Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON NEWS PRESS June 27, 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, 4:38 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archvies And History June 27, 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 27, 1895 NO. 26 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. INLAND NAVIGATION The torpedo boat Cushing arrived at Newport, R. I. Monday evening, Lieutenant Fletcher reports that his run south through inland waters was a great success, and that the southerners were greatly interested in his cruise, as they hope for the opening p of these creeks and sounds for commercial purposes……………. GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY An explosion occurred at the Union Cotton Press, New Orleasn…………. Col. G. W. Ratt, the oldest journalist in Florida died at Palatka, Tuesday morning. He published Palatka’s first paper before the war. In his early life he was a Methodist minister, and did missionary work among the Seminoles. Colonel Ratt was widely known through the state, and universally loved. C. M. Mills, formerly of Tryon, MN. C. arrested at Asheville, on a charge of embezzling money order funds of the government to the amount of $500 was held over to the deferral court in a bond for $2000. A. W. Cockerton who was indicted for forgery in connection with the issue of bogus bonds, by E. A. Burke, the absconded state treasurer of Louisiana, has returned to New Orleans and surrendered to the authorities. He has been sojourning with Burke in Honduras. A number of buildings including the Masonic hall and the post office were burned at Murfreesboro, Tenn., Saturday morning. The Masons carried no insurance and lost about $2000. Other losses mostly covered by insurance, except a tenement house valued at $400 besides household goods of tenant. About 5 o’clock Monday morning a cyclone struck Hartford, Ks. …… A cyclone of terrific force, covering a territory about ten miles wide and about thirty in length, passed just north of Wallace, Neb, Monday evening. The members of the families of Matthew Born, John Staley and martin Lakin were more or less injured. It is feared that deaths will be reported from the east end of the county. A restaurant and the workshops of the Cleveland Desk Company, Cleveland, Ohio, were burned Monday night……………. An attempt was made Monday night to blowup the $4000 Masonic temple, which is under process of construction at Anderson, Ind. The water was turned almost out of the boiler and heat was full on……………. Tottehham, Ont. was almost entirely destroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon. Eighty houses are in ashes and business paralyzed. The fire started a McKinney’s foundry and famed by a strong wind spread rapidly north and east………… Bustef Cannon, a 16-year old negro boy of Guthrie, Okla. Assaulted 19-year old Nellie Van Hornce on a country road near Fallis Tuesday………… The Wolverine mills, owned by H. Paepeck & Co., of Chicago, and the Chicago Milling and Lumber company’s plant in Cairo, Ill were destroyed by fire Tuesday morning…………… W. W. Taylor, the defaulting state treasurer of South Dakota, has retuned voluntarily to the scene of his crime, surrendered all his property and money, and says he is ready to take punishment. When Taylor ran away he went to Havana and thence by way of Vera Cruz and along the coast to Costa Rica where he spent some time in the interior. He next went to Kingston, Jamaica, then back to the United States where he spent two and a half months in a Northern city, which he declines to name. The Dawes Commission, consisting of Armstrong, Cabbess, Montgomery, and McKennon, accompanied by Allen H. Boyd, private secretary to the commission, have arrived in South McAllister, I. T. and in the future will make that place their headquarters. The first work will be to try and induce the Indians to grant titles to town sites and permit the incorporation of towns and cities. Their next move will then be the allotment question. News reached Little Rock, Arkansas, Friday night of a terrible boiler explosion at Moses’ Saw Mill, near Spring Hill six miles south of Hope. It is reported that Joe Collins, a Mr. Brent and his two sons, and many others were seriously injured. Physicians were sent from Hope to render assistance. The Carbon Iron and Steel Company’s plant at Perryville has resumed operations after a shutdown of over a year. The Cohoes Rolling Mill employees whose wages were reduced a year ago, commenced work Monday on the former schedule. The puddlers received an advance from $2.80 to $3.00 a ton. The rolling mills of John Wood & Co. of Coshocton, Pa. have given notice to their employees of the restoration of the former scale of wages to take effect July 1……….. Fifteen hundred operatives are on a strike at the Lancaster Gingham mills at Clinton, Mass. …………… Two hundred weavers employed at the Hamilton Mills, Amesbury, Mass. went out on a strike Tuesday for 10 percent increase in wages………… Mrs. Nina M. Towne, a handsome widow of 45 years, who is said to be a cousin of the late President Garfield, has sued David Tucker of Buffalo, N. Y. a millionaire, seventy years of age, for $100,000 damages for breach of promise and section. The youthful David denies the soft impeachment and says it is a case of blackmail and that he has received an offer of compromise for $15,000. The post office at Beavers Falls, Pa was robbed Monday night of $250 in money and $300 in stamps………… The raw and manufactured material of the Abbott-Ketz Brewing Company of Brooklyn, N. Y have been seized by revenue officers for violation of revenue laws. One of the charges is the use of cancelled stamps. A Pittsburg dispatch says: The settlement of the tin plate scale Friday morning fixed the wages for 12,000 tin plate workers for one year………… FOREIGN The natives of the Solomon Islands have murdered two traders. Head hunting is rampant on the island. The British admiralty has been ordered to repress the excesses. At an auction sale Christian’s London on Saturday, ninety-one pictures, almost all made by British artists, realized……….. The Congo state force have inflicted a severe defeat upon the dervishes, capturing their stronghold at Egaru, between the Nile and the upper Ouelle. The Belgian captain, Christians, was killed. The Mahdists have fled from the equatorial province. A plumber who was repairing the glass dome of the chamber of deputies at Lisbon, Portugal, left a brazier burning on the roof while he went to his dinner. The woodwork of the roof caught fire and despite the efforts of the firemen and others the chamber was destroyed. All the archives were burned. The chambers of peers and the adjoining buildings were saved. Four persons were injured during the fire. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says a deputation of Armenian Catholics had an interview with Prince Lobanoff, minister of foreign affairs, Tuesday and asked that refuge be given in Caucasus to 40,000 Armenians. The request was granted. A Macedonian journal announces that a revolution has broken out in the districts of Polanta, Katchiannik, Villayet and Ulusk, in Macedonia……. There were several earthquake shocks at about 9:25 o’clock Saturday morning in the district of Naupactus, more generally known as Lepand, in Greece. The telegraph office and other buildings were damaged. GOVERNOR ATKINSON RALLIES – And From the Border of the Dark Valley turns Back to Life A VILLAINOUS ASSAULT – Followed by Prompt Punishment Administered by the Girls’ Brother Miss Sallie Hammack, daughter of W. L. Hammack, who lives six miles northeast of DeKalb, Miss., while drawing water at the well was seized and gagged, it is said, by a young man named W. F. Hoy and carried some distance for the house and criminally assaulted. The mother of the young lady came upon the scene, and Hoy promises to marry her daughter if the matter was kept quiet. As soon as the male members of the family, however, heard of what had occurred they armed themselves and went in pursuit of Hoy. The latter secreted himself in a neighbor’s house, and when the pursuing party appeared he seized a gun and attempted to escape. He was overtaken and shot down by Cliff Hammack as he was passing through a field, several buckshot lodging in his back. Hoy was conveyed to DeKalb, where he lies in a critical condition. The young lady has made an affidavit against him, charging him with rape. The parties are all prominent and well-to-do citizens of Kemper County. A LEARNED NEGRO DIES The Rev. Lewis Perry, one of the best known representative of the negro race in this country died at Brooklyn, N. Y. last Tuesday. He was born in Nashville, Tenn., 62 years ago. He was a graduate of Kalamzoo, Mich. And was one of the most noted colored scholars in the country, his knowledge of the language extending to Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, and German. He had been engaged in literary as well as pastoral work almost from the time of this graduation. His most pretentious work is “The Cushbite” a history of the ancient Ethiopian or negro. AN EXTRA SESSION CALLED Governor Altgeld of Illinois has issued a call for an extra session of the legislature to ……… ELECTRIC PLANT BURNED AT 1:30 o’clock Thursday morning fire destroyed $300,000 worth of property belonging to the Seattle Consolidated street Railway Company……………. LIVE WASHINGTON NOTES FEDERAL EXHIBIT AT ATLANTA SAVANNAH RIVER IMPROVEMENTS Captain Carter of the engineer corps in charge of the improvements for the Savannah River reports to the war department that in execution of the project for the attainment of a depth of 26 feet to the ocean at Tybee, at high tide, a depth of 24 feet is now attained. THE CANAL COMMISSION The cruiser Montgomery was at Colon Monday with the United state Engineer Commission, which has been inspecting the Nicaraguan canal route. The visit of the commission to Panama is for the purpose of examining the canal work already accomplished there, and the present condition of the machinery of the plant. FATE OF FRANK LENTZ Definite information concerning the fate of Frank Lentz, the missing eyelist, traveling around the world, was received at the state department Thursday in a cable message from Terrell, United States Minister to Turkey, dated at Pera, the diplomatic section of Constantinople…. ….. THE YEAR’S ACREAGE IN COTTON TREASURY GOLD RESERVE THE LAST OF THE SUGAR BOUNTY PAGE 2 THE NEWS PRESS Issued Every Thursday R. N. TERRELL, Publisher S. E. WILSON, Editor and Manager Entered at the post office at Hamilton, Ala, as second class matter Subscription Rates One year $1.00 Six Months .50 Three months .25 Bishop Hargrove, of Nashville, Tenn. was married in Kansas City last Tuesday evening to Mrs. Scarritt of that city. The Bishop is 65 years old and the bride only a few years his junior. The veteran Mississippi Democrat, United States Senator J. Z. George has entered actively into the fight for the free coinage of silver. He spoke on the subject on last Wednesday at Jackson. ----(political news and commentary)---- Hon. J. H. Bankhead, the Representative in the U. S. Congress from this, the Sixth Congressional District, is taking quite an active part in the discussion of the silver question. He was quite prominent at the Memphis Convention, having been called to preside the deliberations of that august body in the absence of Senator Turpie, the regular chairman. H e was also made one of the committee on resolutions. We hear of Mr. Bankhead at different points, earnestly contenting of the rights of the people, as contemplated in the free coinage of silver. He spoke in Mobile, one day last week and our contemporaries of the city speak flatteringly of his address. Mr. Bankhead has made our people a faithful Representative in Congress and at no distant day he is destined to receive at the hands of a generous and appreciative public that promotion his services in behalf of its interests so richly merit. TO OUR READERS In assuming the editorial management of the News-Press, I am not unmindful of its responsibilities. To edit a country newspaper successfully is rather onerous. The editor has the public with its conflict of ideas, as his auditory, and he cannot hope to please all. My experience has taught me that the safest plan is, by a conscientious discharge of duty, to attempt to please myself, hoping by so doing I may satisfy the demands of a majority of my readers. What appears in the editorial columns of the News-Press, from time to time, will be simply the unbiased, independent views of its editor, on the subjects discussed, never claiming infallibility, freely granting to others, the privilege I claim for myself, to think and act according to the dictates of their own mature and unbiased judgments. The political course of the paper will not be changed under the present management. It will, to the best of the editor’s ability, advocate and defend the time-honored principles and tenets of the Democratic Party. As regards the question now most prominent before the people, I shall advocate the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, within the lines of the Democratic party, to the full extent of my humble ability, in a positive, though tolerant and conservative manner, being ready at all times to accept the decision of a majority of the party, when ascertained by proper mode, in good faith, whether that decision be for or against my peculiar views. To advance the material interests and prosperity of our town, county and country generally will be the special mission of the News-Press under its present editorial management. Religion, morality, temperance, education, etc. will receive its hearty advocacy. Particular attention will given to the interests of the public free school recently located at this place. I deem this school of the most vital interest to the people of the entire Congressional district, but particularly so to Hamilton and Marion County and thus believing I shall use my utmost endeavor by every means in my power, to place it upon the highest pinnacle of usefulness and prosperity. The News-Press will give a weekly resume of the current news of the times, both general and local, and hopes to merit a place upon the center table of every family in Marion County. Craving the indulgence of my readers for any shortcomings that may from time to time crop out, I will drop the egotistical “I” and adopt the editorial “we” and subscribe myself. Respectfully S. E. WILSON, Editor News-Press There is talk of the issuance of more bonds. If additional bonds are issued, it will be another feast for Morgan, Belmont, the Rothchild and other gold syndicates. THE DISTRICT SCHOOL Our energetic neighbors of Guin are in good earnest in their efforts to procure the location of the Methodist District School for this Conference District in their town. At a mass-meeting of the citizens, held on the 20th inst., it was unanimously agreed to donate the school-house, a commodious one and all other school property to the enterprise, besides a good round sum of money was pledged to assist in the matter. Gin has many claims to the favorable consideration of the commission. It has the advantage of railroad communication, is very healthy, not subject to miasmatic influence’s beautifully situated on a level lawn, sufficiently rolling to carry off the water that falls upon it; society is of the best; three good church edifices largely attended Sabbath Schools; staunch and energetic merchants and business men, scientific physicians etc. There are no drum-shops, gambling houses or other dens of vice, calculated to corrupt the morals of the young – in fact, Guin is a quiet, peaceful, orderly, Christian community. Country produce is abundant and cheap. Student scan find good board and lodging in moral, Christian families at reasonable rates. In short, to our mind, there is nothing lacking to recommend Guin to the favorable consideration of the authorities when thy come to locate this school. The Commission is composed of J. J. WILLIAMS and PEYTON NORVILL of Jasper; DANIEL COLLIER, of Fayette, W. H. MATTHEWS, of Guin, and Rev. D. W. WARD of Sulligent. This Commission will meet at Winfield on July 2nd, for the purpose of locating the school. We bespeak for the claims of Guin the favorable consideration of each member of the commission. We intend to devote our entire time and what talent we may possess in an endeavor to publish a first-class county paper, and we confidently appeal to the people for such patronage as we may deserve. We reproduce the following from the Southern Agriculturalist, thinking that some of our readers might profit by it: “Thanks to science! There has been discovered a simple remedy, which destroys ticks so easily and readily that there is left to the intelligent persons no dread from their poisonous bite. Shave a half pound of common hard soap into a gallon of water, and boil the water until the soap is dissolved. Pour one pint of kerosene oil into the soap water while boiling. Stir the mixture ten minutes, until the oil and water jelly – emulsify as it cools. This mixture can be kept all summer. Take out one pint of the mixture and add four pints of water with which bathe neck, flank escutcheon and udder of the cow every dour days. A rag or sponge dipped into the diluted remedy will do the work. This will keel every tick it touches, little and big, and thus every man who has a good cow or a herd can destroy ticks and prevent Texas fever from destroying his property. These scientific facts have been fully verified, and are worth many thousands of dollars to those who have the intelligence to put them into practical effect. ------- Don’t forget that the Educational Board meets tomorrow to examine applicants NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Alabama, June 25th, 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 August 13th, 1895, viz: MATTHEW W. VAUGHN, for adjoining farm Homestead Entry NO. 18008 for the E ½ SE ¼ of Sec 28 T 12 S R 12 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz; GEORGE W. GANN, ROBERT MOORE, WILLIAM T. HULSEY, and JAMES M. VAUGHN, all of Winfield, 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 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 27, 1895 LOCAL NEWS Waive notes at this office. 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. Men’s hats at Littleton’s from 25 cents to $1, worth from 50 cents to $2.50. Now is the time for our merchants to supply themselves with stationery for the coming season. We are well supplied with job material, and will furnish all kinds of commercial printing, in the latest styles and at moderate prices. Buy your shoes from Littleton at Guin. Big stock and low prices. Col. W. B. APPLING, seignior of the popular law firm of APPLING, MCGUIRE, & COLLIER, of Jasper, Ala. honored us with a call on Monday last. Col. APPLING is visiting his son W. R. APPLING a rising young attorney of our bar. We had a pleasant call on yesterday from Prof. J. E. ALEXANDER, principal of our school, and Prof. A. W. TATE, first assistant. These gentlemen visit our town on business, and will remain but a few days. Prof. ALEXANDER will attend the Alabama Educational Association, which meets at Talladega, Ala. July 2 – 4. After the Association adjourns he will return to the District in the interest of the school. Prof. TATE may, also attend the meeting of the Association at Talladega. 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. It is with much pleasure that we reproduce the following from the local columns of the North Alabamians, published in Tuscumbia, Ala: “Prof. J. E. ALEXANDER, the able and popular superintendent of Sheffield’s city schools, during the past session, has been tendered the principal ship of the State Agricultural College at Hamilton, Ala., for the next scholastic year. Prof. ALEXANDER accepted the position and will assume charge of the school next fall. We know of no more successful teacher or polished gentleman than our young friends, and we sincerely congratulate him upon his promotion, and feel satisfied that he will give the people of Hamilton good service and prove satisfactory to the patrons of the school. It becomes our painful duty to announce the demise of Miss M. E. DENNIS, a half- sister of Mr. R. N. TERRILL, proprietor of the News-Press, which sad event occurred June 21, 1895. Miss DENNIS was afflicted with a cancer, and suffered untold agony for a long time. She endured her sufferings with Christian patience and fortitude, and died in the full triumph of faith. Her remains were interred in the cemetery at this place, on Saturday last, attended by a large concourse of mourning relatives and friends. Funeral services were rendered by Rev. H. T. CLARK assisted by Rev. W. A. BIVINS. GUIN, ALA. Business dull. Crops are looking fine. Brother WARD preached a most excellent sermon here last Sunday. Mr. OSCAR PEARCE and Miss PEARL SPRINGFIELD were married at the Methodist Church last Sunday night, Rev. D. W. WARD, officiating. All join in wishing much joy, long life, and prosperity. Mr. JOHN P. RILEY is taking music lessons under Miss MAMIE BROCK. JOHNY is one of the nicest and best young men in our country. Rev. W. P. MCLAWN, pastor of the Beaverton Circuit, boards with Mr. J. M. SPRINGFIELD of this place, and is a young man of high esteem, and will ere long rank with our best preachers. It is highly probable that the District School will be located at this place soon. An agreement was reached by unanimous consent to deed the school building for that purpose, besides the necessary moneys needed contributed for expenses, etc. Our grave yard is in a shameful condition W. H. MATTHEWS has just received the sad intelligence of his father, who lives in Texas, having been stricken with paralysis. He will visit him soon. Mr. S. E. WILSON, editor of the Hamilton News-Press paid us a pleasant visit yesterday. Come often. More anon. SO LONG, Guin, June 25, 1895 The Quarterly Conference of the Methodist Church will convene at Guin on July 7th and 8th. Dr. BRINDLEY will preside. OUR HISTORY CLASS Matter intended for this department should be addressed to W. F. GREEN, Pikeville, Ala. The following questions are from Hon. W. A. DUNN, County Superintendent of Education 51. Where and when did the first General Assembly of Alabama convene? 52. When did the General assembly of Alabama pass an act establishing the State University? 53. Who was the Bachelor President of the United States? 54. What was known as the Walking Purchase? 55. When did the United States first coin money? 56. What money was used by the United States before it struck its own coin? 57. Who was Poor Richard, and why so called? 58. Of whom and by whom was it said: “He smote the Rock of National resources and abundant streams of Revenue gushed forth?” 59. Who said and when, “To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace?” 60. What battle in the civil war is known as “The battle above the clouds?” ANSWERS 31. This question was answered in issued of May 30. 32. The character of the first Jamestown colonists was of the worst possible sort of the great undertaking of planting a settlement in a wilderness. Many of them were gentlemen, unaccustomed to any kind of work and they did not take kindly to the hardships and deprivations which were inevitable. There were a few mechanics, and the remainder of the colonists were lazy and shiftless. 33. In the early summer of 1539, DeSoto landed in the neighborhood of Tampa Bay, on the Florida coast. He followed the coast northward, and settled for the winter near the site of Tallahassee, from whence he sent out several exploring expeditions. The following spring, he explored the country as far north as South Carolina, in avian search for gold. Disappointed in this direction, he turned his course westward, passing through the upper part of Georgia and Alabama, and at last wandered down the valleys of the Coosa and Alabama rivers to where the city of Mobile now stands, but which was then an Indian village. Here a desperate battle was fought with the Indians, in which 2500 of the latter were killed, the Spaniards losing eighteen men, besides their baggage and a number of horses. They then turned their course to the northwest, spending the winter in northern Mississippi, where they had other collisions with the Indians. In the spring of 1541, they discovered the Mississippi river, which they crossed and continued their journey as far north of the present State of Missouri. They turned southward and wintered near Hot Springs, Ark. and in the spring of 1542, they followed the valley of the Washita and Red Rivers to the Mississippi in which noble stream found a grave, having succumbed to a fever. 34. In 1620, because they were persecuted in European countries. 35. Capt. John Smith was a man of great ability, who figures extensively in early colonial history. 36. The Spaniards settled in Florida; the English in Virginia and Massachusetts; the Dutch in New York; and the French in Canada and the Mississippi Valley. 37. The persistence of the British government in refusing to the colonists the rights of Englishmen. 38. George Washington, First President of the United States, was inaugurated in the city of New York on Thursday Aril 30, 1789 39. A delusion that seized upon the minds of the people of Salem, Mass. in 1692, which resulted in the establishment of a special court for the trial of people charged with witchcraft. From June to September this tribunal was active twenty persons being committed and executed, thirteen of them women. 40. The first settlement of Europeans in the territory now comprised within the state of Alabama, was in 1702 by the French, under the command of Le Moyne de Bidenville, who built the fort St. Louis de la Mobile, at or near the spot now known as Twenty-one Mile Bluff, on Mobile River. Correct answers to Nos. 31, 34, and 38 were furnished by Mr. IRA HGURES, Pikeville, Ala. PEARCE’S MILL Not seeing anything in the News-Press from this place, for some time, I will give you a few dots. Crops are good. Some have laid by corn. People are generally very quiet. No lying here as in some other parts of the world. It is about all we can do here to keep our own business all OK. We have a large Sunday School at Mt. Joy near 100 scholars, also an excellent one at Center. We can attend both places every Sunday. Let us encourage these schools. There will be a picnic at Goldmine the Fourth of July. Speaking by JIM PEARCE, JNO. COCHRAN and ALFRED WATES. We had able speeches on the 1st inst. at Mt. joy from Capt. JIM PEARCE and JOHN COCHRAN on the silver question. We are Democratic free silver folks up here. ALFRED WATES has a large school at Mt. Joy commencing July 1st. Hurrah for silver! Success to you and your paper, “SILVER SIDE” – Pearce’s Mill, June 17, ‘95 TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS It will be the aim of the present management to make the News-Press a first- class local paper, and in furtherance of that object, we desire special correspondents from every section of the county. Those who now contributions to the paper, we hope will continue their favors regularly. Please send matter so that it will arrive in Hamilton, not later than Wednesday morning of each week. PEARCE – SPRINGFIELD Mr. OSCAR V. PEARCE and Miss PEARL SPRINGFIELD, both of Guin, Ala. were united in the holy bands of matrimony the Methodist Church in that town, on the evening of June 23rd, 1895 at 8 o’clock, Rev. D. W. WARD officiating. The church alter was tastefully decorated with beautiful flowers, the audience large and appreciative. Dr. WARD was in his usual pleasant mood, and performed the ceremony in a most impressive manner, using the beautiful ritual prescribed by the discipline of the Methodist church. The groom is one of the popular and rising young men of our neighboring town, while the bride is the amiable and accomplished daughter of Dr. T. J. SRPINGFIELD, a prominent physician of the town. May the future of this happy young couple be one of unalloyed happiness and prosperity. 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 AN ANTIQUARIAN BANQUET This unique and select feast was given more than twenty years ago at Brussels by a resident of that city, himself an antiquarian, says Harper’s Bazaar. Only six quests were invited, one of them an America, from whom as then published is derived this brief account. So dainty a bill of fare can never be repeated. …………. Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ad for Kennedy’s Medical Discovery STATE TOPICS NEW POSTMASTER John V. Henderson has been appointed post master at Jacksonville. He takes the place of Mrs. Isaac Franks, who was appointed under Harrison’s administration. FATAL DUEL AT BESSEMER Bert Rockett and Al Benson fought with pistols in Bessemer Monday afternoon and the former was shot dead. Benson is in jail. It appears that he tried to avoid the fight. JOHN BURREL BUNCOED A man giving his name as Reed, and claiming to live in Rome, Ga. buncoed young John Burrel, at Gadsden, out of $5.75 min cash and a $36 watch. Reed skipped and has not yet been arrested. FIRE IN BIRMINGHAM The residence of Hon. JAS. H. LITTLE in South Highlands Birmingham, was burned Wednesday morning. Some of the valuable furniture was saved. The house was valued at $6,000; insurance $4,500. TWO PEOPLE DROWNED Mr. Lewis Cox, of Tuskegee, and Miss Cornelia Torrance, a young lady of 19, were drowned in Perry’s mill pond, seven miles east of Tuskegee by the overturning of a boat Tuesday morning. JUDGE FEAGAN COMMISSIONED The secretary of state has issued a commission to Hon. Noah R. Feagan as judge of the Birmingham inferior court of criminal jurisdiction, and he entered upon the duties of his office Friday morning. COTTON MILL DIVIDENDS At a meeting of the directors of the Eufaula Cotton Mills Tuesday evening, $3700 were placed in the surplus account and a semi-annual dividend of 5 percent was declared, due and payable July 1st. INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS A force of 100 hands are at work on the grounds and foundation of the immense buildings for the International Cotton Seed Oil Mill at Selma. The work will be pushed with a view to starting the mill in September. A BAD MAN BARRED City Marshal Wimpee, of Attalia, arrested a bad man the other day, who had to be clubbed pretty severely before he could be hauled in. The Mayor taxed the restless gent $10 and costs and another $19 for contempt of court. RESIDENCE BURNED The residence of Mrs. Horace Ware, on 20th street in North Highlands, Birmingham, was burned……… DESTRUCTIVE RAIN – Ashby PRISONERS ESCAPE – Seale BETWEEN MOBILE AND LIVERPOOL Messrs Horsley & sons, projectors of the Mobile Transatlantic line of steamers……………….. WITH A WINCHESTER John Hagan and Bob Smith, negroes who had been keeping bachelor’s hall together at Mabel mines near Warrior, quarreled over a trivial matter Tuesday and Hagan shot Smith with a Winchester rifle, wounding him mortally. Hogan has not been arrested. HOMICIDE IN CHEROKEE Horace Tierce while drunk went to residence of James Powers at Rock Run Wednesday and became boisterous. MR. Powers tried to put him out, when he drew a pistol and shot Powers dead. Tierce, who was but recently released from the chain gang, was arrested and carried to jail at Centre. ALABAMA REPAIRING HER CAPITOL The state capitol is undergoing some much needed repairs. At the last session of the general assembly $10,000 was appropriated for this purpose. A new roof is being put on, all the balconies re-floored and the clock made over. The rotunda is to be provided with seats and heating fixtures. THE STOLEN MONEY RECOVERED Sheriff Dorian has recovered the $900 that was stolen last week for H. D. Easterling, a truck farmer residing near Pritchard. Susan Williams, the colored domestic arrested at the time on suspicion of having stolen the money made a confession to the sheriff and told him where he could find the cash. AN ARMY OFFICER DETAILED First Lieutenant David J. Rumbaugh, third artillery, has been detailed to attend the encampments of the Alabama state troops at and near Mobile from the 20th to the 30th of this month and from the 3rd to the 13th of July. He will report to the governor of Alabama for such duty as may be required of him. ACCIDENT TO MR. LUSK A painful accident occurred to Layer John A. Lusk, of Guntersville Tuesday morning causing the loss of his right leg below the knee. …………. SEVERE RAIN AND HAIL STORM Anniston and vicinity were visited by a severe rain and hail storm accompanied by strong winds Wednesday afternoon. ………… WHILE THERE’S LIFE THERE’S HOPE Married at residence of the bride in Montgomery Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock, Mrs. Mattie Robinson to Mr. George Didwick. The bride is 75 years old and seamstress, and has been a resident of the city for many years. George Didwick the 19-year old room is a blind musician, and only recently came here from the country. Both of them have been stopping at a boarding house on Dexter Avenue for some time past. CAUGHT STEALING MAIL MATTER Two inspectors of the post office department, being concealed in the mailing room of the post office at Selma, saw Richard Young, the mail wagon driver, while the mail clerk’s back was turned, take several packages from a box and conceal them about his person. They arrested him at once. Young’s house was searched later and a large number of articles, such as cheap jewelry, a watch and chain, rubber stamps etc were found. There had been much complaints of losses through the Selma office and the inspectors who were sent there to investigate have evidently found the cause. A MYSTERIOUS CASE At Montgomery on Saturday night MR. M. W. King, the railway transfer mail agent at the depot received from postmaster Screws a mail pouch containing, among other registered matter, a package enclosing $10,000 in currency. When Mr. King began to prepare his eastern mail he discovered that this pouch had been cut, and the $10,000 package was gone. Some hour later Charles L. Armstrong, accompanied by his father, Mr. Charles Armstrong, went to Mr. King and restored the missing package, stating that he had found it on the sidewalk. Inspector R. E. Harry arrived on Sunday morning and on Monday C. I. Armstrong was arrested on a warrant charging him with cutting the mail pouch. He was released on a $500 bond. DIAMOND CHARLIES EXTRADITED Judge McDougal of Toronto has ordered the extradition of James Hutton, alias Diamond Charlie, the alleged diamond thief, who was arrested at St. Mary’s Ont. A few moths ago charged with swindling Toronto, and Hamilton jewelers. Judge McDougal granted the extradition on two warrants, one consigning Hutton to Gainesboro, Ga., the other to Moberly, Mo. the prisoner has thirty days in which to appeal. ARREST MOF GREEN GOODS MEN One of the most successful arrests of green goods men ever made in the west was made Saturday afternoon at the Hotel Sterling………… CLASS LEGISLATION UNCONSTITUTIONAL The supreme court of Missouri has handed down an opinion declaring unconstitutional the law which forbids the discharge of employees of corporations for refusal to sever their connections with labor organizations…………… HUDSON AND EAST RIBER UNITED Amid the booming of cannon from two of Uncle Sam’s warships, the screeching of whistles from the river craft and the cheers of thousands of spectators, a flotilla of nearly 200 vessels entered the harbor of the ship canal and the new waterway was thrown open to commerce at noon Monday. It was a great day for upper New York. The joining of the waters of the Hudson and East rivers was celebrated as no similar even has been celebrated since the Erie Canal was opened in 1825. WILLING TO COME BACK Gertrude Murtha and Josie Flanagan two young girls who ran away from their homes in Savannah Ga. last week and went to New York to see Joseph Burch, the Murtha girls’ lover who is dying in St. Francis hospital, N. Y………… SOME OF THEM GET CAUGHT A warrant was issued for Franels, alias Peter Rhodes, a wealthy farmer and money lender of Macon City, Mo. on a charge of swindling the government out of $10,000 pension secured by false affidavits……… HONORED DYING It is noticed that Zangwill, the novelist, rarely reverts to humor in his stories, but he is a rare judge of it. ……………. A WONDERFUL CLOCK St. Petersburg has now the wonderful clock bequeathed by Duke Charles, of Brunswick to the Swiss republic. The clock has ninety-five faces, and shows the time of day at thirty different places, the movement of the earth round the sun, the phases of the moon, the signs of the zodiac, the passage over the meridian of fifty stars of the northern hemisphere, and the date according to the Gregorian, Greek, Mussulman, and Hebrew calendars. It took two years to put the pieces together when it was transported to Russia. WHAT IS YOUR FOOT LIKE? An artistic sentimental foot is thus described: the second toe should be longer than the other to denote an artistic temperament. Here sentimentalism dwells and romance and imagination.. If the larger toe is strong and broad the inclination toward idealism will be checked by a good amount of practical sense. In the purely artistic foot, the little member of the five should curl inward; its arching upward denotes a passionate nature. The women of southern countries are noted for this distinction. SCHOOLROOM TOOLS Sixty years ago Mr. Joseph Gillott was a working jeweler in Birmingham. One day he accidentally split one of his fine steel tools, and being suddenly required to sign a receipt, and not finding a quill pen at hand, he used the split tool as a substitute. This happy accident led to the idea of making pens of metal. It was carried out in secret, and now the name of Gillott is found on almost every pen you use. India rubber, used for erasing pencil marks, was known in England as early as 1770. A cube of it half an inch square cost 3c. FOUR PASTORS IN A CENTURY In Kings Chapel, Boston, there have been only four pastors in a century, namely Rev. James Freeman (1873-1824), Rev. Francis William Pitt Greenwood (1824 – 43), The Rev. Ephraim Peabody (1845 – 56), and Rev. Henry W. Foote, who became pastor in 1861. The new pastor, Rev. H. N. Brown, is about 50 years old, and has been a pastor of a church in Brookline, Mass for twenty years. ORIGIN OF A SAYING The doornail in earliest times says an antiquarian was the plate of the door upon which the old fashion knocker struck to arouse the inmate of the house. As the plate or nail was struck many more times than any other nail, it was assumed to be more dead than other nails. Hence the phrase, “Dead as a door nail” BLACKCAPPED THE WHITECAPS Two men in Liberty County tried to work the whitecap scare on an old colored man. The old fellow knocked one of them down with a lightwood knot and caused the other to climb a tree, where he remained till daylight with two hound dogs awaiting his arrival on terra firma. The old man finally let him go on in peace after paying $1. Reports to the Agricultural Department from its European agent indicate that the area of winter wheat in France is considerably smaller than last year’s and spring sowings are curtailed. In Great Britain the prospect for grazers is considered excellent, while in Germany the agrarian interests are supposed to be despondent owing to the injury to rye and what caused by unfavorable weather………. The South Covington and Cincinnati Railway Company has put a fence around Brombie, Ky. ………… A Hebrew Bible in the Vatican weighs three hundred and twenty pounds, and is the largest Bible in the world. It is all manuscript. BISMARCK A WEALTHY MAN- His Annual Income Approximates $175,000 – A Big Land Owner Prince Bismarck is one of the largest land owners in Prussia. The grants which have been made to him from time to time constitute the bulk of his fortune. His estate of Varzin was purchased by him in 1866 with the 60,000 allotted to him after the Austro-Prussian war. Adjacent to it he owns a distillery, where spirits are manufactured entirely from potatoes grown on his land. The profits from this industry are estimated at 3,000 per annum……………. FISH Fish ought to be very plentiful and cheap and most of them grown and increase without any care from man……….. Ad for Dr. Williams Pink Pills Ad for Royal Baking Powder – Cook Book Free – Every housekeeper wants to know the best things to eat and how to prepare them. The “Royal Baker and Pastry Cook” contains one thousand useful recipes for every kind of cooking. Edited by Prof. Rudmani, New York Cooking School. free by mail. …. TO CLEAN OIL PAINTINGS Wipe the picture off with a soft wet cloth, no soap, and then rub them gently with a raw potato. Potato does not remove the varnish; it simply cleanses. Ad for Imperial Granum – the best fod for invalids Ad for Tetterine File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/hamilton78nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 53.2 Kb