Marion County AlArchives News.....GAZETTE APPEAL September 3, 1897 ************************************************ 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 June 4, 2010, 7:26 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History September 3, 1897 Microfilm Ref Call #559 Microfilm Order #M1992.0966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE GAZETTE-APPEAL Vol. II GUIN, ALA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1897 NO. 26 PAGE 1 At last Great Britain has agreed to talk over the question of the seal fisheries. Possibly some understanding may yet be reached before the fur seal becomes extinct. The latest discovery of Andree’s balloon turns out to be the body of a whale. It is much to be feared that Andree will never be heard from again. He took desperate chances, and will probably pay the penalty of his folly. Sam Jones says there will be no Democrats or Republicans in heaven. He thinks the population will consist exclusively of Prohibitionists. If this be so, it shows that while the Prohibs cannot be elected to much on this earth, their hopes for the next world will end in “glad fruition” The suicidal mania is upon us. The chief cause for this shocking crime appears to be a growing inability to stand diversity. The times are hard and the tense pressure of modern life has undermined, in many cases, the strength that naturally belongs to a healthy mind an d character. So it is that men and women find it easier to end the struggle by a plunge in the river, or a bullet, or a dose of paris green or prussic acid, than to continue the fight against what seems to be hopeless odds. It is to be hoped that better economic conditions and times will remove the temptation to suicide the increase of which is both sad and alarming. WM. E. EDDY, of New York City – experiments in atmospheric electricity - ….Eddy believes that with kite-supported wires messages can be sent from New York to Chicago by means of three of four intermediate kite stations projecting wires to a height to 1500 or 2000 feet. The harvesting of the largest wheat crop ever raised in this country is an immediate prospect, The cotton and corn corps will probably surpass anything realized by American agriculturist as for nearly a decade…… GENERAL NEWS Window glass has gone up 7 percent to the public. Knoxville will have a new fire alarm apparatus. Salvador has been forced by the slump in silver to adopt a gold standard. Col. Pando, of Bolivia, with a force of 600 men, has invaded the Peruvian province of Sandia. The Masonic temple at Rome, Ga. suffered a loss of $8000 by fire, caused by an electric wire. The town site at Damascus, Va. was sold under court decree for $4,000, bondholders bidding it in. The little Flat Creek Baptist Church, near Knoxville will this week celebrate its hundredth anniversary. The president has appointed Wm. B. Holloway, of Indiana, to be Consul General at St. Petersburg Russia the commission being dated August 21. At Fayetteville, W. Va. Jerry Brown was hanged for an assault committed on Mrs. Redford last February. Two thousand people witnessed the execution. ------ At St. Louis the entire Chinese colony was raided by the Federal authorities, who took 283 of the Celestials to the United States District court, where they were examined as to their right to stay in this country. Fourteen will be sent to San Francisco and deported, under the Geary exclusion act. Last Wednesday afternoon, with a military parade and Masonic ceremonies, Pickett camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Richmond, Va. laid the cornerstone of the cottage they propose to erect at Lee Camp Soldier’s home. Gov. O’Farrall was the orator of the occasion. His oration was devoted principally to war history. SPAIN’S POLICY – The New Prime Minister Will Follow Canovas’ Footsteps Senator Sagasta, The Liberal Leader Says The Situation Is Growing Worse In Cuba, And Has Made A Fresh Declaration On The Political Situation BATTLE WITH DESPERADOES – Sheriff Pritchard Meets Death in the Woods – A special from Cloudland, N. C. says that Sheriff Pritchard, of Mitchell County, a brother of US Senator Pritchard, was killed in a battle with desperadoes near there Friday. Pritchard had a warrant for the arrest of George K. Garland and a fellow named Monroe, who are known as desperate characters…………… CHASED BY DETECTIVES – An Iowa Murderer Captured in the Klondyke Region – (Wm Smith} NEWLY ELECTED GRAND ARMY OFFICERS PEARL DIGGING – Some Are Found That Sell Readily For Twenty-Five Dollars – If one were to descend White River from a point a few miles above Devall’s Bluff, Ark. Not knowing the pursuit of the many men and boys lining the banks on either side, his first impulse would be that he had found a land of sun worshipers. These men and boys, in strange attire, sometimes nude, clasp their hands above their head for a moment as uttering an incantation, then a leap head first and a pair of confident feet impart the last goodbye to a frowning world as they pass down the bed for ht river. May be the stranger will begin to bubble out inquirers as the bubbles begin to mark the place where the worshiper last saw the light, but soon the surface waters are again in turmoil and two hands hold high the treasures found on his aquesious excursion. This is getting to be quite an industry, as it is so newly discovered, that so many valuable peals are stored in the shells of the silent little fish which are found in numerous beds all around the river……. THE AMERICAN PARTY – Launched At St. Louis By 40 Delegates Representing 9 States SOUTHERN IRRIGATION CONGRESS FOREIGN STEAMSHIP LINE It has been definitely settled that the Diedrichsen line will run regular steamers between Galveston, Tex. and Hamburg, Anthwerp, and Amsterdam this season, with sailings from each side every three weeks. The line will b composed of the steamships Olindo (now en route from Hamburg to Galveston), Luenberg, and Curitzba. IMPROVING – Is The General Trade Situation As Reported By Bradstreets – Iron And Cotton Advancing MORMON ELDERS – Will Go Through Ala., Ga., and S. C. Twenty-four Mormon Elders arrived at Chattanooga last week from Utah and registered at headquarters in that city. They are to be distributed at once throughout Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. There have been more than 200 of these elders sent south this year so far. They say that they are being received with better grace than they used to be, and that the faith is growing in the territory mentioned SECRETARY WILSON COMING SOUTH PAGE 2 THE GAZETTE-APPEAL W. T. MORGAN, Editor and Proprietor We will be glad to receive short communications from the different towns in our county. Write on one side of paper only, and please write with a pen. Be sure to sign your name to all communications, and get them in by Tuesday evening. TIME TABLE. Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham R. R. No. 1 East 12:38 p.m. No. 2 West 8:20 p.m. No. 3 East 2:44 a.m. No. 4 West 1:48 a.m. DIRECTORY MASONIC LODGE No. 478 – WATSON BROWN, W. M., JOHN W. INGLE, S. W.; M. T. AKERS, Treas.; J. B. RILEY, Secy. Mayor – J. T. CARPENTER Marshal – J. T. WHITE Aldermen – S. J. BAIRD, J. W. WILDES, J. J. POPE, E. W. BROCK, J. D. WESTBROOK. CHURCHES METHODIST – Services every third Sunday at night, fourth Sunday at 11 am Rev. D. W. WARD, Pastor. Sunday School every Sunday at 3 ½ p.m. Prof. J. T. HUFFATUTTLER, Superintendent BAPTIST – Services first and third Sundays. Sunday School every Sunday morning. CHRISTIAN – Services every second Sunday 11 a.m. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. S. J. BAIRD made a business trip to Aberdeen Miss on Tuesday. Our office had a very pleasant visit on Tuesday by Mr. A. M. SHAW of Birmingham. (PAGE TORN) Editor WILSON of Hamilton passed through town Monday en route to Mississippi where he goes to visit friends and relatives. Quite a number of our people attended preaching at Beaverton Sunday. Dr. SPRINGFIELD preached an able sermon. Mr. JOHN WHITE, who has been spending a while with relatives left Monday for Birmingham. Every day this week we have added new subscribers to our list. Was yours one? If no, why not? Master JOHNNIE and little Miss MARY HENDON are visiting in the country this week. A great many of our citizens are nursing sore arms from being recently vaccinated. News has just reached this office that Winfield had quite a blow on Wednesday. No one hurt so we are informed. Messrs. ED MALLOY, of Sulligent, and JAMES MILLER of Beaverton were in the city Wednesday. Attorney DAVIS of Hamilton passed through town Friday. Mr. J. A. SMITH attended court at Vernon last week. Prof. A. W. TATE and family of Hamilton passed through town on Wednesday en route to Sulligent, where they make their future home. Mr. TATE takes charge of the Sulligent Academy, which we are sure will be quite successful under his able management. Ad for McElree’s Wine of Cardui Ad for Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root – the great kidney remedy New model Crandall typewriter (picture of typewriter) – only 28 key characters. Writing in plain sight alignment can’t change. Most simple, durable and perfect Typewriter extant. Lowest Factory price $50. Ad for Ariel Cycle for Men and the Titania for ladies – bicycles (picture of bicycle) Talk is cheap. Some people do nothing but talk. I do not talk myself, but prefer to let my customers talk for me. Buy your dry goods, boots, shoes, clothing, dress goods or fancy or staple groceries, tobacco, snuff, or in fact anything you may need from me. Then you will be willing to talk for me. S. J. BAIRD. Spring has come. Gentle Annie so has my spring stock go goods. They are fresh, good, cheap. Give me a Call. I can please you. W. R. BRADLEY W. L. MAY Physician and Surgeon, Guin, Ala calls promptly attended to day or night. Men of Good Judgment are taking advantage of our good goods at the low prices we offer them. We don’t claim to sell the cheapest in the city, but I do sell as cheap. Quality of goods considered. E. W. BROCK L. D. LITTLETON carries a full stock of dry goods, shoes, hats, and all kinds fo fine notions also a full line of all kinds of staple and fancy groceries at prices to suit the times. Get my prices before buying elsewhere. I can please you. Guin and Sulligent. P. B. PETERMAN, Guin, Ala. Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry, spectacles and silverware, watches and jewelry repaired on short notice. Ad for Confederate Veteran – Nashville, Tenn. Ad for a Piano sent on Trial Ad for The State Normal College – Florence Ala Ad for Parry Mfgs. Co. – (picture of wagon) Ad for Book abou Sam Jones (woodcut of Sam Jones) Ad for No. 120 Top Buggy – (picture of buggy) PAGE 3 THE GAZETTE – APPEAL W. T. MORGAN, Editor and Publisher Entered at post office at Guin, Ala – A second-class matter Subscription rates One year 75 c Six months 50 c Three months 25 c Guin, Ala. Sept 3, 1897 The South is richer in natural resources than men have yet realized. She has wealth of sun and oil, of fruit and forest and mineral, and it is only necessary that her tremendous energies shall be concentrated and directed to the development of her natural wealth to astonish the civilized world. Capital will go with security as a condition precedent where ever it shall find the riches reward; and he capital is satisfied with the prospect in the south as made manifest by the recent manufacturing plants from their old fields in the north to newer and richer fields in the south. Wealth and population will follow them, and it is no wild freak of fancy that foresees the time when the relative strength of the north and the south in men and money shall be materially changed; when the furnace fires of Alabama and Georgia shall become the torches of industrial victory and the spindles of South Carolina and Mississippi shall hum their song of joy for the southern resurrection – [Wisconsin Press] Ad for a Piano sent on trial STATE NEWS Blount County will work her convicts on the public roads Miss Annie Taylor, of New York has been elected present of Columbia College at Bangor. Black rust is playing havoc with cotton in Butler County. Cotton is going into Uniontown at a rapid rate for the last few days. The taxes of Crenshaw County this year have been increased 33 percent. Seven candidates are already in the field for Probate Judge Cullman County. David Freeman, a 5-year old boy was trampled to death by hogs in Blount county, which he was about to feed with peaches he had in his pockets. The coal mines in Alabama are on the biggest boom in their history, every mine in the state is running six days in the week and many of them at nights as well. Alex Smith, a prominent Lawrence County citizen, was killed by his horse falling with him and rolling into a ditch upon him. Anniston Pipe Plant was burned Sunday morning. Loss $100,000 fully covered by insurance. Six hundred men thrown out of work. A curiosity at Selma is a rooster, which is setting on a nest of eggs and industriously as nay hen could possible perform the duty. The Draper family held a reunion at the old homestead near Oxford. There were thirty-two of the family present. Uncle Jimmy Ellenburg, aged 100 years and 10 months – having been born in October 1788 – died at the county pauper farm near Centre. Some one fired the city prison at Gadsden, but the flames were extinguished shean of serious damage and the prisoners removed to the county jail. Tax Collector Lott, of Mobile County, has been suspended from office by the governor for not settling his shortage, which it is said may reach $10,000. he has been tax collector for twenty-five years. Francis B. Loyd, commonly known as “Rufus Sanders” was shot to death in Butler county last week by John Gafford. A political feud is said to be the cause of the trouble. Gafford surrendered. GENERAL NEWS There is great excitement over the discovery of pearls in Ark. A discovery has just been made at Bisters Island, twenty miles above Paducah Ky on the Ohio River, of flat boats supposed to have been buried a century. Rev. H. H. Burgerine, aged 60 a highly respected Methodist minister of Huling, W. Va. was stoned to death because he was unable to pay a bill to Coleman Pitzer, a day laborer. Pitzer and his were jailed for the crime. The Peruvian government has ordered its postage stamps made in the United States. The first order for 1,000,000 five-cent stamps, has been given to the American Bank Note Co, and another for 2,000,000 stamps of other denominations will follow. The State Farmer’s Alliance of Texas, which was in session at Dallas for three days seceded from the national organization by an overwhelming majority. The state alliance also adopted the proposition to establish co- operative branches among the members. The commissioners of pensions recently stated that the pension list was increased by old soldiers marrying young wives and that he hoped that Congress would pass a law to prevent pensions from being given to widows of soldiers of the last war who married the soldiers in the future. ----------- PROGRAM OF MARION COUNTY TEACHERS INSTITUTE to be held Sept 17 -18, 1897, at Mt. Olive FRIDAY MORNING, 9 O’CLOCK Devotional Exercises Address of Welcome – Rev. W. A. NELSON Response – W. P. LETSON Educational Talk – J. E. ALEXANDER General Discussion - Institute and citizens Writing, Hard to Teach – J. A. WATES, W. A. BISHOP NOON RECESS 1 PM Tact of the Teacher – M. C. PEARCE Discussion – D. D. WRIGHT Methods in Language – P. H. MOORE Discussion – A. R. MAYS Relation of Parents and Teachers – A. W. TATE Discussion – C. R. FRANKS Methods in arithmetic – J L. CONNER Discussion – J. J. GIBBS Science Teaching in Common Schools – E. R. CAUTHEN The Recitation – M. D. RUSSELL Discussion – D. W. DICKINSON FRIDAY NIGHT, 7:30 Alabama’s Educational Needs, J. E. ALEXANDER, Hon. W. C. DAVIS General Discussion SATURDAY MORNING 8:30 Devotional Exercises Rational Methods of School Government – D. D. WRIGHT Discussion – Institute My Method of Teaching Spelling – R. K. SHIREY Discussion – A. W. MCDONALD, J. A. FRANKS Trials of a Country Teacher – J. L. SMITH Discussion – J. P. MCGAHA, W. T. HAWKINS Duties and Factors in the Execution of the Public School Laws – Supt. C. F. MITCHELL RECESS Annual Address – E. F. CAUTHEN Methods of Teaching Geography – Miss IDA BACON Impromptu Program NOON RECESS Importance of Reading Professional Literature – W. P. LETOSN Discussion – Institute Percentage – J. W. JOHNSTON Discussion – J. C. MOORE, J. S. THORN Patriotic Education – W. B. FORD Discussion – L. D. BOTTOMS QUESTIONS Should a teacher ever give a pupil assistance? Do you prevent whispering; if so, how? How do you prevent the use of profane language by your pupils? How do you secure the use of correct language? How do you hold the attention of the class? How do you secure regularity in attendance? Members of the Institute are expected to discuss the questions in two minutes talk. Methods of teaching History – Miss VERA PEARCE Discussion – J. T. HUFFSTUTLER It is earnestly expected that every teacher in the county attend the Institute and assist in making it a success. All friends of education are cordially invited to aid us in building up the cause of education J. E. ALEXNADER M. D. RUSSELL W. P. LETSON M. C. PEARCE D. D. WRIGHT, Comm. Ad for The Stratton Guitars and Mandolines J. M. SPRINGFIELD & Co. Livery Feed and Sale Stable. Good Teams, Good Buggies, and Hacks. Careful Drivers. Guin, Ala. (picture of Livery Stable- (wood cut) THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA, JAS. K. POWERS, L. L. D. President. New courses of Study, Classical, Scientific, Engineering. Professional Departments: law, Medicine. For announcement with details information, address the President at University P. O., Tuscaloosa County Ad for Birmingham Business College Ad for Arlington Sewing Machine (picture of Sewing machine – Ad for The State Normal College, Florence, Ala. PAGE 4 A REMARKABLE MEMORY----- Was that Displayed by the Vice President of the confederacy Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy and Governor of Georgia, had a remarkable memory, says Col. C. W. Seidell, who was for a long time his private secretary. Once, says the Colonel, when we were in Washington, a big delegation visited the city to urge Dakota’s claims to Statehood. The delegates sent word to the distinguished Georgian that they would call on him at his hotel, and at the appointed time they filed into his parlor and were introduced. As Mr. Stephens was at that time disabled by a fall he sat in his rolling chair in the middle of the room and held a running conversion with his visitors. There were about a hundred Dakotans present, stalwart, handsome men, representing the best type of Western manhood. After they had sampled some fine old Georgia corn whiskey their host discussed the matters on which they were most interested, and occasionally addressed one of the strangers personally, naming him as he spoke. During the evening he singled out in this way at least twenty of his guests, and astonished us all by his ready recollection of names and faces. Every man in the crowd got the idea into his head that something striking or attractive in his personality had favorably impressed the little man in the rolling chair, and I could see that the delegates were delighted with their recitation; When they had bowed themselves out I asked Mr. Stephens how he managed to hold so many names and faces in his memory. “Oh, it is a mere tick,” he replied. “I simply concentrated my attention upon about twenty names and faces, and as they were scattered around the room it naturally surprised my visitors when I turned to them and addressed them by name. Of course it caused every man to believe that he had deeply impressed me.” Ad for Bookkeeping course Ad for Mount Lookout Institute for Young Ladies – Gadsden, Ala. STATE TOPICS ST. FLORIAN’S NEW MILL – Florence LITHOGRAPHIC SOTNE QUARRY – Jackson County COAL LAND ASSESSMENT TO STAND TEMPORARILY APPOINTED – Wm. H. Tisdall EQUIPPING WITH ELECTIRICTY Under the direction of Chief Electrical Engineer Harris, ten large cars are being wired and equipped for electrify for use on the Enley line, which will be operated by the silent rent after September 1. Poles and feeders are up and the stringing of trolley wires begun. Of these ten cares, five are new, the others comparatively new. From a standpoint of beauty there will be none to put them to shame. PIG IRON FOR ENGLAND TWO FREIGHT TRAINS COLLIDE FRANKLIN GOLD MILES T. H. ALDRICH, of Birmingham, ha bought a controlling interest in the Franklin Gold mines in Clay county…….. CO-EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY – Young women of 18 years may have all the advantages of young gentlemen. Such may enter any class in the Institution for which they are prepared. Up to this time a few have taken one or two departments but not one has entered on a regular course or taken a degree. It will be gratifying to the friends of co- education to know that the next session may break the record in this matter, that several young ladies have expressed a purpose to take one of the regular courses, and thus demonstrate their ability to come up to any standard set for young men. It is understood that President Powers believed they can do this and hopes to see his judgment vindicated. They must reside in private families, but rooms for study during the day are provided at the University. LADEN WITH FREIGHT PARDONS GRANTED – Fred Warner - Bullock County, Joe Fleming – Montgomery County, Wesley Cox - Barbour County – Raspe Flowers – Coffee County “RUFUS SANDERS” ASSASSINATED Francis Bartow Lloyd, Aged 36 years, better known to the reading public as Rufus Sanders, a writer of quaint Alabama dialect miscellany was assassinated at 6 o’clock last Wednesday near Greenville by John A. Gafford. Lloyd was found lying in the road with two gaping wounds in his body. Gafford had evidently used a double barreled shotgun and discharged both barrels. It is said that the deed was the outcome of Lloyd having improper relations with one of Gafford’s sisters. Lloyd leaves a widow and three children. He was a native of Butler County, and served as a representative in the last legislature from that county. He represented Montgomery County in the General Assembly in 1894. In the last legislature he vigorously opposed the constitutional convention measure and the measure permitting women practicing law. He moved to Butler County later and began to publish a serious of humorous letters in the Sunday newspapers. He was contemplating issuing them in book form. The deceased had considerably ability as a lecturer, and was known in Texas. Lloyd was a candidate for Secretary of State in the last democratic state convention, and was going to run again the next campaign. Later advices states that Gafford has voluntarily surrendered to the sheriff. INCREASING THE STATE’S REVENUE BRIEFLY NOTED THE WELL ON THE JORNADA – John Martin’s Long Struggle to Find Water on the Arid Plain “Do you see that house and windmill off to the east?” said an old-time New Mexican to a New York tourist. The two were occupying the same seat in the Atchison train rolling southward over the Jornada del Muerto and had struck up a friendly acquaintance together. “That is Martin’s well. The Mexicans called it Aleman, the word for German in their tongue. Martin was a German who came to New Mexico in early days when the Jornanda had the worst name of nay traveled region in the territory, and deserved it. The trail from Santa Fe to El Paso crossed it, and the trip over this plain, meant a seventy-mile stretch without water except the chance of finding a pool in the time of the summer rains. At all other seasons the plain was arid. Travelers undertaking to cross it gave their horses all the water they wanted at starting, drank all they could themselves, filled their water bottles, said their prayers then if ever they did, and rode upon the plain with their lives in their hands. There could be no delay with safety, for, with the best luck, thirst was oppressing them when at last the trial came down among the cottonwoods that border the Rio Grande and man and beat could drink their fill from the muddy current. Bands of Apaches swept the plain and lay in ambush for travelers by the river bank at either end of the Jornada trail, and it is little wonder that the crossing of it should be dreaded and that it should received the name it bears, the “Journey of Death” Martin was an original character, with lots of push and sand. After crossing the Jornada a number of times with wagon trains he made up his mind that water could be found by digging at a point about midway across it, and made his arrangements to sink a well there. He began with the rainy season, and with a force of diggers and blasters set to work in earnest. The Jornada rests on a foundation of hard volcanic rock, and after digging down a short distance he had to use powder all the rest of the time. It was a slow, expensive and dangerous piece of business. The men had to receive high wages to risk their lives in such a place, all supplied had to be brought fifty miles from Mesilla and every spoonful of water used was hauled in barrels from pools left by the rains in hollows of the prairie. But martin kept the work going through the rainy season and after until, one by one, the pool dried up, and it became very difficult to provide his crew with water. Still no sign of water could be found in the well as the men worked slowly downward through the rock. The end came one day when Martin rode in from Mesilla and looked down into the hole where the men were drilling in the solid rock. “Work till noon, boys” he called down to them. “When you come up to dinner bring your tools with you. We pack our wagons and start for Mesilla this afternoon.’ “Shall we load up the holes we’re putting in and try one more blast?” asked the foreman. “Yes, we’ll waste one more round of powder on the thing,” answered Martin, and turning has back, walked away to think over by himself what a fool he had been to invest everything he had in an undertaking that al his friends had told him was bound to fail. The men filled and tamped the holes, and at noon came up out of the well, the last man staying behind long enough to light the fuses. The blast went off while they were seating themselves at dinner. The meal eaten, while some of the men helped to bring in and harness the mules, the others began to pack the wagons, one man sauntered over to the well hole, and looked own to see what the last blast had done. He yelled as if Indians were in sight, and the men came running to see what he had found. The well was half full of water and the water was still rising. The last blast had opened the rock down to the water vein, and Martin’s fortune was made. All the great wagon traffic and the stages over the Jornada had to pay him toll and his well was a mine of wealth to him. The charge per horse or ox for watering was 25 cents, and with the long wagon trains constantly crossing the desert, the profits counted up fast. One class of travelers, the Apaches, never paid toll to Martin. They would come to the well, usually by night, water their horses, and ride away, never molesting the people in charge. This mutual understanding continued until these Indians ceased to go on the warpath and kept to their reservations. Aleman was made a station of the overland stage route, and a railroad station near the well now bears its name. When, in 1880, the Atchison Company built their railroad across the Jornada and settlers coming out of the desert began to build reservoirs for rain water and sink artesian wells, the glory of Aleman departed and the place became the headquarters of a cattle company. – [New York Sun] FELL FROM THE MOON In a catalogue of Mexican aerolites, M. Castillo, the astronomer, tells of one of these “air stones” which exploded before it reached the surface, scattering fragments over an area of forty-five square miles. Measurements an estimates place the combined weight of these fragments of stones at not less than 3,000 tons. At one spot two immense flat plates of the aerolite were discovered lying close together, the two weighing about 80 tons. M. Castilo says that there is no doubt that such stones fall from the moon. HER BIER A PIANO CURIOUS DINNER AT JERICHO An American traveling in Jerusalem describes an interesting dinner he ate recently at a hotel in Jericho. “We sat on the porch of the hotel at Jericho,’ he wrote, “after a inner at which we wee served with butter from Norway, cheese from Switzerland, marmalade from London, wine from Jerusalem diluted with water from the well of Elisha, raisins from Ramoth Gilead, oranges from Jericho (in no respect inferior to those from Jaffa or the Indian river, Florida) smoking Turkish tobacco, which, like the Turkish empire, is inferior to its reputation, and a cup of coffee from - the corner grocery of Jericho” Ad for Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer Ad for Lyon & Co Pick Leaf Extra Smoking Tobacco Ad for Young Plantation Cotton Seed Huller and Seprareter Ad for Walter Baker & Co Breakfast cocoa Ad for Alabama Rolled Oats File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/gazettea1712gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 30.0 Kb