Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News July 15, 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003775 May 7, 2006, 7:58 pm The Lamar News July 15, 1886 Microfilm Ref Call #373 Microfilm Order #M1992.4466 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, JULY 15, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 37 LIFE PICTURES – Poem – [Harriet Kendall, in the Quiver] COUNTRY COUSIN – Short Story – [Helen Forrest Graves] A CLUB OF SNEAK THIEVES A New York letter to the Chicago Herald says: The strangest street persons, on the whole, are to be seen in Mott Street, where the Chinese centralize, and where all sorts of folks go to look at them. Chinamen are not numerous enough in this city, and those who have are too widely distributed in their laundries all over town to constitute much of a Chinese quarter. The nearest approach to it is a block or two in which their stores, gambling houses, opium joints and lodgings almost exclude other occupancy. However, it was in the upper story of one of these buildings, a ramshackle old two-and-a- story structure over a Chinese restaurant, and that the police found and broke up a sneak thieves’ club. The members were a dozen hard youngsters, reared in the squalor and vice of the neighborhood, and their highest ambition was to become robbers. But they had a methodical president, who intended that they should be instructed in the law and ethics of their trade. So he went to a broken-down shyster at the T--, near by and hired him for $2 to deliver a lecture on the dangers and safeguards of sneak-thieving. His first discourse was on the penalties for different grades of robbery, and especially he pointed out the foolishness of taking big risks for little boodle. “Don’t break into any house,” he said “unless you feel sure you can capture a heavy sway, because that is burglary, punishable with as much as twenty years imprisonment. Don’t use force against persons, because that constitutes highway robbery, with the same penalty, no matter if you only take a dime. But sneak into hallways, load yourselves with coats from the rack and scoot away, because a year in the penitentiary is the most you can get for merely stealing less than $25 worth., and a jury will usually scale a coat down to that figure.” The enterprising thieves were so well pleased with this lecture that they applied to a more conscientious expert for another, and he informed the police. HE LEFT! The popular test of allowing an animal to witness concerning his ownership is not always successful. A case was once brought into court in which the ownership of a dog was questioned. The judge knew the popular method in such trials, and determined to let the dog “testify by every mark of affection.” “Stop!” exclaimed his Honor. “Stop right there! Now you, Mr. Plaintiff, get into that far corner out there; and you, Mr. Defendant, go into the corner over here. There! Now both of you whistle, and Mr. Clerk, you loose the dog. The man whom the dog seeks is his master.” “The plaintiff and defendant whistled. The dog hardly noticed the sounds. They whistled again. The clerk let go his hold. The dog cast a look about him of mingled disgust and timidity, lifted one ear at the jury and another at the clerk. Then throwing back his head, he gave vent to a howl of terror, and shot out of the door like a meteor. A SECURE RETREAT Country Editor – Well, they captured the murderer at last. Citizen – So I hear. Where did they find him? County Editor – Just leaving the back door of old Buerag’s dry goods store. He and Buerag are relatives. He has been taking it easy there for three weeks. Citizen – I wonder nobody saw him. Country Editor – No danger of that. Buerag never advertises, you know. – [New York Sun] SPOTTSYLVANIA – INCIDENTS OF THE BATTLE BY A FEDERAL SOLDIER Vivid Pictures of the Horrors of War Drawn by a Spectator From an account of the Battle of Spottsylvania by Harvey S. Wells we copy as follows: As such close quarters so many men were struck in the head, as the result of deliberate aim. Although to one in the line it did not seem as if many men were falling about him, but steadily all day long the firing of the sharpshooters accomplished its fatal work until the ground was literally strewn with the dead. The weather was warm, men got tired of lying so long in positions of constraint to their bodies; they wanted water and a change to stretch their wearied limbs, and, although knowing it was almost instant death, they would rise and run for the rear, sure to be followed by a volley of bullets from the rebel sharp-shooters. I never during over four years of active service in the army witnessed so many individual acts of daring and foolhardiness on the part of soldiers as on this day. In the company which I commanded, out of 31 men who entered the fight 19 were killed and wounded, most of them killed instantly, and half of that number shot in consequence of acts of foolhardy daring, uncalled for in the requirements of faithful duty. At the time I attributed much of this devil- may-care spirit to the whiskey in the canteens issued to us the day before. There was a drunken artillery officer, who rode up and down along our line with gay uniform, mounted on a spirited horse, swinging his hat and calling on the men to charge, who seemed to possess a charmed life, for he escaped unharmed. The man stopped and talked with me a short time, with the bullets flying all about him, when one of us did not dare poke up a finger for fear of having it shot off. A cap on a bayonet stuck up above the breast work was sure to be perforated by Confederate bullets. When the ammunition of one caisson had been exhausted a dozen men recklessly rushed after another between the two lines and dropped. It back with them ---, a perfect battalion of lead. Not less than a hundred dead lay close around that brass piece.” Artillery captured from the enemy when night drew her sable curtain over the sanguinery work of the day. During the night the enemy abandoned the salient, and early the next morning the Union troops could go over the scene of the previous day’s carnage without fear of molestation. “Piles of dead” is often used as a figure of speech, but in the works abandoned by the Confederates piles of dead literally and without exaggeration were lying in the compartments which I have previously mentioned. Two, three and four deep, tangled-up with each other, bodies and limbs intertwisted, actual heaps of dead, their black and bloated faces upturned to the sky, in all manner of positions, and decomposition already polluting the atmosphere with a horrible stench. It was such a picture of war, horrid war, as few people, even those who make a business of war are permitted to witness. It would take the pen of a Victor Hugo to faithfully describe such a scene of death and carnage, such a hideous and appalling holocaust of human life. In the woods, immediately in the rear of the Confederate line of earth- works one could see the fearful effect of the musketry fire from the Union line. Swinton, in his history, says that all the trees within the range of the musketry were killed, so blighting is its effects was the fire of leaden bullets poured into the forest in the 20 hours the union troops were ordered to never cease firing. On that morning after the battle I saw two oak trees of vigorous growth, about 18 inches in diameter --- that had been actuality out in two gnawing ---four or five feet from the ground by --- is fired from the Union line in front the – before. This may give the reader some idea of the terrible fire concentrated on the Confederate line behind their earthworks on that never-to-be-forgotten 12th of May 1864, by the troops of the army of the Potomac. In the fall of 1865 when I was still in the army, I visited Washington on official business. As I entered the War Department on each side of the main entrance, in front and under a --- projecting portico, I saw two stories of ---, the same that I had witnessed on the battlefield of Spottsylvania. They had been sawed off and carried to Washington as mementos of the ---- of battle which history ---- of the late war. THE EVOLUTION OF STATES The curios process of evolution by which states in the American Union are made is aptly illustrated in the case of Dakota. It was originally a part of the territory claimed by France, and styled New France, including what is now Canada, the entire Northwest, and all the territory west of the Mississippi River, throughout its entire extent from the frozen North to the Gulf of Mexico. As a consequence of the European wars from 1756 to 1763, and the defeat of France, that part of New France now known as Canada was ceded to Great Britain and all west of the Mississippi was ceded to Spain. In 1800, during the Napoleonic wars, and as a result of the French victories everywhere on the Continent of Europe, all of the territory that had been ceded to Spain was receded to France. In 1803, during the administration of Jefferson, the “Louisiana Purchase,” as it was called, was effected, and the United States became the owner of the territory. At the time when the purchase of the territory was effected it included Louisiana, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, the Indian Territory, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and Dakota, with shadowy claims to what is now Oregon and Washington. The claim of the United States to the territory west of the Rocky Mountains was subsequently ratified by treaties with great Britain, which had previously claimed the entire western slope and coast to the north line of Mexico, now the north line of California. Congress divided the territory into Orleans and Louisiana in 1804. In 1812 Orleans was admitted into the Union as the state of Louisiana, and the name of Louisiana territory was changed to Missouri Territory. In 1821 the state of Missouri was admitted to the Union, and Arkansas followed. After that time the almost boundless tract remaining was loosely styled the Northwest Territory. In 1834 all east of Missouri River was organized into the territory of Michigan. In 1836 the present state of Michigan came into the Union, leaving the balance of the country as Wisconsin Territory, or “Ouiskonsan” as it was then called. In 1846 and 1848 Iowa and Wisconsin were made into state, and then the balance of the outlying acres was called Minnesota Territory. In 1858 Minnesota, with its present limits, came into the Union, and the balance of the trace was in law nameless, but was called Minnesota Territory to distinguish it from the state of the same name. In 1851 the Territory of Dakota, with its present---------as established by act of Congress. Such was the long process by which, through the occupation of the country for settlement, by pushing the frontiers farther away into the mountains and the wilderness, and by progress of civilization, American States are made. It is a system of evolution and growth possessing great interest for the student of politics and history. SILENCED The Scotch often use humor to settle a question which otherwise, might give rise to an excited argument, involving much hair splitting logic. The following anecdote of Norman McLeod, the eloquent preacher illustrates that happy use of the wit which transfixed a man as an entomologist does a bug. He was on his way to church to pen a new place of worship. As he passed slowly and gravely through the crowed gathered about the doors, an elderly man, with the peculiar kind of a wig known in that district – bright, smooth, and of a reddish brown – accosted him. “Doctor, if you please, I wish to speak to you.” “Well, Duncan” said the venerable doctor, “can you wait till after worship?” “Do, doctor, I must speak to you now, for it is a matter upon my conscience.” “Oh, since it is a matter of conscience, tell me what it is; but be brief, Duncan, for time passes.” “The matter is this, doctor. Ye see the clock yonder on the face of this new church? Well, there is no clock really there; nothing but the face of a clock. There is no truth in it but only once in the twelve hours. How, it is in my mind very wrong, and quite against my conscience, that there should be a lie on the face of the house of the lord.” “Duncan, I will consider the point. But I am glad to see you looking so well. You are not young now; I remember you for many years and what a fine head of hair you have still.” “Eh, doctor, you are joking now; it is long since I have had my hair.” “O Duncan! Duncan! Are you going into the house of the Lord with a lie upon your head?” This, says the story, settled the question; and the doctor head no more of the lie on the face of the clock. MY OWN COUNTRY – Poem – {G. W. Kettoman in the Current] HUMOROUS A foot rule – Don’t wear tight shoes. Another washout – One the clothesline. Desirable quarters – Twenty-five cent pieces. The century plant – Burial of Washington’s body servant. A button on the coat is worth two in the church contribution box. Singers are the only people who wish to hold a note for a long time. It is not considered necessary in society to return a bill collector’s calls. Brakemen will be sorry to learn that “trains “ are to be made unusually long. The Boston girl never says “it is raining pitchforks.” She says “It is raining agricultural implements.” It used to be “See that my grave’s kept green.” The new and popular version is: “Oh, keep my ashes bottled, love.” “What does boycott mean?” inquired the teacher of a frisky youngster. The little fellow, remembering an unfortunate excursion to the pantry replied: “A bad licking.” A Chicago landlord shot one of his boarders for joking about his butter. His inference was unnecessary. It is said the butter was strong enough to take its own part. “And now, my dear brethren, what —say more?” thundered the long-winded ------ “Amen, came in sepulchral tines from the deacon in the back of the church. “What’s your business?” asked the judge of a prisoner at the bar. “Well, s’pose you might call me a locksmith.” “When did you work last at your trade?” “Last night, when I heard a call for the police I made a bolt for the door.” Little Willie refused to put on his shoes the other morning, and when his mother urged him to do so, he said with an eager expression on his childish face, “Mamma, did you not tell me that God was everywhere?” “Yes.” “Well, if he is everywhere, he must be in my shoe and I don’t want to step on him.” Wife – Leave me some money, please. I am going to make a loaf of cake, and I shall want a little change to buy some of the ingredients. Husband - Half a dollar enough? Wife – I don’t know. I am going to make it according to the receipt in the cook book. Husband – H’m! Well, that makes a difference. Here’s a ten-dollar bill. (can’t read) THE WOLF AND THE KID A kid was one day browsing in a valley while a shepherd reclined on a bank hard by. Suddenly a wolf, with a hand-organ, came up and said: “Let me play a merry air while you dance.” “All right,” replied the kid. “Fire away.” The music began, and the shepherd, with his fingers in his ears, disappeared; and as soon as he was out of his sight, the wolf seized the kid and devoured it. Moral: This fable teaches the varied powers of music. – [Life] SEALED Father – You and Kate Carter have come to an understanding, have you, Fred? Fred – Yes, sir. Father – Sealed it with a kiss – oh, my boy? Fred – No, sire, with wax, she wrote her refusal – [Tid Bits] PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY JULY 15, 1886 RATES OF ADVERTISING One inch, one insertion $1.00 One inch, each subsequent insertion .50 One inch, twelve months 10.00 One inch, six months 7.00 One inch, three months 5.00 Two inches twelve months 15.00 Two inches, six months 10.00 Quarter column 12 months 35.00 Half Column 12 months 60.00 One column 12 months 100.00 Professional card $10. Special advertisements in local columns will be charged double rates. All advertisements collectable after first insertion. Local notices 10 cents per line. Obituaries, tributes of respect, etc. making over ten lines, 5 cents per line. 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 For Associate Justices – H. M. SOMERVILLE of Tuskaloosa 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 See announcement in this week’s issue of Rev. ELIAS CHAFFIN as candidate for Representative. Almon will get a majority of the voices in every beat in Lamar County except one. So “about on” when the last trumped sounds he’ll get there. The Southern Idea puts it thus: “To ask an editor to vote for you for a county officer, when you do not announce your candidacy in his paper, costs about five dollars worth of cheek, which is our regular price in cash, for announcing your name. But the average candidate has a lot more cheek than cash, if appearance count for anything. The papers of this district have kept so close after the editor of the Courier until he at last comes out squarely and admits that he has been a Sanford man from the first time he heard of his candidacy. The editor has been trying to make people believe that he was a supporter of Judge Almon before the convention and that because he thinks Mr. Sanford the rightful nominee. In the Courier of June 23rd he says speaking of Mr. Sanford: “We cannot do else than support him, no matter if we did support Almon before the convention.” And after being reminded of his record before the convention, last week appeared the following admission “Yes, it was before etc.” ---------ANTS TO GO A great deal of speculation has been indulged in as to why Mr. Sanford was so anxious to go to the State Senate. At last the cause of his anxiety has been found. When he was in the legislature two years ago he introduced a bill making all cases of Justice Jurisdiction triable by the Justices in the Court House beats. This bill failed to pass and Mr. Sanford wants another chance “to help the farmer” as be so plausibly speaks of enacting laws for the farmer. Just think of a matter requiring litigation arising in Henson’s or Stein’s beat involving five, or ten dollars and that the suit be brought in town beat from twenty, to twenty-five miles away. Now, wouldn’t this be nice for the farmers who would have to attend as parties and witness? It would be good for the lawyers we admit. The farmers in this have a specimen of the legislation that Mr. Sanford would make for them. SANFORD BADLY HACKED The Senatorial canvass opened at Detroit on the 6th. Judge Almon taking the day and showing that on the stump he was much the superior of Mr. Sanford. This fact grew more apparent as the canvass professed and the friends of Mr. Sanford readily saw that unless some one was present to obtain and speak for him he would soon become so discouraged that he would quite the race. This is not objected to by Judge Almon’s friends because they feared that the more exhibitions of one so completely squelched and dejected as was Mr. Sanford might get up some little sympathy. The canvass so far has been more than satisfactory and it is thought by many that if Mr. Sanford does not do better in the canvass in Fayette than he has been that he will not come back to this county on the 27th. It is now claimed by Judge Almon’s friends both have bad in Fayette that he will get a handsome majority over Mr. Sanford in Fayette county, you need not be surprised at a majority of from three to five hundred for Judge Almon in Fayette. FROM THE FRONT FROM MILLVILLE TO STENINS FALL INTO LINE FOR FRANKLIN’S FAVORED SON. Vernon, Ala, July 14th Mr. Editor: Six o’clock Monday morning found me in the saddle on my way to the forensic fray of the Senatorial candidates. The scent coming from fields of good corn, just in tassel, that are so plentiful in the county now, seemed more than the air could carry away. Ten o’clock found in the town of MILLPORT The voting place of Millport beat. A beautiful town is gradually growing up there. Visits of six months apart are sure enough to impress you with its growth. Located on the level second bottom of Luxapalila, a spot of ground covered by a lovelier green award and on which reside a more hospitable people cannot be found. The speaking was opened by Hon. J. B. Sanford who for one hour and a quarter labored in vain to convince the people that the was the man to represent them in the State Senate. The first sentences of Judge Almon’s speech brought forth evidence that the crowd was for him, although a large party of well dressed men had been shipped down from Fayette C. H. on that morning to swell the Sanford crowd. Your correspondent’s preferences were well known and it was an easy matter to find out the friends of Judge Almon and while I had hoped for a strong vote for him there I must say that I was truly astonished to find the sentiment so overwhelming in his favor. And I almost grew to be sympathetic with the gentleman from Fayette that has been making such as anxious canvass in our county when it appeared apparent that he would not get a majority of the votes in a single beat in the county. The candidates were followed by Hon PINKNEY JACK of Franklin and Hon. THOS B. NESMITH of Lamar who discussed the merits of the Democratic convention and the merits of the “Nesmith Convention” which were held in the town of Hamilton of n the ever-to-be remembered 12th day of May. These speeches were good and full of sparkling wit and ready repartee. Most of our readers will have opportunity to hear and judge of the merits of those conventions. Tuesday found the party at the beautiful and growing town of KENNEDY. There we found a protracted meeting in progress and the good people had arranged that we attend church in the morning and to have the speaking the afternoon. The crowd here as at other places exhibited outward signs of their appreciation of Franklin’s favored son. Tomorrow they join the canvass in the county of “family mass meeting” where doubtless little information on that subject will ----- FERNBANK Fernbank, Ala., July 10, 1886 Mr. Ed. – Please allow us to give you and your readers the dots from Fernbank, and we shall confine our remarks to such dots as we have gathered within the past two weeks. On Saturday morning of the 3rd inst, in company with Dr. M. R. SEAY, Mr. A. S. FIELDS, Mr. G. M. RICHARDS, Prof. J. R. GUIN, and Misses SALLIE SEAY and JALA GUIN we left our town for the picnic at Fort Spring which is some 8 miles from here in the southwestern corner of the county at which place we arrived about 11:15 am. This is one of the best springs in Lamar County, and is rapidly coming into public notice as a place of summer resort for invalids. The spring is about two feet square and 6 or 7 feet deep, and is constantly sending forth an inexhaustible stream of as pure mineral water as ever gushed from the bowels of the earth. Before dinner was announced the people were agreeably and pleasantly entertained on the subject of Sunday Schools by Rev. G. L. MOUCHETTE. There were perhaps a hundred and fifty or 200 people on the grounds and the dinner sufficient both in quantity and quality to suit the taste of the most exacting individual, and everybody seemed to enjoy himself in the fullest sense of the word. Dinner being over speeches were called for from the following named gentlemen: PROF. B. H. WILKERSON, Dr. M. R. SEAY and Prof. J. R. GUIN. The first named gentleman commented at some length upon the advantages we now have over those we were in possession of before the Declaration of Independence, which was declared just 110 years before; but the greater part of his remarks was in defense of the cause for the past 15 years – the cause of education. Dr. SEAY and PROF. GUIN made very eloquent addresses upon the Declaration of Independence, Prohibition, Politics, etc. Now to the local dots. The health of the people in our immediate vicinity is good, but we hear of some sickness in adjoining communities. Quite a number of our farmers are about done “laying by” and they will soon be ready to receive and entertain candidates. So “boys” don’t fail to give them a call when you come down. Judge George C. Almon and Col. John B. Sanford candidates for the State senate spoke in our town today. These gentlemen were accompanied by their friends, the celebrated JACK of Franklin and the old MURREL of Lamar from the loud braying of the Jack and the continual neighing of the sorrel, we presume that they will create some excitement among the “dear people” of the 12th Senatorial District by the first Monday in August. Mr. WRIGHT commence work on the Masonic Hall, but we have learned that he has turned over his contract to the Rev. W. T. RICKMAN who will we presume proceed at once to the prosecution of the work. Mr. Ed. If you will allow this article a place in the columns of the news, you shall perhaps hear from us again. With many wishes for the happiness and success of all who may read these lines, we subscribe ourselves faithfully. WARWICK. MOSCOW – ALL HERE YET Moscow, Ala, July 13, ’86 Moscow is still solid for Almon. The two candidates spoke her eon the 8th and created a little amusement. We had been hearing the Sanford men saying that Almon was lying like a dog and that they could prove it. Mr. Sanford had the chance to do so, and why didn’t he do so? Just simply because he couldn’t. The Courier would make us believe that every one who votes for Almon is a Republican; but whether he is correct or not, I will say that there is a great number of men here who have always acted like Democrats that will vote for Almon. And after the election is they be counted Republicans, you can then set this down as a solid Republican beat. Keep cool and shove in a brick occasionally and the Wall will be firm by the 1st Monday in August and Hurah for all that the Devil don’t get. I would suggest that the roll be called every third day to see who is lost, or drowned. OBSERVER IN MEMORIAM MRS. MARY H. MILLER, wife of Dr. D. R. MILLER, was born in Pickens County, Ala, and died at Festus, Missouri, May 22nd, 1886. We pronounce no fulsome eulogium when we say that the world is better for her having lived in it, and Heaven has gained by her departure from the Shores of Time. None knew her but to love her, if their love was worth the winning, none named her but to praise. In every relation of life she was all or ampler to that religion which she professed and adorned. Zealously devoted to the interests of the Presbyterian Church, of which branch of Christian she was a member, she ----the cardinal fact that Christ is sovereign-----. Acting upon this belief, she did good to all as she had opportunity. And from the eyes of many “frequent falls the grateful dew for eneifits (sic) the world ne’er knew.” All who came within her precincts felt as fi they were in an atmosphere redolent of purity, gentleness, goodness, and holiness. Tho’ the silver cord has been loosed, the golden bowl broken, her sainted spirit taken its flight to realms of everlasting lights trough the hands that dispensed kindly charities and the tongue that spoke sweet words of cheer and comfort to the disconsolate, lie palsied in the iron embrace of death. Though dead, she yet liveth, for “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” When the last summons came, she was found ready and waiting. The intense torture to which she was subjected from the cancerous affection with which she was afflicted, elicited no murmur of discontent. “The dress only would be consumed, the gold would be refined.” She knew in whom she trusted – the “physician of the Soul. The Valley of the “dark shadows” had for her no terrors. There was a “light in the Valley.” Underneath her were the Everlasting Arms.” In mingling our tears with the tears of those near and dear to the departed, we would say: We sorrow not as those without hope. Our loss is her gain. “The righteous hath hope in his death.” If we live aright here, it will be well with us in the --- “long hereafter.” If we hurt--- her life we shall meet her --- in the “Sweet By and By.” He husband, children, friends, which time unveils eternity, "At the beautiful gate she will be waiting and watching for thee.” And “Oh, How sweet to think, hereafter, When the spirit leaves this sphere. Love, with deathless wing, shall waft her To those she long hath mourned for here. Hearts from which was death to sever Even this world can ne’er restore, There, as warm, as bright as ever, Shall meet us to be lost no more.” Then, weep not for the silent dead Their toils are past, their sorrow o’er, And those they loved their steps shall tread And death shall join in part no more. FRIEND NOTICE If you are delinquent in your assessment, meet me at the public speaking in your beat and I will assess your tax without the usual fee. - W. Y. ALLEN Our stock of Furnishing is full and complete in every respect. 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 J. B. MACE, Jeweler, Vernon, Alabama. (Picture of watch) Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry and spectacles. Makes a specialty of repairing. Will furnish any style of timepiece, on short notice, and at the very lowest price. 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. JOHN A GRANT, WM. A. WALKER, Jr. M. A. BUTLER, Board of Corporate. THE VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, Under the Principalship of J. R. BLACK, will open October 5,m 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of Tuition as follows: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Composition, and U. S. History; per month $2.00 ADVANCED: Embracing Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, and Latin, per month $3.00 Incidental fee 20 cts, per quarter. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention given to those who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7 per month. Tuition due at the end of each quarter. For further information, address: J. R. BLACK, Principal, Vernon, Ala. 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. Rates per day…$1.50, Rates for lodging and 2 meals….$1.25, Rates for single meals…...$0.50, Rates for single lodging…..$0.50. call and try us. 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. Ad for Ayer and Son Advertising Agents 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. 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). B. A. Fahnestock’s Vermifuge….(too small to read) PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY JULY 15, 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 Political corners lively. Drummers unnumbered. Fishing frolics bide a wee. The mocking birds are gay again. See notice to tax payers in this issue. Oh where! Oh where! Has that fifteen dollars gone to! There are twenty-two men on the canvass for county offices. The blandness of the candidate is beginning to be mixed with anxiety. Thanks to Mrs. M. L. MOLLOY for a subscription to News. Commissioner’s Court Monday and Tuesday, full board for attendance. Cows broke in and made free with “UNCLE ANDY” WHEELER’S garden. Mr. S. M. BROWN called in Friday and had his name enrolled for the News. Thanks to Mrs. S. A. GUIN for another subscription to News. Crop prospects are brightening throughout the country. Mr. G. W. YOUNG and family visited relatives in town Friday. Mr. B. J. BOYD called Tuesday and had his name enrolled for News. Nearly everybody will come to town on the 31st when the canvass closes. Capt. S. J. SHIELDS and C. C. NESMITH Esq. of the Vernon Courier are on a visit to Aberdeen. Rev. J. E. COX filled his regular appointment at this place on last Sabbath. Mr. G. W. YOUNG of Wayside paid us a pleasant visit latter part of last week. Mr. B. F. COLLINS of Jewell paid us a pleasant visit Friday and subscribed to the old reliable – News. Be prudent in eating fruit at this season and it will benefit instead of injuring your health. (TORN) Messrs. W. H. and ISHAM HANKINS called in Saturday and each ordered a subscription to News. Little MOLLIE PENNINGTON talked on Monday evening, quite a number were present. Capt. J. W. LEATHERWOOD of Tuskaloosa was in town Friday and Saturday. The Courier “hid out” this week to keep the News from commenting on its editorials until next week. Nature provides fruit and vegetables to be eaten in moderation and in their due season. Mr. J. E. SANDERS paid us a visit Saturday and ordered a subscription sent DAVID J. SANDERS, Caledonia, Miss. We take it a s a compliment for you to come and get your paper fresh from the press it being but little trouble to us. Some of the voters in the beat where the picnic was held requests us to say three cheers for Betts’ beat – she is solid for Almon. We acknowledge an invitation to the picnic at Morton’s Mill on last Saturday, but circumstances prevented our attending. We are informed those present spent quite a pleasant day. We are informed that the Courier will be issued on Friday instead of Wednesday, as heretofore. The News however will continue to be issued on Thursday as it has been for the past three years. Mr. WILLIE M. YOUNG, agent for Sam Jones’ book of sermons called on us Tuesday. -----glad to know that he has received several orders for the same in our town. MARRIED. Mr. D. --- GRIFFIN and Miss SAMMIE SCOTT on ---- last, at the late residence of the bride’s father, Rev. T. W. SPRINGFIELD officiating. There will be a picnic in Webster Beat, Fayette County near Dr. BALEY T. WOODS on the 21st inst. Candidates of Fayette County will speak on said day and Hon. Geo. C. Almon and J. B. Sanford are invited to attend. We are requested to announce that the funeral of Mrs. H. C. BICKERSTAFF will be preached the 2nd Sunday in Sept., at Pilgrim’s Rest, by the Rev. T. W. SPRINGFIELD. There will be but few true and tried Democrats in Lamar County as well as in the 12th Senatorial District after 1st Monday in August if they are to be counted as the Courier would have them – Only those who vote for Sanford. At the next election you can vote two tickets if you wish: one for State and County officers and one on the constitutional amendment. The Birmingham amendment may be put on your state ticket, the mad (?) amendment ----. The executive committee will furnish the tickets for and against the amendment. Misther Editor: De beoples vant to know er Mr. Zonvord ish de nominee uv de barty. Vy tah Mr. Nashhmydt trafeling and shpeaking ofr him? Vy not let MR. Zanvord plow his own corn? Musht be someding tend up te pranch! Vrom a Vriend to E’ery-pody Enter in at the right door – Goods cheaper than ever bore: Sorghum 25 cts per gallon, cash. Two rips, mare and horse to sell or trade for oxen. – E. W. BROCK, June 30, 1886 THE PICNIC The editor and family took holiday and joined the good people of Military and Betts beats yesterday in their picnic. No speaking was had in Military beat on Tuesday, the beats meeting together yesterday near the house of B. M. MOLLOY Esq. and having one of them good old time basket dinners. When we hear of a picnic in that direction we invariably turn loose and go. A large audience composed of old men, young men, boys, old ladies, children and pretty girls not a few. The candidates for representative made speeches of about fifteen minutes each. The earnest conversations carried on by whispers and gesticulations among candidates and their friends could not have been counted. Whenever the people out in that direction want to increase the crowd at their picnics all they have to do is to intimate the time and place and we will be on hand. The tax collectors of Alabama are making their collections quick and often this year. They are making ---(can’t read) NESMITH failed to tell that he turned and confronted the friends who cheered the speech of Col. JACK of Hamilton and told them just to cheer for their man if they wanted him to make a good speech :if you want me to make a good speech just pike me up a little.” Say Col. Don’t you now think that it would be more appropriate to make a bear growl than a help to make a speech? ITEMS OF INTEREST Emigration from Germany has greatly decreased during the past year. There are at present 693 patients under treatment in the Insane Asylum at Tuskaloosa. 10,000 families in Chicago are without Bibles. The post office appropriation bill has passed both houses of Congress. The Gordon and Bacon War in Georgia waxes warm. Over a billion pounds of butter are annually made in the United States. Edwin P. Whipple is dead – he was one of America’s ablest and most entertaining critics. Victor Hugo left ten volumes of MSS, of poetry, plays and romances, for publication. Hepburn, of Indiana, objects to $29,000 being appropriated for new furniture for the White House. It does seem to be quite a liberal amount to begin with. Mr. Springer, of Illinois, has moved to increase the appropriation from $10,000 to $200,000 for protecting public lands from fraudulent entries. Two centuries ago the white race constituted one tenth of the population of the earth. According to statistics one third of the inhabitants of this globe are now white. A FINE FARM – SITUATED ON WILSON CREEK I offer for sale my farm six miles north of Vernon on east side of Wilson creek, containing three hundred and twenty (320) acres. Well improved; one hundred and twenty-five (125) acres under good fence, two hundred (200) acres of good tendable land; well timbered, plenty of good water and one of the healthiest localities in Lamar County. I have lived on it for the past ten years and there has not been a chill in my family during that time. If you want the best and cheapest plantation I this country, now’s your time to get it. It can be bought for $5 per acre. For further particulars address, - J. WESLEY CLEARMAN, Vernon, Ala. PUBLIC SPEAKING Hon. GEO. C. ALMON, Democratic Nominee for State Senator, will address the voters of Lamar County at the following times and places, to wit: (TYPING PLACES, BUT NOT DATES) Millville, Cansler, Moscow, Military, Betts, Hudson, Vails, Fernbank, Millport, Kennedy, Strickland, Lawrence, Sizemore, Browne, Henson, Goode, Town. Other candidates are earnestly invited to attend. Time will be divided. 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. W. H. Hamilton. Let all quarterly conference records be on hand to examination. – P. K. BRINDLEY PUBLIC SPEAKING There will be public speaking by candidates for Legislature at the following times and places to wit: (TYPING PLACE NAMES, BUT NOT DATES) Military Springs, Betts Beat, Hudsonville, Fernbank, Vails, Millport, Kennedy, Strickland, Lawrence, Sizemore, Browns, Goode, Henson Springs, Millville, pine Springs, Moscow, Town (Vernon). BARBER SHOP. For a clean shave or shampoo, Call on G. W. BENSON, in rear of Dr. BURN’S office, Vernon, Ala. 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. NOTICE The State of Alabama, Lamar County The tax payers of said county will take notice that the Books of assessment is prepared and ready for inspection by the tax payers of said county and that the Commissioner’s Court will set on the 2nd Monday in August next, to examine the assessor’s returns, and if any error be found to correct the same. Given under my hand this July 13th, 1886. ALEX COBB, Judge of Probate 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. We are authorized to announce ELIAS GRAFFIN a candidate to represent Lamar County in the next General Assembly of Alabama; election in August. FOR PROBATE JUDGE We are authorized to announce J. E. PENNINGTON as a candidate for the office of Judge of Probate of Lamar County. Election next August. 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. 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. 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. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala – June 18, 1886 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of is intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judge or in this absence before the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, Ala, at Vernon, on August 25th, 1886, viz: Homestead 4409, WILLIAM B. ROBERTSON, for the S W ¼ of N E ¼ Sec 22 T13 R14 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuance residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: R. E. BRADLEY, JOHN L. WEEDS, JAMES SIZEMORE, and J. P. MOTES all of Beaverton, Ala. WM. C. WELLS, Register 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 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala – June 22, 1886 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed his notice of his intention to make final proof to support of his claim and that said proof will be made before the Judge or in his absence before the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, Ala at Vernon on August 9th, to viz: No. 9707 DAVID S. STANFORD, for the SW ¼ of NW ¼ and NW ¼ of SW ¼ SEC 35, and SE ¼ of NE ¼ and NE ¼ of SE ¼ SEC 31 T12 R14 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuance residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: W. M. MOLLOY, S. G. DILL, and NATHANIEL MILLER, and R. CANON, all of Beaverton, Ala. – WM. C. WALLS, Register. Ad for Tutt’s Pills Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ Ad for Chicago Scale Co. Ad for Wetherills’ Paint Ad for Collins Ague Cure Ad for New Home Sewing Machine Ad for Avery Sewing Machine PAGE 4 LADIES DEPARTMENT WHY SHE PLEASED HIM – Poem – [Tid-Bits] FOOLING WITH THE WRONG GIRL For some time, says the Columbia (Washington Territory) Chronicle, the train-men on the Pomeroy branch have been in the habit of throwing kisses and otherwise departing themselves in a manner not recognized as strictly proper whenever they passed a farmhouse containing a pretty girl. One day last week one of the boys sighted a feminine form and began at once to converse with her in sign language. The also was expecting him, and when he began his foolishness a six-shooter was drawn from beneath her apron, and she began planting thirty-eight caliber bullets in close proximity to the railroad man’s head. Some lively dodging ensued as the throttle of the engine was pulled wide open, but he failed to get out of range before the revolver was emptied. No blood was drawn, however. The railroader afterward said he did not blame the girl for shooting at him, “but she was too good a marksman to fool with.” BEATEN BY HER RIVAL I heard a good story the other day of two ladies who, it is said, once lived in Chicago and who were social rivals. They were on visiting terms, but devoted much of their time to considering how they could surpass each other in the richness and elaboration of their houses and raiment. In the progress of this pleasant rivalry Mrs. A. gave a grand reception, at which she appeared in a new gown of very fine and wonderful texture, which quite surpassed anything that had ever been made into a dress for a Chicago lady in the whole history of that remarkable town. Everybody saw the incomparable dress and marveled greatly thereat – that is, everybody except the one unconquerable rival, Mrs. B., who gave a reception at her own house a fortnight later, to which the same people were invited who had attended the reception of Mrs. A. The astonishment of the latter may be imagined when, on entering, Mrs. B’s drawing room, she beheld all the upholstered furniture in the room covered with precisely the same material as that of the dress with which she had startled her friends two weeks before. In the language of the street, Mrs. B. “got away with her” that time at least. FOLLOWED HER FATHER’S TRADE “Young ladies breed up in luxury, who by misfortune, are suddenly compelled to support themselves, often invent ingenious methods of making a living,” said a lady prominent in charitable work. “I told you some time ago of the young lady who supported herself by doing the mending for several families. -----very strange, as a woman ---- --------------a coffee merchant, died leaving his family unprovided for. After making a number of unsuccessful ventures, the oldest daughter at last concluded to try her father’s business in a small way. She went to one of his old friends in the coffee business, and he approved the plan and agreed to furnish her the finest coffee at wholesale prices. She then canvassed among private houses for purchasers, and she has met with the greatest success. She supplies the coffee freshly ground and in quantities, and at intervals to suit. She has it put up in one or two pound packages, and people are glad to buy of her, as they get better coffee than they could buy at the grocery stores. It is for her interest to sell and for the purchaser to buy so there is no charity in it. – [New York Sun] THE SON-IN-LAW The typical American mother-in-law is the ideal mother-in-law. She is affectionate, kind, and reasonably indulgent to her son-in-law, and she is devoted to his children, helping to rear and train them in the way they should go, and in sickness being at once, very often, physical, nurse, and ministering angel. There are few deserving sons-in-law in this country who have not an angelic mother-in-law, and to the credit of most Americans, be it said, that the mother-n-law is generally the recipient of a filial affection second only to that rendered to one’s own mother. Every man, almost. looks upon his mother as being worthy of the highest seat in heaven, and blessed indeed is he (and there are many such men) who can in his heart feel that his mother-in-law is entitled to a set by her side. “Worthy and dutiful sons-in-law make loving and sweet-tempered mothers- in-law.” This rule holds good in nine cases out of ten, and certainly that makes it a pretty good one. It would be well for every young man, who is about to take upon himself the important and happy relation of son-in-law, to write the above rule on the tablet of his memory, and redouble the joys and lighten the sorrows of life by so conducting himself as to be, at once and for all time, deserving of the love and confidence of the mother of the wife of his bosom – [Savannah News} FASHION NOTES Tucks, horizontal and perpendicular, are worn. Shoulder capes of knitted silk are light and pretty. Inch-wide stripes are the feature in dress woolers. Jerseys have the high collar and cuffs of marabout chenille. Carved wooden buttons are overlaid with metal of all kinds. Norfolk jackets have one wide plait at the back and one in front. Metal and pearl buttons have buckles and clasps to correspond. Wraps are close fitting, matching the costume in color and fabrics. Some of the new fringes are tipped with sequins and cat’s eyes. Full skirts and round waists are the features of little girls’ frocks. Embroidery decorates the new cotton thin goods in “all over” designs. Dark Russian green and dark plomb or lead are excellent colors for between suits. Very few flowers are seen upon bonnets; the preference is for ribbon and delicate feathers. The new sheet cotton dress fabrics look like old-time bereges, not like lawns or cambries. Feather stitching in silk of contrasting color is employed for trimming costumes for early spring. Wide soutache embroidery is used for trimming silk or woolen costumes and is considered stylish. Belt buckles and clasps set with imitation stones are so handsomely finished that they are classed as jewelry. Bonnets of straw, woolen stufs, canvas, silk, velvet, plush, and broches of various kinds are all in vogue. New woolen come with canvas woven grounds, on which are stripes, bars, and figures of boucle, velvet and plush. Belts of silver are costly novelties’ they are ribbed, chased in rich antique and medieval designs, or are plain. Black silk and fine glossy black alpaca are the materials used for the long petticoat worn under the skirt of street frocks. V-shaped plastrons of velvet are embroidered with beads of corresponding color and are edged with double folds of satin. Very light wool, light colored fabrics, minutely striped or checked, are used for the first spring wraps to be worn in April and May. Cashmere and camel’s hair are used in combination with novelty woolen goods for young women, and with watered silk for older ones. Stripes, bars, and blocks of ---- and boucle threads are seen on some of the new white muslins, and also on the tinted chambrays and zephyrs. Wide, white Hercules braid, fringed and knotted at the ends, form the sash belt falling low on the hips of many frocks for girls of 10 to 13. When hooks and eyes are used to fasten the bodices of dresses they are so placed amid the fulness of the plastron waistcoat as to be invisible. When the sacque-form of frock is used for little girls it is now so trimmed as to simulate a long, round waist and full skirt with high hip draperies. A pretty costume for a young girl is of light mixed woolen material. The bodice is laced down the front over a garnet velvet vest. The back and front draperies are laced at the side with garnet cord, thus forming a panel. Velvet flowers, ostrich tips and ribbon loops have happily superseded the use of birds for millinery purposes. It is quite a relief not to see birds of all sizes and shapes, in all sorts of unnatural positions, placed recklessly upon bonnets and hats. ARE NIAGRARA FALLS RECEDING? The question of the rate of recession of Niagara Falls has often been discussed. In a recent issue of the Pittsburg Dispatch Mr. Ballou treats the matter as a popular fallacy, and says there is no perceptible retrogression of the falls, taking them as a whole. IT is true that in one place –the horseshoe – the recession is visible. This only indicates that the falls are swinging around Goat Island, and will make that a truly wonderful natural structure some day, with perpendicular walls an a roaring circular canon around it. In order to reach Buffalo the falls must displace about twenty- five cubic miles of the hardest limestone rock – a rock that looks as if it had actually been melted and poured into it s place. Twenty-five cubic miles of rock would be sufficient to construct all the buildings on earth, and then rebuild them several times. The face of the entire falls is about one mile long and about 400 feet high above and below the high water. If we accept the average wear along the entire face of the fall at one inch per year we have an annual displacement of 83,000 cubic feet of rock, an amount enormously too large. At this obviously too great annual rate of recession, the falls have been over 1,700,000 years in arriving at their present position, and will requite over 3,000,000 years to get to Buffalo – [Buffalo Commercial] Ad for Warner’s Safe Cure TALKING TO THE TOILERS “Shall we – shall we consent to be slaves!” he said, as he halted before a group of striking painters who were lounging on the City Hall fence Monday afternoon. ”Never!” shouted two or three in chorus. “Of course we won’t!” he continued. “The heel of the oppressor must be taken from our necks! Our forefathers died for liberty and we are ready to follow their examples. “You bet!” “The tyrant Capital must be taught a lesson.” “He must” “From the pine trees of Maine to the rolling surf on the seashore of Texas the laboring man is calling for justice. The worm has at last turned. “That’s so!” “The toilers have risen as one man to demand that capital shall share its profits with the bones and muscle which have made our millionaires. Toilers of the great and glorious West, I—“ “Are you a painter?” suddenly inquired one of the men. “Let me finish. Toilers of the great and glo—“ “Where do you work?” “Say,” he answered, as he came down off his high horse. “How many of you will chip in ten cents apiece to help me on to Chicago where I have a wife and five children?” They run him across the street in such a hurry that his hat fell off, but he turned at the curb, stretched forth his right hand and said: “Toilers of the great and glorious West. Skin lick any two of you with one hand tied behind my back! That’s all – good –bye!” – [Detroit Free Press] AN UNFORTUNATE MAN De Jinks always wanted to say the right thing, but somehow he never could. He had been spending a couple of weeks in a Wisconsin town, and on the evening set for his departure met Miss De Vercy, a very pretty young lady, to whom he had been introduced when first he arrived in the place. “And are you going to night, Mr. De Jinks!” she said. “I’m so sorry we haven’t seem more of you during your stay.” “Pray, don’t mention it.” He returned, with an excess of gallantry. “Indeed it has been all my fault, Miss De Vercy.” A few moments later he saw his mistake, but could find no chance to stone for it, until, as he was about to leave for the depot, one of his friends suggested: “You haven’t’ said “Good bye” to Miss De Vercy, have you?” Here was a chance that was not to be lost. Turning to the fair damsel, with his sweetest and most gracious smile, he said: “Indeed I have, old boy. I had the pleasure of saying “Good-bye” to Miss De Vercy first of all.” And then he went his way, believing he had “done himself proud.” UP AND DOWN IN REAL ESTATE There are living in the edge of Wayland a few years ago a quaint and somewhat original old gentleman of the name of Adams, known to all the neighborhood for miles around by his harmless but sometimes amusing peculiarities. "Gus" Somerby, whose early death a few months ago deprived the Middlesex bar or one of its brightest lawyers, and society of one best of good fellows, used to tell a story about the old gentleman which will bear repeating. The squire was driving toward Wayland early one summer morning, when he discovered Mr. Adams making his way afield, with the necessary haying tools – a jug and a scythe –and stopped to have a chat with him. The soil in that part of the country is very thin and sandy, and the hay crop always light, and the good humored lawyer took occasion to remark upon the fact and to pity the farmers who were obliged to wring a scanty living from such barren acres. The old gentleman heard him patiently for a time but a length broke out. “Look here, squire, you’re wasting your sympathy. I ain’t so cussed poor as you think I am – I don’t own this farm.” Returning toward evening, “Gus” looked out again for the old man, and at length discovered him, crawling on all fours between the scattered haycocks toward home, a method of locomotion rendered necessary by the faithfulness with which he had attended to the jug part of his outfit during the day. Stopping his horse, the lawyer hailed the old gentleman, and offered to come over an assist him to his feet. With as much dignity as his attitude and general situation would permit, the fallen agriculturist waved him away and shouted back: “Keep off o’here! Tain’t sale! The soil’s so thin here, now the crop’s off, that it won’t bear a man endways’ much as ever it’ll do to keep me up flatways!” – [Boston Record] BUTTER OF THE PAST “The Butter of the Future” is the title of an article in an agricultural exchange. But it isn’t the butte of the future, kind friend, that interest us. It is the butter of the past, the way back and mouldering past not long ago the ages which have gone thundering down the corridors and banisters of time and left their butter as the sole reminder of their departed greatness - and strength. Write to us of our daily companion, the butter of the dead past, and we will listen. – [Estelline Bell] A Colton, Cal, citizen tied one end of a rope around his waist the other day, while he lassoed a Texas steer with the other. He thought he had the animal, but at the end of the first hundred-yard heat he found that the steer had him. 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