Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Vernon Courier November 12, 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 March 9, 2007, 11:10 am Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History November 12, 1886 Microfilm Ref Call #371 Microfilm Order #M1992.4966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE VERNON COURIER ALEX A. WALL, Editor and Publisher – VERNON, LAMAR CO, ALA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1886 Subscription $1.00 Per Year VOL. I. NO. 24 EARTHQUAKE QUERY – Poem – [---W. Riley, in Indianapolis Journal] A BIT OF DRIFT – Short Story – [Hester Stuart, in Chicago Tribune] PERSIAN RELICS Gratifying Results of Excavations Carried On on the Site of Ancient Susa A vast quantity of relics, the result of the excavations carried on for a long time on the site of the ancient Susa by M. Dieulafoy and his companions have arrived at the museum of the Louvre. They were brought to Toulon in a transport from Bassorah, and filed 215 chests that weighed over 40,000 kilogrammes (nearly forty-nine tons). The chief contents are: (1) Two fragments of a frieze of enameled earthenware adorned with lions in bas- relief, from the principal entrance to the palace of Artaxerxes Mnemon – both fragments are over thirteen feet high by nearly thirty feet long; (2) a similar fragment of a frieze from the palace of King Darius Hystaspes, adorned with twelve figures of the loyal bodyguard, the famous “Immortals” – this piece is eleven and one-half feet high by nearly forty feet long; (3) two fragments of a stair-case in same material; (4) two fragments of terra cotta friezes, showing fantastic animals – they are together over twenty feet long by nearly six high; (5) the capital of a pillar from the palace of Artaxerxes representing a two-headed monster – it is sixteen feet high by thirteen feet in width; (6) a collection of cut gems, numbering about 300, which seems to date from the earliest period of the Sassanide Dynasty; (7) a large number of arrow headed inscriptions on stone or glazed earth, mostly from Susa; (8) a considerable collection of bronze coins from Susa and the neighboring districts from the time of the Parthians and the Sassanides; (9) a quantity of bronze ornaments and mountings of the outer doors of the palace of Artaxerxes; (10) a number of statuettes of bronze, ivory, terra cotta and marble, a quantity of vases and toilet ware. (11) a mass of objects of comparatively small value, enameled Sassanide vases, Parthian urns for the dead, iron and bronze weapons, instruments and skeletons. Besides these things the expedition took plaster casts on a large scale or portions of the palace of Artaxerxes, also photographs of the neighborhood of Susa, the sites of the explorations of various old monuments and ruins in other parts of Persia. It is believed that five or six months will be required to get all their things in order. Disful, the modern village on the site of Susa is about 400 kilometres from Bassourah. At first the expedition encountered much opposition from the natives, owing to a report that the Frenchmen wanted to carry away the body of the prophet Daniel, which is supposed to be buried in a cave in the neighborhood, a great object of pilgrimages. – [London Standard] STARTING A CITY PAPER = joke THE COOL EGOTIST – A Species of Masculinity Confined to New York City Men of a certain class are confined to New York. They won’t grow anywhere else, and there they only flourish in the first circles. They are exotic plants, which only come to perfection in the hot-house. I know one of them – possibly a specimen of the species as one could find. He is, perhaps, twenty-four or five – a kind observer would say eighteen. He doesn’t care about cultivating a mustache; it is commonplace – fast becoming vulgar. There is an air of gentle lassitude about him – might one say weakness in his legs he is always a little overdressed – a peculiarity which he outgrows in three or four years – and always wears some rings –diamonds, gypsy setting – on his “engagement finger.” Whether this is to demonstrate that he is “bespoke” – a proclamation for all spinsters who run to read – or merely a form of exterior decoration, I have never summoned the courage to inquire. When a girl – a green girl – goes out to dinner, and finds him sitting at her right hand – as in nine cases out of ten she will find him – she is at first incenses. She sits brooding sulkily, considering herself snubbed in having been invited to meet a callow boy. Presently the boy begins to talk, not eagerly, but rather as if it was expected of him. Like Annie Laurie, his voice is low and sweet, at times so low that she is forced to lean toward him to catch his remarks. Then the fun begins. At first glance she is piqued by his apparent indifference. She opens fire, quivering vengefully at the thought of crushing him. Gradually in some weird, mysterious way, she feels her hold on the conversation gradually slipping away; he turns it, with a firm hand, into the channel he wished it to be in. She begins to feel helpless and uncomfortable; she is conscious that he is making fame of her; she sits uneasily under his glance, and wishes dinner was over. The glance, by the way, is a supertine article. It is a very peculiar glance, wide-eyed and unsmiling; and, though he stares a great deal, it is never admiring speculative is the best word to describe it. It is coldly speculative, and anything more disconcerting was never put into the eyes of a man. When the girl makes a final struggle for self-assertion it freed her; it fastens on her face and boldly speculates on every feature. She feels that, while he is gently complimentary in his remarks, he is saying to himself, in the words of Aaron, the Moor, “O what a thing it is to bean ass.” But with a congenital companion, one who knows and makes allowances for his eccentricities, he is quite charming. In nine cases out of ten he is clever – not a heavy, superific cleverness, but a light, attractive style. He can discuss all kinds of topics with a delicate, evanescent originality; he can be genuinely witty at the expense of a new star of a collection of pictures; he lighten his talk with an occasional story, not too long, and always, slightly high; he listens extremely well – a rare accomplishment – only disconcerting with his instant gaze when he is out of sorts, or his companion is not green enough to take his points. He is owes his social success entirely to his cool impudence and unrivaled conceit. And can one blame him? He knows he is invulnerable a t a dinner; he knows germans would die without him; he knows the girls yawn themselves to death when he is not there. And what man, knowing this, could help being great and good in his own yes? – [N. Y. Tribune] A CURIOUS OLD LAW There are a number of curious old laws still in existence in Missouri. In the early part of the Mexican war Absalom Hughes, of Callaway County, was wounded by a cannon ball at the cattle of Sacramento. He was truck below the knees and had both legs broken. The General Assembly which convened in 1819 passed a special law granting him the privilege of keeping a drum-shop at Cedar City, Callaway County, during his life, without being subject to any license. This was passed as a recognition of his service. Mr. Hughes at once opened a saloon and has never yet closed it. He is now an old man, but is not as badly crippled as some might expect, considering the terrible wound he received. The Downing law does not interfere with his special privilege. Although he has been running a saloon in Cedar City for over thirty-seven years, few people outside of his neighborhood know that he is exempt from paying license. – [Cor. St. Louis Republican] WORLDS OF UNLIMITED MINUTENESS The two satellites of Mars are pronounced by Newcomb by far the smallest heavily bodies yet know. Their diameters can not be stated with any degree of accuracy, but that of the outer satellite may be as small as five miles, while that of the inner satellite probably ties between ten and forty miles. Certa and Vesta, the largest of the asteroids, are supposed to be between two and four hundred miles in diameter, while others of the group may be as small as twenty miles, or even less. There are some reasons for believing, indeed, that the ring of asteroids may include bodies of unlimited minuteness – fragments far too small to be visible with our largest telescopes. – [Arkansas Traveler] EFFECT OF DRESS - Self Respect Coming Largely from the Consciousness of Good Appearance “Cleanliness is next to godliness: not because godliness is superficial but because cleanliness is more than skin deep and produces an effect upon the soul. Says a Western preacher, in speaking of the tramp: “You know how you think you look after a long journey – you know how you think you feel. The outward man has relation to the inner. The slouch, shuffle and uncomely front of the tramp is not necessarily because of the lack of heart. The lack of a shirt will account for it. George Washington, in continental coat, cuffs, waistcoat, knee breeches, silver buckles and frills and powdered hair, fronts the world with dignity. But let him exchange raiment with the tramp, and the father of his country will not be recognized by his child. Oh, no; he will stand uneasily, and rub the top of one foot with the heel of the other. Array yourself in stylish garments and visit a fashionable watering place, and mark your reception by the hotel clerk. Then go into the woods for a few weeks, and some time morning clad in an old blue shirt, torn corduroys and moccasins, unshaved and uncombed, appear upon the scene. The temptation to seek an entrance by the back door, and sneak upstairs and get to your trunk is tremendous.” Self respect comes largely from the consciousness of a good appearance. A man with well polished boots will stand straighter than he who clumps the streets and crosses your parlor with brick dust on his feet. A clean collar and faultless cuffs will sometimes save a man from a dirty moral job as well as from filthy things of touch. John Doe in his Sunday clothes is more polite, more considerate of others and in every way more refined than in his torn and tattered Saturday suit. Change of dress has changed the manners. Improvement in appearance has improved the man. We need not become dudes. Neither should we decry good dressing. To teach cleanliness of person and neatness and taste in dress will sometimes be equal to preaching. We grant that the inward man controls the outward it is true, also, that the outward exerts a powerful influence over the inward. At least, a clean shirt is in harmony with a clean heart. – [Morning Star] STUDY OF POST-OFFICES – Repetitions Which Cause Much Annoyance To Mail Agents – [Detroit Free Press] – (words that are used over and over in addresses: town, ville, creek, etc…..) ADAM AND EVE – How Many Apples Did The Parents Of Manhood Eat? – joke PITH AND POINT – jokes WON THE GIRL – anecdote PAGE 2 THE COURIER ALEX. A WALL, Editor and Proprietor Vernon, Alabama Friday, November 12, 1886 BANKHEAD received 383 votes in Marion County, and Long 191. Sixteen gin houses have been burned in the state since the beginning of the fall. There is an ox at the Southern Warehouse in Montgomery that weighs 1,710 pounds. He is certainly the largest ox in the state. AMONG THE RAILROADS That the Memphis & Birmingham Railroad will soon be a connecting link in a great transcontinental line from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean is confirmed by further advices from Kansas City, where Col. W. P. Dunavant and his associates are now engaged building the Kansas City, Wyandotte & Northwestern Railroad, really a continuation of the road now being built from our city to connect us with Memphis. A glance at the amp shows clearly that eventually, as sure as a “straight line is the nearest distance between two points,” if there is any truth in Euclid, this whole great system, with Birmingham as a centre, must some day be one long continuous line from sea to sea. The following is the extract referred to from the Kansas City Times of the 25th inst. “W. P. Dunavant, G. H. P. Piper and Newman Erb, of Memphis, are in the city looking up the interests of the Kansas City, Wyandotte & Northwestern road, in which they represent the Memphis capitalists who are carrying the bonds and building the line. They repot that work is being pushed forward and that everything is progressing favorably. They will remain several days.” Mr. Martin Kelley is in charge of the construction beyond Kansas Ciyt, and is pushing it, as he always does work, as fast as men and money and energy can do it. The length of the extension to be built is about 330 miles westward from Kansas City. TWELVE APACHE INDIANS – [From the Montgomery Advertiser of the 5th] Twelve Apache Indians passed through Montgomery last night on the south bound Louisville and Nashville passenger train. They were en route to Pensacola and from there they will be taken to Santa Rosa Island, where the old chief, Geronimo, and a number of his followers are now confined. The party that passed through here last night numbered twelve, two bucks, eight squaws, and two children. One of the bucks was Chief Mangus, a half-brother to Geronimo; Mangus was head chief of the Chiricahua Apaches. He is a savage looking, powerful old fellow. He was handcuffed and shackled and chained down to his seat. He doesn’t deceive his looks. It became necessary to manacle him and watch him closely. While the party was traveling through Colorado, Mangus jumped through a car window while the train was in full motion. He ran a short distance and was recaptured. He then got hold of a knife and tried to kill himself, stabbing his body in several places. At Kansas City he attacked the interpreter, striking him about the head with the shackles on his wrist. So as a matter of necessity he was chained down. He was seen in the car by an Advertiser reporter last night. Though a prisoner and in chains, he is still stubborn and sullen and grunts and growls continually. The party was escorted by a squad of United States soldiers. They reach Pensacola about two o’clock this morning. PROCEEDINGS OF COMMISSIONER’S COURT State of Alabama, Lamar County Commissioners Court Regular Term, November 8th, 1886 The following orders were made at said Court to wit: J. C. BROWN allowed for pauper $16.00 HUGH PENNINGTON, feeding jury at Court 16.25 A. A. WALL, Public printing 5.50 WATSON BROWN, Registering voters 1.00 E. C. SCISSON, the same .35 J. S. WILSON, the same .95 F. OGDEN, bridge lumber 3.32 J. T. THOMPSON, hauling lumber .75 E. J. MCNATT, Public Printing 8.66 A. J. NORTHINGTON, for 14 trees 14.00 W. L. MORTON & BRO., medical attention to prisoners in jail $15.50 G. W. NOLEN, lumber for bridge 3.92 W. F. ELLIOTT, medical attention to paupers 11.20 AMOS PENNINGTON, trees for bridge 2.50 W. G. RICHARDS & Son, lumber for bridges 70.26 S. H. HANKINS, Registering voters 1.00 A. B. DUNCAN, lumber for bridges 29.03 A. J. PARSONS, lumber for bridges 24.20 J. T. MORDICAI, lumber for bridges 7.32 MARSHALL & BRUCE, Stationery 12.00 SHERMON PENNINGTON, wood for jail 3.00 S. F. PENNINGTON, clothing for prisoners 2.00 W. W. PURNELL, care of paupers 80.25 W. B. TRAYLOR, pauper 5.00 A. K. NEWTON, medical bill for prisoner 9.00 ALEXANDER COBB, County Judge and Registration 106.25 W. A. JOHNSON, bridge lumber 28.67 J. L. JOHNSON, bridge lumber 2.00 S. E. WEIR & Co., nails for bridge 2.63 R. W. COBB, stationery and clothing 8.16 J. R. HOLLIS, hauling lumber .75 S. F. PENNINGTON, moving JOHN HANKINS 31.39 ANTHONY TERRELL, bridge lumber 7.80 WM. BROWN, nails for bridge .55 STEPHEN CORDEL, bridge lumber 11.32 J. C. JOHNSON, nails for bridges 1.00 A. A. WALL, public printing 1.25 R. W. YOUNG, Commissioner 6.90 W. M. MOLLOY, Commissioner 8.00 ALBERT WILSON, Commissioner 7.95 SAMUEL LOGGAIN, Commissioner 6.80 ALEXANDER COBB, Judge and Ex-officio Clerk 6.00 L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer made report which is as follows to wit: County Funds: Cash received and amount on hand at last report, $1568.15 By amount paid out as per vouchers 1825.58 Amount Due Treasurer, $257.13 STATE FUNDS Amount received including balance on hand at last report 353.91 By vouchers paid out 337.15 $16.79 Order establishing DORROH Road - Granted Order changing election precinct in Military Springs Beat from H. C. CRIBBS to New Hope Church. – Granted Jury of Review ordered for the extension of ROBERTSON Road from MOULTON Road to MILITARY Road – Granted The Court proceeded to elect a public printer, and A. A. WALL proposing to do the same the cheapest, it was awarded to him. November 9th, 1886 Court adjourned. A true copy of Minutes ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate A LIVING SKELETON – A Man Who Lives and Weighs Only Forty-Six Pounds – [Birmingham Chronicle] – Near Trussville is one of the most remarkable cases of helplessness known to the medical fraternity of the state which is a man who weighs forty- six pounds, and has not moved a portion of her body except his mouth and the two first fingers of his right hand in twenty-three years. His name is JOHN REVIS, who is 45 years of age and a man of culture. He contracted rheumatism before the war and after three years of suffering his limbs became drawn up in front of his body in which position they are now. he has been confined to his bed twenty-three years motionless, except the parts of the body named. He is a skeleton, and the forty-six pounds are all his bones and skin weigh. He was formerly a school teacher and is now a fine conversationalist, and is quite fond of company. He does not consider his predicament and speaks of himself being well. His face looks healthy, and he is always in good spirits. The case has baffled medical skill, and why he does not die has puzzled his friends and relatives, many of whom live in the city. Mr. Revis has not moved or turned over in bed in the long time of his confinement and is moved about and fed. WALKER & DONOGHUE, Dealers in Staple and Fancy groceries and plantation supplies Columbus Miss. Keep constantly on had a full supply of all goods usually kept in a first-class grocery house. Give us a call when you are in the city. Mr. GEO. TAYLOR is connected with the above firm and will be pleased to see his friends and will sell them goods at rock bottom prices. W. B. SPANN of Lamar County with NATHAN & OPPENHEIMER Whole sale & Retail Dealers in Staple & Fancy Groceries, Tobacco, cigars, plantation supplies, etc. Wholesale dealers in liquors, wines, etc. Columbus, Miss. Note: I respectfully solicit my friends from all parts of the country to call in and see me when in the city. Will sell you goods at a very small margin above cost. I am ever thankful to my customers for the past favors. – W. B. SPANN J. A. JORDAN of Lamar County in now connected with TROST & SOLOMON Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Wines, Liquors, Cigars, & Tobacco. Columbus, Miss. Call and see him before purchasing elsewhere. L. S. METCALF, with T. O. BURRIS, Columbus, Miss. Groceries, Dry goods & shoes, hats & caps & clothing. Note: I respectfully ask my friends of Lamar and Marion to give me a call when in the city. Will sell you goods at a very small margin above cost. L. S. METCALF. OTTLEY & NEWBY Dealers in Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, Guns, Pistols, Powder, Shot, Steel, Iron, nails, Castings, Sash , doors, blinds, and a full line of stoves and tinware. Special attention paid to the repairing of tin work. No. 51 Market Street, Columbus, Miss. Cotton! Cotton! Cotton! S. E. WEIR & Co. Kennedy, Alabama Pay highest prices for cotton, country produce, &c, and sell all goods at rock bottom prices Fancy prints 4 ½ @ 7 Ladies Hats 25c to $3.00 Brown Domestic 7/8 5c Men’s hats, 25c to $3.50 Brown Domestic 4-4, 6c Kip Boots, $1.75 to $3.50 Cotton Checks, 6 ½ @ 7 ½ Kip Brogans, $1.00 to $3.15 8 oz Osnaburg, 10c Best Brogans, $1.25 Dress goods, all styles and prices Men’s and boys clothing, latest styles and lowest prices. Muzzle and breech loading guns, $2.50 to $35. Stoves with full line of fixtures, $10.00 to $20.00. We keep constantly on hand a full stock of bridles, saddles, harness, &c. Also good and fresh line of groceries, such as salt, flour, meat, lard, sugar, coffee, and all shelf goods, that we will sell as low as any market. Bring us our cotton and produce and we will pay you the highest cash price for same and sell you any and all goods kept in a first-class store, as cheap as money will buy them in any market. You will find it to your interest to give us a call before purchasing elsewhere. Mr. GARLAND SMITH will be found always on hand to serve his friends and the public. S. E. WEIR & CO. W. G. RICHARDS & Son – Dealers in general merchandise and country produce. Fernbank, Alabama. Not in favor of two weeks court, but selling goods low for cash. Headquarters for dry goods, notions, general merchandise, hats, caps, boots, shoes & clothing. Choice family groceries, including the best coffees, crockery, queensware, earthen and wooden ware, and a thousand and one “Nick Nack’s” which can not be enumerated always in stock. A car load of flour just received, which will be sold at a small margin above cost. We mean business, and I will sell any and all of our goods at rock-bottom prices. Columbus prices paid for cotton, hides, chickens, eggs, and all country produce. Please ask for what you want, we like to show our goods. Established 1867. Cash Store. A. A. SUMMERS, Special announcement for Fall and Winter. The best selected stock of general merchandise ever brought to Vernon. Now on exhibition fine clothing and dress goods at giving away prices, hosiery and furnishing goods at astonishingly low prices. A fine line of notions in abundance at a great discount. No lady can afford to buy elsewhere before seeing my goods and prices. Bargains in shoes, boots, and hats, never heard of before in Vernon. A full line of medicines, hardware, and goods of general utility. Call and see the attraction for yourself. Established 1856. 1886 Still here. N. GROSS AND COMPNAY. We are now receiving one of the largest and best selected stock of dry goods, notions, boots & shoes, hats and caps, and clothing, gents furnishing good, that has as yet been received in this city, to which we call it’s attention of all of our Lamar friends. Our intention is to sell our stock at rock-bottom prices, and as we buy our goods for cash, we can of course offer you goods at figures which are astonishingly low. We would call special attention to the wholesale trade. Respectfully, N. GROSS & Co., Columbus, Miss. Note: We have secured the services of Mr. S. WOLFF, who will pay the highest marker price for cotton, and would be glad to see all of his Lamar friends. Call on him. N. GROSS & CO. COLUMBUS MARBLE WORKS. Monuments and Headstones of every description furnished to order with the best of stock. I invite orders for anything in my line from all parts of the country. Don’t be deceived before calling at my yard, for seeing is satisfaction. Everything warranted. LIST OF PRICES OF PLAIN HEADSTONES LENGTH WIDTH THICKNESS 3 ft. 0 in. x 1 ft 0 in x 2 in $12 3 ft 6 in. x 1 ft 2 in x 2 in $15 4 ft. 0 in. x 1 ft. 4 in x 2 in $20 5 ft 0 in. x 1 ft 6 in x 2 in $25 All work done on short notice. Material and work warranted the best. Correspondence solicited. W. H. NEWLON, Columbus, Miss. Fall and Winter Goods. F. OGDEN & Son. Cansler, Alabama. Dry goods, boots, and shoes. Dress goods, prints, notions, etc. Also keep constantly on hand, flour, meat, sugar, and coffee all of which will be sold as cheap as the cheapest. A fine line of snuff and tobacco and in fact everything usually kept in a first-class dry goods store. Give us a call and be convinced that we mean what we say. We wish to call especial attention to our wool carder which is now in first-class repair. We have with us Mr. W. T. TROTTER, an experienced hand in carding, and who will take pleasure in giving prompt attention to all wool brought to our carder. F. OGDEN & Son. Cansler, Ala. Clothing and hats. When you want a first-class article in the clothing line or a first class shirt or hat, call upon the clothing and hat store where you can select from a very large, nice stock of all kinds of goods for men’s wear. We deal especially in men’s goods, fitting a man from head to foot. We carry suits from $6.00 to $30.00. We have attached to our store a Tailoring Department, with a large stock of piece goods and trimmings to make suits to order. Call and see us when in the city. BUTLER & TOPP, No. 55 Main, Columbus, Miss. PAGE 3 THE COURIER Published Every Friday LAMAR DIRECTORY ALEXANDER COBB Judge of Probate R. E. BRADLEY Circuit Clerk S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer D. J. LACY Tax Collector W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor JAMES M. MORTON Reg. in Chancery B. H. WILKERSON Co. Supt of Ed. R. L. BRADLEY Representative ALEXANDER COLLINS Coroner N. L. TRULL, County Surveyor COMMISSIONERS R. W. YOUNG W. M. MOLLOY ALBERT WILSON SAMUEL LOGGINAS 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. J. D. MCCLUSKEY – Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in Chancery Vernon, Ala. will practice in the Circuit Courts of Lamar, Marion, Fayette, and Walker. The Federal Court and Supreme Court of Ala. Special attention given to collection of claims. NESMITH & SANFORD, Attorneys-at-law will practice in all the Courts of Lamar, Fayette, and adjoining counties. THOS. B. NESMITH, Vernon, Ala. J. B. SANFORD, Fayette, C. H., Ala. A. J. STANFORD, Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in chancery Beaverton, Alabama will practice in the Circuit and Federal Courts of Alabama. Special attention given to the collection of claims. SAM’L M. MEEK, WM. C. MEEK - S. M. & W. C. MEEK, Attorneys and Counselors at law. Office on Military Street, (Opposite Court House), Columbus, Miss. Will practice in the Courts of Lamar County, Alabama LOCALS Register MORTON is attending court at Fayette this week. Go to G. W. RUSH & Co., for Apples, chestnuts, etc. Go to the Columbus Clothing House of Butler & Topp for a fine suit of clothes. Rush & Co. kindly request their customers who have tickets with them to call and settle. Remember when you are in town and want tonsorial work done just step into KELLEY & ALBERT’S shop. If you wish to purchase books, go to Rush & Co, who will give you rock-bottom prices. Presiding Elder BRINDLEY preached a very interesting and able sermon at the Church last Sabbath night. A large audience heard him. Capt. W. G. RICHARDS of Fernbank gave us a pleasant call Monday last and informed us that he was selling goods at astonishingly low figures. The North Alabama Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South meets at Florence on the 1st of December which is Wednesday. Ad for McLean’s Liver and Kidney Balm. Resident engineer THOMAS of the Kansas City R. R. with headquarters at G. C. BANKHEAD’S was in town last Sunday, also Mr. RODOLPHUS BROWN. Ad for McLean’s Liver and Kidney Pillets KELLEY & ALBERT, barbers, Columbus, Miss have a card in this issue. To our Lamar friends we commend this shop as reliable, polite and accommodating. This shop neatly kept and conveniently located. Ad for McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier A very pleasant sociable was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. E MORTON on last Friday night, in honor of Miss CARRIE TUNNEL of Stanston, Miss., and Miss MARY COOK of Sansaba, Texas. These young ladies are cousins to Mrs. HATTIE MORTON. We welcome the young ladies to our town and wish them a very pleasant visit. Mr. HENRY BICKERSTAFF and Miss MARTHA TURMAN were united in the holy bonds of matrimony on last Thursday. The Courier extends a happy journey through life to them. Ad for McLean’s Chills and Fever Cure The young ladies and gentlemen of Vernon met at the residence of Dr. W. L. MORTON last Monday night and had a very pleasant evening singing, conversing and general enjoyment was indulged in. Ad for McLean’s Volcanic Oil Liniment Sheriff S. F. PENNINGTON has opened a stock of family groceries in the post- office. “Uncle” TOMMIE SPRINGFIELD will attend to the selling of the goods. We bespeak for the Sheriff a liberal patronage which he justly merits. Ad for McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier Sheriff PENNINGTON and ye editor had the pleasure of shaking Hon. J. H. BANKHEAD’S hand on last Friday morning in Columbus. He bears his election with grace and ease, which is characteristic of his life. Ad for McLean’s Eye Salve See the Law card of S. M. & W. C. MEEK in today’s paper. This firm is well and favorably known throughout the country and we heartily recommend them to all parties needing legal advice. It will be seen by looking over the columns of the Courier that it is in a prosperous condition, which we appreciate. Our subscription list is also increasing which is very encouraging to us. We return many thanks to our supporters. With this issue of the courier we present to our readers the card of the Gilmer House, Columbus. When you are in the city and want a square meal the Gilmer House is the place to go. Major KING the proprietor is an experienced Hotel gentleman and knows exactly how to run a hotel. See the card of the Farmer’s Independent Warehouse in today’s paper, Mr. J. I. MARCHBANK, who is favorably known to the citizens of Lamar, is with this warehouse and respectfully ask his many friends to give him a call. Rev. J. G. NORRIS was at the hotel Monday. He had been with Rev. L. M. WIMBERLEY to Popular Springs in the southern part of the county where he assisted Mr. WIMBERLEY in preaching. Mr. NORRIS is a citizen of Fayette County, and is greatly loved and respected for his many traits of good citizenship. NOTICE Parties indebted to the undersigned are earnestly requested to come and settle notes and accounts without further notice. A. COBB & SON FEMALE MOONSHINERS – [Atlanta Constitution] Deputy Collector Chisholm and Deputy Marshal Stephens made a raid which goes over any yet made by the revenue men. For several months past it has been known that a large quantity of blockade whiskey was being sold in Pickens County, near Talking Rock, but every effort to catch on to the violators proved of no avail until a few days ago when a “slip” made the facts known to Deputy Collector Chisholm, who is one of the shrewdest men in the service. He with his men found the place, and just in the rear of the garden discovered a distillery in which Mrs. Thomas Frick and her two daughters, Sallie and Emma Frick were at work. They offered no resistance, but quietly submitted to arrest. Miss Lena Fairbanks, a maiden of 13 summers, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment in a Michigan jail for horse stealing. FARMER’S INDEPENDENT WAREHOUSE. We have again rented the Whitfield Stables, opposite the Court house, for the purpose of continuing the Warehouse and Cotton Storage business, and we say to our friends and farmers of West Alabama and East Mississippi, that we will not be surpassed by any others in looking after the wants of our customers to make them conformable while in Columbus. We will have fire places instead of stoves for both white and colored; separate houses fitted up for each. We will have also good shed room for 100 head of stock more than we had last year; also a convenient and comfortable room for our friends who may come to Columbus. We do not hesitate to say that we can and will give you better camping accommodations than any other house in the house in the place. Mr. J. L. MARCHBANKS of Lamar County, Ala., and MILIAS MOORHEAD, of Pickens County, Ala., will be at the stable and will be glad to see their friends and attend to their wants, both day and night. Our Mr. FELIX GUNTER will be at the cotton shed where he will be glad to see his old friends and as many new ones as will come. All cotton shipped to us by railroad of river will be received free of drayage to warehouse and have our personal attention. Thanking you for your patronage last season, and we remain the farmer’s friends. Yours Respectfully, J. G. SHULL & CO, Columbus, Miss. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION LAND OFFICE AT HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA October 28th 1876 (sic) Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claims, and that said proof will be made before the Judge or in his absence the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Lamar County, Ala, at Vernon, on December 8th 1886, viz: No. 9363 – THOMAS B. SMITH for the NW ¼ of NW ¼ S 14 Township 13 S Range 14 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land viz: R. F. BRADLEY, of Vernon, Ala., REUBIN F. BROWN, JOSEPH DILL, and W. P. HUGHEY, of Beaverton, Alabama. William C. Wells, Register CONSOLIDATED NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Alabama October 12th, 1886 Notice is hereby given that the following named settlers has filed notice of their intention to make final proof in support of their claims, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar County, Alabama at Vernon, on November 30, 1886, viz: No. 12011 JAMES A. MCCOLLUM for the SE ¼ of NW ¼ Sec 31 Township 14 S Range 15 West, and viz: No. 12074 SAMUEL W. BURNS, for the NE ¼ of NW ¼ Sec 31 Township 14 South Range 15 West. They name the following witnesses to prove their continuous residence upon and cultivation of said lands viz: JAMES A. MCCOLLUM, N. M. JORDAN, GEOERGE H. TURNER, W. D. CLEARMAN, SAMUEL W. BURNS, LEONADIUS BURNS, J. W. CARMAN and NATHANIEL EDGEWORTH of Vernon, Alabama. William C. Wells, Register ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE Within legal hours on Monday, the 1st day of November 1886 by virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County, Alabama, as Administrator de bonis non of the estate of W. K. KIRK, deceased, I will sell the NW ¼ of NW ¼ Sec 15, and N ½ of NE ¼ Sec 16, 120 acres, known as the CRIBBS PLACE; and N ½ of NW ¼ and SE ¼ of NW ¼, sec 22, 120 acres, known as the COOK PLACE; and E ½ of NE ½ SE ¼ of SW ¼ of NE ¼, N ½ of SE ¼ sec 22 W ½ of NW ¼ SE ½ of NW ¼ S ½ of NE ¼ of NW ¼ 120 acres, and N ½ of SW ¼ Sec 23, 420 acres, known as FORGE PLACE, all in township 15, Range 16 as the property of said estate, at the Court House door, in said county, to the highest bidder, at public outcry on a credit of twelve months, taking notes with two good sureties, and retaining the vendor’s lien for the purchase money. This 8th day of October 1886. W. A. BROWN Administrator, de bonis non. The above sale continued until Monday the 6th day of December. ALABAMA LANDS FOR SALE 13 Farms for sale in Lamar County, ranging from 440 to 80 acres in size. The undersigned offers the above Farms for sale in Lamar, which a reference to all authentic reports will show to be county above the average in Alabama. They contain as good farming lands as this section can boast, and are advantageously situated. Good water, healthy locations, convenient to schools, and churches, also to the county seat at Vernon. A railroad traverses the lower end of the county and one is in course of construction through the upper end. The future prospect is flattering and capitalists are turning their eyes this way seeking investment. These lands and many others besides in this county can be purchased on wonderfully low terms, from $1.00 to $5.00 per acre. Address A. A. SUMMERS, Vernon, Lamar County, Ala. Gilmer Hotel. Columbus, Miss. This establishment has changed hands and will be thoroughly overhauled and refurnished and first-class accommodations guaranteed and charges will be moderate. A. W. KING, Proprietor. F. R. SIMMS, Clerk. Barber Shop. KELLY & ALBERT, No. 58 Market Street Columbus, Miss. Upstairs, opposite Cady’s Stable. Hot and cold baths. NOTICE NO. 5570 – NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Montgomery, Alabama October 26th, 1886 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge or in his absence the Clerk of the Circuit Court at Vernon, Ala, on December 22nd, 1886, viz: GEORGE H. SANDERS Homestead Application No. 100489 for the SW ¼ SW ¼ Section 3 Township 15 S Range 15 W. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land viz: W. H. BICKERSTAFF, T. W. SPRINGFIELD, H. C. BICKERSTAFF, and JAMES MIDDLETON, of Vernon, Alabama J. G. HARRIS, Register KINGVILLE HIGH SCHOOL under the principalship of B. H. WILKERSON will open Oct. 25, 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. No incidental fee. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention will be given to those who wish to engage in teaching. Board in best families from $4.00 to $5.00. Tuition due every three scholastic months. For further information address B. H. WILKERSON, C. Supt., Principal. Kingville, Ala, Oct. 29, 1886 THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL under the Principalship of J. R. GUIN, will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of Ten Scholastic months Rates of Tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Grammar, Primary Geography and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.25. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing Brief English Grammar, Elementary Geography, Elementary Arithmetic, Letter Writing and Hygiene, per month, $1.50. PRACTICAL: Embracing English Grammar, Practical Arithmetic, Complete Geography, English Composition, U. S. History and Physiology, per month, $2.00. HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Rhetoric, Elocution, Algebra, Natural Philosophy, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Hygiene, Physiology, Latin, &c, per month $2.50. Discipline will be firm. Special attention will be given to young men and women who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7.00 per month. No incidental fees. Tuition due every five months. Correspondence solicited. Address J. R. GUIN Fernbank, Ala. Lamar County Clothing! Clothing! At A. COBB & Son Dealer in General Merchandise. Ladies best fitting (picture of a corset) always in store, and at prices to suit the ladies. Our summer stock is complete – consisting of ladies fine dress goods, ladies shoes, men’s shoes, boots, hats, etc. Our stock of clothing of the best quality, which we are offering at a small margin above cost. We are selling cheap. We mean what we say. Don’t fail to call when you are in town. We have a lot of Iron Foot plows which we will sell very low (picture of iron foot plow). Very Respectfully. A. COBB & Son Ho! (picture of canteen) Every one that Thirst food and lodging for man, and provender for horses can be had to live and let live prices at the WIMBERLEY House, Vernon, Ala. L. M. WIMBERLY, Proprietor J. T. STINSON & Company. Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants. Columbus, Miss. We return to our many friends and patrons, our usual thanks for their very liberal patronage extended us; and trust by strict attention to their interests to merit their favors and influence in future. Our local facilities for handling cotton are unsurpassed by other markets, having suitable warehouses with storage capacity of 60,000 bales, two Banking institutions with ample money facilities to move the entire crop marketed here, and a Morse Patent Compress similar and equal to presses located in the coast markets; with these interior business conveniences our markets has become a spinner’s market, and we are enabled to realize the highest market price for cotton marketed here. The bulk of our cotton is readily taken by our local cotton buyers and shipped direct to Eastern Mils. We make liberal advancements as usual on cotton consigned to us, which will receive our prompt attention on arrival. Bagging and ties furnished on application. Soliciting your patronage, Respectfully yours J. T. STINSON & Co. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville Alabama October 22nd, 1886 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar County, Alabama at Vernon, on December 18th, 1886, viz: 10696 GREEN HY. HARRIS, for the SE ¼ of SW ¼ S 18 Township 14 S Range 15 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: G. W. WOODS, ROBERT STRAWBRIDGE, SAMBO STRAWBRIDGE, and S. W. GOODMAN, of Moscow, Alabama. William C. Wells, Register G. W. RUSH B. F. REED New Cash Store. BUSH & REED, Vernon, Alabama. Dealer in Dry goods and groceries, boots, and shoes, hats and caps, clothing, hardware, Queensware, etc. which is offered at bottom prices for cash or produce. Our stock of clothing is complete and first-class. A superb and well selected lot of notions. We have a large and handsome line of school books, also inks, pens, and paper. Always keep constantly on hand a full stock of Patent Medicines. THE VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, Under the Principalship of J. R. BLACK, will open October 4, 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 KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL Located in the live and growing town of Kennedy on the Georgia Pacific Rail Road. The moral and religious influences surrounding this school are unsurpassed in any part of the state. Boarders can find pleasant homes in refined families at very reasonable rates. The first session will commence on Monday Nov. 1st, 1886 and continue for a term of ten scholastic months. TUITION PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Physiology, History of U. S., Practical Arithmetical and Elementary Algebra, per month $2.00. ADVANCED GRADE: Embracing Higher Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Rhetoric, Elocution, and Latin, per month, $2.50. An incidental fee of 25 cents, per session. Special attention will be given to those who expect to engage in teaching and preparing boys and girls to enter college. Tuition due at expiation of each quarter. For further particulars address J. C. JOHNSON, Principal, Kennedy, Ala. PAGE 4 A PACK IN FULL CRY – Failing to Injure the President, Republican Hounds Fiercely Attack the Administration and Slink into Their Holes The friends of honest government, who have watched with interest the course of the Democratic Administration, can not but be particularly impressed by the venomous character of the opposition. The work of reform has been fought at every point, and the batteries of slander and misrepresentation have not been idle for a moment. The enemies of the Administration resemble a pack of hounds in full cry, always on a false scent, but none the less persistent in their work. They brayed at the President until even their threats became hoarse, and desisted for a time only when they found that they were adding immeasurably to his popularity. Every thing that malice could suggest and hatred furnish was set forth in the columns of the coyote journals, some of which put on the disguise of Democracy to render their attacks the more deadly, to injure the President in the estimation of the public. But Mr. Cleveland was proof against all assaults, and the disgust of the public towards his assailants was so plainly manifested that many of them gave up the fight in despair. Then they endeavored to injure the Administration by attacking each member of the Cabinet in turn. The Secretary of the Navy was for a time the object of their combined assaults because he chose in the interest of honest government, to cleanse the department from the corruption and knavery which prevailed in it from the days of Robeson and to drive away the band of thieves who had so long been robbing the Government under the pretence of repairing old ships and fulfilling contracts obtained by fraud. The misleading statements of the reduction of the public debt, by which Republican Administrations were enabled to make a favorable showing before the people, were so completely exposed by the new form adopted by the Democratic Administration of the Treasury Department, a truthful, comprehensive, intelligible and business like statement, that the coyote pack turned savagely on the department, ceasing from their attacks only when they found how utterly fruitless they were. The firm stand taken by the Postmaster- General against the dictation of the Pacific Mail lobby drew on him for a time the fury of the howling pack, the lobby acting as whippers-in. Then their venom and malignity were displayed against Attorney-General Garland, whose high reputation and sterling integrity formed an inseparable barrier to their efforts against the Law Department of the Administration. Here again they were foiled by the manly, straightforward, explicit explanation of the telephone business by Mr. Garland, an explanation which fully acquitted him in the estimation of all fair-minded citizens form the lying charges brought by the enemies of the Administration. On Secretary Lamar’s department the most determined attack was made. The Pension Bureau was such a valuable adjunct to the Republican National Committee during the campaign of 1884, when that zealous, unscrupulous partisan, Dudley, was in command of it, that the enemies of honest government could not permit the sweeping reforms instituted by the gallant Union veteran, General Black, ridding the bureau of the corruption and fraud with which it was permeated, pass without an exhibition of their venom. They had traded upon the most sacred feelings of the American people, their gratitude towards the saviors of the Union so long and found it so convenient to put off political debts by filling the pension lists with the names of people who had no right or title to pensions, that they fiercely resented the interference of General Black with their schemes. – [Albany Argus] THE COLD FIGURES OF THE RETURNS The cold figures of the returns are as blighting to Mr. Blaine’s hopes for 1888 as were the fateful 1,140 which told, in 1884, that he had then lost all in losing New York. He has deliberately and even ostentatiously invited the result of this state election as a criterion of his strength; and to the end that it should be a sweeping victory – not for the Republican candidates, whose election was a foregone conclusion under any circumstances he has vigorously participated in the campaign himself and invited assistance from every available quarter. It may be noted, parenthetically, that the failure of this invited assistance to respond is not the least significant feature of the whole affair. Logan, Sherman, and Evarts, who were especially solicited, were conspicuous by their absence, and of all the other eminent speakers announced only Senator Allison, of Iowa, and John D. Long, of Massachusetts, responded. The dispatch from his own home, announcing that while “both the Republican and the Democratic vote show a failing off from that cast in 1884, yet the Republicans have suffered far more than the Democrats.” ought to sound the knoll of the Blaine candidacy. – [Chicago News] THE G. O. P. AND THE LAND QUESTION The Republican Party allowed alien capitalists to become possessors of 20,747,000 acres of land in the United States in the years they held the Government after the close of the war. If the change had not come when it did there would have been no land for exemption by a citizen in a few years. The Holland Land Company alone has 4,500,000 acres in New Mexico, an English syndicate holds 3,000,000 acres in Texas, another English syndicate has 1,800,000 acres in Mississippi, and Sir Edward Reid and others claim 2,000,000 acres in Florida. The picture is not a very pleasant one for an American citizen to gaze upon, but it shows that the G. O. P. was determined that the gentry of England should have a foothold in this country even if veterans got no land. – [Buffalo Times] They are now calling him James Geyser Blaine. - [Albany Argus] PRESS DRIFT General Logan might have taken part in the Maine campaign if he had been an enthusiastic Blaine man, but the fact is that John A. is a Logan man now. – [Chicago Herald] The Connecticut Republicans made an open proclamation that they had a hard road to travel when they nominated the president of a New York bank for Governor. – [Detroit Free Press] Mr. Blaine will insist on having his own way, we presume, and so long as the Republican party is in a moral condition to accept him it will make no particular difference who is its candidate. – [N. Y. Times] The new Democratic campaign hand-book will prove a most disagreeable surprise to those Republican organs which have made merry at times over the words of the late Vice-President Hendricks: “We need to have the books in the Government offices opened for examination.” – [Albany Argus] Senator Platt, of Connecticut, says that all a Democratic Administration has done in two years ahs been to bankrupt “poor John Roach.” The last of John’s fat campaign contributions, stolen from the pockets of the people, makes the average Republican politician very sorrowful. – [Connecticut Enquirer] It is a common practice of the Republicans to charge upon their opponents the offenses to which they were themselves addicted during their long term of power. Having misused the franking privilege for partisan purposes during many campaigns, and stocked navy-yards with their henchmen for political purposes, it is natural that they should suspect the Democrats of similar practices. Senator Kenna gives an authoritative denial of the first charge, and the second one will no doubt turn out to be equally baseless. The Republican Party ought really to “go on with its dying” in a more reconciled manner, and not “muss up the bed-clothes” with its vain contortion. – [N. Y. World] It has leaked out that Mr. Blaine is very angry with Senator Frye on account of the sharp thrust the latter gave him while playing with the edged tools of rhetoric. The Plumed Knight has been unable to conceal his chagrin over his reckless language of his volatile lieutenant, who has damaged him far more than did the comparatively harmless Dr. Burchard. There has been some very candid correspondence on the subject between the two men, and the Senator has resorted to the defense which his chief fell back upon in his Portland speech early in the summer – that he was misreported. In Senator Frye’s case the excuse is palpably false. The point was not lonely the most prominent in his speech here, but it was repeated in the same language in two subsequent speeches. – [N. Y. Sun] The enfranchisement of slaves was originally approved by certain partisan leaders as a political measure. Those men were stupid enough to overlook the fact that an early result of their protégés new-born citizen hood would be the development of their intellectual freedom. With that improvement came the capacity to think and act, which effects a realization of the truth that the best safeguard to human liberty is independence of thought and action within the law. The chief benefit to be derived from the privilege of the ballot is the power it imparts to the elector to have a free voice in the selection of leaders. If a voter were to be denied that he would become a political serf, a tool in the hands of designing men, and the very fact that the colored man is rapidly attaining to a position of independence is what troubles some of his professed friends. – [Chicago News] A “SUBJECT” FOR CLEMENCY John P. Evans pardoned by Governor Foraker and released from the Ohio penitentiary where he had just commenced serving a sentence for ballot box stuffing, points a moral and adorns a Republican tale. The whole thing is characteristic of Bob Kennedy, the Rump, and Foraker, the chief engineer of the dirty partisan business. Evans is remembered by the writer. In his wild and incoherent testimony before the Legislature Investigation Committee, as a witness to whom lying was a mere pastime, and perjury a welcome employment. He was both formally and informally impeached, flatly contradicted by reputable witnesses, the testimony of the ballot-box itself, and completely broken down on cross-examination. A more pitiful and disgusting spectacle of perjury exposed was never witnessed. It even sickened Governor Noves, one of the counsel for the contesters, and yet to manufacture capital for the Republican party of Ohio this convicted perjurer, upon an evident agreement with the Governor of our state, went before the Hamilton grand jury, repeated his lying statement, was convicted, and promptly, according to contract, and the subject of Executive clemency. To this dirty complexion the Republican Party of Ohio, under the leadership of Foraker, has come at last. – [Toledo Times] SAMPLE “CRITICISM” The Republicans, finding no legitimate cause for the criticism of President Cleveland, are driven to straits which create almost as much amusement as they do disgust. Here are samples from the Commercial: “The President thinks he is before the country in the act of heroic adventure when he sits in a wagon or boat and is pulled or hauled thirty or forty miles a day through country roads or on alleged lakes….” The President is having his ponder foot person hauled over mountain roads and through mountain lakes, in the idea that the Nation is gaining strength by the resting of the meat on his lazy bones.” The President is taking such a brief annual vacation as is usually allotted to every hard-working employee. He, like many intelligent men, prefers to get his rest on a fishing trip. He has his wife and his wife’s mother with him. To the utmost of his power he has made the trip a thoroughly quiet and unostentatious one. We modestly submit that such stuff as that quoted above is a disgrace to American citizenship. – [Cincinnati Enquirer] Ad for Red Star Cough Cure Ad for St. Jacob’s Oil Ad for Dr. John Bull’s Smith’s Tonic Syrup for Fever and Ague Ad for Prickly Ash Bitters Ad for Ely’s Cream Balm for Catarrh Ad for Mason & Hamlin organs Ad for Moore County Grit Corn mills and millstones (picture) HOME AND FARM Fowls will not fatten in cold weather unless well sheltered. – [Prairie Farmer] Tar ought not to be used in marking sheep. It dries into a hard lump, which must be cut off by hand. – [Exchange] Ferns will thrive in a sunless room, but will not grow luxuriantly without abundance of water. They delight in a sprinkling from the water pot. – [Field and farm] To make orange or lemon water ice, use the juice of two lemons or oranges and two of extract of lemon of orange, a quart of water, a gill of cream, and a pound of granulated sugar. – [Chicago Herald] Young cattle should come to the winter in first-rate order. They years they are coming one and two years old settle their condition for life. They will be undersized and inferior, or well-grown and fine and the autumn is the time when the best growth is made. – [Indianapolis Sentinel] CUP CUSTARD: Beat four eggs with two-thirds of a cupful of white sugar, add a quart of new rich milk, flavor to suit the taste with extract of almond or vanilla: stir all together. Pour into cups and place them in a dripping pan of water: set in an oven and bake with moderate heat. – [The Caterer] TEA ROLLS – Two quarts of flour, one cup of cold boiled milk, half cup of sugar, one tablespoon of melted butter: make a hole in the center of the flour, pour in all the above, and let it rise until morning; then knead and let it rise until there in the afternoon; then roll out, butter them about the edge, and lap over. Let rise and bake in a hot oven twenty minutes. – [The Household] To prevent cows from jumping cut the lower lashes off close and turn your cow loose and see if she will attempt to jump. I have had some little experience. It seems that the long hair immediately above and below the eye regulates the sight, hence, with the lower lashes cut close, a low fence looks high. There is an old adage that good fences made good stock and good stock make good neighbor, and the reverse, bad fences make bad stock and bad stock bad neighbors. – [Indianapolis Journal] CHOCOLATE PUDDING: Half a cake of chocolate, broken in one quart of milk, and put on the range until it reaches boiling point; remove the mixture from the fire, strain, and return to the range; add four tablespoonfuls of cornstarch, mixed with the yolks of three eggs and one and a half cups of sugar, stir constantly until thick; remove from the fire and flavor with vanilla; pour the mixture in a baking dish; beat the whites of three eggs to a stiff froth and a little sugar, cover the top of the pudding with the meringue and set in the oven until a light brown. Serve hot. – [Boston Post] The old-fashioned dasher churn is a barbarous relic of the past. There is no necessity for tugging away for an hour in order to make the utter come. In fact, milk is churned no longer the cream being separated from it and the butter being made by compelling the cream to fall from the top of the church to the bottom instead of plunging into it with a dasher bored with holes, Hence, in procuring a churn, get one that revolves, as it will greatly lessen the labor and afford the best conditions for success. – [Rural Home] SPONGE BISCUITS FOR DESSERT: Take half a pound of flour, three-fourths pound sifted sugar. Beat the whites of six eggs by themselves, add the beaten yolks and toss them together. Put in them a little grated lemon peel, then the sugar, and flirt well with an egg whisk. Stir in the flour with a wooden spoon and put the mixture in small patty-pans to bake, with sifted sugar to glaze, sprinkled over the top. - [Toledo Blade] PROFIT IN PIGS – How They May Be Used to Enrich The Soil of the Farm That pigs are not made more profitable on the farm is not so much the fault of the pigs as with the owner. Shut up in the barn-yard or in some close pen or yard, the pig is expensive, for it must be fed all it will eat, and it must be waited on. As time is money, the account runs up, and then the food is all more or less costly. These facts form the basis for the head of this short exhortation. If farmers would calculate, more especially about the pigs, they would have a great deal less trouble and more money. They forget that pigs will eat grass, aye, are fond of it, and actually yearn for it. When only three weeks old, they will eat it, and it does them good. Now the thing is to have a place to turn the pigs to eat the grass. Where shall this be? Anywhere provided there is a fence to keep them in. What shall the fence be? Any thing if it is tight. Pigs don’t jump – they crawl through. Height is not the question, but tightness. A stone wall is food, so is a board fence, one made of two boards and two twisted wires is capital; all wires will do, but not more than four inches apart, with poses every six feet; rails are good if there are no holes; an old, broken down wall will do leveled up and a barbed wire stretch along the top, just where the hog’s head would come if he tried to climb over it. Such a fence has kept hogs in at Kirby Homestead for two years. A ring well put in the spring will last all summer, and then there will be not trouble about rooting. My text is “Pig Uses.” Pigs should be used to enrich the farm, and the place to do this is in the field. They may have a pasture by themselves, or be put into next year’s prospective cornfield, or even in the meadow. I keep pigs all over, and the next year the result is seen in the early and strong-growing blades of grass and in a good crop when corn and grains are raised. No man can afford to keep pigs beyond the extent of slops, when shut up in a barn-yard or a close pen; but any man can afford to keep pigs if he will use the means he may, and at the same time his enterprise may cause his pigs to be factors for increased profit. Let the pigs out to grass. – [Colonel F. D. Carter in Rural New Yorker] Ad for St. Jacob’s Oil Small Advertisements Ad for Brown’s Iron bitters Ad for Dr. Bromgoole’s Female Bitters Ad for Fashions (picture) Small Advertisements File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/theverno1388gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 62.8 Kb