Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON NEWS PRESS May 16, 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, 10:25 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History May 16, 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 16, 1895 NO. 20 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. NEGRO EMMIGRANTS SWINDLED The detectives are on the lookout for J. W. Masters who for two months has been acting as agent at Savannah, Ga. for the International Migration Society. Masters was last seen at 10 o’clock Thursday night and it is believed that he was then on his way to the depot. He took $400 belonging to the company, this being what he had collected from negroes on their passage money to Liberia. Several of the negroes gave him power of attorney to sell what little property they had in their possession and the superior court records show where he disposed of about $2500 worth of property in the was, and the unfortunate negroes know nothing of what has been done with their money unless Masters made away with all of it. FATAL GAS EXPLOSION – Sherman Street, Chicago THE SOUTHERN BAPTISTS The Southern Baptists Convention met in Washington City Friday morning. Seven hundred and five delegates were present………….. FULTON GORDON IS DISCHARGED – Judge Thompson Utters a Mild Hint, the Crowd Goes Wild Judge Thompson, of Louisville, Ky. after listening to arguments for four hours in the Gordon-Brown murder case Thursday afternoon, decided that Fulton Gordon should not be held for trial, and discharged him from custody…………….. STEAMER STUCK IN THE MUD The Clyde steamer Algonquin, which left her dock at 5 o’clock, Thursday morning, is hard and fast aground at Jacksonville, Fla. about eight miles below the city…………… WORK WAITS FOR WATER The paper mills at Green Bay, Kaukau and Appleton, Wis. and vicinity have shut down, owing to the low water in Lake Winnebago and the Fox River. Altogether fourteen mills, besides other factories are idle, throwing out of work 7,000 persons. GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY Mr. John Mim’s little boy, Morris, at Clermont, Fla. the other day, fell into the lake, where it was about five feet deep, and but for the timely arrival of his grandmother he would have drowned, for he is only two years old. Remarkable as it may seem, it is yet true, that when Mrs. Smith came to rescue him she found him swimming on to, and paddling like a good fellow, but to no advantage save to keep his head out of the water. Last week a fisherman at Devils’ Elbow, just south of Summer Haven , Fla. killed with an ax a sawfish, which had become entangled in his net, that weighted 1000 pounds and was fifteen and one inch in length, the saw being four feet long. The sawfish had about two bushels of eggs, each egg nearly four inches in diameter. They are not edible. Walter and James Gentry were cleaning out a well near Woodstock, Ga. Thursday afternoon. Walter Gentry was at work in the well, gas rose on him and he called for help. His brother, James, immediately descended to help him, but before he reached him, Walter was dead. James tied a rope around Walter’s body and it was drawn out, but before they could again let the rope down, James was dead. His body is yet in the well, no one having been found who will go down after him. A number of banks in Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee were borrowing at New York Thursday paying an average of 4 percent for money at maturity in October, with an agreement covering a renewal at that time. The Delaware legislature adjourned sine die Thursday at 3 p.m. without having elected a US Senator………. Thomas Flood was killed, James Tibiboc fatally injured and two other men badly burned while drilling a hole that had already been charged with dynamite at the Albright colliery at Lewlein, Pa. Monday afternoon. It is believed that the previous shift had neglected to fire one of the holds drilled and prepared. A party of workmen were drilling into the rock at the foot of a thirty foot precipice at Uniontown, Pa. Tuesday when a ledge became loosed and fell, burying three of them. Michael Joy was crushed to death. Patrick Ryan was fatally injured and an Italian was seriously hurt. It required two hours to dig them from the mass of stone and earth. The value of the iron and steel exported from this country during the nine months………… The boiler in the saw mill owned by John Bennet, north of Koko, Ind. Exploded Monday morning. ………. A stage coach running between Calistoga, Cal. And Clear Lake was held up and robbed Thursday by two masked men, who secured about $1200 in cash, looting the Well’s Fargo treasure box. It is not known how much they got from the box. The highway men also secured considerable valuable jewelry. A posse was organized and is in pursuit of the robbers. A reward aggregating $1200 is offered for their capture. At La Porte, Ind. Last week, Abraham Rimes was granted a divorce from his tenth wife. The evidence disclosed the fact that Rimes last wife was his first bride, and that he had married eight other aspirants for his first affections before he was again wedded to his first wife from whom he was legally separated shortly after marriage. The brace of highwaymen who held up the stage between Calistoga, Cal. and Mirabed mine on Tuesday afternoon were captured Thursday in Bryson Valley. When ordered to throw up their hands the taller of the two resisted and attempted to shoot himself. The officers shot and wounded him, when both gave themselves up. All the jewelry and most of the money taken from the state was recovered. One of the robbers is “Buck English” an ex-convict. The other is unknown. Expert accountants have finished their examination of the books of the whisky trust, and their final report for the period from………… Newcomb, alias “Bitter Creek” and Pierce, alias “Dynamite Dick” leaders of the desperate Dalton Doolin gang of outlaws, who were killed last week in Oklahoma, were betrayed by supposed friends, entrapped into the latter’s home and cowardly murdered while they slept under their host’s roof. The killing according to a story of neighbors brought in from Ingall was done by the Dunns, who had been promised large rewards by the deputies, who claimed later to have made the capture of the famous outlaws. The latter friends have sown vengeance and the Dunn family are arming to protect themselves. There was a severe earthquake Monday at Mendoen, Buenos Ayres, capital of the province of that name…………. INCREASED LABOR COST OF IRON – observations of the Iron Trade Review, Wages Advanced FATAL COLLISION – steamship Cayuga and steamer Joseph L. Hurd CUBAN LEADERS CONFER Maceo is encamped on the side of Doncillia Mountain, near Juragucca. He was joined by Gomez and Marti on April 30th………. OUR COUNTRY’S COMMERCE – Large Sales of Securities Abroad Encourage Business HE WAS SO VERY DRY – That with Strangers He did Drink and was Drugged J. W. Braining, of Richmond, Va. went to Philadelphia on business connected with a large deal in tobacco, missed the train at the Pennsylvania railroad station, on Sunday, and fell in with two strangers who induced him to take a drink. The liquor drunk by the Richmond man was drugged and Braining at once became unconscious. He was then robbed, of $1200 in cash and $1800 in jewelry, and left on the sidewalk where he was found by a cabman. No arrests have yet been made. WAGES ADVANCED – Riverside Iron Company IT WAS ADJUDGED LIBELOUS – Robert Sherrod, an Anglo-American newspaper correspondet, at Paris, obtained 40 pounds damages and costs in a suit brought by him against the British consul………….. WAR SHIP SENT TO GUAYAQUILL FURNACE MEN STRIKE – Douglass and Mable Iron Furnaces, Sharon, Pa. PAGE 2 THE NEWS PRESS Issued Every Thursday R. N. TERRELL, Publisher JAS. S. CLEMENTS, Editor Entered at the post office at Hamilton, Ala, as second class matter Subscription Rates One year $1.00 Six Months .50 Three months .25 -------(political statements and commentary)---------- Ad for The Dixie Home magazine Ad for “Simplified Elocution” by Edwin Gordon Lawrence Ad for Columbus Business College, Columbus, Ga. 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. 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 on 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. Reliable men wanted as traveling salesmen for our Cigars, Cigarettes and Smoking Tobacco. Address Standard Tobacco Co., Winston, N. C. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala. May 11th 1895 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Marion county, at Hamilton Ala., on June 22nd 1895, viz: WILLIAM E. TYRA for adjoining farm homestead Entry No. 17981 for the S ½ of SW ¼ and NW ¼ of SW ¼ Sec 24 T 9 South R 13 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz ; ARCHIE C. VANCE, WILLIAM A. VANCE, JAMES N. COCKRUM, DAVID H. NIX, all of Hackleburgh, Ala. JESSE W. ELLIS, Register NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT The State of Alabama, Marion County Probate Court, 14th day of May 1895 G. M. HOMER, Deceased, Estate of This day came WM. C. DAVIS the administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts, vouchers, and evidences for a final settlement of his administration. It is therefore ordered that the 5th day of June 1895 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement at which time all parties interested can appear and contest the said settlement if they think proper. JASON P. FORD Judge of Probate, Marion County NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT The State of Alabama, Marion County Probate Court, 14th day of May 1895 W. G. BEAUCHAMP, Deceased, Estate of This day came WM. C. DAVIS the administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts, vouchers, and evidences for a final settlement of his administration. It is therefore ordered that the 5th day of June 1895 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement at which time all parties interested can appear and contest the said settlement if they think proper. JASON P. FORD Judge of Probate, Marion County 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 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 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. PAGE 3 THE NEWS PRESS Issued Every Thursday $1 Per Annum $1 May 16, 1895 LOCAL NEWS Call on Littleton when you want a good bedstead. 100 pairs good pants at Littleton’s for $1 a pair. Your choice of men’s and boys hats at Littleton’s for $1. Tax Assessor FARIS was on our streets the first of this week. 20 lbs white sugar and 22 lbs Y. C. sugar for $1 at Littleton’s. BOB SNOW, of near Pearce’s Mills gave us a call first of the week. Buy your clothing, boots and shoes from Littleton at Guin. M. M. FRAZIER of Guin, was in town on business first of the week. Save money by buying your groceries from Littleton at Guin. Dr. EARNEST and wife, of Winfield, visited relatives here firs of the week. Go to Littleton at Guin for NO. 7 Brogan shoes, only 75 cents per pair. Eld. P. K. BRINDLEY preached an excellent sermon at the Methodist church on last Sunday night. The revenue court is running on full time and deputy marshals are kept pretty busy looking after the shiners. The editor returned last Saturday from a week’s sojourn on the banks of Buttahatchie a few miles above town. We had a good time and caught lots of fish. The Ladies Aid Society is making fair progress. Several new members were enrolled on last Tuesday night and it is to be hoped that every lady in Hamilton will join at an early day. ITEMS FROM HACKLEBURGH The nights are very cool. Some frost and cotton looks very sick. OSCAR WALKER, who has been very sick, we are sorry to say, is no better. The farmers are not disturbing the fish now; they are battling with the grass and bushes. Crops generally look well. Our efficient merchants, J. R. SPRAGGINS has gone to Russellville this week on business. Misses MOLLIE and NETTIE OZBIRN, of Hamilton, are visiting relatives and friends at this place; also Masters HARLEY OZBIRN and WESLEY MIXON of Hamilton are visiting here. We had an excellent sermon preached by Rev. D. A. CANTRELL yesterday at Fairview church; also the sacrament was administered and foot washing. Who is more lucky or a closer observer than BEN EDGAR? He has a pair of oil grain shoes which he dropped a piece of red hot iron on while working in the shop and it burned a blister on his foot and never burned his shoe. The writer never saw this but has it from BEN’S lips. HUNTER FROM PIKEVILLE The 10-year old daughter of Mr. JAMES GANN died last Saturday, and was buried at Liberty on Sunday afternoon. An eruptive disease, contagious and similar in appearance to chicken pox is going the rounds here. The last case was that of our old bachelor, who was laid up with it all last week. Thos of our people who attended the closing exercises of Prof. TATE’S school at Hamilton express themselves as highly delighted with the exhibition. To the writer, the fine display made was no surprise, as he has known Prof. TATE and the high character of his school work for several years. Quarterly conference convenes at Philadelphia church today. The Agricultural school at Hamilton and the entire congressional district are to be congratulated on the excellent directory selected by Gov. Oates to manage said school. Dr. M. H. KEY is an experienced educator and a cultured gentleman of the very highest character, whose name alone is sufficient guarantee of capable and wise management and honest administration. The very highest type of Christian gentleman, he is well fitted to “Allure to brighter worlds and lead the way” for the young folks who will be sent to the school to be educated. Gen. A. J. HAMILTON has long been recognized as one of the most public spirited and enterprising men of the county, and his name as a member of the directory will be a tower of strength to the school. He is better known through the district and state than any other man in the county, and his selection is an eminently wise one. Mr. T. W. WIGINTON is not so well known as the others, but among those who do know him he is recognized as a man of sterling character and strong common sense, a man who will look carefully after any business that is entrusted to him. He is a man that “wears well” as is shown by the fact that his best friends are those who know him best. Mr. D. W. HOLLIS of Lamar is a progressive and energetic man, and it may safely be said that he will not be the least valuable of the friends of the school. With Mr. MARTIN of Pickens the writer is not acquainted, but if he will “average up” with the other directors, the school will be most fortunate. WRONG FONT, Pikeville, May 14 FROM DETROIT Miss JEFFIE PEARCE of Bexar returns home today. Messrs. J. H. and J. L. GUTHRIE of Sulligent were in town Sunday. FILMORE EVANS, of Kemper County, Miss. is visiting his brother BEN near town. Mrs. COGGAN and little son, of Pontotoc County, Miss. are visiting relatives in this vicinity. Uncle FRANK CODY, who has been visiting his sons in Tennessee for some months, has returned. Rev. P. K. BRINDLEY held a quarterly conference here last Thursday and protracted the meeting until Thursday night. Only one accession to the Church. Prof. THOMAS WILSON, our pastor’s brother, led a free lessons in song here Sunday. The Prof. is undoubtedly a master of vocal music and we hope he may succeed in getting up a class here. Mrs. GREGORY and little son CLARENCE are spending awhile with Dr. WILLIAMS, at Splunge, Miss., where the doctor is treating CLARENCE for throat trouble. Mr. GREGORY visited them Sunday and we are glad to learn that his little son is so much improved. Mrs. JIM WHITE came near getting seriously burned yesterday morning. Having on a dress of light fabric and passing near the fire the suction of the chimney drew it into the flames and burned it nearly off of her before Mr. WHITE could “put her out,” as he expressed it. Two or three of Mr. WHITE’S fingers are right badly burned. We attended singing her yesterday and as signers seemed to be scarce we had to hold a kid on each knee while Mrs. “CLIP” aired her lungs on alto. But with a kid on each knee, one asleep and the other “kind o’ colicky” one’s soul is not in a plight to appreciate even the best of music, and to add to our “predicament” our old friend and chum, JOHN GUTHRIE, gave us a look of half- pity and half “I would not be in your fix for nothing;. But never mind, old boy, “As you are now so once was I, But as I am now, how soon you may be, At church with a kid on each knee’ The “Sound Money Club” of Vernon will not be very “unanimous” unless some of the most prominent citizens there do some unexpected “flopping.” So don’t become alarmed, its just merely a way the Courier has of belching wind from Grandma’s (The Advertiser’s) distended stomach when the old gal takes the colic from Cleveland’s goober-eating in which he has been indulging so freely here of late. CLIP, Detroit, Ala. May 13 Send in your dollar and receive the News-Press and Weekly State for one year. There will be a meeting of the Teacher’s Library Association at Hamilton on the first Saturday in June. Every teacher in the county is earnestly requested to be present. A. W. TATE, President 150 pairs boys knee pants at Littleton’s from 15 to 35 cents a pair, worth 50 to 75 c. 150 pairs ladies hoes at Littleton’s number 3 and 4, button or lace, 75 c to 90 c per pair, worth from $1.25 to $2. Commissioner A. M. CANTRELL, of Hackleburgh, was here Monday and had his name enrolled on our subscription book. It has been settled and a picnic we will have. June 8th is the day named and everybody expected to attend with a well filled basket. OUR HISTORY CLASS Matter intended for this Department should be addressed to W. F. GREEN, Pikeville, Ala. The object of this department is to encourage and stimulate historical research and to promote a healthy national spirit. Questions will be asked and suggestions made that, it is hoped, will enable one to obtain a clear view and comprehensive understanding of American history, to which we will confine ourselves for the present. Teachers, and others who feel interested, are invited to make suggestions and propound questions for investigation. Those who send questions should also send therewith correct answer, whenever practicable, to be published later, as my library is very limited. Thos e sending answers should give the number of the question, as all reference to questions after their first publication will be by number. Hoping that this department will prove of interest and benefit to the readers of the News-Press, and inviting their co-operation in making it so, I am, very truly, W. F. GREEN 1. Where and by whom was the first European settlement made on the American continent? 2. What influence caused England to stand aloof so long while Spain was acquiring territorial possession and assuming dominion over the new world? 3. Why was the name America applied to his continent? 4. Where was Columbus buried? 5. During the revolutionary war, the colonists, while warring with Great Britain, invaded Canada. Prior to the revolutionary war, when fighting for Great Britain, they invaded Canada. Why this apparent inconsistency? 6. Nest to Washington, whom do you consider the most effective worker for American Independence? 7. Why did the puritans come to America? 8. Explain what is meant by Mason and Dixon’s line. 9. Define the Monroe Doctrine 10. Name our most eminent literary, political and scientific writer. Answers to these questions will appear in the issue two weeks hence. I would suggest that those who take an interest in this department should keep a complete file of the paper, as differences of opinion will likely occur and references to back numbers may be necessary to an intelligent understanding of the question involved. FROM BEAR CREEK Our farmers are about done planting. Crops are looking fine. Gardens are looking promising, and vegetables will be plentiful soon. Yesterday was a pleasant day for Bear Creek. Two or three pleasure parties out yesterday. J. J. COATS and family, Mrs. WILLIAMS and Mrs. W. H. FLIPPO spent a pleasant day at the old mill taking dinner, but not fishing. There was a hand car party of 17 made a trip over to County Line Church where the day was spent in vocal and instrumental music. There was an excursion Saturday over the blue line from Florence, Sheffield and Tuscumbia to Natural Bridge for the benefit of the Sunday Schools at the above named places. Misses LAURA and SALLIE WILLIAMS and Messrs. WILLIAMS, EARNEST and MURPHY went over to Natural Bridge and reported a nice trip. Miss DAVIDSON of Sheffield and Mr. J. D. MITCHELL of Spring Valley stopped off at Bear Creek and were guests of Mrs. WILLIAMS. There is a picnic on the program for next Saturday near this place, for the Bear Creek Sunday School It is said that the railroad boys had a picnic last Friday taking up and distributing ties from Sheffield to Jasper. Two more souls were made happy at Phil Campbell yesterday, by A. J. BARNETT, Esq., who pronounced Mr. R. T. CASH and Miss LIZZIE SIMMS man and wife. We extend to the happy couple our best wishes. Mr. JOHNSON NEELY, who had a very bad stroke of paralysis is still mending. He is able to walk a few steps now. GLEANER, Bear Creek, May 6,’95 NOTICE TO TEACHERS The Educational Board of Marion County will hold two more examinations for this scholastic year, one at old Center Church near WILLIAM WARREN’S May 18 and the other at Hamilton June 29th. All persons wishing certificates to teach in the public schools will please meet us promptly. Very respectfully W. A. DUNN, Co. Supt. of Education 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. 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 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 Columbus Business College PAGE 4 Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ad for Imperial Granum Ad for Spalding & Bro.s – Baseballs, lawn tennis STATE TOPICS CUTTING AFFRAY NEAR LEESBURG Deputy Sheriff WEBB, of Cherokee County on Sunday brought James and Joe Hunter to Gadsden and lodged them in jail for safe keeping. They are charged with cutting Luther Hale. The trouble occurred near Leesburg over a settlement. Hale is badly cut and is not expected to live. SAW AND PLANING MILL BURNED – Mr. Rutledge near Crawford MOBILE’S FOREIGN TRADE “GWINE TO GUATEMAINA” Wednesday night Mr. J. L. Lee of the Guatemalan railroad sent from Birmingham to Guatemala via the Queen & Crescent and New Orleans thirty stone masons and laborers. This make the fifth shipment to that point and in all about 300 men have gone from Birmingham. The men go to Puerto, Barrios, to work on the railroad, which is in course of construction across the continent. HOT FOR GUATEMALA – another load of workers to Guatemala J. W. CROWLEY DISCHARGED – Anniston NEW VOLUME SUPREME COURT REPORTS HOMICIDE IN CLEBURNE – Mr. A. M. Palmer of Oak Level – Ben Crawford, R. W. Williamson, Henry Roman and Henry Evans arrested……………….. “AT A HOUSE OF ILL REPUTE” A crowd gathered at a house of ill repute near Long’s saw mill in Walker County last Saturday night. Drinking was freely indulged in and naturally a row resulted. Common report says that Dan Hall, a man of powerful physique, struck John Henson with a chair and was in the act of striking him again, when the latter, with a pistol shot and killed him. Henson, who gave himself up to officers, had a preliminary trial on Monday and was bound over in $500 made the bond and was released. THE INDUSTRIES IN GADSDEN A RASCAL BETRAYS HIMSELF – Dock O’Cain, Luther Benson, and John Dillion PISTOL AND ROCK, PISTOL WINS - Mr. Bensford of Birmingham - Mike Hargrove LABOR WAGING ITS WAGE WAR – Another Victory, the Sligo Iron Works Sign the Wage Scale A BOY WHO IS A KING – Speaking of the boy king of Spain, a correspondent of the Congregationalist says: “There are many points in the court etiquette of Spain that make it hard to be a boy king and harder still to be the boy kings loving mother. As he was born a king little Alfonso had to have a household of his own, with his own suite of rooms. He cannot even dine at the same table with his mother, nor can she perform for him those tender little offices that mothers delight in and children find so comforting. The little king has to go through with tedious state receptions, which weary him sadly and sometimes try his childish patience beyond endurance. Once at a grand church function the baby sat upon his nurse’ knee all dressed in white, s patient as a baby could be. A bishop had been holding forth for a good hour, and everybody was doubtless waiting for him to close. At least the little royal listener could bear it no longer, for he is a high strung little man, and with a glance of indignant despair in the direction of the talker, he clutched at his party white hat and cast it upon the floor. When his nobles were paying their compliments to him on his second birthday their king entertained himself by jumping up and down the steps of his throne. WEIGHING A PENCIL MARK Scales are now made of such nice adjustment that they will weigh anything to the smallest hair plucked from the eyebrow…………. A RESERVOIR FOR UPPER EGYPT The erection of a great reservoir in upper Egypt is now an assured fact. The work will be begun this spring. In the next Egyptian budget the sum of about $800,000 will be set apart for the purpose, it is announced. The height of the dam is to be so regulated that the Island of Philae, on which is the Temple of Isis, will not be flooded. This is due to protests received from all parts of the world when the subject was first discussed – [New York Tribune] NOTES AND COMMENTS The European country where divorces are most numerous is Switzerland. Since the Federal law of 1874 the proportion has reached 47 to the 1,000. There were but 11 bicycle factories in the US in 1885 and they made but 11,000 wheels. This year there are 126 factories and it is estimated that not less than 500,000 wheels will be turned out. …… New Zealand has invented a unique method for the prevention of intemperance. It proposed to pas a law to the effect that any person convicted of being a habitual drunkard shall be photographed at his own expense and a copy be supplied to every salon keeper in the district. The dealer supplying liquor to such a person is to be fined. The divorce statistics of Europe show that marriage is a positive failure in England in one out of every 400 ventures, in France there are 11 divorces to every 400 marriages, in Switzerland one out of every 500. It is surprising to learn that In Germany the average is still higher. In Scandinavia, where a divorce was formerly a rara avis, there are now 200 annually. The Gold Dollar Saloon, of Buffalo said to be one of the handsomest drinking places in the US is to be converted into a temperance saloon. The proprietor is tired of selling liquor and will be put in charge of the new enterprise. The floor of the place is laid with $20 gold pieces, the bar is studded with $50 gold pieces, the walls are hung with fine pictures, and it is furnished with 1200 incandescent lights. Mr. Dorsey Mohun, US Commercial agent to eh Congo Free State, who has recently returned to Washington after two years in Africa, declares that 20,000,000 people in that region are eaters of human flesh. He tells a horrible story about surprising a village one day when a big cannibal feast was in progress, and also describes how he saw fourteen persons buried alive in a grave with the dead body of a great chief. France’s Chief Magistrate is seriously considering the policy of proclaiming a reward for the discovery of the whereabouts of the sardine…………. Cholera has already appeared this year on the Red Sea……. The marine hospital surgeons who are manufacturing anti-toxin at New York say that a young girl who died eight minutes after the first injection of anti- toxin did not died from the medicine, ….. The republic of France proposes to tax people who continue to use the titles of the old regime. The rate for a prince is to be $200 a year, for a duke and a marquis $140. The lowest tax is to be $20 for a man who uses a single prefix with his name. A contemporary factiously asks: “Why not tax American girls who marry titles? If a heavy export duty on American wealth were levied it might deter American girls from marrying the foreigners and would give the American bachelors a better chance.” Mr. Morton, Secretary of Agriculture, makes a suggestion which should stimulate inventive genius….. Ad for Royal Baking Powder PUNISHED FOR CURIOUSITY It is dangerous to gratify curiosity or to viciate precedent at the Chinese Imperial Court…. CROCODILE TEARS The expression used in the headline has long been in general use to describe hypocritical sorry or pretense of sorrow where no grief is felt. Its origin has been referred to several sources; one, believed in by the old naturalists, was that the crocodile would mourn and shed tears as if in great agony until a sympathetic travel would investigate the cause and get devoured for his trouble. Manerville says “ In a certain coutree long serpents called crocodiles slay men and then eat them weeping,” Spencer (“Faerie Queene”) says : “The curell craftie crocodile, which in false gryef byding his harmful guile, doth weep full sore and sheddeth tender tears.” Ad for Dr. Williams Pink Pills SHATTERD CUPS AND SUPERSTITION A friend who often stayed with the Lessps family says that the count never seemed to lose sight of the education of his children, evening the smallest detail…… Ad for De. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets Ad for Kennedy’s Medical Discovery Ad for Walter Baker & Co Cocoa and Chocolate Ad for Tetterine Ad for Scott’s Emulsion File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/hamilton1744gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 41.8 Kb