Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Vernon Courier December 10, 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, 8:05 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History December 10, 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 10, 1886 VOL. I. NO. 28 Subscription $1.00 Per Year THE VANQUISHED CAT – Poem – [Tom Mason in N. Y. Sun] COLORED STARS - -----ed To Be Suns In Different Life-Stages VALUABLE INFORMATION – How Arterial, Venous and Internal Hemorrhage May be Controlled There are three kinds of hemorrhage – arterial, venous, and internal. Arterial hemorrhage is that which comes from the arteries, and consists of bright red blood which comes in spurts. When this is seen, leave everything else and stop that at once. The safest and surest way of doing this is to make steady, firm and equal pressure between the wound and the heart. If you do not know where the large arteries are, or their course, then grasp the limb firmly above the wound and continue to do so until help comes. There is no danger of pressing too tight if you use your hands, but if you have long to wait it is better to use a stout bandage, or large handkerchief, wound tightly around the limb, and a pencil or small piece of wood slipped through the bandage and turned screw fashion, will enable you to hold it more evenly and securely. If the hemorrhage comes from the veins, the blood will be of a darker color and flow slower and more sluggishly. From this kind of bleeding there is less danger, although prompt measures should be used to check it. This may usually be done by the use of cold water, ice, sometimes tepid water, or by simply applying a firm, strong bandage. The custom, common among wood- choppers, of doing up a cut in its own blood has many points in its favor, nor is it unscientific. It is important to remember that if the wound be a large one, care should be exercised to keep out the air as much as possible. At the same time be sure to remove from the wound all foreign bodies, such as dirt, glass, shreds of clothing, etc. Internal hemorrhage may be recognized by the extreme prostration of the patient, partial loss of consciousness, pallor of the face and lips and a feeble pulse. In such cases send at once for a physician, moisten lips with water and occasionally give a little to drink, if patient calls for it. Do not use stimulants, as they stimulate the heart and only increase the hemorrhage. Rest and quiet are important things to be remembered. If feet and legs feel cold, bottles or bags of hot water may be put around them. – [D. N. Patterson, MD. in Congregationalist] THE DRIVER ANTS – Curious Mariners Whose Home Is In the West Part of Africa There are certain ants that show wonderful intelligence, and the “driver ants” not only build boats, but launch them, too only, these boats are formed of their own bodies. They are called “drivers” because of their ferocity. Nothing can stand before the attacks of these little creatures. Large pythons have been killed by them in a single night, while chickens, lizards, and other animals in Western Africa flee from them in terror. To protect themselves from the heat they erect arches, under which numerous armies of them pass in safety. Sometimes the arch is made of grass and earth gummed together by some secretion, and again it is formed by the bodies of the larger ants, which hold themselves together by their strong nippers, while the workers pass under them. At certain times of the year freshets overflow the country inhabited by the “drivers.” And it is then that these ants go to sea. The rain comes suddenly, and the walls of their houses are broken in by the flood, but instead of coming to the surface in scattered hundreds and being swept off to destruction, out of the ruins rises a black ball that rides safely on the water and drifts away. At the first warning of danger the little creatures rush together and form a solid ball of ants, the weaker in the center. Often this ball is larger than a common base ball, and in this way they float until they lodge against some tree, upon the branches of which they are soon safe and sound. – [C. F. Holder, in St. Nicholas] PREPARING FOR CONTINGENCIES Mrs. Bagley – Aurelia, what is that book you are so intently studying? Aurelia – It’s a geography, ma “You are looking for Boston, no doubt?” “No, I am looking for the map of Canada. Since I am to marry George Hopskip, the banker, I must make myself acquainted with our future home.” – [Philadelphia Call] PITH AND POINT We are thinking seriously of establishing a poet’s corner. It will be connected by a trap-door with the basement. – [Burlington Free Press] “Spirit” says Emerson, “primarily means wind.” Now we understand why a windy harangue is referred to as a spirited address. – [Boston Transcript] …….more jokes……… A FIRM TEACHER - anecdote AN ARITHMETICAL CHESTNUT - anecdote THE DESERT ACT – How Land Can Be Obtained Under The Law Known By This Name The plains, valleys and plateaux (sic) in the far interior of the continent, lying on both sides of the Rocky Mountain ranges, and between them and the Sierras, are for the most part too dry for farming without artificial means of wetting the ground. There is not enough rainfall to supply sufficient moisture for crops to mature. This is the case with much of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, and Nevada, most of Montana and Idaho, and considerable areas of Oregon and Washington. Some portions of this vast region are covered with bunch-grass or buffalo-grass, and other support no better vegetation than the vile-smelling sagebrush or its cousin, the grease-wood, or still worse, the ugly pads of the prickly-pear cactus. The soil is good enough; indeed, it if for the most part quite rich where not too strongly impregnated with alkali, but nature is shary of her rainfall, and refuses to send the life-giving showers in the season when the farmer wants them to make his grain grow. The only way to farm in such regions is by irrigation, and to encourage settlers to redeem the sterile land by digging ditches and bringing water upon it. Congress passed, not many years ago, what is known as the”Desert Land Act.” The claimant under the Desert Act must file his affidavit and those of two witnesses, declaring that the tract he describes is in fact desert land, incapable of cultivation without irrigation. He must also pay in advance twenty-five cents per acre at the end of three years he “proves up.” To do this, he makes affidavit, with two witnesses, that he has brought water upon the land, in accordance with the law, pays one dollar per acre, and gets a patent. If he has watered only a portion of the mile-square tract, he can prove upon the forty-acre tracts that he has actually reclaimed, pay for them only and get his title. If a potion of the tract is bluff land, inaccessible to ditches, the Government throws it in with the rest. Farming by irrigation is only practicable in mountain countries, in little strips of valleys, or on plains traversed by rivers which can be diverted from their courses so as to yield a portion of their waters for the benefit of the neighboring fields. It is a laborious method of agriculture, and is as old as civilization in the valley of the Nile. The Mormons were the first to practice it in this country. There are great advantages in this method of farming. The farmer supplies his fields with just as much moisture as is needed to bring his crops along in the best condition. He gets about twice as much grain to the acre as is raised in regions where dependence is placed on the rain. Thus he is much more than repaid for the labor of irrigation, besides being freed from all risk of losing his crops. Let us see how an irrigated wheat field is managed. The main ditch that supplies it with water may be many miles long, and jointly owned by several farmers; or it may be the property of a corporation which sells the water to the farmers, as is done extensively in California and Colorado; or it may come out of a stream near by, and be owned solely by a single farmer The land cultivated must have a gradual slope. The water is conducted in a large ditch along the upper side of the field, and from this smaller ditches are scooped out with a plow across the field at intervals of a few yards. There are usually made after the crop is put in. When the farmer finds soil getting dry and the grain looking thirsty, he goes over the field with a hoe and spade, trimming up the cross-ditches, into which he has first let the water from his large ditch, and thus, with a great deal of pains and skill, gradually flooded the whole surface, until it is thoroughly soaked. Usually this process is gone through twice during the growing season. If there are rains in June, one irrigation may suffice, but in dry seasons three are necessary. An irrigated field of wheat presents a beautiful appearance the stalks grow so thickly and so evenly, the heads being nearly on a level. Every stalk has had all the moisture it needed, and has done its best. Farmers in irrigated valleys in the West believe that the water has a fertilizing property, and say that land watered by ditches does not wear out nearly as soon as that cultivated by the aid of the rainfall. – [Youth’s Companion] FATTENING SWINE Some years ago it was the custom among farmers to keep their pigs over winter and fatten them the next fall. They would sell them during the winter, when they were from eighteen to twenty months old, at which time they were expected to weigh from 400 to 500 pounds. Now it is found that a good spring pig can be made to weigh about 300 pounds the next winter, if well cared for and properly fed, and where this weight is reached it is plainly to be seen which plan is the more profitable. They younger the pig is, the less food it takes to make a pound of weight, and the good that would be required for the older hog the second year can much more profitably be given to a younger animal, as any farmer can find by trying the experiment. – [Natural Livestock Journal] Book Agent – Councilman, don’t you want to buy an encyclopedia today? City Father – What do I want with such a thing? I’d break my neck the first time I rode it. – [Chicago Ledger] OF GENERAL INTEREST There is a conductor on the Reading Road named Kiss. They say the girls rather like him. – [Philadelphia Call] A peach tree in the orchard of D. S. Blackwell, of Cobb County, S. C. is forty years old, and this year bore two crops of peaches. An Iowa insurance company offers a reward for the best practical plan for a tornado cave combining security and cheapness. – [Chicago Journal] The Legislature of the state of Sonora, Mexico, has exempted from all municipal taxation any ice factories that are or may be established within the state. During the past five months between two and three hundred persons have been killed in Minnesota, Dakota and Montana by electricity and tornadoes. – [Chicago Mail] “I once saw a person go into the water with his nose embraced by a clothes- pin” says a scientific writer, “and the greater number of bathers now protect the ears with wool.” Tramps are so numerous and troublesome around Santa Clara, Cal, that a vigilance committee has been formed for the purpose of driving them out of the country. – [San Francisco Call] The Society men of Chicago are making a strong effort to popularize knee breeches, but it is an up-hill job. The average man in Chicago society is so bow-legged that when he gets into a pair of knee breeches and goes upon the street he is always afraid of being mistaken for a pair of runaway ice-tongs. – [Philadelphia Press] Paris has a new institution that is popular. It is an establishment on a main boulevard where, by paying half a franc (ten cents), one can wash his hands, have his boots blacked, his coat brushed, write letters, read all the papers, consult a reference library, and us e a telephone. New York’s many hotels render such an establishment unnecessary here. – {N. Y. Sun] “A deposit of precious stones of the rare kind known as “golden beryl” has recently been found in the Berkshire Hills’ says the Boston Transcript. “Specimens of this gem are occasionally met with in the hands of collectors, but it has never before been found in sufficient quantity to become an article of trade. When cut, the stones are of a beautiful golden color, exceedingly hard and of great brilliancy.” A telegraph office in London was lately put in direct communication with Teheran, Persia, three thousand eight hundred miles distant. Then Kurrachee, in Northwest India, was added; then Agra, and at last Calcutta was switched on, with which direct conversation was held through seven thousand miles of wire at twelve or fourteen words a minute. The Calcutta operator could hardly be convinced that he was talking with London. Numa L. Seely lived with his parents in Cincinnati until his mother died and his father abandoned him. Then he went to work for a farmer in Indiana, and while there stole a few dollars, and bought a coat. He was sent to the penitentiary for three years. Now Governor Gray, of Indiana, has pardoned him because influential citizens of Cincinnati have asked him to and because the boy is heir to a fine property in that city. – [Cleveland Leader] A Bridgeport (Conn.) paper says that a detective of that city recently received the following letter: “will you oblige me by going to some picture gallery and set for my pictures I will pay you. My children and relations are bothering me to have one took as I am growin’ old, and as I am buzzy gittin’ in crops I can’t spair time to come down. I hear you have disgizes so you can do as well as me. Have on red side whiskers and good clothes. Make the picture good lookin’ and when you laff show your teeth as I have a bran new set of false ones. I am forty-eight years old and a widower.” The entire hop crop of New York State is a complete failure. The loss amounts to millions of dollars. The crop of 1885 is stated, in round figures, to have amounted to 199,000 bales; this year’s in favored sections of counties will not amount to 10,000 bales, of which two-thirds are unfit for market. Dealers give the flowing comparative list of the yield in hops by counties: Sehoharie, 1885, 35,000 bales; 1886, 500 bales. Otsego, 1885, 40,000 bales 1886, 2,000 bales. Oneida and Madison, 1885, 70,000 bales, 18869, 1,500 bales. Lewis, 1885, 2,000 bales, 1886 400 bales. Franklin, 1885, 20,000 bales, 1886 1,500 bales. Montgomery 1885 20,000 bales, 1886 nothing. Bales vary in weight from 180 to 200 pounds. – [N. Y. Herald] There recently arrived at Atlanta, GA. to be used on the Atlanta & charlotte railroad, two of the largest engines in the world. The cylinders are 20 x 24 and the drivers are 50 inches. There are only three more engines on this continent like these – one in California, one in Delaware, which are used for hauling coal, and the other in Brazil, South America, which has been abandoned on account of being too heavy for the road and trestle. These engines will pull thirty loaded cars over the Atlanta & Charlotte road, and on any level road it can pull eighty cars. They have eight driving wheels, four on each side, with automatic airbrakes attached to each wheel, also on the wheels under the tender. – [Atlanta Constitution] PAGE 2 THE COURIER ALEX A. WALL, Editor and Proprietor Vernon, Alabama Friday, December 10, 1886 THE LEGISLATURE We predicted that the present legislature would be an active one, which prediction we could stand pat on, from the fact that there was a great infusion of young blood into its veins. But it seems now that it is not only verifying our prophecy but out stepping it. Whatever may influence so much legislation it is greatly to be deplored. From the number of bills introduced amending the code, we may almost with safety make another prediction, namely: that the Acts of 1886-7 will be as large in volume as the Code itself. We hope the older solons who are members of the House, among whom are men unexcelled in ability by any in the state will restrain the rashness of the “young Democracy” or such legislators who may think they have lived in vain unless they can show to their constituency that they have at least introduced a bill for “something or other,” and earned their per diem. Under the present aspect of affairs with some cranky measures introduced and a reckless tendency to innovations or at tempts at originality. We think the wisest legislator is he who abstains from legislating as far as he possibly can. Such bills as changing the weight of evidence in criminal cases. Providing for legalizing primary elections, and resurrecting from the rubbish of ages, that antique monstrosity, the whipping post, and the general crankiness that is cropping out in the introduction of bills named, at social evils should make they young, discreetly and modestly put on their studying caps, ere they venture into the dangerous shoals of hasty legislation; and should make the older sailors, who are manning our ship of state, more vigilant and watchful as to the manner in which we are sailing. On Friday last Senator Huey introduced a bill to establish a State Female University for the higher and more progressive education of women. The Board of Trustees is composed of the Governor, Superintendent of Education, one from each Congressional District, and two from the county where the university is located. The board shall have a secretary and a treasurer and all powers usually conferred on such bodies corporate. The bill appropriates $25,000 annually for the next two years to establish the college, erect buildings, etc, and to pay expenses, after that $10,000 annually for its maintenance. The object of the school is to give the white girls of Alabama a higher, more progressive and scientific education, such as is accorded to boys. The trustees shall prescribe the courses of study, the several departments including an industrial department. They may also establish a primary department to which pupils may be admitted between the ages of seven and twenty-one. The age of admission to the college shall be twelve years, and three from each county shall be admitted, tuition free. This was the first bill introduced on the subject. – [Montgomery Advertiser of Nov. 24th] IT LOOKS LIKE BUSINESS – [Montgomery Advertiser] It is particularly pleasant to note the fact that the farmers of Alabama are organizing agricultural clubs in nearly all the counties in the state. Every week our State Exchanges bring news of a number of such organizations, and it seems that the farmers have determined to push and pull and work together for the up building and advancement of their high calling and common interests. The fact is it looks like business. The county’s agriculture is still the sure foundation upon which the people rest their hope for a prosperous future; and the farmer’s promise of success and independence and self- elevation must come in a thorough, and improved and progressive system of industry. Scientific farming will bring about a wondrous change for the better in the years to come. It will give the farmer a higher and better opinion of himself and his calling. Farming as a life work will be looked upon as dignified and honorable when it is made profitable. The idea that farm life is a sort of drudgery to be avoided if possible, will play out when the people, by united strength of mind and muscle, have made the farm what it has been and might be and ought to be. It is natural and pleasant to think that the farmers are making active preparations for the revolution that must come before any material progress and advancement is made in the agricultural situation and the future outlook. Every county in Alabama ought to have its agricultural clubs. The idea is for the farmers to put their heads together and set about to improve their means and methods every year and every day. They want to think some while they work. Intelligent effort and concert of action will be followed by increased strength and good results, so sure as the morning follows the midnight. Push, progress, and prosperity, and the greatest of these is push. LITTLE WOMEN – {Atlanta Constitution] If mothers could realize how much “fussiness” in dress detract from the looks of children, they would adapt the simple styles that are so much more becoming. You see children of the present day so bedecked it is difficult to tell whether they are children or dwarfed grown people. Their dresses are puffed and looped to appear as “bountant” as their mother’s long basques trimmed with lace and velvet, and so cut and trimmed as to make them appear stiff and ungraceful. When one sees a child whose dress retains the simplicity of childhood it is indeed refreshing. Go to any of our fashionable churches during Sabbath school and it is quite common to see a class of little girls beautifully dressed in the latest styles, but wait, and listen as the teacher asks question after question, and the answers fail to come, and one and another will say they “did not have time to study their lesson.” Oh, mothers, how much better to spend less thought and time in ornamenting the body, and more in training the mind, and instilling those truths that will ever be to your children “pearls of great price,.” Gather them around your knee and tell them the “old, old story” and teach them that the outward adorning is of little value compared to the “ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God of great price” A love of dress in children dates from an early period. They so quickly learn when they are the objects of special admiration, and a very small child will show its desire for fine clothes. Of course they catch their ideas from the grown members of a family, and parents cannot be too careful not to foster this passion in their little ones. Let your children enjoy childhood just as long as possible, and do not make little men and women of them before it is necessary. 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 See notice of Dog lost Snow, sleet, and rain last Saturday. New Goods and low prices at GEO W RUSH & Co. Several new scholars entered the High School last Monday. For cheap goods and good goods go to RUSH & REED Esq. W. A. YOUNG is attending County Court at Hamilton this week. RUSH & REED are selling at astonishingly low prices now. Go and see them. Mr. A. A. SUMMERS has had built in his back yard an extensive wood shelter. We are not selling at cost, but just a little over cost. GEO W. Rush & Co See continuance of Administrator’s Sale of land of the estate of W. K. KIRK deceased, which will be December 27th. RUSH & Co kindly request their customers who have tickets with them to call and settle. Ad for McLean’s Little Liver and Kidney Pillets If you wish to purchase books, go to RUSH & Co who will give you rock-bottom prices. Ad for McLean’s Liver and Kidney Balm Special bargains in clothing, boots & shoes. Call and see for yourself. GEO W RUSH & Co Ad for McLean’s Liver and Kidney Balm Mr. OSCAR GUYTON last Monday at the Administrators Sale of lands of the estate of W. K. KIRK deceased, bought the land known as the CRIBBS and COOK places. Ad for McLean’s Strengthening Eye Salve JASON and BUD GUIN, who are doing station work on the K. C. M & B. R. R. came down on a visit last Saturday. They returned Tuesday. We are pleased to learn these young men are a success with their work. Ad for McLean’s Volcanic Oil Liniment Owing to the very inclement weather last Saturday the Board of Education did not meet, County Superintendent B. H. WILKERSON was in to see us last Saturday and informed us they would meet on Saturday the 18th inst. Ad for McLean’s Chills and Fever Cure Mr. J. W. MORTON requests us to say to those who are owing him for work, unless they call at his shop and settle, he will place their accounts in the hands of an officer for collection. He says he means business now, so you’d better settle up Ad for McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier A postal received from Hon R. L. BRADLEY dated Nov. 25th informs us that he is on the Committee of Appropriations, instead of Bradfield, as we published in our issue of the 19th inst, which was taken from the Birmingham Iron Age. As this is a very important committee we take pleasure in making the correction. Fine Louisiana Molasses for sale at GEO W RUSH & Co. LOST DOG – Estrayed from G. E. BANKHEAD’S place on Wednesday night December 1st, a Setter Dog, with white and liver colored spots. Will answer to the name Bevis. Anyone returning the dog to the above named place or any information as to his whereabouts will be rewarded. ATTENTION All parties indebted to the undersigned, either by note or account, are requested to come and settle at once, less said indebtedness will be placed in the hands of an office for collection. S. F. PENNINGTON CITATION NOTICE The State of Alabama Lamar County To M. F. CAMPBELL, Guardian over the estate of M. C. KEMP, a minor. This is to notify you to be and appear at a Probate Court to be held for said county, on the 2nd Monday in January 1887, it being the 16th day of said month, and file your accounts and vouchers in final settlement of your Guardianship, else the court will proceed to credit said account from the papers on file in this office, and render judgment accordingly as the papers may show. Given under my hand December 2nd, 1886. ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate 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 27th day of December. 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 Prickly Ash Bitters (picture of the bottle) Ad for Dr. Dromgoole’s English Female Bitters Ad for Mason & Hamlin Unrivaled Organs Ad for Benson’s Porous Plaster Ad for Ely’s Cream Balm Ad for the Weekly American Rural Home Magazine GEOGRAPHY AND ART – A Very Interesting Conversation Overheard in an Art Gallery – [Chicago Journal] I happened to overhear a curious controversy in the art gallery of the Exposition concerning the name given to one of the paintings. It was the beautiful little canvas of R. W. Hubbard, entitled, according to the printed catalogue, “Poet above Aam.” Several persons stood around it admiring it, when suddenly the question was sprung: “Where is Aam?” One gentleman thought it was a town in Connecticut, not far from where Mr. Hubbard has his country seat. An Irish gentleman shook his head, and though that it was in Connaught. A Well- dressed man with a Teutonic accent remarked judicially that he thought Aam was a hamlet not far from Stuttgart, and, in fact, he had a distinct impression that he visited it one, in his childhood. Just then a minister came up, and overhearing what they said, suggested that if memory served him right, Aam was an ancient city in the Holy Land, where Joshua one worsted the Amalekites. He thought the recount of the battle would be found in the second book of Chronicles, perhaps in the fourth or fifth chapter. Just them Mr. Leenard, who superintends the gallery, and who hearing the controversy had disappeared to make some investigation, and returned and informed them that the name of the picture as given in the catalogue was a misprint, and should have been “Above a dam.” IRENEAUS PRIME AND HIS PUPIL – [N. Y. Sun] In the autobiography of the late S. Ireneaus Prime, now being published in the New York Observer, the writer tells of a scholar who went to school to him in Sing Sing, and was rather stupid at first as he blundered over his A-B-Cs. One day Mr. Prime stood the small boy in the middle of the room as a punishment. The bell rope hung just there, and the teacher in fun dropped the noose over the lad’s head. There happened to be some boys in the hall above, who pulled the rope, and the little fellow at once went toward the ceiling. The teacher grabbed the rope and pulled, which made the boys pull all the harder, and the child was in danger of being then and there hanged. But Mr. Prime succeeded in extricating him none the worse from the hanging, and afterward wrote: “He went on with his studies, became a capital speaker at public meetings, studied law, became recorder of the city of New York, and subsequently Governor of the State of New York, my life-long friend, John T. Hoffman. ONR ECCENTRIC LANGUAGE – [N. Y. Telegram] The eccentricities of the English language are often the subject of foreign dissatisfaction, and form the obstacle to the most cultured linguistic perfection. A Hollander of education who was lately called upon to address an American meeting illustrated the trails in language by a most natural slip in synonyms: “Ladies and gentlemen: he said, feeling his way with care, “it is great pleasure for me to speak words to you. The convention is so homelike to me, and the people of the convention are so pleasant and so homely.’ At his point a subdued laugh interrupted him, but as he proceeded it was evident that he was innocence of the turn his compliment had taken. BORN ON THE SAME DAY – [Chicago Tribune] The Princess Wilhelmina, heir to the throne of Holland, lately celebrated her sixth birthday anniversary, and the Queen invited to the Royal Palace all children born the same day as the princess, and treated them to a banquet and presents of toys. A surprising number responded to the call, and, though the Queen welcomed them all, she was heard to remark that the 21st of August 1880 must have been the greatest day for births on record. HOW, YE GENTLE TEARS – [Advertisement in an English paper] Notice to heirs, Samuel S—‘s Extract of Onions, without smell and not causing any irritation, is the best extract in the market for producing the most plentiful supply of tears. Two shillings a large bottle, one shilling a half bottle. Be sure and see that the signature is one the bottle. Slightly moisten the under part of the eyelid with the liquid. Ad for St. Jacob’s Oil Ad for Buckingham’s’ Dye for the Whiskers NEW ZEALAND – A County Rich in Natural Resources of Every Conceivable Kind In New Zealand the railroads, telegraph, and telephone systems are all owned and worked by the Government. The white population of the islands is 500,000, and the native a little more than 100,000. There are 1,230 miles of railroads opened, and about 400 miles are being constructed at present. There are 1,802 post-offices, with 221 money-order office. The cities of Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin have about 46,000 population each, and Wellington, the seat of government, has about 25,000. There are no frogs, snakes, poisonous bugs, or insects on the islands; no snow or ice to speak of except on the mountains and the southern part of the South Island. Cattle and sheep never require shelter, and the grass grows green every day in the year. There are about 13,600,000 sheep, 300,000 cattle, 65,000 horses, and 75,000 hogs, besides countless numbers of wild pigs that have risen from the stock let loose from Captain Cooks’ shop Endeavor 117 years ago. The Maoris (natives) are, in point of intelligence, far ahead of any of the other South Sea Islanders or American Indians. They are now at peace with the natives in the Assembly of the New Zealand Parliament. The natives are allowed to sell their lands only to the Government, and consequently their lands are released to the Pokehas (or whites) at a good rental for grazing purposes, for which they receive sufficient income to live and dress comfortably. – [Chicago Herald] The violinist is always up to his chin in business. – [Bulge] Little ones often wear clothing in peculiar places. A cuff on the ear is frequent. Ad for Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy DISTRESSFUL COMEDY OF ERRORS – [Bennebee (Me) Journal] A newly married couple who started from Portland on a wedding trip the other day were having a hard time at last account. It seems that while the bridegroom was looking after the baggage at the depot his best man, who was a trifle nervous, hurried the bride into the wrong car and started her to Boston one train too soon. The disconsolate husband took the next train, but got to Berwick only to find that his bride had returned to Portland. She, against the advice of friends, did not stop there but started west again and got to Boston at the same time he again reached the starting place. At last account the two were hurrying backward and forward as fat as steam could take them, each frantically trying to overtake the other. SHE SUSPECTED JOHN AT ONCE. – [Albany (N. Y.) 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