Lamar County AlArchives News.....Vernon Courier January 28, 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, 6:06 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History January 28, 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 28, 1887 VOL. I. NO. 35 Subscription $1.00 Per Year HOME AGAIN – Poem – [Abbie C. McKeever] LIFE AT SEA - --- Work of the Sailor – Not – Attractive --- Deck and Using The “Holy --- Painstaking Weevils Riot--- The Sea Biscuit – The --- “Dog Watch” Etc – (article how life at sea is for a sailor) STORIES OF LINCOLN – William H. Herndon’s Reminiscences of the Martyr President Lincoln’s old law partner, William H. Herndon, was seen at the rooms of the ‘Lincoln Memorial Collection” entertaining several interested listeners with reminiscences of the great man during his career as an Illinois attorney. “Yes,” said Mr. Herndon, “I could always tell when Lincoln was in a good humor or not by observing him as he entered the office at nine or half- past nine in the morning. If everything was serene and pleasant he would take a seat in one of our wooden chairs, throw his feet over the stove and begin telling yarns. He would keep this up until dinner time, and very little work would be done through the forenoon. If, on the other hand, matters had not been as pleasant as they might be, he would drop into the office in a quiet, unobtrusive way and, after taking a seat, would proceed to make his breakfast on crackers and cheese. Sometimes his depression would wear off in an hour or so and his genial, sunshiny disposition reassert itself. He was not a great student. He was what is called a case lawyer. Given a case he would first familiarize himself with all the facts and then look up the reports containing similar adjudicated cases. He was sympathetic at all times and never bitter of abusive. “We had an odd way of keeping our accounts. We never kept any books but when we were paid a fee would simply divide it. When Lincoln was out on the circuit making money he did just the same as when hat home. If he received a ten-dollar note for services he would take five dollars, and, wrapping a piece of paper around it, with the simple word “Billy” – that’s wheat he always called me – written thereon would place it in his pocketbook. I asked him one day why he did this and his reply was: “Well, if I should happen to die with some of your money in my pocket how would any one know it if it wasn’t marked?” The last fee I divided with him was shortly before his inauguration as President. I had received five hundred dollars from an estate for which our firm had been doing business and when I offered Mr. Lincoln the money he refused to take it until I told him where it came from. “His love affairs? Oh well, I can recall two cases, and I believe the first one, where the young lady died, had more to do with his sadness in after life than anything else. The young lady was Miss Ann Rutledge, who came to Illinois from the South. She had been engaged prior to her meeting with Mr. Lincoln, but failing to hear from the young man came to believe that he did not care for her. Mr. Lincoln was very attentive, and after a time they became engaged. A few months before they were to be married she died. The blow was a severe one to Mr. Lincoln, and it was several years before he ceased talking about her. He was rejected by a young lady in 1837, and from that time until 1842, when he married Miss Todd, he was not especially attentive to any one.” Mr. Herndon has practically retired from the law, and is engaged in farming about six miles north of Springfield. – [Chicago Tribune] CELTIC NAMES – Maces, O’s, Murphys, And Sullivans Residing in Our Four Principal Cities The relative numbers of Celtic inhabitants in the four principal cities of the Union must be a matter of interest to every Irish nationalist. To find out such a matter with absolute certainty would be well nigh impossible; but by means of the directories of the cities, about the Celtic population of which we desire to speak, a very close approximation can be made as to the Irish element they contain. We had recently an opportunity of examining the directories of the four principal American cities – New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston – and took the trouble to count the number of columns of each directory that contained the most common and numerous Irish names, and the results are very interesting. It will invariably be found that whenever there are the most O’s and Macs, and the most Murphys and Sullivans, there is the largest Irish population; for the names Murphy and Sullivan, and names which begin with O and Mac, are the most numerous among the Celtic race. The prefix O should, by right, be retained before the names Sullivan and Murphy but in most cases it has been discarded. The number of names in the columns of the directories of the four cities mentioned is very nearly the same and will average about eighty. The following table gives the number of O’s and Macs, Sullivan and Murphys in the four cities mention…(not typing table) ……. From the foregoing it will be seen, contrary to the general belief, that Philadelphia is absolutely and that Boston is relatively the most Celtic of American cities. The population of New York is, in round numbers, 1,300,000, Philadelphia 900,000, Chicago 700,000 and Boston 400,000. Philadelphia, about one-third less in population than New York, has fifteen more columns of Celtic names; but Boston, in proportion to its population, is the most Celtic of all. If New York were as Celtic as Boston its directory would have about 550 columns of O’s, Macs, Sullivans and Murphys, instead of 204; and if it were as proportionately Celtic as Philadelphia its directory would contain about 300 instead of 204 columns of the Celtic names mentioned. Chicago is relatively and absolutely the least Celtic of the four cities. It is about as populous and a half as Boston, but its directory contains only 112 columns of the prominent Celtic name against 152 in the Boston directory. We use the term Celtic instead of Irish, because a considerable minority of the names beginning withy Mac are Scotch rather than Irish. Boston, then, is in proportion to its population the most Celtic and the most Irish city in America. The case of Philadelphia is curious. It is said to contain a smaller foreign-born population than any of the great cities of America, and this is probably so; yet, with the exception of Boston, it is relatively the most Celtic of the four cities. This is explained by the fact that long ago – as far back as the time when what are now known as the United States were British colonies –there was a vast tide of emigration from Ireland to this country and the greatest part of it was directed to Pennsylvania. The difference between the Irish element in Boston and Philadelphia is that in the former city it is new and in the latter it is old. When one remembers that the prefixes O and Mac have been dropped in very nearly half the names that originally had them, and also that about fifty per cent of Irish names have been either translated or so changed that it takes some one even more trained than a savant to recognize them in their mutilated American forms, he is astonished at the immensity of the Irish element in America, and marvels how it came to pass that the million and a quarter of people that Ireland contained only two hundred years ago have grown to an inconceivable multitude that have spread absolutely over half the earth. – [Chicago Citizen] As the result of a wager on the Congressional election Alderman Donahoc, of Albany, recently drove a team to a coal yard, paid for a ton of coal; shoveled it into a wagon himself, drove it to Congressman Kane’s residence and shoveled it into the collar in the presence of an enthusiastic crows. The horses and wagon, according to the terms of the wager, were gayly decorated with the National colors. – [Albany Journal] Doctor – What ails you, sir? Patient – I don’t know, doctor. I have such a buzzing sound in my ears all the time. Would you like to look at my tongue? Doctor – No, never mind. Bring your wife around some day. I’d like to look at hers. – [Yonkers Statesman] LONG MEMORY – Why a Veteran of the Creek War Failed to get a Fat Pension - (anecdote written in dialect) A RICH MAN’S TRIALS – Some of the Queer Begging Letters Received by Millionaire Corcoran Mr. Corcoran gives a great deal to private charity, and like all rich men he receives bushels of applications for money which he can not grant. He has a printed form of reply, which states that he is unable to meet all these demands, and that his agent is directed not to present them to him. Some of the letters he receives are curious. One woman wrote not long ago that although her husband was worth $50,000 she wanted to be independent of him and wanted Corcoran to send her enough money so that she could live on the interest. Another lady wanted $6,000 to be used in European travel. Another wanted a pink dress for a ball, and another wanted a barrel of salt pork. Flour and previsions are often asked for, and applications for money come from all parts of the country. A great many of these appeals come from people Corcoran has never known and never heard of, and though a number of them are undoubtedly from people in need, any are from adventurers, and the majority are undeserving. The publication of this article will doubtless bring more letters to Mr. Corcoran, as does every letter published concerning his wealth. The articles in the press concerning rich men and charitable men point out to adventurers all over the country where these men live, and the notes printed not long ago about President Cleveland’s charity filled the White House with begging applications for months. The rich men of Congress are overrun with beggars, who apply to them both by mail and in person, and there seems to be a population of thousands of beggars in the United States who do nothing but watch the newspapers and write letters to the rich men noticed in them. – [Washington Cor. Cleveland Letter] Stoneboro possess a ten-year-old young America of remarkable enterprise. So anxious was this little fellow to see the Oil City the other day, it is related, that he crawled under the pilot of a locomotive that was standing on the track at Stoneboro, and fixing himself on one of the cross bars, took a firm grasp of the iron, expecting to enjoy a novel ride and see the glories of Oil City besides. Fortunately for him, however, the engineer, as he was oiling the locomotive, found him before he had been in his perilous position five minutes. The youngster was yanked out in a jiffy and given a seat in the cab, where he could be watched until the train started – [Chicago Herald] It is said that no naturalist has ever yet satisfactorily explained how some ears of corn become red. PITH AND POINT • Silence may be golden, but it doesn’t necessarily make a millionaire out of a mute. – [Philadelphia Call] • A young lady teacher in the Seward public schools fell heir to $20,000. Her name was Bogan at last accounts. – [Omaha Republican] • “What time did John go away last night, Mary Ann?” “It was a quarter of twelve, father.” “Three” she said to herself “are a quarter of twelve.” • A New Yorker shot at his wife, but the bullet hit nothing but her store hair. It is very hard to get at the exact boundaries of a woman nowadays. – [Omaha World] • “I’m afraid of the dark!” said baby snuggling up to mamma one night. “Why?” asked Mamma. “Cause it comes so close to me.” - [Youth’s Companion] • It is said that William D. Howell collects material for his novels by shopping with his wife. Few authors secure sufficient money return from their novels to adopt such an expensive mode of collecting material. – [Norristown Herald] • Customer to coal dealer – Have you got any name for those scales of yours? “I never heard of scales having a name.” “Well, you ought to call your scales ambush. You see they are always lying in weight.” – [Texas Siftings] • A correspondent wishes to know “how to get rid of a fool.” Procure a loaded gun, put your mouth over the muzzle and touch the trigger with your toe. The bullet should be swallowed whole. – [Burlington Free Press] • An instrument has been invented called a plethysmograph, which measures the expenditure of mental force in thinking. A man in financial difficulties, who has a note to meet, will, it is estimated, wear out two plethysmographs a day. – [Boston Courier] • Two young women were gazing in a shop window. Said one,” Isn’t it a love of a bonnet. I’m tempted to buy it, even if it is expensive.” Said the other, “No, don’t you do it; you are too excited now. You would be sure to regret it tomorrow morning.” – [N. Y. Sun] • Calino receives a letter from Madagascar. It is dated from Manhjakandariananbana. “Why do they use such long names?” asks one of his friends. “Because,” replied Calino, “it is a country where there is nothing in particular to do, and they say two or three woes to kill the time.” – [N. Y. Graphic] • Mrs. Anglomaniac – I can not tell you what a treat it is to hear you talk. You have been in England so long that every word you utter reminds me of the delighted lords and dukes I used to meet. Returned tourist – Pardon me, but England is the only country that I did not visit. Mrs. Anglomaniac – Indeed! How strange! I was sure you had unconsciously acquitted the English vocal tones. Returned tourist – No; it is only a cold in my head. – [Glen Rose Falcon] SHE HAD TO DIE – A Chicken Which Was Altogether To Expensive To Live - anecdote PAGE 2 THE COURIER ALEX A. WALL, Editor and Proprietor Vernon, Alabama Friday, January 28, 1887 At Erie, Penn, on the 9th inst. Hon. Elijah Babbit died at the age of ninety- two. He was the oldest practicing attorney in Pennsylvania. He was born in Providence R. I. He was the son of a Revolutionary War officer and West India trader; had been a lawyer seventy years, served in the city, state, and National Governments, and was the first Congressman to advocate the emancipation of slaves and their employment as soldiers in the United States Army. BITTEN BY A RATTLER Savannah, Ga. Jan. 14. Jack Lennard, in the lower part of Brevard County, Fla. Told the following story of a girl and her pet; a family named Belden lived a quarter from me. They had only one daughter, a pretty girl of thirteen that had as ugly a pet as was ever known. I was a great big rattle snake that would come and go at her bidding and nestle in her lap. The monster was fond of the girl and would suffer her to strike and roll it about as she pleased. The girl was playing in some bushes near the house with the snake in her lap. A large negro saw the child and thinking she was unprotected, slipped upon her, seized her in his arms, and was bearing her off into the woods, with his hand pressed over her mouth to stifle her cries. The snake crawled from the folds of the dress, crept around the brute’s arm and struck him in the neck, hissing in rage at the time. He stuck his fangs in deep, two or three times, ere the negro was aware of what it was. He then dropped the girl, and seizing the reptile in his hand tore it off and killed it against the tree. The girl ran screaming towards her home. The negro went but a few yards before overcome by the poison, he fell to the ground where he was soon found. The snake had avenged the insult to his playmate, and the negro died in the greatest agony. Mr. Belden said that the snake had been playing with his little girl for years, and had never hurt her, and he was sorry that it was killed. The little girl was inconsolable, but is now reconciled to the loss of her pet, and believes it was only given to her to save her from the horrible fate. HOW TO SWEEP Sweep with a long, steady stroke, taking care to form a habit of raising the broom at the end of the stroke in such a way as to prevent dust raising. Watch some women sweep as if they were digging. A small cloud of dust will follow the end of the broom every time it is raised. Be careful to go into every corner with the end of the broom, and to brush all dust from between carpet or matting and skirting board, as here is where moths love to harbor. Sweep from all sides of the room to the center. This sweeping it the center instead of the door may strike some readers as an innovation but if they will consider a moment they will see there is no reason whatever for dragging the dust all over the room. Sweeping toward the center of a sixteen feet square room, you only sweep the dust eight feet each way, instead of carrying it before the broom the whole sixteen feet. Short, quick strokes of the broom are apt to scatter the dust, especially when the stroke ends with an upward jerk, as I have often seen it do when the broom is in the hands of vigorous girls, who imagine that they are getting over the ground much more rapidly by hurried movements than they would if they took greater pains. But hurry is not speed; some women are quick and through, others slow and thorough, but the one always hurrying is rarely either quick or through; she makes work all the time she is doing it. The Atlanta Constitution speaks of a murderer with the mark of Cain upon his brow. Down here in Mobile Caine would have been acquitted by an intelligent jury in ten minutes after they had retired from the box. Our sympathy is always for the murderer. The murdered man being dead has no longer any political or personal influence. As Caine was about to boom a city in the land of Nod, any jury of ordinary sagacity would understand that the murdered Abel could have no influence in making appointments on the police force of Nod, and that Caine was particularly alive and active. – [Mobile Register] WHY WOMEN WORK Gail Hamilton has a serious word to say of her sex that all should read: “Their spiritual superiority is signified chiefly in this, that the women work for love, the men for money.” Thus she sums the matter up. “The Spiritual advance made by man is seen chiefly in this, that so much of the money he earns goes to the ministry of refinement, education, embellishment, to the wife and children whom he loves. But the woman sees no money for her toil. Her sufficient, her ample reward is in her husband, content, happiness, growing in grace, in children, bounding to gracious maturity. “The unmarried woman works for necessity, for love of her dependent ones, for love of some beautiful or beneficent profession, for sweet mercy and charity to the ignorant, for horror of dependence upon those on whom she has no claim – seldom for business, ambition or material accumulation. The woman who makes a real failure, a failure in her own business, is the unloved woman, the grasping, the untruthful, the woman who is the center of discomfort, a source of anxiety, an object of avoidance, instead of being that gentle, consoling, considerate, motherly magnet which draws until itself all human want, and woe, and bliss, and aspiration. – [New York World] Pittsburg, January 16 - A life insured for one million dollars will soon be one of the curiosities exhibited by the rich men of this city of iron barons and coal kings. That life at present carries the largest insurance policy of the United States. Dr. David Hostetter, the railroad magnate and patent medicine manufacturer, is the person referred to. His death alone would be worth $600,000 to his heirs, as that is the amount of money his life is at present insured for. Only last week he added $55,000 more to his big policy. His ambition is to leave $1,000,000 as the aggregate of the policies, and to that end he will place $400,000 more on his life during the present year. His wealth is estimated at $11,000,000. It is only forty years ago since this same Dr. Hostetter peddled his bitters around the streets and cities of the country in a pack on his back. The he was wroth but the mere money he made day by day. Now he ranks next to C. W. Crittenden, of New York, as the largest and wealthiest patent medicine man on the continent. He is the leading capitalist engaged in building the famous South Penn Railroad, and was the bitter opponent of the plan to sell out that line to the Pennsylvania Railroad. He is now heavily interested in Reading Railroad and is Franklin B. Gowen’s right hand man in reconstruction and extension measures. The doctor, besides all the above interests, owns bridges, railroads, and banks in Pittsburg. In a recent suit in court a valuation of $498,000 was placed upon two little sheets of paper he keeps locked up in his private safe at home. They are the recipe and trade mark of his bitters – a liquor that sutlers hawked about in army camps during the war of the rebellion as whisky, and which only undeceived the soldier boys when they could not succeed in getting drunk on it, no matter how much they drank. Now he is hale and hearty at the age of seventy years, making two trips to New York every month on railroad business. 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 Mr. FAYET PENNINGTON is clerking for Summers & Pennington. Farmers, sow a big crop of oats if you want to succeed during the summer. A full line of Family groceries kept at Summers & Pennington’s. Dr. W. A. BROWN, visiting Fayette C. House, and other points on the G. P. Railroad this week. Hon. R. L. BRADLEY off to Montgomery again where he will resume his legislative duties. Rev. Mr. HEWITT will, the weather permitting, preach at Cansler on next Sabbath at 11 o’clock. “Uncle JIMMIE” MIDDLETON gave an interesting lecture to the students at the Academy last Friday evening. Owing to the very inclement morning last Sabbath Rev. Mr. HEWITT did not fill his appointment at the church. We call especial attention to the Pension advertisement to be found in this issue. Address Capt. J. D. MCCLUSKEY in regard to particulars. Judge COBB is adding another new building to his lot. The Judge never tires with the sound of the hammer and buzz of saw around him. Mrs. HATTIE MORTON will return this week from Florida, where she has been spending some time with her sister, Mrs. W. T. MARLER. Co. NESMITH, Dr. LOCK MORTON and Mayor WIMBERLY went to Columbus the first of the week on railroad business.. Mrs. ROBT. BRADLEY, her daughter, Miss HETTIE, and Mrs. NANNIE DINMAN accompanied by Esq. ROBT. BRADLEY gave us a very pleasant call Wednesday. We learn that Miss HATTIE SPRINGFIELD walked from one room to another this week by being aided some. Hope she will entirely regain her usual strength and health. Mr. R. W. COBB and little son JOHN, off to Columbus this week. Little JOHN left with a happy heart, as he had made money sufficient to pay his own expenses, hurrah for you JOHN. Col. MEEK, the eminent and talented lawyer of Columbus, Miss, came up last Monday to defend the causes against Mr. BEN SIMONS. The Col. made a strong and eloquent argument in behalf of his client, which had its force and effect, and resulted in success. Mr. WHITE, a Nashville drummer in town last week. Also, Mr. ROWLET a tobacconist was here taking orders - this week Messrs. CLAY NANCE and MITCH NEELY, shoe and notions, both from the above city. We believe they received liberal orders from our merchants. MARRIED – On Wednesday, the 25th inst, at the residence of the bride’s parents, by Rev. G. L. HEWITT, W. A. YOUNG, Esq. to Miss MOLLIE CREW. May their new lives just begun ever be fraught with happiness. Mr. GENZAY, auditor of the Kansas City Railroad, and resident engineer THOMAS spent last Saturday night at the Hotel. The auditor delivered the money to Judge COBB to pay the citizens for right of way, which was several hundred dollars or more, which was a heap o’ money for a newspaper man to see; i.e., ye humble editor. We hear that on Monday last in the South West part of the county, a Mr. AAIR and Mr. JIM PORTER had an altercation which resulted in the latter gentleman getting cut very severely several times. Mr. A. H. SANDERS left yesterday morning for Crew’s Mill, where he will remain only about a fort-night. Those in the neighborhood, wishing pictures taken will do well to call on him at once. Mr. SANDERS is an experienced artist and understands his business. I MEAN BUSINESS From this date I will not sell to any one on a credit, or on a ticket. I must have the CASH for all goods sold from now on. Respectfully, HIGH PENNINGTON READ THIS All those indebted to mew ill please come and settle their tickets and accounts inside of ten days, otherwise said accounts and tickets will be placed in the hands of Esq. W. G. MIDDLETON, for collection. You owe me, and I need the money. J. B. MACE The State of Alabama, Lamar County In the Probate Court The Memphis & Birmingham Railroad Company having filed in this Court an application for the condemnation of the right of way, covering a strip of land 100 feet wide, fifty feet on each side of the center of the road bed, over and through NW ¼ of SW ¼ of Section 11, and SE ¼ of NE ¼ of Section 10, T13 R 14, lying in this county, five and six tenth acres, and it appearing to the Court that MARY W. B. SULLENS, H. B. SULLENS, and CLARENCE SULLENS minors and the owners of an interest in said land, and are non-residents of this sate and reside in Lee County and State of Mississippi. It is ordered that Monday the 28th day of February 1887 be set as a day of the meeting of the Commissioners of award on said lands, and that notice be given to said MARY W. B. SULLENS, H. B. SULLENS and CLARENCE SULLENS by publication in the Vernon Courier a newspaper published in this county for four consecutive weeks, before said day of hearing, that they may appear in said proceedings if they see fit so to do. This 20th day of January 1887 ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate PENSIONS J. D. MCCLUSKY, Esq. has associated with him Esq. H. S. BERLIN, a prominent attorney of the Washington City. These gentlemen will give close attention to the collection of Mexican War Pensions. A law has recently been passed in Congress granting Pensions to Mexican War veterans and their widows under the Pension laws. Application to J. D. MCCLUSKEY, Esq. will be promptly forwarded and looked after. HUGH PENNINGTON’S Livery and Feed Stable - centrally located within 50 yards of the Court House. Vernon, Ala. My price for feeding and taking care of horses shall be as cheap as the cheapest. The public generally is invited to give me a call. Respectfully, HUGH PENNINGTON. FINAL SETTLEMENT The State of Alabama Lamar County Probate Court Estate of SANDY B. RIGGAIN, deceased. This day came R. W. CLARK Administrator (by his Attorney THOS. B. NESMITH) of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts, and vouchers for final settlement of his administration. It is ordered that the 15th day of February 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 of said County Ad for Dr. J. H. McLean’s Liver and Kidney Balm Ad for Dr. J. H. McLean’s Chills and Fever Cure Ad for Dr. J. H. McLean’s Liver and Kidney Balm Barber Shop. KELLY & ALBERT, No. 58 Market Street Columbus, Miss. Upstairs, opposite Cady’s Stable. Hot and cold baths. WAREHOUSE. The Cotton storing public must not forget the popular firm of TURNER & Co. who occupy the Brick Warehouse at the depot, where every convenience is offered to campers. Messrs. J. D. & W. M. TURNER, the sons of Major J. H. TURNER, deceased, are successors in the business, and will be on hand to look after the interests of their friends in this section. Ad for Ayer’s Sarsaparilla 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 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 comfortable 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. Ad for Dr. J. H. McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier 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 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 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 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. 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. 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. PAGE 4 ON TRIAL – Sermon by Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D. - The Great and Awful Day of Account – The Indictment and the Witnesses – The All-Powerful Advocate, and for Whom He Pleads….. HOSTESS AND GUEST – Delicate Hints to Visitors Who Are Indeed a Burden to Their Friends “Blessed be drudgery.” I often wonder if it would not be a happy thing if one’s guests should remember this. There are some girls and boys who come as visitors to one’s house who seem to have no idea that there are reciprocal duties to perform. They not only expect to be entertained, but to be taken care of. In most families there is not a valet to black the boots, yet I have known young men to leave their boots outside their chamber-door., and I have heard the hostess creep softly along the entry and get them, giving them a “boss shine.” I have known young ladies who not only never made up their own beds, but who never thought of hanging up their dresses, leaving even any semblance of order of the “girl” to establish, when in a large family there were only two servants. I have seen belles swing themselves in the hammock right after breakfast, when there were flowers to arrange, parlors to be dusted and dishes to be washed by the hostess. I have heard of young ladies, who made delicious chocolate creams and soft caramels in the afternoon, after the cook had cleaned up the kitchen, but who left all their pans for her to clean, and who never though of offering to make a desert for the household. Of course, there is the other kind of visiting young men, who play tennis with the little girls whom every one else considers to be too young for partners and who bring the chairs down stairs for the musicale. So there is also the other kind of visiting-girls who trim the hats and make photograph cases for the family, and who play whist with the old gentlemen instead of looking at the moonlight on the waters with the son of the old man; and who are glad to do a little “drudgery” for the sake of the welcome they receive. – [Kate Gunnell Wells, in Wide Awake] HINTS ABOUT FINERY – How Cheap Laces May Be Made to Look As Good as New “The cheap laces, such as Oriental, Fedora and Egyptians, are often cast aside as useless when once soiled, but they may be washed and done up as good as new if a little care is taken,” said a dresser to a reporter recently. “First the laces should be carefully removed from the garment and put into a basin of hot soap suds. Use an ordinary soap. After cooking for an hour or so the lace should be carefully rubbed between the hands, and after washing in several waters it may be boiled if very much soiled. The lace should not be wrung out in the regular way, but the water pressed out with the palms of the hands. If narrow lace for ruching purposes, starch with a little clear starchy, allowing one teaspoonful to a pint of water, otherwise take out of clear water. While still damp, pull the lace gently with the fingers into proper shape. Dry in the sunshine, then dampen and iron over several thicknesses of flannel. The iron should be moderately hot. All the points should be nicely pulled into shape with the fingers and then ironed. Embroidered laces should be ironed on the wrong side so that the pattern is not flattened.” – [N. Y. 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