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THE LAMAR NEWS

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor                VERNON, ALABAMA, JULY 29, 
1886          VOL. III. NO. 39

(TORN)

LOVE AND HAIR DYE – Short Story – [Helen Forest Green]


CONGRESSIONAL MUSICIANS
	Among the members of Congress, Senator Hawley is the best known 
singer.  He has a fine baritone, which he uses to excellent advantage.  The 
Senator’s repertoire is quite extensive, but his favorites are some quaint old 
drinking songs, and in their rendition he is well nigh inimitable.  Senator 
Blackburn, of Kentucky, is a basso, and a good singer he is too.  His favorite 
is “Old Kentucky Home.”  Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, is another singer of 
congressional renown.  His voice is a baritone, and he sings a number of 
selections very nicely.  Not a great while ago he sang his favorite, “A 
Hundred Years Ago” is his committee room, to a company of friends, and they do 
say that it was a magnificent performance.  Brown, of Pennsylvania, has the 
best tenor in Congress, and it has been thoroughly cultivated.  It is a high, 
fine and sweet voice.  Mr. Brown is quite fond of the higher order of music, 
although he sings some plaintive ballads in a manner that would do credit to a 
pro-----.  Hancock, of Kansas, is another tenor.  His voice is not as finely 
cultivated as Brown’s but it is powerful and sonorous.  He would make a good 
chorus singer in a comic ---- were it not for his bald head.  Hanback ---- the 
serio-comic songs of the day.  He belongs to the Elks, and is regular 
attendant upon their meetings.  He can give a grand reception swell as sing a 
song.  Sometimes his selections are of the patriotic order and sometimes they 
partake of the comic, but he seldom sings anything sentimental.  There are 
quite a number of singers in Congress, enough in fact to furnish choruses for 
several opera companies, but the gentlemen mentioned are those who have 
achieved reputations on account of their personal gifts and attainments. – 
[Boston Traveler]

CIRCENSES!
	The greatest modern patron of rough-and-tumble sports is the Prince of 
Baroda, in the province of Guzerat, India.  The revenue of the principality 
exceeds the official expenditure by more than £1,000,000 and nearly the whole 
of that surplus is invested in wheat the old Roman would have called 
circenses – beast shows and trials of strength.  The gulcowar, as the native 
call their prince is in the market for all sorts of circus novelties.  He 
keeps stone-walled stables full of tigers, leopards, cheetahs, and fighting-
dogs, and has a special corps of beat-tamers to train his fighting elephants.  
A present of a specially ferocious brute of that sort is a sure passport to 
his favor.  The monthly elephant fights are generally followed by the contests 
of two legged prize-fighters = pugilists, club-duelists, and butters – 
professionals of the latter school using their heads with the skill of a 
merino ram.  Butting-matches are kept up till one of the champions fall 
stunned; and the fistic encounter, too, would make Mr. Bergh speechless with 
rage, for the boxers use an iron fist-ring very similar to the cestus that 
made the mills of the old Grecian prize-fighters so murderous.  The Barda 
Sullivans would think a bare knuckle match an absurdly tame affair, and that 
their views has made various Saxon converts is proved by the circumstance that 
the gates of the gulavor are attended by crowds of British sportsmen from 
Bombay and Hyderabad. – [Chicago Times]

INSURANCE RISKS IN THE COUNTRY
	“What sort of risks do you steer clear of?” was asked of the loss-
adjuster in the farm department of a well-known insurance company.
	“Creameries, skating-rinks, and, in a great many cases, country school-
houses are declined by our company.  Creameries are generally of tender-box 
construction.  Rinks, while sometimes built securely against loss by fire 
accidents ----started are just now the object of condemnation by the public.  
We in this case are afraid of the incendiary’s torch.  So, too, in the case of 
country school-houses.  The people in the district get a t loggerheads 
regarding the location of the building – some wanting it in one place and some 
in another.  It is finally built; and it is very often the case that some dark 
night it is reduced to ashes.  We keep a special watch on risks of this kind, 
and as soon as we find the people fighting we cancel the policy at once.” – 
[Chicago Tribune]

A DANGEROUS WOMAN – THE NARRATIVE OF A SECRET SERVICE DETECTIVE
A COUNTERFEITER’S WIFE WHO SUCCESSFULLY ASSUMED NUMEROUS DISGUISES
	January 1863, the Secretary of the Treasury was notified that a new 
and dangerous counterfeit on a Cincinnati National Bank had been put afloat in 
Boston.  The Detective Bureau being notified in turn I was detailed on the 
case and left for Boston the same day.  About $2,000 of the queer had been 
floated in one day, and the work had been done by a woman.  At one place she 
had purchased $600 worth of diamonds; at another a $250 gold watch; at another 
a diamond bracelet.  The goods in all cases were such articles as could be 
sold again for at least half their value.
	Each victimized party described her differently.  At the first place 
she was a blonde, plainly dressed.  At the next she was a brown-haired woman 
in mourning; at the third, she had black hair, was showily dressed, and 
claimed relationship to a well-known family.  After a day spent in taking 
notes and making deductions I came to the conclusion that there was only one 
woman in the case, and that she had assumed disguises.  Boston was thoroughly 
searched for her, and I had not yet found a clue when the chief telegraphed me 
that she had appeared in Philadelphia.  I reached that city to find that she 
had purchased $1,600 worth of diamonds at one place and $800 worth at another, 
paying, of course, in the counterfeit bills.  The first jeweler described her 
as a showy woman with gold in her upper front teeth.  The second jeweler 
described her as very plain and demure, and she was sure that she had no gold 
in her teeth.
	I had set out in the belief that I had only one woman to deal with and 
I would not now admit there wet two, and I looked Philadelphia high and low 
for females bearing the description, and at the end of four days received 
another telegram from headquarters.  She had appeared in Pittsburgh, where she 
had made three different purchases of jewelers.  I hastened to the Smoky City 
as soon as possible, and lo! The three descriptions given were so entirely 
different that one was almost sure there were three women at work floating off 
the counterfeits.
	One jeweler had been mashed on his customer, and had therefore taken 
particular notice that her eyes were blue, her hair brown, and her height 
medium.  She had gold in her upper front teeth, and was affected in her ways 
and speech.  The second jeweler wasn’t mashed, but he was an old detective, 
and he noticed that she had brown eyes, dark hair, a mole on her chin, and 
plain, white teeth.  There was nothing affected about her.  The third jeweler 
could swear that she had black hair, gold in her lower teeth, a slight squint 
to one eye, and stammered a bit as she talked.
	I hunted Pittsburgh for three days, but met with no success.  
Believing she would next turn up at Indianapolis, I started for that city 
without orders, taking a sleeping car on a night train.  It was a woman who 
had the lower berth next to mine, and as I looked her over it made up my mind 
that she was a school teacher and an old maid.  She had red hair dressed 
plainly, and paid not the slightest attention to any one.  When the porter 
came to make her berth he placed a rather bulky satchel belong into to her on 
the seat at my feet, and she found a temporary seat at the other end of the 
car.  The jar of the cars jostled the satchel to the floor after a bit, and as 
I stooped over to pick it up, I found the floor covered with wigs, cosmetics, 
small brushes, pieces of crayon and false teeth.  There were three wigs of 
different colors, and two upper and two undersets of teeth.  In one the gold 
was in the upper; in the other it was in the lower.
	Well, you may believe that with my mind full of the mysterious woman 
and her disguise, I was not long in concluding that I had stumbled upon the 
person I wanted.  I replaced the articles in the satchel and walked over to 
her and made known my errand.  She gave me a terrible tongue-lashing and 
called on the passengers for protection, but when I revealed my identify and 
emptied the contents of the satchel on a seat, she gave in.  We got off at 
Stenbenville, and when I had her searched, over $1,000 in the counterfeits was 
brought to light, but her purchases were not to be found, she having slipped 
them to confederates.  She was the wife of the notorious “Black Dan” and the 
pair were the most dangerous couple in America at that time.  We got her 
husband in a week or two, and while he got a sentence of twenty-two years, she 
got ------------attention paid to ladies.

CASTE IN INDIA
	Caste, like a terrible nightmare, is firmly fastened upon the social 
life of India.  It will take generations of civilizing influence to make these 
lethargic people realize that the system is evil.  It is not easy for us to 
understand it.  The following description, by a gentleman in India, shows a 
little of its pernicious working.
	During a severe famine, a man with his wife and child, applied to a 
missionary for help.  They had come from a distance, and were thin and pinched 
with hunger.  Food was at once brought, but, hungry as they were, they would 
not touch it.  The child was one the ground hunting for and eating the raw 
rice that was scattered about the door.  Rice being given them, they commence 
to cook it, but devoured it before it was half done.  They would not lose 
caste by eating food prepared by any one not of their grade.
	There are four principal castes.  The Brahmins, or priests, are the 
highest.  They consider it beneath them to labor.  To tend cattle or to milk a 
cow would be pollution.  Formerly, if a low-caste persona touched them, even 
by accident, they could kill him on the spot with impunity.  The people yield 
to them as superiors as a matter of course.
	When a high-caste man came into a meeting, a whole bench was vacated, 
the occupants taking seats on the floor.  The natives usually travel third-
class on the railway.  These cars are so crowded there is not room to sit 
apart.  This has a tendency to break down caste.
	The railway companies had difficulty in supplying them water to 
drink.  A high-caste man could not drink water brought by a man of lower 
caste.  By employing a high-caste man, all can be supplied.
	In their villages each caste lives by itself.  Each has its own shops, 
or bazaars.  Blow the regular castes are the outcasts – those who have broken 
over some of the various restrictions. – [Youth’s Companion]

AIR-GUNS
The air-gun is simply a pneumatic engine, for the purpose of discharging 
bullets by the elastic force of compressed air.  It is not known exactly when 
or by whom it was first invented, but it was certainly in use in France three 
centuries ago.  It is probable that had not the gunpowder been discovered at 
so early a date air guns might have been made very effective.  They are 
usually made in the form of muskets, having a hollow stock, which is filled 
with compressed air from a force-pump.  The lock is nothing more than a valve, 
which lets into the barrel a part of the compressed air from the stock when 
the trigger is pulled.  The gun is loaded with wadding and bullet in the 
ordinary way, and the bullet is driven from the barrel by the expansive action 
of the air.  The range of the gun depends upon its size and the amount and 
degree of compression of the air.  The velocity of the bullet is proportioned 
to the square foot of the degree of compression of the air.  Under the 
pressure of fifty atmospheres, or 750 pounds, for instance, the impulse given 
to the ball is almost equal to that of an ordinary charge of gunpowder.  Air-
guns are sometimes made in the form of walking sticks, so they can be readily 
used for purposes of defense.  Airguns are generally regarded as somewhat 
unsafe, but it is not known that any law has even been enacted against them.  
In the hands of inexperienced or malicious persons they are capable of doing 
much mischief.  [Inter-Ocean]

A VERY RICH MAN
Mr. William K. Vanderbilt is extremely particular about his wearing apparel.  
He has a French valet, who looks after all his belongings and chooses his ties 
and shoes.  His clothing is all made in London and sent to New York every 
three months by order.  He wears a costly diamond ring on his small finer and 
small diamond studs when in full dress.  He invariably wears a high silk hat, 
and, like most blondes, looks his best when in a full dress suit.  He has a 
pleasant baritone voice for singing, and is a member of St. Bartholomew’s, 
like his brother, Cornelius.

“SL”
A correspondent of the Pall Mall remarks that all words beginning with “sl” 
have in some degree a second rate or bad quality about them.  “Look through 
the dictionary,” he says, “and you will not find one that is quite first rate, 
for “sleep,” which is about the best of them, is after all half-way to death, 
and the great majority of those words are more or less disgusting as well as 
degraded.”

Little maiden (who is spending the afternoon with her aunt) – Auntie, Mother 
said I must not ask you for something to eat, but I’m awful hungry.

A WIDER VISION – Poem – [George Lancestar]

HUMOROUS
When a business house is in a “shaky” condition is it proper to speak of it as 
a firm?

A petrified clock has been found in Rome.  Another indication of hard times.

Every man has some hobby, and every girl looks forward to the time when she 
will have a hubby.

There is any amount of good reading in the dictionary, but it is distributed 
in a very tantalizing manner.

The husband many boast of “holding the reins,” but it’s generally the wife 
that says where the wagon is going.

Now is the time that the straw hat smiles because it did not succeed in its 
desire last November to make itself felt.

A carp said to be 268 years old has been taken out of the river Spree.  This 
shows that fish can stand sprees better than men can.

It is reported that Henry Bergh is carrying his sympathies for animals so far 
that he is cultivating a bald spot on his heard as a pasture for flies.

More than four thousand devices for coupling have been patented, and yet 
thousands of bachelors and maidens go it alone in this country.

Mistress – Why, Delia, what in the world have you done?  Delia – Shure, ma’am, 
the master said the gas was leaking, and I put up the pail to catch it.

Joy never kills.  A man has even been known to survive the shock of finding a 
forgotten five-dollar bill in the watchpocket of his last summer’s pantaloons.

A lady who has lost a pet canary bird by death was inconsolable until somebody 
suggested that she have it stuffed and put on her bonnet.  She is now as happy 
as ever.

A number of Philadelphia ladies have formed an association to do all kinds of 
mending for bachelors.  They will find it a difficult matter to mend the 
bachelor’s habits.

“What a murderous looking villain the prisoner is!” whispered the old lady to 
her husband in the police court room.  “I’d be afraid to get near him.” “Sh!” 
warned her husband, “that isn’t the prisoner, he hasn’t been brought in yet.  
It’s the judge.”

MILK AS A BEVERAGE
A St. Louis milkman tells a Globe-Democrat reporter that “milk is the latest 
craze in the drinking line. The fluid was made fashionable by Miss Ellen 
Terry, the actress I understand, who drank it freely, when the Anglomaniacs 
followed her example because it was so English, you know.” Now it is sold in 
saloons and drug stores, and there are lunch houses like Delicatessen, each of 
which retain as high as 125 gallons a day, by the glass.  Think of one place 
selling 125 gallons of milk a day to drinkers.  Such a thing would not have 
been dreamt of five years ago.  The popularity of milk as a beverage is due to 
the fact that it is not only fattening, but that it is a stimulant also., and 
a better vitalizer than any phosphate or other medicines the doctors can 
prescribe for you.  It stimulates without intoxicating, which is a further 
recommendation for it.”

A HARD QUESTION IN ARITHMETIC (Can’t read)

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY JULY 29, 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
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

Vote for no man who is opposed to having his official acts criticized.

General Green’s reign in Alabama is about over.  No more military man can 
stand against the warfare of the farmer.

The Courier says the News don’t know how to run a grand campaign.  The fact is 
we do know more about running a weekly newspaper than we do about running a 
campaign sheet.

Are the members of the Christian Church going to take Rev. J. B. Huckabee’s 
advice and vote for George C. Almon? – Fayette Journal
	Are the members of the Christian Church going to forget that J. B. 
Sanford helped to lock the Rev. CHARLIE WHEELER out of a church in 
Fayetteville, and take the Journal’s; advice.

A blacksmith was summoned as a witness in court in a case between two of his 
workmen.  The Judge, after hearing the testimony, asked him why he did not 
advise them to settle, as the cost had already amounted to three times the 
disputed sum.  He replied: “I to t-told the fo- fool’s to se–e-etle for I said 
the co-o-nstable would ta-k-k-ke their coats, the lawyer their sh-ir-ts, and 
if they got into your honor’s court you’d sk-k-kin ‘ em.

Men who are not willing to submit their official acts to the public for 
criticism are not the men to hold office in this country.  He would do for 
Russia, but not for free America.  American citizens look upon officials as 
their servants and not their masters, and claim the right to look into their 
acts and doings.  Think of this, follow citizens, when you deposit your vote 
next Monday.  Be careful whom you call to be your public servant.  Be sure you 
do not select men who will boss the town and county; and run it in the 
interest of a ring.

THE STATEMENT OF THE LAMAR DELEGATES WELL NAMED
“We publish on the first page of today’s paper a history of the gigantic fraud 
perpetrated upon the people of this district at Hamilton., May 12.  It is 
signed by the Lamar delegates, and its truthfulness cannot be questioned.” – 
Fayette Journal
	At last you have named it well and true, it is signed and bolstered by 
the Lamar delegates.  We have intimated that the statement of the Lamar 
delegates was not a clean thing, but the Journal has called it by its right 
name – a “gigantic fraud.”  This no doubt is the same editor who said early in 
the controversy, that the action of the Lamar and Fayette delegates was caused 
either by “emotions” insanity, or by a shot gun.”  Since then this young man 
has not been allowed to write for the Journal, until the above paragraph.  But 
the despairing fellow has been kept in the dark and fed with a spoon, so to 
speak, until he thinks the bolters will carry the day.  But now really young 
man, that fraud has not been perpetrated, for on next Monday, you will see the 
thing, though gigantic at first, died a feeble death.  No Sir, the Lamar and 
Fayette delegates gigantic fraud won’t be perpetrated.  The high handed ….
(CAN”T READ)…..you have surely taken the reins in your hands and called things 
by their right names. ‘Tis true you have missed the tense of the verb but then 
you are not let go out much and we admire your fairness, or stupidity, we 
don’t know which.

THE LAMAR BRAVES
	“Then they prevented the Lamar delegates from acting with them by 
hissing, jeering and confusion and would not permit them to vote” – T. B. 
Nesmith in last week’s Courier.
	“And would not permit them to vote,” and would not permit them to 
vote!  Ten fat men from Lamar, some of whom have fattened out of the Public 
crib kept from voting by eleven little men from Marion and Franklin?  Shame on 
you Lamar?  Once when your men were called to arms they added a lustre to the 
bravery which has always distinguished your people.  But alas!  The times have 
changed.  At one time your men stood at their posts but now when the vote is 
to be taken they are out on the Summons grazing with Old Sorrell!  Ah! My dear 
Sir, you could pick up your turtle-shell shaped hat and cry “Come On Lamar” 
when you had a crowd that knew your voice’; but you are a stranger now.  You 
are a stranger in the ranks now and a stranger to good logic and reasoning.
	Again he says: “The eleven delegates from Marion and Franklin 
voluntarily absented themselves, but that was a voluntary act on their part of 
themselves and in no way effects the legality of the convention.”  True, true, 
but you remember that the convention had been held and that Lamar and Fayette 
voluntarily withdrew from the legitimate convention and that their withdrawal 
does not affect the legality of the convention.  Your logic on the whole in 
snot so bad, but in your reasoning, you get everything on wrong.  Apply your 
argument in the proper place and where are you?  Left.  And so you will be on 
next Monday night when the people will tell you how it is.  Lamar won’t come 
on any more.  Old Surrell, fare thee well.

COST OF THE WHITE HOUSE
	Most people think that the $50,000 a year which the President gets as 
his salary is the sum total.  This is a mistake.  The estimate of the sum this 
year lies open at the page relating to the President.  We see that  $36,094 is 
asked for him.  In addition to his salary of $50,000, to pay the salaries of 
his subordinate and clerks.
	His private secretary is paid $3,256.  His assistant private secretary 
$2,250, his stenographer $1,000, five messengers each $1,200, a steward 
$1,800, two doorkeepers who each get $1,200, four other clerks at good 
salaries, one telegraph operator, two ushers getting $1,200 and $1,400, a 
night usher getting $1,300, a watchman who gets $900, and a man to take care 
of fires who receives $864 a year.
	In addition to this there is set down $8,000 for incidental expenses, 
such as stationery, carpets, and the care of the President’s stables.  And 
further on, under another heading, there is demand for nearly $10,000 more.  
Of this $12,500 is for repairs and furnishing the White House, $2,500 for 
fuel, $3,000 is for the green house, $15,000 is for gas, matches, and the 
stables.  The White House, all told, costs the country, in connection with the 
President, considerably over $125,000 a year.

ALL ABOARD FOR THE ELECTION
	This week ends the canvass, and perhaps many of our readers are 
anxious to know about the situation.  We are gratified to say that what change 
there had been is in favor of Judge Almon, despite the dying groans and curses 
of the ring.  They have left no stone unturned but all to no purpose, and so 
transparent was their efforts that scored of times they drove voters from 
Sanford.  Misrepresentations, after misrepresentations, tricks, threats and 
promises have been made to the voters of Lamar county to turn their votes 
where the Sanford ring wished. But alas!  For dumpling Johnny, that voters of 
Lamar county have quit being voted by a few men, and all a man has to do to be 
defeated in this county is to try to get a man or two to boss a beat.  Such a 
canvass in this county means a defeat.  We have a voting population in this 
county that is the peer of any county in the state of Alabama.  They need no 
bosses to tell them what is right and proper under the circumstances.  The 
good and conservative voters of Lamar are standing shoulder to shoulder and a 
new order of things will prevail, and may the day speed on.
	Letter have been sent purporting to be from Franklin county telling 
what a vote Sanford would get there but strange to say those letters all post 
marked in Fayette, and the truth is they have never seen Franklin county.  
There are bout two thousand voters in Franklin County and Judge Almon will get 
eighteen hundred of them.  They are anxious to tell you that there is a 
farmer’s Wheel in Franklin all for Sanford.  The fact is that the Wheel is 
composed of a great number of Judge Almon’s personal friends and the Wheel is 
solid for Almon.
	When the ring wants to ---- letters, see that the post mark from 
Franklin and that the dates ---pond and who from and if this is ---- regular 
you may conclude that they have just gotten up to the trick ---- and that 
there is not truth to it.
	Fortunately there are no doubts the Thomases in the Almon ranks; for 
of all the vile trash ever heaped upon the cause of any man none has ever come 
within in a league of the vain tricks resorted to by the Sanford guard.
	To the friends of Judge Almon we say, fi there is division among you 
about other offices and men let that go, but come squarely to the front at 
this important time and bury ring rule and beat bosses so deep that they will 
never rise again.  We don’t need any such in this county.  The majority for 
Judge Almon will be over Two Thousand Votes.  Mark the assertion.  Fayette 
will come to the front with a majority of five hundred votes, Lamar will fall 
into line with as much, Marion with eight hundred and Franklin, alas! For you 
Dumpling Johnny, you have been a Democrat for office, and of your sort there 
is a poor stand.  Our Almon roosters want to be locked in the forms this 
week.  Their crowing is almost unbearable, but next week we will let ’em crow.

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J. B. MACE, Jeweler, Vernon, Alabama.  (Picture of watch)  Dealer in watches, 
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THE VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, Under the Principalship of J. R. BLACK, will open 
October 5, 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
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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.

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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) 

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY JULY 29, 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
All aboard!

Keep cool.

Let ‘em crow.

“Come on Lamar.”`

Sanford unhitched.

All for the best.

Almon not Sanford.

“All for the farmer.”

Get on the old ship, boys.

Grand rally next Saturday.

All aboard for the election.

SQUIRE HANKINS will treat the “boys” on cider and watermelons Tuesday.

Beautiful rains have fallen in this immediate vicinity this week.

Prayer meeting last night.

Miss DELIA WARD, of Jasper, is the guest of Miss MAGGIE MORTON.

Send in your orders for the book on the “Wonderful Girl.”

Bring on your cider and watermelons.

Rev. JAS T. MILLER, who was on this circuit in ’78 and ’79, is circulating 
among friends in town.

The celebrated Pickney Jack of Franklin has chewed the mane of the Old Sorrell 
of Lamar completely off.

Come to town on Saturday more than half the voters of the county will be here.

The next district conference of the Luxapilila District will be held in Vernon.

The right of way on the Kansas City Road will be cleared out within the next 
twenty days.

The weeds have been cut down on about three acres, on Court House Square, to 
make room for the Almon men to stand next Saturday.

Messrs Evans & Sims, representatives of the New Orleans Picayune, were in our 
town yesterday writing on “the Wonderful Girl “ for the leading dailies of 
this country and Europe.

A controversy over a public school in the Walnut Grove neighborhood was 
settled by burning the church down Wednesday night.
(TORN)

….ord man from Marion ….us yesterday and said …. At the “jig” was up with 
Sanford.  That there was no use in kicking that the thing had fallen on 
Almon’s side.

The camp meeting at Perry’s campground will commence on Saturday before the 
2nd Sunday in August.  Camp meetings are recommended for a few gentlemen who 
have been in politics of late.

The following names have been added to our subscription list this week:  J. M. 
PENNINGTON, C. H. HOLLIMAN, J. R. HANKINS and ABNER PENNINGTON.

Mrs. S. E. SMITH and daughter Mrs. O. A MCNUTT, little EDNA and OLENA left on 
Tuesday last for Tuskaloosa.  Being suddenly called to the bedside of Mr. T. 
C. SMITH, son of Mrs. SMITH, who is dangerously ill.  No tidings from them as 
yet and can only hope for the best.

Enter in at the right door – Goods cheaper than ever before: Sorghum 25 cts 
per gallon cash.  Two rips mare and horse to sell or trade for oxen.   – E. W. 
BROCK.  June 20, 1886

NOT DIVIDED – Mr. MING MOSLEY called on us yesterday and said they were having 
a big revival of religion in his neighborhood, and that there was no division 
among voters for State Senators over his way.

A very reliable and influential gentleman called on us Monday and told us that 
he had been all over the county and that the Senatorial race was somewhat 
mixed.  The fact is said he, Almon will not get much over nine-tenths of the 
votes in the county.

Prof. …. MILLER of Vail’s Beat tells us that …. Moscow Almon Roosters have 
spread and multiplied until they have gained the victory in Vail’s beat and 
the little Sanford chicks have “skipt.”

It is said that the corps of surveyors of the Kan. City Road are almost as 
great curiosities as the Ga. Pacific surveyors were to the people of Fayette 
C. H.  When a railroad man would come to town in those days a crowd of twenty 
or thirty leading citizens would get after him and follow him whithersoever he 
went.

The one-idead editor of the Vernon Courier shows himself to be as incapable of 
arguing a political question intelligently, as he is to truthfully state his 
position between the candidates before the convention was held. – [Marion 
Herald]

LAMAR IS ON A BOOM
	The Kansas City Road is being located from Quincy, Miss, through 
Lamar; crossing Buttahatchie near where the river crosses the State Line, and 
runs up the south side of the river and then up Beaver Creek.
	The right of way will be cut in ten days.  Large parties of hands are 
daily passing through this county for the road.  There is nothing that can 
keep Lamar from being one of the best counties in the state.  The political 
excitement with new rail roads and other strange happenings keep things 
considerable mixed.

Comanche Co., Texas, July 6
Editor of News:
	The oldest settlers of Comanche County have never witnessed such a 
drouth (sic) as we have now.  But very little rain has fallen since June ’85.  
There are twelve counties including Comanche that have made a complete failure 
in crops.
	Not a bushel of corn, wheat, or oats has been made and very poor 
chance for cotton.  Fifty per cents of the cattle have died for want of food 
and water.  Immigrants will turn eat instead of west this fall.  Success to 
the News.
- D. T. WHEELER

ITEMS OF INTEREST
Greensboro has a twelve fingered negro named RICHARD COPRICH.

The Hon. THOS. SEAY is making a thorough canvass of the state.

Some of the nominees of the State Prohibition Convention refuse to accept the 
honor.

A fine question between Calera and Talladega is, where will the Columbus and 
Goodwater Extension cross the E. T. V. & G. Railroad.

A carp said to be 208 years old has been taken out of the river spree.  This 
shows that fish can stand spree better than an editor can.

(TORN)

……..PENNINGTON
To the Lamar News:
	In this my second letter in regard to Miss MOLLIE PENNINGTON, I will 
first correct three slight deviations you made from the manuscript of my first 
letter.  First, she told them that Dr. Burns was coming, they told her he 
would not come until morning.  She said he did not think he would come but he 
would be there soon.  Dr. Burns did not expect to go but being called to see a 
patient neat by did call on her.  When he arrived, she said there, I told you 
he was coming.  Second, she named Mrs. BICKERSTAFF who had been buried that 
morning, not whose burying I had officiated as minister.  Third, that I had 
not saw her in four or five years that I know of.  This is not very material, 
but as I vouch for what I write, I prefer it just as it is.
	After he baptism nothing special occurred until Sabbath evening 
following at preaching, she went off into a state similar to three following.  
The first when she revived was very happy, talked to those present and said 
she must suffer more and would talk the following evening at four o’clock, and 
sent out for the people to come and hear.  A large concourse of people 
assembled.  At the time, when she revived from the aforesaid similar state, 
she called the ladies and particularly the young girls to her one by one and 
lectured them on the sin of pride.  Told them it was a sin to bang their hair, 
to wear bustles, hoops, or hats.  That these fashions were an abomination in 
the sight of God and was ruining the world; that it was her duty to tell them 
so.  It seemed to be great pain and a heavy cross for her to tell them so. She 
labored hard to extort a promise from all to quit it.  Some agreed, others 
like some of Christ’s disciples, turned back and said, who is sufficient for 
that?  The Devil being present took in the situation – made a grand charge and 
gained a great victory for many, who said, just as I expected all a farce. 
Glory to the Devil!  She’s going deranged. (Selah)  She talked on until about 
midnight.  With great joy and happiness she has talked several times, shouted 
and sang from six to eight hours at a time without the slighter injury.  She 
talked Tuesday and Wednesday nights following, saying many strange things, 
convincing many that God was in the child working wonders.  Again on Sabbath 
evening following while in a similar state and while the preacher was 
preaching, she told some one to tell the preacher to stop and listen, pointing 
up and saying she heard a voice.  At that moment her jaws were locked and she 
was carried to a neighbor’s house, and late in the night when her jaws became 
unlocked, she talked with telling effect to all present, saying she would talk 
next morning, which she did, with power, convincing and telling effect.  
Giving out she would talk at home at three in the evening, telling me she 
could hardly get home, that it seemed that every bone in her would burst.  
Said if the preacher had stopped son enough he could have heard the voice, but 
could not have known what it said.  Some of this last I did not hear but vouch 
for all I write.  She said to me if I had been there I could have heard the 
voice but could not have known its meaning.  I was a little after three 
arriving in the evening, but when I arrived her jaws were locked and could 
only make motions, in which condition she remained about one hour, during this 
time I will not try to describe my thoughts and feelings, for I could not.  
When she commenced to talk, how glad would I have been had all of those been 
present who had gone back in unbelief, yea and all the world.  I am certain 
all doubts would have been removed form every one who had one spark of 
humanity remaining in them.  Her grief seemed almost unendurable, praying God 
in trust and anguish of heart to bring something upon the people that would 
make them believe, saying she had suffered miseries no tongue could tell for 
the people, that her pillow had been hard but thanked God it would in death be 
soft and her rest would be sweet in Heaven, exhorted sinners to repent or in 
death their pillows would be hard and their miseries eternal.
	She tells the fashionable ladies who wear bustles, that if they had 
been made that way they would seek some great Doctor to take them off.  Many 
visit her and ministers and all ask many hard questions, and she has always 
gained the victory and gives satisfaction.  She is a great puzzle to skeptics 
and unbelievers, but the power of God to believers.
	I am writing facts such as I am ready to prove.  I have not written 
all by a great deal, and may write again.
	Yours truly,
	T. W. SPRINGFIELD

Election next Monday

ALL FOR THE FARMER
	Below we give a copy of a bill introduced in the House of 
Representatives by J. B. Sanford Democratic Bolter for State Senate.
	The proper title is “An Act to Make the Practice of Law Easy and 
Convenient.”   Mr. Sanford has resorted to several subterfuges to get out of 
the responsibility of this Bill but they have all failed.  His last excuse was 
that it was introduced for a friend but he don’t seem to remember his name.  
This however won’t hold water for no one but a lawyer would have wanted such a 
bill and he would have introduced it for himself just as Mr. Sanford did.  The 
effect of the amendment would have been to have given Justices in the Court 
House beats Jurisdiction all over  the county and when a lawyer in Vernon 
would get a claim in Millville or Vails Beat to collect he would just bring 
suit at the court house and let the debtor do the riding and he would pocket 
the fee. 
	Section I. Petit enacted by the General Assembly of Alabama.  That 
Section 5606 of the Code be amended so as to read as follows:
	Sections 3606 (3207) suit brought in precinct of defendants residence, 
or where cause of action arose; Unless in action brought before a Justice of 
the Peace for the precinct in which the court-house of the county is located, 
or in cases otherwise provided for in this tile, no person can be sued out of 
the precinct of his permanent residence or of that in which the debt was 
created, or cause of action arose; And if suit be brought contrary to the 
provisions of this section it must on motion, be dismissed by the Justice.
	Section 2.  Be is further enacted, that said sections, 3606 (5207) of 
the Code of Alabama as it now stands, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
	I, C. C. Langdon, Secretary of State hereby certify that the foregoing 
is a true and correct copy of the original Bill now on file in my office.
	Witness my hand and Great Seal of State at office in the city of 
Montgomery, this 5th day of June, A. D. 1886.
	C. C. Langdon, Sec. Of State.

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

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.

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.

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) a ---- Well improved; one 
hundred and twenty-five (125) acres under --- fence, two hundred (200) acres 
of good tenable land; well timbered, plenty of good water and one of the 
healthiest localities in Lamar County.  I have lived on it for the past ten 
years and there has not been a chill in my family during that time.  If you 
want the best and cheapest plantation in this country, now's your time to get 
it.  It can be bought for $5 an acre.  For further particulars address, J. 
WESLEY CLEARMAN, Vernon, Ala 

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
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 Commissioners 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 CHAFFIN 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

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.

PHOTOGRAPHS –  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 Collins Ague Cure 

Ad for New Home Sewing Machine

Ad for Avery Sewing Machine

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LADIES DEPARTMENT

ARCHITECTURE FOR WOMEN
Southern papers suggests architecture as a profession for women.  There are 
magnificent and costly houses whose kitchen arrangements are a marvel of 
inconvenience; and the woman of the house often says with a groan:  “No woman 
would have planned things so.”  By all means let women be architects.  They 
would naturally make better architects than men, for the reason that they have 
more practical knowledge of convenience and economy, especially in the 
arrangement of dwellings and other buildings appropriated wholly or in part to 
the use of their sex.  There are, or could be, a thousand little intricacies 
about our homes which the masculine mind could never conceive, but which would 
add immeasurably to the comfort and convenience of the tidy, ambitious 
housewife.  Since the trace of a woman’s hand is so easily discernible in 
indoor decorations and adornments, why should she not cultivate and develop 
this, as any other talent, giving to her varied genius a wider field of 
activity and usefulness. – [Chicago Times]

FINE STRING OF PEARLS
Three strings of pearls recently shown in this city were valued at $3,200, 
$2,200 and $1,500, respectively, without the pretty diamond clasps which 
fastened them.  The pearls were graduated, and of beautiful color and shape, 
but as one must be a poet to love Spencer, one must be accustomed to jewels to 
appreciate the refined beauty of peals, and half the women who saw the three 
necklaces and some rival diamonds which blazed near them in another necklace 
would have chosen the diamonds if not informed of their comparative 
cheapness.  The cost of this pretty bauble was $750, and it was as pretty band 
of stones in a light gold settling, but it had a star pendant, with a great 
sapphire in the center, which added two-thirds more to the price, and was a 
beautiful ornament by itself.  The combinations of diamonds and colored stones 
are also very fine this season, not only in the pendants but also in rings.  
One of the latter, win which a turquoise as big as a humming-bird’s egg is 
surrounded by diamond sparks, is pretty enough to figure in one of Mrs. 
Spofford’s stories. – [Boston Transcript]

WHY ENGLISHMEN SEEK AMERICAN WIVES
The popular taste over on the other side of the water appears to be growing 
more and more warm toward America and Americans.  The wealthy and titled men 
of the Old World are seeking with increased earnestness American brides, and 
it is erroneous to suppose that all they are after is the parental boodle.  
There is a charm about American girls that the English do not have.  The women 
of Great Britain are brought up from their earliest infancy to maintain a 
submissive and meek regard for the other sex.  They are taught that the only 
thing in life for them is to marry comfortably and go into a sort of serfdom 
for the rest of their lives.  No American girl goes into matrimony with any 
such idea.  She is bound to get the upper hand if she can, and she has a sweet 
and ….. independence about her that is most attractive to men who have met 
with nothing but the other sort of thing.  So it is that American girls, who 
at first shocked foreign society, are in great demand in Europe nowadays as 
ornaments to saloons and drawing-rooms and as prospective to nabob natives -–
[Baltimore American]

FAITHFUL CHRISTINE
	Christine Oben was the daughter of a toy maker in Stockholm, and she 
was loved by Hansen, on e of her father’s workmen.  She loved Hansen, but her 
father would not let the lovers marry, and so Hansen said he would go to 
America and make a big fortune and then marry Christine.  He landed at Castle 
Garden with about $200, and set about getting work.  He did a little at ….., 
but not much, and almost before he knew it his money was gone and he was out 
of work.  This was six-teen months ago.  Up to that time he had written 
regularly and hopefully to the girl in Stockholm, and when his letter stopped 
she was much troubled.  After waiting several months she determined to seek 
for Hansen.  Her father had died, and after the debts were all paid Christine 
had a few hundred dollars left.
	When she reached this city she found a man who had know Hansen, and 
who thought that he had gone to San Francisco.  Christine bought a ticket for 
San Francisco.  At Chicago a confidence man persuaded her to sell her ticket 
to San Francisco and buy one for Omaha.  He said that he knew Hansen well, and 
that he was in Omaha.  The girl did as advised, and then the new friend robbed 
her of her money excepting $5.  This was all she had when she reached Omaha 
eight months ago.  Of course Hansen was not there.  Christine found a place to 
work, saved her wages, and still tried in all ways to learn of Hansen.  Two 
weeks ago she heard from him.  He was in Kansas City.  She at once set out for 
that city, and a few days later her former mistress in Omaha received a letter 
from her saying that she and Hansen were married and very happy. – [New York 
Sun]

FLOWERS AND THE HOME
	Miss Ella Lytle in an essay before the Montgomery Horticultural 
Society of Missouri thus prettily treats the question of house adornments:
	The love of the beautiful has been implanted by a beneficent Creator 
in every human breast.  It finds expression in the admiration of all that is 
lovely and charming in nature and art, and it prompts men, and especially 
women, to the adornment of their persons and their natural surroundings.
	The love of the beautiful has caused men to travel thousands of miles, 
to endure fatigue, hardship, and, even more, to risk life itself that they 
might gaze from some lofty mountain-peak, if but an hour or two, upon the 
exquisite beauty of a panorama spread out at their feet – upon a real picture 
painted in indescribable colors by God Himself.
	Flower-gardening has its charms, and that class of gardening which 
deals with landscape effects ins delightful.  I shall not try to have a flower 
garden this summer for the want of space, but shall exert myself to have a few 
choice houseplants and some real nice mounds of flowers in the yard.  I find 
that early in the morning before sunrise is the best time to pull weeds, whim 
the dew is yet on the flowers and weeds.  A woman can very easily, and without 
much bore, cultivate a few flowers, a sufficiently for home adornment.
	Woman was made to beautify and grace the home; to there perform that 
invisible work which, although less prominent, is necessary both to life and 
happiness.  The home is, in the majority of cases, her field of action;’ and 
the home is the center of joy.
	Then let each wife and mother have a place at their homes for the 
cultivation of flowers.  They will reward us with both beauty and fragrance.  
The progress of our race is indicated by the care of flowers.  How they twine 
themselves to our hearts when sad and alone.

A NEW WRINKLE IN FASHIONABLE SOCIETY
The fertile brain of the new York girl who pants for new worlds to conquer has 
hit upon fancy riding as a novel form of amusement, which leaves tennis and 
the gymnasium far behind.  Clubs are formed and a teacher engaged who has had, 
usually, an early career under the canvas and is skilled in various intricate 
branches of the equestrian art.  The pupils meet at a riding ring, and New 
York’s fairest daughters are taught to hop gracefully into the saddle without 
the assistance of a friendly hand, to dispense with the saddle altogether, to 
ride without bit or bridle, to keep an unshaken seat while their pet horses 
are trained to dance and bob and kneel and jump.  The New York girls begin by 
beginning good horse women, says a corespondent of the San Francisco Post, and 
take to their new pastime with natural delight.  Their success is dear to 
them, and a great rivalry exists between the various clubs which 
give “afternoons” for the purpose of paralyzing each other with envy.  The 
riders wear the conventional short, dark habit and tall hat and colors of the 
club on their whips.  Parties are made up for club afternoons, and the invited 
guests are permitted to take to any point of wild enthusiasm their fancy may 
suggest.  The men wear the club colors in their buttonholes, the girls tie 
them on the handles of their parasols, the “Queen of the Ring” receives 
frantic applause and responds to encores, and the whole affair is novel, 
exciting, and something like the circus, except that it is ultra-fashionable.

FASHION NOTES
Pale bronze is a new color in goods.

Black stockings continue in high favor.

Colored straw sailor hats are worn by children.

The beads composing silver necklaces are of one size.

Gauze ribbons are included in the new millinery goods.

Crepe lisse (sic) and colored tulle are favorite fabrics for millinery.

Silver buttons have the head of Augustus etched upon them.

The season’s silks are very handsome and there is a great variety.

Large tortoise-shell buttons are adorned with heraldic lions in silver.

The veil is now to be tied just above the mouth and under the nose.

Trimmed skirts are still fashionable, and overskirts continue in favor.

Gauze woven of metallic thread is used for the foundation of small bonnets.

Persian lace, a species of dainty drawn work, is used for trimming dresses.

Silver buckles are all sizes and designs, hammered, etched, chased, or frosted.

Soft Corah silks are in great variety of patterns put up in seven yard lengths.

Cherries, berries, hips, and haws are among the newest decorations for bonnets 
and hats.

Crinkled seersuckers appear in new colors, and have every appearance of silk 
in their manufacture.

A cambric dress for a little child has the round bodice plated with revers of 
embroidery.  The skirt of wide embroidery is shirred on the bodice.  A cluster 
of loops and ends of ribbon is arranged on the right side of the waist.

CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS
The largest ventilating fan in the world is in the St. Hilda Colliery, South 
Shields, Wales.  Its diameter is fifty feet.

A common advertisement in English papers is: “Wanted, by a lady of good 
connection, the management of a first-class bar.”

According to the London Practical Confectioner, “the potato introduced in 
England in 1605 was first eaten as a sweetmeat, stewed in sack wine and sugar."

In China and Japan girls are named after some beautiful natural object, and 
such names are common as Cherry-flower, Peach-blossom, Plum-blossom, Bamboo-
leaf, Pine-woods, Sugar, etc.

The vault of the Cloaca Maxium, the great sewer of ancient Rome dates from the 
sixth century B. C., but it shows, even at this early period, a perfection 
which gives evidence of long previous use.

In Italy a living scorpion is dropped into a wide glass bottle which contains 
a few drops of olive oil of the finest quality.  More oil is poured on 
instantly, until the bottle is filled and the scorpion dead.  In its struggles 
to free itself it ejects all its poison into the oil, and this poisoned oil 
forms a sovereign remedy for the sting of a scorpion.

When a batch of bread was made in the household of the Hebrews, Syrians and 
other Oriental races, a piece of the dough was made into a cake and baked 
under the ashes in order to be presented as an offering to the priest.  This 
was called mamphula in the Syrian language, whence the word, and probably the 
custom itself, was adopted by the ancient Romans.

It was customary in oriental countries for lovers to testify the violence of 
their passions by cutting themselves in the sight of their adored ones, and 
the fashion seems to have been adopted in England about 300 years ago, when 
young men frequently stabbed their arms with daggers, and mingling the blood 
with wine, drank it off to the health of their enslavers.

Earrings, according to Biblical record, were worn by women from the earliest 
times, but by men more rarely.  Hebrew slaves, indeed, suffered their ears to 
be bored as a figure of their optional servitude, but no ornament was worn in 
the holes thus made.  Xenophon informs us the males of Lybia were often 
subject to reproach on account of their earrings, and that in Greece females 
alone wore ornaments.

GETTING MONEY
	A story is told about one of Nashville’s bankers.  The perpetrator of 
the joke was once active in financial matters.  He is not as wealthy, however, 
as he used to be, and finding himself in immediate need of some cash the other 
day, he walked into his former banker’s office.  After declining an invitation 
to be seated, he said:  “You remember in former times my paper was worth par.  
I could raise any amount needed by the simple process of affixing my name to a 
note.  You were kind and courteous to me then.  It was Good Morning, Mr.---.  
But times have changed.  I am hard up now, but I have a scheme on foot by 
which I can retrieve my lost fortune if I can raise the requisite amount.  The 
investment is safe, there being no risk whatever.  I want you to let me have 
$10,000.
	The banker looked steadily out of the window for a few minutes, rubbed 
his hands, and said he was really sorry, but it would be impossible to let the 
gentleman have the sum mentioned.
	The would-be borrower, not the least abashed by the refusal, 
said:  “Well, I might make out with $54,600 for the present.”  The banker 
again declined to advance the cash, explaining that money matters were 
stringent.  The visitor turned to go, and, with a shrug of the shoulders, 
said:  “Well, that’s the way of the world.  If I had come and asked for the 
loan of $10 you would have refused.”
	“No, you are mistaken.  I would have let you have it.”
	“Well, lend me that amount, if you feel like it.”
	With an “I-am-sold” smile the banker produced his plethoric purse, 
fished out a $10 bill and handed it over. – [Nashville Banner.]

IN THE NIGHT WATCHES
	The clock was one the stroke of twelve and old man Stuffey was 
awakened by muffled voices in the hall below.
	“Wife,” he said, “what is that?”
	“It’s Sary and her young man, “ replied the wife.
	“Taint morning, is it?” he asked.
	“I don’t know what time it is.”
	“I will see about this,” he said, getting up and putting on his boots.
	In a few minutes his wife heard a dull thud down stairs, and shortly 
after the old man returned.
	“I am not an astronomer,” he said, and I cannot explain it, but I saw 
the Son rise a few moments ago, and it is now midnight.”
	Then he looked reflectively down at the toe of his boot, took them 
both off, blew out the light and went back to bed. – [Merchant Traveler]

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