Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Vernon Courier November 19, 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, 11:12 am Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History November 19, 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 19, 1886 Subscription $1.00 Per Year VOL. I. NO. 25 HAPPY HOME – Poem – [Harry Don in Good Housekeeping] CHILDREN’S PLAY – Short Story – [Chamber’s Journal] LAVA LAKES – Some Results of the Volcanic Eruptions in the Sandwich Islands – [Hawaiian Gazette] –article describing a volcano CAJOLED BY A WOMAN – How A Dangerous Criminal Almost Escaped Arrest by a Secret Service Agent In the summer of 1864 complaints were made to our bureaus that some one was “showing” bogus shinplasters in the neighborhood of Green Bay. A good many hundred dollars worth of the currency was let loose all at once, and I was detailed to proceed to Wisconsin and work up the case. It was settled before I started that the “stuff” had been printed from plates made by an engraver known to us as “Slick Sam.” His right name was, I believe George Disston, and he was then in state prison o n a long sentence. It was pretty certain that the plates had fallen into the hands of some of his pals, and were being made use of in a lively manner. It was probable that the printing was being done in Chicago, and that an “agent” had struck Green Bay to unload. Upon reaching the place mentioned I found that almost every branch of trade had suffered, and pretty soon I was able to show that most of the bogus money had been passed upon them during the week. Then they began to hunt up sales and remember buyers, and it was settled that the “shover” was an old gray- haired man named Newell, who lived on a farm a few miles away. He had purchased dry goods, notions, hardware, drugs and almost every thing else, paying in shinplasters which appeared almost new. It was plain to me, after getting thus far, that he had bought his bogus money outright of some agent, or had sent to parties in some city for it. Had it been otherwise he would have sought to turn it into good money. I swore out a warrant for him, took the cars to within four miles of is house and accomplished the rest of the way on foot. He lived in the woods, in a log house, and had but a few acres cleared. Evidences of poverty and shiftlessness could be found on every hand. I was quite certain that I saw him about the door of the house while I was yet some ways off, but when I reached it the door was shut and no one was in sight. However, after I had doe some lively rapping a muscular woman about thirty years old opened the door and inquired my business. I replied that I was an agent from Chicago and desired to see her husband. She invited me in, believing, as I meant her to believe, that I had come as the agent of the counterfeiters. She stated that her husband was off hunting, but would be home soon. After we had talked for half an hour the woman’s demeanor suddenly changed. What aroused her suspicions I can’t say, but I saw that she looked on me with distrust. Thinking that the plain way was the best way, I told her who I was and my errand. “So you are a detective, come to arrest my husband!” she called in a loud voice. I sought to calm her, and had instant success. She settled down in her chair and said she had been expecting it for weeks, and that her husband must make the best of the situation. She shed tears and seemed much affected, and as time passed and I wanted to go out and hunt up Newell, she excused his continued absence and kept me seated on the plea that he must soon show up. I had been there two hours when we heard a voice shouting for help. While I ran out doors she rushed into the other room. I passed half way around the house to find the old man hanging head downward, hands on the ground and feet in a small window four or five feet up. After I had released him and taken him into custody, I found that he had run into the room when he saw me approaching the house. When the wife raised her voice it was to warn him who I was and what brought me there. He climbed out of the window to escape, but in his descent his trousers caught on a nail and held him fast. The wife was detaining me in order to give him a good start, but it turned out that she was only prolonging his sufferings. He stood it until he could bear it no more, and then called out. The case against him was so strong that he made no defense, and received a sentence of six years. - [Detroit Free Press] GERONIMO’S REAL AGE The appearance of Geronimo has laid at rest many fictions as to his appearance and condition. Our correspondent, who had frequent opportunities of seeing him face to face, says he is a young brave, under thirty, of handsome figure and fine bearing. He has never been wounded, and apparently his band would have been good form many more months of guerrilla warfare had not their supply of ammunition given out. This account of Geronimo agrees with the sketch given by Captain John g. Bourke in his “An Apache Campaign.” In that work Captain Bourke describes Geronimo, whom he calls Hieronymo, as one of the youngest and handsomest of the Chiricahua Apache chiefs, but one who, in spite of his youth, exercised great influence over his companions. – [San Francisco Chronicle] The very resentmost agony is for a lady to have her photograph taken full length panel, and then after having elaborately dressed the picture in silks and laces to send it to her best young man. The true significance of this is not to be misunderstood by the average acute young man. It means, “That’s about the style I shall expect to dress.” Whereupon he goes and gets introduced to a more economical girl. – [Hartford Post] CITY DEAD BEATS – How They Manage To Live Elegantly On Nothing In a Year – “Are you aware that many men in Brooklyn live wholly by their wits?” asked an uptown grocer of a reporter. “No?” I could name a dozen heads of families who for years have not had a dollar which they could call their own, but yet live in brown stone houses and on the best the land affords. When I say that the class of men I mention live by their wits, I don’t mean that they are gamblers or sharpers, as the term implies. They are men who, having seen better days and becoming reduced, think that the world woes them a living, and mean to get it. I have reference to that class who move yearly, if not oftener, and strike all tradesmen in their neighborhood for amounts ranging from twenty-five to three hundred dollars. Would you believe that a man could support a family of five for six years wholly on credit? I know such a case and have reason to regret my acquaintance with the individual to the tune of two hundred dollars. About a year ago there entered my store a gentleman, well dressed and seemingly respectable. He bought a small bill of goods, paying cash, and continued to purchase daily for a week. Finally one day he said it was a bore to pay each time, and would I allow him to run a weekly bill? I readily consented tot his arrangement, and, strange to say, at the end of the first week everything was settled promptly. I am now coming to the interesting part of my story. On sending in a bill for the groceries furnished during the second week I was asked if I could not let the account run by the month. Again, I consented, to oblige my customer. I leave my business at certain periods of the month entirely in the hands of my clerk, and as he knew I had consented to run a monthly account with my respectable customer he thought nothing of the fact that that the individual had in three weeks ordered three barrels of flour and other groceries in proportion. At the end of the month I presented my bill of two hundred dollars, but was put off from time to time, and becoming tired, entered suit to recover the amount. “You received a verdict, of course?” “Yes, but the execution was returned unsatisfied. My customer owned nothing. Every stick of furniture in his elegantly appointed house was in the name of his wife. Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of seeing two barrels of my best flour, there or four barrels of potatoes and many other articles which originally belonged to me loaded on a truck in front of my late customer’s house. He had neglected to pay the landlord four months rent, and was required to get out. On inquiry I leaner that the same aged and respected gentleman had fleeced other tradesmen in the vicinity for amounts somewhat smaller than mine. On pursuing the investigation further I leaned that my late customer had moved five times in three years and had left large bills in each neighborhood in which he had lived. I have only mentioned the case to illustrate how systematically the dead beats works.” “Is there no way in which tradesmen can avoid being beaten” was asked. “Yes, but one – the cash system. But still it is impossible to make every one pay cash. Many of my old customers would be highly indignant if their honesty was questioned and I would lose the larger part of my business. Oh, No; the cash system is impracticable, for many reasons. There are black lists, but when dead beats change their names what is a man to do? I content that if a man is thoroughly dishonest he will have ample opportunity to practice his wiles.” “Are not may honest customers who pay obliged to suffer for the shortcomings of dead beats?’ “In a measure, yes. If everybody paid I have no doubt but that groceries would be cheaper. Grocers must make up their bad debts in some way, and the honest customer in the end is obliged to suffer. – [Brooklyn Eagle] THEIR BLESSED HONEYMOON – [Boston Record] – Anecdote The interesting story now going the round is of the press about the finding of a petrified boa-constrictor of immense size near Piedmont, W. Va. is a hoax. It is true that a wonderful discovery has recently occurred near that place, but instead of its being a large snake it is a gigantic fera fossil of the carboniferous age – a singular easily recognized by the seal-like impressions and unjointed stem. The seal impressions are probably what were taken for the scales of the snake. The fossil is slightly flattened on its eighteen feet long and six inches in diameter – [Cleveland Leader] PITH AND POINT – jokes MOTHERLY FIRMNESS – joke ADDING THE EXTRA TEA – anecdote The English War Department has succeeded in making a cannon which cost $1,000,000 and uses $1,000 worth of ammunition every time it is fired. PAGE 2 THE COURIER ALEX A. WALL, Editor and Proprietor Vernon, Alabama Friday, November 19, 1886 On the 11th inst, the President appointed Frank Coleman of Alabama, Register of the Land Office at Huntsville, vice William C. Wells, suspended. Dr. B. F. Meek, Professor of English Language and Literature in the State University has nearly completed a revised edition of Hall’s English Grammar, which is now only published in England. Mr. J. C. Williams of the Talladega Mountain Home has a nugget of gold which is valued at $74 by actual weight. It was taken from the Waldo Mines, six miles south east of the city of Talladega. Representative John T. Dale of Wilcox County has introduced into the Legislature an important measure favoring the application of the lash to wife- beaters. However, we declare we have seen some wives that we think some representatives should introduce a measure thereby giving husbands a “rest” from an earthly torment. MISS JEM WEAKLY The young Democracy have shown their hand in the General Assembly, and with a well directed gallantry, have laid at the shrine of beauty the office enrolling and engrossing clerk. Having elected to this position Miss Jem Weakly of Florence. The young knights have done their devoir nobly and have thus honored a lovely and meritorious young lady. Thus is revived the saying of Francis 1st of France and the first gentleman of Europe: “A court without ladies is a garden without flowers.” CAPT. THOMAS W. COLEMAN The many friends of this distinguished gentleman will be pleased to learn that he was nominated on the first ballot for Solicitor of the Sixth Judicial circuit. To give a pen picture or to enumerate the abilities and excellent traits of character of this gentleman would be superfluous work - his sterling integrity, unflinching firmness and courage in discharge of his duties in public life. His loyalty as a patriot and his candor and sincerity as a man are known to all. Our district may be congratulated on again securing the talent of such a man. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY The members of this body have met and are working with celerity and dispatch. The Democratic Caucus has drawn the party lines strictly and have ruled all independents out among the representatives from Tuscaloosa, Messr. Clements and Whitfield. They have chosen gentlemen of ability to preside over both branches. Mr. W. J. SANFORD of Opelika was elected president of the Senate. He is of the young Democracy, though a veteran statesman, having served as a member of the Constitutional Convention, also in Congress, and in the State Senate, filling every position with notable ability. Col. Thos. Jones of Montgomery, has been elected Speaker of the House. He is a gentleman of culture, a sound lawyer, and was, we believe, chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the last session of the Legislature. We look forward to prompt work and intelligent legislation, as most of the members are active intelligent gentleman, in the prime and vigor of manhood. AFTER THE BATTLE – [From the Birmingham Chronicle of the 4th] The campaign has ended and Bankhead is elected. The Chronicle has consistently advocated his election and thinks now that Birmingham and Jefferson County will be pleased with him. In advocating him the Chronicle has differed with many of its readers, but it has frankly given its readers and has cheerfully accorded its readers the same right of free thought. Several hundred of it readers are workingmen and more than half of these thought that Mr. Long would represent them more closely than Mr. Bankhead. We treated these readers with great respect, because we knew that they were honest in their votes. The Chronicle is a free paper and does not have to wait for the band to play to know whether it must dance or mourn, and its readers recognize its fairness. Not the slightest discord occurred between the paper and its readers. Not one subscriber challenged its right to support Bankhead any more than the Chronicle challenged the right of its readers to think for themselves. The district has ratified the choice of the Chronicle and we earnestly believe that we have selected a good, safe intelligent Congressman as well as a most energetic and active one. His conservative views will make him peculiarly fit for a Congress like the next one will be. The workingmen will find that Bankhead is no free trader and that he will consider their interests. He is the very man for the district and knowing the motives of the Birmingham opposition to him he harbors no malice, but is determined to please all by an active discharge of the district duties. BRAINS IN HIS TOES So much talk about rain signs and the long dry spell brings to mind a good thing that happened at Greenville, ala. many years ago. It was there that Mr. John Bolling lived and died. He was the father of Judge S. J. Bolling, former Probate Judge of Butler County. The old gentleman was affectionately known far and wide as “Uncle Johnny.” He kept an inn which was known by the sign of the “Blue Buck.” Dr. Holley, a prominent physician and a pompous gentleman, was stopping at the inn. One morning he walked out on the front gallery, where “Uncle Johnny” was smoking his after-breakfast cigar. It was in the midst of a long dry spell. Rain had not fallen for many weeks, and there was nothing n the general appearance of the weather to indicate or promise the needed change. ”Uncle Johnny,” said the pompous doctor, “it is going to rain very soon.” “Uncle Johnny” looked up at the sky, which was blue and cloudless and as clear as a bell. “Well, doctor, why do you think it is going to rain soon? I can see no clouds and no rain signs, and the wind has not shifted for these many days.” “I have corns on my feet, Uncle Johnny” replied the doctor, “and by them I can tell that it is going to rain. My corns always hurt me when rain is approaching.” “Yes, yes,” said “Uncle Johnny,” I have met a great many people who have more brains in their toes than they have in their heads.” It was a stunner to the doctor. It fairly demoralized him. He only remained in Greenville a few months after that, and then moved his washing. – [Montgomery Advertiser] EIGHT YEARS WITHOUT A CHAIR – [Anniston Watchman] A countryman was in town yesterday who has been married eight years, has five children and has never had a chair in his house. He lives near Peak’s Hill, owns a good a farm, thirteen head of cattle and two horses. The man he bought the farm of is now one of the tenants. These are the facts as related to us by him. He bought two chairs yesterday to carry to the “old woman.” DEATH OF GEN. LILLY Richmond Nov 12 – Gen. R. D. Lilly who was stricken with paralysis Tuesday night while addressing the Presbyterian synod of Virginia died today, aged about forty-five years. The deceased had been for a number of years financial agent of the Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Va. He served gallantly in the Confederate army, and was the youngest brigadier general in the service. 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 COMPANY. 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 Go to G. W. RUSH & Co., for Apples, chestnuts, etc. Capt. S. J. SHIELDS returned from Aberdeen Thursday of last week. Mr. W. A. COBB and Miss MARY –RUNNELL visited relatives at Fayette Court House last week. If you wish to purchase books, go to Rush & Co who will give you rock bottom prices. Parties who owe me for work will please call at my shop and settle, as I stand greatly in need of money. J. W. MORTON RUSH & REED have received a lot of new goods. Go and see them and you will be sure to buy. Mr. HUGH PENNINGTON has had a bridge put over the ditch in front of his stable which is 60 feet in length and 7 feet wide. WILSON GILMORE has resumed work on HUGH PENNINGTON’S livery Stable. This stable when completed will be very convenient. The citizens meeting at the Court house last Friday night was attended with harmony, and the business we believe amicably arranged. Ad for McLean’s Liver and Kidney Balm Mr. ED HENSON is building a store house at Crew’s Mill preparatory to selling goods. We wish him success in the mercantile line, and in all other pursuits he may embark on. Ad for McLean’s Little Liver and Kidney Pillets W. B. MORTON, JASON and BUD GUIN, are doing station work on the K. C. M. & B Railroad, between Crew’s Mill and NAT GUYTON’S. DAIVD R. RECTOR went to Columbus one day last week to do business with Walker & Donaghue. Dave is a good salesman, and we bespeak for him a large trade from this section, and elsewhere. Mr. WILLIE SUMMERS has been confined to his room with a severe sore throat this week. Hon. J. H. BANKHEAD’S majority in the district at the official count stands 3589. Ad for McLean’s Live and Kidney Pills Ad for McLean’s Volcanic Oil Liniment The question as to where the various depot’s will be located along the K. C. M. & Birmingham Railroad is the all absorbing topic in the neighborhood north of Moscow and we venture to say this question will not be settled for some time in the future. Kennedy still ahead with S. E. WEIR in the lead. They pay you more cash money for your cotton, and will sell anything in their line as cheap, if not a little cheaper than any house. Give them one trial and they will prove the pudding. Ad for McLean’s Chills and Fever Cure Mr. BUD POE left Thursday morning for Columbus whither he goes to accept a position as conductor on the Georgia Pacific Railroad. Mr. Poe is a careful and experienced gentleman in railroading. We wish him unbounded success at the same time regret to lose him from our town. S. E. WEIR & Co, Kennedy, Ala have handled about six hundred bales of cotton to date, and are selling stacks of goods. They buy their goods so close and sell so cheap, that they have been able to successfully compete with and sell a number of bills around Birmingham, in fact they have sold several bills that went directly to Birmingham. Hurrah. Mr. W. L. BOBO, who lives on the road leading to Fayette Court House, eight miles west of the town told us one night last week that Judge ALEX COBB was the first man he ever voted for. He also told us there was a man residing in Lamar County, 32 years old, and who had never bought a pound of sugar nor borrowed a nickel. We really appreciate the hospitality of “Uncle Billie” BOBO, and enjoyed his war experience which he related to Sheriff PENNINGTON and ye editor. NOTICE Parties indebted to the undersigned are earnestly requested to come and settle notes and accounts without further notice. – A. COBB & Son NOTICE Parties indebted to the undersigned will please come forward and make payment at once, without further notice, and save cost and trouble. R. S. KIRK Bargains. Bargains. Why can S. E. WEIR & Co, Kennedy, Ala., sell goods cheaper than any other firm? Just because they buy them cheaper and are willing to live and let live, by selling for small profits. Why can they buy goods cheaper? Because they have two competent buyers constantly in the markets watching for bargains, and they propose to give customers the benefit of these bargains if they will call on them at Kennedy, Ala. VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALE On Wednesday the 15th day of December next, in front of the Court House door of Lamar County, I will offer for sale at public auction my entire tract of land. Also half interest in my Mill and the lands on which it is situated. Also some desirable town property. Lands will be sold in lots to suit purchasers, one half cash and balance on credit of twelve months from sale with approved sureties. Persons indebted to me will please call and settle. This Nov. 14th 1886. ANDREW J. WHEELER, Stable Keeper, Vernon, Ala. NOTICE By virtue of an order by the corporate authorities of Vernon, there will be an election held on the 29th day of this November inst at Vernon for the purpose of electing an Intendent, and five Councilors for the ensuing year, and JAMES M. MORTON and S. J. SHIELDS are appointed as managers of said election. Given under my hand at office this November 16th 1886. L. M. WIMBERELY, Intendent WAREHOUSE. The Cotton storing public must not forget the popular firm of TURNER & Co. who occupy the Brick Warehouse at the depot, where every convenience is offered to campers. Messrs. J. D. & W. M. TURNER, the sons of Major J. H. TURNER, deceased, are successors in the business, and will be on hand to look after the interests of their friends in this section. Rush & Co. kindly request their customers who have tickets with them to call and settle. 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 THE AIR WE BREATHE – How Foul And Dense Gases Are Reduced In Their Poisonous Power REMARKABLE REMEDIES – Faith in the Attending Physician’s Skill a Rare Wonder- Worker Sir Walter Scott’s piper, John Bruce, spent a whole Sabbath selecting twelve stones from twelve south-running streams, with the purpose that his sick master might sleep upon them and become whole. Scott was not the man to hurt the honest fellow’s feelings by ridiculing the notion of such a remedy proving of no avail; so he caused Bruce to be told that the receipt was infallible, but that it was absolutely necessary to success that the stones should be wrapped in the petticoat of a widow who never wished to marry again; upon learning which the Highlander renounced all hope of completing the charm. Lady Duff Gordon once gave an old Egyptian woman a powder wrapped up in a fragment of the Saturday Review. She came to assure her benefactress the charm was a wonderfully powerful one; for although she had not been able to wash off all the fine writing from the paper, even that little had done her a great deal of good. She would have made an excellent subject for a Llama doctor, who, if he does not happen to have any medicine handy, writes the name of the remedy he would administer on a scrap of paper, moisten it with his mouth, rolls it up in the form of a pill, which the patient tosses down his throat. In default of paper, the name of the drug is chalked on a board, and washed off again with water, which serves as a healing draught. These easy-going practitioners might probably cite plenty of instances of the efficacy of their method. Dr. John Brown, of Edinburgh, once gave a laborer a prescription, saying “Take that and come back in a fortnight, when you will be well. Obedient to the injunction, the patient presented himself at the fortnight’s end, with a clean tongue and a happy face. Proud of the fulfillment of his promise, Dr. Brown said, “Let me see what I gave you.” “Oh,” said the man, “I took it, doctor,” “Yes, I know you did; but where is the prescription?” “I swallowed it,” was the reply. The patient had made a pill of the paper, and faith in his physician’s skill had done the rest. Faith is a rare wonder-worker. Strong in the belief that every Frank is a doctor, an old Arab, who had been partially blind from birth, pestered an English traveler into giving him a Sedlitz powder and some pomatum. Next day the chief declared that he could see better than he had done for twenty years. – [Chambers Journal] A tree called the Picus Torroyana grows nowhere else in the world but in San Diego County, Cal. - [Chicago Times] Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ad for Dr. John Bull’s Smith’s Tonic Syrup for the cure of Fever and Ague Ad for Prickly Ash Bitters Ad for Dr. Dromgoole’s Female Bitters MARVELOUS INVENTION – The “Married Man’s Indicator” A Machine For Domestic Use The latest genius who has applied for a patent is the man who has invented what is known as “The Married Man’s Indicator.” It is a wonderful, sensitive arrangement of the ordinary thermometer in convenient pocket size, and is graded to a scale of cabalistic marks, which show the exact state of the domestic atmosphere at any hour of the night. He takes out the indicator, thrusts it in the keyhole and lets it remain there a few seconds. Pulling it out quickly, he scans the dial by the moonlight’s fitful gleaming. If it marks, “S.A.” (sound asleep), the poor husband pulls off his boots noiselessly; uses the night key with bated breath; gives the door a quick pull, to keep it from creaking; steals trembling to bed, and when his dear wifey wakes up about two seconds afterward and wants to know how long he has been home, he is sound asleep. If the indicator scores “A. A. C. B. D. K. W. T.” (awake, awful cross, but does not know what time it is), the husband puts a few more grains of coffee in his mouth, opens the door boldly, and walks in with a slam-bang air, hits his boot intentionally against a chair, wants to know why the deuce chairs don’t keep out of his way, gets desperately mad on general principles, scares his wife clean out of her crossness and curtain lectures, and refuses to let her get up and strike a match never did like a light at night, no how – remarks gruffly in response to a timid inquiry that “its about twenty minutes after ten,” and then turns into bed with such an apparent awful state of mind that the wife of his bosom is afraid to speak to him, at which he is very sad, of course. There are other marks on the indicator showing just where it will do to play the “lodge doge” of the “sick friend” or “been standing of the corner talking to so-and-so for more than an hour’ or “General or Honorable this or that form you know where was in town and had to go on the two o’clock train, and he insisted so strongly that the whole party stayed up to see him off, although he was a great bore, and we only did it through courtesy”. But the most awful of all the cabalistic signs on the dial is the one at the top, about two marks above boiling point. Then the weary husband comes home about four o’clock am from the direction of the butcher shop, with a roll of meat held high in the air so that every one he passes can not fail to see it, and sticks the indicator in the keyhole, he is almost too weak to draw it out. With hair on end he reads it by the faint light streaming in upon him from over the Eastern hills, and sweat break out on his noble brow in drops as large as walnuts, as he sees the bulb of the indicator jammed smack up against “R. H. s. W. F. Y,IT. T. D.”(red hot, still waiting for you inside the door). The inventor of the instrument say that when a man has this terrible misfortune to overtake him he feels that there is nothing left in life worth living for. He slings the meat out into the yard and braces himself for the coming fray, but says nothing, for nothing can be said. Be he ever so gifted a liar, his accomplishment is more than vaineless No lodge, no sick friend, no talking on the corner, no sitting p to see the General off, no swearing that he will never do it again – in fact, nothing will prevail. It’s an indefensible case. He is caught. Even the ghastly gayety with which two hours previous he shad said to the boys he guess he would see it out, “might as well be killed for a sheep as a lamb.” Had all vanished. The indicator having told him the exact state of things, he knows exactly what to do, and that is nothing but to get in bed at once and wrap the drapery of his couch about him, pull the pillow over his ears and wait for his wife’s breath to give its use in relieving the unfortunate husband of his great load of anxiety. The indicator is a great invention. Colonel Montgomery will allow it to go through if possible. – [Washington Cor. St. Paul Dispatch] SPOILED HORSES – How They May Be Cured Of Some of the Principal Vices Then we have succeeded in inspiring the horse with entire confidence in himself and in his master also, there is but little likelihood unless he is a very nervous or a very perverse horse, that he will become troublesome through any vicious act, or want of honesty. “Balking” that one vice that pretty nearly takes all the value out of some horses, is undoubtedly always, or very nearly always, chargeable to indiscreet management on the part of those who have and the breaking training and after management at work. Thus, if a horse is overloaded while yet young, stops to rest without being told to do so, and finding the rest agreeable, and the starting being very disagreeable, it is not to be wondered at that he forms the habit of stopping, and thenceforward becomes a “balker.” If, when this first inclination to stop and hesitate is observed the temptation be taken away by getting on an easier piece of road, lightening the load or giving the horse rest, and feed if needed, afterward avoiding a similar occasion for stopping, the danger of having a confirmed balky horse may be averted. But when, under these circumstances, the horse is hit with the whip, and sharply reprimanded, then look out for a retaliatory effort. The horse assumes that you are his enemy, and from that moment he places himself in an antagonistic position, looking upon his master as an enemy. The question is often asked whether a confirmed balker can be cured. This admits of a double answer – yes and no. If the horse is in good hands, managed by some person who has firmness and judgment, he can sometimes be cured by driving a stake and hitching him at the spot where he stops, until he is glad to move along to where his rations are. Horses have been cured by, as the saying is, “taking them at their word,” and if they want to back, then keep them backing, giving the animal to understand that that is just what you want him to do. You can, in half an hour to an hour convince him that backing is a very much harder motion then going forward. [National Livestock Journal] Small advertisements WASHINGTON IRVING’S DEBT A letter has been received at the office of the Register of the Treasury from an old lady residing at Kittanning, Pa. She wrote that she had observed that Washington Irving was represent as a debtor to the Government in the sum of three cents, left over from his occupancy of the past of Minister to Spain in 1848. She represented herself as a relative of Irving and enclosed then cents, saying she wanted the account closed up, as she was certain Mr. Irving could not have been aware of it. She said she hoped the remaining seven cents would be sufficient to pay the accumulated interest on the three cents indebtedness since 1848. In conclusion she wrote, “And furthermore, honored sirs, I wish you to understand that Mr. Irving was a scrupulously honest man,” The officials formally closed the account, acknowledged the receipt of the three cents, and returned seven cents change, informing the lady that the Government did not want any interest. – [Washington Letter] James B. Stafford, a marketman of Buffalo, furnishes good material for a sunbeam. Two neatly-dressed young women wanted to buy a basket of peaches, but the price was too high. Stafford watched them and saw that they were much disappointed; listened and learned that they wanted the peaches for their invalid mother; then called them back, and sold them the fruit at cost price, took fifty cents in part payment, told the girls to pay the remainder whenever they felt like it and sent them home with tears in their eyes and smiles on their lips. They were entire strangers to him. – [Buffalo Courier] Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for Tyler Desk Co (picture of a desk) Ad for The Kansas City Magazine Free Bible Competition – “Search the Scriptures” at once Ad for Banjo Method – They Royal Singer Ad for W. L. Douglas Shoes (picture of a shoe) Ad for The Washburn Guitar – (picture of a guitar) Ad for Jones pays the Freight Ad for Educational Home Study More smaller advertisements File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/theverno1389gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 55.8 Kb