Marion County AlArchives News.....GAZETTE APPEAL December 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, 8:31 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History December 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, DECEMBER 3, 1897 NO. 3 PAGE 1 NEWS ITEMS OF THE WEEK The Laurada, held as a filibuster, has been released. The city council of Opelika will purchase a lot and erect thereon buildings for a jail, clerk’s office, etc. Pensacola, Fla. had a disastrous fire last week, in which $100,000 worth of merchandise and property was destroyed. The first snow-storm of the season swept over Wisconsin Thursday night in the form of a blizzard, which lasted eight hours. -------------------- George Crawford, of Memphis, a brakeman on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Road was killed Thursday at Clarksdale, Miss. The spread of the bubonic plague shows no signs of abatement at Poohah, Surat and elsewhere, in India. It has extended to Belgium and Ahmedague. Walthall Camp, Confederate Veterans, of Meriden, Miss. will exhume the bodies of a number of Confederate soldiers whose resting place is in an old common and reinter them tin the cemetery. The organization of the Confederate Veteran’s Reunion association was completed at Atlanta Wednesday. This is to be the active organization to prepare for the reunion to meet next year, the date of which is placed for June 21 and 22, the anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta. William J. Bryan has given to the Missouri State University at Columbia $250, which is to be used annually for awarding a prize for the best essay on the science of government. The Nineteenth Illinois Regimental monument erected on Missionary Ridge, near the Bragg headquarters, was formally dedicated Thursday there being present at the ceremony about twenty-five survivors, all from Chicago. The monument is erected on the spot where the regiment first rallied and reached the crest of the ridge in the memorable engagement. The day is the thirty-fourth anniversary of the battle. REBELS FIRING UPON HAVANA – A Band of Insurgents Making it Lively for the Spanish DOORS CLOSED AGAINST WOMEN – Methodist Minister Refused to Let Mrs. Harris Preach Mrs. Harris, a female revivalist, has concluded a revival at Hillsboro, Ala., a few miles east of Courtland. Large congregations attended the services, including many from the adjacent counties, going forty and fifty miles to hear her. The meeting was commended in the Methodist Episcopal church, South, by authority of the board of stewards, but Rev. Anson West, presiding elder of the Decatur District, learning of the use of this church by a female revivalist, went to Hillsboro and overruled the action of the board, interrupted the proceedings and caused a considerable flurry by officially closing the doors of the church to women preachers. Mrs. Harris, a widow of the late Robert Lee Harris, a noted evangelist of his time in this state. TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY BURNED Fire broke out in the dormitory of the Tougaloo (Miss) University Wednesday night, and despite the heroic work of the department the building was destroyed. The fire is supposed to have originated from a defective flue. Fortunately the students were all at prayer meeting and no one was injured. Forty-three students and six teachers lost their entire personal effects. The loss is estimated at $20,000. The amount of insurance is not known. TWO YOUNG LADIES DROWNED – Misses Mary and Katie Seaman were drowned last week at Middleton, O and their mother is in a dangerous condition as the result of a runaway. They wee driving across a bridge when their horse became frightened and plunged over the safeguard of the structure into fifteen feet of water. The ladies went down with the horse and the spring wagon. Their screams brought help to the scene, but not in time to save the daughters, whose dead bodies were recovered. The mother was resuscitated with great difficulty and is still in a serous condition. CALL TO COTTON GROWERS – President Lane Of The American Cotton Growers Association Issues A Stirring Address To Members – Calling Them To Meet In Convention At Memphis, TN, Dec 20 To Devise Ways To Meet And Combat The Present Industrial Conditions………………….. TRESTLE GIVES WAY – And Twenty-Three Loaded Cars Plunge Downward, Killing Two Men – (Ky) WAS IT SUICIDE? – Coroners Jury Says Mason Payne Hung Himself But there is doubt – (Meridian Miss) DON’T HEED RUSSIA’S WARNING – Turkey Will Invest $1,500,000 Marks in Large Cannon In spite of the protest of the Russian government which recently intimated to the porte that if any considerable part of the indemnity paid by Greece should be devoted to the extension of the Ottoman armament the Russian government would insist upon a payment of the arrears of the Russo-Turkish Indemnity, long overdue. Turkey has placed with Herr Krupp, the great German gun maker, an order for 150 large cannon at a total value of 1,500,000 marks. VICTORY OF DEATH – Manifesto is Sent out to all Cuban Sympathizers EXPLOSION OF NITRO-GLYCERINE – Almost Wipes Chesterfield, Ind. Off the Map Chesterfield, Ind. was almost wiped off the map at an early hour Friday morning by an explosion of eighty quarts of nitro-glycerine which had been brought overland from Montpelier and placed in an open field half a mile from town. Marion Mansey and Sam Maguire were working in a gas well near by when the explosion occurred. Mansery was thrown fifty feet, but not fatally injured. Maguire was also thrown a hundred feet in the air, and badly lacerated, but will recover. James Gold’s house, 400 rods distant, was blown to pieces. The explosion tore a hole in the ground down to the water line, and, so far as can be learned, was spontaneous. A three-ton engine was torn to fragments, and every living animal near by was killed instantly. The little town of Chesterfield is a mass of ruins, every house being moved from its foundation. WEDDED TO PELAGIC SEALING MCKINLEY IS CAREFUL – Has No Recommendations for Action Relative to Cuba NEW PERUVIAN CABINET WHEAT EXPORTS ARE HEAVY TO DESTROY THE EMPIRE – Is Alleged to Be the Purpose of the Austrian Social Democrats A special from Vienna says: Friday the Reichsweihr declared that the uproar in the lower house of the Reichstrath has no connection with the campaign against the language ordinance, but was due to the action of the International Social Democrats, who considered that the time has arrived to complete their destructive work against the state and empire. Continuing the Reichswethr says that in view of this fact the state cannot and will not yield. REPETITION OF ’40 PREDICTED J. W. Wilson, general manager of the Alaska Commercial company, of San Francisco has just returned from Alaska, having made many trips to that country during the past few years. Mr. Wilson says the rush to the gold fields of California was nothing to what the wild stampede to the Klondike will be the coming spring. Already thousands of people in every state are getting ready for the trip. His advice to those prospectors is that they go prepared to withstand the rigors of the following winter, especially as there will be no reason to fear a scarcity of food. MCKINLEY IN GOLD – Scheme of Wealthy Capitalists to Makes a Statue of the President SENATOR JAMES K. JONES – He is Opposed to the Annexation of Hawaii STAGE LINE TO KLONDYKE – This is the Latest Proposed Mode of Getting to the Gold Fields An English company will establish a fast stage line from Great Falls, Mont. to Dawson City. The route is an entirely new one, and will be less than 1,200 miles. A portion of the route will be along the Mackenzie River. The line will be in operation early next spring, and the trip will occupy less the twenty days. They have purchased 606 horses, and engaged a superintendent for the line. The taverns for the accommodation of passengers and relay stations will be erected along the route, and an effort will be made to establish town sites. The company they represent is capitalized at $2,000,000. PENSION ROLLS OF TWO STATES Georgia has this year upon its state pension roll the names of 10,437 men and women entitled to its privileges. They include 3,803 widows of confederate soldiers, 3,381 invalid soldiers, and 3,173 old confederate soldiers who are indigent. The widows are cared for by an annual appropriation of $240,000, the invalids get $190,000 and the indigents $150,000 making of $580,000. In round numbers the pension list of Mississippi for this year amounts to 4,400. They get $17 each, except in a few instances where they receive $75. The pension list is steadily growing. The number of women (widows) drawing the pension greatly exceeds the men. MISSISSIPPI’S CONVICT COTTON CROP A RECORD CARGO PAGE 2 THE GAZETTE-APPEAL – Published Weekly WILDES AND JONES, EDITORS E. L. JONES, Manager and Publisher Entered at post office at Guin, Ala – A second-class matter Subscription rates One year $1 Six months 50 c Three months 25 c Guin, Ala. Dec. 3, 1897 ANNOUNCEMENTS Announcements for County officer will be made for $5 in advance PROBATE JUDGE I am a candidate for the office of Judge of Probate of Marion County, subject to the action of the Democratic party. T. J. FARIS ---------(political news and commentary)---------- Our farmers should do more full plowing, turn the ground over for next year’s crop and the yield next year will exceed former years not less than 25 per cent, besides the line and labor saved in cultivating will be reduced at least one fourth. Try it. Uncle Andrew Montgomery, an aged colored man, called on the President the other day to solicit help for building a home in the South for aged negroes. He still lives with the family that owned him as a slave, and they provided for him and his other brothers of former bondage just as they did before the slaves received their freedom. On last Saturday there was a full grown blind tiger captured here in town, by city marshal White, and carried before the mayor, tried for retailing, had his rights taken from him and turned lose. The young criminal will remember that the state has a clue of him, and will doubtless make it warm for him when the grand jury meets. The good citizens should see to it, that all the lawless wild-cat whiskey dealers are severally dealt with by the law, until they are convinced that hey can not violate the law of our State and demoralize the youths of our country. Indeed, a good citizen cannot refrain from putting in a good word for his town and community. In fact he is never too busy to indulge in promoting the interests of home industries by speaking favorable of them when occasion presents, and often goes out of the way to say something for the advancement of his own town and community. But he that is opposed to up building of his own town is a subordinate to the principles that would govern and characterize the enterprising yeomanry of our county. We hope we have none of this character in our town, but if there is such, we shall endeavor to fight them with the vigor of a lion and the zeal of a true warrior, until at last we shall have conquered the foe, gained the victory and established the principles of virtue due our town and its surroundings. This we have the promise. The Gould R. R. system during the hard times of 1893 made an average reduction of 10 percent, on the earnings of all their employees, which amounted to a monthly saving of $80,000 or annually $1,000,000……………………… CITIZEN’S MEETING The citizens meeting held last Monday night was a signed success. It being the first meeting of the body since the organization, there were a number of items of business before the body for discussion. The report of committee on ways and means, which more particularly provided for the support and publication of Trade Day, as decided upon at the last meeting. It was decided by the body that the time for Trade Day be set for Saturday before the 3rd Sunday in each month. Quite a number of business questions were advanced and discussed. And the meeting was one of marked interest, and we hope the enthusiasm around on that occasion will furnish inducement to others to attend, who have previously taken no interest. Hannis Taylor, ex-United States Minister to Spain, made a speech to 2,000 people in Ithaca, New York on Friday night……………………………… Hon. J. H. Bankhead, our able member of Congress is in town today shaking hands and mingling with his friends of Walker County, who are always glad to meet him. He always makes a tour of the district just before the meeting of Congress, so he can familiarize himself with the condition and wants of the people and no member of Congress works harder for his people than Mr. Bankhead, and if his ideas were carried out the condition of the people specially the farming and working class would soon be much better. We will have a President and Congress of his way of thinking in 1900 if all signs of the times do not fail. – [Jasper Eagle] FINAL PROOF NOTICE Land Office at Huntsville, Ala, October the 13th, 1897 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 Probate Judge at Hamilton, ala., on November the 27th, 1897, vz: LEE G. AKERS, H. E. No. 20567 for the SW ¼ NW ¼ of Sec 31 T 12 R 13 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: MACK STANFORD, WILLIAM G. AKERS, ROBERT NESMITH, JAMES F. STANFORD, all of Guin, Ala JOHN A. STEELE, Register FINAL PROOF NOTICE Land Office at Huntsville, Ala, October the 26th, 1897 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 Probate Judge at Hamilton, ala., on November the 27th, 1897, vz: JOHN T. GANN, H.E. NO. 20290 for the South half SW ¼ NW ¼ of SW ¼ and SW ¼ NW ¼ Sec 34 T 11 R 13 West He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: ROBERT A. MARTIN, Ur, Ala, RUFUS FRANKS, ANDERSON H. BURLESON, JAMES P. POLLARD, of Guin, Ala JOHN A. STEELE, Register ONE PRICE TO ALL Geo. Fox’s Gloss Starch 4 c Ladies Fast Black Cassimere Gloves 15 c Oil finish cloth window shades each 45 c Silk Handkerchiefs 35 c Amber Tipped dress, stays doz 5 c Gents working gloves, per pair 20 c Padlocks 5 c Good shoe blacking, 3 boxes for 5 c David’s black ink, 2 bottles for 5 c Best lead pencils, per doz 10 and 20 c Com note paper, 120 sheets for 10 c Large size com note, 120 sheets 20 c Fancy box paper, per box 8, 9 and 10 c Nice pen holders, each 1 c Hook and Eyes, 2 doz for 1 c Ladies and men’s silk ties 15 c Ladies and men’s handkerchiefs 5 c Large bath towels, per pair 30 c Spool thread 200 yards, on spool, 2 for 5 c Toilet soap 3 c a cake or 2 cakes for 5 c Ladies leather belts 10 c Corsets, good quality 37 to 65 c Turkey Red Embroidery 3 spools for 5 c Nice Pillow shams, per pair 25 to 30 c Kid hair curlers, per doz 5 c Suspenders per pair 5 to 35 c Sewing Machine Oil 6 oz, bottle for 5 c All the above goods are first class, no shoddy articles among them. W. T. SLOAN, Guin, Ala. P. B. PETERMAN, Guin, Ala. Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry, spectacles and silverware, watches and jewelry repaired on short notice. E. L. JONES, Attorney-at-Law, Guin, Ala. Will practice in all the courts of Marion and adjoining counties. Collections a specialty W. C. DAVIS Attorney at Law, Hamilton, Ala. will practice in all the courts of Alabama and Mississippi T. J. SPRINGFIELD, MD., Physician and Surgeon, Guin, Ala. Offers his professional services to the citizens of Guin and surrounding country. Special attention given to diseases of women. All calls promptly attended 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 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. STATE NORMAL COLLEGE, Florence, Ala. A training school for teachers. Enrollment last year over 300. Tuition Free, Board, $8.00 to $12.00 per month. Necessary expenses from $35.00 to $125.00. Graduate secure good position. Fall Term begins Tuesday September 14, 1897. Send for catalogue to A. C. Wilson, President 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 Parry Mfg Co – (picture of buggy) Ad for McElree’s Wine of Cardui PAGE 3 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 – T. J. SPRINGFIELD, W. M., JOHN W. INGLE, S. W.; J. D. WESTBROOK, JW; M. T. AKERS, Treas.; J. H. RILEY, Secy. Regular meeting 7 p.m. Saturday before 3rd Sunday in each month. CITY COUCILMEN 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 Messrs. J. D. BROCK and SPENCER KIRK, of Texas who have been visiting relatives here for some time, returned home today. Rev. WM. KNIGHT, who partly moved his household possessions here some time ago, has finished moving and is now a full fledged citizen of our town. Editor WILSON, of the Hamilton News, was a pleasant caller at our office last week. Mr. R. W. WHITE, of Hamilton, was circulating among his friends here this week. W. T. SLOAN, the Racket Man, has just received a new line of dry goods. Mr. A. J. SHAW has been appointed Justice of the Peace for this beat. Mr. L. D. LITTLETON is in Memphis this week, buying his stock of Xmas Dry goods, notions, etc. You should place your ad in our next issue. Mr. C. B. STORMS of Lamar County was in town Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. DUNCAN of near Hamilton were visiting relatives and shopping in town this week. Mr. J. J. WESLEY, Post Master at Ur, Ala. was in town this week. The Sheriff’s sale here Tuesday was very well attended. Mr. DUEPREE, of Detroit, was in town this week, with a view of opening a Shoe and Harness shop here. Sheriff B. W. RIGGINS was in the city this week. Up-to-date Cabinet Size Photographs can be had for the next 30-days, for only $1.50 per dozen at the Art Gallery, Guin. Mr. G. F. LOWERY and family left yesterday for Miss., their future home. Mr. J. W. BROWN, of Winfield, stopped here yesterday en route for Nettleton, Miss. where he expects to make his future home. J. W. AKINS left his week for Texas. Only $1.50 gets a dozen full size Cabinet Photographs for the next 30 days, at the Art Gallery, Guin. Mr. D. L. MARTIN of Hamilton was visiting in town Sunday. Mrs. L. PEARCE and Mrs. J. I. MUNCE left Wednesday for Nettleton, Miss., on a visit to relatives. Mr. S. D. NAUGHER of Carbon hill was in town this week. Dr. J. T. SPRINGFIELD will leave today for Montgomery, to attend the Masons Grand Lodge. Now is the time to begin to advertise for Xmas trade. ‘Squire A. J. SHAW was in Hamilton this week on business. Mr. JNO. INGLE is on the sick list this week. Mr. J. L. GILMORE of Detroit was here Tuesday, and called at our office while here and left the cash for his subscription. Thanks. Mr. J. P. RILEY celebrated his Twenty-sixth birthday yesterday. Quite a number of friends met at the residence of his father, Mr. J. H. RILEY, yesterday evening at 7 o’clock and enjoyed an hour of prayer and song service, in honor of the occasion. May he enjoy many more happy and prosperous birthdays is the wish of his many friends. THEY SAY That Guin is improving. That the winter season is now upon us. That there are 135 pupils in school. That the Gazette-Appeal is appreciated by everybody. That there will be a meting of the citizens Monday night. That Trade Day will be Saturday before the fourth Sunday. That Guin needs street lamps. That our merchants go to root very early. That there are no finer farming lands anywhere than in Marion. That Trade Day will be a success. That cotton is selling below cost. FROM BEAVERTON We are glad to state that the little child of JNO. SIZEMORE who has been very low for several days is thought to be improving. Bro. GREGORY and Miss LETITIA HUGHEY will start this a.m. to Conference at Florence. GEO. JONES, who has been in the Chickasaw Nation for the last 15 years has just returned. Which would restore confidence the quickest, regeneration or a new generation? J. L. WEEKS left a few days ago for Texas, on particular business. We paid Guin a visit a few days ago and are glad to say, we can see she is growing every day and has a booming school. May God hasten the day when we will have good schools all over the country. S. A. G., 11-30-‘97 Miss TULLIA TATE visited relatives at Sulligent last Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. W. H. HULSEY visited Sulligent last Sunday. Rev. W. A. NELSON of Twin spent Monday night in town, the guest of J. W. WILDES. The following letter is said to have been received by a bicycle manufacturer. Deer sirz – I live on mi farm near Hamilton, Kansas, am 57 years old and just a little sporta. My neffew in Indiana bot hisself a new bisicie and sent me his old one by frate and ive learned to ride sume. Its a pile of fun, but my bicicle jolts considerable. A feller come along yesterday with a bisicle that had holler injun robber tires stuffed with wind. He let me try hissen, and mi, it run like a kushin! He told me you sell injun robber tires just the same as hissen. How much will it be to fix mine up like hssen? Mine is all rion wheels. Do you punch the holler hone through the injun robber, or will I have to do it myuself? How do you stick the ends together after you get it done? If your injun robber is already holler, will it come any cheaper empty? I can get allt eh wind I want out here free. How much do you charge for the deedad you stuff the wind into the robber with an dhwere do you start? – [Ex} REGISTER’S SALE The State of Alabama, Marion County JOHN A. SHAW, Complainant vs A. B. BLACK and MARTHA A. BLACK, defendants, In Chancery at Hamilton, Alabama, 12th District, Northern Chancery Division By virtue of a decree rendered at the fall term, 1897 of the Chancery Court at Hamilton, Marion County Alabama in said cause, I shall proceed to sell to the highest bidder, for cash, at public auction, at the Court House door in the town of Hamilton, within the legal hours of sale, on Monday, the 27th day of December 1897, the following described property to wit: The N. E. ¼ of S W ¼ and S. E. ¼ of N W ¼ Section 13, Township 14, Range 13 West in Fayette County, Alabama. And S. E. ¼ of NW ¼ of Section ----Township 13 Range 13 West in Marion County, Alabama. Also Lot 2 in Block 57 and the undivided half interest of Lots 3 and 4 in Block 57 in the town of Guin, Marion County, Alabama to satisfy said decree. This December 3, 1897 B. R. FITE, Register MARION ACADEMY Located at Guin, Marion County, on the K. C. M. & B Railroad. All things combine to make this a location well suited to school work,. Are you going off to school? Are you going to send your children off to school? Guin is the place. Look at the cost! Board $5; Tuition $1 to $2.50. Free Tuition is sometimes very dear. Things usually cost what they are worth. A class in Pedagogy will be maintained for the benefit of teachers and those who contemplate teaching. For particulars, call on or address ROBERT JONES, Principal Mr. R. L. CRUMP, Deputy Sheriff was a pleasant caller at our office Tuesday. Hon. WALTER NESMITH of Vernon was in the city Tuesday. Subscribe for the Gazette-Appeal. Only $1 a year. ACADEMY NOTES Who is the best boy in school? The best girl? Several pupils sick this week, among them Miss CLOE BROWN of Beaverton Master JAMES and Miss BULA CLARK, son and daughter of Mr. FRANK CLARK, Pearce’s Mills, entered this week. MATTIE WESLEY visited home folks at Ur Saturday. They say that little Miss RUBY MATTHEW”S recitation was just splendid. Seven pupils from the state of Missouri entered Monday. Unanimous thanks both to our good friend and helper, Mr. S. J. BAIRD for the use of his organ last week. Miss TATE, the efficient assistant, has won for herself many golden opinions from all who know the conscientious care with which she discharged every duty. UNCAS BRADLEY’S is the place for what? Bargains in everything we handle. Please call and get our prices and be convinced that we will sell you honest goods for less money than any other house in town. Come on, come all, we mean business. W. R. BRADLEY, Guin, Ala. “Small profits” is our motto. We are Headquarters for Dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes, & Groceries. We carry a complete line of men’s and boy’s secondhand clothing. See. No cutting below best on one or two articles and doubling up on a dozen others to make up. Our stock is complete. Country produce taken in exchange. Call and get our prices before buying elsewhere. S. J. BAIRD, Guin, Ala. Here’s a sly chance. Everybody come. Traders, Farmers and everybody are invited to come to the Celebrated Trader’s Day at Guin, Alabama, on Saturday before the 4th Sunday in each month. Come and bring your old oxen, fortified mule and one-eyed horse. The Jockey will be here. Special inducements will be offered in the mercantile line on these days. Come, swap horses and get bargains that will tickle you as long as you live. You are benefited all around. See? EPIGRAMS The evil we do, not only lives after us, but plagues us mightily before we go. Alimony is the fine a man pays for having made an unsuccessful experiment. Credit is a false friend, who only stays with you until you are in trouble. There are people who will never get into the heavenly orchestra because they refuse to play anything but first fiddle. Its very easy to judge how much smoking and drinking other people should do. A light heart goes easily with a heavy purse. It is not the loudest amens that get the Lords ear the quickest. Some people imagine that they are religious when the pleasure and excitement they get from it is the real attraction. Time will fly for everyone but him who waits. – [Ex] Ad for Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp Root Ad for Arlington Sewing Machine – A $65.00 machine for $18.50 Ad for Maywood Bicycle - $27.00 PAGE 4 UNCLE SAM BEHIND It is strange that while this country is so far advanced in electric railways it should be behind Europe in the pneumatic tube system of transmitting messages and small packages. Some of the large cities in Europe, such as London, Birmingham, Paris, and Berlin, have been provided with pneumatic tubes for messages for forty years, and they carry an immense business. Rainmakers in this country have been apparently inactive this season, but a drought would have revived interest in their plans and theories. In Europe their experiments have attracted more attention. Germany offers a reward of $2500 to any one who can produce a downpour of rain at moderate expense. It is suggested that inventors in this line should also discover how to stop excessive rains, with resulting floods. The favorite devices for rainmaking thus far are cannon explosives, balloons that burst at an elevation, compressed gasses and electric connections between the clouds and the earth. Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla TO REMOVE TAN AND FRECKLES The juice of cucumbers pressed out with a lemon-squeezer is one of the most effective and simple remedies known for removing sunburn. For removing freckles take one cup of milk and two spoonfuls of grated horseradish, and let it stand for one hour; then strain and bathe the face and hands in it. A half a pint of rosewater and one spoonful of lemon juice is considered excellent for bathing the face in to remove tan. A complexion wash, which is very highly recommended and removed freckles, is made of a quarter pound of oatmeal soap, shaved fine into one quart of soft, boiling water; stir until it is smooth and cook; then add a half pint spirits of wine and a quarter ounce of oil of rosemary. The danger that lies in the ____ inflammable hair washes, and which has already manifested itself in the death of two women in the city of London, has induced so eminent a scientist as Lord Kelvin to write a letter upon the subject, which was regarded of enough importance to be published in the London Times. The washes that have been responsible for these disasters are composed chiefly of gasoline or benzene, and are used by hairdressers to remove the natural oil that will collect in the fair of a healthful person. During such cleaning process explosions have followed and death has in two notable instances resulted. Lord Kelvin says that the explosion was due to an electric spark generated by rubbing or handling the hair. All persons are familiar with the experiment of producing electric sparks by stroking a cat’s back, and Lord Kelvin holds that the evaporation of the benzine forms, with the air, and explosive gas that my b easily ignited by an electric spark. He says, “Ignition of vapor of benzine by electric spark is well known to dyers in their process for cleaning silks and other fabrics by boiling in large cauldrons of liquid benzine. When the goods are taken out of the cauldron and spread out to dry on a table explosions have often taken place, and I believe it is quite certain that an electric spark, caused by some slight friction between dried and partially dried portions of the fabrics, is the incendiary.” Since the absence of a flame or a fire in a room does not insure immunity from these terrible accidents that the ladies had better resort to the use of some other agent for cleaning the hair than those, the basis of which is an inflammable liquid that generates a gas easily exploded by an electric spark. ALABAMA GLEANINGS HON. JOHN L. COBB DEAD Hon. John L. Cobb ex-state treasurer of Alabama died at his home in Montgomery Wednesday night. He was 56 years old and had been prominent in business circles for years. COTTON GIN AND LUMBER YARD BURNED – Fire at Hartselle recently destroyed the cotton gin and lumber yard belonging to Robert Sobatka. The loss was total. Forty bales of cotton and 30,000 feet of lumber comprised the principal loss outside of buildings. HON. WOODLEY C. CAMPBELL DEAD Hon. Woodley C. Campbell, city alderman from the first ward in Montgomery, coroner of Montgomery County, captain of a Montgomery Cavalry company and a prominent business man, died at 7 o’clock Thursday morning in Atlanta. He had been there several weeks under treatment of specialists. He had been in failing health for more than a year, as a result of an abscess on his liver. MEN AT WORK ON NEW EXTENSION – The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad now has a force of 150 men at work near Cluttsville on the extension…………………………. WORKING FOR ARMOR PLATE PLANT Congressman Underwood, of the ninth Alabama District, the leader of the movement for the for the location of a government armor plate plant in the southern states will endeavor to have a provision attached to either the naval appropriation or to the sundry civil bill for the erection of an armor plate plant to be located at Birmingham………………….. ACKNOWLEDGES THAT FEVER EXISTED Greensboro, Hale County, has acknowledged at last that yellow fever has prevailed in that city………………….. SEEKING AN INDEPENDENT ORGANIZATION A conference to organize an Independent colored Presbyterian Church in the Unties States is in session at Birmingham. The colored Presbyterians in the South have ever since the war affiliated with the Southern Presbyterian assembly, but gradually they have been showing a disposition to flock to themselves, until the idea of organizing an independent church has finally taken shape in the conference which is now is session. The proposed church is to have national jurisdiction. The Southern Assembly is represented at the meeting by its committee on colored evangelization of which Dr. A. L. Phillips, of Tuskaloosa, is secretary, and the Northern Assembly also has prominent members present to counsel the ministers and elders. IOWA FARMERS LOCATING IN THIS STATE J. E. McMichael has just arrived in Morgan County as an advance guard for a large party of emigrant Iowa farmers, consisting of eleven families, who, he says, are traveling overland with all their stock, wagons and personal property, headed for Decatur. The distance they will cover is more than 800 miles. McMichael came on first in order to make certain essential arrangements. the large party will arrive here in a few days. McMichael says they are only a small number compared to the exodus that will come here a little later on, as soon as they can complete their arrangements to get away. This first party has obtained three large fertile farms about six miles west of Decatur, where they will locate. ALLEGED SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY AT HUNTSVILLE The committee of aldermen, who have in charge the construction of city sewers at Huntsville, has made the startling allegation that the city has been systematically robbed for several weeks past, and right under their noses at that………….. LETTER FROM WILSON – Commissioner Culver Receives a Communication from Agricultural Department APPROACHING COMPETITION – Trains on the M & O Extension will Soon Be Running The Mobile and Ohio railroad will be operating trains within ten days. The trains will be running from Tuscaloosa to Columbus, Miss. The road is complete in every detail to within ten miles of Tuskaloosa. The contractors, by suing their new track-laying machine, complete two miles daily. The false work on all of the bridges between Tuskaloosa and Columbus has been finished. On the bridge across the Warrior River the crossties and rails are being laid. The iron work for the permanent brides is on hand in Columbus, and will be shipped by the first train over the line. The building of this extension has broken all records for quickness. The grading from Tuskaloosa to Montgomery is almost complete. All that remains to be done in this line is the completion of the trestling. The rails for this end are in Tuskaloosa, having been taken there by the Alabama Great Southern road. The corps of engineers at work between Birmingham and Blocton continues their surveying to Bessemer. On account of the extreme ruggedness of this part of the country the progress is very slow. BRIEFLY MENTIONED --------------- R. A. SMITH of Fayette has been justice of the peace for a longer period, perhaps, than any man in the state. He has held that office for nearly forty years with but few breaks. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL – (Troy) In spite of the scare from pestilence and quarantine, the State Normal College at Troy went on the even tenor of its way with a good attendance and as good work as the state every had done for it by any institution ……………………. PERMANENT PASTE Soak an ounce of refined gelatin in cold water for an hour, then drain off and squeeze out the water as much as possible. Put the gelatin in a jelly pot and place the pot in a pan of hot water over the fire. When the gelatin has melted stir in slowly two and one half ounces of pure alcohol. Put in a wide-mouthed bottle and cork tightly. This glue or paste will keep indefinitely, and can be melted for use in a few minutes by setting the bottle in a basin of hot water. As it contains a very small percentage of water, it affects the gloss of prints but little and dries almost immediately – [Harper’s Round Table] FORTUNES IN LACES Ad for Loosely Cycle Co Ad for J. Blach & Sons Ad for Dr. O. T. Dozier - Cures Ad for potash Ad for Montgomery Ward Catalogue Ad for Great Blood Purifier and Liver Regulator Ad for Habits cured – Opium, Morphine, Whiskey, Cocaine, Tobacco, and Snuff- dipping Ad for Enterprise Mill – Cotton Seed Mill File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/gazettea1720gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 37.8 Kb