Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Vernon Courier December 3, 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 April 1, 2007, 8:03 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History December 3, 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, DECEMBER 3, 1886 VOL. I. NO. 27 Subscription $1.00 Per Year A WORD OF LOVE - Poem – [Josephine Pollard, in N. Y. Ledger] CHILDREN OF AUTHORS - ----Proves That “Genius Is Not Hereditary” – --- Unappreciative Son – Bancroft, ---Lowell, Whipple, Richard, ---- Wolfe, Curtis, Higgin----, Parson And Philips ----Alone In Their Glory (NOTE: First part of the column is cut off so I can’t read it….Not typing it) ……… PATIENT WANDERERS A Peculiar People Whose Origin And Name Are Shrouded In Mystery. Meet them where you will – in Spain or Norway, in Hungary, Walachia of Scotland, in Italy or Epping Forest, in the arid deserts of Morocco or the snow-swept steppes of Russia – there is no mistaking the Gypsy face, the Gypsy blood or character. They all understand the same language - that of Romany, subject though, of course, it is to variations in dialect and tinged and interspersed by the language of their several adopted countries. Even their name is shrouded in mystery. Nearly a century before they were known in France as “Bohemians” or “Egyptians” and for long they were popularly supposed to hail originally from Egypt; but philologists and antiquarians differ as to their nationality. There is a faint traceable likeness in the names given to them in different lands “I Zingart” of Italy, the “Gitanos” of Spain, the “Taigan” of Hungary, the “Gypsy“of England. They are as ignorant of their origin as we are; they have no archives, no family history, no possessions, no patrimony, no literature. Perhaps they were the cursed descendants of Ham; perhaps the posterity of that first outcast, Ishmael, whom jealousy and injustice drove out to the wilderness to give a name to the hapless pariahs of society to time immortal – “their hand against every man’s and every man’s against theirs”. Or were they wandering Bedouins, wandering first by choice and then by necessity, till habit grew to second nature, and grown too numerous to find their needful prey on their native soil, they spread over the known world? A dreamy mystery, deep as their dark eyes, surrounds them, a halo of antiquity on which history has thrown no side light, they are a people complete, individual, separate with no rights, no titles, not even a home. – [All The Year Round] BURNING FOR FIFTEEN YEARS In 1871 a fire broke out a house situated in the outskirts of Paris. The damage was repaired under the direction of an architect, and since that time the house has been inhabited by the owner. Some days ago, while at lunch, the latter observed that the ceiling of his dining room showed signs of giving way. Next day the droop in the ceiling was till more plainly discernible, and an architect was immediately sent for, who saw at a glance that the central beam was gradually sinking. A couple of masons were set to work, when the inside of the beam was found to have been entirely consumed, the beam itself being held in position only by a thin coating of moist wood. At the fire in 1871 a spark had set fire to the beam, and had thus, inch by inch, during the space of fifteen years, accomplished its work of destruction. – [Le Tempe] PITH AND POINT – jokes AWFULLY GREEN – anecdote – [Detroit Free Press] PRACTICAL LESSONS – Do Not For A Moment Forget that It is Well To Remember: That every promise is a debt That peculation leads to speculation. That he who has not a wife is not a man. That he is well paid who is well satisfied. That to believe in the heroic makes heroes. That there is not worse joke than a true one That man must either be an anvil or a hammer. That it is easier to give advice than to follow it. That every fool is wise when he holds his tongue That good fortune is hard to be borne unselfishly. That it is the second word that makes a quarrel. That it is better to be innocent than to be penitent That there is no resurrection for a dead opportunity That a little of everything really amounts to nothing. That nothing can come out of a sack but what is in it That it is much easier to be critical than to be correct That the good paymaster is lord of another man’s purse That there would be no shadows if there were no sunshine That the only way to learn the value of a dollar is to earn one That tomorrow has not overflow to make good lost yesterdays That to make the cart go easily you must first grease the wheels That mules and jackasses are as apt to kick at saints as at sinners That it is not the clock with the loudest tick that keeps the best time. That valuable as is the gift of speech, silence is often still more valuable – [Good Housekeeping] ESSAY ON CATS – What A Promising Boy Knows About The Disposition Of The Felines Cats, unlike the other insecks, don’t have no stingers. The bumblebee has, I one’t caught a bumblebee, an’ give it to a cat. Cats don’t like bees, espeshly them that has splinters in their talze, which this had. The think stung all the way down, and half way back again; that cat run about seventeen miles, an’ then dropped down by the shaddy side of a haystack and quickly, without warnin’, he hastily died a sudden death all at once, for want o’breath. One’t when Jack an’ me was playin’ fishin’ in our well with a tomcat tied to a string, Jack got hurt. He had the cat down in the well, waiting’ fur a bite, an’ when his back was turned it crawled up the brick curb an’ clawed the sap outen him. After that Jack didn’t fule with cats. I once knew a man who was wicked enough to throw a stove lid through a big tomcat at night, and the very next day he heard that his grandmother had broken her leg in New Orleans and several other places, which proves how wicked and sinful it is to disturb the critters; and that’s all I know about cats. – [Chicago Inter-Ocean] AN UNJUST SUSPICION There was a ball given at the Clamwhopper Mansion on Fifth Avenue, New York, in honor of Count de Vermicelli. Gus Snoberly, who is engaged to Miss Maud Clamwhopper, was also present, and it did not escape his attention that Maud never took her eyes off the Count. As soon as Gus got an opportunity he said: “You seem to be dead gone on that Italian monkey.” “Oh, Gus, how you misjudge me. My heart beats for you alone.” “That’s too thin”, replied Gus, with a bitter smile, “if I’m your huckleberry why can’t you look at me occasionally?” “I’m afraid if I did look at you for a minute the Count would take advantage of the opportunity to steal some of the silverware. The last one went off with three of the spoons, and ma scolded me for not keeping my eye on him.” – [Texas Siftings] WARNING TO BAD WRITERS Henry Clay, who was a neat penman was quite an enthusiast on the subject of plain handwriting, and was in the habit of telling a story in point about a Cincinnati grocery man who wanted a lot of cranberries and thought he could get hem cheap in a little Kentucky town. To this end he wrote to a customer at the place, requesting him to send one hundred bushels of cranberries per Simmons – the name of his teamster. The writing was so bad that the party to whom the note was addressed could not make out the word “cranberries” at all, but did conclude that his correspondent wanted one hundred bushels of persimmons, which were at once gathered and forwarded, much to the disgust of the Cincinnati man. – [Ben. Perley Poore] New tailor suits for early winter are many of them named with habit basques, short on the sides and finished with a vest, simple cuffs, and extreme high collar. A MENTAL CONTEST How Black Buck And Yellow Jim Sued For The Hand Of Longheel Nance – anecdote THE GREAT NEED OF THE TIMES “Mr. Dusenberry, isn’t it remarkable! A woman down South who had lost her voice for years had it restored by the shock of the earthquake.” “Well, may be so my dear, but it isn’t the kind of earthquake that married men like myself life. The great need, to us is one that will deprive women of speech.” – [Philadelphia Call] PAGE 2 THE COURIER ALEX A. WALL, Editor and Proprietor Vernon, Alabama Friday, December 3, 1886 Congress will convene on the 6th inst, which is next Monday. Selma had a $40,000 fire on the 25th ult, between 12 and 1 o’clock at night. The Legislature will adjourn for the Christmas recess on the 10th inst. and reassemble on February 1st. Sheffield has a paper called the Star. Its motto is “Turn off the Gas, the Star is up.” Mr. Isaac S. Barr is proprietor and Mr. S. G. Barr is editor. The establishment of a live paper is a real, genuine boom for any town. – [Montgomery Advertiser] Mr. Hogue’s bill is to make appropriation of $20,000 for feeding and removing prisoners for years ending Sept. 30, 1885 and 1886, respectively, and to pay for stationery and stamps for the year ending Sept 30, 1886 was read a third time and passed - 88 to 0. Four widows of President’s are receiving yearly annuities of $5,000. They are Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Grant, and Mrs. Garfield. Mrs. Tyler was married when her husband was President, and has survived the Tyler reign full forty five years, and Mrs. Polk has survived the Polk administration full forty one years. The Hon. Charles Francis Adams, Sen., died at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 21st, at his residence in Boston. He had suffered for some five years with brain trouble, arising from overtaxing his brain in the literary work upon which he was engaged. He was the third son of John Quincy Adams, and was born in Boston August 16, 1807. Uncle Joe Walker, of DeKalb County, will soon be 77 years old, and he hasn’t drank a cup of coffee in 70 years, nor a drop of whiskey in 45 years. And he doesn’t use tobacco. – [Atlanta Constitution] Also. Mrs. A. J. Carver, of Terrell County, killed a chicken a few days since that had eighteen pins in its gizzard, some of them bent nearly double. The chicken was perfectly healthy. Senator Wade Hampton of S. C. while out hunting near his home a few days since had his “gun caught by a vine and discharged. A load of buckshot entered the head of his horse and killed him. The horse fell on the Senator. He was seriously hurt, his leg being badly maimed. After several hours of painful effort he got lose and with the aid of a stick, hobbled on one leg, weak, and almost exhausted, for five hours through dense woods towards home.” Calvin McFee, twenty years ago, murdered his neighbor J. B. Hardwick. William B. Hardwick a brother of the murdered man vowed that he would find the murderer if it took him a lifetime. After traveling in every state and territory in the Union, and also one trip to South America - a few days ago near the train of Southwest City, Missouri, with the assistance of United States Marshal Rice arrested the murderer, who is now an old gray-haired man, and carried him to Cherokee County, Alabama, where the murder was committed, just twenty years ago. Ah! How true it is murder will out. Take not the life of thy fellow man. A commotion has been caused in England because the mail from that country to this will hereafter be carried by German ships. The Cunard and White Star lines, having almost a monopoly of the ocean steamers, refused to take less than $1.00 per pound for mail matter. The English postal authorities contracted with the Inman and the Guion and the North German Lloyds at the rate of forty cents per pound, being that fixed by the postal union treaty. Under the contract just now expiring the British post office has been paying half a million dollars per annum for carrying the mails to America, and nearly all of this has fallen to the Cunard Company. – [Montgomery Advertiser of Nov. 24th] KENNEDY ITEMS Kennedy, Ala., Nov. 20th, 1886 Mr. Editor: We being a subscriber of your excellent paper and a citizen of Kennedy, would be highly gratified to have you give space in your columns for a few dots from this place. We, however, are not extremely accurate in composition, hence our production will not be bombastic, but merely a simple notice of our little town which you will please accept. Now do not imagine us attempting to present another Liverpool to you, but we do say this is the best cotton market and trading point on the Georgia Pacific, and make this assertion without the least design to offend the other stations. Our merchants pay the highest maker price for cotton, and have already shipped over twelve hundred bales. Their stock of goods are superb, consisting of every article every one needs, from the most common to that which would command the attention of the most fastidious. We would not have any very serious objection just now to keeping boarding house as the merchants and clerks have only just time to partake of breakfast. Well, in fact, Kennedy is on a boom in every respect – were a panorama of our town last year and this year compared, considerable improvement would be observed. Mr. W. A. BLACK has recently had his house enlarged and painted, and now has the handsomest dwelling in town. Dr. K. W. MCCULLOUGH is having a splendid building erected, and when completed will be quite a desirable residence. You know that competition is the life of a place, and if you do not believe we have that, just come over and see if you don’t meet with competition and opposition too. By the way, we are now being honored with the presence of quite an interesting old lady Mrs. BRADLEY of Birmingham, who is the guest of Mrs. S. PHILIPS. Miss DIXIE GOURLY is also gracing our town, and is stopping with her sister, Mrs. M. COONS. Mr. THOS. RUSHING accidentally shot himself yesterday in the act of loading his gun, but we learn the wound is not considered very serious, it being in his left hand. Dr. W. H. KENNEDY and Rev. J. R. ROBERTSON have been confined to their rooms for several days, but we notice both out on the street yesterday and hope they swill both be restored to perfect health again. Well another year has quite nearly elapsed and it is but a few weeks till Xmas – what do you Vernon people think of doing on this blessed occasion? Truly it is blessed, as it was the day the glorious anthems rang on the plains of Bethlehem over the dear face of our Savior. We thank God that one and all can say “Glory, glory be to God in the highest.” But as we are aware that lengthy letters sometime find their way into the waste basket we kindly bid you goodbye. More anon. LLEWELLYN 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. Ad for McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier 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 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. ABRAM I. HUMPHRIES. Attorney at Law. Columbus, Miss. Special attention to 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 {NOTE: Poem about a cyclone ) Dr. B. F. REED and family are visiting relatives near Fernbank. New goods and low prices at GEO. W. RUSH & Co. See administrators Notice, and two Final Settlements in today’s paper. We are not selling at cost, but just a little over cost. – GEO. W. RUSH & Co. When you are at Kennedy and want a square meal just walk over to the Walker House. Remember the Administrators Sale of valuable lands of the KIRK Estate, W. A. BROWN administrator. RUSH & Co. kindly request their customers who have tickets with them to call and settle. The Board of Education of Lamar County will meet on Saturday the 4th inst. The Public School for this place will open on Monday next, the 6th inst. Prof. J. R. BLACK, teacher. If you wish to purchase books, go to RUSH & Co. who will give you rock-bottom prices. There is no use to send your watch to Columbus when you can get it repaired at J. B. MACE’S Jewelry Shop. At Kennedy Wednesday last we were pleased to see the business paper and enterprise which exists there. In fact Kennedy is a real nice town. Judge COBB received this week a nice secretary with 50 drawers for the various blanks used in his office. It is very convenient. Col. T. B. NESMITH returned last Wednesday from an extended trip to the Fayette and Walker County courts. Ad for McLean’s Little Liver and Kidney Pillets Special bargains in clothing, boots, & shoes. Call and see for yourself. GEO. W. RUSH & Co. At the election last Monday for Intendent and Councilmen, the following gentlemen were elected: L. M. WIMBERLEY, Intendent, Drs. W. L. and M. L. MORTON, R. W. COBB, and G. W. MIDDLETON, Councilmen. The Railroad is not here, but we are selling 7 ¼ lbs coffee, and 14 lbs sugar to the dollar, and most anything else as low as it can be bought anywhere else. GEO. W. RUSH & Co Mr. and Mrs. WILEY METCALF visited the family of Mr. R. E. BRADLEY last Saturday evening and remained overnight. Their daughter Miss ROSA accompanied them, and will attend the High school. Ad for McLean’s Chills and Fever Cure The Thanksgiving Service last Thursday night by Rev. Mr. HEWITT was very appropriate and in keeping with the occasion. His text was, “The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we age glad.” Ad for McLean’s Little Liver and kidney Pillets Ad for McLean’s Volcanic Oil Liniment S. E. WEIR & Co. at Kennedy have bought up to date 1125 bales of cotton. Why? Because they pay more for cotton than any other firm in the town. They are selling goods so low that people buy them because they are cheap. Mrs. HOLLIDAY, widow of JOE HOLLIDAY deceased, was born in 1813. She has during this year spun and wove 120 yards of cloth and picked one bale of cotton. She resides at HOLLIDAY’S Mill, in the neighborhood of Moscow. The above work is remarkable for a lady of her age. Ad for McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier We hear the ladies have decided to have a nice supper during the holidays. Let everybody save up a little change, and come out and patronize the good things which will be displayed. We will give the evening in our next, that all many know. Ad for McLean’s Liver and Kidney Balm. DIED: At Esq. W. W. PERNELL in this county, on the 24th inst. JIM JONES at the age of 58. He was a dementia from his birth. His sister Miss KATE JONES has cared for him all along though his life, she was kind and devoted to him Also, in the neighborhood of Moscow, infant child of Mr. and Mrs. J. I. MARCHBANK. G. E. BANKHEAD was in town Thursday of last week getting up a petition to the bosses of the K. C. M & B. R. R. for a depot at the entrance of the Buttahatchie swamp, just below his residence on the road. The site petitioned for is a beautiful and very convenient location for a depot. The latest game we have seen in town is mamblepeg, and the young gentlemen engaged in this game was the talented young disciple of BLACKSTONE, WALTER NESMITH, and the accomplished and very accompanying salesman of A. COBB & Son, EDDIE MORTON. They sit right flat down on the ground and took a fair and square game. What next? We are highly pleased to acknowledge a call one day this week from Dr. J. S. HOLLIS, of Brockton, Fayette County. The Doctor was born and raised in this county and is a young man of high attainment in his profession; in fact he is one of Lamar’s noble young men. He left yesterday to attend the Medical College at Louisville, Ky. He is a graduate of the Mobile Medical College. We wish the Doctor continued success in life. ATTENTION All parties indebted to the undersigned, either by note or account, are requested to come and settle at once, lese said indebtedness will be placed in the hands of an office for collection. S. F. PENNINGTON FINAL SETTLEMENT The State of Alabama, Lamar County Probate Court November 27th, 1886 In the matter of the estate of J. M. DOWDLE, late of said county deceased, this day came J. A. DOWDLE Administrator of said estate, and filed his account and vouchers, in final settlement of his administration and the 23rd day of December 1886 being a day set for hearing and passing upon said account This is to notify all persons interested to appear before this court on the 23rd day of December 1886 and contest said settlement if they see proper. ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate FINAL SETTLEMENT The State of Alabama, Lamar County Probate Court November 27th, 1886 In the matter of the estate of C. C. SEABORNE, late of said county, deceased, this day came THOMAS B. NESMITH, Administrator of said estate, and filed his account and vouchers in final settlement of his administration, and the 23rd day of December 1886, being a day set for passing upon the same. This is to notify all persons interested to appear before this court on the said 23rd day of December 1886, and contest said settlement if they see proper. ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate 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 HALEY & DINMAN will find their accounts with W. G. MIDDLETON, Esq. unless settled by December 1st. HALEY & DINMEN ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Estate of LEROY TURMAN, Deceased Probate Court Letters of Administration with the Will Annexed of said decedent, having been granted to the undersigned on the 10th day of November, A.D. 1886 by the Hon. ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate Court of Lamar County, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present the same within the time allowed by law, or that the same will be barred. H. C. BICKERSTAFF, Administrator with Will Annexed 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. 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. SHERRIFF’S SALE By Virtue of a Fieri Facias issued out of the Clerk’s office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, and State of Alabama, and to me directed, whereby I am commanded to make the amount of a certain judgment recently obtained against RANDALL CARDEN, W. T. CARDEN, L. J. SANDLIN, JESSEE JAGGERS, and J. R. TURMAN, out of the goods, chattels, lands, and tenements of the said RANDALL CARDEN, W. T. CARDEN, L. J. SANDLIN, JESSE JAGGERS, and J. R. TURMAN., I have lived on the following property to wit: One bale lint cotton, one black mare mule, as the property of J. R. TURMAN, and one bale lint cotton, one gray mule, as the property of W. T. CARDEN. Therefore, according to said command, I shall expose for sale, at Public auction, all the right, title and interest of the above named J. R. TURMAN and W. T. CARDEN, it and to the above described property on Saturday the 4th day of December, 1886, during the legal hours of sale at Vernon, Alabama in said county. Dated at Vernon this 22nd day of November 1886. S. F. PENNINGTON, Sheriff of Lamar County, Alabama NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT ARTY A SUMMERS vs. I. J. T. HILL Attachment Whereas ARTY A. SUMMERS having applied to the undersigned, W. G. MIDDLETON, a Justice of the Peace, in due form of law, for an attachment against the property of I. J. T. HILL, and having obtained the same and whereas, it appears to me that the said I. J. T. HILL is not a resident of this state; but resides at Moscow, Fayette County, State of Tennessee. Now, the said defendant is hereby notified of the pendency of the said attachment, and that it has been executed by summoning L. D. JACKSON as garnishee in the above styled cause, and that if the said I. J. T. HILL do not appear before me at my office in the town of Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama, on the 18th day of December, 1886, I will proceed to give judgment on said attachment in the same manner as if the said I. J. T. HILOL were present to defend the same, and I will do as the law directs ward execution, order of sale or other process as the case may require. Given under my hand, this 24th day of November, 1886. W. G. MIDDLETON, J. P. 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 Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ad for Dr. John Bull’s Smith’s Tonic Syrup Ad for Prickly Ash Bitters Ad for Dr. Dromgoole’s English Female Bitters Ad for Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator SHYLOCK’S OUTDONE How Russian Usurers Grind the Last Cent Out of Unfortunate Peasants Notwithstanding diligence and pluck – for Russian peasants are wonderfully thrifty and industrious – their future is never sure. When they can do no better – when, after a bad harvest, the stores of bread and fodder are exhausted, and the tax gatherer is threatening to flog them and after that to sell them up, dish and spoon – they make up their mind to the worst, go to the koulak and raise a loan. A Russian peasant in debt to a koulak is pretty much in the same fix as a fly in a spider’s web, in a fix he will never get out of. The koulak is the village usurer – a peasant who, having struck oil, accommodates his neighbors with short loans at long interest. The koulak are a present plutocracy and a future aristocracy. In every village there are two or three of these koulaks, as well as several smaller fry who are trying to raise themselves to the same proud position. The principal characteristic of this class is that hardness of heart which too often appertains to ignorant men who have risen from poverty to wealth by small savings and severe self-sacrifice, and being always influential members of the commune, they have a great advantage over other dispenses of rural credit, for both landlords and small tradesmen do a brisk business in loan-mongering. Loans are generally made only to whole villages, or to companies of peasants on the responsibility of the mir. The interest charged by the lenders is a caution, and their bonds are drawn with an ingenuity and enforced with a ferocity that would have made Shylock die of envy. Here are a few instances, taken at random from authentic records. In January 1880 a large village in the province of Samara – Soloturn by name – borrowed from one Jaroff, a sum equal to $3,000 interest being deducted in advance, and bought from Jaroff’s store 15,000 pounds of hay for the staving cattle. Repayment was to be made on the first of the following October, under forfeit of $25 for every day of delay beyond that time. The wretched peasants were, of course, not up to time, but they brought the man $1,000 on account and promised to being him the balance as soon as possible. Mr. Jaroff pocketed the cash and offered no objection to the proposed arrangement, and for nearly a year he made no demand for payment of the outstanding $2,000. But in September, 1881, thinking probably that he had bided his time long enough, he sued the village for the trifle of $7,500 – principal and penalty. The magistrate before whom the case was brought, deeming the bargain illegal and inequitable, decided that Jaroff could rightly claim no more than the unpaid balance of the loan and ordinary interest. But Shylock knew the law better than the judge; he carried the case to a higher court and won it, and as the appeal had occasioned further delay and so increased the penalty, the court gave him judgment for $15,000, equal to five times the amount of the original debt, to say nothing of the $1,000 paid on account. – [Cor. San Francisco Chronicle] A NEEDED REFORM – Abuses Which Should be Remedied by a Great Popular Movement Society is built up on the basis of men’s confidence in their fellow men. It is wonderful, the extent to which we do trust one another. Not a hundredth part of the number less and nameless advantages of modern society would be possible but for the prevalence of this mutual spirit of confidence. This is what makes our popular form of government a possibility. Nine-tenths of the business of the time is done on trust, and could not be done without it. A commercial panic is nothing but a sudden destruction of confidence. This is what makes the guilt of defaulters and embezzlers and betrayers of sacred trusts so peculiar, and their crime against society so enormous. The effect of their crimes strikes at the well-bring of thousands, of millions, it may be. For the time, at least, it makes it harder for one man to trust another. The debtor classes all over the country are put to a disadvantage. A nipping frost, that comes as quietly as the evening itself, may before morning do an unspeakable amount of harm. It is the same with any sudden arrest, from whatever cause of popular confidence. But while insisting on the fact that the times are not worse than they used to be in respect of honesty, moral integrity, and trustworthiness, but that, on the contrary, the times are improving, it must be admitted that things are not as they ought to be. There are too many rascals abroad; too many sneak thieves in places high and low. There are too many capitalists who defraud by under- pay, or no pay at all; too many workmen who can not be trusted out of sight to do either good time or good work. There are too many peach-baskets with the raw and rotten carefully tucked in out of sight; too much butterine palmed off for butter; too many people, in innumerable ways, trying to get a living, as it were, by the skin of their teeth, with endless contrivances endeavoring to make money on the margins of their tricks of adulteration and other frauds. There are, moreover, too many children, in school and out of school, in their homes and on the streets, who are growing up the same way; who are coming on without any such training as would make them abhor to lie, or create in them an instinct for truthfulness, or make them dare to say no and do right, whatever the sneaking lie under the gilded allurement. A great popular movement long the line of an honesty-reform would undoubtedly be a good thing. All classes, from the top to the bottom, might be invited to join it. There is no one to whom there would not accrue from it some advantage. Society at large, in every phase of it, would instantly be the gainer. – [Chicago Inter-Ocean] The Alaska Indians are said to be full-bearded men and good workers. They have great love for money, respect the obligations of contracts, and are very fond of their women. A SCHOOLMASTER’S PLUCK How He Pushed His House Before Him Through Northern Europe – [N. Y. Sun] James Ricalton, a school-teacher of Maplewood, New Jersey, returned recently from a remarkable journey through the frozen north of Europe. He took his hotel with him. He had a portable lodging house built, which contained a sleeping apartment and a box for blankets and necessaries. It was on three wheels and was pushed along. It had a rubber awning, which sheltered him in wet weather. In his baggage was a photograph apparatus. Mr. Ricalton traveled through the section lying between Archangel and St. Petersburg to obtain material for magazine articles. A reporter found Mr. Ricalton at his home in Maplewood. He is a Scotch- American, and told the reporter that he had traveled through France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland on a salary of eight hundred dollars a year. Mr. Ricalton left Maplewood on June 12 for Liverpool. He went to Archangel on a sailing vessel and was two weeks in the Arctic Ocean. The American Consultant and the Government of the Custom House at Archangel warned him against the wolves and escaped convicts from Siberia, but he traveled with his peculiar vehicle through eight hundred miles of wild and desolate regions, armed only with a spear and a revolver. He found the wilderness full of large and savage wolves, but was fortunate enough to keep clear of them. Frequently, when he awoke in the morning, he would find his cart surrounded by natives, who stared at him open- mouthed. The peasants he found simple and willing to assist him. They obeyed his orders as though he were a superior being. In the city the people were different and treated him with suspicion. Mr. Ricalton was frequently compelled to hire horses to carry his wagon across the marshes. At one time he was attacked by a robber armed with a club. It was in the center of a dense wilderness, and the robber laughed when the school-master put up his spear to defend himself. Mr. Ricalton dropped the spear and brought his revolver into play. He fired once, and, although the bullet did not bit the robber, it frightened him and he disappeared. Mr. Ricalton reached St. Petersburg on August 11, a month after leaving Archangel. He also visited Norway and Sweden. He got back on the day his school reopened. He says the trip cost him only two hundred dollars. THE YOUTH BACKED OUT FIRST – [N. Y. Sun] A young lawyer of Ellaville, Ga. bantered a young woman at a social gathering to marry him. To his evident surprise she told him to get the license. He won’t be bluffed, and got the license at once, while others of the party sent for a clergyman. He knew nothing of the joke, and when the pair entered the parlor arm in arm he thought it strange that the spectators laughed. But he began solemnly while the party wondered which of the two would weaken first, and the contracting parties each wished that the other would ask the minister to stop. When the first question was asked the young man concluded that the affairs had gone far enough, and he broke ranks and fled, much to the young woman’s relief. COULDN’T BE HAPPY WITHOUT IT – {Harper’s Magazine] I remember on one occasion speaking compassionately of the animal to a man whose life had been devoted to a fox-hunting district. Although I had enjoyed my own ride, I did feel that there was some philanthropy to the exercised for the fox himself, but on expressing it ---- remarked, looking at me with a most curios expression: “Why, ma’am, they foxes they wouldn’t know wot to do without the hunt. Why, they liks it they does. It’s all the fun they gets out of life.” – an argument that sounded irresistible. WHAT OUR NOSES CAN SMELL – [Philadelphia Press] Professors Fischer and Penzoldt of --- have established the curious fact that the sense of smell is by far the most delicate of the senses. They find that the olfactory nerve is able to detect the present of 1 2,700,000,000 of a grain of mercaptan. Analyzed and found free from poison – Red Star Cough Cure. Health Boards endorse it. Twenty-five cents a bottle. A small country seat – The milk stool – [New Age] Fun producing a vigorous growth of hair upon bald heads, use Hall’s Hair Renewer. Every druggist will recommend Ayer’s Ague Cure, for it is warranted to cure. LOVE OF HOME – A Tender Feeling Which is Strong in Every Human Breast Poets have sung this tender feeling, and travelers have carried it all the way around the globe. It seems sometimes the strongest where the home is the poorest. If anywhere this love could be starved to death; it ought to expire in the great salt-plain of Asali. This is a basin about two hundred feet below the level of the sea and near the western shore of the Red Sea. It is enveloped in an almost perpetual fog, and the strong winds till the air with clouds of salt dust so thick as to hide everything from sight. And yet, dismal and dreary as this region is, a recent traveler has this to say of the home- feeling of its inhabitants. “In this wretched spot dwell a people whose only village are clusters of palm-trees, and their principal nourishment the palm-wine. These are the salt-workers, each of whom has a palm to himself, under the shade of which he lives, and no other habitation does he care for. Even when he goes into to here countries where people dwell in houses, and have sheep and vegetables, and fields to till, the remembrance of the sweet palm-wine makes him long for his native salt-plains beneath the smoking cone of the volcano of Artali, and he is wretched till he has returned to them, for, curiously enough, the houseless Afar’s love of home is perhaps stronger than is that of the civilized European whose home contains every luxury.” – [Youth’s Companion] A woman in a cheese factory at Warsaw, N. Y. was drowned in a vat of whey. Ad for Warner’s Safe Cure It is not surprising that people should get “stuck” on paste diamonds. – [Merchant Traveler] THE CAT-MAN – A Purveyor to the Wants of a Legion of San Francisco Tabbies – [Alta California] The methods that some people employ to make a living are peculiar. For instance, there is one man in this city who makes a comfortable living by supplying cats with their daily food. Almost every business office and wholesale store downtown has from one to four cats who are necessary for the protection of the premises from the depredations of rats. These cats formerly were fed by the porters or office boys, who often neglected them, and as a consequence the advent of the cat-man, as he is called, was hailed with delight. Every morning, soon after the stores are opened, a pale-faced, middle- aged Austrian may be seen wandering around California, front and adjacent streets carrying with him a large can of milk and a basket of meat. All of the principal places are on his list. He is so quiet in his work that his presence is noticed by few others than his feline patrons, who always greet him with every evidence of recognition and pleasure. He speaks a few words to the cats to quiet their outburst of welcome, then fills a saucer full of milk, leaves a little meat close by, and proceeds to the next customer. He is paid twenty- five cents a week for feeding each cat, and should there by a litter of kittens the tax is ten cents additional. The cat-man is sharp. At times the cats will stray from their belongings and seek more congenial quarters. When the purveyor comes around in the morning and notices the absence of his customer he immediately starts on a still hunt for her and the wanderer is generally found and returned to her proper home. However, if the cat can not be found another is soon substituted, and in this way his list of customers is not lessened. The cat-man uses about ten gallons of milk and fifty pounds of meat each day, and has an assistant to help him. Several dogs are also provided with meat. ESPECIALLY TO WOMEN “Sweet is revenge especially to women,” said the gifted, but naughty, Lord Byron. Surely he was in bad humor when he wrote such words. But there are complaints that only women suffer, that are carrying numbers of them down to early graves. There is hope for those who suffer, no matter how surely, or severely, in Dr. R. Y. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription.” Safe in its action it is a blessing, especially to women and to men, too, for when women suffer, the household is askew. A hotel should never advertise that “it stands without a-rival” – [Farmer and Miller] In 1859 “Brown’s Bronchial Torches” were introduced, and their success as a cure for colds, coughs, asthma, and bronchitis has been unparalleled. Price 25 cts. The clock makes no progress in its ceaseless march. It simply marks time. – [Boston Transcript] Organic weakness of loss of power in either sex, however induced, speedily and permanently cured. Enclose 19 cents in stamps for book of particulars. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Umbrellas have a wide-spread popularity. Ad for Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy If there is one thing that quicker than another will drive a man to drink it is thirst. – [Life] The beautiful crimson blush of nature without paint can be imparted to the pale cheeks of a sickly feeble woman by the use of that great female tonic, English Female Bitters Every person is interested in their own affairs, and if this meets the eye of anyone who is suffering from the effects of a torpid liver, we will admit that he is interested in getting well. Get a bottle of Prickly Ash Bitters, use it as directed, and you will always be glad you read this item. Where does a buckboard? – [Boston Herald] How inexpensive and yet how effective is Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, Black or Brown, 50c A charitable construction – the poor-house – [Puck] Best, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh. By druggist. 50c A trial balance – the baby’s first run. – [Hartford Times] Ad for W. L. 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