Lamar County AlArchives News.....Vernon Courier February 11, 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 October 27, 2007, 4:05 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History February 11, 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, FEBRUARY 11, 1887 VOL. I. NO. 37 Subscription $1.00 Per Year UNCAGED – Poem – [William C. Richards, in Southern Bivouae] THE WILD WEST – Adventures Of An Old Hunter Who Was Scalped – He Supposed Himself Twice Dead – Three Angry Bears Fighting To A --- Finish – The Fate Of The Victor (Adventure story about a man who fought with Indians and then bears and survived) ONLY TWO TERMS – A Bet Which Was Lost By the Man Who Acted As Referee - Anecdote HOW TO COOK SMALL ROASTS Small families often complain that they can not have good roast beef because they are obliged to buy such small pieces, and it comes upon the table dry and overdone. To prevent this the smaller the piece to be roasted the higher the temperature to which its surface should be exposed. It should be crusted, or browned, as quickly as possible, so that the juices within shall be held there under high pressure, and only be allowed to escape by bursts and sputters rather than by steady evaporation. No more fuel need be consumed, since it would take a shorter time to cook. – [Chicago News] FAITHFUL EMPLOYEES – A True Incident Which Shows That Their Fidelity Is Frequently Rewarded – The young man who does just as little as possible for an employer sometimes wonders why he is not given a position in the business house in which he is employed, when a less brilliant companion, who works for another establishment, is advanced very rapidly. The reason probably is that the less brilliant companion is more faithful, and works conscientiously, always seeking to do more than enough barely to secure his salary. Somebody sees and appreciates his work, and when the opportunity comes a better place is given him, which he fills with equal faithfulness. An illustration of this may be found in the following true incident :…….(rest is a story – not transcribing) ………. CHOLERA IN JAPAN Some history of cholera in Japan has recently been published by the Director of the Sanitary Bureau for the Empire. According to this authority cholera is known to have appeared in Japan in 1822, commencing at Nagasaki, the only port then open to foreign commerce, and at the same time the disease is known to have prevailed in China. Another epidemic took place in 1858, but no statistical information is available as to either of these outbreaks. But since the empire has been freely open to foreign vessels cholera has been much more frequent. It entered in 1876, and in 1877 it caused 7,967 deaths. The next epidemic was in 1879, when 105,786 fatal attacks were recorded. After this there was a cessation until 1885, during the course of which 7,152 deaths occurred, and the disease has extended into the present year. Cholera is admitted to be, in Japan as elsewhere, generally associated with the prevalence of local filth, and great efforts are being made by the Sanitary Bureau to effect improvements in this respect. – [N. Y. Post] PITH AND POINT - jokes THE NEWSPAPER – Why It Should Be In Contact and Sympathy with All Classes It is so obvious that whoever aspires to lead and guide must take counsel with those who have the daily drudgery of administration to do that here is no need to labor the point. What is much less generally recognized is that the newspaper out to be in close and direct touch with either extremity of the social system and with all intermediate grades. There is something inexpressibly pathetic in the dumbness of the masses of the people. Touch but a hair on the head of the well-to-do, and forthwith you near his indignant protest in the columns of the Times. But the million, who have to suffer the rudest buffets of ill fortune, and the brutality of the better-off, they are as dumb as the horse, which you may scourge to death without its uttering a sound. Newspapers will never really justify their claims to be the tribunes of the people until every victim of injustice – whether it be a woman run in by a policeman greedy for blackmail, or a ticket-of-leave man hunted down by shadowy detectives, or paupers balked of their legal allowance of skilly – sends in to the editorial sanctum their complaint of the injustice which they suffer. When men cease to complain of injustice, it is as if they sullenly confessed that God was dead. – [W. T. Stead, in Contemporary Review] TOO MUCH MONEY – How Much Very Rich Men Can Legitimately Expend in a Month As I was saying, I knew a fellow who has acquaintance with these millionaires. His conversation soothed and consoled me to some extent. He depreciated the possession of too much money. So did I. He declared it did not contribute to human happiness to anything like the extent people imagine. I agreed with him. He said, indeed, that men of moderate means were the only contented men – the only men who enjoyed life. I grasped his hand. “Yes” he said, “those men have all so much money that they can not derive any benefit from it. I dined,” he went on, “once with half a dozen millionaires. I have had a better dinner at the club or the restaurant – but that is no matter. After dinner they began talking of how much money a man could expend in having the most luxurious necessities of life, not speaking, of course, of pictures, or hobbies, or tastes that one could live without. One of them figured it out. He had a complete establishment in town, a wife, and a child. He had in the establishment everything that was in the faintest degree necessary to perfect comfort. He had thirteen servants, six carriages and six horses; his wife was the most elegantly dressed woman in town; his child had everything that money could buy. He had besides a place in the country, non- productive, in which he entertained frequently, although not in the style of such places as Belmont. He had twenty-two employees on his country place, sixty breeding and racing horses and a yacht which cost him about $2,000 a month, and for all these – house in town, place in country, his wife’s dresses, his household expenses – he could not without waste expend more than $10,000 a month. THE GREAT CAESAR – Some Of the Prominent Traits of Rome’s Greatest Soldier and Historian In person Caesar was tall and straight. His features were more refined than usual in Roman faces; the forehead was wide and high, the most large and think, the lips full, the eyes dark-grey, like an eagle’s, the neck extremely thick and sinewy. His complexion was pale, his beard and mustache was kept carefully shaved. His hair was short and naturally scanty, falling off toward the end of this life and leaving him partially bald. His voice, especially when he spoke in public, was high and shrill. His health was uniformly strong until his last year, when he became subject to epileptic fits. He was a great bather and scrupulously clean in all his habits, abstemious in his food, and careless in what it consisted, rarely or never touching wine, and noting sobriety as the highest of qualities when describing any new people. He was an athlete in early life, admirable in all manly exercises, and especially in riding. In Gaul he rode a remarkable horse, which he had bred himself, and which would let not one but Caesar mount him. From his boyhood it was observed of him that he was the truest of friends, that he avoided quarrels, and was most easily appeased when offend. In manner he was quiet and gentlemanlike, with the natural courtesy of high breeding,. On an occasion when he was dining somewhere the other guests found the oil too rancid for them. Caesar took it without remark, to spare his entertainer’s feelings. When on a journey through a forest with his friend Oppius he came, one night, to a hut where there was single bed. Oppius being unwell, Caesar gave it up to him, and slept on the ground. – [N. W. Christian Advocate] A patriot at Rochester, N. Y. voted sixteen times before his trickery was discovered. – [N. Y. Mail] PAGE 2 THE COURIER ALEX A. WALL, Editor and Proprietor Vernon, Alabama Friday, February 11, 1887 Prof. Johnson, U. S. Geologist, was in town this week. He visited the several ore beds near town and pronounced them all good, abounding in large quantities. He also said that the quantity of iron ore at the Old Furnace three miles west of town is practicably in exhaustible and sufficient to run large furnaces for a great many years. Now, this lays aside all doubt as to the quantity that has hitherto kept the development of this one ore bed formant. Hence it only remains for capitalists to come in and go to work not all doubting the quantity. It is inexhaustible. Prof. is employed by the U. S. Government, and is a scholar and refined polished gentleman and what he says is reliable. On the 1st Reagen was elected United States Senator from Texas. He succeeds Maxey. A syndicate recently paid ninety-five thousand dollars for eighty acres of land in the town of Decatur. A lady in Montgomery has undertaken to eat thirty quails in thirty days, and she has already eaten twenty-six, only being four left it is very likely she will succeed. A strike, consisting of 500 miners on the various mines in Walker County occurred on the 1st inst. They demanded an increase of ten cents per ton, which was refused. Dr. Mat Alexander, a leading physician of Knoxville, Tenn. took five grains of morphine on the 1st and died. He left a note saying: “I die with malice toward none. I go to hell. Tell my son to go to heaven.” He was a member of the Board of Examining Surgeons of the Bureau. The night clerk of the new Gayoso Hotel, Memphis, Tenn. stole Miss Fanny Davenport’s forty thousand dollar diamond on the night of the 1st. The valuable jewel was given the clerk, Charles Talbot, to take care of during the night which proved too great a trust for him. He was arrested at Milan Tenn. On the 1st, for themselves and associates, James B. Pace and John S. Wise, of Richmond Va., bought the Southern Telegraph property in the states of Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Alabama. Said property was sold under a decree of the U. S. Circuit Court. The amount paid was $460,000. The southern line extends from Washington to Selma, Ala with numerous branches, covering 1,800 miles, with 5,000 miles of wire. Prohibition in Texas Austin, Texas – Jan 31 – In the lower House of the Legislature today, a joint resolution proposing a prohibition amendment to the Constitution, came upon its third reading, and after some technical amendments was passed by a vote of 80 ayes to 21 noes. (sic) The faculty of the University of Alabama has established a school of mines and arranged a course of instruction in mining and metallurgy as through and extensive as any prescribed by any other school in this country. – [Mirror] FOR THE BLAIR BILL Montgomery, Ala., Feb 4 – The Alabama Senate, by a vote of 16 to 10, has adopted the joint resolution requesting the Alabama Representatives in Congress to vote for the Blair Bill. Seven Miles of track have been laid on the Kansas City Railroad from Birmingham and the work continues. ARBOR DAY FOR THE SCHOOLS State of Alabama, Department of Education Montgomery, Jan. 18, ’87 Impressed with the importance of tree Planting with appropriate ceremonies around our school houses for shade and ornament and believing that the observance of a day for that purpose by the schools of the state will have a beneficial influence on the children not only in training their minds, but in elevating their thoughts, improving their tastes and cultivating their hearts, I do hereby designate and appoint TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22ND, 1887, AS ARBOR DAY of the schools of Alabama, and respectfully ask all school officers and teachers to observe the same as such. Upon Arbor Day it is requested that every school plant at least one memorial tree; and it is desired that one such tree be planted by each class, where practicable by each pupil, to be named and cared for by the schools, class or pupil planting the tree. Those desiring information as to the ceremonies appropriate for such occasions, will be furnished on application to Hon. N. H. R. Dawson, Commissioner of Education, Washington D.C. That our Arbor Day, the first ever attempted in the state, may be a success and prove a blessing to future generations, I earnestly invoke the aid of the state press and the hearty, active co-operation of superintendents of counties, cities, townships, and separate school districts as well as every teacher. Given under my hand and official seal, this the 18th day of January, 1887. SOLOMON PALMER, Superintendent of Education Books of Subscription to the Decatur Mineral and Land Company were opened on the 3rd inst at Decatur, and about $200,000 of the stock taken. The books will remain open at the office of the company for further subscription until the 17th inst., when the company will be formally organized and commence business. The Fayette Journal says: It is authoritatively announced that trains will be running through to Birmingham on the Georgia Pacific by the 20th of March, if not before. This is good news, and we hail it with joy. The completion of this road will put our people in direct communication with the outside world. Also: Several capitalists from Aberdeen, Miss, and elsewhere, are here purchasing great bodies of mineral lands, and contrary to the old style of taking options and letting them fall through these men are paying cash as they buy. Hence our land holders are beginning to open their eyes to understand that the boom is now upon us. BUSHEL MEASURE WEIGHTS The following table is useful for reference – keep it in your place of business: POUNDS POUNDS Wheat 60 Castor Beans 46 Shelled Corn 56 Clover Seed 60 Corn in Ear 70 Timothy Seed 45 Peas 60 Blue Grass 14 Rye 56 Buckwheat 52 Oats 32 Dried Peaches 33 Barley 47 Dried Apples 24 Irish Potatoes 60 Onions 54 Sweet Potatoes 55 Corn Meal 48 Salt 50 Fine Salt 55 Stone Coal 80 Ground Peas 24 Bran 20 Sorghum Seed 42 Turnips 55 Cotton Seed 33 Millet Seed 50 TROUT FOR ALABAMA WATERS Washington, Jan 31 – The United States fish Commission has made its allotments of fish for the spring distribution. Among them are the following for Alabama Rivers: For Swink’s Lake near Scottsboro, 300 yearlings lake trout; for Santer’s Creek, near Scottsboro, 175 yearlings lake trout; for Paint Creek, 175 two years old California trout; Pear’s Creek near Barton, 175 yearling lake trout; Flint River near Burley, 75 yearling and 100 two year old lake trout; Crow Creek near Stephenson, 175 yearling lake trout. We had a pleasant call on Saturday last from Capt. J. H. BANKHEAD, member- elect to Congress fro his district. He addressed the railroad meeting that met in this city on Friday night, and was applauded to the echo when he promised to use his best energies while in the National Legislature to have the obstructions in the Warrior Above this city removed. He purchased a lot while here, besides $10,000 worth of stock in the Land Company, thus showing practically that he has faith in our future – [Tuskaloosa Gazette] 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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. Ad for Dr. J. H. McLean’s Volcanic Oil Liniment 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. 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 Monday is Saint Valentines Day, being the 14th day. The prisoners in jail have been generally merry this week. The Baptist Church is to be built ------ Station to cost near $4,000. ---- any of them with flowers, that --- not but with little vanity con--- myself with having at home. Mr. R. W. COBB left Thursday morning with a drove of beef cattle for New Orleans market. --- assemble Friday night at Mrs. - --- GUIN’S. The young people had a nice time. The County Court of Commissioners will meet at the court house next Monday. Col. T. B. NESMITH left Tuesday for Winston County, whither he will go to attend Circuit Court. HUGH PENNINGTON has had 25 or --- nice live oaks set out along the street in front of his residence. Seed Irish Potatoes for sale at ---ners & PENNINGTON’S for fifty centers per peck. The members of the Masonic lodge were in session at the Lodge on Saturday night. The Board of Education was in session last Saturday. Three young men obtained 3rd grade license to ------. Esq. J. J. RAY, a prominent attorney of Fayette Court House visited the Courier office last Saturday evening. The celebrated Sizemore Jack is now owned by Mr. T. M. WOODS. He will be kept at Henry Hill’s ----. At Mr. and Mrs. J. E. MORTON’S residence Tuesday night the young ladies and gentlemen met and merrily enjoyed themselves for an hour or so. An eagle was killed a few days ago in Fayette County which measured eight feet and nine inches from the tip of the wings. The Medical Society of Lamar County will meet on Wednesday the --- day of March, in Vernon--- The board of Censors will meet the same day. Mr. BUCK BROWN, who has been -----ndling school here, left Sunday –ling for his home, he having acquired a situation as assistant to Mr. --- THOMAS, resident engineer on the Kansas City railroad. We wish success in the work. Mr. A. A. SUMMERS has set out a nice magnolia bush in his lot at the cemetery. This is commendable and we suggest that others do likewise; thus beautifying the resting place of the dead, thereby remembering that earth to earth, and dust to dust, we shall all return. THE JURY The following is a list of the Grand and Petit Jurors, drawn for the Spring term of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, Alabama; commencing the 3rd Monday and 21st day in March, to wit: JOHN B. HANKINS Town Beat J. E. PENNINGTON Town Beat JOHN SEAY Town Beat JAMES A. CASH Town Beat HARRISON BUTLER Lawrence THOS. SIZEMORE Sizemore GEO. H. STANFORD Brown’s W. S. METCALFE Henson W. F. HAMILTON Millville T. J. LOWRY Pine Springs THOS. MIXON Goode PLEAS MAY Moscow R. S. JACKSON Moscow JOHN T. HILL (IEABODSON) Moscow L. C. SMITH Military Springs ELZY BOYD Bett’s A. J. LOTTES Trull’s M. A. TAGGART Vails J. J. PHILIPS Millport J. M. MORTON Steens CALVIN GUIN Strictlands C. G. JOHNSON Stricklands M. R. SEAY Wilson’s S. M. CURRY Wilson’s SECOND WEEK JOHN B. WHEELER Town Beat R. E. JACKSON Town Beat J. W. CLEARMAN Town Beat N. F. MORTON Town beat H. A. BROCK Lawrence D. S. BLACK Sizemore J. D. GANN Brown’s PHIL HEALY Goode CHARLES DUNCAN Henson’s S. H. BROWN Millville W. G. SPRINGFILED Millville J. W. NOE Pine Springs G. E. BANKHEAD Moscow LEE KENNEDY Moscow HENRY HILL Moscow J. T. MCMANUS Military MACK BROWN Betts B. L. FALKNER Trulls H. K. CADDLE Millport BASCOM GLOVER Millport JOE JONES Steens JASPER COLLINS Strickland N. L. TRULL Strickland JOHN M. DELK Wilson GRAND JURORS T. W. SPRINGFIELD Town A. H. BURROW Lawrence W. J. KIRK Sizemore WATSON BROWN Brown’s S. W. MOZLY Henson JESSE D. CARTER Millville G R. TURMAN Pine Springs JOHN T. THOMPSON Moscow B. M. MOLLOY Betts JOHN F. HAYS Trulls JOE MILLER Vails W. C. WILLIAMS Millport W. T. WALKER Steens G. W. ALLEN Strickland N. S. PARTAIN Wilson TAX ASSESSOR’S NOTICE I will be present at the times and places given below for the purpose of assessing the sate and county tax for the year 187, as follows: FIRST ROUND Moscow, March 1 Crew’s Mills, March 2 Brown’s, March 3 Sizemore’s, March 4 Lawrence’s, March 5 Town, March 7 Bett’s, March 8 Military (Boxes), March 9 Wilson’s, March 14 Trull’s, March 15 Vail’s, March 16 Millport, March 17 Kennedy, March 18 Strickland’s, March 19 Pine Springs, April 18 Millville, April 19 Henson’s Springs, April 20 SECOND ROUND Cansler, March 21 Crew’s Mills, March 22 Brown’s Precinct, March 23 Sizemore’s , March 24 Lawrence’s, March 25 Town, March 28 to April 2 Bett’s, April 5 Boxes, April 6 Green Wood’s, April 7 Trull’s, April 11 Fern bank, April 12 Vails, April 13 Millport, April 14 Kennedy, April 15 Strickland’s, April 16 Millville, April 22 Pine Springs, April 23 Henson Springs, April 24 I will be at Court during the last week only, from March 28 to April 2. W. Y. ALLEN, T. A. 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, HUGH PENNINGTON 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. 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 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 SHERIFF’S SALE RICHARDS & RINHARDSON vs O. J. JOYNER Lamar County, Alabama By virtue of two executions which were issued by the clerk of the Circuit Court of Pickens County, Alabama, in favor of said plaintiffs against the said defendants for the sum of Eleven Hundred and Twenty Five Dollars and eighty four cents and cost on judgment rendered by said court on 17th of February 1886. I will sell to the highest bidder for cash on the First Monday in March 1887 in front of the door of the Court House in Vernon in Lamar County, the following described land situated in said county to wit: An undivided fifth interest in the NW ¼ W ½ of NE ¼, NE ¼ of SW ¼ and NW ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 36 T 15 R14 West, levied on as the property of O. J. JOYNER in the absence of personal property. This 3rd day of Feb. 1887. S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff of Lamar County, Ala SHERIFF’S SALE Within legal hours on Monday, the 7th day of March 1887, I will sell at the Court House door in Vernon, Lamar County, to the highest bidder, for cash, at public outcry, the NE qr, sec 17, T13 R 15, levied on as the property of M. W. LOYD; and the NE qr of NW qr, Sec 17, SE qr of SW qr, N hlf of SE qr, Sec 8, E hlf of E hlf of SW qr, SE qr, Sec 33, T12 R15; SW qr of SW qr Sec 3, E hlf of NE qr, S hlf of SW qr of NE qr NE qr of SW qr Sec 4; NE qr of NE qr, NE qr of SE qr, S hlf of SE qr, Sec 8; NE qr N hlf of NW qr, SW qr, N hlf of SE qr, SW qr of SE qr Sec 9; NW qr of NW qr, E hlf of SW qr, Sec 10, T13, R15, levied on as the property of GEORGE R. TURMAN; N hlf of SW qr, NE qr Sec 22, S hlf of SW qr, sec 23, T 12 R15, levied on as the property of CHARLES DUNCAN; S hlf of NE qr, NW qr NW qr, of SW qr, Sec 24; W hlf of SE qr, Sec 14 Township 12 R 15 levied on as the property of JAMES V. CRUMP, to satisfy an execution to me directed from the Circuit Court of said county, in favor of THOS. B. NESMITH, as administrator of the estate of JOHN POPE, deceased, and against said parties, for $1085.45 cents, Judgment rendered, March 5, 1885, and interest and costs. This Feb. 3, 1887. S. F. PENNINGTON, Sheriff 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 state 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. Barber Shop. KELLY & ALBERT No. 58 Market Street Columbus, Miss. Upstairs, opposite Cady’s Stable. Hot and Cold Baths. 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 Ad for Dr. J. H. McLean’s Little Liver and Kidney pillets Ad for Dr. J. H. McLean’s Volcanic Oil Liniment 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. 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. J. T. STINSON & COMPNAY. Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants. Columbus, Miss Ad for Mme. Demorest’s Reliable Patterns and Demorest Sewing Machine (picture of sewing machine) $19.50 Ad for Chicago Scale Co. (pictures of scales, wagon scales, sewing machines, safes, etc….) PAGE 4 FOREIGN GOSSIP • The English Government has purchased a large number of Mexican saddles for use in the English cavalry service. • Whole wheat boiled is much used as food for humanity in England. With butter and sugar it is said to be a rich dish. • The offering of bouquets to actresses has been prohibited in Vienna on the ground that the practice has grown to an absurd extent. • The revenue from alcohol in England for 1885 was £1,179,000 less than in 1884, and the decrease has been steadily going on for ten years. • In England recently a clergyman sensibly refused to christen a child when the father wanted to give twenty-six names, one of each letter in the alphabet. • The agents of a Paris insurance company have received instructions to decline taking risks on the lives of people who are in the habit of dyeing hair or beard. • The heirs of the late Baron Rothschild, of Frankfort, will construct a private museum in which will be exhibited the Rothschild art collection, the finest in the world. • The official investigation made in Prussia relative to the causes of mine explosions show, among other things, that many explosions attributed to fire damp, or outbursts of gas, are really due to the fine coal dust in mines. • The Empress of China has reigned twenty years, and will resign next February in favor of her son. She is said to be exceedingly progressive, and but for the men who formed her council would have had railroads throughout the Empire. • A Jewish merchant named Anschel, alias Reichenheim, has bequeathed 150,000 marks to the city of Berlin for the benefit of teachers, widows and orphans. Consul Behrendt, also a Jew, has bequeathed to the city 300,000 marks. • A small river of true ink, with which letters have been written, is one of the natural curiosities of Algeria. It is formed by the union of two rivulets, one of which is very strongly impregnated with iron, while the other has imbibed gallic acid from a peat march through which it passes. • For painting walls or other objects exposed to dampness, a mixture has come into extensive use in Germany formed of very fine iron filings and linseed oil varnish. When the material to be painted is subject to frequent change of temperature, linseed oil and amber varnish are added to the first two coats. The paint may be applied to wood, stone, or iron, and, in the case of the latter, it is not necessary to free it from rust. • One must be careful how he jokes when in Germany. An innkeeper near Berlin, named Adam, adopted the suggestion of a newspaper man and called his place “Paradise.” The journalist, who is an excellent imitator of the style of the old minnesingers, wrote for the tavern sign a short poem, in which Adam is made to say that the Lord turned a former Adam out of Paradise, but as the ejection had brought misery upon the human race, the Lord had been pleased to provide another garden and another Adam to take care of it,. The poem had no sooner been displayed than the police ordered it removed as a blasphemy. IRISH GOVERNMENT – The Chief Grievance of Those Irishmen who Desire Home Rule One of the chief grievances of which those Irishmen who desire home rule complain is the way in which Ireland is governed by English officials. All the local affairs of Ireland, indeed, are under the direct or indirect control of what is called “the Government of Dublin Castle.” Dublin Castle has been for many centuries the residence of the chief executive ruler of Ireland, who has always been appointed by the British Crown, and has been the representative of the British King or Queen in that country. The Lord Lieutenant, or Vice-Roy of Ireland, as the ruler is called, has always enjoyed large, almost despotic powers. He is not responsible, in any way, to the Irish people, over whose concerns he exercises so large an authority. He is responsible only to the British Cabinet, and, through it, to the British Parliament. IF every Irishman in the island opposed his policy, they could not call him to account. So long as he was sustained by the British Government, he could do as he pleased. Usually the Lord-Lieutenant has been a great English Peer. When he has been, as the present holder of the office is, an Irish nobleman, he has yet been devoted to British, rather than to Irish, interests. Associated with the Lord-Lieutenant is the “Chief Secretary for Ireland,” who is almost invariably an Englishman, who sits as a member of the British House of Commons, and who goes in and out of office with the British political party to which he belongs. The lord-Lieutenant also holds his place only so long as his party is in power. These two chief officials, with their headquarters at Dublin castle, preside over a large body of minor officials, and over the general local concerns of Ireland. The Lord-Lieutenant has a very wide range of appointing power. Ireland’s affairs are mainly administered by a number of boards, the chief of which are the boards of local government, public works, national and intermediate education, lunacy fisheries, charities, prisons and loan funds the members of all these boards are chosen by the Lord-Lieutenant, and work under his supervision. They manage all the affairs relating to the poor, public health, cattle diseases, the prisons and the schools, and other purposes of local governing bodies. There are local elective boards in the Irish towns, but these are elected by a restricted suffrage, and their acts may be reversed and rejected by the central boards at Dublin. The Lord-Lieutenant also appoints the Lord-Lieutenants of the Irish counties, and these, in their turn, select the unpaid magistrates who dispense justice in the local courts. It is said that, although Ireland is Catholic by more than four to one, three-quarters of the local magistrates appointed are Protestants. The Lord-Lieutenant selects the poor-law guardians, and the sheriffs of the counties; and the sheriffs, in their turns, appoint the grand juries, which, is Ireland, possess large powers of local control. The “stipendiary” magistrates, who are paid for their services, and who hold higher courts, are also selected by the central power at Dublin Castle. The police, who have in charge the maintenance of public order in Ireland, are under the command of an Inspector-General at Dublin, who is the appointee of the Lord-Lieutenant; and the police, also are really under his control. The Irish police are a military force, armed with rifles and swords, and drilled in military fashion. Thus it is seen that the local affairs, the administration of justice, and the preservation of order in Ireland, are virtually in the hands of the Lord-Lieutenant, who is not in the least responsible to the country wherein her exercises his great powers, but only to the British Government. Mr. Chamberlain, the English statesman, who has recently opposed Mr. Gladstone’s scheme of home rule, yet declared, on one occasion, that the system of British rule in Ireland “is as completely centralized as that with which Russia governs Poland. An Irishman at this moment,” he added, “can not move a step, he can not life a finger n any parish, municipal or educational work, without being confronted by, interfered with, controlled by an English official, appointed by a foreign government, and without a shadow of representative authority.” – [Youth’s Companion] CHINA’S CAPITAL – Some of the Strange Sights to be Seen in the Streets of Pekin From the walls the city of Pekin looks its best, in fact quite different from what it really is. There you are too far away to see the filthy streets, the many dogs which go about with torn ears, the pools of stagnant water, and all the unpleasant sights which it is impossible to avoid on closer inspection. You only see here the fine trees planted in the court-yards of all the better houses and in the open spaces of the Tartar City, the quaint gate towers, the fine cathedrals, and the dark background of the western hill, behind which the great red sun dips suddenly, leaving the cloudless sky still comparatively clear and bright notwithstanding his absence. The walls are sixty or seventy feet high, ending in a crenellating parapet, and are as broad as an average carriage-way. They are, however so overgrown with bramble that is some places it is difficult for two people to walk abreast on them. The gates are numerous, and beside each a small wicket is placed, through which you pass to get on the top of the walls. Over the gate is the tower shaped like three or four immense pigeon-boxes placed one upon the other, and each smaller than the one below it. These are roofed with the peculiar Chinese tiles such as may be observed in pictures; long closed-up pipes alternate with horizontally ribbed tile, and look extremely picturesque. The roads outside Pekin are bad. Inside matters are still worse. In addition to all the miseries usually attendant on crowded thoroughfares, one gets jumbled up among innumerable camels, ponies, carts, and like impediments to profess, all of which seem bound for some place in an opposite direction to which you are going. A Pekin cart is something to be experienced, and not merely described, if justice be done to it. It is drawn by a most respectable mule, directed by a not very respectable driver. The arched roof is covered with dark blue cotton, except in rainy weather, when oil cloth is used. It is doubtless unnecessary to say that springs are conspicuous by their absence – a remark which would apply with equal force to most of the remaining resources of civilization in the city. A thin, hard mat is spread on the floor, and on this you squat as best you can. I tried tailor fashion, but afterward found it better to sit quite across the cart, with my back propped up against one side. The attitude is not very comfortable, and I have not heard that it is considered graceful, but, all thing s considered, it is perhaps the least objectionable position. Its drawbacks are experienced when a rut a foot deep is crossed, or when one of the flags with which some of the streets are paved is missing. Two or three feet of a drop is nothing to the mule or its driver, but to the barbarian inside it is inconvenient. The awning extends forward so far as the mule’s head, and protects you from the fierce rays of the sun. When the road is bad the driver walks, and when it is good – that is, when it is not excessively bad – he hops up in front, and shuts you up in a veritable oven. – [Interior] San Francisco boys stole the roof of the new City Hall, which is of lead, taking it away piece by piece – [San Francisco Chronicle] SELM’S MOSQUE – Unquestionably The Finest House Of Worship In The Moslem World – [Cor. London Times] Sultan Selim’s Mosque at Adrianople is the finest in the Moslem word. Seen from a distance in the train, its rotunds and four tall minarets make it look to Western eyes like a huge gasometer, but it is worth while spending a day at Adrianople if only to see the inside of this marvelous building. Since the Russians last came here and stamped all over the place with their muddy boots, the Turks are no longer particular abut requiring Glaours to go in unshed. A servant brings capacious babouches, which you drag on over your boots, and then you skate respectfully over the exquisitely clean cane matting which covers the entire floor. The vast expanse of this circular floor, the height of the dome, the countless painted arches and columns and the perfect stillness of the place, broken only by the splashing of a small fountain into a marble basin, produce a strangely subduing effect. thousands and thousands of colored oil lamps hang in garlands from the pillars and walls, and when all these are lighted up for a religious festival, and when the floor can not be seen for the multitude of worshippers all kneeling, with their heads bent and their palms on their thighs, the sight, as those who have witnessed it say, is one never to be forgotten. This Mosque of Selim has 999 windows, and a thousandth which is closed. the feat Sultan had ordered a thousand windows, and, when he heard that there was one short, he sent of the architect and stroked his beard with an air which boded no good; but the architect who deserved to live in the days of puff advertisements, remarked that a mosque with a thousand windows would convey nothing of oddity to the curious whereas a mosque with 999 windows and one closed would set people taking and wondering for ages. The mosque has another legend connected with a stone violet plant which is carved over its fountain. A poor man, who owned part of the ground over which the mosque is built, refused to sell his land unless a violet which had been planted by his wife was allowed to bloom upon it. The Sultan accepted the condition, and the violet was carefully railed in and tendered but in time it died, and the sovereign ordered that a fountain should be erected on the spot where it had blossomed, and that a stone violet should be carved upon it as a symbol of marital constancy. WHY SHE TAKES BOARDERS – [Puck] - anecdote THE SIMPLE DEVONSHIRE FOLK – [Chicago Living Church] - joke BUSINESS IS BUSINESS – [Washington Critic] - joke A MEAN TRICK – How A Seedy-Looking Individual Enjoyed Himself Without Expense - joke Small ads and little jokes File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/vernonco1516gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 53.4 Kb