Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON NEWS PRESS October 10, 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 July 22, 2010, 4:19 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History October 10, 1895 Microfilm Ref Call #559 Microfilm Order #M1992.0966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE HAMILTON NEWS-PRESS THE ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN MARION COUNTY, ALABAMA VOL. 1-NO. 41 HAMILTON, ALA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1895 ONE DOLLAR A YEAR 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. 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. MASONIC HAMILTON LODGE NO. 344 G. N. STOKES, W. M.; W. J. THORN, S. D.’; A. H. BURLESON, J. D.,; G. B. MIXON, Treas., R. H. BAIRD, secy. GUIN LODGE NO. 478 T. J. SPRINGFIELD, W. M.; WATSON BROWN, S. W.; W. H. MATTHEWS, J. D.; M. T. AKERS, Treas. ; J. A. RILEY, secy WINFIELD LODGE NO. 364 E. VICKERY, W. M.; J. F. EARNEST, S. D.; J. M. SPANN, J. D.; J. C. EAGAN, Treas.; G. MUSGROVE, Secy. HACKLEBURG LODGE NO. 526 A. N. CANTRELL, W. M.; W. W. FREDERICK, S. W.; O. N. GREEN, J. D.; E. Z. MIXON, Treas.; JOHN A . GANN, Secy BEXAR LODGE NO. 230 JOHN ARNOLD, W. M.; W. L. WHITEHEAD, S. W.; W. A. BALLARD, J. W.; A. L. MOORMAN, Treas.; T. J. YOUNG, Secy. PLEASANT HILL LODGE NO 321 W. H. FLIPPO, W. M.; PORTER DU BOISE, S. W.; SETH BOTTOMS, Treas.; .A RANDOLPH, Secy. GUIN DIRECTORY Mayor – J. A. SHAW Marshal – Aldermen – J. T. WESTBROOK, S. J. BAIRD, J. T. CARPENTER, J. J. POPE, and T. T. HILBURN Churches: METHODIST – Services every third Sunday at night and fourth Sunday at 11 a.m. D. W. WARD, pastor. Sunday School at 2:30 p.m. W. H. MATTHEWS, superintendent. Epworth League every Friday night, J. P. RILEY, President. BAPTIST – Services first and third Sundays. W. H. LANTRIP, Pastor. Sunday School every Sunday at 10 a.m. CHRISTIAN – Services second Sunday in each month at 11 a.m. WINFIELD DIRECTORY Mayor – W. R. HANEY Marshal – J. D. CANTERBURY Aldermen – W. J. TRULL, S. W. MOSS, J. R. JONES, T. A. ROBERTS and J. B. WHITEHEAD Churches: METHODIST – Services every third Sunday and Saturday night before D. W. WARD, Pastor. BAPTIST – Services every second Sunday and Saturday night before. ARTHUR REEVES, pastor CHRISTIAN – Not appointed yet Union Sunday School every Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. R. F. CARNES, Superintendent HO! Every one that thirsteth. Best flour and meal made at my fine custom mills, at Guin, Alabama. New wheel, bolting cloths, spindles and belts – all in perfect order. Dry goods and notions, as low as the lowest. Give me a trial. E. W. BROCK. T. H. ROBERTSON, Winfield, Ala. will buy 2,000 bales of cotton and all the country produce you bring him. He carries a full line of dry goods, notions, boots and shoes, hats and caps, clothing, hardware, groceries, saddles, bridles and all kinds of farming implements. Full stock of snuff and tobacco. J. F. EARNEST, P. M. R. SPANN. SPANN & EARNEST keeps on hand dry goods, shoes, clothing, groceries, tobacco and snuff, farming tools, hardware, tin ware, crockery, and all kinds ladies’ goods. Highest price paid for cotton & county produce. Winfield, Ala. F. T. MCCOLLUM, Winfield, Alabama. Dealer in dry goods, notions, hats and caps, shoes, clothing, groceries, tobacco and snuff, hardware, farming tools, cane mills, tin ware, groceries and jewelry. Ladies’ hats and goods a specialty will buy cotton and country produce at highest market prices. SOUTHERN FRUIT NURSERY, Winfield, Ala. I have on hand and for sale a fine lot of fruit trees, full acclimate, and every one I propose to sell satisfactorily tested, consisting of Apples, Pears, Peaches, and Vines. I will deliver at Nursery at 10c per tree. If delivered elsewhere, the cost of transportation will be added. My scions are all two and three years old, are hardy and growing finely. Catalogues furnished upon application to W. J. TRULL, Winfield, Ala. Orders left with Mr. S. E. WILSON, Editor News Press. Hamilton, Ala will receive prompt attention. The best country. Where is it? If you are going to Arkansas, Texas or the Indian Territory, take the Iron Mountain Route. The best and most comfortable line from Memphis. Two trains each day carrying free reclining chair cars. No change of cars Memphis to Little Rock, Texarkana, Marshall, Longview, Terrell, Big Sandy, Mineral, Milis Point, Dallas, Fort Worth and other points. Ask for your tickets via the Iron Mountain Route. All agents have them. If you wills end me a letter stating Where you are going? When you are going? Where you start from? How many there are in your party? I will write or call at your house and furnish you with the fullest information regarding routes, lowest rates of fare, besides maps, descriptive and illustrated land pamphlets, resort books, guides, etc. Cheap rates to parties emigrating west. The traveling agents of this company are constantly looking after the interests of the line, and will look after all parties in person. For any further information write to H. D. Wilson, J. E. Rehilander, General Agent, Trav. Pass. Agt. Memphis, Tenn. OHIO REPUBLICAN PLATFORM – Value of Gold Increases – Silver Values Are Stable The silver plank in the platform of the Republican party of Ohio is a model of hypocrisy and false pretense……………. HOW THE THING IS MANAGED – Conventions of Farmers are Packed by Nabob Bankers The Philadelphia Evening Item calls attention in the article we quote below to the method by which a convention of agriculturists to meet in Atlanta, Ga., during this month, is being packed. …………….. DANGER AHEAD A much valued exchange says the Old world is a military camp…………………. PAGE 2 GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY There are 141 brandy distilleries in operation in sixteen counties in Middle Tennessee, and there will be the largest output of apple bandy since 1888, amounting to at least 2590 barrels. Charles W. Hill, formerly a well known young man of Knoxville, Tenn. now living in New York City, was thrown to the ground while trying to board the eastbound vestibule at Morristown, Tenn., Saturday. The fall fractured his skull. Paul Flesher, postmaster at Elkhorn, W. Va. was killed Sunday by falling from Pinnacle Rock, near Bramwell. He had one to spend the day at that picturesque spot, and while at the top of the rock, lost his footing and fell almost perpendicularly 175 feet. Richard Majors was cut on the head and back of the neck in Crook’s bar, on Cripple Creek, Tenn. Saturday night. He was quarreling with a man when Lizzie Pe ck jumped on him and nearly killed him before she could be gotten off. He will die. Both are colored. The Edward McGhee college for girls at Woodville, Miss on of the finest institutions in the south, was destroyed by fire Monday evening. There were seventy-five young lady pupils living in the college buildings besides the teachers and their families, all of whom, it is believed, escaped injury. A special from Sheriff Groner, of Know County, Tenn. dated at Chicago says that he caught John Scott near that city Monday. Scott is the negro who on July 4 cut Constable Sandland over 1900 times, causing him to lose his eyesight. At the time Sandland was trying to arrest him for cutting another negro. Frank Phillips, one of the members of the James gang, during their tour through Kentucky and Tennessee in the early seventies and later a figure in the McCoy- Hatfield feud, is dying from blood poisoning fifty miles south of here in Kentucky, caused by a bullet wound. A few days ago on the line between Virginia and Kentucky he enticed Frank Arnot out and shot him to death. During the dying moments of the latter he fired a bullet into his assailant that struck the vital point, and then dropped back a corpse. Two boys, aged 17 and 9 were drowned Sunday in the North River, New York…… Albert Wade, assistant cashier of the First National bank of Mt. Vernon, Ind. has disappeared. ……. Capt. Wm. H. Hulse and Pilot James Allen, of the Iron Steamboat Peruses, ……….. Details of a terrible accident which occurred near Bingham, Utah, in which three people were drowned and four seriously injured have been received. Two wagons met on a narrow pass on their side of a mountain, and one vehicle with all of it occupants was crowded off and hurled down into the stream below. Mrs. Jeppson, Miss Jeppson and Miss Ispen were drowned Frank McCurdy, at one time a prosperous commission and at the Union stock Yards, Chicago, is locked up on charges of forger. Love of whisky is said to be the cause. McCurdy has confessed and implicated E.M. Coleman, a bookkeeper, who has been out of employment for some time. Coleman is also locked up. Defaulting County treasurer M. G. Clay, of Ironton, O who left last week, returned Monday. He says he has been in W. V. for his health. He was arrested on complaint of B. F. Ellsberry, a bondsman and arraigned before ‘Squire Craig. He pleaded not guilty, in default of $10,000 bond, to answer to a charge of embezzlement. His shortage is over $17,000. While riding his bicycle after dark in Tecumseh, Mich. Thursday night. Rev. Judson, pastor of the Baptist Church of that village, struck Miss Woodward at a crosswalk, injuring her so severely that she died Friday morning. A contusion on the young woman’s head was the only mark of injury. The affair has caused a great sensation in Tecumseh, where the reverend gentleman and Miss Woodward are highly esteemed. The steamer Humboldt is on the rocks off Point Corda, Cal……. An extensive cave-in occurred at No. 4 mine in Plymouth, Pa. Saturday night………… Late Sunday night a number of young men discovered the corpse of a woman lying exposed beside an open grave in the local cemetery at Tuckanoe, N. J. Upon investigation it was found to be the body of Mrs. Mary Wallace, the deceased wife of a well-known prohibitionist. The appearance of the coffin showed that it had been roughly handled, and the body had evidently been subjected to rough usage also. A ring was missing from one of the fingers. PERILS OF LAKE NAVIGATION – How Brave men Risk Their Lives to Rescue Wrecked Mariners INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS – Agricultural Interests, Iron, coal, and Textile Manufacturers HOMICIDE IN TENNESSEE – Two Men Kill the Slayer of Their Brother After Five Years Waiting Last Friday while people were going to the county fair which was in progress at Cookville, Putnam County, Tenn. And a large crowd had gathered at the crossing of two public roads, Tom and Henry Anderson murdered Isaac D. Jacques, of Cumberland County. It was the result of a family feud of five years duration, caused by Jacques killing a brother of the Andersons for which he was tired and acquitted. The brothers met Jacques for the first time in three years, when the Andersons, without warning , shot Jacques six times, and when he had fallen from his mule kicked an pounded him in the face. The Andersons were captured and jailed. LIVE WASHINGTON NOTES NO COMPLAINT RECEIVED The state department has received no report or complaint concerning the alleged landing of Spanish troops on the Florida Keys in search of filibusters. WORK OF THE MINTS IN SEPTEMBER CALL FOR BANK REPORTS BONDS TO BE RETIRED MINISTER RANSOM’S SALARY RECEIPTS EXCED EXPENDITURES CHINA COMPILES PROMPTLY The report from London that China had yielded to the pressure of the British ultimatum by degrading the viceroy of Sze Chuen, and according, in full, the other demands of Great Britain, was confirmed at the Chinese Legation in Washington Monday……. AMERICAN INTERESTS IN CHINA IMPORTATION OF URUGUAY WOOL RESIDENCE BURNED STATE TOPICS RAILROADS IN JEFFERSON COUNTY JOHN BOYD’S BACK BATTERED Mr. Oscar Cobb, who resides in Sumpter county, discovered John Boyd, a negro, in the act of robbing his corn crib a few nights ago. He ordered the thief to stop, but the negro ran. As he did so Mr. Cobb snatched up a shotgun and fired his back full of squirrel shot. It is thought he is not fatally wounded. Cobb was not arrested. BURGLARY AT LIVINGSTON Five hundred an forty-five dollars in money and a gold watch were stolen from the trunk of Mr. Cawthorn of Selma, a guest of the Artesian hotel at Livingston Friday. The room was entered by some means and the trunk broken open. Suspicion rests on a white person and the case is being worked up. As yet no arrests have been made. NEW RAILROAD CONSTUCTION MR. A. O. Harwell, the contractor who is constructing the Opelika and LaFayette dummy road, has been confined to his room several days with sickness, but he is able to be out again now. Two cars of rails for the road arrived Tuesday and Wednesday track laying will begin……….. MURDERER CAUGHT AFTER SEVEN YEARS Attorney-General Fitts received a telegram from Tuscaloosa yesterday announcing the capture of Isham Cannon, colored, a fugitive from justice………. THROAT CUT, HEAD HAMMERED A serious fracas occurred at Montgomery Sunday in which W H. Thorpe………… PROBABLY FATALLY WOUNDED While trying to arrest three boisterous negroes at 11 p.m. Sunday night Chief of Police Lumpkin of Selma shot and probably fatally wounded Jim alias Babe Dawson…………. SINGULAR AND COSTLY ERROR Circuit court fell through Tuesday on account of a defect in the drawing of the jury commission of Shelby county………….. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION The Civil Service Commission at Washington has ordered that an examination be held in Birmingham on Saturday……….. CAME THROUGH THE STORM The British steamship Clearwater arrived at Mobile Tuesday night…………….. ASSISTED AT HER FATHER’S MURDER Minnie Williams, a negro girl living on the La Prude place, near Montgomery Ala was arrested Friday night charged with the murder of her father, Al Williams…………….. GEN. SCHOFFIELD’S SUCCESSOR Gen. Miles succeeds General Schofield, as commander of the army…………… INSOLENCE OR IGNORANCE – Rumors That Spaniards Landed on Florida Keys Searching for Arms SYMPATHY WITH THE CUBANS – The Spaniards in Mexico Offended at the Popular Demonstration OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION ORDERED Lieut. Chas. G. Dwyer, military attaché of the US legation in the city of Mexico has been ordered by Minister Ransom to visit the Tiapulilo colony near Mapimi, Mex. and make a thorough investigation in behalf of the US Government into the treatment of the negro colonists and the causes of the many deaths among them when they were preparing to abandon the plantation and return to their homes in Alabama. FREE COINAGE UNDER DIFFICULITES Henry A. Patterson, of Jeffersonville, Ind. was brought to Indianapolis Sunday in custody of a federal office an placed in jail …………. THE TREND OF TRADE DEFYING THE ARCHBISHOP – A Priest Declares He will Ignore an Order of Excommunication DO NOT HURRY TO SELL Hon. Hector D. Lane, president of the Cotton grower’s Protective association…………… THE GIN WORK The gin is getting in its work early this season…………… PAGE 3 Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ad for Kennedy’s Medical Discovery Ad for Walter Baker & Co. Cocoas and Chocolates REV. DR. TALMAGE – Subject: “Gideon’s Battle with the Midianites” HORSE-BREEDING IN INDIA STOMACH AND HEAD PAINS THE SANDWICH ISLANDS TIPPLE G. F. Burrell, of California, says that while the Sandwich Islanders known thing of what we call whiskey, they have a fluid which can discount any corn juice in existence. It is called Kava or yaquona…………….. A remarkable feat in telegraphy was recently performed in Australia, when the land lines between Broome, in West Australia, and Rockhampton, in Queensland, were joined, and direct messages were conveyed between the two places, which are 6575 miles apart… DIFFERENT KINDS OF BUFFALO The buffalo is evidently a whole-souled creature, for many hunters have seen the common domesticated calves of the frontier farms standing patiently waiting for a buffalo to dig a place in the snow and when he had accomplished his task the calves would eat the grass fearlessly. …………….. TAKE CARE OF YOUR UMBRELLA After coming in out of the rain, let the umbrella down, and stand it on the handle that it may dry…….. Ad for Royal Baking Powder Ad for Heckers Buckwheat – makes the best cakes – always light and dainty Ad for Terrerine Ad for Webster’s international Dictionary Ad for Potash Ad for Scott’s Emulsion of Cod-Liver Oil PAGE 4 THE NEWS PRESS Issued Every Thursday R. F. CARNES, Proprietor S. E. WILSON, Editor and Manager Entered at the post office at Hamilton, Ala, as second class matter Subscription Rates One year $1.00 Six Months .50 Three months .25 HURRAH FOR CULBERSON Too much praise cannot be awarded Gov. Culberson for the noble fight he has made to prevent his state from being disgraced by the vagrants Corbett and Fitzsimmons engaging in what is called a “prize fight” on Texas soil. When the fight was first announced to take place at Dallas, Gov. Culberson entered his official protest against it. The friend of the pugilists managed to obtain an opinion from the Supreme Court or one or more of its members, to the effect that here was no law on the statue books of Texas prohibiting a glove contest. This encouraged the pugilist party and they jubilantly announced that the fight would certainly take place at Dallas, October 31st…………………We wish there was a general law in every state declaring all such men as Corbett and Fitzsimmons vagrants, that they might be put to labor at some occupation which would render their extraordinary physical power available for the good of mankind. We cannot believe than an Allwise God gave this class of men this extraordinary power to b used as they are wont to employ it, but rather that it should be used in some honorable calling that would add to the prosperity and happiness of the country. Down with all prize fighters and professional baseball players. Put them to work that they may become producers, instead of the lazy, lounging, drunken, vagabondish consumers they are now and always have been. FREE COINAGE IMPROVEMENTS The St. Louis Republic says that in Kentucky and Maryland the Democrats are getting their lines of batter in better shape every day…………… At Wallerville, Miss. Cullens & Sloan, lost their steam gin and ten bales of cotton by fire a few evenings ago. The fire was caused by matches being run through the gin. No insurance. The Democrats of Mass. have nominated the following exceptionally strong ticket……….. ABOUT CUBA The question of the recognition of the Cubans as belligerents is occupying the public mind to a considerable extent………. THE ATLANTA EXPOSITION The Atlanta Exposition is now so far advanced as to give an insight as to its probable success. The citizens of Atlanta and the friends of the exposition are in high glee over its promised success………. We notice that some of the Alabama press are proposing to make a certain test as to the right of Democrats to vote at the next primaries. …… Uncle Sam is taking a hand in the Corbett-Fitzsimmons affair. Attorney-General Harrison says that the fight will not come off on any ground over which the United States has jurisdiction. ………. The Atlanta Exposition is closed very tight on Sunday. This is as it should be. COL. DANIEL S. TROY The Oneonta Dispatch pays the following tribute to the distinguished citizen of Alabama: “The gentleman whose name heads this article died at this residence in Montgomery, Ala Sept 27, 1895 of consumption of the bowels, aged 61 years. He was one of Alabama’s leading lawyers and foremost citizens……………. The Birmingham Age-Herald and the state have been consolidated. The new paper is called The State Herald. This leaves but one morning paper in Birmingham. The State Herald will advocate the free coinage of silver; in fact, is merely a continuation of The State. In a difficulty over a game of craps at Wilmott, Ark. a few days ago, John Norvell was killed and Levi Norvell and Mr. Moseley were seriously wounded by Zeno Allen. Allen is a 16 year old boy, but he knows how to handle a gun. Today is Alabama Day at the Atlanta Exposition. As it is impossible for us to be there, we can but say that our best wishes are with Alabamians today. Our Congressman, Hon. J. H. Bankhead, according to a special from Selma, is a candidate for the office of Governor. The town elections in Connecticut, held on last Monday as a general thing went Republican. AGENTS WANTED The manager of the News Press desires to have an active agent at every post office in Marion County to solicit subscriptions to the paper. We will allow agents a liberal commission. Address News Press ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Under and by virtue of an order and decree of the Honorable J. P. FORD, judge of Probate Court of marion County, State of Alabama, I, R. N. TERRELL, administrator of the estate of ELIJAH CANTRELL, deceased, will sell at public outcry to the highest bidder for one third cash, balance on twelve months time with approved security, at Bexar Alabama, on Monday the 4th day of November 1895 at 12 o’clock the following described real estate property belong to said estate to wit: Five acres south side of NE ¼ of NW ¼ and S ½ of SW ¼ and 35 acres in southwest part of NW ¼ of SW ¼ Sec 7 T 10 R 15 and E ½ of SW ¼ and 52 acres on east side of W ½ of SE ¼ Sec 12, T 10, R 16. R. N. TERRELL, Administrator A MOST VALUABLE BOOK The undersigned has accepted from the publishers the agency for Marion county for “Dictionary of United States History” one of the most valuable books ever offered to the American public……….. A copy of this book can be seen at the News Press office at Hamilton, also at MR. E. W. BROCK’S store, in Guin, where Mr. JOHN P. RILEY will take pleasure in showing it to all who may desire to examine it, and send to me the name of any one who may desire to subscribe. The book can also been seen at the railroad depot at Winfield, Mr. R. F. CARNES, the agent, will show the book and forward to me the name of any one desiring to subscribe. I will make m first delivery on or directly after Oct. 15. Those desiring the book should subscribe at once. S. E. WILSON, Agent for Marion County. NOTICE By virtue of an act of the General Assembly of Alabama, Approved February 9th 1895 I will sell to the highest bidder for cash at the Court house in Hamilton Marion County, Ala no the Fourth day of November 1895 …………. This September 12th 1895 JASON P. FORD, Judge of Probate SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of an execution issued out of the Clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of Marion county, and state of Alabama and to me directed, whereby I am commanded to make the amount of a certain judgment recently obtained against J. W. COLLINS and in favor of J. S. REEVES & CO. out of the goods, chattels, lands, and tenements of the said J. W. COLLINS, I have levied on the following property to wit: A fraction on east side of NE ¼ of SW ¼ Sec 32, T 12, R 15 the same being all east of the wetland in said forty-acre block, 80 rods north and south by 42 rods east and west except what is east of the Postal Road; also a fraction in southwest corner of NE ¼ of SW ¼, all in Sec 33 T 12 R 13; 38 rods east and west by 20 rods north and south, containing in all 21 acres more or less and notice given defendant by posting notice of levy at Court House door of said county on September 9th 1895. Therefore, according to said command, I shall expose for sale at public auction all the right, title and interest of the above-named J. W. COLLINS in and to the above described property, on Monday, the 14th day of October 1895 during the legal hours of sale at the Court House door in Hamilton Ala. Dated at office this 9th day of September 1895. W. W. HALL Sheriff Marion County, Ala. SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of an order of sale issued out of the Clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of Marion County, and state of Alabama, and to me directed, whereby I am commanded to make the amount of a certain judgment recently obtained against A. D. HARRIS, L. J. WOOD, and P. H. WOOD and in favor of W. F. CLARK, out of the goods, chattels land and tenements of the said L. J. WOOD. I have advertised the following property, to wit: SE ½ of NE ¼ and NE ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 19 and SW ¼ of NW ¼ and NW ¼ of SW ¼ Sec 29 T 11 R 14 and 5 acres in southwest corner of NW ¼ of NW ¼ of SW ¼ Sec 20 T 11 R 14 said land lying and being in Marion county, Ala. therefore, according to said command, I shall expose for sale at public auction all the right, title and interest of the above named L. J. WOOD in and to the above described property on Monday the 14th day of October 1895 during the legal hours of sale, at the Court House door in the town of Hamilton, Alabama Dated at office this 9th day of September 1895 W. W. HALL Sheriff, Marion County Ala. PAGE 5 THE NEWS PRESS Issued Every Thursday Hamilton, Oct. 10, 1895 RAILROAD TIME TABLE – KANSAS CITY, MEMPHIS, & BIRMINGHAM Guin No. 1 East Bound 11:33 a.m. No. 2 West Bound 3:40 p.m. No. 3 East Bound 2:44 a.m. No. 4 West Bound 2:02 a.m. Through tickets on sale. G. M. MCWHORTER, Agent Winfield No. 1 East Bound 11:47 a.m. No. 2 West Bound 3:26 p.m. No. 3 East Bound 2:56 a.m. No. 4 West Bound 1:47 a.m. Through Tickets on sale. R. F. CARNES, Agent THE MAILS At Hamilton: Guin – Arrives at 6 p.m. and leaves at 5 a.m. Fulton – Arrives at 6 p.m. and leaves at 6 a.m. Hackleburg – Arrives at 12 m and leaves at 1 p.m. Belgreen – Arrives at 11:40 a.m. and leaves at 12 m At Winfield: Train at 11:47 and 3:27 p.m. Pearce’s Mills – Arrives at 11:20 a.m. and leaves at 12 m Haley’s – Arrives at 12 m and leaves at 15:30 p.m. on Monday and Friday Fayette – Arrives at 9 a.m. and leaves at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday LOCAL NEWS Read the new legal advertisements in today’s paper. Profs. ALEXANDER and TATE visited Bear Creek on last Friday evening on business. Hon. W. C. DAVIS went to Guin on Monday last on business of a professional nature. We learn that a populist (we did not get his name) made a speech at Tremont on Tuesday. Attorney W. R. APPLING made a flying tip to Sulligent during the week on professional business. It will pay you to go to Littleton at Guin for your supplies. Judge COOPER visited Birmingham last week on business. He reports everything lively in that thriving Alabama city. Mr. JOSEPH HAMILTON is reported to be still improving, but his convalescence is very slow, owing to the extreme low state to which his system was reduced by the disease. We are in receipt of a special invitation to be present at the opening ceremonies of the Alabama Building Cotton States and International Exposition Friday Oct. 11m 1895 at Atlanta, Ga. Cotton is being marketed just now, and is bringing a good price. When paying off your little bills don’t forget the dollar you owe the printer. It is but a mite, still it is little rivulets that make the mighty river. The tax assessor and tax collector both have notices in our paper today. Read them. Death and taxes can’t be dodged, so come up to the collector’s appointments and settle; also meet Mr. FARRIS and render a schedule for 1896. Keep the ball rolling. You can earn $5 each day “giving” our indispensable household articles away. New plan of work, making experience unnecessary and success certain for either sex in any section. Sample dozen free. Credit given. Freight paid. Address, Melrose, Mf’g Co. 50 Melrose Park Ill. With cotton at 8 cents a pound when you planted and made your crop expecting to get 5 and possibly 6 cents for it, you certainly can afford to subscribe for your county paper. The News Press and pay for it for one year in advance so come up friends and give us a lift. We have no hesitancy in saying that we are publishing a first-class county newspaper, and are not ashamed to ask the people to subscribe for it. We feel that we are giving them full value for their dollar. We call attention to the notice to be found elsewhere of two more home seekers excursions to be given by the Cotton Belt Route from Memphis to Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana at one fare plus $2 for the round trip. Tickets for these excursions will be sold at the office in Memphis on October 11, 15, 18, 22, 25 and 29 and Nov. 1, 5, 8, and 12, good for 15 days. Read notice. Big stock of dry goods at Littleton’s. Bought at 40c on the dollar. Mr. A. J. THORN has just returned from a two week’s visit to Texas, where he went to visit relatives and friends. He speaks in glowing terms of that country; says the lands are rich and the people prosperous and happy. However, he did not become so enamored as to be willing to sell out and leave old Marion. Big stock of fancy and heavy groceries just received at Littleton’s at Guin, ala. The Iron Mountain Route gives notice in another column of today’s paper of a Harvest Excursion from Memphis to Arkansas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, etc. Tickets will be on sale at Memphis October 8th and 22d, for one fare plus $2 fir the round trip. Tickets good for 20 days to return. with stopovers at pleasure going. Two trains daily to Texas, equipped with Pullman sleepers and reclining chair cars. See special notice. Go to L. D. Littleton at Guin for your clothing, hats, boots and shoes at bed rock prices. At considerable outlay of money and much labor we have increased the News press to just double its former size. It takes twice as much labor and expense to publish this large paper, so we think it but fair that our patronage should be doubled. This can be effected by but little effort. Let every one of our present subscribers go to work with a determination to induce one or more of his friends to become subscribers. If he only secures one the object is accomplished. Go to work friends and give us to still improve our paper, and make it an honor to the county and a powerful instrument for the up building of every material interest of the county. JAMES ATKINS died at his residence near Hamilton, on Wednesday Oct. 9 1895. He leaves a wife, a married daughter, Mrs. ALBERT HAMILTON, Jr., two brothers and two sisters to mourn his demise. He had just passed his fiftieth year in age. He was born and reared in this county, and was one of Marion’s soldier boys in the Confederate army. He was most highly esteemed by all who knew him as an honest, honorable gentleman and good citizen. His remains will be interred in the cemetery at this place today at 10 o’clock, a.m. His family and friends have the sympathy of the community in their sad bereavement. Big stock of clothing just received at Littleton’s . Will sell at 75 cents on the dollar of wholesale cost. Besides the editorial, local, news and miscellaneous matter furnished our readers each week every issue contains a sermon from that most celebrated living minister – Rev. Dr. Talmage –which of itself is well worth the price of subscription. His sermon for this week will be found on the seventh page. His subject “Gideon’s Battle with the Midianites,” is masterly treated. Read it. It will well pay perusal. Bill Arp, the celebrated humorist, also has a letter in our paper each week. In the present issue his letter will be found on the third page. In his humorous way he extends an invitation to our Northern friends to come down South and fraternize with us. Read it, it’s funny. WHO IS HE – (poem by E. M. , Winfield) Biggest bargains in Gents furnishing goods at Littleton’s than ever before. HARVEST EXCURSION via Iron Mountain Route to Arkansas, Texas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, etc. ON October 8th and 22nd the Iron Mountain Route will sell tickets to the above points at one fare for the round trip, plus $2. Tickets will be good 20 days to return, with stop-overs at pleasure going. Two trains daily to Texas equipped with Pullman sleepers and free reclining chair cars. For advertising matter and books on Texas address H. D. Wilson, Passenger and Ticket Agent, or J. E. Behlander, Traveling Passenger Agent, 309 Main Street, Memphis, Tenn. STILL PROGRESSING Our school is still booming. New students are coming in every day. The total enrollment at this time is 150, and the school in every department is moving along smoothly and satisfactorily. The teachers are in high spirits and the students are contented and happy. This is all very well as far as it goes, but there are others throughout the district who are anxious to enjoy the benefits of this school, but are deprived from doing so far the reason there are no houses for their families to live in. We received a letter by Tuesday’ mail from a special friend of ours, inquiring for house-room for his family; he was even willing to put up with a couple of rooms, but we have made diligent inquiry and cannot find a single room even. Why can’t our people be induced to go to work and make reparations for the accommodation of those who are anxious to move here. If the people here would do their part in this matter of building houses by the first Monday in January next; our school would number over 200 students, and our town would make a much better appearance than now. It wouldn’t look so much like it “is finished.” REDUCED RATES TO DALLAS, TEX. FOR THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH CONVENTION For the Christian Church Convention, which convenes at Dallas, Tex. in October, the “Cotton belt Route” will sell round tip tickets from Memphis to Dallas and return at rate of one fare for the round trip. Tickets will be sold October 136 to 31 inclusive, and will be limited to November 13 for return passage. For further information address J. C. Davis, Traveling Passenger Agent, C. P. Rector, Commercial Agent, 363 Main St. Memphis, Tenn. NOTICE The Educational Board will meet at Guin, Ala. Saturday October 12, 1895 for the purpose of examining applicants to teach school. W. A. DUNN, President of Board THE NEWS OF THE COUNTY – Gathered by Correspondents for the Present Week GUIN, ALA. We are having a few days of hot, dusty weather since the old snap. The busy season is upon us with full force. Dr. SCRUGGS of Twin, Ala. was on our streets last Saturday. Come again Doctor, we are always glad to see you. Mrs. A. A. WALTON, an accomplished music teacher of the Trieba college, and Miss ELLA CREWS, a charming young lady of Crews, Ala. paid Mrs. BROCK a pleasant visit last Saturday. Miss MARY HUFFSTUTLER of Birmingham arrived here last Saturday to attend school at this place. We extend to her a hearty welcome. Rev. D. W. WARD preached an interesting sermon at the Methodist Church on the night of the 5th on “Sampson and the Lion.” N. W. HULSEY, one of our enterprising merchants and family visited relatives in the country last Sunday. ED COMERFORD of Pickens County is visiting his cousin, M. T. AKERS, the efficient postmaster of this place. S. G. MCWHORTER, a highly respected and beloved citizen of this place, is very sick. J. P. RILEY took a merry party of ladies to Philadelphia last Sunday. They reported a delightful time. Prof. HUFFSTUTLER was taken sick last Thursday with bilious fever, but we are glad to say is improving . Rev. R. W. CLARK delivered a very able sermon at the Baptist Church last Sunday. The Epworth League on last Friday night was conducted by Miss CALLIE RILEY. A committee of four – J. M. SPRINGFIELD, W. P. MCGLAWN, Mrs. E. BROCK, and Miss M. C. RILEY were appointed by the president to minister to the wants of the sick. We are pleased to note that Dr. STONE’S family are all up again. Rev. Mr. HUEY will deliver a lecture here next Wednesday night. Rev. W. P. MCGLAWN delivered an excellent sermon at Philadelphia Church on ‘The Resurrection” last Sunday, and three were added to the church. J. T. CARPENTER is ginning from eight to nine bales of cotton per day. VENICE WINFIELD, ALA. Business is flourishing in our town. The two steam cotton gins are doing more work than they ever have. The advance in the price of cotton has put new life into the people. The farmers are simply hustling and getting their cotton to market as quickly as possible and seem to be taking a delight in paying off their old debts. There has been more goods received by our merchants during the past two weeks than is ordinary received in six months. Besides the usual quantity of goods sold lately there has been about $5000 expended for cotton and freight during the past two weeks. I am glad that our people are not seriously hurt by the short cotton crop, and that they are benefited more by the advance in price than damaged by decrease in production. FRANK WHITE, section master of the Kansas City road at Glen Allen, spent Sunday here. J. W. CARNES has secured a position under Mr. WHITE, and will make Glen Allen his home for some time. N. A. MUSGROVE was taken suddenly and dangerously sick Sunday. Glad to state that he is getting all right again. The people of the Christian Church have just closed a protracted meeting. Four additions to the church membership. Rev. CHARLES WHEELER was selected as their pastor. Preaching will be conducted first Sunday in each month. J. A. NORTHCUTT left for Aberdeen Sunday. He is taking treatment for his eyes under Dr. GREEN of that city. HENRY ERWIN has moved his family into town. He is with J. C. EGAN on the railroad. ZACHARIAH TWO MORE HOMESEEKER’S EXCURSIONS VIA “COTTON BELT ROUTE” On October 8th and 22d the “Cotton belt Route” will sell round trip tickets from Memphis to Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana at rate of one fare plus $2 for the round trip. These tickets will be good for return passage on the following dates: October 11, 15, 18, 22, 25, and 29, November 1, 5, 8, and 12. Going transit limit will be 15 days from date of sale, and stop-overs will be allowed within that limit. Returning tickets will be limited to continuous passage. For further information call on or address J. C. Davis, Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent, or C. P. Record, Commercial Agent, 3023 Main Street, Memphis, Tenn. Ad for Beatty’s Organs and Pianos TAX COLLECTOR’S NOTICE You will take notice that I will attend at the following named places and dates for the purpose of collecting the state and county taxes for year 1895. Second Round Pikeville Hamilton Rye Camps Bexar Shottsville Reed’s HAckleburg Goddard Kimbrough Howell’s Pearce’s Clarks Texas Winfiedl Guin Remember that Poll-Tax is delinquent after the 30th of November and will bear 8 percent interest from date of being delinquent and the state and county tax will be delinquent after the 31st of December, and the same will bear interest after delinquency. Please meet me promptly and settle your taxes. You may expect costs and interest after delinquency. This Oct. 10, 1895 M. M. FRAZIER, Tax-Collector, Marion Co. Ala. TAX ASSESSOR’S NOTICE – First Round I will be at the following places on the days named for the purpose of assessing the state and county taxes for the year 1896, viz: Bexar, Camps Shottsville Rye’s Hamilton, Pearce’s Texas, Winfield Gin Pikeville Reid’s Hackleburg Goddard Kimbrough Howell’s Taxpayers please meet me promptly and list your property. If you fail cost many be expected. No property is exempt from taxation unless listed and no one can make returns of the property of another except as provided in section 477 of the Code. T. J. FARIS, Tax Assessor Marion County, Ala. A PROPOSITION – A Splendid Offer to Every Farmer in This Section Every farmer should have a good agricultural newspaper as well as his county paper. We make the following proposition by which every farmer in Marion and surrounding counties can obtain the oldest and one the oldest agricultural papers FREE………… PROFESSIONAL CARDS – J. D. MCCLUSKEY, W. C. DAVIS, C. E. MITCHELL – MCCLUSKEY,DAVIS, & MITCHELL 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 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. 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. 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. T. J. SPRINGFIELD, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, Guin, Alabama. Offers his professional services to the citizens of Guin and surrounding country. Special attention given to diseased of women. All calls promptly attended day or night. Ad for Two Superb Engravings Ad for Gilmore & Co. PAGE 6 FOR THE FAIR SEX TYPES OF BEAUTY SOMETHING ABOUT FURS TOQUE VS TURBAN ADIEU, THE SHOULDER CAPE KEEP YOUR FACE STILL Don’t roll your eyes up into your head as if they were marbles. A fine pair of yes will be utterly ruined by this operation. The girl with a pretty mouth will purse it up into the prettiest bouton and continue the habit until many lines form about the lips and the lovely mouth as to be put into the hands of a beauty doctor. LADIES WHO HIDE THEIR JEWELS FASHION NOTES ALL IN HER CHIN – the Right Kind of a Woman for a Man to Marry SLEEPING ON THE WTER A DELIGHTFUL THEORY THE DENSITY OF WOOD QUEEN VICTORIA’S CROWN – many gems Make it the Heaviest Diadem in Europe MARRIAGE CEREMONY IN SWEDEN CURIOUS WALL IN MICHIGAN Alfred Pagett, a Michigan archaeologist, has been making explorations of an ancient wall which he discovered in that state, which seems to be a sort of aboriginal counterpart of the great wall of China…………. THE SIGHT OF BIRDS EGYPTIAN COLORS DIED FOR HER YOUNG MARRIAGE IN MADAGASCAR A COON HUNT GREAT TEXAS PAGE 7 THE EGGS THAT NEVER HATCH – (poemt) AT NINETEENAND TWENTY-SEVEN – (short story) A FLORATING THEARTER – Russia Has One and the United States May Follow Suit HOMER AND CARRIER PIGEONS YOUNG AMERICA FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS “TOMMY’S ALPHABET” – (poem) COLOR PROTECTS THEM THE LITTLE HERO THE WREN AND HIS HOME VALUABLE DOG COLLARS HOW TO BREATHE A BUG BORN OF FIRE SIMPLICITY OF CLEVER INVENTIONS CATS LIVING IN TREES USELESSS LETTERS BILL ARP’S LETTER – To Come Down South and Fraternize With Us SHE FELL 1,000 FEET PAGE 8 THE NEWS PRESS FROM THE TWO ARMIES – (poem) MOTHERS OF GREAT MEN GIVE THE BOY HIS “SHOOTER” THE GHOSTS OF THE CAPITOL – What a Guide in the Nation’s Building Says He Saw – [Washington Post] Ad for Brown’s Iron Bittters Ad for New Home Sewing Machine – sold by W. R. WHITE, Hamilton, Ala Ad for Beatty’s organs and pianos Ad for Dictionary of U S. History FURNITURE VARNISHED The undersigned professes to be well versed in the art of all kinds of varnishing and will varnish furniture at a reasonable rate. He proposes that if any one can discolor furniture varnished by him, even while wet, with hot water or otherwise, to make no charge. He also proposes to give one dollar each for every blister drawn, either by the sun or fire, upon furniture that he varnishes. He proposes to give $5.00 to any one disturbed by bed-bugs, about all bedstead he varnishes, if kept from against the walls. Will leave all furniture in condition that one can see themselves in it as in a mirror. Address JOHN STEWART, Barnesville, Ala. H. E. MIXON – Dealer in staple and fancy dry goods & Groceries, Hamilton, ala. The Celebrated Mountain Mills Thread always on hand. Full line of Tobacco and snuffs, saddles, harnesses, wagon lines and bridles, stoves, tinware, hardware, and nails. Full and complete line of boots and shoes of latest styles. Clothing, hats, jeans and jeans pants. Complete line of standard patent medicines and drugs. Big lot of crockery and Queensware, lamps, lamp shades and chimneys, etc. Paints, oils and varnish, and everything usually kept in a first class store at rock bottom prices for cash for country produce. I will positively pay you the highest market price for chickens, eggs, beeswax, and dry hides. If you fail to see what you want call for it, as I will have a great many goods upstairs. H. E. MIXON. West Alabama Agricultural School, Hamilton, Alabama. Co-Educational. First- Session opens September 2, 1895. Tuition absolutely free. A thorough and practical course. Expenses very low. Board five to seven dollars per month. JAS. E. ALEXANDER, President You only see one line. That’s because there is only one line running Through Coaches, Free Reclining Chair Cars and Pullman Palace sleepers between Memphis and principal points in Arkansas and Texas without change. This lien traverses the finest Farming, Grazing, and Timber lands and reaches the most prosperous Towns and cities in the Great Southwest. It is the Cotton belt Route. Of “Homes in the Southwest,” “Through Texas,” “Texas Lands,” or “Truth about Arkansas.” Mailed to any address upon application. W. W. Labeaume, Gen’l Pass and Ticket Agt. St. Louis, Mo. C. P. Rector, Commercial Agent, Memphis, Tenn. Ad for Dictionary of US History – sold by S. E. WILSON File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/hamilton1753gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 47.0 Kb