Lamar County AlArchives News.....THE VERNON COURIER September 28, 1888 ************************************************ 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 September 12, 2010, 7:25 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History September 28, 1888 Microfilm Ref Call #371 Microfilm Order #M1992.4966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE VERNON COURIER COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY [Limited] VERNON, LAMAR COUNTY, ALABAMA FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1888 Vol. III, No. 17 PAGE 1 THE COURIER ONE DOLLAR A YEAR NATIONAL TICKET For President, Grover Cleveland, of New York For Vice President, Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio For Congressman, John H. Bankhead of Fayette The yellow fever will no doubt come much nearer us than at present, and the probability is that if the warm weather continues we may have it in our midst. With a frost in the next en days we would be out of danger. Yellow fever will live anywhere in the State of Alabama and under favorable conditions would get in its deadly work here in our rare and pure atmosphere just the same as at Decatur or in Florida. The sensible thing to do if it comes in our midst is to get away from it if you can. The Bagging Trust, while it is, Mr. Blaine would say, largely a private concern on the one side, is getting in some disagreeable work on the side of the public. The high price of bagging is keeping the cotton crop from entering the market freely. ……………… The Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company have decided to build a line of road from their main line to the iron and coal fields of Alabama. The line now under consideration is from Corinth, Miss., direct to Birmingham. It is high time that our town get a move on and send a delegation of citizens to confer with the authorities and make a proper showing of the resources of this section and the great saving that there would be in building from a point this side of the mountains into the coal fields. To reach the coal fields from Corinth will require the building of one hundred miles of road through a very rocky country, while with sixty miles of road from their ranch road at Columbus they will reach the coal fields by the time they strike the rocky country. It is nearer to Birmingham by way of Vernon from the M. & O. at least twenty miles. Now is the time for us to act in the matter and to call the attention of the officials to this route and its advantages. A meeting should be had and some action taken at once to interest this road. The yellow fever in the South has had a tendency to overshadow the presidential race. The count has been actually made in Indiana by the Township Committee and a twelve thousand majority is found for Cleveland……….. SOLITICITOR’S SALARIES The Solicitor’s fees at the Spring term of the circuit court amounted to $510. At this term they will be perhaps $100 less. This sum is sure to be collected, or within a very few dollars at least. Should all the counties pay this amount the solicitor’s fees would amount of six or seven thousand dollars? Tuskaloosa County, with double the criminal offenses of Lamar County will pay about two hundred dollars in solicitor’s fees to Lamar’s $900. This salary system works very well for Tuscaloosa and several other counties of the circuit; but for Lamar it don’t The misdemeanors in Tuscaloosa are all triable in the county court and the excess of fees in that county goes direct to the fine and forfeiture fund, but in this county the full amount goes into the fee fund at Montgomery and we help to pay for other counties at the expense of our fine and forfeiture fund. This is a plain proposition and easily to see. It is plain that if the fees from a county won’t pay its proportion the law is not just and not a particle better than the old fee plan. The outlook at present is for this county to pay about one-fourth of the solicitor’s salary when it should pay but one-eight, and this is done at the expense of our fine and forfeiture fund. If each county in the circuit were to come up with its $375 we ought to have $500 paid into our fine and forfeiture fund. This may be possible under the present laws regulating the trails of misdemeanors in Sumter. Greene, Tuscaloosa and Walker, but the whole state is lumped together and there will be many counties that will not reach this sum and leave the burden on others, and in many cases will fall heavier on sparsely settled counties to the advantaged of the populous as in this circuit. The question of the time when a Sheriff’s term of office expires is saturating attention in this state now. The Sheriff of Barbour County refused to give up is office until November. The question has been submitted to ex-Attorney- General Tompkins………….. BLEW OUT THE GAS Brooklyn, Sept. 24 – A young man named Patric Lynch, and a young woman, named Nellie Driscall, were found dead in bed in a room in the Willow House, on West Fiftieth street this morning………… YELLOW FEVER Decatur, Ala. Sept. 22 – To DR. J. B. Gaston: Dr. Bowman and Mr. Prince died yesterday. Mr. Falkenberg will probably die today. As well as I can find out there are nine cases now on hand. Three of them were exposed to Spencer, I doubt if there are 200 whites left in the city. It is the most completely depopulated place I ever saw. A relief committee was organized yesterday. Only the poor are left with us. Very soon these will have to be fed by the committee. Will not appeal for contributions tell absolutely necessary but fear this will be soon. Only one drug store open. I am trying to arrange for another special train to carry people North. Nobody going South. The adjacent country is full of refugees. Many camped out. The epidemic will have little to feed on. It is impossible for me to answer all the messages received an impossible for the telegraph operator to send the answers off. Will send daily report to you as long as I can and hope you will arrange to give the information to all who want it. Jerome Cochran, State Health Officer Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 25 – Official bulletin for twenty four hours ending 6 p.m. September 25. …………The type of fever appears to be growing milder and the death rate continues low, producing a more hopeful feeling………… Jackson, Miss., Sept. 23 – The well-to-do white population have almost entirely departed……….. Aberdeen, Miss., Sept. 23 – During the last two days the excitement has run high in this portion of the state on account of the yellow fever rumors. The Board of Health and Board of Alderman of the city held a joint meeting at 1 o’clock today, and adopted a stringent quarantine against the entire world, and for the present no passengers or traveling parties will be allowed to enter Monroe County under any consideration. Notice to that effect has been telegraphed by the Mayor and Board of Health to the managers of the Illinois Central, Mobile, and Ohio and Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroads, and they all respond that no tickets shall be sold to points in Monroe County. So far Aberdeen has entirely escaped the fever, and the chief health office of the county and city states that there is positively no case of sickness beating the last resemblance or suspicion of yellow fever. DIED IN THE WOODS – The Sad Ending of a Decatur Refugee Foreman Johns, of a bridge gang on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and a party of hands, while en route from Hanceville to Bangor Saturday, saw a man wandering in the woods near the track about five miles north of Blount Springs. The stranger called to the men and told them he was a refugee from Decatur, sick, he thought, with yellow fever. He asked them to stop and carry him to the nearest town. The men became frightened at the idea of being in such close proximity to a refugee and left at once. Yesterday the same party of bride carpenters came down on the passenger train to a point below Blount Springs. They all looked to the car window as they passed the spot where they had seen the refugee on the day before. What was the surprise of the Foreman Jones when he saw the dead body of the unknown refugee lying about forty feet from the tracks. The face was upturned and very yellow. This clearly showed that the unfortunate victim died of yellow fever. The body was left where it was last seen. Non one was notified about the matter, and those who knew anything about it refused to bury the body or to go near it. The name of the dead man is not known. All that is known about him is that he came from Decatur and was thought to have been sick with yellow fever. – [Age] RE-UNION OF ALABAMA CONFEDERATE SOLDEIRS AT THE STATE FAIR We propose during the state fair to have a large tent stretched on the Fair Ground in it a suitable book, and a Confederate soldier to superintend in which every surviving solder can register his name, rank, company, brigade, division, crops and army of which he was a member. And we propose to set apart one day as the day for the reunion of all the old soldiers. We therefore call upon every division, brigade, regimental and company commander to call their old comrades to meet them in Montgomery on the fair Grounds on Tuesday, October the 23d. As the only surviving field office, and the 6th Alabama Regiment, (except Gov. John B. Gordon, of Georgia, and we will of course invite him to honor us with his present). I do hereby call upon and urge every member of the 6th Alabama Regiment to meet on the day and date specified. We have taken this stop at the suggestion of a good many of the old soldiers and some of the division commanders. We will gladly receive any suggestion tending to make it a pleasant and enjoyable occasion. Let us hear from you. L. F. Culver Major 6th Alabama Regiment and President Alabama State Fair. A BRUTAL ASSAULT Logansort, Ind., Sept. 23 – The town of Walton, this county is greatly excited over a brutal assault by a woman named Ruth upon Miss Ida O. Flynn a teacher in the public school………….. The Agricultural Wheel, published at Moulton, has suspended publication, and the material is advertised for sale. The paper got to supporting Harrison and Morton and that didn’t suit the low tariff farmers of old Lawrence. An amateur game of base ball recently at Washington for the benefit of the yellow fever sufferers netted $700. The Northern Missionary Society has purchased 10,000 acres of land in the vicinity of Mt. Meigs, Montgomery County, for the establishment of a school for colored children. Teachers are to be sent from the North by the society to take charge of and conduct the school. At Denison, Tex. alt week a negro took laughing gas before having a tooth pulled, and astonished the dentist by leaping from the chair through the window, carrying sash and all to the pavement twenty feet below, yet strange to say, was only a little shaken when he came to himself. Jasper, Ala. has instituted a most stringent quarantine against all infected places. No one is permitted to enter the town from any direction unless giving a satisfactory account of himself. Quarantine officers meet all trains, and the country roads are carefully guarded. We are determined that no one shall bring the yellow fever here. ELECTION NOTICE The State of Alabama, Lamar County There will be an election held at all the election precincts in Lamar County on the first Tuesday the 6th day of November next for the purpose of electing ten (10) Presidential Electors for the state of Alabama. Two (2) for the state at large and one (1) for each Congressional District, and a Representative for the 6th Congressional District of Alabama, in the Fifty-First Congress of the United States. Given under my hand, this the 27th day of September 1888. L. S. METCALFE, Sheriff NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT AS EXECUTOR State of Alabama, Lamar County Probate Court Estate of ALEXANDER YOUNG, Deceased Letters of executorships of the estate of said decedent, having been granted to the undersigned on the fifteenth day of September, A. D. 1888, by the Hon. J. S. MCEACHIN, special Judge of the 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. JOHN A. YOUNG, Executor TO NON-RESIDENT OR UNKNOWN DEFENDANTS The State of Alabama, Lamar County At Vernon, Ala. Eleventh District, Northwestern Chancery Division In Chancery D. W. EDNEY, Complainant Vs. G. A. EDNEY, Defendant In this cause, it is made to appear to the Register by the affidavit of JOHN D. MCCLUSKEY, solicitor for complainant that the defendant G. A. EDNEY, is a non- resident of this state and her place of residence is unknown to complainant, and further, that in the belief of said affiant, the defendant, G. A. EDNEY, is over the age of twenty-one years. It is therefore ordered, by the Register, that publication be made in the Vernon Courier, a newspaper published in the county of Lamar, once a week for four consecutive weeks, requiring her, the said G. A. EDNEY to please, answer or demur to the bill of complaint in this cause by the 15th day of October, A. D. 1888, or in thirty days thereafter, a decree pro confesso may be taken against her the said G. A. EDNEY. Done at office in Vernon, this 11th day of September,. A. D. 1888. JAS. M. MORTON, Register. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office, Huntsville, Ala, August 24th, 1888 Notice is hereby given that the following named setter has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judge, or in his absence, the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, Alabama, at Vernon on October 26th, 1888, viz: Homestead No. 13,851, THEOPOLUS S. COLLIER, for the W ½ NW ¼ and NW ¼, SW ¼, Section 34, T 12 R 15 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: R. D. NOE, Post office, Pine Springs, Ala.; T. R. N. NOE post office, Pine springs, Ala.; MILLS POPE, post office, Sulligent, Ala.; JOHN R. ROBERTSON, post office, Pine springs, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register, Aug. 31, 1888 NOTICE OF GRANT OF LETTERS The state of Alabama, Lamar County Probate Court Estate of W. B. MATTISON, Deceased Letter of Administration of said decedent, having been granted to the undersigned on the 15th day of September A. D. 1888, by the Hon. W. A. YOUNG, Judge of the 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. W. M. MATTISON, Administrator To our friends and patrons, having recently received our well assorted stock of dry goods, boots and shoes, hats and caps, Notices, etc. Also our immense stock of groceries and plantation supplies, to the old and well known stand of HUMPHRIES & HUDSON, corner Market and Main, lately occupied by NATHAN & OPPENHEIMER. We are better prepared than ever to offer the trade anything in said lines at prices to please; and with a superior selection we purpose not to be undersold by anybody. We call the attention of the public more particular to our stock of shoes and boots. We are the sole Agents in this city for the celebrated Bay State Hoe and Leather Co., and Suller Lewin & Co. We guarantee goods of said firms for desirability and pleasant wear. To the jobbing trade we can offer special inducements thus enabling the small merchants to buy at home as cheap as they could from any source. Come and see us and be convinced. SIMON, LOEB & Bro., Corner Market and Main street Columbus, Miss. MAX NATHAN manager for VICTOR BUSECK, Retail Dealer in Liquors, wines, tobacco, cigars, etc. Near First National Bank Columbus, Miss. MR. W. B. SPANN, of Lamar County, Alabama is now with this house and will always be on hand to serve his friends with the best liquors at the lowest prices. R. L. BRADLEY, Vernon Alabama keeps constantly on had a full stock of Music books of all kinds. Blackboards, ruled music paper, music stands, tuning forks, pitch pipes and other musical merchandise. Will fill orders of wholesale prices. Musical Journals ordered at club or other rates. Also a full line of school books, slates, pencils, chalk, steel pens, blank books, writing paper of all kind. Envelopes, etc. Prices as low as can be given on first-class goods. Will exchange new books for old books. Will buy and sell old books. DR. R. L. BRADLEY, Dental Surgeon. Vernon, Alabama. Tenders his professional services to the citizens of Lamar and adjacent counties. All work neatly executed, and satisfaction guaranteed; but in no case will responsibility for breaks, warps or shrinkage be assured. Positively no work done on time, unless a satisfactory note be given. Grateful for the liberal patronage extended heretofore. Hope to merit a continuance of the same. Ad for $16.50 for 1000 – fruit trees NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville Ala, July 26, 1888 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 Judge, or in his absence, the Clerk Circuit Court Lamar County, Ala. at Vernon, Ala October 5, 1888, viz: Homestead No. 12,525 ANDREW J. MOTES, for the S ½ NW ¼ SEC 25 AND SE ¼ NE ¼ SEC 26 T 13 R 14 W. He name the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said lands, viz: JOHN W. KIRK, post office Beaverton, Ala.; HENRY KIRK, post office Beaverton, Ala.; CALVIN CHAFFIN, post office e Wayside, Ala. JAMES SIZEMORE, post office, Beaverton, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Registrar STATE NORMAL COLLEGE – Florence Alabama James K. Powers, A. M., Pres’t Superior Advantages. Offered by this Institution for the Professional Training of Teachers. No Further examination required of any teacher who holds a state certificate issued by the College. Tuition is Free to those preparing to teach, and good board costs only ten to twelve dollars a month. Session Opens September 18th. For Catalogue, or other information, apply to the President. PAGE 2 THE VERNON COURIER Published Weekly at Vernon, Ala. -------------(news tidbits)------------- A suspension bridge between New York and Jersey City has been decided as practicable by United States engineers. 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YOUNG, Business Manager THE OPENING The opening of the Institute takes place next Monday, October 1st at 9 o’clock a.m. Literary addresses will be delivered by Capt. JOHN D. MCCLUSKY and Col. THOMAS B. NESMITH. Everybody is invited to be present, and especially the patrons of the school to come out with their children. Respectfully O. R. HOOD, Principal B. G. WILKERSON, Associate Principal Attend the opening of the Institute Monday. The yellow fever scare has reached our county. Col. S. M. MEEK of Columbus is attending court this week. A. J. STANFORD, Esq. of Hamilton is attending court this week. Mr. WILLIE BURNS is up from Columbus on a few days vacation. Mr. VAN LIVINGSTON is being the counter at RUSH & CLEARMAN’S this week. Prof. W. K. BROWN, of Birmingham is circulating among his friends in town this week. Mr. JAS. F. WEIR, quarantine officer of the Georgia Pacific for Columbus gave us a call Wednesday. The ladies of the Methodist church are having the pulpit and chancel of the church put in nice shape. A telegram was received by the relatives of Mrs. ADINE MARLER announcing her death on the 24th at her home in Florida. The grand jury returned three bills against WILL COX, the young white man confined in jail, two for burglary and one for grand larceny. The Mozart Society met last Friday night and went through with a very interesting programme. A large audience was present. The trial of THOS. BEARD consumed the entire day Wednesday, and resulted in a verdict of manslaughter in the second degree, with a fine of fifty dollars. Messrs. J. P. and R. W. YOUNG of Bedford, who last their mill and gin by fire last winter, have rebuilt everything at the old stand, and are better prepared now than before to work for the public. Rev. G. L. HEWITT preached an interesting sermon in the Methodist church last Sunday morning, and announced the he would hold a series of meetings, commencing here on Saturday before the fourth Sunday in October. Sheriff METCALFE goes straight forward with the business of his office and makes a splendid officer. It is clearly proven at this early date that we are to have one of the best Sheriff’s in the state. Mr. DANIEL BROWN, who runs a gin at Hudson, Ala. had the misfortune to get his hand caught in the gin and badly mutilated last Friday. Drs. BARKSDALE and SEAY amputated the two middle fingers of his left hand, and at last account was doing well. Commissioner STONE who served on the grand jury last week procured a leave of absence to go home and see a little Miss who had made her advent during his absence. He found the mother and child doing well, whereupon he filled his saddle-bags with apples and returned to the jury room. The grand jury of the present term of court adjourned on Saturday after completing their labors. The jury was composed of men who have business to attend to at home and they lost no time in attending to that of the county that they might be released to go about their own. They have set the example of diligence which all subsequent juries will do well to follow. If the quarantine regulations continue, the show advertised to be at Sulligent will not be allowed to stop on account of yellow fever. This is as it should be, for there is certainly danger in all such traveling concerns, and if fever was raging in their company they would show anywhere for the money, regardless of the consequences. Up to Wednesday at noon, seventy cases had been disposed of. Convictions were had in 24 cases, with fines amounting to $436.01. Not guilty, seven cases; continued, 13; not proceed 15; dismissed, 1; dismissed on payment of cost by defendant, 1; withdrawn and filed, 1; forfeiture against defendant and bail, 6; sentenced to the penitentiary, two cases. The two sentences to the penitentiary is WILLIE COX, in two cases, one year each. The Courier does not publish a list of the cases tried this week, for the reason that many good men are unfortunate enough to be indicted and we do not think it proper to put their names before the public in this way. THE QUARANTINE The Commissioners Court met Wednesday pursuant to the call of the Probate Judge to consider the quarantine established Monday. They discussed the question fully, and decided that they would continue the quarantine at all the railroad stations in the county, which will continue for one week. The Commissioner’s Court meets again next Thursday, October 4th, to consider the matter again, and desire every citizen of the county who has an interest in the continuance or abolition of the quarantine to give an expression as to their desire in the matter. It is a new subject to the court and they desire an expression from the people on the subject. Miss HARRIET SPRINGFIELD, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. T. W. SPRINGFIELD died on the evening of the 24th after a long illness. In life Miss HARRIET was one of the sweetest Christian characters we have ever known. For years she has been a meek and patient sufferer, stricken down in the very bloom of life she gradually faded away to the city of God. Mr. A. A. WALL, formerly of the Courier was in town Saturday. Mr. WALL is now engaged in the mercantile business at Sulligent, with the reliable firm of RUSH & CLEARMAN. This firm has just laid in a full stock for the fall trade, an when you want to buy the best goods for the least money, call on Mr. WALL, who will wait on you in his usual pleasing and affable manner. A white man named WEEKS was committed to jail by Justice STANFORD of Brown’s Beat, last week on the charge of bringing stolen property into the state. The property was a mule which was identified and claimed by Mr. MEDFORD of Corinth, Miss. The grand jury returned an indictment accordingly and Mr. WEEKS was brought before Judge SPROTT Saturday to have a day set for trial, but he was not ready for trial this term, so his case was set for the second day of the next term, and he was released under a $250 bond. A strong petition on which there were the names of the Board of Health together with other physicians and citizens praying the immediate establishment of quarantine in this county against yellow fever was filed in the office of the Judge of Probate. A temporary guard was appointed and the Commissioners Court called to convene Wednesday to consider the question of keeping up the quarantine. Capt. MCCLUSKY was all smiles yesterday when his many friends were congratulating him on his masterly speech in defense of THOS. BEARD. When Capt. MCCLUSKEY entered this case his friends feared a result different from what has happened and they are delighted to know that he sustains his well earned reputation of being ready for emergency, however serious. Mr. Editor: Please allow me space in your valuable paper to express the gratitude of our people for the Christian kindness of the white ladies of Vernon, to a strange sick colored boy, WALTER LOCKLIN, who has been in my care for the past sixteen days, very sick with fever. I feel it my duty to say something in return for their kindness. I hope and pray to god these Christian hearted ladies, Mrs. LAURA COBB, Mrs. MOLLIE YOUNG, Mrs. DOCIA MORTON, Mrs. JALA SUMMERS, and Mrs. ANNIE MIDDLETON, may live long and show this sinful world that the love of God is in their souls. Respectfully P. S. PHILLIPS, Pastor colored M. E. Church, Vernon, Sept. 27, 1888 HURLED TO DEATH Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 23 – Hugh brown, a bricklayer, mending a chimney on the roof at 505 Chestnut Street was hurled to death thus. He was working on a rude scaffolding five stories in height…………. REPORT OF THE GRAND JURY To the Hon. S. H. SPROTT, Judge of the State Judicial Circuit of Alabama. The grand jury empanelled at this term of the court, now submit to your Honor, this, their final report: We have examined the county jail and find it neatly kept, with no complaint from the inmates, and we think it sufficiently secure for the safe keeping of prisoners. We have examined the bonds of all the county officers and find them in form, and sufficient security on each. We have examined into all indictable offenses that have been brought to our knowledge, where we could procure the attendance of the witnesses. We have returned bills in all felony cases where we thought the evidence justified it, and in all misdemeanors, or case when we thought the public good required prosecution. We have examined the officers of the Probate Judge, Circuit Clerk, Treasurer, and Sheriff, and find them all neatly, and so far as we can tell, correctly kept, and no illegal fees charged. We append hereto the reports of the County Treasurer and the Superintendent of Education. We have counted the money on hand and find the same in the hands of each to balance his report: COUNTY TREASURER’S REPORT To amount come into my hands from all sources of county funds $928.51 Credit by amount of vouchers on file 9.45 Cash on hand today $919.00 FINE AND FORFEITURE FUND I have received nothing and paid out nothing since I came into office. Registered claims against said fund is $2,752.03 P. M. WOODS, County Treasurer. Sept. 21st 1888 REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION Total amount received from State Treasurer $4,308.33 Credit by vouchers and com. 3,998.68 Cash on hand $309.65 B. H. WILKERSON, County Supt. of Education, Sept. 21st, 1888 We have examined into ninety-eight cases, and have had before us one hundred and sixty witnesses, and returned seventy-five true bills. A large majority of the bills returned are for misdemeanors. The county is very much in need of more room for its Juries. The Courthouse is not sufficient for the accommodation of persons who must necessarily be here in attendance on the courts, and we recommend that the Commissioner’s Court have a grad jury and two petit jury rooms built as early as possible Having completed our labors were respectfully ask to be discharged. Respectfully JAMES P. YOUNG, Foreman Vernon, Ala. Sept. 22, 1888 E. J. MCNATT, Esq. editor of the Pratt Mines Advertiser was in town the first of the week. TAX NOTICE I will be at the places and times as named below for the purpose of collecting the state and county taxes for the present year 1888, to wit:………….Will also be at the courthouse the last ten days of the year, where the name of the place is not given, will be at the voting place in each beat. J. E. PENNINGTON, Tax Collector THE VERNON INSTITUTE, Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama. An English, Classical and Mathematical College for the Education of both sexes. The session is divided into two terms of five months each. The Fall term opens Monday, October 1st 1888. The Spring Term Opens Monday February 3rd 1889. Course of Study. The course o study is divided into three grades. The Primary, The Intermediate, and the Senior. Literary Department – Prof. HOOD and Associates – This department comprehends the usual course of study in Institutes of this character. The object in this department will be either to prepare young men and ladies for a University course or fit them for business avocations by a thorough college course. Music –This department will have as principal a graduate in music. A lady who is up in the latest methods of teaching. Normal Department – The principal being a graduate of one of the finest Normal Colleges in the south, will conduct this department, and will instruct those who enter it in the latest and best methods of successful teaching. Art – The instruction in this department will be by a thorough and finished instructor Calisthenics – This is intended as a healthful and beneficial physical training for young ladies Military – Capt. J. S. EACHINS, Instructor – It is the purpose of the principal in introducing military exercises in the course of the college to furnish a diversion as well as a beneficial physical training for his male pupils. This feature, however, is optional with pupil. The instructor ha been connected with the State troops for the past eight years, and was a student of the University of Alabama for four years. Boarding Department – this department will be directly under the supervision of the principal. Young ladies who enter school will be under the supervision of the matron. Board will be furnished at from $6.00 to $7.00 per month. The Principal will associate with him, Prof. B. H. WILKERSON, County Superintendent of Education. For further information address Prof. O. R. HOOD, Principal. Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama. FERN BANK HIGH SCHOOL – Male and Female – Primary and Advance. W. A. DUNN, Principal. Session for 1888- 89 will open October 8th , 1888. Tuition for Primary Grade, per month $1.25 Tuition for Intermediate per month 1.50 Tuition for Advanced per month 2.00 Tuition for High school per month 2.50 This school offers advantages to those who wish to prepare for teaching, and others who desire a more thorough preparations for business than is attainable in common schools; and offer inducements among which are Normal and Practical mode of instruction. The subject is pursued rather than the text book, thus making the course more applicable to everyday business life. The location is healthful and accessible by rail and the expenses are the minimum. Students on entering are graded and classed with special reference to their preparations and ability to master the subject. The Primary department is specially adapted for elementary instruction, while the High School department give a practical education fitting young ladies and gentlemen for the various occupation is of life. For information call on, or address the Principal of the school. Miss TILLIE H. BAILEY, Columbus, Mississippi Fashionable Millinery. Hats and bonnets trimmed to order. Hats, bonnets, plumes, ribbons, feathers, and flowers of latest styles always on hand. No shop worn-goods sold. I have also a large stock of Hair goods for sale cheap. Also Sole Agent for Mme. Williamson’s Corsets. Everybody invited to call and examine goods before purchasing elsewhere. Place of business-dwelling between Morgan, Robertson, & Co. and Dowing Boarding House on Market Street. TROST & SOLOMON, Columbus, Miss., are the only wholesale liquor dealers in East Mississippi, and the largest in the state. Parties desiring to engage in this particular line of business would do well to call and see them before purchasing elsewhere. Their stock of cigars, tobaccos, and smoker’s articles are selected to please the Taste of the most particular. Jug Trade a specialty. Mr. ALLEN JORDAN, of Lamar County is now and has been connected with them for a number of years. Don’t’ fail to call and see them when visiting Columbus. Ad for North-Western Sleigh Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin Price $20.00 F. O. Bo (drawing of horse and sleigh) Ad for Winchester Repeating Rifles You will like it! Try the new route. The Kansas City, Memphis, & Birmingham R. R. m, now completed between Memphis and Birmingham, with branch to Aberdeen, Miss. It is many miles the shortest line between points in the southeast and Memphis an Arkansas and Texas, and all points northwest. The passenger train equipment of the new line is of the most modern construction; coaches were built by the Pullman Co. and are provided with every device necessary to insure the comfort and safety of passengers. Everything new and first class and no effort will be spared by the management to meet the requirements of the traveling public. Through tickets via this line on sale at all through ticket offices. For large map and time tables giving full information as to through cares, connections, etc., address, J. E. Lockwood, G. P. & T. A., Kansas City H. D. Ellis, Gen’rl Agent, Pass’gr Dep’t 31 Madison St. Memphis, Tenn. Ad for book – “The King Of Glory” 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. S. MCEACHIN, Attorney-at-Law and Solicitor in Chancery, Vernon, Ala. Will practice in Lamar, Marion, Walker, Winston, and Fayette counties, in the United States Courts at Birmingham, and the Supreme Court of Alabama. 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 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. ABRAM I. HUMPHRIES. Attorney at Law. Columbus, Miss. Special attention to collection of claims. MORGAN, ROBERTSON, & COMPANY. Wholesale and Retail dealers in Staple and Fancy Groceries, plantation Supplies, boots, shoes, hats and staple dry goods. When in Columbus, Call on us. Corner Market and Washington Street. Look! Look! The Train is coming. Get ready for a ride but before starting call and let G. C. BURNS sell you a nice bill of groceries at rock bottom figures. West side Court square. APPOINTMENTS FOR VERNON CIRCUIT, NORTH ALA. CONF. M. E. C. SOUTH Sulligent 10 a.m. 1st Sunday Springfield’s Chap. 3 p.m. 1st Sunday Lebanon 10 a.m. 2nd Sunday Newman’s Chap. 3 p.m. 2nd Sunday New Hope 11 a.m. 3rd Sunday Vernon 11 a.m. 4th Sunday Mt. Nebo 3 p.m. 4th Sunday G. L. HEWITT, Pastor Second Quarterly Conference at Mt. Nebo the 28th and 29th of April. VERNON LODGE, NO. 45 I. O. O. F. Meet at 8 pm the 2nd and 4th Saturdays in each month. J. D. MCCLUSKEY, N. G. M. W. MORTON, Sec. VERNON LODGE, no. 389 A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications 8 pm 1st Saturday in each month. T. W. SPRINGFIELD, W. M. M. W. MORTON, Sec. LAMAR DIRECTORY W. A. YOUNG Judge of Probate R. E. BRADLEY Circuit Clerk LEE S. METCALF Sheriff P. M. WOODS Treasurer J. E. PENNINGTON Tax Collector W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor JAMES M. MORTON, Reg in Chancery B. H. WILKERSON Co. Supt of Ed. R. L. BRADLEY Representative WILLIAM RUSSEL Coroner N. L. TRULL County Surveyor COMMISSIONERS J. A. MCCOLLUM J. A. COLLINS W. M. STONE L. C. BLAKENEY Feed Stable. When in town bring your stock in my stable where they will be well fed, and have the best attention. Am also prepared to transport passengers to and from the Railroad, and other places. O. F. HALEY Millinery. Ladies are requested to call and examine my beautiful stock of Spring Millinery. Orders from a distance have prompt attention. Mrs. R. BALDRIDGE, Market St. S. Side Morgan Building Columbus, Miss. 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 Ad for American No. 7 Sewing Machine (drawing of sewing machine) Ad for Dr. Taylor’s Sure Chill Cure Ad for Bryant & Stratton Business College File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/theverno1811gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 39.1 Kb