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THE LAMAR NEWS

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor            VERNON, ALABAMA, JUNE 3, 
1886           VOL. III. NO. 31

The Chinese minister at Washington was formerly the governor of a province.  
After he had made his fortune the Emperor saw that he was getting rich too 
fast, and much to his disgust, exiled him where on a salary of $25,000 a year, 
and all expenses paid.  The minister and his attaches are prompt in returning 
all card calls made upon them.  They make no exceptions.  If the humblest 
grocer should send his card, a distinguished mandarin would appear in person 
within a few days and smile and beam upon the Washington caller.

Mr. Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, relates that when he started on 
his tour through the “Dark Continent” he took in his baggage a large 
collection of books.  But as the number of is men was lessened the books had 
one by one to be left by the wayside, until finally, when less than three 
hundred miles from the Atlantic, he had left only the Bible, Shakespeare, 
Carlyle’s “Sartor Resartus” Norie’s Navigation, and the Nautical Almanac.  At 
Singa the Shakespeare was abandoned, and afterward Norie, the Almanac, and 
last, “Sartor Resartus” were thrown down, only the Bible going through to the 
end.

Of the Rev. Sam Jones’ preaching a writer in the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette 
says:  “Cincinnati has had what she has not had for many years – a genuine 
revival of religion.  Great crowds of people thronged Music Hall every night 
to hear the truth preached in a plain way by a man evidently in earnest to 
convince men that the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount ought to 
rule the life of every human being.  Rev. Sam Jones is preacher unlike any 
other man who has ever preached in this city.  He is a quiet man in his manner 
of preaching.  He never rants; he is never sensational.  He stands up and 
fearlessly preaches the truth that fits the condition of all classes of people 
in their everyday contact with the world.  He uses the plainest possible 
English.  The cutting power of his language is at times terrific, and the 
effect upon the audience is marvelous.  Everybody wanted to hear him no church 
in Cincinnati was large enough to hold one-third of the people who flocked to 
the services.”  From Cincinnati the Southern evangelist went to Chicago.

THE CONSUMPTION OF OPIUM
An opium-eater says:  There are but very few people who comprehend the extent 
to which opium is used.  Some idea of it may, however, be gathered form a 
single illustration.  An Eastern drug firm advertises in all the leading 
papers of the country, including the high-priced magazines, a certain 
preparation of opium in liquid form.  Their expenses for advertising must be 
enormous.  Now, I know from careful inquiries that this particular preparation 
is sold in bottles at wholesale to the druggists in this city (St. Louis) and, 
of course, elsewhere, at 25 cents a bottle, each bottle containing enough of 
the preparation to satisfy the cravings of all but the most hardened in the 
vice for a month.  Mind, the drugstore man pays no parts of the advertising 
bills.  He simply buys the bottles at wholesale for 25 cents and retails them 
for 50 cents.  So all the heavy advertising charges, as well as the original 
cost of the preparation, have to be paid out of the smaller sum.  The coast of 
putting the preparation before the public can, therefore, only be paid, and a 
profit yielded to the wholesale man, out of an enormous multitude of sales.  
The thing is evident to any one who will think, and the meaning of the result 
is that opium consumption is growing in this country at a rate that sr4ously 
threatened the public welfare.

M. Pasteur is 63 years old.  He is a short thick-set person, about five feet 
six or seven inches high, with straight black hair, a little sprinkled with 
gray, and short-trimmed whiskers of the same character.  Some few years since, 
he had an attack of paralysis which affected his left side somewhat so that 
the movements of that side are not as free as those of the other.  In some 
ways he reminds one of the late Gen. Grant.  He is not much of a talker; has 
in general rather unemotional features, but has a pair of kindly, dark eyes, 
with heavy eyebrows.  From casual observation or without sufficient 
acquaintance, under peculiar conditions, we would never be led to think that a 
man so apparently unemotional possessed a tenderness and emotional sympathy 
far beyond that of ordinary women.  When babes or very young children 
displayed exceeding fright after the first inoculation, when brought each 
succeeding day, some did not have to-------(CAN’T READ)

THE EGGS THAT NEVER HATCH – Poem 

THE SURGEON’S STORY – Short Story

A philanthropist asked the daughter of a rich manufacturer, who employs 
hundred s of men, if she ever did anything for her father’s hands!  “No,” was 
the reply, “but I rub mine with glycerin and oatmeal every night.”

THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN - Treatment of Frost-Bitten Fingers and Toes
	Dr. Lapatin, in the proceedings of the Caucasian Medical Society, 
advises that fingers and toes which have been slightly frost bitten, and which 
subsequently suffer from burning, itching, and pricking sensations, should be 
painted, at first once, and afterward twice a day, with a mixture of dilute 
nitric acid and pepper mint water in equal proportions.  After this 
application has been made for three or four days, the skin becomes darkened 
and the epidermis is shed, healthy skin appearing under it.  The cure is 
effected in from ten to fourteen days.  The author has found this plan very 
effectual among soldiers, who were unable to wear their boots in consequence 
of having had frozen feet.  They were, in this way, soon rendered capable of 
returning to duty. – [British Medical Journal]

YOU OUGHT TO KNOW YOURSELF
	If you will persist in burning for a long time a kerosene oil lamp, or 
filling your bedroom with heated gas, you need not prepare to retire with very 
strong hopes of getting a good night’s rest.  If you will allow a vase of 
flowers to remain there over one day without changing the water, or if you 
will have any plumber’s work in your room, instead of using a portable 
washstand, basin and pitcher, it is all to no purpose that you insist that you 
are very prudent in regard to your health.  As to the question “How much 
outside air shall I let into my room?” we have nothing to say.  If you are an 
invalid, your doctor must tell you if you are well, and enjoy a sound mind, 
you can judge for yourself.  You know, or ought to know, how much you can 
bear.  Only see to it that the air is fresh, that what you admit is an 
improvement on what you send out. – [Good Housekeeping]

A STIMULANT AND A NARCOTIC
	What meaning should we attach to the words stimulant and narcotic?  A 
stimulant may be defined as that which ministers to healthy activities, 
supporting the processes of life in health and restoring them in disease.  A 
stimulant acts chiefly in removing or counteracting depressing influences – it 
may be pain, fatigue, or a morbid sensibility.  Thus mustard, applied 
externally in inflammation, is at times a true stimulant, and tends to restore 
healthy vital action by freeing the circulation and the nerves from the 
depressing influences of pain.  A cup of tea, also, is in its place a true 
stimulant, restoring the natural tone of the central nervous system.  On the 
other hand, a narcotic is a substance which by poisoning the nervous system 
produces a gradual paralysis of vital actions.  Under narcotics, intelligence, 
volition, reason, consciousness, even life itself are lost; and these are the 
outward and visible signs of a process taking place within the nervous system, 
where the powers of life are stubbornly fighting against a poison, and 
yielding as it were inch by inch to its invasion.  Stimulation, then, is a 
healthy process, while narcosis, the condition induced by narcotics, is 
essentially an unhealthy state, being a paralysis of natural activities, more 
or less – [Nineteenth Century]

THE EARLY BIRD AND THE WORM
	A father had been lecturing his young hopeful upon the evils of 
staying out late at night and getting up late in the morning.
	“You will never amount to anything” he continued, “unless you turn 
over a new leaf.  Remember that the early bird catches the worm.”
	“How about the worm, father,” inquired the young man, “wasn’t he 
rather foolish to get up so early?”
	“My son,” replied the old man solemnly, “that worm hadn’t been to bed 
at all.  He was on his way home.” – [New York Times}

BOUND TO REMAIN SINGLE
Black – Why don’t you get married White?
White – Well, the fact is, the girls know too much nowadays; they’re to well 
educated.  I wouldn’t like to have a wife who was my superior in intellect and 
knowledge.
B. – Then you are bound to remain a bachelor.
W – Why so?
B. – Because they don’t allow the girls in the idiot asylums to marry. – 
[Boston Courier]

NOTHING IN IT
Bobby – “You’ve got a cold in your head, have you?”
Dude (making a call on Bobby’s sister) – “Yes, a wervy bad cold.”
B – “Then sister told me a story.”
D – “Told you – ah – a storwy?”
B – “Yes, she said you hadn’t nothin’ in your head.” – [Boston Courier]

DO ANIMALS THINK?  INTERESTING DISCUSSION OF A QUESTION OFTEN ASKED.
Facts Advanced to Show Animals Possess Some Human Qualities
	A great deal has been written to show that animals think and reason 
just a man does, though in a lower degree.  Perhaps some of our readers may 
notice things in animals which show that they have a great deal of 
intelligence, even if they do not reason.  Mr. Paul Brocca, the French author, 
devoted much attention to his subject.  “It has been said of animals,” write 
Mr. Brocca, “that their actions are always mechanical and without method.”  
This may be true of domestic pets, who are influenced almost entirely by the 
human beings around them, but does not the beaver change his plans, acting now 
as a builder, now as miner, according to circumstances?  Besides this, 
everyone knows that the bee frequently substitutes pentagonal, or five-sided, 
for hexagonal, or six-sided cells, and that this alteration in the work is 
made only when necessary.  It has also been said that animals do not reason.  
What then is done by the foxes, which in Thrace, are driven on to the ice to 
test its strength?  These animals step carefully and lightly, with their heads 
inclined, and turn back suddenly, directly they discover, by the sound of the 
ice cracking, that it is not safe to proceed farther.
	A dog, which in following a scent, arrives at a cross-road is seen to 
step, consider for a moment, then plunge along one of the roads, sniffling 
cautiously, turn back and try another road in the same manner, and finally 
dart unhesitatingly down the third.  It is evident that his logic tells him 
that as his prey has not taken one of the first roads examined, it must 
necessarily have taken the third road, so he does not waste time in further 
investigation.  That this is not mere instinct is when by the fact that a dog 
sometimes makes a mistake in such a case, and that when the fact becomes 
evident, he slinks out of sight of the hunters, looking a picture of shame and 
humiliation.
	Foresight is a quality, the possession of which one will deny to ants 
and bees, and the former certainly have a sense of compassion.  This is 
displayed in the tender care bestowed on the wounded during the terrible 
battles fought between different tribes of ants.  The suffering and helpless 
ones are not left to perish, but are carried off the battlefield by a 
regular “ambulance corps.”  No one doubts the existence of memory in animals, 
and as to ambition, is it necessary to recount the pitched battles which take 
place in bee-hives between the different candidates for royalty?  How can one 
pretend that man only has the gift of language?  He must be blind indeed who 
does not see that all animals have some means of communication with each 
other.  To give only one example:  there is no doubt that ants make themselves 
understood by their fellows, by means of the touch of their delicate, 
sensitive antennae or feelers.  Before a war, a council is held, and 
messengers hurry about.  Scouts or spies are sent out, and the attack is 
hastened or postponed, according to their reports.  All this could not be done 
without a very complete method of communication for the giving and receiving 
orders, etc.  Moreover, if animals had no language, how could they teach their 
young?  That they do teach them is evident from the fact of young foxes in 
countries where the animals are hunted, being infinitely more wary than full 
grown ones in other lands!  How else are we to account for this than by saying 
that the parent foxes tell their children of danger, and to avoid it? – 
[American Agriculturist]

NICKNAMES AMONG GENERALS
	The New Moon gives the following account of the nicknames which have 
been given to prominent generals in the U. S. Army.
	General Grant was commonly known over the watch fires in the Army of 
the Potomac as “Old United States” from the initials of his names; but 
sometimes he was called “Old Three Star” that number indicating his rank as 
lieutenant-general. McClellan was endeared to his army as “Little Mac”, Meade, 
who wore spectacles, was delighted to learn that the soldiers had named 
him “Four-eyed George” for he knew that it was not intended as a reproach.  
Burnside the colonel of the First Rhode Island Regiment rose to the dignity 
of “Rody” when he became a general.  Hooker never liked the sobriquet 
of “Fighting Joe” though he always lived up to it during his career in the 
field.  Pope was saddled with the title of “Saddle-bags John” in memory of his 
famous order about headquarters being on horseback.  His men used to say that 
their headquarters moved pretty rapidly at times.  Sigel, the German general, 
was known in other corps as “Dutchy”.  Hadcock won the ---- of “Superb” from a 
remark made by General Meade at Gettysburg, when the second corps repulsed 
Longstreet’s men.  Humphrey, being a distinguished engineer, was invariably 
styled “Old Mathematics”.  The Pennsylvania reserves used to call 
Crawford “Physics”, he being a surgeon at the beginning of his military 
career.  Logan, with his long black hair and dark complexion, was “Black Jack” 
with his men.  Sheridan, the cavalry leader, was “little Phil” and Sheridan’s 
troops spoke of him as “Old tEcumseh.”  The sterling nature and steadfast 
purpose of Thomas earned for him the significant and familiar name of “Old 
Reliable” and McDowell McCook, like Hooker, was called “Fighting McCook:.  The 
New York City regiment in the Fifth corps changed Sykes to “Sykskey”.  Halleck 
was derisively nicknamed “Old Braines,” and Rosecrans had his name shortened 
to “Rosy.”  Lew Wallace, the well-known writer, was “Louish” to the soldiers 
under his command; he was a great favorite for his fighting qualities, and the 
soldiers adopted that inappropriate name for want of a better.  Kearney, who 
had left an arm in Mexico, was invariably known in the ranks as “One-armed 
Phil.”  Butler was styled “Cock-eye” for obvious reasons.  Kilpatrick was 
nicknamed “Kill” while Custer was called “Ringlets” on account of his long, 
flowing cu rls; and so the catalogue might be prolonged indefinitely.

A PRETTY STEEP STORY
	A gentleman who lives in the eastern part of this county tells one of 
those stories that few people will believe “without seeing it.”  He says that 
he was out fox hunting, and when the chase was at the height of its excitement 
his horse ran into an old well thirty feet deep.  The horse was instantly 
killed by the fall, but the rider was unhurt.  The walls of the well had caved 
in at the bottom a distance of three or four feet, and the gentleman says this 
prevented getting out by digging foot holes.  Realizing his situation, he 
began to call for help at the top of his voice, but no assistance came.  He 
was compelled to remain in the well all night, and the next morning he stench 
arising from the dead carcass of the horse was anything but pleasant, and he 
noticed that buzzards were soaring over the spot.  Finally the buzzards began 
to alight in the well, and it was then that a bright idea struck him.  He 
decided to catch the buzzards by the leg as they came down until he got a 
sufficient number to carry him out.  That he did, and when he caught as many 
as his hands would hold, he “shooed” at them, and they flew up, carrying him 
out of the well.
	But still the fox hunter was in a dilemma.  The buzzards flew up so 
rapidly that he could not turn loose when he reached the top without falling 
back in the well.  Upwards the buzzards flew with their human freight, and the 
fox hunter began to despair of his life after all.  When about 100 yards above 
the ground the fox hunter was struck by another bright idea.  He decided to 
loose one buzzard at a time until his weight would pull them downward.  Acting 
upon this plan, he was soon landed safely upon the ground.
	The gentleman who tells this story tells it in all seriousness, and as 
though he actually believes it true, but it will be a colder day than any we 
had during the recent blizzard before he can get anybody else to believe it. – 
[Columbus (Ga.) Sun]

THE STRONGEST SHIP AFLOAT
	The Camperdown, which was launched at Portsmouth, England, has cost 
₤475,000 for labor and materials, and the estimate for her machinery amounts 
to ₤105,000.  She has taken three years to build, 700 hands having been 
constantly employed on her, and it will be another three years before she is 
ready for sea.  She is the heaviest ship ever launched from government slips, 
and is the first man-of-war that has been launched with her armor on.  The 
Camperdown is built entirely of steel, and in her armament she will be the 
most powerful vessel of all her class; her displacement will be 10,000 tons.

RESULT OF ADVERTISING
Advertiser – Yours is a great paper to advertise in.  I never saw anything 
like it.
Editor – That’s what they all say.
Advertiser – Why, do you know I advertised last night for a pocket-book I had 
lost.
Editor – Yes, yes.
Advertiser – Well, I went home and found it lying on my bureau.  And yet some 
people say it doesn’t pay to advertise. – [Rambler]

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY JUNE 3, 1886

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DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE – For State Senator, 12th Senatorial District.  Hon GEO. C. 
ALMON, of Franklin.

Rev. Sam Jones is expected to be in Nashville again in September.

The state convention meets in Montgomery next Wednesday, June 9th.

The delegates from Franklin County eight years ago had their credentials 
investigated by the Senatorial Convention, and not allowed to vote on the 
question either, yet they did not bolt.

The Kentucky Legislature has refused to change the name of Mr. 
Schlafenhafenrichstichstafter.  We suppose the members were afraid to mention 
his name.

Henry Ward Beecher describes his political position as follows:  “If Cleveland 
is a Republican, I am a Republican.  If Cleveland is a Democrat, I am a 
Democrat.  I am the same kind of a man that he is.”

The Sanford Journal of Fayette County is the only paper in the District that 
will support Hon. J. B. Sanford, and we understand that he is the owner if not 
the Editor of that paper.  –  [Democrat.]

Rev. J. J. Porter is holding a meeting in the Burkham Warehouse in this city.  
His audience on Sunday night was probably larger than three thousand.  He 
draws immense crowds to hear him, and his meetings will, we hope, do much 
good.  He has just closed a meeting in Tuskegee and goes to Decatur. – [Ala 
Baptist]

The Sanford Journal since its defeat at Hamilton is offered for sale.  Fayette 
C. H. ought to be a good stand for a newspaper, and we are inclined to think 
it would be fore  a regular newspaperman – but not when run by a politician – 
unless a more popular one than at present.

Sure enough the Fayette Journal got it:  Emotional insanity, proven by the 
following symptoms:  Contradictory statements, takes both sides, perverts 
facts, publishes hearsay, abuses the people of Marion and calls the county 
the “moonshiner’s paradise” and at last gets mad and wants to sell out.  You 
had better hold your interest in the paper Bro. S, for you will never receive 
the support of a so-called democratic paper unless you do have some capital 
invested in it.

The Journal is vexed because we sent a few copies of the News for distribution 
among the Almon men in Fayette County last week.  Thinking that the 
dissemination of news in Fayette belong exclusively to itself suggest that 
Judge Almon had a few friends in Walker County and that we ought to send the 
news to them.
	We would like very much to send the News to all of Mr. Almon’s friends 
but we cannot for an extra edition for one thousand copies of the News is 
required for the Almon voters of Fayette County.

The Franklin Democrat asks Mr. Sanford how long has he been a democrat?  Mr. 
Sanford in reply, says:  “As to how long I have been a democrat, I answer that 
I have never voted any other than a democratic ticket in life.  Who ever 
asserts the contrary utters a BASE LIE.”
	We ask of Mr. Sanford did he not say to a friend, now a citizen of 
Lamar that you had never voted but for one republican, and that for your 
father when he was a Republican candidate for the Legislature from Jefferson 
County in 1869?  Please answer.

Over in Georgia they are having a lively canvass.  The two candidates for 
governor are stumping the state, and the campaign seems likely to degenerate 
into a personal quarrel.  Gen. Gordon charges Bacon with having resigned his 
command in the army for a less dangerous and more lucrative position in the 
commissary department.  Bacon retorts by telling the people how Gordon traded 
his seat in the U. S. Senate to Colquitt and sold himself to Joe Brown for a 
$12,000 position as Brown’s Railroad attorney.  Gordon inaugurated the 
personalities of the canvass, but doesn’t seem to be making much capital at 
that kind of political warfare.

Ah! Lamar, how gladly would we have gathered thee in, like a hen doth her 
brood, but ye – bolted.  We will say, come back and repent of your 
wickedness.  Come back, and after August we will kill the fatted calf. – 
[Democrat]

The Hale County Convention unanimously and enthusiastically adopted the 
following unique and appropriate endorsement of Mr. Seay:
	The democracy of Hale County claims a moment the attention of the 
state.  She has within her border a native of her soil, and who at the age of 
seventeen entered her service as a soldier, in the ranks of those whose 
breasts were bared to the invader.
	He served the state and the good old cause in war, and since in peace 
he has contributed the best service of his life to the rehabilitation of our 
stricken state.
	Ten years of continuous service in the state senate, honorarily 
concluded as its presiding officer, furnished the state with proof of his 
experience –and his record there is a guarantee of his qualifications for the 
office for which he is named.
	We present to the people of this state through the commissioned 
delegates of this convention, Hale County’s accredited son – Hon. Thos. Seay, 
as an honest, capable, and qualified candidate for the governorship of a great 
and growing state.”

PLAIN FACTS
	Shall the democracy of the 12th district be controlled by the action 
of eleven “rule or ruin” men at Hamilton, or by eighteen true and tried 
democrats?  Democracy says the majority must rule. – [Fayette Journal.]
	Let’s see if the above is a true statement of facts.
	It is true that Lamar had ten delegates in the Convention, and that 
Fayette was misrepresented by eight men who claimed to be delegates.  The 
delegates in Fayette were chosen in the following manner:  J. B. Sanford was 
chairman of the Democratic Ex. Committee of Fayette, and at the same time he 
called the County Convention, he called a mass meeting, of which notice was 
published one time.  We are reliably informed that there were present at the 
mass meeting – most of whom were there as spectators – and that only fifteen 
or twenty men actually took part in the mass meeting.  Sanford was the 
chairman also of the mass meeting, and appointed a committee of three, two of 
whom at least were his near relatives – to select delegates to the Senatorial 
Convention.  When the committee came in Sanford drew from his own pocket a 
list of persons as delegates to the said convention which had already been 
prepared by him for the occasion.  This is the manner in which eight of the 
delegates – that --- a – of the eighteen, mention --- the Journal, were 
elected.  Now the truth is, the Senatorial Convention got on all right, until 
an attempt was made to investigate the aforesaid mass meeting, whereupon the 
delegation from Fayette rather than stand an investigation, bolted the 
convention, and Lamar trailed along after them, why: we know not.  The 
remaining delegates proceeded to regularly nominate a candidate for the 
Senate, which was done, and elect a new Ex. Committee, and adjourned.  Late in 
the evening the bolters met and made a nomination.
	If the mass meeting was not a fraud, why did the delegation so dread 
investigation?  Nobody proposed to exclude them if they were duly and fairly 
the representative of Fayette.  Why did Sanford call a mass meeting, when at 
the same time he called a convention?  It shows fraud on the face of the 
thing.  Fayette had no representatives, and therefore, Mr. Sanford did not 
receive but ten votes in his little caucus. – [Franklin Democrat]

You that are little ones when the Lord speaks to you, cry to him, Speak , 
Lord, for they servant heareth; and when in the class or in the house of God, 
the world is preached to sinners, remember it is preached to you quite as much 
as to men six feet high. – [C. H. Spurgeon] 

NOTICE - Memphis and Birmingham Railroad Company.  The subscribers to the 
capital stock of the Memphis and Birmingham Railroad Company will meet at the 
law officers of Hewitt, Walker and Porter in the city of Birmingham, Alabama, 
on Monday July the 5th, 1886, at 12 o’clock M for the purpose of completing 
the organization of said company by the election of a board of directors to 
manage the affairs and business of the company for the ensuing twelve months 
or until their successors are elected and duly qualified.  May 24th, 1886.  
JAHN A GRANT, WM. A. WALKER, Jr. M. A. BUTLER, Board of Corporate.

OVER THE STATE
Grace Church, Anniston, was consecrated May 10th.

Mobile has had a grand celebration in honor of her artillery.

The latest event in Cullman is the closing of the saloons of Sunday.

Tuscaloosa is on a double boom – educational and property.

Five hundred children are attending public schools in Tuscaloosa.

One of the Independent candidates from Fayette denies too much.

A Republican Convention has been called to meet in Montgomery on 23rd of June.

A candidate for the legislature in Coffee County announce that he is in favor 
of a fair re---- of the muleage now charged by doctors.

Mr. John C. Allen has contracted to build a ten thousand dollar stone seminary 
in Anniston which is to be completed by first of October.

Learned men tell us that in -----the word “editor” mean “to eat.”  In 
Dadeville it means to scratch around like h—l to get something to eat. – 
[Dadeville Democrat]

F. M. Taylor, Probate Judge of Winston County, whose whereabouts have been a 
mystery for some time, appeared before the Supreme Court and plead guilty to 
the charge of embezzlement which had been brought against him, and the 
judgment of the lower court removing him from office was affirmed.

Tuskaloosa’s Convention was the largest ever held.  Whiskey or no whiskey was 
the issue, and the wet side won by a few votes.  Judge N. H. Brown and J. J. 
Pigues were nominated respectively for Probate Judge and Circuit Clerk, and H. 
H. Brown and H. B. Foster for the Legislature.  Both sides were warmly in 
favor of Hon. J. M. Martin.

ITEMS OF INTEREST
Queen Christina of Spain is the happy mother of a son – Spain rejoice.

The Grand Jury has taken up the cases of the Chicago anarchists.

Congress is hoping to have an early adjournment.  Good.

Twelve thousand tailors have returned to their work in Chicago.

War in West Africa has blocked the roads and stopped trade.

It cost $103,949,528 to conduct the public schools of the United States in 
1884.

Mr. Glass has introduced a bill permitting farms to sell tobacco grown by 
themselves free from Internal Revenue laws.

The new liquor law enacted in Russia will, if executed, close 80,000 drinking 
resorts.

Four hundred and thirty trains move in and out of Boston daily.

The Knights of Labor now have colored branches of the association.

A woman in a religious frenzy killed her three children and herself in West 
Virginia.

There are 100 moonshine whisky prisoners in the Covington, Ky. Jail

A girl baby, born in New York during a terrible storm has been named Cyclonia.

A Chicago man who began saving hog bristles at the Chicago slaughter house now 
lives in a mansion and is worth a fortune.

Washington, May 29.  President Cleveland will be married at the White House, 
on Wednesday, June 2nd, to Miss Frances Folsom.

Elizabeth Schultz, a white woman, was charged with assault and battery on Mrs. 
Annie Wilcox.  It seemed that Mrs. Annie had caused the husband of Mrs. S. to 
forget his marriage vows and to go off and report himself dead.  Mrs. Schultz 
beat a tattoo on the table with her fan and asked that justice be meted out to 
her without fear or favor.  She had only hit Mrs. Wilcox over the head with 
her umbrella just to show her that she could and his Honor bid her go in peace 
and fight no more.

The Coleman House (Formerly West House).  W. S. COLEMAN, Pro. Main St. 
Columbus, Miss.  Is now open for the entertainment of guests, and will be kept 
clean and comfortable, the table being supplied with the best the market 
affords.  

RESTAURANT, Aberdeen, Mississippi.  Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to 
call on Mrs. L. M. KUPFER, who keeps Restaurant, Family Groceries, Bakery and 
Confectionery, toys, tobacco, and cigars.  Also coffee and sugar.  Special 
attention paid to ladies

THE GOVERNORSHIP 
The following table is made up --- the best information attainable.  It is not 
given as absolutely correct, approximately so and is subject to revisal on 
better information.  Some of the counties are given on the strength of claims 
by the friends of candidates, that being the only light on the situation in 
these counties to date.  Estimated in this way the gubernatorial contest now 
stands somewhat this way in counties which have appointed delegates.
(LONG TABLE OF VOTES FOR EACH CANDIDATE FOR EACH COUNTY.  NOT GOING TO 
TRANSCRIBE – IF INTERESTED CONTACT ME AND I WILL GET IT FOR YOU)

AGENTS WANTED – for Rev. Sam P. Jones Sermons – There never was such a book 
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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.

Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ

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

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

S. J. SHIELDS – Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in Chancery.  Vernon, Alabama.  
Will practice in the Courts of Lamar and the counties of the District.  
Special attention given to collection of claims.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment…(too small to read).

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY JUNE 3, 1886    
         
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
One copy one year		$1.00
One copy, six months		     .60
All subscriptions payable in advance

LOCAL DIRECTORY 

CHANCERY COURT
THOMAS COBBS			Chancellor
JAS. M. MORTON			Register

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

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

CITY OFFICERS
L. M. WIMBERLEY			Mayor and Treasurer
G. W. BENSON				Marshall
Board of Aldermen – T. B. 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
Picnics prevail.

Pleasant breezes.

Read everything in this paper.

The farmers have had a fine season for working crops.

The Vernon High School will close soon.

Col. NESMITH has returned from Walker County.

Honey wanted, cash will be paid for same at this office.

Rev. G. B. TAYLOR filled the Methodist pulpit last Sunday.

The croquet club is still well organized.

We are informed that Fayette has two Independent candidates for State Senator –
 SANFORD and FILES.

The young folk had their first picnic at COBB’S Mill Thursday.  All report a 
jolly time.

If you wish a good article of Plug Tobacco ask your dealer for “Old Rip.”

The communication of J. M. L. is crowded out of this issue, but will appear in 
the next.

The Fayette Journal doesn’t seem to know yet whether it was a shot gun 
or “emotional insanity.”

Mr. LEE METCHALFE of Henson Springs leaves in a week or two to visit friends 
in Birmingham.

The gardens are looking very well in spite of the hard winter, wet spell and 
subsequent hot sunshine.

We are glad to note that Miss ELIZA MORTON has so far recovered from her 
recent sickness as to be able to ride out.

Prof. JOHN and Miss JALA GUIN left Saturday for Florence for purpose of 
attending the Teacher’s Institute at that place.

PETER SHAW one of our most well-to-do colored citizens, had the misfortune to 
lose a dwelling on his place a few days ago by fire.

We were pleased to receive a call from hon. A. B. HAMLETT, Deputy U. S. 
Marshall for this district on Monday last.

We are indebted thanks to W. G. MIDDLETON, Esq. for subscription to News 
secured while on a visit to Fayette County.

From present indication the Memphis and Birmingham Railway will be 
constructe3d through Marion County and will but touch the north east corner of 
Lamar.

The circulation of the News has so increased in the last three weeks that we 
were compelled to add several quires to our issues.  And to some we can only --
-------this week.

Politics waxeth warm.

Gardens looking better.

Subscriptions always welcome.

Attend the prayer meeting on Wednesday night.

Mr. JOHNNY BELL of Fayette visited relatives in town first of the week.

Dr. BRADLEY will sing at Liberty near Trull’s store, the 4th Sunday in June.

Lost:  One sleeve button.  A handsome reward offered to finder on delivery to 
this office.

Our delegates to the State Convention are making preparation for the trip.

The young people spent a pleasant evening at the residence of Mr. EDDY MORTON 
on Tuesday last.

Mr. S. H. JACKSON paid us a sociable visit Tuesday and subscribed for the News.

Miss ALEVIA MILES, after several weeks visit to relatives in Vernon, returned 
to her home at Fayette C. H. on Tuesday.

We intend sending the News occasionally to the 1000 Almon voters in Fayette 
County – notwithstanding the Journal’s kicking.

The Fayette Journal says that it was shot guns or emotional insanity that 
caused the bolting at the Senatorial convention; Capt. LACY intimates that it 
was YOUNG that did it.

We have been reliably informed from various sources that Hon. GEO C. ALMON 
will receive half the votes in the beat of Fayette C. H. the home of the 
Journal’s Hero.

M. A. PORTER Esq. a well known lawyer from Birmingham, one of the cooperators 
of the Memphis and Birmingham Railroad Co made us a pleasant call on 28th and 
opened banks of subscription for the capital stock of the road.

The News had just as well be “worked and used by a lovely young man” as the 
Journal would have it, as by an old man, who professes in his vain, puffed-up 
conceit, that he had a grand “mission” to perform.

An alarm of fire at the residence of Dr. W. L. MORTON on Thursday created much 
excitement, and the Vernon Fire Company consisting of about 25 in number 
responded promptly, and prevented the fire from doing but little damage.

The gentleman that furnishes us with the unquestionable proof that Mr. Sanford 
did say he voted for a man in 1869 that was always a bitter Republican, is one 
of our best citizens and one who is a friend to Mr. Sanford and has never 
voted against him.

The debate at the Literary Society last Friday night was largely attended and 
able speeches made on both sides.  From the argument it was decided by the 
Judges that war had caused more suffering than the use of ardent spirits.

After the August election Col. Sanford will want to hire an Irishman to kick 
him in the side for ever having head of a mass meeting.  We can refer him to 
two in this town who would do the job very cheap, and we can recommend them as 
able to do it to perfection. – [Marion Herald]

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THE WILD ASS OF LAMAR – FLIES THE TRACK AT THE SANTORIAL CONVENTION, And Beats 
All Former Records by Making Fewer Steps to the Mile and More to the Minute to 
Disgrace Democracy.
Mr. Editor:
	A personal attack on me in your last issue over the signature of D. J. 
LACY, whose alias heads this article may possibly to those of your readers who 
do not know the stupid beast, require some reply.  That the acts of one in 
public trust and confidence belong to the public I feely admit; but the 
private acts of an individual are never brought before the public gaze for 
evil purposes except to give vent to some base and secret design. To those who 
know of the friendly and confidential relations that have existed between the 
signer of that article and myself the article was no doubt a surprise; and to 
me it was until I read it and saw that it was the joint production of knave 
and dupe.  To further sustain my impressions I obtained a sight of the 
manuscript and recognized the signature but the writing and dictating of the 
article I know is not the work of this stupid beast.
	And the fact is plain that he has been led to sign an article that 
gives vent to the feelings of some vile cur who sneaks up behind his stupidity 
to show his teeth.  But before I go further, I wills ay to those who composed 
the senatorial delegation, except the signer of that article and those who 
aided him in the production of the same, that I regard them as sincere, true 
and patriotic men who have both the good of him whose interest was in their 
hands and that of the party at heart.  And in my reply I assure them that 
nothing contained herein is intended for a criticism on them, and that my high 
regard for them is the same as ever and I hope that nothing in this will 
lessen me in their esteem, and that this will be devoted specially to the 
undressing of that stupid delegate of assine pedigree before the voters and 
fair minded people who read the News.  I am almost persuaded that, he scarcely 
knew what he was doing; but was told that a personal attack on me was 
necessary to keep his acts as a delegate to the senatorial convention from 
being criticized.  He gives for a reason for writing this article that in a 
certain editorial correspondence published in the News which he presumed was 
written by me if was asserted that “the delegates from Lamar and Fayette 
indulged in a proceeding that was a shame to the democracy of the two 
counties.”  He presumes that this article was written by me (and his 
presumption was correct), and he signs a scurrilous personal article while he 
leaves alone the public press of the counties of Franklin, Lamar and Marion in 
which he is held up before the public in ridicule.  But against one who spoke 
of his conduct on that occasion with the charity of a friend and in the 
mildest way that it could be truthfully spoken he is duped into signing a 
letter giving vent to the sentiments of some wily knave – and not to set 
himself right before the intelligent voters he represented in the capacity of 
delegate.  That he ran like a wild ass out of that convention he doesn’t deny; 
and that his braying was heard afar calling the delegates of Lamar and Fayette 
to meet him in caucus at six p.m. after the convention and adjourned sine die, 
he need not deny.
	But he would have you believe that I went to that convention to secure 
the nomination for myself and that in reality that I was not a friend to 
either of the honorable gentlemen who were candidates.  How, for what this 
assertion was made I am at a loss to know, for while the Hon. J. B. Sanford 
and myself were on pleasant terms he well knew that I did not favor his 
political aspirations. While on the other hand, I did profess friendship to 
Judge Almon and I will leave it to him and to the kicking of that delegate to 
say whether I was faithful to him whenever my feeble services were needed.
	As to my plans for appearing before that convention they were made by 
the friends of Judge Almon, upon their being informed that the delegation in 
favor of Hon. H. B. Sanford proposed to organize the convention and elect a 
chairman pliant to their wishes and to abolish the time honored and democratic 
two thirds rule.  Then it was that Judge Almons’ friends would have offered 
Lamar a man of her own.  No such thing would ever have occurred while there 
existed a ghost of a chance for Judge Almon.  This is a full and fair 
statement of that matter, and if I erred how much more did this offended 
delegate err who praises the fidelity of the delegate that would not renounce 
the candidate for whom he was chosen, when this same signer of other men’s 
vile productions went there at my suggestion and under promise to support me 
and even told a gentleman in the town of Vernon on the day he started to 
convention that he “would not go if was not to nominate “Will Young.”  When he 
arrived he was hopeful that after a half an hour’s talk with Mr. Sanford’s 
friends he was a most dejected man and soon ceased to approach me in a public 
place, but would slip to me whenever I went to a private or secluded place and 
more than once expressed fears that Mr. Sanford’s friends would see him 
talking to me, and I then discovered another well known trait of this 
treacherous animal.  Now here is the gist of his whole conduct: He was whipped 
into line and played me false and treacherous and knowing that he did me wrong 
he seeks a subterfuge for his infidelity, than which there is no baser conduct 
known to morals.  As to the editorial containing a touch of agony, my feelings 
tell me with all deference to his opinions that he is mistaken, for a more 
gratifying result has never happened in any convention.
	It is gratifying to me as a democrat because the party in Lamar could 
stand no more such day’s work as was had here on the 10th, when the large and 
respectable strength of Judge Almon was ignored.  This great Moralist chuckles 
over the idea of my being ”a black horse in the race..”  However wrong he may 
think such an attitude, it is only gauged by his ignorance of political ethics 
where it is considered legitimate and proper, and I have nothing further to 
say on that subject.
	Now, I am well aware that a personal attack on me by this kicking 
delegate was written and doctored to meet many things that will come before 
the people in the present canvass.  And while I am from my own personal 
knowledge of the workings of the Senatorial Convention deeply impressed with 
the justness of Judge Almon’s claim to the nomination of that convention, I 
leave it for him and others who have not as much feeling in this matter as I 
to show up the justness of his claim.  Judge Almon has the ability and is 
possessed of manhood enough to take care of the interest intrusted to him by 
the democrats of the 12th district.  And to the conduct of the credulous 
animal who has allowed himself to be persuaded that to put on a lions skin 
would make his a terror, I will devote my words.  As to the perverted 
statement that he refused to allow his name to be enrolled, I in answer to it 
ask a careful reading of the minutes of the convention and an inquiry of any 
unbiased man present on that occasion.  For he did stay and act in that 
convention about three hours and ran out without cause or even offense.  It 
was not that he would not be a party to the Investigation of “that mass 
meeting” but was simply trying to help perpetrate a fraud instead of trying to 
harmonize and purify the party.  The conduct of myself and all the friends and 
supporters of Judge Almon on that occasion will bear investigation and a full 
and fair investigation by the voters of this county is earnestly requested.  
On the other hand I ask that you compel the kicking assinago to explain his 
conduct, I lay it down that he can’t explain his to the satisfaction of nay 
unbiased and fair minded man gauging his conduct by broad and conciliatory 
ideas why he bolted the convention.  And I beg the readers of the News not to 
let the personal partying between this wild ass and myself draw their 
attention from his shameful and disgraceful conduct in the capacity of a 
delegate in the town of Hamilton.
	And while such controversies are not pleasant to me whenever I hear 
the braying in the political arena of this animal who has been papered and 
fattened at the public trough in Lamar county, I will be tempted to ply him 
with a goad.  And the feeling that prompted this article it may properly be 
said has been engendered by a personal attack by a man who has ever reason to 
be my friend, who has suffered himself to be duped into signing a letter that 
strikes at my personal character and integrity with all the vim and force that 
could be brought to bear with the weapons he had at command.  But knowing him 
so well and that ingratitude naturally has the uppermost seat in his bosom I 
do not feel in the least put out with him.  And when he signed that paper he 
had no shadow of reason well founded for feeling unkindly toward me.  To 
expect me to right him in the eyes of his people for his conduct while in 
their delegated service when it was so open and inexcusable is more than he 
ought to ask of a friend, and is certainly more that I am able if I were ever 
so willing to do.
Very respectfully,
W. A. YOUNG

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

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

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

We are authorized to announce JASON H. SHAW a candidate to represent Lamar 
County in the next General Assembly of Alabama.  Election in August, 1886.

FOR PROBATE JUDGE
We are authorized to announce J. E. PENNINGTON as a candidate for the office 
of Judge of Probate of Lamar County.  Election next August.

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

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

I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Clerk of the Circuit 
Court of Lamar County.  Election in August next. – W. G. MIDDLETON

We are authorized to announce W. W. PURNELL as a candidate for Clerk of the 
Circuit Court of Lamar County.  Election next August.

To the voters of Lamar County:  I hereby announce myself a candidate for the 
office of Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, at the approaching 
August election; and respectfully solicit a liberal share of your votes.  Very 
respectfully.  R. E. BRADLEY

I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Clerk of the Circuit 
Court of Lamar County, at the approaching August election and respectfully 
solicit a liberal share of your votes.  Very respectfully.  JOHN T. BURROW

We are authorized t to announce Dr. B. F. REED a candidate for the office of 
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County.  Election next August.

To the voters of Lamar County:  I take this method of informing you that I am 
a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court at the approaching August 
election.  Soliciting a liberal share of your votes, I am yours, obt.  R. N. 
WALDROP

FOR CO. SUPT. OF ED.
We are authorized to announce B. H. WILKERSON a candidate for County 
Superintendent of Education for Lamar County.  Election next August.

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

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

MASONIC:
Vernon Lodge, No. 588, A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 
1st Saturday, 7 pm each month. – J. D. MCCLUSKEY, W. M.
		   M. W. MORTON, Sec.
Vernon Lodge, NO 45, I. O. G. F. Meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays 
at 7 ½ pm each month.
- W. G. MIDDLETON, N. G.
- M. W. MORTON, Sect’y

TAX SALE
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
By virtue of Decree rendered on the 3rd day of May, 1886, by the Court of 
Probate for said county, I will offer for sale at the court house door of said 
county on third day of June, 1886, the following lands to wire:  se qu of sw 
qr sec 19 T 11 R 14.
Tax and cost (fees…..)  Said lands or so much thereof as will be necessary to 
pay the above tax and cost will be sold on the 7th June, 1886.
	D. J. LACY, T. C.

TAX NOTICE
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
I, D. J. LACY, tax collector of said county will make application to the 
Probate Court to be held first Monday in June 1886, for an order to sell the 
lands mentioned below or so much thereof as will be sufficient to pay the 
taxes, penalties and cost for the year 1885.
Henson Springs Beat – THOMAS BANNISTER
Millville Beat – J. B. WILDER & CO
- CAROLINA PRICE
Pine Springs Beat – T. A. THURLKILL
Trull’s Beat – J. L. JONES
	D. J. LACY, T. C.

NOTICE
State of Alabama, Lamar County
	Notice is hereby given that application will be made to Governor E. A. 
O’Neal to remit a $50 fine assessed against J. W. L. FLINN at the County Court 
of aforesaid county on 18th day February 1886.
	This the 22nd day of May, 1886.

State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, April 1st, 1886
In the matter of the estate of Joel B. GIBSON, decease, it appearing to the 
Court upon the examination of the proof and papers submitted, that said estate 
is insolvent.  It is therefore ordered by the Court that Thos. B. NESMITH, 
Administrator of said estate, file his amount, vouchers and evidence, and that 
he make settlement of his administration on the 31st day of May next, when and 
where all parties interested can contest the same if they think proper.
	ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate

Barber Shop.  For a clean shave or shampoo, call on G. W. Benson, in rear of 
Dr. Burn’s office.  Vernon, Ala.

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.

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WILD HORSES – Thousands of Them Roaming The Plains of Montana
Neglected Animals that Grow Wild and Become a Terror to Breeders
	Horse raising is fast becoming of great importance in this Territory, 
says a Fort Keogh (Montana) correspondent.  Vast ranges are now devoted to 
their breeding exclusively.  The horses run wild in great herds, winter and 
summer, just as do the cattle.  But for these horse ranches the stock men 
would find great difficulty to control their cattle.  The horses are larger 
and much better than the Texan ponies.  They are usually bred from Indian pony 
mares and Kentucky stallions.  Most of the horse ranges are in the mountains 
or foothills.  Mining excitements and other causes ofted cause herders to 
neglect their horses and they become wild.  Their superior intellect to other 
animals when partly bred to good stock, their faculties of hearing , seeing 
and smelling, coupled with their fleetness and courage and their ability to 
stand days and weeks of running, make them the most difficult to capture.
	Confining themselves almost entirely to the inaccessible mountains, 
only coming down to water once a day, makes it almost impossible to follow, 
much less capture them, and when a band or a portion of a band goes wild it is 
rarely in these days that the owner ever tries to recapture them, knowing full 
well that it nearly takes horse for horse in the business, and the wild horse 
once captured has been so run down and abused to bring him into subjection 
that they are hardly worth the success.
	With the wild horses a stallion is at the head, and is the leader of 
every heard, having such full control over them that no band of cowboys are 
able to drive a band of horses so fast or well as a stallion can.  All in the 
band are so thoroughly afraid of him they keep in a bunch, and their speed is 
gauged by his own, he running behind it with his head low, scarcely above the 
ground.  He advances quickly on the hindmost ones, giving them a sharp bite on 
the rump, thereby giving them to understand they must keep up.  Should one 
turn out he follows him, much after the fashion of the shepherd dog, and runs 
him back.  Until this band are out of sight in the mountains he keeps this 
up.  Here they seem to understand that he cannot follow them all, and they 
scatter in all directions, in ravines, canyons and inaccessible places, so 
that when the rider arrives at the places he last saw them he is mortified to 
find his own horse almost exhausted and his herd so scattered that he gives up 
the chase in disgust.  The usual idea is that a very fleet horse, such an one 
as is usually used by the hero in a novel, carried his master  up to a wild 
horse sufficiently close to lasso him.
	This is erroneous, for no horse on earth can carry a rider and saddle 
sufficiently heavy to stand the strain of a lasso fast enough on the rough 
ground of the mountains to catch a wild horse in good health, and I doubt very 
much their ability to do it on a smooth plain.
	It is surprising how easily and thoroughly domestic horses go wild 
under the influence of these wild stallions.  Many is the emigrant or horse 
raiser who has gone to bed at night full of confidence, and often pride, at 
the condition and umbers of his stock, only to wake in the morning to find 
nothing left but the one horse on the picket rope and the trail of their 
fleeing animals, driven or coaxed away by these wild horses – gone and 
forever.  I recall to mind now an acquaintance of mine in Nevada, one Joseph 
Gilbert, who lived in Reese River, In Louder County, who took a pride in the 
quality of his horses.  His herd numbered about five hundred head and was 
generally considered to be the best in that section.  Joe was in fine 
circumstance and bore the reputation of being well off and an excellent man’; 
but somehow a band of wild horses began to prey upon his herd, finally 
securing to themselves a beautiful stallion recently purchased by Joe at an 
expense of $1,000.
	After his capture Joe’s herd was of short duration, as, with the 
assistance of this stallion, the nearly or all went wild, and though rewards 
of $5 and afterward $10 per head were offered for the horses in any corral, 
with an additional $500 for the stallion, I never heard of more than fifteen 
or twenty horses being returned.  Some Mexicans hearing of it came to capture 
them with twenty men and forty or fifty horses, but after racing for them 
until their own horses had given out they only succeeded in getting the 
fifteen or twenty above mentioned, resolving to return and try them on the 
Texas plan, with a sloped corral, with wings two miles long.  The result was 
Mr. Gilbert was ruined.  Many other cases of the kind have happened.

Esmeralda Longcoffin, who is engaged to Gus De Smith – My dear Birdie 
McGinnis, what heavenly feeling it is to be engaged to the man you love!
Birdie – I suppose so.
Esmeralda – Has your heart never been inflamed with the tender passion?
Birdie - No, the nearest I ever came to it was an inflamed sore throat.

LADIES DEPARTMENT

THE GIRL OF THE NORTHWEST
	The girl of the Northwest!  How the hand trembles that dare touch a 
pen in her behalf.  Tall, dark, queenly!  Sometimes.  Slight, blonde, blue-
eyed?  Not always.  Gentle, loving, divine?  Semper et perpetus.  Like our 
wheat, she is of the best.  “Time cannot change nor age wither” the maiden 
over whose laughing face the breezes from Superior toss the unconfined 
tresses, and whose dainty feet have once pressed the fruitful soil of 
Minnesota.  She can dance; she can sing; her magnificent horsemanship is 
proverbial; her grace at tennis is a matter of history; her beauty brings a 
world to her feet, but her crowning grace, the consummate flower of all her 
virtue is that superb proof of her self-reliance; “She turns her own music.” – 
[St. Paul Pioneer Press]

ROOM FOR ALL
	The woman who is fitted to sympathize with the pursuits and interests 
of a husband will be equally well fitted to adorn society and to elevate its 
tone, nor will she find her gifts wasted.  There is ample field for the work 
of intellectual women and of business women who can give their time to work 
outside their own homes.  There need be no question of woman’s sphere or 
woman’s rights.  The world needs workers in its noblest fields – it matters 
not whether they be men or women, married or single – there is room for them 
all.  Let the girls make of themselves the best they can, let the mothers do 
their best in training them.  Then surely the well balanced, conscientious, 
thoughtful young women will not need to think until the time comes for her to 
decide the immediate question, whether she is fit for  a wife or not. – [Good 
Housekeeping]

CARE OF THE HAND
	There are simple means by which the hands may be kept in a presentable 
condition, as the use of glycerin or honey after washing them, and a little 
bran or oatmeal to be used sometimes instead of soap.  Wearing gloves when the 
work is rough or dry is quite admissible.  Ladies who have rough, coarse hands 
should rub them with cold cream at night, and may wear loose gloves.  Should 
the hands become hard and horny, treat them with pumice stone and lemon.  
Lemon is always good for the hands; it cleanses them as well as soap and makes 
them soft.
	You should clean the nails with a brush, if necessary, but it is 
better to rub the fingers and nails with the half of a lemon, thrusting the 
fingers into it and turning until the nails are perfectly clean.  Lemon will 
likewise prevent the skin at the root of the nails from growing upward.  Use 
cold cram and gloves at night, which will keep the nails soft and prevent them 
from cracking.

HOW BEAUTY IS PRESERVED
	It is stated that a well-known society woman of Baltimore, who 
preserves her beauty and freshness remarkably well, despite her many season’s 
pursuit of excitement in the social whirl, attributes her good fortune to the 
practice of drinking a small cup of lukewarm water every day on leaving her 
couch.  So strong is her faith in the efficacy of this remedy that its 
omission is sure to cause depression and languor.
	In speaking of this a few days ago a well-known matron of Baltimore 
said:  I have known many ladies to be equally devoted to some article which 
could not possibly have benefited them except through their imagination.  One 
lady I know has a glass of toast water placed beside her bed by her maid every 
morning.  Another uses a half-teaspoonful of tincture of cinchona in a goblet 
of water; still another takes a pinch of table salt into her mouth before 
leaving her bed.  Lots of ladies resort to such common articles as oranges and 
lemons and Apolrinaris water, or to cool plunge baths, but the most singular 
freak I ever heard of was that of A Philadelphia belle who every morning 
regularly gargled her throat with soapsuds made of white castile soap, which 
she believed was absolutely necessary to the preservation of her health.” – 
[Baltimore News]

ERR ON THE SIDE OF KINDNESS
	People grow tender as they grow old.  Young mothers are apt to be too 
severe in their ideas of disciple, while grandmothers are proverbially too 
indulgent; yet of the two extremes the latter is probably the least harmful.  
It is the fashion nowadays to treat infants according to iron-clad rules laid 
down by the medical fraternity in regard to feeding, dressing, bathing, etc.  
Now, it is not disputed that these rules are excellent general guides, but we 
do insist that they do not admit of a cast-iron application in the case of any 
child.  Each mother must apply the rules according to her own judgment, 
consulting somewhat the child’s comfort and instincts.  She should not permit 
what she knows is really harmful to him simply to quiet his clamor; but on the 
contrary, there may be times and circumstances when it would be far worse to 
let a child cry an hour or two than to break all the rules in the catalogue.  
Children recover from the effects of grief more readily than older people but 
crying does hurt them, no matter what the autocrats say.  If a young mother is 
in doubt as to what course to pursue, it is always better to err on the side 
of kindness than on the side of severity.

FASHION NOTES
Silk braids with feather effects are new trimmings.

Camel’s hair is the leading material for spring wear.

Bonnets are smaller and hats higher than formerly.

Embroidered and plain velveteen are used in combination.

Fedora nets, with floral designs, have flouncing to correspond.

Black alpaca lined with red flannel is much used for overskirts.

Cameo clasps are set in oxidized silver, studded with Bohemian stones.

Bead trimmings in two tones match the spring suiting in two shades.

Half-long sleeves are slashed or are timed with stripes of passementerie.

Cashmere laces, with tinsel effects are used for fronts, flounces and 
draperies.

Black cotton hosiery may now be had which will not fade nor blacken the skin.

Bodice, train and panels are made of the same material.  Plastron and tablier 
correspond.

Clasps of Rhine stones are in arabesque designs; others are in the form of 
large hooks and eyes.

They are trying to narrow down the sphere of black silks to church dresses, 
but they will never be banished.

Velveteen, both plain and figured, is much used this season for house dresses 
as well as for street costumes.

The anti-crinoline faction has triumphed in England, and skirts fall in 
straight folds from the waist.

Buttons are of all sizes, some are as large as the debased dollar, while 
others are scarcely larger than shot.

Among the new colors for spring are eucalyptus and celery green.  Straw color 
and maize are the new shades of yellow.

Trains are combines with side draperies, leaving the fronts and sides usually 
different from the rest of the dress, uncovered.

Jackets of velvet, silk or plush, with basquest--- in vandykes are worn with 
tulle skirts.  They are made half-high and have a low chemisette.

Stout people, whether tall or short, are most handsomely dressed in plain, 
rich clothing, well made and of fine fabrics, but with very little trimming.

A high-crowned hat with wide brim is of black velvet dotted with small black 
rosary beads.  It is trimmed with black feathers held in place by a knot of 
yellow ribbon.

Colored folds of silk or Japanese crepe are worn in the neck and sleeves of 
dresses, but are not becoming to most people without something white in the 
way of lace associated with them.

Indigo blue and flame color are worn.  Jackets of these colors are braided 
with black in points from the shoulder to the elbow and from the wrist to the 
elbow.  They are lined with some contrasting color.

A dress of pale sea-green silk is covered with tulle of the same shade, the 
gleam of the silk showing through the tulle like the light upon sea waves.  
The skirt is studded with coral and the pointed green-plush bodice is fringed 
with the coral.

A turquoise blue plush bonnet has a plaited crown.  The brim is covered 
smoothly and is edges with gold beads.  The trimming consists of pale yellow 
feathers and algrette.  The strings are of blue satin corresponding to the 
shade of the plush.

Tall figures should have bands of trimming around the figure, such as a border 
of fur or plush, or braiding at the foot of the skirt, while a panel in front 
or on one side may be made of crosswise rows of braided passementerie, or 
braid, or bands of velvet ribbon.

A BIG ELKS’ FIGHT FOR LIFE
	A monster elk was sighted in the Wind River Mountains by a hunter, 
says the Salt Lake Tribune, and the hounds sent after him.  A long chase of 
two hours led down to the base of Sable Mountain, one of the loftiest of the 
range, up which the monarch of the forest darted as his final refuge.  The 
ascent was steep, but the hunter and his dogs followed.  Soon the elk was 
brought to bay.  As the foremost of the dogs sprang full at the throat, the 
branching antlers were suddenly lowered, the keen tines pierced from side to 
side, and the stanch hound was thrown high in air, and fell far down the steep 
incline.  Nothing daunted the remaining hound, too, made its fierce spring, 
and shared the fate of its comrade.  The animal then rushed at the hunter, who 
fired, but the next instant was whirled aloft of the broad antlers.  His stout 
buckskin hunting shirt turned aside the sharp prong, but they had become 
fastened in the garment, and he bade fair to be thrashed to death.  As for a 
second time the elk dashed him to earth he managed to catch hold of a bush, 
and kept his grasp long enough to draw his revolver and send a ball crashing 
through the brain of this gallant foe.

ANOTHER CONFEDERATE WAR-HERO
	Mr. Palmer Sheldon postmaster at Amen, Iowa, says: ”It is a mistake to 
say that Stonewall Jackson’s old sorrel, recently dead, was the sole survivor 
among hornet of the rebellion, for Capt. J. Rush Lincoln, Professor of 
Military Tactics at the Iowa State Agricultural College, ahs with him the 
horse he rode during the rebellion in the First Maryland Confederate Cavalry, 
wherein the served as Captain.  The old horse is said to be a thoroughbred.  
He is a dark brown, about fifteen hands high.  He is in good health, and as 
fat and sleek as a colt.  The captain rides him to all the State encampments 
and reunions, and when he takes part in sham battles the horse seems to enjoy 
the excitement, for he is right on his mettle as soon as the firing begins.”

No one ever fully comprehends the world’s nature, but many a man who has had 
the bottom of his hopes and aspirations knocked into oblivion by the unfeeling 
world has caught a faint glimmer of humanity.

A truth of much embellishment is necessarily weak.  Truth alone and simple is 
beauty in the rough.  In fact, it is all the virtue necessary for any one 
person.

At sixteen all young men know more than their sires.  This is natural.  But if 
they still claim to wear the medal at twenty-five they are gone beyond 
redemption.

Pomp, splendor, parade, and tinsel lure the idle and enthuse the rabble, but 
music and banners soon lose their charm to him who walks behind a pigeon-toed 
man in a procession.

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