Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON FREE PRESS August 9, 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 24, 2010, 8:42 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History August 9, 1894 Microfilm Ref Call #559 Microfilm Order #M1992.0966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE HAMILTON FREE PRESS VOL. 1HAMILTON, MARION CO., ALA., THURSDAY AUGUST 9, 1894 NO. 44 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). A. J. STANFORD, 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. W. R. APPLING, Attorney at Law, Hamilton, Alabama. Will practice in Marion and adjoining counties. All business entrusted to my care will receive prompt attention Wanted! Wanted! 10,000 barrels sorghum and will sell the improved Kentucky Cane Mill with copper and galvanized steel pans, and take sorghum in payment. When you buy the Kentucky Cane Mill you get one of the oldest cane mills manufactured in the United States. We buy in car loads is why we sell cheap. Remember we carry in stock in addition engines, boilers, saw and grist mills, cotton gins, feeders, condensers, horse and steam power presses, rubber and leather belting, agricultural implements, hay rakes, hacks, buggies, carts and the old reliable Gestring farm wagon. If you want the best mower on earth for cutting your grass, buy the McCormack. It took premium at the World’s Fair I 1893. Average draft 152 pounds. We have added to our general line of Hardware Sash, doors, and blinds. The best line of furniture carpet, rugs, wall paper, coffins, Queens and Glassware to be found in North Mississippi. If in need go anything write us for prices. We can save you money and will do it. LANN & CARTER Hardware Co., Aberdeen, Miss. (picture of sorghum mill) THE TARIFF BILL DRAGS SLOWLY “JE WHILKENS” Professor Falb the Vienna Earthquake prophet predicts that on August 16th next the whole city of New York will be under a tidal wave, while at the same time Florida and California will become islands. It is said all his former predictions in this line have been verified by facts; and the time for the fulfillment of this prophesy is near at hand. Two things are expected from the event: that Chicago property will boom, and that Tammany will be swept away with the city. We have heard of no heavy sales of New York real estate of late, however, nor are the people moving away from there in any large numbers. – [New Decatur advertiser] IN THE COUNTY The vote by beats showing the strength of Oats and Kolb and the Candidates for the Legislature and Superintendent – (election results) OATES AND DEMOCRACY – We Have Met The Enemy And They Are Ours – Over Twenty-Five Thousand For Oates And The Entire Ticket, Both Branches Of The Legislature Safe – (election returns by county) THE OFFICIAL REUTRNS – Gives a Majority of 25,000 for Oates and Democracy PAGE 2 THE FREE PRESS J. S. CLEMENTS, Editor and Proprietor Issued Every Thursday 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. THE DAY IS OURS -------(political commentary)------ The next Teacher’s Institute for Marion county will beheld at Bexar August 17th and 18th. Owing to an oversight we failed to fie the date of holding the Institute in the program published two weeks ago. -----(political commentary)----- Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed. Sold by T. W. CARPENTER, Hamilton J. F. WHITE, Detroit J D. ARNOLD, Bexar PAGE 3 THE FREE PRESS Hamilton, Ala. JOHN L. WHITE of Birmingham is in town this week. Mrs. W. R. WHITE and children are visiting relatives at Vernon this week. More rain is what the farmers need. JEFF CARNES and J. H. COX returned from a trip to the Indian Territory last week. The melon crop is a good one. R. T. CLARK of Guin is in town today. Miss URSELY THORN who has been visiting friends at Guin for several days returned home today. Are we not going to have any school at this place this year? What’s the matter with the people? They have surely forgotten all about the importance of education their children. The people of this community should open their eyes and get a good school started as soon as possible. FROM DETROIT CARL EVANS has been quite sick but is improving. CICERO TOOKE left last week for Lamar County, Texas. Mrs. W. R. WHITE and children spent last Friday night with Detroit relatives. Miss MAUD FEARINGTON arrived last week from Memphis where she has been for some time taking lessons in music. E. M. RAY and wife from Waxahachie Texas are visiting here. Mr. RAY is in very poor health and will remain some time. Splendid showers have fallen in this vicinity since we last spoke of the crops and we now have the promise of at least an average crop; but a five weeks drouth is on and crops are needing rain badly out in Henson Spring beat. Prof. HENRY C. HARRIS is preparing to leave for Oklahoma Territory where he tells us he is to take charge of a school 1st of Oct., at a salary of $40 per month. Capt. Bankhead made one of the most telling speeches here on the 21st that has ever been delivered in the interest of the democratic party; he told no “cock and bull stories” but went straight into facts and we are proud to note since the date of the speech the Jeffo-pop-oseanian element has been growing beautifully less and under Col. Oates banner we predict for the democratic party and the people of Alabama a victory today that will prove no less memorable or important to our posterity than that of 1874. Amen CLIP, August 6th, 1894 GEORGIA DEMOCRATS – Administration Men win – nominees and resolutions A HORRIBLE SUICIDE Oxford, Ala. Aug. 4 – As the west bound Georgia Pacific was nearing Bynum’s little station nine miles west of here yesterday the 17-year old daughter of LEE WEN ran and threw herself on the track and was killed. She was thrown nearly a hundred feet but the body was not very badly cut up. The unfortunate girl had made an attempt to kill herself a few days before in the same manner but was prevented. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Tax Assessment Book for the year 1894 is prepared and on file in the Probate Judge’s office ready for inspection by the tax payers, and that the Court of County Commissioners will sit on the 2nd Monday in August next to examine the Assessors returns, and if any errors be found to correct the same. Given under my hand at office this the 14th day of July 1894 Jason P. Ford, Judge of Probate A FAMOUS TREE – St. Simon’s Island, Ga, July 25 This island is noted as being the most historic spot in the United Sates. Near the banks of the placid Altamaha River stands the old oak tree under whose umbra geous boughs Rev. John Wesley preached his first sermon on Methodism to a motley congregation. Over at Frederica is the cannon used by General Oglethorpe nearly 300 years ago. The oldest house is on “Butler’s Island.” Here General Butler, an English officer, married Miss Fanny Kemble, the noted actress. Time has dealt leniently with it, for, although unoccupied with slight repairs it could be fitted up. Some of the old oaken beams are as firm as a rock. The house is gray with age. The storms of two centuries have battered and worn the shingles away, and here and there the old-fashioned hand- wrought nails protrude and threaten to fall out. It presents a very picturesque appearance with the moss and ivy grown about it in profusion. The most noted house, situated on “Cannon’s Point,” and owned by W. R. Schadmen of New York, was destroyed by fire last year. The home house proper was at one time the property of James Hamilton Cooper, whose name is alike familiar in the great center of the Old and New World. It was a grand old Southern home, in a fine state of repair, surrounded by a large grove of immense oaks and cedars, with a splendid lawn, approached though a lonely avenue of oleanders, a quarter of a mile long. Adjoining the great house and up to the time of the fire used as a kitchen, was a dwelling old in years, and in it the ill-starred and brilliant, but too ambition, Aaron Burr spent several months after killing the illustrious Alexander Hamilton. On a window frame in the house Burr carved his name with a diamond, an incident that has been the subject of many articles by literary sightseers. Near the house is an olive grove of several acres, bearing profitably every year. It is the only grove east of the Rockies, and was planted in 1865 by James Hamilton Cooper. In the center of the grove the stump of an immense tree stands. From this tree the bowsprit of frigate Constitution was made. This charming resort, situated on the Atlantic, opened its doors to the public for the summer sea on the 4th instant. NOTICE To the W. M. and Wardens of Hamilton, Guin, Winfield, Pleasant Hill, Hackleburgh and Bexar Lodges of A. F. & M. Masons You are hereby notified and requested to meet at Hamilton Lodge on the 25th day of August 1894, for the purpose of deciding whether we will employ a Lecturer for the ensuing Masonic year; and also to decide on a place for holding the next Masonic association. Every Lodge is earnestly requested to send a representative. JOHN ARNOLD, Ch’m Co. Masonic Association, July 28th, 1894 STATE NORMAL COLLEGE, Florence, Ala. had 300 students last year. Wanted 400 next year. $100 will meet all necessary expenses for a year. Fall Term opens Sept 18,1 894. If you need a trained teacher, or wish further information, apply to JAMES K. POWERS, President Ad for Maryland Roaster and Baker (pan – picture) Ad for Webster’s international Dictionary Ad for Artesian Export Beer Ad for Lippman’s Pyrafuge Ad for Marlin Rifles OAKLAND NORMAL INSTITUTE – The 8th Session of the O. N. will open on Sept. 11, 18954. We claim for the O. N. I. a first-class Normal, and in it we propose to give general satisfaction and if we do not we will refund all tuition that may have been paid in if a fair test has been made. Board, Washing, Fuel, and rock furnished from $5 to $7 per month. Tuition in Literary department from $1.25 to $4.00 per month. For information concerning the school, address G. A. or J. T. HOLLEY, Principals, Yale, Mississippi Ad for US Gutta Perchs Paint Ad for National Sewing Machine Co, (picture) Ad for Dr. Thacher’s Liver and BLod syrup ATTACHMENT NOTICE The State of Alabama, Marion County Circuit Court Fall Term 1894 JAMES P. PEARCE vs. SOLOMON P. COPELAND Whereas JAMES P. COPELAND as plaintiff in said cause has obtained an attachment out of this court, is sued on the 17th day of April, 1894 against the estate of said SOLOMON P. COPELAND as defendant which attachment has been levied on the following described real estate of said defendant, to wit: W ½ of SE ¼ and NE ¼ of SW ¼ and 30 acres of South side of SE ¼ of NW ¼ and 30 acres of East side of NW ¼ of SW ¼ all in SEC 10 T 11 R 12, also 30 acres off of east side of SW ¼ OF NW ¼, same section, township and range, known as the SOL COPELAND farm. And whereas it appears that the said SOLOMON COPELAND, defendant as aforesaid, is a non-resident of the State of Alabama and resides at Brown Creek post office, Prentiss County, Mississippi. Now, therefore, the said SOLOMON P. COPELAND is hereby notified of said attachment and the levy thereof as aforesaid. Witness my hand this 17th day of April 1894. JOHN F. HAMILTON, Clerk Circuit Court Ad for Japanese Pile Cure Ad for Dr. Thacher’s liver and Blood Syrup PAGE 4 Ad for Emil Seelig’s Kaffee Ad for New Home sewing machine NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land office at Huntsville, Ala, June 4, 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 Probate Judge of Marion County, at Hamilton, Ala, on July 28th, 1894, viz: JAMES M. BEASLEY, for Homestead entry NO. 13730 for the N ½ of NW ¼ and SW ¼ of NW ¼ Sec 33 T 10 South R 11 West He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence, viz: NOAH W. CAUDLE of Thorn Hill, Ala., JAMES G. WOOD, WILLIAM E. CHASTAIN, JACOB L. SHAMLIN, of Haleys, Ala. WM. C. WELLS, Register Ad for PPP Cures all skin and blood disease Ad for Jackson Corset Waists – (picture) Ad for Maryland Roaster and Baker (pan – picture) Ad for Band Instruments SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of a fierfi facias issued out of the Clerk’s office of the circuit court of Marion County, and state of Alabama, and to me directed, whereby I am commanded to make the amount of a certain judgment recently obtained against T. W. HAWKINS et al, out of the goods, chattels, lands and tenements of the said NATHAN WEBB, I have levied on the following property, to wit: S ½ of NE ¼ and N ½ of SE ¼ Sec 9 and SW ¼ of NW ¼ and NW ¼ of SW ¼ and SW ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 10 and NE ¼ of SE ¼ Less 10 acre in SW corner and 10 acres in the NE corner of SE ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 15 SW ¼ of SW ¼ and SE ¼ of SW ¼ Sec 35, NE ¼ of Sec 16 T 12 R 12. Mineral only in SW ¼ of SW ¼ and 3 acres in south side NW ¼ of SW ¼ Sec 15 T 12 R 12. N ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 35 T 12 R 12, lying and being in Marion County Alabama. Notice given defendant in writing Therefore, according to said command, I shall expose for sale, at public auction, all the right, title and interest of the above named NATHAN WEBB in and to the above described property on Monday the 7th day of May 1894, during the legal hours of sale, at the court house door in the town of Hamilton, Alabama. Dated at office this 3rd day of April 1894. W. W. HALL, Sheriff Marion County, Ala. Ad for Abbott’s East Indian Corn Paint – removes corns, bunions, and warts rapidly without pain The Hamilton Free Press for 1894 will contain the News. Do you read? Do you feel an interest in the news of your county, state, and nation? If you do, then Subscribe at once for The Free Press and keep up with the times. Subscription $1.00 per year. To Advertisers: The Free Press is the only paper published in Marion County, It has a large circulation in this and adjoining counties, and is the only medium through which the general public can be reached. 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