Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON NEWS PRESS December 12, 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, 7:08 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History December 12, 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. 50 HAMILTON, ALA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1895 ONE DOLLAR A YEAR Calendar of December 1895 RAILROAD TIME TABLE – KANSAS CITY, MEMPHIS, & BIRMINGHAM Guin No. 1 East Bound 11:45 a.m. No. 2 West Bound 4:02 p.m. No. 3 East Bound 2:44 a.m. No. 4 West Bound 1:48 a.m. Through tickets on sale. S. G. MCWHORTER, Agent Winfield No. 1 East Bound 11:59 a.m. No. 2 West Bound 3:48 p.m. No. 3 East Bound 2:56 a.m. No. 4 West Bound 1:34 a.m. Through Tickets on sale. H. P. ODEN, Agent DIRECTORY THE COUNTY 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 AT GUIN: Train at 11:23 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Hamilton – Arrives at 10 a.m. and leaves at 12 m daily except Sunday Vernon – Arrives Monday and Friday at 5 p.m. and leaves Tuesday and Saturday at 7 a.m. Pharos – Arrives Wednesday and Saturday at 10 a.m. and leaves at 1 p.m. same days Twin – Arrives Tuesday and Friday t 3 p.m. and leaves at 5 p.m. the same days. CIRCUIT COURT Judge – T. R. ROULHAC, of Colbert County Solicitor – A. H. CARMICHAEL, of Colbert County 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 Court meets on Thursday after the 3rd Monday in April and October. COMMISSIONER’S COURT JASON P. FORD, chairman; A.M. CANTRELL, J. C. NORTHINGTON, A. F. M. HOWELL and JOHN F. LOWE, members. Meets on the 2nd Monday in February and August and the 1st Monday in April and November COUNTY OFFICERS Sheriff – W. W. HALL, Hamilton Clerk – J. F. HAMILTON, Hamilton Register, W. B. RIGGAN - Hamilton Tax Assessor – T. J. FARIS, Bexar Tax Collector – M. M. FRAZIER, Hamilton Treasurer – J. B. WOOD, Hamilton Superintendent of Education – W. A. DUNN PROBATE COURT Judge – JASON P. FORD Meets on the 2nd Monday in each month. CHURCH NOTICE - HAMILTON METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH – Hamilton - Services 1st Sunday in each month at 11 am and 7 pm and every 4th Sunday at 7 pm – Rev. S. P. SMITH, Pastor SUNDAY SCHOOL - Sunday School at 9:30 am– W. R. WHITE, Supt. Prayer meeting Wednesday night. Bexar – Every second Sunday at 11 a.m. New Bethel – Ever second Sunday at 3 p.m. Mount Hope – Saturday before each third Sunday at 3 p.m. and ever fifth Sunday at 11 a.m. Newburg – Every third Sunday at 11 a.m. Bethlehem – every third Sunday at 3 p.m. Mount Zion – Every fourth Sunday at 11 a.m. Smyrna – Every fourth Sunday at 3 p.m. MASONIC HAMILTON LODGE NO. 344 G. N. STOKES, W. M.; A. J. THORN, S. W.’; A. H. BURLESON, J. W; G. B. MIXON, Treas., R. A. 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. H. 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. M. CANTRELL, W. M.; W. W. FREDERICK, S. W.; P. N. GREEN, J. D.; E. A. MIXON, Treas.; JOHN A . GREEN, Secy BEXAR LODGE NO. 230 JOHN ARNOLD, W. M.; W. L. WHITEHEAD, S. W.; W. A. BULLARD, 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, J. W.; .A RANDOLPH, Treas.; J. J. COATES, Secy GUIN DIRECTORY Mayor – J. T. CARPENTER Marshal – C. A. BOOKER Aldermen – J. T. WESTBROOK, S. J. BAIRD, J. J. POPE, and T. T. HILBURN METHODIST CHURCH – 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. A.N. REEVES, pastor Services fourth Sunday and Saturday before each month, J. N. DICKINSON, pastor. CHRISTIAN – Services first Sunday in each month. Rev. CHARLES WHEELER, pastor Union Sunday School every Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. R. F. CARNES, Superintendent GEN. SHELLEY’S WAR STORY – Praised When He Expected An Order of Court-Marshal The first time I went into a fight, said the gallant and genial Alabamian, Gen. C M. Shelley, in talking with some friends at the Metropolitan touching incidents of the war…………. GOVERNOR’S SALARIES There is a great difference in the compensation of the Governors…………… YOU WILL NEVER BE SORRY FROM THE LONE STAR STATE – Zachariah Tells of Some of His Experience Out West Arthur, Tex., Dec. 9 Editor News Press: I suppose my trip and Texas experience will likely interest your readers The journey from Memphis to Texas, via the St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt Route) or the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern is one that is good for mortal man. These two great railroads vie with each other in seeing who can give the emigrant, the pleasure seeker, or the tourist the best accommodations for the least money. They are, indeed, great railroads, and there is no comparison between moving to Texas by the way of these lines and the old overland route with ox teams and wagons. The country traversed by those lines is very fertile, and everything seems prosperous, even the small towns having a new, neat city look. I arrived at this city, which is situated one-fourth mile south of the Red River near the Indian Territory on Monday. My wife and I spent the night with Mr. and Mrs. HUFF at the ARTHUR House; had good clean beds and lots of good things to eat. Tuesday morning Zachariah put in an application with the railroad company for a job. Went out to Chicota, a pleasant drive from Arthur of six miles. We gave our kin folks a big surprise, as they were not expecting us. We had a very pleasant stay there for a few days, when I was summoned by the superintendent of the Frisco Line to report at Arthur for work. So here I am “tempo” pro tem. This part of Texas has some good people and some who are awful though. A few days before I came here EPH JONES and two companions went over in the territory hunting. Mr. JONES’ companions returned without him, stating that he went off into the woods and was lost. Mr. JONES has never been found. Last Wednesday a week, I met a well dressed, nice looking young man at the depot who informed me that he arrived at Arthur the evening before in a house boat, and was going to Paris on the train to buy some things he needed. Thursday or Friday this young man with other companions left with their boat down the river. The next Sunday, eight or nine days alter, some men came to the telegraph office to get me to notify the United States marshal that they had found a house boat tied up two miles below Arthur, and that there was a large dog in the boat that would not let them in; they went to a window and looked in. They were horrified to find the three men and a 13 or 14-year old boy lying on pallets on the floor dead. Zachariah went down there. In Dante’s’ dreams of hell admits horrors there was nothing to compare with that awful sight. The three men and the boy were lying on the same pallet with their heads towards the window. Three of them had been shot with Winchesters and one with a shotgun. The two men near the window were badly decomposed, and part of one’s face where he had been shot was eaten out by the dog. All of the boys’ face from his teeth to the top of his head had been shot away, and the dog had eaten all of the brains out. The skin had fallen from the skull, leaving only the bare bone and the grinning teeth. From his shoulders down he was very well preserved. The last man on the pallet from the window and owner of the dog looked quite natural. I recognized him as the gentleman I met at the depot. His pants had been pulled down around his feet and his shirt up under his arms. He w the owner of the boat and I suppose he had money in his belt around his waist, and the assassins robbed him. The boat contained two tables with about two packs of playing cards scattered over one of them, a cook stove, two or three empty kegs, several empty jugs and some flour, meat and fish nets. A man by the name of Dave Floyd was arrested at Goodland, I. T. last night. It is thought he knows who did the killing. While all this “cussedness” was going on of course your friends Zachariah could not escape without his share. The waiting rooms to this depot have been kept in a terrible filthy condition – tobacco spit, mud, etc., reeking all over the floor. The man in whose place I am working scoured it out, and when the gang of toughs came in and commenced to befoul it he asked them not to do so. One of them said to him “What’s ther floor fer if taint to spit on?” and the spitting and whittling continued with renewed vigor. When the station was transferred to me I wrote out a notice in box-car letters reading thus: “Please do not spit on the floor or walls.” It did not good, but I could not find out for certain who was committing the nuisance, as I could not catch them at it. Day before yesterday I went in the waiting room and caught a fellow at it. He had about half a peck of shavings on the floor all covered with tobacco spit. I was very polite to him, and told him I wanted to keep the room decent for ladies and requested him to clean it up. He said he would when he got ready. I still insisted on his doing so, but he was like the boy on the burning deck: “He would not go, because he loved to whittle so.” I went over to the hotel and got a gun and he was still whittling when I returned. I gave him an introduction to Mr. Gun and told him he would clean that floor or I would shoot a hole through him. The knife shut with a snap, he called for the broom and the balance of the gang “vamoosed.” Can’t get any one to deal in tobacco spit and whittling now. The depot is as quiet as Sunday in Hamilton. I was arrested yesterday and the good citizens came up in a body and asked to go on my bond. Guess I will come out all “O.K.” If I don’t will write a continuance of Texas experience and describe fully Texas courts, convict system, etc. This country has lots of good people in it, however, and it is only a question of time when this rough element will be driven out, and law and order will prevail. More anon. ZACHARIAH CASH INSTEAD OF CREDIT People who buy for cash always buy cheaper than those who buy on credit. They buy too more closely, and select more carefully. Purchases which are paid for when they are made are limited more exactly to the purchaser’s wants. There in nothing like having to count the money out when the article is bought to make people economical. The amount of indebtedness incurred is not much considered when the pay-day is far off Persons who do all their business on a cash basis know just where they stand and what they can afford; consequently they never find after-occasion for regretting, in a turn of times, that they indulged in this luxury or that, which they would have forgone had they seen what was coming Real wants are few and can be gratified for cash; at all events, they should always be limited to what can be paid for in cash. How much of anxiety, how many sleepless hours, how many heartburning, disappointments, and regrets would be avoided if this rule was always strictly adhered to. TRUE PHILOSOPHY PAGE 2 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE – Mr. Cleveland Reviews the Affairs of the Country Argentine Boundary Dispute………. The Chinese-Japanese War………….. Our relations with France …………. Relations with Germany………. Relations with Great Britain…………. The Alaskan Boundary……… The United States and Canada………… The Venezuelan Dispute……….. The Hawaiian Revolution…….. The Struggling Cubans……….. The trouble in Turkey………….. The Financial Situation Reviewed…………… Lynching of Italians………. Signed, Grover Cleveland PAGE 3 GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY Robert Sparks & Co. have launched two of the four large barges they are building at Kingston., Tenn.………….. At 3 o’clock Saturday morning robbers entered the store of Wilkins & Co, of Jasper, Ga., blew open the safe and obtained $300 in money and a new gold watch……… Walter Cartwright, a young white man, was found dead in the rear of a negro bagnio in Nashville, Tenn. He was known to have been drinking heavily in company with another young man after midnight. He had bled to death from a knife wound in the thigh. C. C. Smoot, Son & Co, of Alexandria, Va. have closed a contract for the establishment of a $100,000 tannery plant at North Wilkesboro, N. C……….. Pensacola is the only place in Florida reporting freezing temperature………… At an early hour Wednesday morning Joe Preston, a negro man about four miles from Nashville, Tenn., assaulted “Bud’ Hill, a colored boy. Hill was badly beaten about the head with a stick, and his life is despaired of………… The Standard Oil company report over 1000 derricks blown down in the Bowling Green Ky. field by last Monday night’s storm and that that its loss will reach $150,000…………… The work on the Park Woolen Mill, Chattanooga, Tenn. is completed…………. The banks of Louisville, Ky. had gathered together $700,000 in gold which they offered to the United States government to help keep up the surplus…………………… William Costello, one of the trapeze performers of the Sells Brothers circus, in passing from one car to another, on the C. R. C. Railroad near Chattanooga on Saturday night, was thrown off by a sudden lurch of the car. He was picked up in an insensible condition and carried to the Chester Hotel, Chattanooga, where he died at midnight Sunday……………. On Sunday evening at Hagers, ten miles north of Gainesville, Fla. Phillip S. Warren, while engaged in a dispute with a negro named Wade, was approached from behind by Nelson Evans…… At Alexandria, Ind. the plate glass works were badly wrecked and two large shops of the Union steel plate plant were demolished…… Dr. Erastus Dillion, a prominent druggist of Otwell, Pike County, Indiana Tuesday night shot and killed Alex Hourry, a saloon keeper of that place, and a companion, whose name is not known. Dillion was not arrested During the storm which prevailed all over the Northwestern and Trans- Mississippi Southern states last Monday and Tuesday, two electric cars in Chicago were blocked by the snow and the passengers had to remain on them all night. A fire which resulted in the death of two men and the injury of three others did damage to the amount of …………….. The two upper-stories of the Hogan Printing Company’s extensive establishment… St. Louis, Mo., were gutted by fire Monday………… A bill passed the house of the Cherokee legislature Wednesday respecting the intermarriage law relative to Cherokees and whites. Whites who have hitherto married into the tribe will retain their citizenship, but no rights in the nation and hereafter be acquired by whites intermarrying provided the chief signs the bill. At Elwood, Ind. during the late blizzard, the casting hall of the glass factory was demolished over the heads of 400 workmen…………. Mrs. Helen Barnes, wife of Attorney Charles Barnes, of Oswego, N. Y. who has been separated for four years from her husband, and who during that time has been employed by Chappell, Bacon & Co., dry good merchants of Fulton, as cahier and clerk, is charged with systematically robbing them of over $11,000. ………… During a dance at Shelby, Ind. Saturday night John and Frank Lattey were both shot and probably fatally wounded……… The Illinois state board of health has been notified by wife that small pox has appeared at Cairo and in Pulaski county, several cases having developed within the last twenty-four hours……….. The Zihlman glass factory, Baltimore, Md. burned Sunday…….. John J. Swan, Daniel Brown, and Michael Lynch, attendants at the Delaware state insane asylum at Farnburst, have been arrested charged with causing the death of Lenn Pisa, otherwise known as Leon Lewis on October 5………… All the sugar refineries in Philadelphia, including the Franklin and the McCann, have shut down throwing 2,000 workmen out of employment……………… At Buffalo, N. Y. on Tuesday the $40,000 side-wheel excursion steamer Shrewbarry, was washed away from the supports upon which it was placed and beached……….. FOREIGN About 500 deaths are recorded as having resulted from the severe storms which have prevailed recently in the district of Odessa, Russia……. The case of the tug Telephone, which was seized two week sago in Canadian water of Lake Erie for illegal fishing, has been considered by the minister of marine and fisheries……… STATE TOPICS SMELTING WORKS BURNED The East Birmingham Smelting Works were burned down Thursday night………… ACCIDENT OR MURDER AT 5 o’clock a.m. Sunday in the railroad camps near Tallassee, Mr. Pigley, a foreman at the bridge, was shot and instantly killed. There was a scuffle over a pistol and it is claimed that he shot himself. POST OFFICE ROBBED Postmaster Ira D. Parten notified Inspector Whiteside Monday that his office located at Suggsville, Ala had been entered the night before and robbed of all stamps and money. No clue to the thieves. KILLED BY FALLING SLATE Thomas Young, a white miner at Coalburg, was killed by a large quantity of slate falling on him Saturday morning…………. INDUSTRIAL MOVEMENT D. R. Saunders of the Fort Payne Basket Company who recently bought the basket factory at Guntersville, has let a contract to G. Wells to enlarge the factory…………. POST OFFICE BURGLARY Wednesday night at Auburn, Ala burglars entered the post office and blew open the safe. ………….. QUITE DEAD WHEN FOUND A. M. Clemons, who left Lafayette some days ago for Randolph County was found near Roanoke with his head beaten to a jelly. He was quite dead when found. There is no clue to his murderers. PISTOL VERSUS ROCK City Marshal Will Skelton shot Will Smith, a colored boy, at Scottsboro Sunday night about 6 o’clock….. A PIONEER PASSES OVER Col. John C. Cullman, the founder of the town of that name, died at his home on Tuesday morning,. The deceased was a native of Bavaria in Germany and was born July 2, 1828. He came to the United States in 1865 and to Alabama in 1871, and in 1873 established the town of Cullman, where in a short time he located, in the town and adjacent country more than a thousand families. He has since been instrumental in bringing many German immigrants to this state. TWO SHOOTING AFFAIRS Two shooting affairs occurred at Birmingham Saturday afternoon Deputy Sheriff Sharpe was bringing a negro named Andrew Crawford to jail from Woodward for grand larceny. When near the jail, Crawford attempted to escape and Sharpe shot him as he ran up street, inflicting a probably fatal wound. Walter Williams, colored, and Henry Myers, white draymen for McMillan, Lee & Co., got into a dispute on Morris Avenue when Myers fired a bullet into Williams brain. The latter lived several hours. Myers is in jail. A GENTLE HINT TO THE ELDERS Mormon elders are in Montgomery and are becoming troublesome with their importanties and advances at residences in the day time, when the head of the house is absent. One of their cards had on one side the names of Elder Charles H. Atley, Laketown, Rich County, Utah; Elder A. T. Allen, Love, Loche county, Utah and on the reverse side was their articles of faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Some feeling has been roused against these elders at many of the houses at which they called, and if they are not careful they will get an uncomfortable reception somewhere. It might be prudent for them to take this gentle hint and leave Montgomery in search of new and greener pastures. IMPORTANT COMMITTEE APPOINTED HOMICIDE AT GADSDEN J. L. Bates who travels for Peaslee, Gaulbert & Co., wholesale druggist of Louisville, Ky. was hot and fatally wounded in Barnes saloon at Gadsden Saturday evening by Collin Daughdrill………… STATE BOARD OF MISSIONS – Of the Alabama Baptist Convention Meet – new secretary Elected THE REVOLUTION IN CUBA – An Important Insurgent Victory – Fort Captured TURKISH AFFAIRS – Great Britain Sends an Ultimatum and will Follow it with a Gunboat THE SITUATION IN CUBA UNNECESASRY SLAUGHTER A San Francisco, Cal. Dispatch says James Sopelman and Charles O’Malley are dead and Daniel Donovan, John Kink and James Campbell are in a precarious condition caused by suffocation. The five men were working in a quarry drift when a blast fired about 60 feet distant covered the entrance with earth and rock. FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS – Proceedings of the 54th Congress PAGE 4 THE NEWS PRESS S. E. WILSON & G. J. WILSON, Editors and Publishers Subscription Rates One year $1.00 Six Months .50 Three months .25 THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE The message of President Cleveland to the fifty-fourth Congress is, in our humble judgment, one of the most able state papers ever presented to the consideration of the American people. It is exhaustive in its treatment of every subject likely to come before Congress for its consideration…….. We have never maligned the President or attempted to write him out of the Democratic Party on account of his views upon the financial question. We grant to every one the privilege we claim for our self, to hold to such views as they conscientiously believe to be correct……… THEY WILL BE TRUE Alabama politics at this time present a strange state of affairs, says the Sumter County Sun…….. Gov. Oates closes a letter to the Mobile Register with the following sensible remarks in the interest of harmony in the Democratic party:……………. Is it not lamentable that two great dailies like the Mobile Register and the Montgomery Advertiser should show no much tempter because they can’t force the Democratic Party of Alabama to discard Capt. Joseph F. Johnston as a candidate for the nomination for Governor. …………. President Cleveland says that “our country’s indebtedness whether owing by the government or existing between individuals has been contracted with reference to our present standard.”………. Last summer when JIM PEARCE and WILL GREEN had their discussion upon the silver question at the court house in this place, Mr. PEARCE took the position that the gold standard policy had injected itself into our state government and that by the reduction of the property values it had and would eventually produce a deficit in our state treasury. This Mr. GREEN was disposed to ridicule, but wee see that no less authority than Senator Morgan in his speech at Eutaw fully sustains Mr. PEARCE’S position and states that the deficiency will amount to near $1,000,000 upon the return of the tax collector’s reports. Col. H. C. Hargrove one of Alabama’s most prominent citizens suicided at Tuscaloosa by shooting himself on Thursday last. He had been in bad health for a long time, and it is supposed that this so preyed upon his mind that he committed the rash act. He has held various positions of trust, and some weeks ago refused to allow his name to be sued as a candidate for Governor on account of declining health. The people of Marion have made a big corn crop this year, and our advice to them is to feed it to their hogs in large quantities. Meat the coming year will be worth a great deal more than corn is at the present prices. Nearly every section in the Union has a surplus of corn. Our note is held by a non-resident who will want his money when due, which is December 25, 1895, so friends come up at once and pay your subscription. TO GLEANER – (poem by MATTIE ERNEST) THE WINFIELD COAL BEDS There remains no longer any doubt but that there is coal of a most superior quality in the vicinity of Winfield, and hat too in paying quantities. That the coal from these beds is of a very excellent quality is fully proven by its use by quite a number of the citizens of Winfield and vicinity. Every person who has burned this coal pronounce it of an extra good quality, igniting and burning freely, and leaving no iron or other hard substances, only fine ashes remaining in the grate. The most of the land in the vicinity of Winfield has been optioned to a syndicate in New York, who have had their inspectors on the ground, and it is said that these inspectors reported that most of the lands inspected a first class mineral. Some think that the sale at the option price will be soon consummated, whilst others heave but little faith. Be this as it may, it is only a question of time, and that too in the near future, when these coal lands above Winfield will be the most valuable of any in Marion County. The coal is there, and the capital to develop it will be forthcoming at no distant day, even if the present option fails. Ad for Beatty’s Organs and Pianos R. E. DUNN has purchased the right to Marion County of the Arnett & Price fence, and is prepared to sell farm rights to all who desire them. This fence is all that it is represented substantial, endurable, cheap and easy to erect. A specimen of the fence can be seen in Hamilton near G. N. STOKES’ shop. Examine this fence before building or repairing your fences for the net crop. Ad for Patents Ad for High Arm Singer Sewing Machine $25 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office, Huntsville, Ala Oct. 24, 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 Clerk of the Circuit Court at Hamilton, Ala on December 13, 1895, viz: MAGGIE WESLEY, homestead Entry No. 19,726 for the SE ¼ of NW ¼ Sec 7 T 12 S R 12 W. She names the following witnesses to prove her continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: JAMES L. RUSSELL, WILLIAM H. FRANKS, MILES R. MARTIN and HENRYLUM FRANKS, all of Twin, Ala. JESSE W. ELLIS, Register NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office, Huntsville, Ala, November 2, 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 for Marion County at Hamilton, Ala on December 13, 1896, viz: JAMES J. COATS, Homestead Entry No. 23,306, for the NW ¼ of SW ¼ and SW ¼ of NW ¼ Sec 9 T 9 S R 11 W. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: CHARLES E. MITCHELL of Thorn Hill, Ala.; ANDREW A. SEVINS, WILLIAM H. FLIPPO and ORLANDO C. TANT, all of Bear Creek, Ala. JESSE W. ELLIS, Register NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office, Huntsville, Ala. Nov. 6, 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 December 20, 1895, viz; HENRY T. STULTS, Homestead Entry No. 19,874, for the E ½ of NW ¼ and NW ¼ of NE ¼ Sec 15, T 10 S R 11 W. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: CHARLES E. MITCHELL, ISCAAC P. CRAFT, ANDREW J. CAGLE, and ANDREW D. MITCHELL, all of Thorn Hill, Ala. JESSE E. ELLIS, Register NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office, Huntsville, Ala. Nov. 4, 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 December 20, 1895, viz; ROBERT W. MILLER, Homestead Entry No. 28,813, for the NW ¼ of Sec 21 T 12 S R 12 W. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: ROBERT FRANKS of Twin, Ala; HIRAM B. FOWLER, CARROLL REED and ARCH Y. ASTON, all of Winfield, Ala. JESSE E. ELLIS, Register NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office, Huntsville, Ala., Nov. 15, 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 for Marion county at Hamilton, Ala on December 28, 1895, viz: MARTHA A. KELLEY, Homestead Entry No. 22,761 for the N ½ of NW ¼ Sec 2 and N ¼ of NW ¼ Sec 1m T 12 S R 11 W. She names the following witnesses to prove her continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: ROBERT HENSON of Lynn, Ala, ISAAC DODD of Magic, Ala., J. DORITY POOR, of Haleysville, Ala., PERRY J. DODD, of Magic, Ala. JESSE W. ELLIS, Register NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office, Huntsville, Ala., November 25, 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 clerk of the Circuit Court of Marion County, Ala, at Hamilton, Ala. on January 11, 1896, viz: THOMAS E. ARNOLD, Homestead Entry No. 20,679 for the N ½ SW ¼ NW ¼ SE ¼ and SE ¼ NW ¼ Sec 6 T 9 S R 11 W. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: A. KIM. CASH, ED. CROW, JOHN CARDEN and ABRAM CROW, all of Bear Creek, Ala. JESSE W ELLIS, Register Ad for Beatty’s Organs and Pianos Wanted. An intelligent lady to act as our agent for this county. Easy work. Big returns. Address, box 310, Montgomery, Ala. GUIN ADVERTISEMENTS J. PEARCE & CO., Dealers in General Merchandise, staple and fancy groceries, dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes, hats and caps, etc. Stoves kept on hand. Highest price paid for cotton and produce. Guin, Ala. W. R. BRADLEY & Co., The Live Merchants, gives the best bargains in dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes, hats and caps, etc. Cotton and country produce bought for cash or trade. Give us a call before purchasing your goods elsewhere, and we will give you the best bargains. S. J. BAIRD, R. T. CLARK, BAIRD & CLARK, Guin, Ala. General Merchants. Keeps costly on hand a full lien of dry goods, groceries, clothing, boots and shoes, hats and caps, etc. Highest market price paid for cotton and country produce. Come in and see us. L. D. LITTLETON’S Is the best place to go for dry goods, dress goods, boots shoes, hats, clothing, etc. Staple and fancy groceries on hand. Large stock to select from. Buys and sells strictly for cash. More goods for your money than elsewhere. Buys bankrupt and Sheriff sale goods and sells them cheaper than anyone. Guin, Alabama. Good News. All who want full value for their money should price E. W. BROCK’S new goods before purchasing elsewhere. Are bought and sold cheap for cash. Highest market price paid for cotton and produce, Guin, Ala. 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. APPLING, MCGUIRE & APPLING, Attorneys at law. Jasper, Ala. Will practice in Marion and adjoining counties. All business entrusted to our 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. PAGE 5 THE NEWS PRESS Issued Every Thursday Hamilton, Dec. 12, 1895 AGENTS We have appointed the following gentlemen as agents for The News Press, who are hereby authorized to solicit subscriptions and other business and receive and receipt for money due us: M. H. CARPENTER – General Traveling Agent N. A. MUSGROVE – Winfield, Ala. JOHN P. RILEY – Guin, Ala. JOHN W. ROBERSON – Pearce’ Mill W. R. WRIGHT – Barnesville, Ala. J. P. HOLLOWAY – Barnesville, Ala. J. L. CONNER – Twin, Ala. S. F. GRADY – Bexar, Ala. Constable HARRIS of Winfield was in to see us during the week. It will pay you to go to Littleton at Guin for your supplies. E. VICKERY, one of Winfield’s prominent citizens, was in to see us Tuesday. Judge J. P. FORD and Hon. W. C. DAVIS attended the funeral of Mr. CHASTINE on Monday. We have had some wintry weather for the past week. There was not much “sunny South” in it. BROWN MIXON, our popular merchant across the way was out of town during the week on business. Dr. SPRINGFIELD of Guin told us the other day that the health of that town and vicinity had much improved. Go out and be with the teachers tomorrow and next day at Byrd’s school house. A good time is promised for all who attend. Judge W. H. MATTHEWS of Guin was a caller at our office during the week. The Judge was looking well, and seemed to be at himself again. We had a pleasant call from S. M. MCCARLEY of Bull Mountain on Tuesday. We are always glad to see the patrons of our paper when they visit Hamilton. Our friend, W. J. TRULL, the nursery man at Winfield, still has a few choice scion on hand that he desires to dispose of in order to make room for young plants. We have to make a large payment on our office on December 25, which is only a very few days off. Let every subscriber make it a point to pay up before that date. Mrs. A. J. HAMILTON and her daughter, Miss ICY, left on last Thursday for the Exposition at Atlanta. We hope they will have a good time looking at the sights. Judge D. N. COOPER left for Atlanta on last Thursday to take in the big show. We guess he will see much to talk about when he returns, and can give the stay- at homes an idea of what is there. Rev. S. B. SMITH, the new Methodist minister for the Hamilton circuit, arrived in town with his wife on last Thursday. H has taken up his abode at the parsonage, and will fill all the regular appointments of the circuit. Rev. W. A. BIVEN, after spending several days in our midst, left last Friday for his new home at Oakman, Ala. We hope Brother BIVEN and family will like their new location, and that the coming year will be fruitful of much good in his labor for the Lord. Go to L. D. Littleton’s at Guin for your clothing, hats, boots and shoes at bed rock prices. When at Winfield about meal time, don’t fail to call on Mrs. N. A. MUSGROVE, who will furnish you a meal consisting of everything the country affords prepared to perfection. Her prices are most reasonable and in full keeping with the times. GOOD MAN FOULLY MURDERED – a Shocking Crime Committed in Itawamba One of the most horrible murders ever committed in any country, and the details of which are sickening in the extreme, occurred in the eastern part of Itawamba County, Miss., near Rara Avis, last Friday morning. We refer to the murder of E. JORDAN CHASTAIN near his home. To add to its horribleness his own wife is under arrest charged with the crime. Mr. CHASTAIN was one of the oldest and best known citizens of Itawamba. He was over 75 years of age, and was very badly crippled. He could not walk at all without the aid of a crutch. He had lived at the same place as a merchant and farmer where he met his death for over 50 years, and was universally liked by his neighbors. In fact, every one in this scion who had the pleasure of his acquaintance speak of him in the highest terms of praise. Mr. and Mrs. CHASTAIN had live d together 48 years and reared a large family, seven sons and two daughters, and they are prominent citizens in the communities in which they reside. From the evidence adduced before the coroner’s jury it seems that h e and his wife , who is over 68 years of age, but a well preserved and fine looking woman, of late had been at outs about several little trivial matter, and for two or three days prior to the fateful morning had not spoken to each other. The last row grew out his buying some package coffee and failing to bring home the glass prizes given away with it. On Friday morning about 9 o’clock he took his ax and went to the woods about 150 yards from his house for the purpose of cutting some fire wood. He had been at work for some time when his wife sent a negro girl named Fannie that she had hired to the post office, which is a mile from the house. It is claimed that this is an unusual thing for her to do. The girl claims that she noticed him chopping about 10 o’clock. When she returned from the post office she prepared dinner, and Mrs. CHASTAIN instructed her to go after her husband. The negro girl, not hearing him chopping, went to the woods and finally found him cold in death with three frightful gashes in his head and his skull split wide open, which had been done with a small ax. She at once gave the alarm, and the neighborhood gathered there to witness the gruesome spectacle, and to find out if possible who had committed the foul deed. Upon inspection, it was found that some one whose track exactly tallied with that of Mrs. CHASTAIN had passed from the house through the orchard going in the direction of where the murdered man was found. The premises were examined, and the small ax was found with human blood and gray hair all over it. This was examined and tested by competent physicians present, who swore before the jury that the ax was the instrument used and that the hair and blood was that of the dead man. The body of the unfortunate man was consigned to its last resting place on Monday evening, and was followed to the grave by all of his neighbors as well some friends from a distance who had heard of his terrible death. The Masonic Lodge, of which he was an honored member, will hold memorial services at some time in the near future, as it was impossible at the time to get that body together in order to have a Masonic funeral. The coroner’s jury found a verdict in substance the E. JORDAN CHASTAIN came to his death from blows inflicted with an ax in the hands of Mrs. CHATIAN, the wife of the deceased. Mrs. CHASTAIN was placed under arrest on Monday evening, and the preliminary trial set for the next day. Up to the hour of going to press we have not heard of the result of the trail. Hon. W. C. DAVIS of Hamilton has been retained to prosecute the case. AN EARNEST REQUEST While a goodly number of our subscribers have responded to our request to pay up their indebtedness, to all whom we extend many thanks, still there are some who have not yet responded. We earnestly request every subscriber who reads this notice, who has not paid his subscription for 1895, to come forward at once and do so, as we MUST have the money. IF our friends will respond to this call promptly we will be enabled to discharge our indebtedness and will enter the New Year with renewed energy and zeal, and do our best to make every issue of The News Press better than its predecessor. Remember that every person who pays their subscription for 1895 gets the American Farmer one year free. GOOD NEWS FOR TEACHERS Prof. W. A. DUNN, county superintendent of education, requests us to state that he will be ready to commence settling with the teachers of Marion county on next Monday, December 16. He hopes that all of the teachers will be on hand promptly that day, or as soon as possible thereafter. We know this bit of information will be gladly received by our teachers, who have been waiting so long, and we rejoice with them that they will have Christmas money. Prof. HUFFSTUTLER’S High school at Guin is on a regular boom, having over 100 daily students. He has nearly tripled his enrollment in about here months. Prof. HUFFSTUTLER is an experienced educator and possesses the energy to make the Guin High school second to none in the state. It gives us much pleasure to announce the prosperity of our institutions of learning, for nothing so well fits a young man or a young woman for the battle of life as a liberal education. Success to all our schools. Miss PATTIE ODEN, the successor to Mr. CARNES as operator at Winfield, is giving entire satisfaction to both the road and the public. We hear Miss PATTTIE is overworked, since there are so many trains that she is kept engaged until late at night very often, still she never complains and always seems in the best of spirits. We delight to see our Southern girls becoming independent and self-sustaining, and think they should be encouraged. We spent a few hours in Guin on Friday last and visited PEARCE & Co., BAIRD & CLARK, W. R. BRADLEY & Co., L. D. LITTLETON and E. W. BROCK, and found them all doing business. These are friends and patrons of The News Press, and when you visit Guin be sure to call on them if you have any produce to sell, or want to buy supplies. You will find them all live merchants who will give you good bargains. Tax Collector FRAZIER spent last Thursday in our town. Last week he did not collect any, but took a rest. He started out on his collecting tour again on Monday at Pearce’s mill’; was at Clark’s on Tuesday, and will be at Winfield today and tomorrow. He finishes up at Guin on Monday and Tuesday, December 16 and 17. The school at Winfield is growing in interest every day. Prof. ZEIGLER is an educator second to but few in the state, and he is using every effort to make the Winfield school second to no other. Prof. ZEIGLER deserves a liberal support, and his patrons are according him his dues. On a recent visit to Winfield we found business a little depressed on account of the decline in cotton, but the merchants were not discouraged as they are able to hold their cotton until the panic passes over. The decline we hope will be only temporary and that cotton will soon again be worth 8 ½ cents. THE NEWS OF THE COUNTY – Gathered by Correspondents for the Present Week BEAVER CREEK, ALA. Seeing nothing in your papers from here in quite a while I thought I would give you a few dots. Gathering corn and cotton is a thing of the past. Making crossties in the business of the day. This has caused the destruction of the mast to a great extent, although the hogs are looking fine. W. P. MAYO and M. C. AKERS are in the tie business on a big scale. The boys are going to do all they can to keep their twelve little ones from suffering. EMMET MARKHAM happened to an accident the other day while loading a wagon with crossties. A tie fell on him and bruised two or three of his best legs. THOMAS A. MARKHAM has moved to J. P. STANFORD’S place, where he will pass 1896 on goober peas and pumpkins. Walk light, TOM POLK has an eye on you. T. S. GANN and R. M. MARKHAM seem to be very earnestly engaged in manufacturing piano harps. The boys are hustlers. Any one would admit that when they note the fact that they can have one complete in thirty minutes after the lumber is sawed and do all the work with a pocket knife and frow. That’s right boys, green lumber is the best if you are going to sell them by weight, though I think it would be advisable to get you up a chisel, a jack plane, and a mallet and stop up the wind shakes and peckerwood holes. Of course, these holes don’t mar the music, but they look a little disfigured. Success to The News Press. SPIKE PEARCE’S MILL, ALA. Not having seen anything much from this part of the country I have decided to give you a few notes for publication Health is tolerably good at the present time. The weather is rather cold, but the farmers are hustling and are doing exceedingly well this fall. There have been several mad dogs killed in this vicinity lately and one mad ox. A lot of the Pea Ridge boys had a nice time squirrel hunting the other day. They killed 17. The writer had the pleasure of visiting one of the party the following night and helped devour some of them. It affords us much pleasure to visit one of our friends just after such a hunt. It seems that the young folks are enjoying the matrimonial business of late more than usual. We are glad to see this. Maybe the time will soon come when we will know more accurately who will be left for the writer. Christmas is drawing night, and the boys and girls are wearing smiling faces. We always like to see them enjoy themselves. Success to The News Press SNUKES TWIN, ALA Weather is very cool. Bad colds are numerous. Christmas is close by and we hope Santa Claus will not forget the children, the young folks and the weddings, for we want some wedding cake. Rev. W. A. NBELSON has returned from Walker County. He reports successful meetings, over which he presided. J. W. ROBINSON passed though our town in route to Guin on Thursday. GEORGE ALEXANDER and family, who we reported last week as being poisoned, have recovered. No clue has yet been found as to who the guilty party is. Our school is still increasing. Three young gentlemen desiring to know how bad they would be missed at a certain place a short time ago might find out by sticking their fingers in the Mississippi River and then withdrawing hem and looking for the hole. WALTER COOK and family have been visiting his father-in-law near this place of the past few days. We suggest that CHAS. E. FOWLER walk his sheep across the creek, and, if necessary, wade it, rather than have them rend his clothes by carrying them. Didn’t the doctor’s boy get off a good one when he said that “the pulse was a good index to the Phizi kan?” Twin is a free delivery office now, and W. NM. BURLESON is deliverer. The first setting of candidate eggs in this section has hatched, and the result is: P. E. CAUDLE for commissioner and J. B. CAUDLE for sheriff. They are both worthy gentlemen. Circumstances are combining so as to make The News Pres the best county paper in the state. Let every citizen of Marion give the paper his honest support, that it may be made second to none. ED PINCHER WINFIELD, ALA Mr. CARNES came back and carried his family to their home in the Far West. Although we had already gave them up to go to Hamilton, ‘twas hard to see them go so far. LEWIS BRASWELL and family have also gone to seek a home in the West. While many of our people are going west, still there are some seen coming from the Northern and Western states bound for Georgia. The happy marriage of S. P. SMITH and Mrs. KATIE GAMBLE was witnessed on last Thursday. She obeyed the last clause of 1st Corinthians vii, 39. There was quite a good congregation considering the weather to hear Mr. REEVES last Sunday. J. R. JONES has gone to Fayette on business. We have been expecting Mr. ADAMS but he has not come yet. He will be welcomed to our town. Santa Clause may get himself ready for we will soon be looking for him. A good lot of his toys have already arrived at MCCOLLUM’S and at BLAKENEY’S. ANN MARIAH GUIN, ALA We have had very cold weather for the past few days. Several cases of la grippe are reported in our town. T. J. YOUNG, editor of the Vernon Courier, was here yesterday looking after the work of the telephone line. Mr. DUNN, who lives near Hamilton, was on our streets yesterday. The little folks entertainment at Judge MATTHEWS’ last Saturday night was a nice affair, and all report a merry time. Ye Editor cheered us with his genial face last Friday. Dr. SPRINGFIELD, after an absence of several days, returned home last Thursday evening from Montgomery where he attended the Grand Lodge. Our school is still increasing. Several new pupils were enrolled this week. Mrs. CARPENTER has been right sick, but we are glad to say is improving. Miss ELLA T. CREW returned home last Tuesday accompanied by her sister, Mrs. BROCK. RUFUS BAIRD has moved to the King place near town. We extend to him a hearty welcome. Brother RANDOLPH preached an excellent sermon at the Christian Church last Sunday. Revs. FRANCIS OTTS and SAMUEL GOSEY spent last Friday night in our town on their way to their respective charges. We wish them a year of prosperity in their work. Prof. SANDLIN of Eldridge is teaching a music class here on the guitar and violin. He entertained a large crowd of guests at the Wall Hotel last Tuesday night. Mr. REED of Rara Avis, Miss., paid us a pleasant visit the first of last week. On Wednesday evening, November 27, Mrs. TICE died very suddenly from heart failure at the residence of her son, THOMAS COLBURN. Mrs. TICE was a consistent member of the Baptist Church and was beloved by all who knew her. We extend to the bereaved family our heartfelt sympathy. Dr. SCRUGGS of Twin was in town Monday. We are always glad to see him. Several drummers were on our streets last week. Messrs. BRADLEY and ALLMAN are all smiles nowadays. Mrs. And Mrs. W. A. COBB of Vernon are visiting Mrs. COBB’S parents, Mr. and Mrs. METCALF of this place. Success to The News Press and all who advocate the free coinage of silver. JUDGE HENSON SPRINGS, ALA News scarce. Miss LAURA BYRD from Ryes is visiting GEORGE CANTRELL this week. A. F. BELK lost a fine mule last week. W. S. METCALF of Guin was seen tramping the Hamilton road last Monday. He carried with him two stubborn mules, a double-barreled shotgun and a small grip. We notice in the Twin locals that the school there under the management of Prof. FRANKS is a success. We are glad to hear of CHARLIE’S success. He is one of Marion’s most prominent educators. A CRANK MARRIAGE LICENSES The following marriage licenses were issued by Judge FORD during the week: J. A. LANGSTON and S. A. E. OZBIRN, S. M. MCCARLEY and M. S. EMMERSON, O. H. OWEN and DELLA HALL, WM. BOSBORN and MARY J. MARTIN. NOTICE All parties that are indebted tome will please come forward and settle at once and save cost. THOS. H. ROBERTSON, Winfield, Ala. WINFIELD ADVERTISEMENTS The Boss Watch Case – J. A. GAMBLE, Watchmaker and Jeweler, Winfield, Ala. Repairing done on short notice. Satisfaction Guaranteed keep a full line of spectacles and Jewelry always on Hand 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. PAGE 6 A SONG OF PRAISE – (poem) UNCLE RICHARD’S DINNER – A Thanksgiving Story – (short story) HOW BEADS ARE MADE – In China and Venice Children Count Each One FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS A RULE TO REMEMBER SOME INDIAN DOGS TWO LITTLE KNIGHTS WISE CREATURES TELEPHONES FOR RAILROAD PASSENGERS A telephone attachment for railroad use has been introduced which will greatly increase the safety of railroad travel…………. BADGER DOG FOR HIS PET A TELESCOPIC LIFEBOAT THE LUSCIOUS NOCKER Sausages are a great institution in Germany; the variety is bewildering…….. CLEVERLY TRAPPED BILL ARP’S LETTER – “And William Does the Honors Gracefully at the Infair” PAGE 7 Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ad for McElree’s Wine of Cardui Ad for Heckers Buckwheat Small ads NOTES AND COMMENTS ------------- GAME IN THE BIG PARK – An Increase All Around Except in the Case of the Buffalo TRANSMITTING TYPHOID FEVER A BLAZIER’S MIGHT POWER FULL MERITS OF THE TELEPHONE We are only just beginning to realize the full merits of the telephone….. ARMIES AND NAVIES Russia has the largest army………… ALLEGED AMERICAN CANNIBALS The Seri are a tribe of alleged cannibals, the only one on this continent, and they have domineered the coast of Old Mexico adjacent to the island home from time immemorial. In the old days when the Apaches ranged so far south, they occasionally met the Seri, and were always worsted. The Seri are credited by all who know them, with being the best fighters in the western hemisphere. UNRIPENED TOMATOES A WITTY TUTOR Ad for Syrup of Figs Ad for Kainit Ad for the Everett Piano Ad for Marlin Rifle Ad for Book - Every Man His Own Doctor Ad for Pearline PAGE 8 The Best offer yet made. Two papers for the price of one – The News Press and The American Farmer –One year for One Dollar Agents wanted in every post office in Marion County. Liberal Commissions allowed. Special Announcement - Sewing Machine Free – To any one sending us Forty new subscribers, accompanied by the money at our regular rates, we will furnish them a New High Arm Favorite Singer Sewing Machine, which formerly sold at retail for $55 = FREE. TO SCHOOL TEACHERS – We are the especial friend of education, and of every lady and gentleman engaged in teaching, and make them the following excellent proposition: To every teacher who will send us ten cash subscribers by December 1, 1895, we will furnish a copy of “Dictionary of United States History” the most valuable book of reference ever offered to the public, in English cloth binding, and to the one sending us the largest number of subscribers (over 15) we will furnish the book in either morocco or sheep binding,. Our job department is unsurpassed. God work at living prices. Blanks always kept on hand. We solicit your patronage. Address The News Press, Hamilton. 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. Ad for New Home Sewing Machine – sold by W. R. WHITE 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. THE NEWS PRESS AMONG THE POETS LONGINGS OF THE SOUL (Written for the News Press – by MATTIE EARNEST) WHAT CHINA LACKS – Superstitions Prevent Introduction of Modern Appliances There are no schools in China except to educate men for office. There is no postal system except that conducted by foreigners under consular jurisdiction between the treaty ports……………. TEACHER’S INSTITUTE The next meeting of the Marion County Teacher’s Institute will be held at Byrd’s School House, eight miles west of Hamilton, December 13 and 14, 1895. FRIDAY 9 A.M. 1. Institute opens with devotional exercises. 2. Address of Welcome – Rev. J. R. HALLADAY 3. Response – Supt. W. A. DUNN 4. The Teacher’s Responsibility – CARSON BROWN, INK HAYES, E. N. STANFORD, and W. F. GREEN 5. How May Teacher’s Maintain the Interest of their Patrons – H. W. MCKENZIE, M. C. PARCE, Miss FANNIE FITE, and J. J. GLENN 6. Best Method of Teaching Reading – T. W.CARPENTER, W. H. CANTRELL, Miss ELLA GOGGANS and Miss IDA BACON 7. How to Govern a School – G. R. FRANKS, J. B. HOLLEY, A. J. ADAMS, and D. D. WRIGHT 8. How English Grammar Should be Taught – J. T. HUFFSTUTLER, J. W. HOLLOWAY, J. T. MAXWELL, and A. W. TATE. 9. Is the Giving of Prizes in Public Schools Beneficial? – W. P. LETSON, J. J. GLEN, A. W. TATE, and J. S. THORN 10. Education as a Moral Force – R. E. THORN, W A. DUNN, Miss IDA FITE and C. W. ALVERSON 6:30 p.m. – Public Debate – Affirmative, D. D. WRIGHT, Negative, H. W. MCKENZIE SATURDAY 9 A.M. 11. Daily Preparation of the teacher – L. C. BOTTOMS, W. E. PALMER, Miss NANCY GOGGANS and Miss SALLIE THORN 12. Hindrances to School Work and How to Avoid them – C. E. MITCHELL, W. G. RIGGAN, Miss ELLIOTT KEY, W. H. CARPENTER and P. P. CLANTON 13. Why Should Young Teachers Attend county Institutes – A. W. TATE, C. E. MITCHELL, J. E. ALEXANDER, and W. F. GREEN 14. Duty of Parents – G. W. MAXWELL, F. V. BISHOP, E. N. STANFORD, and W. P. LETSON 15. How and When Should Orthography be taught – S. E. WILSON, Mrs. ANNIE HEDGES, J. E. ALEXANDER and D. D.W RIGHT 16. Reason for the Development of the Originality of the Child – Miss IDA BACON, J. J. PURSER, T. J. HOWE, and J. E. ALEXANDER 17. Enthusiasm Among Pupils Not the Surest Index of a Successful Teacher – A. W. TATE, W. H. CLARK, J. H. SIMMONS and Miss CLARA WIGINTON 18. Report of Critic and Query Box T. W. CARPENTER A. W.TATE C. E.MITCHELL, Committee 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. 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