Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON NEWS PRESS March 14, 1895 ************************************************ 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, 9:31 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History March 14, 1895 Microfilm Ref Call #559 Microfilm Order #M1992.0966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE HAMILTON NEWS-PRESS VOL. 1 HAMILTON,, MARION COUNTY, ALA. MARCH 14, 1895 NO. 11 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $1.00 PER ANNUM. R. H. TERRELL, Publisher Advertising Rates Reasonable – Job Work Neatly and Cheaply Executed 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 11 am . C. N. STOKES, W. M., J. F. COOLEY, Sect. 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 MCCLUSKEY & DAVIS, Attorneys at Law, Vernon and Hamilton, Ala. Will practice in all the courts of Alabama and Mississippi. 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 W. H. KEY W. 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. 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. C. E. MITCHELL, Attorney-at-Law, Hamilton, Ala. will practice in all the courts of Marion and adjoining counties. The Cotton Belt Route St. Louis, Southwestern Ry. to Arkansas and Texas. The only line with Through Car Service from Memphis to Texas. No change of cars to San Antonio, Austin, Hearne, Ft. Worth, or intermediate points. The daily trains carrying through coaches, chair cars, and sleepers traversing the finest farming , grazing and timber lands and reaching the most prosperous town and cities in the Great Southwest. FARMING LANDS – Yielding abundantly all the cereals, corn and cotton, and especially adapted to the cultivation of small fruits and early vegetables. GRAZING LANDS – Affording excellent pasturage during almost the entire year, and comparatively close to the great markets TIMBER LANDS – Covered with almost inexhaustible forest of yellow pine, cypress, and the hard woods common to Arkansas and eastern Texas. Can be Procured on Reasonable and Advantageous Terms. All persons contemplating a trip to Texas should purchase tickets viz: the Cotton belt Route and avoid vexatious changes and transfers of baggage. It is the only line running through trains from Memphis to Texas. Parties emigrating to Texas will find it to their interest to see a Cotton Belt Route Agent before making arrangements elsewhere. All lines connect with and have tickets on sale via the Cotton belt Route. Ask your nearest ticket agent for maps, time tables, etc., and write to any fo the following for all the information you may desire concerning a trip to the Great Southwest. C. P. RECTER HOWARD JOLLY, Gen. Agent, City Pass & Tkt agt. 308 Main St. Memphis, Tenn. B. McCullar, Trav. Pass. Agent, Tupelo, Miss. A. S. Doge, R. W. LeBeaume, Gen. traffic age’t, Gen. Pass & Tkt agent, St. Louis, Mo. GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY At Morison, Fla. Monday Mrs. Sarah Adams was killed by the accidental discharge of a Winchester rifle, which her husband was carelessly handling. -------- There is great indignation in the upper part of Hanover County, Va. over the departure for Utah of eight residents of the county who have been converted to the Mormon faith. The delegation was accompanied by two or three elders who have been doing missionary work about there for two or three years. It was from this same neighborhood that two Mormon elders were driven two or three years ago by a delegation of citizens headed by Major John Page, the father of Dr. Thomas Nelson Page. These two promised never to return, but others soon came to take their place. At West Palm Beach Fla. last Friday Miss Deborah Woolley of Lakewood, N. J. was instantly killed by falling down the elevator shaft of the Royal Poinciana Hotel. Miss Woolley was about 20 years of age. Two hundred negroes, representing nearly every state in the south, arrived at Savannah, Ga. Friday night, bound for Liberia. They were expecting to find a ship here ready for them to sail at once, but none has arrived. T. D. Howard, secretary of the International Immigration Society, is in charge of the party. He says a ship has been chartered and will be here in a day or two. The negroes range in age all the way from suckling infants to gray-haired man. The miners convention of the Pittsburg district in session on Wednesday morning instructed every delegate to carry out the strike order issued by the convention Monday night. About 10,000 are involved in the strike. In the New York Assembly at Albany, N. Y. Assemblyman Blake’s bill abolishing capital punishment was lost on final passage by a vote of yeas 46, nays 68. Reports have been received at Aberdeen, S. D. of a severe blizzard in the hills east of that place on Sunday. Mrs. Nehring and four children, living near Webster, attempted to go to a neighbor’s house during the storm, but became bewildered, and when found they were against a wire fence. The mother and two children were dead, and the other two children badly frozen. On Monday at Cincinnati, O Timothy Mulligan, a teamster, while drunk choked his wife into insensibility. He knocked her down and bracing him self by putting his foot against her shoulder, tried to pull her hair out by the roots. Mulligan was arrested. ----(small pox reports)---- At Anderson, Ind., the most destructive natural gas explosion in the history of the Indiana gas belt occurred ………………….. In the case of Harry Haward, charged with the murder of Miss Ging, which has been pending at Chicago several weeks, the jury, of Friday after ……………………… Friday morning a pipe in the main natural gas line burst twelve miles north of Fort Wayne, Ind. The entire city was without fuel from 3 to 11……………….. AN OHIO STEAMBOAT – Strikes a Bridge Pier at Cincinnati and Goes Down The handsome Cincinnati and New Orleans packet Longfellow went to the bottom of the Ohio River………………………………. SOUTHERN WOOLEN FACTORIES The jeans Manufacturers’ Association for the southern and middle states held its semi-annual session at Knoxville, Tenn. ……………. WOMAN LICENSED TO PREACH Mrs. Ballington Booth, of the Salvation Army, has been granted a minister’s license by Probate Judge Ferris, of Cincinnati, O. The document gives Mrs. Booth a right to officiate at weddings and is one of the four legal constructions given in favor of the Salvationists in their efforts to be recognized by a congregation. Adjutant Hargreaves and Lieutenant Talbott will be married at the Salvation Temple on the 20th inst. Mrs. Booth will perform the wedding ceremony. MARINE DISASTERS The schooner Sallie Bissell, stranded on Oeracocke bar, is a total loss…….. WASHINGTON NOTES New Newspaper rules New Lottery Law Knights of Labor DESTITUTION IN NEW FOUNDLAND – The Good People of Boston and Halifax Send Relief The steamship Grand Lake from Halifax, with donations from Boston and vicinity, and offerings from Halifax people on board, arrived at St. Johns, N. F at 5:30 o’clock last Thursday evening and was welcomed by more than 2,000 persons who crowded the wharf and cheered with the wildest enthusiasm. The stars and stripes floated at the Grand Lakes’ masthead. A feature of the demonstration was the wild manner in which the crowd responded to the cheers for the flag. Finally cheers were proposed for the American people and the frenzied throng cheered until almost exhausted. The destitution existing in New Foundland is dreadful. About 2,000 families in St. Johns alone are in dire destitution and the same state of affairs and in many cases worse, exists all over the island. It is feared the worst has not yet been seen. Five thousand people are fed daily from soup kitchens. TRAIN WRECKED BY FIENDS – Mrs. Suber, of Pickens, Miss. and Her Daughter killed A Florida vestibule train, southbound, was wrecked at Scotland, Ga., Friday morning at 5 o’clock. All the cars were thrown off the tracks, and two, a sleeper and a first class passenger were turned over. Mrs. C. H. Suber, of Pickens, Miss and her little girl, aged 5 were instantly killed. …………….. BOUND TO KEEP AHEAD The increase of the British navy budget is due to the size of the shipbuilding program for the fiscal year. This program calls for four first-class, four second-class and two third-class cruisers…………….. IS YOUR MARRIAGE RECORDED A citizen of Hamilton County, Tenn. discovered recently that there was no official record of his marriage, which had taken place several years ago. The minister who performed the ceremony had gone to parts unknown and the gentleman is searching for him. This circumstance led to an investigation which disclosed the astonishing fact that there is no official record of the marriage of fully 300 of the good husbands and wives of the county. The Chattanooga Sunday Times prints a list of more than one thousand licenses granted from 1894 to 1895 inclusive of the execution of which there appears no official record. PAGE 2 HAMILTON NEWS PRESS Issued Every Thursday R. N. TERRELL, Publisher JAS. S. CLEMENTS, Editor Entered at the post office at Hamilton, Ala, as second class matter Subscription Rates One year $1.00 Six Months .50 Three months .25 -------(political news and commentary)----------- Crop failures in some of the Western states have forced the people to turn to the South in search of better homes. Of course, Alabama will receive her share as no other state offers greater inducements to industrious farmers. Other nations must learn to act without England. The United States ought to be in the lead. This is one of the occasions when we need a few men who are statesmen, financiers, and diplomats all at once. It unfortunately happens that neither the House nor the Senate has chosen men who combine the three accomplishments………… The first movement of Southern negroes to Africa took place last week. Three hundred left Memphis for Savannah from whence the African Steamship Company will carry them to Monrovia. …. GOVERNOR OATES TALKS The Indiana legislature adjourned with a free-for-all fight. Heads were mashed, chairs torn up, knives and pistols were drawn and pandemonium reigned supreme. The trouble grew out of the Governor withholding his veto to a certain bill until a few minutes before the house would have to adjourn and thus prevent the passage of the bill over his veto. The veto reached the hall but the republicans refuses to admit the private secretary who carried it and the fight commenced. But the secretary fought his way to the Speaker’s desk and tried to hand him the document just as the latter declared the House adjourned. The largest landed estate in the world is that of the Czar Nicholas of Russia, 100,000,000 acres. Col. A. K. McClure, the well known editor of the Philadelphia Times, was in Birmingham last week. The people of the Magic City did themselves credit in giving the grand old man a royal welcome. Ad for A Prize Offer REDUCED EXCURSION RATES To Arkansas and Texas Via The Cotton Belt Route. On February 12th, March 5th, and April 2nd, the Cotton Belt will sell tickets to all points in Arkansas and Texas at the rate of one fare for the round trip plus $2.00, tickets good for return 20 days; stop-overs allowed at any point going or returning. The Cotton Belt is the only Line running Through Trains, Pullman Sleepers, Free Reclining Chair Cares, Coaches, etc., from Memphis to Texas, thereby avoiding vexatious changes and transfers of baggage en route. Pamphlets and other reading matter on Texas, Arkansas, etc. mailed free on application. For all information desired address B. MCCULLAR, Traveling Passenger Agent, Tupelo, Miss. C. P. RECTOR, Commercial Agent, 303 Main street, Memphis, Tenn. EXECUTOR’S NOTICE Probate Court, Marion County WM. C. WEBSTER, Deceased, Estate of Letters testamentary under the last will and testament of said decedent having been granted to the undersigned on the 23rd day of February 1895 by the Hon. JASON P. FORD, Judge of the Probate Court of Marion County, notice is hereby given that all personas having claims against said estate will be required to present he same within the time allowed by law, or that the same will be barred. This February 28, 1895. JONATHAN R. JONES, Executor Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for New Home Sewing Machine THE BYRD SCHOOL will open Monday Nov. 19, 1894 and continue four months. Tuition reasonable. For further information call on or address the principal. ANDREW J. ADAMS, Detroit, Ala ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Marion County Probate Court J. L. MCGAHA, Deceased, Estate of Letters of administration upon the estate of said decedent having been granted to the undersigned on the 4th day of February 1895, by the Hon. JASON P. FORD, Judge of the Probate Court of Marion County, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate will be required to present the same within the time required by law or that the same will be barred. JOSEPH P. MCGAHA, Administrator February 25th, 1895 CONSOLIDATED NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville Alabama, January 25, 1895 Notice is hereby given that the following named settlers have filed notice of their intention to make final proof in support of their claims, and that said proofs will be made before the probate Judge of Marion County at Hamilton Alabama on March 16th 1895 viz: DAVID M. FREDERICK for Homestead Entry No. 22,000 for the W ½ NE ¼ Sec 10 T 9 South R 13 West He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: WILLIAM C. LINDSEY, WINSTON D. STIDHAM, PERRY N. GREEN, LAFAYETTE L. LAWLER, all of Hackleburgh, Ala. Also WILLIAM C. LINDSEY for Homestead Entry No. 17,719 for the N ½ SW ¼ and W ½ SE ¼ Sec 1 T 9 South R 13 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: DAVID M. FREDERICK, WINSTON D. STIDHAM, JAMES H. FREDERICK, WILLIAM C. MILER, all of Hackleburgh, Ala. JESSE W. ELLIS, Register PAGE 3 THE NEWS PRESS Issued Every Thursday $1 Per Annum $1 March 14, 1895 LOCAL NEWS Tax Assessor FARIS of Bexar was in town Tuesday. JOHN MOORE was at Hackleburgh the first of the week. W. C. DAVIS is in Montgomery this week on business. R. C. BURTON of Jasper spent part of last week at Hamilton. WARREN CARPENTER of Shottsville was on our streets last Saturday. C. E. MITCHELL returned from a week’s visit to Thorn Hill on last Sunday. Mr. JAMES FREDERICK of Hackleburgh was here on business the first of the week. P. V. DUNN has returned from Texas. PINK is a good boy and we welcome him back. Chancellor W. H. SIMPSON has reappointed W. B. RIGGAN Register for this county. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. DAVIS returned yesterday from a visit to relatives at Bull Mountain. Mr. J. P. RAMEY has been quite sick for several days but we learn that he is now improving rapidly. Less cotton and more hog and hominy is the only way for our farmers to escape three cent cotton. J. W. HOLLOWAY who has been attending school at Hamilton left on last week for his home in the country. Miss VIRA DENNIS, of near town, is confined to her bed with a cancer. She suffers a great deal and but little hope is entertained for her recovery. WILL ALLEN was given a hearing at Vernon on last week on a charge of forgery and received a two years sentence. When his term expires he can return to Marion and explain how it happened that Mr. SHELTON’S horse followed him to Columbus. A girl who wants to marry so bad that she makes a public exhibition of herself is not the girl that a sensible young man would want for a life companion. Like the do nothing society girl, she may make a lovely wall flower, but that is about all she can hope to be. A few men who pay nothing but a poll tax are howling about the people being taxed to establish an agricultural school at Hamilton. Of course the school will be supported by the tax on fertilizers but the demagogue fool never stops to lean the facts, it is his businesses to howl and he howls. We have heard of several parties who contemplate locating at Hamilton when the district school opens up. Would it not be a good idea for those owning lots in town to erect some good comfortable dwellings during the coming summer? There is not a vacant house in town, and new comers must have houses. GEORGE WEST, colored, is stopping at the hotel de HALL. George is all sorts of a crazy negro and when not in a preaching mood he wants to fight everything that comes his way, and the Bexar people thought it wise to have him confined. He threw a small coal shove at Sheriff HALL on last Tuesday breaking it into atoms against the window bars. Miss MAY MUSGROVE, the interesting little daughter of Postmaster MUSGROVE of Winfield, has a short communication in this issue. The little girls of Winfield believe in having their town represented in their county paper, and they are right. On last week the bright little daughter of Dr. WHITLEY, Miss LOULA, gave us a few dots on the Sunday School, which was appreciated. Both little girls closed with “love to the editor” which was all right for children but we warn young ladies against such endearing terms. Our better half lives in this town and it is our wish to remain in the county. PROCEEDINGS OF TEACHER’S INSTITUTE Held at Glen Allen, Feb. 1st and 2nd 1895 Institute opened at 1 p.m. Devotional exercise conducted by Rev. D. W. DICKINSON, J. L. SMITH at organ. The first subject discussed was How to Teach Orthography, introduced by W. A. DUNN, BEN SANDLIN, D. W. DICKINSON and MACK PEARCE. Song by choir. What Prompts us to teach? – Introduced by W. P. LETSON, MACK PEARCE, BEN SANDLIN and D. W. DICKINSON Song by choir How to Teach Geography – Introduced by MACK PEARCE, W. P. LETSON, C. R. FRANKS, D. W. DICKINSON and BEN SANDLIN Adjourned to meet at 8 a.m. Saturday. SECOND DAY Devotional exercises conducted by Rev. D. W. DICKINSON, Miss CLEMMIE CADDLE at organ. How to teach Primary Reading, presented by A. W. MCDONALD – BEN SANDLIN, J. C. JOHNSON and MACK PEARCE Etymology, presented by MACK PEARCE, discussed by W. A. DUNN, J. C. JOHNSON, and W. P. LETSON How to Secure Order in School Room, presented by BEN SANDLIN and W. A. DUNN Adjourned till 1 p.m. Song by choir Personal Habits of Teacher, presented by MACK PEARCE, discussed by VESTER BOSTIC, T. V. HILL, and C. R. FRANKS Algebra, presented by W. A. DUNN Miscellaneous business Winfield and Shottsville were nominated for the next Institute, Winfield receiving the larger number of votes the next Institute will be held there first Friday and Saturday in May. W. P. LETSON, D. W. DICKINSON and C. R. FRANKS were appointed a committee to prepare a program for next Institute. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Resolved, that we tender our thanks to the people of Glen Allen and vicinity, first for their interest in the Institute by their presence, second, for entertaining this Institute, and third, to the choir for its music. One of the Committee, Glen Allen, Ala. Feb 6 FROM WINFIELD As I have not seen anything in your paper concerning our literary school I will write you. Prof. SANDLIN is our teacher. I like him very much. I am 11 years of age. I belong to the M. E. Church South, and also to the Sunday School. Miss PATTIE ODEN is our teacher and Mrs. CARNES is superintendent. With love to the editor, I will close. MAY MUSGROVE, Winfield, March 6 We want a good, live correspondent at every post office in the county, not spring poets and editors but local news gatherers. FROM DETROIT GEORGE RAY has moved into the STANLEY house. A new boy came to THOMAS WRIGHT’S one night last week. More oats are being sown in this vicinity than usual. Prof. RUSH vacated his school here last Friday until crops are laid by. Miss MARTHA and Grandma ARMSTRONG left last Tuesday for Texas. It seems that the low price of cotton has created a desire among our people to raise better hogs and more corn as several pretties have ordered through-bred Berkshire and Poland China pigs. Mrs. E. C. DAVIDSON was summoned to the bedside of her mother, Mrs. C. L. WHITE at Columbus, Miss., on the 27th ult. Mrs. WHTTE has had a severe attack of pneumonia and lung fever but was convalescing last Thursday. CLIP., Detroit, Ala., March 11 Mr. FRANK ALLEN, a well known mechanic and millright of Winfield, Ala. and his daughter, Mrs. JOSIE GAMBLE, were in Jasper Saturday. They were returning home from Russellville, where they had been on a sad mission – to attend the burial of Mrs. LUCRETIA THOMPSON, the oldest daughter of Mr. ALLEN, and sister to Mrs. GAMBLE. – [Jasper Eagle] The Southern Express Co. got a verdict of $5,000 at the late term of the Lamar circuit court against ALLEN BURROW, father of RUBE BURROW, the noted train robber, as administrator of his son’s estate. The Chicago Post says that Miss Gould is married, Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt has secured a divorce and now it is the Astor’s turn again. For “Old Time” “X” “Rock and Rye” and “New South” tobaccos call on H. E. MIXON Ad for Columbus Business College DO YOU WANT A HOME? For Sale – I have two farms in Marion and Lamar counties which I will sell at reasonable figures. My home place contains 130 acres well improved land, about 45 acres open and a pasture of 35 or 40 acres. My crop last year corn 280 bushels, cotton in lint 6,528 pounds, 80 bushels of peas, 146 bushels of potatoes, 2,000 bundles of fodder, and sold 2,062 pounds of pork. I cultivated the land with 1 ½ horses, and used 2,500 pounds high grade phosphate. Land situated 1 ½ miles from Guin ever running creek through the farm. The Lamar farm contains 133 acres, about 40 acres bottom land. This place was not cultivated last year. I will sell both farms. Plenty of good water, timber and good range for stock. No stock law. Call on or address. G. E. LOWERY, Guin, Ala. Envelopes 5 cents a pack. Do you want them? If so, call at the post office building. NOTICE There will be a meeting of the Medical Board of Marion County at Hamilton, on Saturday the 20th day of April 1895. Every member is earnestly requested to attend. Important business to be transacted. A. L. MOORMAN, M. D., President Wanted – 200,000 hickory spokes. Must be clear of defects, split with the grain, 30 inches long 1 ½ thick by 2 inches wide. Also 1000 fifteen cent hens and 1000 dozen eggs at market price. E. W. BROCK, Guin, Ala. Good lead pencils 10 cents per dozen at the post office building. Ad for Patents Ad for The Republic newspaper – St. Louis, Mo Ad for New $900 Steinway Piano Free ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Probate Court, Marion County NEWTON GUIN, Deceased, Estate of Letters of administration upon the estate of said decedent having been granted to the undersigned on the 22nd day of January 1895, by the Hon. JASON P. FORD, Judge of the Probate court of Marion county notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate will be required to present the same within the time allowed by law, or that the same will be barred. This February 20, 1895. E. J. GUIN, Administratrix Ad for Hartsfeld Furnace and Refining Co. Ad for Columbus Business College SWEPT AWAY – McKinley High Prices are Dead and Mrs. ELLA CLEMENTS is selling stationery and school supplies at astonishingly low prices. School crayon per box 15 cts Composition books 7 cts Composition books 15 cts Good note paper at from 5 to 7 cents per quire Fools cap paper 10 cts quire Envelopes 5 cents a package Ink 5 cts per bottle Pen points 5 cts per dozen Slates 5 x 9 inches 6 cts Slates 7 x 11 inches 10 cts Rubber tip pencils 10 cts dozen Pen holders 10 cts each School books. A new lot of school books just received all of which will be sold as cheap as they can be bought anywhere. Ladies Hats. A nice assortment of ladies hats latest styles and guaranteed to vie satisfaction. Come and examine goods, compare prices and be convinced. Mrs. E. H. CLEMENTS, Hamilton, Ala. (Post office building) NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT The state of Alabama, Marion County W. F. CLARK Vs L. J. WOOD, A. D. HARRIS and P. H. WOOD defendants Before me, B. R. FITE, Notary Public and Ex-officio Justice of the Peace for said county, this the 21st day of February, 1895. It appearing that certain property of the defendant, L. J. WOOD, has been levied upon, to-wit: The SE ¼ of NE ¼ and NE ¼ of SE ½ Sec 19 , SW ¼ of NW ¼ and NW ¼ of SW ¼ Sec 20 T 11 R 14 and 5 acres in SW corner NW ¼ of NW ¼ Sec 20 T 11 R 14 by virtue of an attachment issued from my office on the 20th day of February 1895 and returnable the 14th day of March 1895, and that said defendant is a non- resident of the state of Alabama. It is therefore ordered that notice of said attachment and the return thereof be given to the said L. J. WOOD by publication once a week for three successive weeks before said 14th day of March 1895, in the News-Press, a newspaper published ins aid county, and a copy thereof be mailed to the said L. J. WOOD, at her place of residence, Winfield, Texas. Given under my hand at office this the 21st day of February 1895 B. R. FITE, Notary Public and Ex-Officio J. P. Ad for Plantation Chill Cure – Sold by T. W. CARPENTER, Hamilton, J. F. WHITE, Detroit, J. D. ARNOLD, Bexar PAGE 4 Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla Cures Ad for Imperial Granium – highest award world’s Fair – Ad for W. L. Douglas $3 Shoe MRS. GRANT’S HOME – Where the Widow of the Dead General will Pass Her Remaining Days – (drawing of home) Ad for McElrees’ Wine of Cardui STATE TOPICS MARSHALL GOLD MINES It is said that new openings in the gold mine at Hillion’s store, Marshall County are proving very rich. TENNESSEE RIVER EXCURSION Arrangements are on foot for an excursion to the battlefield of Shiloh, via the Tennessee river and Pittsburg landing from Decatur, on the occasion of the reunion of “the blues and grays” on the 5, 6, and 7 of April. BILL BELL BROUGHT BACK William Bell, who, it will be remembered, shot and killed a constable in Marshall County, Alabama, a year or so ago, for levying an execution on some cotton and stock, was arrested in Hill County, Texas, the other day. Bell is aid to be a native of Salem, in the lower part of Franklin County, Tennessee, and his family was among the best in that section. EMIGRATION TURNING SOUTHWARD A party of eight home seekers from Illinois arrived at Florence recently to look at the farm lands of that section. An excursion party of more than 100 northeasterners is coming on a prospecting tour, and a large party of Ohio people is expected within the net ten days. There seems to be a very decided boom in farm lands in this section and Lauderdale and adjoining counties are receiving many good citizens from the north and west. THE USUAL RESULT Deputy Revenue Collector J. R. Caldwell and Deputy US Marshal Sewell returned last week to Birmingham from a raid through Randolph and Coosa counties. In the former county they had a fight with some moonshiners, and as a result one of the shiners, John William Bogg, is lying in a critical condition, with two ugly wounds in his body. He was hot by Alton Caldwell, son of the deputy collector, at whom he was shooting. While in Coosa county deputy Collector Caldwell captured a bag of spurious coin, and will now proceed to work up a case in that matter. BASE INGRATITUDE A young Englishman who goes by the name of Harry McKnight is wanted in Florence on the charge of embezzlement. McKnight is charged with stealing a registered letter containing $20 from Colonel Cutter Smith. He was sent to the post office with an order for the letter and obtained it, so it is alleged, but failed to return with it. McKnight came to Florence a month ago tired, hungry, and ragged. He was taken in by Mr. Smith and given work in his office. He disappeared Saturday night and has not been heard from since. ABOUT THE NEW TAX LAWS THE LAW MUST BE VINDICATED The college authorities have taken hold of the matter of the attack on the dwelling of the negro at Auburn by the mob of cadets and will investigate the case vigorously………. A COMMENDABLE EXPERIMENT Dr. H. L. Stone of Montgomery returned from a trip to Illinois and Missouri a day or so ago. The object of his visit was to buy brood mares and mule colts…………….. NEW LICENSE LAW By the act of the legislature approved on the 18th of February last the annual state and county license on whisky dealers was increased from $450 to $487.50 and the license on brewers from $22.50 to $150 a year……………. SOMEWHAT RIOTOUS On Sunday night about 10 o’clock the people of Auburn were aroused by a fusillade within the city limits………………….Will Tarver and George Turk UNLICENSED STILLS DEMOLISHED Deputy Revenue Collector D.A Hughes and Deputy US Marshal C. C. Smith seized and destroyed an illicit distillery of large capacity and 500 gallons of beer Saturday night in Winston County. C. C. Cooper, Sam Shain, and J. M. Burns were arrested and taken to Jasper. It is claimed that these men owned and operated the still. Near Barton post office, Colbert County, Deputy Collector Coffee and two deputy marshals destroyed a cooper still of 150 gallons capacity and about 600 gallons of beer, but no arrests were made. HOMICIDE IN BLOUNT At the “Gray Goose” Saloon, five miles from Warrior, Sunday, John Franklin, the proprietor, shot and killed William Howard. The place is in Blount county and as a law of the state prevents selling whiskey within five miles of Warrior, Franklin put up a bar at the point above referred to. Sunday, among others, Howard was at the Gray Goose and after taking several drinks refused to pay and after a few words knocked Franklin down and ran. Franklin grabbed a pistol and followed, shooting Howard through the back and stomach, killing him. Franklin is under arrest. Howard leaves a wife and five children. R. H. SURRENDERS Last summer during the mining troubles in the Birmingham district Deputy Sheriff Charley Cole and James smith went to Hudson’s house, near Coalburg, to arrest George Hudson, a son of R. H. Hudson, against whom warrants charging him with participating in the Pratt Mines riot had been sworn out………….. FATAL NEGLECT OF DUTY The coroner’s inquest in the case of the blow-up on the Central RR near Weem’s station. ……………. ALABAMA MUST EXHIBIT AT the Atlanta International Exposition Her Splendid Resources THE WINDOW SMASHER CRIBBED Colonel Harris, the slayer of Detective Tom Jarrett, a Columbus, Ga. was found guilty of murder and sentenced to the penitentiary for life………. Ad for Royal Baking Powder BLACK AND TAN – One Gentleman’s Theory as to How the Dogs Originally were Mar--- --------- . 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