Marion County AlArchives News.....THE MARION HERALD September 29, 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, 3:48 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archvies And History September 29, 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 29, 1887 NO. 25 THE MARION HERALD JAMES S. CLEMENTS, Editor Hamilton, Alabama Thursday September 29, 1887 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. PROFESSIONAL CARDS W. W. CALLAHAN, Attorney at Law – Hamilton, Alabama, will practice in Marion and adjoining counties. 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. A FASCINATING GIRL – (short story continued from previous issue) Ad for Simmons Liver Regulator Of interest to farmers The Salvation Army is making things lively in Selma. Large crowds attend the meeting and some of the “big ones” have been converted. CHILDREN ------------------- PAGE 2 THE MARION HERALD Published Every Thursday Hamilton, Alabama BATTLEDOOR – (poem) A CURIOUS CASE – An Interesting Story from a Lawyer’s Diary PLAYING SCARECROW – how a Busy Editor Made Good Use of a Lady Caller MARIE ANTOINETTE’S DIADEM CHEAPER FENCING – An Important Question that is Rapidly Growing in Interest WEBSTER AND POLK – The Liberality of the Former and Picayunishness of the Latter EARLY INFORMATION PITH AND POINT – jokes RHODE ISLAND COAL – Valuable Beds of Mineral underlying the Surface of the Little State FRUIT ON THE FARM – Timely Advice on Canning, Drying, and Evaporating Orchard Products SCIENCE IN FARMING – Why Agriculturalists Have No Reason for Rashly Condemning It PAGE 3 FOREIGN GOSSIP CLEVER MIKE JOHNSON–a Brooklyn Detective Tells How He Was Duped by the Noted Burglar FASHION MATTERS – Costumers and Originators of Styles Looking Months Ahead THE CHECK WAS FORTHCOMING HE NEVER STUTTERED Small advertisements Ad for Waltham Watches Ad for Dr. Pierce’s Little Liver Pills and Pleasant Purgative Pellets Ad for Floyd’s Candies Ad for Iuka Normal Institute Ad for Swaynes Ointment Ad for Smith’s Bile Beans PAGE 4 THE MARION HERALD – Published Every Thursday by the Herald Publishing Co. 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 PLUNKETT IN POLITICS – (poem) TOWN AND COUNTRY Cool weather. The potato ‘cra p’ is said to be very good A long looked for and much needed rain fell here on last Friday night. Road working is now the order of the day. Getting ready for court you see. Several bales of cotton passed through our town this week en route to Aberdeen. We were pleased to meet and shake the hand of our friend JAMES M. GAST while in town on last week. Our worthy and efficient County Treasurer M. M. FRAZIER of Pikeville was in town on last week. Mr. W. T. GAST we regret to say is very unwell this week. Hope he will be quite well again soon. Mr. W. R. WHITE and W. H. KEY Esq. made a flying business trip to Caudle this week. Miss LUELLA MARTIN of this place but what has been teaching near Caudle returned home on last week. It is with please that we welcome “Snowflake” to a place in our columns this week. Write again. Large audience at prayer –meeting on last Thursday night. It should always be so. Miss DELLA KEY having completed her school at Pikeville returned to her home near town on Saturday last. Rev. ROWE of Allen’s factory preached an interesting sermon at the school house on last Saturday night. We invite your attention to the notice of the Alabama great North-western Railway Company which appears in another column. Miss ELLIOTT KEY returned from Hackleburg on Friday last, she having completed her school near that place We hope our readers will pardon the scarcity of news this week as we have been very unwell and consequently could not set the type. FROM ALLEN’S FACTORY Allen’s Factory, Ala. September 19th, 1887 Mr. Editor: Everything is very quiet here now. Most of the men are working on the railroad. We are having three regular trains a week, and the rumbling of the car wheels may now be heard here on Monday, Wednesday and Friday passing each way on the S. & B. R. R. Mr. HUGH TESNER, one of our citizens, has just returned from the S. & B. road where he has been very sick of fever, he is now convalescent. The school at thisplace will close this week. Mr. L. M. ALLEN of Falls has just returned from a trip North with an immense stock of goods which he will open up immediately. He will also start up his mammoth cotton mill in a few days. We are having some very dry weather at present, which is very injurious to our turnip crop and late vegetation generally. Quite a number of distinguished gentlemen from Sheffield, Tuscumbia, Atlanta, Ga. Ohio, and other places were out on the line last Friday prospecting for different resources. Muscadines are very abundant on the creek now, consequently all the boys (those who aren’t big enough to go to the railroad) may be seen every Sunday on the creek banks, notwithstanding the old folks cries, “They’ll give youn’s the chills shore.” I just wonder why the city of Hackelburg doesn’t get on a “boom.” SNOWFLAKE We notice in a recent issue of the State Wheel a correspondent writing from Hamilton, under the non de plume of Dwarf. This Dwarf proceeds to grind out a most wonderful charge against the Herald concerning the Agrarianism it sees creeping into the Wheel. Well, Dwarfy, we will admit that we were a little surprised to learn that communistic members of your sacred order were in favor of such laws being enacted. The Dwarf refers to an article in the Herald of September 1st, as being mere twaddle. Now in that twaddle article we only wanted to know of Democrats who were also members of the Wheel, if they were in favor of enacting such laws as advocated by the Wheel organ when it said: “The division of the land today among the people giving each one just as much as he could profitably cultivate, would make the land lords poor, but would not make the poor rich. The thieves had better look around for some other name by which to call the wealth producers. Agrarian is a synonym for justice, and will become the great battle cry of freedom.” Was it because the Herald could not approve of such communistic stuff as the above that caused the Dwarf to denounce its teachings? No, we got too close to the Dwarf when we said something about broken down politicians squirming into office. We think we know the Dwarf, and if we are correct in our supposition the title of Dwarf is a proper appellation. If we are correctly informed the Dwarf has never been able to get into office by a vote of the people and he now looks to the Wheel as being his last and only chance. He accuses us of not wanting the people to do their own reading and thinking. This is too utterly absurd to be listened to. Of course we are willing for each individual to read and think that they may be well qualified to form their opinions in the premises. But this, as in fact all other grievance brought by the Dwarf, are by no means the ones that are at present weighing so heavily on his political frame. He is very bold in saying that if the Herald does not want to lose vantage ground it had better stop its twaddle. Well, we know the Dwarf and know about how much influence he can wield over the people, so we will just say to him that he and his sort cannot muzzle the Herald. As she will continue to raise her voice in behalf of justice toward all, and in no way can she be kept from performing her duty as best she can when the interests of her people are endangered. In conclusion we will say to the Dwarf, if he wishes to have another fling at CLEMENTS, and the Herald he will please come out from behind his screen and let the people see him as he is. – [Ed] Work is progressing rapidly on the Sheffield road. HIGHWAYMEN IN BIRMINGHAM A horrible affair occurred in Birmingham on 15th inst. Mr. Joe Meade accompanied by his cousin, a young lady, were on their way home whey they were attacked…………………. The correspondent of the Birmingham Age who accompanied the revenue collectors on the raid recently made in this county and at which time a still house was destroyed is certainly gifts on grinding out long windy articles. He describes our country in a most shocking manner, and talks about Mr. BUCK POPE as being a most desperate character, which is all false, as he is a very quiet fellow and by no means a bad man. He then proceeds to talk about “the wilds” of Marion and the reader unacquainted with our county if inclined to give heed to his article would at once decide that a life on the plains was preferable to being exposed to the peril that a life in Marion would subject him to. In this, we wish to say that the Age man woefully misrepresents our county and does our people a great injustice. We have no “wilds.” It is true, however, that we have a few men engaged in making moonshine whiskey, and a few illicit distilleries, but thanks to the good of our county they are fast fading away and ere long will only be remembered as a thing of the past. We suppose however, that our highly esteemed contemporary is at times hard run for news and forced to seek it in our county. To which we have no objection but would only be glad if her correspondents would adhere more to the truth and not endeavor to make people believe that our county is uncivilized and that we are a regular organized band of moonshiners. ----------------- HACKLEBURG ITEMS Hackelburg, Ala. September 24th, 1887 Mr. Editor: We had a light shower of rain here on yesterday morning, enough to lay the dust and cool the atmosphere. Mr. J. B. HAYNES of Greenville and W. GARDNER of Knoxville, Tenn. are in our town this week. They are agents for the Palmetto Lightning Road Company of Philadelphia, Pa. they met with very good success in this neighborhood, having sold $112.00 worth the first day. Miss ELLIOTT KEY’S school has closed and she has retuned to her home near Hamilton. Miss ELLIOTT has made a good faithful teacher and will be greatly missed, especially in our Sunday School. She is the best teacher we have had in many years. Mr. RILEY BREWER is attending the Sparks Association in Mississippi this week. Revs. J. M. COLEMAN, GEORGE ROWE and W. R. BALLARD are attending a meeting near Bexar, this week. Mr. D. F. CLAY and family are visiting relatives near Hamilton this week. GLEANER August Spies, one of the Chicago Anarchists who is to hang in November next, it will be remembered was married not long since to Miss Van Zants by proxy. Wonder if he wants to hang by the same process. NOTICE! NOTICE! Pursuant to, and by virtue of a commission issued by the Hon. Secretary of State on the 21st day of September 1887 to the undersigned as incorporators of the Alabama great Northwestern railway Company, we will open or cause to be opened, books of subscription to the Capital stock of said Railway Company on the 12th day of November 1887, at the court house of the county of Marion, in the town of Hamilton, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. E. B. JOSEPH W. F. JOSEPH J. W. WOOLFOLK GRAND AND PETIT JURORS The following is a list of the grand and petit jurors drawn to serve at the next term of the Marion County Circuit Court: GRAND JURORS: LEE WEATHERFORD, JOHN W. OWEN, A. D. MITCHELL, JOHN M. COLEMAN, W. A. WEEKS, W. W. WHITE, JOSEPH STUCKEY, J. G. DONALDSON, G. W. HARBIN, W. C. GANN, JOHN R. PHILLIPS, GORAN CANTRELL, ABE SHIREY, W. A. HALL, and A. M. JONES. PETIT JURORS – FIRST WEEK JOHN STUCKEY, R. A. WEBSTER, JOSH HILL, JAMES ADKINS, HALBY PALMER, HARRISON MORGAN, BURNEY BROCK, PERRY GREEN, PETER R. CLEMENTS, J. A. NORTHCUTT, C. L. HALEY, THOMAS NIX, JOHN F. LOWE, I. J. LOYD, WM. BURLASON, BABE SHOTTS, JOHN B. WOOD, A. L. SMITH, R. S. BOTTOMS, AARON KELLY, BURR CANTRELL, GID GREEN, A. J. HAMILTON, T. J. FARRIS, W. H. ESTIS, R. P. SPANN, R. E. DUNN, A. M. DICKINSON, JOSEPH WILEY, and M. M. COX. 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. Chicago’s convicted Anarchists received the seal of death at Ottawa, Ill on 14th inst the decision of the lower courts having been confirmed by the Illinois Supreme bench. S even of the anarchists are sentenced to be hanged in November next, and the eight to serve a term of fifteen years in the penitentiary. NON-RESIDENT NOTICE State of Alabama, Marion County HAMILTON and WHITE, pltffs Vs JOHN KIRKSEY, Deft W. R. H. LODEN, garnishee Before me as Justice of the Peace, this 3rd day of September 1887 came the plaintiffs in the above entitled cause, and it appearing that property belonging to the defendant has been levied on by virtue of a garnishment issued from my office, and the garnishee have answered 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 JOHN KIRKSEY once a week for three successive weeks before the 27th day of October 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, Justice of the peace 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 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. 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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