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The Lamar News June 24, 1886
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THE LAMAR NEWS

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor            VERNON, ALABAMA, JUNE 24, 
1886           VOL. III. NO. 34

HOW TO LIVE – Poem – [George Birdseye]

THE FOUNTAIN – Short Story

QUEEN VICTORIA’S HOUSEHOLD
	The Queen’s household has four heads of departments – the Lord Steward 
for the food, the Lord Chamberlain for the furniture, the Master of the Horse 
for the journey, and the Mistress of the Robes for the apparel.  Besides all 
that pertains to eating and drinking, the Lord Steward has charge of the 
gardens and everything necessary for the administration of the staff of which 
he is the head.  Under the Lord Chamberlain is placed the control of the 
churches and chapels, the arts and amusements, and all that cannot be claimed 
by the other departments.  The Master of the Horse controls the stables and 
all their gear, and under his superintendence there consequently come the 
coachmen and footmen.  The Mistress of the Robes is concerned with dress only –
 during a King’s reign her place is taken by the Groom of the Stole.
	To each of these departments, at the several palaces, the purveyors 
are appointed by warrant – the warrants of each department being of a 
different distinguishing color.  Hence the number of appointments is a large 
one, and form the official list published on the first of January, we find 
that the warrants of the Queen’s tradesmen number 545.  Of there 194 come from 
the Lord Steward, 228 from the Lord Chamberlain, 93 from the Master of the 
Horse, and 30 from Mistress of the Robes.
	Taking the four lists toget5her, we find 15 booksellers, 5 
bookbinders, 17 druggists, 15 cabinet-makers, 6 carvers, 12 clockmakers, 9 
dyers, 7 embroiderers, 22 goldsmiths, 6 piano-makers, 9 hatters, 13 iron-
mongers, 15 linen-drapers, 6 music-sellers, 6 photographers, 11 printers, 16 
tailors, 8 tuners, 13 harness-makers, and 13 coach-builders, all holding 
warrants of appointment. – [Leisure Hour]

DAMP BEDS
	The London Lancet, referring to the death of Mr. Maas, the well-known 
tenor, calls attention to the peril of sleeping in a damp bed.  As a matter of 
fact, this peril is of the greatest, and it is almost ever present.  The 
experienced traveler rarely hazards the risks of sleeping between sheets, 
which are nearly sure to be damp, until they have been aired under this 
personal supervision at a fire in his bed room.  If this be impracticable, he 
wraps his rug around him, or pulls out the sheets and sleeps between the 
blankets – a disagreeable but often prudent expedient.  The direst mischief 
may result from the contact of an imperfectly heated body with sheets which 
retain moisture.  The body heat is not sufficient to raise the temperature of 
the sheets to a safe point, and the result must be disastrous in the extreme, 
if, as is sure to happen, the skin be cooled by contact with a surface colder 
than itself and steadily abstracting heat all the night through.
	There is no excuse for the neglect of proper precaution to insure dry 
beds.  Servants are never to be trusted in this matter, and the managers of 
hotels, even of the best description, are singularly careless in respect to 
it. –[Scientific American]

HAD BECOME MONOTONOUS
	A New Yorker lately met one of the “American Colony” in Canada, and in 
course of conversation asked him the cause of his seclusion.
	“Why, I was a county treasurer in Illinois, and was $13 short in my 
accounts,” was the frank reply.
	“You didn’t have to skip for $13 did you?”
	“Yes, sir.”
	“I should have thought you could raise that among your friends.”
	“Yes, you may think so, but if you had seen ‘em put up $2,700 to save 
me on the other term you’d understand that the thing had become rather 
monotonous.” – [Wall Street News]

A COMPOSER
“Ah, miss, I have not the pleasure of your acquaintance.”
“My names is Jones.  I’m a composer.”
“A composer!”
“Yes – a child’s nurse” – [Pittsburg Chronicle]

SALMON P. CHASE – ROMANTIC INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE
His Struggles in Early Life and Love for a Beautiful Southerner
	Eugene L. Didier, at one time private secretary to Chief Justice 
Salmon P. Chase, recited in the New York Mail and Express some interesting 
instances in the career of this noted man.  Mr. Didier says:
	“I had a hard enough struggle in my early life,” said Chief Justice 
Chase to me one afternoon as we were walking from the Capitol together.  “When 
I first came to Washington to push my fortune, I asked an uncle who was a 
Senator to obtain for me a clerkship in one of the departments.  He told me he 
would rather give me a dollar to buy a spade with which to work my way in the 
world.  I though my uncle was unkind, but I have long since known he acted 
wisely in not getting me an office, and I attribute all my good fortune in 
life to that refusal.  Had I secured a clerkship at that time, I should 
probably have remained a clerk all my life, and instead of now being the Chief 
Justice of the United States, be the chief clerk of a department.”
	Salmon P. Chase worthily won all the high honor that he gained.  For 
years after removing to Washington he went through the daily drudgery of 
teaching a boy’s school, studying law during his spare hours under William 
Wirt, the father of one of his pupils.  It was at Mr. Wirt’s house that he met 
the beautiful Miss Cabell, and then began the only romance in his life.  He 
was thrown into her society everyday, and each day added to his interest in 
the lovely Southern girl.  Love inspired him to write verses which, however, 
were intended to express the passionate sentiments of a lover.  The proud 
Virginian beauty accepted Mr. Chase as an escort to parties, receptions and 
the theater. And she found him a very agreeable companion in the parlor, for 
he was clever and intelligent, but she would not think of marrying a poor 
young school-teacher with his own fortune to make and apparently with little 
prospect of making it at that time.
	Miss Cabell made the same mistake in declining Mr. Chase’s addresses 
as the lady did who refused to marry Louis Napoleon when he was living an 
obscure exile in England after his escape from the prison of Ham, and 
thereby “refused a crown” as the future Emperor said to her.  Perhaps Mr. 
Chase’s unfortunate love affair was the cause of his leaving Washington and 
removing to Cincinnati, which he did soon after passing the bar.  He got so 
gravely over his passion, however, for Miss Cabell, that he lived to marry and 
bury three wives before he was forty.  The aroma of that early love still 
lingered many years afterward.  Once when the Chief Justice was visiting 
Richmond with his daughter, a niece of his first love –another Miss Cabell, 
equally celebrated as a belle and beauty – called upon Miss Chase, her father 
recalled with tender feeling the circumstances of his youthful love and the 
result.
	When he spoke of his first sweetheart there was a pathos in the voice 
of the calm and dignified Chief Justice, which was as rare as it was 
interesting.  When I became the private secretary of Chief Justice Chase, he 
was in his sixty-second year, and to all appearance in the full vigor of his 
magnificent manhood – he was six feet high and weighed two hundred pounds and 
was a s straight as a Tuscarora Indian.  He had a very commanding appearance, 
and as he walked along the marble corridors of the Capitol his presence was 
felt.  He was naturally a very austere man and seldom unbended, even at home.  
He had little or not appreciation of humor, and rarely indulged in a joke.  He 
was just as abstemious in his words as in all other things.  He talked little, 
drank little, and never used tobacco in any shape or form, and did not like it 
to be used in his presence.  His life was regular and his tastes simple, 
rising at 6 in the summer and 7 in the winter.  In good weather he took a 
short walk before breakfast, returning in time to join his family at morning 
prayer.  
	The breakfast hour was 8 o’clock, after which he joined his secretary 
in the library, where he spent an hour reading over his letters, dictating 
answers to them, or preparing his opinions.
	At 10 he left his house to go to the Capitol, always walking when the 
weather was fair, and riding in the cars in bad weather.  From 11 to 3 he 
presided over the Supreme Court of the Untied State, after its adjournment 
walking back to his house.  Arriving home, he took a lunch of crackers and 
tea, and then went vigorously to work on his opinions, remaining so engaged 
until diner, which was always served precisely at 6 o’clock.  His table was 
elegant but not epicurean, and consisted always of three courses and a 
dessert.  The Chief justice always dressed in black when in Washington, and I 
was very much astonished to see him appear in light pantaloons, sack coat and 
slouch hat on the morning that we started on the Southern Circuit, in may 
1869.  Miss Chase told me she was afraid her father would become so attached 
to the slouch hat that he would want to wear it after his return to 
Washington, which she seemed to think would be lowering the dignity of the 
Chief Justice.

SOME HISTORIC DOGS
	At a time when dogs, especially metropolitan dogs, are somewhat under 
a cloud, says a writer in All the Year Round, it may be well to recall some of 
the claims of our old friend to respect and esteem.  Every one remembers the 
dog of Ulysses, who died in greeting his master, just returned from his long 
wanderings, and the story shows the consideration in which the dog was held in 
the heroic ages of Greece.  The old Persians, too, held the dog in high 
esteem; to the Magians he was a sacred animal, the representative and friend 
of Ormuzd the Beneficent, and the great satraps were distinguished by their 
trains of hunting dogs, as was the King himself, and Nerzes set out for the 
conquest of Greece surrounded by a great body guard of faithful dogs.  Those 
most highly prized by the Persians came from India, so called probably from 
the Bactrian regions, where the dog is still held in high repute.  Captain 
Woods tells us that the old-fashioned Uzbeg would think it no insult to be 
asked to sell his wife, but would resent an offer for his dog as an 
unpardonable affront, while among the border tribes of Turkestan the epithet 
of the dog-seller is one of the profoundest contempt.  Indeed, the birthplace 
of nations is probably the original home of the dog, and when our Aryan 
ancestors began to migrate westward from their ancient seats with their flocks 
and herds they brought with them, no doubt, their fierce and faithful dogs, 
who have left their descendants of today, the English mastiff, the Pyrenean 
sheep dog, the Albanian wolf-hound.  Ancient laws, to record the estimation in 
which the dog was held  “ herd dog that goes for the sheep in the morning and 
follows them home at night is worth the best ox.” say the ancient laws of 
Wales.	
	The best herd dogs of the present day, perhaps, are the Breton sheep 
dogs – rough, shaggy, uncouth –with an aspect as if they had a little of the 
blood of bruin in their veins, but highly valued by their possessors, who are 
not to be tempted into parting with them by anything under the price of the 
best ox; and the Breton dog is one of the most sagacious of his kind, watching 
and tending his flock with an almost incredible zeal and devotion.

THE BALL THAT WOUNDED HANCOCK
	Dr. Lewis W. Read, of Norristown, thus relates the circumstances of 
General Hancock’s recovery from his wound received at Gettysburg:  “I was 
medical director of the Pennsylvania Reserves, and just before the 1st of 
November, 1865, I came home on twenty-four hours leave of absence.  I called 
to see the General, who was in bed at his father’s residence.  I found him 
very much disheartened.  He had grown thin, and looked pale and emaciated.  He 
said he felt as if he was going to die, and that he had been probed and 
tortured to such an extent that death would be a relief. I endeavored to cheer 
him up, and as I was about bidding him farewell he said:  “Goodbye Doctor, I 
many never see you again.”
	“I had my hand on the doorknob of his chamber when he said:  “See 
here, Doctor, why don’t you try to get this ball out.  I have had all the 
reputation in the country at it, now let’s have some of the practical.”
	“He was lying in the bed with his wounded limb actually flexed, and 
all the probing had been done with his leg bent at right bangles.  The ball 
had hit him just below the right groin, within an inch of the femoral artery, 
while he was sitting in the saddle with his legs distended.  I went down to my 
office for a probe with a concealed blade, and on my return Dr. Cooper and 
myself succeeded in straightening the limb and placing it as near as possible 
in the position it was when the ball struck him.  I inserted the probe and it 
dropped fully eight inches into the channel and stuck the ball, which was 
imbedded in the sharp bone which you sit upon.  In a weeks time the General 
was out on crutches, and in two weeks more he attended a Masonic gathering at 
Odd Fellows Hall.  I forgot the caliber of the bullet, but it was a big Minie 
ball.” – [Philadelphia Times}

LOVE NOW – Poem – [Independent]

HUMOROUS
A poor rifle – Picking a pauper’s pocket.

A new thing in flannels – A baby born in ’86.

The thermometer gains notoriety be degrees, so to speak.

Is there any difference between a traveling dress and a walking suit?

The law has many members.  Who has not heard of the limb of the law?

The letter carrier that gets around quickest is the cylinder of a printing 
press.

A mistake is a thing to which you are liable.  Blunders are made by the other 
fellow.

“Ill marry nobody butter.” Said the farmer’s son as he ran away with the dairy 
maid.

Some women swallow flattery as babies swallow buttons, without any idea of the 
trouble that may follow.

The evil consequences of smoking are illustrated by Mr. Vesuvius, which 
constantly suffers from eruptions.

A butcher is known to be very prompt in all his engagements, especially those 
in which he promises to meat a man.

“Is the tide going out?” said a sailor to a gentleman who was passing a house 
where a marriage had just taken place.

The ancient Egyptians honored dead cats, and no doubt they took earnest 
measures to prepare them for the honors.

We never hear anything more of the phonograph.  It has probably gone into a 
barber shop and been talked to death.

Young housewife – What miserable little eggs again.  You really must tell 
them, Jane, to let the hens set on them a little longer.

Student (to servant at the door) – “Miss Brown?” Servant – “She is engaged.” 
Student – “I know it.  I’m what she’s engaged to.”

Larry Lazybones (who had been told to start in to do a week’s ploughing):  “I 
wish I were dead – that’s what I wish!”  Humorous grandfather:  “Yes, Larry, 
that’s jest like ye!  Ye want to be lyin’ in yer grave, takin’ it easy all the 
rest o’ yer life.”

“What did you do the first time you got into a battle?” said a young lady to 
an old soldier.  “Of course you didn’t run?” “Oh, no, I didn’t run, miss.  Not 
at all, but if I had been going for a doctor, and you had seen me, you would 
have thought somebody was awful sick.”

Looking out of the window one evening, a little girl saw the bright full moon 
in the eastern sky, and apparently only a few inches from it, the beautiful 
planet Jupiter, shining almost as brightly as the moon itself.  Gazing 
intently on them a moment, she exclaimed, “O Papa!  Mamma!  See!  The moon has 
laid an egg!”

A RHYMING WITNESS
It is stated that a lawyer some time ago cross-examined a witness in a local 
court, when he asked:  “Now, then, Patrick, listen to me.  Did the defendant 
in this case strike the plaintiff with malice?” “No, sire, sure,” replied Pat, 
gravely.  “He struck him wid the poker, bedad.”  Again he inquired of the same 
witness:  “Did the plaintiff stand on the defensive during the 
affray?”  “Divil a diffinsive, yer Honor, he stood on the table.”

A celebrity noted for being a “bit of a poet, “ was brought up before a bench 
of local magistrates for an assault, when the following conversation took 
place.
Magistrate – Is your name John Fray?
Prisoner – It is, Your Honor.  So the people say.
Magistrate – Was it you who struck this man and caused the alarm?
Prisoner – Sure it was, Your Honor, but I thought there was no harm.
Magistrate – Now, stop that!  Did you come here to make rhymes?
Prisoner – No, Your Honor, but it will happen sometimes.
The magistrate, laughing at the fellow’s read wit, said:  “Go away, you 
rascal, get out of my sight.”
Prisoner (smiling) – Thank ye Your Honor an’ very goodnight. – [Chamber’s 
Journal]

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY JUNE 24, 1886

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DEMOCRATIC AND CONSERVATIVE NOMINEES – STATE TICKET
For Governor – THOS. SEAY of Hale
For Secretary of State – CHARLES C. LANGDON of Mobile
For Treasurer – FRED H. SMITH of Dallas
For Attorney General – THOMAS N. MCCLELLAN  of Limestone
For Auditor – MALCOLM C. BURKE of Marengo
For Superintendent of Education – SOLOMON PALMER of Marshall
For Chief Justice of Supreme Court – GEORGE W. STONE of Montgomery
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                                          DAVID CLOPTON of Montgomery
For Judge of the 6th Judicial Circuit S. H. SPROTT, of Sumter
For Chancellor Western District THOMAS COBBS, of Jefferson
For State Senator, 12th Senatorial District –GEORGE C. ALMON of Franklin

Ex-candidate Blaine is stump speaking in Maine.

Butler County Democrats will hold a primary election to nominate candidates 
for county offices on the 10th of July.

Sam Jones and Sam Small have promised to shell the devil and his imps at 
Montgomery during the session of the next Legislature.

Judge Almon stopped with us on his way to Moulton, and is much encouraged by 
the news he has from different parts of the district, and feels confident he 
will carry a majority in every county in the district – [Southern Ideas]

Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, Secretary of the Interior, has accepted an invitation to 
deliver the memorial address at the unveiling of the Calhoun monument in 
Charleston, S. C. next November.  The address will be worthy of the orator and 
his theme.

Lamar will soon be crossed by two railroads and the rich minerals here will be 
developed.  This county will then be one of the best in the state, no other 
county possessing such a combination of rich agricultural and mineral lands.

Old Ben Butler is conjuring up a war.  He says the Southern people are 
regaining control of the government; that it will not be long before they made 
a demand for the payment of their war losses.  When this is done he 
anticipates a flaming out of the old time Northern war spirit, which may lead 
to trouble before 1899.  Butler once boasted that people might call him a 
scoundrel, but no one had ever believed him a fool. He is getting to that 
point where it can safely and truthfully be done. 

Why does Sanford, or his followers want a primary?  They say he is the 
nominee, and that he is going to be elected, what are you growling about?  
Ah!  There is something “dead up the branch.”  They are ashamed of their bolt, 
and can see the ghost of defeat rising up before them.  Oh how badly you will 
feel after the election.  You have fallen from “grace: and you now yearn to 
touch the hem of the Democratic garment.  Come back oh! Ye prodigal, we will 
forgive thee.  Come into thy father’s house, and bolt no more.  Vote for Mr. 
Almon and be made whole. – [Franklin Democrat]

[Atlanta Journal] – The Democratic Party of Alabama has honored itself and the 
state in the nomination of Tom Seay, of Greensboro, for governor.  To win in a 
contest so exciting and over opposition so great and notable is indeed a 
victory to be proud of.  And the victor will deserve his laurels.  Mr. Seay 
fought for his country in the Confederate Army as an humble private.  Since 
the war he has achieved prominence as a lawyer and a farmer by dint of native 
merit, industry, and honest dealing.  He is honored and admired by the common 
people and has never been a politician and does not owe his distinction to any 
political trickery or caucus manipulation.  He is the “people’s choice” like 
General Gordon, and like him when elected, will fill the governor’s chair with 
conspicuous ability, fidelity to the interests of the people and credit to 
himself and the state.

ONLY $2.50
The Courier of last week is much exercised because the following notice 
appeared in the News to wit:  “The News has just five times the circulation to 
that of any other paper published in Lamar County; therefore, we make no $2.50 
announcements.”
	Whereupon the Courier makes use of the following extraordinary 
statements:  “Claims five times the circulation and takes no $2.50 
announcements.”
	As the Courier is the only other paper published in the county, the 
above is contemptuous fling at us by the News in its selfishness and spite 
because we dared to exercise a privilege accorded by law to every American 
citizen, that of engaging in a legitimate business when it is most congenial 
to his taste and family relationship.  But as to the matter of charges that is 
our private business with which the News has no more to do than one man has to 
say what another shall charge for his horse or any other item of property 
owned by another.
	$2.50 is a s much as a card was legitimately worth from the time we 
began till the election.  We are building up on the legitimate basis of giving 
value received for what we receive.  But if we choose to give our space free 
to the candidates it is a matter about which the News has no right to say a 
word.  But his is not what creates the aching void in the maw (sic) of the 
News.  It is the fact that it sees the card of the same people who are 
advertising in it, in the Courtier and this so curs its greed lest it lose 
teem as customers that it thinks to lash them back into line by an 
unwarrantable fling at us, and a boast over a circulation which it knows it 
has not got.  We did not set business here with the idea of breaking down the 
News and not and would not have ever said a word about its private business 
affairs if it had had the manliness to let ours alone.  We hope as we have all 
the time done that the News may be able to live, but if it does not that is no 
affair of ours.
	Merchants are not debarred from settling up in a town because other 
merchants are already there, nor does the rule apply to any line of business 
much less to the Newspaper.  This is a free country and we propose to exercise 
our rights in it, the News to the contrary notwithstanding.”
	Now, it is well known by all business men that the price of 
advertising depends entirely on the subscriptions possess by the paper.  The 
News is established and is one of the permanent enterprises of the county and 
is read by a greater part of the substantial and intelligent citizens of Lamar 
County.  As to the Courier we have no war to make on him, on account of his 
exercising his right to come among us.  We always welcome permanent 
enterprises in our midst and we beg the Courier to rest assured that no one 
gives him a more cordial welcome than we, to come among us and establish a 
legitimate business and to conduct it in a legitimate way – and by this we 
mean that you give value received for what you receive as you say.
	Now we don’t join issue about $2.50 being all an announcement is worth 
in your columns, and had you said that $2.50 was all a column in your paper 
was woth it would have been all right with us – and it is your own business 
and you can charge what you please.
	An announcement in the News is worth $5 and we fail to see how that in 
any way affects the Courier.  Besides there is such a thing as courtesy among 
newspapers.
	Anywhere else such a scale in the price of announcements would be 
criticized and the men announcing would come in for their share, but this 
would not be right and if an announcement can be made in one paper for $2.50 
and answer the same purpose as one in another for $5 it is certainly all right 
and proper.
	The News can’t sell its columns so cheap and do justice to our large 
and growing subscription and we hope that the Courier will have the good sense 
to see that what the News charges is no business of his and to stick to the 
proposition of giving his patrons value received for their money.

[Marion Herald] – The Vernon Courier devotes a quarter of a dozen columns in 
its last issue in telling its readers that the Marion Herald has acknowledged 
the nomination of Col. Sanford.  Here’s cheek for you with a vengeance.  If 
pure, unadulterated brass is all that is wanted to build the Confederate 
Monument at Montgomery we would refer the committee to that of the Courier.  
N. B. Warranted superior to all other brands, and in quantities to suite the 
demand.  Take no other.
	The Herald has never acknowledged the nomination dear Col., but has 
tried to present the facts connected with the senatorial contest in a plain, 
unsophisticated way.  This does not suit the editor of the Courier simply from 
the fact that he is unaccustomed to such a way of dealing with facts, but want 
them in all kinds of ambiguous expressions and bombastic phrases as his 
allegations appear in the Courier.  (We have to read the dictionary a good 
deal when we read Courier, and we have learned two or three big words of late 
which we intend to shove off on the innocent and unsuspecting reader in the 
sweetl (sic) subsequently.)  While we are on the subject we might as well add 
that the polite, affable genial, accomplished and able editor of the Courier 
is very hard to locate in politics anyway.  He is the kind of a fellow who 
makes a thundering big noise for a candidate and when you hunt him up you find 
him on the other side making a bigger noise than ever for the other fellow.  
Early in the spring he was a staunch supporter of Judge Almon, now he is one 
of the most blatant, vociferous and thoroughgoing Sanford man in the 
district.  We suppose that his political principles depend upon who is working 
for and the climate in which he resides as a change of climate produces a 
change of candidates if not a change of politics.
	A man who is as changeable as he is can’t have much political 
following for his followers would not know an hour and thirteen minutes head 
into what camp he would lead them.

WHO WILL UNHITCH MR. SANFORD
	The friends of Mr. Sanford are ever anxious to tell how many 
propositions Mr. Sanford has made to Judge Almon to settle the race between 
them for State Senator.  And they further tell that Judge Almon refuses to do 
anything.  Now, Judge Almon has been followed and worried about this matter 
until silence on the subject ceases to be a virtue and an explanation should 
be given Mr. Sanford of the situation.
	We kindly give to Mr. Sanford and his friends a few suggestions that 
ought certainly to help them to take in the situations and to hold their peace.
	In the first place Mr. Sanford ahas all to gain and nothing to loose 
by any kind of trickery that many be gotten up.
	While Judge Almon has all to lose and nothing to gain, and for him to 
submit to any kind of proposition would be an unwarranted action on his part 
toward the Democratic party of the 12th Dist.
	If Mr. Sanford is the regular nominee of the Democratic party why 
don’t he go on and make the race and be kind enough to cease to ply those who 
care nothing about his candidacy with childish propositions?  Judge Almon is 
the nominee of the Democratic Party of the 12th Dist. and we do not hesitate 
to say that he will make the race as such and he will not entertain any 
propositions calculated to defeat the of the regulars (sic).  If Mr. Sanford 
thought himself the nominee would he make a proposition?  Not once.  But 
finding himself hitched to the wrong wagon he seeks by some strategy to get 
loose and would even ask that he be allowed to cast lots with Judge Almon to 
see who should wear the right harness.  Now, if Mr. Sanford wants to quite, 
the way is open and in so doing he might retrieve much of his conduct; but if 
he wants to make the race the way is open, and we have no objections.  And on 
the 1st Monday in August the people will come to his relief and unhitch him so 
that he may retire and graze in the shady solitude of Fayette.  He will then 
learn that he is not the regular nominee, and the matter will be settled to 
the satisfaction of everybody in the district.  Let’s her no more propositions 
pray.

STATE SENATOR
	The following article is from the Marion Herald of March 25th, and was 
at that time edited by that Jewel of consistency that now edits the Vernon 
Courier.  The gentleman has shown that he can turn his coat quicker than a 
country Post Master on change of administration.
	“The General Assembly of the State of Alabama, in is wisdom a number 
of years ago, associated the counties of Lamar, Fayette, Marion and Franklin 
into a little sisterhood and christened it the 12th Senatorial District of 
said state.  Each member of this family of counties has had the honor of 
furnishing a representative in our state counsels except Franklin.  Now 
Franklin, which has by force of circumstances, been compelled to stand aside 
and give the preference to each of her sister counties.  Lamar, Fayette and 
Marion, Franklin comes forward and presents a candidate to the Democracy of 
the District in the person of Judge George C. Almon, who is in every respect 
worthy of the most cordial support.  Mr. Almon is a man richly endowed with a 
high order of intellect, his political affiliations and party realt is in 
perfect harmony with the Democracy of the state, and his scrupulous fidelity 
to every trust makes him eminently suited for a most efficient Senator.  As 
common courtesy and justice demands that Franklin county should have the honor 
of furnishing the next Senator for the 12th District, and as she has united 
upon Judge Almon we hope to see harmony prevail in the Convention and Judge 
Almon unanimously nominated.
	We would like to know what Franklin county has done that she should be 
ignored now, when every principle of right and justice accords to her our next 
Senator.  Has she failed in a single instance to do her whole duty by the 
Democratic nominee of each and every Convention?  She has uncomplainingly 
consent to be last in the award of honors and now sheer justice entitles her 
to the honor of furnishing the next Senator for the 12th Senatorial District.  
We believe that we voice the sentiments of three-fourths of the Democracy of 
Marion County when we say that she will vote solidly for Judge Almon first, 
last and all the time.”

The Sanford “Gass Bag” published at Vernon, has gone wild, simply crazy.  It 
has forgotten to put its Vol. and No. on its head line.  But is working hard 
for its employer and we hope he may be well paid with cash.  We admonish you, 
take no promises, for you will be left. – [Franklin Democrat]

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

AGENTS WANTED – for Rev. Sam P. Jones Sermons – There never was such a book 
before, and never will be again.  Something new and startling.  First you 
laugh fit to kill yourself, nest you set up a deal of thinking, then you get 
mighty solemn.  The most extraordinary book of sermons ever published.  As 
delivered in Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Atlanta Augusta, Waco, Memphis, 
Nashville, &c, &c.  Strikingly illustrated with best portrait of Sam Jones 
ever engraved, and over sixty interesting character sketches.  The Only 
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of the small pamphlet editions.  Sam Jones has repeatedly denounced these 
garbled and abbreviated reports as without his sanction, and as doing him rank 
injustice.  Write at once for illustrated circulars and terms, and name your 
choice of territory; or to secure it instantly, send 75 cents for complete 
agents outfit, which will be forwarded by return mail, postpaid.  Postage 
stamps accepted.  Liberal terms guaranteed.  Address Herbert & Cole Publishing 
Co.  810 & 812 Olive Street. St. Louis.

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

Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ

Ad for Chicago Scale Co.

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 24, 1886    
(Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, 
Alabama, as second-class matter.)
         
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. WIMBERLY – 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 9 o’clock a.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
Keep cool.

“Sanford Gass Bag.”

The crops grow fast.

Faster grows the grass.

Bad weather for fishing.

Probate Court last Monday.

Mills on Yellow Creek drowned.

The glorious 4th comes on Sunday.

The woods around Vernon are now in summer glory.

Idleness breeds discontent – work keeps off the blues.

The candidate is wonderfully bland in his solutions.

“Tote” fair in the approaching canvass do nothing dishonorable.

Dr. GREEN SPRINGFIELD and family are visiting relatives at Detroit.

The wet weather gives the farmers time to come to town.

The blackberry crop was never better.

MURRAY COBB made our town lively on Monday by his genial presence.

The mineral experts have returned to Birmingham.

We are glad to know that the controversy over the Furnace Public School has 
been amicably settled.

Little MOLLIE PENNINGTON about whom there has been so much excitement, was in 
town Monday.

Prof. J. C. JOHNSTON and Mrs. S. M. TERRELL of Beaverton were in town 
yesterday.

The candidates are beginning to ride regardless of the rains and nothing 
pleases them better than to find a farmer run in by the rain.

If Mr. Sanford had submitted his claims to the committee on credentials at the 
State Convention he would have been unhitched.  The Committee invariably sat 
down on bolters.

Mr. DALLAS SPRINGFIELD of Monroe County, Miss., was in town Monday and reports 
that Hon. JOHN ALLEN is solid in his neighborhood for Congress.  We are in 
favor of ALLEN.

We are friends of all candidates for county offices, and therefor have nothing 
to say more than vote for the most competent men.  A man can be a good clever 
fellows and yet not be competent to fill the office he aspires for.

Idleness is the parent of vice – put the youngsters to work.

Words of cheer and appreciation come from all quarters – thanks.

The blackberry crop on the old fields around Vernon are immense.

See appointments for public speaking.

Blackberries are ready sale at ten cents per gallon.

Lamar County from accounts has not suffered from the continued rains as other 
parts of the state.

Straw hats and clothing just above cost for cash – Geo. W. Rush & Co.

W. G. MIDDLETON Esq., wife and little PEARL are visiting relatives in the 
northern portion of the county.

We are glad to note the speedy recovery of Mrs. W. L. MORTON from her recent 
sickness.

The farmers in this county are complaining of having entirely too much rain.

The bug-a-boo is gone – the mosquitoes and frog pond on the West side of town 
has been drained.

W. G. MIDDLETON Esq and family are visiting relatives in the northern part of 
the county this week.

Rev. G. L. HEWITT, after an absence of several weeks visiting relatives, has 
returned.

See advertisement of the Vernon High School under the Principalship of Prof. 
J. R. BLACK.

Molasses! Molasses!  For cash 40 cents per gallon; barter 50 cents, by the 
barrel 37 ½ per gal.   – Geo. W. Rush & Co.

Next Sabbath will be the regular appointment for Rev. G. L. HEWITT to preach 
in town.

Six subscriptions to the News were received on last Tuesday.  Let ‘em come!

Rev. T. W. SPRINGFIELD occupied the Methodist pulpit Sunday at 11 a. m. and 
left an appointment for night, but rain prevented any preaching.

Thanks to Mr. C. B. NORTON of Detroit for two subscriptions to News, one for 
himself and the other to N. NORTON of Texas.

A youth not yet seventeen years old, in Minnesota, has invented a hay rake for 
which he has refused $15,000 – go to work, boys.

Mr. STEPHEN TAYLOR of Moscow called on us Tuesday and ordered a subscription 
to the News for himself, and to T. J. TAYLOR, Aurora, Texas.

R. R. JONES and HENRY BRANYAN each subscribed for the News Tuesday last.

We are informed that the people of Kennedy contemplate giving another good old 
time barbecue some time in July.

The population of Vernon continues to grow .  It’s a girl and made its arrival 
on Friday last and has taken up her abode with Dr. and Mrs. B. F. REED.  
Mother and child doing well.

The M. B. Road is being surveyed down Beaver Creek and will come within twelve 
miles of Vernon.  There is little doubt of it being built on that survey.

If you don’t announce yourself as a candidate in the News some opponent will 
skip up on you by telling that you have quit the race.  You had best be on the 
safe side.

A Louisiana poultry raiser says that more money can be made by selling eggs at 
5 cents per dozen than raising cotton at 10 cents per pound.  Go to work, 
girls.

The Congressional Executive Committee favor holding the Congressional 
Convention at Fayette C. H.; but have not set the time.  It will be sometime 
in August.

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

Pray tell us what assurance those good people have (who paid in advance for 
the “Vernon Clipper” several years ago; that the Courier is “building upon the 
legitimate basis of giving value received for what he receives?  Our people 
will have to have something more than promises to prove these 
assertions.  “Actions speak louder than words.”

Mr. O’DONALD of Caledonia, Miss is in town this morning.

Owing to the inclemency of the weather there was no prayer meeting last night.

MARRIED:  Mr. D. G. HOLIADAY and Miss SARAH N. OTTS at C. B. OTTS on 15 inst, 
by J. S. GUYTON, N. P.

Mr. AARON PENNINGTON and Miss MARY SUMMERS on the 19th June at MISENIAH 
SUMMERS by Rev. D. G. W. HOLLIS.

DISTRICT CONFERENCE
The District Conference of the Fayette Court House District of the North 
Alabama Conference, M. E. Church South will be held at Jasper, Ala, July 23, 
25, 1886.  Rev. J. T. MILLER will preach the opening sermon on July 22, at 8 
p.m.  Alternate Rev. R. H. HAMILTON.  Let all quarterly conference records be 
on hand for examination. – P. K. BRINKLEY

THE WONDERFUL GIRL
	If there is anything that the average Vernonite wants it is a first 
class sensation and this he has had during past week.  Little MOLLIE 
PENNIGHTON, daughter of Mr. GEO. PENNINGTON who lives a short distance out of 
town, was taken seriously sick on the 15th, medical aid was summoned and her 
sickness more nearly resembled hydrophobia than anythign else.
	On the 17th a party of physicians consisting of Drs. REED, BROWN, M. 
W. MORTON, E. L. MORTON were called on with Dr. BURNS and decided measures 
were taken to prevent the frequent paroxysms during which the patient would 
attempt to bite everyone in rach and even herself.
	On the evening of the 18th, she told her friends and physician that 
she would die for one hour exactly and at the expiration of that time to 
charge her hands and feet and that she would come back.  At the time predicted 
she died away and the physician present says that every known evidence of 
death appeared and that life appeared at the expiration of an hour, exactly.  
She told those present that she had been to Heaven and that God had cured her 
and that she was now well and could get up – and was assured by her physician 
that she was too feeble to get up – she asked his permission which was given, 
he thinking it impossible and no sooner than permission was given she jumped 
nimbly from the bed and walked to the door.  And then began an exhortion to 
say the least was simply marvelous.
	At appointed times of evening she has continued her exhortations 
telling before hand at what hour God would be with her.  Almost everybody in 
town and surrounding country have been in attendance.  Ministers of all 
denominations have followed her discourses with sermons and the audiences were 
moved to shouts and tears.
	Men of strong minds and acknowledge intelligence say that there is 
something supernatural about the girl.  She is but thirteen years of age and 
heard but one sermon in her life and can’t read, and the good language used by 
her in her discourses and Bible teachings strike her hearers with wonder.

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.

DETROIT LETTER
	This “Detroit Letter” appeared in the Marion Herald of April 1, 1886, 
while the present editor of the Courier was editing the Herald.  Special 
attention is called to his comments on said letter sighed up Ed of H. (Editor 
of Herald, alias A. A. Wall, alias Editor of the Vernon Courier, alias 
the “Vernon Gass Bag”, alias A. A. WALL)
	The election storm is coming.  We hear the distant thunder and see 
signs of the rising clouds’; so it behooves the people to begin to cast about 
for safety.  A few opinions have already been offered through your columns as 
to candidates, and it may not be amiss for us to offer one or two.
	For Senator of 12th Senatorial District, we favor the name of Mr. G. 
C. Almon of Franklin who is a prominent candidate awaiting the action of the 
Democratic convention to be held at Hamilton in May.
	Franklin has bravely withstood every defeat and patiently waited until 
each of the other counties have had a Senator, but has united her forces and 
come to the front offering a good candidate.
	For Congressman, Capt. J. H. Bankhead stead prominent before the 
people and will stand prominent before the next convention at Fayette C. Hl 
Capt. Bankhead is a gentleman of large experience, and keen in sight, 
thoroughly competent to watch and guard the interests of his constituency.  He 
is also a western man from that part of the district which has not heretofore 
been directly represented.
	We theretofore press our claims for Capt. Bankhead.
	For Governor, we want a man of ----, legal, and literary -----and 
natural ability.  So far, we have not heard many claims for Governor except 
war record.  The war is now over, and the smoke of battle has cleared away.  
This is now, a civil government – not military.  We do not care for war record 
now.  As a man to fill the position, we heartily endorse the name of T. J. 
Seay, of Hale County.
	Matters and things in this section are about as usual.
	Respectfully,
	J. F. W. – Detroit – March 26, ’86
(We heartily endorse all of the above, save the last named gentleman.  We are 
for N. H. R. Dawson, of Selma, whose ability generally is equaled to any one 
in the state. – Ed. Of H.)

THE MOSCOW DEMOCRAT’S RESPONSE TO THE (TWO) EDITORS OF THE COURIER
WHO HAVE PROVEN TO BE THE DISCOVERS OF THE MARE’S NEST
	At the commencement of the wonderful letter contained in last issue of 
the Courier, will be found some of the writer’s natural ability.  He, being 
dull of comprehension, supposed ti would be construed in a sarcastic manner; 
yet such fluent language would be the contents of any letter produced by him, 
had he no assistance.  His production indicates his eloquence, and any writer 
would feel insignificant and illiterate in attempting to respond to such an 
epistle.  It is rather a difficult matter to determine how such a man could 
elect Sanford when if the writer should ever be a candidate, he would get 
scarcely a vote in the county.  His record counteracts his eminence, and his 
disposition capsizes his popularity.
	If “Democrat from Moscow” did not know full well the meaning of the 
word Democrat, it would be an easy matter to get legal information from an 
Almon man.  The “supercilious Nabob” advises us to examine our dictionary, now 
we doubt very much whether he would know a dictionary were he to see 
one.  ‘Tis said where “Ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise,” so let the-
would-be nabob rest in blissful ignorance.
	We know what kind of Democrats will vote for “Sanford” (that’s a 
Democratic name isn’t it?) Such Democrats as would run against the regular 
nominee are the few men that propose to settle the election, trying to quench 
the voice of the public.  Just look at the misrepresentations set forth in the 
Courier accusing a gentleman of doing an impossibility declaring that Judge 
Almon “tried to get delegates to vote for him when they had been instructed to 
vote fore Sanford.”  Now don’t every one know the delegates were not 
instructed to cast their votes for any certain one?  The most erroneous and 
unmitigated assertion is the plan they have fallen upon to defeat Judge Almon, 
but promiscuous rumors manufactured in a malicious way will not have the 
desired effect.  If the Courier desires to be looked upon with disgust and 
contempt, a few more insertions from the “Tippler” and “slothful meddler” will 
pronounce its doom; however, after this political campaign is over the Courier 
will be a myth, a collapse.  We all know how much stability the editor of the 
Courier possesses.  When Judge Almon first announced himself the editor was 
pawing and bowing to every Almon man he met; and now he has been influenced to 
rescue Judge Almon of being a Radical.  He is not doing this for the benefit 
of the party, nor for personal gratification, but to make himself conspicuous 
in the eyes of a few men.  But quite different with that jovial fellow 
McNatt.  He is a true Democrat – but that fellow Wall, won’t do at all,
For he certainly will get a very hard fall;
And in the next copy of “no truth at all”,
Will be seen the production of A. A. Wall,
So take care children, ye that can crawl,
Be quiet a moment, for Wall is sure to squall,
And when he attempts to rise, the devil will be to pay
Work on!  You will elect Sanford
Just such men would have defeated Geo. Washington
	You claim that Sanford had ten delegates from Lamar to the 
Convention.  So he did, but how did he get them?  (Guess you would hardly 
explain that part of it.)  In every beat in the county except one where Almon 
had a majority, Sanford got his pro rata strength, and where Sanford had the 
majority, Almon got nothing.  You harp on Marion County for giving Sanford no 
strength – you think if Marion steals a horse, Lamar must steal a mule.”
	I only entered this correspondence for amusement, and still have no 
malicious intent, but if the “shoe fits” the author of the letters contained 
in last Courier, let him wear it.  Presuming this controversy is not very 
interesting to all parties, I intend to dispense with this subject.  In 
conclusion will say, on the first Monday in August, the miraculous 
expostulations of the “non Resident” will show the editor of Courier how badly 
he has been stultified. = More anon.
	“Democrat”

It is said that no President, except Hayes, has saved up so much of his salary 
as President Cleveland.

PUBLIC SPEAKING
There will be public speaking by candidates for Legislature at the following 
times and places, to wit:                        (DATES GIVEN, BUT I’M NOT 
TRANSCRIBING THEM)
Military Springs, Betts Beat, Hudsonville, Fernbank, Vails, Millport, Kennedy, 
Strickland’s, Lawrence, Sizemore, Browns, Goode, Henson Springs, Millville, 
Pine Springs, Moscow, Town (Vernon)

ITEMS OF INTEREST
Mr. Spurgeon says, if he ever takes to drinking poison he will begin on old 
wines.

The long drought in Texas has been broken by fine rains in time to save crops.

Edward C. Knight, the Philadelphia millionaire, began life as an errand boy.

Two cousins indulged in a little hair pulling and eye gouging about Wheeler 
and Richardson at Russelville.

What is claimed to be an original watercolor portrait of Washington, painted 
on ivory by J. Bacon, in 1756, is now offered to the Government for the small 
amount of $25,000.

Charleston, June 14 – Robert Robinson, aged 16, of Wadesboro, died yesterday 
of hydrophobia, after twenty-four hours of suffering.  He was bitten on the 
left arm by a mad dog about two years ago, and a few days before his death he 
was stung by a bee on the same arm.

NOT FOR STRENGTH
“Why is that man over there dodging behind the smoke-house?”
“He doesn’t want his wife to see him.”
“Why?”
“He is a circuit-rider, and is one of the men who promised to follow Sam 
Jones’ example by giving up tobacco.”
“And has gone out in secret to pray for strength?”
“Oh, no, he has slipped out to take a chew of tobacco.”

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.

To the voters of Lamar County: I announce myself a candidate for reelection to 
the office of Judge of Probate, and return thanks for the past and would like 
to have the office again.  Should you think I have had the office long enough, 
I will retire with the best of feelings and think as you decide – that I have 
had it long enough. – Yours &c., ALEXANDER COBB

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.

CUT OUT

MASONIC:
Vernon Lodge, No. 588, A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 
1st Saturday, 7 pm each month. – T.W. SPRINGFIELD, W. M.
		    W. L. MORTON, S. W. 
		     JNO. ROBERTSON, J. W. 
		     R. W. COBB, Treasurer,
	                    M. W. MORTON, Secretary		 
Vernon Lodge, NO 45, I. O. G. F. Meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays 
at 7:30 p.m. each month.
		J. D. MCCLUCKEY, N. G.
		R. L. BRADLEY, V. G.
		E. J. MCNATT, Treas’r
		M. W. MORTON, Sec.

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.

TAX COLLECTOR’S SALE
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
By virtue of decree rendered on the 9th day of June 1886, by the Court of 
Probate for said county, I will offer for sale at the court house door of said 
county on the 5th day of June 1886, the following lands to wit:
	(LANDS ASSESSED TO J. L. JONES, THOS. BANISTER, CALINE PRICE, T. A. 
THURLKILL.)
	Said lands or so much thereof as will be necessary to pay the above 
tax and cost will be sold on the 5th July 1886
	D. J. LACY, T. C.

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…and whenever I enter the loft they flock around.  Most people have the idea 
that pigeons must be bred in the dark.  This is not the case, for it makes 
them wild.  All mine are bred in the light, in glass boxes painted white, 
about six by eight inches in size, and with hay inside for the nest.  A 
curious fact I have noticed about pigeons is their loyalty to each other.  Let 
a pair be once mated and they will never forsake one another while alive.  How 
long do they live?  Twelve years, and keep up their full vigor for that 
period.  We feed them on Canada peas, wheat , cracked corn, and occasionally a 
little hempseed.  The weight of a pigeon varies from three or four ounces to 
several pounds.  The biggest figure I have heard that was paid for a pair of 
pigeons in this country was $500.  It was given for a pair of carrier pigeons.”
	“Will you tell me something about the different kinds of pigeons? Dr. 
McCook, a noted lover of the bird, was asked.
	“Any one having owned pigeons of any kind will know what is meant by 
common pigeons.  They are not of any distinct breed or color.  There are but 
very few common pigeons now in which some traces of the higher classes cannot 
be detected.  At the same time I believer that were a flock of the so-called 
common pigeons kept entirely to themselves for a number of years, color-
markings and other characteristics of the higher classes would entirely 
disappear and the birds would be more likely to resemble in color and shape 
those they originally came from – the Blue Rocks.  Next to a common pigeon, 
perhaps the best known, at least by name, is the Homing Antwerp, which is the 
carrier pigeon, so called.  It is the bird known to make long flights.  The 
fantails are special favorites.  The white ones are the most common and 
easiest to breed, but they are also to be had in black, brown, blue, red, and 
yellow.  The two latter are rare, and easily bring from $10 to $20 a pair.  
Fans, with fowl feathers, mottled or checkered, are not of much value.  No 
breed of pigeons has so many varieties and sub-varieties as the tumbler 
pigeons, nor is there a variety so well-known that is as yet so little 
understood by pigeon breeders.  Many who own them expect them to perform, 
whether the birds are given a chance or not.  Usually they are kept with a lot 
of other birds and are flown with them.  There are also many tumblers who do 
not tumble at all.  All of the short-faced varieties are not supposed to be 
performers, although I have seen some tumble very well.  Pouters are the first 
selection of many prominent pigeon fanciers, and rarely is this bird entirely 
abandoned for other varieties.  Mr. Becker of Baltimore, who is an 
enthusiastic breeder of pouters, has at present probably the best birds of 
that variety in the country.  They are somewhat difficult to breed, and good 
ones always demand high prices.  Fifty dollars for a pair of first –class 
birds would not be extravagant in this country, and in England perhaps the 
same birds would b ring twice that amount and more.  I remember that Mr. 
Schell, of Brooklyn, had one he refused $250 for.  They can be had in pure 
white, black, red, yellow and Isabella (sic). – [New York Mail and Express]

TO SUCCEED IN LIFE
Learn your business thoroughly.
Keep at one thing – in no wise change.
Observe system and order in all you do and undertake.
Never fail to keep your appointments, or to be punctual.
Be self-reliant – do not take too much advice, but rather depend on yourself.
Never be idle, but keep your hands or minds usefully employed except when 
sleeping.
Use charity with all; be generous in thought and deed; help others along 
life’s thorny pathway.
Accustom yourself to think and act vigorously, and be prompt and decided for 
the right against the wrong.
Make no haste to be rich, remembering that small and steady gains five 
competency, with tranquility of mind.
Make few promises.  Always speak the truth, and nothing but the truth’ and in 
your business relations be guided by strict integrity and unflinching honesty.
Develop a wealth of character by personal courage.  Possess the courage to 
speak your mind when it is necessary you should do so, and to hold your tongue 
when prudent, you should do so; to acknowledge your ignorance rather than seek 
credit under false pretences.

PEARLS OF THOUGHT
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…The adversaries of a good cause are like men who strike at the coals of a 
large fire; they scatter the coals and propagate the fire.
Character is proof against the scoffings of ridicule, and the consciousness of 
doing right takes the sting out of the most envenomed jest.
When we are in the company of sensible men we ought to be doubly cautious of 
talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own 
improvement, for what we have to say we know, but wheat they have to say we 
know not.

COUGHING
	A hair tickling the throat will keep up a spell of coughing, if not 
resisted, as long as the presence of a large accumulation of the products of 
disease.  We heard Brown-Sequard say in a lecture:  “Coughing is a natural, 
reflex action, wholly unintelligent.  Not much is needed when it can do any 
good at all.  When it cannot do any good it should be resisted.”  In nine 
cases out of ten it can be resisted by diverting the attention, becoming 
absorbed in something.  A simple remedy, important to all invalids, is, when 
the spasm is coming, to resist it by obstinately inhaling along breath 
and “paying it out” slowly.  Useless cough irritates throat and lungs, and can 
itself procure or perpetuate sore throat, etc.  In church it is often 
epidemic.  An English exchange says:  “Do not cough the preacher down” is the 
much-needed advice given in The Sword and Trowel.  If people have had colds 
they had better nurse  themselves at home, or at least restrain their 
coughing, when attending public worship, as much as possible.  Even Mr. 
Spurgeon, we are told, sometimes feels that he is nearly barked down by the 
thousands who respond to his appeals of love by peals of coughing.  The late 
Lord Ellenborough once remarked in court, “Some slight interruption one might 
tolerate, but there seems to be an industry of coughing.”  Coughing is 
unpleasant to all who hear it.  To the cougher it is like medicine, of which 
the wise man’s rule is to take as little as possible. – [New York Witness]

ARTEMUS WARD ON EDITORS
	Artemus Ward, speaking of editors, says:  “Before you go for an 
editor, young man, pause and take a big think!  Look around, and see if there 
is not an omnibus or some meat cart to drive, some soil somewhere to be tilled 
or a clerkship to be filled – anything that is reputable or healthy, rather 
than going for an editor, which is a bad business at best.  We are not a 
horse, and consequently have not been called upon to furnish the motive power 
for a threshing machine, but we fancy that the life of an editor who is forced 
to write, whether he feels like it or not, is much like the steed in 
question.  If the yeas and neighs could be obtained, we believe that the 
intelligent horse would decide that the threshing machine is preferable to the 
sanctum editorial.  The editor's work is never done.  He is drained 
incessantly, and no wonder that he dried up prematurely.  Other people can 
attend banquets, weddings, etc., visit halls of dazzling light, and enjoy 
themselves in a variety of ways, but the editor cannot.  He must tenaciously 
stick to the quill.  The press, like a sick baby, must not be left to run by 
itself even for a day, or somebody indignantly orders the carrier-boy to “stop 
bringing that paper.  There is nothing in it I won’t have it in the house.”

TO CLEAN GLASS AND SILVERWARE
	Egg shells crushed into small bits and shaken well in decanters three 
parts filled with cold water will not only clean them thoroughly, but make the 
glass look like new.  By rubbing with a flannel dipped in the best whiting the 
brown discoloration may be taken off cups in which custards have been baked.  
Again, all of us are aware that emery powder will remove ordinary stains from 
the white ivory knife handles, and that the luster of morocco leather is 
restored by varnishing with white of egg.  Nothing, it is said, is better to 
clean silver with than alcohol or ammonia, finishing with a little whiting on 
a soft cloth.  When putting away the silver tea or coffee pot which is not in 
use very day lay a stick across the top under cover.  This will allow fresh 
air to get in and prevent the mustiness of the contents familiar to boarding 
house sufferers. – [Art and Decoration]

CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS
The hare was formerly esteemed a melancholy animal, and its flesh was supposed 
to engender melancholy.

In Holland, the church doors are locked during the sermon, so that nobody can 
interrupt by going in or out.

In old times ghosts were supposed to maintain an obdurate silence till 
interrogated by the person to whom they made their special appearance.

The first coinage made by authority of the Untied States was of copper and 
bears date 1787.  One of the inscriptions is “Mind Your Own Business.”

A glass bedstead has been made a t a Birmingham (England) factory for a 
Calcutta millionaire.  It is of solid glass, the legs, rails, etc being richly 
cut.  The King of Burmah also has one.

The beautiful red plumage of a South African species of birds has been 
chemically examined and found to be due to copper.  When the birds are kept 
away from food containing copper they entirely lose the tint produced by that 
mineral.

A writer in a French medical treatise says that refrigeration of the lobe of 
the ear wills top hiccough, whatever its cause may be.  Very slight 
refrigeration, such as a drop of cold water, is said to be sufficient.

In Webster County, Georgia lives Isaac Wilkinson, who has a daughter, aged 
twenty-three, strangely deformed.  Her head and body are well developed, but 
her arms and legs are short, like a turtle’s floppers.  She is twenty-six 
inches in height when standing.

The first strike in this country of which record can be found occurred among 
factory girls at Dover, New Hampshire, in 1827.  Some oppressive exactions 
aroused the girls.  They struck and paraded the town with a band and an 
American flag.  The mill authorities came to terms quickly.

A GEORGIA ROMANCE
	About two years before the war, near a pretty and substantial 
residence near a prosperous little town, a beautiful young lady, about 
fourteen, was sleeping in a hammock swung from two stately oaks in a grove.  
She was a pretty picture of innocence and grace, and won the admiration of the 
passers.  In a meadow to the west a fat, meek-eyed cow reclined in the shade, 
ruminating the food she had gathered in the cool of the morning.  Across the 
road from the house, the girl, and the cow is a meadow, a branch running 
through it, and coming up the branch is a boy with a gun.  When within one 
hundred yards of the girl, and about one hundred and fifty yards from the cow, 
a bird flew up and sailed in the air toward the cow.  The boy fired at the 
bird, which flew on unhurt, but the cow received a pretty strong dose of 
shot.  She immediately arose in fright, dashed through the grove, caught the 
girl and hammock on her horns, and rushed with her shrieking victim about the 
lot.  The terrified girl became silent, and the crowd of relatives and friends 
in pursuit thought that she was dad.  The wild fury of the cow as she rushed 
around soon tore the netting loose, and the girl dropped unconsciously to the 
ground.  She was picked up and taken into the house, and on examination only a 
few minor bruises were found.  The boy, thinking he was the innocent cause of 
the killing of the young girl, disappeared.  It was thought that he had 
perished by his own hand, but about six years after the war a travel-stained 
stranger was in the town inquiring for persons, most of whom had been swept 
away by the war.  After a long search the stranger found an old man on a load 
of wood, and in conversation with him learned where one of the parties he was 
in search of lived, a few miles out of town.  He went there, made himself 
known, and turned out to be the boy of the gun.  The people he found were his 
father and mother, who had mourned him dead for eight years.  The boy had been 
in South American, got rich, and yearning for the love of the old folks, 
returned to the desolate home of this childhood and made his loved ones 
comfortable.  For the first time, then, hearing that the girl was uninjured, 
he called on her, found her pretty, good, and a first-class home woman.  He 
put in with a will, get her heart as his own, and the old folks’ consent, and 
has been for the last twelve or fourteen years one of the leading men of his 
section.  This is fact. – [Americus (Ga.) Recorder]

MISDIRECTED ENTHUSIASM
	A gentleman who listened to Sam Jones tells the following as 
illustrative of the peculiar methods of the revivalist.  He was delivering an 
especially fervid address, and a little old woman who sat well up in front was 
constantly interrupting him with shrill-voiced and ear-piercing exclamations 
of “Bless the Lord!” and “Glory Hallelujah!”  “Amen!” and other campmeeting 
eccentricities.  Jones stood it for a time, but finally stopped his address 
and turning to the woman said, “Sister, enthusiasm is a good thing if it is 
only genuine.  But you remind me of a little steamboat that used to run up a 
stream down in the country where I came from.  It had a very small boiler and 
a very big whistle, and every time the pilot blew the whistle the boat 
stopped.  Now let the boat go on.”

“JUST AS MUCH RIGHT TO IT AS YOU.”
	Major William Warner, member of Congress from Missouri, had a little 
bit of unique experience at the surrender of Vicksburg.
	He was then Adjutant of the Thirty-third Wisconsin and on the morning 
of the Fourth of July, while the details of the surrender were being 
completed, his regiment was “in place rest” on the works, but a few rods from 
the rebel works, which were similarly filled with the lounging garrison.
	It occurred to Adjutant Warner that it would be a fine thing to 
celebrate the day in the old-fashioned way by reading the Declaration of 
Independence.
	He had, and still has, a magnificent round, full voice, and every word 
of the grand old document rolled out plainly and distinctly on the still July 
air, and was attentively listened to by both friend and foe.
	At the conclusion the Union men gave a ringing cheer, and the other 
side responded with a shrill “rebel yell.”
	“What are you yelling for?” shouted our boys, “That’s none of your 
funeral.”
	“We’ve just as much right to it as you have,” the Johnnies yelled back.

A butcher of Virginia City, Nevada killed a steer whose teeth were completely 
incrusted with gold and silver bullion.  The animal came from a ranch on 
Carson River.  It is supposed that the precious metal on its teeth was 
collected while drinking the water in the river.

Miss Russell, full sister to Maud S. has just arrived at Senator Stanford’s 
Palo Alto Ranch to be bred to Electioneer.  She was sent by the managers of 
the Alexander Stock Farm, of Kentucky, one of the most prominent breeding 
establishments in the United States.

The great trotter St. Denis, with a record of 2,23 ¼, died in Boston, of lung 
fever Sunday.  He was worth $10,000.  St. Denis was a bay horse by Blue Bull, 
dam by Shawhan’s Tom Hal.  He was foaled in 1878 and obtained his record at 
Chicago, July 12, 1884.

Boston book makers offer the following odds against the different Base-Ball 
League Clubs getting first or second place:  New York and Chicago, 7 to 5; 
Boston, Philadelphia, and Detroit, 7 to 1, Washington 25 to 1, and Kansas 
City, 50 to 1.

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