Lamar County AlArchives News.....Vernon Courier - (local) April 29, 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 28, 2007, 8:01 pm Microfillm From AL Dept Of Archives And History April 29, 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, APRIL 22, 1887 VOL. I. NO. 47 (FIRST PAGE SAYS APRIL 22 SECOND PAGE SAYS APRIL 29) Subscription $1.00 Per Year PAGE 1 BEHIND THE VAIL – Poem ---- OF THE ROCKS - --- Of Europe, as told by Geology YOU SHOULD NEVER DO IT *Defer to another time what can be done at the present moment. *Talk of your private, personal or family matters in public places. *Buy what thou hast no use for lest ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries. *Allow words to pass for more than they are worth, but let them be worth all that they will pass for. *Speak disrespectfully of personal appearance when any one present is know to have personal defects. *Carry your head so high that you may not easily see obstructions in the way over which you may stumble. – [Good Housekeeping] MUSICAL ANECDOTE – A Budget For Reader Who Are Fond Of Good Music And Good Jokes A CAR DRIVER’S FATE - anecdote PITH AND POINT – jokes INSTEAD OF HANGING – What Electricians Say Of Taking Life By Means Of A Battery An electrician at the Edison building, in Pearl Street, where electricity is manufactured for illuminating purposes, was asked how people might be killed with neatness and dispatch b electricity. He said ht it was the easiest matter in the world. All a condemned man would have to do at the hour and moment when he was to leave the world for brighter climes, would be to take hold of two wires, one connected with a positive battery and the other with a negative battery. Acting thus as a conductor between the two wires the electricity would go thou him like a stroke of lightning. He would die in an infinitesimal fraction of a second. His taking off would be as painless s it was sudden. He would never know what had hit him. He might stand on two plates, receive the electric current through his toes and die with his boots on. He might sit in a chair with his feet resting on the plates, and die comfortably. Killing the condemned by electricity is a humane, civilized and scientific way of disposing of them. A man is usually sixteen minutes dying at the end of a hangman’s rope, and he usually suffers a great deal before death comes to relive him. A one-cell battery would kill all the prisoners who ever be handed in the tombs under the present law. The only people opposed to the use of electricity in capital punishment are the hangmen, and they are opposed to it because it would throw them out of work. If the gallows are taken down all the hangmen in the country will strike. – [N. Y. Star] IN THE TECHE COUNTRY – Grand Scenery In The Far-Famed Land Of The Acadians SETTING HENS – Timely Suggestions On The Proper Preparation Of Nest, Etc. THREE FASHION HEMS Bulgarian embroideries showing exquisitely combines Eastern colors are likely to be more fashionable for dress bordering. They harmonize with every hue and are sited to all but very thin textures. The polonaise promises to be a leading favorite during the season to come, and so many pretty styles have lately been devised that it has every right to the position. Cross-striped dress fabrics will still be made up into untrimmed skirts to accompany polonaises, as well as other styles of upper dresses, which in color will match the plain stripe between the brocaded bands. Sometimes killed skirts will be made of lengthwise striped goods which will be folded so it only that brocade will be visible. PAGE 2 THE COURIER ALEX A. WALL, Editor and Proprietor Vernon, Alabama Friday, April 29, 1887 (FIRST PAGE SAYS APRIL 22 – SECOND PAGE SAYS APRIL 29) The dispatches say Mr. Cleveland is not bothering himself about a second term as President of these United States. Many lives were lost and great destruction to property was caused by a fearful cyclone which passed through Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Texas on the 21st inst. The Kiowa and Comanche Indians are on the eve of putting on the war paint. They have already killed one white man, and threaten to take the lives of all white settlers in Green County Texas. Dr. W. A. BROWN returned from Columbus Wednesday evening. He says the city of Columbus on Tuesday last voted $100,000 to the proposed Rail Road from that city to Decatur, Ala. There is a private subscription by the citizens of $57,000; making a total of $157,000. There is, we presume no doubt now about the road being built; and, that it will certainly come by Vernon as it is a conceded fact that this route is the most practicable one. Hurrah for the Rail Road and it is projectors. SENSATION EXPECTED The Birmingham Age says: The Montgomery Dispatch has not produced Vincent’s original bond stolen from the Auditor’s office. Nevertheless it has this to say: “The trial will doubtless continue through several weeks, perhaps months. Startling and sensational disclosures are expected. Facts heretofore only vaguely hinted at in the public prints will be drawn out of reluctant witnesses on the witness stand. Perhaps they will be forced to tell many unpleasant truths involving the good name and honor of those in high places. This is the general belief; this is an oft repeated assertion. In part, the rumors may be false, but there are said to be facts connected with the Vincent steal, known to a few men, whose mouths have heretofore been sealed, which will cause a profound sensation if they can be brought out. They may be wrung out of witnesses by the attorneys for the state. It is very likely they will be. Every effort, however, will be made to shield those who are alleged to have made Vincent victim of their villainy. A CHANCE FOR STRONG MINDED WOMEN In Kansas an interesting experiment is to be tried. In Stockton, the county seat of Rooks County in that state, the men have agreed to give the women a chance to make a supreme test of their ability to deal with public affairs. In order to do this the men have stepped aside and will simply watch the result of the trial. The entire municipal ticket, mayor, council, etc is composed of women, who were unanimously nominated. Stockton is on the south fork of Solomon River, and has recently voted to build water works. The handling of this important matter will be left to the women who will have to let all contracts, see that contractors perform their work properly, pay off the men, and supervise things generally. The town is on the central branch of a Missouri Pacific line, that is likely to be extended this year, and the town will have an opportunity to grapple with the railroad question. In short, the municipal government is to be handed entirely over to the women. This is the place for woman’s rights people to emigrate to. They should all go there – and stay there. Some commiseration, in such an event, most of course be felt for the men of Stockton, but they have dared their fate, they have rushed upon their doom. – [Mobile Register] COLUMN 2 KINGVILLE ITEMS Editor Courier We shall again attempt to give you a few items from Kingville for publication. Owing to the scarcity of news this morning you may expect our communication to be quite brief. So far as we know the health of our community at this writing is good. We had quite a refreshing shower Sunday night last, and last night we had what some would call a “regular trash mover.” Our friends, for the past week have been trying to obey the injunction which says that they shall eat their bread by the sweat of their brown. There will be singing at the Academy Sunday evening by Mr. WM. GLASGOW. Messrs. W. A. JOHNSON, JON NOLEN, and “SEEB” ROWLAND are off on a business trip to Tuskaloosa this week. The Kingville School is holding up well, notwithstanding most of the patrons have to keep their “larger” children at home to help them in the field. On last Sunday Kingville was honored for a short while with the presence of Prof. J. R. BLACK of the Vernon High School. the Prof. we are pleased to mention, is one of Lamar’s most talented and enthusiastic educators. Monday night cold “spell” almost made a doubting Thomas of us so far as Bill Arp’s definition of the word April is concerned. Hoping that we may do better next time we subscribe ourself faithfully, Warwick April 23, 1887 Fort Worth, Texas. April 19. Two men drove up to the residence of William Tubbs, Sr., living four miles north of Crawford, and said they wished to see the man of the house, to whom they made the following disclose: In 1865, an Indian woman, fearing that she would be plundered by Yankee raiders, buried an iron vessel, containing $1000 in gold, under a corner of the house now occupied by Mr. Tubbs. Upon moving away she concluded it was safest to leave it where it was. Upon her deathbed a short time ago she revealed the secret to the two men just spoken of, and in return for kindness shown her these parties she bequeathed to them the buried treasure. Requesting Mr. Tubbs’ permission to dib under the house, they all proceeded to the spot and commenced to dig at the spot indicated by the Indian women the iron pot was unearthed. In the vessel was found a canvass bay containing a large amount of gold coin, exactly how much Mr. tubs is unable to state, possible $1000 or $1500 After the above facts had become generally known, Captain Bewley, who lives near Mr. Tubbs, said that on last Monday afternoon, while plowing in a field near his house he perceived sticking to the earth’s shining substance. Upon investigation it proved a $20 gold piece. He thought nothing strange of this. As he plowed on he found more gold pieces, and he was so aroused upon the subject that he called his hired help, Ed. Carpenter, from another part of the field. By nightfall they had succeeded altogether in picking up 282 $20 gold pieces, which amounts to $5,640. This startling discovery has set the country wild and every person who owns as much as ten acres of ground has gone to digging for gold. Slack Henson, who was in town Monday, says he found $35 in Confederate money in an old Bois d’Arc stump on his place, but he refused to sell. In 1849 the Tonkawa Indians sold to the Texas government a part of their reservation for $40,000 in gold. As the tries were encamped for nine months where Captain Bewleys’ farm is, it is probable that they hid a part for all of this money where they were. Bewley thinks there is more gold hidden in his field, so he has posted his entire farm and warns any and all persons upon pain of death not to come on his place with a pick. A ROMANTIC JOKE – How A Sham Wedding Turned Out Real COLUMN 4 P. M. ROWLETT J. B. ROWLETT T. W. KIRKLAND with P. M. ROWLETT & SION manufactured and dealers in fine plug, twist, and smoking tobacco. New Concord, Kentucky. 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. 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. D. R. RECTOR is connected with the above firm and will be pleased to see his friends and will sell them goods at rock bottom prices. Column 5 Established 1867. Cash Store. A. A. SUMMERS S. F. PENNINGTON SUMMERS & PENNINGTON’S , 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. A full line of groceries constantly in store. 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. 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. 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 Our young and talented fellow townsmen, Messrs WALTER NESMITH, WILLIE SUMMERS report a most ---- time in the city of Columbus last week. Mrs. Dr. MORTON and her ---sing daughter Miss ELIZA, visited Columbus this week. Mr. NEW--- --ORTON accompanied them. The beautiful and accomplished Miss JALA GUIN after spending a --- at Fern bank is now at home. Capt. FRANK OGDEN undoubtedly --- brag farm in Lamar Co. In --- the farms all in the neighborhood of Cansler and Moscow show excellently. J. W. MORTON request us to ---- through these columns --- unless his customers pay him --- immediately, they will be --- to do so by his honor. Esq. G. W. MIDDLETON. “Go it while you are young----.” This might have been ap----ble last Saturday night; we hear they “took in the town.” SUMMERS & PENNINGTON have a superb line of gents half hose. A good many of our citizens took ---- in storms houses last Friday ---ing. Ye local did not, but tell --- fact he got as close to one as he --- could. It was a very vicious looking cloud and for awhile destruction seemed imminent, but passed over with only a “root soaker and trash moving” rain. Mr. MARDIS MORTON was in to see us last Saturday. He is from Walker County and reports that the county is in a progressive state. Mr. J. C. HARRIS, who is working on the rail road in Walker Co. and visited our office last week. Mr. L. C. GUIN (BUD) found a --- loon in his field recently. He gave it to Mr. JAS. MACE who displayed great taste in the art of taxidermy. It is very life like and natural. Dr. EMMET MORTON of Caudle, enlivened our town last Saturday and Sunday with his pleasant smiles. Dr. R. L. BRADLY and wife visited Columbus this week. Step into Col. T. B. NESMITH’S office when you may, you will always find that noble gentleman busy at work. He is ever zealous, kind and careful in all of his transactions. Rev. Mr. HEWITT preached to a large audience last Sabbath night. His sermon was grand. Esqrs. J. D. MCCLUSKEY and W. A. YOUNG attended Justice Court at Crew’s Mill last Saturday. Prof. BLACK did some good work on the street below and opposite the Academy last Monday. We regret very much the departure from our midst of Dr. W. A. BROWN. He will soon go to Corona to practice. He is an experienced physician and has always been successful in handling his cases. He is watchful and an untiring nurse. The first regular through scheduled train passed over the Georgia Pacific last Sunday. Our efficient sheriff, Mr. S. F. PENNINGTON and our esteemed MURRAY COBB were passengers thereon. WALTER NESMITH and WILLIE SUMMERS wear the latest style straw hats. Oh! Don’t we wish we had one? Sheriff PENNINGTON and MURRAY COBB returned from their trip to Birmingham last Monday. They visited Atlanta, Ga. and report a very pleasant time in the large cities, especially in the great city of furnaces, etc. HURRAH FOR THE NEXT THAT DIES - Poem VERNON CIRCUIT, FAYETTE C. H. DISTRICT, M. E. CHURCH SOUTH APPOINTMENTS Vernon, 4th Sunday 11 am and 7 ½ pm. Springfield Chap. 11 am, 1st Sunday, Moscow 3 ½ pm 1st Sunday. Lebanon 11 am 2nd Sunday. Newman Chap. 3 ½ pm 2nd Sunday. New Hope 11 am 3rd Sunday. Mt. Nebo 3 pm G. L. HEWITT, Pastor District Conference will embrace the 5th Sunday in July. NOTE THIS I have now completed my rounds and will soon be engaged making the Tax Book. All persons who have not yet made their assessments will please come forward at once and make their returns without further notice. W. Y. ALLEN, Tax Collector NOTICE There will be a Teacher’s meeting at Vernon on the first Saturday in May; and all teachers are earnestly requested to attend. It is compulsory on them to attend, and at the option of the Co. Supt to cancel the license of all who fail to do so. Respectfully, B. H.W ILKERSON, Co. Supt. Of Ed. FINAL SETTLEMENT NOTICE State of Alabama, Lamar County Probate Court 19th day of April AD 1887 Estate of JOHN POPE, Deceased This day came THOMAS B. NESMITH, administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts and vouchers for final settlement of his administration. It is ordered that the 13th day of May AD 1887 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement if they think proper. Alexander Cobb, Judge of Probate CROSS-TIES WANTED The undersigned wants hand to get cross-ties on the Kansas City R. R. for 10 miles from 82 to 92 on Beaver Creek. Satisfaction given to all applicants. Liberal prices paid by the day or tie. Apply to H. W. Miller, or J. P. Rushing, at Miller’s Mill. April 22, 1887 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. 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. HIGH 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 five me a call. Respectfully, HUGH PENNINGTON. 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 Mr. T. R. LANGSTON desires the ginners in the county to remember he will commence to call on them about the 15th of April for the purpose of sharpening and repairing their gins. Satisfaction guaranteed or no pay. 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 HOME AND FARM Gather the droppings around an under the roosts every two or three days if you would have your poultry free from the scourge of scaly legs. – [N. Y. Examiner] Nice cookies are made with, one cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three eggs, two teaspoonfuls each of baking powder and boiling water, and flour enough to knead as soft as can be rolled out. – [Boston Budget] Beaten Biscuit: Two pints of flour, one teaspoon of salt, one tablespoon of lard, mix into a stiff dough with equal parts of water and milk, beat thirty minutes with a wooden spoon; bake in a quick oven. – [The Household] Excellent Baked Brown bead: Three cups of Indian meal, three cups of rye meal, one-half cup of sour milk, one-half cup of molasses, three and one-half cups of warm water, one teaspoonful of soda. Bake, covered close, one and one-half hours. – [Exchange] Ordinary building paper is cheap and of great value to keep cold out of all farm buildings. It may be nailed on, with lath covering the seams, pressing them close to the wall. The paper may also be utilized for covering a screen door, making it serve the purpose of a double door to exclude cold. – [Detroit Tribune] Crumb griddle cakes; The night before suing put some bread crumbs to soak in one quart of sour milk; in the morning rub through a sieve and add four well- beaten eggs, tow teaspoons soda dissolved in a little water, one tablespoon melted butter and enough cornmeal to make them the consistency of ordinary griddle cakes. It is better to bat yokes and whites separately, stirring the whites lightly in just before baking. – [Boston Bulletin] It is a good plan to wash horses’ necks and shoulders with cold water after the day’s work in spring and summer. It will strengthen them and prevent lameness and galling. This is especially necessary if the horses have not done much work in winter and are then set to work suddenly in spring. If a horse be sick or lame or swelled, bathing will often improve it. If the parts affected be cold, the let the water be a little warm; but if the parts be warm, let the water be cold. Some salt dissolved in the water will add to its efficiency. – [San Francisco Chronicle] German bread – One pint of boiled milk, one-half tea-cup of sugar, one-half cup of lard, two-thirds of a cup of yeast. Mix the east and milk and let rise light; add the sugar and shortening, with flour enough to make a soft dough; roll out an inch thick on a well-floured board. Divide the dough and put each in a baking tin’; make a dozen indentures with the finger on the top, put a small piece of butter in each and sift over the whole one tablespoonful of sugar mixed with the same quantity of ground cinnamon. Let stand till light, the n bake in a quick oven. – [The Caterer] Looking to spring and transplanting, we say: First dig your holes and supply mellow, rich soil in place of all the poor soil that comes out of them. Years ago, when the Rural grounds were planted, muck from what is now the lake was the soil used to fill in the holes. There is muck and muck, no doubt. But a thriftier line of trees, both evergreen and deciduous, than we have, is rarely to be found. The roots of young trees soon grow out of the hole prepared for their reception but a good start in the case of a tree is more important and helpful than in the case of a corn plant. – [Western Rural] WHOLESOME BUTTER – Cleanliness In The Dairy Indisputable To Its Production. WORTH REMEMBERING – How The Wise Man Avoids Making A Bad Matter Considerably Worse THE AMERICAN IN MEXICO This modern Croesus is neither a Jew nor an American – a fact which will surprise a good many people. He is not even a banker. According to undoubted statistics now before us the wealthiest mortal of modern times is a German prince, the Prince of Lichtenstein, the proprietor of immense estates in Germany, Bavaria, Austria, and Switzerland…..It has been calculated that if all his wealth were reduced to copper coinage it would take four locomotives engines of sixty tons to remove it. – [Chicago Diverse] SECRETARY STANTON – How He Scrutinized And Assorted The Callers At The War Department A REMARKABLE AUSTRIAN GIANT – Herr Winkelmeir, the Austrian giant, is eight feet nine inches in height, topping Change, the Chinese giant, by a foot. Herr Winkelmeir was born in Friedberg, Austria, in 1865, and is twenty-one years of age. He is said to have been of ordinary stature until the age of fourteen and at Berlin he received the alarming information from Prof. Wirehow that he would probably continue growing until the age of twenty-five. The reach of his arms is about ten and one-half feet, and he spans two octaves on the pianoforte. KITTENS IN A COFFIN TROUBLESOME FRACTIONS A TREASURE OF A GIRL Mrs. Adeline Roberts, widow of Benjamin Roberts, a noted colored Bostonian, is dead. It was her husband who, on the refusal of the school committee in 1859 to admit his eldest daughter as a pupil, entered suit against the city of Boston. A decision, after a long and exciting contest, was rendered in his favor, and resulted in throwing open the doors of the city schools to the colored children of Boston. – [Boston Journal] As goldsmiths and jewelers the Persians are expert, and jewelry is by no means the exclusive luxury of the rich. In the first place it is cheap. the most skillful jewelers are glad to work for two shillings a day and the profit they can make on the very small amount of solder they are permitted to use. 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