Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News March 18, 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 May 7, 2006, 7:36 pm The Lamar News March 18, 1886 Microfilm Ref Call #373 Microfilm Order #M1992.4466 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, MARCH 18, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 20 HEART AND HEAD - [Jennie E. T. Dowe in the Century] (poem – will transcribe later) STORY OF PRINCESS M’TSE In a volume entitled, “Central Africa – Naked Truths of Naked People” there appears the following: On the 3d of August (1874), while preparing to destroy the little baggage that King M’Tse had caused to be restored to me, a messenger arrived from the King bringing with him a d’Tongoll, who had orders to procure me boats resembling those in which we had navigated the Lake Victoria. N’Yanza, that I might the more easily descend the river. The N’Tongoll advanced toward me and in the name of King M’Tse presented me with eight beautiful young girls varying from ten to twenty years of age. One of them, the daughter of the King, a beautiful child of ten years, had been sent me as a special mark of his royal favor. The little Princess was the living image of her father both in form and face. She was subsequently placed in school at Cairo (Convent of the Lion Pasteur), where she now is. The King had sent me also a boy of twelve and two beautiful little chestnut-colored infants, scarcely able to walk. It was an embarrassing dilemma. To refuse was to wound African etiquette, and more, brave the wrath of a man to whose hospitality and kindness I owed my life. It could not be thought of, therefore I accepted and sent to M’Tse a message of grateful acknowledgement. I had quitted Uganda on the morning of the 19th of July to return by the river which left the Victoria N’Yanza in the North, and which, unexplored and unnavigated, still was the unknown link in the great problem of “Where are the great sources of the Nile?” I had arrived in Rubaga, the capital of Uganda, one month before, on the 20th of June, and had been receives as a Mbuguru, or white Prince, by 10,000 prostrate subjects of M’Tse, who contained their fear of the white man until mounted upon a horse, which, unseen till now, was a still greater phenomenon. I dismounted, when they fled to the jungle, horrified at the disjuntion of horse and man, for till then they had taken me for a centaur! I had suffered the horrible honor of having thirty people choked, decapitated or hewn to pieces in my presence, all for my honor, and that the stranger might be impressed with the power of the king. M’Tse and M’Toki – names I had given the girl and boy (M’Toki, signifying bananas, was the name given the latter on account of his peculiar greediness in devouring bananas) – were charmed with the idea of making the first voyage of their lives with us, and laughed and chatted together in their beautiful Uganda language, as if with every bend of the river they were not leaving behind them, forever, perhaps, the dense banana forest which had been their home, exchanging a life of almost perfect repose for toil and care in the land to the northward. It is sufficient to say that we escaped miraculously the threatened death by starvation, the lance and the arrow of the enemy, and successfully arrived at the military outpost of Foueira. A year later, having concluded other important expeditions, I was on my way to Khartoum, en route to Cairo, under orders from Gordon to assume command of the expedition which was to co-operate with him by opening an equatorial road from the Indian Ocean to the Interior. M’Tse was among the many singular types in my train gathered for ethnological study, or for presentation to the Khedive as representatives of the races which had lately become his subjects. The little Princess was amazed at the steamer which took us from Gondokoro to Khartoum; in this latter place she saw for the first time a house, at Barber a camel, and finally in Cairo, the city of the Victorious, the El-Kahirah of the Caliph. How shall I picture her delight and expressions of amazement? The ethnological collection was turned over to the Khedive, but M’Tse, in pursuance of the idea which had decided me to bring her to Cairo, I determined should be educated. With this object in view I went to see Sister Agatha, of the Convent of the Bon Pasteur, who readily entered into my plans and undertook her education, and a sufficient sum was placed at her disposal to meet the projected metamorphosis. An interval of several years went by, during which I was frequently absent in command of expeditions engaged in distant explorations. I was in Cairo after my return from the Indian Ocean. Sister Agatha brought to see me a tall, magnificent looking woman of the Abyssinian type, dressed in the extreme fashion, and tout a fait a la Parisienne, to which were added a pair of somewhat ultra fashioned pink silk shoes with heels Louis XIV. I did not recognize the Sister nor her protégé until the strange likeness to the Queen of Sheba had seized my hand, and in accents which recalled the little creature in the jungle cried Moalima! (My master). It was M’Tse! I stared, and was dumb with amazement, and was in no wise recovered from it when the good Sister presented me a modiste’s bill which showed that the vanity of the newly fledged Christian was fully as great as when nude she had decked herself with every vari-colored ribbon she could put her hands upon. Sister Agatha informed me that it was quite time to place M’Tse in some home where she might become useful; and, in view of the modiste’s bill, I was quite of the same opinion. She had been baptized, and bore the name of Marie. Marie, nee Princess M’Tse, entered the family of a kind Greek lady, and with what results will hereafter appear. Six years had gone by and a deluge of fire and blood had swept over Egypt. During the interregnum of insurrection and disorder what had become of the Uganda Princess? Pagan and Christian she was now a Moslem. One day in August, ’83, I was in Alexandria, an advocate for my clients who were seeking indemnity for the fires which, lit by the insurgents, had burned them out of their houses and homes. I was seated at the table d’hote of the Hotel canal de Suez, when I was attracted by a romantic story told by my Arab neighbor, whom I knew to be Achmet Bey, for he was thus addressed by his companion, who was an eager listener to the story. He spoke of a beautiful woman, the daughter of a King, who had been brought to Cairo from far-off Ethiopia; of her education, her charms, and how finally, after the white man had confided her to a Greek family, she had been sold into slavery and had married her master, a Musselman Bey like himself, but a drunken fellow who misused her; that a short time before she had escaped, and, seeking protection at his harem, had been introduced by his eunuchs to his favorite wife, with whom she now was. It was M’Tse. I startled Achmet Bey when I laid a heavy hand upon his shoulder and said: “Ye Bey, Ana el molin fi bint” (Oh, Bey, I am the master of her of whom you speak). I told him her story in a few words, and of the promise given me some time before by Twefik Khedive that when the rebellion in the Soudan had been crushed and the opportunity offered an officer of rank should espouse the Princess and be sent as Enbassodor to the Court of her father. The ostensible reason given the Khedive was that such an act would be an exceptional opportunity to confirm the treaty which I had made with King M’Tse years before in behalf of Egypt, and by which he recognized himself as a vassal. I had another object unexpressed, which was that the Christian child, rejoined to her kindred, might convert her father, and perhaps her people, to the Christian faith. Achmet Bey was a man of kindly heart. he promised me, and even swore by the beard of the Prophet and by his religion, that he would be responsible for M’Tse, keep her at his house as the companion of his wife, and when the time should come that she should be returned he would pay for her fantasia and marriage fete. The Mahdi has drawn a line tightly across the country which separates her from her father; a little while longer and the occasion may offer to accomplish the plans here detailed. If so, history may yet relate how the little waif, given in Court etiquette into the hands of a stranger guest, returned in after years – as bread upon the water – to regenerate her people, and who may be known hereafter as Christian Princess M’Tse the First. QUAINT ADVERTISING Thirty years ago Albert Smith’s lecture, “Ascent of Mont Blanc” was the delight of London audiences. It was a novel combination of lecture and panorama, and “drew” for several hundred nights. Smith, the showman and lecturer, was a quaint, genial, literary Bohemian, who told a story well, cracked a joke, and made his audience wish that the entertainment was twice as long as it was. Mr. Barnum once said that to write a show-bill was a work of genius. Smith had a genius for advertising. Even the most prosaic of conservatives would stop to read Smith’s advertising placard. When he started on the European tour which culminated in the ascent of Mont Blanc, he had, as one of this band, an amiable gentleman named Joseph Langford. Smith caused several thousand show-bills to be printed, with the strange words – “Who cut Joe Langford’s hair?” One morning in Baden-Baden, then the great gambling and watering-place of Europe, everyone was surprised to see posts, columns, walls, and tree trunks covered with placards asking the portentous question, ‘Who cut Joe Langford’s hair?” The Baden police were stirred to an unusual activity. Feeling sure that the mysterious words were a signal for the rallying of the revolutionary party, they searched printing offices and visited houses to discover when and where the rally would take place. Spies were sent out, guards placed in public buildings, and even learned philologists were asked if these awful words, “Who cut Joe Langford’s hair?” had any connection with the system of Republicanism. Smith gave no entertainment at Baden-Baden, but the quaint joke leaked out and advertised him and his show all over the country. THE WAY TO SETTLE SCANDAL Dr. M. D. Hoge of this city tells of two Christian men who “fell out.” One heard that the other was talking against him, and he went to him and said: “Will you be kind enough to tell me my faults to my face, that I may profit by your Christian candor and try to get rid of them.” They went aside, and the former said: “Before you commence telling what you think wrong in me, will you please bow down with me and let us pray over it that my eyes may be opened to see my faults as you will tell them. You lead in the prayer.” It was done, and when the prayer was over the man who had sought the interview said: “Now proceed with what you have to complain of in me.” But the other replied: “After praying over it, it looks so little that it is not worth talking about. The truth is, I feel now that in going around talking against you I have been serving the devil myself, and have need that you pray for me and forgive me the wrong I have done you. Dr. Hoge tells the story very well, and here and there in almost every community is a man or woman who might profit by it. – [Richmond (Va) Religious Herald] MCCLELLAND’S FAREWELL TO THE ARMY Taking leave of the Army of the Potomac in November 1862, General McClellan with his staff rode rapidly along the front of the army drawn up in line to greet their commander for the last time. As the brilliant group swept by the regimented colors of the Fifteenth Massachusetts caught his attention. They had been out in many a shower of lead, and had suffered especially at Antietam. Only a few rags fluttered from the shattered staff, which was patched with a band of tin rudely nailed on where it had been broken by a shot. No other color, in that part of the line at least, was so badly torn. Riding rapidly, McClellan had passed the regiment before he could check his horse, but then he wheeled, returned, and halted, saluted the color, pathetic symbol of valor and sacrifice, by slowly raising his cap. The thunder of cheers that acknowledged this act of gracious courtesy revealed one of the secrets of McClellan’s popularity with his army. – [Worcester Spy] MAKING OIL PAINTINGS. HOW CHEAP DAUBS ARE TURNED OUT IN NEW YORK Factories Produce Them by the Thousands for $20 a Dozen – (will transcribe later) POSTAL SAVINGS BANK It is generally agreed that a system of savings institutions that would be easily assessable to the people throughout the country, give them absolute security for their small savings, and repay deposits at short notice, would, even if the rate of interest were very low, be a great convenience to many people in every community, and a great encouragement to economy and thrift among working men and people of small incomes. There are many who think that postal savings banks similar to those which have been in successful operation in Europe and in the British colonies for a number of years would furnish just the sort of facilities form saving that are needed in this country. Many Americans know something of the working of the postal savings banks in England, where they have been in operation since 1861. There are now upward of 7,800 of the post offices in the United Kingdom open, commonly from nine in the morning until six, and on Saturday until nine in the evening for the receipt and repayment of deposits. One shilling is the smallest sum that can be deposited. The Government has, however, recently issued blank forms with spaces for twelve-penny postage- stamps and will receive one of these forms with twelve stamps affixed as a deposit. This plan was suggested by the desire to encourage habits of saving among children, and by the success of penny banks in connection with schools and mechanics institutes. No one can deposit more than £30 in one year, or have to his credit more than £150, exclusive of interest. When principal and interest together amount to £200, interest ceases until the amount has been reduced below £200. Interest at two and a half percent is paid, beginning the first of the month following the deposit and stopping the last of the month preceding the withdrawal, but no interest is paid on any sum that is less than a pound or not a multiple of a pound. The interest is added to the principal the 31st of December of each year. – [Popular Science Monthly] AT WHAT HOUR IS A MAN STRONGEST At what hour of the day is a man at his strongest, and fitted to do hard work with the least weariness? The question is a strange one, and probably the answer occurring at once to most persons will be: “When he gets up in the morning.:” This is by no means the case; on the contrary, according to the recent experiments of Dr. Buch with the dynamometer, a man is precisely at his weakest when he turns out of bed. Our muscle-force is greatly increased by breakfast, but it attains to its highest point after the mid-day meal. It ten sinks for a few hours, rises again toward evening, but steadily declines from night till morning. The two chief foes of muscular force according to Dr. Buch are over-work an idleness. Sweating at work deteriorates the muscles. We know that many of the great workers of the world, though not all, have been early risers. But early rising, according to Dr. Buch’s doctrine, ought always to be supplemented by early breakfasting. The ancient proverbial “early bird” who “catches the worm” must have had a pressage of the “dynamometer” experiments, and instinctly put them in practice before they were formulated in words. HE WANTS THE EARTH – [Merchant Traveler] – (poem – will transcribe later) HUMOROUS – (will transcribe later) PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY MARCH 18, 1886 RATES OF ADVERTISING One inch, one insertion $1.00 One inch, each subsequent insertion .50 One inch, twelve months 10.00 One inch, six months 7.00 One inch, three months 5.00 Two inches twelve months 15.00 Two inches, six months 10.00 Quarter column 12 months 35.00 Half Column 12 months 30.00 One column 12 months 100.00 Professional card $10. Special advertisements in local columns will be charged double rates. All advertisements collectable after first insertion. Local notices 10 cents per line. Obituaries, tributes of respect, etc. making over ten lines, 2 ½ cents per line. Alabama is set down for an appropriation of $500,000 to her river and harbors. An Association has been formed for the purpose of raising funds to erect a monument over the grave of Stonewall Jackson, at Lexington, Va. U. S. Senator, JOHN T. MILLER, of California, died on March 9th. His death was caused mainly from an old wound received in battle during the war. Since the Auditor began a rigid enforcement of the revenue law over $500 in money that was due the state at the close of the last quarter in 1885 has been reported, and most of it has been into the treasurys. This money was collected for the redemption of lands or licenses issued. ALABAMA Senator PLUMB, in making a speech in the United State Senate a few days ago said: “Look at Alabama, for instance, lying between two great systems of navigable waters. There is more coal and more iron in the space of 125 miles between the upper waters of the Tennessee, flowing into the Ohio and the waters of the Big Warrior, leading into the Gulf of Mexico, than there is in the entire state of Pennsylvania. The taxable values of the state are increasing by more than $7,000,000 each year. Every year it is becoming a great factor in the iron production of this country, and every year the people of that great state are pluming themselves on the fact that they are running a race with Pennsylvania in the production of iron and coal. More favorably located than Pennsylvania with water courses open all the year round that touch the borders of their great iron and coal production. Mr. P. H. JOINER, formerly of this place but now of Mobile, on last Monday night, through a terrible mistake shot and killed for a supposed chicken thief, his brother-in-law, a young man by the name of MARTIN, who was in the back yard also looking for thieves. Joiner came out just as Martin fired his pistol and supposing he was hot at, fired at Martin, who in turn, thought he was attacked by thieves fired on Joiner. Several shots passed. Martin was killed and Joiner badly. It was a terrible mistake and no one is blamed. Mr. Joiner is a brother-in-law of the Rev. A. HOOD, formerly pastor of the M. E. Church of this place. – [Gainsville messenger] OVER THE STATE The State Medical Association of Alabama will meet in Anniston on Tuesday the 13th of April and continue the session four days. The Guntersville Democrat has changed hand, Rob’t N. BELL retiring, and Walker & Corman taking charge. They promise the reading public a first class weekly. The Age reports counterfeit silver half-dollars circulating pretty freely in Birmingham. Suspicious looking strangers were in the city the day previous. The Citizen, of Scottsboro says Mr. DANIEL DODD, our good farmer friend from Iowa, says that corn is selling at 15 cents per bushel in his old state and times are just as hard there as here. LIST OF ALABAMA GOVERNORS The State of Alabama has had sixty-six Governors, commencing with: 1819 WILLIAM WYATT BIBB 1820 THOMAS BIBB 1821 ISRAEL PICKENS 1825 JOHN MURPHEY 1829 GABRIEL MOORE 1830 SAM B. MOORE and JNO. GALE 1835 CLEMENT C. CLAY 1836 HUGH MCVAY and A. P. BAGBY 1841 BENJAMIN FITZPATRICK 1845 JOSHUA L. MARTIN 1846 REUBEN CHAPMAN 1849 HENRY W. COLLIER 1858 JOHN A. WINSTON 1859 ANDREW B. MOORE 1860 JOHN GILL SHORTER 1863 THOMAS H. WATTS 1865 LEWIS E. PARSONS (MILITARY) 1865 ROBERT M. PATRON 1868 WILLIAM H. SMITH 1869 ROBERT B. LINDSAY 1872 DAVID M. LEWIS 1874 GEORGE S. HOUSTON 1878 RUFUS W. COBB 1882 EDWARD A. O’NEAL 1886 (_____) COAL HILL, ARK, March 8th, 1886 Ed. News – I feel it my duty to write a few lines to my old friends in Alabama trying to describe North West Ark. I have seen several counties in this state and as many call it the poor man’s home I think so myself for there are more poor men here than I ever saw anywhere, so it is not misrepresented, for I think myself if he comes here poor he will remain so. I will give my reasons: The country is poor and worn out. There are three grades of land, bottom, valley and mountains. The mountains are healthy but tough and poor there’s not one man out of a hundred that it would suit, water scarce and sorry timber is post, white and black oak and black jack oat and the vally is tolerable. Land will produce from 6 to 9 hundred of seed cotton and from 15 to 30 bushels of corn, but it is not very durable. The bottoms are as good as any land will make from 1 to ½ bales of cotton per acre, corn from 50 to 80 bushels per acre but it is worth from 25 to 50 dollars per acre and very sickly. This valley and mountain land ranges from 3 to 30 dollars per acre range there no worse than Alabama or Georgia. This country is poorly waters and timbered. So my readers you can consider the matter you will find many that will tell you great tales. My advice would be to persons immigrating west is to be sure and stick not less than 500 of a 1000 dollars in their pocket before stating. If not you may expect to carry low heads unless you go to some other place besides Arkansas if you expect to find a new country, pass this by. - C. D. Some one asked Sam Jones “Where is hell?” He replied, “I don’t know and, by the grace of God, I never will know.” The man then asked “Is there really genuine burning brimstone there?” Sam replied, “I am so afraid there is, I am never going there to see.” DIED, not long since, CLARK THORNTON colored. The cause of his death was from being poisoned from gas seeping through the grave he was digging by the side of another. The hands that were at with him, as soon as they smelled the offensive odor left the grave, but Clark, not thinking any danger, continued his work and died shortly afterwards. – [Washington (Ga.) Chronicle Ad for Montgomery paper (Daily Advertiser) Ad for Pianos and organs (J. Garrison of Cullman) Ad for farm for sale – J. Wesley Clearman, Vernon, Ala. (see other papers for full ad) Ad for James T. Allen – music school – see other papers for full ad. NOTICE TO DELINQUENT TAX PAYERS D. J. LACY, tax collector of Lamar County, Alabama, has this day filed in my office a list of defaulting tax payers of the year 1885, and the 1st Monday in April 1886, being a day for examining and passing upon said report and rendering decrees for the sale of any or ad of lands assessed and reported as above to pay the taxed due on said lands, to wit: (NOTE: I WILL GIVE NAMES AND BEATS, BUT PRINT IS SO SMALL AND FAINT, I CAN’T READ ALL THE LAND DESCRIPTIONS AND TAXES DUE. If interested in details, please email me at howven@sbcglobal.net and I can make a photocopy of paper for legal descriptions for you.) TOWN BEAT JAMES OLDSHUE OWNER UNKNOWN OWNER UNKNOWN LAWRENCE’S BEAT D. F. FOWLER D. FOWLER OWNER UNKNOWN HENSON’S SPRINGS OWNER UNKNOWN W. R. WEST OWNER UNKNOWN BETT’S BEAT T. D. BOOTH T. E. DOWDLE VAIL’S BEAT MRS. JOEL GIBSON M. M. HALL J. V. VASSER MILLPORT BEAT L. PALENGER’S ESTATE OWNER UNKNOWN COL. VERGO STRICKLAND’S BEAT L. P. HUMBER S. RANDOLPH WILSON’S BEAT C. L. HILL M. A. HARRIS ALFRED POE TRULL’S BEAT H. H. HOLLOWAY S. M. MEEK When and where all persons interested in any of said lands can contest and report if they see proper. - ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate Masonic. Vernon Lodge., NO. 289 A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 p.m. each month. J. D. MCCLUSKEY, W.M. M. W. MORTON, Sec. Vernon Lodge., No. 45, I. O. O. F. meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7 ½ p.m. each month. W. G. MIDDLETON, N. G. M. W. MORTON, sect’y Largest, cheapest, best stock of dress goods, dress trimmings, ladies & misses jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, boots, shoes, & hats, tin ware, etc., etc., at rock bottom figures at A. COBB & SONS’S. ATTORNEYS NESMITH & SANFORD THOS. B. NESMITH, Vernon, Ala. J. B. SANFORD, Fayette C. H., Ala. Attorneys-at-Law. Will practice as partners in the counties of Lamar and Fayette, and separately in adjoining counties, and will give prompt attention to all legal business intrused to them or either of them. SMITH & YOUNG, Attorneys-At-Law Vernon, Alabama– W. R. SMITH, Fayette, C. H., Ala. W. A. YOUNG, Vernon, Ala. We have this day, entered into a partnership for the purpose of doing a general law practice in the county of Lamar, and to any business, intrusted to us we will both give our earnest personal attention. – Oct. 13, 1884. PHYSICIANS – DENTISTS M. W. MORTON. W. L. MORTON. DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons. Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala. Tender their professional services to the citizens of Lamar and adjacent country. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we hope to merit a respectable share in the future. Drug Store. Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, I hope to receive a liberal share in the future. PHOTOGRAPHS – A. R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss. Price list: Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00 Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00 Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00 Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00 Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00 Satisfaction given or money returned. RESTAURANT. Aberdeen, Mississippi. Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to call on MRS. L. M. KUPPER, who keeps Restaurant, Family Groceries, Bakery, and Confectionery, Toys, Tobacco, and Cigars. Also Coffee and sugar. Special attention paid to ladies. Barber Shop – For a clean shave or shampoo, call on G. W. BENSON, in rear of Dr. BURN’S office, Vernon, Ala. Collins Ague Cure…. (too small to read) New Cash Store, Vernon – Alabama. We have just opened a large, fresh, and well selected stock of General Merchandise, consisting of dry goods, notions, family groceries, &c. We have on hand also, a large and well selected stock of School Books. The bottom knocked out in prices. We only ask a trial. Chickens, eggs, butter, and all kinds of country produce wanted, and on hand. – GEO. W. RUSH & Co. The Great Bazaar! Aberdeen, Mississippi. S W Corner, Commerce and Meridian Streets. Crockery, china, glassware, tin ware, fancy goods, stationery, jewelry, notions, candies, toys and Holiday goods of all kinds at wholesale or retail. Special attention given to the wholesale department. Trial orders solicited and prices guaranteed. Terms: Thirty days, net, 2 percent off for cash. No charge for package. THOS. A. SALE & CO. WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama. Board and Lodging can be had at the above House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor. ERVIN & BILLUPS, Columbus, Miss. Wholesale and retail dealers in pure drugs, paints, oils, paten Medicines, tobacco & cigars. Pure goods! Low prices! Call and examine our large stock. Go to ECHARD’S PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY, Columbus, Mississippi, when you want a fine photograph or ferrotype of any size or style. No extra charge made for persons standing. Family group and old pictures enlarged to any size. All the work is done in his gallery and not sent North to be done. Has a handsome and cheap line of Picture Frames on hand. Call at his Gallery and see his work when in Columbus. STAR STABLE – Aberdeen, Mississippi. A. A. POSEY & BRO., having consolidated their two Livery Stables, are now offering many additional advantages at this well-known and conveniently located Livery Stable. Owing to their consolidation, they have on hand a number of good second-hand buggies which they are selling cheap. MORGAN, ROBERTSON & CO., Columbus, Mississippi. General dealers in staple dry goods, boots, & shoes, groceries, bagging, ties, etc. etc. Always a full stock of goods on hand at Bottom prices. Don’t fail to call on them when you go to Columbus. JOHNSON’S ANODYNE liniment. The most wonderful family remedy ever known. For internal and external use. Parson’s pills make new, rich blood. Make hens lay….(to small to read) PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY MARCH 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 Candidates are not so numerous as they were during court. Mr. W. S. METCALFE, of Detroit, was in town yesterday. Mrs. A. J. PENNINGTON, of this county, died last Tuesday. Circuit Court is in session at Fayette C. H. Mr. J. A. ARMSTRONG, postmaster at Moscow, was in town yesterday. Elsewhere can be seen Grand Juror’s report. Money will not be so scarce next year if you make a good crop and take your county paper. In this issue we give list of cases tried and disposed of during the 2nd week of court. See announcement of Mr. W. W. PURNELL, as candidate for the office of Clerk of the Circuit Court. The charming Miss SALLIE MCCONNELL of Fayette C. H. is visiting relatives in town. Mr. R. W. COBB, who has been serving on the petit jury in the Federal courts at Birmingham returned on Sunday night. The Sheriff summoned a large posse to guard the jail on Tuesday night, to prevent the rescue of JOHN HANKINS by his friends. We call attention to the announcement of J. D. MCCLUSKEY Esq. as candidate for representative in the next general assembly. The Senatorial Convention of this (the 12th) District will be held in the town of Hamilton on the 12th day of May next. P. W. KEMP Esq. was in town on Monday last, renewing his bond as Justice of the Peace that was reported insufficient by the late grand jury. FOR SALE. The fine saddle horse recently ----Dr. W. H. KENNEDY. ---also a good plow horse and cannot be excelled under harness. Apply at this office. The Democratic Executive Committee of Lamar County will meet in the law office of W. A. YOUNG Esq. on Saturday the 10th day of April next. Come and see us we wish to sell you a fine horse. The best men to buy goods from are the men that advertise. Mr. A. A. SUMMERS is having all of the beautiful peach trees in his front yard hewned down, with the exception of one – Reason – “Because they do not bear fruit.” Not so many people in town this week as there were last. Court is over and they are going to work. See notice to delinquent tax payers in today’s paper. SIZEMORE’S BEAT March 17th, 1886 Mr. Editor: As many letters have been published in your paper, purporting to be from various beats, giving rather the opinions of said Beats, before court; I will try to tell you how the talk is, in our Bear since court. It is said that there are 400 men in the county who favor county conventions, under all circumstances. They are best known by Convention Democrats. There are 1,000 Conservative Democrats who claim that county Conventions in this county is not needed, and they want men to run for office on merit – as they claim it. They are say 600 to 800 Republicans and negros. Now we have an assortment of candidates to suit the voters, all can be pleased in our Beat – each man will get some votes, and it is said that unless a change is made, the race lies between C—D—F—for Judge. GRAND JURORS’ REPORT State of Alabama Lamar County Circuit Court, Spring Term 1886 To the Hon. S. H. SPROUT – Judge Presiding: We the Grand Jury empanelled, having endeavored to discharge the duties incumbent on us at the present term of the Court, respectfully submit the following result of our labors. We have personally examined the condition of the county jail and found it sufficient for the safe keeping of prisoners, and that all requirements of law relative the comfort of the prisoners have been compiled with. We would, however, recommend that the commissioners court have wire netting placed over all the windows of the room in which the cell is places, so that no implements could be introduced to those confined therein. We have examined the bonds of all the county officers and report them in legal form and sufficiently secured, except those of the following Justices to wit: P. W. KEMP and J. H. RAY. We recommend that these parties be required to give additional security. The County Treasurer and Sup’t of Education have both submitted reports to us, which we file with this report, as a correct statement of the condition of their respective offices. We have examined the books of the county officials and found them well kept and no illegal fees charged. We have investigated all violations of law which have come to our knowledge and returned bills in all cases which in our opinion the public good required to be prosecuted. There were many violations reported to us in which we could not get any witnesses at all. This and the fact that many witnesses delayed coming until the 2nd week of court, are the principal causes of the length of time we have been in session, and we hope that hereafter parties will promptly obey the summons and that witnesses bound over from Justices courts will report in the first two or three days of Court. We have investigated 81 cases, examined 112 witnesses and returned 42 bills. In concluding we tender thanks to your honor for the clear exposition of our duties given us by your honor and which has been of material aid to us in the discharge of them. The officers of court in attendance are also entitled in our thanks for the manner in which they have discharged their duties. All of which is respectfully submitted. - W. H. STONE, Foreman CIRCUIT COURT Below will be found a list of cases tried and disposed of during the 2nd week of court at this place, to wit: State v SAMP LOLLAR - Ret. plea guilty of attempt and fine of $1. State v JOE PENNINGTON - abated on death of deft. State v. A. H. BARROW – violating revenue law – plea of guilty and fine reduced to $1. State v JNO. WRIGHT – C. C. P. nol prossed. State v MID BOLIN – G. L. acquitted. State v. RICHARD JONES – C. C. P. plea guilty $50. State v. HENRY BRYANT – A. and B. W. – plea guilty $5. State v. SAM MORDICIA and ROBT. ----- - trespass plea guilty and $1. State v. WILLIS WYATT – C. C. P. guilty and $50. State v. BALAM SMITH - A. and B. $5. State v. L. HAYES – C. C. P. nol prossed. State v. L. BARROW – A and B. W. not guilty. State v. GEO. FLINN. – C. C. P. nol pross. State v. GEO. HILL – D. R. W. $20. State v. JESSE WADDELL, LEE SMITH, BEN SMITH, BOB WADDELL, HACK RANDOLPH, and BAILEY DUNN, - S. B. nol prossed. State v. GEO. HILL, - A. L. nol prossed. State v. JNO. LEE – D. R. W. $20. State v. ELISHA ALEXANDER REGAMY – hard labor 2 yrs. State v. JESSE SANDLIN – D. R. W. acquitted. State v. ICHABAD HILL A or F, nol prossed on payment of Clerk and Sheriff’s cost. State v. BUDD DODDS – G. L., nol pros. State v. BELIA MILLER, P. L. $5. State v. T. J. SPRINGFIELD – violating grove $1. State v. HUSE HANKINS – compounding felony, acquited. State v. ROBT. THOMPSON failing to obey summons, nol prossed. State v. T. C. CLEMENTS – violating revenue law, nol prossed on payment of Clerk and Sheriff’s cost. State v. FRANK BANKHEAD – S. M. P.’S guilty of attempt $1. State v. JERRY BROCK. – C. C. W. fined fifty dollars. State v. HENRY COOK – biogamy, 2 yrs hard labor. State v. HENRY COOK and EMALINE NIBBET, A. or F., nol prossed on payment of cost. State v. FRANCES PALMER, A. or F., not guilty. State v. GEO. RAY, - C. C. P, fined fifty dollars. State v. GEO. RAY, - C. C. P, no. pro. State v. REUBIN FLEMING, A. and B. W. fined twenty-five dollars. State v. CHARLEY MILLS – violating revenue law, fined seventy-five dollars. State v. HORACE FLEMING – A & B. W. – fined ten dollars. State v. BEN SMITH – S. B. nol prossed. Two cases State v. BURT TAYLOR, A. & B. W., fined ten dollars. State v. JAMES SAVAGE. – D. O. Road – not guilty State v. JEFF BARTON – A. B. W $1. State v. CHARLEY TERRY – S. B. fined $10. State v. JAMES D. HOLLADAY, A. and B. fined ten dollars. State v. NATHAN DAVIS, G. L., 18 mos. hard labor. State v. NATHAN DAVIS, G. L. fined ten dollars. State v. TOM SMITH - G. L. not guilty State v. FRANK BOLIN, burg. 4 yrs. hard labor. State v. FRANK BOLIN, escape – ten dollars State v. ELISHA ALEXANDER – escape $1. State v. JAMES SCOTT – A. or F. one hundred dollars State v. FRANK BOLIN – P. L. twenty dollars State v. JIM MADDOX – P. D. fine $5. State v. IKE JOHNSON, A. L. fine $15. State v. LUCINDA WILSON, A. or F. fined one hundred dollars. MARRIED Mr. WM. BAILEY and Miss THURSA S. GUIA, on 14th inst. at Mr. MART GUIN’S by W. B. PALMER, J. P. Mr. JAS. H. GUTHRIE and Miss M. V. BANKHEAD, on 9th inst. Mr. J. H. THOMAS and Miss S. F. MAHAN, on 4th inst., at residence of J. C. HARRIS, Rev. C. A. WHEELER officiating. Mr. JNO. A. FORD and Miss SARAH F. MOTES on 21st ult. by Rev. W. J. KIRK. Ad for Fernbank High School – JNO. R. GUIN, principal (see other papers for details) ESTATE OF JOEL E. GIBSON The State of Alabama, Lamar County Probate Court, March 5th, 1886 In the matter of the estate of JOEL E. GIBSON deceased, THOS B. NESMITH, administrator of said estate, having filed his report in writing and under oath, alleging said estate insolvent, and this being the day for passing upon said report and it appearing to the court that notice had not been given as required by law. It is therefore ordered that the 1st day of April 1886 be and is a day to which the hearing of the same be confined when and where all persons interested can appear and contest the same if they see proper. - ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR CIRCUIT CLERK We are authorized to announce S. M. SPRUILL as a candidate for the office of Circuit Clerk of Lamar County. Subject to the Democratic Party. Election in August, 1886. We are authorized to announce J. N. MCNEIL as a candidate for the office of Circuit Clerk of Lamar County. Election August next. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County. Election in August next. – W. G. MIDDLETON We are authorized to announce W. W. PURNELL as a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County. Election next August. FOR PROBATE JUDGE We are authorized to announce J. E. PENNINGTON as a candidate for the office of Judge of Probate of Lamar County. Election next August. FOR CO. SUPT. OF ED. We are authorized to announce B. H. WILKERSON a candidate for County Superintendent of Education for Lamar County. Election next August. We are authorized to announce B. MCADAMS (cripple) as a candidate for County Superintendent of Education for Lamar County. Election next August. FOR REPRESENTATIVE We are authorized to announce J. D. MCCLUSKEY as candidate to Represent Lamar County in the next General Assembly. Election next August. APPLICATION TO SELL LAND State of Alabama, Lamar County Probate Court, February 8th, 1886 This day came J. G. TRULL, administrator of the estate of C. K. COOK, late deceased of said county, and filed application in writing and under oath, praying, for an order to sell certain lands in said application, described, for the purpose of paying the debts due and owing from said estate. It is ordered by the Court that 29th day of March, 1886, be a day for hearing and passing upon the same, when all persons interested can appear and contest the same if they see proper. - ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate (NOTICE NO. 4937) NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION LAND OFFICE OF MONTGMOERY, ALA Feb. 22, 1886 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler handled notice of his intention to make final proof in supports of his claim, and that said proof will be made before Judge of the Probate Court at Vernon, Ala on April 12th, 1886, viz: WILLIAM H. BICKERSTAFF, Homestead application No. 9385, for the s e ¼ n w ¼ n e ¼ s w ¼ Sec 4, T 15 and R 15 W. He names the following witnessed to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: J. W. GILMORE, S. H. SANDORS, ISAAC PENNINGTON and W. G. MIDDLETON; all of Vernon, Ala. THOS. J. SCOTT, Register NOTICE The State of Alabama, Lamar County To Whom It May Concern: My wife M. A. TURNER, having voluntary left my bed and board, this is to give notice to all persons not to contract with or to furnish her with any thing upon my credit, as I will not be responsible for her contracts. This March 10, 1886 - WILLIAM A. TURNER. (NOTE FROM TRANSCRIBER – I THINK THIS WAS MARY ANN YOUNG, WM. A. TURNER’S NIECE AND THIRD WIFE. HIS FIRST WIFE MARY ANN BOX DIED JULY 4, 1881. HE LATER MARRIED HER SISTER SARAH JANE BOX ON OCT. 6, 1881. SARAH JANE DIED MAY 30, 1882. HE MARRIED MARY ANN YOUNG, POSSIBLY THE DAUGHTER OF MARTHA T. (BOX) AND J. P. YOUNG – HIS NIECE. IF ANYONE HAS ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THIS FAMILY OR ANY OTHER POSSIBILITY OF WHO THIS IS, PLEASE CONTACT ME AT HOWVEN@SBCGLOBAL.NET) Ad for Liver…. Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ Ad for Accordeons Ad for Russian Violin Strings Ad for Avery Sewing Machine Ad for Tutt’s Pills Ad for Collins Ague Cure Ad for New Home Sewing Machine Ad for Before You Paint Ad for Chicago Scale Co. Ad for The Times Democrat – New Orleans PAGE 4 A CZAR’S WITNER PALACE – A BUILDING WHICH SHELTERS 7,000 PEOPLE How An Emperor and An Empress Died Alone In the Great Attraction The palaces and churches of Russia make the rest of Europe seem very poor; still, I do not think the winter palace in very good taste, writes a correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer. It is a vast quadrangle of courts, halls, throne rooms and galleries, all jumbled together, with no especial plan (save in its interior), and so immense that they should build a narrow gauge railroad for sight-seers. It gives constant shelter to some 7,000 people, yet you may pass through the whole of it and not see one. It was not its splendor which interested me the most. We had wandered for hours, until utterly wearied with the grandeur and glitter of its splendid rooms we were ushered into a small apartment, so poor and simple in its appointments that I thought it, with this camp bed and wooden table, a guard room. On the table lay a few maps, across the bed an army cloak and simple “cocked hat”. No curtain at the window, no chair save a camp stool. On the table lay folded a pocket handkerchief, and bending down I saw, now faded and nearly gone, the name “Nicholas.” In an instant all weariness had vanished and interest most intense took its place, for I knew I was in the room where the great Emperor’s heart had broken, and where, though he ruled all Russia, he died utterly alone. They tell the story of his death in St. Petersburg as the world does not know it. Broken-hearted over the reverses in the Crimea and unwilling to live if he must lose aught of his grandeur he summoned to him an obscure physician and ordered him to give the Czar of Russia a potion that would “end life quickly and painlessly.” The man, astounded and affrighted, refused utterly, but was told that after such a request from such a source he must obey or lose his own life. That settled it. He was paid heavily and sent out of the kingdom. The next morning the great Czar Nicholas lay upon his camp bed, wrapped in his cloak dead. And following soon after the physician was found murdered in his bed in Heidelberg. They say the howling of the wolves from across the Nava could be distinctly heard the night Nicholas died. How the comic and tragedic tread close upon each other in this life. We were taken from Nicholas’s room to that of the late Empress. She had been in Italy for several winters, battling with that enemy of her family, consumption. Weary with her banishment, she begged to go home, and the Czar was told that if there was a room especially prepared and kept at the same temperature constantly she might live for some years even in Russia. The room was prepared, and she came home only to suffer most horridly, and begged constantly to die. Finally His Majesty asked her physician how long she would live if the windows were opened and the cold let in. “Twenty minutes,” was the reply. “Then open the windows,” and as they did so all left the room, and she, Empress of so many millions was left to cross the dark waters alone. Not even her daughter stayed to hold her hand. There are some of the shadows of the winter palace. EDUCATION We talk of education now. Are we more educated than were the ancient Greeks? Do we know anything about education, physical, intellectual, aesthetic (religious education in our sense of the word, of course they had none), of which they have not taught us at least the rudiments? Are there not some branches of education which they perfected once and forever, leaving us Northern barbarians to follow their example? To produce health, that is, harmony and sympathy, proportion and grace, in very faculty of mind and body, that was their notion of education! Ah! The waste of health and strength in the young! The waste, too, of anxiety and misery in those who love and tend them! How much of it might be saved by a little rational education in those laws of nature which are the will of God about the welfare of our bodies, and which, therefore, we are as much bound to knew and to obey as we are bound to know and to obey the spiritual laws whereon depend the welfare of our souls. – [Charles Kingsley] A RASCAL’S SHREWD TRICK – (story of “BILLY HAYES”) –(will return to transcribe later) A FEW LONG WORDS – (will return to transcribe later) JOKES – ANECDOTES – ADVERTISEMENTS – will return to transcribe at a later time File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar959gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 48.3 Kb