Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON NEWS PRESS May 9, 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, 10:13 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History May 9, 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. MAY 9, 1895 NO. 19 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 J. D. MCCLUSKEY, W. C. DAVIS - 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. THE LONG AGONY IS OVER – The Court Completed and Peter Turney is Governor GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company have just closed a contract for 50,000 tons of pig iron at an advance from 25 to 50 cents per ton. While the family of Louis Maxwell, foreman in the Nolle & Co. lumber yards, Houston, Texas, was sitting around the breakfast table, a shot gun which one of the sons was handling, went off accidentally. The charge of one barrel tore away the cheek of Mrs. Maxwell and seriously wounded her in the shoulder, while that of the other barrel tore a hole in the head of Louis, exposing the brain. A cyclone passed over the northern portion of Texas Saturday morning. Houses were blown down, stock killed and fences leveled. No casualties are reported. The cyclone crossed Red River to the Indian Territory, making a swath through the forest. At Aubrey, one house was demolished, the family escaping with difficulty. Near Carrollton dwellings were moved from their foundations, and at Van Alstyne houses and barns were unroofed. Several serious accidents occurred to people from falling wreckage. The rainfall in the central and western portions of the state was heavy. San Antonio reports six inches of rain in six hours. Miss Birdie Neuff, daughter of Captain Neuff,…. And Miss Wyatt, a young school teacher of Charleston, W. Va were drowned…………. The coal miners and operators of the Jelico district, East Tennessee, reached an agreement as to the prices………… Five hundred furnace men employed in the various furnaces in the vicinity of New Castle, Pa have gained a victory in their strike for the restoration of former wages………….. At a meeting of the shoe manufactures of Haverhill, Mass………….. Much excitement prevails at Purcell, Indian Territory, over the murder of Mrs. Wells and the attempt to burn her body. The crime was committed last Saturday night. Mrs. Walls was the housekeeper of Lee Froman, who was away from the house with his family. At 12 o’clock the residence was seen on fire, and when the people arrived the body of Mrs. Walls was discovered in a room. The body was taken from the building, and by it was found a bloody hammer and long knife. George Richie, Mrs. Walls sweetheart, is under arrest. There is much talk of lynching Richie. Saturday morning at Woodward, O. T. three prisoners, Waddle, Hill and Heffen, having obtained a pistol, got the drop on the jailer and compelled him to release them. After locking the jailer up in a cell they fled to the hills. They had only gone a mile when the sheriff, with several deputies, overtook them. A fight ensued which resulted in the death of Heffen and Hill and the capture of Waddle. Deputy Wolfert was shot through the left arm and had to submit to amputation. Another officer lost his horse which was shot in the fight. At Orion, Ill the State bank was robbed by three experts early Saturday morning, and bout $5000 in gold and bills taken. The vault was broken open and the small safe inside of it was then blown open with nitro-glycerine. The robber escape. FOREIGN The St. Petersburg correpsodnent of the Temps says that Japan, in her reply to the joint protest, has consented to abandon Liao Tong, excepting Port Arthur. The protesting powers regarding the reply, the correspondent asserts and the exchanges of opinion continue. The Italian charge d’affairs has demanded that Brazil reply within seven days to the claims made by Italy for losses sustained by Italian subjects during the late revolution. The Vienna correspondent of the Standard telegraphs: I am told that the Japanese have declared tit is impossible for them to yield to the dictation of Russia, and they are making their preparations accordingly……… IMPORTANT DECISION IN MISSOURI – Under the Australian Ballot Law Boxes Not Subject to Inspection The state supreme court at Jefferson City, Mo. has rendered an important decision in connection with the Australian ballot law. At the last November election in Jackson county and Kansas city gross frauds are said to have been committed……. FIGHT WITH TRAIN ROBBERS A Chicago and Alton passenger train was boarded by robbers at Carlinville, Ill who at a place one-half mile north of there, attacked the trainmen and ordered them to hold up their hands. The engineer and fireman refused, and a desperate fight began. Six shots were fired, and Engineer Holmes was killed. One of the robbers was captured, and the other two escaped. A posse was organized and started in pursuit. Engineer Holmes body was taken to Carlinville. He was one of the oldest engineers on the road. The robbers secured nothings. Later: The other robbers were captured by the posse. “SHOT THE WRONG MAN” Mr. Hang, proprietor of a hotel at St. Joseph, Mo., overheard a plot to hold up the Omaha express near that city and notified the officials Tuesday night. At six o’clock next evening a young man named Ran was sitting in the hotel when Thomas Ferrell stepped in the door and shot him tint he stomach, wounding him fatally. Ferrell ran out, crying out to a man who was waiting outside, “I have shot the wrong man.” The two fled flowed by citizens. Both were finally captured, but not until Ferrell had shot Officer Barry through the arm and was himself mortally wounded by a shot through the left breast. COURT-MARTIALED AND SHOT - Benjamin Gallego – Santiago de Cuba WILD WORK OF THE WINDS – storm – Hutchison Ks. LIVE WASHINGTON NOTES WILL NOT GO TO KIEL – Secretary Herbert will not go…….. TREASURY STATEMENT CORINTO EVACUATED According to advices received here the evacuation of Corinto by the British fleet was quietly accomplished Sunday………………… THE MOST EFFICIENT SHIP YET BUILT INDIAN AFFAIRS AND APPOINTMENTS The Indian office puts no credence in reports from Winnepeg that the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Indians in North Dakota have gone on the war path. John E. Risley, of New York, will be appointed United States consul-general at Havana to succeed Mr. Williams, who has been granted leave of absence for sixty day, but is not expected to return to Havanna. THE LAST OF THE LOTTERIES The post office department has received reports that the anti-lottery law passed by the last Congress has been most effective in breaking up that business in the United States. Post office Inspector Dice, at New Orleans, reports that two agents………….. INCOME TAX CASES AGAIN Mr. Justice Jackson of the Supreme Court of the United States arrived in Washington Sunday morning from his home in Belle Meade, Tenn. to hear the re- argument of the income tax cases……. THE EMPEROR SIGNS THE TREATY Much gratification is expressed at the state department over the reported acquiesced by China in the treaty of peace with Japan, as ratification of the treaty have to be exchanged at Che Foo before May 8……………….. DECREASE IN IMMIGRATION Never before have the immigration laws been enforced more rigidly, and one result of this restrictive policy is shown in the falling off of nearly 50 percent since 1893. Every immigrant is required to pass a searching examination before he is permitted to land, and if there is good reason to believe that he belongs to any prohibited classes he is at once returned to the country whence he came, at the expense of the steamship company bringing hi over. During the last year or two, the steamship companies have found it to their interest to co-operate with the officials in keeping out undesirable persons and the results of these combined efforts have been very satisfactory. The Italian government has also rendered valuable assistance, and to this agency is largely due the credit of breaking up the padrone system which for many years has put the Italian immigrant in this country in a condition bordering on slavery. The German government is also taking an active interest in the immigration question, and through its efforts, large numbers of undesirable Russians are prevented from crossing the German frontier and taking passage for America. Baron Hirsch’s society is exerting its influence to prevent the coming to this country of pauper Russian Jews. NAVAL OFFICERS MUST NOT LIE The court martial of a naval officer for perjury is a novelty in naval experience in the US, so far as the best memories go. ………. HANNIBAL I. KIMBALL DEAD Hannibal I. Kimball, who died last Saturday night at the residence of his brother, E. N. Kimball, in Brookline, Mass. was a prominent citizen of Atlanta, Ga. and had lived there for twenty-five years subsequent to the war. He was one of the moving spirits in the developing of the railroad, enterprise in the south, not only investing a large part of his own fortune, but bringing a large amount of northern and foreign capital into the country. MAIL CARRIER MURDERED Emilio Saens, mail carrier between Rio Grande City, Texas and Brownsville was found murdered about twenty miles from the former city Tuesday afternoon. No further particulars yet. A detachment of United States troops from Fort Ringgold has gone to the scene of the murder. 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 THE CRIME OF 1873 It has been said that the crime of 1873, which demonetized silver, was largely discussed in the senate and house before the bill was passed and that it was thoroughly understood at the time. This statement is utterly untrue…………… A DEEP PROBLEM A most serious problem is troubling the young at this time and in its solution we cannot give any assistance, and experience promises the only solution. The young men of course love to go with the young ladies, and the boys are troubled to know how they can go out with their best girl, since the balloon sleeves have reached the full scope of fashion, they are pretty but will prove very inconvenient; the young men can make out as long as the hoop-skirt is not in service – [Wilcox New-Era] THE BRITISH CROWN The crown which was used in the ceremonies attending the coronation of Queen Victoria was made by Rundell & Bridge, and is said to represent a money value of about …………….. MARRIAGE IN 1800 – (very faint – can just barely read it) There is an old proverb which assures us that “there is luck in odd numbers.” For the past two years I have had only four daughters and have played in hard luck but the fifth one, a fine baby with jut black hair and eyes, made its appearance Saturday night, 9th instant, and now I hope the fickle goddess will smile upon me. Some fo my friends try to guy me about having so many girls and no boys; but I tell them that one girl is worth a dozen boys, and that I am satisfied with my girls and only dread the dear son- in-laws that will be on my hands in the future. Girls are not only better than boys, but are more help and comfort to their parents. The first inclination a boy has these days, when he gets to be about good yearling size, is to chew tobacco, smoke cigarettes, drink whiskey and beer, loaf and “cuss”. When he has acquired these accomplishments he feels himself a man and considers it beneath his dignity to work and study. Of course there are some exceptions to the general rule, and a boy who is such an exception is in striking contrast to those who are not. I have just been reviewing Pickett’s History of Alabama and will quote from volume 2, page 133-4, showing the manner in which marriages were made in the year of 1800. “Upon the Tombigby Lake Tensaw, the people still lived without laws, and without the rite of matrimony. For years, the sexes had been in the habit of pairing off, and living together, with the mutual promise of regular marriage, when ministers or magistrates should make their appearance in the country. An amusing incident will here be related, in which a young couple were united by a functionary not hitherto known as participating in such sacred rites. The house of Samuel Mims, a wealthy Indian countryman, was the most spacious in the country, and hither the young and the gay flocked to parties, and danced to the music furnished by the Creoles of Mobile and others, for the country abounded in fiddlers, of high and low degree. Daniel Johnson and Miss Elizabeth Linder had, for some time, loved each other. She was rich and he was poor, and, of course, the parents of the former objected to a pairing. 1800: On Christmas night, a large party was assembled at "Old Sam Mims," and the very forests resounded with music and merry peals of laughter. In the midst of the enjoyment, the lovers, in company with several young people, of both sexes, secretly left the house, entered some canoes, paddled down Lake Tensaw, into the Alabama, and arrived at Fort Stoddart, an hour before daylight. Captain Shaumberg, who had risen early to make his egg-nog, was implored to join the lovers in the bonds of matrimony. The proposition astounded the good-natured old German, who protested his ignorance of all such matters, and assured them that he was only a military commandant, having no authority whatever to make people man and wife. They entreated, telling him with truth, that the Federal Government had placed him there as a general protector and regulator of affairs, and that the case before him demanded his sanction and adjustment. After the egg-nog had circulated pretty freely, the commandant placed the lovers before him, and, in a stentorian voice, pronounced the following marital speech: "I, Captain Shaumberg, of the 2d regiment of the United States army, and commandant of Fort Stoddart, do hereby pronounce you man and wife. Go home! behave yourselves--multiply and replenish the Tensaw country! " The happy young people of those primitive days love each other and raise djsut as many children as if they had been legally married. In fact, as custom under laws, their marriage was ever considered strictly legal. The Daniel Johnson above mentioned was my granduncle and the grandfather of the Hon. James B. Johnston, of Shebtua, Miss. Uncle Daniel settled about ninety years ago on the place now known as the Ketchum place, in the now thriving village of McIntosh Bluff, then Alabama Territory – [Philmon Flores, in Washington County Times] IN TURNEY’S FAVOR – Is the way a Majority of the Tennessee Committee Reported POLITENESS An exchange very prettily says that people are always the better for being polite. There are a thousand pretty little engaging ways which every person may put on without running a risk of being affected of foppish………….. Ad for The 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 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. Ad for New $900 Steinway Piano Free PAGE 3 THE NEWS PRESS Issued Every Thursday $1 Per Annum $1 May 9, 1895 LOCAL NEWS Go to Littleton’s at Guin for No. 7 Brogan shoes, only 75 cents per pair. 150 pair boys knee pants at Littleton’s from 15t o 35 cents a pair, worth 50 to 75 c Buy your clothing , boots and shoes from Littleton at Guin. Call on Littleton when you want a good bedstead. 20 lbs white sugar and 22 lbs Y. C. sugar for $1 at Littleton’s Send in your dollar and receive the News-Press and Weekly State for one year. 100 pairs good pants at Littleton’s for $1 a pair. 150 pairs ladies shoes at Littleton’s, number 3 and 4, button or lace, 75 c to 90 c per pair, worth from $1.25 to $2. The Hamilton High School closed last Friday. The exhibition at night was well attended and enjoyed by all. WE MUST HUSTLE The Atlanta Constitution says that the reason Alabama is not securing immigrants is that she is not hustling. While it is true that it takes a great deal of hustling to get immigrants, like Georgia is getting them, Alabama realizes the force of that remark and is going to hustling in the near future as she has never hustled before, and our Georgia friends know what that means. When Alabama puts her shoulder to the wheel the world is going to move and those in the way of the procession will be hurt if they don’t stand aside. Ex-Governor Northern has gone to work with commendable zeal and push, since he retired from the Chief executive of Georgia, and he has succeeded in attracting the attention of capitalists and home seekers to that state, as has never been done before, for which he deserves the great praise and gratitude of his own state and of the whole South, for we will all be, more or less benefited by the movement. Coming to Georgia their attention will of necessity be called to the neighboring state, and many thrifty, enterprising, valuable citizens will make their home with us, and give us the benefit of their example in push and progress. But Alabama must not delay any longer. She must have some one to go for her what Governor Northern has done for Georgia. Who can and will do it? Every day lost now is to our disadvantage. Let the work be taken in hand and pushed to a glorious success. Let it be no longer said that Alabama is not getting immigrants because she does not hustle. We must hustle, and the money necessary to do the work successfully must be provided by those who are interested in our future greatness and growth. – [Montgomery Advertiser] C. L. LAWRENCE, J. H. MIXON, JOE JUSTICE and the editor of this paper left last Saturday for a weeks fishing and hunting. We may have to open up a fish market when they return. Your choice of men’s and boys hats at Littleton’s for $1. WHOLESALE BURGLARY Tuesday morning at 3 o’clock Dr. HOLLIS arose to go turkey hunting and could not find his pants, as they were not where he left them when he retired. Striking a match, he found them on the floor with $2.55 gone. The door and gate were open. He left the room and went out in the street and in the twilight saw a man halt at the gate of A. U. HOLLIS. The doctor spoke to the stranger without an introduction, asking his name, and the fellow said “Tom” and ran rapidly away. Other persons were awakened and it was found that $8 and a watch were stolen from Dr. REDDEN’S house. Several residences were apparently entered but nothing was taken. S. F. PENNINGTON and SAM HENSON were aroused and started in pursuit. The trail of the burglar was kept to Beaverton where the gentleman was captured about 6 o’clock and brought here at 8. The prisoner gave his name as TOM WILLIAMS and is a mulatto and a tough looking customer. He acknowledged everything and the booty was all recovered, and Mr. WILLIAMS now dines in Vernon. – [Eagle-Eye] We are authorized to say that here will be a meeting of the Educational Board at old Center Church near WM. WARRENS on May the 18th. If a government enacted a debt with a certain amount of money in circulation and then contracted the money volume before the debt was paid, it is the most heinous crime a government could commit against the people – [Abraham Lincoln] ------(political commentary)---- It is estimated by revenue officials that the receipts from the income tax under the Supreme Court decision will approximate $20,000,000. Ad for Columbus Business College REDUCED TICKET RATES – To Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Etc via “Cotton Belt Route” On April 30th, May 21st and June 11th the Cotton Belt will run three more half rate Homeseekers Excursions from Memphis to Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and New Mexico. Tickets good to return twenty days from date of sale and to stop off going or returning at any point in Arkansas or Texas. On May 13th, 14th, and 15th to Dallas, Texas and return account General Assembly Presbyterian Church: rate: $14.95. Tickets good to return until June 3rd. On May 30th and 31st to San Antonio Texas and return account Travelers Protective Association; rate $22.50. Good to return fifteen days with privilege of an extension of fifteen days additional. On May 18th, 19th, and 20th to Houston, Texas and return account of Confederate Reunion: rate: $13.00. Limited to fifteen days to return with privilege of extension fifteen days longer if tickets are deposited with Agent terminal line. The Cotton Belt is the lonely line running through cars from Memphis to Texas. No vexatious changes and transfers via this route. J. C. DAVIS, Trav. Pass Agent, C. P. RECTOR, Commercial Agt. 363 Main St. Memphis, Tenn. 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. Save money by buying your groceries from Littleton at Guin Judging from the few teachers who attended the institute here last week, but little interest was taken in it. Those third grade teachers who are always on hand to draw pay, should also be on hand at every institute. Their noggins need filling up a great deal yet. – [Eagle-Eye] ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Marion County, Alabama, Probate Court ELIJAH CANTRELL, Deceased, Estate of Letters of administration upon the estate of said decedent having been granted to the undersigned on the 30th day of April 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. This May 1st, 1895 R. N. TERRELL, Admr. 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. 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. 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. Waive notes at this office 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 Syrup of Figs Ad for Imperial Granum STATE TOPICS A DWELLING BURNED – S. P. Hunter’s house – Banks ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE OF A GUN – Capt J. F. Lunsden, of Selma RUN OVER BY A TRAIN – E. C. Barker – Pike County ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO KILL – E. N. Sneed – OUR GULF PORT LOOKING UP – DRANK FROM THE WRONG BOTTLE H. L. Cooper, a machinist residing on Ridge Street, Girard, happened to a serious accident about 6 o’clock Sunday afternoon. He took from his closet a bottle the thought to be whiskey, and hastily placing it to his mouth drank a large quantity and fell to the floor in great agony. He wife ran to his assistance, to discover he had drunk a quantity of ammonia. Medical aid was at once secured and everything possible done to save his life. Reports just received say death will doubtless come from strangulation on account of the swollen parts so irritated by the drug. A RASCAL BETRAYS HIMSELF LIFE IN THE OLD LAND YET – On the 6th of November and the 12th of December 1894 the business part of Evergreen was almost entirely destroyed by fire. Only eight business houses out of twenty-five or thirty escaped destruction…………. JEFFERSON COUNTY CHERT SELECTED – extension of the Mobile road and building bridge A SORROWFUL CASE OF DEMENTIA – Jack Milmow – Collinsville, Ala. PIRATE MOORS MASSACRE A VREW The Dutch brigantine Anna was towed into Gibraltar Tuesday. She reports that on the afternoon of April 28, while becalmed off the Riff coast, a party of Moors attacker her and shot and killed the members of the crew and wounded the captain and mate. After massacring the crew the pirates carried off the previsions and cargo of the vessel. THE CUBANS WIN A VICTORY – and Form a Republic – President Estrada Palma GREAT BRITAIN AND NICARAGUA – Terms of Settlement Agreed Upon – Corino to be Evacuated POSTPONED INDEFINITELY – The Debs Conspiracy Case – the Ground of this Procedure The Debs trial on the conspiracy charge has been continued indefinitely. This announcement was made Saturday afternoon by General Black, Unties States district attorney after a conference with C. S. Darrow, one of the attorneys for the defendant……….. A BETRAYED HUSBAND’S REVENGE -= Archie Brown G. A. R. HALL DAMGED THE APPALACHIAN BANK FALLS - Big Stone Gap, Va. WOMEN AND CRIME – Few of the Fair Sex Among New York’s Prisoners In the official reports made by the Police Department a separate record is kept of the felonies. These form a relatively small percentage when compared with the total number of arrests, and a peculiar thing about them is that very few women are among the prisoners……… LAST ENGLISH DECAPITATION The last occasion of decapitation for high treason in England was, I fancy, that of Thistlewood and his four companions for the Cato street conspiracy. I take the following from thornbury’s “old Storied Retold” “Exactly a quarter of an hour after the last man was hung the order was given to cut the bodies down. The heads were then haggled off with brutal clumsiness with a surgeons’ knife. The mob expressed loudly their horror and disgust more especially when the turnkey who exhibited the heads dropped that of Brunt, “Hall, butter fingers” shouted a rough voice from the rolling crowd below. The day had gone by for such useless brutality.” This horrible scene was enacted on May 1, 1820. THE AMERICAN EAGLE The probabilities are that in the near future the officers of the United States Army will take on another designation of rank in the shape of metallic eagles, to be worn on the front of their hats………….. COMPOSER AND ORGAN GRINDER Mascagni, the Italian composer, recently had an experience with an organ grinder who was playing the intermezzo from…………. HER EXPLANATION – (anecdote) Ad for Royal Baking Powder POPULAR STYLES IN HATS The continued liking for large sleeves has made popular and harmoniously effective the wearing of large hats, writes Isabel A. Malllion in the Ladies Home Journal. Advance notes from Paris tell of the popularity of large hats in black straw, and with them feathers that are also black. Much care is taken in the arrangement of these tips, and the hats are so shaped that they permit an artistic arrangement of trimming, and yet are comfortable on the head. These large hats are narrow at the back and flare in front, while the brims are bent in fantastic ways to suit the wearer. Very often a hat is seen that has a crown of close and a brim of open straw, a very good contrast being formed in this way. In the straws, the colors most popular fare, first to fall, black, than all the browns from golden to seal, light green, dark and light blue, gray, light yellow and the so called white which comes very close to yellow. Elaborate hats, intended for driving or garden party wear, have lace brims formed of the very coarse while lace and crowns either of straw or velvet. Trimmings incline toward the side, either to the back or the front as is becoming. Ad for Dr. Pierce’s favorite prescription for weak women Ad for McElrees Wine of Cardui Ad for W. L. Douglas $3 shoe Ad for The Washing of the Feet - Pearline File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/hamilton1743gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 36.9 Kb