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THE VERNON CLIPPER 

VOLUME I.          VERNON, LAMAR CO., ALABAMA         DECEMBER 12, 1879     
NUMBER 41     

THE BOATMAN

A maiden sits in a tiny bark,
Singing so sweetly,
The boatman he is grim and dark,
Rowing so fleetly.

The stream is narrow, the banks are fair;
“Rest thee, good master.”
Idle her longing, vain her prayers,
He rows the faster.

Anon they float on a river wide,
A mighty river.
Instead of flowers by the water-side,
Pale aspens quiver.

And lo, a woman where sat the maid
Who sang so sweetly;
The boatman, grim and undismayed,
Still rowing fleetly.

On and on, till they reach the sea
That flows for ever;
And drift away on the ocean free,
Returning never.

And vain it is for the earthly eye
To follow thither;
And vainly mortal tongue may cry,
“Gone – whither, whither?”

ADDRESS TO A CAT – from Burlington Hawkeye

Sweet warbler, where the radiant moonlight falls
In mellow splendor on the haunted shed,
Oh, have I listed to thy plaintive wants
And cursed thee from my sleep-deserted bed.
How have I wept to hear thy long-drawn shout,
“Maria!  Oh-h Ma-ri-ah!  Comin’ ou-out?”

Why dost thou rage, vain car, when sable night
With “dewy freshness fills the silent air?”
Why dost thou climb the roof to yell and fight
And rip and spit and snort and claw and swear?
Dost thou not blush, sweet cat, when rosy dawn
Sees half thy fur clawed out and one eye gone?

STORIES AND SKETCHES

ADELINA
	It was the day after New Year’s – a cold, clear Tuesday morning – that 
I disconsolately wended my way to school, wishing that holidays came oftener 
and stayed longer, and regretting that out of fifty-two there was only one 
week of uninterrupted pleasure.
	The old red school-house stood at the junctions of three roads, and as 
I raised the little hill just before reaching it, I saw, coming from the 
opposite direction, a little black-clad figure that looked like a moving blot 
on the unbroken whiteness of the snow-covered landscape.
	I never could tell what actuated me to linger on her movements as I 
did, or why she so strongly attracted me, but from the first I think I must 
have loved the child, even before I was old enough to slightly understand the 
meaning of the word.
	We reached the worn old door-stone together, and, being a boy, not at 
all afraid to speak to anyone, much less a timid little girl, I very coolly 
asked her if this was her first day at school.
	“Yes, and I dread it so much.”
	It was the sweetest voice I had ever heard or have ever heard since.  
The peculiar rising inflection on the last word was like the short, clear, low 
notes of a bird, and as purely natural.
	“Do you come every day?”
	“Haven’t missed a day this winter.”
	“Oh, I am so glad!”
	“Why are you so glad?”
	“Because you are a good boy.  Won’t you please to tell me your name?”
	“Edward Durand.”
	“I like the name,” she said sweetly, and, boy as I am, I wondered how 
any mortal ever came by such an angelic smile.  All this time she had been 
trying to untie the round worsted strings of her hood, but had only succeeded 
in drawing them into a harder knot.
	“Won’t you please untie it for me, Eddie?”
	She held her little chin, and without a moment’s hesitation I bent 
down and did as she requested.  It was such a tender, confiding little face – 
who could help loving it?  I patted encouragingly the rose-red cheek turned 
toward me in a gentle truthfulness, and bade her not to be afraid, for she had 
as good a right to come to school as any one.”
	“Hallo!  Where did that little blackbird come from?” cried kind-
hearted Ben Phillips as we entered.  “Come along, little girl, and get warm 
for you look half frozen.”
	A general tittering and nudging followed Ben’s energetic seating of 
the new scholar, and one saucy little minx, not understanding its 
significance, asked pertly:
	“What are you looking so like a crow for?  I hate a black dress.”
	“Hush!” reproved an older girl, who overheard the remark.  “Hush, 
Sue!  Don’t you see she is in mourning?”
	The voice that had so charmed me in the entry answered the question in 
a strangly quiet way.
	“My father is dead!”
	A hush as of death fell upon the noisy group gathered around the old 
cracked stove.  The unwonted silence was broken by the entrance of the 
teacher, who rapped us to order, after which he briskly called up the new 
scholar.
	“What is you name?”
	“Adelina.”
	Mr. Pike looked wise.
	“Adelina Lagrange, I suppose; and you are the daughter of the lady who 
has recently taken the Baldwin cottage?”
	“Yes, sir.”
	“Well, you may take this seat,” pointing to a bench not far from where 
I was sitting, and without further questioning Adelina had passed through the 
trying ordeal of a “first day” and was duly counted one of us.
	Her mother, it was rumored, was a lady of refinement and culture, but 
very proud and reversed in her demeanor for a person who was obliged to teach 
music for a living.  Mrs. Lagrange, at any rate, was young, handsome, and 
recently widowed – at least the length and newness of her veil indicated to 
observing feminine eyes that the bereavement was recent, and that is all the 
gossips knew about her.
	The summer term brought Adelina again to the old red school-house, but 
so changed outwardly that we hardly knew her for the somber “blackbird” of the 
previous winter.  She fluttered in one morning dressed in white, with sash and 
should-knots of cherry ribbons – the loveliest I ever saw.
	At noon she came to me and said, very gravely:
	“After today I am not coming any more.”
	“Why?”
	“I am going to the city to live; but you were kind to me the first day 
I came, and I tell you for that reason, and because you didn’t mind untying my 
hood for me.”
	I felt her going so keenly that I could not study, try as I would, and 
in consequence my grammar lesson was a decided failure.  I went home from 
school her way that day taking care that the other scholars should not suspect 
any motives.
	When I came in sight of her, she was standing motionless by the road, 
attentively watching a yellow-jacket buzzing for sweets in the downy heart of 
a white Canada thistle.
	Years after, when miles and miles away from that spot, I could shut my 
eyes of a hazy October afternoon, with a 5 o’clock sun dipping toward the tree 
tops, and see a girl, lovely as the blush of the sunset, gazing pensively at a 
bee upon a common roadside flower.
	“Did it sting you?” I asked, assuming a very sympathetic air.
	“No, bees never sting me, and I’ve watched them dance on the thistle-
heads all summer.”
	“I did not know that you loved them.  Most girls are afraid of bees.”
	“Yes, but I am not.”
	She turned from the rank patch of thistles and slowly resumed her walk 
homeward.
	When we came to the lane where our paths separated she put up her 
little arms to be taken up and kissed before leaving me, as she said, “to come 
back no more.”
	“Be good to yourself, Eddie, and next winter, if any little lonely 
Adelinas come cold and frightened to the old red school-house yonder, be kind 
to them as you were to me.”
	Something choked in my throat, and I could not say a word, but I 
kissed her more than once.  And after she had slipped from my arms and was 
twenty rods away, I sat down and cried like a baby, because I was never to see 
my Adelina again.
	It was not long before the rumor was rife in the neighborhood that 
Mrs. Lagrange had married a middle-aged millionaire, and that the young widow 
and her child had found a new protector in place of the one death had taken 
from them.
* * * * * 
	Years flitted by – I was twenty-four; I had fought through the great 
rebellion – entered the army a private and came out of it a captain, shattered 
in health, and utterly depleted in pocket, to find myself at home again, ill 
and altogether distrustful of fortunes’ smiles.
	In my frequent walks to the village post-office I often passed by the 
old red school-house, and never without a sign of regret for the many happy, 
care-free days spent within its battered walls.
	Among the letters handed to me one morning was one post-marked New 
York, which informed me of the agreeable fact that, through the 
instrumentality of a friend of mine whom he was anxious to serve, the 
undersigned, Mr. Maxwell, had been induced to extend to me a commercial 
opening at the liberal salary of two thousand a year, to be increased if 
merited.  There was a fortune for me in the offer, and I accepted it with 
alacrity.
	Mr. Maxwell, a rich New York merchant, from the first took a lively 
interest in my advancement.  The unknown friend I could not account for in any 
other way than by supposing it to be some soldier or comrade whom I had 
befriended in the past.
	Within a month I was fairly established at my new post of duty, and 
succeeded in pleasing Mr. Maxwell so well that, at the beginning of my second 
year, he sent me to Europe in the interest of the house.  When I returned I 
was given a week’s vacation, which I spent among the breezy hills of my old 
country home, passing the pleasant September days in trampling through the 
woods and fields and by-ways that were the chosen haunts of my boyhood.
	I was just turning the curve in the road where the Canada thistles 
grew, and so lost in my waking reveries that I was almost opposite a lady 
standing in their midst before I was aware of her presence.  
	“I am glad you still love the old scenes, Mr. Durand.” she said, 
without expressing the least surprise.
	I was astonished.  Here was a lady whom to the best of my knowledge, I 
had never seen before, addressing me as familiarly as if we had known each 
other all our lives.
	“Names are treacherous things, and if I were ever so fortunate as to 
have known yours, I am guilty of having forgotten it,” I replied.
	“Men forget easily I am told; but I had hoped to find you an exception 
to the rule.”
	A very awkward silence on my part ensued.  She too pity on my evident 
embarrassment, and continued:
	“Has your battle with the world entirely driven from your recollection 
all the old school faces?” 
	Her voice dropped to its old, sweet, clear winning cadence, thrilling 
my whole being with delight.
	“Adelina!”
	I caught her hand, and before I knew what I was doing, had carried it 
to my lips and kissed it.
	“Excuse me,” I stammered: “but I – am so glad to see you, and you seem 
just the same little girl I kissed here years ago – not a bit taller, not a 
bit older – only Adelina, always lovely and always loved.”
	Then I told her about myself, how prosperous I was, and the strange 
manner in which I had been brought to the notice of my kind employer.  When I 
had finished she merely said, in her simply way.”
	“I know it.”
	“You appear to know everything.  Do you know Mr. Maxwell?”
	“He is my father.”
	“And my unknown friend – “
	“Adelina”
	I staggered back, in my soul ashamed that I should owe every good in 
life – eveything – to a woman who owed me nothing but the poor favor of once 
having untied for her a wretched black and white worsted hood.
	I turned away, cut to the heart, but she put out a detaining hand.
	“Don’t go, Mr. Durand – that is, don’t go feeling hurt: for it would 
make me very unhappy if you were to go away angry with me.”
	“Unhappy!  What am I, that a pain to me should render you unhappy?” I 
answered bitterly.
	“I knew of no other way to express my gratitude.”
	“Gratitude for what?”  The question was rudely abrupt, but she took no 
notice of my ungracious speech.
	“Gratitude for the kindness given me long ago, and which I have missed 
ever since the day we parted here by the roadside.”
	“Are you conscious of what it is you are saying, Adelina?”
	“Perfectly”
	“How am I to understand your words.”
	“That I leave to your good judgement,” she smiled, lowering her eyes.
	She had an instant illustration of my “good judgement” in the way I 
imprisoned her two little hands in both of mine, and kissed the sweet mouth 
for its shyly whispered promise.
	I walked home with Adelina – oh, so happy!  And when I asked her hand 
of Mr. Maxwell, he said:
	“I have anticipated your request by keeping you under my eye for more 
than two years.  Adelina is the best and truest girl in the world, but I 
believed you to be as worthy of her as any man living, and give her to you 
confident that you know how to prize the treasure you have won.”
	And so, not long thereafter, I married Adelina, the love of my 
boyhood, and the crowning glory of my later years.

GRANT’S GALENA HOME
	General Grant’s Galena residence is an unpretending two-story brick, 
with hip roof.  It has a large frame kitchen addition, planned with a view to 
convenience and comfort.  On the first floor of the main residence is a 
commodious parlor, together with a reception room and library.  On the upper 
floor are two large sleeping-rooms and other apartments.  The house is 
situated on Bothillier Street, on an eminence which over-looks the whole city, 
and is in close proximity to the residence of Hon. E. B. Washburne, State 
Senator McClellan, Mayor Hunkins and Henry Corwith.  A broad plank sidewalk 
fronts the residence, while that historic stairway runs from the foot to the 
top of the hill, up an easy incline, not at all difficult to ascend or 
descend.  The house stands on a lot 100 feet front by 200 in depth, which is 
ornamented with handsome maples and shrubbery.  The residence and grounds were 
presented to General Grant by several of his more intimate Galena friends on 
the occasion of his first return to the city, after the close of the 
rebellion.  The furniture was contributed by his townspeople and former 
residents, and when the General and Mrs. Grant arrived in Galena they were 
escorted to their home on the hill, where they found everything in readiness 
for their reception, even to a sumptuous dinner already prepared and smoking 
on the table.  A few evening thereafter the donors, with their wives and a few 
invited quests, assembled at the Grant residence, where a deed of the property 
was formally presented to Gen. Grant by the Hon. R. H. McClellan, on behalf of 
the contributors.  The General and family occupied the house until after the 
Presidential election.

NOT “FLOGS” BUT TOADS – from Territorial Enterprise
	Yesterday morning a Chinaman came into Youngworth’s chophouse, 
Virginia City, Nev., with a basket containing about half a dozen yellow-
bellied, warty-backed toads, which he ordered to dispose of at six bits a 
dozen, calling them “flogs.”  When told that they were not frogs, but toads, 
and unfit to eat, the Chinaman was unhappy.  He evidently thought he was 
bringing to town a luxury that would be snapped up almost instantly at a big 
price.  Said he:  “Toad, toad – you callee him toad!”  “Certainly,” said 
Youngworth, “regular toad – no good.” “What for him no good?  Me tinkee you 
foolee me.  Him walkee all same flog, him talkee all same flot, what for him 
toad?”  and John looked as if he suspected the taod talk was a job to get 
his “flogs” for nothing.  John was assured that his game was “no good,” and he 
finally turned sadly away; yet he held on to his basket of toads and carried 
them off in the direction of Chinatown.  He had lugged his toads – all alive 
and kicking, too – from Sutro, having found them about a pond.

THE MULTIPCITY OF BORROWERS
	The world is full of borrowers.  Did any one ever think how much good 
our ministers might do if they would step aside from their beaten theological 
road, blazed as it is with so many absurdities, and lecture their 
congregations on the evil habit of borrowing?  During such a lecture, few 
Sunday hearers would indulge in their noonday or evening snooze, for so may 
would be hit that their mouths and eyes would keep wide open.  There is the 
money borrower.  The habit has grown upon him until he becomes a nuisance to 
his friends, or a victim to professional lenders.  If a man wishes to test the 
friendship of another as a general thing, he has only to lend him a small 
amount of money, and if of a humorous disposition, watch how that friend will 
dodge around a corner to avoid meeting the lender.  A streak of lightning is 
only swifter than the flight of the poor fellow who has, perhaps, 
unnecessarily placed himself at the mercy of another.  Perhaps the habit of 
borrowing was never better illustrated than in the case of a distinguished 
man, now gone to the land of spirits.  He systematically borrowed money, all 
his adult life, from one friend to pay another.  His punctuality was something 
remarkable, and for that reason his credit was good.  He died without estate 
or effects, and how the last friend from whom he borrowed fared, nobody 
knows.  There are myriads of such cases.  Then there is the book borrower.  
Alas! How few books are ever returned to their owners!  Whole sets are broken, 
and volume after volume awaits in vain the return of a mate.  The lender may 
be a good man who despises oaths, but when he turns to his library, and finds 
that the very book he needs for reference is gone, he is almost certain to let 
off the steam of his disgust by a little independent swearing.  Books are thus 
scattered over the country, for the Americans are generally nomads, and odd 
volumes are more numerous than odd children, and they are plentiful enough.  
And then there is the umbrella borrower.  O!  The despicable wretch who 
borrows an umbrella and never returns it!  When rain descends and the lender 
gets his new silk hat spoiled, he feels as if he could actually murder every 
umbrella borrower in the world.  If the lender happens to be a woman, and her 
new hat suffers, or her child is drenched while going to or coming from 
school, the wretch of a borrower is happy not to be near her.  She would tear 
his hair or scratch his eyes out.  There is the newspaper borrower – but he is 
so confoundedly mean as not to be worth cataloguing or criticizing.

HOW TO PRESERVE A PIANO
	It is evident that if the piano is to remain is good order for many 
years good care must be taken of it.  The instrument should be closed when not 
in use, in order to prevent the collection of dust, pins, etc., on the 
sounding board.  However, it must not be left closed for a period of several 
months or longer, but be opened occasionally, and daylight allowed to strike 
the keys, or else the ivory may turn yellow.  And hard substance, no matter 
how small, dropped inside the piano, will cause a rattling, jarring noise.  It 
is in every case desirable that an India–rubber or cloth cover should protect 
the instrument from bruises and scratches.  The piano should not be placed in 
a damp room, or left open in a draft of air.  Dampness is its most dangerous 
enemy, causing the strings and tuning pins to rust, the cloth used in the 
construction of the keys and action to swell, whereby the mechanism will move 
sluggishly, or often stick altogether.  This occurs chiefly in the rainy 
season; and the best pianos, made of the most thoroughly seasoned material, 
are necessarily affected by dampness, the absorption being rapid.  Extreme 
heat is scarcely less injurious.  The piano should not be placed very near to 
an open fire or heated stove, nor over-close to the hot air furnaces now in 
general use.  Moths are very destructive to the cloth and felt used in the 
pianos, and may be kept out of it by placing a lump of camphor, wrapped in 
soft paper, in the inside corner, care being taken to renew it from time to 
time.  Many persons are unaware of the great importance of having their pianos 
kept in order, and only tuned by a competent tuner.  A new piano should be 
tuned at least once very two or three months during the first year and at 
longer intervals afterward.  To preserve the polish, dust the piano daily with 
a brush of soft uncut feathers. Do not use any furniture polishes, but sooner 
employ the services of a professional piano-case polisher, if your instruments 
needs polishing, as the process requires great skill.  The bluish haze which 
sometimes appears on a polished rosewood surface, and which is nothing but the 
mark left by moisture which has settled upon the piano, will disappear after 
polishing.  The piano should always be kept carefully covered when not in use.

WHEN A MAN begins to turn yaller and fade like a gum tree in the early fall, 
he is about the most convenient thing that a family of girls and boys with a 
likely mother can have about the house.  It’s “papa do this, and papa do that, 
or won’t you put the children to bed, or wash their little footsy-tootsies, or 
tell ‘em some stories and bring a bucket of fresh water, or bring something or 
other,” all the livelong day and good part of the night.

AN EDITOR is a man who carries a pair of scissors in his vest pocket, a lead 
pencil in his breast pocket, a memorandum in his coat pocket, and his wealth 
in somebody’s else pocket.

FLOOD, THE BONANZA KING – from Troy Times
	Mr. Flood, the banking and mining autocrat of the Pacific coast, is 
apparently a little over fifty years old, in the prime of life, weighing about 
two hundred and twenty pounds, with light mustache and chin whiskers that 
hardly conceal a peculiar, half-mistrustful expression of the mouth.  He is 
evidently not fond of personal display.  He wore a plain gray suit, straw hat, 
calico necktie, and no jewelry excepting a miniature compass on his watch 
chain.  On his invitation we inspected his new house, in the building f which 
he appears to take great delight.  During the conversation that naturally 
followed as we strolled through the place, we had ample opportunity to judge 
him for ourselves.  It was evident that with all his mental deliberation he 
has keen perception.  For instance, while looking form a window upon the great 
fountain in front of the house, he pointed out that the group of figures in 
the center was too small.  Said he: “I mean to take that down and put up a 
figure a third larger.”  Again, while passing though the dining room, his eyes 
fell upon some paneled work, and he said:  “I don’t like that; I want 
something more generous – larger.”  In an adjoining room he called our 
attention to the panels, remarking:  “That’s what I want in that other room.”  
His taste was excellent, and his judgement so keen that it entered 
instinctively into every detail.  We followed his lead from apartment to 
apartment, until we reached the observatory upon the roof.  Here a beautiful 
landscape was spread out.  Golden fields of wheat, green fields of wild 
mustard, solid oaks rearing themselves skyward, lay before and behind us in 
the mellow sunlight as far as the human eye could see.
		The birds are glad; the brier rose fills
		The air with sweetness; all the hills
		Stretch green to the unclouded sky.	

HE WANTED A GOOD HOME – from New York Times
	A bright looking boy, twelve years old, who said his name was Tommy 
McEvoy, went alone into the Jefferson Market Police Court last evening, and 
said to Justice Morgan:
	“Judge, your Honor, I want to give myself up.”
	“Why, my boy?” asked the court.
	“Because,” replied the lad, “I hadn’t got no home and I don’t want to 
live in the street and become a bad boy.” 
	“Why don’t you stay at home?” asked the Judge.
	“I ain’t got no home.  Father has been dead nine year, and mother died 
before that,” he replied.
	“But where have you been living since?”
	“With my aunt.  She lives in forty-first street.  But she gets drunk, 
and won’t let me stay indoors.  Today she chased me out, and said if I ever 
came back she would do something awful with me.  I’m afraid of her, and so 
I’ve got no home.  Nobody will take me in because I hain’t got good clothes 
and don’t look nice.  I can’t get anything to eat unless I beg or steal it.  
Then the cops will take me in.  I don’t’ want to steal, nor be a bad boy.  
Won’t you please send me somewhere where I can learn something and get to be a 
man?”
	The Justice told the boy there were such places for good boys, and 
taking the little fellow under his protection, promised to find him a home in 
some good institution.

CONSUMPTION – from Indianapolis Herald
	The popular belief in the incurability of consumption now seems to be 
on the road to compete overthrow.  This change in sentiment has not been 
brought about by any new method in treatment, nor has their been a perceptible 
enlargement in the number of those now living who can claim that they have had 
and have recovered from this disease; but the evidence upon which the revision 
in opinion is based is even more conclusive than that which could by any 
possibility be obtained from either of where two sources.  It is simply this, 
that post mortem examinations have revealed the fact that pulmonary phthisis 
is a complaint of much greater frequency than has been commonly supposed, and 
that multitudes of people have had the disease, and have been practically 
cured of it, who have never so much as suspected the cause of their illness.  
In a series of examination, made some time since at the hospital at Edinburgh, 
it was found that the lungs of not less than one-third of those who died when 
over forty years of age were in a condition that could be accounted for in no 
other way than by the supposition that at some periods in their lives 
consumption had existed, and had been afterward checked or cured.  Portions of 
the lungs had been destroyed, but the cavities formed had been healed by 
contraction and adhesion of their walls, or the disintegrated substance had 
been shut in by the formation of fibrous tissue.

STATE OF SOCIETY IN ILLINOIS
	A woman with the unheroic name of Nancy Jane Pratt, in Iroquois 
County, Illinois, ordered a hunter off her farm on Wednesday, and received the 
saucy reply:  “Oh, you ain’t in any danger; I ain’t huntin’ old maids.”  She 
abruptly turned, went into the house, came out with a gun, opened fire on the 
hunter and killed his dog.  The fool threw up his hands and yelled:  “Do you 
mean to murder me?”  The farmer’s wife answered, as she replaced the cartridge 
in the breech-loader; “Oh, you ain’t in any danger.  I ain’t hunting’ for 
fools.” and she brought the gun again to her shoulder, while the fool yelled 
louder than before.  The firing attracted her husband who came and kicked the 
puppy off of the grounds, and smashed his gun.

CLIPPED PARAGRAPHS
The Prodi-gal was a boy.

Should a tannery be called Hyde Park?

The hornet is a little stern-wheel rhinoceros.

To avoid a miss take always marry a widow.

The Chinaman is not the only Ah Sin the country.  – [Yonkers Gazette]

The rag-picker is the rooter-beggar turn up of the tramp kingdom.

It is no sign that because a farmer is growing sage he is becoming wise.

Call a 200-pound girl “Little Rosebud” if you want to please her – [Detroit 
Free Press]

They say Rowell, the pedestrian, is rich, but, really, he is reduced to 
extremities in getting a living.

“Doctor, examine my tongue,” said she, “and tell me what I need.”  “Rest, 
madam; complete rest.”

No matter how much a candidate itches for office, he never likes to be 
scratched.

A young man, hearing that “Silence gives consent,” said that he wished Old 
Silence was his girl’s father.  But we don’t know what he meant.

The girl who will cut a hole through her glove finger in order to display a 
gaudy ring, may be considered mentally about 25 percent, below par.

An American is every guilty of meeting another without asking:  “Well, how’s 
trade?”  And it doesn’t matter if one of them is a hangman.

The season has arrived when the man who searches at night in the pantry for 
the pepper-sauce bottle can run his fingers into a pumpkin pie.

Persons troubled with feet that perspire or smell offensively, may perhaps 
effect a cure by bathing them every night or oftener in a strong solution of 
borax.  Two or three weeks of this treatment will probably be found sufficient.

When the old gentleman comes home and finds his daughters have got his 
slippers and the easy chair and the evening paper ready for him, he realizes 
that is the season for a fall opening of his pocket-book.

COURTSHIP – from Salem Sunbeam
A bunch of flowers,
A book or two,
A little billing
A little coo
A little coming
And going, till
They go to church,
And say “I will”
And that ends it.

“Will you ever be mine?” he asked her rapturously; and when she 
answered, “There is one above who knows all,” he thought camp-meeting had 
struck in and clinched; but she only referred to the old man, who was 
slumbering in the “front-room second.”

After an enthusiastic lover spends two hours hard labor over a letter to his 
girl, and them marts its beauty by spilling a drop of ink on it, he first 
swears in a very scientific manner for a few moments, and then draws a circle 
around the blot and tells her it is a kiss.

The Buffalo Express is doing its best to organize an expedition to go in 
search of Mr. Dana.  The editor of the Express appears to be a man who doesn’t 
know a good thing when he sees it.  Why can’t he let well enough alone. – 
[Atlanta Constitution.]

Nowadays a man strolls down to the corner grocery in the evening, gets trusted 
for an yeast cake and samples every basket of peaches or pears in the store.  
Value of the yeast cake, two cents; samples, fifteen cents.  And yet grocers 
accumulate fortunes.

A rare and enormous ourang-outang, a widower, is the most interesting recent 
arrival at Paris.  His wife died soon after they were caught in Borneo, and 
all his affection is now concentrated on their son.  The father is described 
as the personification of melancholy.

Arithmetical Toast:  “The fair daughters of this land.  May they add virtue to 
beauty, subtract envy from friendship, multiply amiable accomplishments by 
sweetness of temper, divide time by sociability, and economy, and reduce 
scandal to its lowest denomination.”

Mrs. Goodington has been shopping.  “The clerks” she says, “treated me with 
the outermost condensation, as long is they could git anything out ‘o me; but 
no sooner had one of ‘em found out that two yards of kaliker and a hank of 
yearn was all I wanted, than he began screaming out, ‘Cash!’ afore he’d half 
done’em up.” – [Hawkeye

Wheat requires a fine and mellow soil; it is best if compact below and 
roughish on the top.  If there are any clods, these should be brought up from 
below by repeated harrowings, and broken by the roller on the disk harrow.  If 
they can not be broken up completely, they are better on the top than below 
the surface.  A roller will break many.

In an English court, in the course of an argument, a barrister 
remarked:  “What does Kitty say?” “Who’s Kitty?”  said the magistrate.  “Your 
wife?” “Sir, I mean, Kitty, the celebrated lawyer.:  “Oh”, said the 
magistrate, “I suspect you mean Mr. Chitty, the author of the great work on 
pleading.”  “I do, sir; but Chitty is an Italian name, and ought to be 
pronounced Kitty.”

The poor girl had endeavored for weeks to get rid of her bow-legged suitor, 
and Sunday night, as the young man was seen perambulating towards the house, a 
red flag with these words was raised in front of the door;  “Yellow fever.  
This house is quarantined.”  A startled look, a jump, a run, and the young man 
was seen no more.  Girls situated in the same way are advised to try the ruse.

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THE VERNON CLIPPER
ALEXANDER COBB, Editor and Proprietor
ALEX. A. WALL, Publisher
$1.50 per annum
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1879

Bids will be received by the U. S. Government till Jan. 20th for carrying the 
mails in Alabama for the next four years.

It is not until the flower has fallen off that the fruit begins to ripen.  So 
in life it is when the romance is past that the practical useful begins.

February will have twenty-nine days and five Sundays, falling on the 1st, 8th, 
15th, 22nd, and 29th respectively.  This has not happened before in twenty-
eight years and will not occur again until twenty-eight years afterwards.  The 
chronological fact will not be so interesting to many of our readers as will 
the thought that so much Sunday night “sparking” can be crowded into one 
brief, beautiful month.

IMPORTANT SCHOOL CIRCULAR
STATE OF ALABAMA, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Montgomery, Nov. 29th, 1879
County Superintendents of Education, who have not forwarded their Annual 
Reports for the scholastic year, ending September 20, 1879 are requested to do 
so without further delay.  All County Superintendents whose reports are not 
received by the 15th of December, will forfeit their salary and commissions, 
and be removed from office as per section 19 of the School Law.  Supplemental 
reports of Schools continuing beyond that time will be received.
	At their January meetings, Township Superintendents of Public Schools 
should make provision for Schools during the succeeding twelve months. 
	It is expected that special and earnest attention will be given during 
the current year to Teacher’s Institutes and qualification of Teachers.
	Let us put forth every effort to bring the public schools, this year, 
to the maximum of excellence and efficiency.
	I hope to be able to visit many of the Counties during the year.
			LEROY F. BOX, Superintendent of Education

GALVESTON, DEC. 2
A special to the News, from Waco, says:  Last night, in the country near this 
place, where a dance was in progress, BUD WOOD invited Miss GRACE STANFIELD to 
dance, which she declined.  Wood became angry and demanded that the dance 
cease, and following a man named WILL CURRIE into a back room, provoked a 
fight, and CURRIE knocked him down with a pair of tongs.  The two men 
afterwards met outside and fought a duel with pistols, a dozen shots being 
exchanged.  CURRIE was wounded in the hand, a bystander in the leg, and GEO. 
WOOD was shot in the thigh.  BUD WOOD then went to where MISS STANFIELD was 
engaged in conversation with ALBERT CHOCH and made two attempts to shoot her.  
He than said to CHOCH “you are a friend of CURRIE’S” and shot him, CHOCH, 
dead, and then going up to CURRIE knocked him senseless with his pistol.  WOOD 
then made good his escape.

THERE IS A SOCIETY of colored men near Williston, South Carolina, that is a 
law unto itself, so far as the offense of larceny is concerned.  The men are 
cotton pickers, have a President and rules and regulations for their 
government.  A few days ago one of them missed five dollars.  The proof was 
very plain against a former member, who was immediately tried by the jury of 
his peers and found guilty.  He was sentenced to receive fifty lashes on his 
naked back and be expelled from the society.  The sentence was executed to the 
letter.

ALMOST BURNED ALIVE – from West Point (Miss.) News
	The saddest and most horrible scenes we ever witnessed occurred last 
night at the residence of our next door neighbor, MR. KATZ.  About seven 
o’clock we started down to the News office, and when a little way beyond Mr. 
KATZ’S residence, we noticed a sudden flash in the western room of his house, 
and immediately his children began screaming “Fire! Fire!” Rushing back to the 
gate and to the house almost in a moments time, the front door was tried and 
found to be locked.  We were just in the act of kicking in one of the front 
windows when the children unlocked the door.  A lamp was sitting on a little 
work table, and what seemed to be some clothing lying on the table, was in a 
fierce blaze as well as some other goods or clothing on the floor.  We were 
just in the act of snatching the burning clothing from the table, when MRS. 
KATZ, whom we had concluded was away from home, on entering the house ran out 
of a back room completely enveloped in flames.  She had probably gone into the 
back room in search of water.  Seizing a pillow we tried to beat out the 
flames, but her entire clothing seemed saturated with oil, and the flames 
leaped at least two feet above her head.  Even her hair was in a lurid flame.  
Finding that we could not extinguish the flames, we cried to her to jump in 
bed, thinking to smother the flames with the bedclothes.  We asked the 
children several times where the water was kept but the little fellows were so 
terrible frightened that they only continued to scream.  When Mrs. Katz had 
knelt down on the floor with her face on the bed, Mr. O’NEAL ran in with a 
bucket of water, and by throwing it on her succeeded so far in smothering the 
flames that he was enabled to extinguish them a moment later with bed-
clothing.  The stifling smoke from the burning oil and clothing in the close 
room made it almost suffocating.  It was the most heart-rending, soul-
sickening scene we ever beheld, and we hope that it will never fall our lot to 
look upon the like again.  MRS. KATZ is quite low, and her recovery is almost 
despaired of.  May God pity the helpless sufferer.

A WELL BUILT CHRISTIAN is harmonious in all his parts.  No one trait shames 
another.  He is not a bundle of inconsistencies – today devout, tomorrow 
frivolous; today liberal to one cause, and tomorrow niggardly toward another; 
today fluent in prayer, and tomorrow fluent in polite falsehoods.  He does not 
keep the fourth commandment on the Sunday and break the eight on Monday.  He 
does not shirk an honest debt to make a huge donation.   He is not in favor of 
temperance for other folk, and a glass of tody for himself.  He does not 
exhort or pray at each of the meetings he attends to make up for the more 
meetings which he neglects.

AN ENGLISH TRAVELER lately visiting San Francisco writes:  I had my boots 
blackened by an African, my chin shaved by a European, and my bed made by an 
Asiatic; a Frenchman cooked my dinner, an Irishman changed my plate, a 
Chinaman washed my table napkin, and a German handed me my bill.

THERE ARE A GREAT many men in this world who imagine that they are born with a 
genius, and lie down on the sofa and wait for an inspiration, until some other 
fellow, who thought himself a dunce, rises by hard labor to a competency, buys 
the sofa, and leads the waiting genius out by the car.  This is not a joke: it 
is a fact.

THE FARMERS CREED
We believe in small farms and thorough cultivation.
That the soil loves to eat as well as the owner, and ought, therefore, to be 
well manured.
In going to the bottom of things, and therefore, in deep plowing and enough of 
it.  All the better if it be a subsoil plow.
In large crops, which leave land better than they found it, making both the 
farm and farmer rich at once.
That every farm should own a good farmer.
That the fertilizer of any soil is a spirit of industry, enterprise, and 
intelligence – without these lime, gypsum, and guano will be of little use.
In good fences, good farmhouses, good orchards and children enough to gather 
the fruit.
In a clean kitchen, a neat wife in it, a clean cupboard, a clean dairy and a 
clean conscience.
That to ask a man’s advice is not stooping, but of much benefit.
That to keep a place, and everything in its place, saves many a step and sure 
to lead to good tools and to keep them in order.
That kindness to stock, like good shelter, is a saying of fodder.
That it is a good thing to keep an eye on experiments, and not all – good and 
bad.
That it is a good rule to sell your grain when it is ready.
That it is a good thing to grow into farming not jump into it.
That all of farming is summed up in the manure heap on the farm.
In enriching the soil according to its wants.

HOW TO TAKE LIFE
	Take life like a man.  Take it just as though it was, as it is, an 
earnest, vital, essential affair.  Take it just as though you were personally 
born to the task of performing a merry part in it; as though the world had 
waited for your coming.  Take it as though it was a grand opportunity to do 
and achieve; to carry forward great and good schemes; to help and cheer a 
suffering, it may be a broken-hearted brother.  The fact is, life is 
undervalued by a great majority of mankind.  It is not made half so much of as 
should be the case.  Where is the man or woman who accomplishes one tithe of 
what might be done?  Who can look back upon opportunities lost, plans 
unachieved, thought crushed, aspirations unfulfilled, and all caused from the 
lack of the necessary and possible effort?  If we knew better how to take and 
make the most of life it would be far better than it is.  Now and then a man 
stands aside from the crowd, labors earnestly, steadfastly, confidentially, 
and straightway becomes famous for wisdom, intellect, skill, greatness of some 
sort.  The world wonders, admires, idolizes; and it only illustrates what each 
may do if he takes hold of life with a purpose.  If a man will but say he will 
follow it up, there is nothing in reason he may not expect to accomplish.  
There is no magic, no miracle, no secret to whom who is brave in heart and 
determined in spirit.

“Jane,” he said, “I think if you lifted your feet away from the fire, we might 
have some heat in the room.”  And they hadn’t been married two years either.

Over in Georgia they are killing fish in the streams by exploding cartridges 
of dynamite under the water.  So general has this practice become that in many 
places the fish will be entirely destroyed.  But there is no law to prevent 
it, and the novelty of the business is sufficient to make it popular.

A very sad death occurred in Macon, Ga., on Thanksgiving day.  A young man by 
the name of COLEMAN WOOD was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun in 
the hands of a comrade.  Both are young men, and stand well in the community.

[COMMUNICATED]
MONTGOMERY, ALA., Dec. 4
	The annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Ala., has just closed 
its labors.  The meeting was unusually interesting; the attendance very large, 
harmony and brotherly love prevailed.  Grand Master ARMSTRONG delivered a 
beautiful, as well as instructive address.  The following named brethren were 
elected Grand Officers for the ensuing Masonic year:
H. CLAY TOMPKINS, of Montgomery, Grand Master
RUFUS W. COBB, of Shelby, Dept. Grand Master
JOHN H. BANKHEAD, of Lamar, Senior Grand Warden
JOHN G. HARRIS, of Sumpter, Junior Grand Warden.
WM. H. DINGLEY, of Montgomery, Grand Treasurer
DANIEL SAYRE, of Montgomery, Grand Secretary
ISAAC C. HALL, of Dale, Senior Grand Deacon.
B. F. MCGAUGHEY, of Lawrence, Junior Grand Deacon
JAMES DAVIDSON, of Montgomery, Grand Tyler
COMMITTEE OF WORK
M. J. GREEN, of Talladega, Chairman
JAS. M. BRUNDEDGE, of Morgan
ROBERT J. REDDEN, of Lamar
JAS. H. JOINER, of Talladega
J. A. WOOD, of Dallas.
	We congratulate our worthy friends, BANKHEAD and REDDEN on their 
preferment.  No higher compliment could have been paid them.  The Masonic 
Fraternity throughout the State have just cause to be proud of such membership.

STATE NEWS
At a fire in Huntsville, on the 3rd inst., nine dwelling houses were consumed 
and as many familes were turned out in the cold.

By the accidental shooting in the leg, MRS. GEORGE MARTIN, near Huntsville, 
had her speech returned to her.

The trial of COL. GRASTY, at Opelika, upon the charge of murdering MR. REED 
was concluded, on Saturday 22nd ult, by the acquittal of COL. GRASTY

A fire at Courtland, on Saturday night, Nov. 9th, destroyed property to the 
amount of $50,000.  Some six or eight stores were consumed with their 
contents.  The light of the conflagration was seen in Moulton, sixteen miles 
distant.

North Port Era:  The venerable BISHOP ROBERT PAINE, who resides over the 
present session of North Alabama conference at this city, is eighty years of 
age.  He road (sic) the circuit from Huntsville to Demopolis in 1819, sixty 
years ago.  There is a sublime heroism embodied in this itinerancy of the 
Methodist Church which evinces a spirit that braves all earthly dangers, and 
hardships, and privations in its grand efforts to spread the light of 
Christian civilization.

ROB’T WELLS  and RUFUS SMITH, the negroes who murdered MARTIN, the ferryman at 
Demopolis, last August, were tried on the 21st ult, and sentenced to be hanged 
on the 16th of January.  WELLS told the court when asked if he had anything to 
say that he did the murder, and SMITH was not present.  SMITH will have the 
benefit anything that may result from an investigation of this statement.  The 
News Journal says gentlemen who heard JUDGE SMITH’S sentence pronounced it 
most eloquent, forcible, and impressive.

Eufaula Times:  Mr. F. M. DUNNAWAY, of Stewart County, Ga., was killed by his 
sugar mill last Friday.  It seems that he was engaged in feeding the mill, 
when his attention was called of by some one or more of his children.  About 
the time he turned to them, the lever by which the mill was moved came along 
and caught his head between it and the heavy top crossbeam that supports the 
upper end of the rollers.  The back portion of his head was mashed off, and 
death ensued instantly.
	Mr. Dunnaway was well known in this city by those with whom he traded, 
and he is represented as being a most honest, excellent gentleman.  he leaves 
a family and several little children who will sadly miss a devoted husband and 
father.

BURRIS & BRO.  No. 49 Main Street Columbus, Miss.  We have now in store a full 
stock of general merchandise which we offer for sale very low, for the cash.  
Thankful for the liberal patronage heretofore extended to us, we hope by 
selling our goods much lower than in the past to be able to add largely to our 
already numerous list of patrons.  Call and see our mammoth stock.

SHELL & BURDINE, Wholesale and retail druggist’s,  Aberdeen, Mississippi. Are 
daily receiving at their Drug Store a very large stock of fresh goods of all 
kinds usually kept in a first class drug house, and will sell at bottom 
prices, for cash.  All we ask is to give us a trial and we guarantee you will 
not go away dissatisfied for we are determined to sell goods so low that it 
will astonish you.

JOHN D. MORGAN.  Wholesale and retail dealer in dry goods, staple and fancy 
groceries, hardware, wooden ware, willow ware, crockery ware, and tin ware.  
Boots and shoes, hats and caps.  Plantation supplies, etc. would announce to 
his friends and patrons of Lamar and Fayette Counties, that he has in store, 
and is daily receiving one of the largest and best selected stocks of goods in 
the city, and invites everybody to call before buying elsewhere and examine 
his immense stock.  It is no trouble to show goods, and when you look, you 
will be sure to buy for he keeps none but first class goods, and will not be 
under sold by any home in the city.  Columbus, Miss.  July 11th, 1879.  J. S. 
ROBERTSON is with the above house, and would be pleased to serve his many 
friends at anytime.

DR. J. D. RUSH, with ERVIN AND BILLUPS, successors to M. W. HATCH; dealers in 
drugs, medicines, whiskey, tobacco, cigars, &c.  Corner Main and Market 
Street.  Columbus, Mississippi.

NATHAN BROTHERS dealers in whiskies, brandies, wines, cigars, tobaccos and 
pipes.  Our Motto:  Quick Sales and Small Profits.  Columbus, Mississippi.

(engraving of possibly Santa Claus with huge ELGIN watch)
BUDER BROTHERS, watch makers, and manufacturing jewelers, and dealers in 
diamonds, fine watches, jewelry and silverware.  Repairing done neatly and 
warranted.  Under Gilmer Hotel, No. 43 Main ST, Columbus, Miss.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1879

The teacher’s Institute will meet in the Academy on the 1st Saturday in 
January.  A full attendance is requested.

CAPT. S. J. SHIELDS will speak at Brock’s Store on the 20th inst.

The Mayor’s Court is getting to be rather interesting of late, and the 
corporation finances are booming.  Perhaps the streets will soon be paved!

If you do need glasses, be sure that you get Buder’s perfect fitting 
spectacles or eye glasses, they are the best, because the lenses are pure, 
hard and brilliant, and will not dazzle the eye.  If you cannot read 
distinctly your eyes need help, your sight can be improved and preserved by 
purchasing one of Buder Brother’s perfect fitting spectacles.  Gilmer Hotel 
Corner, Columbus, Miss.

The popular house of Louis ROY of Aberdeen, having bought an immense stock of 
Dry goods before the rise in prices, is offering to his numerous friends and 
customers, goods ten percent cheaper than any house in Aberdeen.

The President’s message to Congress has been published.  It is a lengthy 
document which we hav’t (sic) room to publish or them to comment on this 
week.  The Mobile Register closes its comments on the document as follows:
	“Altogether, this annual message is the most contemptible document 
that ever emanated from the White House.  Even Lincoln or Grant could have 
written a better one.  No wonder it was received by Congress without any 
manifestation of either side of the house.  It was beneath the point of 
applause with the Republicans, and beneath the contempt of the Democrats.”

Cuban Chill Tonic is the great Chill King.  It cures Chills and Fever of every 
type, from the shaking Agues of the North to the burning Fevers of the Torrid 
Zone.  It is the great standard.  It cures Billiousness and liver Complaint 
and roots out diseases.  Try it – if you suffer it will cure you and give you 
health.  Sold by your druggists.  W. L. MORTON & BRO.

Remember when you visit Aberdeen, to go to the house of Louis Roy and examine 
his stock.  That popular house has a great name for integrity and honesty, and 
never uses humbug.  Every article of dry goods shoes and boots, clothing, 
hats, and fancy goods is fresh, and warranted to give satisfaction.

Recently a Kentucky couple were married in the Mammoth Cave.  A writer says 
this is the most under ground way of commencing married life on record.

The Chattanooga Times says about 25 converts to the Mormon faith left there a 
few days ago for Alamosa, Colorado.  They will be joined at Nashville and 
other points by 100 more.  They go under direction of ELDER MORGAN who says 
this party will make 400 that have left the South this season.

DR. W. A. BROWN, and MR. J. T. BURROW, made a trip to Aberdeen this week.  
Also, Mr. A. A. SUMMERS  and his little son DAVID, made a trip to Columbus.

PROF. J. T. RICHARDSON, who has charge of the High School is increasing, 
having now in attendance 34 pupils.  The Prof. is zealous and untiring in his 
efforts to build up the school.  We heartily commend him to parents that wish 
their children properly tutored.

Who will be the first to give us a V for announcing him a candidate for the 
various offices to be filled at the August election in 1880.  First come first 
served.

PARENTS READ THIS.  Nine-tenths of the sickness of childhood is caused by 
worms.  Thousands of children die yearly from worms in the stomach that could 
have been saved by the timely use of Parker’s Santonine Worm Lozenges.  They 
save thousands of children.  They drive out the worms without pain.  They 
cleanse the stomach, and make the little ones bloom and blossom as the rose.  
The are the finest and best medicine ever made.  Thousands of parents all over 
the land use nothing but Parker’s Lozenges.  Buy nothing but Parker’s.  Give 
no other Worm Medicine to children but Parker’s Lozenges.  They are the 
cheapest, best, and safest.  Sold by your druggists, W. L. Morton & Bro.

ANNUAL SETTLEMENT
State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, Special Term, Dec. 8, 1879
In the matter of the estate of ARTHUR T. YOUNG, late of said county, 
deceased.  This day came SAMUEL G. YOUNG, administrator of said estate and 
filed his account, current and vouchers in annual settlement of his 
administration.  Whereupon it is ordered by the court that the 14th day of 
January, 1880 be and is a day set for examining and passing upon said account, 
when and where all parties interest can contest the same if they think proper.
	ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate

ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Letters of administration was by the Probate Court of Lamar County on the 15th 
of March, 1878, granted the undersigned on the estate of ARTHUR T. YOUNG, late 
of said county deceased.  This is therefore to notify all persons having 
claims against said estate to present them to me for payment, properly proven 
up as the law directs, or they will be barred. All persons indebted to said 
estate will make payment to me.  This 8th Dec. 1879.
	SAM’L G. YOUNG, Administrator 

SHERIFF’S SALE
By virtue of an order of sale issued by JAMES MIDDLETON, a Justice of the 
Peace in Lamar County, Alabama, I will offer for sale for cash at the Court 
House door of said county on the 24th day of December, 1879, one Sewing 
Machine levied on as belonging to the Singer Manufacturing Company, and will 
be sold to satisfy a claim in favor of GEORGE S. EARNEST.  Sale within the 
usual hours.  This 10th day of December, A. D. 1879
		D. J. LACY, Sheriff

At Louis Roy is selling more goods than any house in Aberdeen, he can on that 
account sell ten percent cheaper than any other house in the place.

ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.
Letters of administration was this day granted to the undersigned by Hon. 
ALEXANDER COBB, on the estate of WILLIAM WALKER, deceased. This is therefore 
to notify all persons holding claims against said estate to present them 
within the time prescribed by law, or they will be barred, also all persons 
indebted to said estate will make payment to me. This 15tjh day of November, 
1879.
	JOHN D. WALKER, Admr.

ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE
State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, Special Term ’79
In the matter of the estate of BENJAMIN WINSTEAD late of said county, 
deceased.  This day came JOHN WINSTEAD, administrator of said estate, and 
filed his amount statement and vouchers in final settlement of said estate.  
Whereupon it is ordered by the Court that the 8th day of January, 1880 be and 
is a day set for the passing upon said amount, it appearing from said amount 
that ELIZABETH MCDANIEL, B. W. WEBB, JOHN H. WEBB, ELIZA ANN RODEN, and 
FRANCIS WINSTEAD are heirs at law of said estate, and live beyound the limits 
of this State so that the ordinary process of Law cannot be served upon them.  
It is ordered by the Court that publication be made in the Vernon Clipper a 
newspaper published in this county for three successive weeks prior to said 
day notifying said nonresidents and all others interested of this proceeding 
and of the day for the making of said settlement when and where they can 
contest said settlement if they think proper.
	ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate, Nov. 27

APPLICATION TO SELL LAND
State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, Special Term
November 24th, 1879
In the matter of the estate of WILLIAM WALKER late of said county, deceased. 
This day came JOHN D. WALKER, administrator of said estate and filed his 
petition in writing and under oath praying for an order and proceedings to 
sell certain lands as belonging to said estate for the purpose of a division 
among the heirs thereof.  When it is ordered by the court that the 7th day of 
January 1880 be and is a day set for the hearing and passing upon said 
application and the proof in the support of the same, when and where all 
persons interested can contest the same if they see proper.  
	ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate

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Family Groceries.  The undersigned has opened a family grocery store in the 
old Goodwin house on Main Street.  Where he will be able to furnish the county 
and town with everything usually kept in a first class house:  Such as bacon, 
lard, flour, sugar, coffee, molasses, tobacco, cigars, powder, lead, shot and 
a great variety of canned goods:  Such as pine apples, peaches, tomatoes, 
pickles, &c., &c.  Cheese and crackers in abundance, all of which I am 
determined to sell lower than they can be bought elsewhere.  Give me a call.  
No trouble to show goods.  Terms cash.  G. C. LAWRENCE

CITATION NOTICE
State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, Special Term, ’79
In the matter of the estate of WILLIAM WALKER, late of said county, deceased.  
This day came JOHN D. WALKER, administrator of said estate, and filed his 
petition under oath setting forth that deceased died sized and possessed of 
the following lands to wit:  N E ¼ of SE ¼ and NE ¼ and NW ¼ of SE ¼ Sec. 35 
and SW ¼ of NW ¼, Sec 36, T17, R 16, and that MARTHA WALKER widow of said 
deceased claims dower in the same.  Whereupon it is ordered by the Court that 
the 15th day of December next be a day set for hearing and passing upon said 
petition, and it appearing that S. P. WALKER, LUCINDA MANN, and the children 
of REBECCA SHIRLEY are heirs at law of said estate, and live beyond the limits 
of this state so that the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon them.  
It is ordered by the Court that publication be made in the Vernon Clipper a 
newspaper publishes in said county for three successive weeks, prior to said 
day notifying all persons interested, when and where they can contest the same 
if they think proper.
	ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate
	Nov. 27, 1879 

NON-RESIDENT NOTICE
State of Alabama, Lamar County
Circuit Court, Fall Term 1879
GEORGE G. WEIR, Executor of the last Will and Testament of DIADEMA COX, 
deceased.  
vs Attachment
RICHARD H. COX
	Came the Plaintiff by his attorney and Defendant shown to be a non-
resident of this state.
	It is ordered by the Court that notice be given to the Defendant of 
this attachment and levy of same on lands of Defendant by publication in the 
Vernon Clipper a weekly newspaper published in this county for four 
consecutive weeks, and that a copy of said notice be sent to the defendant if 
his post office can be ascertained.
	A true copy of the Minutes.  This 19th Nov. 1879
	JAMES MIDDLETON
	Clerk Circuit Court for Lamar County
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TAX NOTICE
I will attend at the Precinct in the several beats in this county at the 
following times for the purpose of collecting the State and County Taxes for 
the present year, 1879, to wit:
TOWN				BEAT		NOV		1	NOV 
	19		
STRICKLANDS			“		“		3	“
	20	
STEINS				“		“		4	“
	21	
MILLPORT			“		“		5	“
	22	
VAILS				“		“		6	“
	24
TRULL’S			“		“		7	“	25
	
WILSONS			“		“		8	“	26
LAWRENCE’S			“		“		10	DEC.
	1
SIZEMORES			“		“		11	“
	2
BROWN’S			“		“		12	“	3
HENSONS SPRINGS		“		“		13	“	4
MILLVILLE			“		“		14	“
	5
PINE SPRINGS			“		“		15	“
	6
MOSCOW			“		“		17	“	8
BETTS				“		“		18	“
	9
The last five days of the year I will be at Vernon.
		D. J. LACY
		Sheriff, & T. C. of L. C., Ala.

$5 to $20 per day at home.  Samples worth $5 free.  Address Stinson & Co., 
Portland, Maine

J. L. RANSOM, of North Alabama with Settle & Kainnaird, manufacturers of and 
wholesale dealers in boots and shoes, Nashville, Tenn. Orders solicited and 
carefully filled.

GEO. W. RUSH with N. GROSS & CO., Columbus, Miss.  Wholesale and retail 
dealers in fancy dress, and staple dry goods & ready made clothing, boots, 
shoes, hats, notions, etc.  Will be glad to see his old friends and all new 
ones who may be pleased to call upon him.  No trouble to show goods, on the 
contrary, it will be a pleasure, whether you buy or not. Satisfaction 
guaranteed, as to articles bought and prices.

BILL HAMILTON with ROY & BRO., wholesale and retail dealer in dry goods, 
notions, clothing, boots, shoes, hats, &c.  Aberdeen, Miss.  Highest price 
paid for cotton.

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF U. S. MAILS
The Columbus Mail by way of Caledonia arrives Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturdays 
at 11 o’clock a.m.  Leave same days at 1 p.m.
FAYETTE MAIL 
Arrived on Wednesday and Saturday at 12 p.m. and leaves same days at 1 p.m.
MOUNT CALM MAIL
Leaves Wednesday at 7 a.m. arrives Thursday at 2 p.m.
PIKEVILLE MAIL
Arrives Fridays at 6 p.m., leaves Saturdays at 6 a.m.
SCHEDULE OF MOBILE & OHIO R. R.
Train leaves		6:30 am
Train arrives		9:30 am
Train leaves		3:20 pm
Train arrives		6:30 pm
Train goes through to Starkville on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.
Leaves Aberdeen going South at 4 o’clock p.m., returns at 8 p.m.
Leaves Aberdeen going North at 7 o’clock a.m., return at 11 o’clock a.m.

MCQUISTON & HEISEN, Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants 96 & 98 Commerce 
St., Aberdeen, Miss.  Farmers will make money by letting MCQUISSTON & HEISEN 
sell their cotton when they come to the city.

R. A. HONEA & SON, Wholesale and retail dealers in staple and fancy groceries, 
Aberdeen, Miss.  We would respectfully inform our friends, and the public 
generally, that we are at our old Stand next door to J. W. ECKFORD & Bro. (Old 
Presbyterian Block) and have in store and will keep constantly on hand a large 
and well selected stock of staple and fancy groceries.  Bagging and ties, 
corn, oats, wheat bran, &c., which we will sell at rock bottom figures for 
cash.  R. F. RAY, of Detroit, Ala. is salesman.

MEDICAL
M. W. MORTON.  W. L. MORTON.  DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons.  
Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala.  Tender their professional services to the citizens of 
Lamar and adjacent country.  Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we 
hope to merit a respectable share in the future.  Drug Store.

DR. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala. Offers his professional services to the citizens 
of Vernon and vicinity.

Masonic:  Vernon, Lodge No. 389, meets on the 1st Saturday of each month, at 7 
p.m.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
FRANCIS JUSTICE, Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Chancery, Pikeville, Marion 
Co., Alabama Will practice in all the Courts of the 3rd Judicial District.

SAMUEL J. SHIELDS, Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Chancery, Vernon, Ala., 
Will practice in the counties of Lamar, Fayette, Marion, and the Courts of the 
3rd Judicial District.

JNO. D. MCCLUSKY, Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Chancery, Vernon, Ala.  
Will practice in the counties of Lamar, Fayette, Marion, and the Courts of the 
3rd Judicial Circuit.  Special attention given to the collection of claims, 
and matters of administration.

EARNEST & EARNEST.  W. S. EARNEST    GEO. S. EARNEST.  Attorneys at Law and 
Solicitors in Chancery, Birmingham & Vernon, Ala.  Will practice in the 
Counties of this Judicial Circuit.

NESMITH & SANFORD.  T. B. NESMITH, Vernon, Ala.  JOHN B. SANFORD, Fayette C. 
H.  Attorneys at Law.  Partners in the Civil practice in the counties of 
Fayette and Lamar.  Will practice separately in the adjoining counties.  THOS. 
B. NESMITH.  Solicitor for the 3rd Judicial Circuit.  Vernon, Lamar Co., Ala.

ALEXANDER COBB & SON, Dealers in ready made clothing, dress goods, jeans, 
domestics, calicoes, silks, satins, millinery, embroidery, notice, &c.  Hats, 
caps, boots, shoes, saddles, bridles, leather, &c.  Tin, wooden, Hard and 
glass wares, crockery, &c.  Salt, flour, meal, bacon, lard, soda, coffee, 
molasses, &c.

LAMAR DIRECTORY 
County Court – Meets on the 1st Monday in each month.
Probate Court  - Meets on 2nd Monday in each month.
Commissioner’s Court – Meets on the 2nd Monday in February, April, July, and 
November.

REPRESENTATIVES
W. A. MUSGROVE and I. H. SANDERS

COUNTY OFFICERS
ALEXANDER COBB – Judge of Probate
D. J. LACY, Sheriff and Tax Collector
W. G. MIDDLETON, Circuit Clerk
JAMES M. MORTON, Register in Chancery
D. V. LAWRENCE, Treasurer
J. E. PENNINGTON, Tax Assessor
W. T. MARLER, Coroner

COMMISSIONERS
W. G. RICHARDS			W. M. STONE
J. J. BRANYAN				J. A. COLLINS

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THE SOUTHERN FARMER

DRIED FRUIT
A correspondent at Buffalo Gap, Texas, says he keeps his dried peaches by 
putting them, after drying, into boiling water for a few minutes, and them, 
when the water is drained off pack close in a barrel while hot, and put away 
headed up.  He has kept peaches two years that way.  The barrel should be left 
open until the fruit dries from the heat of the water.

CUTTINGS FOR SPRING PANTING.
The editor of the Germantown Telegraph, one of the most experienced 
horticulturists in the country, says it is best to provide cuttings for spring 
planting in the fall, and bury them until they are wanted to set out.  Currant 
and gooseberry cuttings are stuck in the ground six inches apart, first 
removing only the buds which would be covered by the earth.  Quinces also are 
well nurtured from cuttings, in all cases using the past year’s growth.

STORING ONIONS
A dry, cold, airy loft is the best for storing onions.  Do not let them lie 
more than two or three bulbs thick, and often look them over and pull out bad 
ones.  Do not remove any of the outer rind, but what comes off in the 
handling.  They also keep well in ropes and hung up, the easiest way to make 
them which is to tie them on a hay or straw band, which is better than a 
stake.  This plan is useful where shelf room is scarce; but the points to 
observe are a cool, airy situation, warmth and moisture being more inimical to 
their keeping than frost.

VALUE OF TURNIPS
A Connecticut farmer estimates the value of turnips (the flat English turnip 
in his case) as a food for milk cows, at twenty-five cents per bushel.  He 
arrived at these figures by noting the diminishing yield consequent upon 
leaving off the feed of turnips.  The roots did not save hay quite as much as 
was consumed with as without them, but the turnips, as also shown by European 
experiments, were an aid to the digestion of the hay.
	The value of turnips, carrots, parsnips, apples, pumpkins, and 
squashes fed to cattle in winter with hay, is that they turn the dry hay into 
green feed – like grass in the pastures – and nothing feeds cattle so well and 
so fast as the best of grass. – [Ky. L. S. Record]

BLACK BEAN SOUP
One of the most delightful and economical of soups can be made of black 
beans.  Allow one teacupful for each pint of soup.  Soak the beans over night 
in cold water, and put them over a slow fire in the same water.  When they 
commence to boil add a pinch of soda, drain and cover with boiling water.  Add 
from two to eight ounces of park, according to the quantity of beans used, 
onions, parsley, and pepper.  Boil slowly until the beans are very soft, 
strain through a sieve, pressing them well through and scraping off the pulp 
from the underside.  Finish the seasoning with a dash of butter and a bit of 
red pepper.  This makes a very elegant company soup if croutons and dice of 
the yolks of hard boiled eggs be placed in the tureen just before serving.  
For the croutons have plenty of very hot sweet drippings on the fire, and 
throw in a number of very small dice of stale bread.  As soon as they take on 
a light brown color drain through a sieve and keep in a dry place until 
wanted.  Of course the fat is to be poured off for future frying purposes.

PRESERVING CITRON
	A correspondent at Richmond, Ky., furnishes the following recipe:
	Pare the citron, take out the seed, and cut it into small pieces.  Put 
it into cold water and let it boil very tender.  When about half done, put in 
one teaspoonful of dry saleratus and a piece of alum about the size of a very 
small walnut.  When perfectly clear, take them up and place them on a large 
dish to drain.  Then make the syrup and place them in.
	Directions for making syrup:  To every pound of sugar add one gil of 
water, and let stand until it is dissolved.  For every twelve pounds of sugar 
allow half an ounce of Russian isinglass; dissolve the isinglass by pouring 
over it a little boiling water.  Put it in with the sugar.  When cold, place 
the whole over the stove.  As soon as it begins to boil skim it until no more 
scum will rise.  The syrup is ready for the citron.
	To ten pounds of citron, take six lemons, which was and cut into thin 
slices, and, after removing all the seed, add them to the syrup, with one-
quarter of a pound of green ginger.  When done put in small tumblers or jars.  
Cover close and keep in a dry, cool place.

WHEAT CULTURE
	The successful production of wheat, whether soft or hard, requires, as 
far as the soil is concerned, three or four essential things, among which are 
a certain amount of nitrogen, and another certain amount of phosphoric acid, 
and its combination of lime and magnesia.  Some soils have them in abundance 
for the first five or six crops, and such are the wheat soils of the 
northwest.  After that number has been taken off, the supply being to get 
exhausted and show it in diminished crops, so that in twenty or twenty-five 
years the average yield is reduced from twenty bushels to less than a quarter 
of it.  This is what happened in northern Illinois, and will doubtless happen 
in the now famous spring wheat regions of Minnesota and Dakota.
	But while the soils above referred to are not exhausted of nitrogen to 
the extent of causing failure in wheat production, they are of phosphoric acid 
and the lime and magnesia combination.  There mineral substances being found 
to a limited extent only in them, and these lands, after having once failed to 
produce wheat, cannot be made to yield it again until after being season of 
fallow.  Burt if the soils of the spring wheat region are deficient in the 
mineral constituents above referred to, those of the lower winter wheat region 
of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana are rich in them, and so rich are they that 
in some districts for weeks, and sometimes months, in the rainy and winter 
season, the surface waters are milky and turbid with substances held in 
suspension.  Here hard wheats have been grown for fifty years and are likely 
to be for fifty years more, since the crops of 1876 and 1877 were the best in 
quality ever made; but nevertheless on one condition, and that the supply of 
nitrates must be kept up, either by the use of stable manure, or plowing hay, 
or straw, or green crops under.  I recollect distinctly something said by your 
venerable and enlightened correspondent, Hon. Levi Bartlett of New Hampshire, 
in reference to the value of some of the salts of magnesia for the success of 
wheat crop, and I am convinced, from what I have seen of wheat growing for the 
past two or three years, that these salts do play an essential part in the 
production of hard wheat, and a part out of a all proportion in importance to 
the small amount found in any and all parts of the mature wheat plant.

GREEN MANURING
The more I see of plowing down green crops, the more I become convinced of its 
utility.  Even if there is only a short growth so that it covers the ground 
well, and though young and tender, exhibiting by little manurial value 
according to analysis, yet the effect is undoubted and considerable.  It adds 
to the fertility and improves the mechanical condition beyound wheat the means 
would seem to warrant, though it is known that shaking the ground mellows and 
cools it, and thus lessens what evaporation of its fertilizing gases might 
take place.  Where the land is designed for a spring crop, rye is perhaps the 
best to sow, as it grows a heavy mat by late fall, and if intended for corn, 
quite a heavy growth can be turned down before planting.  If the soil is in 
good condition and its fertility not too much reduced, buckwheat may be 
substituted for rye.  This is especially good for earlier sowing where a crop 
of rye, wheat or barley has been removed.  The ground in this case will be 
better shaded and hence protected, will be mellower, and feeds are kept down.  
The pea also is of great benefit.  Any plant that grows well and covers the 
ground will answer.  The matter is dependent somewhat upon circumstances such 
as the cheapness of the seed, the plant best adapted to poor or rich land, 
sandy or clay soil, etc.  – [County Gentlemen]

TOPICS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD

BUTTERSCOTCH – One pound of white sugar, three-fourths of a pint of water, 
once and a half teaspoonfuls of butter, lemon juice.  Boil sugar and water 
over a slow fire until it ropes; add butter and juice of lemon.  Pour on a pan 
to cool.  Any other flavoring can be used.

ICING – The white of an egg not beaten, one teaspoonful of cold water and a 
pint of powdered sugar, stirred together.  Will make icing for one cake.  Less 
sugar makes the soft icing on baker’s cake.

LEMON BUTTER – One and a half cupfuls of white sugar, whites of three eggs, 
yolk of one, grated rind and juice of a lemon and a half, or two small ones; 
cook over a slow fire twenty minutes, stirring all the while.  Very nice for 
tarts, or to be eaten as preserves.

MARYLAND STEWED OYSTERS – Put the juice into a saucepan and let it simmer, 
skimming it carefully.  Then rub the yolks of three hard-boiled eggs and one 
large spoonful of lour well together, and stir into the juice.  Cut in small 
pieces quarter of a pound of butter, half a teaspoonful of whole allspice, a 
little salt, a little cayenne, and the juice of a fresh lemon.  Let all simmer 
ten minutes, and just before dishing add the oysters.  This is for two quarts 
of oysters.

CROQUETTES OF CHICKEN – Put in a stewpan a piece of butter the size of an egg, 
one spoonful of flour, salt and pepper to taste, mix well and let it melt.   
One cold chicken well chopped and stirred in the mixture till hot.  When cold, 
add the yolk of one egg well beaten.  Take large spoonfuls and rub them into 
oblong shapes, and dip them in egg in which you have stirred a little pepper 
and salt.  Roll in cracker crumbs and fry in hot, lard.  These croquettes are 
very nice made of meal.

PIG’S FEET – If you have more than you want to use now, boil them until the 
bones drop out, them mince them coarsely and boil in a little of the same 
water.  Season well.   Pour into a crock.  Press down closely, and when cold 
cover with vinegar, and it will keep until warm weather.  It will be firm, 
like jelly, and can be cut into slices.  This is very good for laboring men 
who work out of doors.  There is no oil or grease for boots and shoes that can 
compare with the grease skimmed, when cold, off the kettle in which pigs’ feet 
have been oiled.  It is very softening, and there will be jut enough of the 
gluey substance in it to make a good mixture and give a nice “shine.”

WHEN AN EGG IS FRESH – An egg is said to be fresh, when in the summer it has 
been laid only a couple of days, and in the winter three to six.  The shells 
being porous, the water in the interior evaporates and leaves a cavity of 
greater or less extent.  To determine the exact age of eggs, dissolve about 
four ounces of common salt in a quart of pure water, and then immerse the 
egg.  If it be only a day or so old, it will sink to the bottom of the vessel, 
but if it be three days old it will float in the liquid.  If more than five it 
comes to the surface, and rises above in proportion to its increased age.

MARMALADE – Half a peck of pippin apples, a quarter of a peck of pears, half a 
peck of peaches, a quarter of a peck of quinces, two quarts of water and the 
peel of a large orange grated and added with the juice half an hour before the 
marmalade is done.  Put the parings and cores of the quinces into the water 
and boil a short time, closely covered to prevent evaporation.  Strain them 
out and put the water on the quinces and pears, all cut small.  Boil them for 
an hour.  Then add the other fruit and five pounds of sugar.  Boil gently two 
hours, stirring them to prevent burning.  Add the juice and rind of the 
orange, and boil half an hour longer.

The use of powerful magnets in flour mills to remove from the grain the pieces 
of iron broken from the wire bands used in binding the wheat accomplishes the 
work most completely, and removes the last and lonely objection against the 
use of wire-binding harvesting machines.  The introduction and use of these 
magnets is one the latest improvements in milling machinery, the value of 
which cannot be overestimated.

THE REPORTER’S GOSPEL – from St. Louis Times-Journal
	How manifold are thy works, O reporter, and how dost thou compass the 
people of the earth around about.
	Thy name is legion, thou art everywhere at once.  Thy fat is a joy 
unto the printer and thy lean hangeth upon the hook until it be dead.
	In the day dost thou gird thyself and travel into far countries and 
sit with lawgivers and money changers in the temple.  Thy hand is against 
every man and every man is against thee.
	Thou climbest the stairs at night, yea, even seven flights of stairs 
climbest thou up and maketh thyself to sit in a chamber whereunto the roaches 
and mosquitoes do appertain.	If so be the son of man prevaileth upon thee 
to look upon the wine when it is red, it being but the third hour of the day, 
thou art full as a tick and thy masters dock thee as to thy wages.
	The foolish reporter saith in his heart.  My work albeit being done I 
will tarry awhile hereabouts, lest haply there being a fire or murder, the 
paper shall be scooped of an item.
	And as he tarrieth, lo, there comes a fire and he hustleth out upon 
the war path and they squirteth water upon his raiment and entreat him sore, 
but he writeth up anon and sweateth much, for he is a foolish reporter.
	But the wise reporter, whensoever his task be done, skippeth for home 
and lieth upon his couch and sleepeth the sleep of the righteous man.
	And when the fire cometh and the murder descendeth, he laughed them to 
scorn and no man saith unto him go and he goeth or come and he cometh, or 
scoop and he scoopeth it.
	For he was a wise reporter and he maketh merry with himself and all 
his ways are ways of pleasantness and all his paths are peace.

THACKERAY AND THE BOWERY BOY
The New York Times laments the disappearance of that amusing and not 
particularly wicked product, “The Bowery Boy,” and repeat an oft-told tale 
which seems to lose nothing by age repetition.  Twenty-five years ago, 
Thackeray, being desirous to see a “Bowery Boy” went with a friend to the 
haunts of that peculiar creature to look for one.  Very soon his companion 
pointed out to him a genuine specimen standing against a lamp-post on the 
corner of a street, red-shirted, black trousers, soap-locked, shiny-hatted, 
with cigar in mouth elevated at an angle of forty-five degrees.  After 
contemplating him for a few moments, Thackeray wanted to ear him talk, and 
concluded to ask him the way to some part of the city, said politely;  “My 
friend, I should like to go to such and such a place.”  “Well,” replied the 
Bowery Boy, in his peculiar and quiet inexpressible tone, and without moving 
anything except his lips, as he looked up lazily at the tall, gray-haired 
novelist, “Well, sonny, you can go if you don’t stay too long.”  Thackerary 
was quite satisfied.   The Times adds that the Bowery Boy’s successor has more 
of his vices and none of his virtues.  He is not an American product, but 
merely one of the dangerous classes of Europe transferred to the freedom of 
America, which he construes with license.

A SMART WIFE – from Detroit Free Press
The other morning a citizen called at a hardware store on Woodward Avenue and 
said he wanted a key to a certain door in his house, and took up and carried 
away almost the first key handed to him.  On his way down town after dinner he 
stopped and exchanged the key for another, explaining that the first wouldn’t 
fit.  These changes too place twice a day for the next four days, the citizen 
being unable to get hold of a key to fit.  On the sixth day he drove up to the 
store with a door on a dray, and calling to the proprietor, he said:
	“Bring your box of keys out here and we’ll get a fit to that lock.  
Here I have been running back and forth for about a week, and I might not have 
got a fit for a whole month if my wife had not suggested that I bring the door 
down here.  Some of these women are mighty smart.”
	“But why didn’t you take the lock off and bring it down in your 
pocket?” asked the dealer.
	The buyer looked at him in a vacant way, stared hard at the door and 
sat down on the curbstone with the remark:
	“It’s a wonder that the whole family wasn’t sent to the fool-house ten 
years ago.”

A REMARKABLE MARRIAGE
The Butler (Ga.) Herald gives an account of the most wonderful marriage on 
record.  It says:  The most unexpected (and we might state romantic) marriage 
that has ever occurred in Taylor County, took place at the residence of Mrs. 
Bartlett, on last Friday night.  Buy the Rev. J. G. Murray, Mr. John 
Childrews, twenty-three years of age, to Mrs. Bartlett, fifty-nine years of 
age, wife of the late James Bartlett, whose death occurred about three months 
ago.  Mr. Childrews is a poor but worthy young man, who has for several years 
past been an employee of Mr. Bartlett.  Mrs. Bartlett, being a lady of 
considerable wealth, has agreed to thoroughly educate her husband, and he is 
now in attendance at the Butler Female College and Male Institute.

A BLOCKADE that should be raised.  The egress from the system of waste 
material through the natural channels should be rendered free, without loss of 
time, when a blockade is produced by an attack of constipation, a disorder 
which if it becomes chronic is productive of serious bodily mischief.  
Jaundice, severe headache s, nausea, dyspepsia, the usual concomitants of the 
malady mentioned, all indicate that the bodily functions are materially 
interfered with.  Hostettler’s Bitters is particularly efficacious in cases of 
this sort, and renders the habit of body perfectly regular.  It is a medicine 
greatly to be preferred to drastic catharties, which are well calculated to 
drench, but unhappily also to weaken the intestines.  We say unhappily, since 
such medicines are the favorite resource of may ill-advised persons who resort 
to them upon the most trivial occasion, and greatly to their discomfort and 
injury.

THE BUSINESS BOOM
One of the best indications of the revival in business is afforded by the news 
reported of Nelson’s Business College of Cincinnati.  The number of students 
registered for month of September is over one hundred per cent above the 
average.  This patronage is doubtless stimulated by the scarcity of competent 
clerks and bookkeepers, the demand upon the college being greater than the 
supply.

The delicate membrane which envelopes the lungs and lines the air passages is 
exceedingly sensitive, and a slight irritation of it increases and spreads 
very rapidly.  Remembering this, use, if you are attacked by a cough or cold, 
that incomparable pulmonic and preventive of consumption, Dr. Hall’s Balsam 
for the lungs, which invariably gives speedy relief and ultimately effects a 
complete cure in all cases where the breathing organs are affected.  Use it in 
time and prevent serous bronchial trouble.  Sold by all druggists.

Oswego Starch Factory, N. Y. – Oct. 23, 1878
H. W. Johns, 87 Maiden Lane, N. Y.
Dear Sir – We have several acres of your Asbestos Roofing on our buildings.  
The first roof, put on fifteen years ago, is in good condition, and we prefer 
it to any other.
Yours respectfully,  - T. Kingsford & Sons

For coughs, colds, and throat disorders, use Brown’s Bronchial Troches” having 
proved their efficacy by a test of many years.  25 cents a box.

Each maker of Cabinet or Parlor Organs advertises his own as best.  But the 
examinations at the great world’s exhibitions have but one result.  At every 
one for a dozen years Mason & Hamlin Organs have been found best.  They are 
awarded the gold medal at the Paris Exhibition this year.

H. W. Johns’ Asbestos Liquid Paints are strictly pure linseed oil paint, and 
contain no water.  They are the best and most economical paints in the world.  
Send for samples to 87 Maiden Lane, N. Y. 

Young men, go West, learn telegraphy; situation guaranteed.  Address R. 
Valentine, Manager. Janesville, Wis.

Prevent crooked boots and blistered heels by wearing Lyon’s Heel Stiffeners.  
Can be applied at any time.

Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.

$500 Reward.  They cure all diseases of the stomach, bowels, blood, liver, 
nerves, kidneys, and urinary organs, and $500 will be paid for a case they 
will not cure or help, or for anything impure or injurious found in them – Hop 
Bitters.  Test them – Post.

Farmers!  $1,000.00 can be saved every year by the farmers in this country if 
they will properly color their butter by adding Wells, Richardson & Co’s 
Perfected Butter Color.  It gives a splendid June color and never turns red.

$72 a week, $12 a day at home easily made.  Costly outfit free.  Address True 
& Co., Augusta, Maine.

$3300 a year.  How to make it.  New Agents & Goods.  Coe & Younge, St. Louis, 
Mo.

Teas – Choicest in the world – Importers prices – Largest company in America – 
staple article – pleases everybody – trade continually increasing – Agents 
wanted everywhere – best inducements – Don’t waste time –s end for circular.  
Robt Wells, 43 Vesey St., N. Y., PO Box 1237

Opium, Morphine habit speedily cured by Dr. Beck’s only known and sure 
remedy.  No charge for treatment until cured.  Call on or address Dr. J. O. 
Beck, Cincinnati, Ohio.  112 John Street.

Ridge’s Food for infants and invalids.  The best food in the world for 
invalids and readily taken by the little folks.  Woolrich & Co., on every 
label.

For two generations the good and staunch old stand-by Mexican Mustang 
Liniment, ahs done more to assuage pain, relieve suffering, and save the lives 
of men and beasts than all other liniments put together.  Why?  Because the 
Mustang penetrates through skin and flesh to the very bone, driving out all 
pain and soreness and morbid secretions, and restoring the afflicted part to 
sound ad supple health.

Saponifier is the old reliable concentrate lye for family sap making.  
Directions accompanying each can for making hard, soft, and toilet soap 
quickly. It is full weight and strength.  The market is flooded with (so-
called) concentrated lye, which is adulterated with salt and resin and won’t 
make soap.  Save money and buy the Saponifier Made by the Pennsylvania Salt 
Manuf’g Co., Philadelphia.

Agents wanted for a live book that sells fast.  Chance for all to make 
money.  “Life of Buffalo Bill”  The famous scout, guide, hunter, and actor – 
written by himself – is the liveliest, and easiest book to sell that has 
appeared for years.  Agents already at work are making big sales.  Send at 
once and secure territory.  For circulars and liberal terms, apply to Frank F. 
Bliss, Hartford, Conn

H. W. JOHNS’ Asbestos liquid paints, roofing, boiler coverings, steam packing, 
sheathing, coatings, cements, &c. Send for descriptive price list.  H. W. 
Johns’ Mr’g Co., 87 Maiden Lane, N.Y. 

Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organs..(too small to read)

Kidney Wort.  The only medicine that acts at the same time on the liver, the 
bowels, and the kidneys.  These great organs are the natural cleansers of the 
system.  If they work well, health will be perfect.  If they become clogged, 
dreadful diseases are sure to follow with terrible suffering, biliousness, 
headache, dyspepsia, Jaundice, constipation and piles, or kidney complaints, 
gravel, diabetes, sediment in the urine, milky or ropy urine, or rheumatic 
pains and aches, are developed because the blood is poisoned with the humors 
that should have been expelled naturally.  Kidney wort.  Will restore the 
healthy action and all these destroying evils will be banished.  Neglect them 
and you will lie but to suffer.  Thousands have been cured.  Try it and you 
will add one more to the number.  Take it and add health will once more 
gladden your heart.  Why suffer longer from the torment of an aching back?  
Why bear such distress from constipation and piles?  Why be so fearful because 
of disordered urine?  Kidney wort will cure you.  Try a package at once and be 
satisfied.  It is a dry vegetable compound and one package makes six quarts of 
medicine.  Your druggist has it, or will get it for you.  Insist upon having 
it.  Price $1.00 Well, Richardson & Co, Proprietors, Burlington, Va.

The Newest Music Books.  WHITE ROBES.  A new Sunday School Song Book of 
unusual beauty.  By A. J. ABBEY and M. J. MUNGER, Price 30 cents, for which 
specimen copies will be mailed.  Examine this charming collection when new 
books are needed.  Every song is a jewel.  CARMEN.  By Bizet. $2.00.  
FATINITZA. By Suppe $2.00.  DOCTOR OF ELEANTURA.  Eichberg.  New and enlarged 
edition.  $1.50.  PINAFORE.  Gilbert and Sullivan.  50 cents.  SORCERER.  
Gilbert and Sullivan.  50 cents.  The newest Church Music and Singing School 
books are VOICE OF WORSHIP.   L. O. Emerson, $9.00 per dozen.  TEMPLE.  Dr. W. 
O. Perkins, $9.00 per dozen.  The newest Voice Training Book is EMERSON’S 
VOCAL METHOD $1.50.  Compact, complete and useful either for private pupils or 
classes.  A new Anthem Book is nearly ready.  The Musical Record is always 
new.  $2.00 per year, 6 cents per copy.  Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston.  C. H. 
Ditson & Co., 43 Broadway, N. Y.  J. E. Ditson & Co., 922 Chestnut St. Phil

$66 a week in your own town.  Terms and $5 outfit free.  Address H. Haley & 
Co., Portland, Me.

Moller’s Norwegian Cod-Liver Oil.  Is perfectly pure.  Pronounced the best by 
the highest medical authorities in the world.  Given highest award at 12 World 
expositions and at Paris1878.  Sold by druggist. -----N. Y. 

The Smith Organ Co. First Established!  Most Successful!  Their instruments 
have a -----value in all the leading markets of the World!  Everywhere 
recognized as the finest in tone.  Over 80,000 made and in use.  New Designs 
constantly.  Best work and lowest price.  Send for a catalog. Tremont St., 
opp. Walham St., Boston, Mass.

New Home Sewing Machine.  Best in the World.  Agents wanted everywhere.  
Address Johnson Clark & Co., 30 Union Square.  New York.  Orange, Mass.  
Chicago, Ill.

THE WEEKLY SUN.  A large, eight-page paper of 56 broad columns, will be sent 
postpaid to any address until January 1st, 1880 for half a dollar.  Address.  
The Sun., N. Y. City

The Rising Sun Stove Polish.  For beauty of polish, saving labor, cleanliness 
durability and cheapness. Unequaled.  Morse Bros.  Proprietors, Canton, Mass.

Employment – Local or Traveling.  State which preferred.  Also salary per 
month.  All expenses advanced.  Wages promptly paid.  Sloan & Co., 306 George 
St. Cincinnati, O

Beatty Organ Beatty Piano.  New Organs 13 stops, 8 set Golden Tongue Reeds, 5 
cts.  2 knee swells, walnut case, warnt’d 6 years, stool and book $38. New 
Pianos 

In the whole list of medicines there are none that are equal to Hunt’s remedy 
for curing dropsy, Bright’s disease, kidney, bladder and urinary complaints.  
Hunt’s remedy cures excessive intemperance, general debility, gravel, 
diabetes, pain in the back, side or loins, and all diseases of the kidneys, 
bladder and urinary organ.  Physicians prescribe Hunt’s remedy.  Send for 
pamphlet to Wm. E. Clarke, Providence, R. I.

Cured free!  An infallible and unexcelled remedy for fits, epilepsy or falling 
sickness, warranted to effect a speedy and permanent cure.  “A Free Bottle” of 
my renowned specific and a valuable treatise sent to any sufferer sending me 
his post office express address.  Dr. H. G. Root

$77 a month and expenses guaranteed for agents.  Outfit free.  Shaw & Co., 
Augusta, Ga.

$777 a year and expenses to agents.  Outfit free.  Address PO Vickery, 
Augusta, Ga.

$5 to $20 per day at home.  Samples worth $5 free.  Address Stinson & Co., 
Portland, Me.

To young men who wish to learn Steam Engineering.  Send your name with 2 3-
cent stamps to Fred Keppr, Eng’r, Bridgeport, Co.

Shakespeare’s Complete Works and Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly, one year for $1.  
Sample copy free.  Murray Hill Pub. Co., 129 E. 28th St., N. Y.

$10 to $1000 invested in Wall-Street stocks makes fortunes every month.  Book 
sent free explaining everything.  Address Baxter & Co., Bankers, 17 Wall St. 
N. Y.

Young men.  Learn Telegraphy and earn $40 to $100 a month.  Every graduate 
guaranteed a paying situation.  Address B. Valentine Man., Janesville, Wis.

Big Pay – (too small to read)

10,000 agents wanted in the Southern and western states for the grandest 
triumph of the age.  $100 per month and expenses.  $3 outfit free.  Geo. A. 
Lawrence, ----, Ky.

Agents read this – (too small to read)

$2500 a year guaranteed (too small to read)

Kidder’s pastilles.  Sure relief.  Price 35 cents. 

Marvel copyists.  Copyrighted 200 perfect copies taken from a single writing.  
In 1000 ways saves printing.  Weighs 5 lbs.  Costs but $5.  J. R. Funk & Co., 
21 Barclay St., N. Y. Agents wanted.

$1425 profits on 30 days investment of $100. Proportional returns every week 
on stock options of $20,  $50, $100, $500.  Official reports and circulars 
free.  Address T. Potter Wright & Co, Bankers, Wall St., N. Y.

$25 to $5000 Judiciously invested in Wall St. lays the foundation for fortunes 
every week, and pays immense profits by the New Capitalism System of operation 
in stocks. Full explanation on application to Adams, Brown, & Co., Bankers, 26 
Broad ST., N. Y. 

Ridge’s Food for infants and invalids.  The best food in the world for 
invalids and readily taken by the little folks.  Woolrich & Co., on every 
label.

When Life is embittered by Dropsy, kidney, bladder, or urinary complaints, 
Bright’s Disease, Gravel or General Debility take Hunts remedy, Retention of 
Urine, diabetes, pain in the side, back, and loins, excesses and intemperance 
are cured by Hunt’s Remedy. All diseases of the kidneys, bladder and urinary 
organs are cured by Hunt’s remedy.  Family Physicians use Hunt’s remedy.  Send 
for pamphlet to Wm. E. Clark, Providence, R. I.

Clara Louise Kellogg, Lotta, Mrs. Scott-Siddops, Fanny Davenport and a best of 
others recommend the Champlin’s Liquid Pearl.  The unequaled beautifier of the 
complexion.  For sale by all leading druggists at 50 cts. per bottle.  
Champlin & Co., Buffalo, N. Y.

Agents wanted for A TOUR AROUND THE WORLD by GENERAL GRANT.  This is the 
fastest –selling book ever published, and the only complete and authentic 
history of Grant’s travels.  Send for circulars containing a full description 
of the work and our extra terms to agents.  Address National Publishing Co., 
St. Louis, Mo.

Mary J. Holmes.  Just published – FORREST HOUSE – A splendid new novel by Mrs. 
Mary J. Holmes, whose novels sell so enormously and are read and reread with 
such interest,.  Beautifully bound.  Price $1.50.  Also new editions of Mrs. 
Holmes other works – TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE – LENA RIVERS – EDITH LYLE – EDNA 
BROWING – WEST LAWN, etc.  Sold by all booksellers.  G. W. Carleton & Co., 
Publishers N. Y. City.

Free to all DR. JUDGE’S PAMPHLET. with home testimonials, illustrating his 
method of treating Catarrh, Asthma, deafness, Nervous Disease and affections 
of the lungs and air passages.  Will be sent on receipt of stamp.  Patients at 
a distance treated.  Consultation by mail on all disease free.  DR. J. D. 
JUDGE & Co, Physicians, 79 Beach St. Boston, Mass

Petroleum VASELINE Jelly.  Grand Medal Philadelphia at Exposition.  Silver 
Medal at Paris Exposition.  This wonderful substance is acknowledged by 
physicians throughout the world to be the best remedy discovered for the cure 
of wounds, burns, rheumatism, skin disease, piles, catarrh, ---.  In order 
that every one may try it, it is put up in 15 and 25 cents bottles for 
household use. Obtain it from your druggists, and you will find it superior to 
anything you have ever used

This Claims House Established 1865 – Pensions – New Law.  Thousands of 
Soldiers and heirs entitled.  Pensions date back to discharge or death.  Time 
limited.  Address with stamp.  George E. Lemon, PO Drawer 325, Washington, DC

Warner Bro’s Corsetts received the highest medal –(too small to read)

Pond’s Extract subdues inflammation, acute or chronic controls all 
hemorrhages, venous and mucous.  Invaluable for sprains, burns scalds, 
bruises, soreness, rheumatism, boils, ulcers, old sores, toothache, headache, 
sore throat, asthma, hoarseness, neuralgia, catarrh, &c.  Physician of all 
schools use and recommend Pond’s Extract.  No family should be without it, as 
it is convenient, safe and reliable.  Invaluable as a pain destroyer and 
subduer of all inflammatory diseases and hemorrhages. Farmers stock breeders 
and livery me should always have it.  Leading livery and street car stables in 
New York and elsewhere always use it.  Sprains, harness and saddle chaffing, 
cuts, scratches, swellings, stiffness, bleeding. &c are all controlled and 
cured by it.  Our special preparation, veterinary extract, is sold at the low 
price of $3.50 per gallon, package extra.  Prices pond’s extract and 
specialties,  Pond’s extract, 50 c, $1.00 and $1.75.  Catarrh Cure 75c.  
Ointment 50c, plaster 25c, inhaler (glass 50c) $1, Nasal syringe, 25c, 
Medicated pap’r 25c  Any of the above preparations sent free of charges in 
lots of $5.00 worth, on receipt of money or P. O. order.  Caution – Pond’s 
Extract is sold only in bottles, enclosed in buff wrappers, with the 
words,  ‘Pond’s extract’ blown in the glass.  It is never sold in bulk.  No 
one can sell it except in our won bottles as above described.  Send for our 
new pamphlet to Pond’s Extract Comp’y. 18 Murray Street, New York

The Estey Organ is the Best the World Over.  Manufactory Brattleboro, Vt.




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