Lamar County AlArchives News.....Vernon Courier March 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, 4:27 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archvies And History March 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, MARCH 25, 1887 VOL. I. NO. 43 Subscription $1.00 Per Year THE MODERN GRADUATE – Poem ----YSIOGNOMY - ----As a Detective of --- Character - ----Growing How it is Indicated – Mouth, Nose, Eyes, and -- - the Best Readers of Faces (First column is cut off - Beginning 2nd column)…..like Herbert Spencer, Dr. Mandesley and Dr. Lindsay hold that the brain is not the only organ of the mind, but the muscles and the nervous ganglia assist and express its workings. By this theory, physiognomy read the whole physical form. “As the dial to the clock: says a writer on the subject, “so is the human face to man; on it are written not only his mental powers, his moral strength or weakness, but his physical capacities and predispositions to health or disease, and there is no one of ordinary capacity who can not learn those signs almost at a glance.” A very clever San Francisco woman, remarkable in that city for bright women, often entertains her friends with informal lectures on the signs of character, illustrated with quantities of photographs and authentic portraits, followed by off hand readings of face, about her, given with equal keenness and tact. Mrs. Mary Olmstead Stanton, wife of the publisher of the Argonaut, himself one of the finest storytellers in a country where the raconteur’s is a fine art, comes rightly by her cleverness, as a report assigns her to the same family as Professor Olmsted, whose philosophy is a school classic. She is just that type of California woman who keeps house delightfully and is as charmingly cordial in society as if her life began and ended in these things, but who can attend to business shrewdly, buy a ranch or plant a vineyard, and keeps a pet science or two in hand for her private study. In a climate where the ashers and aliments of women vanish in the elixir of its air, where good living is the rule, and the faithful Chinaman relives them of the great burden of housekeeping, a woman can show what she is worth. Some years since Mrs. Stanton wrote her observations on “How to Read Faces,” a book of genuine acuteness and research that seemed to interest learned professors, fashionable women and sharp country boys alike. I found a crippled agent in a little New England railway station completely taken up with it, and a bright school- boy “took it in” so far that his reading of everybody’s character were more candid than agreeable. “The more varied the features,” says one author, “the more depressions and elevations in the face, the greater the variety of character exhibited. A smooth, small-featured, unwrinkled face always discloses a small, unemotional, selfish character of very small capacities. A man’s real character is spread all over him. The face sums up the whole man. Rectitude of character is known by the width of the chin, as in the faces of Washington and Isaac Newton; also by the setting of the eye. Any eye off the straight line varies from truthful significance, according to it reflection, from the persons who would rather tell a pleasant untruth than be the hearers of harsh tidings, to the artists in craft with eyes dropping at the outer corners. Firmness and tenacity of purposes are shown in the length of the lower jaw and chin, as in the face of Anna Dickinson, which admirably illustrates this faculty. The chin is the seat of strength of character, which depends on firm bone support. Bone shows integrity, muscle more of the affection nature. The scientific physiognomist knows well how much such women as Miss Dickinson and Miss Frances Willard owe their success to a good, honest bony system. The full, rolling under lip is a sure sign of generosity and benevolence, as in the portraits of Wilberforce and Lincoln. An upper lip thick and red in the center shows large amative power and also muscular strength. The round eye like a dove’s is an unfailing sing of large mating ability. Almond-shaped eyes prove promiscuous love. The upper lip like a Cupid’s bow shows great tenderness and love for children, which is never found with a gloomy or sad disposition. A friendly nature is known by the fullness of the paper check. A long upper lip shows self–esteem, as in the faces of Bradlaugh, Herbert Spencer, and John G. Whittler. The most prominent sign of modesty – which may consist with large self-esteem- is the groove in the center of the upper lip. “The outward signs of force of character are breath of chest, wide mouth and nostrils, high cheek bones, and relatively small and wide heard. Secretiveness is shown by compressed and thin lips, and small mouth if the lips are thin. Broad, flat nostrils are the sings of the quality. The large eyes and mouth are evidence of volume of language. All orators have large mouths. Among men of power and capacity secretiveness are never marked; they do not need it. Caution is seen in the long nose. Hope is strong when the septum or middle portion of the nose projects below the sides; clearness of the skin and eyes is anther sign. When the septum is drooping at the tip, as in Canova’s face, or that of Mrs. Siddons or La Place; the faculty of analysis is large. Ideally is known by width of the tip of the nose, giving it a square- cut appearance, as in Bryon, Irving, Vernet, Mrs. Stowe and a host of other authors and artists. Noses high and projecting at the tip show understanding of human nature and love for its study. This is a nose for a physician. All eminent doctors, naturalists and philosophers show this feature. It is the probing, inquiring nose. Fullness of the sides of the nose denotes large constructive powers, as in Morse and Elison. The higher and broader the bride of the nose, the greater is the development of veneration. Self-will is shown is shown by the height of the nose at its root. All underdeveloped races and faces are flat here. It is more clearly developed in European races than in Americans, and gives the plodding, preserving character often observed among the former. Americans, as a rule, do not dwell on their undertakings persistently as Europeans, and show more depression from the forehead to the nose. The sign of strong will is marked in the faces of Dante, Humbodt, Edwin Booth, Cyrus W. Field, and C. P. Huntington. Women seldom have this sign large. Horizontal wrinkles across the nose indicate will and resolution. Persons successful in carrying forward great enterprises, like building railroads, allaying telegraph cables, founding and managing communities, and all undertakings requiring persistence, show this height of nose. “The convex or rounded eye denotes strength. Small eyes belong to mechanical, scientific and exact people. The most readily brought to a focus serves this class of minds best. Large-eyed persons receive sensations vividly and lose them almost as readily.” Farther, our authors says: “I can not think any person entirely frank and well-principled who is narrow between the eyes. History shows no man of eminence with this peculiarity. Short, blunt, full noses belong to artistic and musical people – Parepa, Wilhelmj, Lucca, Annie Louise Cary, Arthur Lussivan, for example. The musical ear is adapted to receive sounds, standing out from the head, of food size, and red form the supply of blood, which increases its sensitiveness. The reader may try these signs on people he knows best, remembering that Dr John Cross, a wise Scotchman, says: “It rests with physiognomy to detect the imposter; he can not prevent an organ from falling, by self-accommodating power, into color, size and shape most suited to its function.” – [N. Y. Mail and Express] PIOUS BEQUESTS – Good People Who Appropriated Funds for Keeping Worshipers Awake In olden times many pious individuals considered it a good work to set aside part of their worldly wealth for keeping the members of the congregation from sleeping during divine services. On the 17th of April, 1725, John Rudge bequeathed to the parish of Trysll, in Shropshire, twenty shillings a year that a poor man might be employed to go about the church during the sermon and keep the people awake. A bequest of Richard Boyerty, of Farmocle, dated 1659, had in view the payment of eight shillings in the church of Claverly, Shropshire, for a similar purpose. At Acton Church, in Cheshire, about thirty years ago, one of the church wardens used to go around in the church during service with a huge wand in his hand, and if nay of the congregation were asleep they were instantly awakened by a tap on the head. At Dunchurch, in Warwickshire, a similar custom existed. A person bearing a stout wand, shaped like a hay fork at the end, steeped stealthily up and down the nave and aisles, and whenever he saw an individual asleep he touched him so effectually that the spell was broken – this being sometimes done by fitting the fork to the hap of the neck. A more playful method is said to have been used in another church, where the beadle went round the edifice during service carrying a long staff, at one end of which was a fox’s brush, and at the other a knob. With the former he gently tickled the faces of the female sleepers, while on the heads of their male compeers he bestowed with the knob a sensible rap. – [All the Year Round] A MIGHTY LUCKY ESCAPE - joke WORTH AND WEALTH – Various Kinds of Surfaces that lead Toward Progress by Different Roads That riches are actually a barrier to success is made evident in a new edition of a dictionary of biography and mythology containing 40,000 names among all the greatest of former times, and the names of living celebrities all over the world – manufactures and merchants as well as poets, heroes , statesmen, etc. In this volume the space given to all the men eminent only for wealth does not equal that assigned to one man like Shakespeare, Luther, Franklin or Abraham Lincoln. All the Rothschild’s and Astors put together receive --- as many lines as are accorded to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Cornelius Vanderbilt received less attention than Panaini, the fiddler, and A. T. Stewarts; niche is as animal as that occupied by Daniel Lambert, the fat man. And this apportionment seems to be in strict accord with the degree of popular interest felt in the various personages. Even the three rich benefactors, Girard, George Peabody, Sir Moses Monteflore, united, take less room than John Wesley or Nathaniel Hawthorne. There is a general significance and something instructive in this comparison; and the fact that rich men constantly try to secure regard and remembrance by public gifts or legacies is a striking testimony to the truth that nearly all persons recognize, though it be but tacitly, the superiority of other tiles to fame than the gathering of riches. The world, sordid as it may seem on too close inspection, is after all covered in the end by ideas rather than money. It is doubtless frequently true that rich young men, despite their advantages in some ways, find it harder to win real distinction than their poorer fellows, but I many doubted whether wealth is any more a barrier to real success than poverty is. More poor men than rich become famous, partly because there are more poor people in the world. Then, there are various kinds of success – even failures that are successes – all of which lead toward progress by different roads. – [N. Y. star] GRAB’S PHILOSPHY – Worldly Wisdom picked up in the Course of a well-spent life - (various proverbs) ORIGIN OF NATURAL GAS The probabilities are that petroleum and natural gas are derived from the same sources; they are always found in conjunction. They appear to have been produced from organic matter, to have escaped from the region in which they were produced and to have been entrapped in certain open or porous rocks, where they have remained imprisoned until discovered by the drill or by their issuing through crevices in the rocks leading to the surface. It is probable that gas may be found in any of the strata which have been deposited since the Archaen rocks. In Northwestern Ohio the gas is found in the Trenton limestone, which is in the second series of strata above the Achaean rocks, and more or less gas has been found in each of the subsequent strata up to the local measures; indeed, it exists even in the glacial drift. – [N. Y. Herald] A young English swell, who claimed to be a cousin of the Earl of Shewsbury, and who was always borrowing money on the strength of expected remittances, has been victimizing the upped end of Pittsburgh society. He left the city suddenly a few days ago to accept an alleged invitation to visit the British Minister at Washington, and it is thought he will not come back. – [Pittsburgh Post] FOUR MONSTROSITIES = a Veteran Pittsburgh Physician’s Almost Incredible Discoveries – (article about 4 abnormal specimens of deformity in the human race) Joke PITH AND POINT – jokes A CHECKERED LIFE – An Enthusiast Whose Every Action is Influenced by His Love of Checkers – [Texas Siftings] – (article about a man who loves to play checkers) PAGE 2 THE COURIER ALEX A. WALL, Editor and Proprietor Vernon, Alabama Friday, March 25, 1887 On the 13th inst. at Big Sandy, Texas, E. C. RAY, a deputy sheriff of Parker County, arrested Ike H. Vincent, ex-State Treasurer of Alabama, and who it will be remembered embezzled the state out of two hundred and twelve thousand dollars, and has until the 13th been a fugitive and wanderer. He was safely lodged in jail at Montgomery on the 16th, and $5,000 to the deputy was paid. His trial is set for the 11th of April. Monday about noon the Judge and Solicitor arrived. At one o’ lock court was called; the impaneling of the jury was at once attended to. Next was the charge by the able, conscientious and dignified Judge S. H. SPROTT. His clear, clean and precise manner of delivery never fails to attract attention. After some preliminary business Court adjourned until Tuesday morning. With the zealous and very talented Solicitor, A. G. SMITH, business has progressed admirably. Mr. EZRA COLEMAN has been assisting the Solicitor this week. Monday quite a large crowd in town, since then there has been a small attendance. Mr. W. T. REMBERT, of Demopolis, who lost his wife and three children in the steam boat disaster on the Bigbee River, March 1st, has become insane. – [Fayette Journal] “While Miss IDA SHIELDS, of Ellenboro, W. V. was horseback riding a few days ago the animal, a spirited one, became unmanageable, and giving a plunge threw the young lady off, her habit catching in the saddle. She was dragged nearly a quarter of a mile in this way, the horse’s iron hoofs striking her in the face and body. When found she was a mass of blood, nearly all her clothes torn off, and so dangerously hurt that it is thought she cannot recover.” The West Alabamian says” GEORGE MALONE, who lived in Tuskaloosa County near the line of Pickens, on the day he was twenty-one years old, “swalled half a fifty cent bottle” of strychnine. He then went to the table and ate a hearty dinner, telling his wife what he had done and threatening to kill her if she gave the alarm. He arose from the table, took a drink of water, pulled of f his shoes, arranged toilet and lay down on the bed. After all there will be a considerable sum available for river and harbor improvements from unexpended appropriations. Some works will have to be abandoned before the meeting of Congress, but in most instances forces can be kept together until another appropriation is made. The greatest disappointment so far as Alabama is considered, is the delay in the work at Muscle Shoals, as the Coosa River will be cut down in amount of approbations for that steam until the Muscle Shoals work is completed and out of the way. As it is every Alabama Congressman must make up his mind to do all in his power to get good appropriations for both works from the next Congress. The Coosa is the most important river in the untied States that is obstructed in the middle and navigable at both ends. There is no similar case in the United States. A Mrs. Potts, who lived near Gravely Springs, in Lauderdale County, on Saturday last committed suicide by cutting her throat with a razor. A note was found in her bosom written two days before the suicide giving some direction as to the disposition to be made of her children, and stating that she was crazy. She leaves a son and daughter some twelve or thirteen years old and a grief stricken husband. A SAD DEATH - [Columbus Dispatch] The death of Mrs. CLANTON, better known in our city as Mrs. M. M. BALDWYN, was a sad and unexpected even. Exactly one month ago yesterday she was married at the Presbyterian church in this city to the HON. JEROME CLANTON, a distinguished lawyer and Senator of Eutaw, Ala, and left on her bridal trip to Alabama and Florida. A telegram came a few days since, stating that she had died at Oceola. Her remains arrived in our city on yesterday, and were interred in the Odd Fellow Cemetery. “In the midst of life we are in death” was never more exemplified than in the death of this most estimable and Christian lady. She left here in robust health, but death comes to all persons at all times. At his cruel touch the cheek pales, the heaving boom grows still, the beating heart ceases to pulsate, the eloquent tongue is hushed in silence, and the eye grows dim and closes forever to all earthly love and friends. Mrs. Clanton was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. We tender our sympathy to the afflicted husband and family. The Cincinnati Enquirer says: From Washington comes the story that in the Democratic National Convention of 1888 Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Morrison, the leading champions of their party for revenue reform, will make a tremendous effort to have that doctrine squarely presented in the platform. And why should they not? The fight has been made a half-dozen times before, and accomplished a half –dozen times before. They can find all the literature that they want in several platforms of either party. Take for example, the following plank from the Democratic National platform adopted at St. Louis in 1876, said to have been drawn by Mr. Tilden himself: “We denounce the present tariff, levied upon nearly four thousand articles, as a masterpiece of injustice, inequality, and false pretense. It yields a dwindling, not a yearly rising revenue. It has impoverished many industries to subsidize a few. It prohibits imports that might purchase the products of American labor. It has degraded American commerce from the first to a n inferior rank on the high seas. I has cut down the sales of American manufacturers at home and abroad, and depleted the returns of American agriculture, an industry followed by half our people. It cost the people five times more than it produces to the treasury, obstructs the processes of production, and wastes the fruits of labor. It promotes fraud, fosters smuggling, enriches dishonest officials, and bankrupts honest merchants. We demand that all custom house taxations hall be only for revenue.” Or, if that does not satisfy them, how would they like the following from the Republican National platform, adopted in Chicago, in 1868 – drawn at the time when the great Republican barons were about to nominate Grant for his first term: 4. It is due to the labor of the nation that taxation should be equalized and reduced as rapidly as the national faith will permit. Either of these selected passages would seem to us to answer the purpose. There is no need of any especial quarrel about them. They can readily be adopted. But the gentlemen will please remember that platforms go very little nowadays. It is the action of Congress which counts; and Congress has often shown that it has as little respect for a platform as the banks have for a protested note. It is performances, not promises that count in these days. Our Grand Jurors are gentlemen. 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 Mr. J. L. MILLER, of Gantry, is a ---- bass singer. Messrs. ALLEN JORDAN and CHARLEY WEST, of Columbus, in town this week. The kitchen at the Hotel caught fire on Monday. No serious damage done however. Rev. Mr. HOLMES, of Beaverton, conducted the prayer meeting on Wednesday night. Mr. DUNBAR MCQUISTON and his sister Mrs. S. J. SHIELDS, of Aberdeen, spent several days this week in town. I am prepared to accommodate a few boarders during Circuit Court for reasonable terms. – R. E. BRADLEY BORN: Near Kingville on the –--th inst to Mr. and Mrs. C. G. JOHNSTON, a daughter. Also, on the 21st to Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM CURRY a boy. MARRIED, on the 6th inst., at the residence of the bride’s father, by Elder T. J. NORRIS, Mr. J. F. DODSON, and Miss R. A. WIMBERLEY. V. – Fayette Journal Mr. HENRY SANDERS, photographer is again in Vernon, and will be pleased to serve those wishing work in his line. Come in and let him take your picture. We regret to announce the illness of Dr. W. A. BROWN. He has been confined to his bed since his arrival home from New Orleans. On his regular days in the future Rev. Mr. HEWITT will preach at the church commencing at 7 ½ o’clock P.M. We are pleased to learn that in March drawing of Louisiana Lottery our friend LEE METCALF, who is now in Columbus held the ticket that enhanced his financial statue to five hundred dollars. Mr. T. R. LANGSTON desires the ---inners in the country to remember we will commence to call on them about the 15th of April for the purpose of sharpening and repairing their gins. Satisfaction guarantied or no pay Mr. T. W. KIRKLAND traveling agent for P. M. Rowlett & Son, tobacconist, Concord, Ky. was in town for several days the first of the week. Mr. Kirkland is a wide-a-wake business gentleman, and we cordially commend him and his house to the merchants wherever he may go. His card will appear next week. 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. HIGH PENNINGTON. Quite a crowd of gentlemen from different parts of the Co. made some excellent singing at the Hotel on Monday night. Several of them were Messrs. CURTIS WILLIAMS, L. L. MILLER, W. T.. W. WALKER, and others. Miss ADA WIMBERLY played the organ. DIED – On the 22nd inst of pneumonia, near Millport, Mr. JOHN EUBANKS. He was a good citizen. In Marion County on the 15th inst of apoplexy, SERENA J., wife of J. H. HILBURN and daughter of MARSH and ELIZABETH AYERS. She leaves a husband and five little children t o mourn her death. Sunday morning last our efficient Sheriff went to Millville to arrest WM. H. PRICE, for an offence committed in the State of Georgia. W. J. REEVES came with a requisition from Gov. Seay. Mr. DENNIS WHEELER, who has been teaching school at Bethel for the past ten months, left on Monday for Fredonia, Texas, whither he goes to take charge of a large school already awaiting him. He carries with him the best wishes of the Courier for his success in the Lone Star State. The latest news is that ere long one or two railroads will be built to Vernon, and on east and north. The present Grand Jury is composed of a fine body of gentlemen. Don’t speak evil of them, they are honest and faithful workers. We were pleased to meet our friend Dr. J. F. ERNEST, of Itawamba County, Miss this week in town. Dr. W. A. BROWN, of Columbus, and his intelligent little daughter, Miss LILA was in our town this week. She was the guest of the little Misses SUMMERS yesterday. The Courier office has been honored several times this week by His Honor JUDGE SPROTT. Also by our new Solicitor, Mr. SMITH, who is a most excellent and intellectual gentleman; we feel sure our people with us will soon esteem him as a worthy and noble officer and Solicitor. By the way, the WIMBERLY Hotel is still open and prepared to feed half the citizens of Lamar County Court weeks. Don’t forget this, and about meal time call around and fling up a 25 c piece and get a square meal. We modestly ask those of our subscribers who have not paid us to call in Court week and settle. We are in pressing need of every cent that is due us. THE SHILOH EXHIBITON Having a desire to inform himself of the progress of the youth of the land, and with a curiosity to see what efficiency the young idea had been taught to shoot, the editor on last Friday morning, in company with Mr. MURRAY COBB, took the road to Shiloh, about six miles north of Vernon, to witness the school exhibition of Prof. GEORGE YOUNG. After rather an interesting time by being lost, capsizing our buggy, etc. we arrive safe and in fine time. The exercise for the day had not yet opened, having been deferred for some time on account of the burial of Mrs. JOHN HILBURN. By this time quite a large concourse of people from all sections had gathered. The exercises were opened about 10 o’clock by singing by the school, music by Mrs. NANNIE DINMAN, who was organist for the day, and then the Lord’s Prayer by little ADA HILL, which was very impressive, and appropriated, and with which all were delighted. Some appropriated remarks were then made by Mr. YOUNG. Next came the prelude by Miss NANCY JACKSON, in which the audience were asked to reflect on the foibles of childhood, and to excuse the errors that might be committed during the succeeding exercises; and we would add as a scholium that it was most excellent. After some recitations and declarations, which showed with what skill and care each one had been instructed, the several classes were examined in Orthography, reading, arithmetic, English grammar, & c; all of which were remarkably good, but the attention of the teachers who were present (and there were several) seemed to be caught, and held as if by magnetic attraction, while his large class of twenty was being examined in English, Grammar. The face of each parent, proud of the accomplishments of his children and proud of his teacher, glowed with approval. In our hurry, we must not fail to say something about the refreshments and delicacies about noon (for the editor is very fond of dainties). To be short the table was soon served with a first- class dinner by the good ladies and for about 15 minutes all seemed to be busily engaged. At one o’clock the audience were recalled together by singing. Then began those funny things, which make one grow fat (for laughing is healthy). All were highly entertained until late in the evening. At the close some very appropriate remarks on education were made by Rev. WM. WOODS and Hon. R. L. BRADLEY. Much praise is due Mr. YOUNG, in the management of this school; many were the expressions we heard by both parents and pupils that he would teach for them again. 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. Maj. Kelly, who is employed by the Tombigbee R. R. Co. was in town yesterday. He is very favorable of the route to Vernon from Columbus and on to Decatur. We feel safe in saying that the road is certain to come this way. We are assured by Maj. Kelly that a surveying corps will be along at an early day. FEED STABLE. I will fee horses at 20 cents for single feed, 2 feeds for 35 cents, or 50 cents per day. O. F. HALEY. The visiting attorneys in attendance to court are Hon. J. B. SANFORD, Messrs. MCGUIRE % COLLIER, Fayette Court House., Messrs W. H. KEY, and A. J. STANFORD, Hamilton, Alabama. 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 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. 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 “GAIL” VS JAMES – The Different Way In Which James G. Blaine And His Distinguished Cousin Treat The Wage Question Let us call Gail Hamilton as a witness against her distinguished cousin, James G. Blaine. She might be called also as a witness against herself, but it will suffice on this occasion to use her testimony only against the statesman from Maine. In suggesting remedies for the unhappy condition of the working-women of the metropolis, it has been found that the majority of the people who have taken an interest in the matter have inclined to the idea that if the women would more generally seek domestic employment they would be better off. Gail Hamilton holds to this view. She also has some other opinions on this subject, as she does on nearly every thing else. “Never, while the world lasts,” says she, “can you expect to receive twelve dollars for work which twelve other women are willing to do for six dollars. If you were a man, if you were a millionaire, if you were a voter, it would make no difference. You can never force your employer to employ you at twelve dollars if he can hire some one else to do the same work for six dollars. You have no right to expect him to do it. It is not greed, or extortion, or inhumanity in him not to do it. It is extortion in you to ask him to do it. If he should undertake it he would fail in business and you would be worse off than before, because you would have no work at all. You would then be one of the dozens waiting at no price instead of the one employed at a low price. This law is absolute. It applies to the millionaire just as strongly as to the sewing girl.” How different would Cousin James, of Maine, talk to the half-starved sewing women of New York, to their sisters who eke out a miserable living in factories and stores, and to the dissatisfied laborer generally. Cousin James would say: “our wages are low because you are not protected enough. You must keep the Democrats out of power. Just look at the condition that you are now in. It is the result of fear on the part of your employers that the Democrats will change the tariff laws. They have unsettled confidence all over the country. Do you observe the colored man in the South? It is the intention of the Democrats to keep him in ignorance so that they can use him as cheap laborer. Where will you be when the south begins manufacturing with negro- labor employed at one-half what you earn? The way to regulate wages is to elect Republicans to office. Some rascals will tell you that wages are not affected by law. That is false. You may think that you have hardships, but you are mistaken. The trouble with the American working-man is that he is too well off. He is protected by the tariff and all the money that his employers get out of that beneficent scheme goes into his pockets. Supply and demand have nothing to do with labor. Vote the Republican ticket and wages will always be high. They are high now, if you only think so.” For the last fifteen years Mr. Blaine and Fail Hamilton have been attempting to convince the American people that there is potency in law to raise wages. They have made that their stock in trade. If they were to be believed all that was necessary to make labor contented was to pass a law to that effect, Supply and demand had nothing to do with the question. By giving employers monopoly privileges the working man was bound to be a sharer in them whether a dozen stood ready to take his place at half the wages that he wanted or not. Gail Hamilton’s sudden conversion to common sense and common honesty leads one to hope that the day may not be far distant when her celebrated relative will also abandon demagogy and surprise his fellow citizens by addressing then in words of truth and soberness. – [Chicago Herald] THE FREEDMAN’S BANK – How the Democracy Are Attempting To Right a Great Republican Wrong Soon after the war the Republican politicians, in order to show their great love for the race whom the fortunes of war had set free, got up a swindling concern called the “Freedman’s Bank.” It ramified into all the Southern States and the colored people were taught to believe that the United States Government would secure all depositors. They took the bait and most of the poor deluded wretches have never sent heir money since. Many of them are dead and buried in very poor graves. It remained for a Democratic President to recommend that some restitution be made to such of the unhappy victims of the swindle as still live. Immediately a fresh lot of swindlers started up and began buying the certificates of deposit and other evidence of the bank’s indebtedness to its depositors. As soon as that was done a bill was introduced by Senator Sherman to reimburse the depositors. But fortunately some of the Senators were aware of the attempted second swindle, and in committee incorporated the following amendment: No part of the money hereby appropriated shall be paid to any assignee of any such depositors, and the benefit and relief provided by this act shall extend only to those depositors in whose favor such balances have been properly verified, and to their heirs and legal representatives. This is as it should be. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/vernonco1522gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 48.7 Kb