Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News August 5, 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 20, 2006, 7:16 pm 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, AUGUST 5, 1886 VOL. III. NO. xx NOTE: THE PAGES FOR AUGUST 5 AND AUGUST 19 ARE MIXED TOGETHER. I AM GOING BY THE DATES ON THE PAPERS THEMSELVES, BUT THEY SEEM TO BE MIXED. NOT SURE WHICH DATE GOES WITH WHICH PAPER. PAGE 1 - MISSING PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY AUGUST 5, 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. (LARGE PICTURE OF ROOSTER CROWING) LET 'EM CROW GLORY ENOUGH FOR ANOTHER DAY THE UNTERRIFIED DEMOCRACY COMES TO THE FRONT WITH TWO THOUSAND MAJORITY Bolters Forever Set Down On and Rings Busted - The Last Mass-Meeting The polls have closed. The vote has been counted. The contest has been sharp and spirited and many carry the scars of defeat. The scars of some are badges of honor, while some have sunk to rise no more. The people of Alabama should be gratified with their chief executive who takes the position at the request of a majority of more than fifty thousand Alabamians. Two of the men who were his real opponents in the convention find themselves in honored and more inceptive positions, while the third remains a loved and honored citizen. The Senatorial race has been run and the right has prevailed. Hon. Geo. C. Almon stands up as the next State Senator with 2500 majority, despite workings of the politicians who sought to force an incompetent man upon the people. The bolters have learned a sad lesson and the democracy has been purified and strengthened. No grander fight was ever made by a man and his friends, than, that made by Judge Almon and his. In many respects the canvas on his side has been ably managed, while on the other it rarely reached the wisdom of childhood and often was below stupidity. There has been a grand uprising of the people and frauds, tricksters, ringsters, cliques, and the family mass meeting have been solemnly rebuked. By reference to the election returns it will be seen that the following gentlemen were elected to fill the county office: A. COBB, Judge of Probate; R. E. BRADLEY, Clerk of the Circuit Court; B. H. WILKERSON, Supt. Education, and R. L. BRADLEY, Representative. The people of Lamar need have no fears of the Prohibatary laws in force being repealed. The man who represent the county in both branches of the Legislature is out-spoken on the subject. The Courier says but we try to stir up religious dissentions and do a great many other bad things, and talks of us in a bitter personal way; but knowing the standing of the Courier, we don't take the trouble to contradict him but will just remind him that he made the first attack on Rev. HUCKABEE and tried to array the Christian Church and a sweet mess he made for Sanford. HOW IT WAS – (LARGE PICTURE OF ROOSTER CROWING) The race is over and the Almon Roosters are crowing and we may now with pardonable desire to tell those who got left how it was indulge us in a short history of the situation. It has been conceded that Franklin County had a right to the next State Senator for the past four years, and all that was necessary was of the county of Franklin to send a delegation solid for some good man. The aspiring ambition of one J. B. Sanford of Fayette County so bestirred his soul, that he concluded to represent the district in the next setting of the legislature. And the thought of defeat did not enter into is plans. To make the thing easy going and sure, he being at the head of the Democratic Party in the County of Fayette, called what has since become know as "the celebrated family mass meeting" and appointed his delegates to the Senatorial Convention. In this county to thwart the wishes of the people, a caucus was held on the night before the county convention and a certain line of procedure was laid out, and it was understood and agreed who should engineer and what for, and how to vote so that the county would send a solid delegation to stand with and scratch in the same dirt as the delegation appointed by himself in the county of Fayette. The plans all worked well and the convention was captured and managed as the program made in the caucus indicated. On they went for Hamilton, dreaming of nothing but domineering and carrying the day as they had done in Fayette and Lamar, and so self-confident that on the mountain air there flouted a stench of insolence. When the convention was called and they found that the convention was to be conducted according to Democratic rules and that they had to abide by the rules they bolted in a wild stampeded; and after the legitimate convention had adjourned they assembled themselves and nominated J. B. Sanford. The situation then was Judge Almon the nominee of the Democratic Convention and Mr. Sanford the nominee of the bolters. With the two in the field, who should win was the question. Mr. Sanford, the nominee of the bolters, naturally had the best chance to win the republican and independent vote with proper discretion. Hereby hangs the tale, Judge Almon knew that he was the nominee, Mr. Sanford and his friends knew that he was not and set about proving the same. The first thing they did to make a show was to light in on the old Republican Roost, who is standing over a the extreme right and chuck him off from the Sanford brood. The old fellow thought that he would be more at home among the bolters and had naturally walked up that way. He soon saw that the would be more kindly treated in the Almon ranks and over he came and many say to stay. The next ditch was at Rev. Huckabee and friends and to stir up a discussions between the Baptist and Christian Churches. Their thrusts proved to be boomerangs back in their face. To these calamities were added weekly editions of the Fayette Journal and Vernon Courier that gradually weakened their cause. Ha d the Journal and the Courier been suspended and Mr. Sanford gone through the counties and not exhibited his weakness in trying to make speeches he would have had some show of election. Now, the causes of the bolters defeat are these. You run off the Republican and independent vote in trying to prove that Sanford was the nominee when you knew he was not. The Journal and Courier tried to stir religious discussions and stirred too deep. The family mass--meeting, weak and excessive speeches, from the stump. And to content with they had a man of intelligence and manliness, so far superior that the comparison showed up the bolters at a great disadvantage. The Democratic Party is stronger today than in years and your bolting has done it no harm. Come back into the party and four years hence you and the News will be together – if you are advocating the right. RESTURANAT – Aberdeen, Mississippi. Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to call on Mrs. L. M. KUPPER, who keeps Restaurant, Family Groceries, Bakery, and Confectionery, Toys, Tobacco, and Cigars. Also Coffee and Sugar. Special attention paid to ladies. TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIVE – (LARGE PCUTRE OF ROOSTER CROWING) We give below the vote by beats polled for State Senator in Fayette County. The first figures will be one stood as Almon's vote, second Sanford's. Town Beat 125, 141; Gilpin 66, 40, Russel 62, 52; Hico 64, 54 Thompson 53, 22 Webster 41, 20 Lee 63, 19 Stonewall 41, 56 Berry 52, 46 Collins 56, 12 C. Creek 59, 13 H Spring 6, 39 Coles 48, 18 Browns 65, 19 Ridge 41, 19 Borhis 16, 14 N. H 67, 25. From the above figures, it will be seen that Almon received 948 votes while Sanford received 653, making Almon a majority of 295. SEVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINE – (LARGE PICTURE OF ROOSTER CROWING) The vote of Almon in Marion County was 1060 and for Sanford 291. Old Marion always sticks to the nominee. Three cheers for Marion. 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. 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. BARBER SHOP. For a clean shave or shampoo, Call on G. W. BENSON, in rear of Dr. BURN'S office, Vernon, Ala (LARGE PICTURE OF ROOSTER CROWING) Preserve the name of the bolters and watch them for there is danger in any element that willt ry as hard as they did to disrupt the Democratic Party. And it was only with good management by Judge Almon and his friends that their designs were thwarted. But they rose to the emergency and prevented the bolters from gathering the independent vote. Such men as Judge Almon are the kind ----------; they gather votes instead of throwing them away. SICK ROOSTER (LARGE PICTURE OF A SICK ROOSTER) This rooster took too much stock in the family mass-meeting in Fayette. This didn't agree with him; but he went to the Hamilton convention and tried to mingle with the Democratic brood. Some comment was made on his not being thorough bred and he bolted the convention tin rather a frizzled condition. He put on gafts and made a dash at the Baptist and Christian brethren and told the Republican and Independents to get on; that he was heeled for the 2nd of August. All this brought on a severe attack of cholera and black vomit has set up. Will he recover? Our stock of Furnishing is full and complete in every respect. (Elaborate drawing of goods sold) 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. 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 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. Ad for Ayer and Son Advertising Agents TABULAR STATEMENT OF POPULAR VOTE (Table of votes – if interested contact me at howven@sbcglobal.net) 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 AUGUST 5, 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 Left. Just even 800. He didn't carry Fayette. Farewell family mass meetings. Glory enough for another day. Fare thee well, Dumpling Johnny. Circuit Court convenes on the 31st. Lamar did as the "dark horse" told the convention; come to time. Enthusiastic Almon men have filled our town for several days past. After this week but little will appear on the senatorial race. Mrs. S. J. SHIELDS of Aberdeen, Miss is visiting friends in town this week. We are ready and anxious to welcome the newly elected officers and their families in our town. We are informed that Prof. B. H. WILKERSON Supt. Ed elect will soon move to town. We are pained to note the death of infant child of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. BURROW on last Sunday. If you wish a good article of Plug Tobacco, ask your dealer for "Old Rip." Little ADDIE HANKINS, grand-child of Mr. JAS. MIDDLETON is spending the week in Vernon with relatives. News that WALTER H. MATTHEWS, Esq. has been elected Judge of Probate in Marion County has reached this office. It seems as if all the negroes, wagons and mules in Miss. Are making an exodus for the Kansas city Road in this state. We are indebted thanks to Mr. GEO. TURNER for securing two subscriptions to News, while visiting relatives in Miss. Mrs. MCNATT has returned from visiting her brother and at the time of her leaving hopes were entertained for his recovery. The attendance at the approaching campmeeting promises to be well attended. We would suggest that a few sermons on brotherly love, truth and veracity would not be out of place in these unjoined times. Only eighteen hundred and forty-four majority for Almon in Lamar, Fayette, and Marion, Franklin yet to hear from. Vail's Beat is the banner Almon Beat in the county. Take the spurs gentlemen, you have won them. – Sixty-two to five. The crowd was too large for the court house last Saturday and the speaking was done from the balcony in front of the court house. The Fayette County family mass-meeting carried a fatality with it. Only two men who were connected with it have been elected. We have delayed the News this week so as to give result of Marion and Franklin's election but can only give returns from Marion. A part of our tabular statement of the vote has been very improperly arranged, which we hope to correct in next issue – placing units and tens in their proper place. PUBLIC SPEAKING. Hon. LEWIS M. STONE will speak at Kennedy on the 10th day of August at Vernon on the 12th and at Fayette C. H. on the 14th day of August 1886. Quite a number of ladies attended the speaking Saturday, among whom were Mrs. G. W. BETTS, MRS. M. DENNMAN, and Misses MENMANS besides a number of Vernon ladies. Our tabulated statement of the vote of the county will be corrected if there are any errors when the official count is made. Had Mr. Sanford's managers suspended the publication of the Fayette Journal and the Vernon Courier and have kept Mr. Sanford and about half dozen others off the stump, Almon's majority would have been much less. The following names have been added to our subscription list since our last issue: J. M. DAVIS, Gentry, Ala; D. M. LUCUS, Vernon, Ala, W. B. MORTON, York, ala. L. B. DAVIS, Shannon, Miss, T. S. NOBLE, Vernon, Ala, J. W. STARNES, Anderson, Miss, and J. R. SHAW, Eutaw, Miss. Winsboro, Tex. Aug 1st, 1886 Ed. News I have been in Texas over one month and will give you a few brief observations I have made during the time which you may dispose of ad libium. First, let me say I take pleasure in reading the News, it's a home paper - you see I forgot and said home – and although it champions the anti-Sanford ticket, and wages a vigorous warfare upon us, still it is a Vernon paper. I suppose the avidity with which one reads local news for a former place of residence will in time subside. When I read it I think of a few of the noblest men I ever saw' I would personate a few such fellows as NESMITH, WIMBERLEY, MORTONS, SUMMERS etc, etc, but would be an injustice to dozens of good fellows like yourself and SHIELDS and BLACK. The first question one would ask, is how do you like Texas? I can say so far, I am wlell pleased. But you know one can not form a correct notion of a place in one month. I am well satisfied that the health of Winsboro is equal to that of Vernon, and that is the most healthful place I ever knew. Although they have a variety of mineral waters here, I can say truthfully I have found none equal to the pure mountain waters of North Alabama. There is a fine chalybrate spring in the neighborhood to which invalids and frolicking young people resort to spend summer months. I have visited the Springs and can pronounce the water a most splendid iron tonic. This is a beautiful, level country with a big population. It would appear somewhat striking to you mountaineers to travel for miles and meet no hills. But we Texans are non of your highlanders! I wish I could take you a half mile out of town and show you a farm. You could see corn and cotton spread out like a green carpet upon the level floor before you. If I knew what words to select to describe fine corn and cotton, I would bring them into requisition. Yes, sir, I would show you the "Kingdoms of earth" in a typical miniature. The growing waving materials that support he earth at least, I am tempted to drop the pedagogic ermin and don the royal robe of the kingdoms and show these Texans how to farm. The lazy arrangements don't work three months in the year. By the way speaking of the laboring class bring me to speak of their organizations. You could not be here one week until you would be impressed that a certain organization threatened the welfare of the country and the subversion of the government. You would see knots of civilization the corners of the streets with ghastly faces. You would hear the democratic canons, shaking the very foundations of the earth, while ordinary men stand with their mouths open in trembling awe. Ask the cause of all this terror and you will hear in husky accents "Labor Union" and "Knights of Labor" and "Farmer's Alliance." They are banding together to beat the Democrats. They boycot certain industries and foster certain merchants. Seriously, the organizations are prodigiously strong here and while they pretend to be engaged solely for the advancement of agricultural and labor interests they have shown their political ears. I had the pleasure (?) of hearing one of their candidates, a Mr. Mesner, speak Friday evening at the opera hall in this town. He was answered by one of our townsmen a Mr. Garlock, who was enthusiastically cheered by the Democrats. Mr. Mesner failed to elicit any sympathy – to mesmerize the crowd – and the whole affair ended in a fight. With many wishes for the individual happiness of my friends and success for your school and a cessation of that superstitious bonanza that has struck your town, and – Sanford's election (now don't leave this off). I get leave to remain. Respectfully, J. S. TOMLIN LITTLE MOLLIE PENNINGTON Editor Lamar News In this my second letter in regard to Miss Mollie Pennington I will first correct three slight deviations you made form 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 near 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, at whose burying I had officiated as minister. Third, that I had not saw her in four or five years that I knew 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 FOR THE NEWS – Poem Ad for Marriage Guide Ad for Pianos and Organs 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 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 Ό of N E Ό 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 Ό of NW Ό and NW Ό of SW Ό SEC 35, and SE Ό of NE Ό and NE Ό of SE Ό 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 Ad for Wetherill Paint PAGE 4 (CUT OUT) Helena has a lady superintendent of schools who has Indian blood in her veins and who is highly educated. She has also marked dramatic talent, and plays Charlotte Cushman's roles. – [New York Journal] A FASHIONABLE BRIDAL OUTFIT A very fashionable outfit just finished at a prominent store gives quite a good idea of the magnitude of such an order. There are twelve hand embroidered walking skirts, one dozen embroidered flannel and cambric underskirts, one dozen night robes, richly trimmed with lace, lawn toilet sacques, corset covers, beautifully trimmed, and other undergarments, one dozen each, all elaborately trimmed with lace and needlework. There are six walking dresses, six reception gowns and six dinner toilets. Among the six wraps there is one of white cashmere, richly embroidered with gold cord; this is for evening wear. The array of bonnets and hats number one dozen; four are made to match the prevailing shades in just so many walking suits. The bride's dress is of white cut velvet, with long square trains, perfectly plain. The plastrons on the sides are of creamy white ottoman silk, thickly studded with seed pearls; the front breadth is covered with rows of Spanish lace. The bodice is high in the neck, with points, front and back. One band of orange blossoms and one cluster of white pinks are used in festooning the back drapery, which is formed of a wide and very long Spanish lace scarf. – [New York Telegram] A SOUTHERN ROMANCE Says the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: Many Macon people will remember that is 1863 the City Hall and the old Market House were used a s a hospital for wounded and sick Confederate soldiers. The ladies of the town constituted themselves nurses, and perhaps in no other hospital in the Confederacy did the patients fair so well,. One day a lady went to the hospital to visit "her soldier". She was accompanied by a very handsome married lady, a refugee from New Orleans. When they reached the cot upon which the soldier lay writhing with pain caused by the recent amputation of his left arm, they ministered to his wants and then sat by and cheered him with gentle words of comfort. As they were leaving the soldier requested the New Orleans lady to give him a small Confederate flag which she wore upon her breast. She gave him the flag, first writing her name on the white bar. The soldier recovered, the war ended and he returned to his home in Alabama. As something not to be forgotten, it should be mentioned that at the time he was in the hospital he was unmarried, and continued so after the war. A few months ago the soldier had occasion to visit New Orleans. He remembered the lady that gave him the flag, and made inquiries about her. He discovered that her husband died soon after the war, and that she, a widow was till living in New Orleans. He called on her. Then he called again. In fact he called many times, and a few days ago there was a wedding in New Orleans in which he and the lady figured as principals. A MARRIAGE MART A remarkable custom exists among the Roumanians living in the westerly Carpathians. Every year, at the Feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul, a market is held on the crest of the Gaius, from 5000 to 6000 feet above the level of the sea, and here all the marriageable girls of the entire district assemble with their parents in order to be viewed and claimed. Mothers, aunts, grandmothers, and various other female friends contribute tot he dowry, and this completed, it is carried tot he market on Gains in neatly made trunks, decorated with flowers, and carried by the family's best horses. Cattle, bees, and other household requisites are also added to the dowry. On the Gaina every family which has a marriageable daughter occupies a distinct tent, in which the dowry is exhibited, and in which the bride-viewers are expected. The bachelors too, are accompanied by parents or relatives, in whose company they inspect the girls who are eligible. The yo9ung men bring the best they possess, and each must particularly come with a girdle of god or silver. After the brides are chosen the public betrothal takes place, being conducted by a hermit who lives in this lonely spot. The mark of betrothal is not a ring, but a beautifully embroidered handkerchief. The betrothal is in many cases prearrange; but the ceremony must be gone through all the same. If a girl goes to the market knowing beforehand that an admirer will be there to claim her, so much the better for her. Still she must bright a dowry and occupy her tent and put herself on view like the rest. – [Pall Gazette] WEALTHY FIRST-BORN'S DRESS (CUT OUT)…papers dwell with delight on ------teming dress of the first-born of the young Princess di Galatro ---- (nee Miss Eva Mackay). ---perhaps the most unique ---extant of the finest point ---lace, of great beauty.--- The dress, made as a loose ---- bordered with antique lace a quarter of a yard in width, the remainder of the garment being woven to correspond, and having the arms of the Colonna family designed in lace-work upon the corsage. The same lace tirms the cloak of cream-white crepe de chine. The Duchese de Lousley (princess Anna Murat) declard that the dress surpassed in beauty the famous christening robe of the late Prince Imperial. The lace is the most superb that has been seen in Paris for years. Even the weeding flounces of the Queen Regent of Spain cannot be compared to it. Mrs. Mackay, mother of the Princess, has a collection of laces that surpasses any of the royal houses of Europe. She possesses the celebrated tunic and flounces in paint d' Aleneon manufactured for the Empress Eugenia in 1869, and left in her flight from Paris. This lace was copied from a piece originally in possession of Mme. De Pompadour. But the layette of the young Roman Princeling was made and furnished in California at the Ladies repository of San Francisco, of which institution Mrs. Mackay is a directress. It is remarkable chiefly for the exquisite fineness of the materials and the delicacy of the work, Valenciennes lace being the chief trimming employed. Some of the embroidery on the flannel skirts and blankets is the work of a lady over seventy years of age, and is of great beauty. The basket is shaped like a shell, and is bordered with a white lace ruffle. FASHION NOTES Fancy straws are all the rage in millinery. Both bracelets and bangles are fashionable. Jewelry is again in fashion and is worn more than before for several years. Canvas material have fringed borders for drapery. Striped pongees show delicate combinations of color. New silk goods are striped with seer-sucker effects. Some of the new bonnet's have perfectly square crowns. Black silk stockings with lisle thread feet find a large sale. Pale pink and silver is a much admired combination for ball dresses. Bodices for bridal dresses are low in the neck and short of sleeve. Satin mervilleux with shot effects is used for stylish spring toilets. Ostrich feathers of two different colors are seen in some of the new fans. Duck and white or fancy linen vests are worn with tailor-made dresses. Cactus cloth is a new material with a surface composed of soft silvery hairs. A novel but effective apron is made of narrow strips of seersucker with insertion of Russian lace. In the combinations of striped and plain colors for costumes either fabrics may be used for the skirt. Among quite new styles in round hats are the French toques and the English walking hats with double brims. Black and white stripes are in demand, as are little strips in other hues; then there are checks again and plaids. Collars of ruby velvet are edged with jet beads and fastened with bows of velvet ribbon corresponding in color. The variety of styles of parasols are almost as great as bonnets; in fact, they are in man cases made to match. Small crochet or ball buttons are used for the bodices of dresses the skirts of which are trimmed with large buttons. Ottoman silks were by no means a passing fancy, may who wear expensive toilets selecting them in preference to the cheaper qualities. Ruchings for the neck, of crepe lisse, mull or gauze, finished with loops of narrow ribbon, gold- corded edges or tinsel, are still in style. In silk and the lisle hosiery the dark colors prevail, and the custom of wearing black, so general the past season, will be adhered to by many. Among the newest ornaments for the hair are rosettes of eads of ribbon cut in swallowtail points and fastened as hair-pins. Large rosettes of the same style are worn at the belt. Diagonal fronts upon both basques and street jackets are very popular, and English cutaway coats fastened diagonally across the chest with two buttons are also considered very chic. A walking costume of moss-colored canvas striped with brown, old gold and myrtle has a pleated skirt. The only trimmings of the postiollion bodice are collar and cuffs of velvet, corresponding to the ground tone of the dress. POPULAR SCIENCE The young of the condor, at heir home in the heights of the Andes, remain in the nest for a year, being fed by the parents until they are able to fly. A gigantic sea-weed, more than 1,500 feet long has been found near the equator by the ship "Clever", Captain John Stone, portions being taken to Montevideo A member of the Royal Horticultural Society of London has observed that dahlias collect much dew on their leaves; the peach rose and evening primrose very little; while the quince and mulberry are only very slightly wet. A calculation made of the figures of a mile-long railroad train drawn by a single locomotive establishes that there were 3,252 tons weight on this train, which was drawn by a single fifty-five- ton engine. This would be more than the weight of many steamships with their cargoes. It has been found by Dr. Tait that the ear in women can perceive higher notes, that is, sounds with a greater number of vibrations per second, than the ear in men. The highest limit of human hearing is somewhere between 41,000 and 43,000 vibrations per second. Few persons have equal sensibility to acute sounds in both ears, the right ear usually hearing a higher note than the left. The lowest continuous sounds have about sixteen vibrations per second. A new French clock contains a novel application of the magnet. The clock appears like a tambourine with a circle of flowers painted on its parchment head. Around the circle crawl two bees, the larger requiring twelve hours to complete the circuit, while the smaller makes it every hour. The flowers represent four divisions, and the bees, which are of iron, are moved by two magnets, carried just under the membrane, by the clock-work inside the tambourine. According to the calculations made by a scientific writer lately, it requires a prodigious amount of vegetable matter to form a layer of coal, the estimate being that it would really take a million years to form a coal bed 100 feet thick. The United States has an area of between 300,000 and 400,000 square miles of coal fields. 100,000,000 tons of coal being mined from these fields in one year, or enough to run a ring around the earth at the equator five and one-half feet wide and five and one-half feet thick; the quantity being sufficient to supply the whole world for a period of 1,500 to 2,000 years. The four feet of an ordinary ox will make a pint of neat's foot oil. Not a bone of any animal is thrown away. Many cattle's shine bones are shipped to England for the making of knife handles, where they bring $40 per ton. The thigh bones are the most valuable, being worth $80 per ton for cutting into tooth-brush handles. The fore-leg bones are worth $30 per ton, and are made into collar buttons, parasol handles and jewelry, though sheep's legs are the staple parasol handles. The water in which the bones are boiled is reduced to glue, and the dust which comes from sawing the bones is fed to cattle and poultry. EARLIEST METHODS OF MEASURING TIME The story is that King Alfred had no better way to tell the time than by burning twelve candles, each of which lasted two hours; and when all the twelve were gone, another day had passed. Long before the time of Alfred and long before the time of Christ, the shadow of the sun told the hour of the day, by means of a sun-dial. The old Chaldeans so placed a hollow hemisphere, with a bead on the inner surface told the hour of the day. Other kinds of dials were afterward made with a tablet of wood or straight piece of metal. On the tablets were marked the different hours. When the shadow came to the mark IX, it was nine o'clock in the morning. The dial was sometimes placed near the ground, or in towers or buildings. You see, in the picture, two sun-dials that are in the Gray and Black Nunnery in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. The old clock on the eastern end of Feneull Hall in Boston was formerly a dial of this kind; and on some of the old church towers in England you many see them today. Aside from the kinds mentioned, the dials now in existence are intended more for ornament than for use. In the days when dials were used, each one contained a motto of some kind, like these: "Time flies like the shadow" or, "I tell no hours but those that are happy." But the dial could be used only in the daytime; and, even then, it was worthless when the sun was covered with clouds. In order to measure the hours of the night as well as the hours of the day, the Greeks and Romans used the clepasdra, which means: "The water steals away." A large jar was filled with water, and a hole was made in the bottom through which the water could run. The glass, in those days, was not transparent. No one could see from the outside how much water had escaped. So there was made, on the inside, certain marks that told the hours as the water ran out; or else a stick with notches in the edge was dipped into the water, and the depth of what was left showed the hour. Sometimes the water dropped into another jar in which a block of wood was floating, the block rising as the hours went on. Once in a while, some very rich man had a clepsydrea that sound a musical note at every hour. – [Popular Science Monthly] A blast furnace and rolling mill have been erected lately in Bogota. The machinery was bought in the United States, and it cost the owners as much to carry this machinery from the head of navigation, 500 miles up the Magdalens, as the purchase money and the ocean freight combined. GRANT ON BRAGG It was known that Mr. Davis had visited Bragg on Missionary Ridge a short time before my reaching Chattanooga, says Gen. Grant in the Century. It was reported and believed that he had come out to reconcile a serious difference between Bragg and Longstreet, and finding this difficult to do, planned the campaign against Knoxville, to be conducted by the latter general. I had known both Bragg and Longstreet before the war – the latter very well. We had been three years at West Point together, and after my graduation, for a time in the same regiment. Then we served together in the Mexican war. I knew Bragg in Mexico, and met him occasionally subsequently. I could well understand how there might be an irreconcilable difference between them. Bragg was a remarkably intelligent and well-informed man professionally and otherwise. He was also thoroughly upright. But he was possessed of an irascible temper, and was naturally disputatious. A man of the highest moral character and the most correct habits, yet in the old army he was in frequent trouble. As a subordinate he was always on the lookout to catch his commanding officer infringing upon his prerogatives, as a post commander he was equally vigilant to detect the slightest infringement of the most rival order. I have heard in the old army an anecdote told characteristic of Bragg. On one occasion when stationed at a post of several companies commanded by a field officer, he was himself commanding one of the companies and at the same time acting as Post Quartermaster an d Commissary. He was a First Lieutenant at the time, but his captain was detached on other duty. As commander of the company he made a requisition upon the Quartermaster – himself –for something he wanted. As Quartermaster he declined to fill the requisition and indorsed on the back of it his reason for so doing. As company commander he responded to this, urging that his requisition called for nothing but what he was entitle to, and that it was the duty of the Quartermaster to fill it. The Quartermaster still persisted that he was right. In this condition of affairs Bragg referred the whole matter to the commanding officer. The latter when he saw the nature of the matter referred, exclaimed: "My God!" Mr. Bragg, you have quarreled with every officer in the army, and now you are quarreling with yourself. – [Chicago Ledger] But few men permit kindness of heart to interfere with their business, and those who do more often get knocked into a double-geared cocked hat for their pains than otherwise. Thirteen million sheep are said to have died in the New South Wales within the last three years for want of water. ADVERTISEMENTS – Includes: Ely's Cream Balm Book Agents wanted for Platform Echoes Buffalo Scales Salvo Cures Drunkenness Roanke Cotton Press (picture of press) Marion Magazine Rifle (picture of rifle) Slicker Waterproof Coat More THE LAMAR NEWS CHAPTER 31 AUG 5, 1886