Marion County AlArchives News.....Hamilton Free Press March 22, 1894 ************************************************ 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 April 17, 2010, 3:01 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History March 22, 1894 Microfilm Ref Call #559 Microfilm Order #M1992.0966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE HAMILTON FREE PRESS VOL. 1 HAMILTON, MARION CO., ALA. ,THURSDAY MARCH 22, 1894 NO. 24 GUIN TIME TABLE – K. C. M. & B. R. R. West bound arrives at 11:02 a.m. East bound arrives at 5:02 p.m. DIRECTORY CIRCUIT COURT Judge – H. C. SPEAKE, of Madison County Solicitor – W. H. SAWTELLE, of Colbert Clerk – J. F. HAMILTON, Hamilton Sheriff – W. W. HALL, Hamilton Court meets on the 3rd Monday after the 4th Monday in March and September COUNTY COURT Judge – J. P. FORD, Hamilton Court meets on the 1st Monday in each month. Probate court meets on the 2nd Monday in each month. CHANCERY COURT Chancellor – THOMAS COBB, Birmingham Register – W. B. RIGGAN, Hamilton Court meets on Thursday after the 7th Monday after the 4th Monday in February and August. COMMISSIONER’S COURT Meets on the 2nd Monday in February and August and the 1st Monday in April and November COUNTY OFFICERS Tax Assessor – T. J. FARIS, Bexar Treasurer – J. B. WOOD, Hamilton Tax Collector – M. M. FRAZIER, Hamilton SOCIETIES MASONIC Hamilton Lodge No. 344 meets at Hamilton on the 4th Saturday in each month, at 1 am (sic). DANIEL CANTRELL, W. M. CHURCH DIRECTORY M. E. CHURCH SOUTH – Services 1st Sunday in each month at 11 am and 7 pm and every 4th Sunday at 7 pm – Rev. W. L. HENDRICKS, Pastor SUNDAY SCHOOL Sunday School at 9:30 am – W. R. WHITE, Supt. Prayer meeting Wednesday night. PROFESSIONAL CARDS – LEGAL WM. C. DAVIS Attorney at Law, Hamilton, Ala. Will practice in all the courts of Alabama and Mississippi. A. J. STANFORD, Attorney at Law, Hamilton, Alabama will practice in Marion and adjoining counties. B. R. FITE, Attorney at Law, Hamilton, Ala. Will practice in Marion and adjoining counties, in the federal courts at Huntsville and the Supreme Court of the State. Special attention given to the collection of claims. GEO. C. ALMON W. I. BULLOCK, ALMON & BULLOCK, Attorneys at Law, Russellville Ala. will practice in Franklin and adjoining counties ,and especially in Marion; also in the Federal court at Huntsville and in the Supreme Court at Montgomery. W. H. KEY A. S. HESTER KEY & HESTER, Attorneys at Law - Russellville, Ala will practice in Franklin and adjoining counties, in the Supreme Court and the Federal court at Huntsville. Mr. Key will be in Hamilton on the first Monday in each month. S. J. SHIELDS, Attorney at Law, Vernon, Alabama. Will practice in Lamar and adjoining counties. ROBERT L. WINDHAM, Attorney at Law, Fayette Alabama. I will practice in the circuit, county, and Justice courts of Lamar and Marion counties. Any business placed in my hands will receive my immediate attention at any and all times. Office near Court house. CHALMERS REPORT – Commissioners And Marshals Methods Exposed – The Examiner Discovers That Deputies, “Boot Lick” And Professional Witnesses Run Court Mills To Suit Themselves………………..(Birmingham) KILLED BY LIGHTNING Birmingham, March 14 – While riding to church near Damascus last night a storm arose and lightning struck a buggy in which were CHAS. THOMPSON and wife, setting it on fire and killing both. The charred bodies were found this morning. The horses attached to the vehicle were unhurt. WHOLE TRUTH – A Weaver Elector Admits That Delemos Told The Truth – Says The Weaver Ticket Was In The Interest Of Harrison And Kolb Knew It LIVING ON POOR LAND With a large number of eastern farmers the absorbing question is, how on a poor, run down farm, without capital, to get enough supplies to last through the year, and the little money absolutely necessary. This question is often flippantly answered by the advice to move to better farms, as a tenant, or to go west, etc., but this is generally impracticable, as in most cases the farmer is too poor to change, and he and his family are neither able nor willing to do the large amount of rough work which such a move would necessitate. Besides a foothold or home of your own, with all its accompaniments and fixed habits, is a gift of God not to be lightly abandoned. Having to face such conditions, the first thought should be economy; not seeing how the family and animals could be fed on the proverbial one straw a day of which the old horse died, but the management of the land in such a way that the net income could be produced from it without injuring it. If any farmer who feels hopeless of his ability to support his family will sit down and figure up the supplies absolutely necessary he will be surprised at how small a part of the products of the poorest farm it takes. My experience has been that the largest waste on the average farm is from unproductive stock. I mean the keeping of two or more poor, ill-fed animals when one good one would answer better,. Do not sell what you have and buy fancy stock, but keep the best you have, and feed and care for them better, even if this reduces you to one horse, one cow, and even one hog. I put this waste first because it actually wastes something in hand, viz: crops already secured. The most important waste comes in trying to work too much land. This means all preparation and ill cultivation, the working of poor land which might be left to rest and recuperate, the taking of what little profit might be made on the better parts of the land to pay board, and labor for which you not only receive no reward, but draw on yourself vexation and loss, the forcing of your dearly bought crop on a glutted market; with the laborers waiting at your door for all the money received. – [Home and Farm] The public school building at Opelika together with most of the furniture and books of the children was burned recently. ALABAMA NEWS – PARAGRAPHS GLEANED FROM OUR EXCHANGES Brunridge now has a Business League. Mr. J. M. ADAMS has been elected Marshal of Northport. Huntsville and Madison are to be connected by telephone. There are at present fourteen prisoners in the Escambia county jail. Since Christmas fourteen car loads of guano have been received at Wilsonville. The Florence Stove Works have been sold to Northern parties and will be started very soon. The Alabama Normal College at Livingston had a narrow escape from being burned a few days since. At the last term of the Clay county court six prisoners were sentenced to the coal mines. Mr. T. L. CARTER has been nominated for the city council at Sheffield to fill a vacancy. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. HORTON of Blount County have been married twenty- five years and have fifteen children. The Walker county grand jury returned eighty-four true bills and reported a number of justice bonds insufficient The military ball and supper for the benefit of the company at Perdue Hill has been postponed until March 29th. While alighting from a train at Attala, Col. H. T. DAVIS was thrown to the ground and severely bruised. Fayette County has had no prisoner in the county jail for three or four months and only four paupers in the poor house. On account of a mistake in registration the city election in Uniontown has been postponed until the first Monday in April. The Columbia Breeze says: Henry County has won the hog and hominy fight; now peach for orchards and truck farms. The Vernon Courier says: “The universal verdict has been that Lamar’s courthouse is a disgrace to her citizenship.” The Covington Grand jury examined 100 cases and returned forty-five true bills, the majority being for misdemeanor. Hon. W. L. BULLOCK of Russellville has written a card declining to be a candidate for Attorney General before the state Convention. This is a conundrum put out by the Cleburne Standard News: “Does Cleburne want a ‘calaboose’ criminal to represent her in the next Legislature?” PAGE 2 THE FREE PRESS Issued Every Wednesday CLEMENTS & TERRELL, Proprietors Subscription Rates – One Year ………$1.00 6 mos…………….. .50 3 mos……………….25 In clubs of 8 or more, 80 cts each Postmaster who fail to notify publishers when subscribers remove or fail to take papers from the post office are held by the postmaster-General to be responsible for their subscriptions. ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR REPRESENTATIVE I hereby announce myself a candidate to represent Marion County in the next General Assembly of Alabama subject to the action of the Democratic Party in convention assembled. Respectfully, W. C. DAVIS -----( political news and commentary)------- In the first year of the war Gen. Winfield Scott predicted that the war would last four years, but “for a long time thereafter it will require the full powers of the Federal Government to restrain the fury of the non-combatants.” His forecast was a prophecy. The war is waged by those who did not let out their blood and their animosity with it on the field of battle - those who hired substitutes are fighting battle in dreams – and only in dreams. The war is still being waged on the floor of Congress when the pension bill comes up. It is still being waged by such publications as Judge, which pictures Uncle Sam as being ridden to death but the twenty ex-Confederate brigadiers in the Senate. - [Ex} NO FEDERAL COURT – at Huntsville this spring…. ………………The reason for this announcement is that the government has failed to provide the marshal with funds to pay the witness fees and running expenses of the court. ---- The Irish of New York City are happy. By a majority vote of the Board of Aldermen it has been decided that the Irish flag shall wave over the city hall on St. Patrick’s Day, instead of the stars and stripes. NOTICE TO DELINQUENT TAX PAYERS The State of Alabama, Marion County To S. PETER HENDON – Take notice that the Tax Collector has filed in my office a list of delinquent tax payers and real estate upon which taxes are due and therein is reported as assessed to you surface of the N ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 35 and S ½ of NE ¼ Sec 35 T 11 R 12 fee simple. Special state tax .03 ½ cts, state tax 52 ½ cents, special county tax 52 ½ cents, county tax 42 cents, cost 50 cts, total $2.02 ¼ . This is to notify you to appear before the Probate court of said county commencing on Monday the 2nd day of April 1894 then and there to show cause if any you have why a decree for the sale of said real estate should not be made for the payment of the taxes assessed upon the same, fees and costs. Give under my hand this the 7th day of March 1864 Jason P. Ford, Judge of Probate PAGE 3 FREE PRESS Hamilton, Ala. Mar 22, 1894. One Dollar a year LOCALS A. J. STANFORD made a business trip to Guin the first of the week. CLAY NANCE, the well known shoe man was here last week. Call at the post office building for fresh garden seeds Mrs. MICHAEL HAMILTON and little son PAUL, of Bexar are visiting relatives at this place. WALTER NESMITH, Esq. a rising young lawyer of Vernon was in town this week on professional business. Rev. S. P. WEST, agent for the Alabama Methodist Orphanage will preach at the Methodist church at this place next Sunday the 25th inst. at 11 a.m. LIST OF GRAND AND PETIT JURORS for the Spring Term of the Circuit Court GRAND JURORS: J. P. UNDERWOOD, MACK SHELTON, A. D. MITCHELL, LEE LOVELADY, THOMAS J. BEASLEY, I. J. LOYD, T. W. CARPENTER, THOMAS MCCARLEY, MERIDETH AKERS, JR., J. P. LDEN, W. O. WILSON, T. A. BYRD, W. Y. BURLESON, W. C. GANN, JOHN HIGHTOWER, JAKE GREEN PETIT JURORS: S. M. TIDWELL, GEORGE WATES, LEVI BEASLEY, THOMAS TERRELL, THOMAS ARNOLD, W. M. SANDERSON, JOHN BURLESON, JOHN SWANSON, W. M. KELLEY, H. W. ASTON, A. F. M. HOWELL, JAMES M. SHIREY, MARSHAL NORTON, R. E. DUNN, BILL HUGHES, JAMES FORD, AARON BURLESON, T. W. CARPETER, FR., ALFRED KIVETT, JAMES BOSTICK, W. C. ALLEN, MAJOR ROBINSON, JOHN R. PICKARD, A. J. RYE, IRVE MILLS. FROM HACKLEBURGH We notice an article in the Walker County Record from Hackleburgh, signed “Democrat” stating that there were only three Bankhead men in Hackleburgh beat, and that balance were Long men; this we consider a mistake, or that the article is reversible. In other words, would say if there is more than three men here for long we don’t know where they roost, and would further say that anyone who cannot count better than the Democrat should get his long men to stick their noses in the mud, and count the prints therein. We know what we are talking about, and we have counted Bankhead men until we are satisfied there are plenty in this beat, and plenty in old Marion to give him the nomination and elect him over 3 to 1 majority. We know whereof we speak. We cannot imagine why the little Democrat made such a report from this beat, unless it was because Bankhead did not have the Hon. J. C. MUSGROVE appoint the writer a Deputy US Marshal. We further state that Mr. Bankhead has done his duty as a representative, to his district and state. Of course he has probably had some appointments made that could have been filled by superior men, but when a representative or any man undertakes to please all in his district or business he pleases no one and so we endorse Bankhead in every effort he has made to discharge his duty, and will prove it to you on election day. We can tell you also, that there’s abundance of Oates in this section that will be harvested about the election day. We now depart from the political contest and will give you the dots in general. Mrs. ELIZA KENNEDY died on the 14th instant of consumption. Mr. E. B. FORD died on last Thursday of la grippe. The bereaved have our sympathy. Mr. E. C. NANCE, a shoe drummer of Jackson, Tenn., was in town last Thursday. Mr. W. C. DAVIS, Marion’s next Representative was in our midst last Saturday and Sunday. He will, in our judgment, secure the nomination and election to the next Legislature with perfect ease. After the next election is over the Clark and Kolb party will be a thing of the past. Several of our people attended the quarterly meeting at Bear Creek last Saturday and Sunday and report a nice time. We are having a great deal of rain in this section now and farmers are generally a little behind with their farm work. GLEANER, March 20, 1894 THE COURAGEOUS FLEA – [by Mark Twain in the Century] IMMIGRATION OF LAST YEAR Washington, D. C., March 12 – A statement has been prepared by the Immigration Bureau of the Treasury Department showing the number of immigrants which arrived at the ports of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore from foreign ports during the calendar year 1893. The whole number is shown to have been 431,712 and these, it is said, represent at least four-fifths of the whole number which arrived at all American ports. HALL’S MILLS ITEMS DELIA HOWELL is quite sick but we hope she may be well again soon. Dr. J. W. HOWELL, of near Pearce’s mills, was here last week. Miss MICHAEL CARPETNER, of Guin, is visiting the family of D. W. POPE this week. The school row is about settled and the farmers are getting down to business. We have taken no part in the coming campaign but we fear there will be too many farmers depend on Oates and Kolb, and that a great many of them will be like your correspondent – scarce of corn. We like to read “Clips” Communications – they are instructive – but we cannot agree with him in regard to voting for a man who does not advocate the Chicago platform. We voted for Cleveland and Bankhead in 1892, and while we have never said that we did or did not endorse Col. Oates, there are planks in the Chicago platform that we do not endorse, and a number of men whom I know to be democrats do not favor it. J. A. M., Hall’s Mill, March 23 FROM GUIN L. D. LITTLETON has gone to Memphis to buy goods. Prof. FRANCIS is again out on the streets to the delight of his many friends. Mrs. BURT MARKHAM died at her home two miles north of town on the night of the 13th inst. The bereaved children have the heartfelt sympathy of this entire community. Dr. SPRINGFIELD has been very sick but is able to resume his practice again. The Doctor is badly missed when he is out of place as his professional services are indispensable. Our highly esteemed R. R. agent Mr. S. G.MCWHORTER has purchased a resident lot from A. Y. PRATT and will erect a nice residence at once. J. M. HARRISON will soon be in his new shop on Wall Street. Guin is noted for its Sunday schools and singings. Rev. R. D. BOLIN left for a visit to his old home yesterday. He is now making his home at his son’s J. C. BOLIN. A. B. BLACK has not returned from Arkansas yet. He went out there to dispose of the mammoth crop of corn he made there last year. Suppose when the delegates meet in convention at Hamilton on the 16th of May that they select men who are not candidates as well. We need our most efficient men to transact the business of the county and why not select them and put in the position of honor and trust. Any true Democrat will accept the nomination and do all he can to be elected. The Free Press is a welcome visitor. More anon. So Long Guin, Ala. March 19, 1894 A YOUTHFUL PRODIGY ----- (heaviest youth alive)------ PEA RIDGE LOCALS Beautiful weather. Farmers planting corn and more of it, and less cotton. It can be plainly seen that farmers intend to raise their own supplies at home and quit raising 5 and 6 cent cotton to buy them. In this vicinity the farmers have enough to do them, but a slight exchange. Let all the people join in and make our farms, homes, churches, schools, and county affairs the climax of the past. The good people of this settlement have joined hands, and are having a good Sabbath school at Center Church. Mrs. SALLIE FRANKS is visiting relatives and friends near here. Dr. TAYLOR and WILLIAM BIDDLE of Haleyville passed though here yesterday en route for Texarkana, Ark. to the scene of BEN BIDDLE’S murder. Mr. G. E. HARMON and wife, of Cherokee County, Ga. who have been visiting relatives here have returned home. D. H. PEARCE’S little girl is, we are sorry to say, quite sick. Now you have it in part, and we hope your waste basket is full. ED. P., March 15, 1894 NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT The State of Alabama, Marion County Probate Court 20th day of March 1894 J. M. GUIN, DECEASED, ESTATE OF This day came JAS H. GUIN, the administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts, vouchers, and evidences for a final settlement of his administration. It is therefore, ordered that the 23rd day of April 1894 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all parties interested can appear and contest the said settlement, if they think proper. Jason P. Ford, judge of Probate Marion County All parties indebted to Hamilton & Terrell, desiring to settle or obtain information concerning same will please se Mrs. ELLA CLEMENTS at the post office. NOTICE – TO DELINQUENT TAX PAYERS The State of Alabama, Marion County To Alabama Improvement Co., Alabama Kaolin and Mineral Co., W. A. ORMAN, LUCINDA LING, CHARLES B. WILKERSON, WILSON BROS. & CO., JAMES C. DUPREE, J. VARD HALEY, R. R. KYLES, C. C. SIDES, and to Owner’s Unknown, take notice that the tax collector has filed in my office a list of delinquent tax payers and real estate upon which taxes are due, and therein is reported as assessed to:……. Jason P. Ford, Judge of Probate PAGE 4 CONVENTION – The Call issued by Democratic Executive Committee Ad for The Delineator WEST ALABAMAIAN FOR SALE After forty-five years devoted to the management and publication of the West Alabamian, I find that my health has failed to such an extent that I am forced to give up the business; and I now offer the West Alabamian outfit for sale. This is a splendid opportunity for an active and vigorous person to secure a first-class democratic weekly paper upon advantageous terms. Papers throughout the state will do me a special favor by publishing this notice. Correspondence solicited. A. HENRY, Proprietor, Carrollton, Ala. STATE ITEMS Carns is the name of a new post office in Jackson county four and a half miles east of Fackler, and Mr. J. B. Bryant is post master. During the session of court at Vernon Judge SPROTT at one time thought he would have to order some umbrellas to protect the court and witnesses from the leaking water. The Lamar county grand jury examined 125 witnesses and returned thirty- three true bills at the same time saying “we are glad to report that the moral condition of our county is growing better.” There is a great deal of dissatisfaction at the way the late town election in Albertville was conducted, and from all accounts the “Jeffersonian” mayor had not heard the loud cries from his party for a “fair election.” Headland comes to the front with a newspaper. Rev. S. F. MATTHEWS who was rested at Florence last summer charged with forgery in Arkansas and taken back to that state for trial, has been acquitted by the courts and will return to Florence for the purpose of having he church to investigate his case. ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE Under and by virtue of an order and decrees of the Hon. JASON P. FORD, Judge of the Probate Court of Marion county, I, JAMES H. GUIN, administrator of the estate of J. M. GUIN, Sr. Deceased, will sell at public outcry to the highest bidder in from to of the courthouse door of Marion County, Alabama, on Saturday, the 17th day of March 1894, at 12 o’clock noon for cash, the following described personal property belong to said estate, to wit: An account on L. M. KNIGHT for $6.17 ½, , MELT METCALFE $1.49, , J. P. VICKERY % 1.50, S. C. ROBERTS $8.72 ½ , EMELINE SMITH $7.09 ½ , JOHN STANTON $2.50, GEORGE FARIS $2.50, W. A CARRUTH 35 ½ cents , H. J. PYRON $4.55, LIGE STEWART $2.10, ADAM KINERD $7.25, JEFF METCALFE $16.10, MARY SHELNUT $2.92, ANDY WALKER $5.29, MARY LEE $1.22, JOHN O’REAR 25 cents, JAMES BOZEMAN $4.32, WILLIAM WARREN $1.00, C. T. VICKERY $2.50, R. W. BERRYHILL $13.06, G. W. KINARD $2.21, JOHN MCCOLLUM (col),55 cents, TOM COLLINS $13.42, POMP SWANAGAN $8.57, J. T. BOZEMAN $23.49, ELU GUM $2.60, PRICE DAVIS $6.15, TOM HUGHES $5.74, J. J. REED $7.05, MARY E. CONN $2.36 ½ , E. W. MARTIN $20.91, W. A. SMITH 45 cents, CAUS METCALFE $14.62, NED SWANAGAN $2.20, NATHANIEL MILLER $2.00, DAVID WARREN 46 cents, THOMAS COLLINS $18.81, SARAH COLE $1.50, JOSHUA GANN $3.75, SUE WALLIS 67 cents, DICK HANSFORD $8.42, WIDOW MCKAY $2.00, ANTHONY METCALFE $2.15, JOHN GANN $1.50, THOMAS COLLINS $5.75, MANDY MCKAY 50 cts, JOSEPH WILEY $11.64, MARY MCCOLLUM $2.90, ANTHONY METCALFE $3.48, HARRISON FELKINS 50 cts, JOE SIMPSON $1.60 and notes on the following parties, to wit: PINK FELKINS $21.47, G. S. MCKAY $5.65, HARVEY TERRELL $7.65, JOE JOHNSON $11.77, DICK WALKER $14.00, D. A. WHITE $1.50, LEE WALLIS $1.80, WESLEY HENSON $25.00, M. S. FLIPPO, $25.00, L. E. CORBETT $11.10, E. W. MARTIN $22.91, W. N. NABORS $7.80, J. M. CAGLE $65.00, ALFORD LUCAS (order) $2.40, THOMAS HAUSFORD $21.70. This February 27th, 1894 JAMES H. GUIN, Administrator NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala., February 8, 1894 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 Clerk of the Circuit Court for Marion County, Ala. at Hamilton, Ala. on February 16th, 1894, viz: ELISHA D. PERCELL, for Homestead Entry No. 16818, for the E ½ of NE ¼ Sec 22 and W ½ of NW ¼ Sec 23 T 9 R 12 W He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence up on and cultivation of said land, viz: MACK KING, MARK J. TIDWELL, JOHN WILSON, Hackleburgh, Ala., and JOHN J. BULL, Bear Creek, Ala. Wm. C. Wells, Register NON-RESIDENT NOTICE The State of Alabama Marion County PETER H. INGLE vs. SIMEON, M. E. and JOHN TIDWELL Before me, W. T. BURLESON, Justices of the Peace in and for said county and state, this the 17th day of February 1894, came the plaintiff in the above entitled cause and it appearing that certain property of the said defendant to wit: the E ½ of SW ¼ Sec 23 10 R 12 lying and being in Marion County and State of Alabama; by virtue of an attachment issued from my office returnable the 17th day of March 1894, and that said defendant is a non-resident of this state. It is therefore ordered that notice of said attachment and the return thereof be given to the said SIMEON, M. E. and JOHN TIDWELL by publication once a week for three successive weeks before the said 17th day of March 1894, in the Hamilton Free Press, a newspaper published in said county, and a copy thereof be mailed to the said defendant at his place of residence when known. W. T. BURLESON, Justice of the Peace SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of two executions issued out of the Clerk’s office of the Circuit court of Marion county, and state of Alabama, recently obtained against RILEY BREWER and in favor of Atlanta Guano Co. and Booker Fertilizer co. out of the goods, chattels, lands, and tenements of the said RILEY BREWER, I have levied on the following property, to wit: SW ¼ and W ½ of SE ¼ Sec 22 and S ½ of SE ¼ and SE ¼ of SW ¼ Sec 21 and NW ¼ of SW ¼ Sec 11 and SE ¼ of NE ¼ SEC 29 T 9 R 12 lying and being in Marion county, Alabama. Therefore, according to said command, I shall expose for sale at public auction, all the right, title and interest of the above-named RILEY BREWER in and to the above described property on Monday, the 19th day of February 1894 during the legal hours of sale, at the court house door in Hamilton, Marion County, Alabama. Dated at office this the 19th day of January, 1894. W. W. HALL, Sheriff Marion County, Ala. Listen to your truthful neighbors when they gladly exclaim: bargains, bargains, at W. R. WHITE’S, Hamilton, Ala. My motto is Quick Sales and Small profits, special inducements offered for cash. Am now receiving my fall and winter stock of merchandise, which was selected with great care, and will be sold at “Live and Let Live prices,” In fact, I will not be undersold by any merchant in West Alabama,” My stock of shoes in unusually large this season. When you are in town call and examine my goods and get prices, and be convinced that I mean business. No trouble to show goods. Ad for Hamilton Free Press THE BEST ROUTE between Memphis and the Southeast. The Palace Car Line of the South – the Kansas City, Memphis, & Birmingham R. R. has two through passenger trains daily between Memphis and Birmingham, making close and sure connections with the trains of all connecting lines. Night trains have through sleeping cares between Washington, D. 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