Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON APPEAL March 6, 1896 ************************************************ 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 May 7, 2010, 12:22 am Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History March 6, 1896 Microfilm Ref Call #559 Microfilm Order #M1992.0966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE HAMILTON APPEAL VOL. 1 HAMILTON,, MARION CO., ALA. FRIDAY MARCH 6, 1896 NO. 8 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 pm Belgreen – Arrives at 11:40 am and leaves at 12 m AT WINFIELD Train at 11:59 am and 3:48 pm Pearce’s Mill – Arrives at 11:20 am and leaves at 12m Haley’s – Arrives at m and leaves at 12:30 pm on Monday and Friday Fayette – Arrives at 9 am and leaves at 9:30 am on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday AT GUIN Train at 11:45 am and 4:03 am Hamilton – Arrives at 10 am and leaves at 12 m daily except Sunday. Vernon – Arrives Monday and Friday at 5 pm leaves Tuesday and Saturday at 7 am Pharos – Arrives Wednesday and Saturday at 10 am and leaves at 1 pm same days Twin – Arrives Tuesday and Friday at 3 pm and leaves at 5 pm the same days. CIRCUIT COURT Judge – T. R. ROULBAC, of Colbert County Solicitor – A. H. CARMICHAEL, of Colbert Court meets the first Monday after the 4th Monday in January and second Monday in August CHANCERY COURT Chancellor – W. H. SIMPSON of Decatur Court meets on Thursday after the third 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 first 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 – Guin Treasurer – J. B. WOOD, Hamilton Superintendent of Education – W. A. DUNN PROBATE COURT Judge – JASON P. FORD Meets the second Monday in each month. CHURCH NOTICE M. E. CHURCH SOUTH - Hamilton – Services first Sunday in each month at 11 am and 7 p.m.; fourth Sunday at 7 p.m. and every fifth Sunday at 11 a.m. Rev. S. P. SMITH, pastor. Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. W. R. WHITE, Superintendent. Prayer meeting on Wednesday night. MASONIC Hamilton Lodge No. 344 – G. N. STOKES, WM.; A. J. THORN, SW; A. H. BURLESON, JW ; G. B. MIXON, Treas.; R. W. CLARK, Sec’y Guin Lodge No. 478 – T. J. SPRINGFIELD, WM; WATSON BROWN, SW; W. H. MATTHEWS, JW; M T AKERS, Treas. ; J. H. RILEY, Sec’y Winfield Lodge No. 304 – E. VICKERY, WM; J. F. EARNEST, SW; J. M. SPANN, JW. ; J. C. EGAN, Treas. W. T. MUSGROVE, Sec’y Hackleburg Lodge No. 526 – A. M. CANTRELL, WM; W. W. FREDERICK, SW; P. N. GREEN, JW; E. A. MIXON, Treas.; JOHN A. GREEN, Sec’y Bexar Lodge No. 280 – JOHN ARNOLD, WM; W. L. WHITEHEAD, SW ; W. A. BALLARD, JW; A. L. MOORMAN, Treas.; T. J. YOUNG, Sec’y Pleasant Hill Lodge No. 321 – W. H. FLIPPO, WM; PORTER DUBOISE, SW.; SETH BOTTOMS, JW; A. RANDOLPH, Treas., J. J. COATES, Sec’y During the past five years the number of churches in the United States has been increased at the rate of ten per day right along. Russia will probably adopt the Gregorian calendar at the end of the present century. She will not rally lost twelve days by the process, but it will seem that way, somehow. THE 54TH CONGRESS – ROUTINE OF HOUSE AND SENATE BRIEFLY CHRONICLED FIRED ON CONSTABLES – CHARLESTON OFFICERS BADLY WOUNDED BY A MOB SIX THOUSAND ON STRIKE – The Union Garment Workers In Baltimore Walk Out DUNRAVEN FIRED – HE IS NO LONGER A MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB GOVERNOR GREENHAIGE DYING WEYLER AT WORK – SPANIARDS MASSACRE MANY OON-COMBATANTS – Another Proclamation Issued Warning “the Bandits” – (Cuba fighting) WHEN THE SULTAN GOES TO PRAY Great preparations were made for the journey of the sultan to the Mosque Saturday. The roads from the palace were sanded, and the bridges carefully inspected and repaired. The route to be taken has not yet been made known. Everything was kept secret until the last moment. All of the Armenian suspects arrested were kept in prison until Monday. The shops of the Armenians are closed. PAGE 2 THE APPEAL J. S. CLEMENTS, Editor and Proprietor Subscription Rates One year, 50 cents, Six Months 25 cts. -----(Political commentary)----- THE LATE WILLIAM R. SMITH WILLIAM RUSSELL SMITH, lawyer, statesman and litterateur, was born at Russellville, Ky., on March 27, 1815. His parents were Virginians, and were both of revolutionary stock, and his father was a captain in the war of 1812. His parents moved to Alabama in 1819, and in 1822 he was left an orphan. His early education was obtained in private schools of Tuskaloosa, and in 1831 he entered the University of Alabama on its opening day. He left the university shortly before graduation and studied law, commencing practice in 1835. He began to edit the Tuskaloosa Monitor in 1838, and in 1839 was elected mayor of Tuskaloosa. From this time his political advancement was rapid. He was elected twice to the Alabama House of Representatives, then brigadier-general of state militia, then judge of the Seventh judicial circuit, resigning this position to take his seat in the national congress in 1851, where he represented the Tuskaloosa district in the Thirty-second, Thirty-third, and Thirty-fourth Congresses. He was elected to the two later congresses as an independent democrat on the platform of the American party. Almost immediately after taking his defeat in congress in 1851 he attained national reputation by his speech against Kossuth, and to him principally has been given the credit of preventing the foreign entanglement into which this government was being led by an espousal of Kossuth’s cause. From this time Judge Smith was the leader of the American party in Congress. At the Philadelphia convention of 1856 which nominated Millard Fillmore and Andrew J. Donelson, Judge Smith was at first the most prominent candidate for the nomination for vice-president, A. H. H. Stewart of Virginia and Kenneth Baynor of North Carolina being the other candidates. Donelson of Tennessee was finally nominated as a compromise candidate. At this convention he delivered a speech which prevented a threatened disruption of the convention, and which the Philadelphia North American of the day said “was electrical in its effect, completely changing the current of feeling among the southern members. In this speech the combated the already growing secession sentiment, and declared that he believed “that the union is a political indestructibility.” Judge Smith was elected to the Alabama convention of 1861 as a co- cooperationist, and with a large minority opposed immediate secession, but in the prophetic speech against the adoption of the ordinance of secession he closed by saying: “It but remains for me to add that when your ordinance passes through the solemn forms of legislative deliberation and receives the sanction of this body, I shall recognize it as the supreme law of the land. My scruples will fall to the ground, and that devotion which I have heretofore, through the whole course of my public life, given to the union of the state, shall be concentrated in my allegiance to the state of Alabama. Immediately after the formation of the confederate government he raised a regiment and was commissioned colonel of the Twenty-seventh Alabama, but relinquished his command to take a seat in the Confederate Congress, to which he was elected in 1861 and re-elected in 1863. In this Congress, with a small but enlightened minority, foreseeing the inevitable termination of the unequal contest, his leading and persistent policy was to press for the earliest honorable accommodation with the United States. In 1865 Judge Smith resumed the practice of law, having withdrawn from the race for Congress upon learning that he would be refused his seat if elected. He afterwards made the race for governor as an independent democrat upon a platform recognizing the status quo and demanding a reorganization of the state in conformity therewith – a course the wisdom of which is now universally acknowledged – and was defeated by a narrow majority. In 1870 he was elected president of the University of Alabama, which position he resigned for political reasons in 1871. He then returned to the practice of law, from which he retired in 1894. He has since resided in Washington. Judge Smith has published several legal works, and was commissioned by the Alabama legislature to condense the first forty-five volumes of Alabama reports. In addition to his professional and political work Judge Smith has done much literary work, both in prose and verse. He has published a translation in heroic couplets of several book s of the Iliad, several drama and volumes of poems, besides three or four novels, which, while not published for general circulation, have earned for him a fame throughout the south – [John M. Martin, in State Herald] SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT Of John R. Wood, County Treasurer Of Marion County, Ala. Showing Amount Received Since July 1st 1895 To January 1st 1896 And Amount Paid Out And For What Purpose GENERAL COUNTY FUND Amount on hand to July 1, 1895 $883.96 Amount of bridge fund received from bridge fund 203.68 T. J. FARIS tax assessor on est. lands for 1894 9.55 M. M. FRAZIER tax collector on tax of B&S RR for 1894 276.40 JASON P. FORD judge of probate redemption of land by W. E. SKEGGS 24.85 M. M. FRAZIER t.c. on Oct. report 457.89 A. F. M. HOWELL old bridge lumber 0.70 M. M. FRAZIER t. c. on Nov. report 809.80 J. P. FORD, j. o. p. for window blind 0.20 J. P. FORD, j. o. p. on acct of land sale 26.95 J. P. FORD, probate judge, on acct of auction sale by CHARLES SIFF 1.10 TOTAL %2,700.18 DISBURSEMENTS OF GENERAL COUNTY FUND Overpayment of tax on general fund by M. M. FRAZIER tax collector $1.35 Expenses of Commissioner’s Court 122.20 Examining Co. Treasurers books 21.20 Grand jury certificates 208.30 Expenses of an election 3.00 Bailiff for grand jury and riding bailiffs 84.40 Of escape lands in 1894 9.55 Postage for tax collector 6.44 Burial and inquest expenses for W. P. HARRIS 6.90 Bailiffs for court 16.40 Petit jury certificates 552.95 Tax Collectors commission 5.52 Express charges M. M. FRAZIER 1.10 Cleaning out public wells 2.25 Attending one day at trial of the board of equalization M. M. FRAZIER 2.00 Examining Confederate pension claims 9.20 Keeping MARTHA CAGLE, a pauper, and other paupers 84.54 Publishing Co. Treasurer’s report 20.00 Publishing notice to tax payers 3.00 Trying two cases of insanity 6.50 Well bucket and rope 0.70 Envelopes for Sheriff 1.00 One set of hinges for sheriff 0.25 Medical services for paupers 48.50 Bailiffs to summons venire 30.00 Waiting on court by deputy sheriff 16.00 Carrying W. O. CANTRELL to insane hospital 20.00 Stationery furnished clerk’s office 24.40 Goods and stationery furnished Register in Chancery 17.45 Making land book for the year 1894 T. J. FARIS 100.00 Stationery for Marion County 15.10 Waiting on board of equalization T. J. FAIRS 10.00 Placing value on land belonging to the state by T. J. FARIS 2.00 Paid Co. members b’rd of Equal taxes 15.00 Tax abstract 3.45 Money furnished to bring JOHN HULSEY, a blind boy from Taladega 4.50 Tax collectors receipt book 8.80 Sheriffs cost in guest forfeiture 4.55 Waiting on chancery court 6.00 Carrying JNO. MATOX to insane asyl’m 12.50 Burial expenses for Mrs. A. A. DICKEY, a pauper 2.00 For putting sewers in county jail 38.25 Ex-officio services from April 1st 1895 to Nov. 4, 1895 J. F. HAMILTON 116.80 Freight paid for the county 1.60 Making abstract of taxes for the year 1895 JASON P. FORD 75.00 Stoves for court house and freight 23.93 Goods and stationery for county 78.23 Postage for probate judge’s office 10.00 Legal advertising for county 31.50 Carrying A. J. ALLEN to insane hospital 23.05 Ex-officio services for reminder of year 1894 to Aug 21 1895 W. W. HALL 81.70 Ex-officio services 1 year J. P. FORD 83.05 For road services from Nov. 1894 to Nov. 1895 JASON P. FORD 16.50 Money expended for work for county W. W. HALL 28.68 Moving W. M. KENNEDY and MARION PALMER to Jefferson county jail 32.10 Furnished fuel and bedding for jail 50.00 Stationery and records for equalizers 30.00 Mortgage record and express on same 15.80 Account book and stationery for probate judge 10.35 Tax and land books for tax assessor 21.00 Rubber stamps for treasurers office 0.90 Two quires of blanks for probate’s office 1.76 Forfeiture set aside against HENRY SWINNEY JOHN F. HAMILTON 14.20 TOTAL $2,298.62 FINE AND FORFEITURE FUND Showing Amount Received Since July 1st 1894 To January 1st 1895 And Amount Paid Out And For What Purpose To amount on hand $30.00 On JOHN STILL fine 5.00 Fine against JANE VARON and L. H. VARON and T. A. and S. M. PERKINS 9.50 Fine against EARNEST LEWIS 25.00 Fine against B. A. TODD 1.00 Fine against PIG REED .0.01 Fine against IKE ROWELL and others 46.60 Fine against J. D. CLARK 5.00 TOTAL AMOUNT $125.61 DISRURSEMENTS OF FINE AND FORFEITURE FUND State witness claims $63.30 Clerk’s cost wherein state failed and commission on fines 44.28 TOTAL AMOUNT $107.58 Approved by the Commissioners Court and ordered published in the Hamilton Appeal JASON P. FORD, Judge of Probate PARTY LAW PAGE 3 THE APPEAL Issued Every Friday Hamilton, March 6, 1896 ANNOUNCEMENTS For Beat Offices, $3; County, $5, District $10. FOR STATE SENATOR I hereby announce myself as a candidate to represent the Thirty-first Senatorial District composed of the counties of Marion, Franklin, and Colbert in the Senate of the State of Alabama, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. J. T. YOUNG FOR REPRESENTATIVE I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Representative in the next General Assembly of Alabama, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. JOHN R. HOLLADAY FOR SHERIFF I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Marion County at the next election, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. W. B. RIGGAN I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Marion County, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. PERRY W. STIDHAM FOR TAX COLLECTOR I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Tax Collector of Marion County, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. Respectfully, R. N. TERRELL FOR TAX ASSESSOR I hereby announce myself as a candidate for tax Assessor of Marion County, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. J. R. JONES I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Tax Assessor of Marion County, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. T. V. BISHOP FOR COUNTY TREASURER I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election to the office of Treasurer of Marion County, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. JOHN B. WOOD FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION I herby announce myself as a candidate for the office of Superintendent of Education of Marion County subject to the action of the Democratic Party. C. E. MITCHELL FOR CONSTABLE I hereby announce myself a candidate for Constable of Beat NO. 1, subject to the action of the Democratic Party. JAMES A. HAMILTON CLUB RATES R. N. TERRELL made a business trip to Goldmine last week. The West Alabama Agricultural School is steadily growing. About 150 Republicans attended the mass meeting last Monday. Misses ANNIE and MAUD EVANS, of Detroit, entered school here last Monday. Your county paper and a good farm journal both one year for 60 cents. Is that cheap enough for you? W. G. RIGGAN who left here to go to Brazil, decided to stop in Florida and is now at Tampa, that state. Miss IDA BACON has been sick this week and unable to attend to her school duties. We hope she may be quite well again soon. J. T. DUNN, of near town, who has been studying dentistry at the Vanderbilt University at Nashville, returned home last Tuesday. Little SALLIE CLARK returned to school this week. Dr. POWERS of Guin spent part of last week at Hamilton. Buy your pencils, tablets, letter and note paper from Mrs. CLEMENTS If you are in need of St Joseph’s medicine, save money by buying of Mrs. CLEMENTS H. S. CURTIS, of Double Springs, came to Hamilton the first of the week to enter school. We extend to him and all others, a hearty welcome. J. R. JONES, of Winfield, was in town this week and gave us a pleasant call. JONATHAN is a hustler and an all-round good fellow whom we are always glad to welcome at this office. Misses ICY HAMILTON and ANNIE JUSTICE went out riding one evening last week. Everything went well until a large mud hole was reached and the animal ridden by Miss ICY decided to wallow. The result was a thoroughly damp and muddy little girl. We call the attention of our readers to the announcement of Mr. T. V. BISHOP as a candidate for the office of tax assessor. TIMOTHY BISHOP is one of Marion’s best citizens, a young man of energy and a democrat whose loyalty to the party has never been questioned. He is thoroughly competent and if nominated and elected will discharge the duties of the office with credit to himself and the county. GUIN LOCALS Raining today and very disagreeable, though we have been having some fine weather for the past few days. GEORGE MAXWELL and PERRY CLANTON passed through town a few days since. They are out feeling the boys to see how they stand as candidates and we wish tem success as they are both good men. Hon. W. C. DAVIS passed through town twice this week going to and from Vernon court. JOHN DUNN passed through town yesterday on his way from Nashville, Tenn. where he has been for the last five months attending the dental college at that place. JOHN says he is able to do the work now and we wish him success in his new vocation Messrs. CADDEL and PEARCE will ship a car of cattle and sheep from this place today to Mobile. S. D. NAUGHER, from Carbon Hill, was in town the first of this week looking after his trade here. A. S. GANN, who has been sick with measles the past week, is able to resume his former occupation, “slinging lightning.” Mr. AKER’S family are all improving and we hope they will soon be well. BOB FLIPPO says he is going to raise cain if some one does not stop saying so much about that mud. He says it is all true but he is tired of hearing it. Well, Bob, you ought to let the fellow have something to write about. Supposed he had said that you came to town on a rainy day and left your wife at home without any wood cut, and that you came to town just to keep from cutting it, how would you like that? And we don’t doubt such has been the case or its today at least. We sorter want to take back what we said about being a candidate lat week as we may want to be a candidate yet., w an we will just take it back how so we will have nothing against us if we do enter the field. TOM & JERRY, Guin, March 4 ITEMS FROM TWIN Health good except one case of measles. C. R. FRANKS started to Florence this week. JOHN A. MADDOX has returned from Tuskaloosa A party of young ladies and gentlemen were badly disappointed on last Saturday night. J. T. WESTBROOK and W. N. VAUGHN say they are having a fine time keeping house all by themselves. BURLESON & ALEXANDER are preparing to put up a gin at this place, and we hope they will build a good one. Hurrah for J. B. CAUDLE for Sheriff and P. E. CAUDLE for commissioner. They would both make good officers. J. W. BURLESON is preparing for a large crop this year, and will use 4,000 pounds of fertilizer. G. M. ALEXANDER who was poisoned some time ago, has about lost the use of his limbs. J. W. BROCK will begin planting corn on the 9th inst. C. J. WESTBROOK, who has been suffering with sore eyes, is much better. J. G. WILLIAMS attended singing at Guin last Sunday but another fellow beat him out of his girl. Success to the Appeal and its readers. BIG SIX, Twin, March 3 BRUSH CREEK NEWS We are having some nice days for business just now and our people are hustling for a crop. We organized a Farmer’s meeting at Mr. Joy on the 29th ult. J. R. COCHRAN was elected chairman and J. A. WATES secretary. Eleven members were enrolled. The next meeting will be held on Saturday March 7th, and everybody invited to attend and make the institute a success. H. G. HUGULEY says he rides in a buggy these days. WALTER WATES is visiting in Winston this week. ED PINCHER says he will represent C. E. FOWLER and the jenette this year ALFRED WATES has had some work done on his and his father’s dwelling which adds much to its appearance. D. S. FOWLER says he likes to visit the folks about Haleys. Dr. J. M. SCRUGSS, our worthy physician, is getting all the practice he can do. What has become of Mt. Joy’s little girl that has such a powerful intellect? Oh! That we could hear her sweet little voice once more. Misses RHODA and ROSIE WATES, from Twin, visited relatives here last Sunday. Call on J. A. UNDERWOOD & Co. for axe handles and TOM for pipes. We sometimes hear the words “free silver” and occasionally the sweet voice of some candidate. They are jolly, good fellows. JOHNY still goes courting and stays seven days out of each week. Hurrah for Sheriff WILLIAMS. G. W. BURLESON looks through glass windows now-a-days and says he can’t see how people do without them. Success to the Appeal its editor and reader. A & Z, Pearce’s Mills, March 2 DETROIT GLEANINGS Farmers are rolling logs, ploughing and preparing for another crop. Prof. T. J. WILSON the teacher at this place sang at Wesley Chapel last Sunday. Mr. EDMUNDS, the photographer, has been unable to do any work for the past few days on account of sickness. Two girls of this place after an evening‘s stroll, wee returning home when their attention was attracted by strange sounds in the woods. The girls thought they were being pursued by a wild cat and beat a hasty retreat. After running some distance the girls heard a laugh from the branches of a tree where some mischievous boys had concealed themselves to scare the girls. Our literary society is still flourishing. Call and hear them talk, it will encourage them and they do real well for beginners. Our beat seems to be clear of misdemeanors as no witnesses were called to appear before the grand jury which has just adjourned. We are either very good, too smart to be caught, or too bad to be noticed. JOHN & TOM, Detroit, March 4 REPUBLICAN RALLY About 150 Republicans assembled at the courthouse on last Monday to elect delegates to the State, Congressional and Senatorial Conventions, and to renew their allegiance to the republican arty. Speeches were made in behalf of McKinley and protection, and the Ohioan was endorsed in fine style. D. N. COOPER, C. P. LUNSFORD, T. W. WIGINTON and A. D. MITCHELL were elected delegates to the states and congressional conventions. The delegates chosen to the senatorial convention are J. W. PALMER, K. D. TIDWELL, BARTON LOVELESS and J. A. GREEN. On motion P. M. WIGINTON was elected chairman and B. M. MCCULLOGUH secretary for the ensuing two years. A resolution was passed endorsing McKinley and favoring a fusion of the republicans and populists at the next state election on the basis of alternating in the selection of officers on the state ticket. Attention is directed to the law card of W. H. KEY and C. E. MITCHELL, which appears elsewhere. All business entrusted to this firm will receive prompt attention. BEXAR NEWS As we have not knocked at your door in some time we will give you a short call if you will allow us room Everything is peaceable and quiet in our village. The principal topic of conversation is the election. we have almost unanimously decided the JOSEPH F. JOHNSTON is the right man for governor that our young friend T. V. BISHOP is a true and tired democrat, a though gentleman in every respect and will get the full democratic vote in Bexar beat for tax assessor, and that free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 is good for the people. If this does not find its way to the waste basket I will write again. J. B. H., Bexar, March 3 WILL JACKSON, a well known Nashville drummer, was on our streets one day this week. JOHN THORN and J. R. COFIELD left yesterday morning on a visit to Hackleburgh. Mrs. E. A. MIXON, of Hackleburgh, visited the family of W. W. OZBIRN this week. Mrs. J. W. HOWELL, of Burlason, is visiting relatives here this week. H. E. MIXON is having a new chicken house built. W. A. DUNN, who, but the way, is a first-class carpenter, is doing the work. R. A. DUNN, who has been sick for some time with measles and pneumonia, is, we are glad to say able to be out again. The County Board of Education will meet at Hamilton on Saturday April 4th. W. H. KEY, Russellville, Ala. C. E. MITCHELL, Hamilton, Ala. KEY & MITCHELL, Attorneys-at-law and Solicitors in Chancery, Hamilton, Ala. Will practice in all the courts of Marion and adjoining counties. Special attention given to the collection of claims. NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT The State of Alabama, Marion County In Chancery at Hamilton, Alabama, 12th District, Northern Chancery Division, April Term 1896 JAMES R. GODSEY, Complainant vs MARTHA E. GODSEY, Defendant, March 3, 1896 In this cause it is made to appear to the Register by the affidavit of C. E. MITCHELL solicitor for complainant, that the defendant, MARTHA E. GODSEY, is a non-resident of the state of Alabama, and that her place of residence is unknown to affiant, and further, that, the belief of said affiant, the defendant is over the ago of twenty-one years. It is therefore ordered by the Register that publication be made in the Hamilton Appeal, a newspaper published in Marion county, Alabama, once a week of four consecutive weeks requiring her, the said MARTHA E. GODSEY to answer or demur to the same within thirty days after the 2nd day of April 1896, and failing so to do a decree pro-confesso will be taken against her in said cause. Done at office, in Hamilton, Alabama this 3rd day of March 1896 W. B. RIGGAN, Register in Chancery NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala. January 29, 1896 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 at Hamilton, Alabama on March 21st 1896, viz: ZEBLON FORTNER, Homestead entry No. 19,479 for the SW ¼ OF Sec 2 T 9 South R 12 West He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: THOMAS HOLCOMB, W. THOMAS BAKER, W. DOSSEY MCMURRAY, ISAAC J. WADE, all of Bear Creek, Alabama., JESSE W. ELLIS, Register A RARE BARGAIN For Sale – a pair of the French Burr Mill Rocks – Good as new. Will take $50.00 cash. Rocks will be delivered free on board cars at Eldridge, Ala or they may be seen at Texas, Ala. Call on or address, J. P. PEARCE, Pearce’s Mills, Ala. NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION Notice is hereby given that the co-partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned, under the name and style of MARTIN & GUYTON, has this day been dissolved by mutual content. M. C. MARTIN W. GUYTON, This February 19th, 1896 Buy your stationery from Mrs. E. H. CLEMENTS. A good supply always on hand at the very lowest prices. Ad for Carter Piano and Organ Good job printing. I do the best job printing you can buy. My prices are no highest than you now pay for sorry printing elsewhere. I have new material and years of experience. 1000 Note Heads for $2; 500 for $1.25; 250 for 75c; 100 for 50c; 1000 Envelopes for $2; 500 for $1.25; 250 for 65c; 100 for 35c. I do the best printing and furnish the paper. Printers kick on my low prices, but I am not starving to death at it at all. IF the work is not first-class, I buy it back. Cash must accompany all orders. I print anything you want at very low prices. Write for my price list printed in three colors. “Ask me anything about any kind of printing.” JON ERL GARRISON, Sulligent, Ala. West Alabama Agricultural School – Hamilton, Alabama. Co-Educational. First Session opened 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. The Hamilton Appeal 50 cents a Year. PAGE 4 -----(small ads)----- HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS Here is a recipe for making a good furniture polish. Take equal proportions of linseed oil, turpentine, vinegar, and spirits of wine. Mix well together. When used shake the mixture and rub the furniture with a piece of linen. Then polish with a clean soft cloth. – [New York World] LAUNDERING EMBROIDERY See that the silk handkerchiefs, scarfs, etc. are washed by themselves and not placed with linen articles to be laundered, no matter how fine and dainty the articles may be, with their delicate embroidery. Soak the silk articles in lukewarm water for a couple of hours. After soaking squeeze lightly with the hands, and if still soiled soak in warm water in which a little good soap has been dissolved. If it can be avoided do not rub soap on the silk, no matter what the quality. After a second washing and rinsing give a third rinsing in lukewarm water, in which a little commons salt has been dissolved. The salt will help to set the colors in the silk and in the embroidery, giving the whole a brighter appearance than if simply rinsed in clear water. Press the handkerchiefs with a warm iron before they are perfectly dry. SOUPS MADE EASILY Soups add much to a dinner, and involve neither the time nor the expense that young housekeepers imagine. A soup kettle will take many bits that cannot otherwise be made use of, and a common stock is a foundation for many sauces, soups, and gravies. A soup stock should be cooled quickly, and left uncovered until perfectly cold. Cream soups are made with and without stock, and have come into great favor, largely taking the place of clear soups. To make green pea soup without stock: Turn a can of peas into a large saucepan and cover them with hot water. Add a small onion sliced and let them boil until the peas are soft. Mash them and add a pint of water. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter and stir into it one spoonful of flour. Stir until smooth and add to the cooked peas with two cupfuls of rich milk. Season with salt and a little cayenne pepper. Let the soup boil up once after the milk is added; then rub through a course sieve and serve with tiny squares of fried bread. For cream of celery soup: Wash a bunch of celery and cut it into pieces and boil it in a pint and a half of water forty minutes. In another saucepan heat to boiling a slice of onion and a small piece of mace in one pint of milk; mix one tablespoonful of flour with one of butter and moisten with two tablespoonfuls of cold milk and add to the boiling milk. Cook ten minutes. Add the cooked celery and water in the cooked milk and season with salt and pepper. Strain and serve. A cup of whipped cream added after straining makes the soup much richer. To make cream or barley soup: Put in a granite kettle three pints of white stock, an onion sliced, a small piece each of cinnamon and mace, and one teacup of barley. Allow these to cook very slowly four hours, then rub through a sieve and add one pint of boiling milk and half a pint of cream. Season with salt and cayenne pepper. The yolks of two eggs beaten light with two spoonfuls of cream and added to the boiling milk just before the soup is taken from the fire make it very much richer. To make bisque of tomato: Put in a saucepan one quart of tomatoes and an onion sliced. Place them over the fire and let them stew fifteen minutes. Meanwhile put over the fire in a double boiler one quart of milk. Cream together two tablespoonfuls of flour with the same quantity of butter and add to the milk when oiling and stir constantly until it thickens. Rub the tomatoes through a sieve and return them to the fire. Add a teaspoonful of sugar and salt and pepper to taste. When it is time to serve add half a teaspoonful of soda to the tomatoes and then the boiling milk. Stir quickly and serve at once. The soup must not stand after the ingredients are put together. Serve croutons in the soup. Any one who likes onions will enjoy the following simple soup, which is quickly made: Slice two or three good sized onions and fry them in a little butter until they are soft, then add three tablespoonfuls of flour and stir until it is a little cooked, but not brown. To this gradually add a pint of boiling water, or stock if you have it, stirring all the time so it shall be smooth. Boil and mash three good-size potatoes and stir in them one quart of boiling milk. Stir the two mixtures together and season well. When very hot pour through a colander into a tureen. Sprinkle over the top a tablespoonful of parsley, chopped fine, and a little fried bread. For egg balls to put into soups: Boil four eggs until hard. Drop them in cold water, and when cool remove the yolks and mash them to a paste. Season with a little salt and pepper and mix the paste with the white of one raw egg. Form the paste into balls the size of a hazel nut, roll them in flour and fry to a light brown in hot butter. – [New York Sun] FISH CLIMB TREES Ad for Tuerk Water Motor for sale Ad for Ayer’s Sarsaparilla Ad for Potash Ad for Ripan’s Tabules Ad for Mill and Mining supplies – (picture of engine) Ad for Walter Baker & Co. Ad for John A Salzer Seed Co. 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