Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON NEWS PRESS April 25, 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, 10:07 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History April 25, 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 25, 1895 NO. 17 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 PROBATE COURT Meets on the 2nd Monday in each month. 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. DASTARDLY DEED OF WRETCHES AT 8:30 Thursday night at Bordentown, NM. J. Mrs. T. S. Parnell, mother of the late Charles Stewart Parnell, was murderously assaulted by highwaymen who robbed her of a black satchel and a small sum of money…………….. EVEN THE SKILLFUL FALL Robert Center, aged 55, club man, man of leisure and one of the best known sportsmen in America, was returning from a spin on his wheel, when he crashed into a coal cart. He was thrown under the wagon, the left front wheel of which ran over his face, crushing in the skull. The hind wheel passed over his chest and throat completing his fatal injuries. The dead club man’s devotion to the wheel extended back to its first introduction into this country. GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY ----- Mrs. W. E. Seebold of New Orleans, La….. Four masked robbers entered the home of John Yager, a wealthy farmer, - Huntington, W. Va. Northeastern railroad was bought at foreclosure sale Tuesday by Governor Atkinson….. Dr. John Powell, physician at the Gress penitentiary camp at Kramer, Ga. shot and killed Joe Ried, a well-to-do merchant. …………. The Robinson-Hughes Company of Louisville, Ky. have formed a trust of all the cotton mills in Alabama manufacturing osnaburgs………… At a secret meeting of rolling mill men from the south and west, held in Louisville, Ky. Thursday bar iron………… Andrew Johnson, colored, was drowned at Greencove Springs, Fla., Tuesday while endeavoring to get a straw hat which had blown overboard……………. The last one of the five prisoners who recently escaped from the Matawan, NM. Y. asylum, Oliver Perry the train robber has been recaptured. Notices were posted in the local mills of New Bedford, Mass. Tuesday of a restoration of the former schedule of wages………… A Baltimore and Ohio passenger train struck a delivery wagon at Connellsville, Pa………. At a meeting of Cotton Mill Manufacturer’s association of Fall River, Mass…………. There was a light shock of earthquake felt in Burlington Vt. Wednesday about 11:30 o’clock. The disturbance was of several seconds duration. Three residences, one boarding house and three dry kilns, property of the Central Coal and Coke Company, burned Monday at Texarkana, ark……. Monday morning at 1 o’clock an incendiary fire was started in the livery barn of J. W. Watson at Tahlequah, I. T…..……. At Garden City, Ka, a terrific wind storm blew all day Tuesday doing considerable damage to buildings and causing one death. At Pierceville George Wright was blown under a locomotive and cut to pieces……. A fire which started Sunday afternoon in the livery stable of James T. Orum … Pittsburg, Mo. Albert H. Horton, chief justice of the supreme court of Kansas has handed in his resignation to Governor Morrill….. The main business portion of Ardmore, I. T. for six solid blocks on Cadden street, north and south of Main street, were destroyed by fire Friday morning Two men killed – Chicago ship building company……….. Coatmaker’s strike – Cincinnati, O – declared off………….. George Morrison, postage stamp counterfeiters was arrested………………. FOREIGN The Figaro, a paper published at Paris, France, gives currency to a rumor that Dr. Nanzen, the Arctic explorer has found the north pole, and that it is situated on a chain of mountains. It is also said that Dr. Nanzen planted there the Norwegian flag. The story is regarded without foundation in truth. A London Central News Dispatch from Seoul, under Friday’s date says that t plot has been discovered to dethrone the king of corea in favor of his nephew, Li Shun Yon. The conspirators, including Li Sun Yon, were promptly arrested. In an article in the Paris Figaro, Jules Hurst recently spoke of Catulie Mendez, the poet and playwright as Oscar Wilde’s intimate friend. Mendez at once demanded satisfaction of the insinuation which he found in this form: A duel was fought with swords in the St. Germain forest. Mendez was wounded in the forearm. WEAVER’S STRIKING - At Fall River, Mass………. LIVE WASHINGTON NOTES TREASURY STATEMENT NEW NICARAGUA CABINET NEW COUNTERFIET BANK NOTES INVESTIGATING THE BEEF QUESTION THE NEW SPAINSH MINISTER PILES OF SUGAR WITHOUT BOUNTY THE DAWES COMMISSION Instructions have been issued by Secretary Smith to the five member of the Dawes Commission to meet at South McAllester on May 1 next and organize for work. The last congress raised the number of commissioners from 3 to 5 and appropriated $3000 for its works. As each commissioner receives $5,000 a year, the sum will be enough to carry on the work for about one year. The duties of the commission are to confer with the Creeks, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Cherokees, and Seminoles with a view to persuading them to relinquish the tribal system and accept their lands in severalty so that they may be sooner or later organized into a state of the union. REVENUES FROM INCOMES SUGAR FROM SANDWICH ISLANDS Consul General Mills at Honolulu, in a communication to the state department says: Sugar is now being shipped direct to New York from Honolulu. New arrangements have been made by the Western Sugar Refining Company for this purpose. It is estimated that the new deal will divert at least 30,000 tons of sugar from the port of San Francisco to New York during the present year. This will cause considerable loss to the lumber and coal-laden vessels which come to Honolulu from the Pacific coast and therefore general secured a cargo of sugar for San Francisco. Many vessels left here this year in ballast and others had to wait a considerable length of time for a load. Railroads in the United States will also lose considerable in freights, as most of the sugar now being carried around Cape Horn was conveyed across the continent. THE MISSISSIPPI WARRANTS Secretary Carlisle has directed that the prosecution against the Western Bank Note Company of Chicago for printing Mississippi state warrants be discontinued. This action is taken upon the recommendation of US…. Some six months ago the state of Mississippi undertook to issue warrants that passed as money. The money was seized by Secret Service chief Hazen, and Governor Stone and other officials were arrested for violating the law, which restricts to the United States the authority to issue money or to sanction its use. The state authorities resisted this contention, and the government turned its attention to those who were printing the warrants. There are several suits now pending in St. Louis, Mo., Cincinnati, O, and Jackson, Miss. arising out of this case, both against the warrants and passed them. All of these cases will not probably be dropped. COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL – Movements Toward Improved Conditions Continue Steadily FIGHTING FOR OFFICE – Chickasaws Defeated in an Election Contest, Resorts to Arms At a recent election held in the Chickasaw Nation for sheriff, WILLIS and CHALRES BROWN and NOAH MCGUILL claimed to have been duly elected. Their claims were ignored by the legislature. It seems that they were unwilling to abide by the decisions and gathered their followers at Tishomingo, the capitol of the nation, to enforce their claims. Last Tuesday morning Governor Mosely issued orders to all sheriffs, constables and deputies through the nation to report to him at once with arms. When the officers gathered around the house 200 armed men, headed by McGuill and the Brown brothers, rushed from adjoining houses and a fierce fight followed, in which six men were killed and eight wounded. The names of the dead and wounded could not be ascertained, owing to the great excitement which prevailed. Governor Mosely and his official retinue escaped by rushing to houses on the outskirts of town. Mosely has called a special session of the legislature to take action. Tishomingo is now in a terrible state of excitement and the white people are fleeing. APPOINTMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR 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 Gov. Oates is at Hot Springs, Ark seeking relief from rheumatism. Alabama will have a creditable exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition. Will Marion County be represented? The following Trustees of the Agricultural School and Experiment Station at Hamilton have been appointed: A. J. HAMILTON, M. H. KEY, T. W. WIGINTON, of Marion; D. W. HOLLIS, of Lamar, and F. P. MARTIN of Pickens. -------(political news and commentary) ---- silver question–and gold standard-- --- IT LOOKS LIKE PEACE London – April 15 – A dispatch to the Times from Shanghai says that Li Hung Chang’s son-in-law telegraphs that a peace convention was signed at Shinmonoseki by the Plenipotentiaries of China and Japan. Following are the terms of the convention: 1. The independence of Corea 2. That Japan retains the places she has conquered. 3. That Japan shall also retain the territory east of the Liao River 4. That the island of Formosa be ceded permanently to Japan. 5. The payment of an indemnity of $100,000,000. 6. An offensive and defensive alliance Mrs. LANDO WIGINTON who lives five miles north of this place was seriously burned yesterday. She was burning corn stalks in the field when her clothing took fire. An amendment to submit the question of woman suffrage to a vote of the people has passed both houses of the New York legislature. For cows that are poisoned give them half a dozen raw eggs. The eggs will neutralize the poison, and in a few hours the animal will be well. I have never sent his remedy fail if given in time. – [Tuskaloosa Gazette] Ad for The Weekly Commercial Appeal NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Alabama, April 16th 1895 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of her intention to make final proof in support of her claim, and that said proof will be made before the probate Judge on Marion county at Hamilton Ala on May 31st, 1895, viz: NELLIE LEGRONE, Homestead Entry No. 23,619 for the SW ¼ NE ¼ and NW ¼ SE ¼ Sec 5 T 12 South R 12 West. She names the following witnesses to prove her continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: THOMAS W. FISHER, JOHN CONNER, of Pearce’s Mills, Ala, and DAVID H. PEARCE, JAMES J WESLEY, of Twin, ala. JESSE W. ELLIS, Register SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of a fieri facias issued out of the Clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of Winston county, and State of Alabama and to me directed, whereby I am commanded to make the amount of a certain judgment recently obtained against C. L. HALEY, and in favor of FROUNSTEINE Bros. & Co., out of the good, chattels, lands and tenements of the said C .L. HALEY, I have levied on the following property, to-wit: The N ½ of SE ¼ less 20 acres to MARSHALL NORTON in Sec 25 T 10 R 12 West. The W ½ of SW ¼ and the W ½ of NW ¼ Sec 5 T 11 R 11 West, less 10 acres in NW corner of NW ¼ of NW ¼ of said section, township, and range, the SE ¼ of SW ¼ Sec 23 T 10 R 11 West and the SW ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 22 T 10 R 11 West, also the E ½ of NW ¼, the E ½ of SW ¼ and the W ½ of NW ¼ Sec 26 and the NW ¼ of SW ¼ Sec 26 and the E ½ of NW ¼ Sec 27 T 10 R 11 West, and E ½ of NE ¼ Sec 27 T 10 R 11 West, also an undivided half interest in E ½ of NE ¼ and W ½ of NE ¼ and the NE ¼ of SW ¼ and 20 acres off of the East End of NW ¼ of SE ¼ also 20 acres more or less off the East End of NE ¼ of SE ¼ and 20 acres more or less off of East Part of SE ¼ of SE ¼ all in Sec 35; also 15 acres more or less of South portion of SE ¼ of SE ¼ also 40 acres more or less commencing at the NE corner of SE ¼ of SW ¼ and running 31 Degrees North of East across said quarter in Sec 26 all in T 10 R 11 West, all of said lands lying and being in said Marion County. Therefore, according to said command, I shall expose for sale, at public auction, all the right, title and interest of the above named C. L. HALEY, in and to the above described property, on Monday, the 20th day of May 1895, during the legal hours of sale, at the court house door of said county in the town of Hamilton, Alabama Date at office this 13th day of April 1895. W. W. HALL, Sheriff Marion County, Alabama 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 25, 1895 LOCAL NEWS Good coffee at Mixon’s 4 ¼ to 4 ¾ pounds for one dollar. The new cemetery fence is completed. Steel nails at H. E. Mixon’s 40 lbs for one dollar. Full line of groceries at Mixon’s, cheap for cash. Men’s gaiter plow shoes $1.25 at Mixon’s. Go to Mixon for “Old Time” and “Rock and Rye’ tobacco. Big lot of shoes at Mixon’s cheap for cash. A May picnic is what the children want and they must have it. Mixon is selling good domestic at 4 ¾ and 5 ½ cents per yard. Good lead pencils 10 cents per dozen at the post office building. Bring your hens and frys to Mrs. DORA TERRELL and get spring hats. School closes May 3rd and the small boy will then take to the river. White dress goods at Mixon’s at 9, 10, 11 and up to 17 cents per yard. Mrs. E. H. CLEMENTS has just receive a nice new lot of stationery. Good cotton pants cloth at Mixon’s 10, 12 ½ and up to 20 cents per yard. Miss DOLLIE LOYD returned to her home at Bull Mountain on Sunday last. Good stock and fancy candy 10 cents per pound at H. E. Mixon’s. Sheriff HALL and family are visiting relatives in Lamar County this week. Call on Mixon for Ralph, Bruton, Dental and Railroad Snuff. Call at the post office building for rubber-tipped pencils, 10 cents per dozen. Send in your dollar and receive the New-Press and Weekly State for one year. Full assortment of standard patent medicine and drugs at H. E. Mixon’s W. C. DAVIS is off on a visit to his parents in the northwest corner of the county. All sort and sizes of ladies and children’s hats at Mrs. DORA TERRELL’S. Also boys straw. Just to liven up trade a little I will sell 21 lbs good yellow clarified sugar for $1. Best white sugar 20 lbs $1. H. E. MIXON The debating society is growing in interest as was shown by the large number in attendance at the last meeting. H. E. MIXON will pay highest market price for all kinds of country produce, such as corn, peas, beeswax, wool, hides, meat, chickens, eggs, etc. Chancery Court was in session last Monday. Chancellor WM. H. SIMPSON made a good impression upon our people and many express themselves as being delighted with the change. BEAR CREEK NEWS Mr. JOHN JACK, his sister and another young lady of Russellville, visited the family of Mr. J. R. PHILLIPS last week. They went fishing and had a nice fish fry down on the creek. Come again, Mr. JACK and bring the ladies with you. A party of men went down on the hand car yesterday to attend a wedding near Natural Bridge. Mr. JOSEPH R. BARNETT and Miss SALLIE GARRETT were joined in the holy bonds at the residence of the bride’s father, near Natural Bridge, Rev. FRANK SHANKS officiating. Mr. BARNETT was once a citizen of Bear Creek and his many friends wish him and his fair companion a pleasant voyage over the matrimonial sea. Mr. HIRAM LAMBERT and wife spent a few days in town last week visiting their daughter, Mrs. O. C. GAUT. We are having a lot of visitors around town in the way of young folks. Messrs. O. C. GANT, T. J. NASH, and JNO. EDDINO are all smiles now over the arrival of brand new babies. Mr. E. A.WILLIAMS made a visit to his old home in Tennessee and reports a pleasant time. But few farmers have been seen on our streets this week. They are taking advantage of the nice weather and putting in full time. Mr. J. C. SRYGLEY has a good force at work for him today planting corn. Mr. S. is a business man and a good farmer. GLEANER, Bear Creek, April 15 FROM PIKEVILLE News is rather scarce in this section. Our farmers are leaving off so much cotton and going in for more hog and hominy. W. H. ESTES and A. B. BURLESON made a trip to Goldmine last week. J. N. HIGHTOWER, who has been very sick for the past eighteen days, is now improving. TARIFF REFORM, Pikeville, April 22 DETROIT LOCALS WALLACE WILSON is here to paint J. F. WHITE’S residence and FRANK NORTHINGTON’S store. Tax Assessor METCALFE and Tax Collector GUTHRIE were here one day last week harassing our citizens. Mrs. WHITE and Mrs. DAVIDSON have returned from Columbus and the old man steps around like he was wearing a pair of patent electric wire shoe soles. The children seem to be about over measles and it is hoped no one here will take it. We are very sorry to learn of the suicide of an old friend and school mate, WM. DUKE, Jr. who was found on the 6th inst. by the roadside, near Shreveport, La. with his throat cut. He did it with a razor and no cause can be assigned for the rash act, but it is some relief to know he was not poverty stricken as he had money on his person and in bank at Ft. Worth, Texas, to the amount of $700. We extend to his aged parents and relatives living near here our heartfelt sympathy in their bereavement. CLIP, Detroit, April 22 Hamilton must be incorporated. Go to Mixon for good calico at 5 cts per yard. Mixon wants 4000 spring chickens in next thirty days. Judge D. N. COOPER of Russellville is in town. C. A. BOOKER of Guin was here yesterday. The sound of the hammer and saw is now heard in our town. The News-Press and Birmingham Weekly State one year for one dollar. For all kinds men’s and boys hats go to Mixon. As cheap as the cheapest for cash. Big lot 2, 3, 4, and 5 gallon churns at Mixon’s 10 cents per gallon. Chickens, beeswax, and wool taken at Mrs. DORA TERRELL’S in exchange for hats. But don’t’ bring old roosters. If correspondents want to attack county officers on their official conduct they must write over their true names. We received a pleasant call from Mr. J. F. SHAW of Guin on yesterday. He informs us that the farmers in his section are planting plenty of corn this year. Two for One Dollar – the News-Press and the Birmingham Weekly State one year for One dollar. The state is an eight-page paper, brimming full of news and democratic to the core. Now is the time to get two papers for the price of one. OLD STAMPS WANTED Best prices for old canceled U.S. and Confederate Postage Stamps. I pay from $100 to $200 for Confederate Local Stamps. Highest prices paid for general issue of stamps. These stamps were issued by the postmasters of different cities in 1861. All stamps must be used and on the original envelope, if possible. No stamps used after 1870 wanted. Address, CHAS. N. DAVIS, Box 215, Tuskaloosa, Ala. 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. 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 OF LAND SALE The State of Alabama, Marion County Under and by virtue of a decree rendered in the Probate Court of said county on the 22nd of April, 1895, I will on the 27t day of May 1895, in front of the court house door in Hamilton, proceed to sell all the following lands for the non-payment of taxes and cost due and unpaid for the years which they were assessed….(all owner unknown)… This May 23rd 1895 M. M. FRAZIER, T. C. 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 Waive notes at this office NOTICE OF LAND SALE The State of Alabama, Marion County Under and by virtue of a decree tendered in the Probate court of said county on the 22nd day of April 1895, I will con the 27th day of Mary, 1895, in front of the court house door in Hamilton, proceed to sell all the following lands for the non-payment of taxes and all cost due and unpaid, for the years which they were assessed:….(lands belonging to HENRY THOLE, WM. J. BRODRICK, THOMAS LYONS, HENRY W. TUCKER, C. D. GARRETT)…. This May 23rd, 1895. M. M. FRAZIER, T. C. 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 Ripan Tabule Ad for McElree’s Wine of Cardui Ad for W. L. Douglas $3 shoe Ad for Tetterine OUR COUNTRY’S COMMERCE – As Observed and Reported by R. G. Dunn & Co’s Weekly Review The Effect of Speculations ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS OF THE TREATY The Central News dispatch from Tokio gives additional details of the treaty of peace, the principal features of which have already been published. The treaty secures to Japan the entire freedom in the importation into China of steam engines and machinery for manufacturers and the same privileges are according Japan in the matter of importing good s into China. The latter also grants to Japan extra territorial rights wherein the matters of tariff and dispensation of justice Japan reserves every privilege. The indemnity is payable in seven yearly installments at 5 percent. Payment of the obligation within three years cancels the interest. In addition to these provisions China engages not to punish returned prisoner nor to inflict punishment upon Chinese who may have furnished supplies to the Japanese army and navy. China also binds herself to return Japanese prisoner unconditionally. The exchange of ratifications of the treaty will take place at Che Foo not later than May 8 ECHOES FROM THE LATE WAR The London Times correspondent in Koke says: “They rumor that the Japanese plenipotentiaries abated their demands created much excitement. Seven Tokio newspapers have been suspended. An imperial ordinance will be issued shortly enacting stringent measures against the disaffection.” From Hon Kong the Times learns that the cession fo Formosa to Japan displeases the British there. The Chinese soldiers threaten to take the lives of the commanders if the island is ceded. The Central News says that Japan will place in England at once orders for several warships, to be built on the lines suggested by her experience in the war. RAIN AND SAND STORM The entire southwest and part of the west, including Southern Kansas, Oklahoma and ht Panhandle of Texas was on Monday afflicted with a terrible sand and rain storm. At places in Oklahoma there was a veritable show of mud and in Western Oklahoma and the panhandle Egyptian darkness prevailed. Crops were badly damaged. Wire prostrated and much other damage done. All day long but one straggling wire was in working order west to Denver and at night the west was completely shut off from communication with Kansas City. STATE TOPICS RANDOLPH’S SUCCESSOR APPOINTED – Dr. J. B. Gaston at Montgomery County appointed COTTON ACREAGE – ESTIMATED REDUCTION RAIN AND HAIL STORM – Pelham OBSTRUCTION ON THE TRACK – Central Railroad of Ga. TUESDAY’S STORM AT BIRMINGHAM - HOUSES AND FENCES SWEPT AWAY – cyclone – Washington County A RASCAL BETRAYS HIMSELF – Troy – Dock O’Cain, Luther Benson, and John Dillion COUNTERFEITERS CAUGHT – U. S. Deputy Marshal John W. Barker and W. P. Hunter arrested Will Jones, alias Jim Carter, and John Holloway, tow members of a gang of counterfeiters Tuesday. Oscar Woodall, who is believed to have been the chief, escaped. A lot of metal, plaster of Paris moulds and other utensils, together with a large lot of counterfeit dollars, half dollars, dimes and nickels were secured. The gang has been operating in Anniston for some time, flooding the country with spurious coin, and for two months the local United States officers have been after them. The three men are married and have been living in Anniston with their families, but without any visible means of support. They are believed to be old offenders. The two men arrested, have confessed. A PLASTERER SETS A DEATH TRP – The Descending Elevator Throws Him down Sixty Feet – George Ballman, Pittsburg, Pa- Crane Elevator Co. CARNEGIE’S MEN QUITTING One hundred metal wheelers in the converting mill at Carnegie’s Homestead, works struck Monday morning for an advance in wages…………… INDUSTRIAL NOTES BESEIGED Lady Mary Wortley Montagu tells, with great glee, the story of an exciting siege in the House of lords, to one gallery of which the unmarried daughters of peers were admitted until they made such a noise, according to one chronicle, that the Lord Chancellor, in 1738 issued orders to keep them out. ……… Ad for Royal Baking Powder THE SECRET OF FASCINATION The secret of fascination is one which many a woman would sacrifice a good deal to learn. To cultivate a charming and an attractive manner one must begin at home; and surely a better school could not be devised, for the training is, in its way, perfection. Here one is sure to find each day little rubs which must be soothed with skillful touch………………… Ad for Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pills Ad for Syrup of Figs Ad for Aermotor Co. Ad for Pearline – (milk pans, and pails and cans and bottle – or anything that you want clean, ought to be washed with Pearline.) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/hamilton1741gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 33.8 Kb