Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON NEWS PRESS March 21, 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, 9:35 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History March 21, 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 21, 1895 NO. 12 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 A special from Tampa, Fla. says W. H. Taylor, the defaulting treasurer of South Dakota has been arrested at Vera Cruz, Mex by Pinkerton men. ----- On preliminary trial at Chattanooga Tenn. Monday bail was refused to John Lemons, the young desperado charged with shooting down Constable Eugene Lynch from ambush near Rathburn a week ago. After the tragedy the girl whom Lynch had as prisoner, a plucky mountain lass of fifteen summers, escaped with her lover. They made their way overland and by river beyond the mountains into northern Georgia, where they were taken after a chase of four days by dogs and officers near Cohutta. The murder was cold blooded. Lemons had boats that he would kill Lynch if he ever arrested him or the girl Massie Skyles. Very hot blood was aroused in Soddy. Lynch died last Thursday. A passenger train on the South Atlantic and Ohio Railroad while running at a high rate of speed was ditched on a curve Sunday morning near Natural Tunnel, Va. ………….. A three masted schooner Zinnri S. Warringsard loaded with lumber from Georgetown, S. C. for Boston burned off Metompkin beach Sunday morning…… William Newcomb, of Greensboro, N. C. thought his brother J. H. Newcomb of Petersburg Va. had been drowned by falling from a steamer last September on the way from Baltimore to Norfolk, but the missing brother has turned up at Greensboro and Sunday morning his son took him home…………………… Wednesday morning the outer door of the time lock safe in Wasmuth & Sons bank at Roanoke, Ind. was blown off with dynamite. The explosion awakened Charles Regedang. He went out into the street and was assaulted by three masked men. His wife followed and her screams aroused the town. The robbers were chased in a buggy to Sheldon, eleven miles distant. Here the safe blowers deserted the rig which was taken from a Roanoke livery barn, and escaped in a dense woods. Officers are on the track and expect to run the men down. The cracksmen secured no plunder. The newspaper building on Ontario street at Cleveland, O occupied by the World, the A. N. Kellogg Newspaper Company and the office of the United Press was completely destroyed by fire Monday evening……….. Advices from Honolulu confirm the previous reports that the ex-queen has been sentenced to five year’s imprisonment. Leading royalists are organizing solidly for annexation. The military commission has disposed of all cases to come before it and there has been a general release of unconvicted prisoners. Martial law has been relaxed and will soon be declared at an end. Twenty-five Armenian families have arrived at St. Petersburg. They wish to give up their Turkish citizenship and be naturalized in Russia. AN AMERICAN MAIL STEAMER – Passing Cuba, a Spaniard Takes a Pop at Her The mail steamer Allianc, of the New York and Colon line was fired upon and chased by a Spanish gun boat when off the east end of Cuba……………….. ALL QUIET AT NEW ORLEANS COMMERCIAL INDICATIONS–As Observed and Reported by R. G. Dun & Co’s Weekly Review FATAL FIRE AT TOLEDO – Three Men Crushed to Death Under a Falling Wall PLEASURES OF LIVING BY THE SEA A phenomenally high tide in the Gulf of Trieste flooded the streets in the lower part of Trieste. ….. KNOWS HOW TO FARM O. H. Jordan who lives near Dawson Ga. knows how to farm. He says that he sold, last year, enough field and ground peas to run his farm, selling over $150 worth of ground peas alone. Besides what he sold, he saved enough to fatten his meat and for seed. Still, some farmers say there is noting worth raising but cotton. A LEGISLATIVE MOB – Bedlam Breaks Loose in the Halls of the Hoosiers The Indiana Legislature ended in a riot. The governor is allowed by the Constitution to hold a bill three working days before vetoing or approving it and one of the political bills ………… THE AFRICAN EMIGRANTS – Another Hitch in the Program – Bad News From Liberia The collector of customers, at Savannah, Ga. J. F. B. Beckwith, stated Saturday that he would not allow the International migration Society to send the 200 negroes who are here to Liberia in the steamship Horsa unless he complies in every respect with the emigration law n the subject. The law is a very strict one. The Horsa is a very small ship. It is believed that the movement will be stopped on that account. Rev. C. S. Smith, secretary of the Sunday School Union of the African Methodist Church, is here to see that the movement is stopped unless the law is complied with in every way. He is just back from a trip to Liberia, and says it is no place for any sort of an emigrant to go but capitalist. He says that all but ten of the party carried over by Gaston a year or tow ago have been killed out by the climate, to which they could not accustom themselves. He does not want to see any more of his race made victims. HYPOTHECATION OF CITY BONDS – Showing that Good Credit Easily Commands Cash CHINESE FLEEING A dispatch from Shanghai says the Chinese residents are leaving Pekin, Tien Tsin, Taku and their outlying districts, fearing a Japanese invasion. Steamers arriving at Shanghai are crowded with refugees. PAGE 2 THE 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)----------- Arguments for and against the constitutionality of the income tax has been closed, and the Supreme Court has taken the matter under advisement. The Supreme Court several years ago decided than an income tax was constitutional, but the present court may possibly reverse that decision. The constitution requires that a direct tax shall be apportioned among the several states according to population, and if the court holds that the income tax is a direct tax its unconstitutionality would follow. It was also contended that the income tax violated the principle of uniformity. Again decisions of the Supreme Court were produced to show that under the law it was uniform. It is estimated that only 2 percent of the population will be reached by this tax upon incomes of $4000 and over. – [Age Herald] Birmingham is to have another morning daily paper to be called The State. It will advocate the free coinage of silver. Col. Joseph Hodgson, formerly editor of the Mobile Register, will be its editor and H. M. Wilson of the Opelika Evening News will have control of the business management. The state will have both money and brains and that is what it takes to make a successful newspaper. A bill will be introduced in the New Hampshire Legislature making it an offense to buy as well as to sell liquor. 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 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 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, March 13th 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 April 26th 1895 viz: ELBERT M. BELK, for adjoining farm Homestead entry No. 19,367 for the SW ¼ SE ¼ Sec 22 T 10 S R 14 West He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: JESSE C. LEWIS, HENRY E. MIXON, WILLIAM SANDERSON, JASPER N. SANDERSON, all of Hamilton, Ala., And JESSE C. LEWIS for adjoining farm Homestead entry No. 18742 for the N ½ NE ¼ Sec 17 and SW ¼ SE ¼ Sec 8 T 10 R 13 West He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: WILLIAM C. CARTER, WILLIAM C. HOWELL, DANIEL M. CRTER, ELBERT M. BELK, all of Hamilton, Ala. JESSE W. ELLIS, Register PAGE 3 THE NEWS PRESS Issued Every Thursday $1 Per Annum $1 March 21, 1895 LOCAL NEWS C. C. FRAZIER, of Guin is in town. Mr. JAMES SPRINGFIELD of Guin was here Tuesday. W. C. DAVIS returned last week from a business trip to Montgomery. Miss VIRA DENNIS, whose illness we mentioned last week is no better. W. B. CRANE and little son of near Bexar visited relatives in town this week. Farmers are badly behind with their work, owing to the continued wet weather. GEORGE WEST, the crazy negro confined in jail left yesterday for Tuskaloosa in charge of two colored men. Mr. MARION SANDERSON and Miss M. M. PALMER were married on last Thursday and will reside in North Hamilton. Miss DELLA LAWHON, a charming young lady of near Barnesville, is visiting relatives in North Hamilton this week. We notice our exchanges are publishing notices to delinquent tax payers. Are there no delinquents in Marion? C. E. MITCHELL, Esq. has purchased two lots south of the court house and will have a law office erected in the near future. Miss HOLLEY JOHNSON and her brother of near Barnesville spent Saturday and Sunday in town, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. RAMEY. There are a number of families who will want to move to Hamilton this fall, and those owing lots here would do well to build houses on them. Another load of wild cat was brought in on last Sunday night, so we have been informed. Yet there are men here who boasts of our prohibition laws. W. F. GREEN, of Pikeville, passed through Hamilton on Tuesday last en route for Hackleburgh where he expects to get a school for the coming summer. JIM FRYE, who lives three miles south of town, was arrested one night last week and carried to Jasper on a charge of complicity in the robbery of a post office in Walker county. BANKS MCCULLOGH, our local artist, has moved into town. BANKS has a natural talent for drawing and does some very clever work. We have a picture of our own ugliness he enlarged from a photograph and it is so lifelike that every melon raiser in town wants it. A good substantial fence is needed around the court house and jail. It would add to the appearance of the buildings and the cost to the county would be very small. Let the commissioner’s court act on this matter, the buildings are county property and let’s have at least a little county pride. FROM DETROIT Judge POPE of near Gattman, Miss., was in town Saturday. YOUNG GREGORY from near Amory spent Saturday night in town. DOCK PARHAM of near Splunge, visited friends and relatives here last week. Mrs. DAVIDSON is still with her mother at Columbus and will likely remain until Mrs. WHITE is able to come home. Notwithstanding the low price of cotton people will raise a few folks. A new boy at JIM EVANS’ last Friday is the latest. JIM went to Hamilton yesterday and Grandma CARPENTER is expected to return with him and spend a few days. CLIP, Detroit, Ala., March 18 WINFIELD LOCALS Everything quiet in our little city. Mr. I. H. ROBERTSON, one of our merchants, has just returned from a visit to his mother at Fayette. Mr. R. F. CARNES, our railroad agent, and his family have just returned from middle Mississippi, where they spent two weeks visiting relatives and friends. Miss PATTIE ODEN held down the telegraphing and agency work during Mr. CARNES absence. Mr. W. R. H. LODEN caught a fine lot of fish this morning but I am sorry to say did not act at all neighborly. He did not divide worth a cent. Mr. R. R. POSEY has another girl at his house. He will soon have to order some new names. JONATHAN JONES shaves himself every morning and is wearing his blue pants every day. What’s up, old fellow? I am glad to state that the health of Messrs. LINWOOD EARNEST, I. A. ROBERTS, J. A. GAMBLE, and ART BLAKENY is improving. They are not near as thin as they were. SAMBO, Winfield, March 14 PIKEVILLE ITEMS Mrs. VINEY HALEY of near Guin is visiting her son, Mr. H. L. HUGHES. Rev. R. D. BOLIN spent a part of last week with relatives near this place. The Sunday School organization project at Philadelphia church was frozen out at last meeting, but is expected to go through all right at next meeting. The freeze Saturday night was pretty rough on small garden truck. I think letters like those two from the little girls at Winfield are very appropriate in a county paper and are also very interesting. Why don’t more of the school children write such letters? Our community is very thinly settled, and our school and church facilities are consequently very poor. But it is the intention of our people to get together this summer and build a nice school and church house at the old grave yard, near the forks of the Military and Old Aberdeen road. WRONG FONT, Pikeville, March 19 WALLER APPLING made a business trip to Guin the first of the week. WHEN WILL THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY DIE? – Poem AN APPEAL FOR AID – To the Friends of the Orphan’s Home at Talladega It is with reluctance that the homes’ executive committee makes a special call for assistance for its support and maintenance at this time, but with fifty helpless orphans committed to its keeping, and with applications for many more, we deem it right and proper that the friends of this noble charity, who have during the more than thirty years of its existence so generously maintained and supported it, should be made acquainted with its present condition and needs, feeling satisfied that the response will be prompt and full. At this time last year the treasury of the home had sufficient funds to meet its pressing demands for several months, which enabled it to successfully tide over that part of the year when but small contributions could be reasonably expected. Now our treasury is exhausted and no means at hand to furnish subsistence beyond the present month, with some charges necessarily incurred during the current quarter unpaid. There has been some delay in forwarding the proceeds of the synod’s yearly appointed collections and it may be that there are still other of these offerings that have not been forwarded. We ask the friends of the home to make a special effort at as early a day as possible in behalf of the home. By order of the executive committee. G. K. MILLER, Vice Chairman G. R. Foster, Secretary P. S. – All contributions will please be forwarded to J. B. MCMILLIAN, Treasurer, Talladega, Ala. Two communications received from Glen Allen this week but to late for publican. They will appear in our next. Messrs. I. J. LOYD and JOHN WINSTEAD, two prominent citizens of Bull Mountain are in town today. We are a day late this week owing to our paper not being received on time. A crowd of revenue officers in town today. Good lead pencils 10 cents per dozen at the post office building. 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. 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. For waive notice and other legal blanks call at the News-Press office. Envelopes 5 cents a pack. Do you want them? If so, call at the post office building. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT The State of Alabama, Marion County In Probate Court, Special Term, March 18th, 1895 Came this day JOHN B. BULL, administrator of the estate of JACOB W. BULL, Deceased, and filed his account and vouchers for the final settlement of said estate, and the 12th day in April next, to-wit, the 12th day of April, 1895, having been appointed by the court for examining, auditing and stating the same, notice is hereby given to all parties interested to appear at the term of the court aforesaid and contest the same, if they think proper. Given under my hand at office the 18th day of March 1895 JASON P. FORD, Judge of Probate 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 ---(small ads)--- WASHINGTON NOTES VALUE OF COTTON EXPORTS The chief of the bureau of statistics reports that the values of exports of domestic cotton from the ……… A GOOD STROKE OF BUSINESS After many years of dissatisfaction over the prices of coal exacted by the Panama Railroad company from United States wharves, the navy department has declined to have further dealings with that concern……………. APPROPRIATIONS BY THE 53RD CONGRESS LANDS TO BE OPENED FOR ENTRY In the early history of our navy the policy of setting aside naval reservations in the gulf country – Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi – was established. The is was done for the purpose of reserving for naval purposes the live oak and other valuable timber on them, then extensively used in ship building…….. UNCLE SAM’S BACK IS UP – And He Throws Saucy Talk at The Hidalgos Mr. Hannis Taylor, American Minster, at Madrid, has presented to the Spanish Minister of Foreign affairs, a demand from his government for an apology and reparation from the government of Spain…………… Statistics show that as a nation of olive eaters we are coming up to the European record. STATE TOPICS APPOINTED COMMISSIONER I. GREEN of Tuscaloosa qualified last Wednesday and received a commission as a United States commissioner. The appointment was made by Judges Pardee and Bruce. AN UNLUCKY TUMBLE At a mill near Stanton, Tuesday a son of R. H. Lawrence fell off a chain used to carry lumber from the saw to the dry house, an dap ice of scantling falling on him, broke both bones of one leg, just above the ankle. HOMICIDE IN SELF DEFENSE On Tuesday morning five miles west of Stanton Mr. Walter Davis was shot and killed by Mr. Will Martin. It is said that Davis was advancing on Martin with an axe, and that Martin, after vainly warning him to stop, seized a shot gun and fired the fatal shot. An inquest was to be held. WASHOUT ON THE CENTRAL At noon Wednesday an extra train on the Central railroad was wrecked eleven miles from Troy……………. Fox Curtis, William Curtis of Glenwood, Jones CRUSHED BY A FALLING TREE – Marvin Wood – Salley Quinn – Irondale MURDER AND ROBBERY – Pleas Meriwether – Birmingham LOADED DOWN WITH PLUNDER – marshal Phillips - Pratt City SEEKING SOUTHERN HOMES – Mr. F. GREEN, general agent of the Mobile and Ohio, has arrive din Mobile with a large party of northern land seekers. There were nearly two hundred in the party when they left St. Louis, but many of them have stopped off at various points on the line, and will arrive at Mobile in small parties during the month. The movement southward over the Mobile and Ohio keeps up a steady march, and it is understood that many of the excursionists are buying homes and settling along the line. A FOOL AND A PISTOL – Fred Rush - A. A. Simms – Eleanor HER TWO BLUNDERS WATERS WILD IN GEORGIA In consequences of heavy rains for several days past all streams are very high and are still rising. ………. INDIANS WANTING WIVES The Pamunkey, the only Indian tribe now in Virginia, is becoming utterly extinct, and, unless more females are added, it will soon be so. Chief Bradley and Councilman Bradley, his uncle, visited the governor last week and asked him to suggest a remedy for propagating their race and keeping their blood pure. There are 1,000 members of the Cherokee tribe in North Carolina. Chief Bradley thinks of sending down there and importing squaws who are willing to become the brides of the Pamunkey braves. The governor heartily approved of the plan, and expressed the hope that the mission to the Old North State would be successful. AMERICAN SHIP SEIZED Per steamship Spania, from Bluefields March 8, it is learned that he schooner Meteor, which said from Mobile Ala. In December last and is supposed to be the vessel which was reported to have been fired upon by a British man-of-war at that place, and is also supposed to have carried hence munitions of war, was not fired upon but has been seized by the Nicaragua government because she went into port without manifest certified by the Nicaragua consul, and that the vessel will be unloaded of every bit of her cargo. If she has ammunitions on board they will be found. Ad for Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills Ad for Royal Baking Powder DURABLE BRICKS Excavations in Babylon have brought to light a number of bricks, the stamps on which prove them to be at least 4,000 years old. They appear to be as good now as when they were first baked. Ad for Walter Baker & Co – Cocoas and Chocolates Ad for Ripans Tabules Ad for Kennedy’s Medical Discovery Ad for W. L. Douglas $3 Shoe Ad for De Laval Separator Co. Ad for Scott’s Emulsion File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/hamilton1736gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 31.6 Kb