Marion County AlArchives News.....THE MARION HERALD May 5, 1887 ************************************************ 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 December 31, 2010, 3:28 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History May 5, 1887 Microfilm Ref Call #520 Microfilm Order #M1992.2223 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE MARION HERALD VOL. III HAMILTON,ALABAMA, MAY 5, 1887 NO. 4 THE MARION HERALD by the Herald Publishing Co. Subscription Rates – One copy, 1 year, in advance $1; six months fifty cents. Sample copies free. Advertising rates – One square first insertion, one dollar; each subsequent insertion, fifty cents. Liberal reduction will be allowed on large advertisements. Jay Gould controls sixty-one coal mines. The Demopolis Guards have disbanded. The total number of the Hebrew race on the surface of the globe is 6,300,000. Suffolk, Va. was visited by a cyclone on the 19th inst. The trial of Vincent has been postponed. Work on the Muscle Shoals is progressing rapidly. The court house at Ellisville, Miss was destroyed by fire on the night of the 15th inst. There seems to be a growing opinion that nothing short of a war will settle European affairs. --------- The big well of the Calera Charcoal and Furnace Company has reached a depth of more than 700 feet, and gives evidence of petroleum gas. --------- A REMARKABLE WOMAN – Miss A. P. SHACKLEFORD, NEE Miss Annie Perrine THE MOST HONORED PROFESSION – the tiller of the soil Jasper is to have another paper soon, this one to be devoted to the interest of Walker County. THE TOMBIGBEE RAILROAD We are gratified to be able to announce to our readers that Maj. KELLY, one of the ablest engineers in the country, with a competent corps of assistants, will start to make a survey of the route of the Tombigbee Railroad on tomorrow. That Maj. KELLY will soon be able to report to the Directory the shortest, cheapest and most eligible route none who know him have a doubt. The men who have this great and important enterprise in hand, know no such word as fail, and will push it on to a successful completion. Our people - our whole people of every class and description, should lend a helping hand encouraging the Directory, and give them every aid in their power. This road is of vital importance to Columbus and to Lowndes County, and we do not hesitate to say that every man and woman will do his and her duty in this matter. – [Ex.] THE ART OF FORGETTING ------- DON’T CROWD YOUR BOY Dr. W. L. Jones writing for the Southern Cultivator gives his plan for working cotton…………… A most daring safe robbery was committed in Lebannon, DeKalb County, Ala. on the 22nd April last and several thousand dollars stolen. They cracked the safes at four of the leading stores and took several horses. They were evidently experts in the business of safe blowing, as their work was very cleverly done. A posse of fifty men started in pursuit of the robbers who are supposed to be hiding on Lookout Mountain. The liquor dealers of Texas met in Dallas recently in secret session to try to break up the prohibition movement that is being made in that state. PAGE 2 THE MARION HERALD Published Every Thursday Hamilton, Alabama HER GRAND-AUNT JANE – (poem) VIA THE TELEPHONE – Why a Cool Burglar Failed in His Scheme – (short story) THE MONTEREY BATHS – A California Resort Which is Destined to Become a Rive of Nice SUGAR IMPORTS – A Primitive Situation that should be Surmounted by American Farmers THE GARFIELD FAMILY – A Glimpse at the Handsome Home of the Mentor and Its Occupants AMERICAN HARVESTING MACHINERY IN AUSTRALIA PAGE 3 FUNNY PEOPLE – Some Typographical Blunders that Seem like Jokes on Martyred Writers POWER OF COCAINE – The Peculiar Method Devised for its Use in Cases of Neuralgia CHILDREN’S CLOTHES–Useful Improvements in the Style of Under Garments and Winter Dresses HINTS TO EMPLOYEES – The Spirit of the Man who Succeeds and the Traits of Him who Fails PENCIL AND GUN – How a Tentonic Draughtsman Whipped the “Big Bully of the Prairies” A MAID NOT EASILY STUMPED THE IDIOT’S LATEST CATCH UMBRELLA AND CANE STANDS Small advertisements Ad for Ko-Ko Tulu chewing gum Ad for Piso’s Cure for Consumption Ad for Swayne’s Ointment – for itching skin and cure for piles humor Ad for Prickly Ash Bitters – picture of bottle Ad for Harter’s Iron Tonic PAGE 4 LOCAL DEPARTMENT TO DIE FOR ONE’S OWN NATIVE LAND – (poem) Let’s go fishing See final proof notice in this issue. Farmers are generally up with their work. “A kind heart is a fountain of honey.” “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Don’t forget that the Herald will only cost you one dollar a year. One of the latest serenade songs is “O tell me love is the dog tied up.” Common sense and a willing hand are always valuable possessions, when coupled with energy they can’t be beat. They boys are now having a jolly old time fishing and getting mosquito bites. Smart boys, they like to scratch for a living. It may be quite true that all men are born equal but you find some of them that have been badly spoiled in raising. Mr. L. J. CLARK returned home on last Saturday from a trip to the Memphis & Birmingham R. R. He says there’s something like a boom at Guin’s but its not dangerous as it is closely watched. Miss DIXIE KEY and Miss ELLA HAMILTON, two of Marion County’s handsome and accomplished young ladies gave us a pleasant call one day last week. We assure the young ladies that their visit was highly appreciated, and hope they will call again. Didn’t’ some one say we would have a picnic? We think they did. Picnic’s are so nice too. Have roast beef, mutton, pork, chickens- Of course we must have chickens and plenty of them too. Seems that the latter end of May or the front side of June would be a good time for the “pic” – Don’t you think it would? Dr. THOMPSON left on a business trip for Milville on Monday last. The boom’s coming sure, and Mers. W. R. H. LODEN, W. H. KEY, Esq., J. P. FORD, DR. GUYTON and W. P. GAST were all aware of the fact. So not caring to meet the terrible monster they fled to Aberdeen this week, thinking perhaps he would be under control before they returned. The way he moved wasn’t slow – a young man not living a great distance from this place came to town one day last week, and was passing the time at MR. WEAVER’S shop. Mr. LODEN the county sheriff chanced to be passing up that way, the young gentleman thinking he had some particular business with him concluded that he had remained in town long enough. So he lit and that every sudden, and the way he moved when once fairly out and well coupled up, would have put M and S. to shame the best day she ever saw. He hasn’t been seen about town since, and it is thought by some that he may be running yet. The railroad surveyors were on Yellow Creek last week, and who knows but that Hamilton will yet have a railroad. We can boast of coal and iron ore that can’t be surpassed by any other county in the state. Our mountains contain vast treasures and only awaits the incoming of capital and live energetic men to develop them. Only a few years ago mineral land in this county was selling for fifty cents per acre, a great deal of which cannot now be bout for $3.00 an acre. So you may begin looking out for the boom for she is coming, it may be a little slow as considerable by some, but she will reach us “bye and bye.” A prisoner condemned to solitary confinement obtained a copy of the Bible, and by three years careful study, obtained the following facts……………… Columbus Miss voted on the 27th inst $100,000 to aid in the building of the Tombigbee R. R. The law required that two-thirds of the registered voters should vote for the donation in order to secure it, and Columbus took so much interest in the measure that only six votes was polled against it. A new departure is about to be undertaken in Illinois in the form of revenue legislation. It is proposed by the tax code prepared by the House Committee on Revenue not only that notes shall be taxed, but that payment of taxes on them shall be enforced by requiring every note to be indorsed by the assessor to its validity as evidence in the State Courts. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala. April 29th, 1887 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 Ala. at Hamilton, Ala on June 24th, 1887, viz: Hd No. 4062 MARY A. BERRYHILL for the SW ¼ of SE ¼ and SE ¼ of SW ¼ Sec 3 T 13 R 11 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: GEORGE S. TUCKER, THOMAS HARPER, M. J. TUCKER, and I. C. BEASLEY, all of Texas, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register Ad for Automatic Rug Machine - Ladies why spend weary weeks making rugs with the old fashioned hook, when in a few hours the same work can be accomplished with our new automatic rug machine. Makes rugs, lap robes, mittens, etc. It works rags or yarn. A full line of yarns and rug patterns in stock. Machine and terms to agent by mail for $1.00. CONSTITUTION OF THE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL WHEEL – ATTACHMENT NOTICE The State of Alabama, Marion County W. GUYTON, Plaintiff Vs RICHARD POLLARD, Defendant J. C. WEATHERLY and W. R. H. LODEN, Garnishees Before me as Justice of the Peace this 17th day of March 1887, came the plaintiff by attorney in the above entitled cause, and it appearing that the property of defendant has been levied on by virtue of a garnishment issued from my office, and that the garnishees indebtedness and that the said defendant is a non-resident of this state, it is therefore ordered that notice of said garnishment by attachment be given to the said RICAHRD POLLARD once a week for three successive weeks before the 26th day of May 1887 in the Marion Herald , a weekly newspaper published in said county on which day he must attend or judgment may be rendered against him. JOHN F. COOLEY, J. P. A. J. STANFORD, attorney for plaintiff Ad for Illustrated plant and Seed Catalogue NOTICE All parties that have heretofore had Deeds and Mortgages Recorded in this office can have them recorded again at the expense of the county. I wills ay to all who wish to have Recording done, that I have a new supply of Records, and am prepared to do Recording on short notice. WALTER H. MATTHEWS, Judge Probate NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala. April 20th, 1887 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, Alabama, at Hamilton, Ala. on June 3rd, 1887, viz: Homestead No. 10,036 DAVID LOGAN, for the NW ¼ of NE ¼ and NE ¼ of NW ¼ Sec 23 T 12 R 13 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: WILLIAM J. SHAW, LARKIN W. WILLIAMS, NEWTON FRNAKS, and GEORGE MAY, all of Pikeville, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala. April 20th, 1887 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, Alabama, at Hamilton, Ala. on June 3rd, 1887, viz: Homestead No. 10677, JOHN F. OTTS, for the NW ¼ of NE ¼ and NE ¼ of NW ¼ Sec 15 T 12 R 13 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: W. J. SHAW, I. --- WILLIAMS, NEWTON FRNAKS, and GEORGE MAY, all of Pikeville, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Alabama April 4th, 1887 Notice is hereby given that the following named settlers has filed notice of their intention to make final proof in support of their claims, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Marion County at Hamilton, Alabama on June 4th 1887, viz: Homestead No. 11738 ROBERT FRANKS, for S ½ of SE ¼ Sec 18 T12 R 12 West. and Hd. NO. 11739 JOHN S. FRANKS, for the SW ¼ of SW sec 8 and NW ¼ of NW ¼ Sec 17 T 12 R 12 West. They name the following witnesses to prove their continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: JAMES A. BURLASON, GEORGE MCCALEB, ANDREW J. WESTBROOKS, and DAVID PEARCE, all of Pearce’s Mills, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register TAX ASSESSOR’S NOTICE I will attend at the following times and places for the purpose of assessing the Taxes of Marion County for the year 1887, to wit: LAST ROUND Rye’s Beat NO. 2 Camp’s Beat, No. 3 Bexar’s Beat No. 4 Shottsville Beat No. 5 Palmer’s beat No 6 Hamilton Beat No. 1 Pikeville Beat No. 16 Northcutt’s Beat No. 15 Vaughn’s Church Beat 14 Baccus Gin Beat No. 13 J. H. Burnett’s Beat No. 12 Pearce’s Mills Beat No. 11 Tax Payers are requested to meet me on this round and make a list of their property. The amended Revenue law makes it the duty of the tax assessor to add 50 per cent damages to any person who fails to make a list of their property. So come out and save that cost. All parties that were assessed before the burning of the court house will please meet me again as all the lists were destroyed. Respectfully J. P. FORD, Tax assessor Marion Co. NOTICE The undersigned duly commissioned a Board of Incorporators of the Tombigbee Rail Road Company, hereby give notes that they will open books of subscription to the Capital stock of the said company on the 14th day of May 1887 at 10 o’clock a.m. at the office of the Marion Herald, Marion County, Ala. The capital stock of said company is $50,000 divided into 500 shares of the par value of $100 each. B. A. VAUGHAN C. A. JOHNSTON W. H. SIMS J. O. BANKS J. E. LEIGH, Incorporators Dr. B. W. RODEN, A Botanic Doctor. Will be at Allen’s Factory on Saturday before the first Sunday in each month for the purpose of treating Chronic Diseases. I practice for cash and cash only except in cash where my patients have been prompt in their payments in retofore. B. W. RODEN GEO. C. ALMON, ED. P. ALMON. ALMON & ALMON, Attorneys at Law, Belgreen, Alabama. Will practice in Franklin County and all adjoining counties, and especially in Marion; also in the Federal Courts at Huntsville and in the Supreme Court at Montgomery. Ad for The Southern Cultivator NOTICE To all persons that assessed their taxes before the 28th day of March 1887, will please meet me at my appointment on the day appointed for their Beat the 2nd round. As all the assessments made the two first weeks was destroyed by fire. Bring your copy of assessment and a correct description of your lands as we have no records to refer to. Yours respectfully J. P. FORD, Tax Assessor W. H. KEY. Attorney and Counselor at Law, Hamilton, Alabama. Will practice in Marion and adjoining counties. B. R. FITE. Attorney-at-Law, Hamilton, Alabama. Will practice in Marion and adjoining counties. Special attention given to the collection of claims. W. A. YOUNG Attorney at Law, Vernon, Alabama will be present at each sitting of the Chancery, Circuit and County Courts of Marion County MCQUISTON & HEISEN, Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants, Aberdeen, Miss. Dealers in the Celebrated Steel Brush and Improved Cotton Bloom-Lummus Gins, Feeders and Condensers and the Southern Standard and Eclipse Cotton Presses, Also the Old Hickory and Hickman Wagons – the best made. Liberal advance s to merchants and farmers. New Store and New Goods. I have just receives a new and complete stock of clothing and Gents Furnishing Goods – Hats, Caps, Boots and Shoes – Dry goods, Ladies Dress Goods. Family Groceries, drugs and medicines, hardware, tinware, stationery, canned goods, candies, glassware, queensware, tobacco, snuff, cigars, and the justly celebrated Mountain Mills Cotton Yarn. All will be sold at prices to suit the times. Highest prices paid for Cotton, wool, furs, dry hides, beeswax, poultry, and all country produce. Very Respectfully - W. R. WHITE, (Post office Building) Hamilton, Alabama Ad for Champion Lamp – by Weidener – picture of lamp W. L. BULLOCK. Attorney at Law – Belgreen, Alabama offers his professional services to the people of Franklin, Marion and other adjoining counties. Mr. BULLOCK will regularly attend the Circuit Court of Marion County. Ad for Demorest’s Magazine Ad for Avery Sewing Machine – picture of Sewing Machine Ad for Comfort Corset – picture of corset Ad for Harwood’s Chair Seats – picture of Chair File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/themario105nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 17.2 Kb