Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON NEWS PRESS June 20, 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, 4:28 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History June 20, 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 20, 1895 NO. 25 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. ILL FATE FOLLOWS FOSSATHI – Torn from His Bridal bed and Decked With Feathers Gay Fifty masked men, heavily armed, took Jos. Fosati and Robbie Allen, a colored woman who runs a house of ill-repute, at Walla Walla, Wash. and applied to them a coat of tar and feathers early Sunday morning. Shortly after midnight a body of men wearing masks over their faces went to the house occupied by the woman. …… THE FRENCH IN MADAGASCAR General Duchesue, commander of the French forces in Madagascar, telegraphs that he forced a passage of the Betsiboka River on June 6 and captured Mevanna. LIVE WASHINGTON NOTES POSTAL ORDERS The postal department has issued a fraud order against Foster’s “Art College” and Wilson Foster, St. Louis, Mo. for obtaining money frequently through the mails. YELLOW FEVER AT VERA CRUZ Surgeon-General Wyman received a message from Vera Cruz announcing that for the week ending June 5 there has been five deaths from yellow fever and that the disease was on the increase. FEDERAL EXHIBIT AT ATLANTA INSTRUCTIONS TO ENFORCE NEUTRALITY NEW HAWAIIAN MINISTER The state department received a telegram Tuesday morning from Minster Willis, dated Honolulu June 3, announcing the appointment and commissioning of William R. Castle as Thurston’s successor. This is the first official intimation the department has had of Castle’s selection to represent Hawaii in the United States. UNDER THE CLASSIFIED SERVICE Arrangements have about been perfected to place the employees of the Government Printing Office under the classified service…………. TREASURY RECEIPTS GROWING The treasury receipts are partaking of the general business revival, and while they still do not quite reach the point of equalizing the expenditures, they still do not quite reach the point of equalizing the expenditures…………… THE YEARS ACREAGE IN COTTON THE PRECIOUS METALS GROVER WILL VISIT THE EXPEDITION – NEUTRALITY MUST BE PRESERVED The President has issued the lowing proclamation: Whereas, the island of Cuba is now the seat of serious civil disturbances, accompanied by armed resistance to the authority of the established Government of Spain, a power with which the United States are, and desire to remain, on terms of peace and safety………… SOUTHERN IRON DEVELOPMENT THE MAYOR INDICTED It is rumored broadly in Hoboken, N. J. that Mayor Lawrence Fagan has been indicted by the Hudson county grand jury……….. STATE TOPICS CHEROKEE IRON ORE The output of washed ore at the Tecumseh mines in Cherokee county is now 800 tons daily, which is to be increased to 1200. WAGES RAISED – Howard-Harrison Iron Company of Bessemer ARRESTED IN CHATTANOOGA – Low Zachery AN ELECTRIC MOTOR STRIKE Mr. Frank Harris was in Birmingham Thursday to purchase a new electric motor for the Piedmont shoe factory. …….. EARLY COTTON BOLLS John M. King sent to the Selma Morning Times Wednesday two well matured cotton bolls raised on his plantation near Martin’s, Dallas county……… THE STOLEN MONEY RECOVERED Sheriff Dorlan has recovered the $900 that was stolen last week from H. D. Easterling, a truck farmer residing near Pritchard………. JOSEPH K. COBB DROWNED Joseph Kellet Cobb, a prominent young merchant of Centre, was drowned in Terrapin creeks mouth, two miles from Centre, at 2 o’clock Saturday. Not being a good swimmer, it is supposed that he became prostrated from excitement. Fully half of the young men of the town are in search of the body, which had not been found at a late hour. INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS The Pioneer Mining and Manufacturing company of Jefferson County have let the contract for the erecting of twenty-five new double houses at their Thomas plant. Thomas is the finest furnace town in the south, the employees dwelling house being unequalled anywhere. The company intends putting in more men in the near future at this place. WHITE CAPPERS AT TUSKEGEE At Tuskegee about 10 o’clock Saturday evening four or five masked men, in trying to kill Tom Harris, a negro, or scare him so he would leave the county, shot Mr. John Alexander in the throat. It appears that Harris had gone to Mr. Alexander’s seeking refuge. He was wounded in the leg. Alexander was doing well at last advices. INCREASING THEIR FORCE The Birmingham Rolling mill, finding their orders increasing rapidly, telegraphed to Pittsburg, to M. M. Garland, president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers to send fifty finished workmen to Birmingham at once. The men were engaged at once and took passage for Birmingham, paying their own transportation. INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE The regular monthly meeting of the commercial and Industrial association of Montgomery was held Tuesday night……….. THE GADSDEN INDUSTRIES Pay day a the car works this week was the means of distributing about $10,000 among our laboring people…….. ALABAMA’S EXPOSITION BUILDING The Alabama Board of managers of the Atlanta exhibit met in Montgomery Tuesday….. HAIL STORM IN ETOWAH TO AWAIT THE JURY’S ACTION – Romulus Calhoun – Cleburne County – Tom and John Knup DEATH BY A FALLING LIMB Last Friday Rev. T. J. Holden, a Baptist preacher of Etowah County, was in the field with his little son chopping cotton. There was no wind stirring, when without warning a large limb, 16 feet long and 8 inches thick, under which he was standing, fell a distance of 60 feet, striking him on the back of the neck. The blow struck him to the ground, breaking his neck and crushing his skull, causing instant death. JUDGE MONTGOMERY OUSTED The Supreme court on Monday handed down an opinion affirming the decision of the Jefferson county circuit court in the Joseph Montgomery judgeship case…………… SEVERE RAIN AND HAIL STORM – Anniston and vicinity HOWARD COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT The exercises at the Institution which have entertained and delighted, during the past week, that part of the Birmingham public specially interested in educational matters, were indicative of good work on the part of both faculty and students. During the past year the college roll ran to 178 students in spite of the financial depression, and the showing has been a very encouraging one. Hon. W. C. Ward, president of the board of trustees, expressed himself as gratified at the showing made. EPWORTH LEAGUE CONFERENCE The international conference of the Epworth League meets in Chattanooga June 27……… ALABAMA A. AND M. COLLEGE Secretary Herbert arrived at Auburn at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday from Washington. He was met at the train by a committee from the faculty and entertained at Dr. Broun’s. He was escorted to Langdon hall at 10 a.m. Wednesday by the governor, faculty, board of trustees and battalion, an immense crowd of people were turned away. Secretary Herbert and the governor were received with great enthusiasm. They were introduced by Dr. Broun. On the stage were many distinguished men. …………… THE BRITISH IN AFRICA In the House of Commons Thursday night Sir Edward Gray announced that the government had decided to construct a railway to Uganda, central Africa, and establish a protectorate over the country between Uganda and the coast. He asked the house to vote £30,000 yearly to meet the expenses of administering the protectorate. Sir Charles Dilke declared that the policy of the government in this respect was a fatal one, and he would unceasingly protest against it. The money grant was adopted by a vote of 249 to 51. 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 Eugene Debs, the labor champion and defender, has been sent to jail for three months, on a charge of contempt. The prosecutors, or persecutors, rather, failed to convict Debs of any crime, now they must needs imprison him on a technicality. President Cleveland has issued a proclamation warning all citizens of the United States, or other persons sojourned on American soil to desist from taking part in any disturbance adversely to the government of Spain, in the matter of the Cuban insurrection, by enlisting in the army of the insurgents, or encouraging others to do so, fitting out expeditions, furnishing arms, or munitions of war, or in any way aiding or abetting said insurgent cause, under the strictest penalties of the law………………….. ------(political news and commentary)----- 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 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 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. 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. 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 20, 1895 LOCAL NEWS Buy your dry goods from Littleton at Guin. The sale of delinquent tax lands has been continued until July 1 Big lot of fine dress goods just received at Littleton’s. Go to Littleton at Guin for straw hats. It has rained here, more or less, every day since our last issue. Men’s hats at Littleton’s from 25 cents to $1, worth from 50 cents to $2.50. Questions and answers pertaining to our History Class department have been received, but owing to the press of other matter upon our limited space, the article has been laid over until next week. Buy your shoes from Littleton at Guin. Big stock and low prices. A young white man named JOHN PALMER, was arrested here on the 15th inst., and committed to the county jail, charged with three several forgeries of small orders for goods, amounting to $4.50 in the aggregate. Mr. MIXON, one of our merchants, was the victim, having furnished the goods on the forged orders. Mr. MIXON, one of our most energetic and popular merchants, has had erected a magnificent gallery to the front of his large two-story building north of the courthouse, near his present store. Mr. MIXON is having the entire building renovated and put in first-class order, and when completed, it will be the most commodious store house in our town. He thinks that the repairs will be completed next week and he will immediately occupy it with a full line of dry goods, groceries, notions and plantation supplies. He will store some heavy goods in the house he now occupies. We call the reader’s special attention to the “Reduced Excursion Rates” via the Cotton Belt Route advertisement to be found in another column of today’s paper. The excursion will leave Memphis on July 5 and will pass through Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and will be extended to some of the principal cities in New Mexico. The rate for the round trip will be only one fare. This will be an enjoyable excursion, through some of the finest country and attractive scenery in the world. The Cotton Belt is one of the best equipped lines in the South, running through trains with Free Reclining Chair cars and Pullman Sleepers. ANOTHER BOOM FOR HAMILTON The Messrs YOUNG are progressing finely with their telephone line from Guin to this place, and will soon have it completed and in working order the entire distance and our people will be placed in almost instantaneous communication with Guin with its telegraph and railroad facilities. It is needless to mention the great importance of this enterprise to the business men of Hamilton. They can keep themselves posted as to the fluctuations of prices as effectually as if they lived directly on a telegraph or railroad line. With this telephone line an assured fact; with a first class public free school located in our town, supported by the state; with the finest crop prospects the county has enjoyed for years; with the sound of the industrious mechanics hammer constantly ringing in their ears, together with every other evidence of returning prosperity looming up, the people of Hamilton, and vicinity, certainly have a fine prospect for future happiness and prosperity. The superb law-office, just across the street north of the News-Press office, belonging to Hon. W. C. DAVIS is progressing finely and will soon be completed. This will be a splendid building, when finished. It is built entirely of heart lumber and its construction shows that the mechanics who have done the work, understand their business. In our last issue we had a word to say to our readers in regard to our school. We again desire to press upon their consideration the importance of being prepared to board and lodge the students that are sure to be anxious to enter our school. We would further suggest that some enterprising citizen erect a commodious house, with sufficient room to accommodate quite a number of students. If the party building such a house, should not desire to occupy it himself, it could be readily rented to a responsible party for a good interest on his investment. Let the people of Hamilton do all they can to encourage our school at its opening, as in this, as in all other enterprises, much may depend upon a good beginning. PIKEVILLE ALA. A singing class was on yesterday organized at Philadelphia Church, with a good membership. Mr. W. T. WHITE was elected President and Mr. A. M. HUGHES, Secretary. The meetings will be held on the 23rd Sunday in each month, at 9 o’clock. The workmen on the Telephone line from Hamilton to Guin reached this place Saturday. The work is being pushed rapidly, and the line will be ready for service in a short time. An office will likely be established here. The Messrs. YOUNG, at the head of this enterprise, are public spirited men and we are glad to have them become interested in this section. Mrs. PERMELIA MCCAY, widow of the late C. C. MCCAY, at one time Circuit Clerk of this county, is now quite sick. WRONG FONT, Pikeville, Ala., June 17, 1895 NEW AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL – Teachers Elected – the Normal College Represented From the Florence Herald: On Tuesday last the Board of Directors of the Agricultural School established by the last Legislature at Hamilton, met in Birmingham and elected Prof. J. E. ALEXANDER, of Sheffield, President and Prof. A. W. TATE, of Hamilton, First Assistant. These gentlemen are both graduates of the State Normal College here, of the classes of 1886 ad 1885 respectively. On Friday the directors of a similar institution at Blountville, elected Prof. E. L. BLALOCK, of the class of 1887, Vice-President of that school. Prof. BLALOCK was reared in Lauderdale and is well known to our people. These are all admirable selections and show the esteem in which teachers turned out by the Normal College are held. THE ALABAMA EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION From the Florence Herald: The A. E. A. will meet in Talladega, July 2 – 4. It is earnestly hoped that every progressive white teacher in Alabama will attend. An interesting program has been arranged. The railroads will sell round trip tickets at one fare. Board can be had at $1 to $1.50 a day. Wednesday, July 3d, has been designated as “Superintendents Day.” Every City and every county Superintendent in Alabama is urged to be present as matters of great importance and of far reaching influence will be discussed. The Alabama Chautauqua will be in session in Talladega during the month of July, and members of the A. E. A. will have the benefit of their lectures at reduced rates. Those desiring to arrange board in advance may write to Hon. J. B. Graham at Talladega. For program drop a line to the undersigned JAS. K. POWERS, Chr. Executive Committee, State Normal School, Florence, Ala. TEXAS, ALA. As I have not noticed anything in your paper from our city in some time, I will just drop you a few lines, to let neighboring villages know that we are still inexistence and are in the land of the living. Crops in this section are looking OK. Experienced farmers say that a light shower of rain would do no harm just now, as it is getting a little dry and dusty. Your correspondent thinks a big rain would do good. Mr. FRANK ALLEN, of Winfield, has been here for the past few days, repairing J. P. PEARCE & son Co.’s flouring mill, which is now in fine shape, and ready to make flour for those who have raised wheat, and do not car to pay the enormous prices now asked for flour. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. CRAWFORD, of Jasper, are here for a few days, fishing. They are the guests of J. GUS PEARCE. The genial GUSS of this place made another flying trip to Carbon Hill last Sunday. Mr. KID HILLHOUSE, an enterprising mine operator, of Chickasaw, is spending a few days with us, fishing. These are, undoubtedly, the very best fishing waters in Marion County. Mr. J. GUSS PEARCE has just returned from a very enjoyable trip throughout the great Lone Star State. He visited the principal cities and towns, and was pleased with the country. Our Sunday School here, conducted by Superintendent J. L. SMITH, is proving to be a great success. Much interest is manifested by both parents and children, and we will venture to say we have as good a Sunday School as can be found almost anywhere. The ball players of this place are organizing, and will soon accept a challenge from any place in the county. They will fall far short of their expectations, if they don’t wipe the earth with any team that may challenge them. The Cash Store man, Mr. T. K. STUBBLEFIELD, has been quite sick, for the past few days, but we are glad to note that he is improving and will be able to resume business in a few days and continue to sell goods cheaper than can be purchased elsewhere. J. M. S., Texas, Ala., June 10, 1895 GOOD TIMES COMING – New York, June 11 - The last two months show the greatest improvement in industrials and more advance of wages than for many years heretofore……. A PRETTY FAIR SNAKE STORY A huge snake story is told in a dispatch from Tavares, Fla. of June 11. We reproduce the following extracts, and our readers can judge for themselves of its credibility: For a week a reign of terror has existed here owing to the invasion of the town by an army of rattlesnakes. The reptiles are of all ages and sizes, and have practically taken passion of the town…. The advance guard of the army of rattlers appeared a week ago, Sunday and since then the snakes have come in such numbers, that it is estimated that there are now fully 1,000 snakes within the corporate limits of the town…………. 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 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. 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 Columbus Business College Ad for the Dixie Home magazine REDUCED TICKET RATES – Via The “Cotton belt Route” On July 5th, 1895 the Cotton Belt will sell round trip tickets from Memphis to Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico at a rate of one first class fare for the round trip. Tickets to be good for return passage until twenty days from the date of sale and stopovers allowed at all intermediate points in Arkansas and Texas on both going and return trips. For the Fourth of July the Cotton belt Route will on July 3rd and 4th sell round trip tickets from Memphis to all stations to Fair Oaks, ark to Fordyce, Ark. inclusive at a rate of one fair for the round trip, tickets good for return passage until July 5th, 1895. The Cotton belt Route is the only line from Memphis to Texas running solid trains composed of Free Reclining Chair cars and Pullman Buffet sleepers, thus avoiding vexatious changes and transfers of baggage en route, etc. For further particulars call on or address: J. C. DAVIS, Trav. Pass Agent, C. P. RECTOR, Commercial Agt. 363 Main St. Memphis, Tenn. 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 BORN A FIGHTER – Gen. Oudinot, famous in the wars of Napoleon Ad for Wine of Cardui Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ad for Imperial Granum GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY A terrific storm swept over Worth county, in southern Georgia early Tuesday………… News comes from Beaver, Floyd County, Ky. that John Amburgy and a man named Martin engaged in a battle at the home of Amburgy, near Beaver which resulted in the death of Marin………… Jacob Strollings and Harvey Cohen, two prominent farmers of Logan County, W. Va. renewed a long-standing dispute at Crowley’s creek Monday night. Strollings fired at his opponent, killing him instantly, and has surrendered to the authorities. The US cruiser Raleigh Capt. Merrill Miller commanding passed out by Sandy Hook Thursday afternoon, bound for Key West Fla. ……. An attempt was made to wreck a Louisville and Nashville train carrying the pay car containing $50,000 at 11 a.m. Thursday when only a short distance back of Covington, Ky…………. A boat containing five young men, while starting on a Sunday excursion early Sunday morning, capsized near the starting point in Norfolk harbor, Virginia, throwing occupants into the water. Two of them, Harry Story and Dennis O’Brien were drowned. Governor Atkinson of Georgia has developed a case of appendicitis. An operation will be necessary…………………. In going to a small fire about noon Sunday engine No. 6 of the New Orleans fire department was overturned at the coroner of Pryunia and Clio streets…….. Fletcher Sells was instantly killed and Oliver Reems horribly scalded Monday morning by an explosion at the Crystal Ice Manufactory’s works, Columbus, O……………. The coal miners of Ohio have, by a vote of 5,001 to 4,351 decided to accept the offer of the operators to go to work at 61 cents per ton…… A special from East Sidney, O. says: “A big four train broke in two mine miles west of here on a heavy grade early Monday morning and came together with a crash……… In the Creek National Council, articles of impeachment have been preferred against the Chief for issuing $4,000 unlawfully, against the treasurer for paying out $6,000 unlawfully, and against the auditor for auditing duplicate accounts. A special from Elkhart, Ind. Says Wednesday afternoon grasshoppers appeared in clouds and came upon fields of grain, corn and grass in such numbers that everything seemed to be alive with them. They ate everything green and left the fields bare and crops ruined. Julius Litehenberg, an ex-school inspector of Detroit, Mich., who was convicted a short time ago of having accepting a bribe in connection with the awarding of a school furniture contract, was Thursday………. A washout and hurricane struck Guthrie, O. T. Wednesday morning. Dozens of houses and hundreds of other buildings were wrecked, including the fire alarm tower and part of the electric light plant. The damage is still greater in the country, aggregating many thousands of dollars……. The Bird & Coleman furnaces at Cornwall, Pa which have been idle twenty years will resume work next week. They are the largest furnaces in Lebanon Valley. The employees of the Ames Iron Works of Oswego, N. Y.,……. The upper floors of the Owen House Washington, D. C. were gutted by fire Saturday forenoon…… While at work on top of a stack 65 feet high, at Swedeland, Pa., Friday, Harry McCool, aged 22 years, missed his footing and fell down inside the stack into the iron furnace. He was instantly burned to death, his body being almost cremated. FOREIGN News has been received of the destruction of a portion of the town of Merceny, Hungary. Three hundred and twenty houses were burned and several persons were killed. An explosion of fire damp occurred in a mining pit near Antonienhutte, Prussia, Sunday…….. A dispatch from Buenos Ayres sys that a revolt has broken out in the province of Corrientes. …. The British steamship Clearwater, from Puerto Cortez arrived Tuesday………… The following dispatch of Tuesday’s date from Rev. J. R. Hicks at Shanghai was received at the office of the Methodist Missionary Society in New York Tuesday morning. “Property at Chengtu destroyed; missionaries all safe.” These advices, said Dr. Baldwin, re-recording secretary of the society, are official, and while confirming the reports of the property loss, should set at rest rumors of the massacre of missionaries. There was no massacre. A dispatch to the London Globe from Hong Kong says the Japanese are administering customs on the island of Formosa, and trade is proceeding upon normal lines. No further trouble is expected. The Spanish cabinet met Sunday afternoon and decided to purchase eighteen vessels, ranging from forty to 300 tons, to patrol the waters of Cuba…………… TENNESSEE’S GUEST – Grateful Attentions Shown to Stonewall Jackson’s Widow Tennessee’s capitol had a distinguished guest Tuesday in the person of the widow of General “Stonewall Jackson”, Mrs. Jackson called upon the governor and was in the library when members of the namely heard of the fact. She was first escorted into the house by a committee, and then in to the senate, where the member s were presented to her. Mrs. Jackson will be given a reception in the city Wednesday by the Frank Cheatham Bivouac Confederate Veterans. She is in the city on business connected with her husband’s biography which is being printed by the Methodist Publishing House. COULDN’T HEAR THE ACCUSATION J. D. Hancock, a farmer who had been something of a politician in his section of Houston county, Ga. had an altercation in the field with his wife Monday and struck her on the head with a hoe, crushing her skull and killing her instantly…………. TREND OF TRADE – Reports by Agents of Dun’s Review Uniformly Favorable AN AWFUL CALAMITY – The Boiler in a Harness Factory Explodes – The Wreck Takes Fires A terrible catastrophe occurred Friday morning at H. J. Langley’s harness shop at Fall River, Mass………….. BOILER MAKERS STRIKE A strike of boiler –makers was inaugurated in Pittsburg and Allegheny, Pa., Tuesday. Only tow establishments are exempt from the strike order………. DO NOT LEAN ON WIRES Thursday afternoon Irwin Grahame and a cousin, a grown man, of the same name, were standing by a barbed wire fence near Horseleg Creek Bridge, Ga., when lightning struck the wire. ………….. JONES SUCCESS WITH “SCRATCH” CREWS One of the strangest things in Paul Jones’ career was the success he achieved with “scratch” crews. In his greatest fight, contemporary history says, he had “as bad a crew as ever was shipped,” being made up of all nations, among them Maltese, Portuguese, and Malays, who did not always comprehend the word of command……………. TICKLING THE PLEBIAN QUAKER “It catches them every time,” said a Philadelphia printer the other day who keeps a copy of “Burkes Peerage” in his office………………… THE BANJO Lexicographers have agreed that “banjo” is a corruption of the Spanish “bandore” which has words of similar sound, spelling and significance in many tongues. It is quite likely that the Arabs, in their conquest or by trade, may have introduced the guitar and banjo into Western Africa, whence it was brought to this country. 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