Lamar County AlArchives News.....Vernon Courier January 14, 1887 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003775 April 16, 2007, 6:01 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History January 14, 1887 Microfilm Ref Call #371 Microfilm Order #M1992.4966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE VERNON COURIER ALEX A. WALL, Editor and Publisher VERNON, LAMAR CO, ALA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1887 VOL. I. NO. 33 Subscription $1.00 Per Year SOMEBODY PAYS – Poem – [---Pollard, in N. Y. Ledger] NAPOLEON IN TOR BAY - ----Preceding His Departure For His Ocean Prison (NOTE: 1st column is cut off part way) ------ but impossible to realize the ---- excitement with the calm blue ----- of Tor Bay, crested with the ---- sunshine of the summer of 1815, -- -- when the Emperor Napoleon ---on board the Bellerophon, soon --- transferred to the Northumberland---- which he was conveyed to St. ----. After the world earthquake, --- when the allies entered Paris, --- French army declared for Louis --- Napoleon made his way to ---, where in arrival on the 3d --- and whence his attempts at escape --- to frustrated by the moonlight ---- igilance of the English cruisers. --- rates had been placed at his dis---- facilities his flight to America. Arrangements likewise made with a ---- marck which was to await him --- ; but to reach her under the ---- ance was deemed an attempt to --- At last, on the 14th of July, ---- Cases and General Allemand --- board the Bellerophon, then --- on the Basque Roads, with --- to Captain Maitland that --- receive Napoleon, who --- to proceed to England for the --- of throwing himself upon the mercies of the Prince Regent. Captain Maitland clearly explained that if --- of his power to grant terms of --- and that his instructions were only for him to convey Napoleon and --- to England; on which --- the ex-Emperor, with his ---, embarked the following morning on board a French brig, which con--- to the Bellerophon, where --- received with the honors due to --- lead. On gaining the quar --- the Emperor said in French to --- ain: “I am come, sir, to claim --- action of your Prince and of --- In appearance he is de---- about five and a half feet in --- strongly made, decidedly stout, sallow complexion, and dark hair, as yet untouched with gray. --- a green uniform coat with --- and a red collar, a broad red-- – on the left breast, white waist--- and pantaloons, and a large --– hat with the tri-colored cock---- ---- passage, by reason of adverse --- was slow, so that it was the --- - the Bellerophon arrived in Tor Bay when Captain Maitland was signaled to stand out three leagues from --- and there wait further orders ---- the Admiralty. It is said that on --- holding the Devonshire coast, --- could not conceal his admiration exclaiming: “At length here is --- beautiful country! How much it --- Porto Ferrajo, in Elba.” ---- sooner was it known that the dis- --- of the peace of Europe, against --- hey had so long and so sternly --- was actually on board ship at ---- in Tor Bay, than from Dart---- Paignton, Dawlish, Teign--- and by-and-by from ports more ---- still, the country-folk thronged --- of every size and shape, struggled to approach the Bellerophon to get a glimpse of the fallen Emperor. --- Convenient and dangerous was the --- of these innumerable craft --- cargoes of sight-seers, that it was deemed necessary to order the Bellerophon boats to row round the ship to --- hem at a respectful distance. --- ower than a thousand boats --- put off from the shore; and --- exhibited no little pleasure --- amusement at the interest executed --- presence. From London and all --- of the country, people flocked - --– to Tor Bay during the time --- occupied in determining Napoleon’s final destination, well pleased if it proceeded in catching an occasional glimpse of him as he walked backward and forward in the stern gallery with his hands behind him, or surveyed him with an opera glass the varied text—the crowd in the vessels below. --- paced the quarter-deck in conversation with one or other of his fellow--- would frequently approach the --- side and acknowledge the salutation of his visitors. Two or three young ladies, wives of members of the --- dressed in the height of the prevailing fashion, were frequently seated on deck, with whom, as he passed in his walk and stopped to look through the ports at the vessels alongside, Napoleon would now and again exchange a word. At six o’clock the dinner-bell rang, when the Emperor with his attendants went below, the sailors with great good-humor putting out a board on which was chalked: “He’s gone to dine.” He usually remained about half an hour, when another board announced his reappearance on deck. It was about the 1st of August when his ultimate destination became know to him through the newspapers, and he was shortly afterward observed at the cabin window tearing up papers, which he threw into the sea. Fragments of some of these, being seized upon as relics, turned out to be translations of speeches in the last session of Parliament, and letter addressed to the Empress Maria Louisa immediately after his aldication. But of all the incidents which occurred while Napoleon was in Tor Bay, the most remarkable was a farewell visit paid him by a lady of foreign appearance and surpassing loveliness. Cloaked and veiled, to escape observation, she carried with her a bouquet of choicest flowers, peculiarly arranged in rows, which, when her boat arrived at a convenient distance from the Bellerophon, was dispatched in charge of her servant. As the token of unchanged affection reached the quarter-deck, the lady was observed to raise her veil, disclosing features of exceeding beauty. At first, the bouquet seemed to awaken no memories in Napoleon’s breast, but after a moment, he hastily approached the ship’s side, and steadfastly gazing awhile on the fair form disclosed to view, he waved a last farewell. On Wednesday the 2d of August, the Bellerophon and Tonnant sailed for Plymouth, where it had been intended that the transfer to the Northumberland should be carried out. But in consequence of the loss of life which occurred from the vast concourse of boats in the Sound, as well as to avoid a writ o’ habeas corpus, under which it was desired to obtain the evidence of Napoleon in a case at the time pending in the Queen’s Bench, it was deemed advisable to return to Tor Bay, were on Sunday the 6th of August, the three vessels (the Northumberland having meantime come round from Portsmouth) east anchor. No sooner were the ships brought up, than Sire Henry Bunbury, accompanied by Mr. Bathrist, proceeded on board the Bellerophon, and announced to the ex-Emperor the resolution of the Cabinet, that he should be transported to St. Helena, accompanied by four of his friends and twelve servants. The information was received without surprise; but in a speech of three-quarters of an hour’s duration, delivered in a manner the most impressive, Napoleon protested against the determination which had been arrived at. The same afternoon, Lord Keith and Sir George Cockburn proceeded in the Admiral’s yacht to the Bellerophon. Napoleon was on deck to receive them. After the usual salutations, Lord Keith addressed himself to Bonaparte, and acquainted him with his intended transfer to the Northumberland for passage to St. Helena. After much expostulation, Napoleon finally refused to go; but upon Lord Keith expressing the hope that no coercion would be necessary to carry out the orders of Government, he replied, “O, no, no your command, I must obey. Only recollect, I do not go of my own free will.” He then formally handed to Lord Keith a written protest against his transportation to St. Helena in which it was contended that, having come voluntarily on board the Bellerophon, he was the guest and not the prisoner of England. “I appeal,” he concluded, “to history, whether an enemy who comes deliberately in his misfortunes to seek an asylum under the protection of English law, can give a more convincing proof of his esteem and confidence. But how have the English answered such confidence and magnanimity? They pretended to extend a friendly hand to this enemy; and when he relied on their good faith, they sacrificed him.” It was afterward arranged that the transfer should take place the following morning (Monday) about eleven o’clock. Early next day, Sir George Cockburn superintended the inspection of the baggage, consisting of services and toilet sets of plate, several articles in gold, books, beds, etc which were sent on board the Northumberland four thousand gold napoleons being sealed up and detained. The baggage having been removed the parting scene commenced; Napoleon handing to several of his officer’s a certificate of fidelity and good service. About eleven o’clock the Barge of the Tonnant proceeded to the Bellerophon to receive the fallen Emperor and those who were to be the partakers of his exile; General and Madame Bertrand with their children, Count and Countess Las Cases, General Gourgand, nine men and three women servants. At the last moment Napoleon’s surgeon refused to accompany him, whereupon the surgeon of the Bellerophon, Mr. O’Meara, consented to supply his place. Shortly afterward O’Meara was offered a salary of five hundred pounds per annum, but this he rejected, with the remark that the pay of his King was sufficient to satisfy him. Before entering the barge which was to convey him to the Northumberland, Bonaparte addressed himself to Captain Maitland and the offers of the Bellerophon, not forgetting to take off his hat to them again after descending the ladder into the barge. It was about noon on the 7th of August when the barge of the Tonnant approached the starboard side of the Northumberland. Bertrand was the first to go over the side, and standing with his hat off, upright as a sentinel, announced his master. Napoleon instantly followed and taking off his hat, remarked to Sir George Cockburn, who received him: “Monsiuer, je suis a vos orders.” At once moving forward on the quarter- deck, he desired to be introduced to Captain Ross, commander of the ship, a ceremony that was immediately performed, the guard of marines, drawn upon the port side, receiving the ex-Emperor with the compliment due to his rank as a general officer. To Lord Lowther and Mr. Lyttleton, who stood near the Admiral, Napoleon bowed and spoke a few words remarking also to an artillery officer who was by, that he himself had originally served in that arm. The introduction to the eight Lieutenants of the ship, not one of whom could speak a single world of French, was sufficiently ridiculous; they were drawn up in line on one side of the cabin; and after gazing and smiling for a moment on Napoleon, who, in his turn, gazed and smiled at them, they smiled and defiled before him out of the cabin door. The after-cabin on board the Northumberland was not, as on the Bellerophon, the private room when in Napoleon was not to be intruded upon by any unbidden guest, but was shared equally by the Admiral and his friends; a small cabin being besides appropriated for the sole accommodation of the ex-emperor, and elegantly furnished, the toilet being of silver, and the bed linen of exquisite fineness. The party were also permitted to supply themselves from shore with any articles they might desire wherewith to add to their comfort and amusement, a permission of which they availed themselves by purchasing a billiard–table, an immense supply of playing cards, chessmen &c. besides a number of the best books in the English language. After waiting for the Weymouth store ship and some other vessels destined to complete the miniature squadron, the whole finally sailed out for Tor Bay on Friday, the 11th of August; and Napoleon passed away from the shores of Europe to end his days in exile on a solitary rock in the Atlantic. – [Chamber’s Journal] PHAROAH’S HOUSE – Some of the Relics Recently Collected and Forwarded in Europe It is but a month or two ago that people of an archaeological turn of mind were delighted with the tidings sent home by the Egypt Exploration Fund of the discovery of Pharaoh’s House in Tahpanhes. An account of the wonderful old ruin and its relicques (sic) of a part civilization has been already given; but it may interest many to know that a number of antiquities have been collected and sent home, and have recently been on view at the Archeological Institute at Oxford Mansion. It will be remembered that the ruins were as much those of a military fortress as of a royal residence, and the objects recovered are almost entirely those which would be likely to be found in either of two such places. The first things of interest are the foundation deposits, from under the four corners of the castle, which consists of small vessels, little tablets engraved with the name and titles of the royal founder, Psammetichus I, specimens of ore, etc. The chief articles of jewelry are ear-rings, rings, amulets and engraved stones, bearing traces of Greek craftsmanship, having probably been manufactured by Greek jewelers in the town of Pahpahneis, or Daphne. Numbers of small weights have been turned up while digging among the ruins, which it is thought were for weighting the gold and precious stones previous to purchases. Rome, too, has left her mark among the charred remains of this ancient stronghold, and some rings with name inscribed upon them. And ten gems of good Roman work prove an intercourse with that nation. There is a little silver shrine case in which is a beautiful statuette of the Egyptian war god, Mentu. Possibly, it may have once been a talisman belonging to Pharaoh Hophra. A silver ram’s head and gold handle complete the list of the most important specimens of jewelry. Among the domestic treasures are a long knife, fourteen inches long and quite flat. This comes from Pharaoh’s kitchens; so also do the small frying pans and some bowls, bottles, dishes, plates, and cups, all of which date from BC 550, and were probably used daily by the royal household. An old brasier and some ring-stands have also been brought home. From the butler’s pantry come amphora stoppers, stamped with the cartouches of Psaumetichus I, Necho, Psammetuchus II, and Aahmoz. These were clay stoppers, scaled by the inspector, and then plastered over and stamped with the royal oval. Then specimens of these Mr. Petr’e has sent home. Arrowheads, a sword-handle and part of the blade, a horse’s bit of twisted pattern, some spikes form the top of a Sardinian mercenary’s helmet, knives and lances, and some fragments of scale-armor, show that the old castle had once been a military stronghold. This is but an outline, showing the kind of specimens found among the ruins of El Kasr el Bint el Vahudi (the Castle of the Jew’s Daughter), and serve to add to the innumerable proof – if proof were needed – of the advanced civilization of the ancient Egyptians. It is believed that those antiquities will eventually be divided between the museum at Boulak (Cafro), the British Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts at Boston, U. S. – [Chamber’s Journal] THE NOISY DRUM – Visit to a Town Where Thousands of These Fearful Instruments Are Made The casual visitor would never suspect that the quiet rural village of Granville, Mass, sends out into the world thousands of noise-making instruments, cheap it is true, but none the less welcome to the average boy. This place can practically be called the center and heart of the drum-making business. It turned out 200,000 last year. It was in 1854 that the idea of engaging in the drum-making business first suggested itself to a Mr. Cooley. He had been to Pittsfield, where a relative of his, Samuel Cooley, was making a few drums in an old barn. Disgusted with the business, Samuel Cooley was about to throw it up; he offered it to his nephew, John, with the remark that there was doubtless money in it. Returning to Granville, J. P. Cooley broached the subject to his friend, Noble, whom he found a ready listener. They went to work, made a drum, which is still cherished at the old shop, took it to Boston, showed it, received orders, and coming back invested $4.50 in material, and thus started probably the biggest concern of its kind in the world. The first year, 1854, they built a little shed and altogether turned out 150 drums, mainly of one pattern. Year by year the business increased, their quarters had to be enlarged, their help multiplied, and today 125 men and women are kept busy turning out daily about 1,200 drums. Within the last four years business has greatly developed. The old- fashioned drum with wooden barrel, which was formerly the only kind in the market, is being rapidly supplanted by the neater and lighter model with a tin barrel. For the manufacture of the latter tin of various colors is employed, blue and red predominating, though the large quantities are made of a brass imitation. This tin comes in sheets of two sizes, 14x20 inches and 20x22, the sheets being packed in cases holding 112. These sheets are fist sent to a knife, which cuts them into various lengths, from which drums varying from six and one-half inches across the head to thirteen inches are made. This done the strips are each punched with a hole, then secured and tightened together. Hoops are placed on the inside rims and the barrel is ten ready to receive the sounding skin. This is generally a sheep skin, which is stretched tightly across the head above and below from the outside by hoops. These skins are sent to the factory all ready for use from England. It seems with all their notions and multiplex ideas even imaginative Yankees have not been able to prepare successfully such skins from American sheep. Consequently all are imported from Liverpool. They come in hogsheads holding from 50 to 120 dozen, and cost from $1.75 to $2.50 per dozen. Noble & Cooley expended for skins alone last year $8,000 using mainly the higher priced kind. Previous to using the skins they are stretched and dried by steam in the winter and the sun in summer. Before being stretched over the drum barrels they are once more moistened, generally in a solution of pure water or water slightly tinctured with ammonia. Then remains the tightening of the drum hoops. This is done either by strings or rods. The first are diagonally, leather tighteners being inserted to stiffen the sound skins. The rods are hooked on one end and screwed at the other. Of this latter kind the consumption is over six times that of the old-fashioned. The wooden drums differ but slightly from the above. The barrels in this case are generally base or white wood, occasionally oak. The play hoops are of oak or beech. Before the strip of wood can be used it needs to undergo many processes among others being bending, planning, and sweating. The first drums made to use boiled in open tanks and the limit that could thus be prepared daily was less than fifty. The introduction of machinery and more perfect methods has increased the daily production, so that 2,000 drum pieces is considered nothing more than one man’s fair day’s work. It is interesting to watch the continuations process by which a log, roughly hewn from the forest, is transferred to a drum barrel. The machines which affect this transformation are various. The most important is that which does the slicing. The log, no matter how thick, is placed between the teeth of this huge machine, usually being reduced to three feet in length, and the slicing begins. The knife receives it, and as the log revolves the piece sliced is received on a wooden cylinder and then rolled up. Seventy-five thicknesses make one inch of the log. If, then, the log is three feet through, one revolution will yield a piece nine feet long, and the total length sliced from the log would extend over a mile. Cutting machines further reduce this huge sheet to the desired length. A core of six inches thickness is left, which is taken out of the jaws and split into drum-sticks or ten-pins. The veneers are heated, then bent and are soon ready to be shaped as a drum. There are also planning and sand-paper machines, all run by water power. The strips are put through the bender from three to six at a time. The sticks are smoothed by rolling in revolving barrels, the process being continued for three or four house. This about completes the manufacture of drums, each part being distributed among one hundred and twenty-five workers in the factory. – [Springfield (Mass.) Cor, Detroit Free Press] A writer says that cant is less prevalent than it was. Try to borrow five and see. – [Burlington Free Press] HISTORY OF THE KNIFE – The Primitive Implements Used By Our Most Remote Ancestors. The knife has a much more ancient origin than the fork. It was naturally one of the first implements which primitive man would invent, since it would serve him both in the hunt for food and in preparing it for his wants. The earliest knives were cutting implements of flint, obsidian or other hard stone, susceptible of affording a sharp cutting edge and such crude weapons are still used by savage tribes. Those crude instruments were replaced, as civilization advanced, by others of copper and bronze, and those in their turn by those of iron and steel. The earliest recorded evidence of the use of knives appears in certain ancient Egyptian paintings, in which not only implements of bronze are described, but also those of steel, the first being distinguished by being depicted in red or brown, while the latter are blue. Many evidences of the earlier use of stone knives are apparent in the religious observances of various ancient races. the Egyptian priests are known to have employed them for that purpose; and even at the present time the rite of circumcision is performed, but certain people among whom the custom is maintained, with an instrument of stone. Among the Fijans, when the islands were first discovered, knives of tortoise shell were in use – a fact which Knight humorously alludes to by informing his readers that “with their tortoise-shell knives they dexterously eat up their baka’a (long pig), as they called a baked human carcass, to distinguish it from short pig – the swine, whose meat it is said to resemble.” From the same authority we lean that “one Matthews, on the Fleet Bridge, was the first in England who made fine knives, and that he obtained an act in 1653 against the importation of foreign ones.” – [Christian at Work] WORSHIP AT SEA – An Impressive Order of Exercises Which Has Been In Use for Many Years In fine weather service will be held on deck, with the deep blue waters heaving to the horizon from either side under the awning, the captain, bareheaded, at the table or capstan covered with the ensign, and the sailors and passengers gathered about, reverent in attitude and heartily in voice, effecting a hundred varieties of countenances in the shaded atmosphere, through which the breeze raised by the motion of the vessel, hums pleasantly. But this is not all. A hundred other considerations – such as the voice of the waters mingling with the notes of the singers, the sense of the infinite depth beneath the vessel’s keel, the idea of the littleness of human life in the great melancholy solitude – tend to emphasize the solemnity of the occasion. And always under running the singing, pulsing heard in any interval of silence, is the throbbing of the engines – like the fevered, bounding heart of the ship, a coursing of life-blood through every part of the big, powerful structure. Elsewhere Mr. Russell aptly likens this action of the engines to the labors of some mighty giant, “breathing harshly and heavily, often with a fierce hissing through his clinched teeth, as though the burden of his tremendous task grow at moment’s too heavy for him, and one expended his impatience in a wild and most in different nature not to be moved at such a time, and one who has feeling and imagination must find it an experience never to be forgotten. The order of exercises, it is curios to observe, is still practically the same that it was hundreds of years ago, in spite of all the changes that have occurred in devotional methods throughout the world. – [From Clark Russell’s “A Voyage to the Cape”] FRACTURE OF HOTEL DISHES Hotel managers here say that the fracture of dishes – china, glass and earthenware – is a mere serious item of expense than any outsider would suppose. Although they make it a rule, for their own protection, to charge broken dishes to the servants when they are plainly careless, the rule does not relieve the hotels from serious loss every year. The greatest amount of breakage is in handling and washing; dishes may not be actually broken at first, but they are constantly nicked and cracked, and, after that, soon go to pieces. Large houses, like the Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels, in New York, sustain a loss of fully $10,000 annually in this way, independent of what the servants pay for. Managers say that it would be fifty per cent, greater except for the system of fines imposed on the domestics, who are made by it less heedless. Any householder can judge, from the destruction of dishes in his own kitchen, what it must be in a great hotel. – [N. O. Times-Democrat] PITH AND POINT The change in a dog’s eyes as he goes from light to darkness or vice versa occupies three seconds. This is the time when you want to jump the picket- fence. – [Detroit Free press] It is the silly man who slings aside his paper with the comment that ‘half of it isn’t worth ready.” The wise man reads the other half.- [Philadelphia Call] A Jersey City man recently sold his wife for twenty dollars. It is difficult to understand what makes New Jersey women so valuable. In many places they are given away. – [Norristown Herald] A man in West Virginia reports having seen a snake forty feet long in the act of swallowing a sheep. It is believed that about two more drinks of the stuff would have enabled him to see a sheep forty feet long in the act of swallowing a snake. – [Chicago Standard] An old gentleman in Baltimore who used to be troubled by young men sitting up with his daughters until a late hour, settled the callers by appearing promptly at eleven o’clock and giving each of them a ticket to a ten-cent lodging house. He never scolded or acted in an emphatic manner, because there wasn’t any need of it. – [Washington Critic] ----- AMERICAN TASTE – Its Influence Perceptible In Recently Introduced French Modes Season after season the influence of American taste becomes more noticeable in the importation of millinery. Instead of the conspicuous novelties formerly sent out by Paris houses, the styles are modified and American ideas developed by the skillful and delicate manipulation of French fingers, and trained ideas. Even then the models sent over are in a way naturalized and adapted to the peculiar tastes and caprices of our own countrywomen, who have eyes and minds of their own, with very decided preferences for the things they like and the things they dislike, and not at all bowing to the foreign eccentric decrees thrust upon them, if their own good sense and judgment do not approve them. Most of the shapes for the season are neat, trim, and stylish. There are a few pronounced models, but the majority of styles are moderate, graceful, and sensible. There are, however, some rather striking features in current goods for trimming purposes, and also a number of exceedingly elegant novelties. The impartations are exceptionally rich, and, in many instances, showy, but the vivid colors and brilliant “facet trimmings” as they are called are so artistically combined with deeper and neutral tints, that these gay effects only serve to lighten and brighten the more somber styles of olive, bronze, black and gray. The richest imported tailor costumes show more of the severe simplicity of the original suit, velvet and plush being used with a free hand, thus tendering them elegant enough in appearance for wear upon almost every occasion where full dress is not required. En suite are now shoulder capes of plush, fur or velvet, many of which are cut with long fronts, which extend like the old fashioned talma, thus making these toy wraps more protective than they usually are. The side pieces that cover the arms are separated from the fronts and made to cross each other a la fichu in a way which can be made very graceful. Golden –brown fries and silk Astrakhan pelerines trimmed with narrow bands of fur or marabut and lined with cardinal are very dressy and chic. Many ladies wear these small wraps far into the winter season in lieu of any other outside garment, further protection against the chill blasts being made by the perforated chamo’s jacket beneath the dress bodice. Chamois is much used as an interlining this year, long Russian surtouts of plush or velvet being simply lined throughout with a firm quality of American surah, with pieces of the chamois laid between the plush and the silk, just over the shoulders and chest, and down a portion of the back. The upper side of the sleeve is likewise interlined. - [N. Y. Post] PAGE 2 THE COURIER ALEX A. WALL, Editor and Proprietor Vernon, Alabama Friday, January 14, 1887 The legislature recently passed a law requiring dealers in pistol cartridges to take out a state license of $300 and a county license of $150; total $450. President Cleveland is not permitted to make a social call on the British minister. The minister’s residence is owned by his Government, and in visiting it, the President would be, constructively, on foreign soil. This is not permissible under our laws. – Adv. COLD WEATHER Detroit, January 7 – Reports from this state are to the effect that the mercury is almost everywhere among minus figures – at Hudson it was 13 below; at Bronson, 23 below; at Burr Gak 26 below; at Anderson, 24 below; and at Pontiac, 20 below. At Three Rivers this morning it was 14 below. The seer of water works frozen up, pipes burst near pump houses Wednesday night and the damage has not yet been repaired. So great is the feat of fire that night watches at all factories have been doubled and arrangements made to call help from other cities if necessary. SECRETARY LAMAR MAY RESIGN Washington, Jan. 6 – It is rumored here that Secretary Lamar will soon resign; that Mrs. Lamar, it is said, is adverse to the gay, social life which a cabinet lady is expected to lead, and according to this report, she has induced Secretary Lamar to retire to private life. It is also reported that he intends to make Georgia his future home. Mr. Lamar has always kept fresh and strong his love for this native state, and has often been heard to express the wish that his old age might be spent in Georgia. COLUMBUS, MISS – A RAILROAD PROJECTED TO THE COAL FIELDS Special to the Advertiser Columbus, Miss. Jan 8 – A scheme is on foot headed by Mr. J. R. RYAN, superintendent of the Patton miles, in Alabama, to build a railroad from Columbus to the coal fields in Marion County, Ala. Mr. RYAN is one of a company that has bought ten thousand acres of coal land in Marion County, and they propose to develop the miens and have an outlet for their coal, which they claim is beyond doubt the finest coal in the South, and is much nearer free from slate than any other coal. Men of energy and means are interested in the project, and say they intend to see it through. This comes direct from Mr. Ryan. A CORPORATION IN A FIX [Shalk Kalender 1887] At the time of the revival of capital punishment in Switzerland a law was passed to the effect that each canton was to appoint its own executioner who was to receive fifty francs every time his services were called into requisition. Not long afterward the Common Council of the Town of Basle was placed in an awkward dilemma, for a sentence of death had been pronounced which had to be carried into effect within twenty-four hours, while as yet no one had been appointed to the office of executioner. They were unable to procure one from a neighboring canton, as they were prohibited from so doing under the provisions of the recent law, and to appeal to a foreign Government was repugnant to the Swiss National pride. After the Council had racked their brains to no purpose one of the City Fathers at length arose and said; “I’ll tell you what we had better do. Let us give the scoundrel the fifty francs and tell him to go and get his head cut off where he likes.” Gov. Algier of Michigan, on Christmas day, gave a suit of clothes, a cap and a pair of shoes to each of the 600 news boys of Detroit. Yesterday afternoon Gov. Seay removed from the Exchange hotel to the Windsor, and he and Mrs. Seay are now cosily (sic) quartered at the latter on the second floor. Gov. Seay made the change for reasons purely personal and private, reasons in which the public have no concern. – [Mont. Dispatch, 30th ult.] A Harvard professor has made the calculation that if men were really as big as they sometimes feel there would be room in the United States for only two professors, three lawyers, two doctors and a reporter on a Philadelphia paper. – The rest of us would be crowed into the sea and have to swim for it. – [Detroit free Press] The New Orleans States fires this random shot: “A Topeka preacher said that ‘no woman can patronize the waltz and maintain her virtue’ and a few days later the pious sky pilot was forced to resign his pulpit for swindling several members of his congregation. It seems that there is always something wrong about a man who is so good that he goes to extremes and shocks and insults people.” Exactly so!! SUIT FOR DAMAGES Montgomery, January 5 – Col. J. B. Cheves, a temperance lecturer from Kentucky, has instituted suit in the United States Circuit Court against the mayor of Greenville, Ala. for $50,000 damages for injuries received to his person. Mayor PERRY recently assaulted and beat Cheves at Greenville for an alleged slanderous remark concerning him made by Cheves in speeches during the prohibition canvass in Greenville. SECRETARY LAMAR MARRIED Macon, Ga., Jan 5 – Secretary Lamar was married this morning at 10 o’clock at the residence of the bride, by Rev. Wm. Peck, of Sandersville, to Mrs. William S. Holt, of Macon… At ten o’clock the secretary and bride entered the parlor with joined hands. The ceremony was brief and original, lasting only two minutes. Congratulations followed. The bride was dressed in steel gray silk, with ornaments of diamonds. The secretary and bride will leave here at 5:20 this afternoon to spend the evening with Governor Gordon, and tomorrow morning will leave for Oxford, Miss, to visit relatives of the secretary, and then go to Washington. ABOLISH THE SUPPLEMENTAL SISTEM (sic) [Center News] That portion of the school law which allows the supplementing of the public fund should be repealed. We are decidedly of the opinion, as is every citizen with whom we have conversed, that the present system is a huge farce. Understand distinctly that it is the law, and not the officers, that we criticize; for we believe the various school officers desire a change. We insist that a public school should not only be public in name, but public in fact. If a patron has to pay $40 of his bill of $45, he is just as able to pay the entire bill. The poor child with no money is as able to pay $40 as it is $45. It can pay neither, and this supplement fraud deprives it of its just rights. The public schools should be absolutely free. If there is $200 due a township to illustrate, let a teacher be employed at $50 per month, which would give four months free public school. After this, if the patrons desire it let them employ him. The public schools are intended to educate those unable to educate themselves, and the present system is a travesty, a misnomer, a fraud, and a delusion. Let it be made a misdemeanor for a teacher to receive one dime from patrons of a public school. WALKER & DONOGHUE, Dealers in Staple and Fancy groceries and plantation supplies Columbus Miss. Keep constantly on had a full supply of all goods usually kept in a first-class grocery house. Give us a call when you are in the city. Mr. GEO. TAYLOR is connected with the above firm and will be pleased to see his friends and will sell them goods at rock bottom prices. W. B. SPANN of Lamar County with NATHAN & OPPENHEIMER Whole sale & Retail Dealers in Staple & Fancy Groceries, Tobacco, cigars, plantation supplies, etc. Wholesale dealers in liquors, wines, etc. Columbus, Miss. Note: I respectfully solicit my friends from all parts of the country to call in and see me when in the city. Will sell you goods at a very small margin above cost. I am ever thankful to my customers for the past favors. – W. B. SPANN J. A. JORDAN of Lamar County in now connected with TROST & SOLOMON Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Wines, Liquors, Cigars, & Tobacco. Columbus, Miss. Call and see him before purchasing elsewhere. L. S. METCALF, with T. O. BURRIS, Columbus, Miss. Groceries, Dry goods & shoes, hats & caps & clothing. Note: I respectfully ask my friends of Lamar and Marion to give me a call when in the city. Will sell you goods at a very small margin above cost. L. S. METCALF. OTTLEY & NEWBY Dealers in Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, Guns, Pistols, Powder, Shot, Steel, Iron, nails, Castings, Sash , doors, blinds, and a full line of stoves and tinware. Special attention paid to the repairing of tin work. No. 51 Market Street, Columbus, Miss. Cotton! Cotton! Cotton! S. E. WEIR & Co. Kennedy, Alabama Pay highest prices for cotton, country produce, &c, and sell all goods at rock bottom prices Fancy prints 4 ½ @ 7 Ladies Hats 25c to $3.00 Brown Domestic 7/8 5c Men’s hats, 25c to $3.50 Brown Domestic 4-4, 6c Kip Boots, $1.75 to $3.50 Cotton Checks, 6 ½ @ 7 ½ Kip Brogans, $1.00 to $3.15 8 oz Osnaburg, 10c Best Brogans, $1.25 Dress goods, all styles and prices Men’s and boys clothing, latest styles and lowest prices. Muzzle and breech loading guns, $2.50 to $35. Stoves with full line of fixtures, $10.00 to $20.00. We keep constantly on hand a full stock of bridles, saddles, harness, &c. Also good and fresh line of groceries, such as salt, flour, meat, lard, sugar, coffee, and all shelf goods, that we will sell as low as any market. Bring us our cotton and produce and we will pay you the highest cash price for same and sell you any and all goods kept in a first-class store, as cheap as money will buy them in any market. You will find it to your interest to give us a call before purchasing elsewhere. Mr. GARLAND SMITH will be found always on hand to serve his friends and the public. S. E. WEIR & CO. W. G. RICHARDS & Son – Dealers in general merchandise and country produce. Fernbank, Alabama. Not in favor of two weeks court, but selling goods low for cash. Headquarters for dry goods, notions, general merchandise, hats, caps, boots, shoes & clothing. Choice family groceries, including the best coffees, crockery, queensware, earthen and wooden ware, and a thousand and one “Nick Nack’s” which can not be enumerated always in stock. A car load of flour just received, which will be sold at a small margin above cost. We mean business, and I will sell any and all of our goods at rock-bottom prices. Columbus prices paid for cotton, hides, chickens, eggs, and all country produce. Please ask for what you want, we like to show our goods. Established 1867. Cash Store. A. A. SUMMERS, Special announcement for Fall and Winter. The best selected stock of general merchandise ever brought to Vernon. Now on exhibition fine clothing and dress goods at giving away prices, hosiery and furnishing goods at astonishingly low prices. A fine line of notions in abundance at a great discount. No lady can afford to buy elsewhere before seeing my goods and prices. Bargains in shoes, boots, and hats, never heard of before in Vernon. A full line of medicines, hardware, and goods of general utility. Call and see the attraction for yourself. Established 1856. 1886 Still here. N. GROSS AND COMPANY. We are now receiving one of the largest and best selected stock of dry goods, notions, boots & shoes, hats and caps, and clothing, gents furnishing good, that has as yet been received in this city, to which we call it’s attention of all of our Lamar friends. Our intention is to sell our stock at rock-bottom prices, and as we buy our goods for cash, we can of course offer you goods at figures which are astonishingly low. We would call special attention to the wholesale trade. Respectfully, N. GROSS & Co., Columbus, Miss. Note: We have secured the services of Mr. S. WOLFF, who will pay the highest marker price for cotton, and would be glad to see all of his Lamar friends. Call on him. N. GROSS & CO. COLUMBUS MARBLE WORKS. Monuments and Headstones of every description furnished to order with the best of stock. I invite orders for anything in my line from all parts of the country. Don’t be deceived before calling at my yard, for seeing is satisfaction. Everything warranted. LIST OF PRICES OF PLAIN HEADSTONES LENGTH WIDTH THICKNESS 3 ft. 0 in. x 1 ft 0 in x 2 in $12 3 ft 6 in. x 1 ft 2 in x 2 in $15 4 ft. 0 in. x 1 ft. 4 in x 2 in $20 5 ft 0 in. x 1 ft 6 in x 2 in $25 All work done on short notice. Material and work warranted the best. Correspondence solicited. W. H. NEWLON, Columbus, Miss. Fall and Winter Goods. F. OGDEN & Son. Cansler, Alabama. Dry goods, boots, and shoes. Dress goods, prints, notions, etc. Also keep constantly on hand, flour, meat, sugar, and coffee all of which will be sold as cheap as the cheapest. A fine line of snuff and tobacco and in fact everything usually kept in a first-class dry goods store. Give us a call and be convinced that we mean what we say. We wish to call especial attention to our wool carder which is now in first-class repair. We have with us Mr. W. T. TROTTER, an experienced hand in carding, and who will take pleasure in giving prompt attention to all wool brought to our carder. F. OGDEN & Son. Cansler, Ala. Clothing and hats. When you want a first-class article in the clothing line or a first class shirt or hat, call upon the clothing and hat store where you can select from a very large, nice stock of all kinds of goods for men’s wear. We deal especially in men’s goods, fitting a man from head to foot. We carry suits from $6.00 to $30.00. We have attached to our store a Tailoring Department, with a large stock of piece goods and trimmings to make suits to order. Call and see us when in the city. BUTLER & TOPP, No. 55 Main, Columbus, Miss. PAGE 3 THE COURIER Published Every Friday LAMAR DIRECTORY ALEXANDER COBB Judge of Probate R. E. BRADLEY Circuit Clerk S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer D. J. LACY Tax Collector W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor JAMES M. MORTON Reg. in Chancery B. H. WILKERSON Co. Supt of Ed. R. L. BRADLEY Representative ALEXANDER COLLINS Coroner N. L. TRULL, County Surveyor COMMISSIONERS R. W. YOUNG W. M. MOLLOY ALBERT WILSON SAMUEL LOGGAINS S. J. SHIELDS – Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in Chancery. Vernon, Alabama. Will practice in the Courts of Lamar and the counties of the District. Special attention given to collection of claims. J. D. MCCLUSKEY – Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in Chancery Vernon, Ala. will practice in the Circuit Courts of Lamar, Marion, Fayette, and Walker. The Federal Court and Supreme Court of Ala. Special attention given to collection of claims. NESMITH & SANFORD, Attorneys-at-law will practice in all the Courts of Lamar, Fayette, and adjoining counties. THOS. B. NESMITH, Vernon, Ala. J. B. SANFORD, Fayette, C. H., Ala. A. J. STANFORD, Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in chancery Beaverton, Alabama will practice in the Circuit and Federal Courts of Alabama. Special attention given to the collection of claims. ABRAM I. HUMPHRIES. Attorney at Law. Columbus, Miss. Special attention to collection of claims SAM’L M. MEEK, WM. C. MEEK - S. M. & W. C. MEEK, Attorneys and Counselors at law. Office on Military Street, (Opposite Court House), Columbus, Miss. Will practice in the Courts of Lamar County, Alabama LOCALS --- R. L. BRADLEY has a lot of ---- 5c novels for sale. Rev. L. M. WIMBERLEY went to Aberdeen this week on business. Remember we can no be found in the old Clipper building. Come to see us. ------BERT WIMBERLEY and JIM BUCK --- went to a party at Mr. JAS. ARMSTRONG at Moscow on Wednesday night. They report a pleasant time. ---President Engineer THOM--- the M & B RR spent last Sabbath in the city. He - --ered at the Wimberley ----- Mr. SANDERS says he will not remain very much longer in town hence those contemplating having pictures taken had better call at once. ----prominent among the callers to the Courier office Wednesday was Hon. Alexander Cobb and Hon. R. L. Bradley. The Judge remarked that we “looked like home folks to him.” Why? Because in this office --- years gone by set type after --- fluent pen when he was editor-in-chief of the Clipper. Mr. J. M. SPRINGFIELD of ---ahatchie, Miss, gave us a pleasant call Saturday. He ex---sed himself as being de --- ed with M & B Railroad which passes directly through his plantation. --- Mr. ELZIE BOYD and Tax Collector LACY passed though here on Wednesday. These gentlemen had been up on the M & B RR, and Capt. LACTY --- into see us and informed us that everything was moving just nicely along the line; that Messrs. Harper and Ben. MOLLOY, contractors on the road were progressing finely with their work. Our friend S. F. PENNINGTON has launched his boat into the commercial sea with A. A. SUMMERS, and the firm will be styled SUMMERS & PENNINGTON. Mr. PENNINGTON is a self made man and his industry and good judgment has been conspicuously displayed in exercising the duties of the office of sheriff of Lamar in so much that it is said by those who have all opportunities for knowing that he is peer to any sheriff in the state. Mr. SUMMERS is an old and popular merchant and the combination is a good one, and one that win. We predict a brilliant future for these gentlemen in commercial life. During the past year we have endeavored to give our patrons an interesting paper and have labored faithfully to this purpose. We hope they will appreciate our efforts and also our indulgence in regard to subscriptions. We have not as yet resorted to straight out dunning and hope that we will have nothing to do but to intimate mildly and courteously that the times are hard and that to move on with the progress of the age our axles must be greased with the needful “spondulicks.” In fact it is generally conceded that money is the lever that moves the world, and we ask our patrons to excuse us requesting them to give us a lift at this critical time. Come right along with the dollars and chuck them in. You need not fear bursting our coffers for though they are not large there is ample room to hold all you owe. The year 1887 opens an eventful career for Lamar. Two railroads are traversing the county and both will have finished their destinations before the summer will have ended. From the Luxapalila the steam trumpets are blowing their enlivening blasts along the way of the Georgia Pacific, and soon the echoes will be caught and returned from the Valley of the Buttahatchie as the Kansas City speeds along its route. The voices of Progress meet and mingle about us and breathe the benediction of civilization over our heads. Added to this other schemes are afloat which give promise of a further development of our county and we will soon be launched into the broad channels of progress, and another decade will change the ruggedness of the “Hill counties into smiling dimples of beauty.” The Courier office is now in the building where the Clipper first spread its banner to the breeze, and where we first entered editorial life in Vernon. The retrospect upon mounting the tripod in the old familiar room, awakens many memories of by-gone days, and brings forcibly to the view the change time has wrought. We look around us and new objects greet our vision. Houses have sprung up on either side of us. Of the old familiar faces that once we gazed upon, some have ferried the dark river, some show the lagging step that betoken those who are going down the “western slope, and in others the harder and more care worn lineaments sharply define the features that were softened by the buoyant hopefulness of youthful manhood. It is a world of change. To this we say amen, if that change be Progress, and from the signs of the times and the steam bugles whose blasts through our hills and vale are heralding the march of civilization we have every thing to hope for. WAR WAS OVER – [From the Arkansas Traveler] – anecdote about a man who thought the war was still going on We are not selling at cost, but just a little over cost. Geo. W. Rush & Co. Ad for Dr. J. H. McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier FARMER’S INDEPENDENT WAREHOUSE. We have again rented the Whitfield Stables, opposite the Court house, for the purpose of continuing the Warehouse and Cotton Storage business, and we say to our friends and farmers of West Alabama and East Mississippi, that we will not be surpassed by any others in looking after the wants of our customers to make them conformable while in Columbus. We will have fire places instead of stoves for both white and colored; separate houses fitted up for each. We will have also good shed room for 100 head of stock more than we had last year; also a convenient and comfortable room for our friends who may come to Columbus. We do not hesitate to say that we can and will give you better camping accommodations than any other house in the house in the place. Mr. J. L. MARCHBANKS of Lamar County, Ala., and MILIAS MOORHEAD, of Pickens County, Ala., will be at the stable and will be glad to see their friends and attend to their wants, both day and night. Our Mr. FELIX GUNTER will be at the cotton shed where he will be glad to see his old friends and as many new ones as will come. All cotton shipped to us by railroad of river will be received free of drayage to warehouse and have our personal attention. Thanking you for your patronage last season, and we remain the farmer’s friends. Yours Respectfully, J. G. SHULL & CO, Columbus, Miss. WAREHOUSE. The Cotton storing public must not forget the popular firm of TURNER & Co. who occupy the Brick Warehouse at the depot, where every convenience is offered to campers. Messrs. J. D. & W. M. TURNER, the sons of Major J. H. TURNER, deceased, are successors in the business, and will be on hand to look after the interests of their friends in this section. FINAL STATEMENT The State of Alabama, Lamar County, Probate Court, 27th day of Dec. AD 1886 Estate of SAMUEL JOHNSON, deceased. This day came THOMAS B. NESMITH, Administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts, and vouchers, for final settlement of his administration. It is ordered that the 21st day of January AD 1887 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement, if they think proper. Alexander Cobb, Judge of Probate NOTICE Parties indebted to the undersigned are earnestly requested to come and settle notes and accounts without further notice. – A. COBB & Son For sick headache, female troubles, neuralgic pains in the head take Dr. J. H. McLean’s Little Liver and Kidney Pillets. 25 cents a vial. KINGVILLE HIGH SCHOOL under the principalship of B. H. WILKERSON will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of tuition as follows: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Composition, and U. S. History, per month, $2.00 ADVANCED: Embracing Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, and Latin, per month $3.00. No incidental fee. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention will be given to those who wish to engage in teaching. Board in best families from $4.00 to $5.00. Tuition due every three scholastic months. For further information address B. H. WILKERSON, C. Supt., Principal. Kingville, Ala, Oct. 29, 1886 THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL under the Principalship of J. R. GUIN, will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of Ten Scholastic months Rates of Tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Grammar, Primary Geography and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.25. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing Brief English Grammar, Elementary Geography, Elementary Arithmetic, Letter Writing and Hygiene, per month, $1.50. PRACTICAL: Embracing English Grammar, Practical Arithmetic, Complete Geography, English Composition, U. S. History and Physiology, per month, $2.00. HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Rhetoric, Elocution, Algebra, Natural Philosophy, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Hygiene, Physiology, Latin, &c, per month $2.50. Discipline will be firm. Special attention will be given to young men and women who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7.00 per month. No incidental fees. Tuition due every five months. Correspondence solicited. Address J. R. GUIN Fernbank, Ala. Lamar County Ad for Dr. J. H. McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifer ALABAMA LANDS FOR SALE 13 Farms for sale in Lamar County, ranging from 440 to 80 acres in size. The undersigned offers the above farms for sale in Lamar, which a reference to all authentic reports will show to be a county above the acreage in Alabama. They contain as good farming lands as this section can boast, and are advantageously situated. Good water, healthy locations, convenient to schools and churches, also to the county seat at Vernon. A railroad traverses the lower end of the county and one is in course of construction through the upper end. The future prospect is flattering and capitalists are turning their eyes this way seeking investment. These lands and many others besides in this county can be purchased on wonderfully low terms, from $1.00 to $5.00 per acre. Address, A. A. SUMMERS, Vernon Lamar County, Ala Clothing! Clothing! At A. COBB & Son Dealer in General Merchandise. Ladies best fitting (picture of a corset) always in store, and at prices to suit the ladies. Our summer stock is complete – consisting of ladies fine dress goods, ladies shoes, men’s shoes, boots, hats, etc. Our stock of clothing of the best quality, which we are offering at a small margin above cost. We are selling cheap. We mean what we say. Don’t fail to call when you are in town. We have a lot of Iron Foot plows which we will sell very low (picture of iron foot plow). Very Respectfully. A. COBB & Son Ho! (picture of canteen) Every one that Thirst food and lodging for man, and provender for horses can be had to live and let live prices at the WIMBERLEY House, Vernon, Ala. L. M. WIMBERLY, Proprietor J. T. STINSON & Company. Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants. Columbus, Miss. We return to our many friends and patrons, our usual thanks for their very liberal patronage extended us; and trust by strict attention to their interests to merit their favors and influence in future. Our local facilities for handling cotton are unsurpassed by other markets, having suitable warehouses with storage capacity of 60,000 bales, two Banking institutions with ample money facilities to move the entire crop marketed here, and a Morse Patent Compress similar and equal to presses located in the coast markets; with these interior business conveniences our markets has become a spinner’s market, and we are enabled to realize the highest market price for cotton marketed here. The bulk of our cotton is readily taken by our local cotton buyers and shipped direct to Eastern Mils. We make liberal advancements as usual on cotton consigned to us, which will receive our prompt attention on arrival. Bagging and ties furnished on application. Soliciting your patronage, Respectfully yours J. T. STINSON & Co. Gilmer Hotel. Columbus, Miss. This establishment has changed hands and will be thoroughly overhauled and refurnished and first-class accommodations guaranteed and charges will be moderate. A. W. KING, Proprietor Barber Shop. KELLY & ALBERT, No. 58 Market Street Columbus, Miss. Upstairs, opposite Cady’s Stable. Hot and cold baths. G. W. RUSH B. F. REED New Cash Store. BUSH & REED, Vernon, Alabama. Dealer in Dry goods and groceries, boots, and shoes, hats and caps, clothing, hardware, Queensware, etc. which is offered at bottom prices for cash or produce. Our stock of clothing is complete and first-class. A superb and well selected lot of notions. We have a large and handsome line of school books, also inks, pens, and paper. Always keep constantly on hand a full stock of Patent Medicines. THE VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, Under the Principalship of J. R. BLACK, will open October 4, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of Tuition as follows: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Composition, and U. S. History; per month $2.00 ADVANCED: Embracing Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, and Latin, per month $3.00 Incidental fee 20 cts, per quarter. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention given to those who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7 per month. Tuition due at the end of each quarter. For further information, address: J. R. BLACK, Principal, Vernon, Ala KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL Located in the live and growing town of Kennedy on the Georgia Pacific Rail Road. The moral and religious influences surrounding this school are unsurpassed in any part of the state. Boarders can find pleasant homes in refined families at very reasonable rates. The first session will commence on Monday Nov. 1st, 1886 and continue for a term of ten scholastic months. TUITION PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Physiology, History of U. S., Practical Arithmetical and Elementary Algebra, per month $2.00. ADVANCED GRADE: Embracing Higher Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Rhetoric, Elocution, and Latin, per month, $2.50. An incidental fee of 25 cents, per session. Special attention will be given to those who expect to engage in teaching and preparing boys and girls to enter college. Tuition due at expiation of each quarter. For further particulars address J. C. JOHNSON, Principal, Kennedy, Ala. PAGE 4 WINTER WRAPS – Jackets, Cloaks, And Mantlets Visites (sic) In Furs, Cloth And Plush The round cloak lined with fur, or flannel and silk, will be the mantel par excellence, this winter as last, for cold raw icy days, and one may sally forth to shop, pay visits, etc. even on foot with the greatest comfort and ease, if wrapped up in this cosy rotonde. The most fashionable shapes have, however, a pleated band at the neck, and the orthodox trimming now is a band of fur from two and three-quarters to four inches wide, a bias band of plush and clasps above of passementerie or fine metal. The demi-long visite of long-haired plush or fancy cloth, lined with silk of a corresponding color and flannel, will rank among the handsome vetements for winter; black and dark mater also are most admired, and a thick torsalde of silk the same color is the favorite trimming. There are still more elegant visites made of ottoman and Sicilienne, lined with flannel and ornamented with natural-colored beaver or assorted marabout and rich passementeirie forming a border, as also epaulettes; the neck and above parements being of marabout or fur. The mantelet visite of seal-skin, made short at the back and with long ends in front is also a charming mantle for slight, girlish figures. This is clasped at the neck with an agraffe; and a ribbon, corresponding with the sealskin and forming a band at the waist, is tied in front under the ends finished with tassels or with a bow of handsome ribbons. Girls who have not entered their teens and young ladies of seventeen or eighteen will wear jackets or visites tight-fitting at the back, and with close, Japanese or pelerine sleeves, which always allow the waist to be seen. Redingotes of rough cloth, crossed in front, are also suitable, but may be considered wraps for real winterly weather. The great variety in these confections seen at present appears in the manner of eating and closing the fronts. Some are buttoned the whole length down the middle, others closed across and with one single button at the neck, or the front is opened to show a waistcoat and many models are ornamented with one or two wide revers, the stuff that the left shoulder forming a plastron on the same side. Among other shares for our young friends we may mention the Breton jacket, the viste MacFarlane, etc. etc. Very large metal buttons with raised chased mortifs, or bordered with fur, as also passenterie and, indeed, embroidery, are taken to trim many of the new cloak models. Our readers must bear in mind that mantels and cloaks are not trimmed profusely this winter, but the stuffs and tissues employed are therefore richer and handsomer. Sorties de bal and cloaks for the theater are long and wide, and the stuffs preferred seem to be short or long-haired, self-colored plush in which cream or pale hues, lined with flannel and silk visite shapes, some with hoods, are composed of various materials and trimmed with bands of marabout exactly the same color, ermine, minnever or white fox, put on to look like borders. A handsome clasp closes such a wrap at the neck, or a white ribbon tied in a large bow. Sorties de bal, composed of colored gauze embroidered with shining metal patterns of the same tint, and lined to answer, produce a wonderful effect by wax-light, and are particularly suitable for young ladies. They are ornamented with a rich fringe of beads, assorted to the toilet, or double ruches of colored, richly bordered silk. Young ladies wear for the theater large shawls or long scarfs of wool or silk and gold, woven with bayadrere strips, also jersey, fine silk or woolen crochet materials, bordered with a very deep bead fringe or handsome lace sewn on as a border; such fringes of steel gold and black beads are also extremely fashionable trimmings for evening toilets of silk and other elegant tissues, and are used more than embroidery. – [The Season] THE MOCKING-BIRD – Wanton Slaughter of the Most Original Song-Bird of North America – (article about the mocking bird) AMOS’ GOOD LUCK – The Grand Results Following the Finding of a Feather-Bed – [Lewiston (Me) Journal] (anecdote written in dialect) – A person who was a merchant in one of the small villages in Erie County in 1865 says that his books show that the following prices were paid at that time for groceries and merchandise of various kinds: Kerosene oil, $1.20 per gallon; white sugar, 30 cents per pound, gingham, 50 cents per yard; bleached sheeting, 63 cents per yard; calicoes, 38 cents. – [Buffalo Express] A SPINSTER’S TRAGEDY – The Cruel Awakening Which Awaited a Loving Old Maid – [San Francisco Chronicle] – (story about a woman waiting years to hear from an old boyfriend that her father had kicked out. She remained unmarried waiting for him to return. He returned, but with a wife and 5 children and 3 servants.) WILL AND CHOLERA – A Striking Illustration of the Influence of the Mind Over the Body – [Youth’s Companion] Edward Irving, the eloquent preacher, who fifty years ago, rode a dissenting chapel in London a fashionable place of resort, had a powerful intellect and a stronger will. So strong was it that even the terrible cholera succumbed to its sway. One Sunday morning, during the cholera season of 1832, he rose in perfect health but at breakfast-time he became very cold, and suffered great agony. A physician found him with sunken eyes and pallid cheeks and evidently a prey to the fatal malady Irving believed that disease was sin, which could be mastered by faith. The fact that the cholera was likely to overmaster him was evidence, as he thought that he had sinfully lost his hold of faith. His belief provoked him to moral struggle, in which his powerful will was pitted against his collapsed body. He tottered to church. With dimmed sight, swimming head, and labored breath, he ascended the stairs, grasped the sides of the pulpit and looked wistfully around. His natural energies responded to the summons of his will. the crisis came; a cold sweat broke out all over his body, and stood in great drops on his forehead and hands. For more than an hour he preached with a fervor unknown to him, though he was the most fervent of pulpit orators. He walked home, ate very little, and in the evening preached in a crowded school room – thus giving one of the most striking illustrations of the influence of the mind on the body. A GEORGIA LAW AND THE SKUNKS – [Atlanta Constitution] The fence law of Georgia, which has had the effect of keeping hogs from roaming unrestrained through the woods has also the effect of greatly increasing the number of skunks in the state. Hogs are particularly fond of young skunks and devoured many of them when the woods were open to stock. Two men made acquaintance from their habit of eating at the same restaurant. One of them was always well served. The other had to take his chance very often. “I say,” said the unfortunate to the fortunate, “how do you manage it? You always get the best and I the worst. I feed the fellow, too,’ “I don’t” “Is that why he serves you so well?” “No, I went to college with the waiter.” – [San Francisco Chronicle] A woman remarks that women will never consent to remove their hats in public places until, by some strange dispensation of Providence they are compelled to wear hats that are so homely that they want to hid e them. Well, that settles it forever. – [Detroit Tribune] Small ads and jokes Ad for Red Star Cough Cure Ad for St. Jacob’s Oil Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for Ely’s Cream Balm for Catarrh Ad for Prickly Ash Bitters Ad for The Washburn Guitar (picture of guitar) Many smaller ads File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/vernonco1432gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 67.5 Kb