Marion County AlArchives News.....THE MARION HERALD September 8, 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, 3:45 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archvies And History September 8, 1887 Microfilm Ref Call #520 Microfilm Order #M1992.2223 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE MARION HERALD VOL. III HAMILTON, ALABAMA, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 1887 NO. 22 THE MARION HERALD JAMES S. CLEMENTS, Editor Hamilton, Alabama Thursday September 8, 1887 PROFESSIONAL CARDS 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. FRANK SAUNDERS, Photographer. Successor to A. R. HENWOOD, Aberdeen, Mississippi W. A. YOUNG Attorney at Law, Vernon, Alabama will be present at each sitting of the Chancery, Circuit and County Courts of Marion County 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. 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. 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. 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. The population of the United States is now estimated at 61,000,000. Our merchants continue to bring in new goods for the fall and winter trade; though we haven’t seen any new cotton yet. Some one proposes to the government to announce the coming of storms by firing cannon. This idea would really be a capital one if they would load each gun with a weather prophet. The Great American Party recently organized does not seem to take very well. Event eh great Powderly is reported as not being able to withstand the tenets. Wonder if this new concern wouldn’t like to have a little “divide up?” Arrangements are being made for the largest gathering ever known at the corner stone laying of the Robert E. Lee monument, which is to take place in October. Governor Lee has asked gen. Beauregard to be the chief marshal on the occasion. All officers and soldiers who served on the Confederate side during the war are to be invited. A terrible disease has broken out in some portions of West Virginia. It is said that in McDowel County, where the disease has been raging over two hundred have died, and in one neighborhood known as “Dead Horse Cave.” There has been over one hundred cases within thirty days. The fearful disease is attributed to the mineral in the water. Gen. Reardon commanding the State troops in Colorado told Gen. Crook the other day that the militia had killed more Indians in the past three days than Crook had in the whole of his Arizona campaign with the United States government at his back. He further remarked that if the government troops were kept away five days longer Colorado would never again b e troubled with the hostile Utes. Union Ridge No. 38 has no politics and also Barnesville Sub Wheel met recently and resolved that they strike hands with No. 38 in denouncing politics. Now this movement don’t tally with the Wheel organ. That paper not long since said that no true Wheeler would vote either the Democratic or Republican ticket. However, we can but hoe the Wheels passing these resolutions are in earnest, and will thoroughly prove that they are working for the amelioration of the laboring class and not striving to put a few slick-tongued hypocrites in office. The Alabamian informs us that the engineering corps of the Sheffield & Seaboard R. R. reached Sheffield on last week. They have run a survey each way from Sheffield to Aberdeen. It will be remembered that the last survey made passed directly through Hamilton, and was said to be a more practicable route than the one west of here. Now this being true, if the road is built we feel confident that it will be built on the last survey. For in building on this route the road will tap some of the finest beds of coal and iron in this county and Franklin that can be found in Alabama. And will pass through some remarkably fine timbered lands. -------------- TRADE WITH THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC Wm. Cooper, a brilliant lawyer and doubtless the oldest member of the bar of this state died at his home in Tuscumbia on 23rd August. Jeff. Davis has accepted an invitation to attend the State Fair in Macon, Ga. in October. A DEMOCRATIC RECORD PURSUING THE MIGHTY DOLLAR FROM A WHEELER – Detroit, Ala. August 29th, 1887 Mr. Editor: AS I. J. LOYDS’S last letter in reply to mine was so foreign from any attack upon the Wheelers that I deem it unnecessary to say anything more, as the whole of his attack was against the Labor Union, Knights of Labor, Anarchists, and Communists, and my intention is to defend Wheelerism. So LOYD can only expect a reply to his last from Powderly, or Mrs. August Spies. As he has made a proper appeliaton of himself a lunatic would advise his neighbors to keep their eyes on him, as it is sometimes necessary to confine lunatics. Respectfully H. C. HARRIS THE WHEEL FADING INTO SMOKE The Burleson Wheel which had a membership of fifty-six has been formally dissolved by a vote of the members. We understand that four or five of the number voted to continue and all the balance for dissolution. We suppose that they have recognized the fact that the Wheel has been converted by its leaders from an agricultural into a political concern and have concluded not to swallow. Hurrah for Burleson. What Box will we hear from next? - [Franklin News] From present indications we suppose our neighbor will hear of a fearful crash somewhere in old Marion before a great while. The thing is beginning to look very “fishy” already, and a few more Agrarian articles like the one recently got on up by the fearless ex-Iowa democrat will do the work. NEW PARTY SCHEME ALABAMA NEWS Greenville has eight cotton warehouses. Sheffield has over two thousand inhabitants. The strike among the Birmingham workers is over. The cotton fields of South Alabama are white with the staple article. A gold mine valued at $1,000,000 has been discovered near Goodwater. The Washington Light Infantry at Mobile have disbanded. Montgomery received two hundred bales of new cotton one day last week. The cornerstone for the new State Normal College was laid at Troy on August 24th. The crops in the eastern portion of Lowndes County are said to be very short. Several prisons broke jail in Birmingham recently and made good their escape. No town in Alabama has a boom that can surpass the one Decatur is now enjoying. The Birmingham rolling mills cover about eleven acres of ground and employ 1,000 hands. The furniture dealers of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana, met in Convention at Birmingham on August 31 A three thousand dollar fund has been raised by Montgomery to entertain the President. Montgomery is not going to be left and don’t you forget it. A Birmingham woman recently donned male attire and started out to find her husband. She was pulled by the police and fined heavily. Ad for Simmons Liver Regulator ADVICE TO HUSBANDS ----------------- PAGE 2 THE MARION HERALD Published Every Thursday Hamilton, Alabama SHE PLAYED AT BALL – (poem) MR. JENIFER – A Conditional Inheritance and a Timely Warning – (short story) HUMAN NATURE – A Study Which Should be Made an Educational Element UNION OF REPUBLICS – The Federation about to be Formed between Five Central American States OVERLOADING THE TABLE SULTANIC WHIMS – How some fo the Turkish Autocrats Need to Pass Away Their Time PAGE 3 GENERAL HOW TO RIPEN BANANAS THE PLACE TO SEE LIFE THE LATEST CONUNDRUM HE EARNED HIS MONEY PECULIAR CUSTOMS – Baptismal Superstitions Prevailing Among the Transylvania Saxons BEAUTY ALWAYS WINS – Disagreeable Results of a Peculiar Bet Made by Twe Noblemen PUT TO THE TEST Small advertisements Ad for Pacific Liver Pills Ad for Prickly Ash Bitters Ad for Waltham Dust Proof Watches Small advertisements PAGE 4 THE MARION HERALD – Published Every Thursday 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. COUNTY DIRECTORY WALTER H. MATTHEWS Judge of Probate L. J. CLARK Circuit Clerk W. R. H. LODEN Sheriff and T. C. M. M. FRAZIER Treasurer J. P. FORD Tax Assessor W. H. KEY Regis. Chancery JOHN ARNOLD Co. Supt of Ed. W. W. WHITE Representative R. W. CASHION Coroner Rev. WESLEY STIDHAM County Surveyor JASPER N. GREEN County Surveyor Commissioners W. R. HALL W. T. BISHOP J. J. KUYKENDALL L. M. ALLEN Advertise Needing rain Sorghum making. Our farmers say that the cotton will average about half crop. Mr. MARION PEARCE of Bexar was in town on last week. Mr. W. T. BISHOP of Bexar gave the Herald a call on Saturday last. The cry for rain is becoming intense throughout the county. Mrs. C. L. WHITE of Detroit is visiting relatives in town this week. U. S. Commissioner D. N. COOPER is spending the week at Fayette C. H. The people have tried hard to get a stand of turnips but without success. There is no chickens roosting high or low about this town. The Methodist folks have about “cleaned ‘em up.” We had the pleasure of meeting our friend I. J. LOYD of Bull Mt. while in town on last Saturday and Sunday. Some towns can boast of their “booms” but when you want to see a crowd of pretty young ladies just strike Hamilton. Mr. GEORGE RUSH and family of Vernon, together with Mrs. Dr. BURNS spent part of this week and last with fiends in Hamilton. The health of the community in and near town is remarkably good but the doctors report considerable sickness in portions of the county. Miss DELLA KEY visited her relatives in town on last week. Her school will close at Pikeville soon after which she will return to her home in Hamilton. Rev. JOHN ARNOLD of Bexar, together with his charming and accomplished daughter Miss LUELLA, attended the revival meeting here on last Saturday and Sunday. Misses ELLA HAMILTON and LUELLA MARTIN of this place but who are teaching in the country, spent part of Saturday and Sunday last with relatives and fiends in town. Rev. JOHN W. WHITE and family of Russellville attended the protracted meeting at this place and spent a few days with their friends and relatives. The protracted meeting closed on last Tuesday night. The Rev. DUNCAN assisted by others after four days of unremitting labor was forced to close without so much as one convert. Failing to get our paper from Aberdeen this week we are a little late, but hope our readers will pardon the delay and we will endeavor to guard against such inconvenience in future. Judge MATTHEWS accompanied by the charming daughter Miss LENA left on last Monday for Huntsville, where she will attend school during the coming session. Her many friends in town regret to give her up but in doing so all hope that her stay in the beautiful little city will be both pleasant and profitable. KILLED HIS LITTLE COUSIN On 31st inst, a sad accident happened near Allen’s Factory in this county which spread a gloom over the entire community. OBE MORGAN, a thoughtless youth of fifteen, while handling a rifle which he supposed unloaded, playfully presented it at his little cousin EMMIE MORGAN, who was lying on a bed sick. The gun went off, shooting her in the eye, causing death in a short time. OBE MORGAN is the son of Mr. H. MORGAN, who is well known in the county. The little girl was his niece; about eleven years old and had no parents living. The distressed family have the sympathy of the entire community. Hackleburg, Ala. September 3rd, 1887 Mr. Editor: We again endeavor to rake up a few items for the Herald. News is awfully scarce of late, but notwithstanding all this we can’t afford to sit quietly by and see our town slumbering as it were in the realms of oblivion without making some sort of effort toward communicating with the outside world. But for fear lest we occupy too much space we will just hustle around and pick up a few locals this week. Dr. MARTIN of Hamilton passed through out town on last Sunday. Mr. ANDREW DUNCAN left town on Monday last for Mississippi, where he proposes spending the remainder of the year and is then going to Texas. Mr. S. A. WALKER left on last Wednesday morning to attend the North Alabama District conference to be held in Lawrence County. The school at this place presided over by Miss ELLIOTT KEY will close in about three weeks. She will then return to her home near Hamilton. We will close for this week owing to the aforesaid scarcity of news and in so doing will say our best wishes still linger around the Herald Office. GLEANER NO POLITICS IN NO. 38 AT a regular meeting of Union Ridge Lodge August. 27th, 1887, the following was unanimously adopted : Whereas union Ridge Sub Wheel, no. 38, marion Col., Ala. believes that the amelioration of the condition of the laboring classes of much more importance to our country than the amelioration of the condition of a few slick-tongued, sugar coated, broken down politicians, who have crept into our order under the garb of the farmer’s friend, but whose sol purpose it seems is to convert the Wheel into a political organization, hoping thereby to squirm into office. Therefore be it: Resolved – that we do most strenuously oppose the Wheel’s being made a political wheel, and that Bro. LANGLEY, our N. W. lecturer, mirrored our sentiments VERBATIM ER LITERTIM when he said that the Wheel as a Wheel had no right, under the constitution (and it is that by which we should be governed) to enforce any political party as a party; that the members are free to act with any political organization; that we have the right to discuss all political questions in the wheel, but not in a partisan sense. On motion it was ordered that the secretary request the editors of the State Wheel and Marion Herald to publish the above, and also the address delivered at the State wheel meeting in Ark. by ISAAC MCCRACKEN, our N. W. Pres. Said address is in the State Wheel Enterprise of August. 11th 1887 S. GILLILAND, Pres. Pro tem THOMAS KNIGHT, Sec. LETTER FROM MISSOURI – Wishes to see His Mother After an Absence of Thirty-five years Thayer, Oregon County, Mo. August 23rd 1887 Mr. Editor: Sir, I want to give you a little history of my life, and you can publish the same if you wish About thirty-five years ago I was taken along with two younger brother by my father, NEWTON DODSON, and brought to this state. I was at that time somewhere near 8 years of age, and from that day till the present I have never seen the face of my dear mother, whose maiden name was MILBERY CORDAL. She had one brother named ALIAS CORDAL. I also left one brother in Marion County, NEWTON SIRAS DODSON, and an aunt who married a man named FRANKLIN CREALE. Now, Mr. Editor, my motive in writing this letter is that after a lapse of 35 years I want to see my dear old mother’s face once more to love and be loved, though it comes late in life by a mother. Now if you can let nay of the parties hear of me or do anything to restore me to my mother, you will do me a kindness I will never forget. I will also send you the name of my grandfather ELISHA DODSON. I will now give you the names of some prominent citizens of the county, and will be greatly obliged if some of them will correspond with me. The following are the names of prominent citizens any one of whom seeing this letter will please write to me: ROBERT ROBUCK, ANDY CODY, JOHN BOYT, ADAM T. KING, LAWSON LOYD, CHARLES FRANKS (very old), GIDEON SOUTS, JOHN CUSTER, or any of the CRADACK’S or SPRUEL’S if living. Hoping that you will publish this I am very respectfully J. H. DODSON I wish to say to the people that in each case where I have been requested to appoint new Township Trustees I have done so. Will also state that in all townships where no request for new Trustees have been made, I have re-appointed the old ones en mass. Now we will give notice that the 1st Saturday and Friday before in October next will be the time appointed for settling with teachers. Hope all will attend promptly. Respectfully JOHN ARNOLD, Co. Supt. U. S. COURT PROCEEDINGS Hamilton, Ala. September 1st, 1887 Cases tried during the month of August by D. N. COOPER, U. S. Commissioner at Hamilton. HENRY TICE, working held to bail. WILLIAM ALVIS and SUNT BROWN, removing illicit spirits. Held to bail. TOM WEAVER, removing and working. Held to bail. A. B. NORTHCUTT, removing. Discharged. GREEN PEARSON, R. L. D. continued. ROBERTNICHOLS, furnishing and removing. Discharged. THOMAS COOLEY, illicit distilling. R. L. D. and removing. Held to bail. W. T. MCRAE, removing. Held to bail. BUD CLAYOTN, R. L. D. Held to bail. WILLIAM NORTON, illicit distilling, removing and furnishing. Held to bail. JOHN SMITH, removing illicit spirits. Discharged. TOM TURMEN, removing illicit spirits. Discharged. WILLIAM ALVIS and SUNT BROWN: illicit distilling and R. L. D. Held to bail. TOM COLBURN, R. L. D. Held to bail. THOMAS BIGHAM, discharged. J. R. THRIFT, R. L. D., Held to bail We most earnestly ask for the news items of interest from every neighborhood in Marion County. Now in making this request we do not mean to say that we want a long letter about something that would be of no interest to our readers, but the local happenings are what we want. So there is only one way by which this can be accomplished, and that is for the people to send it to us from their respective neighborhoods. It matters not about spelling or punctuation, we want the news, and earnestly hope that our subscribers will contribute this much toward making the Herald a good county paper. The great success of many agents employed by B. F. Johnson & Co of Richmond is a pretty good evidence of the excellence and popularity of the books they offer to sell through their agents. This is a reliable house, and any contract made with them you can depend on will be faithfully carried out. Barnesville, Ala. Sept. 3rd, 1887 At our regular meeting on 3rd inst., at Barnesville Subordinate Wheel No. 33 agree that we join hands with Union Ridge, No. 38 in opposing politics in the Wheel, but we do favor Wheel principles. J. W. OWEN, Pres. T. W. CARPENTER, Sec. ESTRAY NOTICE Notice is hereby given that JOHN W. HUGHES has taken up about his premises and posted before S. CAUDLE, Exff, J. P. in and for said county according to law on the 21st day of August 1887. One black horse mule, about 15 years old, appraised at $50.00 and has filed the papers in this office for record as the law directs. WALTER H. MATTHEWS, Judge of Probate NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land office at Huntsville, Ala. August 5th 1887 Notice is hereby given that the following named settlers have file 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, Alabama at Hamilton, Ala. on September 26th 1887. Hd No. 9077 MALACIAH BURLASON for the SW ¼ of NE ¼ and NW ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 20 T 10 R 12 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: W. R. H. LODEN of Hamilton post office, JAMES C. WEATHERLY Chalk Bluff, EPHRAM W. ARMSTRONG and THOMAS BURLASON of Pearce’s Mills, Ala FRANK COLEMAN, Register NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land office at Huntsville, Ala. July 5th 1887 Notice is hereby given that the following named settlers have file 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, Alabama at Hamilton, Ala. on September 2nd 1887, Hd. No. 1096 CHARLES M. WEEKS, for the E ½ of NW ¼ Sec 21 T 13 R 13 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: FRANK KUYKENDALL, JACKSON BERRYHILL, JEFFERSON BERRYHILL, ANDERSON GANN, all of Ur post office, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register CONSOLIDATED NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala. August 24th 1887 Notice is hereby given that the following named settlers have filed notice of their intention to make final proof in support of their claims, and that said proof will be made before the Judge or in his absence the clerk Circuit Court Marion County, Ala at Hamilton, Ala on October 22nd, 1887, Hd. Viz: No. 6518 WILLIAM R. SELF for the S ½ of NE ¼ Sec 32 T 10 R 12 West. No. 3143 THOMAS BURLASON for the SE ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 29 and NE ¼ of NE ¼ Sec 32 T 10 R 12 West. They name the following witnesses to prove their continued residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: THOMAS BURLASON, MALICHI GC. BURLASON, JAMES F. BURLASON, FRANCIS M. HOWELL, WILLIAN N. SELF, E. W. ARMSTRONG, JOSEPH T. ARMSTRONG, all of Pearce’s Mills, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register Ad for Comfort Corset STATE NORMAL COLLEGE, Florence, Alabama. T. J. MITCHELL, PH. D. President. Superior Advantages. This Institution offers superior advantages for the Professional Training of Teachers in all grades of school work. No Further Examination. The completion of any one of its three courses of study entitles the student to teach in any of the schools of the state without further examination. Tuition is Free. To those preparing to teach, tuition is free and good board in pleasant private families cost only ten dollar a month. Session opens September 20th. The next session will open on the above date. Requests for Catalogues and other information will receive prompt attention. NON-RESIDENT NOTICE State of Alabama, Marion County ELIZA JOHNSON Vs JACKSON JOHNSON In Chancery at Hamilton 12th District, Northwestern Chancery Division In this cause it is made to appear to the Register by the affidavit of the complainant that the said JACKSON JOHNSON is a nonresident of the state and that his particular place of residence is at Quincy, in the state of Mississippi and further that in belief of said affiant, the defendant is over twenty-one years of age. It is therefore ordered by the Register that publication be made in the Marion Herald a newspaper published in the town of Hamilton in said county for four consecutive weeks requiring him the said JACKSON JOHNSON to answer or demur to the bill of complaint in this cause by the 30th day of September 1887 or in thirty days thereafter, a decree pro confesso may be taken against him. Done at office in Hamilton this 29th day of August 1887 W. H. KEY, Register NON-RESIDENT NOTICE State of Alabama, Marion County LUCY LAWSON Vs JAMES LAWSON In Chancery at Hamilton 12th District, Northwestern Chancery Division In this cause it is made to appear to the Register by the affidavit of the complainant that the said JAMES LAWSON is a nonresident of the state and that his particular place of residence is unknown and further that in belief of said affiant, the defendant is over twenty-one years of age. It is therefore ordered by the Register that publication be made in the Marion Herald a newspaper published in the town of Hamilton in said county for four consecutive weeks requiring him the said JAMES LAWSON to answer or demur to the bill of complaint in this cause by the 30th day of September 1887 or in thirty days thereafter, a decree pro confesso may be taken against him. Done at office in Hamilton this 29th day of August 1887 W. H. KEY, Register 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 Ad for the Palmer Boss Church – picture of churn – Largest barrel church factory in the world. It makes more butter, a superior quality of butter, a harder, better grained butter, than any other churn sold. No Church works so easily. No Churn cleans so easily. It keeps out cold air; it keeps out hot air; it is perfect so they all say. Ask your dealer for the “Palmer Boss Church.” And if he does not keep it, send to us for circular and testimonial letters. H. H. palmer & Co. Rockford, Ill. Ad for Palmer Washer – picture of washing machine – ladies and laundries should investigate this machine at once. It will save you time, labor and money. The only washer built on the true principle. Will save its cost in three months. You have same control of clothes as with your hands and wash board and will wash them in half the time, as you can use hot suds while rubbing them, without putting your hands in the water. Don’t spoil your hands and temper or allow your laundries to ruin your clothes with acids. Ask your dealer for “The Best Washer” or send of circular to H. H. Palmer & Co., Rockford, Ill. 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