Marion County AlArchives News.....THE MARION HERALD May 12, 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, 3:29 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archvies And History May 12, 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 12 1887 NO. 5 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. 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 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. 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 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. 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 FRANK SAUNDERS, Photographer. Successor to A. R. HENWOOD, Aberdeen, Mississippi 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. 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. W. WILLIAMS, NEWTON FRNAKS, and GEORGE MAY, all of Pikeville, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register 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 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 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 Ad for Champion Lamp – by Weidener – picture of lamp 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 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 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. Ad for Harwood’s Chair Seats – picture of Chair Ad for The Southern Cultivator NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Board of Education for Marion County will meet at the School House at Hamilton on the first Saturday in June for the purpose of examining and licensing teachers. JOHN ARNOLD, County Supt. Talladega has been scourged by a $20,000 fire. Isbell has a quarry, a bucket factory, five saw mills and will soon boast of two furnaces. An Ohio bigamist who had four wives has been sentenced to the penitentiary for five years. The sale of lots by the Florence Land Company last month were quite good, as 464 lots were sold for $178,215. ------------- At a school at Santa Fe, New Mexico, called “Ramona” in memory of Helen Hunt Jackson, twenty-five bright Indian girls are gaining a practical education. The Government supplies everything – food, clothing, etc but the salaries of the teachers are paid by the American Missionary Society. This should encourage everyone to donate liberally to the Missionary cause. ---------- PLUCK – by John Strange Winter – (short story) PAGE 2 THE MARION HERALD Published Every Thursday Hamilton, Alabama COWSLIPS – (poem) NOT SO STRANGE – Why a Breton Woman was Wild with Despair MOTLEY AND BISMARCK – A Humorous Incident in American Diplomacy which Caused great Excitement JAPANESE ROYALTY – The First Occasion on Which the Mikado Appeared in Public CANCER CAN BE CURED – Operations Serving in Every Case to Prolong Life Indefinitely THE PLAYFUL ALLIGATOR – His Eating Age and Other Interesting Items of Information STYLES OF THE DAY – Helpful Suggestions on a Great Variety of Interesting Dress Topics PAGE 3 TALMAGE’S SERMON – An Easter Discourse on the “Overthrow of the Monster” RUSSIA’S PEASANTRY– The Utter Hopeless Condition of the Great Majority of the Czar’s Subjects The condition of the Russian peasantry, which has been long and steadily deteriorating, has now become so utterly hopeless that only some special extra pressure is required to make their deep discontent break out in rebellion. The “joujik” knows nothing of “constitutions” or “political freedom.” He signs for one of these things. He hates the Nihilits, for they are innovators and the declared enemies of the Czar. He has a great patriotic and superstitious regard for the Emperor, as the head of his Church, the fountain of all good fights, and the representative of an ancient national institution. But when firmly established in his position, one Czar satisfied the Russian peasant quite as well as another. The Emperor Nicholas was quite as good to him as would have been his elder brother Constantine, had the latter not been put out of the way, and the Empress Catherine, a foreigner and a woman, was quite as good as the husband whom she disposed of. If his grievances become too great the peasant will not hesitate to attack the Czar’s officers, tax collectors and others, and who will maintain a comfortable theory that the autocrat is unaware of his sufferings, and that he is the victim of wicked nobles and officials who combined to persecute him and to deceive the Czar. Before the peasant was emancipated he worked under his master’s direction, he paid not axes, he seldom had any money, and he got but little “vodky.” His master guaranteed his subsistence, and he had no particular cares of anxieties. When emancipated he was made a present of some land, but he also became responsible for his own subsistence, and he became subject to a land tax. He remained, however, thoroughly careless and his only solicitude was to do as little work as possible. Circumstances for a time favored him. Good land was abundant, the price of corn in Europe rose, railways were made to transport his grain the money rolled pleasantly into his pockets, and the Government kindly abolished the spirit monopolies, and brought “vodky”, plentiful and cheap to his door. Times have, however, changed now; his land, which he never troubled to manure, is exhausted; the price of rain has fallen’ America and India are competing with him; his sons, his laborers, are taken away by the conscription, and the land tax alone remains as before. Remissions of the tax are made from time to time, but only where the arrears have become so heavy that their collection is perfectly hopeless. Naturally the peasant is on his last legs and anything but cheerful. He is slow to move, but with a little extra pressure, a cry against any of his recognized enemies, the Jews, the “tehinovniks” or the nobles, will start him on a career of violence which noting but grape-shot will stop. And this is the great danger which will assail Russia from within under the influence of the stress of a prolonged war – [Quarterly Review] ALASKA TERRITORY – Its Discovery and Area and Acquisition by the United States HOLLAND’S FUTURE–Only One Life Between Its Independence and its Absorption by Germany A CURIOUS BIRD DANCE OF GENERAL INTEREST – (various news items) PAGE 4 LOCAL DEPARTMENT The Commissioner’s Court met on last Monday. Some one asks how to make a girls room attractive? By putting the girl in it of course. The Bible Class wasn’t very well represented on last Sunday. What’s the matter with the old folks? Our friend W. F. GREEN informs us that he intends leaving town for the country, where he will engage in the business of farming. Four of Hamilton’s young men took a pleasant tramp to Lovejoy on last Sunday. The boys say they had glorious time and all are in favor of going again. What’s the matter with P. PATRICK? Hope he hasn’t forsaken the Herald, and will give us a few dots from his part of the world pretty soon. Mr. HIB HULSEY, a gentleman living in this city accompanied DAVE GLEN, a deputy Marshall on a trip to Fayette C. H. last week. The charge against him is”dealing in Wild Cat.” From cats that fight from the attack of a dog with hydrophobia, from the nauseating stench of a decaying carcass, and from an offensive revenue office, good Lord deliver us. The matter is settled at last, and the picnic we are going to have on Saturday 21st day of May. All are invited to come, and as many as can conveniently do so are requested to bring a well filled basket with them. What’s the matter now! The Daily Register published at Mobile recently appeared with five columns of delinquent tax land advertised for sale, and all of said land lies in the “booming city of Mobile.” Say no more about our poor delinquent tax payers, “sweet sister.” The time is now at hand for the small boy to assume the much dreaded occupation of cultivating the garden. If there’s anything in the wide world that a boy has a greater distaste for than anything else it is hoeing the garden. He will contrive a thousand and more schemes to avoid one half day’s work. But, he can run ten hours trying to corner a loose horse for a ride, and never complain feeling tired, and will almost faint if his sister wants him to drive the calves home. Or he can dig up an acre lot looking for angle worms to go fishing and wish for the voiceless tomb when the garden demands his attention. A new US deputy marshal in the person of Mr. BAILUS MORTON, who we learned was from Tuscumbia, Ala. paid the county a visit the first of the week, and, in company with Mr. DAVE GLEN, carried two of our good citizens to Huntsville, before Commissioner BONE, charged with violations of the U.S. laws. While here, the gay and festive BAILUS took occasion to give some of the citizens gratis advice from this Solon head as to how they should set in regard to parties charged with violations of the revenue, and took particular pains to air an idea of his that “good citizens” in this county are like angels visits, few and far between. Without saying a word in defense of our citizens the people who compose the bulk of the inhabitants of the county of Marion need no defense – We would pay our respects to Sir BAILUS, and inform him that we don’t’ need any of this chin music, so far as dictating to our people is concerned, and we hope that Marion will never be improved by the immigration of such “would be terrors” as little BAILUS In short any person who goes into a strange place and tells the people to their faces that there are few good citizens in their county, only take a circuitous route to show them he is a fool, is lavish of incivility, and economical of all that is required to constitute a gentleman. NOTICE OF LAND SALE The State of Alabama, Marion County To each of the following unknown and known owners. At the May term of the Probate Court, Decrees having been rendered on all of the following lands, I will on the first Monday in June 1887, it being the 6th day of said month, proceed to sell all of said lands for the ax and costs thereon due for the years 1881, 82, 83,84, and 85. This April the 27th 1887 W. R. H. LODEN, Tax Collector (following is 4 columns of land for sale – all owners unknown – last column to Georgia Pacific RR) Ad for Hammar’s Guaranteed Pure Paint Ad for Comfort Corset – picture of corset Ad for Demorest’s Magazine Ad for Avery Sewing Machine – picture of Sewing Machine File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/themario106nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 17.0 Kb