Lamar County AlArchives News.....Vernon Courier February 25, 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, 4:09 pm Microlfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History February 25, 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 25, 1887 VOL. I. NO. 39 Subscription $1.00 Per Year BALAD OF THE BEGGAR – Poem – [Wide Wake] ----- SENTIMENT – ----- About The Standards of all Nations - ---- Hebrews, Chinese and Japanese - -- Their Venerated Banners – Modern Emblems --- The Red Cross Flag of Humanity (first column is cut off……….)…..the three annual and the three monthly festivals. First, the great New Year, which lasts a month; second, the feast of spring, on the third day of third month (or that of the flowers and young maidens), and third and last the feast of neighbors in the “won’t-go-home-till- morning” style. Great Britain, or England, that proud nation which boasts that upon its dominion the sun never sets, has more banners or standards than any other kingdom or republic. The first in the list is what is called the royal standard, or square flag, blazoned with the arms of the United Kingdom. The second is the flag of the Lord High Admiral, a crimson banner with an anchor agent, gorged in the arm with a coronet, and a cable through the ring, fretted in a true-lover’s knot, with ends pendent. Third, the flag of the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland, a Union Jack, having in the center of the crosses a blue shield, emblazoned with a golden harp. Fourth, the Union, or Union Jack in which are blended the crosses of St. George, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick, emblematic of the United Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Fifth and last, is the flag of the cross of St. George, white with a red cross, the sign of the old crusaders. Each one of these flags represents not only the different British possessions and various branches of the government, but also the chivalrous, religious and patriotic sentiments. The French flag is, comparatively, a modern idea. Under the feudal system every lord had his own personal coat of arms or standard. In the year 1794 the present standard was adopted. It is composed of three equal bands placed vertically, the hoist (or the part nearest the staff) being blue, the center white and the fly (or the end) red. This tricolor is supposed to be a union of the blue banner of St. Martin, the red banner of St. Denis and the “cornette blanche” there being evidence that these colors have been regarded as the national emblem for centuries. The flag most recently added to the family of European nations is the black, red, and gold banner of the North German Empire. When Emperor Barbarossa was crowned in the year 1152, the road to the palace was covered with carpet, into which were woven the colors black, red and gold. After the coronation the carpet was given to the people and cut into strips, which were carried by them about the city as flags During the heated discussion in the National Assembly at Frankfort in 1848, as to which combination of colors should have precedence, Frellgrath said: “Powder is black, blood is red and golden flickers the flame, and that is the old imperial standard.” I like the motto of Frederic Wilhelm: “From night – through blood – to light.” I might draw attention to the flags and the associated sentiment, of many other nations, both ancient and modern, but will pass on to our own grand and beautiful star-spangled banner, which represents a nobler, purer and more patriotic sentiment. Its strips of read and white proclaim the original union of thirteen states which were associated to maintain the Declaration of Independence. Its stars – white in field of blue – proclaimed a National Constitution, which receives a new star with every added state. The two together signify, Union past and present. The language even of the colors was officially recognized by our fathers – white is for purity, red for valor and the blue for justice. Hon. George F. Hoar, in 1878, said: “I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river. I have seen the sunset on Jungfrau, and the full moon rise on Monty Blanc, but the fairest vision on which these eyes ever looked was the flag of my country in a foreign land – beautiful as a flower to those who love it, and terrible as a meteor to those who hate it. It is the symbol of the power and glory and the honor of 50,000,000 of Americans.” At the close of the first day of that terrible battle of Shiloh (or Pittsburg Landing), after having been driven by superior numbers from seven different lines of defense, losing in killed and wounded one-third of the whole command, without food or rest, saddened by the loss of many comrades and friends, we waited anxiously for the for the evening’s last attack before sundown, knowing that if we did not successfully resist it we would be forced to surrender or be driven into the river, when suddenly there appeared approaching us, on the opposite side of the river, a body of mounted men. In the distance and in the dim light we could not distinguish them from friend or foe, but when on the rising ground at a bend in the road, the smoke from the battle-field cleared a little, and we saw the grand old Stars and Stripes, then we knew they were friends, and that the long expected and much needed reinforcements were at hand. Our hearts were filled with renewed hope and courage, and when general Buel’s first brigade crossed the river and marched up the creek, its band playing the grand old air “The Star Spangled banner” many a battle-scarred and powder-begrimed soldier’s eyes were filled with tears, and the shout of exultation and defiance as the woods ring. The enemy heard it above the din and roar of the battle, and knew it was a harbinger of their next day’s defeat. Even the wounded seemed to revive and become inspired with new hope and courage. I once saw a young soldier who belonged to a battery of artillery engaged in patching the holes in his guidon (a marker’s flag) with cloth from the lining of an important part of his uniform. (If he was familiar with the history of France in 1792 he might have thought of the insurgent’s standard, which was a pair of black breeches, upon which was the inscription: “Tremble, tyrants, for we, the people, still wear the breeches.”) When I asked him why he made such a sacrifice and spent so much time to repair that old flag, his answer was that as we were so far from the base of supplies, he could not get a new one, and he must have one, for when the battery went into action, with the thirty six horses and the six guns, he always stuck the pike to which the guidon was attached firmly into the ground, to mark the line of battle, where the battery was to form and go into action, and even if the man who rode the leading horse was killed or disabled, and the din of the battle was so great that the bugle call could not be heard, the horses were so well drilled that they would wheel around the flag, make or execute the maneuver known as “by left into line,” and when the muzzles of the six guns were on a line with the flag, and then, as soon as the guns were unlimbered, he would again, place it about two hundred paces to the rear, and the horses would gallop to the rear, with the caissons, and halt again on a line with it. Perhaps there is not much sentiment in the mending of that old flag by the battery boy, but is there not a beautiful sentiment in the thought of those noble horses, doing their share of the fighting, side by side with us, learning to know the flag and rallying upon it? In conclusion, I will draw attention to the most glorious of all flags, the banner of the Red Cross. An international public conference was called at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1863. At this time a treaty was drawn up and signed by representatives of twenty-five different governments, which provided for the neutrality of all sanitary supplies, ambulances, surgeons, nurses, attendants, sick or wounded men, and their safe conduct when they bear the banner of the Red Cross. Largely through the influence and perseverance of Miss Clara Barton, our government was induced, eventually, to instruct its proper representative to sign the treaty. As a compliment to Switzerland, the association adopted as its banner the color of the Swiss flag, reversed, the red cross on a white ground. This flag is held sacred by all civilized nations of the world. In the fiercest battle no shot is ever aimed at this symbol. It protects alike castle or cottage, friend or foe. It insures safe conduct to all transports to an enemy’s country. Under this banner social distinctions are abolished. The proudest rulers of the kingdoms of the earth bow with respect and submission to this banner, the universal representative of man’s humanity to man and the harbinger of the time when “all nations shall beat the swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks and learn war no more.” A VISIT TO KRUPP’S WORKS – [N. Y. Sun] An interesting account is given by Mr. Richards, superintendent of the motive power of the Boston & Providence Railroad, of a visit made by him to the famous Krupp Steel Works at Essen. He saw a ten-ton crucible steel casting being poured, and an enormous seventy-ton steel casting being very gradually cooled, the outside being warmed with coke fires until the inside has partly solidified, when the block is hammered into shape to form the main piece of an immense gun. The enormous array of furnaces in which the crucibles are heated and the perfect manner in which such a large number of men – in some cases as many as eight hundred – all lift their eighty-pound crucibles out of the furnaces and pour them into the mould in rapid succession is described as a wonderful sight. The scrupulous care bestowed upon the minutest detail was a noticeable feature about their manipulation of steel. If, after extended trials, a certain practice or proportion of ingredients has been found to give the best results, that practice is absolutely and exactly adhered to, nothing in the whole range of the vast operations of establishment being left to mere possibilities. – [N. Y. Sun] There are a good many weddings at Castle Garden. A policeman is generally best man. There is a wedding ring there that has been worn 354 times – [N. Y. Mail] TRAINING FERRETS – Harmless Little Animals Which Are Thrown in a Rage When Smelling Blood – {article about how to train a ferret) CONFUSION OF THOUGHT Odd mistakes are sometimes made and perpetrated in public documents, when the attention is directed to the main idea, and not to the phraseology. Among the regulations at the West Boston Bridge Corporation, drawn up by two lawyers, is a section which was written, accepted, and now stands thus: “And the said proprietors shall meet annually on the first Tuesday of June, providing the same does not fall on Sunday.” Persons living at a distance must not suppose that Tuesdays fall on Sundays any oftener in Boston that they do elsewhere. – [Youth’s Companion] A VALUABLE SUGGESTION – joke Albert Champion, of Livingston County, Ky stole John Mitchell’s best eam and eloped with Mrs. Mitchell PITH AND POINT – jokes CARL DUNDER – anecdote written in dialect MUGGINS’ ADVENTURES – Most Extraordinary Tales Which Contained One Indisputable Bit Of Truth – [anecdote] WARM STABLES – Plain Facts for the Consideration of Owners of Milk Cows Are your stales for your cows warm and well ventilated, so as to be both comfortable and sweet? If not, set to work at once to make them so, for in this you will find true economy – both a saving of food and an increased product, if you are making butter or cheese, or simply peddling milk. But do not seek to secure warmth by the close confinement of your cows. There must be a free circulation of air in order to secure the good health of the cows and a sweet-flavored product. If with good ventilation, letting the air in at the head of the cows and out at the rear, you can not keep p the required temperature, then resort to artificial heating. It will pay. Once the arrangements are made for heating, the expense will be comparatively small as a high temperature will not be required. The range of temperature for health and comfort is about fifteen degrees Fahr. Below this, cows standing in the stall will begin to shiver and feel uncomfortable; above, discomfort follows and they will begin to pant. It is much cheaper to burn fuel in a heater than food in the cow to keep the animal heat. – [Rural New Yorker] PAGE 2 THE COURIER ALEX A. WALL, Editor and Proprietor Vernon, Alabama Friday, February 25, 1887 One week from today the Forty-Ninth Congress expires by Constitutional limitation. The slayer of John Wilkes Booth, Boston Corbett has been declared insane and sent to the insane asylum of Kansas. A negro woman was bitten by a spider in Jefferson County on the hand from the effect of which she died on the 15th inst. The rate of taxation in Georgia is three mills, in Virginia four, Arkansas four, two and a half in Mississippi and six and a half in Alabama. On the 18th inst at Fredericton, Mo, a n earthquake shock occurred which was severe enough to overturn furniture and displace plastering on walls. Charleston, SC has a white population of 27,605, and out of this number week before last only three died. It certainly must be a salubrious city. The House on the 17th passed the bill giving Solicitors salaries instead of fees. If the fees of any Solicitor go above $3,000 the excess goes into the Treasury, and if they fall under that sum they only receive the amount collected. On the 14th inst at Haynesville, Lowndes County, Probate Judge A. E. CAFFEY knocked down an attorney, W. R. HOUGHTON, who had made an argument in the Probate Court which the Judge did not like. He was stunned considerably but not seriously hurt. In New Jersey on the 17th the Democrats won a double victory by seating beyond further contest, Walker and Turley the Democratic representatives from Mercer and Camden counties, whose seats had been contested since the opening of the present session of the Assembly. Daniel Manning, Secretary of the U. S. Treasury tendered his resignation to the President on the 15th. The President expressed his regret to Mr. Manning in a nice letter and fixed the 1st day of April for his resignation to take effect. The President will nominate his successor before congress adjourns. Up to last Friday in Columbus, Miss, a subscription stock amounting to $45,000 to build a cotton factory was subscribed. The full amount needed is $75,000. This is a step in the right direction for Columbus, and we hope she may succeed in erecting the factory, which will add much to her interest generally. A paper published in Memphis, the Seimitar, willfully abused Judge Dubose’s confidence by publishing his charge in the Godwin-Dalton trial which its reporter elicited from the Judge the night before he was to deliver it, under promise that the charge should not be published until after its delivery. This was very wrong and the Semitar should be ashamed of itself for thus violating the trust. If the Blair bill becomes a law there will not be any increase of taxation and it will not interfere with a reduction of the tariff. The $70,000,000 is to be paid out in eight years and there is a constantly increasing surplus and no necessity for adding a dollar of taxes to those already paid. – [Mont. Advertiser] ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER OF LAMAR COUNTY FOR THE YEAR 1886 To the Medical Society of Lamar County Gentlemen: I herewith hand you Annual Report of Vital and Mortuary statistics for the year 1886. I am gratified to be able to note some improvement in my present report over that of the proceeding year. Many having reported their work during the year 1886, who failed to report anything in 1885. While I am pleased to note this improvement, I regret to say that Lamar County falls far short of that degree of excellence which she ought to attain in the collection of these valuable statistics. With a little more energy and “push” upon the part of the physicians of the county, we can, and will accomplished very much during the present year in bringing Lamar up to the requisite standard. A number of Assistant Health officers have reported promptly every month during the past year, yet their reports have not been as full in every instance as they might have been. It is not only necessary that all Certificates of Birth and Deaths should be sent in, and that form No. 31, should be properly filled out and accompany the same, but it is very desirable that every report should be accompanied by a letter giving the character of diseases which have prevailed during the month, and other items of interest. It is very essential that the County Health Officer should know, of a certainty, whether or not full and complete returns have been made, and if the Beat be not in good working order, the causes should be given, that steps may be taken to correct them by the County and State Health Officers. These items cannot be given not the blank forms, hence the necessity of writing a letter. It is my opinion that the Health Officers just referred to, are desirous of performing their work in a commendable manner, and will do so when educated up to all that is required of them. While it affords me much pleasure to say this in reference to a few. I regret to say that no interest whatever in the work. What they do, is done under protest and is very incomplete and unsatisfactory. When reported as delinquent, and reproved by the Sate Health Officer, they will send in a meager report, sometimes accompanied by a letter expressing their displeasure at being reproved and intimating that they thought the whole affair was being operated solely for the pleasure and edification of the County Health Officers. I am disposed to be charitable to this class of physicians, and say I believe that they have not investigated the matter and do not appreciate the benefit to be derived from this successful operation. These men complain that they distribute blanks to all the midwives who practice tint heir beat and instruct them to report, but the midwives disregard their instructions, and hence they become discouraged, and cease their efforts, altogether, to collect the statistics of the beat. This should not discourage them. They should simply discharge their duty in the premises, which is to send promptly to the County Health Officer what return they have, and report every one not heard from as delinquent. I find from experience that midwives are very punctual to report when they learn that it is imperative. The best way to teach them this is to report them as delinquent when not heard from. The chief difficulty to be encountered in Lamar is that there are several Beats in which no physician resides. Most of the obstetric practice in these Beats is done by midwives, who live remote from post offices, and can not be reached by mail when reported as delinquent. It will necessarily require more work and diligence than part of the Health Officers of these beats to collect full returns, than many of them, at present, are disposed to expend. With an active co-operation on the part of the Medical profession of the county, I see no reason why these obstacles should not be overcome. There is one class of people that I fear is too much neglected in the collection of Vital statistics, and that is the colored race. I am forced to this conclusion by the very meager returns from this class. A very large percentage of this practice is done by colored midwives who, as a rule, are very prompt to make returns, when sufficient interest is taken in them to teach them that it is their duty. The following is a brief synopsis of the business of this office for the year 1886. Total number of Births 317 White 201 Black 47 Mulattos 9 Total Birth rate per 1000 26.1 Whites 26.1 Colored 26.7 Total number of Deaths 101 Whites 77 Blacks 21 Mulattos 3 Total Death Rate per 1000 8.3 White 7.7 Colored 11.63 All of which is respectfully submitted. R. J. REDDEN, M. D. County Health Officer The Pittsburgh Post wisely remarks in regard to a uniform series of text books for public schools, which is being agitated in the Pennsylvania Legislature: “Of there should be uniformity in school books within certain limits – say in a ward, township or school district – but what is the need of uniformity covering a whole state. Better let the public determine what suits them or their children. It will be a case of the survival of the best.” We think so. 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 Born: To Mr. and Mrs. R. W. COBB, a son on the 19th inst. Several Detroit gentlemen in town this week, among them Messrs W. S. METCALF and C. B. NORTON. When you go to Columbus stop at the Gilmer Hotel and get a first-class meal. There is no better place to stop at in the city. We hear that a corps of Rail Road surveyors will be here soon from Decatur. Mr. JONES, General Passenger agent of the Kansas City Rail Road was in town Monday evening on business for the road. Parties who gave Col. T. B. NESMITH option upon land in this county will do well to call at his office in Vernon at an early day. Mr. MURRAY COBB and Miss MARY COOKE left Wednesday morning for Fern Bank. Murray goes to Columbus to resume his place with that mammoth establishment, Morgan, Robertson, & Co. The New South, published at Birmingham, and the February number is on our table. It is a monthly journal of great sterling worth. It is a progressive journal, and a journal that the Southern states should be proud of. Its subscription price is $1.00 per year, and it is worth twice the amount. Remember from this time on we will sell goods strictly for the cash. Our customers will please call and settle the little tickets we hold against them. New goods and new and low prices at G. W. RUSH & Co. LEGISLATURE HB. To repeal the law authorizing the election of County Superintendents of Education in Lamar and Marion counties. Passed The above is a mistake. It should be To repeal the law authorizing the election of Township Trustees in Lamar and Marion counties. In the future they will be appointed. Mr. Alman – For the relief of S. F. PENNIGNTON, Sheriff of Lamar County, for money expended by him in capturing escaped prisoners. Finance. The bill to create a Bureau of Immigration and to appoint a commissioner, to fix his salary and define his duties and to appropriate $10,000 for that purpose annually, was taken up. Mr. JOHN offered a substitute providing that the Governor shall appoint a commissioner of Immigration who shall be subject to the Commission of Agriculture. He shall be allowed a salary of $1,800 per year, and hold is office for a term of two years. His salary and other expenses shall be paid from the fund of the Department of Agriculture. Substitute adopted and passed The bill to prohibit the hiring out and working of convicts sentenced to hard labor for the county outside the limits of the county where the crime was committed for which said convicts was convicted and sentenced was defeated. – Yeas 19, Nays 66 The Advertiser took a canvass of the houses of the Legislature on last Saturday which showed the following result: Senate 323 for Cleveland, 1 for Thurman 1 for Bayard, 1 for Carlisle, 2 for Morgan, 2 for Randall, 4 no choice, 5 absent. In the house there were 16 for Cleveland, 1 for Bayard, 1 for Carlisle, 2 for Morgan, 2 for Randall and 1 each for Hurd, McDonald, Hill, Seay, St. John and Jefferson Davis. Some declined to express a choice. Thirty-two members were out of their seats when the canvass was made. In his message to the Tennessee Legislature Governor Taylor said: “My sense of duty to the children of the state compels me to say if there is a surplus of money in the National Treasury not applicable to the payment of the national debt, the appropriation of the same for this purpose, stripped of the condition of Federal supervision, would be an inestimable blessing to them.” These remarks were on the subject of education. [Cincinnati Enquirer] – Through the failure of the President to take action of any kind during the ten days’ constitution limitation the bill appropriating $400,000 a year for the equipment of the militia of the various states becomes a law. The future great writer of our Constitutional history will note this as a most serious departure from all precedents. It was a time honored principle that the states should take care of their own militia. Slowly state lines are being obliterated, and surely we are drifting toward centralization. And all this under a Democratic Administration! ANOTHER VETO The President has vetoed the bill appropriating $10,000 for the distribution of seeds to the drouth(sic) stricken counties of Texas. The President sent to the Speaker of the House today a message vetoing the bill providing gratuitous distribution of seed in the drought stricken counties of Texas. The President says he can find in the Constitution no warrant for indulging benevolent and charitable sentiment through appropriation of public funds for that purpose and that the power and duty of the general government ought not to be extended to the relief of individual suffering, which is in no manner related to public service of benefit. 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 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. 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 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 A MALIGNED OFFICIAL – The Republican New Adult That Secretary Bayard Is No Hot- Headed Plunderer, But A Wise Statesman – (article about Blaine and Secretary Bayard – political) ANOTHER QUARREL – The Republican of New York and Mr. Blaine Casting One Another’s Threats – (article about Blaine - political debate) PRESS PARAGRAPHS  Jim Cummings is not the first man who has come to grief through writing letters – [Chicago news]  An Ohio man has been arrested for stealing a locomotive. This is considered the most remarkable larceny since an Ohio man filched the Presidency. – [N. Y. World]  Dr. Dabney never was at Andersonville and the Republican paper which made the original charge has been compelled, most unwillingly, to retract it. – [Detroit Free Press]  Mr. Blaine seemed fated to have a Rev. Burchard. He spoke to the Congregational Club meeting of ministers at Boston. Among the other speakers was Rev. Dr. Herman Lincoln, of Newton. Dr. Lincoln, by an historical allusion, recalled the episode at President Arthur’s funeral, and wound up his discourse by saying: “There is still enough energy here to sweep heresy from the face of the earth, through the Boston of the Collinses and the O’Briens is not the Boston of the Winthrops and the Pilgrims.” Commenting upon this the Boston Transcript says: “It is somewhat remarkable that the ‘heresey” which Dr. Lincoln thinks sustains the Collinses and the O’Briens here is just that sentiment upon which Mr. Blaine and his friends rely to make him President two years hence. And to speak slightingly of it anywhere was a capital blunder on Dr. Lincoln’s part. But what can you expect when intelligent men are so beguiled as are Mr. Blaine’s devotees.  The developments of the Senatorial struggle prove nothing if not that the Republican Party is given over to loot and “moneybags.” William M. Evants is in the United States Senate, but his seat there was obtained by the lavish use of money in the hands of unscrupulous agents and go-betweens of corporations. It was openly charged and never contradicted that although Levi P. Morton’s canvass was then very expensive, twice as much as was paid by the backers of Evarts who wanted to have him where he could do them the most good. His circulated lithographs, which were sent out by a rich corporation to groom him as a dark horse, told at once what interests were behind him. These interests could not be made secure by a man of Levi p. Morton’s ability, but with Evarts in the Senate the only remaining branch of the Federal Government that could be called upon to thwart the wishes of the people in regard to corporate interests, they would be safe. – [Albany Argas] EDMUNDS COUGHED Discussing the Tenure-of-Office Act in the Senate the other day Judge Edmunds said it should not be repealed. All offices should be held for fixed terms. When vacancies occurred he was perfectly willing that the President should select men of his own persuasion. If there was to be a change two years hence, as he trusted and --- and believed there would be, all these matters would then be removed from the mere strife and spoils and contentions of politics. “At this point,” says the telegram, “Mr. Edmunds was attacked with a violent fit of coughing, which forced him to resume his seat.” Tenures-of- Office Act are taken into consideration it will not surprise any one that the venerable Vermonter had a bad attack of coughing after making the above remark about Republicans removing the offices from the strife and the spoil and the contention of politics. Probably he is coughing yet. – [Chicago Herald] BOARDING HOUSE LIFE – How Many Newly Married Couples Drift Into Most Uncomfortable Conditions Nothing is more usual in New York than for the man just married to take his young wife to no other home than a boarding house. He does it with the most laudable intention in the world and with the fixed determination to go to housekeeping just as soon as his improved prospects will justify him to indulge in an increase of expenditure. At present it is so nice to sit down to the table without any harassing fear of butcher’s bills, no wrangle with untrained servants, no fear of a mother-in-law’s putting your verdant experience to the blush. It is so pleasant to go off just when you feel like it, on little flying trips to the country or a visit to some friend, without leaving a single doubt or care behind. You can calculate just to a nicety what your expenses amount to, and, consequently indulge in many and unjustifiable little extravagances which had been a great deal better bestowed in a more useful cause. And so, at the end of the year, though intensely weary of it all, you have drifted into this irresponsible, happy-go-lucky kind of existence, without any more definite course of action than when you first started. Your wife, deprived of all these charming little duties which constitute the chief pleasure of a married woman’s life – those nice little plans for beautifying and embellishing her home, in which her facilities for the comfort of her surrounding find full scope, has either grown inert or listless, or has found other interests with which to occupy herself. At the best, it is a vague, purposeless dragging along of one day to another, in which routine has no part. The most important task of her life is how to kill time most effectually, or to dispose of the day in the least tiresome manner. Her proper vocation is missing, she knows no other duty than that of self indulgence, till finally, when the time arrives for you to give her a home, she has lost all inclination, and prefers to live on as she has begun. Perhaps, after this, the cause for so many divorces is not far to seek. There is no country in the world where people have so little veneration for their household goods, as in America. The most luxurious and elegantly appointed homes are broken up – generally for the most trivial reason in the world – with the same facility as one would fold up a tent, without the least compunction in parting with the thousand and one familiar objects, endeared by long usage and association. Thus the ruling power receives fresh impetus from year to year, and there is no fear of a decay of its supremacy so long as people will not recognize that the chief welfare of a nation depends upon home influence and association – to the wife - the home; to the husband the task of providing for it. The former shirks her part of the marriage contract it is surely excusable in the husband to shirk his responsibilities, the wholesome influence of numerous obligations. The necessary sense of weighty responsibilities, the beneficent restraint of home ties and duties, have no part in his life. The edge is taken off his ambition, because the chief incentive thereto is missing. He is a regular nomad, with a nomad’s idea of life. Its obligations and duties press but lightly on him, and he can pitch his tent wherever he pleases. His landlady is the only person he fears, because on her depends his material comfort. That is why he alternately cajoles and flatters her, meekly bows his head under her coarse despotism, abjectly accedes to her extortionate demand in “raising him.” Submits to the most humiliating impertinence from the servants, and, in short, lives a perpetual life of sufferance, while vainly trying to delude himself into a belief that he is a free-born man, and an independent citizen. – [M. Y. Graphic] GROWTH OF SCIENCE – When Mankind Will Know More about Cause and Effect The growth of science, not merely of physical science, but of all science, means the demonstration of order and natural causation among phenomena which had not previously been brought under those conceptions. Nobody who is acquainted with the progress of scientific thinking in every department of human knowledge, in the course of the last two centuries, will be disposed to deny that immense provinces have been added to the realm of science, or to doubt that the next two centuries will be witnesses of a vastly greater annexation. More particularly in the region of the physiology of the nervous system is it justifiable to conclude from the progress that has been made in analyzing the relations between material and psychical phenomena that vast further advances will be made, and that sooner or later all the so-called spontaneous operations of the mind will have, not only their relations to one another, but their relations to one another, but their relations to physical phenomena, connect in natural series of causes and effects, strictly defined. In other words, while at present we know only the nearer modesty of the chain of causes and effects by which the phenomena we call material give rise to those which we call mental, hereafter we shall get to the further and end of the series. – [Huzley, in Fortnightly Review] A NEW PORTIA IN ENGLAND – [London Globe] A new Portia, who defended, however, not her lover, but her own father, has appeared at Montpelier. A farmer living near that town had been tried and condemned for breach of trust. He made an appeal, which was granted, and on the day appointed for its hearing he walked into court accompanied by his daughter, a tall, good-looking and intelligent young woman about twenty-six years old. To the surprise of the judges the young woman opened her father’s case in a masterly manner, argued the defense with the skill of a practiced lawyer, and finally gained for her client a verdict of acquittal. The improvised legal practitioner in petticoats then walked triumphantly out of court, hanging on the arm of the venerable agriculturist, her father. WHY THE OLD LADY WAS HAPPY – [Chicago Tribune] An old lady of New Hampshire who recently celebrated her eightieth birthday by giving an elaborate supper at which every article, including the cheese and butter, was made with her own hands, thus explained the secret of her vigor and health. “I never fret over things I can not help; I take a nap, and sometimes two, every day of my life; I never take my work to bed with me, and I oil the any wheels of a busy life by an implicit faith that there is a brain and a heart to this great universe, and that I can trust them both.” INTRODUCTION OF A SICKENING HAIBIT – [Kansas City Times] A Chicago railroad man and a Chicago reporter both say that it is becoming fashionable for young men of that city to kiss each other vigorously when they part for any length of time and when they meet again. The railroad man says it makes him sick to see the fools. Many small advertisements Small jokes MISLAID THE CORPSE In a back country town, where funerals serve much the same purpose that the theater does in cities, there chanced to die one of the members of the community, and one of the neighbors was asked to “take charge” of the funeral. On the day appointed the community assembled and stood about in groups discussing either the departed or the condition of the crops while the neighbor in charge bustled from one room to another making the last arrangements. The hour for the funeral arrived and passed, and yet the services did not begin. Still more time passes, and the manager of affairs was seen to be hurrying from room to room, looking anxiously about as if in search of something. As time passed the audience began to show signs of impatience, and also of curiosity as the perplexed face of the man in charge appeared again before them. There was evidently a “hitch” in the proceedings somewhere, and an explanation was necessary. Mounting a chair, the impromptu undertaker said: “My friends, we are – are very sorry to cause any delay in the – ah- the last rites to the departed, but the – ah – truth is, we have mislaid the corpse.” It transpired that the coffin had been brought down to the lower entry or hall from a chamber, and through some misunderstanding placed beside the stairway in the shadow. Those coming in from the bright sunlight had thrown their wraps upon it, not realizing what it was, and thus made it invisible. – [Harper’s Magazine] Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for Prickly Ash Bitters (picture of the bottle) Ad for Benson’s Pours plaster Many smaller ads File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/vernonco1518gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 58.1 Kb