Marion County AlArchives News.....HAMILTON NEWS PRESS August 29, 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, 5:37 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History August 29, 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 CO, ALA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1895 NO. 35 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $1.00 PER ANNUM. R. H. TERRELL, Publisher Advertising Rates Reasonable – Job Work Neatly and Cheaply Executed GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY News reached Winston, N. C. Monday of a big revenue raid in Surrey County in which the officers and moonshiners had a fierce battle. Four of the later were arrested, two of them being women. None of the parties are thought to b fatally injured. The Henderson cotton mills at Raleigh, N. C have been organized with a capital stock of $100,000……………. An elopement followed by the murder of the bridegroom is reported from Montgomery County, Tenn. The 16-year old daughter of a farmer named Haliburton went to prayer meeting, where she met a young man named Hite, who has been forbidden to visit her by her parents. They eloped and were married, but the father of the girl pursued the couple and killed the husband. The steamer City of Sheffield, from St. Louis to the Tennessee River, struck an obstruction in the Mississippi River back of Cairo at midnight Sunday and sunk…………. Deputy Sheriff Greene and a special deputy named Greenlee were killed in Watauga County, North Carolina, Monday while trying to arrest the two Cable brothers, notorious outlaws. They had located the boys at their father’ house and called on them to surrender. A general fight followed in which the officers were killed. Mrs. Cable was shot through the shoulder and hand and old man Cable was shot through the stomach. The two young men escaped unhurt. Jack Calson, alias “Sowashee Jack” and Walter Montgomery, both young boys of Meridian Miss yet in their teens were arrested by Officers Mosely and Horne Tuesday afternoon and lodged in the county jail, charged with grand larceny………… A heavy frost, destructive to crops and fruits, visited the vicinity of Susquehanna, Pa. last Wednesday night……….. Reports from the mountain districts of Sullivan and Delaware counties New York ware to the effect that there was a heavy frost last Wednesday night………….. The small pleasure steam yacht Rung Brother, owned by the Burley Brothers of Buffalo, N. Y. with thirteen passengers and crew of three, foundered early Tuesday evening between the inner government light house and the Reading coal trestle and six of the passengers were drowned. Furnace H. of the Edgar Thompson Steel Works, Carnegie’s plant at Bessemer, near Braddock, Pa exploded between 4 and 5 o’clock Tuesday morning, killing six men and badly injuring ten others………………… Sam Sheeler, a colored thief, who broke into the house of Mrs. Smith at Otsego, Mich. Sunday night and robbed and attempted to assault her, was arrested Monday morning. Henry Zimmerer, one of the best known policemen in Cincinnati, O. was killed Sunday night. He was standing on the outer ground of an open car, expecting to step off and arrest parties who were fighting. He was stuck by a car running in the opposite direction and killed in a horrible manner. The West mine, near Negaunee, Mich., resumed work at 7 o’clock Tuesday morning at the fall schedule demanded by the Miner’s union……….. Ben Craven and Bill Crittenden, two of the most desperate men in the territory, who were arrested by Marshal Lix a few days ago and place din jail at Perry, Okla., escaped from the prison at the early hour Sunday morning by sawing the bars. A party of twenty men started after the fugitives. They were overtaken at noon and a battle ensued in which craven was killed. Crittenden made his escape. There was a desperate battle between a gang of tramps and a posse of citizens in the suburbs of the city of Marion, Grant County, Ill…………. One of the most destructive fires that has visited Newark , N. J. in many years occurred Sunday afternoon………….. The stock law passed by the last Illinois legislature led to murder Sunday night, its enforcement being resisted by the small farmers and renters in the wooded portions of southern Illinois…………. There was a riot at St. Peter and St. Paul’s Catholic Church on Messianic Street St. Joseph Mo. Sunday. One man was fatally injured and six others badly used up, the injuries of two being serious. There is a faction of the church opposed to the priest and these men attempted to break up the services. Several arrests were made, but the ringleaders succeeded in getting away. The conflict was short but severe. The first blows evoked the screams of the women in the congregation and brought in the police. Upon the appearance of the blue coasts the combatants scattered leaving a number too badly hurt to get away. FOREIGN The Pall Mall Gazette of London has a dispatch from Shanghai saying that a French gunboat has left Hankow for the purpose of opening up the province of Houman. The gunboat will proceed up the Yang-Tse-Kiang as far as Tim-Hoo Lake, over 1,000 miles north of the district covered by the France-Chinese treaty. A dispatch from Zanzibar to the London Times says: the British expedition, under the command of Admiral Rawson and General Matthews, sent to punish the revolting tribes around Mombassa, stormed the native strong hold at Mivelo, near Mombassa, Saturday last. During the fight General Matthews and six others of the British force were wounded. The expedition numbers 400 men and is composed of British sailors from the Soundanese and Askarias. It carries with it a seven pounder and two Maxim rapid fire guns. Newspapers at Trieste report an explosion on Monday at the artillery barracks at Toola, capital of the government by that name in Russia. Three hundred persons are said to have been killed, including many officers. The barracks are a heap of runs. An examination into the cause of the explosion led to the discovery that the barracks had been undermined everywhere. Many arrests have been made of persons suspected of being implicated in the outrage, which is supposed to have been the work of nihilists. DOWN AN EMBANKMENT The Lawrenceburg and Aurora, Ohio accommodation left the track Monday, and the engine and three coaches rolled down a twenty foot embankment…….. LIVE WASHINGTON NOTES INTEREST IN THE WALLER CASE The state department has not abated tits interest in the Waller case, but is firmly resolved to actively press the matter to a conclusion. A dispatch in line with this policy has been sent to Ambassador Eustis. The department is satisfied that none of the consular reports in the case have been tampered with by the French authorities, its files are complete. THE BANNOCK INDIAN COUNTRY General Coppinger has instructed two companies of infantry to encamp at the Fort Hall reservation in the Bannock Indian Country. This action was taken at the request of the interior department, which is of the opinion that a force of troops will be required in the Bannock country for some time to keep the Indians quiet. NAVAL COURT OF INQUIRY Acting Secretary McAdoo has ordered a court of inquiry to determine who is responsible for the careless docking of the cruiser Columbian at Southampton, England, by which she was injured and narrowly escaped serious damage………… CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARIAN’S SHORT AGE It transpired Thursday that A R. Spofford, Congressional librarian, deposited with the treasurer of the United States $22,000 as he had proposed some days previously to settle the discrepancy in his accounts as librarian and register of copyrights………….. SMALL NOTES IN DEMAND Considerable demand is being made on the treasury from New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago and other western and southwestern points for small notes with which to move the crops…………. NO NEWS OF TROUBLE AT FOO-CHOW No information has been received at the state department from Minister Denby or other representatives of the United States in China regarding the press report that the American mission near Fu-Chau had been attacked. Fu-Chau is the British spelling of Foo-Chow. Mr. Hixson, who has gone to Kucheng with the commission of inquiry, is the United States consul stationed at that post…………… THREE IN ONE DAY The district coroner had a busy day with drowning cases, three accidents being reported Sunday afternoon. Arthur Morris, 18 years old, go beyond his depth at the bathing beach and was drowned in the sight of hundreds. His body was recovered. Robert S. Priddy, a clerk in the pension office, suffered a similar fate. His body was recovered and turned over to Colonel Crook, disbursing agent tat the White House, who conducted the remains to the young man’s home on H. Street, northwest. George E. Brown, the third victim, fell from a canal boat on the Georgetown and Alexandria canal. He was 45 years old. His body was recovered. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT NOTES COSTLY EXPERIMENTS DISCONTINUED Secretary Morton has closed every sugar experimental station in the United States, twenty in number, and sold their property for what he could get…………. CASH TO MOVE CROPS The treasurer of the United states is now in communication with New York bankers for the purpose of arranging transfers of money deposited in the sub- treasury fin New York to New Orleans, where it can be used in moving the cotton crop……………. FRANCE YIELDS A POINT The acting secretary of state, Mr. Adee, authorizes the statement that information has been received from Ambassador Eustis in response to urgent instructions cable him some three weeks ago that the record of the proceedings and evidence in the court-martial of Waller at Tamtave is expected to reach Paris towards the end of this month………….. THE PRESENT SITUATION – As Indicated by the Current Commercial News of the Day The general situation remains virtually unchanged. Both sides of the stock market admit that, so far as respects material conditions, the outlook is good………… COWARDLY ASSASSINATION A heavy letter addressed to Baron Alphonse Rothschild, Paris, France was delivered at the Baron’s office Saturday afternoon during his absence at Trovill…… (REST IS TORN)---- You only see one line. That’s because there is only one line running Through Coaches, Free Reclining Chair Cars and Pullman Palace sleepers between Memphis and principal points in Arkansas and Texas without change. This lien traverses the finest Farming, Grazing, and Timber lands and reaches the most prosperous Towns and cities in the Great Southwest. It is the Cotton belt Route. Of “Homes in the Southwest,” “Through Texas,” “Texas Lands,” or “Truth about Arkansas.” Mailed to any address upon application. W. W. Labeaume, Gen’l Pass and Ticket Agt. St. Louis, Mo. C. P. Rector, Commercial Agent, Memphis, Tenn. Subscribe for this paper - $1.00 per annum 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. MASONIC HAMILTON LODGE NO. 344 G. N. STOKES, W. M.; W. J. THORN, S. D.’; A. H. BURLESON, J. D.,; G. B. MIXON, Treas., R. H. BAIRD, secy. GUIN LODGE NO. 478 T. J. SPRINGFIELD, W. M.; WATSON BROWN, S. W.; W. H. MATTHEWS, J. D.; M. T. AKERS, Treas. ; J. A. RILEY, secy WINFIELD LODGE NO. 364 E. VICKERY, W. M.; J. F. EARNEST, S. D.; J. M. SPANN, J. D.; J. C. EAGAN, Treas.; G. MUSGROVE, Secy. HACKLEBURG LODGE NO. 526 A. N. CANTRELL, W. M.; W. W. FREDERICK, S. W.; O. N. GREEN, J. D.; E. Z. MIXON, Treas.; JOHN A . GANN, Secy BEXAR LODGE NO. 230 JOHN ARNOLD, W. M.; W. L. WHITEHEAD, S. W.; W. A. BALLARD, J. W.; A. L. MOORMAN, Treas.; T. J. YOUNG, Secy. PLEASANT HILL LODGE NO 321 W. H. FLIPPO, W. M.; PORTER DU BOISE, S. W.; SETH BOTTOMS, Treas.; .A RANDOLPH, Secy. PROFESSIONAL CARDS – 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. PAGE 2 THE NEWS PRESS Issued Every Thursday R. F. CARNES, Proprietor 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 The “first new bale” was received at Memphis, Canton, Aberdeen and several other places last week. The price paid ranged from 7 to 8 ½ cts. The general impression is that the present crop is short. A great rate war is on in Memphis, between some of the railroads centering in that city. On last Saturday tickets from Memphis to St. Louis were sold at $1.50. The cut seems to effect only routes to Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville, and Cincinnati. It is supposed that this fight will not last a great while. James R. Garfield, son of President Garfield, has just been nominated for State Senator in Ohio. The Globe-Democrat finds a coincidence in this, which it explains thus: The elder Garfield began his career by being elected to the same office, from the same district ,at the same ago of 28 years in 1859. To complete the parallel young Garfield will need to be elected to Congress in 1898, and be chosen President in 1916.” As strange things have happened. Publishing the list of forty-eight murderers in Kentucky since the 1st of July, the Courier Journal very pertinently asks ‘What are the courts going to do about it?”………… A WORD TO OUR READERS The proprietor of the News Press has long been a citizen of Marion county, and is well and favorably known to many of her people. He is a property owner, and in every way possible identified with the material interests of Marion County and her people besides he expects, at no very distant day, to settle permanently in Hamilton, and make this his future home. The editor was born in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, in 1831. Through spending the greater part of his life elsewhere, he has returned to his native state, permanently settled at Hamilton and expects to spend the few remaining days that may be allotted him but Merciful and All-wise Providence in its most healthful invigorating and life-prolonging climate, among the generous, hospitable, Christian people of Marion county. The writer is fast traveling down the declining plane of life, having passed the sixty-fourth milestone. In his boyhood he chose the printing and newspaper profession for his life work. For near a half-century, he has been engaged, most of the time, in the pursuit of his chosen vocation, experiencing all the vicissitudes, common to the profession, and in taking charge of the News Press, he hopes to be able to use the abilities of his mind and what little physical power left him, during the remainder of his fast declining years, in such a manner as to be useful to his fellow men and particularly so to the hospitable people of Marion county, the home of this adoption. In furtherance of this ambition, we shall, though the columns of the New Press, in our humble way, do all in our power to build up every material interest of the town Hamilton and Marion County. The cause of education here, and elsewhere in the county, we will most proudly champion. Religion, morality, temperance, in fact, everything that tends to the welfare of our people will find in our paper a faithful and untiring advocate. The editor expects no praise of encomium for doing all this. He is only discharging his duty as a good citizen, occupying the position that he does. One thing we do claim and expect, however, is that the people in whose interest we assiduously laboring should give us the full patronage that our efforts may merit. A local newspaper is the servant of all the people, laboring constantly to advance the interest of every individual in the county, and everyone should feel a deep interest in the welfare of their county paper. Nothing adds more to the good name of a town and county, abroad, then a good bright, newsy local paper published a the county site. To sustain such a paper, a liberal patronage is positively necessary. You had as well try to fatten your horse on half feed as to sustain a county paper on half patronage. What we mean by a liberal patronage is that every one should help a little. We don’t ask anything as a gift or contribution, we give full value for every cent we received for subscription or advertising. All we want is for every good citizen in Marion county to take our paper, read it and pay for it, and for every merchant, lawyer, doctor, and other business man in the county to patronize us in the way of advertising their business, and giving us the printing of their bill-heads, envelopes, note heads, etc. We are wanting to enlarge our paper to double its present size, in a few days ------(PAGE TORN – REST OF COLUMN)------ ECHO FROM THE NORTH – Reminiscences of a Northern Young Lady who Visited the South Recently Cincinnati, O. Aug. 20, ‘95 Editor News Press: While on a visit South recently, I was much interested in the different manner in which housekeeping is conducted in that most hospitable part of the country as compared with ours of the North. The great fireplace with its abundance of wood and sparkling flame, sending cheerful light to the fartherest corner of the room, is itself the embodiment of hospitality. And the possibilities of those fireplace! Nowhere in the North, where we have snug little rate or tight stoves, can you roast potatoes that have such delicious flavor as those off of which you blow the wood ashes of the fireplace. Such biscuit as you lift out of the “Dutch Oven” cannot be baked with coal, and never a smudge will the iron make which has been heated by the embers of the wood fire, while who ever heard of roasting an egg in the ashes of a grate. “It can’t be did.” There are many good things we do not prepare as our Southern sisters do. When first I heard of “lye hominy” I have vague ideas of a preparation the sauce or “gravy” of which was decidedly soft-soapy, and was agreeably surprised in the excellent dish, which, to my taste, surpasses our hominy “flakes.” It is generally conceded that Southern cookery is better than ours, yet we think we can do a few things well, too. The economy practices in our homes is not noticeable there, the common place “always enough for one more” there becomes enough for half a dozen more if need be. Whether this is the cause or the effect of the proverbial Southern hospitality, which dates back to the earliest days of our country, is a question. It is said that a Frenchman can prepare a good dinner out of the remains of the Englishman’s breakfast. In the same manner our housekeepers practice many little economics, either unknown or disregarded by those of the South. It would probably be interesting to the Southern women to take up for a season the work of a Northern farmer’s wife. Many things which, for a small recompense, she can have done by colored “help” she will find she must do herself if she wishes it well done. It is not at all usual among the “well-to-do” classes to find families where the mother and daughters do all their work and often in these homes housekeeping is reduced to a fine art, the exterior and interior indicating culture and refinement. Each day has its regular portion of the week’s work, which being systematically arranged and carried out, always leaves plenty of time for visiting, for the improvement of the mind or the various pastimes congenial to the different members o the family. I have seem one of these thrifty housewives in the morning with the skirt of her calico dress tucked up, her light garden hoe playing havoc among the weeds of her garden which, by the way , is a medley of beans, peas, onions hollyhocks, lilies, “spice” pinks, etc. etc – the flowers growing all along the fence. I have seen her working here in the morning and in the afternoon seen her in the daintiest of dresses and bonnets driving to town in her buggy to make calls, when she will be able to discuss many subjects besides the “crops” and local gossip. There is an idea among Northern farmers – which from my own observation I regard as a mistaken one. Many of them suppose were they to locate in the South that unless they were merely to “oversee” their farms – not do actual labor – they would be regarded as “poor white trash.” The superintending of a large plantation probably would be as much work as many a farmer of 75 or 80 acres in the North would find himself capable of doing. But, on the other hand, -------------(PAGE TORN – REST OF COLUMN)--------- ET TU And Henry Watterson? The once great and gallant leader of Democracy! He whose white plume always danced in the fore-front of battle, whether the fight was against goldbuggery or high tariff –he too has fallen!..........[Commercial Appeal] A. R. Spofford, who has held the position of Librarian of Congress for thirty- five years, consecutively, and who in that time has become one of the most important authorities in the literary world, is charged with embezzlement of official funds. It is hoped that an investigation will result in his acquittal. PROCEEDINGS FO BOARD OF CENSORS – Guin, Ala. Aug. 24 - House was called to order by the chairman Dr. J. F. EARNEST, all members being present. By virtue of a called meeting by the senor censor of the medical Association of the State of Alabama for the purpose of canceling the following licenses, which were issued illegally by the Marion County Society, and the following doctors, who were authorized to practice, are hereby notified not to practice medicine after receiving the notification of the illegality of their certificates: O. A. KENNEDY, H. B. LANE, JOHN M. SCRUGGS, and L. W. WILLIAMS. Be it resolved that, from this date, any person who shall sign a certificate for any one or give any one permission to practice medicine in Marion County without the signatures of the censors shall be dealt with according to law. Any person wishing to commence practicing medicine in the county of Marion must call on Dr. J. F. EARNEST at Winfield, Ala, who will notify the other members of the board, and we will examine you at once according to law. J. F. EARNEST, Ch’m’n J. T. STONE W. S. HALLIDAY, Censors Wanted: Sixteen School Boarders at the Frazier House. Food, beds, fuel, towels, and lights. $6 per month. Can carnage for both sexes. For further information call on or address, R. N. TERRELL, Hamilton, Ala. To parents who contemplate sending their children here to school – I will make but few promises. However, I will say that boys and girls who are placed with me as boarders will have my best care and I will cooperate with the teachers in keeping good influences constantly round them. Soliciting your patronage, I am yours respectfully R. N. TERRELL H. E. MIXON – Dealer in staple and fancy dry goods & Groceries, Hamilton, ala. The Celebrated Mountain Mills Thread always on hand. Full line of Tobacco and snuffs, saddles, harnesses, wagon lines and bridles, stoves, tinware, hardware, and nails. Full and complete line of boots and shoes of latest styles. Clothing, hats, jeans and jeans pants. Complete line of standard patent medicines and drugs. Big lot of crockery and Queensware, lamps, lamp shades and chimneys, etc. Paints, oils and varnish, and everything usually kept in a first class store at rock bottom prices for cash for country produce. I will positively pay you the highest market price for chickens, eggs, beeswax, and dry hides. If you fail to see what you want call for it, as I will have a great many goods upstairs. H. E. MIXON. West Alabama Agricultural School, Hamilton, Alabama. Co-Educational. First- Session opens September 2, 1895. Tuition absolutely free. A thorough and practical course. Expenses very low. Board five to seven dollars per month. JAS. E. ALEXANDER, President REGISTER’S SALE The State of Alabama, Marion County No. 34 – In Chancery at Hamilton, Alabama, 12th District, Northern Chancery Division THE BROWN SHOE CO., et al., Complainant Vs J. W. COLLINS, et al, Defendant By virtue of a decree rendered July 1st 1895, of the Chancery Court at Hamilton Marion County Alabama in said cause I shall proceed to sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at public auction at the Court House door in the town of Hamilton within the legal hours of sale, on Monday, the 19th day of August 1895, the following described property to wit………All in Marion County, Alabama to satisfy said decree. Witness my hand this July 15th 1895. W. B. RIGGAN, Register in Chancery 50-344-460-500 THE STATE NORMAL COLLEGE, FLORENCE, ALABAMA Opened in 1873 with 50 children, all from Florence. Last year it enrolled 344, mostly mature persons and teachers, learning improved methods. These represented all parts of Alabama and several other states. Next year 460 are wanted, and 500 within five years. $100 will defray a year’s expenses, including board. Not more than $15 required in any one month. Fall term opens September 17, 1895 If you need a trained teacher, or wish further information, send for catalogue. JAS. K. POWERS HO! Every one that thirsteth. Best flour and meal made at my fine custom mills, at Guin, Alabama. New wheel, bolting cloths, spindles and belts – all in perfect order. Dry goods and notions, as low as the lowest. Give me a trial. E. W. BROCK. REGISTER’S SALE The State of Alabama, Marion County No. 34 – In Chancery at Hamilton, Alabama, 12th District, Northern Chancery Division THE BROWN SHOE CO., et al., Complainant Vs J. W. COLLINS, et al, Defendant By virtue of a decree rendered July 1st 1895, of the Chancery Court at Hamilton Marion County Alabama in said cause I shall proceed to sell to the highest and best bidder for cash at public auction at the Court House door in the town of Hamilton within the legal hours of sale, on Monday, the 19th day of August 1895, the following described property: Unpaid notes taken by R. N. TERRELL, late Receiver in said cause, to wit: Note on: DOCK PERKINS 3.20 JOHN B. METCALF 2.07 J. C. MARKHAM (bal) 19.95 JOSEPH B. COOK 7.10 M. T. AKERS 19.56 WM. G. AKERS 21.88 J. H. SIZEMORE (bal) .80 J. T. GANN 5.20 J. A. TRIM 7.75 L. B. MCWHIRTER 8.68 E. W. LAWRENCE 5.10 R. C. FLIPPO (bal) 4.68 J. W. KIRK 17.65 E. C. WILLIAMS 13.25 T. J. SPRINGFIELD 59.20 H. L. HUGHES 27.57 M. C. AKERS (bal) 4.68 WM. J. KIRK 7.13 G. W. WAITS .65 V. A. TAYLOR 11.25 R. W. CASHION (bal) 1.70 J. W. PALMER 3.75 J. R. HUGHES 21.25 G. W. FLIPPO 5.35 JOHN ROBERTSON 10.00 J. C. PROVINS (bal) 6.75 M. M. FRAZIER 48.00 L. Y. POWERS 48.00 A. W. GREEN 23.65 M. C. MARTIN (bal) 20.90 To satisfy said Decree Witness this July 30, 1895 W. B. RIGGAN, Register in chancery SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of two Fieri Facias issued out of the Clerk’s office of the Probate Court of Marion county and state of Alabama and to me directed, whereby I am commanded to make the amount of a certain judgment recently obtained against W. R. H. LODEN, in favor of C. E. MITCHELL, Guardian for DICKINSON heirs and LOGAN heirs, out of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of said W. R. H. LODEN, I have levied on the following property, to wit: Two acres south side of NW ¼ of NE ¼ of Sec 17 T 13 R 15, and Lot No. 6 of Block No. 19 in the town of Winfield, Alabama. Therefore, according to said command, I shall expose for sale, at Public Auction, for cash, all the right, title and interest of the above named W. R. H. LODEN in and to the above described property on Monday the 26th day of August 1895 during the legal hours of sale at the Court House door in Marion County, Alabama. Dated at office, this 26th day of July, 1895. W. W. HALL, Sheriff, Marion County, Alabama PAGE 3 THE NEWS PRESS Issued Every Thursday $1 Per Annum $1 August 29, 1895 LOCAL NEWS Go to Littleton for your groceries at red rock prices. If you want to buy or sell state and county claims, call on W. R. WHITE. J. A. CUNNINGHAM, representing Banberger, Bloom & Co., of Louisville, Ky. staple and fancy dry goods, was in our town last Friday and Saturday, and sold good bills to both Mr. MIXON and Mr. WHITE. Go to Littleton’s at Guin for a good bedstead for $2.00. Mr. G. J. WILSON of Memphis, son of the editor of the News Press, arrived in Hamilton on last Tuesday evening on a visit to his parents He will remain some time and may possibly make this his future home. Forked Deer tobacco at Littleton’s for 35c per pound. We learn that some of those who were fined during court for misdemeanors are not well pleased at seeing their names in the paper in this connection. The News Press claims to be a newspaper, and we shall publish the news as we gather it, particularly when we find it a matter of public record. Big stock of trunks and valises at Littleton’s at wholesale prices If the people of a town want to build it up, they must go to work themselves. Let them show a commendable interest in the place, but ding all they can to make their town attractive, then outsiders, seeing the citizens are in earnest, will become interested, invest their money, and go to work to assist in developing the town. The initiatory work must be done by the citizens themselves. Buy your dry goods, shoes, hats and clothing from Littleton. A nice and well selected assortment of shoes, dry goods, and groceries for sale at White’s at reasonable prices for cash or chickens, beeswax, wood or dry hides. Our school commences on Monday and Prof. ALEXANDER and other friends of the school who are posted, anticipate a goodly number of students at the opening. Some from a distance have already arrived and others are expected during the week. Let the citizens of the town and vicinity do their full duty by sending all their children of school age in on Monday morning. Let us make a good a showing as possible at the start. It will be encouraging to the teachers, as well as to the friends of the school generally. You can buy all light colored calicos, suitable for summer and fall wear, at 5c per yard, at Littleton’s worth 6 ½ c Our energetic Sheriff, W. W. HALL, went to work at once, after receiving the state warrants issued on indictments returned by the grand jury to the court during its late term, and has succeeded in making the following arrests, at this writing: BEN PALMER, MONROE MANN and SAM SPENCE, all charged with assault and battery; GEORGE BRUMLEY, abusive language; TOM KIZER, slander; DICK FRAZIER, selling liquor; F. GODDARD, drunkenness; JOHN STEDHAM, abusive language; CARROLL BROWN and MARY FLOYD, adultery; PETER FREDERICK, adultery. All have given bond except the last named three, who are in jail. Go to Littleton at Guin for bargains in all kinds of dry goods. Mr. T. H. CARTER, of Walnut, Tippah County, Miss. was in our town last week in the interest a patent buggy brake of his own invention, the state right to which he sold to Mr. R. N. TERREL of our town. Before Mr. CARTER left the invested in a business lot, South of the Court House, on which he contemplates building a commodious store-house at an early day. He says he is most favorably impressed with this country, and expects to make Hamilton his future home. Mr. CARTER seems to be a man of energy and enterprise and all that is necessary to make Hamilton one of the best inland towns in the state is for live, enterprising citizens to come here and go to work and build it up. Mr. EDMONDS, the photographer, authorizes us to announce that next week will positively be his last week in Hamilton. He is doing some fine work and any one desiring a first-class picture would do well to call on him at once to avoid the rush on the last day of his stay. His prices are moderate, conforming to the stringency of the times. Go to Littleton at Guin for Lawn at 4c per yard, fast colors. Mr. H. E. MIXON tells his many patrons and the public generally, through the columns of the News Press today something of what he has to show them at this superb store north of the Court House. Mr. Mixon has the most commodious and best arranged business house in town and keeps sit constantly filled with all kinds of first-class goods. His fall stock is daily arriving and shows much taste in the selecting. His prices will be found to conform to the times. That genial and whole-soled gentleman, W. W. OZBIRN, will be found behind the sales-counter of this establishment ready to enter to the wants of his many friends. Read Mr. MIXON’S advertisement. Littleton at Guin keeps a full line of patent medicines. Dr. J. H. McLean’s stock powders, 50c worth for 25c. We call the reader’s special attention to the announcement of the Cotton belt route, to be found in another column. This route proposes to sell tickets from Memphis to all points in Arkansas and Texas, at the rate of one fare plus $2.00 for the round trip, for the Harvest Excursions. These tickets will be sold on August 29th, and September 10th and 24th, good to return only on Sept. 12, 20, 27, and Oct. 4 and 11. For the occasion of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, on Oct. 31st the Dallas Fair and the Christian Church Convention, the rate will be one fare for the round trip. Tickets will be sold from Oct. 16 to 31, inclusive, good to return passage until Nov. 10. Read the announcement. What is most needed in Hamilton right now is the formation of a Building and Improvement Company, with sufficient capital to erect a lot of cottages and residences for the accommodation of families who are anxious to come here to get the benefits of our school. We are satisfied the capital is in the country to organize such a company, and that all that is needed is a little co- operation and energetic effort on the part of our people to set the ball in motion. On last Saturday we heard one of our most prominent citizens – JUDGE COOPER – say that he would take $500 worth of stock in such a company, to commence with. A few such enterprising men as Judge Copper by going to work energetically, could soon have Hamilton blossoming like a summer rose. We are satisfied that a dozen houses would be occupied, if they were here, within the next ten days by good tenants, at a rental that would pay a good percent on the investment. There are plenty eligible sites, which can be bought very cheaply, and all that is necessary is a little energy and capital, properly utilized, to make Hamilton one of the leading towns in the state of Alabama, at no very distant day. In another column of our paper will be found a call for a public meeting of our citizens for the purpose of discussing this matter, and agreeing upon a policy that may result in the accomplishing of the desired object. Wanted. We want honest, pushing, active salesmen to sell the improved Singer Sewing Machines and collect accounts in the different counties in Alabama. No experience necessary or capital required. Applicants must, however furnish their own horse and harness; we supply a wagon and machines. A $500.00 honesty bond is required. Address The Singer M’f’g Co, Montgomery Ala. TO MY HUSBAND – On the Anniversary of Our Marriage – August 24, 1895 Fourteen years ago today, dear I became your happy wife, Gave into your tender keeping All my heart, my hopes, me life: And the years have come and gone, love Bringing much of joy and pain, But thro’ all, your love hath blessed me And my trust was not in vain. We have lived and loved together Through those happy changing years We have shared in every gladness We have shared each others tears; And tho’ trouble we have known, love, None can be care free always We have still the love to cheer us That we had in youthful days. God hath given us many blessings Watched o’er us with loving care And confined to our keeping Four dear children – may He spare Them to bless and be our comfort, Be our stay in after days And teach us the way to guide them O’er life’s dark and stormy ways May we spend long years together, And improve them as they go May we meet our cries with patience And to better Christians grow And let’s hope the unknown future As the past has been, will be I will share with thee all sorrows, Thou will share my smiles with me. NELLIE LINA CARNES, Winfield, Aug. 24, 1895 PUBLIC MEETING There will be a public meeting of the citizens of Hamilton and Marion County at the Court House on Saturday September 7th 1895 at 11 o’clock a.m. to consider the feasibility of organizing a Building and Improvement Company, to build cottages and residence for the accommodation of those who may desire to patronize our school. Everybody invited to attend. MANY CITIZENS, Hamilton, Ala. August 29, 1895 PROTRACTED MEETING AT GUIN WE had an interesting league service Friday evening preparatory to the protracted meeting, which began Saturday at 11 o’clock a.m., Brother WARD’S sermons are attended with much power. The man or woman who does not wish to be a Christian must not come within range of Brother WARD’S gun. The house is filled every service with intelligent and appreciative hearers. We are glad to see that Sister WARD is an earnest church worker. Ladies’ prayer meeting was largely attended Monday evening. Services conducted by Mrs. E. W. BROCK. The interest seemed universal. Old ladies, matrons, young ladies, and misses were among the number who testified. The shaking of the dry bones in the valley is coming to pass in this land. Brother MAY of Crews is helping Brother WARD. Brother MAY is a whole team himself. Uncle BOB BOLIN is with us too. Miss LULA JONES of Caledonia, Miss has been teaching turfing and embroidery in Guin, and while her pretty little hands taught the girls to embroider most beautiful flowers she stole one girl’s “bud.” “Ah, what avails it me the flock to keep Who lost my heart while I preserved my sheep.” “It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.” A young man in Guin blesses the wind that blew such a sweet shower of Beaverton and Guin buds and blossoms to the home of Mr. and Mrs. FRAZIER Saturday night and Sunday. Miss CHLOE BROWN, who is not brown but fair and sweet; Miss HATTIE METCALF, who is the admired of all admirers, Miss ANNIE TERREL, beautiful “gentle Annie,” and Misses SALLIE and TILDA HUGHES, the amiable daughters of JOHN HUGHES. JIM BUCK METCALF, BOB HUGHES, WILL BRADLEY and CLIFF FRAZIER don’t think it such a horrid thing after all to have sisters and cousins, since they bring them in touch with such young ladies as these. Miss LUMMIE MAZE of Gattman, Miss. is the guest of Miss CLEMMIE CADDEL. Miss MAZE is quite an amiable young lady. Miss EVANS of Henson Springs the charming and intelligent niece of Dr. STONE, is visiting her uncle, Dr. TILL STONE. MEG, Guin, ala. Aug. 27, 1895 OVER THE COUNTY – Local News of the Week Gathered by Our Correspondetns HENSON SPRINGS – (The following communication was received to late for last issue – Ed) Henson Springs, Aug. 21, 1895 Editor News Press: Weather remains warm with an abundance of rain. Visitors at the Springs this week from all parts. Measles are raging in this community. The school at this place is still progressing satisfactorily. Miss JEDDIE HENSON paid Sulligent a visit last week and returned home today, accompanied by Miss BLANCHE REDDEN and Miss LIZZIE HENSON. Mr. E. N. STANFORD visited his home near Guin last Sunday. Mr. C. R. JACKSON seems to hang around the vicinity of Detroit to a great extent. What is the attraction CLIFF? Good singing at the Church last Sunday. ED. VERNON comes over to visit the Springs very often – can’t say for what purpose. Miss EDNIE HUCHISON, of Caledonia, Miss is attending school in this place. Rev. Mr. RICHARDSON, a Missionary Baptist from Minnesota preached here last Monday night. The young folks had an enjoyable time at Mr. O’REARS on Friday night. Respectfully BACH. NO. 2 GUIN, ALA. - Aug. 27 ‘95 Editor News Press: A heavy rain fell here Saturday night. The protracted meeting at the Methodist Church is progressing nicely. The preaching is in the power and demonstration of the Sprit. There have already been nine accessions to the Church. A crowd of young people from Beaverton have been spending a few days in town attending the meeting. Mrs. EMMA SANDER, who has been visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. T. W. SPRINGFIELD of this place returned to her home near Vernon yesterday. We are glad to note that Mrs. FRAZIER, who has been quite sick, is improving. We are sorry to say that Mrs. PEARL PEARCE is very sick. Rev. B. M. MAY of Crews is assisting Bro. WARD in the meeting. Miss ADA EVANS of Henson Springs is visiting her uncle, Dr. STONE. Several of our friends of Gattman are in town. The ladies prayer-meeting at the Methodist and the Gentlemen’s prayer meeting at the Baptist Churches last evening were a grand success. Uncle WILCE MOZLEY of Henson Springs, an “Old veteran of the Cross” is attending the meeting. Miss REBECCA WHITE cheered us with her presence Sunday. BACHELOR REDUCED RATES TO DALLAS, TEX. FOR THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH CONVENTION For the Christian Church Convention, which convenes at Dallas, Tex. in October, the “Cotton belt Route” will sell round tip tickets from Memphis to Dallas and return at rate of one fare for the round trip. Tickets will be sold October 136 to 31 inclusive, and will be limited to November 13 for return passage. For further information address J. C. Davis, Traveling Passenger Agent, C. P. Rector, Commercial Agent, 363 Main St. Memphis, Tenn. Ad for Two Superb Engravings TEACHER’S INSTITUTE The next meeting of the Marion County Teacher’s Institute will be at Hamilton, Ala. Sept. 27 and 28, 1895. Friday 9 o’clock a.m. 1. Institute opened by Devotional Exercises 2. Address of Welcome – W. R. WHITE 3. Responsive address – W. A. DUNN 4. Assigning and Hearing Lessons – C. E. MITCHELL, A. W. TATE and A. J. ADAMS 5. Factoring in Algebra – D. D. WRIGHT, J. W. HOLLOWAY, Miss ELLIOTT KEY and J. T. HOWE 6. Hot to Get the Attention of Class – J. J. GLENN, Miss ELLA GOGGANS, T. W. CARPENTER and C. E. TUMBLY 7. Learning Not Education – W. F. GREEN, PINK HAYS, P. P. CLANTON, W. H. CARPENTER and C. R. FRANKS 8. Review – C. W. MAXWELL, E. C. SHOTTS, J. R. SCOFIELD and H. W. MCKENZIE 9. How to Start Beginners in Arithmetic – J. E. ALEXANDER, D. F. BROWN, JOHN MAXWELL, and Miss FANNIE FITE 10. How to Teach Involution and Evolution – JOSEPH CLANTON, D. D. WRIGHT, Miss NANCY GOGGAN, MC PEARCE, and Miss FLORENCE STANFORD FRIDAY NIGHT Improvement to School Progress – A. W. TATE Special Reasons Why Citizens of a Republic Should be Educated – W. C. DAVIS Moral Training – Rev. W. A. BIVEN SATURDAY 9 O’CLOCK A.M. 11. Institute opened by Devotional Exercises 12. Trials of a Country teacher – Miss FANNIE FITE, W. P. LETSON and Miss BELLE PHILIPS 13. Will the Possession of Knowledge Merely Make One a Successful Teacher – J. B. HOLLEY, A. W. TATE, and W. A. DUNN 14. Annual Address – Prof. J. E. ALEXANDER 15. Articulation – Prof. HUFFSTUTLER, Miss ELLIOTT KEY, B. SMITH, and Miss SALLIE THORN 16. Penmanship in the Public Schools – J. E. ALEXANDER, J. A. WATES, W. P. LETSON and Miss BELLE TATE 17. How can We better Our Public School System – C. E. TUMBLY, C. R. FRANKS, MC PEARCE, H. V. BOSTIC, and J. H. SIMMONS 18. The evils of Tardiness and the Means of Preventing It – A. W. TATE, W. F. GREEN, JUDGE BOSTIC, and D. D.WRIGHT 19. How and When Should Orthography Be Taught – S. E. WILSON, J. E. GREEN, Miss BELLE TATE, and J. W. HOLLOWAY All teachers in the county and friends of education are requested to be present and help to make this meeting an interesting and profitable one J. B. HOLLEY J. J. GLENN C. E. MITCHELL – Committee Ad for Beatty’s Organs and Pianos REDUCED RATES TO ARKANSAS AND TEXAS VIA “COTTON BELT ROUTE” On August 20, Sept. 10 and 24 the “Cotton belt Route” will sell round trip tickets from Memphis to all points in Arkansas and Texas at rate of one far plus $2.00 for the round trip, the one-far rate to be paid by passengers when purchasing tickets and the $2.00 to be paid at destination to agent executing ticket for return passage. These tickets will be good for return passage on the following dates only: September 13, 20, 27, October 4 and 10. The going transit limit will be 15 days, and stop-overs will be allowed at all intermediate points between Memphis and destination within that period. Returning ticket will be limited to continuous passage. For the occasion of the Corbett Fitz-Simmons fight at Dallas, Tex. October 31 and the Dallas Fair, the “Cotton Belt Route” will sell tickets from Memphis to Dallas and return at rate of one fare for the round trip. Tickets will be sold October 16 to 31 inclusive, and will be limited to November 10 for return. For further information address J. c. Davis, Traveling Passenger Agent, C. P. Rector, Commercial Agent, 303 Main Street, Memphis, Tenn. Free Scholarships. Ten Months in a Leading College for $77.50. The Tula Normal Institute and Business College gives ten months free tuition in the literary and Commercial Department to two students from Marion County, Ala. The conditions are as follows: Apply at the office of the News-Press, Hamilton, Ala., pay the editor $2.00, the cost of this notice and you will receive a free scholarship for ten months in the above named College. Come to Oxford, Miss., on the I. C. Road, at which the Tula Hack meets al trains; and on arriving at Tula, pay the President $77.50 which settles for your board and lodging, laundry, lights and fuel for ten months. Reference: W. B. COLEMAN, Mayor, Tula, Miss. Address: C. C. Hughes, Pres. Session opens Sept. 3, 1895. Ad for Dictionary of U. S. History SOUTHERN FRUIT NURSERY, Winfield, Ala. I have on hand and for sale a fine lot of fruit trees, full acclimate, and every one I propose to sell satisfactorily tested, consisting of Apples, Pears, Peaches, and Vines. I will deliver at Nursery at 10c per tree. If delivered elsewhere, the cost of transportation will be added. My scions are all two and three years old, are hardy and growing finely. Catalogues furnished upon application to W. J. TRULL, Winfield, Ala. Orders left with Mr. S. E. WILSON, Editor News Press. Hamilton, Ala will receive prompt attention. WANTED – Saw logs delivered at DUNN’S Mill, two miles South of Hamilton, Ala. for which we will pay 40 cents per 100 feet, or $4.00 per 1,000 feet. The logs must be 10 and 12 feet long and of good quality. We want logs right away, as we have our Mill in good order, ready for work. DUNN BROWN Ad for Beatty’s Organs and Pianos FURNITURE VARNISHED The undersigned professes to be well versed in the art of all kinds of varnishing and will varnish furniture at a reasonable rate. He proposes that if any one can discolor furniture varnished by him, even while wet, with hot water or otherwise, to make no charge. He also proposes to give one dollar each for every blister drawn, either by the sun or fire, upon furniture that he varnishes. He proposes to give $5.00 to any one disturbed by bed-bugs, about all bedstead he varnishes, if kept from against the walls. Will leave all furniture in condition that one can see themselves in it as in a mirror. Address JOHN STEWART, Barnesville, Ala. Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters PAGE 4 SHIPS AS BURIAL PLACES – A Curious Scandinavian Disposition of the Dead Burial ships have so far been discovered to the number of about a dozen in Sweden and Norway. The bodies laid in them, burned or unburned, were equipped with pathetic care. Besides being elaborately armed and adorned, they had placed at their disposal means of employment and diversion, such as writing tablets, forgoing tools, whetting stones, scissors, cooking utensils, chessmen, draughtsman and dice. In one of nine boats containing as many bodies, disinterred in the churchyard of Vendell in Uppland, weapons and implements were associated with the remains of three horses, three dogs, a cow, a pig, ram, ewe, and goose. Another sheltered the bones of a goose, a duck, a flacon, rock owl and crane. The inference seems justified that all these birds were domesticated. Inside the ribs of the celebrate Gokstadt ship some peacock’s feathers lay scattered with fragments of gold-embroidered silken stuff; and the tumulus near Sandefiord, from which it was unearthed in 1880, contained the skeletons of at least twelve horses and six dogs. But the treasurers of the sepulchral chamber amid ship had long ago fallen a prey to some of the numerous and nameless thieves who …………… A WOMAN’S TWO WISHES – (anecdote) Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ad for Imperial Granum Ad for Saw Mills Ad for Birmingham College of Music STATE TOPICS CLEBURNES GOLD MINE R. A. Bourle, an expert mining engineer, took charge Monday of the new gold mine near Heflin, which will be worked by the chloronation system, and is expected to yield $2000 to the ton. DEATH BY ACCIDENT Several days ago Mr. R. R. ROBINSON, one of Columbia’s best citizens, was thrown from a wagon by runaway mules and fatally hurt. He died Tuesday after very great suffering. He was about thirty-five years old and leaves a wife and seven children, none of whom are gown. HELD FOR MURDER The preliminary trial of Charles Green and Wade Blockton for the murder of Arthur T. Woods at Brookside some time ago was heard before Justices Bivings and Wingo, sitting jointly in the criminal court room, Birmingham, Thursday. Green was discharged and Blockton held, without bail, to await the action of the grand jury. NEW SUBURBAN TOWN The prospective new station on the Louisville and Nashville road at the point where the Montgomery and Prattville road will intersect the former line has been christened Tuscola. It is about six miles north of Montgomery, and it is proposed that a nice town shall be built there. The tracks of the Prattville road are being laid as rapidly as its practical. A FARMER FOREHANDED W. T. Crittle, a progressive Georgia farmer , who resides about twelve miles from Eufaula, was in the city Thursday and disposed of 122 bales of his last year’s cotton crop, which he had been holding all along for high prices. The cotton averaged middling and was sold to the Eufaula Cotton Mills at 7 cents for the round lot. LAWS READY FOR DISTRIBUTION Auditor Purifoy desires that it should be known that he is prepared to furnish the necessary number of copies to probate judges of the act entitled, “An act to dispose of lands which have been sold or which may hereafter be sold for taxes and bid in by the state, and which have not been redeemed or purchased from the state” approved February 5, 1895. He also has some copies of the revenue code of 1895 which he will mail to officers upon the receipt of 30 cents each. GOT BEYOND HIS DEPTH George Strother, the 10-year-old son of a prominent stock man, while bathing in the river at Montgomery, Monday afternoon with some of the boys, got beyond his depth and drowned. …………… ASSAULTED AND ROBBED A special from Cordova says: R. W. Long, in returning from Birmingham Friday morning at 1 o’clock was attached by some unknown party who knocked him insensible, rifled his pickets and took a bundle of new shirts he was carrying. He was found next morning, when he was carried home, where he remained unconscious until late Friday evening. A doctor is attending him, and says if the blows, one on top of the head, and another across the neck, had been given with a little more force, they would have proved fatal. AN OVERLAODED BRIDGE FALLS While a pleasure party of twenty persons was crossing a bridge that spans Five- Mile Creek at Brookside Monday, the bridge gave way with a crash…………. ASSASSINATION IN CLEBURNE A report comes from Edwardsville that J. C. brown, better known as Calvin Brown, was shot from ambush at 3:30 o’clock p.n. Tuesday, and will probably die. There has been an old feud existing between brown and W. H. Rhodes for some time. Rhodes and his boys fired on Brown in the road near Edwardsville last Friday but did not hit him. Rhodes and all of his boys and Brown were in Edwardsville Tuesday. Rhodes left about two hours before Brown did. Brown was on his way home when some one fired on him from the bushes. No one saw the shot fired. Brown himself did not know who did it. The shooting was done about two miles and a half from town. TRAMPS IN HARD LUCK Sem Bascue, a Jap and two young white men boarded a west bound train at Douglasville, Ga. Friday night and stole rides to the coal shute, three miles south of Anniston, where they were discovered early Saturday morning by the brakeman and made to get off. Hard words ensued and the negro pulled a pistol and fired twice the first bullet pierced the pants of one of the white men and the other passed through one of the thighs of the Jap and lodged in the other. The negro went on with the train to Birmingham and the two white men carried their wounded Japanese friend to Anniston where the bullet was extracted and the wounds dressed THE DEMOCRATS OF OHIO – Ex-Governor Jas. E. Campbell Nominated for Governor of Ohio - (drawing of James E. Campbell, of Ohio) - In spite of James E. Campbell’s earnest and repeated protest that his friends must not nominate him as the democratic candidate for governor of Ohio, as he could not make the race for various reasons, the ex-governor was put at the head of the ticket by acclamation against his will Wednesday by 800 delegates to the state convention. ………… LANDS SOLD FOR TAXES – And bought by the state – Provisions of law as to Re-Sale Attorney – General Fitts in response to inquiries by Auditor Purifoy in regard to an act entitled “an act to dispose of lands.”………….. KNOCKED OVERBOARD AND DROWNED The schooner Osceola fouled the steamer Miramachi near Black Crook, N. B on Saturday and five young women, passengers on the Mirammehi, were knocked overboard and drowned. ON THE CARPET The familiar saying “On the Carpet,” which the French render “ Sur le tapis” (On the tablecloth) is said to have its origin for the Oriental legend of Solon’s carpet. The Eastern writers say that Solomon had a green silk carpet, on which his throne was placed when he traveled. This carpet was large enough for all his forces to stand upon; the men and women stood on his right hand, and the spirits on his left. When all were arranged in order, Solomon told the wind where he wished to go, and the carpet with all its content rose in the air and alighted at the spot indicated. In order to screen the party from the sun, the birds of the air with outspread wings formed a canopy over the whole party. – [Detroit Free Press] VISITORS TO RUSSIA An imperial investigation just concluded shows that there is a yearly influx of 800,000 foreigners into the land of the Czar. Between 1870 and 1882, 9,468,138 natives and 8,025,198 emigrated again thus 1,432,934 foreigners remained in the country those ten years. Between 1875 and 1881, 2,209,675 foreigners came to Russia for a lengthy sojourn and 1,868,218 left the country. Ad for Syrup of Figs A QUESTION SETTLED From our old friend, Geo. W. Brand, of the Crab Orchard Country, says the Richmond (Mo) Conservator, we received the following letter, which settled the question and puts to flight forever the idea which has always prevailed that corn grows more rapidly of nights than it does in the daytime…………….. OLDEST CHURCH IN EUROPE Which is the oldest church in Europe? asks the British Architect. Canon Routledge, in his “History of St. Martin’s Canterbury,” claims the distinction for that venerable edifice. He describes it as being the only existing church originally built as a church during the first four centuries that has remained a church till the present day. St. Martin’s has a rival in St. Mary-in-the- Caste, Dover, which Canon Puckle believes to have been erected in the fourth century; but in the days of Queen Anne, and for a century and a half afterwards, this edifice was used as a garrison fuel depot. NOT LOVERS OF DISPLAY The utmost simplicity is said to characterize the daily life of the President of the French Republic, although on State occasions both M. and Mme. Carnot organize their entertainment sin far more regal style than of their predecessors. But when the President and his wife are alone they like dining off the homely national dish of a pot au feu, or if a few intimate friends are present they enlarge the menu to include eggs, fish, lamb, or mutton cutlets or broiled chicken. The cattle baron has passed away in Texas and his immense pastures are being cut up into farms. A 20,000 acre pasture was cut up into farms a few weeks ago, and it realized at auction an average of between $7 and $8 an acre. Ad for Royal Baking Powder Ad for Dr. Pierce’s Pleasnt Pellets Ad for Pearline – How weak the soap and water seems when you begin your washing. You don’t’ get any strength out of it till the work is about done. Plenty of hard work and rubbing and wear and tear, even then – but more of it at the beginning when the water is weakest. Now with Pearline, the water is just a s strong at the beginning as at the end. This is one of the reasons (only one) why Pearline acts so much better than soap, in all washing and cleaning. Use no soap with it. Millions now use Pearline. Fertilizers for Fall crops should contain a high percentage of potash to insure the largest yield and a permanent enrichment of the soil……….. Ad for Wine of Cardui - Treatment of Female Diseases Ad for John P. Lovell Arms Co – catalogue – guns, rifles, pistols – fishing tackle, dog collars, chains, tennis sets, Lovell Diamond bicycles – the Williams Typewriter – etc. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/hamilton87nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 60.6 Kb