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THE VERNON CLIPPER 

VOLUME I.          VERNON, LAMAR CO., ALABAMA         DECEMBER 19, 1879     
NUMBER 42     

(COLUMN NUMBER ONE IS MISSING-CUT OUT)

(COLUMN NUMBER TWO IS CUT OUT HALF WAY DOWN)

A HUNDRED DOLLAR ADVERTISEMENT – from Denver News
	Apropos of the coming circus, the agent of the company, while in this 
city, related his experience with a country publisher in Iowa, whom he 
approached for the price of a column display advertisement.  The price was 
$100.00.  “How much for two columns?”  “One hundred dollars” was the 
reply.  “How much for half a column?”  “One hundred dollars”  “That’s very 
singular.” said the agent.  “How much for a single square?” “One hundred 
dollars” replied the publisher unmoved.  “To tell you the truth,” he 
continued, “the day your show gets here I’ve got a note for $100 to meet in 
back.  I’ve been waiting for you to come along, and I see no other way to pay 
it.  You can have the whole paper of a single inch, just as you like, but it 
will cost you just $100.

Casual thoughts are sometimes of great value.

SUNK BY A WHALE – THE STORY OF THE ESSEX AS IT IS TOLD BY THE LAST SURVIVOR OF 
THE CREW
	A correspondent in the New York Sun says:  We boarded this summer at 
the house of Captain Thomas G. Nickerson, in Nantucket, the last survivor of 
the crew of the whaling ship Essex, which was sunk by a whale in the Pacific 
Ocean somewhere about the year 1820.  The story, as he tells it, is a 
thrilling one.  The Essex was nearly new, reached the Pacific fishing grounds 
in good order, took and tried out one large whale, and cleared the ship, as 
usual, for further captures.
	One morning the lookout from the mast-head sighted a large school and 
sperm whales.  The boats were lowered and manned for pursuit, and the 
captain’s harpooner succeeded in striking a whale.  He was then some three 
miles from the ship, and the mate’s boat was hastening to his assistance.  One 
of the men, happening to glance toward the ship, saw flying, not only the 
signal to return, but the signal of distress.  The mate’s boat hurried back 
with all speed.  Getting on board, they were informed that the ship had been 
struck by an immense sperm whale, and the water was rushing into the hold in a 
frightful manner.  While they were endeavoring to ascertain the extent of the 
injury, the same fish, a monster is size, appeared, swimming directly toward 
them again at a furious speed.  The creature seemed to be in great agony, or 
in a fearful rage.  He lashed the water to white foam with his tail, writhing 
and lifting his immense body half out of it, bringing it down again with a 
report like a cannon, and rushing straight upon the devoted ship. 
	The first blow had been in the bows, and the shock had thrown the men 
off their feet and dashed everything from its fastenings, as though the ship 
in a gale had struck a sunken rock.  The whale himself had seemed stunned for 
a moment.  This second time he struck the ship on the harboard side, crushing 
in her timbers and making her shiver from stem to stern.  For a moment he 
thought the whale had killed himself; he turned on his back, panting heavily; 
then, recovering himself for a last effort, he backed away and came at them a 
third time, with strength enough to open still wider the yawning gaps he had 
already made.  After that, apparently satisfied that he had done his work, he 
swam slowly away toward the distant school, leaving the Essex with the water 
pouring in.  The men kept firing guns as signals of distress, and the captain, 
having left the wounded whale, hastened to the scene of the disaster.  They 
had barely time to load their frail whale-boats with the necessaries of life 
before the ship sank.  More than three months after, having endured the utmost 
suffering and hardship that human nature can bear, and having in that time 
traversed nearly 4,000 miles of water and lost half of their number, they were 
at last picked up.  Captain Nickerson does not like to talk of this fearful 
passage in his life, and at the horrors of it have left a permanent impression 
on his mind.  He is living in the town of Nantucket, where most of the 
survivors lived, and are well remembered by the inhabitants.  He expresses the 
opinion that his ship is not the only one that has met her death by the anger 
of a whale, and that the victims of those monsters number far more than 
landsmen suppose.

ANGLO-IRISH TROUBLES
	There is evident anxiety in England over the discontent and the 
positively insurrectionary spirit among the Irish tenantry.  The British 
Government has found Ireland excessively troublesome ever since that island 
became a part of the kingdom.  There has been much that is radically wrong in 
the management of Ireland.  Bad government has been at the bottom of the Irish 
unrest.  The Irish threat comes at a time when England can least afford to 
have a war of rebellion on her hands at home.  Her recent foreign policy has 
brought her into many serious complications abroad.  He financial distress is 
appalling.  She is not necessarily fatally crippled by these things.  She has 
been in a worse condition.  She was in a worse position during the last 
century, in the period of the great continental wars England’s present 
distress, however, although temporary, is Ireland’s opportunity, and the land 
question throughout the United Kingdom will probably receive an early 
solution, or at least the process of solving it will be commenced.  The 
solution of these difficulties of the agriculturists lies in emigration.  
Other counters produce bread and meat cheaper than the British farmer and 
stock-raiser can produce there.  The greater portion of British farmers will 
emigrate.  With a revival of business England will resume her place as the 
great workshop, and she can afford to buy the greater part of her bread and 
beef abroad.  The Irish tenantry are not able, generally, to emigrate.  They 
must pay their rent or suffer eviction, which has a peculiarly terrible 
meaning in Ireland.  They propose to stay on their land, and will possibly 
resist eviction.  The land-owners will do better by reconstructing their 
system.

Mrs. Scoggins – “How did your mamma like that butter I sold her, Miss Lucy?”  
Miss Lucy – “The butter was not good at all, Mrs. Scoggins, and was all sorts 
of different colors.”  Mrs. Scoggins – “That ain’t nuthin’.  If you was to see 
my cows yew’d find ‘em a big sight more speckelder’s my butter.”

The beauteous, buxom Bertha Bangs
Is one of our divinest girls;
She bangs the doors and bangs the chairs,
And like wise bangs her auburn curls,
She bangs on the pianny, too
And bangs upon the light guitar-
But, oh, of all the bangs she bangs,
She mostly bangs her auburn hair
Oh, banging, bouncing, buxom belle – [St Louis Times-Journal]

A REVIEW OF GRANT’S TRIP AROUND THE GLOBE
	Gen Grant, accompanied by his wife and oldest son, left Philadelphia 
on the 17th of May, 1877, on the steamship Indiana of the American Steamship 
Line, to begin his tour around the world.  The trip to Liverpool was made in 
eleven days.  From Liverpool he went to London, and on ht 26th of June dines 
with the Duke of Wellington.  During his stay in England Queen Victoria 
honored the General by an invitation of dine with her, and on the 26th of June 
the reception took place.  On the 26th of July the General and his party 
arrived in Geneva Switzerland.  He afterward crossed the Simpleton Pass, made 
the tour of the northern part of Italy and returned to Regatz by the 14th of 
August.  Thence he made a flying trip through Alsace and Lorraine.  Returning 
to England, the General on the 5th of July, left London for Ostend, where King 
Leopold tendered the party the use of the royal car to Brussels.  On the 7th 
of July King Leopold, of Belgium, called on Gen. Grant at his hotel.  The 
visit was returned the next day at the palace.  The party arrived at Palermo, 
Italy, on the 23d of December, 1877.  Here they spent Christmas and dined on 
board the United States ship Vandalia.  On the morning of January 19, 1878, 
the Generals and his companions entered Siout, Egypt, and were welcomed by the 
American Vice-Consul and his son.  From Egypt the General proceeded by ship to 
Jaffa, on the Mediterranean, and thence made the tour of the Holy Land.  He 
embarked from Beyrout (sic), in Syria, for Constantinople, and arrived there 
immediately after the treaty of San Stefano, which ended the late Russo-
Turkish War.  Thence he proceeded to European Turkey, and arrived at Stamboul 
on the 5th of March, 1878.  In the latter part of March, Gen. Grant sailed for 
Italy, arriving at Rome soon after the election of Leo XIII to the 
Pontificate.  Having visited the principal cities of Italy, the Grant party 
left for France, and arrived in Paris on the 7th of May, and thence soon after 
for Holland.  From Holland the party went to Germany, arriving at Berlin on 
the 26th of June, where they were met by the late minister, Bayard Taylor.  
The General reached Hamburg by rail, on July 2, when followed his tour through 
Denmark, Sweden and Norway.  After a visit to Portland, Gen. Grant reached 
Vienna, Austria, on the 18th of August, thence he proceeded to Switzerland, 
through Southern France, and, finally, to Spain.  In January of the present 
year the General and party visited Ireland, and returned thence to Paris.  On 
the 24th he embarked at Marseilles for Bombay, India, where he arrived on the 
12th of February.  On the 17th Gen. Grant proceeded to Burmah, and thence to 
China.  The party arrived at Hong Kong, Lincoln of Canton, Charge d’ Affaires 
Holcomb and deputation’s of citizens of various countries, including Japan.  
The party was received at Canton on May 6 by the Consular officials, and 
conducted to the Viceroy’s residence.  They left Hong Kong for the North of 
China on May 11, reached Yokohama, Japan, about the 1st of last July, and on 
the 4th was admitted to an audience with the Emperor and Empress.  The party 
left Yokohama on the 25th of August, and arrived at San Francisco on the 
afternoon of September 20.

THE UNHAPPIEST MAN – from New York Times
	The unhappiest man in Birmingham a fortnight ago was F. UNDERWOOD, a 
coal merchant.  He quarreled with JAMES PALMER, lost his temper and sacrificed 
his dignity.  Palmer had him arrested for using vituperative language, and not 
satisfied with gaining his action in court by the help of witnesses who knew 
nothing at all about the matter, told him that he would be the death of him, 
that he would smash him, and that he would put a document in the paper that 
would ruin him.  This threat was executed in a novel way.  He inserted in a 
city journal an advertisement asking “donkeys for a picnic party,” telling all 
whom it might concern to “apply, with donkey” at the addresses of Underwood.  
The result was that Mrs. Underwood was besieged with donkeys.  It was 
intolerable; life was not worth having with a whole herd of donkeys braying 
around her door.  The magistrate, however declined to interfere between 
Underwood and the donkeys, but advised him to take -----out against Palmer for 
the threats he alleged had been uttered.

POEM (TOO SMALL TO READ)

A CANDID CONFESSION
	“Are you an Englishman?” queried his Honor, severely.
	“I am not.”
	“Are you a German?”
	“No, sir.”
	“Are you a Yankee?”
	“Hardly ev—“
	When the Policeman got done mashing him for that, the Judge mildly 
exclaimed, “What are you then?”
	“A snoozer, sir”
	The court adjourned.

PUTTING PLANTS TO SLEEP – from London Times
	The idea of subjecting the remarkable Sensitive plant to the action of 
anaesthetic was natural, and several experiments of the kind are reported, the 
plant having been placed in vapors of ether or chloroform.  Recently M. 
Arloing has made some interesting observations of the effect of chloral, 
chloroform and ether presented for absorption by the roots.  The pots were 
sprinkled with aqueous solutions of these substances, then covered with care 
to prevent escape of the vapors.  After absorption of chloroform or ether, one 
notes primary and secondary effects; the former are phenomena of excitation 
similar to those arising from mechanical irritation, and comparable to those 
in animals when anaesthetized.  They occur successively from the bottom to the 
top of the stem.  In thirty to sixty minutes the common petioles (or leaf 
stems) straighten and the leaflets separate, beginning from the top of the 
stem; but the plant is now found to have lost its sensibility.  The secondary 
effects consist of elimination of the anaesthetic.  The sensibility often does 
not return for one and a half or two hours.  Chloral does not act 
anesthetically on the sensitive plant.  These observations afforded Mr. 
Arloing an opportunity of ascertaining the velocity of liquids in the stem and 
branches of plants under strictly physiological conditions, whereas past 
experiments on the subject have been made with withered or mutilated plants.  
If the leaves are in a good state, the common petioles bend down suddenly and 
successively from below upward in the plant as the absorbed chloroform reaches 
them.  Hence, knowing the dimensions of the plant, the velocity of the 
chloroformized water in the stem and primary petioles can be easily 
calculated.  Within the stem, the velocity is modified by the state of the 
tissues and foliage, the temperature, etc.  It is found, in different cases, 
at the rate of 0.90 metres, 2.22m, 2.40m. 2.76m per hour.  The velocity 
increases from the base to the top of the stem in the ratio of 1 to 1.25 or 
1.50, and it is 1 ½ times to twice as great in the petioles as in the stem. 
The time of absorption by the roots was found to vary from 2 to 6 ½ minutes.

A TRAMP’S PRESENCE OF MIND
	A case has just come to light wherein a tramp, contrary to custom and 
precedent, has made himself a hero.  The weary traveler tells his story as 
follows: He had been tramping seven days on his weary way to Louisville, Ky, 
following the trace of the O. and M. Railway, and was at an early hour “on the 
road.”  He had passed Claremont, and had walked about three miles, when he 
came to a trestle, and in the dull light of morning discovered a horse 
fastened in it, evidently having tried to cross, and fallen through, leaving 
the larger portion of his body above the trestle.  He walked out to him and 
endeavored to frighten him so he would make an effort and extricate himself.  
Failing in this, he decided to repair to the station and alarm the railway 
authorities.  He had hardly started, however, when he heard the rumbling of an 
approaching train, which proved to be the No. 4 eastbound express, which at 
full speed was rushing into this fearful danger.  With not a moment to lose, 
he endeavored to discover some means of signaling the engineer.  It was so 
dark he could not be seen until the flash of the headlight came upon him.  At 
his wit’s ends, he thought of a piece of old newspaper in his pocket.  Taking 
this and applying a match, he held it up in the faint hope that the eye of the 
engineer would be attracted, but it burned out so abruptly that his heart sank 
within him.  Faint as it was, however, the vigilant eye of the engine driver 
caught it, and reversing his engine, stopped his train in time.  A brief time 
was taken to set the now thoroughly frightened animal free, when the hero of 
the hour was put upon the train, and whisked over what otherwise would have 
been a weary footsore tramp to Louisville.

A WOMAN WHO BURIED SEVEN HUSBANDS
	An excellent old gentleman named BENJAMIN ABBOTT died in Smyrna, 
Delaware, the other day, aged eighty-two.  He was a good man, but the only 
notable feature of his placid existence appears to be the fact that he was the 
seventh husband of his wife who survives him.  This repeated and life long, or 
as we may better say, intermitted has been successively MRS. TRAUX, MRS. 
RIGGS, MRS. FARROW, MRS. WALLACE, MRS. BERRY, MRS. PRATT, and MRS. ABBOTT.  In 
every instance save the first, she has married widowers, some of them with a 
good many children, but she never had any children of her own.  All her life 
ahs been spent in Smyrna, and “all her husbands,” says the local paper, the 
Smyrna Times, that some years ago Mrs. Abbott, etc. etc. had a vision in which 
eight men stood before her in a peculiarly impressive manner, which she has 
ever regarded as prophetic of the number of conquests she was to make.  Number 
seven having been safely laid away, one can imagine the trepidation that 
exists among available bachelors, especially widowers, in Smyrna, pending the 
choice of number eight.

AFFECTIONATE CREATURES – from Benson Times
	A Benson lover, as soft as mush, kissed his girl about forty times 
right along, the other evening, and when he stopped, the tears came into her 
eyes, and she said in a sad tone of voice:   “Ah!  John, I fear you have 
ceased to love me.”  “No, I hain’t” replied John, “but I must breathe.”  
Moral – Breathe before the start is again attempted.

CLIPPED PARAGRAPHS
Spiritual comfort – a glass of whisky.

Marriage is no uneven game.  It is a tie.

The kangaroo enjoys a beautiful spring.

Close contest – one woman trying to out-dress another.

Drive your cattle on the ice if you want cowslips in the water.

After all, the shingles on a roof cover the most laps.

The man who lays by any “dust” must wade through considerable mud.

“He passed in his checks,” but had them returned by the cashier for want of 
funds.

People will talk and sing about the “flowing bowl” when it isn’t the bowl that 
flows at all.

It is vulgar to call a man “bow-legged.”  Just speak of him as a parenthetical 
pedestrian.

“Oh, that my father was seized with remittent fever,” sighed a young 
spendthrift at college.

When a corner loafer dies in Tennessee the newspaper say:  “Another old 
landmark gone.”

Counsel (to witness) – “You’re a nice sort of a fellow, you are!”  Witness –
 “I’d say the same of you, only I’m on my oath.”

Politics are a great blessing to society.  What else is it that makes men 
shake hands and be nice to each other?

Dime novel writers do not make as much money as wood-sawers.  Not half as 
honorable an occupation either.

“Alas!  This is a drop to much,” said the fellow who was about to be hanged.  
And undoubtedly it was, in a noose sense.

Mistress – “Bridget, did you hear me call?” Bridget – “Yis, mum; but you towld 
me the ither day niver to answer ye back – and I didn’t.”

A physician of this town was heard to remark the other day, that if he were 
with General Miles’ command, he’d scalpel out the Indians.  

“What are the best stories?”  “That depends.  When you are telling them the 
long ones are; when you are listening, the short ones.”

“When the corn is waving,” means when a superabundance of grain, in a liquid 
state, causes the sidewalk to oscillate.

Anthony Comstock sighs sadly because he can’t prosecute the spirituelle 
society beauties who speak of the bare idea of anything – [N. Y. Star]

“We old maid,” remarked Miss Stevins, “love cats because we have no husbands, 
and cats are almost as treacherous as men.”

A negro of Murfreesboro, Tenn., aged one hundred and three, has just married 
his seventh wife, who is thirty-two.  The old man has twenty-seven children.

“Of what use is the casket when the jewel is gone?” asked the tramp, as he 
took the last swallow of the whiskey, and threw the bottle over in the corn 
field.

“Silence in the court,” thundered a Kentucky Judge the other morning.  “Half a 
dozen men have been convicted already, without the court having been able to 
hear a word of the testimony.”

“That man has a great deal of character in his nose,” said one.  “He must have 
it in his nose,” said another, “for he hasn’t got it anywhere else. – 
[Cincinnati Saturday Night.]

Three hundred barrels of illicit whiskey were emptied into a creek by a 
revenue collector, at Waco, Texas.  A crowd of men plunged into the stream and 
drank all of the liquor possible before it flowed away.  They got enough of it 
to make them all very drunk.

We see by the Smyrna (Del) Times, that the railroad company has erected a 
platform at the Dover Fair Grounds, “for visitors two hundred feet high.”  
Visitors two hundred feet long.  That’d be a curiosity anywhere.

A subscriber to a southwestern paper died recently, leaving four years 
subscription unpaid.  The editor appeared at the grave and deposited in the 
coffin a palm-leaf fan, a linen coat and a thermometer.

“Men should not allow their wives to split wood,” says a contemporary.  This 
is rather inconsiderate.  How can a man refuse when his wife come sup with 
tears in her eyes, and says, “Now do, dear, let me go down cellar and split 
wood for an hour to get up an appetite.”

“Thank God for a free Gospel,” said an old church member, suddenly carried 
away by the eloquence of the preacher.  “Five-and-twenty years have I been a 
church member, and it has not cost me as many coppers.”  “May the Lord forgive 
your stingy soul!” says the preacher.

“Is there a letter here in a scented envelope for my wife?” he asked the 
postmaster, while the green fire from his eyes made the office look like a 
leafy forest. “Yes, sir” answered the postmaster, as he handed it out.  The 
jealous man tore it open at once, when, lo and behold!  It was the milliner’s 
bill for fifty dollars.  No succeeding chapters.

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THE VERNON CLIPPER
ALEXANDER COBB, Editor & Proprietor
ALEX. A. WALL, Publisher
$1.50 per annum.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1879

A man cannot recover the face value of a note if he paid less than that for 
it.  So says the United States Supreme Court.

The desire of one or two Democrats in Congress to pass a bill creating the 
rank of captain-general of the army, and authorizing the President to appoint 
Gen. Grant to the position, does not meet with hearty response from members of 
either party.  Many of them desire to think of the question before voting in 
favor of it.  Ours is not a government for creating high titles and lordly 
estates, nor useless pensioners.  General Grant has been, says a Northern 
exchange, paid for his services.  His rewards have been of the highest known 
in this Union.  If the object of creating an extraordinary military rank for 
him is to get him out of the Presidential line, it is a poor way of dealing 
with that question.  The people do not want any more high and costly officers 
created, nor do they desire any more high salaried officers, with great 
military powers, placed over them and their interests.  And it is not 
advisable for Congress to crowd such offices or officials upon them.  
Certainly the people have not asked for either. – [Mont. Adv]

The Mont Adv. says:  The first female student to enter the Nashville Medical 
College is MRS. R. M. LYTLE, widow of DOCTOR LYTLE, a distinguished physician 
of that city.  Mrs. L. entered the college a few days ago for a primary course 
of lectures and expects soon to be license as an M. D.  As this is something 
of a novelty in the sunny South, we copy the following remarks of the 
Nashville Banner on the subject:
	“And let us here ask, why she may not be a great success in the new 
profession she has chosen? – In the fields of literature Mrs. Lytle is 
entitled to a front place, having climbed step by step up the ladder of fame.  
She ahs mastered elocution, and is now a popular teacher of the art.  Withal 
she is a lady of brilliant mind and intellect, positive in her character, and 
we opine with a nerve that will enable her to become “au fait” in handling the 
surgeon’s knife or obstinate as any other physician in administering medicine 
according to her settled opinion.  In advance, we hail the new doctress, and 
wish her unbounded success.  May she prove to be a ministering angel at the 
bedside of the afflicted.”

At Reno, Nevada, a few nights ago, a man was suddenly aroused in the night to 
go for the doctor, and when he reached the physician’s residence no one was at 
home but the latter’s wife.  On hearing a knock at the door she inquired who 
was there, but the man being very deaf did not hear the question.  He then 
tried the front door, and afterwards the rear door and windows, whereupon the 
woman, being alarmed, threatened to shoot if he did not leave.  Not hearing 
this threat either, he continued rattling at the door, whereupon the woman 
thoroughly frightened, raised a pistol and fired, the ball passing through the 
door killing the visitor almost instantly.
	A tragedy similar to his occurred in Barbour county a few weeks ago, 
the particulars of which, as our readers will remember, were printed in the 
CLIPPER at the time.  In this case it was a brother who, being deaf, was 
killed on the supposition that he was a burglar.

IF YOU GET DRUNK Dec. 25th, you will not be celebrating the Christ-mas but 
Devil-ism.

A NEW DOUBLE BABY – from The Times of India
	There is at present in Bombay a living object among the most curios 
phenomena of nature.  At a house in Mazagon may be seen a pair of female 
twins, separate in every respect bu t from the breast bone to the lower part 
of the abdomen, which is closely joined.  The upper breast bone of each infant 
is linked into the other, the outer skin covering both trunks.  the twins are 
joined front to front. Shoulders, arms, lover limbs, and feet perfectly 
formed, and developing healthy,  while the heads are well shaped and the faces 
really pretty, with beautiful eyes, large and bright.  The twins are six 
months and twenty days old, are in perfect health and measure twenty inches in 
height, one appearing – but in a very trifling degree – larger than the 
other.  Both have vigorous appetites, and take kindly to the feeding bottle, 
are extremely lively and appear good tempered.  The pulses beat in unison, 
they generally fall asleep of keep awake together, and their actions are 
unusually simultaneous, though sometimes one would cry while the other was 
quietly drawing at the mouthpiece of its bottle.  The strangely united pair 
were born at Dapooli, in the Rutnagherry Collectorate, the father being a 
Mohammedan and a seafaring man, while the mother has besides a pretty little 
daughter about ten.  According to the former’s account, he called in a native 
doctor at Rutnagherry, whose opinion was that there was a connection 
internally between the abdomens, so that of whatever substance the one took a 
portion passed to the other.  However that may be, the infants feed 
separately, each having a bottle to itself, and draw vigorously at their 
nourishment.  This same doctor also declared it would be impossible to 
separate them without extinguishing life.  The twins have up to this time 
never been ill, and to every appearance are likely to grow up.

THE EXPLANATION of a mysterious disappearance twenty-nine years ago is now 
offered.  At Point Rock, near Lampasas, Texas, the skeleton of a man named 
JOHN ROAN was found in a cavern late in November.  Near the skeleton was a 
rusty blade of a bowie knife, with the handle rotten with age.  On a smooth 
limestone rock was carved in capital letters the following: I fell in here 
four days ago when the Indians were running me.  I am starving.  If Bill 
don’t’ find me tomorrow I will run this knife through my heart.  I can’t stand 
to starve to death.  JOHN ROAN.  The date of the inscription was November 1, 
1850.  The man had fallen twenty-five feet into the cavern.

HAS A PARENT of guardian the right to dictate what branch of study a child or 
ward shall omit in a public school course?  The Judge of a court in Pomeroy, 
Ohio, thinks this right exists.  WILLIAM TUCKER sued the Board of Education 
and recovered $35 damages, for depriving his daughter of the privilege of the 
public school.  The Board had decided that all pupils should learn drawing. 
Tucker give notice to the teacher that his daughter must not study that 
branch, and the Board, in consequence expelled her.

The editor of one of our most valued exchanges, proud of the telephone 
connecting his house and office, shouted to his wife.  “Mr. Skidd will dine 
with us today,” and turning to the prospective guest, said, “Now you can say a 
word to her,” but as he was about to do so, the words came distinctly, “Tell 
him we don’t keep a restaurant on washing day.”  Skidd made an excuse and went 
to an eating house.

A TRULY RURAL ROMANCE – from St. Louis Republican
	Wellsville, Alleghany County, New York, lately developed a rural 
romance out of the usual way.  William Freeman had worked as a boy several 
years for farmers in the vicinity of Wellsville.  He was a good boy, and the 
people called him “Handsome Billy” on account of his fine face.  He finally 
rented a small farm, engage a widow as housekeeper and her nephew as a farm 
hand.  There were several burglaries and robberies in Wellsville, and some of 
the goods stolen were found in Freeman’s house.  He stoutly denied the 
robberies, but the grand jury found a bill of indictment.  At the trial he 
pleaded guilty, and was sent to the penitentiary for eighteen months.  But 
after all the people of Wellsville did not believe that Freeman did the crime 
to which he pleaded and for which he was suffering imprisonment.  The actions 
of his housekeeper’s nephew had opened their eyes, and Gov. Robinson was 
appealed to for a pardon, which was finally granted, and William Freeman was 
set free.  He immediately disappeared, and there came to Wellsville a handsome 
woman, who knew all the people very well, although all the people very well, 
although they did not at first know her.
	It was “handsome Billy” in petticoats, as she now introduced herself 
as Mary Ann Safer.  She gave her history previous to her appearing among them 
as a boy.  She was the daughter of German immigrants; her father died soon 
after they landed; her mother married again; her step father would not support 
her, and, at eleven years of age she donned a boys suit, and left home to seek 
her fortune.  She was then twenty-three, and for twelve years she had 
concealed her sex, and run on canal boats and worked on farms for a 
livelihood.  In regard to the robberies, for which she was sent to prison, she 
said they were committed by the housekeeper’s nephew, who visited her in jail 
and declared that if she did not plead guilty he would kill her, and she 
believed he would carry out his threat, and that the safest place for her was 
in the penitentiary.  That was the cause of her pleading.  When she was 
pardoned and released she thought the safest refuge would be her own proper 
woman’s apparel.  And she made as pretty a woman as “Handsome Billy” had been 
a boy.  The Wellsville merchant, whose store she was charged with robbing, and 
who had been the cause of her wrongful imprisonment, made her all the 
reparation in his power.  He met her, apologized, loved, proposed, and married 
her.

The Uniontown Press states that not a great while since, down in Marengo, a 
colored practitioner of the Healing Art, having been called upon by one of his 
friends who was suffering with the dropsy, proceeded to treat the case in the 
following manner:  He dug a hole in the ground about feet deep (sic), filled 
it with brush and rubbish, which were burned.  This process made the hole 
pretty warm.  The patient was then placed in this hole on a chair, and his 
head carefully covered over with blankets and quilts.  This treatment was 
designed to get off the dropsical water by perspiration.  It is called the 
treatment by exurdation.  It would have succeeded admirably, but the patient’s 
breath happened to exude from his body sooner that the dropisical waters.  For 
as simple a thing as this, it is said the practitioner will be arrested.  “O 
tempora!  O mores!”

Treeless Iowa is being transformed into a forest-covered country by a law 
which remits certain taxes for five years on every acre of fruit and ten years 
on every acres of forest trees planted and kept alive.  Over 75,000 acres of 
fruit and forest trees have been planted, and $200,000 dollars have been 
remitted in taxes.

A SHORT TIME SINCE COL. A. F. GEORGE, of Barbour County, employed a man by the 
name of J. M. HORNE to paint his house.  Col. George resides about five miles 
from Spring Hill, on the Montgomery and Eufala Railroad.  During the time 
Horne was employed in painting the house, COL. G. missed eleven hundred 
dollars in cash, which he had tucked up in  a private drawer.  He suspected 
that the painter had discovered the whereabouts of this money and had stolen 
it out and concealed it, but he said nothing, keeping a close watch on the 
fellow and his movements.  When Horne had completed the work and was on his 
way to the depot to take the cars, Col. George followed and overtook him and 
charged him with having stolen the money.  Horne was completely taken by 
surprise, and in his fright confessed that he had stolen the money, and had 
the most of it concealed about his person.  Col. George made him hand over all 
the money he had, which amounted to something over $900.  What became of the 
remained the painter could not or would not tell.  He was taken by COL. GEORGE 
to Clayton where, in default of bond in the sum of $1,000, he was lodged in 
jail to wait the action of the next grand jury.  HORNE belongs to that 
numerous class of persons known as tramps – the most of whom have lost all 
sense of honor and shame.  When given honest employment they do not appreciate 
it, but take advantage of the opportunities thus given tem to steal everything 
valuable they can get their hands on.  the conduct of this fellow should serve 
as a warning to all who employ this sort of characters to keep a close and 
constant watch on them – [Mont. Adv]

The Mont. Adv. says:  The following interesting item appears as a 
communication in the Opelika Observer of the 11th inst.  There is enough 
romance about this event that would eclipse anything Mrs. Southworth has ever 
given the public:
Messr. Editors:
	On the 24th of November last, while on the cars from Montgomery to 
Opelika, I was introduced by our townsman and brother, I. D. HOUSER, to a MR. 
F. M. POOSER, of Montgomery County, Ala., who was on his way to South 
Carolina, to meet and marry MISS KATE CURRY, which meeting would be the first 
in their lives.  The entire courtship was carried on by mail, and upon an 
exchange of pictures, they agreed to end their romance by being made husband 
and wife, and a postal before me now of the 2nd of December, informs me that 
they were married today at 11 ½ o’clock.  Mr. Pooser says, “She is even more 
than I dared to hope for.  She possesses all that it sound in lovely woman.”
JOHN A WHITAKER, Opelika, Ala., Dec 6, 1879

MISS LAFLEACHER, a daughter of White Eagle, head of the Omaha Indians, in a 
talk recently with a newspaper man said of the Indian question:
	“You hear but one side.  We have no newspaper to tell our story.  I 
tell you the soldiers do things with the prisoners or the dead as horrible as 
any Indian could think of.  Then you people are almost always the aggressors.  
I’ll tell you a case I know of.  Two young white men met an Indian with a 
basket of potatoes.  One of them said he would like to say when he went home 
to the East that he had shot an Indian.  The other told him to shoot this one. 
He drew a revolver and shot him.  The Indian was an Omaha.  Oh, I tell you, if 
it had been a Sioux or a Cheyenne you would have heard of it.  But we knew we 
would gain nothing, and nothing was done.  I propose that you white people 
tray us on a platform of plain honesty, and let us be citizens.  We now are 
farmers, and are doing well.  We want to stay there and want assurance that we 
can live like other farmers.  We have deposed the chiefs, and want to be just 
like any other citizens of the state.”

The TOWN COUCIL of Warrior have placed the license on retail liquor dealers at 
$300 for 1880.

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.
(LARGE PART OF COLUMN CUT OUT)

 (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 19, 1879

It is requested that the Democratic Executive Committee meet in convention in 
town on the 2nd Saturday in January.

MR. and MRS. D. L. SPROUSE’S little infant baby was seriously burnt on the 
back of its head one day last week by crawling into the fire while its mother 
was in an adjoining room.  We hope it may soon recover.

The latest musical instrument in town is at the resident of friend DR. W. A. 
BROWN.  The organette.  It beats any hand organ in town.

G. C. LAWRENCE and STEVE CASH gone to Columbus.

DR. BROWN and Mr. J. THOMAS BURROW returned Wednesday from an extended trip 
east.  They saw GRA-NT (sic).

Lake the horse that was operated upon some weeks since is in a doubtful 
condition.  The place where the tumor was is dreadful to look at.  His 
suffering is intense.

D. J. LACEY gone to Columbus.  We’ll venture he went through in a day, for 
he’s a dri-ver, and business, strictly.

By a private letter from our friend and brother, REV. JAS. T. MILLER, we give 
below the various appointments enacted by the late M. E. Conference at 
Tuskaloosa:
Tuskaloosa District – L. M. WILSON, Presiding Elder
Tuskaloosa Station – ROBT. T. NABORS
North Port Circuit – T. G. SLAUGHTER
North River Mission – C. S. D. LASSITER
Sheffield Circuit- J. L. FERGUSON
Gordo Circuit – C. M. LIVINGSTON
Clear Creek Mission – G. W. HEWITT
Carrollton Circuit – W. M. P. RIPPEY
Jasper Circuit – J. E. ANDREWS
Yorkville Circuit – Z. GODBY
Fayette Circuit – D. S. MCDONALD
Vernon Circuit – J. J. CROW
Luxapilila Circuit – E. F. S. ROBERTS
Bexar Circuit – JAS. T. MILLER
Pikeville Circuit – T. G. CANSLER
The next Conference meets at Oxford.

The Jasper Eagle says:  On Monday night of last week some one or more persons 
entered MR. STANLEY’S store by boring the lock out of the back door.  The 
blacksmith bellows, sledge hammer, punches, etc., from Williams shop were 
carried down, and a grand effort made to open the combination safe.  The safe 
was thrown on the back, a rough forge of bricks built on the door, and the 
idea seemed to have been to “melt the thing.”  But it wouldn’t “melt” worth a 
cent.  The combination bolt and knob were knocked off of the door, which now 
prevents the safe being opened except by force.
	This is certainly the most daring adventure we have had practiced in 
our town.  The night was very favorable, and they came “as a thief in the 
night.”  Several articles were taken from the store.  A wagoner slept on a 
cotton platform not twenty yards off; he heard the noise, but paid no 
attention to it.  Somebody’s going to get hurt about this place yet!

Birmingham Iron Age:  We learn that some fiend in human shape went to the lot 
of W. H. WOOD, Esq, on Sunday last while the family were at church and ruined 
a fine young horse by cutting out his tongue almost at the root.  A wretch who 
would be guilty of such a deed deserves swinging to the nearest limb.

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 Brothers perfect fitting spectacles.  Gilmer Hotel 
Corner, Columbus, Miss.

Two century plants have recently been planted near the capitol building.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

THE BEST PAPER!  Try it!  Beautifully Illustrated.  35th Year.  THE SCIENTIFIC 
AMERICAN.  The Scientific American is a large first-class weekly newspaper of 
sixteen pages, printed in the most beautiful style, profusely illustrated with 
splendid engravings, representing the newest inventions and the most recent 
advances in the arts and sciences; including new and interesting facts in 
Agriculture, Horticulture, the Home,  Health, Medical Progress, Social 
Science, Natural History, Geology, Astronomy.  The most valuable practical 
papers, by eminent writers in all departments of Science, will be found in the 
Scientific American.  Terms, $3.20 per year, $1.60 half year, which includes 
postage, Discount to Agents.  Single copies, ten cents.  Sold by all news 
dealers.  Remit by postal order to Munn & Co., Publishers 37 Park Row, New York

PATENTS.  In connection with the Scientific American, Messrs Munn & Co., are 
Solicitors of American and Foreign Patents, have had 35 years experience, and 
now have the largest establishment in the world.  Patents are obtained on the 
best terms.  A special notice is made in the Scientific American of all 
Inventions patented through this agency, with the name and residence of the 
Patentee. By the immense circulation thus given, public attention is directed 
to the merits of the new patent, and sales or introduction often easily 
effected.  Any persons who has made a new discovery or invention, can 
ascertain, free of charge, whether a patent can probably be obtained, by 
writing to Munn & Co.  We also send free our Hand book about the Patent Laws, 
Patents, Caveats, Trade Marks, their costs, and how procured, with hints for 
procuring advances on inventions.  Address for the paper, or concerning 
patents.  Munn & Co., 37 Park Row New York.  Branch office, Cor. F & 7th Sts, 
Washington, D. C. 

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

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
One copy one year		$1.50
One copy six months	$1.00
Rates of Advertising
One inch, one insertion		$1.00
One inch, each subsequent insertion	    .50
One inch, twelve months		10.00
One inch, six months		  7.00
One inch, three months		  5.00
Two inches, twelve months		15.00
Two inches, six months		10.00
Two inches, three months		  7.00
Quarter Column 12 months		35.00
Half Column 12 months		60.00
One Column, 12 months		100.00
One Column, 3 months		35.00
One Column, 6 months		60.00
Professional Cards $10.00
Special advertisements in local columns will be charged double rates.  
Advertisements collectable after first insertion.  Local notices 10 cents per 
line.  Obituaries, tributes of respect, etc. making over ten lines, charged 
advertising rates.

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

Bring your job printing to the CLIPPER.  We print all kinds of blanks, deeds, 
mortgages, law briefs, cards, tags, circulars, bill heads, letter heads, note 
heads, statements, poster work.  We propose to do all kinds of job printing as 
neat and as cheap as any city, either North or South, and our work is equal to 
any.  When you want any kind of job printing done, please don’t fail to 
examine our specimens before going elsewhere.  Blank Waive Notes for sale at 
this Office.

The Light Running New Home (picture of sewing machine).  A model of 
simplicity, Strength and Beauty, Never gets out of order.  A pattern of 
perfection.  Makes no noise.  Does not fatigue the operator.  Latest.  
Improved.  Best.  Agents wanted.  Johnson, Clarke, & o., 30 Union Square, New 
York City.  Orange, Mass.

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THE SOUTHERN FARMER

TOPICS FOR FARMERS

FALL CARE OF CALVES – It often happens that calves make a fair growth in the 
early part of the season, while they get whole milk, or even a plentiful 
supply of skimmed milk; but when these are withdrawn, if suddenly, they are 
not able to keep up condition.  If they have been supplied for some time with 
a good pasture, or fed green food, or hay in racks, and become accustomed 
gradually to depend upon such food, they will not fall off much in 
condition.   But the skillful feeder will strive to keep his calves constantly 
growing – constantly developing every part of the system.  And, as milk is 
withdrawn, it becomes important to substitute some concentrated food in its 
place, so that the nutriment may be abundant to keep up its calf-flesh.  Any 
check in growth is at the loss of the feeder, for it will cost extra feed to 
regain it afterward, besides the loss of time.  The pasture also, usually 
becomes less nutritious, and there is the more necessity that some extra food 
should be given.
	Here, the most important food that can be given for a substitute for 
milk, is linseed-oil cake or oil-meal.  It is the food principally used for 
this purpose by the best English feeders. The calf is quite apt to become 
constipated when the milk is discontinued, and the oil-meal is slightly 
laxative, having a small percentage of oil, which has a soothing effect upon 
the stomach and intestines.  It is also very nitrogenous, being, in this 
respect, similar to milk.  It is not necessary to feed more than one pint of 
oil-meal per day to each calf.  Calves may be accustomed to eat a quart of oil-
meal and middlings mixed before the milk is wholly withdrawn.  Oats are an 
excellent food for calves, and they should be taught early to eat them.  The 
calf seems to have the power of digesting oats very well without grinding.  A 
pinto of oats given to each calf at first, and soon increased to one or two 
quarts, will keep the growth steady.  Oats are the best single substitute for 
oil-meal, but wheat middlings and oats make an excellent combination.  A 
little corn mingled with these will do very well; but corn, as a single food, 
should be avoided for young animals.  The albumoilds and phosphates are in too 
small proportion in corm to grow they muscles and bones.
	As a simple question of economy, calves should get a small grain 
ration all through August and the fall months.  This extra food will pay the 
greatest profit, for it will add, as a general rule, two dollars to the value 
of the calf for each dollar in food given.  Another important consideration 
is, that the better condition of the young animal the better it will stand the 
cold weather when it comes.  This is the more important to western feeders, 
who do not provide warn winter quarters for their calves.  A nice layer of fat 
on the outside is equal to a heavy overcoat to the human being.  Every feeder 
must see that his success in raising good cattle will depend largely upon his 
treatment of the calf.
	
AN OLD POULTRY RAISER, who believes in milk for fowls, says:  “It is meat and 
drink both.  Some of the finest chickens I ever saw were raised upon the free 
use of milk with their food.  Hens lay as well, or better, when furnished with 
this than upon any known articles offered them.”
	
Cracks or joints in a stove may, it is said, be easily closed in a moment with 
a composition consisting of wood ashes and common salt, made into a paste with 
a little water, plastered over the crack.  The effect is equally certain 
whether the stove be hot or cold.

Make a composition of four pounds resin, one pint of linseed oil and one ounce 
of red lead.  Apply it hot with a brush to the place where the L joins the 
main house, or for a dormer window that leaks, or round chimneys.  For making 
water casks tight it has always proved effectual.

If troubled with wakefulness, follow these rules:  Eat nothing hearty after 
sunset.  Calm your mind before retiring.  Go to bed at a regular hour.  When 
you wake, rise and dress at once, no matter how early in the morning.  Never 
sleep in the day.  These five rules observed will insure sleep.

Lime is an old-fashioned fertilizer, but it should not for that reason be 
neglected.  It is cheap, and rarely fails to pay well for its use when land is 
to be seeded to grass and clover.  Forty bushels per acre of air-slacked lime 
usually spread from the wagon with a long-handled shovel upon the plowed 
ground, and harrowed in with the seed.  It will do no harm to put on the lime 
immediately after manure if it is harrowed in at once.

From all parts of the northwest we have reports of great shrinkage of milk – 
enough to warrant the belief, that from this cause there will be a falling off 
of the cheese product of fully twenty-five per cent, as compared with last 
year, while the universal change from cheese to butter in Iowa will still 
further reduce the amount.  There will be an increase in the amount of butter 
produced this year over last throughout the northwest.

Those who have stock to fatten and to dispose of in some way, should now feed 
them well.  In addition to good pasture, give then a few ears of corn each 
day.  Very few people will buy stock that is thin in flesh.  Buyers want fat 
cattle, fat sheep, fat hogs and even fat horses and mules.  If they are thin, 
many a sale will be spoiled.  Corn put into stock will bring a much higher 
price than if hauled to market and sold by the bushel.

Nearly every farmer who raises stock has some that it will not pay to keep 
longer.  Just as soon as stock reaches maturity they should be sold.  It is a 
daily loss to keep them longer.  They soon eat themselves up – that is, they 
will soon consume their own value in food.  Hogs that are nine to ten months 
old should be fattened and killed.  Cows that are getting old should be 
disposed of.  Two to three year old steers should be sold.  Horses that are 
not needed should be put in marketable shape and sent to market.  Get rid of 
the poorest, and feed the balance what they would have eaten.  Hold on to the 
best, and continue to make them better still.

In showing how extremely sensitive butter and milk are to foreign odors, and 
how rapidly they absorb them, Dr. Nichols states that he has known a choice 
pan of butter spoiled by a farmer walking in the dairy room with his cow-stall 
boot on, covered with animal excrement.

We have thought, and still think, that farmers, in the west particularly, are 
too neglectful of the little things which contribute so much to the pleasures 
and comforts of themselves and families.  Farmer’s lives, it is proverbially 
said, are not easy ones; that work is their portion, homespun clothing and 
coarse fare their compensation.  However true this condition of things may be, 
or has been in the past, we are satisfied that the farmer himself, not his 
occupation or his farm, is , or will be hereafter, to blame. – [Burlington 
Hawkeye]

Three classes of farmers deal out salt to stock very sparingly: Those who come 
from foreign countries where it is scarce or where the government collects a 
revenue on it; those who were brought up near the seashore, where the soil and 
air always contain traces of salt, and those who think anything purchased with 
money is too valuable to be fed to stock.  All intelligent persons are aware 
of the fact that salt is quite essential to the well-being of animals as 
water, and that it is unwise to stint the supply of one as the other.  It is 
not too much to say that stock of all kinds should have a supply of sat within 
reach at all times.  Giving them salt once a week is not sufficient.  If only 
dealt out at the close of long intervals, they will eat too much and suffer in 
consequence, while they will undergo discomfort before they have an 
opportunity again to partake of it.

POULTRY – Beware of carbolic acid used on poultry. Unless you are accustomed 
to using it, you are more apt to kill than cure.  Better to keep the chickens 
healthy by keeping them dry in coops out on clean ground, with good feed and 
clean water, and kill any sick ones, rather than kill all.  Care, caution and 
common sense will raise more chickens than all other remedies combined.

TOPICS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD

BAKING MEATS – In baking meat and fish, besides keeping the bottom of the pan 
covered with broth or water, place a piece of bettered paper over the object 
in the pan.  It not only prevents it from burning, but acts as a self-basting 
operation and keeps the top moist and juicy.

QUINCE MARMALADE – Gather the fruit when quite ripe; pare, quarter, and core 
it.  Boil the skins in the water measuring a teacupful to a pound of fruit.  
When they are soft, mash and strain them, and put back the water into the 
preserving kettle.  Add the quinces and boil them until they are soft enough 
to mash fine.  Rub through a sieve, and put three quarters of a pound of sugar 
to a pound of fruit.  Stir them well together, and boil them over a slow fire 
until it will fall like jelly from a spoon.  Pour it in pots or tumblers, and 
secure it, when cold, with paper sealed to the edge of the jar with the white 
of an egg.

TOMATO CATSUP – Mrs. Endicot says in the Rural New Yorker:  Select perfectly 
ripe sound tomatoes, cut in slices, and boil them until the pulp is cooked 
out.  Rub it through a sieve to take out the skins and seeds, and return to 
the kettle for cooking.  To each gallon of the pulp add three tablespoonful 
each of salt, ground pepper and mustard, and one each of ground cloves and 
allspice.  Cook it until it is thick enough to run slowly from a bottle.  Let 
it get cold, bottle and seal.  I made what we call “farmer’s rice,” for 
dessert for dinner today.  We all enjoyed it so much that there was not enough 
left for baby Katy’s supper, as I intended there should be.  It is so easily 
and quickly made, I wonder it is not oftener found on country tables.  I put 
about three quarts of milk on the stove in a pan.  While it was coming to a 
boil, I mixed two eggs with flour until it was dry enough to roll through my 
fingers in grains.  Then stirred it into the milk quickly, so as to keep it 
cooking all the time.  Five minutes are long enough to finish it.  Turn into a 
dish and eat while warm with plenty of cream and sugar.

COOKING POTATOES – The potato is by no means nutritious, even when properly 
cooked, being but little more than a mass of starch and water, mainly water.  
It contains, however, certain more valuable salts designed for and adapted to 
the developments of the bones, and also now supposed to aid in the prevention 
and removal of the scurvy.  The starch, more easily digested than that of 
peas, beans, etc. does but little toward sustaining the body, save to fatten 
and to evolve animal heat.  To be fat is not to be in health; both fatness and 
cleanness, in the extreme, being equal evidence of impaired health.  Recent 
chemical investigations have demonstrated the fact that a large percent of 
these more valuable elements intended for the true nourishment or for strength 
and solidity, is wasted by the ordinary boiling processes, as may be easily 
proved by an examination of the water in which they are boiled.  It is far 
better to bake them, though it is well to allow them to soak for a few 
minutes – half an hour – in cold water before baking.  Or they may be steamed, 
the skins remaining on that the least possible amount of these salts may 
escape.  It is evident that paring them before baking or steaming must 
accelerate the escape of these salts.  If baked, it is proper to say, that if 
eaten as most are without the removal of the parings, these when rough or 
unusually tough must materially irritate the coat of the stomach, tending to 
disease – inflammation.  The same remark applies to the coarse and rasping 
hulls of some grains, as those of oats, etc., and the rough rinds of fruit. – 
[Dr. J. H. HANAFORD]

 A LAWYER’S PREDICAMENT
A sensation was created in Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday, by a young woman 
meeting a prominent young lawyer on the street and presenting him with a two-
weeks old child, alleging that he was the father of it.  He refused to accept 
it and walked off, but she followed him down the street, carrying the baby.  A 
large crowd of interested people followed in the wake of the principals, and 
altogether the young lawyer had a very unpleasant time of it.

A STRANGE CORNER OF THE WORLD – from the New York Tribune
	It may be some time yet before the full significance of the daring 
voyage of the Vega along the north coast of Asia, with reference to 
navigation, is fully known.  Professor Nordenskjold has not yet reported his 
views upon that point.  He has merely told us a few facts.  For instance, he 
says he has discovered that the coast of Siberia, west of the Lena, is a vast 
plain, devoid of trees, in the navigation to which an encounter with 
impenetrable iceloes is generally to be feared.  There are no great islands 
out to sea there to prevent the wind from driving the ice down toward the 
land; and there are vast distances where few rivers empty into the polar 
Ocean, and by their warm current, preserve a space of open water along the 
shore.  For several hundred miles in the vicinity of the Lena, however, great 
rivers pout into the ocean and large islands lie off to the northward and 
there is almost no ice along shore.  East of the Kolima, toward Behring 
Strait, there are no great rivers, and although the climate is milder and the 
woodlands creep down almost to the sea, the frozen floes crowd closer to the 
shore, and in the fall and winter they are liable to bar the way to shipping.  
They gave Nordenskjold great trouble, and on the 27th of September they left 
him enchained in solid ice a few miles from the open water north of Behring 
Strait, and only 130 miles from the strait itself.  They kept him there eight 
weary moths.  While communicating these facts the daring Swede has not yet 
published his conclusions thereupon.
	If he has left us in the dark in regard to the commercial navigation 
of the Siberian coast, however, he has at least taken the pains to reveal the 
interesting nature of the region he has just passed through.  When the ice 
closed in upon the Vega, and left the stout ship enslaved in those northern 
solitudes, Porf. Nordenskjold wrote a letter to Dr. Oscar Dickson, the main 
contributor toward the fitting out of the expedition, describing the scenes 
along the coast.  the letter, dispatched on the 20th of February, has at last 
reached its destination, and is now published in the London Standard.  The 
letter calls attention, in the first palce, to a group of island which are 
very remarkable from a scientific point of view.  The islands, the New 
Siberian, open the book of the history of the world at a new place.  The 
ground there is strewn with wonderful fossils.  Whole hills are covered with 
the bones of the mammoth, rhinoceros, horses, uri, bison, oxen, sheep, etc.  
The sea washes up ivory upon the shores.  In this group is possibly to be 
found the solution of the question of the ancestry of the Indian elephant, and 
important facts with regard to the vertebrates which existed at the time of 
man’s first appearance upon earth.  How came horses and sheep in a region now 
locked in the fetters of an eternal winter, uninhabited by man, not now 
supporting animal life in any form, and almost impossible of access?  Prof. 
Nordenskjold was unable to solve the question himself, and he suggests that it 
is of the utmost importance to science to send a light draught steel steamer 
to these islands for a thorough exploration.

INFANTICIDE IN INDIA
	Infanticide is still common in India, notwithstanding the efforts of a 
special judicial department created to suppress it. Only girls are murdered.  
The infant is destroyed in the room when it is born, and then it is buried 
under the floor of the same room.  On the thirteenth day the village priest 
calls, and cooks and eats his food in the same room.  This is considered a 
burnt offering and by this act the priest takes all the sin of the murder upon 
his own soul, and the family is free from it.  As soon as the baby is born its 
mouth is filled with the milk of the shrub aselipics gigantra, and than it is 
plastered over with mud.  Respiration is impossible.  When the first girl baby 
is wrenched away in this brutal manner, the mother cries and groans a good 
deal, but after she has lost two or three she gets used to it, and makes no 
resistance.  After the murder and burial, and burnt offering, the parents 
again occupy the room and receive guests in it as usual.  The requirement of a 
dowry in order to marry off a daughter is the chief reason for the practice.

WRITING MATERIALS 
The materials used for writing have varied in different ages and nations.  
Among the Egyptians slices of limestone, leather, lime, and papyrus – 
especially the last –w ere universally employed.  The Greeks used bronze and 
stone for public monuments, wax for memorandums, and papyrus for the ordinary 
transactions of life.  The kings of Pergamus adopted parchment, and the other 
nations of the ancient world chiefly depended on the paper of Egypt.  But 
Assyrians and Babylonians employed for their public documents, their 
historical annals, and even for their title deeds and bills of exchange, 
tablets, cylinders, and hexagonal prisms of terra cotta.  Some of these 
cylinders, still extant, contain valuable records of ancient history.  To this 
indestructible material, and happy idea of employing it in this manner the 
present age is indebted for a detailed history of the Assyrians monarchy; 
whilst the decades of Livy, the plays of Leander, and the laws Anacreon, 
confided to a perishable material, have either wholly or partly disappeared 
among the wreck of empires.

A MINISTER ONCE told Wendell Phillips that if his business in life was to save 
the negroes, he ought to go South, where they were, and do it.  “That is worth 
thinking of,” replied Phillips; “and what is you business in life?” “To save 
men from going to hell,” replied the minister.  “Then go there and attend to 
your business!” said Mr. Phillips.

THE NERVES AS A SOURCE OF TRIAL.  Instead of being a vehicle for agreeable 
sensations some people’s nerves are a most distressing endowment.  Such 
suffers, it will usually be found, are dyspeptic, lack vitality and flesh.  
What they need is more vigor.  There is a means of obtaining it if they will 
but avail themselves of that means.  It is Hostetter’s Bitters, a tonic which 
experience has shown to be of the utmost service to the diblilitated, nervous 
and dyspeptic.  Digestion restored upon a permanent basis by the Bitters, 
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which the nerves are one of the most important, are properly nourished and 
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obstacles to a return to health removed by increasing vitality.  Instead of 
nervous prostration, new strength and vitality will be infused into the whole 
motive machinery.

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To be of permanent benefit a medicine must reach the source of the disease.  
the reason why Scovil’s Blood and Liver Syrup is so successful in overcoming 
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The genuine Asbestos Steam Pipe and Boiler Coverings are th emost durable, 
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A neglected cough, cold, or sore throat, which might be checked by a simple 
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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.

Daughters, Wives and Mothers.  …(too small to read)

Truth and Honor.  Query:  What is the best family medicine in the world to 
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Hop Bitters, being pure, perfect and harmless – Ed. Independent.

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$2500 a year guaranteed (too small to read)

Mark Twain’s New Book, THE TRAMP ABROAD! Good times for agents ahead.  
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Adelina Patti, Royal Italian Opera, convent Garden, London, Engl, June 16, 
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Franch Champlin’s Liquid Pear is sold by all druggists at only 50 cents a 
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Saponifier is the old reliable concentrate lye for family sap making.  
Directions accompanying each can for making hard, soft, and toilet soap 
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$66 a week in your own town.  Terms and $5 outfit free.  Address H. Haley & 
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Ridge’s Food for infants and invalids.  The best food in the world for 
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Trust to Hunt’s Remedy Hunt’s remedy…(too small to read)

Cure yourself.  Just published, and selling like wild-fire, a book entitled 
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Masonic supplies for lodges, chapters, and commanders, manufactured by M. C. 
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The Rising Sun Stove Polish.  For beauty of polish, saving labor, cleanliness 
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For two generations the good and staunch old stand-by Mexican Mustang 
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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. 

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$77 a month and expenses guaranteed for agents.  Outfit free.  Shaw & Co., 
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$777 a year and expenses to agents.  Outfit free.  Address PO Vickery, 
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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.

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

$10 to $1000 invested in Wall-Street stocks makes fortunes every month.  Book 
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Big Pay – (too small to read)

$1425 profits on 30 days investment of $100. Proportional returns every week 
on stock options of $20,  $50, $100, $500.  Official reports and circulars 
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Pure teas.  Agent wanted everywhere to sell to families, hotels, and large 
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store-keeper. Should call or write The Wells Tea Company, 201 Fulton St. N. Y. 
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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

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. 

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 

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

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

Wells, Richardson & Co’s Perfected Butter color.  gives butter the gilt-edged 
color the year round.  The largest butter buyers recommend its use.  …..(too 
small to read)


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