Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON NEWS PRESS June 13, 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 5, 2010, 4:26 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History June 13, 1895 Microfilm Ref Call #559 Microfilm Order #M1992.0966 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE HAMILTON NEWS-PRESS VOL. 1 HAMILTON, MARION COUNTY, ALA. JUNE 13, 1895 NO. 24 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $1.00 PER ANNUM. R. H. TERRELL, Publisher Advertising Rates Reasonable – Job Work Neatly and Cheaply Executed DIRECTORY CIRCUIT COURT Judge – T. R. ROULHAC, of Colbert County Solicitor – A. H. CARMICHAEL, of Colbert County Clerk – J. F. HAMILTON, Hamilton Sheriff – W. W. HALL, Hamilton Court meets on the 1st Monday after the 4th Monday in January and 2nd Monday in August CHANCERY COURT Chancellor – W. H. SIMPSON of Decatur Register – W. B. RIGGAN, Hamilton Court meets on Thursday after the 3rd Monday in April and October. COMMISSIONER’S COURT Meets on the 2nd Monday in February and August and the 1st Monday in April and November COUNTY OFFICERS Tax Assessor – T. J. FARIS, Bexar Tax Collector – M. M. FRAZIER, Hamilton Treasurer – J. B. WOOD, Hamilton PROBATE COURT Meets on the 2nd Monday in each month. SOCIETIES MASONIC Hamilton Lodge No. 344 meets at Hamilton on the 4th Saturday in each month, at 11 am . G. N. STOKES, W. M., J. P. FORD, Sect. CHURCH DIRECTORY M. E. CHURCH SOUTH – Services 1st Sunday in each month at 11 am and 7 pm and every 4th Sunday at 7 pm – Rev. W. A. BIVIN, Pastor SUNDAY SCHOOL Sunday School at 9:30 am – W. R. WHITE, Supt. Prayer meeting Wednesday night. PROFESSIONAL CARDS – LEGAL J. D. MCCLUSKEY, W. C. DAVIS - MCCLUSKEY & DAVIS, Attorneys at Law, Vernon and Hamilton, Ala. Will practice in all the courts of Alabama and Mississippi. W. R. APPLING, Attorney at Law, Hamilton, Alabama. Will practice in Marion and adjoining counties. All business entrusted to my care will receive prompt attention W. H. KEY W. S. HESTER KEY & HESTER, Attorneys at Law - Russellville, Ala will practice in Franklin and adjoining counties, in the Supreme Court and the Federal court at Huntsville. Mr. Key will be in Hamilton on the first Monday in each month. B. R. FITE, Attorney at Law, Hamilton, Ala. Will practice in Marion and adjoining counties, in the federal courts at Huntsville and the Supreme Court of the State. Special attention given to the collection of claims. GEO. C. ALMON W. I. BULLOCK, ALMON & BULLOCK, Attorneys at Law, Russellville Ala. will practice in Franklin and adjoining counties ,and especially in Marion; also in the Federal court at Huntsville and in the Supreme Court at Montgomery. C. E. MITCHELL, Attorney-at-Law, Hamilton, Ala. will practice in all the courts of Marion and adjoining counties. The Cotton Belt Route St. Louis, Southwestern Ry. to Arkansas and Texas. The only line with Through Car Service from Memphis to Texas. No change of cars to San Antonio, Austin, Hearne, Ft. Worth, or intermediate points. The daily trains carrying through coaches, chair cars, and sleepers traversing the finest farming , grazing and timber lands and reaching the most prosperous town and cities in the Great Southwest. FARMING LANDS – Yielding abundantly all the cereals, corn and cotton, and especially adapted to the cultivation of small fruits and early vegetables. GRAZING LANDS – Affording excellent pasturage during almost the entire year, and comparatively close to the great markets TIMBER LANDS – Covered with almost inexhaustible forest of yellow pine, cypress, and the hard woods common to Arkansas and eastern Texas. Can be Procured on Reasonable and Advantageous Terms. All persons contemplating a trip to Texas should purchase tickets viz: the Cotton belt Route and avoid vexatious changes and transfers of baggage. It is the only line running through trains from Memphis to Texas. Parties emigrating to Texas will find it to their interest to see a Cotton Belt Route Agent before making arrangements elsewhere. All lines connect with and have tickets on sale via the Cotton belt Route. Ask your nearest ticket agent for maps, time tables, etc., and write to any fo the following for all the information you may desire concerning a trip to the Great Southwest. C. P. RECTER HOWARD JOLLY, Gen. Agent, City Pass & Tkt agt. 308 Main St. Memphis, Tenn. B. McCullar, Trav. Pass. Agent, Tupelo, Miss. A. S. Doge, R. W. LeBeaume, Gen. traffic age’t, Gen. Pass & Tkt agent, St. Louis, Mo. NOT NECESSARY TO PAY BOUNTY Mr. Worthington C. Ford, chief of the Bureau of Statistics, gives out the imports of sugar for the month of May, 1895. The total quantity imported at the five ports of New York, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and San Francisco was 530,697,590 pounds, valued at $10,289,599……….. GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY The republicans of Kentucky in convention at Louisville on Wednesday nominated W. O. Bradley for governor by acclamation. The worst fire ever known at Fredericksburg, Va. occurred Tuesday…….. At a meeting of the employees of several mines in this district the miners decided to abide by the decision of the state convention and go to work at the 50-cent rate, believing that to be the best that could be done at present……… The first car load lot of peaches to be shipped from Georgia this season was loaded at Tifton on the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad…….. The output of coal at Bluefield, V. Va. on Wednesday was 171 cars and at Colburn 107 cars……. A horrible crime was committed in Putman County, Florida, Sunday night in which Miss Abbie Allen, a maiden lady, was the victim……………. San Antonio, Texas has 20,000 visitors this week to the National Traveler’s Protective association convention, the Jockey Club spring meeting and live stock show and annual battle of flowers. Excursions are pouring in from every point. The supreme court at New Orleans has refused a rehearing in the case of Councilman Numa Dudoussat, convicted of accepting a bribe and sentenced to five years imprisonment in the penitentiary…….. A party of seven persons were swept away while crossing the swollen streets in near Douglass, Wyo. Tuesday, four of them being drowned. Bert Elders started from The Siding to attend a circus at that place, with his wife and two children, Mrs. Powell and a baby and a Mrs. Sherwin…… The First National Bank of Pella, Ia. is closed and R. Cassel, its president and ex-state senator, is not expected to live. He attempted suicide by cutting his throat Monday……. Lightning Tuesday struck the school house at Rolle, Inda. There were sixty children in it and the house burned to the ground abut all were saved. The teacher had all her hair burned off. Three boys were drowned in Lake Erie at Cleveland, O. Sunday afternoon………… Rev. John P. Smith, a Baptist country preacher, who escaped from jail at Stillwater, Okla. ten days ago was found dying along the roadside in an adjoining county. He had been in poor health for a long time, and stole some meat to keep his wife and little children from starving to death. He was arrested and convicted of the theft and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary, the same day that a man was only sentenced for ten years for deliberately murdering his cousin. Feeling his punishment too great, he broke from jail, and met death from exposure and starvation. Mr. Jules A. Harrison made a donation of $500,000 to the University of Pennsylvania……….. The three-story brick factory of the Vulcanite Manufacturing Company of Lidenhurst, L. I. burned to the ground Monday……………… Two of the largest coal firms in the Pittsburg district, Pa. have agreed to pay their employees the 55-cent rate, pay to be semi-monthly, reduced house rents and no company stores……………. Baltimore, Md. had a $425,000 fir Sunday and 100 poor people left homeless, with but little of their household goods saved from the flames. FOREIGN Violent shocks of earthquake were felt at Florence at 1:30 o’clock Thursday morning and a number of shocks were experienced throughout Tuscany, in both instances the people became panic-stricken and fled from their houses. No damage done in the city. Details from the rural districts have not yet been received. A dispatch to the Globe from Constantinople says a panic prevails in Jiddah, and Europeans there have taken refuge on board foreign vessels in the harbor, fearing to be attacked by the Bedouins. A dispatch from Madrid says the execution of Major Clavijo, which was announced…………. The sultan of Johope died in London Tuesday morning. The sultan came into notoriety in 1893 though a breach of promise suit, brought against him in London under the name of Mr. Albert Baker by a Miss Jendie Mighell. The sultan won his case on the ground that he was a reigning sovereign, and therefore the English courts had no jurisdiction over him. A dispatch has been received from Shanghai saying that it is almost certain that all persons connected with the English, French, and American missions at Cheng Tu have been massacred. The Chinese admit that the telegrams have been stopped by government orders. A French gunboat has gone to Wan Chang, on the Yang Tse Kiang, to inquire into the matter. Virtually the whole province of Canton is in a state of anarchy, the rival factions raiding each other. PUNISHMENT SURE AND SWIFT – The Plea of Insanity Avails the Assassin Naught A dispatch from Madrid says that a court-martial that was immediately summoned to consider the case of Major Clavijo found that he had a deliberate intention to kill General Prime Rivers, against whom he had an old grudge. Sentence of death was passed on Major Calvijo and he was to be executed Tuesday afternoon………….. SUCCESSOR TO GRESHAM – Olney becomes Secretary of state and Harmon Attorney- General IRON TRADE IMPROVING – A Demand Continues that Gives No Suggestion of Reaction INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – of the Epworth League to be Held at Chattanooga, Tenn. This conference, to meet June 27th, and continue through three days following will be a memorable occasion…………… RIOTING IN FORMOSA A dispatch from Hong Kong says the Chinese in the northern part of Formosa are completely demoralized. The people have joined the soldiers in the rioting and looting and there is chaos everywhere. The rioters have burned the government buildings at Paipehfe and Hoche. The republic has collapsed and Tang, the rebel governor, has fled. Foreign residents are safe, but their anxiety is great. PAGE 2 THE NEWS PRESS Issued Every Thursday R. N. TERRELL, Publisher JAS. S. CLEMENTS, Editor Entered at the post office at Hamilton, Ala, as second class matter Subscription Rates One year $1.00 Six Months .50 Three months .25 A free silver coinage paper is soon to be established in Louisville, Ky. Sot eh good work goes bravely on. A car load of watermelons passed through Montgomery one day last week. They were shipped from Florida and consigned to Chicago. Women who belong to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church are not allowed to preach. So says the General Assembly that recently held its session at Meridian, Miss. The Nashville American has changed ownership, and also, the complexion of its political editorial columns. It will, in future, support Mr. Cleveland, and advocate the gold standard policy on the financial question. Robert Tyler Jones, the grandson of President Tyler, and the only male child ever born in the White House, died at Washington a few days ago. He was one of the two survivors of the Color Guard of Armstrong’s Brigade, at the terrible charge at Cemetery Ridge, in the Battle of Gettysburg. -----(political news and commentary)----------- THE MONEY QUESTION – free and unlimited coinage The best and cheapest investment in real estate a man can make is to put a good, thick coat of paint on his house. This will advance values more than any other possible expenditure of money. The sale of delinquent tax lands has been continued until July 1. Ad for Columbus Business College Ad for the Dixie Home Magazine REDUCED TICKET RATES – To Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Etc via “Cotton Belt Route” On April 30th, May 21st and June 11th the Cotton Belt will run three more half rate Homeseekers Excursions from Memphis to Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and New Mexico. Tickets good to return twenty days from date of sale and to stop off going or returning at any point in Arkansas or Texas. On May 13th, 14th, and 15th to Dallas, Texas and return account General Assembly Presbyterian Church: rate: $14.95. Tickets good to return until June 3rd. On May 30th and 31st to San Antonio Texas and return account Travelers Protective Association; rate $22.50. Good to return fifteen days with privilege of an extension of fifteen days additional. On May 18th, 19th, and 20th to Houston, Texas and return account of Confederate Reunion: rate: $13.00. Limited to fifteen days to return with privilege of extension fifteen days longer if tickets are deposited with Agent terminal line. The Cotton Belt is the lonely line running through cars from Memphis to Texas. No vexatious changes and transfers via this route. J. C. DAVIS, Trav. Pass Agent, C. P. RECTOR, Commercial Agt. 363 Main St. Memphis, Tenn. Reliable men wanted as traveling salesmen for our Cigars, Cigarettes and Smoking Tobacco. Address Standard Tobacco Co., Winston, N. C. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Alabama, April 16th 1895 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of her intention to make final proof in support of her claim, and that said proof will be made before the probate Judge on Marion county at Hamilton Ala on May 31st, 1895, viz: NELLIE LEGRONE, Homestead Entry No. 23,619 for the SW ¼ NE ¼ and NW ¼ SE ¼ Sec 5 T 12 South R 12 West. She names the following witnesses to prove her continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: THOMAS W. FISHER, JOHN CONNER, of Pearce’s Mills, Ala, and DAVID H. PEARCE, JAMES J WESLEY, of Twin, ala. JESSE W. ELLIS, Register NON-RESIDENT NOTICE The State of Alabama, Marion County In Chancery at Hamilton, Alabama, Twelfth Dist, Northern Chancery Division October Term 1895 – May 22, 1895 MARY L. BELL, complnt. vs. JEFF BELL, Defendant In this cause it is made to appear to the Register by C. E. MITCHELL, solicitor for complainant that the defendant JEFF BELL is a non-resident of the state of Alabama and that his place of residence is unknown to affiant, and further, that in the belief of said affiant, the defendant is over the age of twenty-one years. It is therefore ordered by the Register that publication be made in the Hamilton News-Press, a newspaper published in Hamilton, Alabama once a week for four consecutive weeks, requiring him the said JEFF BELL to answer or demur after the 27th day of June, 1895, and failing so to do a decree pro confesso will betaken against him in said cause. Done at office, in Hamilton, Alabama, this 23rd day of May 1895 W. R. RIGGAN, Register in Chancery Your choice of men’s and boys hats at Littleton’s for $1 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala. May 11th 1895 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Marion county, at Hamilton Ala., on June 22nd 1895, viz: WILLIAM E. TYRA for adjoining farm homestead Entry No. 17981 for the S ½ of SW ¼ and NW ¼ of SW ¼ Sec 24 T 9 South R 13 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz ; ARCHIE C. VANCE, WILLIAM A. VANCE, JAMES N. COCKRUM, DAVID H. NIX, all of Hackleburgh, Ala. JESSE W. ELLIS, Register NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT The State of Alabama, Marion County Probate Court, 14th day of May 1895 G. M. HOMER, Deceased, Estate of This day came WM. C. DAVIS the administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts, vouchers, and evidences for a final settlement of his administration. It is therefore ordered that the 5th day of June 1895 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement at which time all parties interested can appear and contest the said settlement if they think proper. JASON P. FORD Judge of Probate, Marion County NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT The State of Alabama, Marion County Probate Court, 14th day of May 1895 W. G. BEAUCHAMP, Deceased, Estate of This day came WM. C. DAVIS the administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts, vouchers, and evidences for a final settlement of his administration. It is therefore ordered that the 5th day of June 1895 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement at which time all parties interested can appear and contest the said settlement if they think proper. JASON P. FORD Judge of Probate, Marion County NOTICE OF LAND SALE The State of Alabama, Marion County Under and by virtue of a decree rendered in the Probate Court of said county on the 22nd of April, 1895, I will on the 27t day of May 1895, in front of the court house door in Hamilton, proceed to sell all the following lands for the non-payment of taxes and cost due and unpaid for the years which they were assessed….(all owner unknown)… This May 23rd 1895 M. M. FRAZIER, T. C. NOTICE OF LAND SALE The State of Alabama, Marion County Under and by virtue of a decree tendered in the Probate court of said county on the 22nd day of April 1895, I will on the 27th day of Mary, 1895, in front of the court house door in Hamilton, proceed to sell all the following lands for the non-payment of taxes and all cost due and unpaid, for the years which they were assessed:….(lands belonging to HENRY THOLE, WM. J. BRODRICK, THOMAS LYONS, HENRY W. TUCKER, C. D. GARRETT)…. This May 23rd, 1895. M. M. FRAZIER, T. C. Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for New Home Sewing Machine THE BYRD SCHOOL will open Monday Nov. 19, 1894 and continue four months. Tuition reasonable. For further information call on or address the principal. ANDREW J. ADAMS, Detroit, Ala Ad for The Republic Call at the post office building for fresh garden seed. Ad for New $900 Steinway Piano Free Wanted – 200,000 hickory spokes. Must be clear of defects, split with the grain, 30 inches long 1½ thick by 2 inches wide. Also 1,000 fifteen cent hens and 1,000 dozen eggs at market price. E. W. BROCK, Guin, Ala. PAGE 3 THE NEWS PRESS Issued Every Thursday $1 Per Annum $1 June 13, 1895 LOCAL NEWS Warm. Cloudy. Nice shower. Health very good. Pleasant after the rain. Farmers in good spirits. Business looking up a little. Fried chicken for breakfast. Peach cobbler with cream for dinner. Garden vegetables super-fine and abundant. A first-class school soon to be opened. Society good, Churches and Sunday School flourishing. Let there be no more croaking about hard times. Buy your dry goods from Littleton at Guin. Tax-Assessor FARIS, of Bexar was in town on business, the latter part of last week. Big lot of fine dress goods just received at Littleton’s. Our worthy sheriff, W. W. HALL visited Birmingham on business this week. Capt J. D. MCCLUSKEY of Vernon was in town last week. His many friends are always delighted to meet him. Go to Littleton at Guin for straw hats. Hon. J. H. BANKHEAD was on our streets during the latter part of the past week. He met a number of his constituents while here, who hare always glad to see him. Men’s heavy work shirts at Littleton’s from 25 to 50 cts. The communication from J. M. S. was received too late for this issue, but will appear next week. Men’s hats at Littleton’s from 25 cents to $1, worth from 50 cents to $2.50 We quote fishing, hereabout, at present, as follows: Angling, good-middling to middling-fair – catching, ordinary to low-ordinary Buy your shoes from Littleton at Guin. Big stock and low prices. We were pleased to meet upon our streets, last Saturday, Mr. J. L. GILMORE, a well-known citizen of our county, but for several years in the government employ at Washington. He is on a visit to his family. Mr. GILMORE is a fine business man, and has rendered general satisfaction in every position to which he has been assigned. He is now employed in the Pension department. Go to L. D. Littleton for all kinds of men’s and boy’s clothing at bed rock prices. Several friends from the country favored us by calling during the week. They all spoke encouragingly of the crop prospects. Everything is growing nicely since the weather became warm. OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL The location of the State Agricultural School for the Sixth Congressional District of the state of Alabama, at Hamilton, is one of the most fortunate events that has happened to our town and county, during the existence of either. By the location of this school here, Hamilton is placed at once in the first rank of educational towns in this part of the State. If our people will properly appreciate the situation and go to work energetically, in the right direction, Hamilton will soon experience a boom that the most sanguine have never dreamed of. Let the people of our town prepare for the accommodation of the school – to board and lodge the students. Let our lot owners building cottages, to rent to families who will want to live here to educate their children. We have already heard more than one head of a family say that he will move his family here, when school opens, if he can rent a house. Let others add rooms to their residences and be ready to board and lodge students when school opens. There will be plenty of students come here, if they can find accommodations. This town is well situated for first-class school. The town is located on a high, level lawn, sufficiently rolling to run off rain water promptly. There is no sign of malaria. It is healthy; the water good and abundant. The people all quiet and peaceful, there are no dram-shops, gambling halls, or other dens of vice, to corrupt the morals of the students. The authorities, doubtless, had all these advantages in view when they located the institution at this place, and we have no doubt but that the attendance at the opening, Sept. 1, will be flattering to the management, and will rapidly increase, until it can boast that it is one of the largest and most prosperous schools in the state. Go to L. D. Littleton at Guin for all kinds of dry goods, boots, shoes, and groceries at hard time prices. No burglaries, no fights, no elopements in high life, no failures, in fact, local news is exceedingly scarce, which causes ye local to scratch his head in despair. FROM PIKEVILLE Mr. A. T. WILLET died yesterday about 1 o’clock. The immediate cause of his death was cancer of the face. He will be buried today at the old graveyard just south of this place. There will be singing at Philadelphia next Sunday, beginning at 9 o’clock. A large congregation is expected. W. F. GREEN has corn tassels about a week old The Sunday School at Philadelphia is progressing finely, the attendance being on the increase. The primary, or catechism class, had grown so large as to be unwieldy, and last Sunday Superintendent AKERS divided it, forming a new class with Miss ESTELLA WHITE as teacher. WRONG FONT, Pikeville, Ala. June 11, ‘95 OUR HISTORY CLASS Matter intended for this department should be addressed to W. F. GREEN, Pikeville, Ala. 41. Who were the first United States Senators from Alabama? 42. Who was the first member from Alabama of the United States Supreme Court? 43. Who was the first Governor of the State of Alabama? 44. Who was the first President of the United States Senate? 45. By what officer was the official oath administered to George Washington as the first President of the United States? 46. Who was President of the United States one hundred years ago? 47. What four European nations laid claim to the Territories which ultimately became the United States? 48. By whom and to whom was the following message sent: “We have met the enemy and they are ours? 49. Who was the author of the saying: “Be sure you’re right, then go ahead.” 50. Who was the author of the saying: “I am not worth purchasing, but such as I am the King of Great Britain is not rich enough to buy me?” ANSWERS 21. An elm. 22. At Juinipiac, Conn. April 13, 1638 by the settlers, who afterwards laid the foundation of a city and called it New Haven. 23. While at Lisbon, in 1484, Columbus was accustomed to attend religious service at the Chapel of the Convent of All Saints. In this convent were certain ladies of rank, either resident as boarders, or in some religious capacity. With one of these Columbus became acquainted. She was Dona Felipi, daughter of Bartolomeo Morris de Berestrello, an Italian cavalier, lately deceased, who had been one of the most distinguished navigators under Prince Henry, and had colonized and governed the Island of Porto Santo. The acquaintance soon ripened into attachment, and ended in marriage. It appears to have been a match of mere affection, as the lady was destitute of fortune. There were two sons born, Diego and Fernando. 24. In DeKlab County, Ga. It is a huge mass of granite rising almost perpendicular several hundred feet above the surrounding country. 25. The Sticklebacks. The species of stickleback are all natives of fresh water with one or two exceptions. They are found in the Ottawa River, while the marine species have lately been discovered among the weed of the Saragasso Sea. 26. The Amazon, which is so charged with sediment that its waters can readily be detected by their discoloration this distance from its mouth. 27. In Gloucester County, Va. at a place called Mironocomcoco, or Werowacomoco. It is situated near Mobjack Bay, which is an inlet near the mouth of York River. 28. A society formed in Philadelphia on June 13, 1780, for the purpose of supplying the soldiers with clothing. The city was divided into ten districts, and four appointed to each district to solicit subscriptions. Their donations amounted to two thousand and thirty shirts and they obtained seventy-seven shirts and three hundred and eighty pairs of socks from New Jersey. 29. At the first mint for coining silver money established in Massachusetts, the three-pence, sixpence, and shilling sterling, had stamped upon one side of them the effigy of a pine-tree; hence these pieces were called pine-tree money. 30. The first American school established in Alabama territory, was taught by John Pierce, on Tensas Bay, above Mobile, in 1790. Pierce was a New Englander, and his pupils were a motley lot, including a number of half-breed Indians, among whom, however, were the Weatherfords, McGilloways, and others noted in the days when Alabama was a bloody border land. Except No. 21, the above answers were furnished by Hon. W. A. DUNN, county Superintendent of Public Education. Correct answers to Nos. 21 and 23 were also furnished by Mr. IRA HUGHES, Pikeville, Ala. Last week we noted the fact that a Principal and two Assistants had been appointed by the Trustees to take charge of the school at this place, which commences on Sept 1st, 1895. The Principal, Prof. JAMES E. ALEXANDER, we learn, is an experienced educator, of finished education, of unblemished moral character, and will bring to the discharge of the duties of his position, that tact and discipline so necessary to the success of such an Institution. The name of Prof. A. W. TATE is well-known to most of our readers, having taught here last year. He is an educator of rare ability, peculiarly adapted by training and experience, to instruct the boys and young men of our country, in the useful branches of practical and thorough education. Of Miss ELLIOTT KEY, it is scarcely necessary to say a work. She was reared in our midst, and is very efficient and popular as a teacher, having successfully filled positions in some of the most important schools of this county. The News-Press is proud of our prospective school, and proud of its teachers, and bespeak for both such an enthusiastic patronage from the people of the town, county and congressional District, as will insure that success, which we feel confident the Institute will merit. The tuition will be free to all children between the ages of 7 and 21 years, and let the parents and guardians, of the district, do their whole duty and see that the school building is taxed to its utmost capacity, at the opening of the school on the first of next September. Now is the time for our merchants to supply themselves with stationery for the coming season. We are will supplied with job material, and will furnish all kinds of commercial printing, in the latest styles and at moderate prices. Ad for Webster’s International Dictionary We have huckleberries, plums, strawberries and a few spring chickens and will have a picnic next Saturday. Ain’t we in the middle of a luck patch. NOTICE The Educational Board will meet at Hamilton on June 28 and 29, 1895. All teachers who wish license will please meet the Board at this time, as no examinations will be granted after this meting before next scholastic year. W. A. DUNN, Col. Supt. Education A new lot of fine lace and embroidery at Mrs. DORA TERRELL’S. Call and examine her goods. Ad for Webster’s International Dictionary Two for One Dollar – the News-Press and the Birmingham Weekly State one year for One dollar. The state is an eight-page paper, brimming full of news and democratic to the core. Now is the time to get two papers for the price of one. Ad for Webster’s International Dictionary SWEPT AWAY – McKinley High Prices are Dead and Mrs. ELLA CLEMENTS is selling stationery and school supplies at astonishingly low prices. School crayon per box 15 cts Composition books 7 cts Composition books 15 cts Good note paper at from 5 to 7 cents per quire Fools cap paper 10 cts quire Envelopes 5 cents a package Ink 5 cts per bottle Pen points 5 cts per dozen Slates 5 x 9 inches 6 cts Slates 7 x 11 inches 10 cts Rubber tip pencils 10 cts dozen Pen holders 10 cts each School books. A new lot of school books just received all of which will be sold as cheap as they can be bought anywhere. Ladies Hats. A nice assortment of ladies hats latest styles and guaranteed to vie satisfaction. Come and examine goods, compare prices and be convinced. Mrs. E. H. CLEMENTS, Hamilton, Ala. (Post office building) Ad for Hartsfeld Furnace and Refining Co. Ad for Patents This way ladies! I have just received a large stock of Millenry which I will have on exhibition in the GAST building. I want to sell. Come in, I will take pleasure in showing you my goods. Dress cutting and fitting a specialty. All orders will have prompt attention. Respectfully Mrs. DORA TERRELL, Hamilton, Ala. Ad for Columbus Business College PAGE 4 LONGFELLOW’S FIRST POETRY – He was More than Thirty When His First volume was Published Toward the end of 1836 he took up his abode in Cambridge, where he was to reside for the rest of his life – for forty-five years. He was made to feel at home in the society of the scholars who clustered about Harvard, then almost the sole center of culture in the country…………… AN EXCELLENT PLAN In a certain New England factory the fire pails are all hung on spring hooks, each hook powerful enough to lift the pull when nearly empty, but being depressed by a full pail. If the water in the buckets becomes evaporated (as water in buckets of the kind has an ugly habit of repeatedly doing - or if any one of the pails is removed the hook rises, closes a circuit, and rings a bell in the foreman’s office. Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ad for Hood’s Pills THE TIDE OF BUSINESS – R. G. Dunn Report HEAVY LOSS BY FIRE – Newark, N. J. Ballatine and Son’s mail house…………. WILL GIVE TURKEY A HINT The Armenian Society, of London, has received communications from Constantinople confirming the reports of the unsatisfactory nature of Turkey’s reply to the powers touching Armenia. The telegrams also state that a number of French and British warships are expected to arrive in the Bosporus Tuesday. A dispatch from Vienna to the Central News says it is reported that in consequence of the porte’s answer to the Armenian proposals of the powers, a naval demonstration will be made in the Bosporus by England, France and Russia. FLAMING FOREST FIRES – An Entire Village Destroyed – Numerous Oil Rigs Burned Forest fires are again raging in the vicinity of Bradford, Pa. and much property is being destroyed. ………. HE WOULDN’T STAY DEAD – Marti, the Cuban Leader Appears in New York City COTTON, ACREAGE, CONDITION – New York Chronicle’s Annual Estimate of the Growing Crop LOSSES BY THE FOREST FIRES Some of the results of the terrible forest fires in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, which were stopped by a down pour of rain Tuesday evening………… HE HAD HIS LITTLE PISTOL Pink Dockery shot and killed his 9-year old son Monday night. Dockery lives in the edge of London county, Tenn. one mile from McGhee……………… THE DEATH RATE HIGH – The Expense Great, and Campos Calls for More Men to Kill Marti Again The Times-Union correspondent is informed by a reliable party that mortality of the supports of the Spanish government up to 31st of May is forty- eight hundred and seventeen. ,……… ATLANTA’S BIG CONTRACT – That’s what “Twill Be To Accommodate 100,000 Visitors” Mr. C. E. Harmon, general passenger agent of the Western and Atlantic railroad has notified the exposition company that he had closed a contract for hauling 25,000 members of the Grand Army of the Republic from Chattanooga to Atlanta on the 30th of September……… MORE DEATHS FROM HEAT The hot spell which has prevailed for the past few days was broken in New York last Monday afternoon, the temperature falling from about 83 degrees at 2:30 o’clock to 61 at 9 o’clock p. For the fifteen hours between 12 o’clock midnight and 3 o’clock Monday afternoon there were twelve deaths reported to the police, all traceable to the heat…….. CLEAR CASE OF SELF-DEFENSE A special from Savannah, Ga. says: Frank Keenan was shot and killed Thursday afternoon by Thomas Pounder…………….. ANARCY IN OHIO Early Tuesday morning a mob of from 300 to 500 striking miners from Dillonville and Long Run, W. Va. headed by a brass band, descended on the Gaylord Coal Works…………. JUST FOR CONTRARINESS It snowed nearly all day Monday in the Cripple Creek district, Colorado, but at night the weather cleared, although the sidewalks and streets were covered with snow. ICE CREAM SODA IN LONDON – Has only Been Recently Introduced but it has Become a Craze “The ice cream soda craze, which American women have had so badly for the last few years, has broken out in London, “says a traveler recently returned from abroad. “It hasn’t got a firm clutch on the English women yet, but it is growing rapidly, and I expect that in the course of a few years it will materially aid in the disappearance of the beautiful English complexion for which women of the old country are famous. An American confectioner is responsible forth production of the ice-cream soda in London. Before he settled in a place in upper Regent Street the deadly mixture was practically unknown in that great city. The few English women who had been to this country and tasted it here of course knew what it was, and they lost no time in patronizing the confectioner. “The great mass of women however looked aghast at the combination of strawberry syrup, live soda water, and ice-cream. Those who got up enough courage to tackle it were not sorry that they had done so, and the result was that it soon became necessary for other confectioners in the neighborhood to get soda fountains and learn how to mix the drink in order to hold their trade. There are now half a dozen or more places in London where ice-cream soda is sold, and all day the fountains are surrounded by women. The scene reminds one very much of any one of our uptown confectionery shops on a hot afternoon. I expect it will not be very long before the English women will become as devout worshipers at the ice-cream soda shrine as are our American women at the present day. Heretofore, the chief diversion of the English women out shopping has been to eat ices and cake or drink chocolate, but I predict the entire disappearance of this fashion in a very short time. Ice-cream soda has never failed to get a deadly clutch on the women of any country where it has settled, and it will get funny if it does not make a complete conquest of the Londoners.” Ad for Dr. Williams pink Pills Ad for Royal Baking Powder FLINTS Probably few people are aware that there still exists in England a manufactory of gun and tinder-box flints, yet such is the case. The same methods are employed in the mining and fashioning of flints as in the Stone Age with little alteration. In order to break flint into pieces of convenient size, the worker places the mass on his knee, and by a dexterous blow with a hammer, shivers it into fragments as easily as if it were chocolate. The pieces are then split into flakes, and these in turn, are fractured into little squares which, with very slight trimming, become finished gun-flints. Most of the fun flints are exported to Zanzibar and other ports in communication with the interior of Africa; but besides these, large quantities of flints for tinder-boxes are still made at Brandon. The tinder-box flints chiefly go to Spain and Italy for use in isolated districts. Ad for Imperial Granum Ad for Kennedy’s Medical Discovery Ad for Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets Ad for Tetterine Ad for Parker’s Hair Balsam File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/hamilton76nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 38.4 Kb