Lamar County AlArchives News.....Vernon Courier July 22, 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 18, 2007, 10:12 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History July 22, 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, JULY 22 , 1887 Vol. II., No. 7 Subscription $1.50 Per Year PAGE 1 A LAMENT – Poem A SUN CLUSTER - ---tions Concerning a Wonderful Phenomenon A SENSIBLE WOMAN – The Readiness With Which She Understood A Financial Object Lesson An article on gingerbread says that it has been made since the fourteenth century. We have certainly seen some that we thought might have been. – [New Haven News] PITH AND POINT – jokes HAD BEEN WARNED – A Missourian Who Was Not To Be Swindled By Chicago Sharpers – anecdote MODERN JERUSALEM – Views From Mount Olivet And A Hilltop On The Bethlehem Roads OFFICIAL WISDOM – A Bit Of Red-Tapeism Which Deprives England Of Its Best Horses A RICH WOMAN’S WHIM VICTORY AND VICTORIA – A Comparison Between Nelson’s Flagship And A Modern Iron-Clad WISE WORDS ABOUT WOMEN PAGE 2 THE COURIER ALEX A. WALL, Editor and Proprietor Vernon, Alabama Friday, July 22, 1887 The annual conference of the Y. M. C. Association of the State of Alabama meets at Decatur today. “At the Mercy of Tiberine” is the title of a new novel by Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson, (nee Evans). It is in the hands of the printer and will be issued in September. THE CHEROKEE DOG LAW The Centre Advertiser says: The dog law gives universal dissatisfaction. Court is in session and we have heard expressions from all parts of the county condemning the law in unmeasured terms. In some portions of the county indignation meetings have been held in which they denounce the law and everybody connected with it. The Commissioner of Agriculture of the state, Capt. R. F. Kolb, has appointed the following delegates from the counties named to the Interstate Convention of Farmers, to e held in Atlanta, Ga., commencing Aug 19, 1887; Franklin, GEO. C. ALMON; Marion, JASPER T. GREEN; Winston, R. B. SHAW; Lamar, F. M. RICHARDS; Fayette, THOS. P. MCCONELL; Walker, S. M. GUNTER. The Adv. says: Messrs. Bill Fontain & Co., of St. Louis, write as follows: Since our last circular, crop reports have continued unusually favorable, causing a serious decline in contracts for next crop. The impression is that the south are the sellers, and they may yet be too sanguine. New York has heretofore set her traps for them like Senator Jones’ old colored friend Zeke, who said: “I nose I gwine catch dem wile hogs, kase I sot dat trap a bole ends am bound to catch em gqine an coming.” The crop is not safe yet, but promising. CLEVELAND AND A SECOND TERM GEORGIA CONVICTS Atlanta, Ga., July 9 – The convict question in Georgia is again to the force, and sensational developments are expected at any moment. It is now the general opinion that the lease system will be abolished and the convicts all put to work on the public roads. The abuse of the system have justified the Rev. Dr. Felton’s seeping denunciation. Some of the convicts have been inhumanly treated. One man who lost his shoes was made to walk barefooted over hot bricks and was afterward beaten with a leather trace strap because he complained of the keeper’s cruelty. In one instance the convicts were frozen so badly that some of them died and died and others lost the use of limbs. Badly cooked rations, spoiled meat, unclean and horribly ventilated quarters made the death rate appallingly high at times. Epidemics were, of course, by no means uncommon. Complaint was followed by additional cruel treatment. CONVICTS IN MISSISSIPPI - [Age, 12th inst.] The Grand Jury of Hinds County, Miss., has sent its report to Hon. J. T. Wharton, judge of the First District of that state. It contains an expose of negligence, cruelty, and inhumanity on the part of the penitentiary officials which is a dishonor to the state, and which can only be compared to the horrors of the Calcutta black hole. The jury found twenty six inmates in the hospital of the penitentiary, many of them with consumption and incurable disease, and all bearing on their persons marks of the most inhuman and brutal treatment. “Most of them,” the report continues, “have their backs cut in great whales, scars and blisters; some with the skin peeling off in pieces as the result of severe beatings. Their feet and hands in some instances show signs of frost bite, and all of them with the stamp of manhood almost blotted out of their faces, which show that they have been treated more cruelly and actually than a nation of savages ought to permit inflicted on its convicts. They are lying there dying, some of them on bare boards, so poor and emaciated that their bones almost come through their skin, many complaining for the want of food. We believe they are fed improperly. Sick people ought to have light diet and those poor creatures get their beef, water, and meal for soup, as we are informed, with coarse meat and cabbage, such diet as they cannot eat; one poor fellow burst out crying, and said he was literally staving to death. We actually saw live vermin crawling over their faces and the little bedding and clothing they have is in tatter and stiff with filth. We call the attention of the Board of Control to this matter; but under the law we know they can do but little to remedy those evils. We believe they will do the best they can. We are not to be understood as condemning the lessees in person for these things, but we do inveigh against the principle and system of this great state taking a poor creature’s liberty, and turning him over to one whose interest it to coin this blood into money. As a fair sample of this system, on the 6th day of January, 1887, 204 convicts were leased to McDonald up to June 6, 1887, and during this six months, twenty died, nineteen were discharged and escaped, and twenty–three returned to the walls disabled and sick, many of whom have died since. God will never smile upon a state that treats its convicts as Mississippi does.” In the last decades of the nineteenth century, and in a community which lays claim to progressive ideas regarding the amelioration of the human race such a state of affair calls for a swift and speedy remedy. A convict is a man for that. The privation of his liberty and the compulsion to perform manual laborer does not deprive him of the requisites and privileges which are necessary to health, cleanliness and sustenance. Truly does the foreman, Mr. J. M. Gray, remark: “God will never smile upon a state that treats its convicts as Mississippi does.” Mississippi ought to follow the example of Alabama in requiring state inspection of her convicts. Such a rigid inspection as is required in this state would do a vast deal to ameliorate the condition of her convicts in fact, we believe Alabama convicts are treated as humanely as any in the United States. FEEDING PRISONERS IN JAIL THE ENGLISHMAN’S BATH – A DOCTOR’S CANDID OPINION OF THE BRITISH COLD WATER CRANK TWO WONDERFUL INVENTIONS – [Advertiser] Two machines of some importance in writing and speaking are about to come before the public. One is the graphophona, a machine which serves as an amanuensis. A corporation for its manufacture has been organized under the laws of West Virginia, which a designed to please corporations and give revenge to the state. Gardner G. Hubbard is one of the directors. As till more important perfection recently attained is that of Prof. Elisha Gray’s “telantograh” a telegraphic apparatus which transmits the handwriting or any other picture tracing upon paper any distance. This will be highly valued by businessmen and bankers. The valuable feature of the invention is the plate on which is laid the paper written only the sender. A pencil or any sharp object may be used to write with and the receiving machine traces the message with a pencil or anything capable of marking, reproducing the form of the message precisely. Thus the sending operator will merely write the message on paper, and when he has finished it will have been finished at the other end of the circuit. COMING ELECTIONS MISCELLANEOUS Live within your income; be ever saving; avoid as much as possible either borrowing or lending. Adv: Floyd county, Georgia, in which is Rome, one of the most prosperous cites in the state, had a lively prohibition campaign which closed last Saturday. The vote stood 1528 for and 908 against prohibition. The city of Rome itself gave 167 majority against the sale of liquor. Ashville, N. C. July 11 – Miss Viola meets, the daughter of a prominent citizen of Graham county, was to have been married on Sunday the 3rd inst. to John Ammens of the same county. The match was opposed by the father of Miss Meets, who armed himself on the day of the proposed wedding and swore he would kill Ammens if he appeared on his premises. The daughter said she preferred to marry with her father’s consent, but would marry Ammens that day or die. The father violently refusing she steepened into an adjoining room. The father went into the room shortly afterwards, and the daughter was a corpse. In her hand was a vial labeled stichnine. Mont. Advertiser: Mr. B. Baldwin, of Birmingham, reached the city last night, and is stopping at the Exchange hotel. His appearance has attracted considerable attention, and his case is truly a remarkable one. It will be remembered that Mr. Baldwin happened to a serous accident in Birmingham last spring. He was foreman of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad yard at that time, and the accident befell him on the 17th of March. He fell from a switch engine and had his neck broken, or seriously sprained. Three ribs and his shoulder were also broken. He says he was stone blind for fourteen days after he was hurt, and insist that his neck was broken by the fall. He was in bed seventy-two days. He has his neck strapped and bandaged, and keeps it one position, never turning it one side or the other. He came on business and will return to Birmingham tonight. Galveston, July 14 – A dispatch from Wellborn, to the News, says: Last evening while W. E. Farquhar and Dr. J. Eves were jointly discussing the prohibition amendment, Farquhar, who had concluded his argument, became enraged at the remarks of Dr. Eves, who favored it, and fired at this with a Ballard rifle. The ball missed its mark and lodged in the wall just behind the speaker’s head. Dr. Eves was not disconcerted by his opponent’s attempt to take his life and concluded his speech amid prolonged applause. A WIDOW LADY ARRESTED FOR MURDER Special to the Advertiser Columbus, Miss., June 15 – Quite a sensation was caused here this evening by the arrest upon the charge of murder of Mrs. L. WEST, a widow lady who has lived her the greatest part of the time for years. The charge comes from Fayette Court House, ala, where she lived a part of this and lat year with her married daughter and is that she murdered her daughter’s baby. She did not seem surprised when arrested and said she was expecting something of the kind. She says there is nothing in it and that nothing can be proven against her. Her son-in-law, JOHN W. MILES, lives at Fayette Court House and his wife, who has left him, has for months lived with her mother, who has been keeping a boarding house here. She will be taken to Fayette tomorrow. 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 Remember – the price of the Courier is only one dollar a year; even though it appears $1.50 on the outside. This is a mistake made by our publishing house, and will be corrected as soon as possible. Mr. J. R. GUIN, of Wayside, in town first part of the week. Miss ELISA MORTON has resumed --- school near Mr. SIM THOMAS’S ---. Mr. and Mrs. PEARSON, of Bates--- Panola County, Miss., was at the hotel Monday and Tuesday. ---- LAFAYETTE PENNINGTON con--- the singing at the Methodist Church last Tuesday night.. Mrs. Dr. R. L. BRADLEY, and her --- GILBERT WIMBERLEY, visited the city of Columbus last week. Mrs. J. R. BLACK left yesterday morning for Kennedy, whither she will join her husband who is ---ing. Miss MAGGIE MORTON is teaching --- ADEENE COBB, and her swee---sister CLAUDE, music on the -----. Mrs. ELVIRIA MARCHBANK, of Col----, is visiting the family of --- D. J. LACY, five miles south of Vernon. Judge COBB visited the thriving town of Fern bank last Sunday. On Monday he visited the ---erous little town of Kennedy. The fall term of the school at this place will open the first Monday in October. Prof. W. K. BROWN, Principal. Our friend and neighbor, OSCAR ---- has our thanks for the ½ of very fine fresh watermelon. It was raised in his garden. Capt. J. D.MCCLUSKEY, a prominent attorney of Vernon, Lamar County, was in Jasper, Monday and Tuesday on professional business. – [Jasper Eagle] Mr. J. F. COLLINS, a proficient --- gave us a call Wednesday. Mr. COLLINS will perhaps bid for the --- to build the Baptist Church -----. A very large concourse of people were at the Baptist church last Sabbath night to hear Revs. AARON PENNINGTON and DYER preach. To the disappointment of the multitude the gentlemen did not appear. BROWN MORTON had on a new --- last Tuesday evening, and when --- about it, he said “It kinder ---- ped him;” although it looked – it was “big” enough for --- “biggest” man in the county. Mr. R. D. RECTOR, of the firm of --- & DONOGHUE, Columbus, has been on a visit to his family this week. Our farmers, when in Columbus will find it greatly to their benefit to give Dave a call. Sheriff PENNINGTON has put his --- in better repair than ever. He certainly a boss overseer, as all --- should be and keep their --- well worked. Good roads speak well for any community. Miss MEDI PENNINGTON, and her --- sister, ESTHER, was the guests of Miss ADA WIMBERLEY to tea last Sabbath. Miss NEDIE informed us that the school which she attends has ---46 pupils. A large school and, Miss ALICE BLACKMAN is the teacher. Unfortunately for Messrs. WALTER NESMITH and MURRAY COBB, as they were returning from Fayette Court House last Monday their horse became unmanageable and ran away crushing up the buggy. Fortunately the young men were not hurt. A colored child four or five months old was suffocated to death last Tuesday on Sheriff Pennington’s ----antation. Its mother was away from home washing and left several children to watch the baby, they covered it up head and ears with a ---quilt causing death. “Is there not a cause?” This was the text used at the Baptist Church last Sunday by Rev. Mr. ---. He discussed the text well and to the pleasure of all. Rev. T. W. SPRINGFIELD followed him with a few short and interesting remarks on the same subject. It is desired that everybody meet Tuesday at the Methodist Church to --- in cleaning off, and around the church yard. Let’s all go and help beautify the place of divine worship. Tuesday evening, Messrs. MURRAY COBB, WALTER NESMITH, BROWN MORTON, and WILLIE SUMMERS, took quite – lot of lemons up to the new residence lace of Esq. ROBT. BRADLEY’S --- with the ever kind host and hostess, and their interesting daughters. The gallant young men had a real lemonade picnic made with the ice cold water drawn 48 feet from the earth. Mr. EDDIE MORTON has had an addition built to his already convenient mansion. A few pair ladies and gen’ts low-quarters shoes at reduced prices. G. W. RUSH & Co. We notice with pleasure that Mrs. NANNIE DENMAN who has been quite sick for some time past, is able to take an occasional buggy ride in the afternoon. We sincerely hope she may soon be quite will again. The Family Education. Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary is a great family educator, and no family of children ought to be brought up without having ready access to this grand volume. It will answer hundreds of questions to the wide-awake child. It is an every –present and reliable schoolmaster to the whole family. A glance at the new catalogue of Buena Vista Normal College convinces the reader that education has been put with in the reach of all who want it. Those men at Buena Vista, by “eternal vigilance” have established a school second to none in Miss. The whole institution is splendidly organized for work. All the yon ladies board with one of the principals whose wife gives her personal attention to all. The young men board at another place, and thereby remove the objection to mixed schools. NOTICE TO CARPENTERS Bids will be received at the office of W. G. MIDDLETON until 12 o’clock Monday the 25th day of July ’87, for the framing, pillaring, covering, weatherboarding, flooring and putting in sash and hanging doors in a Baptist Church in the town of Vernon. The building to be 45 x 39 ft., 15 ft. high; with 15 rock pillars, 5 on each side and in center; 10 windows, 8 on sides and two at back and double door in front. For further particulars call on any of the unsdersigned committee. S. F. PENNINGTON J. D. MCCLUSKEY E. W. BROCK W. G. MIDLETON, Building Committee, July 19, 1887 G. W. RUSH & Co. to the front in new goods, which they will be receiving within the next few days. It’s a fact they do sell goods cheap. The Ministers and Delegates attending the District Conference will on arriving in town call at the office of Drs. MORTON & BRO and be assigned to their respective homes. Jasper, Hamilton, Double Spring and Fayette papers please copy, If you want corn, meal, or flour call on G. W. RUSH & Co. ELECTION OF COTTON WEIGHER AT KENNEDY, ALA. We, the undersigned five merchants and cotton buyers of Kennedy, Ala, eight farmers from different sections, met a Kennedy, Ala., on July first to elect a cotton weigher for the coming season of 1887 & 1888. The bids were all carefully read, and received, Mr. A. T. RUSHING received ten out of thirteen votes, and by motion the vote was made unanimous and he was declared elected. The weigher will be sworn by the Justice of the Peace, and required to give bond to faithfully discharge his duty and give correct weights, also be responsible to the Farmer and Merchant for any mistake that many occur through his carelessness. He will also be required to get a scaled weight from the Judge of Probate and keep it always on hand by his scales, so any one can if they desire, test the scales before weighing their cotton, and should any object to the regular sworn weigher they can sell in any one they wish to weigh for them. But the buyer will in no case pay any one for weighing except the regular sworn weigher, under a forfeit of One Hundred Dollars to said weigher, and the buyer will not buy cotton from nay one until it is laid down at the Depot Platform. In electing Mr. RUSHING, we think we have chosen a man who will honestly and faithfully discharge his duty as a public weigher, and we submit the above report to all parties tributary to this point and hope they will accept it as coming from a committee who has honestly discharged their duty as servants of all who may sell o buy cotton at Kennedy. W. H. SMOTHERS J. A. SHELTON D. J. HOLLINGSOWRTH A. L. WALKER ELIJAH HOWELL GRIFFIN TRULL G. W. ALLEN J. T. YERBY J. S. PHILLIPS M. H. HODGE W. H. KENNEDY S. E. WEIR Committee, July 12, 1887 STOCK HOLDERS MEETING Notice is hereby given to the stockholders of the Tombigbee Railroad Company to meet at the Company’s Alabama Office in the town of Fayette C. House on Tuesday the 16th day of August next, to organize by the election of Directors for said Company. Said Directors to at once elect from their own number offices of said company according to by-laws. B. A. VAUGHN J. O. BANKS C. A. JOHNSTON, J. E. LEIGH W. H. SIMS Incorporators, Vernon, Ala. July 15, 1887 To GARLAND CASH, WESLEY CASH, and family, You are hereby notified not to trespass by cutting or removing any timber, or walking on the following described premises, to wit: The E ½ of NW ½, and W ½ of NE ¼, all in Section 23, Township 17, Range 15 said land lying in the county of Lamar and State of Alabama. Also north of the Georgia Pacific Rail Road. W. C. WILLIAMS, Millport, June 29, 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. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land office at Montgomery, Ala, June 6th, 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, Ala, on July 21, 1887, viz: HENRY W. MILLER, Homestead 12742 for the NW ¼ NW ½ Sec 14 T 17 S R 15 W. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: A. P. ODOM, W. F. PRATER, PRESTON MCDANIEL, and TOM MORDECAI, all of Millport, Ala,. J. C. HARRIS, Register 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. SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of a Fieri Faclas issued out of the Clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, and sate of Alabama, and to me directed, whereby I am commanded to make the amount of a certain judgment recently obtained in favor of A. A. SUMMERS for $211.18 against T. J. SPRINGFIELD, out of the goods, chattels, lands, and tenements of the said T. J. SPRINGFIELD. I have levied out the following property, to-wit: Two acres more or less of land lying and being in E ½ of NE ¼ of NW ¼, Sec 13 T 12 R 16, bounded as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a certain corner stake north of the Aberdeen and Tuscumbia road, established by Wax & Hamilton. Thence west along the north boundary line 123 yds., thence south 129 degrees, east 82 ½ yds, thence south 41 degrees, 165 ¼ yds, intersecting the conditional line established by Wax & Hamilton, thence north to beginning point. I therefore, according to said command, I shall expose for sale, for cash, at Public auction, all the right, title, and interest of the above-named T. J. SPRINGFIELD, in and to the above described property, on Monday the 1st day of August, 1887 during the legal hours of sale, at the Court House door in said county, in the town of Vernon. S. F. PENNINGTON, Sheriff Lamar County TAX NOTICE The State of Alabama, Lamar CO., Probate Court, July 2nd 1887 The Tax Collector of said county this day filed with me application for an order of sale for the following land to wit: W ½ of NE ½, and E ½ of NW 11/2, Sec 5, T 17 R 15, for the taxes, penalties, an cost for the year 1886. Assessed against BARKSDALE, State Tax 91 cents, fee 50 cents, Printers free $2.00. Total $4.32. This is to notify said BARKSDALE and all others interested to appear before said Probate Court to be held at the Court House for said county on the 4th day of August next and show cause why an order shall not be made for the sale of the same, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to pay said taxes penalties, and cost. ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate P 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. 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. E. B. ATKINS, Fernbank Ala. (picture of a cask of whiskey) 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. M. B. PITTS 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 will sell goods very low. 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. 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 groceries at rock bottom figures. West side Court square. 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. 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 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 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. 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. 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 Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary Ad for Chicago Scales PAGE 4 FOREIGN GOSSIP • The Emperor of Japan has been making a tour of the chief cities of his kingdom. • The palace of the Mikado has been lighted for some time by electricity, and the Edison Company has closed a contract to illuminate the city of Tokio. • The merchants of China are reported to be well satisfied with last year’s business. Dealers in tea, silk and white manufacturers have all made money. – [N. O. Times-Democrat] • A tablet commemorating the fact that Queen Victoria is of Huguenot descent, the Queen of George el. Having been the granddaughter of a French Protestant, has been placed in the Huguenot chapel in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral. • According to the Diario Romano it is now precisely 2641 years since Mr. Romulus, C. E. first laid out the streets and lots of Rome, and the even is still celebrated in the Eternal City by the illumination of the coliseum and the Forum, and by banquets at which the memory of the distinguished citizen is appropriately disposed of in silence. – [N. Y. Sun] • Lord Clifford, an ex-judge of the Court of Sessions, Edinburgh, who died recently, has bequeathed 80000 to found National Theology lectureships at the four Scottish universities. Edinburgh gets 25,0000 Glasgow, and Aberdeen, 20,000 and St. Andrews, 15,000. – [N. Y. Witness] • Vaccination is to be enforced among all the workmen employed on the coming Paris Exhibition. Each man will be vaccinated as soon as engaged, and the government will not only pay for the necessary medical treatment, but will continue the man’s wages should his arm become bad and prevent him from working. • Viscount de Penaudiere, a journalist Frenchman claims to have papers in his possession in the handwriting of Napoleon III, showing that the emperor contemplated marring the Prince imperial t tan Orleans princes, thus settling the French succession in the same way that the English concluded the War of the Roses. – [Boston Budget] • Markenkirchen, a little town in Saxony, is the place where musical instruments are made, more especially violins, to which latter it owes the name of “Saxon Cremona.” Its manufactures comprise nearly the whole field of instruments, such as guitars, flutes, clarinets (in brass and German silver), accordions, conceinas, zithers, bass viola, violoncellos – [Philadelphia Press] • Pope Leo’s famous collection of laces has received an important addition. Some wealthy Catholics at Venice have presented to him a set of lace which they have caused to be executed at the late schools of Burano. the design is copied from the famous Roszzonoleo, act, which was made for Clement XIII by the Venetian nuns, and which now forms part of the treasury of the House of Savoy and its occasionally worn by Queen Margaret – [Chicago Herald] • Royal yachts cost high in England. The original cost of the Victoria and Albert was bout 136,000, and she has since had spent on her over 300,000. The Osborne’s original cost was about 106,000 and she has had about 112,000 expended on her. The Alberta’s original cost was 27,000, with a subsequent expenditure of 68,000. The Elfin’s originals cost was 6,000, the subsequent expenditure being over 40,000. Besides these interesting items, the annual pay of the officers and crews of the royal yachts is close upon 50,000. – [N. Y. Sun] GERMAN OFFICERS – The Social Privileges Enjoyed By The Commissioned Portion Of The Army ANIMAL WORSHIP IN CHINA Captain Johnson Sides, an intelligent Piute Indian, says that the idea prevalent among the whites that the Piutes are gradually diminishing in numbers is incorrect. The census returns of 1880 shows that there were at that time only 3,700 but he says many of them were not counted, and that there were fully 8,000. He estimates the present number of the tribe at fully 9,000, and probably 9,500 – [N. Y. Sun] Small jokes and advertisement File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/newspapers/vernonco1539gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 36.7 Kb