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The Lamar News August 19, 1886
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THE LAMAR NEWS

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor     VERNON, ALABAMA, AUGUST 19, 
1886          VOL. III. NO. 42

NOTE: AUGUST 5 AND AUGUST 19 ISSUES ARE MIXED.  I THINK DATES ARE WRONG WITHIN 
ISSUES, BUT THERE ARE 6 PAGES INSTEAD OF 4 AND I’M NOT SURE WHICH ISSUE GOES 
WITH WHICH DATE.  I AM JUST GOING BY THE DATES ON THE ISSUES THEMSELVES.


SATISFIED – Poem

AT DAGGERS POINTS – Short Story – [Baltimore Sun]

THE BISCUITS WERE HEAVY
	At the tea table:
	Phasecius – “My dear, I have a suggestion to offer.”
	Lavina – “Well, what is it, I pray?”
	Phaesicius – “It is that we have these biscuits adorned with painted 
decorations of Japanese design, apply for a copyright and get some wholesale 
stationer down town to introduce then to the trade as Mikado paper weights.  
What do you say?”
	But she was silent. – [Detroit Free Press]

CANARY BIRDS – A DEALER TELLS HOW TO RAISE THE SONGSTERS
Suggesting That They Be Made A Source of Profit to Poor Women
	“I am surprised that many poor women who are unable to do hard work do 
not go into the business of raising canaries,” said a dealer in pets with a 
wise shake of the head.  “It is comparatively easy work and, if conducted on a 
sufficiently large scale, as it can be in almost any dwelling house, will 
yield a far more comfortable support than can be earned from many kinds of 
labor in which women engage.  Why, this is one of the principal methods of 
making a living among the poor of the Hartz Mountains.  The peasants raise the 
birds in wooden cages and apparently with little trouble.  Probably the chief 
reason why American women who undertake to raise a few canaries as a matter of 
diversion are unsuccessful is owing to their superior ideas of cleanliness.  
Unlike the worthy dames of the German mountains they are intolerant of the 
necessary litter and accumulation of filth in the cages and thus prevent the 
eggs from hatching.
	“What kind of birds are best for breeding purposes?  Well, you know 
there are many varieties of canaries.  In my way of thinking the short, sweet-
voiced German canary is the best.  The pair should be opposite in color, one 
green and the other bright yellow.  Canaries from the same family should never 
be mated.  If they are the bids raised from them will be puny and of no 
account.  The female will lay from three to five eggs.  I have seen six eggs 
in a nest.  The bird will begin to sit when the first egg is laid.  The eggs 
will hatch one each day just as they were laid in from twelve to fourteen 
days.  The old birds should be fed on eggs boiled for half an hour and mixed 
with bread crumbs or grated cracker two or three days before the time for the 
eggs to begin hatching.  This food should be given till the young birds are 
six weeks old, but when they are three weeks old they are ready to leave the 
nest and can be separated form the old ones.  They can soon be taught to eat 
seed by scattering it on the bottom of their cages.  As soon as they begin to 
sing the males should be separated from the females, so that no mistakes can 
be made when taking them to a buyer.”
	“What is the best kind of seed for canaries?”
	“Sicily canary and German rape seed.  Some breeders also use India 
millet and Turkish mace in the proportion of four parts of Sicily to three of 
rape seed, two of millet and one of mace.  Certain importers, however, us two 
parts of rape to one of Sicily, and give the birds no other seed.  I mix my 
seed half and half, Sicily and rape seed.  Hemp seed should never be given 
except when the bird has lost appetite from sickness, as it creates fat, which 
is fatal to its song.  There should always be cuttlefish bone in the cage.  
Sand likewise should either be sprinkled on the floor or in the seed.
	A regular time to clean the cage and for giving the birds fresh water 
for bathing and drinking is almost a necessity for their health.  Many birds 
if neglected beyond their heir usual time will keep up an incessant calling 
and scolding until attended to.  Canaries have wonderfully retentive memories, 
and neither forget any one to whom they are attached nor anything to which 
they have been accustomed.  A small yellow fellow I know had been allowed to 
fly about his mistress’ sleeping apartment. He had become expert in 
unfastening his cage door and letting himself out and in at his own fancy.  
His mistress, during an absence of several weeks, left him in care of friends, 
who kept his cage door securely tied.  On her return he was taken home one 
evening.  The gas was burning.  He watched sharply when the string that had so 
long barred his passage from behind the wires was unloosed, apparently 
distrustful that his liberty was to be given to him again.  When he considered 
himself unnoticed he deftly unlatched the door and flew to the top of the 
dressing case, where he sat blinking with the solemnity of an owl.
	They’ve all got different dispositions – just like people, too – and 
different tastes about their eating.  Some of ‘em have really diabolical 
tempers, and if enraged at any one will scold, open their mouths and spread 
their wings, and generally announce their displeasure whenever the offending 
individual approaches their domain.  Some are especially fond of some kinds of 
food or fruit that others will not touch.  One peculiarly fastidious canary 
that I have will not eat anything having pepper on it or take a mouthful of a 
green one.  Another exceedingly voracious one will devour a good-sized green 
pepper inside of an hour.
	“What other food should be given canaries?”
	“In winter pieces of apple, but not constantly.  The birds are fond of 
celery tops.  In summer it is safe to give them almost any kind of edible 
green stuff – lettuce, endive, chickweed, green mustard, spinach, cabbage, and 
seeded heads of green grasses.  A small piece of fat beef or fat salt pork 
should occasionally e placed in the cage.  Canaries like green peas and will 
readily pick them out of slightly broken pods.” – [Chicago News]

WRITING FOR TWENTY-SIX HOURS
	In Lippincutt’s Magazine Julian Hawthorne says that he remembers that 
on once occasion he wrote for twenty-six consecutive hours without pause.  The 
Chicago News relates the circumstances under which the feat was accomplished.
	We remember to have heard Mr. Hawthorne say that this was during his 
residence in London shortly after he had entered upon a literary career.  He 
had agreed to have a story done by a certain hour on a certain day, and, as is 
very apt to be the way with young men, he had put off the work until the 
eleventh hour.  Then, confronted by the uncompromising fact that he must do 
the work or lose his money, he set himself at the task with all his might and 
main.  H e started in at 9 o’clock one morning and stuck hard at work until 
nearly noon the next day.  He says he found no difficulty in writing after the 
first hour; his thought came freely and his hand worked mechanically.  He 
remembers that when he finished the story he became aware that his little 
children were playing about the room where he had been writing; he neither saw 
nor heard them while he was at work, and now they looked more like shadows 
than real, tangible forms.  He did not feel particularly worried, but his 
brain seemed to be strangely confused; so, instead of going to bed, as a man 
naturally would think of doing, he put on his hat and overcoat and set out for 
a long walk.  He remained out of doors until dusk; then, upon his return home, 
he ate a light supper, drank two bottles of ale and went to bed.  The bodily 
exercise had cleared his head, his brain was as cool and quiet as could be 
wished, and he slept eighteen hours as soundly and peacefully as a child.

ORIGIN OF THE LIBERTY POLE
	Mr. Charles Lanman, in his “Hanhazard Personalities” finds occasion to 
speak of many incidents in American history which as no less important and 
interesting than they are novel.  In writing of that remarkable collection 
which Peter Force made of posters, handbills and broadsides, printed in this 
country in the time of the Revolution, Mr. Lamnan says:
	In looking over these old papers, one fact came to the knowledge of 
the writer which is of special interest at the present day.  When the news of 
the repeal of the Stamp Act arrived in New York, in their great joy the people 
dismantled a ship and planted her largest mast on a conspicuous plot of 
ground, and at the top of this mast they affixed a wooden bust of the King and 
of Pitt, and between the two a liberty cap.
	It was not long before the effigies of the two Englishmen were taken 
down, while the emblem of the goddess was left alone in its glory.  And this 
was the origin of that truly American institution – the liberty pole.

THE LAST SHOT
	Nap. Casby fired the last gun of the war on the Confederate side in 
Gen. Lee’s army.  At the time of the surrender of Appomatax the Federals and 
Confederates were drawn up in lines facing each other, and but a few feet 
apart.  The latter were almost starved, having been without food for several 
days.  While the terms of surrender were being adjusted, some very good hogs 
came along near the line, and, as soon as discovered by Casby, he raised his 
gun and shot one of them.  The shooting of the animal created intense 
excitement for a brief time, as it was generally supposed that a conflict had 
been opened by the two opposing forces.  The facts soon became known, and 
Casby was allowed to take his “forage” for the benefit of himself and 
friends. – [Baltimore American]

USELESS ECONOMY
	Elderly Gentleman (to little boy who is buying candy):  “My young 
friend, don’t you think that, instead of spending all the pennies you get, it 
would be better to put some of them away for a rainy day?”
	Little Boy:  “Naw.  What’s the good of money on a rainy day?  Ma never 
lets me stir out of the house.”

NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN NAMES OF BATTLES
	From General D. H. Hill’s paper in the Century: “The Battle of South 
Mountain, at Boonsboro”, we quote as follows:  “The conflict of the 14th of 
September, 1862, is called the Battle of South Mountain a the North and the 
Battle of Boonsboro at the South.  So many battle fields of the Civil War bear 
double names that we cannot believe the duplication has been accidental.  It 
is the unusual which impresses.  The troops of the North came mainly from 
cities, towns and villages, and were, therefore, impressed by some natural 
object near the scene of the conflict and named the battle from it.  The 
soldiers from the South were chiefly from the country, and were therefore 
impressed by some artificial object near the field of action.  In one section 
the naming has been after the handiwork of God; in the other section it has 
been after the handiwork of man.  Thus the first passage of arms is called the 
Battle of Bull Run, at the North – the name of a little stream.  At the South 
it takes the name of Manassas, from a railroad station.  The second battle on 
the same ground is called the Second Bull Run by the North, and the Second 
Manassas by the South.  Stone’s defeat is the battle of Ball’s Bluff with the 
Federals, and the Battle of Leesburg with the Confederates.  The Battle called 
by General Grant Pittsburg Landing, a natural object, was named Shiloh, after 
a church, by this antagonist.  Rosecrans called his first great fight with 
Bragg the Battle of Stone River, while Bragg named it after Murfreesboro, a 
village.  So McClellan’s Battle of the Chickahominy, a little river, was with 
Lee the Battle of Cold Harbor, a tavern.  The Federals speak of the Battle of 
Pea Ridge, of the Ozark range of mountains, and the Confederates call it after 
Elk Horn, a country inn.  The Union soldiers called the bloody battle three 
days after South Mountain from the little steam, Antietam, and the Southern 
troops named it after the village of Sharpsburg.  Many instances might be 
given of this double naming by the opposing forces.  According to the same law 
of the unusual, the war songs of a people have always been written by non-
combatants.  The bards who followed the banners of the feudal lords, snag of 
their exploits, and stimulated them and their retainers to deed of high 
emprise, wore no armor and carried no swords. So, too, the impassioned orators 
who roused our ancestors in 1776, with the thrilling cry, “Liberty or Death’ 
never once put themselves in the way of a death by lead or steel, buy musket 
ball or bayonet stab.  The noisy speakers of 1861, who fired the northern 
heart and who fired the Southern heart, never did nay other kind of firing.  
One of the most prominent of them frankly admitted that he preferred a 
horizontal to a vertical death.”

DANIEL WEBSTER’S PLOUGH
	On one occasion some Boston friends sent Webster as a present an 
enormous-sized plough to use on his place.  Webster gave out word that on a 
certain day it would be christened.  The day arrived, and the surrounding 
farmers for miles came in to witness the event.  A dozen teams with 
aristocratic occupants came from Boston.  It was expected by everyone that 
Webster would make a great speech on the occasion, reviewing the history of 
farming from the time when Cincinnatus abdicated the most mighty throne in the 
world to cultivate turnips and cabbages in his Roman garden.  The plough was 
brought out and ten yoke of splendid oxen hitched in front.  More than 200 
people stood around on the tiptoe of expectation.  Soon Webster made his 
appearance.  He had been calling spirits from the vast deep, and his gait was 
somewhat unsteady.  Seizing the plough handles and spreading his feet, he 
yelled out to the driver in his deep, bass voice”
	“Are you all ready, Mr. Wright?”
	“All ready, Mr. Webster,” was the reply, meaning, of course, for his 
speech.
	Webster straightened himself up by a mighty effort, and shouted”
	“Then let her rip!”
	The whistle crowd roared with laughter, while Webster, with his big 
plough proceeded to rip up the soil. – [Belfast (Me.) Journal]

WILLING TO PLAY MONKEY
	A small boy was on a visit to his aunt at her residence on St. Anthony 
Hill.  He played about the house for some time, finally came into her presence 
and began crawling about the floor on all fours in imitation of some animal.
	“You’re a perfect little monkey, aren’t you?” interrogated his aunt.
	“No’m,” exclaimed the little fellow, as he straightened himself up, 
but I’ll be a monkey if you give me some of those cookies I had the last time 
I was here.” – [St. Paul Globe]

AGAIN – Poem – [E. V. Cavell]

HUMOROUS
A pen picture – A fat pig.

Hoops are still in fashion – on flour barrels.

There is nothing so fruitful as current opinion.

The blacksmith secures prosperity by being always on the strike.

“This requires head work,” as the barber said when preparing for a shampoo.

There is a hen in Florida that lays two eggs a day.  This country will be 
ruined by cheap labor.

The pleasantest way to take cod liver oil is to fatten pigeons with it, and 
then eat the pigeons.

The farmer is more seriously affected than anybody else when everything goes 
against the grain.

All men are not proud, but the chap with the bald head knows that he looks 
best with his hat on.

“Name the most dangerous straits,” said the teacher.  “Whiskey straights,” 
replied the student promptly.

There is some appropriateness in speaking of a lady’s bonnet as “just killing” 
in these days.  It is chiefly made up of dead birds.

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

A number of Philadelphia ladies have formed an association to do mending for 
bachelors.  It is conjected that they “sew” that they may “reap.”

The man who thought he could grow wise by eating sage cheese, was own brother 
to the one who believed he could live on the milk of human kindness.

A tramp who was driven from a house by an irate party with a club, remarked 
that such conduct was most ungentlemanly and he felt very much put out.

On a card in a Philadelphia street car is a great truth thus succinctly 
stated: “Advertising is a great deal like making love to a widow – it can’t be 
overdone.”

What is the difference between the man who cuts off the end of his proboscis 
and a boy who has just finished his task?  One lessens his nose, and the other 
knows his lessons.

“Can’t you give us something with a stick in it? Asked Mr. Smartie, putting a 
quarter on the soda fountain and winking knowingly.  “Oh, certainly,” said the 
polite attendant, and he wrapped up a bottle of mucilage and swept the coin 
into the drawer.

“Say, Mr. Gogglescope, what do you come to hour house so often for?” 
Gogglescope) patronizingly) – “Now, Tommy, you must ask your sister Clara 
that, when she comes into the parlor – just ask her,”  “Well, I did, and she 
said she’d be blest if she knew.”

THE RETORT COURTEOUS
	A blatant, braying sample of the loud voiced, self-conscious, look-at-
me variety of men took his seat in a Philadelphia street car, and called to 
the conductor:
	“Does this car go all the way to Eighth?”
	“Yes, sir,” responded the conductor, politely.
	“Does it go up as far a s Oxford Street? I want to get off there.”
	“Yes, sir” was the reply.
	“Well, I want you to tell me when you get there.  You’d better stick a 
wafer on your nose, or put a straw in you r mouth, or tie a knot in one of 
your lips, so that you won’t forget it.”
	“It would not be convenient for one in my position to do so,” said the 
conductor, “but if you will kindly pin your cars around your neck, I think I 
will remember to tell you.”
	Amid the rear of the passengers, the man said that he had forgotten 
something, and got off at the next corner. – {Puck]

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY AUGUST 19, 1886

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The River and Harbor Bill as signed by the President gives Alabama a sum 
sufficient to complete the Mussel Shoals Canal.

The Congressional election will take place in November, and in some districts 
in the State the canvass has already made many bitter partisans and engendered 
much bad feeling.

With the slight prospect for war with Mexico, great enthusiasm has been 
aroused in certain quarters.  Many seem to be anxious for the tray.  Not many 
of these, we date say, are old Confed. Soldiers.  They got enough of that kind 
of thing during the late war.

The Times-Democrat suggests to the Northern and Western people who have become 
residents of Louisiana to call a convention, to meet in New Orleans at some 
early date, the attendance of citizens of the North and West who contemplate 
making the South their future home.

Next time we have a constitutional amendment to be voted on, it should be the 
duty of the party in power to appoint capable speakers to go about and tell 
the people what the amendments are.  In many places voters knew absolutely 
nothing more about the two amendments submitted to the people on the first 
Monday in August that what they had on their ballots. – [Ages]

The first Congress since the war having a Democratic President to sign their 
bill, has adjourned.  Their work is done, and the members have gone home to 
their constituency, and from many stumps, court houses and other places, will 
tell the people what they did – the great sacrifices they made to get their 
pet schemes through, and what they will do if sent back or two more years.  
Nearly all of them, after getting accustomed to the Congressional harness, are 
anxious to keep ---. And we are  willing.  If they serve their people 
faithfully and ably, ---- go back and continue the good -----.

MONEY COMING SOUTH
	The money of the East in now flowing South.  No trouble is 
experienced --- the holders of southern securities to ---- money on them.  The 
railroad ------ of the South can get money ---- readily than those of any 
other ---- in the Union.  Each week --- to life a new rail road project ---- 
Alabama, and it seems that in the ---- -------- the money to Alabama.  Never, 
in the history of Alabama, has great enterprises been so numerous.  An era of 
prosperity is beginning to dawn, and but few years are required to make 
Alabama take rank among the wealth producing states of the Union.  Along each 
new line of iron rails comes the heart throbbing of commerce and progress.  
The great sums of money that has been so long herded in the East is seeking 
investment in the South.  The products of the farms, manufactories and mines 
of the South is attracting the attention of those engaged in the business of 
transportation and every great line of railway is seeking an outlet in the 
South.  And with increased transporting facilities, up will bound every 
enterprise in our midst.

TO BUSINESS MEN
	The season for the fall and winter trade is drawing nigh, and it 
behooves every man of business to begin his preparations to carry on a 
business commemorate with his means.  The first and most important step is to 
look in the -----
	------he does more ------- by ---- an at---------Nearly every family 
in the county reads the News.  Hence of the very but advertising medium…..(TOO 
LIGHT TO READ)

CONGRESS
	The late session of the recent congress was nearly consumed in the 
consideration of private pension claims and making speeches on the tariff and 
finances.  While but little has been done out right, the way I made open for 
legislation on the two great and important subjects.
	The tariff being a question of great complication is well to go slow 
with legislation effecting the industries of the country.  Some cross road 
politicians in this section say that the subject of tariff is just as simples 
a s “falling off a long.”  But the Congress of the United States find it a 
question of some intricacies when it comes to be considered.  The status of 
public sentiment in regard to that is rather unfortunate.  Some men can look 
you square in the face and call it the “thieving tariff,” the “robbing tariff” 
and exhibit an earnestness bordering on anger.
	There are men in our midst today who would be willing to have the 
tariff taken off of iron and adjusted on other imports so as to raise the 
requisite revenue.  The revenue must be raised and that by tariff.  And to so 
adjust it, that it will not be to the advantage of some individual manufacture 
is simply an impossibility.
	The tariff, and the protective tariff too has done much for Alabama in 
the last few years and upon the whole whether this section of Alabama ought in 
all candor to be crying “down with Protection” is certainly a question to be 
seriously considered.   The protective tariff has made Birmingham the first 
manufacturing city in the south in ten years and our own immediate locality to 
be will mapped off with railroads.  A few years ago in the iron regions a 
laborer could get forty cents a day for his labor.  Now he can get one dollar 
and a half and provisions and clothing are fifty per cent cheaper than then.  
Has the laboring man a right to complain?  Should the protection that has made 
the North rich be taken from us now just as it is beginning to throw life and 
energy into the South?  Without thee protective tariff Birmingham would not 
have beena  great city at this time; the Ga. Pacific and Kansas city roads 
would hnot have been built.  Naturall advantages possibly would have brought 
about such things but nor for years to come.
	The question of money is one of more difficulties than the tariff and 
if there is any great wrong new retarding the progress of the country is in 
the lack of a sufficient circulating medium, with a proper expenditure of the 
treasury surplus, the circulation to the limit of legal tender notes, a proper 
handling of the silver coinage by the government would put this country to a 
state of prosperity never equaled in the history of the world. – [-----]

MARRIAGE AND BUSINESS
(ARTICLE IS VERY LIGHT AND CAN’T READ)

BELFAST RIOTS
London, August 10 
 A report has been received here that a riot took place this morning in 
Springfield, Belfast: Only a few persons were wounded.
	Five thousand troops and 2,500 constables occupy the disturbed 
districts Protestants declared that the Catholics were the aggressions by 
wrecking Protestant houses, while the Catholics are equally certain that the 
Protestants were the aggressors, and of one thing there is no doubt never did 
two mobs of different religions display more bloodthirsty desire to kill or 
main each other.  During the fighting on Sunday and Monday when powder ran 
short viragoes on both sides with flat irons and other implements ground large 
grains of blasting powder into a size suitable for small arms while boys of 
tender age melted lead into bullets and slugs.  While the rioters were firing 
the youths and women were busily loading the spare guns in order to prevent 
the waste of time.  The fusillade lasted until 6 o’clock yesterday morning, 
when the ammunition gave out, and a tacit truce ensued, both sides removing 
the dead and wounded to their holes and both are doing their utmost to hide 
their losses.  On Monday the Protestants received a welcome donation of twenty-
five rifles and much ammunition from sympathizers while the Nationalists sent 
the Catholics arms of a type called “sweet hearts.”  --- of weapons will 
constantly ---- danger in the future.  This ---- demand for a --- to ---- for 
arms.  A visitor who ---- “It is useless ---police have fired and …….(Large 
section can’t read)…I have seen men in respectable houses throwing stones at a 
batch of twenty policemen, escorted by one hundred horse soldier”.  Numerous 
complaints have been made of the behavior of the police.  One citizen says 
that while going home through a quiet street he was topped by six constables 
who rudely searched him, ordered him to give an account of himself and then 
imperatively commanded him to go home at once.  Anthony writes that three 
constables who drifted into a respectable tobacconists upon seeing a pouch 
engraved with a likeness of Chamberlain, flung it down, cursing Chamberlain 
for going against them”.  One of them addressing a lady behind the counter, 
said:  “You are afraid of Tipperary boys.  I put six bullets into an Orangeman 
last night and I’ll give them double tonight.  If I had my own way I would not 
leave one.” At about 5 o’clock this evening two men were shot by disorderly 
persons in different parts of the city.  One of the men were shot while in a 
Catholic cemetery attending the funeral of a victim of the recent riots.  The 
other was fired upon in Grusvena Road.  Both of the injured men will probably 
die of their wounds.
	Special constables are being enrolled and the military are taking the 
place of the police.  A fund has been opened for the relief of the families of 
the killed.
	The Gazette announces that Belfast and Londonderry have again been 
proclaimed.  There had been no more rioting in Belfast on to midnight 
tonight.  Bigger in a ---- before the Catholic committee this evening and that 
the justices and the protestant clergy of Belfast -----(LARGE BLOCK CAN’T READ)
……...They carried a good supply of missiles for use in the event of their 
being attacked.  Queens Island men rejected the magistrates appeal to --- to 
their homes in small bodies, instead of in a compact crowd.  Bands of youth 
and girls continued to indulge in rowdyism.  Clergymen of all creeds are 
visiting the most of the districts in the city and are trying to persuade the 
people to preserve the peace.

Ad for Pianos and Organs – (picture of organ) Mr. J. Garrison, of Cullman, Ala 
who handles bur first class pianos and organs.

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.

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

ATTORNEYS
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.  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.

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

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.

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

Barber Shop.  For a clean shave or Shampoo call on G. W. BENSON, in rear Dr. 
Burn’s office.  Vernon, 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 AUGUST 19, 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
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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
The weather is intensely warm.

The book on the “Wonderful Girl” will be out of press Monday.

The festive musquito (sic) is on the restless wing.

The hot days are hampered by pleasant breezes.

Mr. A. A. SUMMERS is having chills, though the weather be warm.

Mr. J. H. RAY of Detroit, was in town yesterday.

Rev. L. M. WIMBERLY has been absent in Fayette County for several days.

Circuit Clerk BRADLEY has established himself in his office and appears much 
at home and everything comes handy.

Something is wrong with our mail.  On Sunday evening no papers put in 
appearances.

Cotton in the North eastern portion of the county is being badly damaged by 
rust.

Rev. G. L. HEWITT has been conducting a prolonged meeting at Lebanon this week.

Our good friend, Mr. W. R. WHITE and family together with Mr. L. J. CLARK, of 
Hamilton ---- this week with friends and family in town.

Messrs. ---- & Co. are having their store house considerably repaired and 
remodeled and the improvement boom goes on.

Miss MOLLIE CREW who has been staying in town with family returned home 
yesterday…….. by her sister Mrs. R. W. BROCK.

(LARGE SECTION TOO LIGHT TO READ)

Mr. W. J. CLEARMAN who has just returned from a visit to Arkansas paid us a 
call yesterday.

Messrs. DAVIS and UPCHURCH of Shannon, Miss were in town yesterday, being here 
to see Miss MOLLIE PENNINGTON

MARRIED:  Mr. J. T. HARRISON and Miss R. A. MCCLUNG 8th of August 1886 at Mrs. 
McCLung by A. Cobb, Judge of Probate.

Board and Lodging for man and horse can be got on living terms during Court 
weeks at HUGH PENNINGTON’S .  Aug 18

Gardens have about done their do for this season, and what few vegetables 
remain will soon succumb to the withering rays of the August sun.

Rush & Co. are busy repairing their house this week, making it large and 
commodious for the reception of the mammoth fall and winter stock.  Give them 
a call when you come to town.

Did it ever occur to you, most thoughtless reader, that by a reasonable effort 
you might abandon your idle ways and become a useful member of society.

PUBLIC SPEAKING.  Hon. JOHN M. MARTIN and Hon. JOHN H. BANKHEAD will address 
the voters of Lamar County in Vernon on the 28th day of Aug. 1886.

Fishermen have met with such poor encouragement this year that that kind of 
sport is becoming obsolete in this part of the moral vineyard.

According to the character and extent of your business set aside a percentage 
for advertising and do not hesitate to keep yourself unceasingly before the 
public.

The cantankerous editor of the Courier is not possessed with the same 
forgiving spirit as the Journal men.  In place of making peace he very 
abruptly discontinues to exchange with the News – notwithstanding this 
treacherous turn-coat proposed the exchange on the 2nd of June.

The Fayette Journal puts it thusly:  “Now that the Senatorial race is over, we 
suggest that the editors of this district meet at Hamilton, make friends and 
make Brother Green set up to “moonshine.”
	We suppose the Journal is not aware of the fact that about two or 
three of the editors that supported Judge Almon are strictly Prohibitionists?  
However, we will meet you in Hamilton, make friends and let you drink 
the “moon-shine.”

STILL IT RISES.  Judge Almon’s majorities are 892 in Lamar, 810 in Fayette, 
747 in Marion, making total of 1863. Mr. Sanford’s majority was 71 in 
Franklin, on the official count.  Judge Almon’s majority in the district is 
1797.  The above is the correct official counts and cannot be changed by the 
Fayette Journal, or Courier.

It is yet possible that a good cotton crop will be made in this county.  If 
the worms will let it alone, the drouth (sic) does not make it shed, the 
storms do not knock it all out, no other disaster befall it, and the farmers 
can get --- to pick it, a good crop will be gathered.

TWO MORE BOLTERS BRAKE THEIR NECKS
Reliable news has reached this place that a Mr. WEBB, while crossing 
Buttahatchie at Lawrence Bridge a few days ago, had a narrow escape for his 
life.  He was driving a pair of wild mules and had gone some distance on the 
bridge, when his mules concluded to bolt and did so backing the wagon against 
the balustrade which broke loose and let the mules wagon and all down about 
thirty feet.  The necks of both mules were broken.

DEMOCRACY
Mr. Editor: 
Much was said in the late canvass about the democracy of Lamar county, and so 
far as the partisans in the Senatorial race are concerned, the question is yet 
unanswered.  But the November election will draw party line and determine the 
strength of democracy.
	The last National Convention of the Democratic Party declared in favor 
of a revision of the tariff, and its reduction to the needs of the government, 
economically administered.  Mr. Morrison prepared a bill to revise the tariffs 
and make the necessary reduction.
	When the bill was called up our representative from the sixth district 
voted against its construction.
	But, says one, Mr. Martin, must protect the laboring interests of his 
district.”  Well let us see who is protected by the present high tariff.  The 
clothing manufacturer, the iron-master, the shoe-maker, the coal-miner, the 
spinner, the weaver, these are all protected, while the clod-hopper who 
produces the corn, and wheat, and cotton, and oats, and such other --- things 
as support the millions of earth is not only unprotected, but pays the piper 
for all the protected classes.
	According to the senses (sic) of 1880 more than one-half of the 
importing people of the United States were employed upon the farms.  Every 
pound of iron they see, every garment they wear is heavily taxed.  Where are 
they benefited by a high protected tariff.  They have to compete with all …
(TOO LIGHT TO READ)….was evidently in dead earnest when he said the almighty 
dollar had nothing to do in this case.
	Congressmen Willis, of Kentucky will again have the Courier Journal to 
fight before he can get returned.
	The corrupt politicians and demagogues of both parties don’t admire 
President Cleveland a bit.  He ain’t their sort.
	President Cleveland has already made a splendid record.  He is “the 
noblest Roman of them all.”  No political trickery about them.

ELECTION NEWS
Autauga – the full Democratic ticket elected by 400 majority.  Two boxes will 
be contested.

Bullock – The only Independent only got 60 votes.

Butler – All the Democratic nominees elected by a small majority.

Barbour – Close on the county ticket but the Democratic legislative ticket 
elected.

Blount – Gave Talley large majority, J. W. Ellis is Probate Judge, F. A. 
Hewitt representative.

Bibb – The nominees elected.

Calhoun – The nominees elected.

Clarke – Democratic by over 750.

Coosa – Democratic by 178 majority.

Crenshaw – Seay 2,000 majority; J. F. Watson goes to the legislature.

Chambers – Robinson, the independent for Probate Judge was elected and one of 
the nominees for the legislature was defeated.

Chilton – The nominee for Clerk and the independents for Probate Judge and 
representative are elected.

Conecuh – Democrats received a majority of over 500.

Colbert – The entire Republican ticket, state and county is elected.  The 
republican senator from the 2nd district is elected.

DeKalp – Gave Talley 400 majority and elected the County Democratic ticket – 
Cochran for Probate Judge and Tipton for Representative.

Elmore – Lancaster, Independent for Probate Judge, is elected by 1500 
majority; no other opposition.

Etowah – Souls, Republican for Representative is elected.  The Democratic 
State ticket gets 1200 majority.  Other county officers not nominated.

Fayette goes largely for the Independent county candidates but gives Almon, 
the nominee for Senator, 295 majority over Sanford, Independent.

Franklin – Elects a Republican Representative over the nominee by a large 
majority; no other county officers nominated; gives the Independent candidate 
for Senator 71 majority.

Hale – No opposition.  Seay, 4129, Bingham 7, Tanner 1.

Jefferson – One of the nominees for Representative was elected and the rest of 
the Independent ticket.  The Democratic State Ticket got a large majority.

Jackson – One of the nominees for representative was elected and the rest of 
the Independent ticket.  The Democratic State ticket got a large majority.

Lauderdale – Democratic nominees elected by 150 majority.

Lee – The entire Independent candidate ticket elected, by 100 majority.

Limestone – Democratic

Lawrence – Knanpe, Democratic candidate for Probate Judge elected by 150 
majority; other nominees in doubt.

Lowndes – Goes Republican.  Caffee, Democratic elected Probate Judge, his 
ticket receiving the Republican vote.

Morgan – Democratic by 553 majority.

Marengo – No opposition; Seay 4,166 Bingham 917.

Mobile – No opposition; W. Ames, Independent, is clerk by 400 majority.

Macon – The Republican State ticket gets a majority; the Independents all 
elected, no opposition to the nominee for clerk.

Marion.  No county officers nominated; gives the nominee for Senator 749 
majority over the Independent bolter, Sanford.

Montgomery.  Regular ticket declared elected, but Ben Screws Independent will 
contest for seat in the Legislature.

Pike – Democratic

Perry.  No opposition, Seay about 23,000.

Pickens.  Seay the full vote 8116; Clanton 5163 Morgan 655 for Senator, for 
Representative O. J. McKinney 1760, A. J. Cleman, (Independent) 1588, T. G. 
Williams is Probate Judge by a large plurality and Burt Upchurch, clerk.

Randolph – Democratic nominees elected by 300 majority.

Sumter – Solid.

Shelby – Democratic by over 700 majority.  Leeper is Probate Judge.

St. Clair – The Independents are elected.

Talladega – The Democratic ticket elected throughout.

Tuskaloosa – Clements and Wilkfield, nominees of the second convention, 
elected by less than 103 majority.

Wilcox – Democratic

Walker – Elects Democratic Representatives and probably the clerk by 8 votes, 
Republican Probate Judge by 90.

Little MOLLIE PENNINGTON, of Vernon is attracting more attention now more than 
any person in the United States, Sam Jones not excepted. – [-----Journal]

WANTED:  To know the whereabouts of SYLVESTER ALONZO BOX.  ----- to his 
material interests in ----- with W. Y. ALLEN, Vernon, Ala. - -----, Harrill, 
Okolona, Miss.

To Grand and Petit Jurors, witnesses and all Interested, we are requested by 
Circuit Clerk MIDDLETON, to state that Circuit Clerk will not convene in the 
town of Vernon until Tuesday August 31, 1886.

LIST OF JURORS
The following is a list of the Grand and Petit Jurors drawn for the fall term 
of the Circuit Court commencing Tuesday, August 3, 1886.

GRAND JURORS
M. W. MORTON		B. H. JACKSON
J. E. GRAVES			W. M. MOLLOY
VINCENT WEBB		J. W. PAUL
J. T. JAGGERS			ISAAC HILL
A. J. PENNINGTON		T. M. SAVAGE
D. G. HOLCOMB		T. G. GENTRY
T. J. ALEXANDER		W. W. DUNN
F. M. COBB

PETIT JURORS – FIRST WEEK
A. K. GREEN			J. J. WHEELER
G. H. TURNER			T. J. SHAW
R. A. TRIM			REUBEN GUYTON
T. L. CREW			A. MORROW
KIT DUKE			CRAVE HARRIS
W. J. SANDLIN			J. L. MARCHBANKS
ALEX BELL			W. H. HILL
SILAS WALDROP		W. P. SMITH
ROBERT IRWIN		ANDY CLINE
J. R. SHIELDS			L. J. HAYS
J. M. BEASLEY			J. R. GOODMAN
J. W. SHELTON			J. R. ROBERSON

PETIT JURORS – SECOND WEEK
W. B MATTHEWS		G. B. TAYLOR
ABNER PENNINTON		W. R. CUNNINGHAM
MOSES COLLIER		L. R. GUIN
R. P. BOLIN			J. H. SHAFER
J. W. JOHNSON		J. H. CARR
A. J. LOWRY			JNO. HOLLADAY
A. YU. HOLLIS			W. W. MIZE
MARTIN LAWRENCE		R. L. RICHARDS
J. M. DAVIS			C. M. HYDRICK
F. M. GARTMAN		RAZ UIN
S. E. ROWLAMB		STEPHEN CASH
J. M. USSERY

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.

Ad for Peruna

State Normal School.  Florence, Alabama.  T. J. MITCHELL, A. M. 
President.Established by tge State for the prurpose of training Teachers, Male 
and Female.  Graduater teaches in the Public Schools without further 
examination.  The Course of study embraces all fo the branches 
------ taught in high schools and colleges.
TUITION  To formal pupils     Free  ….(REST IS TOO LIGHT – CAN’T READ)

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.

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

Ad for Peruna

Ad for Collins Ague Cure

Ad for Extra Light Draft Two Mule Sulky Plow – The Bluegrass.   (picutre of 
plow)

Ad for Marriage Guide

Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ

Ad for Avery Sewing Machine

Ad for New Home Sewing Machine

Ad for Wetherill Paint

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