Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON NEWS PRESS April 11, 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, 9:55 pm Microfilm From Al Dept Of Archvies And History April 11, 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. APRIL 11, 1895 NO. 15 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $1.00 PER ANNUM. R. H. TERRELL, Publisher Advertising Rates Reasonable – Job Work Neatly and Cheaply Executed DIRECTORY CIRCUIT COURT Judge – T. R. ROULHAC, of Colbert County Solicitor – A. H. CARMICHAEL, of Colbert County Clerk – J. F. HAMILTON, Hamilton Sheriff – W. W. HALL, Hamilton Court meets on the 1st Monday after the 4th Monday in January and 2nd Monday in August CHANCERY COURT Chancellor – W. H. SIMPSON of Decatur Register – W. B. RIGGAN, Hamilton Court meets on Thursday after the 3rd Monday in April and October. 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 Tax Collector – M. M. FRAZIER, Hamilton Treasurer – J. B. WOOD, Hamilton SOCIETIES MASONIC Hamilton Lodge No. 344 meets at Hamilton on the 4th Saturday in each month, at 11 am . G. N. STOKES, W. M., J. P. FORD, 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. A. BIVIN, 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. DISASTROUS EXPLOSION – Two Buildings Wrecked, Five People Killed and Many Injured A terrible explosion occurred at a2 o’clock Friday morning in the grocery and ship chandlery of Charles J. Salathe, on Decatur and Ursulien streets, New Orleans, La, opposite the lower end of the French market, entirely demolishing that end the adjoining saloon, the Fisherman’s exchange, and burying a number of people in the debris which at once took fire……… FIXING FOR INVESTMENT SOUTH In the Massachusetts Legislature the committee on mercantile affairs reported a bill authorizing the Merriman Manufacturing company to increase its capital stock of…………….. GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY J. W. Torbett of Texas, who graduated Tuesday night, leading a class of 135, at the Atlanta Medical College, made the highest record in the institution’s history of thirty-seven years. He received a special medal for his remarkable record. The alleged defalcation of George C. Scott, late cashier of the Mississippi Logging Company, Winona, Miss. has been confined by an examination of the books. The deficit amounts to $28,000. It is said his speculations were carried on for several years. A cyclone at Jeffersonville, Ga. Tuesday afternoon wrecked the negro Baptist church in which a school was in progress. The teacher and forty-two children were buried in the debris. All were taken out alive. Eighteen of the children were seriously injured but no deaths have occurred. The Venable Bros. have started work on a ten-story hotel on the site of the old capitol. The building will be of granite and steel and will cost $500,000, exclusive of site and furnishing. It will accommodate 1000 guests, and is to be completed by September 20. The building will face the post office and the Grady monument at Mariette and Forsyth Street. A church was demolished an several buildings unroofed by a tornado Friday night in Winnborough, twenty miles from Sulphur Spring, Texas. One child was killed and several persons were injured. ------ Pat Shea, a citizen of Hancock County, was shot and killed last Thursday night by Prof. W. E. Reynolds of the Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural college, Milledgeville, Ga. Shea was probably drunk and was on Reynolds’s front porch. Reynolds took him for a burglar, and his son, who was with him when he opened his front door, warned him to look out, as the man was going to shoot. The professor raised his gun and fired, and Shea was almost instantly killed. The affair is deeply regretted by all the people of Milledgeville, and by none more than Professor Reynolds himself. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of perfectly justifiable homicide. ------ Five men stopped a Rock Island train near Dover, I. T. at a late hour last Thursday night and made a desperate attempt to secure the contents of a safe in the express car……. ------ The Standard’s Berlin correspondent says: “The Emperor of China has instructed Li-Hung-Chung to ask for an audience with the Mikado to thank him for the armistice. If Li is unable his son-in-law will deliver the message. Li will probably ask that his assailant be pardoned or his sentence mitigated. The Times correspondent in Calcutta says: The Chitral expedition stormed Malanderi Pass on March 3. There was sharp fighting for five hours. The enemy, who were 2,000 strong, lost heavily, and ever since have been in full retreat. The British loss was slight. The First brigade has crossed over into Swat. The British steamship Ethelrod, from Boston, has arrived at Port Antonio, Jamaica. Captain Hopkins, who commands her, says that when she was off Cape Maysi a Spanish gunboat bore down upon her………….. ST. CHARLES CREMATED The business portion of the city of St. Charles was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday morning and the loss will exceed $100,000………………….. A CASHIER VERY FAR SHORT Frederick W. Griffin, assistant cashier of the Northwestern National Bank, of Chicago was on Tuesday afternoon taken into custody at the instance of Bank Examiner John McKeon by the US Deputy Marshal. ………………. MAY ENFORCE VACCINATION The Court of Appeals refuse to grant Attorney August Rebenack a writ of mandamus to compel the school board to allow his children to attend school without being vaccinated. In an opinion Tuesday, in which all the judges concur, the court holds that the school board has the right to enforce vaccination. SUPPOSED DROWNING – Titusville, Fla. – Miss Ella Skill of Petersburg, Va. and Earl Munson OUR COUNTRYIS COMMERCE – As Observed and Reported by R. G. Dunn & Co’s Weekly Review – Heavy Bank Failures Reported RARE DEVOTION TO LAW – An Officer Saves the Murderer of his Brother from a Mob About 1 o’clock Sunday morning in a notorious negro dive on West Bay street, Jacksonville, Fla., Brit Glenn, alias “Kid Charlie” a negro gambler, deliberately, and with slight provocation, shot and killed Napoleon Stuks, a negro porter. When his victim fell he fled, hotly pursued by a crowd of negroes, who soon lost sight of him. About 5 o’clock he was found concealed in a lighter on McCoy’s Creek. He ran out and distanced all pursuers. Finally he was located in the loft of a barn, where, protected by a pile of lumber, he fought the officers until his ammunition was exhausted. Edward Minor, a policeman was hot through the heart and died in three minutes, two negroes were wounded and Lieutenant James Minor received a shot in the right ankle. This was Glenn’s last shot and he now surrendered. As the lieutenant stepped forth with his prisoner the first object that his eyes fell upon was the corpse of his brother Ed lying near the door of the barn. Until then the lieutenant did not know his brother was dead. The lieutenant led the negro towards the city jail, which was more than a mile away, followed by an immense crowd clamoring for the negroes blood. Near the city jail policeman Ed Holland approached with pistol drawn, swearing he would kill the negro and avenge his brother office, Ed Minor. The lieutenant placed his pistol against Holland’s head and said: “This man is a prisoner and as such sacred. You shoot him and I will blow out your brains.” So Lieutenant Minor brought the negro safely to jail. Excitement ran high among blacks and whites. To avoid trouble the murderer was secretly transferred to St. Augustine. THE NOBLE SIX HUNDRED Six hundred striking miners marched to Cincinnati, Ia. Saturday where men were working and induced them to come out. The Cincinnati men say they will go back to work Sunday, and the visiting miners are camped there and say they will never allow them to do so. Serious trouble is expected and the military company at Centerville has been ordered to hold itself in readiness. INDUSTRIAL NOTES – Old Rates Being Restored and Men Returning to Work Four hundred miners at Finleyville, Pa., employed in the pits of Henry Florshem, returned to work last Thursday morning at 3-cent rate for which they struck……… A NEGRO ROBBER AND DESPERADO – Resisting Arrest, Wounds a Citizen and Kills an Officer A special from Bay Minette, a small station on the Louisville and Nashville railroad twenty-five miles above Mobile, Ala tells of the killing at 12 o’clock Saturday night of James Stewart, aged 20 years, by a negro desperado, known only by the name “Railroad Bill.” Every effort has been made to capture the daring and reckless negro, but without success. He was seen Saturday night at 10 o’clock by two white men, on whom he opened fire, wounding one slightly. They organized a posse and found their man two miles and a half from Bay Minette. A midnight battle ensued during which Chief James Stewart received a rifle ball through is heart. The negro escaped. Sheriff McMillan of Brewton arrived on the scene at 2 o’clock Sunday morning with bloodhounds, but a heavy rain prevented a successful trail. STEALING A RIDE TO DEATH – Four tramps Killed and Fifteen Hurt in a Wreck FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT – A Trestle Goes Down and Four Lives are Lost – Whigville, O ONE BY ONE THEY FALL Sheriff Charles Perry, of Roswell N. M. reached Fort Worth, Texas, Monday having in charge Jim Turner, who was Bill Cooks’ trusted Lieutenant during all his daring exploits. Turner was arrested in Roswell, where he had recently married and settle down to lead a quiet life. There rare ten charges pending against Turner in the United States courts, besides he is though to be one of the Longview train robbers. The prisoner will be taken to Fort Smith. Sheriff Perry will be entitled to several thousand dollars reward for Turners’ capture. SOUTH OMAHA POST OFFICE ROBBED The post office at South Omaha, Neb. was broken open Sunday night and robbed of over $3,000 in cash…… 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 Jasper is making a strong effort to capture the State Industrial School. The State Sunday School Convention will meet in Mobile on the 30th inst. President Cleveland says: “I was at one time opposed to the income tax, but now I believe it to be a just and wise measure of taxation.” A bill has been passed by the Wisconsin Legislature granting negroes equal rights with white people in churches, hotels, theaters and all other places of business or amusement. That’s the republican idea of settling the race question. -------(political news and commentary) ---- silver question–----- SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of a fieri 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 JOSEPH GRAY, J. B. LEWIS, W. J. LEWIS, J. H . REID, S. T. ADAMS, out of the goods, chattels, lands, and tenements of the said J. W. LEWIS, S. T. ADAMS and J. B. LEWIS. I have levied on the following property, to-wit: N ½ of NW ¼ of SW ¼ and NE ¼ of SW ¼ Sec 24 T 11 R 5 the property of S. T. ADAMS, and NE ¼ Sec 26 T 11 R 15, the property of WM. J. LEWIS, and 10 acres in SW corner of NW ¼ of SE ¼ and S ½ of SE ¼ Sec 13 and E ½ of NE ¼ Sec 24 and SW ¼ of NE ¼ Sec 14 T 11 R 158 and W ½ of SE ¼ Sec 18 T 11 R 14 and the undivided third interest in SE ¼ Sec 14 T 11 R 15, the property of J. B. LEWIS. Therefore, according to said command, I shall expose for sale, at public auction, all the right, title, and interest of the above named S. T. ADAMS, WM. J. LEWIS, and J. B. LEWIS in and to the above described property on Monday the 29th day of April 1895, during the legal hours of sale at the court house door in Hamilton Alabama. Dated at office this 29th day of March 1895. W. W. HALL, Sheriff Marion County, Ala. PROGRAM OF TEACHERS INSTITUTE To be Held at Winfield, Friday and Saturday May 3rd and 4th 1895 FRIDAY 9:00 A.M. Institute opened by Devotional Exercise. Welcome address – BEN SANDLIN Response, Supt, W. A. DUNN Preliminary business of the Institute 1. Conducting Recitations – C. E. MITCHELL, J. L. CONNER 2. Relation of Parent and Teacher – MACK PEARCE, F. G. ARMSTRONG Adjourn for noon 3. School government -0 D. W. DICKINSON, W. P. LETSON 4. Algebra – W. A. DUNN, A. W. TATE 5. Reading – N. Y. AKERS, J. P. MCGAHA Adjournment FRIDAY 8:00 P.M. Debate. Query: Resolved, That compulsory Education is better than our present system. Affirmative – A. W. TATE Negative – F. G. ARMSTRONG SATURDAY 9:00 A.M. 6. Constitutional Amendment – F. G. ARMSTRONG, A. W. TATE, MACK PEARCE, W. P. LETSON, et al 7. Corporal Punishment – C. E. MITCHELL, D. W. DICKINSON 8. Diagrams and Parsing – J. B. HOLLEY, W. P. LETSON, MACK PEARCE Adjourn for noon. SATURDAY 1:30 P.M. 9. Arithmetic – F. G. ARMSTRONG, A. W. TATE, J. C. MCDONALD 10. Physiological Effects of Tobacco – W. P. LETSON, C. R. FRANKS, H. V. BOSTIC, C. E. MITCHELL 11. Physiological Effects of Alcohol – MACK PEARCE, W. F. GREEN, E. S. GREEN, GRANT GREEN, Y. L. GREEN 12. What is Needed to better the Condition of our Schools? - A. W. TATE, WM. TAYLOR, F. G. ARMSTRONG, MACK PEARCE, et al Music for the Institute will be furnished by Miss MEM EARNEST. W. P. LETSON D. W. DICKINSON C. R. FRANKS – Committee Ad for Columbus Business College This way ladies! I have just received a large stock of Millenry which I will have on exhibition in the GAST building. I want to sell. Come in, I will take pleasure in showing you my goods. Dress cutting and fitting a specialty. All orders will have prompt attention. Respectfully Mrs. DORA TERRELL, Hamilton, Ala. Ad for New $900 Steinway Piano Free Wanted – 200,000 hickory spokes. Must be clear of defects, split with the grain, 30 inches long 1½ thick by 2 inches wide. Also 1,000 fifteen cent hens and 1,000 dozen eggs at market price. E. W. BROCK, Guin, Ala. 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 Ad for The Republic Call at the post office building for fresh garden seed. 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 April 11, 1895 LOCAL NEWS ONLY A DRINK Only a drink, just one, And there the mournful tale begins Only a drink, what harm? With that the tempter wins Only a drink, the first, What number will the last drink be? Only a drink to quench the thirst, Poor slave, no longer free Drink now, the tempter calls, Another drink the demon cries, Drink, drink till manhood falls, Nor cease till manhood dies Come, slave, another drink, Obey your master, take the bowl’ Drink madly on the brink Where darkness drowns the soul *** Only a drunkard’s tomb Only a soul God cannot save, A soul gone down in gloom Beyond a hopeless grave - [W. L. HENDRICKS, In Blount County News-Dispatch] Very little gardening done yet. COLUMBUS GREEN gave us a call while in town last Saturday. Mrs. J. S. CLEMENTS visited relatives near Barnesville on Sunday last. Judge FORD attended United States Court at Huntsville last week. Part of the lumber is on the ground for ‘Squire DAVIS new law office. JOHN D. HAMILTON visited relatives near Henson Springs on Monday last. R. E. DUNN of near town is serving on the grand jury at Huntsville court. Messrs W. T. HAWKINS and MACK PEARCE of Glen Allen were in town last week. Some men are always going to do something – after it has been done by somebody else. A new plank fence is to be built around the cemetery, which speaks well for our people. All sorts and sizes of ladies and children’s hats at Mrs. DORA TERRELL’S . Also boy’s straw. Miss FLORENCE STANFORD, a charming young lady from near Guin, spent last Saturday and Sunday in Hamilton visiting her sister, Miss NELLIE, who is in school here. J. J. GIBBS of Goldmine was a welcome caller at this office last Saturday and left a dollar for a year’s subscription. One sub may be a very small matter, but lots of cash subs make the editor feel like buying a new linen duster. Who’s next? The educational board met here last Saturday and there was quite a number of teachers present, some to be examined preparatory to teaching, and others to receive pay for work already done. Marion is coming to the front on educational matters. A debating society was organized at the court house on last Saturday night and regular meetings will be held hereafter. W. R. APPLING, Esq. and ye editor are the champions for next Saturday night and of course that means a crowded house and flights of oratory unsurpassed since the good old days of Cicero. It’s a free show and reserved seats for the ladies. Come early and avoid the rush. Road working is now on. Misses PATSIE WILLETT and FANNIE NEAL were visiting in town the first of the week. Chickens, beeswax, and wool taken at Mrs. DORA TERRELL’S in exchange for hats, But don’t bring old roosters. We were pleased to meet our friend J. B. HOLLEY while in town last week. JOE has a flourishing school at Bexar and is a young man whose energy entitles him to success. A thief broke into the residence of Mr. P. H. DUNN on last Monday while he and his wife were away from home and stole $8.27 in money. There is no clue to the guilty party. Mr. T. J. YOUNG, the clever editor of the Vernon Courier, gave us a pleasant call last Tuesday. Mr. YOUNG was here in the interest of the Courier Telephone Co., and we are glad to state that he received substantial encouragement from our people. It is the purpose of the Courier Company to build a telephone line from Guin to Hamilton and if Guin does her part a we believe she will the line is assured. FROM PIKEVILLE A Sunday School will be organized at Philadelphia Church on next Sunday morning at 10 o’clock. Rev. Dr. T. J. SPRINGFIELD will preach a sermon especially to the children at 11 o’clock. Mrs. H. L. HUGHES visited her daughter, Mrs. RAN SHIREY, near Winfield yesterday. WRONG FONT, Pikeville, April 8 FROM DETROIT Grandma WILSON has gone home. Miss JEFFIE PEARCE of Bexar is visiting relatives here. J. D. CARTER and Miss ETTIE are off to Amory this week to have some dental work done. Mrs. WHITE is improving at Columbus but Mrs. DAVIDSON’S children now have measles there. Through the efforts of our kind ladies Mrs. EVANS now lives in the LUM BYRD house and has been supplied with the immediate necessaries of life. After Rev. ROBERT WILSON had concluded services at Wesley Chapel last Sunday the audience was surprised when Mr. GEORGE PICKLE and Miss GLO WILLIAMS stepped into the altar and were married in the Rev. WILSON’S pleasing style. The young couple were from Splunge, Miss. and had quietly stolen away from the “old folks at home.” While we deeply sympathize with those whom this affair may have displeased, we heartily extend the old time “wish you much joy, etc.” CLIP, Detroit, April 9 FROM PEARCE’S MILLS Fine weather and farmers are hustling for all they are worth. JAMES P. PEARCE has returned from Louisville, J. B. PEARCE is the champion farmer of this section. He made a bale of cotton to the acre last year and says he will make a bale and a third to the acre this year. SAM TUCKER was here last Friday. He said it was the first time he ever came after nothing and got it. Success to the News Press DANDY, Pearce’s Mills, April 6 CONFEDERATE VETERAN REUNION For the National Confederate Veteran Reunion to be held at Houston, Texas, May 22nd. 23rd, and 24th the Cotton belt Route authorize rate of one cent per mile. Tickets to be sold May 18th and 19th, limited fifteen days with privilege of extension fifteen days longer if tickets are deposited with agent terminal line at Houston. For further particulars, address, C. P. RECTOR, Commercial Agent, or J. C. DAVIS, Traveling Frt. 7 Pass. Agent, 303 Main street, Memphis, Tenn. Envelopes 5 cents a pack. Do you want them? If so, call at the post office building. NOTICE TO DELINQUENT TAX PAYERS – (All owners unknown) NOTICE TO DELINQUENT TAX PAYERS The State of Alabama, Marion County To HENRY THOLE, W. J. BRODRICK, PETNEY PACE, ANDREW J. RAWLS, THOMAS LYONS, HENRY W. TUCKER, C. D. GARRETT, and G. ADLOPHUS BAKER – the tax Collector has filed in my office a list of delinquent tax payers and of real estate upon which taxes are due. You are reported as delinquent and the following real estate is reported as assessed to you, to wit:……… This is to notify you to appear before the Probate Court of said county at the next term thereof, commencing on Monday the 22nd day of April 1895 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 against you, and fees and costs. This April 2nd 1895 JASON P. FORD, Judge of Probate Read the News-Press We regret to say that Miss VIRA DENNIS is not better this week. G. B. MIXON is off on a business trip to Tupelo, Miss. this week. Bring your hens and frys to Mrs. DORA TERRELL and get spring hats. C. E. MITCHELL, Esq. left last Tuesday on a visit to relatives at Thorn Hill. Rev. W. A. BIVIN and wife are visiting the family of Dr. STONE at Guin this week. The Commissioners refuse to fence in the court house and Sheriff HALL has ditched it in. D. D. WRIGHT, who is attending school at Yale, Miss was a welcome visitor at our sanctum last week. Don’t forget that next Saturday is the day appointed to clear off the cemetery. Let everybody assist in this work. Your last chance – Ad for the Weekly Commercial Appeal JOHN L. AS AN EXAMPLE – (prohibition article – from Commercial Appeal) Good lead pencils 10 cents per dozen at the post office building. TRADE LOCALS Buy your dry goods, hats, boots, shoes and clothing from L. D. LITTLETON, Guin, Ala. 20 yards of cotton checks, calico or yard wide domestic for $1 at L. D. LITTLETON Buy nails from Littleton, 40 lbs for one dollar. You can buy a good pair of pants from Littleton of Guin for $1 Ladies, go to Littleton’s for dress goods at actual wholesale cost. Men’s hats at Littleton’s for 50c Men’s suspenders, full size only 10 cents at Littleton’s. Big stock of goods just received oat Littleton’s at hard time prices. Fine bureaus at Littleton’s for $5.00. Trunks from $2.50 up. Men’s cotton half hose at Littleton’s for 5 cents 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) Ad for Hartsfeld Furnace and Refining Co. Ad for Patents 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 Ad for Imperial Granum Ad for McElrees Wine of Cardui LIVE WASHINGTON NOTES CADETS APPOINTMENTS – (to West Point) TWO NATIONAL BANKS CLOSED Comptroller Eckels has closed up two banks, the First National of Revena, Neb. and the First National Bank of Dublin, Texas……. MONEY COINED IN MARCH The coinage executed at the US mints during the month of March aggregated 458,005 pieces, ………. THE ETHELROD OWNED IN BOSTON Commissioner Chamberlain of the treasury Bureau of navigation says that the Ethelrod, reported as having been fired upon, halted and searched by a Spanish cruiser……. The Chicago Tribunes’ special correspondent wires his paper that the United States Supreme court in the income tax case has reversed the decision of the lower court, but the income tax law as a whole is upheld, but only by a divided court………………… NATIONAL BANK NOTE CIRCULATION………….. OFFICIAL TREASURY STATEMENT……………. THE CRUISER MONTGOMERY………………… A GENEROUS HEEARTED EMPEROR The following telegram was received Friday afternoon by the Japanese legation from the Japanese foreign office:………………… JAMAICA’S LEGISTURE………….. DEBT STATEMENT……………….. STATE TOPICS CRUSHED TO DEATH – Dothan – Walter Johnson FERTILIZERS IN LESS DEMAND……………… MONEYU ORDER POST OFFICES…………….. JOE BAILEY, THE WIFE MURDERER The Supreme Court has affirmed the judgment of the court below in the case of Joe Bailey, who was tired in the Jefferson county criminal court…………… EXPERTS ON INSANITY CONFER A Tuskaloosa dispatch of Tuesday says: The superintendents of the state hospitals for the insane from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi are now here for the purpose of inspecting the methods employed in the treatment and management of the insane in Alabama’s noted charitable institution. GOLD, SILVER AND LEAD M. W. Wise has mad two very valuable discoveries in Marshall County. He has found gold in considerable quantities some fifteen miles up the Tennessee River from Columbus City, and large galena beds a few miles below that point……………… SUCCESSOR TO THE LATE JUDGE BOX……………… WEBB MAKES A CONFESSION On Tuesday Deputy Sheriff Cole went to North Birmingham to arrest JIM WEBB on a warrant. Webb ran and the officer fired several shots, one of which inflicted a wound like to prove fatal. Webb was carried to the jail hospital, where he was identified by the negro Harris as one of three who were present when old man Daniel was shot near East Lake. Afterwards, upon being told that he had but a few hours to live, he confessed being with Harris at Daniels’ and said he knew himself guilty and therefore ran from the officer. Later: He is dead. BOSTON’S BLIND ARCHITECT – (Dennis Reardon) He is Also a Printer, and Has Designed a Number of Buildings – The architect who designed the plans for the library and natural history building, the Howe building, and a number of tenements belonging to the Perkins Institution, and the Massachusetts School for the Blind, Boston, is himself a pupil of the school and totally blind…… FEATHERS PUCKED BY THE WIND – (anecdote) Ad for Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Ad for Royal Baking Powder WORK THEIR WAY Some of the forty or fifty state Agricultural colleges make special provision for students wishing to work their way through college…… Ad for Syrup of Figs Ad for Ripans Tabules Ad for W. L. Douglas $3 shoes Ad for Pearline Ad for Aermotor File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/hamilton1739gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 32.0 Kb