Lamar County AlArchives News.....Vernon COurier May 27, 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, 9:44 am Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History May 27, 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 27 1887 VOL. I. NO. 51 Subscription $1.00 Per Year PAGE 1 A PARADOX – Poem THE HONEYMOON - ---Innocent Couple Spent It --- In “Traveling’ HE BORE HIS HONORS WELL - anecdote The manager of a Brussels theatre has hit upon a happy and effective devise for abolishing the high hat nuisance. He has posted this notice: Only ladies of a certain age will be allowed to wear bonnets in this establishment.” Of course no ladies wish to be considered f “a certain age” and the hats come off. PITCH AND POINT – jokes WOULDN’T BE DOWN – anecdote OF GENERAL INTEREST A writer in the English Mechanic asserts that traffic on turnpike roads has increased ten-fold since Macadam’s time. There exists still a form of contract, made in the time of Edward I of England, in which a man engaged to sell and deliver his wife to another man. A system of standard time, similar to that now prevailing for railway purposed in this country, will probably be adopted by the Norwegian Parliament. The time for the whole of Norway will be one hour in advance of that of the Greenwich observatory in England. An Eastern scientist wants to know why it is that along the railroads and the highways the snow always drifts from the high places and into the depressions, while in lumber-yards it drifts out of the depressions and accumulates on top of lumber piles. – [Chicago Times] A newly discovered Mexican flower is quite a wonder, if reports are true. It is said to be white in the morning, red at noon and blue at night, and is further credited with emitting perfume only a the middle of the day. It grows on a tree of the Isthmus of Tehunatepee. – [Golden Rule] President Frank James Morrison, of the Crescent Club of Baltimore, has been presented with a ring that cost $3,600. The central stone in an emerald that weighs 6 ½ carats, and is said to be one of the largest and most perfect in this country. It is set between two diamonds that weigh 5 1-16 carats. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Gladstone, Tennyson, and Lord Houghton were all born in the year 1800. Commenting on this, Homes writes: “Persons of the same year watch each other, especially as the sands of life begin to run low, as we can imagine so many damaged hour-glasses, to keep an eye on each other.” – [Boston Herald] Leander Smith, an aged citizen of Milan, Ind., died not long ago, and the administer of his estate, in taking an inventory and appraising the effects, discovered a large amount of hidden treasure, $1,950 of old gold coin being found in a jar of rancid lard, while other large sums were found secreted in other places. – [N. Y. Sun] A merchant in Los Angeles, Ca, saw a newsboy peering down into the grating in the sidewalk in front of his store one afternoon recently and learning that the little chap had dropped a quarter into the place, and was studying upon the best means of recovering his wealth, sent one of his clerks down into the cellar, recovered the coin, and coolly put it into his till. – [Chicago Herald] …… LINCOLN’S READING – How He Read Homers Iliad In The Office Of An Illinois Hotel THE BEST SHE COULD DO – joke The streets of Los Angeles, Cal., are being paved with granite. PAGE 2 THE COURIER ALEX A. WALL, Editor and Proprietor Vernon, Alabama Friday, May 27, 1887 Jasper is soon to have a new paper to be called the Jasper Head Light. It will be the third paper in the city of Jasper, besides a fine Job office. A LITERACY CURIOSITY – “Sator, Arepo, Tenet, Opera, Rotas” 1. This spells backward and forward all the same. 2. Then taking all the first letters of each word spells the first word. 3. Then all the second letters of each word spells the second word. 4. Then all the third, and so on throughout the fourth and fifth. 5. Then commencing with the last letter of each word, spells the last word. 6. Then the next to the last of each words, and so on through. GENUINE INTEMPERANCE – [Atlanta Constitution] In the Southern Baptist Convention at Louisville, the other day, the report of the temperance committee led to a lively debate. The Courier-Journal says: Rev. J. C. Coulson, of Alabama, made a vehement intemperance speech. He said: “There is not a rum seller in the whole land, but who should be in the state prison. [Cries No, No). There is not one but who is a perjurer. They have taken an oath not to sell liquor on Sundays, nor to minors, nor to men of intemperate habits, and every one of them violates that oath every hour in the day.” Now, this is genuine intemperance, and it is the intemperance that hurts. If the temperance reformers know what is good for them they will suppress such hot-headed champions as Mr. Coulson. The moment the temperance reform ceases to be based upon Christianity it will go backward. the movement, to accomplish any permanent good, must e animated by the spirit of brotherly love. It is perhaps unnecessary to say that MR. Coulson’s speech was not indorsed by the convention. Doubtless it would not be indorsed by any representative body anywhere. But it deserves to be shown up as a warning example all the same. So many of our people just now are engaged in the great work of reforming the world that the ordinary business of life is beginning to suffer. In many communities so much bitterness of feeling has been stirred up by the intemperate words and actions of alleged reformers that public spirit, neighborly kindness, liberality and enterprise are utterly dead. We are rapidly approaching the point where it will become necessary to reform our reformers. The morals of men cannot be improved by rabid denunciation and violent abuse. Heads and hearts are not to be reached in that way. The Montgomery Dispatch of the 15th isn’t. thus speaks of our Solicitor, hon. A. G. Smith, and it with pleasure we reproduce it: “We cannot forbear saying that the sixth judicial circuit has been fortunate in securing the services of an able, conscientious and fearless solicitor, who is full worthy to wear the mantle of his distinguished predecessor. The new solicitor is a man who makes no pretensions, but he is pure gold and needs no false glitter or glamour to set of his true value. He has shown himself a very David of the law, armed and equipped with a moral power and intelligence to slay the giants of iniquity wherever they may be found. Solicitor Smith is comparatively a young man, and in our opinion, a right career awaits him in this state. The governor is to be congratulated upon his wise selection. COLUMN 2 WORDS OF WISDOM – From One Who Deserves To Be Heard And Heeded. I am an old man, upwards of three-score years, during two score of which I have been a tiller of the soil. I cannot say that I am now, but I have been rich, and have all that I need, do not owe a dollar, have given my children a good education and when called away will leave enough to keep the wolf from the door. My experience taught that one acre of good ground well prepared and well cultivated produces more than two which receives only the same amount used on one. One cow, horse, mule, sheep or hog well feed is more profitable than two kept on the same amount necessary to keep one well. One acre of clover or grass is worth tow of cotton where no clover or grass is raised. No farmer who buys oats, corn or wheat, odder and hay, as a a rule, for ten years, can keep the sheriff away from this door in the end. The farmer who never reads the papers sneers at buck farming and improvements, always has a leaky roof, poor stock, broken down fences and complains of bad seasons; the farmer who is above his business and intrusts it to another to manage, soon has no business to attend to exchange. – [Mont. Advertiser] DISASTER AT A BAPTIZING IN NEW ORLEANS New Orleans, May 8 – This morning a number of colored people belonging to the congregation of Mount Zion Baptist Church assembled on the wharf at the head of Lizardi Street to be baptized by immersion, according to the rites of their church. A large number of persons followed the baptismal party to the wharf, for the purpose of witnessing the ceremony. The crowd leaned on the wharf railing, which gave way under the great strain by the pressure of the crowd, and about fifty persons were precipitated into the river. Three white and eight colored persons, all women and children, are known to be drowned. Spectators of the scene express the opinion that many persons were drowned who have not yet been reported missing. There were a number of skiffs on the river, in front of the wharf failing. Many of the occupants of these small boats were injured by the people and broken railing falling upon them. Many of the skiffs were upset, and some of the occupants were drowned. – [Mobile Register] A LETTER FROM TEXAS GARVIN, WISE CO. TEXAS, May 8th, 1887 Editor Courier: I endeavor to write you for publication. We have had a backward spring. The drouth in Western Texas was broken up by a heavy rain fall on the 16th of April, and we have had some reviving showers since. Our farmers on a boom at the present. The health of this community is very good. We are pleased to learn through your column that Vernon is liable to have a R. r. Hurrah for Lamar County. As I have not been here very long I am unable to give the readers of this a full detail of this country. It is good farming country, and good society. There is considerable excitement over prohibition here. There will be an election held in this state on prohibition on the 4th day of August next. Very Respect, G. W. H. Did you ever notice the pleasure a horse seems to get from elevating his forelegs? – Leave your horse tied in front of your house five minutes, and he has this feet on the pavement and his hind feet in the gutter. I asked a student of horse nature why that was, and he told me it was an action perfectly compatible with the “build” of a horse. “A horse’s shoulders” he said, “are not withstanding their strength, very delicate and apt to become tired. The raising of the forefeet rests them and throws the weight on the hind legs. In the stable a horse will always kick out a hole in which to put his hind feet, and those who study the comfort of their horses always make the front part of the stall higher than the back. Besides, this has a perceptible effect on the beauty of a horse, and the prettiest shoulders and necks are always found in horses whose stalls are constructed in accordance with the animals’ instinct.” – [Exchange] LOST – anecdote The Richmond (Va.) Whig says: In conversation with a distinguished citizen of this state, who recently traveled in Europe, he remarked than one of the chief advantages which European countries possess over this, and one which impressed him more strongly than nay other, is good country roads. He said In England and Scotland, and more especially on the continent, they have splendid country roads, which have been located by the best engineering skill that could be had, and built of the most enduring materials and in the most substantial manner. The result is that while the first outlay was very considerable, it costs very little to keep them in repair, and they have delightful roads over which it is a pleasure to travel. He said the grade is very light, the roads either going through or around the hills and it is just as common there to tunnel for a country road as it is here for a railroad. With firm roads or easy grade a team of horses can easily haul three or four times as much as they can over the roads in this country, and to it in less than the time we take. He remarked that in Germany or France they hitch one horse to a vehicle upon which they take four or five passengers and dash through the country at a rate of eight or ten miles an hour with all ease. The Mont. Advertiser says: Rev. Sam Jones is giving Rome, Ga. a ten days’ revival. Why does he persistently decline all invitations to Montgomery? True, we are not like Rome, “within half mile of hell” but there are some sinners amongst us. Come down and see. Also, Mr. Rutherford B. Hays is at last an actual president, with no cloud in his title. He has been elected President of the Ohio State University at Columbus. We can at last say ‘President Hayes” without wounding our conscience and can behold the words in print without battle our eyes. HEAVY RAIN AT ASHVILLE Ashville, N. C., May 19 – The heaviest rain and hail storm ever known in this section prevailed today. Much damage was done to property in this city. The Citizen office was flooded, and that paper will not be issued tomorrow. The telegraph office in Ashville Junction was set on fire by the electric current, but the flames were extinguished before much damage had been done. The roof of D. Coper’s store was struck by lightning and the damage is considerable. The storm of Baird & Reynolds was flooded. Damage is about $5,000. It is still raining in torrents. The quickest murder trial on record occurred in Louisville last Friday. Albert Turner confessed that he had assisted in the murder of Jennie Bowman. At 12:30 o’clock he was indicted by the grand jury. At 1 o’clock he was arraigned before the court and tried. At 1 o’clock a verdict of guilty was returned, and five minutes later Turner was sentenced to be hung on the first of July. The whole business was neatly done in one hour and five minutes. – [Constitution] IN VAIN – A Doctor’s Trip To See A Dying Patient – [Anniston Hot Blast] A few days ago Dr. Battey, of Rome, was summoned to Talladega to the bedside of the wife of State Senator Cecil Brown, who was lying very low. It was an urgent case, and Dr. Battey ran through on a special, with only an engine and caboose. The distance is eighty-nine miles, and it was made in just ninety minutes. This is probably the fastest time ever made, distance considered, on nay road in the South, and it will equal any made on any of the great trunk lines of the North and West. Mrs. Brown, however, was beyond medical skill, and died one day last week. Just before dying, she called her husband to her, and in whispered tones, asked him to promise her to unite with the Methodist Church of which she had long been a devoted member. The heart-broken husband, in that solemn hour of parting, made the last promise he could to his living companion, and last Sunday he fulfilled it by taking upon himself a public union with the people of that God his dead wife had so beautifully served while on earth. 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 Rev. Mr. NORRIS and wife at the ---- this week. Dr. W. A. BROWN left Monday morning for Walker County. Sheriff PENNINGTON and Squire WALER NESMITH visited Columbus this week. Dr. EMMET MORTON and Mr. IRA --- of Caudle, spent Saturday and Sunday last in town. Mr. VAN LIVINGSTON conducted a meeting at the Methodist Church last Sabbath night. Mrs. EMILY CLIFTON, of Moscow, is visiting the family of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. SUMMERS. Messrs. M. A. COBB and WALTER NESMITHS’ picnic at Cobb’s Mill last Saturday was a success. One day lat week Mr. R. S. –KSON’S little boy was kicked by a mule which came very near killing the little fellow. Many thanks are due Mr. WALTER NESMITH for engaging a livery --- and transferring the ladies to and from the picnic. The recent hail so damaged Mr. FRANK DENMAN’S cotton that he had to plow it up and plant corn. FRANK says he is “raising corn strictly.” We herewith express our thanks and appreciation of the nice cake given to us last Saturday by Misses SARAH GUIN and HATTIE MORTON. Mr. JOE COLLINS was in town Wednesday just from his father’s office where he had been too see his father who is, we are sorry to hear feeling very low. Last Friday Mrs. JAMES MIDDLETON was hastily called to see her sister, Mrs. JERUSHA SOUTH, who lives in Fayette County. Mrs. SOUTH was stricken with paralysis and was not expected to survive the stroke. The citizens of Vernon have donated to the Tombigbee Railroad to date as follows: -- M. WIMBERLEY 500.00 ---W. L. MORTON 500.00 A. A. SUMMERS 250.00 --- PENNINGTON 100.00 ---- CLEARMAN 100.00 --- BRADLEY 100.00 --- G. C. BURNS 100.00 --- SHIELDS 100.00 --- V. RUSH 200.00 --- V. COBB 200.00 --- T. REED 50.00 TOTAL AMOUNT $2,200.00 --- MORTON (LAND- acres) 40 --- BROCK (LAND – acres) 100 Huntsville Democrat: A son of Mr. Richard Scott, was – king in a field near his father--- house. Becoming thirsty he went to a spring close at hand and lay down to drink. --- in the net of sipping the --- draught the ominous hum--- rattlesnake rang out on the --- and before the poor boy – arise to his feet eh dead--- fans of the serpent were --- in his face. Not until had risen could he tear away the venomous retile and stamp to death with his feet. After he was done he ran to his mother, a short distance away, before fainting They took the poor fellow home and sent for physicians, who came, but arrived too late to save the life of the brave boy. His death en--- eight houses after being bitten. TEN THINGS A BABY CAN DO – joke LET THE LADIES GO ARMED – [Atlanta Constitution] The New York Graphic reports an outrage at Ridley’s dry good store, of a more atrocious character than the affair at Macy’s some months ago. It seems that a respectable lady who had been shopping at Ridley’s was suddenly dragged by two male employees to a back room, where, in spit of her protestations and outcries, she was searched. Her piteous appeal to be searched by one of her own sex was ignored. The male floor-walkers crudely felt through her garments, and compelled her to unloose her corset. Finding that they were mistaken in their supposition that she was a thief the two brutes roughly hustled the hysterical woman out of the store. It is something that the lady was awarded $5,000 damages in court, but it is not enough. The insults and assaults to which respectable women are subjected in some of the New York stores continue, notwithstanding the exposures made in the newspapers and the action of the courts. Desperate cases call for desperate remedies. When ladies go shipping alone in New York, they should go armed. The shooting of a few floor-walkers would improve the morals and manners of the others. It is a terrible thing to recommend, but is there a man living who would be willing to have his wife go through the rough experience hinted at in this article? No, no. 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 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 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. 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. 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 THE SHERMAN BOOM – The Candidacy Of This Ohio Senator Already Unparallel By Quarreling Republicans REPUBLICAN NERVOUSNESS – A Way Of Accounting For It; The Republicans Admit That Blaine Is Their Strength, And Yet Fear The Democratic Administration A STALWART MAN – A Correspondent Tells About The “Threatened Physical Decay” Of The Presidents – The Poor Man’s Champion. STILL WAVING THE SHIRT – For the sake of polities the Inter-Ocean will have it that there is no “new South.” It insists that the same old customs, habits, and unanimous prevails there; newspaper discussions are not tolerated; that guns are still used to still the voice of political dissent; hatred of new ideas and new industries still prevail. There may be some truth in what the Inter—Ocean says, but not much. Every newspaper reader in the country knows the South has for years been bidding for new industries and new ideas, and that newspaper discussions are carried on and tolerated there the same as here. If there is no new South, then the people of the North and the people of the South have been terribly deceived by the process of the two sections of the Nation. The Leader is inclined to the opinion that the Inter-Ocean deceiving the constituency by unqualified falsehoods. It is waving the bloody shirt.–[Des Moines Leader] NOT THEIR SPOKEMAN Senator Edmund goes quite beyond his prerogative when he assumes to speak for the Republicans who voted for Mr. Cleveland in 1881 and says that “as between two evils” they would vote for him again. They would vote for him again, certainly, as against Mr. Blaine or any other unworthy Republican, but not at all in the spirit of men making a choice of evils. Mr. Edmunds should remember that while it is understood that he quite agreed with the Mugwumps in their estimate of the republican candidate in 1881, his failure to exercise the right of private judgment at the polls deprives him of the privilege of becoming the spokesman of those men of equal honesty and greater courage who voted for Mr. Cleveland. – [N. Y. Times] It was high time for Mr. Blaine to make a trip out West if he hopes to save any remains of the Blaine boom. We have already quoted the declaration of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat that the Republicans party “certainly can not’ carry the election n of 1888 if it re-nominated the candidate of 881, and the earnest protests against that folly of such other good republican paper as the Milwaukee Sentinel in Wisconsin, the Burlington Hawkeye and the Council Bluffs Nonpareil Iowa. – [ N. Y. 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