Lamar County AlArchives News.....Vernon Courier March 18, 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, 4:15 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History March 18, 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, MARCH 18, 1887 VOL. I. NO. 42 Subscription $1.00 Per Year SENTIMENTAL VALENTINE – Poem A GAME OF WHIST - For 150 Years “According to Edmond Hoyle” – It Was Called “Whisk” It Was Played ---rians Until Hoyle Modified It --- Made It Go Among the People …….(FIRST COLUMN CUT OFF)…………. “Hoyle tutored me in several games of cards.” The novelty and great value of these manuscript rules were soon discovered, and surreptitious copies began to get into circulation, when Mr. Hoyle, to secure his copyright, had them published in 1743, and in that way the famous work originated. It was entitled: “A short treatise on the game of whist. Containing the laws of the game and also some rules whereby a beginner many, with due attention to them, attaining to the playing it well. Calculations for those who will bet the odds on any point of the score of the game then playing and defending. Cases stated to show what may be affected by a very good player in critical parts of the game. Calculations directing with moral certainty how to play well any hand or game, with variety of cases added in the appendix. By a gentleman. “ The book had a great and rapid success. Edition after edition was sold, and Hoyle received one thousand pounds the first year. He states in this “Short Treatise” that he has framed an artificial memory for whist players, which he will communicate upon payment of a guinea, and that he will explain any case in the book upon payment of one guinea more. Later editions contain his system of memories, but good players say it is of no great value. It consists of a mode of arranging the suits in your hand that a keen-eyed opponent may often detect. The effect of Hoyle’s promulgation of the game in its improved form excited a good deal of satire. In the same year, 1713, there was published a witty and amusing play on “The humors of Whist: a Dramatic Satire, as Acted every day at White’s and Other Coffee Houses.” It is a short comedy, the principal characters being Prof. Whiston (Hoyle), who gives lessons in the game; Sir Calculation Puzzle, an enthusiastic player, who muddles his head with Hoyle’s calculations and always loses; pupils, sharpers and their dupes. The object is chiefly to ridicule the pretensions of Hoyle and the enthusiasm of his followers, and to show that skill and calculations are of no avail against bad luck or fraud. Hoyle had given out that he had spent forty years in its study, and the prologue says: …..(short poem)…. Sir Calculation Puzzle gives some amusing g explanations o his loss. He says: “That certainly was the most out-of-the–way bite ever heard of. Upon the pinch of the game, when he must infallibly have lost it, the dog ate the losing card, by which means we dealt again, and faith he won the game.” Another passage is: “F find, Professor, your book does not teach how to beat four by honors. In my opinion there is still something wanting to complete the system of whist, and that is a dissertation on the lucky chair.” In addition to whist Hoyle also wrote treatises on quadrille, piquet, chess, backgammon and brag. Hoyle now became the celebrity he has continued to be down to our own day. His book, not himself, is frequently mentioned in the literature of the eighteenth century. In “Tom Jones” Lord Flimar says: “I Happened to come home several hours before my usual time, when I find four gentlemen of the cloth (servants) at whist by my fire; and my Hoyle, sir, my best Hoyle, which cost me a guinea, lying open on the table, wit a quantity of porter spilt on one of them most material leaves of the whole book.” An epic poem on whist by Alexander Thompson appeared in 1791, which contains an apostrophe to the spirit of Hoyle…(poem…) The poet thus goes on to suppose that the shadowy ghost of Hoyle still hover around the tempting boards arrayed in green…… The laws of the game, as propounded by Hoyle in 1743 remained the only recognized authority until 1864, when a committee of the great whist clubs of London revised the old code and added some new laws. Hoyle’s laws are, however, the basis. Whether the game of whist, if well followed, promotes longevity, maybe a question, but it is certain Mr. Hoyle is an example that it does. He died in London on the 29th of August, 1769, at the age of ninety- seven. The papers of the day notice his death, and state that he was well known in the polite world, and that he lived to see his treated on whist pass through no less than thirteen editions. And thus, full of years and honors, and secure of immortal fame, passed away the father of whist, Edmund Hoyle. – [Chicago Herald] HOW MUSIC IS MADE – Examination of the Manuscripts by an Experienced Salaried Inspector. “The way to cook a rabbit is to first catch a rabbit,” etc, applies forcibly to the initial process of producing a musical composition in sheet form, and it may be further added that manuscripts as the traditional rabbit. As all large music publishing concerns are constantly n receipt of manuscripts sent for examination and sale, it becomes necessary to inspect each composition as soon as possible, otherwise they would accumulate to such an extent that a separate examination would be next to impossible. For this purpose is employed a thoroughly educated and practical musician, one who not only performs at sight, but who is also a master of harmony and composition. After carefully trying over each piece and noting his opinion thereon, the result may be the selection of one or two manuscripts out of perhaps fifty, the balance being returned to their respective authors marked “rejected.” We will suppose that one of the pieces recommended by the inspector is a song. The publisher now holds a manuscript which in the opinion of his inspector is worth publishing, that is, it has some points of excellence that might result in the piece becoming popular. The next step is to read the letter sent by the writer of the song, and if the author’s demands are deemed reasonable his terms are accepted and the song is “put in hand,” not, however, before the publisher has first satisfied himself that the words are correct and suitable and that the title is not already in use. The manuscript is then taken by the engraver, who seated at his table, beings the work of transferring to metal plates the “copy” before him. For this purpose he employs a hammer and a multitude of small steel dies, each one of which represents a character of music, in fact, everything from a brace to a double-bar, and form a grace note to a “sixty-fourth” besides rests, slurs, crescendos and a full set of the alphabet in various sizes, such as agate, nonpareil, primer, etc. Upon the table before him rests a slab of iron about two feet square by two inches thick. This is the anvil on which is lard the metal plate aforementioned. The latter is composed of white metal, and is one-sixteenth of an inch in thickness. The surface is highly polished and resembles burnished silver. With the aid of compasses, rules, and other peculiar tools the lines, bars, etc, are laid out, after which the engraver proceeds to fill in the music and words, and thus each plate is treated until the song is finished. While the music engraver is busy with his manuscript and dies, the tile engraver is not idle. By a process exactly similar to bank note or steel engraving this individual prepares the tile, which, as an obvious necessity, must be entirely original in design, both in lettering and ornamentation. The metal plates used for titles are the same as those used for music. The music plates and tile being finished, proofs are taken from them and submitted to the music inspector, who carefully examines every page and makes the necessary corrections, after which they are returned to the engraver. The latter individual having made the designated changes or additions passes the plates to the superintendent of the press-room, where they are in turn given to the press man. The press used is the same as employed in steel plate printing, and can, therefore only be worked by hand. The process is necessarily slow and tedious, but it is the only method by which first-class sheet music can be made. After the music is printed the music sheets, which are still wet, are hung upon racks to dry. The drying process consumes about two or three hours, when they are taken down, folded, and put in a press where they are usually left over night. In the morning they are taken out and we have before us a pile of elegant plate music, “the latest song of the season.” “Plate” editions will always be preferred by all who appreciate music that can be easily read; in fact, to those accustomed to plate work “type music” seems like no music. – [Musical Journal] THE SANDWICH-MAN – Perambulating Advertisements Now To Be Met On the Boulevards of Paris POULTRY FEATHERS – Their Growth From the Time They Start in the Skin Until Fully Developed PITH AND POINT – Jokes SPAIN’S BABY KING – How He Must Be Treated According to the Regulations of Court Etiquette The baby King of Spain is a fine handsome child, who enjoys robust health and does credit to the immense amount of care with which he is surrounded. Though court etiquette requires that the baby Alphonso XIII should be treated with the most rigid ceremony, his mother will never call him “the king” unless on very strict state occasions, but uses the simple term of “my child.” His Majesty has his own vast suite of apartments next to those of the Queen Regent, and a special guard keeps his bed-room door at night. His foster- mother, the sturdy peasant Raymunda feeds and amuses the baby; but he is washed and dressed according to traditional ceremonial by a bevy of ladies of honor, under the directions of his “governess” who held the same office toward his father. Doctors visit the baby twice daily, and every day he drives out with his governess and Raymunda – some times with the Queen. In court ceremonies, Raymunda must not carry the king; that is the duty of the Mistress of the Robes or of his aunt, the Infanta Isabel. Queen Christina is a most devoted mother, spending all her spare time with her boy, and the Infanta Isabel is equally attached to her nephew. Pudding-eating contests are popular in Seattle, W. T. MODERN WRITERS – A Charge That the Scribblers of Today are Guilty of Literacy Log Rolling – [Article describing authors and their egos] STRANGE DISEASE – Death of Two Victims of Beri-Beri in a New York Hospital The presence in New York City of a number of cases of beri-beri, or Kak-ke, has re-awakened medical interest in this peculiar disease. The patients came from San Francisco by vessel, and three of them were taken to Bellevue Hospital. Two of these died. On the voyage, most of the crew was affected with the disease and some of them fatally. This affection prevails in Japan, India, South and Central America, and in the islands of the Gulf, and is technically considered to be a multiple neuritis, or an inflammatory condition of the nerves. As a rule the spinal nerves alone are implicated, but occasionally the cranial nerves as well. It has been demonstrated with a great degree of probability by Cornelissen and Sugenoya that beri-beri is an infectious disease, the specific cause being a micro-organism resembling the bacillus of anthrax, which is found in the blood, muscles, and nerves. In the cases at Bellevue the nature of the disease was not recognized at a sufficiently early stage to enable the physicians to study the microbes or to make any cultures of them. – [Science] THE WORD “HURRAH” What was the origin of the exclamation “Hurrah?” There are few words still in use which can boast such a remote and widely extended prevalence as this. It is one of those interjections in which sound so echoes sense that en seem to have adopted it almost instinctively. In India and Ceylon the mahouts and attendants of baggage elephants cheer them on by perpetual repetitions of “ur- re-rel!” The Arabs and camel—rivers in turkey, Palestine and Egypt encourage their animals to speed by shouting “ar-re ar-re!” The Moors in Spain drive their mules and horses with cried of “ar-re”. In France the sportsman excited the hounds by his shouts of Hare, hare!” and wagoners turn their horses by crying “harhant!” The herdsmen of Ireland and Scotland shout “hurrish! Hurrish to the cattle they are driving. It is evidently an exclamation common to many nations, and is probably a corruption of ‘Thur ale” (Thor aid), a battle-cry of the ancient Norsemen, though some authorities drive it from the Jewish “Hosannah.” The word is very often, and was formerly invariably, spelt “huzza,” and its pronunciation was “hurray.” – [Philadelphia Call] PAGE 2 THE COURIER ALEX A. WALL, Editor and Proprietor Vernon, Alabama Friday, March 18, 1887 President Cleveland is fifty years old today. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher died at his home in New York on the 18th inst. He was a man of great and renowned fame. The total actual appropriations by Congress just ended are $247,387,144. The river and harbor bill which was not signed, appropriated $9,613,800. Misses Jem Weakly, Hattie Reed, Annie Ford, and Mrs. Robertson are engaged copying the new Code of Alabama. Mr. Peter Hamilton, Jr. is supervising the work. Up to Saturday night the 9th inst. there had been filed in the pension office 7,716 applications for pensions under a Mexican pension law passed late in the last session of Congress. Eight electric lights have been placed on the dome of the Capitol at Montgomery. The Adv. says: “In the far distance they seem like mercury, new lighted on a heaven kissing hill.” Dave Fleming, a restaurant keeper in the city of Montgomery received the other day from Pensacola, Fla., two large turtles, one of which weighted about six hundred pounds. Big turtle, wasn’t it? Mrs. Lang, wife of the Senator from Barbour County has been appointed by the Governor Notary Public of said county. She is the first lady ever appointed to his office in the state. Engineer John Streber remained at the engines of the late ill fated steamer Gardner until the flames scorched him on the back and arms, burning through the three shirts he had on. On the 7th inst. the Board of Inspectors of convicts elected Rev. Evan Nicholson, of Jefferson County, to be chaplain of convicts for the ensuing two years. His pay is $1,000 per annum, and he is required to reside at Pratt Mines. A special from Uniontown, Ala, to the Advertiser says: “There is a little negro boy about seven years of age living near this place who seems to possess a wonderful talent. He can take a lump of mud from the road side and with his hand form any animal he ever saw and the representation is almost perfect. All the proportions are good. This may be the rising sculptor of the colored race.” In Cincinnati the other day Ex Governor Hoadley said in response to a reception given him by the Ohio, a Democratic organization of that place: “We have at the head of our government one of the bravest, truest, and best man that ever sat in the executive chair. There is not office in the land to which I aspire, but above everything, I would like to be a delegate to the National Democratic Convention to vote for the re-nomination of Grover Cleveland. If ever there was a President in the annals of our history who has faithfully and persistently done this duty under the most difficult and trying circumstances, Grover Cleveland is that man. If today, with Cleveland as President, aided by his able Cabinet, the Democratic Party is not a success. The failure is not that of Grover Cleveland; it is the failure of the Democracy. And just as certain a fate, if the Democratic Party does not stand by its leader now and in the future, just so certain will be the condemnation come, not on him, but on them.” [Columbus Dispatch Extra] RAILROAD! RAILROAD! We are authorized, by a letter from the Secretary, to say, The Decatur Land and Railroad Co., through their agents, Messrs Cannon and Baldridge, are on our border, working up Railroad interest. They will be in our city tomorrow or next day, to confer with our people, as to a Columbus & Decatur Rail Road. We suggest a public meeting be called and our Rail Road interest represented. The above was issued on the 14th inst. and is encouraging in regard to a Railroad Through this section, as Vernon is on a direct line from Columbus to Decatur. We further learn that the moneyed men of Columbus are doubly interested in said road. Hence there is no doubt about the road being built. The daughter of the editor and proprietor of the first Mississippi daily, the Natchez Courier, and who was as prominent politician also, having been lieut- governor of the state for several terms, is a chiropodist in Birmingham. “I was left a widow, with nothing but a home, and no means of making a support for my children. I could not sew, I had no aptitude for teaching, and I didn’t wish to be dependent upon my brothers for mine and my children’s bread. Well, in short, I am a chiropodist. It is lucrative, I am skillful, and do the very best work. You know Emerson says “there is a best way of doing everything, even to boil an egg. “ I cause less suffering in the world and do not regret that I adopted the profession – or trade, may be.” One of the brothers of this lady, for she is a lady in manners and breeding, is a dean in the faculty of Tulane University, and another resigned the nomination to a high politician office to become a minister. – [Age] At Rockport, Ind., during a shower, Jacob Stein looked out of a window and saw a catfish eight inches long fluttering on the ground. He went out, called neighbors and found 240 catfish three to eight inches long, all lively and unhurt. They were gathered up, and many were cooked and eaten. This is no fish story, but facts, and there is no accounting for the fish, except that they were brought by the shower and dropped. Salt Lake City, March 9 – The Mormon jurors in Judge Zane’s court after having taken on Monday the oaths of the new Edmunds Tucker bill on examination yesterday went back to the old principal and declared the law of God higher than that of man. They believed in the right of man to live in polygamy, and were rejected as jurors in the case to be tried. Fayette, Miss., March 10 – A deadly affray occurred here today between a man named Orr and his three sons, all armed with revolvers, and Lud Churchwell and his two sons, the former being armed with a shot gun and the latter with axes. In the fight Lud Churchwell was killed, and one of his sons was mortally wounded. James Orr was also killed and his brother Asa was badly hurt. As Orr was killed by a pistol shot it is thought that the wound was inflicted by one of his own party, as their antagonists had no pistols. A Mobile shoe drummer in town this week. Dr. W. A. BROWN returned from New Orleans Wednesday. 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 The mayor has had one hundred log posts put up in town. Mr. HUGH PENNINGTON visited Columbus the first of the week. The popular Hotel keeper has been feasting his boarders on fish this week. Mr. EMMET MORTON, of Caudle, visited his parents last week. He is looking well. We are again under obligations to “Uncle” ROBT. RECTOR for favors performed last week. Slowly but surely Vernon is living, and the Railroad is going to be built, and before long too. Just step in and see SUMMERS & PENNINGTON’S new goods. They are --- and pretty. Yes, and cheap. Mr. T. T. HILBURN was stricken with paralysis one day last week. We hear that he is improving slowly. We are prepared to accommodate a few boarders during Circuit Court. Reasonable terms. – R. E. BRADLEY. Messrs. JEFF and PINK PENNINGTON left the first of the week to attend the Buena Vista Normal College. We modestly ask those of our subscribers who have not paid us --- in Court week and settle. We --- pressing need of every cent that is due us. Circuit Clerk R. E. BRADLEY has --- 4 acres of land in the ---ern part of town, and will --- a nice residence thereon this ----. Mrs. NORTHCUT, nee Miss MINNIE ---, and her husband visited --- parents here last week. They – to their home Monday, --- HETTIE BRADLEY accompanied her. The little folks enjoyed a candy---- at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. GEO. RUSH last Tuesday night.---ED POE says he “never had a ---time in his life.” FEED STABLE. I will feed horses at 20 cents for single feed, 2 feeds for 35 cents, or 59 cents per day. O. F. HALEY, Vernon, Ala. Mr. BRADLEY has had the large --- cut down in front of the Ho--- He will tend the lot in corn – the fall will build a residence --- upon. When the corn is gathered of course. BOARDING. I am prepared to take boarders during court weeks. Neat rooms, a first-class table set with the best the market affords. Terms reasonable. HUGH PENNINGTON Dr. R. L. BRADLEY’S dental card appears in today’s impression of the Courier. The Dr. is well and favorably known in this county. We bespeak for him a large practice. In this issue the advertisement of the Buena Vista College can be found. It is a popular and well organized school. To our young men who intend to go off to school they can do not better than attend the Buena Vista Normal College. See ad. GUBERNATORIAL APPOINTMENT Mont. Adv, 13th inst. The Governor on yesterday appointed Hon. A. G. Smith, of Sumter, Solicitor of the Sixth Judicial Circuit to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Solicitor Coleman. Mr. Smith is one of the best lawyers and best men in West Alabama, and this appointment will give universal satisfaction. By the way, the Wimberley Hotel is still open and prepared to feed half the citizens of Lamar County Court weeks. Don’t forget this, and about meal time calla round and fling up a 25c piece and get a square meal. The undersigned calls especial attention to his commodious Livery and Feed Stable, convenient tot eh court house. BILL FRY, a thorough and first-class stable man can be found at my stable during court weeks. Give us a call. Terms as cheap as the cheapest. HUGH PENNINGTON DR. R. L. BRADLEY, Dental Surgeon. Vernon, Alabama. Tenders his professional services to the citizens of Lamar and adjacent counties. All work neatly executed, and satisfaction guaranteed; but in no case will responsibility for breaks, warps or shrinkage be assured. Positively no work done on time, unless a satisfactory note be given. Grateful for the liberal patronage extended heretofore. Hope to merit a continuance of the same. 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. SPRINGFIELD 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. BUENA VISTA NORMAL COLLEGE – Buena Vista, Miss. Total Expenses, per month, for board and tuition, $10.00. Course of Study: Classic, Scientific, Language and literary Teachers, engineering, Surveyor’s Book-keeping, Business, Preparatory, scientific, Music, Art, Preparatory. Teachers Term: A special term for teachers opens June 7th, and continues 8 weeks. Send for catalogue and teachers special circulars. Mention this paper. NOTICE TO DELINQUENT TAX PAYERS State of Alabama, Lamar County In Probate Court, March 10th, 1887, the Tax Collector of said county has this day filed in my office a list of lands as delinquent for taxes for the year 1886. This is to notify all persons owning said lands that unless they appear at a Probate Court to be held at the court House in said county on the first Monday in April next, and show cause to the contrary, judgment will be rendered and order made authorizing said Tax Collector to sell said lands or so much thereof as may be sufficient to pay Taxes, Penalties and costs, which are as follows, to wit: (NOTE: not typing land descriptions, if interested contact me…) Names are: J. N. BLACK J. P. BAIRD CROWDER & NEWMAN J. P. CORBETT OWNER UNKNOWN J. M. ALMAN R. W. CAMP G. A. BERRYHILL J. R. WILDER & CO. MARY BINGHAM ESTATE W. H. HALL J. T. HILL J. B. HOLLIS L. D. BOOTHE S. J. LOFTIS JERRY RANDOLPH G. W. ROBERTSON W. H. BARTON H. M. BARTON BRIT MCDANIEL ALFRED DEBORAH Given under my hand 14th of March 1887. Alexander Cobb, Judge Of Probate Ad for Dr. H. R. McLean’s Live rand Kidney Balm and Pellets 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. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Montgomery, Ala. February 25, 1887 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judge of the Probate Court, at Vernon, on April 27, 1887; viz; WILLIAM T. RICKMAN, Homestead No. 10136, for the S. E. ¼, S E ¼, Sec 19 T17, R 15. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: T. J. SMITH, Arno, Lamar County, Al; J. S. WILSON, ABNER SMITH, and J. T. MORDECAI, of Fern Bank, Lamar County, Ala. J. G. HARRIS, Register 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 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 & COMPANY. 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 GREAT GENERALS General Sherman’s Estimate of Napoleon, Von Moltze and Grant I never knew a man who could tell what he knew better than General W. T. Sherman can. When I was in Washington I never failed to be present at a public hearing on military matters if General Sherman was to make a statement or be examined. That which in the mouth of almost any other officer of the army would be bald details and confusing figures became in his interesting as a popular lecture. And in private conversation he is equally entertaining, especially when the topic is the army or the military heroes of this and other lands. I find in my notebook an entry made in the spring of 1880, which was recalled by reading the recent speech of Count von Moltke in favor of increasing the already enormous army of Germany, and the comments of the American and foreign press upon it. I spent an hour one evening in a small company of which general Sherman was one, and when by general consent he had been allowed to do most of the talking. He began by comparing the military abilities of Napoleon, Von Moltke and Grant, and said in substance: Napoleon’s prominent characteristic was his intellect. As a soldier his strength lay in his power of convergence and concentration. He knew his generals and his men thoroughly. He knew just what they could accomplish and what he had a right to expect of them. He knew just how long it would take a body of troops to go from one point to another and he would order them from widely different stations and would plan their arrival at a given place so accurately as to make his nominations irresistible. He was like a lens which brings the rays of light together at one point. “Napoleon ought to have won the battle of Waterloo, and would have done so if it had been fought on an open field and if the allies had not been on the defensive. If it had been an equal contest, or one in which the allies had made the attack upon Napoleon, he would have got upon their flank, cut their lines of communication, and whipped Wellington. Napoleon did not understand the English character: he did not know how stolid and sullenly stubborn the English soldiers could be. The Germans and others whom he had fought generally became panic-stricken before him. He did not suppose that anything could resist the Old Guard when they made a charge. Von Moltke is a man of entirely different genius. He has an infinite knowledge of details. He knows how many people there are in every part of Europe; how many horses, mules, cattle, pigs and chickens they have; where all the roads are and their conditions at different seasons of the year; al the rivers and the best places to lord them; where all the bridges are, and whether they are all stone, iron or wood. He knows his army as thoroughly as he does the country, and it is to his ability to put this knowledge to use that he owes his success. Someone in the company asked General Sherman if he thought if Napoleon was alive today – 1880 – he could organize a French army that could whip Prussia. He replied: “I think he could, but he would need three or four years to do it in. An effective army of about 350,000 men would be required, and to command it Napoleon would have to create thirteen first-class Generals. Of General Grant, General Sherman said: “His distinguishing characteristic is his unbounded faith in his own ultimate success. I never saw any thing like it. If Grant was to have an arm a leg shot off and a bullet through his body, and should be lying helpless non the battle-field he would still fully expect to get up, mount his horse, and win the day,. And such absolute belief in ultimate success insures it.” - [Cor. N. Y. Tribune] WARNINGS IN DREAMS The Almost Invariable Groundlessness of All Kinds of Presentiments Many people still believe that they receive warnings in dreams, and it is impossible to rebut the arguments for such a belief, but we may confidently assert that any general reliance on the confessed and contradictory indications of dreams would involve the most inconsistent vagaries of conduct, wholly unworthy of a rational being. Our reason and our dreams are often so hopelessly at variance that, to desert the former for the latter, would be equivalent to relinquishing the bright shining of the sun in order to pursue a treacherous will-o-the-wisp. The writer once had occasion to engage a passage for along sea voyage, and the only vessel available at the desired time was a steamer which had been a great favorite in her day, but was then so old that doubts were entertained regarding her seaworthiness. In spite of warnings on this point he engaged his berth, and on that very night he had an intensively vivid dream of ship wreck and drowning at sea. Undeterred, however, he set sail without serious misgiving and had a most agreeable and prosperous voyage. In this case the dream was evidently no supernatural warning, but rather the result of the effect produced upon the imagination by the hints thrown out regarding the vessel’s supposed un-seaworthy character. Presentiments of all kinds are almost invariably groundless, and when on rare occasions a presentiment is verified by the result, the explanation is the very simple and obvious one that in this instance our fears correctly forecasted the future. We fear and we hope many things more or less probable. - [All the Year Round] REORGANIZING THE NAVY Progress of Reform in the Department, Notwithstanding Republican Dead Weights (politics) With a Democratic President trying to give the office of Recorder to a colored man and a Republican Senate trying to keep him from doing so, the impression is likely to be made on the negro mind that, after all, the Democrats and not the Republicans are the friends of the colored race. Should this condition of mind come to be prevalent the solid South will be solider than ever, and the last argument of the bloody-shirt group of Republicans will be crushed out of all semblance to an argument. – [Chicago News] If, in the course of human events, Roscoe Conkling should be returned to the United States Senate, what a lot of buzzard the Republican papers would have to masticate. – [Cleveland Plain Dealer] IS HE IN THE RING? – Uneasiness Among the “Blaine’s” as to Ex-Senator Conkling’s Intentions (politics) THE AMERICAN “NAVY” – (article describing the Navy) One of the things worthy of note in these days when the Stockbridges, Farwells, Mortons, Stewarts, and Hearsts are raking in the fat of the North to the exclusion of the soldier is the fact that John M. Hewitt, who was a Captain in the Federal army has just been elected Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives. – [Chicago Herald] The Republicans of the Indiana Legislature have nominated Senator Harrison by acclamation, but the acclamation is strictly confined to the nomination. The Senator will graciously accept any kind of an election he can get. – [N. Y. World] REFORMED CONVICTS. – Prisoners Who Lean to Love That’s Little Penitentiary Calls Small ads and jokes File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/vernonco1521gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 47.4 Kb