Lamar County AlArchives News.....Vernon Courier May 20, 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 November 10, 2007, 9:42 am Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History May 20, 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, May 20 1887 VOL. I. NO. 50 Subscription $1.00 Per Year PAGE 1 THE BABY AWAKENING – Poem A NEW ORDER - ---Sterhood of the Bon Secours of America. - --- Trained And Faithful Nurse --- Established In New York --- An Interview With One Of Their Numbers DECAY OF STONE. – The Influence Of Atmospheric Pressure Upon All Kinds Of Building Stones. CANADIAN WORSHIP – Scenes and Noises in the French Cathedral of Notre Dame in Montreal HAIR-PIN HEADACHES Women suffer sometimes from what is called “hair=pin headache,” as well as nervous headache. Both often may be cured by taking out the steel hair-pins and letting the hair down for awhile. Sometimes a quick brushing of the hair over the seat of the pain will drive it off entirely. An old lady says it was her mother’s remedy to run back and forth through the hair a set of steel knitting needles and she would recommend “steel points” every time in cases of headache. For those subject to this kind of headache horn or imitation shell hair-pins might be tired, but if the “ache” arises from the stomach, as is frequently the case, neither a change of hair-pins nor an application of “steel points” will effect a cure. – [Detroit Tribune] THE REWARDS OF MERIT – anecdote Some idea of the value of water in southern California may be gained from the opening of the Gage irrigating canal, near Riverside. Three years ago land sold above Riverside for five dollars an acre. It was without water and was counted valuable only for grazing. Mr. Gage made a contract with a large number of owners to furnish them with abundant water at $100 per acre. Then he dug an eleven-mile canal, supplied with water partly from the Santa Ana River, but a mile from artesian wells. Recently water was turned into the canal, and land which sold for five dollars now sells for $300 an acre. The Attorney General has given an opinion that the Chinese Anti-Immigration act does not apply to Chinese women who accompany other immigrants to this country as servants or nurses. PITH AND POINT – jokes HINTS ON COCURTING – Some Things A Lover Should And Other He Should Not Do Or Say. Select the girl. Agree with the girl’s father in politics and the mother in religion. If you have a rival keep an eye on him. Don’t’ swear to the girl that you never heard yourself snore in your sleep. Don’t wait until the girl has to throw her whole soul into a yawn that she can’t cover with both hands. A little thing like that may cause a coolness at the very beginning of the game. In cold weather finish saying good night in the house. Don’t stretch it all the way to the front gate and thus lay the foundation for future asthma, bronchitis, neuralgia, and chronic catarrh to help you worry the girl to death after she has married you. Don’t lie about your financial condition. It is very annoying for a bride who has pictured for herself a life of luxury in your ancestral halls to learn too late that you expect her to ask a bald-headed parent to take you in out of the cold. Don’t be too soft. “These little hands shall never do a stroke of work when they are mines, and you shall have nothing to do in our home but to sit all day long and chirp to the canaries,” as if any sensible woman could be happy fooling away time. In that sort of style and a girl has a fine retentive memory for soft things and silly promises of courtship. Occasionally, in after years, when she is washing the dinner dishes or patching the west end of your trousers, she will remind you of them in a cold, sarcastic tone. Don’t be a chump. – [Iowa Messenger] ALL SORTS OF SILKS – The Favorite Weaves And Colors For General Spring And Summer Wear AN ARKANSAS DIG AT KANSAS - joke PAGE 2 THE COURIER ALEX A. WALL, Editor and Proprietor Vernon, Alabama Friday, May 20, 1887 Kennedy, Ala., May 7, 1887 To the Courier: And now dear Courier, what shall I say in regard to our business little town? I am in a labyrinth to know how to begin this communication, and once having commenced how I shall end. ‘Tis truly a difficult problem for one so unfamiliar with the ethics of news paperdom as I, and not wishing the length of it to consign it to the waste basket. Spring has come at last. Nature profuse in her bounties and lavish with her gifts, has disrobed the melancholy attire of winter, and is decking woodland and hilltop with the gay and fancy garments of spring. The aroma of sweet scented violets, are wafted on the perfume laden breezes borne from rose gardens touched and cultivated by the deft fingers of winsome beauty. And, May, the belle of months, is here. To school girls and boys, the lover and the maiden, May day is best of all; and who does not like to go a Maying, and wander through the leafy woods and verdant meadows, and gather wild flowers from the mossy bank. Bu t alas the May-time of the year is only an emblem of the May-time of life, and as the one must pass, so the other must end. The may time of our life is but short, and the stern reality of the summer work will be upon us and after that the harvest, when we must gather up the sheaves of golden grain to be garnered for the winter of old age. The May day of life is followed by vexations cares which will end only when life’s fitful fever passes into the dreamless grave. But let us speak of something more cheerful. Well, first we will say that business is rather dull, as a matter of course at this season of the year, the farmers being busily engaged at their farm-work. Our merchants have been so closely confined behind the counter. I do not think they object to a little leisure time. We now listen to the soothing sound of Birmingham trains –and would you pardon us for saying that Kennedy was a little Birmingham last winter. Improvement is still rapidly going on. Dr. J. O. KENNEDY is having a handsome residence put up, also Messrs. COONS are building two beautiful dwellings. Messrs. JOHNSON and WHITE are at work improving their lot, and a right desirable place they will have too. Mr. Sanders the photographer is stationed here at present, and seems to be doing a good business. This article would be incomplete unless I mention the fact that we were honored with a party of pleasant visitors a few days since, Mr. ROBERTSON, Mr. COOKE, and his sister Miss ELLA – and here I must pause, and collect my scattering senses in order to effectually tackle that bewildering memory of loveliness, grace and beauty. Mention it not able a whisper, but if the rosy morn of Loves bright day did not dawn upon more than one young man while in her presence, then I have spent twenty-five years in vain. Miss RAMA PHILIPS a young lady with bright smiles and charming manners is also visiting out town. Mr. PHILLIPS our merchant has assumed quite an air of dignity recently, but we attribute it to the fact that another sojourner is in the land – a ten pound boy. WE learn that Prof. JOHNSON will close his school here in a few days, after which he will leave us. Now it is with reluctance that we give him up, for in so doing we suffer loss. His gentlemanly qualities has made him many friends, and he has given perfect satisfaction as preceptor. Girls don’t let him carry away any of your hearts. We were pleased to have Hon. R. L. BRADLEY and Prof. J. R. BLACK in our midst a few days ago. The negroes have a “Jubilee” today, celebrating their freedom. More some convenient day. A Subscriber. [We hope it will be an early day – Ed.] COLUMN 2 PROCEEDINGS OF THE TEACHERS MEETING ON THE 7TH INST. The under signed teachers of Lamar County met on the 7th day of May, 1887, for the purpose of organizing a Teacher’s Institute to be held at Vernon, Ala on the 24th and 25th day of June, 1887, and as often thereafter as the members of said Institute may deem practicable. 1st. House called to order and a brief introductory address made by Prof. JOHN R. GUIN. 2nd. Motion before the House for the election of a President; B. H. WILKERSON, County Supt. of Ed. Put in nomination and elected. 3rd. Motion made to elect a secretary; J. C. JOHNSON put in nomination and elected. 4th. Committee appointed by the President. Profs. W.W. J. MOLLOY, GARLAND H. SMITH and JOHN M. AYRES, committee. Committee returned the following subjects to be discussed on Friday and Saturday, the 24th and 25th of June, by the following named teachers: Orthography by Prof. B. H. WILKERSON, Method of Teaching Physiology And Hygiene by CLIFTON C. HOLLIDAY. Theory And Practice Of Teaching by JOHN R. GUIN, English Grammar by J. R. BLACK and Mathematics by J. C. JOHNSON. School government will be discussed by the entire Institute. We respectfully invite all who are interested in the educational interests of Lamar County to attend, and we solicit every teacher in the county to meet us at 10 am on the 24th of June, 1887. Respectfully submitted J. C. JOHNSON, Sec. A Californian, who is the father of a dozen children, has hit upon a scheme by which the youngsters can enjoy themselves to their heart’s content and at the same time do a bit of work for which their parent would have to pay heavily were he to employ some other agency. He lives In Los Angeles County, where he owns a large tract of land which requires constant irrigation ot make it productive, and as his bank account is not large he had considerable trouble in obtaining sufficient water for his land. Finally a bright idea struck him. He dug a sixty-foot well, put in a cheap pump and rigged at some distance one of those big family swings common in pleasure gardens. “Here, you little rascals, said Pirch to his little fishes, “come out here and get in this wing. I’m going to give you something to pay with.” In five minutes the children were flying back and forth through the air. The pump worked up and down, making a merry tune, and a fourteen-inch stream flowed from the well. The children don’t know that they are working, as the well is not in sight and the swing connects with the well by an iron rod. The youngsters raise enough water during a day to irrigate a large tract of land. “There are treasures laid up in the heart, treasures of charity, piety, temperance and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him beyond death when he leaves this world.” Ex-President Jefferson Davis has been invited to attend the Press Association which meets in Birmingham on the 25th. RIGHT SMART NEBRASKA BOY – A STORY OF HIM TOLD BY HIS ADMIRING PARENT COLUMN 3 TIPS FROM THE FINGER NAILS He who keeps his nails well rounded at the tips is a proud man. Nails which remain long after being cut level with the finger end are a sign of generosity. The owner of very round and smooth nails is of a peaceable and conciliatory disposition. He who keeps his nails somewhat long, round, and tipped with black, is a romantic poet. He who has white spots on his nails is fond of the society of ladies, but is fickle in his attachments. If you come across a man with long and pointed nails you may take it that he is either a player of the guitar, a tailor, or an attorney. Transparent nails with light red mark a cheerful, gentle and amiable disposition. Lovers with transparent nails usually carry their passion to the verge of madness. He who has the nail of his right thumb slightly notched is a regular glutton, even nibbling at himself, as when having nothing eatable at hand, he falls to biting his own finger-nails. He who keeps his nails irregularly cut is hasty and determined. Men who have not the patience to cut their nails properly generally come to grief; most of them commit suicide or get married. NEW HOPE, MAY 7TH, 1887 Mr. Editor: Will you please five space in your paper for a few dots of the colored people’s celebration. We celebrate the 8th of May on account that we were set free on that day years ago. The colored people celebrated the 7th on account of the 8th coming on the Sabbath. The audience was called to order by singing “Arise and shine O Zion fair, behold they light is come. “ Prayer by Rev. J. W. BRENT. The house announced ready for business. Several business speeches were delivered. 1st. W. BRUSELL was introduced to the audience upon the subject of emancipation of slavery. He delivered an interesting discourse on that subject. Mr. PETER M. SHAW delivered a very interesting speech on the same. Mr. SHAW said in his speech that the colored people ought to have one colored Township Superintendent in each and every Township. 2. Next was L. L. WINBUSH on the subject Three Eras of Man. He delivered a lively discourse on this subject. 3. Intermission of one hour for refreshments. 4. The audience was called to order by singing, and announced ready for business. 5. Prof. J. W. GLASCOCK delivered a very interesting lecture on Society, and Mr. J. C. SMITH spoke on the same subject. 6. B. STEWART addressed the audience very nicely on the same, and caused much hearty laughter. A great may white friends were present all of whom we were pleased to see. We looked for Judge COBB and Capt. S.J. SHIELDS, regret their absence. Preaching at 4 o’clock by Rev. G. W. BRENT, singing the hymn “Go preach my gospel said the Lord,” prayer by T. B. NOLLS, the text can be found in the 13th ch. 10 verse of Job, God is wise in heart and great in strength, the Parson preached with much zeal. Everything passed off pleasantly and we closed in regular order to meet on the 8th day of May, 1888. J. F. SHAW, Sec. R. M. ROWLETT J. P. ROWLETT T. W. KIRKLAND P. M. ROWLETT & Son Manufacturers 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 4 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 LOCALS -----ice and cheap groceries ---- WILLIE BURNS ----- COBB returned Wednesday from a visit to Birmingham. ----R. L. BRADLEY and wife visited the Southern part of the ---- this week. Mrs. OSCAR HALEY visited her ---- in the country for several days this week. ----- days meeting will be held --- Church, commencing on Saturday. Mrs. TROY LANGSTON dropped into ---- yesterday morning looking as --- as a morning glory. A good many of the town boys ---ke hunting one day last ---. They report the number ---- 35. ----J. E. PENNINGTON is employed --- the Tombigbee R. R. Co. --- the right of way in this -----. ---- Sunday School celebration ---- Church last Sabbath was --- rsied, and the Sabbath spent ---- unity to the school and all. ----- MIDDLETON, Esq. is secre--- --- the Tombigbee R. R. com----Parties wishing information --- to subscribing to the road --- with him as well as with --- WIMBERLEY. ----- Judge Cobb has our thanks for the beautiful flowers sent us today. We appreciate them ---- ore because they came from ---- friend of our first acquaintance --- Vernon years ago. ---- last Friday for about thirty --- Vernon was visited by a tremendous hail storm. Great damage was done to gardens, the vegetation was completely beaten to almost ----. Mayor WIMBERLEY is chairman --- Committee to solicit subscriptions and donations and the right of ---- the Tombigbee Rail Road Co. --- ens in town have shown by --- great subscriptions that they ---- road. ---- T. MCKENZIE has been in --- several days this week. He --- finest line of spectacles ever --- to the citizens of this town and community. He thoroughly un---- fitting glasses to the eye. --- give satisfaction in every - ------. Misses JALA GUIN and ELIZA MORTOBN ---- the citizens in town last --- day in behalf of the Mission-----. They received a nice ----. Our gallant young ---- not resist their charming --- and turn them away without giving a subscription. The citizens of Vernon have – to the Tombigbee Railroad ---- as follows: (Money) --- WIMBERLEY $500.00 ---- L. MORTON 500.00 ----- SUMMERS 250.00 ----- PENNINGTON 100.00 ---- CLEARMAN 100.00 ---- BRADLEY 100.00 G. C. BURNS 100.00 S. J. SHIELDS 100.00 Total Amount $1750.00 --- strike among the miners of Walker County is thought to be nearing a close, and that work will soon be resumed in the mines. In Huntsville the other day ---- brothers became enraged, where upon one was hot dead and another wounded. They are among the prominent families of the city. The cause of the trouble is said to be a fami—oil. Three negroes were elected --- as policemen in Selma --- night of the 13th for 12 --- ior longer. One of the --- elected has been in jail --- Meridian, Miss, under a charge of murder. Another --- leader in the negro riot --- Selma in 1878. “O tempered ---- “ down there. ---- the Mobile & Ohio railroad just above Waynesboro --- the 13th the north bound --- Passenger train collided with a --- bound wild cat engine, --- engineer was seriously injured and the fireman, Robt --- was instantly killed. Our townsman, Dr. W. L. ---on, was on the passenger train and was considerable shaken but not otherwise hurt we are pleased to remark. ---- the 13th inst., four miles --- of Somerville, Morgan Co. --- Mollie Edmundson went --- ng with her little ten year old daughter, and lay down on a bank of the creek to get a drink of water, when a large moccasin snake bit her on the artery of the neck and hung its fangs in the flesh so that she had to pull it loose with her hands. Her little daughter --- her up and ran for help. Her husband was a mile and a half from home, and when he reached his wife she was lying only a hundred yards from where she was bitten dead. SHERIFF’S SALE On Wednesday, the 8th day of June, 1887, I will sell at the story house of Davidson bros., in Detroit, Lamar County, Ala for cash, at public outcry, to the highest bidder, by virtue f three executions from the Circuit Court of said county, one in favor of Adam’s Throne & Co., for $1389.00, and two in favor of McQuiston & Heisen, one for $800.16 and one for $600.51 against JAMES A. DAVIDSON and J. HOWARD DAVIDSON as partners under the firm name and style of Davidson Bros, to satisfy said judgments, the following personal property to-wit: (large list of store items) This the 20th day of May, 1887 S, F, PENNINGTON, Sheriff PROCEEDINGS OF COMMISSIONER’S COURT State of Alabama, Lamar County Commissioner’s Court, May 10th 1887 The following is a list of the proceedings had at the Commissioner’s Court held for said county on the 9th and 10th days of May 1887, which is as follows to-wit: Ordered that W. W. PURNELL be allowed for paupers $74.42 J. H. GUTHRIE be allowed for bridge lumber 27.15 W. L. BROCK for hauling bridge lumber 2.50 H. L. BROCK for bridge lumber 5.94 B. MCDANIEL for pauper 9.00 SAUNDERS & SWANSEY bridge lumber 4.69 S. P. GARTMAN bridge lumber 3.00 M. W. LOYD registering 17 voters 2.35 A. R. DUNCAN bridge lumber 15.00 M. W. LOYD bridge lumber 3.42 PRESLEY & FLOOD bridge lumber 19.28 N. WALKER bringing pauper 5.00 MARSHAL & BRUCE Stationary 28.13 R. W. COBB Stationary 3.50 S. F. PENNINGTON bed clothing & etc for jail 7.25 W. D. BROWN & Co Stationery 17.50 W. Y. ALLEN expense of stationary 1.20 A. A. BROCK 3 trees for bridge sills 2.25 SUMMERS & PENNINGTON clothing for prisoners 12.80 O. F. HALEY feeding jury at Circuit Court 19.58 S. F. PENNINGTON fewel and lights at Circuit Court 6.00 F. OGDEN & Son lumber for bridges 16.54 C. C. WATSON 4 trees for bridge sills, &c 2.00 D. J. Tax Sale book 5.50 ALEX. COBB County Judge 20.00 Dr. W. F. ELLIOTT attention to paupers 23.50 HALEY & DENMAN wood for jail 1.15 S. E. WEIR nails for bridge 1.00 W. A. JOHNSON bridge lumber 3.04 WILLIAM COLLINS pauper fund 10.00 ALBERT WILSON Commissioner 7.95 W. M. MOLLOY, Commissioner 8.00 R. W. YOUNG, Commissioner 6.80 ALEXANDER COBB, Commissioner 6.00 R. L. BRADLEY, extracting 3 teeth for prisoners 1.59 Mrs. MCGILL for her invalid child 12.50 Total Appropriations $423.56 COLUMN 3 Tax Collectors report shows as follows: Error on Real Estate State and County $63.37 Errors on Personal property state and county 172.63 Insolvencies on personal property 9.56 Error on Poll Tax 121.56 Insolvencies on Poll Tax 151.50 Total Credit allowed T. C. $523.90 This was deducted from the taxes as assessed in 1886 as not collected and errors. It was ordered that court meet on 12th day of July next to draw the Grand and Petty Jurors for Fall Term of the Circuit Court 1887. L. M. WINBERLEY County Treasurer of this county made his semi-annual report which shows that he has received from all sources since last report the sum of $3,611.73 And that he has paid out including Commissioners as per vouchers herein filed the sum of $4,170.91. Leaving amt. due Treasury $859.48 of county funds and that he has received since last report of state funds the sum of $383.81 and paid out as per vouchers filed $343.84 Leaving balance in treasury $39.25 Ordered that Court adjourn. Minutes signed. ALEX COBB, Judge and Ex-officer Clerk ALBERT WILSON SAMUEL LOGGAIN W. M. MOLLOY R. W. YOUNG Commissioners Look! Look! The train is coming. Get ready for a ride but before starting call and let G. C. BURNS sell you a nice bill of goods at Rock Bottom figures. West side Court Square. M. B. PETIS, Aberdeen, Mississippi. Cheapest Grocery house in the city. Staple and fancy groceries. Bargains for cash every day. J. R. BANKHEAD, of Cansler, Lamar County, is with this firm, and respectfully requests his friends to visit him when in the city. He wills ell goods very low. SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of three Fieri Fa classes issued out of the Clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, and state of Alabama, and to me directed, whereby I am commanded to make the amount of certain judgments recently obtained one by ADAMS, THRONE & CO. for $1,380.00 and two for MCQUISTON & HELSEN, one for $390.06 and one for $660.51 and cost of suits against J. A. DAVIDSON and HOWARD DAVIDSON partners in trade under the firm name and style of DAVIDSON BROS. out of the goods, chattels, lands and tenements of the said J. A. DAVIDSON and HOWARD DAVIDSON partners as aforesaid. I have levied on the following property to-wit: One acre of land more or less so as to include the Store House and lot of said Davidson & Bro in Detroit in said county lying in Sec 13 T 12 R 16. Therefore, according to said command, I shall expose for sale, at Public Auction, all the right , title, and interest of the above-named JAMES A. DAVIDSON and HOWARD DAVIDSON in and to the above described property, on Monday the 6th day of June 1887, during the legal hours of sale, at the Court House door in Vernon in said County. Dated at Vernon this 2nd day of May 1887. S. F. PENNINGTON, Sheriff of Lamar Co. Ala. TAX SALE The State of Alabama, Lamar County By virtue of an order and decree issued from the Probate Court of said county, to me directed, and dated the 11th day of May 1887. I will offer for sale in front of the Court House door of said county on the first Monday in June next, the following lands, or so much thereof as will be necessary to satisfy the taxes and costs thereon due for the years 1886, to-wit: NE qr of SE qr Sec 3 T 13 R 14. Taxes penalties and cost $2.30. Printers fee $2.00. Total $8.30. Assessed to Owner Unknown. SE qr of SW qr Sec 18 T 17 R 14. Taxes, penalties and cost $1.96. Printers fee $4.00. Total $7.00. Assessed to Owner Unknown. D. J. LACY Tax Collector Lamar County 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 The undersigned duly commissioned a board of Incorporators of the Tombigbee Rail Road Company, hereby give notice that they will open books of subscription to the Capital stock of the said company on the 16th day of May, 1887, at 10 o’clock a.m. at the office of SAM SHIELDS, Esq, Vernon, Lamar County, Alabama. The Capitol stock of said Company is $50,000 divided into shares of the par value of $100 each. B. A. VAUGHAN C. A. JOHNSTON W. H. SIMS J. O. BANKS J. E. LEIGH, Incorporators E. B. ATKINS Fernbank, Ala. (picture of barrel) Wholesale and Retail dealer in whiskey, wine, tobacco, cigars, snuff, canned goods, etc. etc. St. Jacobs and Duffey’s. A specialty. All goods sold cheap for cash. 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 OUR COUNTRY’S NAVY – The Grand Advance Which Has Been Made By a Democratic Administration In Giving It To The Country TURNING THEM OUT – A Republican Organ Mad Because President Cleveland Has Turned Out Incompetent Office-Holders And His Open Enemies MILD-MANNERED SHERMAN – The Statesman From Ohio Confirming The Democracy In Its Oft-Expressed Opinion That The War Is Over. NEW YORK GIRLS WHO WALK - The New York Walking Club Small jokes and advertisements File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/vernonco1531gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 34.1 Kb