemen as delegates to the Senatorial Convention, to wit: GEO. W. RUSH, W. A. BROWN, J. S. TOMLIN, D. J. LACY, T. B. NESMITH, JAS. H. REAL, R. N. WALDROP, W. M STONE, J. B. ABERNATHY, and W. M. OGDEN. The Convention proceeded to the election of an executive committee for the next two years consisting of one member from each commissioners district and a chairman who is to reside at the Court House. The delegates resulted as follows: First Dist: DR. J. I. BARKSDALE, Second Dist: DR. W. F. ELLIOT, Third Dist: Dr. J. S. STANLEY, Fourth Dist: Dr. W. H. KENNEDY. The entire convention then proceeded to elect a chairman. THOS. B. NESMITH, L. M. WIMBERLEY, and W. A. YOUNG were put in nomination and resulted in the election of W. A. YOUNG. On motion the convention adjourned sine die. TAX SALE The State of Alabama, Lamar County By virtue of Decree rendered on the 3rd day of May, 1886, by the Court of Probate for said county, I will offer for sale at the court house door of said county on third day of June, 1886, the following lands to wire: se qu of sw qr sec 19 T 11 R 14. Tax and cost (fees…..) Said lands or so much thereof as will be necessary to pay the above tax and cost will be sold on the 7th June, 1886. D. J. LACY, T. C. TAX NOTICE The State of Alabama, Lamar County I, D. J. LACY, tax collector of said county will make application to the Probate Court to be held first Monday in June 1886, for an order to sell the lands mentioned below or so much thereof as will be sufficient to pay the taxes, penalties and cost for the year 1885. Henson Springs Beat – THOMAS BANNISTER Millville Beat – J. B. WILDER & CO - CAROLINA PRICE Pine Springs Beat – T. A. THURLKILL Trull’s Beat – J. L. JONES D. J. LACY, T. C. State of Alabama, Lamar County Probate Court, April 1st, 1886 In the matter of the estate of Joel B. GIBSON, decease, it appearing to the Court upon the examination of the proof and papers submitted, that said estate is insolvent. It is therefore ordered by the Court that Thos. B. NESMITH, Administrator of said estate, file his amount, vouchers and evidence, and that he make settlement of his administration on the 31st day of May next, when and where all parties interested can contest the same if they think proper. ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate 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 and estate of A. T. YOUNG. It is ordered that the 7th day of May, AD 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. 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. We are authorized to announce JASON H. SHAW a candidate to represent Lamar County in the next General Assembly of Alabama. Election in August, 1886. 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 We are authorized t to announce Dr. B. F. REED a candidate for the office of Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County. Election next August. To the voters of Lamar County: I take this method of informing you that I am a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court at the approaching August election. Soliciting a liberal share of your votes, I am yours, obt. R. N. WALDROP 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. MASONIC: Vernon Lodge, No. 588, A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 pm each month. – J. D. MCCLUSKEY, W. M. M. W. MORTON, Sec. Vernon Lodge, NO 45, I. O> G. F. Meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7 ½ pm each month. - W. G. MIDDLETON, N. G. - M. W. MORTON, Sect’y Memphis and Birmingham Railroad Company – Notice is hereby given that by virtue of a commission issue 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 Cooperators. Ad for Wright’s Liver Vegetable Pile Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ Ad for Tutt’s Pills Ad for The Courier Journal – Louisville, KY Ad for Chicago Scale Co. Ad for Smith’s Bile Beans Ad for Wehterill Lead Paint Ad for Avery Sewing Machine Ad for New Home Sewing Machine Ad for Collins Ague Cure PAGE 4 HUNTING LEOPARDS – HOW THE SAVAGE ANIMALS ARE UTILZED IN INDIA The Ferocious Cheetah Trained by Natives to Run Down and Capture Antelopes It was here that I witnessed the only instance I ever saw of the black buck being run into and killed by the cheetah, or hunting leopard. Many consider this a low kind of sport, but I think it is quite equal to partridge shooting, besides being a beautiful sight. I shall therefore describe as well as I can what I saw. On arriving with my friends at the place of meeting in the jungle, we found a few rough-and-ready-looking natives in charge of three carts, or rather small two-wheeled platforms drawn by two bullocks. On each vehicle sat, in an erect attitude, a beautiful leopard, strongly chained and with a hood over his eyes, similar to those used for hawks. We were soon under way and driving toward the herd of antelopes which could be seen grazing in the distance and which had been marked down before hand. There was no difficulty in getting the carts to within 120 yards of the door. Then one of the cheetahs, a fine male was unhooded and set free. Its departure from the gharry and its decision in choosing the most covered line on the open plain for rushing on its prey were so instantaneous and rapid as to be quite marvelous. It seemed to vanish from the cart and appear simultaneously halfway toward the fine black buck it had sighted out for attack. When at about thirty yards from the unsuspicious troop, they suddenly became aware of the deadly peril they were in. One and all sprang into the air with galvanic bounds and no doubt expected to escape easily by flight. But the hunting cheetah is, I suppose, for a hundred yards, by far the feetest of all wingless things; and this one was soon in the midst of the affrighted throng, which scattered wildly and panic-stricken in all directions, as their leader – a fine black buck – was truck down in their midst. Their he lay, alone, in his death agony, in the deadly clutch of his beautiful and relentless foe. We all ran as hard as we could, and were soon surrounding the strange group. Neither animal moved, for the buck was paralyzed by fear – his starting eyeballs and dilated nostrils alone gave evidence of life. The cheetah, on the other hands, with his body spread out over the prostrate form of his victim, seemed to strain every nerve in pressing his prey against the cart as, with his long sharp fangs buried in its delicate throat, he continued the process of strangulation. He was very motionless, but his eyes were fixed upon us with a glare of extraordinary ferocity that became intensified as his keepers rushed forward and seized the deer by the hind leg. The brute now growled fiercely and tightening his clutch, looked so extremely dangerous that I was far from envying those who were in such close proximity to him. But they knew their trade. With a long sharp knife, they cut the deer’s throat and caused the warm blood to spout in torrents into the face of the half-wild beat, whose whole frame now seemed to thrill with ecstasy. One of the operators, in the meanwhile, caught a quantity of the crimson life stream in a wooden bowl, and force the steaming fluid under the very nose of the excited leopard, who quitting his hold, at once began to lap with avidity. While engaged in this process the leather hood was swiftly clapped over his eyes, and the collar with two chains attached, was adjusted round his neck. While this was going on a third man had cut off one fo the bucks hind legs and this the “lion’s share” was held close to the bloody chalice, which was no sooner emptied than the brute seized the mat thus provided with a vice like grip. Each chain was now grasped by a different man, who by keeping apart so that the tether remained taught, kept the leopard between them in such a way that neither was within reach of his claws or teeth. Then the third individual, who had ever retained his hold of the shank bone of the leg of venison, gently drew the cheetah to the little cart that had now been brought close up. As soon as the beat felt himself against the edge of this own familiar chariot he sprang lightly upon it and proceeded to demolish his succulent meneau (sic) at his ease. I now inspected the carcass of the deer, with a view to ascertaining, if possible, how the cheetah had been able so instantaneously to strike down such a powerful animal immediately on getting up with it. I at once observed a single long deep gash in the flank, which was evidently caused by the decisive blow. But I could not imagine with what weapon the leopard had been able to inflict this very strange looking wound, for the cheetah has a foot like a dog, and his claws are not retractable. Turning then to the beast, as it sat on the cart, I inspected it closely, and saw that the dew- claw, which in the dog appears such a useless appendage, is represented in this brute by a terrible looking talon exactly suited to the infliction of such a gash. – [Our Indian Stations] The perfection and magnitude of adulteration of coffee has stimulated many inventions for that purpose. PEARLS OF THOUGHT Walk as if you were conscious that your body has a soul in it. If a life will bear examination in every hour of it, it is pure indeed. If any one says ill of you, let your life be so that none will believe him. He who strives after a long and pleasant form of life must seek to attain continued equanimity. “We never see a tear in the eye,” says a celebrated writer, “but we are reminded of a warm heart.” Whatever else we neglect, let us keep up the habit of communion with God. Prayer is the key of the position. If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Let every man take care how he speaks and writes of honest people, and not set down at a venture the first thing that comes uppermost. The man who is suspicious lives in a constant state of unhappiness. It would be better for his peace of mind to be too trustful than to be too guarded. If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things; the first that they will be more careful to keep they counsel, because they have much more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that thou dost possess. A TARGETMAN’S INGENIOUS GAME Not many miles from Chicago lives a targetman who, for nearly four years, has [played a little game admirable for its boldness and ingenuity. The duties of a targetman, everyone should know, are to keep constant lookout at the crossing of two railroads and to swing the red danger signal over one track at the approach of a train on the other. For ten years one man has held the position of day targetman, and he is still there. Four years ago the night man was killed, and the day man, acting under instructions, reported the name of a man competent to take the deceased’s place. This man was accordingly placed on the payroll and received his salary regularly from the paycar. The junction at which these men were employed is merely a crossing out on the prairie. There is no house there beside the targetman’s shanty, and a few rods away, his humble dwelling. A few weeks ago it was accidentally discovered that for four years one man has drawn two men’s pay, and that the man who was hired four years ago never existed, save in the imagination of the man who pretended to hire him. But the targetman who drew two man’s pay did two men’s work. For four years he has lived in that little shanty, night and day. Not ten hours in all that time has he been farther from the crossing than the little frame house where he ate his meals. Twenty-four hours a day and 365 days a year he has been on the lookout for approaching locomotive headlights and smokestacks. Of course he could not have performed such service as this without assistance, but all the assistance he had was that of an automatic signal rigged up by himself during a few of his many leisure hours. Stretching an old piece of telegraph wire half a mile up the track in each direction, he drew it taut and affixed a connecting trigger to the surface of the rail, so that the wheels of every approaching engine would pull the wire and drop an old hat into his face a she slept in his shanty. By this means he was enabled to secure plenty of sleep between trains, and at the same time be sure of being awake and on duty whenever needed. Every pay day he presented at the car not only his own order, but that of the imaginary night targetman, properly indorsed, and thus received the pay for two men’s work. This story is told upon the authority of an official of the interested company, who adds that the question now is whether the man shall be compelled to give up one of his salaries or be permitted to continue his little scheme. It is admitted that his duties have always been faithfully performed. – [Chicago Herald] LYING TOO FAR APART In a hunter’s camp different men began to unfold their yarns. Among others a Kentuckian said he once shot a buck in such a way that the bullet, hitting the right ear, passed through the heel of the right hind foot. Jeering and laughter greeted this monstrous story. “Brown,” called the Kentuckian to his companion, “tell these fellows if what I say is not as true as gospel!” “Why, yes,” replied the other, “I saw it myself. You see, gentlemen, when he pulled the trigger of his rifle, the buck was just scratching his head with his hoof.” Then he whispered to his friend, “That was a narrow escape. Another time don’t lie so far apart.” LIKE A GROWING CROP That was a profound philosopher who compared advertising to a growing crop. He said: “The farmer plants his seed, and while he is sleeping the corn is growing. So with advertising. While you are sleeping or eating, your advertisement is being read by thousands of persons who never saw you or heard of you or heard of your business, and never would had it not been for your advertising.” MEN WHO PROMISED LITTLE ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS, the Primate of the Catholic Church in America, who is named as a coming Cardinal, graduated near the foot of his class in college, and was in no wise a brilliant student, nor is he noted as a pulpit orator. SENATOR GORMAN of Maryland, in his younger days, when he was Postmaster of the Senate, and measured considerably less around the waistband than now, was President of the old National Base Ball Club, and was noted as an accurate thrower and catcher. Fifteen years ago, MR. JOSEPH ARCH was a farm laborer, supporting his family on four dollars weekly wages, and he is now a member of Parliament. He is what is commonly called a self-made man, but as his wife taught him to read and write, he may be considered a creditable specimen of domestic manufacture. JUSTICE FIELD tells how his pride had a fall. When he was a young man he was particularly proud of his erect form and fine, cur ling hair. Walking one day with head well up, he ran against a cart and injured his knee. The injury resulted in permanent lameness and a consequent stoop in his shoulders. Afterward hard study produced brain fever, and a By-blister cured the fever and destroyed his waving locks. GLADSTONE, as a young man ,w as not overestimated by Disraeli, who wrote in a letter in February 1845, and now first published, that Gladstone’s address was dull and ineffective, and that he might come to be somebody, but he did not think so. He also writes of a dull dinner party at which “young Gladstone” was present; but there was an excellently cooked swan, stuffed with truffles, which according to Disraeli, was “the best company there.’ The Hindoos are again complaining of the poor quality of idol furnished them by the Birmingham manufactures. It seems that these manufacturers have been producing such ugly styles of idols that even the most religious Hindoo can’t worship them with fervor. Moreover, they are made out of cross-grained, knotty wood and are painted with cheap mineral paint which in hot weather comes off when the devotees kiss them. The Hindoo is very patient, but it does rile him when the paint of a high-priced god sticks to his lips. IT HAD TO COME Col. P. Doman, the Dakota statesman, and the one who has done so much to encourage the immigration of unmarried women to the Territory, while remaining whole-hearted himself, has written a letter to the Fargo Argus and confessed his condition. How a Dakota man feels when he is enamored may best be inferred from this quotation: “The daintiest, ravishingest, enchantingest of pedals terrestrial. In visions of the night, before my moonstruck eyes, float in many dance a long, unceasing whirl of tiny goiter boots. I’m bewitched, I’m begaiter-booted. O, star of the strickenhearted, beam softly down upon me! For – I’m struck! Hurlyburly, ringed, streaked, and striped style of pleasure and pain, of bliss and of anguish, of certainty and doubt, contradiction and truth, despondency and hope, of ecstasy and of despair, I endure thee. For I’m struck! O, Chambermaid of Juno! Struck! Struck! Stu-u-uck! By a remorseless, flirty, peerless young damsel, who won’t be my valentine! And the first six letters of her name are ---‘ but I hardly think I’ll tell. She is the ideal mistress of a Dakota claim shanty – the goddess, the tutelary divinity, seen only in dreams, of a Devil’s Lake shack! She is the incomparable, unfeeling young damsel, who won’t be my valentine, and won’t have me for here. Foot-racing is said to become quite popular with the gentler sex in Anderson Valley, California. One young woman proudly paints to a record of one hundred yards in eleven seconds. ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar842gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 61.2 Kb