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THE LAMAR NEWS

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor        VERNON, ALABAMA, FEBRUARY 18, 
1886          VOL. III. NO. 16

TIRED
I am tired.  Heart and feet
Torn from busy mart and street!
I am tired – Rest is sweet.

I am tired.  I have played
In the sun and in the shade.
I have seen the flowers fade.

I am tired.  I have had
What has made my spirit glad.
What has made my spirit sad.

I am tired.  Loss and gain!
Golden sheaves and scatter’d grains
Day has not been spent in vain.

I am tired.  Eventide.
Builds me lay cares aside,
Bids me in my hopes abide.

I am tired.  God is near.
Let me sleep without a fear,
Let me die without a tear.

I am tired.  I would rest
As the bird within its nest!
I am tired.  Home is best.

EARNING HER LIVING
	Minna’s room was not light at the best of times.  Its one window, 
planted dormer-fashion in the roof, gave a view of the blank whitewashed side 
of an adjoining house, which towered up a story or so higher than its 
unpretentious neighbors.
	But Minna – a personage who always made the best of things – had 
absolutely persuaded herself that this was the best light in the world for her 
oil-painting.
	“There are no bursts of sunshine or stray sunbeams to disturb the 
clear, cool atmosphere,” said she.  “Artists always prefer this sort of light.”
	For Minna Morton was a working girl.  Too delicate to stand behind the 
counter or superintend the busy loom, she yet endeavored to earn her own 
livelihood by means of an artist’s palette and sheaf of brushes.
	Her outfit had cost a considerable sum – there was no denying that; 
but Rosa Hale, who stitched kid gloves in a down town factory, had lent her 
the money for the purchase, and little Bess Beaton, the landlady’s daughter, 
sat to her two hours every day after school, quite satisfied with gingerbread 
nuts to munch and a battered rag doll, which had belonged to Minna’s own 
younger days, to play with.
	And Minna was young and hopeful, and in the far distance saw herself 
acquiring name and fortune by means of her beloved art.
	This morning, however, the room seemed a degree gloomier than its 
usual wont; and when Minna arranged her canvas on the easel, a dim sort of 
misgiving crept across her heart.
	It was a simple picture that she had painted – a little girl playing 
on a sun-decked barn-floor, with a brood of chickens fluttering around her, 
and a stealthy car advancing from beneath tangled masses of hay.
	Yesterday the little girl had seemed animated with really, actual 
life; the hay had seemed to rustle in the wind; one could almost perceive the 
sinuous, gliding motion of the cat.  But today it was as if a leaden spell had 
descended upon everything.
	“Am I an artist?” Minna asked herself, “or am I not?”
	Rosa Hale’s step, coming softly down the stairs, aroused her from if 
disagreeable reverie.
	She hurried to the door, with the almost invisible limp, which had 
always haunted her since that unlucky fall of her childhood.
	“Rosa”, she said, “are you in a hurry?  Do come in a moment!”
	And Rosa came in, with her little brown bonnet nearly tied underneath 
her chin, and her lunch-basket in her hand, on her way to the factory 
where “real imported kid gloves, fresh from Paris were turned out by the dozen 
gross a day.
	“What is it, Minna?” she asked cheerfully.
	“Look at his picture,” said Minna, drawing her up in front of the 
easel.
	“Well, I’m looking,” said Ross.
	“What do you think of it?”
	“What do I think of it?” Rosa repeated.  “Why, I think it is 
beautiful!”
	“Oh, I know that!” impatiently cried Minna.   “The bits of hay are 
painted to perfection, and the rat-holes in the barn-floor are copied exactly 
after that one in the corner of the cupboard; but all that isn’t true art, 
Rosa.  Does the child look as if she would speak to you?”
	“The checks in her gingham apron are painted beautifully,” said Rosa, 
timidly.
	Minna frowned.
	“But the cat?” said she.  “Is it a live cat?  Do you fancy you are 
going to see her spring?”
	“N-no,” unwittingly admitted Rosa.  “It’s a lovely cat, but it is only 
a picture of a cat!” Minna – dear Minna, I haven’t offended you, have I?”
	“Oh, no!” said Minna, lightly.  “But you have told me exactly what I 
wanted to know – what I was sure of myself.  Good-by, Rosa!  And mind you 
don’t bring me any more of those delicious little bouquets. They’re lovely, 
but they cost five cents, and you haven’t any five-cent pieces to throw away.”
	And so, with a loving kiss, she dismissed the pink-cheeked little 
factory-girl, who was always so kind to her; and then she sat down in the Upas 
shadow of at the dismal whitewashed wall, and cried:
	“I knew it all along,” she declared.  “You are a hideous little 
imposter!” (to the simpering figure in the foreground).  “And you” (to the 
car) “are simply a thing of wood.  And I am not an artist at all!  If---“
	“Rat, tat, tat!” came a soft knock at the door.
	Minna started guiltily to her feet, and dashed away the wet spray of 
tears from her cheek.
	“Come in!” said she.
	And to her horror, she saw standing there a tall, pleasant-faced young 
man.
	“What did you please to want?” said she, rather timidly.
	“I – I – beg your pardon!” said he.  “But are you the young lady who 
sent a note to Palmer & Co., picture dealers? My father has an attack of 
lumbago this morning, and he is unable to come out.  He has sent me in this 
stead.”
	Minna colored deeply as she remembered that in her elation of the day 
before she had actually been so foolish as to write to Palmer & Co. to send up 
an expert to value her picture for the salesroom.
	“Where is the picture?” he asked.  “Is this it?”
	“Yes,” Minna answered, with an odd, choking sensation in her 
throat, “But – But - --“
	It was of no use.  The tears would come.  She sat down in the 
cushioned window-seat, and hid her face in her hands.
	“Has anything happened?” asked Mr. Paul Palmer, genuinely disconcerted.
	“Nothing more than might have been expected,” said Minna, trying to 
smile.  “Please don’t think me foolish!  Yesterday I fancied that this daub of 
mine was a gem of art.  now my eyes have been opened.  I know that it is 
worthless!”
	Mr. Palmer glanced scrutinizingly at the picture.
	“But,” said he, “are you sure that you are the best judge?”
	“One can trust one’s own instinct,” said Minna, sadly.  “I am sorry to 
have given you so much unnecessary trouble.  But I am not rich, and I thought 
I had discovered a way of earning my living.  It is a bitter disappointment to 
me, but I suppose it is an old story to you, Mr. Palmer.”
	Paul was silent.  In the course of his business he had witnessed many 
trying scenes, but his heart ached for this pale little girl, with the sunny, 
flax-gold hair brushed away from her forehead, and the almost imperceptible 
limp in her gait.  It seemed to him as if he could read her story almost as 
plainly as if it were written on her face in printed sentences.
	“Suppose you let me take the picture home and submit it to my father’s 
opinion?: he said, calmly.
	“I do not believe it will be of any use,” sighed Minna.  “It seems as 
if my eyes had been unsealed all too late.  I am no artist.  I am only a 
fraud.  Oh, yes,” as he looked inquiringly at her, “you can take it.  The 
sooner I know my fate, the better it will be for me.”
	So Mr. Palmer wrapped up the canvas in a piece of brown paper, bowed a 
quiet “good-by” and departed.
	All that day Minna sat in a sort of terrified suspense, scarcely 
daring to breathe.  Toward night Mr. Palmer came back.
	“Well?” she gasped, breathlessly.
	“I am happy to say that the picture is accepted,” said he.  “I have 
brought you twenty-five dollars for it.  And I would like a pair of smaller 
ones – companion subjects – as soon as you can furnish them.”
	Minna Morton gave a little gasp for breath.
	“Oh!” she cried, “you do not really mean it.  Accepted!  And more 
wanted!  Oh, it don’t seem possible.”
	“How soon can you have them ready?” said Paul, quietly.  “In a month?”
	“Yes, in less time than that,” answered Minna, half giddy with 
delight.  “I shall work day and night.  Oh, Mr. Palmer, how kind you are!  
Indeed, indeed, you do not know what all this means for me!”
	If Minna could have been temporarily clairvoyant that day – if she 
could have followed Paul Palmer back to the “art emporium” where his father, 
half doubled up with lumbago, sat viewing his recent acquisition through an 
eye-glass – what would have been her feelings?
	“Paul” said he curtly, “this thing that you have brought home isn’t 
worth shop room?”
	“What is the matter with it, sir?”
	“Nothing – nothing on earth.  The trouble” said Mr. Palmer, 
vindictively, “is that there is nothing to it.  It is negative from beginning 
to end.  Tell the artist we can find no sale for such trash!”
	But Paul Palmer carried back no such message.  He went and came 
often.  He spoke words of kindly encouragement to the poor young girl, and 
paid, out of his own pocket, liberal prices for her efforts.
	And one day he asked her to be his wife and Minna promised that she 
would.
	“Heretofore,” said she, “I have always dreamed of devoting myself to 
art; but of late I am not so hopeful.  It seems as if my poor opinions are not 
strong enough to soar.  Yes, Paul, if you care for a helpless lame girl like 
me—“
	“I love you, Minna,” he said, simply.  “If you will trust yourself to 
me, I will never give you cause to repent it.”
	It was not until they had been married some years, and old Mr. Palmer, 
the picture dealer, was dead and buried, that Minna, wandering through the 
deserted rooms of the old warehouse, with a rosy-checked child clinging to the 
skirts of her gown, came across some dust-powdered canvasses, with their faces 
turned to the wall.
	“Oh, look, mamma!” cried little Paul.  “What are these?”
	“Let us examine them, dear,” said she.
	They were her own long-forgotten efforts!  She stood looking at them 
through a mist of tears and smiles.
	“Dear, noble Paul!” she murmured to herself.  “This only adds to the 
debt of gratitude that I already owe him.  But he need not have been so tender 
of my feelings.  I know now that art, so far as I am concerned, was a delusion 
and a snare.  I know that my truest happiness, my greatest felicity, has been 
in cherishing him and the children.”
	And she never told Paul that she had discovered his long guarded 
secret. – [Helen Forrest Graves]

PROUD DEACONS
	Human nature is much the same the world over, and if the following 
anecdotes have Scotchmen for their heroes, the same thing might have happened 
anywhere else than in the highlands.  It should be said that in Scotland a 
deacon is the chairman of a corporation of tradesmen, and not a church officer.
	Two worthy incumbents, who fretted their little hour upon a stage not 
far from the banks of the Ayr, happened to be chosen deacons on the same day.
	The more youthful of the two flew home to tell his young wife what an 
important prop of the civic edifice he had been allowed to become; and 
searching the “but and ben” in vain, ran out to the byre, where, meeting the 
cow, he could no longer contain his joy, but, in the fullness of his heart, 
clasped her round the neck, exclaiming:
	“Oh, crummie, crummie, ye’re nae langer a common cow – ye’re a deacn’s 
cow!”
	The elder civic dignitary was a sedate, pious person, and felt 
rather “blate” in showing to his wife that he was uplifted above this world’s 
honors.  As he thought, however, it was too good a piece of news to allow her 
to remain any time ignorant of, he lifted the latch of his own door, and 
stretching his head inward – 
	“Nelly” said he, in a voice that made Nelly all ears and eyes, “gif 
onybody comes spierin’ for the deacon, I’m just owre the gate at John 
Tamson’s!”

The champion swimmer of the world is an Englishman, appropriately named Finny.

THE SEIGE OF ATLANTA – REMINISCENCE OF SHERMAN’S MARCH TO THE SEA
How Georgia’s Capital was Beleaguered and Defended
	Noting the discovery of an old bombshell by an Atlanta well-digger, 
the Constitution of that city says:
	During the siege of Atlanta in 1864, it was a practical question and 
one of vital interest how to dodge them.  Gradually the Confederate lines drew 
nearer the city.  The faint echo of their guns was heard ten miles away.  When 
the lines fell back to the river there was a universal wail in Atlanta.  The 
river had been regarded as a barrier beyond which the invader could not come, 
and there was a constant expectation that Johnston would do something to 
paralyze his enemy.
	One evening about dusk came the news to the city that the Confederate 
troops had crossed the river and burned the bridge behind them.  That 
announcement stilled a thousand hearts in the beleaguered city.  There wan 
then no alternative but capture.  The people knew the relative force of the 
armies.  They were well aware that Sherman had over 100,000 men elated with a 
successful march into the heart of their enemy’s country, while opposing them 
were about 40,000 men in grey, who had been fighting a slow and desperate 
retreat.
	After the river was crossed the Federal army swept with little 
obstruction to the very outskirts of the city.  Atlanta then had a regular 
population of about 10,000, but the concentration of war supplies and the 
importance attached to it as a base of supplies had run the population up to 
20,000 or 25,000.  The city was teeming with people, all in great agitation 
when they heard that the invader had set his foot on the eastern bank of the 
Chattahoochee.
	How to defend the city was the next question.  It was answered by some 
very practical and intelligent men whose duty to the Southern Confederacy had 
kept them in or around Atlanta.  Chief among these was Colonel L. P. Grant the 
present president of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad.  Colonel Grant 
planned three complete lines of fortifications.  One was to skirt the boundary 
of the city.  The other was to surround the thickly settled districts, while 
the third was to encircle the very heart of the city, with the Courthouse as a 
sort of final rampart and stronghold.  All these works were duly constructed 
according to Colonel Grant’s plans, and the defenses of Atlanta, were famous 
for their ingenuity and strength.  But the Federal forces fought their way on 
until they were within cannon shot of the city.  They tried by several 
desperate assaults like that of July 22d, a mile beyond the cemetery, and like 
the bloody onslaught on Peachtree Creek, a few days later, to sweep right into 
the city.  In all these efforts they were checked by a force barely half as 
great as that of the invaders.  McPherson fell in sight of the city.  Many 
officers of minor rank fell.  Men were mowed down like wheat by the determined 
defenders of the city.  It must be a slow siege to win.
	Sherman realized this fact quickly, and accordingly adjusted his 
forces.  Batteries with the heaviest guns he could command were placed in 
front of the Federal lines.  They were almost completely around the city.  
Their range was four or five miles and they had only a mile or a mile and a 
half to cover.  Shells poured thick into the city, and a reign of terror began.
	Then came the bomb proof.  It was the only refuge from the shells of 
the besiegers.  Every household soon had its place of refuge.  The bomb proof 
consisted of a perpendicular hole in the ground about four feet square, and a 
tunnel of six feet which led into a vault of various dimensions.  The average 
size of the bomb proof was 10 x 12 feet, but many of them were larger.  Some 
of them were luxuriously furnished, and offered all the comforts of home in 
the retreat under ground from the sizzling and popping shells.
	So far as protection to life was concerned they were perfect.  No 
shell could penetrate through the roof of soil, and there was not a chance in 
a million that any of the enemy’s missiles would fall in the narrow entrances. 
The bomb proof was a complete protection from the enemy’s fiery missiles, and 
saved many a life in Atlanta.  Thousands of shells fell in the city during the 
six weeks of terror, and not half a dozen lives were lost.  The most fatal 
shell fell just in front of where James’ bank now is.  It exploded in the 
street.  One piece killed a shoemaker in a cellar.  Another piece broke the 
stone post at the corner which still bears the mark, as does the gas post a 
few feet away, which was almost cut away by the furious shell.
	The bomb proofs remained long after the siege.  They were objects of 
great curiosity to the captors of the city.  When Sherman drove the people out 
of Atlanta and burned their houses, the bomb proofs escaped his vengeance.  
Many of them remained until the new city began to rise, and there are still in 
many gardens of this city traces of these impoverished defenses of the women 
and children of Atlanta.

THE MIND’S ACTIVITY DURING SLEEP
	In connection with the present activity in psychical research, the 
following extract from the recently published “Life of Agassiz”” is of 
interest.
	“He (Agassiz) had been for two weeks striving to decipher the somewhat 
obscure impressions of a fossil fish on a stone slab in which it was 
preserved.  Weary and perplexed he put his work aside at last, and tried to 
dismiss it from his mind.  Shortly after, he waked one night persuaded that 
while asleep he had seen his fish with all the missing features perfectly 
restored.  But when the tried to hold and make fast the image, it escaped him. 
Nevertheless, he went early to the Jardin des Plantes, thinking that on 
looking anew at the impression he should see something which would put him on 
the track of his vision. In vain – the blurred record was as blank as ever.  
The next night he saw the fish again, but with no more satisfactory result.  
When he awoke it disappeared from his memory as before.  Hoping that the same 
experience might be reappeared on the third night, he placed a pencil and 
paper beside his bed before going to sleep.  accordingly, toward morning, the 
fish reappeared in his dream, confusedly at first, but, at least, with such 
distinctness that he had no longer any doubt as to its zoological characters.  
Still half dreaming in perfect darkness, he traced these characters on the 
sheet of paper at the bedside.  In the morning he was surprised to see in his 
nocturnal sketch features which he thought it impossible the fossil itself 
should reveal.  He hastened to the Jardin des Plantes, and, with his drawing 
for a guide, succeeded in chiseling away the surface of the stone under which 
proportions of the fish proved to be hidden.  When wholly exposed, it 
corresponded with his dream and his drawing, and he succeeded in classifying 
it with ease.  He often spoke of this as a good illustration of the well-known 
fact, that when the body is at ret the tired brain will do the work it refused 
before.”

HUMAN ELECTROTYPES
	M. Kergovatz, a chemist of Brest, has proposed a new method of 
disposing of the human body after death, which he considers preferable in 
every way to either burial or cremation.  His system is an antiseptic one, 
much simpler and less expensive than the old process of embalming, and is 
nothing more than a new galvanoplastic application.  The body is coated with a 
conducting substance, such as plumbago, or is bathed with a solution of 
nitrate of silver, the after decomposition of which, under the influence of 
sunlight, leaves a finely divided deposit of metallic silver.  It is then 
placed in a bath of copper sulphate, and connected for electrolysis with 
several cells of gravity or other battery of constant current.  The result is 
that the body is incased in a skin of copper, which prevents further change or 
chemical action.  If desired, this may be again plated with gold or silver, 
according to the taste or wealth of the friends of the dead.  M. Kergovatz has 
employed the process eleven times on human subjects and on many animals, and 
states that in all cases it was perfectly satisfactory.  In spite, however, of 
his warm recommendation, the idea is repulsive.  It seems a mockery to give 
permanence to the temple, when all that once made it valuable is gone – 
[Scientific American]

THE VALUABLE KOLA NUT – SO PRECIOUS THAT FIFTY WILL BUY A WIFE
A Tropical Product that is Put to a Large Variety of Uses
	The Cola (or Kola) nut of tropical West Africa is attracting a great 
deal of attention and if the representations made concerning it are correct is 
a valuable addition to the food and medicine of the world.
	For a long time the Kolo Nut – which grows collectively in a follicle, 
and is something like a flattened chestnut – has been used both as food and 
medicine by the natives of Guinea, who have also attached to it a goodly 
amount of superstition.  The nuts form a considerable article of trade amongst 
the negroes who which they are held in much esteem, so much so, that fifty of 
them were once sufficient to purchase a wife.  The nuts have long held a 
reputation for allaying thirst, promoting digestion, and staying hunger.  They 
are also said to have the singular property of clarifying beer and spirits and 
of greatly improving the beer, and there is no question, according to good 
authorities, of their effectiveness in making foul water clear and healthful 
and rendering tainted meat edible.  The action of the Kola nut in clarifying 
foul water is doubtless owing to the mucilage which the nut contains, which 
acts in the same way as the white of egg or isinglass.  At a recent meeting of 
the Linnaean Society of London one of the members gave an interesting account 
of the properties of Kola from actual experience.   He stated that the foreman 
of his estate was in the habit of getting the worse for drink every Saturday, 
and shortly before his services were required, every Monday morning, his wife 
used to reduce kola nut into a paste, which the man was made to swallow, and 
in thirty minutes he was quite clear in his head again; further it was 
maintained, that after the use of the Kola cure, a drunkard cannot return to 
stimulants for some days without feeling nausea.  At some of the garrison 
towns a native sits at the roadside and sells the nuts as the men pass; but 
the time they reach the barracks they are quire clearheaded, and the 
stupefaction caused by drinking spirits is gone.  On the West Coast of Africa 
Mohammedans and Arabs bear the natives at drinking by chewing at the same time 
a kola nut, which prevents the bad effects of the liquor.
	Another important use for the kola nut has been discovered.  It is 
found that a paste of it cannot be distinguished from fine cocoa paste.  If 
kola paste is mixed with cocoa it give a chocolate of a superior and finer 
quality than Caracas.  If it is mixed with three parts of a low class cocoa it 
improves the latter, both in strength and flavor, to an astonishing degree.  
Chocolate made with kola paste is ten times more nutritious than chocolate 
made with cocoa, and one of my correspondents writes me that his family and 
many of his friends have taken the kola – chocolate and found it very 
strengthening and the flavor pleasant, and that they have taken it for more 
than a year.  Kola-chocolate is so nutritious that a workman can, on a single 
cup taken at breakfast time, go on with his work through the day without 
felling fatigued.  Very little appetite is felt for the midday meal showing 
that the well-known sustaining properties of the nut are retained in the 
paste. – [Cook]

DRINKING AND EATING
The expenditures for various purposes per annum in the United states are as 
follows:
Drink					$900,000,000
Missions, home and foreign		      5,500,000
Bread					  505,000,000
Meat					  303,000,000
Iron and steel				  290,000,000
Woolen goods				  237,000,000
Sawed lumber				  233,000,000
Cotton goods				  237,000,000
Boots and shoes				  196,000,000
Sugar and molasses			  155,000,000
Educational purposes			    85,000,000
It will be seen by the above table that the money spent on drink is about 
equal to the amount spent for any three of the other articles.

Never do violence to your rational nature.  He who in any case admits 
doctrines which contradict reason has broken down the great barrier between 
truth and falsehood, and lays his mind open to every delusion.

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The REV. SAM P. JONES is making Satan howl in Cincinnati.  He will next tackle 
Chicago, and expects to wind up his labors in Washington City.

The Courier Journal says that Congress should retire Mr. Boutelle on a war 
pension.  The irony of which is in the fact that no veteran has prosecuted 
hostilities so long as he.

On yesterday Major SOL PALMER, State Superintendent of Education, appointed 
Mr. C. W. THOMPSON, County Superintendent of Education for Macon County – 
[Advertiser]

The State Democratic Executive Committee has been called to meet in 
Montgomery, the 24th of this month, for the purpose of fixing the time of 
holding the next State Convention of the party, and for such other business as 
may be brought before the committee.

Fifty thousand dollars ahs been subscribed to the iron furnace at Sheffield.  
The capital stock is $150,000 and it is said work will commence as soon as 
half the capital stock is subscribed.

GEN. HANCOCK DEAD
	Gen. W. S. HANCOCK died at his home on Governor’s Island, New York on 
Tuesday evening of the 8th.
	In 1880, Gen. HANCOCK received the nomination of the Democratic Party 
for the Presidency of the United States, but was defeated by the Republican 
nominee, JAMES A GARFIELD.  At the time of this death, he was second in rank 
in the army, only SHERIDAN standing between him and the Commander-in-Chief.

THE EDUCATIONAL BILL
	The Blair Educational Bill comes in for a full discussion in the 
present Congress, and with a probable chance of becoming a law.  According to 
illiteracy Georgia would get over six millions of dollars, and Alabama next 
largest sum of over five millions of dollars.  This large percent of 
illiteracy comes mainly from the colored race more than forty-seven per cent 
being classes as illiterate, and about six percent of the white.

THE HON. THOS. SEAY
For the News:
Mr. Editor:
	Permit me to call the attention of your readers to the claims of a 
gentleman who is a candidate for governor, which are as meritorious as those 
of any candidate who has so far entered the lists.  I mean Thos. Seay of 
Hale.  The writer has known him from boyhood and can testify, as can all who 
were his schoolmates, to his worth, and those eminent characteristics, which 
gave promise in the youthful deliberative body of the literary society at 
college, of the honors to be won in the General Assembly of the State.  The 
name chivalrous, enthusiastic, sincere nature has abided with him in mature 
years, and the germs of the genius that distinguished him in youth have given 
the full fruition they promised for his manhood.  A skillful lawyer –a sound 
legislator whom the senate has honored by making him its presiding officer at 
an age when few have even attained the “currule chair” in that dignified 
body.  A true man and an earnest patriot upon no one whose name is connected 
with the office of governor could the mantle fall more gracefully.  As the 
trusted confidant of the old Democracy, and the toast of the young, he 
deserves a noble following.
	In addition to all of this, he comes from a section of the State upon 
which the brunt of political warfare has always fallen with full force, and 
the scourge of oppression has been bitterly applied. Yet although glint and 
gloom the hands of its gallant sons have borne aloft the banner of Democracy 
until they successfully planted it upon the enemy'’ bastions, hitherto without 
reward, save the glory of political victory for the state, and the praise 
bestowed upon disinterested party loyalty.  The merits of his section of the 
state and the worth of the man may well commend to the favorable consideration 
of the people – the Hon. THOS. SEAY – [Phi Kappa]

ALABAMA APPOINTEES – [Montgomery Dispatch]
	Gen. ALLEN, United States Marshal for this district, has just returned 
from a visit to Washington City, and was met at his office yesterday by a 
Dispatch man.  The general looks in fine health and is in fine spirits.
	Speaking of the attitude of the Senate toward President Cleveland’s 
appointments, Gen. Allen said:
	“The feeling in Washington seemed to be very general that all the 
Alabama appointments would be confirmed without much further delay.  There 
have been no charges preferred against any of the President’s appointments in 
this state, and the only trouble at present, if there is really any trouble, 
is that the Senate desires to see the papers in cases causing removals of 
certain federal officers.
	The Alabama delegation in Congress is a s able a body of men as those 
from any state in the union, and they are working earnestly and untiringly and 
sincerely for the confirmation of every Alabama appointee.  They showed me 
every courtesy and kindness, as they do all Alabama visitors to the federal 
capital, and I was made to feel at home and among friends.”

ALABAMA CONGRESSMEN
 	“What are the Alabama Congressmen doing for the state?”
	“Well, they are all hard at work, JOENS, from the first district, 
informed me just before I left, that he felt sure of getting money sufficient 
to have the custom house at Mobile enlarged, repaired and improved.  I do not 
remember the amount applied for, but I am sure it was a good, large sum.
	Col. HERBERT and Senator MORGAN, who have the matter in hand, are 
quite certain of an appropriation for improving and beautifying the park of 
the government building in this city.  The plans have all been drawn, and it 
is to be very handsome, with well laid off walks, and several fountains placed 
at different places on the grounds, beautiful shrubbery and evergreens and 
flowers and grass.  Montgomery will have a charming park when completed.
	Col. OATES is full of energy, is a well informed gentleman, and takes 
a front rank among the foremost men of the house.
	Gen. JO. WHEELER is a celebrity in Washington.  His glorious and 
gallant record as a soldier in the late war has given a tinge of romance to 
his name, and he is a great favorite with all.
	But PUGH, FORNEY, MARTIN, SADLER, all are doing something for the 
interest of Alabama, and they reflect credit upon our state.
	Gen. Allen was delighted with the many courtesies shown him by the 
Alabama Representatives, of all of whom he spoke in the highest terms.

OVER THE STATE
City and county politics are warming up in Eufala.

The Grand Jury of Madison County found 70 true bills.

It is said that Selma is soon to have another newspaper.

The Warrior Guards, of Tuskaloosa now number 40 strong.

REV. J. J. PORTER, the evangelist, is again “whooping up” Greenville.

An iron fence is being placed around.  (sic)

Jacksonville is to have a new paper there shortly.

A bank is to be opened in Anniston at an early day.

One hundred tons of iron ore is shipped daily from Anniston to the Sloss 
Furnace at Birmingham.

Politics is very much stirred up in Lowndes County.

Selma’s broom factory is doing a paying business.

There are forty-six prisoners in the Dallas County jail.

There has been a Woman’s Christian Temperance Union organized in Uniontown.

Th Mobile Medical College has now 115 students, and is in a prosperous 
condition.

Birmingham is going to build a new hotel at a cost of $200,000.

NORMAN G. KITTRELL, formerly of Eutaw, has been appointed Judge of a Texas 
Circuit.

The Macon Telegraph says that one thing is sure, the President is not the 
silent man of destiny.

Some of the editors of this state have been calling Miss Jennie Clay, of the 
Huntsville Democrat “a beautiful young lady.”  Miss Jennie, being a 
modest, “denies” the soft impeachment and says she never was called 
beautiful.  The editors who accused her, the first thing Miss Jennie knows 
will be sending for her photograph that they may bet the proof on her.

A construction train is ready, and will carry out rails and other materials to 
Russellville on the S. & B. R. R. in a few days

Measles are prevalent in and around Pine Apple.  It is said that there have 
been at least one hundred and fifty cases of it within the past month, and 
several deaths.

ITEMS OF INTEREST
Hydrophobia patients are flocking to M. Pasteur from all parts of the world 
and a war of extermination of dogs has begun.

The youngest Representative in Congress is Mr. LaFollette from Wisconsin, aged 
28.

Labor troubles are more serious North than South, by far, in spite of the 
negro problem.

The bill to admit Dacota (sic) into the Union has passed the Senate.

A collision of steamers at the wharf New Orleans caused destruction of 
property amounting to $60,000 but no lives were endangered.

NEW MUSIC BOOKS – “GOOD TIDINGS COMBINES” By A. J. Showalter.  This is the 
latest and best of all the Sunday School books for popular use.  It contains 
36 pages, and on ever page there is a gem of sacred song.  Bound in 
substantial boards.  Price 25 cents per copy; $2.50 per dozen.  THE NATIONAL 
SINGER. By A. J. Showalter & J. H. Teaney.  This book is the result of much 
careful work by the most experience musicians who write for character notes.  
It is the bet of all the singing school books, as it contains enough new music 
of every grade and variety to interest and instruct any school or convention, 
and also all of the more popular standard hymn tunes of the church.  This is a 
feature that is wanting in every other popular character notebook.  The 
National Singer supplies this and every other want to make an ideal signing 
schoolbook.  Price 75 cents; $7.50 per dozen.  THE MUSIC TEACHER.  A new 
monthly musical Journal edited by A. J. Showalter.  Every student of music, 
chorister and teacher should read good musical journals.  The Music Teacher 
aims to instruct as well as entertain.  Price 50 cents per year.  Specimen 
copies free.  Agents wanted.  We can furnish any other music or music book no 
matter where published.  It would also be in your interest to write us when 
you want to buy a piano or organ, or any thing else in the music line. – A. J. 
Showalter & Co., Dalton, Ga.

Vigorous health for men.  Prof. Harris’ Pastille – A Radical Cure for 
Spermatorrhea and Impotency.  Tested for over 5 years by use in thousands of 
cases.  Free trial package.  Nervous debility organic weakness and decay and 
numerous obscure diseases, baffling skillful physicians, result from youthful 
indiscretions, too free indulgence and over brain work.  Do not temporize 
while such enemies lurk in your system. Avoid being imposed on by portentous 
claims of such remedies …..(too small to read)… 

America Ahead – Peculiar Characteristics f Americans – The Evils and How 
Restored.
	In this age of bustle and hurry, an age devoted to great projects and 
enterprises, the American people are taking the lad in the furtherance of 
noble works, and in the advancement of the sciences and arts.  In these they 
deserve to take a high rank, and through the united works of millions, the 
American continent is fast being transformed from its untamed state and being 
place don an equality with the older continents beyond the ocean.  The 
American people are fast, under these influences developing into a nervous, 
energetic race, remarkable for its vim and business qualifications.  Yet there 
is danger that in the course of years these very elements may combine to the 
ruination of the physical character of the people, and leave them feeble and 
altogether different from their forefathers.  General debility is now much 
more common than formerly, and seems to be on the increase among the masses.  
Many remedies have been extensively advertised for this wide-spread 
complaints, but none of these have been so successful or met with such general 
favor as the remedy manufactured by Dr. S. B. Jhurman, named by him Peruna….
(too small to read)

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.  Established 1846.  The most popular weekly newspaper 
devoted to science, mechanics, engineering, discoveries, inventions, and 
patents ever published.  …(too small to read)

Masonic.  Vernon Lodge., NO. 289 A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at 
Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 p.m. each month. 
 J. D. MCCLUSKEY, W.M. 
 		 M. W. MORTON, Sec.
Vernon Lodge., No. 45, I. O. O. F. meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th 
Saturdays at 7 ½ p.m. each month.
W. G. MIDDLETON, N. G.
M. W. MORTON, sect’y

Largest, cheapest, best stock of dress goods, dress trimmings, ladies & misses 
jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, boots, shoes, & hats, tin 
ware, etc., etc., at rock bottom figures at A. COBB & SONS’S.

ATTORNEYS
NESMITH & SANFORD      THOS. B. NESMITH, Vernon, Ala.  J. B. SANFORD, Fayette 
C. H., Ala.  Attorneys-at-Law.  Will practice as partners in the counties of 
Lamar and Fayette, and separately in adjoining counties, and will give prompt 
attention to all legal business intrused to them or either of them.

SMITH & YOUNG, Attorneys-At-Law Vernon, Alabama– W. R. SMITH, Fayette, C. H., 
Ala.   W. A. YOUNG, Vernon, Ala.  We have this day, entered into a partnership 
for the purpose of doing a general law practice in the county of Lamar, and to 
any business, intrusted to us we will both give our earnest personal 
attention.   – Oct. 13, 1884.

PHYSICIANS – DENTISTS
M. W. MORTON.  W. L. MORTON.  DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons.  
Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala.  Tender their professional services to the citizens of 
Lamar and adjacent country.  Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we 
hope to merit a respectable share in the future.  Drug Store.

Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala.  Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, 
I hope to receive a liberal share in the future.

PHOTOGRAPHS – A. R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss.  Price list:
Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00
Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00
Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00
Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00
Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00
Satisfaction given or money returned.

RESTAURANT.  Aberdeen, Mississippi.  Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to 
call on MRS. L. M. KUPPER, who keeps Restaurant, Family Groceries, Bakery, and 
Confectionery, Toys, Tobacco, and Cigars.  Also Coffee and sugar.  Special 
attention paid to ladies.

Barber Shop – For a clean shave or shampoo, call on G. W. BENSON, in rear of 
Dr. BURN’S office, Vernon, Ala.

Collins Ague Cure…. (too small to read)

New Cash Store, Vernon – Alabama.  We have just opened a large, fresh, and 
well selected stock of General Merchandise, consisting of dry goods, notions, 
family groceries, &c.  We have on hand also, a large and well selected stock 
of School Books.  The bottom knocked out in prices.  We only ask a trial.  
Chickens, eggs, butter, and all kinds of country produce wanted, and on hand. –
 GEO. W. RUSH & Co.

The Great Bazaar!  Aberdeen, Mississippi.  S W Corner, Commerce and Meridian 
Streets.  Crockery, china, glassware, tin ware, fancy goods, stationery, 
jewelry, notions, candies, toys and Holiday goods of all kinds at wholesale or 
retail.  Special attention given to the wholesale department.  Trial orders 
solicited and prices guaranteed.  Terms:  Thirty days, net, 2 percent off for 
cash.  No charge for package.  THOS. A. SALE & CO.

WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama.  Board and Lodging can be had at the above 
House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor.

ERVIN & BILLUPS, Columbus, Miss.  Wholesale and retail dealers in pure drugs, 
paints, oils, paten Medicines, tobacco & cigars.  Pure goods! Low prices!  
Call and examine our large stock.

Go to ECHARD’S PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY, Columbus, Mississippi, when you want a fine 
photograph or ferrotype of any size or style.  No extra charge made for 
persons standing.  Family group and old pictures enlarged to any size.  All 
the work is done in his gallery and not sent North to be done.  Has a handsome 
and cheap line of Picture Frames on hand.  Call at his Gallery and see his 
work when in Columbus.

STAR STABLE – Aberdeen, Mississippi.  A. A. POSEY & BRO., having consolidated 
their two Livery Stables, are now offering many additional advantages at this 
well-known and conveniently located Livery Stable.  Owing to their 
consolidation, they have on hand a number of good second-hand buggies which 
they are selling cheap.

MORGAN, ROBERTSON & CO., Columbus, Mississippi.  General dealers in staple dry 
goods, boots, & shoes, groceries, bagging, ties, etc. etc. Always a full stock 
of goods on hand at Bottom prices.  Don’t fail to call on them when you go to 
Columbus.

JOHNSON’S ANODYNE liniment. The most wonderful family remedy ever known.  For 
internal and external use.  Parson’s pills make new, rich blood.  Make hens 
lay….(to small to read)

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18, 1886    
         
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
One copy one year		$1.00
One copy, six months		     .60
All subscriptions payable in advance

LOCAL DIRECTORY 

CHANCERY COURT
THOMAS COBBS			Chancellor
JAS. M. MORTON			Register

CIRCUIT COURT
S. H. SPROTT				Circuit Judge
THOS. W. COLEMAN			Solicitor

COUNTY OFFICERS
ALEX. COBB				Probate Judge
JAMES MIDDLETON			Circuit Clerk
S. F. PENNINGTON			Sheriff
L. M. WIMBERLEY			Treasurer
W. Y. ALLEN				Tax Assessor
D. J. LACY				Tax Collector
B. F. REED				Co. Supt. of Education
Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALVERT WILSON

CITY OFFICERS
L. M. WIMBERLEY			Mayor and Treasurer
G. W. BENSON				Marshall
Board of Aldermen – T. R. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS. MIDDLETON, W. A. BROWN, 
R. W. COBB

RELIGIOUS
FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each 
month, 7 p.m.
MISSIONARY BAPTIST – Pastor J. E. COX.  Services second Sabbath in each month 
at 11 am.
METHODIST – Pastor – G. L. HEWITT.  Services fourth Sabbath in each month.  11 
a.m.

SABBATH SCHOOLS
UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m.  JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt.
METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m.  G. W. RUSH, Supt.

MAIL DIRECTORY

VERNON AND COLUMBUS - Arrives every evening and leaves ever morning except 
Sunday, by way of Caledonia.
VERNON AND BROCKTON – Arrives and departs every Saturday by way of Jewell.
VERNON AND MONTCALM – Arrives and departs every Friday.
VERNON AND PIKEVILLE – Arrives and (sic) Pikeville every Tuesday and Friday by 
way of Moscow and Beaverton.
VERNON AND KENNEDY – Arrives and departs every Wednesday and Saturday.
VERNON AND ANRO – Leaves Vernon every Tuesday and Friday and returns every 
Wednesday and Saturday.

LOCAL BREVITIES
No new stores this week.

Everybody talking about gardening.

Mrs. EDDY MORTON is visiting relatives at Fayette C. H.

W. G. MIDDLETON, Esq. is off on a trip to Columbus.

Mr. S. W. VICE the popular sewing machine man was in town yesterday.

Messrs. GREEN and RECTOR have about completed the flues at the court house.

Advertise any and every want if you could have them gratified.

Oat sowing is all the go now and but few farmers have been to town this week.

W. A. YOUNG, Esq. made a business trip to Columbus, miss on first of the week.

Thanks to many friends for words of cheer as they renew subscriptions and for 
the renewals themselves.

Advertisements are read when the advertiser sleeps and thus he is kept at work 
when he thinks he is idle.

The News shall earnestly strive to deserve the kind estimate expressed of the 
efforts to present a safe, and pleasant family paper.

Those who attend court and wish their horses well fed and cared for, will do 
well to leave them at the Feed Stable of D. F. HALEY, few rods east of Court 
House.

To drop your advertisement because business is dull is about as sensible a 
plan as it would be to take off the roof of your house when there is a drouth 
(sic) or to order your cook never to get dinner anymore because you have just 
dined heartily.

TO OUR READERS. – Send us the news form every neighborhood in the county.  
Remember that whatever interests you is likely to interest others.  Send us 
the facts and in a few simple words.  If you have only one item of news, write 
it on a postal card and send it along.

At the residence of JOHN BIRMINGHAM, on the 21st of January, 1886, Mr. FELIX 
F. GODFREY and Miss MARY L. BIRMINGHAM, were married, by Rev. AARON 
PENNINGTON. – [Lamar News]      This couple had better move to this city at 
once.  There is no use of nay little Birmingham growing up in Lamar County – 
[Birmingham Age]

Only eleven days till court.

If you want anything, advertise the want.

Boom your own county, town and state.

Some good work has been done on our streets.

Circuit Court convenes Tuesday week.

Read Commissioners report in today’s paper.

See two Administrator’s sale of real estate.

We are sorry to note that Mrs. G. W. RUSH is quite sick.

Mr. O. F. HALEY is incircling his residence by new pailings.

HALEY & DENMAN are having the back room of their store celled.

Mr. W. S. METCALFE, of near Detroit, spent Monday in town.

Now is the time to plant peas, onions, etc, if you wish to enjoy an early 
garden.

HUGH PENNINGTON is well prepared to take boarders during court weeks, on 
living terms.

The 2nd quarterly conference for Vernon Circuit will be held at Nebo Church, 
on Saturday next.

Messrs. S. M. LEE and A. N. FRANKLIN, of Detroit, made us a pleasant call 
Saturday and subscribed for the News.

Dr. G. C. BURNS has greatly improved his office by the addition of new 
windows, etc.

The Rev. J. E. COX preached interesting sermons in town Sunday and Sunday 
night.

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows in this place are on a regular boom.  
There being initiations at every meeting.

We return thanks to Mr. R. C. RECTOR for effecting renewal of subscriptions to 
the News and other favors.

Dr. W. A. BROWN and Mr. O. L. GUYTON have just returned from a trading 
expedition to Columbus, Miss.

The many friends of Hon. THOS. P. NESMITH will be pleased to know that he is 
speedily recovering from his severe illness.

Mr. A. J. STANFORD, of Beaverton, has located in Vernon, for the purpose of 
preparing himself for the practice of law.

In another column Mr. J. W. CLEARMAN advertises his farm for sale.  This farm, 
as a large number of our readers know, is one of the best improved and most 
desirable farms in this section of country.

MARRIED on 11th of Feb. 1886, at residence of the bride’s father, Mr. ROBT 
STRAWBRIDGE, Mr. JAMES ELLIOTT to Miss SARAH F. STRAWBRIDGE, the Rev. M. D. 
CLEARMAN officiating.  
	The News was not forgotten.  Some of the beautiful and delicious cake 
finding its way to our office.  May our young friends have a pleasant and 
prosperous voyage through life is the wish of the News.

We are in receipt of a Wilcox & White Organ No 608 purchased of Mr. J. 
GARRISON, agent for the W. & W. Organ Co. of Meridian, Conn.  Mr. G. would be 
pleased to correspond with any one in regard to them.  Address him, Cullman, 
Ala.
	We have had several of our best musicians to try this organ and they 
have all pronounced it absolutely without a peer in quality, sweetness and 
evenness of tone, and durabilities of construction.

MILLPORT PERPLEXITIES
What a sight, the week “PRIER” to this one I saw a “CAMPBELL” playing the 
banjo, after exhibiting his wonderful feats, he “WADDLED” along across 
the “BRIDGES” and through the “FIELDS” towards the desert.  The town is well 
supported by a majority of “PROPS” – that it not being well “SHELTERED (TON)” 
might melt by too much rain it to such a “SWEEDENBURG.”  They say there are 
some “COONS” out here some where but I would not like to catch one they 
might “EATMAN.”  Don’t forget to call on the “WELCH” man and purchase the 
latest style of “VAILS” cheap for “CASH”.   When you are heavy “LADEN” with 
your many trials and tribulations “NEAL” down and get forgiveness and be 
a “WRIGHT” good fellow.  We have a good “COOPER” here but I think his trade is 
stocking fiddlebows.  If your old lady’s bands should get very cold “DRIVER” – 
down to C. V. MCCOFFERTIGS and “Glover.”  Don’t forget to go to the “MILLER” 
and get some fresh meal and “PHILLIPS” – fillup.  The town is well supplied 
with water by a “HOL-BROOK” – whole Brook.  We don’t drink much of the stuff 
Fernbank is so close.  Don’t’ forget to meet the passenger train at the Depot 
and the Big “HERRING” a favorite among the ladies.  Now my dear friends, I 
mean the ladies excuse me this time, and don’t forget the camp meeting next 
time for when you rub your sleepy eyes I’ll be “DARR.”
- H. R. E. 

MILLPORT BEAT – February 15, 1886
Ed. Lamar News:
	By your permission I will reply to a part of the various letters that 
appear in your paper.  Say from Mud Creek, Blowhorn, Wilson Creek, &c., all 
hinting at the election in August nest – and all wanting new officers.  The 
talk here is to keep the old set of officers.  We can not do any better, and 
may fail to do as well.  Whil’st I am a farmer and think farmers are in the 
majority in Lamar, and as I am also a Duglas Democrat, I must say I am in 
favor of electing our county officers out of that class of men.  I ask of 
those gentlemen if our present set of officers are not most all farmers, 
millers, or merchants?  Most of them are quire business men, and will do well 
anywhere you put them.  Some say one term of office is as long as any one man 
ought to hold an office of profit, while others say let a man hold office so 
long as the people will give it to him.  However, we say hurah for J. E. 
PENNINGTON for Judge of Probate.
	Again, it’s a little risky to turn out a good officer to try a new 
man – to good luck to our present set of county officers – we know you are 
good fellows – Lay off your rubber over-shoes and kid gloves and Millport beat 
will stand to you on the 1st Monday of August, A. D. 1886.
	We want to see the names of more candidates in the Lamar News, and I 
know the editor will agree with me, for he gets the cash.
	Yours,
	A Voter

READ THIS – A FINE FARM FOR SALE
	I offer for sale my farm 6 miles north of Vernon on east side of 
Wilson’s Creek, containing three hundred ($320) and twenty acres.  Well 
improved.  One hundred acres under good fence; two hundred acres of good 
tenable land.  Well timbered, plenty of good water and one of the healthiest 
localities in Lamar County.  I have lived on it for the past ten years and 
there has not been a chill in my family during that time.  If you want the 
best and cheapest plantations in this country, now’s your time to get it.  For 
cash, it can be bought for $5 per acre.  For further particulars, address:  J. 
WESLEY CLEARMAN, Vernon, Ala.

A SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT OF COMMISSIONER’S COURT
STATE OF ALABAMA, LAMAR COUNTY
Below will be found the proceedings of the Commissioner’s Court held at the 
court house in said county on the 8th of February 1886.
ALLOWANCES AND ORDERS
To W. W. PURNELL for care of paupers			$21.83
SPRINGFIELD & MCNEIL – nails for bridge		     1.40
J. N. MCNEIL for repairing Clerk’s office		     1.50
MARSHALL & BRUCE for stationery			    11.36
W. D. BROWN & Co. for stationery			      5.00
JAMES MIDDLETON for stationery			      2.00 
W. L. MORTON & Co. medical bill			      3.25
J. W. DRAPER for care of CAMP			    10.00
O. F. HALEY wood for prisoners			     2.10
R. W. COBB for stationery				     1.25
ALEXANDER COBB, county Judge cost			     8.00
W. M. MOLLOW as Commissioner			     5.00
ALBERT WILSON as Commissioner			     7.65
SAMUEL LOGGAINS as Commissioner			     6.80
R. W. YOUNG as Commissioner				     6.90
ALEXANDER COBB as Commissioner			     6.00
S. F. PENNINGTON for work on jail			     1.08
MRS. MCGILL for pauper				   12.00
	The apportioners of roads were appointed in the several beats in this 
county to serve for the nest two years.
	A change was made in the Columbus & Fayette road in Stein’s Beat.
	Also that a change be made in the Newtonville Road in Stein’s Beat.
	Road reviewers appointed and court adjourned to meet on the 2nd Monday 
in May, next.
- ALEXANDER COBB

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.

NOTICE.  Jurors, parties and witnesses need not be in attendance upon the 
Circuit Court until l9 o’clock Tuesday, the 2nd day of March, 1886, as court 
will not convene until that day. 
– JAMES MIDDLETON -  Clerk, Circuit Court – Lamar Co., Ala

Free Reliable Self-cure…(too small to read)

ANNOUNCEMENT. 

FOR CIRCUIT CLERK
We are authorized to announce S. M. SPRUILL as a candidate for the office of 
Circuit Clerk of Lamar County.  Subject to the Democratic Party.  Election in 
August, 1886.

We are authorized to announce J. N. MCNEIL as a candidate for the office of 
Circuit Clerk of Lamar County.  Election August next.

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.

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be employed when needed.  Said school offers great advantages.  Tuition as 
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Primary:  Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, Primary 
Arithmetic, per month………….$1.25
Intermediate:  Embracing Practical Arithmetic, English Grammar, Intermediate 
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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 
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- JNO. R. GUIN, Principal, Fernbank, Ala. – October 28, 1885.

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APPLICATION TO SELL LAND
State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, February 8th, 1886
	This day came J. G. TRULL, administrator of the estate of E. K. COOK, 
late deceased of said county, and filed application in writing and under oath, 
praying, for an order to sell certain lands in said application, described, 
for the purpose of paying the debts due and owing from said estate.  It is 
ordered by the Court that 29th day of March, 1886, be a day for hearing and 
passing upon the same, when all persons interested can appear and contest the 
same if they see proper.
- ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate

ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
	By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of said county to the 
undersigned administrator of the estate of J. M. I. GUYTON, deceased, I will 
on Saturday  the 18th day of March, 1886, in front of the court house door in 
said county, sell to the highest bidder the following real estate belonging to 
the said estate, to wit:  An undivided half interest in west half of house and 
lot No. 32 in the town of Vernon.
	Terms, twelve months credit with two approved surities and vendors 
lien retained.  This 18th day of February, 1886.
	W. A. YOUNG, Administrator of estate of J. M. I GUYTON

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT
The State of Alabama – Probate Court
Lamar County – 27th day of January 1886
Estate of CHARLES C. LOYD, this day came THOMAS B. NESMITH, administrator of 
said estate, and filed his statement, accounts and vouchers for final 
settlement of his administration.  It is ordered that the 19th day of February 
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

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
LAND OFFICE AT HUNTSVILLE, ALA.
JANUARY 23D, 1886
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of 
his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof 
will be made before the probate Judge of Lamar County, Ala. at Vernon, on 
March 13th 1886, viz:  No. 11476 AARON C. WILEMON, for the N ½ of NW ¼ Sec 28, 
T12 R15 W.
	He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence 
upon, and cultivation of said land, viz:
	J. R. RAY, WILLIAM WHITE, C. W. JOHNSON, and JOHN W. JOHNSON, all of 
Detroit, Lamar County, Ala.
- W. C. WELLS, Register

TAX ASSESSOR’S NOTICE
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
I will attend at the Precincts in the various beats of said county, for the 
purpose of assessing the State and County Taxes for the fiscal year 1886 as 
follows:
FIRST ROUND
Lawrence’s	Monday	February	22	1886
Sizemore’s	Tuesday	February	23	1886
Brown’s	Wednesday	February	24	1886
Good’s		Thursday	February	25	1886
Moscow	Friday		February	26	1886
Trull’s		Monday	March		  8	1886
Vail’s		Tuesday	March		  9	1886
Millport	Wednesday	March 		10	1886
Stein’s		Thursday	march		11	1886
Strickland	Friday		March		12	1886
Wilson’s	Saturday	March		13	1886
Town		Tuesday	march		16	1886
Bett’s		Wednesday	March		17	1886
Military Springs Thursday	March		18	1886
Pine Springs			April 13 and 19
Millville			April 14 and 17

SECOND ROUND
Lawrence’s 	Monday	March 		22
Sizemore’s	Tuesday			23
Brown’s	Wednesday			24
Goode		Thursday			25
Moscow	Friday				26
Cansler		Saturday			27
Military Springs Tuesday			30
Bett’s		Wednesday			31
Trull’s 		Monday	April		  5
Vail’s		Tuesday			  6
Millport	Wednesday			  7
Stein’s		Thursday			  8
Strickland’s	Friday				 9
Wilson’s	Saturday			10
Henson Springs			April 15 and 16
Will also be at Town during Court, March 1st to 8th.
W. Y. ALLEN, Tax Assessor
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County, Alabama, issued on 
the 1st day of February, 1886, I will offer for sale at Vernon in said county 
on the 6th day of March, 1886, all the right, title or interest that Dr. W. R. 
KIRK at his death had in and to the following track of land, to wit:  N W ¼ of 
N W ¼ Sec 15, and N ½ of N E ¼ Sec 10, and N ½ of N W ¼ and S E ¼ of N W ¼, 
and N W ¼ of N. E. ¼ Sec 22, T 15 R 16; and also such title as vested in said 
W. R. KIRK by Sheriff’s deed to S W  ½ of N W ¼ and W ¼ of S W ¼ and S E ¼ of 
S W ¼ sec 17, N E ¼ and E ½ of S E ¼ of S E ¼ and S e ¼ of S W ¼ Sec 18, N ½ 
of N ½ and  S E ¼ of N E ¼ and E ½ of N E ¼ of S E ¼ sec 19, and N ½ of N W ¼ 
and N W ¼ of S W ½ Sec 20 T 15 R 15, also an undivided half interest in Lot 
No. 32 in town of Vernon, being in section 16 T 15 R 15.
	I fully believe the title to all of said lands are good, but I shall 
only sell such right as vested in said W. R. KIRK of the time of his death, 
said sale will be made on credit of twelve months from day of sale.
	This the 9th day of February, 1886.
	W. A. BROWN, Administrator Debo nes non

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THE MIDNIGHT INTRUDER – COMICAL ADVENTURE OF A PHILADELPHIA COUPLE
Disastrous Result of a Lady’s Attempt to Improve Her Complexion
	A Frenchwoman who has recently come to Philadelphia has introduced a 
new method of preserving or increasing the beauty of the feminine complexion.  
She has a pasty preparation which is put upon the face before retiring and is 
covered by a papier-mâché mask.  The mask contains big holes, and the nose and 
chin are sufficiently large to allow those features of the face to be 
comfortable.  The whole is held in place by silver springs which fasten around 
the ears, and a ribbon that ties back of the head.  A wealthy young married 
woman of Philadelphia, according to a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, 
involved herself and her husband in a beautiful scrape the first time she 
attempted to use on top the pesky things.  Her husband, however, objects to 
the use of cosmetics of any kind.  She therefore took the opportunity to try 
the new invention while he was absent on a business trip.  Here is the unhappy 
sequel:
	The thing didn’t seem to work very encouragingly, but with the young 
woman it was do or die, and she fastened on the mask as hopefully every 
evening as if her skin grew more like the inside of a sea shell at every 
application.  It was on the fifth night, they say, or rather about 2 o’clock 
before dawn the sixth morning, that, as she awoke from a dream, she perceived 
through the holes in the mask a man in the room.  The gas was burning low, but 
there was sufficient light to enable her to see that the man had his coat off 
and was leaning on the marble of the bureau on which her jewels lay.  Just as 
she grew wide awake the intruder turned, with arm uplifted, and moved toward 
the bed.  She sprang up with a shriek that might awaken the dead, and at the 
sight of her the man stood for an instant as if paralyzed.  The delay was 
sufficient to enable her to turn up a pillow and seize a little silver-handled 
revolver she always kept there during the absence of her husband for just such 
emergencies as this.  The stranger, with a look at the awful mask, uttered a 
cry of horror and turned to flee.  The woman was too quick, and let a ball go 
after him that cut through his shirtsleeve and crashed into the French clock 
on the mantel.  She let another fly that smashed the mirror as he ducked 
behind a big armchair.  Then she followed him frantically round the dimly-
lighted room.  A window had been partly raised to admit the air. The intruder 
threw it up altogether and sprang out just as another ball splinted a pan 
above his head.  He managed to hang on to the windowsill long enough to enable 
him to seize the iron water-spout, and he succeeded thus in scampering down 
the wall.  At the bottom he fell into the arms of a policeman, who had been 
attracted there by the racket, wile at the same moment the woman in the mask 
was seen to tumble over in a swoon at the window.  The stranger declared he 
had been chased out of his own house by a monster, and demanded justice and 
restoration.  The wise officer, however, jeeringly took him away to the 
fifteenth police district station, and only the earnestness of the prisoner’s 
protestations saved him from being locked up in a cell.  It was fond after all 
that his story was true, and that he was the young woman’s husband, who had 
returned from New York unexpectedly and failed to recognize his spouse in her 
new beautifier.  Servants had in the meantime come to the assistance of the 
young woman, relieved her of the mask, and with the aid of ice water and 
cologne, brought her back to consciousness.  There were, of course, 
explanations, regrets and reconciliations between husband and wife.  They went 
up to Lenox for a month, but society will not be through laughing at the 
affair for a year.

JUST ESCAPED A DUEL
	“No,” said a Kentuckian in response to a question, “I never actually 
fought a duel, but I came very near it once.”
	“Tell us about it, Colonel,” said a breathless listener.
	“It was some years ago, when duels were much more common than they are 
now, when a man’s honor was a sacred thing and to be defended at any cost.  I 
received a challenge from a gentleman who claimed that I had insulted him, 
stating that I must either make a full apology or fight.  I, being the 
challenged party, had the choice of weapons, of course.”
	“And you chose—“
	“I chose to apologize.  That’s the nearest I ever came to fightin’ a 
duel,” concluded the Colonel. – [New York Times]

PEARLS OF THOUGHT
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

A punctual man can always find time, a negligent one never.

At twenty years of age the will reigns, at thirty the wit, at forty the 
judgement.

Grand temples are built of small stones and great lives are made up of 
trifling events.

Society is always trying in some way or other to grind us down to a single 
flat surface.

While looking out for great opportunities we are apt to let little ones slip 
through our grasp.

There is nothing so sweet as duty, and all the best pleasures of life come in 
the wake of duties done.

Of all conditions to which the heart is subject, suspense is the one that most 
gnaws and cankers in the frame.

Principle above habit, use before pleasure, is the line from which dull cares 
and regrets are most easily banished.

Nothing is upheld by antagonism.  Passion, resistance, danger are educators.  
We acquire the strength we have overcome.

It is good for us to think no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are 
aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

Beauty in a modest woman is like fire or sharp sword at a distance; neither 
doth the one burn nor the other wound those that come not too near them.

If one only wished to be happy, this could readily be accomplished; but we 
wish to be happier than other people, and this is almost always difficult, for 
we believe others to be happier than they are.

Never do violence to your rational nature.  He who in any case admits 
doctrines which contradict reason has broken down the great barrier between 
truth and falsehood, and lays his mind open to every delusion.

CHARLES DICKENS’ EARNINGS
	In an article on the gains of authors, which has recently been 
reprinted in a number of newspapers, surprise is expressed that Dickens should 
not have left a larger fortune than £80,000.  I have an impression that 
Dickens’ total property amounted to nearly £100,000, but of that a 
considerable proportion must have come from the profits of his readings.  
There is no doubt that Dickens made some very bad bargains with publishers in 
his early days, and I know that his friend Talfourd once calculated that 
during a period of five years he ought to have been receiving £10,000 a year 
from his works.  But one cannot form any estimate of his total “gains” form 
literature by the amount of his possessions when he died.  it must be 
remembered that Dickens himself made every shilling which he ever possessed, 
and he not only lived in a very liberal style for thirty years, keeping up a 
considerable establishment, and often traveling without much regard to cost, 
but he also brought up a large and expensive family. – [London Truth]

THE EDITOR WAS CONSIDERATE
	He walked into the sanctum with a sort of got-my-diploma-right-in-my-
pocket look on his countenance, and, drawing near to the editor’s desk, 
inquired:
	“Can I see the editor?”
	“Yes.  What do you want?”
	“I would like to write for your paper.”
	“What’s your name?”
	“John Adams”
	“And you’d like to write for our paper?”
	“Yes, sir, if you please.”
	“Got a pencil?”
	“Yes, sir.”
	“Well, just write your name and address, and I’ll see that it’s sent 
to you.  Save you all the trouble of writing for it, you know.  Good 
morning.” – [New York Mail and Express]

DRIED BANANAS
	Dried bananas are among the latest novelties.  They are said to be an 
entirely new food product, and are certainly delicious.  The rind of the fruit 
is removed, and it is dried without sugar, forming a dark colored, firm 
preserve of slightly softer consistency than citron, and having the flavor of 
a ripe banana.  The fruit retains about one-third of its original size, and 
may be either eaten from the hand, stewed or cooked in cake or pastry.  Banana 
fritters from them are superior to the natural fruit, which comes to market 
green and is ripened in hot rooms.

CONCERNING CLOVER
	Every group of organisms, ever genus and every species of plant or 
animal, has certain strong points which enable it to hold its own in the 
struggle for existence against it s competitors of every kind.  Most groups 
have also their weak points, which lay them open to attack or extinction at 
the hands of their various enemies.  And these weak points are exactly the 
ones which give rise most of all to further modifications.  A species may be 
regarded in its normal state as an equilibrium between structure and 
environing conditions.  But the equilibrium is never quite complete; and the 
points of incompleteness are just those where natural selection has a fair 
chance of establishing still higher equilibrations.  These are somewhat 
abstract statements in their naked form.  Let us see how far definiteness and 
concreteness can be given to them by applying them in detail to the case of a 
familiar group of agricultural plants – the clovers.
	To most people clover is the name of a single thing, or , at most, of 
two things, purple clover and Dutch clover.  But to the botanist it is the 
name of a vast group of little flowering plants, all closely resembling one 
another in their main essentials, yet all differing infinitely from one 
another in two or three strongly marked peculiarities of minor importance, 
which nevertheless give them great distinctness of habit and appearance.  In 
England alone we have no less than twenty-one recognized species of clover, of 
which at least seventeen are really distinguished among themselves by true and 
unmistakable differences, though the other four appear to me to be mere 
botanist’s species, of no genuine structural value.  If ewe were to take in 
the whole world, instead of England alone, the number of clovers must be 
increased to several hundreds.  The question for our present consideration, 
then, is twofold: first, what gives the clovers, as a class, their great 
success in the struggle for existence, as evidenced by their numerous species 
and individuals, and secondly, what has caused them to break up into so large 
a number of closely allied by divergent groups, each possessing some special 
peculiarity of its own, which has insured for it an advantage in certain 
situations over all its nearest congeners? – [Popular Science Monthly]

SCHOOLS AND PRESS OF MEXICO
	It is a lamentable fact that but a small portion of the Mexican people 
are able to read and write.  The total number of illiterate persons is not 
definitely known, there being no accurate census returns to which reference 
can be made.  The most reliable estimate that can be arrived at places the 
number at 7,000,000 or fully two-thirds of the entire population.
	It is safe to say of all the daily papers published in the City of 
Mexico no one of them has a circulation of 500 copies outside of the city of 
publication, while it is more than probable that the combined outside 
circulation of all the dailies will not exceed that number.  I have been in a 
Mexican city of 12,000 inhabitants, where not a single copy of a daily 
newspaper was subscribed for by the entire population, and where not fifty 
newspapers of any kind were received at the post office, except those 
addressed to resistance and visitors of foreign birth. – [Indianapolis Times]

HE OBJECTED
	“Remember those chickens you sold me Saturday?”
	“Certainly”
	“Spring chickens, weren’t they?”
	“Of course.  What was the matter with them?”
	“Oh, nothing.  The springs were all there, only I wanted to tell you 
that the next time I want a pair with rubber springs.  Wire springs are too 
rich for my blood.” – [Philadelphia Call]

R. S. V. P. – “Mundus,” the facetious literary free lance of the Rambler, 
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distinguished member of the bar told a story at the expense of a fellow 
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cabalistic initials, he inquired what they signified, “Why”, don’t you know,” 
was the reply.  “It is a direction as to dress – roundabout, shirt, vest, and 
pants.” “That’s lucky,” said he, “for I have everything except the roundabout.”

INDUSTRY – The agricultural college at Starkville, Miss, is described as a 
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WHY JEWS LIVE SO LONG
	The New England Medical Monthly comments very favorably on the 
proverbial long and healthful lives of the Jews.  Dr. Picard holds that this 
superiority is due to their stringent health laws.  The Mosaic, like the older 
Egyptian code, is very stringent regarding the eating of flesh and other 
articles of food.  People who eat meat indiscriminately are very prone to 
disorders of the blood and of the kidneys, for meat is composed of nitrogen, 
which the kidneys have to remove from the blood, and of course they cannot do 
this successfully except by the aid of Warner’s safe cure, the best kidney 
strengthener, unless it is temperately partaken of an only the very best meat 
used.  Jews also use alcoholic liquors very sparingly and thus keep up good 
digestion, and then again they are a holiday-loving and Sabbath-observing 
class – [Housekeeper]

ARE WE MADE OF AIR!
	Chemical science has demonstrated the fact that man, the being who 
performs those marvelous feats and great wonders both intellectually and 
physically is largely composed of air, or solidified or liquefied gases; that 
he lives on condensed as well as uncondensed air, and by means of the same 
agent moves the heaviest weights with the velocity of the wind.  But the 
strangest part of the matter is that thousands of these tubercles formed of 
condensed air, and going on two legs, occasionally, and on account of the 
supply and production of those forms of condensed air which they require for 
food and clothing, or on account of their honor and power, destroy each other 
in pitched battles by means of condensed air; and further, that many peculiar 
powers of the bodiless thinking and sensitive being housed in his tabernacle, 
to be the result, simply, of its internal structure, and the arrangement of 
its particles or atoms, while chemistry supplies the clearest proof that, so 
far as concerns this, the ultimate and most minute composition  and structure, 
which is beyond the reach of the senses, man is, to all appearances, identical 
with the ox, or with the animal lowest in the scale of natural history.

THE CHEESE
	When I was abroad, says a traveler, I saw, or rather smelled, cheese 
that was as much more odorific than Limburger as you can imagine.  There are 
little shops I Germany that sell nothing but cheese where it would make an 
American sick to stick his nose.  They have a story over there that an 
Englishman once went into one of these little shops and said:
	“Hi.  Beg your pardon, you know, but Hi’m bloody fond of cheese, you 
know, and He like it to smell strong, you know.  Hif you ‘ave hany that is 
stronger than Limburger, Hi would like to taste hit.”
	The old Dutchman is represented as turning around and calling out to 
his wife in another room:
	“Katrina.  Katrina, let der cheese valk in.”

GAGGED HIS PUPILS
	A young schoolmaster named Traher, at Numidia, a small village in 
Columbia County, N. Y., is charged with punishing talkative pupils by gagging 
them with corn-cobs and making them stand on the floor.  It is said that when 
a child of farmer George Snyder, thus treated, was released, the cob was 
covered with blood and the little one was so exhausted as to require 
assistance on the way home.  Snyder went in search of Traher with a gun, but 
the young man had disappeared.  It is feared that the boy will not recover.

A cheese factory is to be started at Quincy, Fla., next season to work up the 
surplus milk there.

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