Marion County AlArchives News.....THE MARION HERALD October 27, 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, 3:52 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History October 27, 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 OCTOBER 27, 1887 NO. 29 THE MARION HERALD issued every Thursday by the Herald Publishing Co. 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 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. 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. 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 THE NEW SOUTH The N. Y. Tribune says: “According to tables given by the enterprising Manufacturers Record of Baltimore, investment in manufacturing and other industrial establishments at the south during the first half of 1887 have exceeded $150,000,000…………….. WILL HAVE TO GO The man who takes a newspaper and doesn’t pay for it will have to go. The postal law now makes it a larceny to take a newspaper from the mail and refuse to pay for it. A short time ago an Illinois paper brought suit against forty- three men who would not pay their subscriptions and obtained judgment in each case of the full amount of the claim……….. The Abbott-Chandler affair has been discussed by nearly all the leading journals of the country……….. Farmers now report the cotton crop considerably shortened and say it will not come up to the expectation of a month ago. – [Winston Herald] OUR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES We notice that from all parts of our state come encouraging reports in reference to the condition of our institutions of learning. There will be a much larger attendance the present year than in former years, and this is a most hopeful sign for our state. We understand there are already over three hundred students at the University, and that their number will soon be largely increased. At the other institution of learning there has been an increase in numbers in about the same proportion. Parents are making every sacrifice to secure the education of their children. They see and feel the necessity of it, and are anxious to discharge the obligations they owe to their children. They wish to see them grow up around them, intelligent well informed citizens, qualified to discharge acceptably every duty of life, and to take an honorable position in society. IF the is duty is neglected, and the son or daughter is allowed to grow up in ignorance, wheat will be the reflections of the father in his old age when he realizes that he has neglected his child, and left him to scuffle with the world, unaided by education, and unprepared to discharge intelligently the common duties of life. – [West Alabamian] The state of Alabama is surely in need of a great manual training school, a school where her youth may be taught in practical mechanics, moulding, mining, engineering, etc. We have to send out of the state for the foremen of our foundries and machine shops, the managers of our furnaces and rolling mills, our mining engineers, and in fact for all of the skilled labor we employ. Ought this state of affairs to exist when we have hundreds of young men who could be educated in Alabama to fill these places, young men who for the want of such an institution must go out of the state to acquire it or else be forced into other vocations already over-crowded? – [Enquirer] The land department at Washington has given notice that millions of acres of railroad indemnity lands will be open to settlement by homesteaders and preemptors within a few months. These lands are among the best lands ever offered west of the Mississippi river and in the gulf states. Such an opportunities for the young people of this nation to acquire real estate for the mere taking will never occur again, as the public lands will by another year be practically exhausted. Thereafter the struggle for homes and land will resemble Europe. All who are about to start for the west or to locate on southern railroad lands will find Copp’s Settlement Guide of special service – published by Henry N. Copp, Washington D. C. price 25 cents. It tells all about the homestead, pre-emption, timber culture, and other land laws how to decipher surveyed townships, section and quarter-section corners; how long residence must be continued; what settlement and improvement must be shown; how and on what grounds contests against abandoned and illegal entries can be commenced, location of government land officers, and it will doubtless save many settlers from the loss of their land and improvements as designing people often mislead uninformed settlers as to the requirements of the settlement laws. The Montgomery Dispatch intimates that there will be about fifteen candidates for the 51st Congress in this, the 6th District…………….. ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN The world is older than you by several years; for thousands of years it has been full of better and smarter young men than yourself………………. The Russellville Idea of last week said: “A large lot of ‘Wheeler’ cotton was brought to town last Saturday, but the buyer failed to turn up, thereby disappointing all those who brought their cotton in.” The President was met at Omaha by an Indian band. New York, Oct. 18 – Noon – The French steamship Britthannie, which arrived on the 13th inst., from Marseilles and Naples, and has been held by the health officer at the upper quarantine for observation, was this morning sent down to the lower quarantine, four cases of cholera having been found aboard of her………….. The Alabama editions of the Montgomery Advertiser and Dispatch were brimming voer with valuable information. The same fever that has been so prevalent in Franklin County is reported as raging throughout Jackson County. The latest prediction of Professor Wiggins is that Christmas will come on Dec. 25th. A FASCINATING GIRL – (story continued from previous editions) Ad for Simmons Liver Regulator --------------- PAGE 2 THE MARION HERALD Published Every Thursday Hamilton, Alabama HOW EASY IT IS – (poem) INDIAN THUGS – Men who Commit Murder as a Religious Rite TALMAGE’S SERMON – New-Fangled Beliefs vs. The Religion of the Bible PAGE 3 TAFFY FOR THOUSANDS – How Candy is Manufactured in the Large Factories of the Country VENETIAN GLASS – The Modern Methods of Producing the Lovely Article RED-HEADED GIRLS – Why a White Horse Invariably Appears When they are Seen Jokes Small advertisements PAGE 4 THE MARION HERALD – JAMES S. CLEMENTS, Editor. Subscription Rates – One year in advance - $1.00 Six months in advance - $0.50 Three months in advance $0.25 In clubs of ten or more, 80 cents each. ADVERTISING RATES One square, sixty words, 1st insertion $1.00 Each subsequent insertion - .50 Local notices, 10 cents a line. Professional Cards, per year, $5 Announcing Candidates for District offices, $10, County Offices, $5 A liberal reduction will be made on large advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect inserted at half price. THURSDAY – October 27, 1887 TOWN AND COUNTRY Read the letter from the Tax Assessor in another column. Our readers will please pardon the scarcity of locals this week. Mrs. W. T. GAST, whose illness we mentioned on last week is now we are pleased to say much better. Rev. SLAUGHTER preached an excellent sermon at this place on last Sunday night. Abstract and Field Notes have been received by the Probate Judge. All parties wishing to look after their lands can call and see them at any time. On Friday night of last week the court house was broken into by an unknown party and three indictments stolen there from. Not being satisfied with destroying the bills alone, they broke open a desk and scratched three names off of the docket. W. W. CALLAHAN Esq. after spending a few weeks in our quiet little town during which time he made many friends, decided on last week to return to his old home of Moulton. It is with regret that we give him up but in doing so will say that the best wishes of the Herald accompany him. The still delivered at this place some days ago looks as if it had done service in Revolutionary days. If the boys are going to play that kind of racket the collector will not get much pay for receiving them – if his pay is in keeping with the value of the still. The season for possum hunting is now at hand and consequently the cotton crop that is the crop of the colored man is not being so rapidly harvested as a few weeks back. If there is any other thing for which a colored ma is famous we believe it is that of possum hunting. He can tramp over more miles of territory catch more possums (and sometimes chickens) in one night than any other human being on the face of the earth. PLAN OF APPOINTMENTS FOR BEXAR CIRCUIT FOR THE NEW ECCLESIASTICAL YEAR 1st – SHILOH - Saturday before the 1st Sunday in December at 11 a.m. 2nd – WESLEY CHAPEL – 1st Sun. in December at 11 a.m. 3rd – CENTRAL POINT – 1st Sunday in December at 3 p.m. 4th – STREET SPRINGS, Sat before 2nd Sunday in December at 11 a.m. 5th – MT. ZION, Saturday before 2nd Sunday in Dec. at 3 p.m. 6th – BEXAR ACADEMY, Saturday night before 2nd Sunday in Dec. 7th – BEXAR CHRUCH, 2nd Sunday in December at 11 a.m. 8th – NEW BETHEL, 2nd Sunday in December at 3 p.m. 9th – BETHLAHEM, 3rd Sunday in December at 11 a.m. 10th – NEWBERG, 3rd Sunday in December at 3 p.m. 11th – EBENEZER, Saturday before 4th Sunday in December at 11 a.m. 12th – HAMILTON, Saturday night before the 4th Sunday in December 13th – HAMILTON, 4th Sunday in December at 11 a.m. 14th - SMYRNA, 4th Sunday in December at 3 p.m. I take this method of returning thanks to the people for the kindness shown me during my ministry with you and pray that you may continue to prosper and grew in grace, and I most earnestly ask an interest in your prayers. The STEWARDS will please meet me at Detroit the 9th of November 1887, for the purpose of paying off the assessment. G. M. G. DUNCAN, P. C. Atlanta will have another election on prohibition on November 26th. The Mexicans are going to make an amendment to their constitution in order that a president will be eligible to a second term. A reputashun (sic) once broken may possibly be repaired, but he world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was – Josh Billings The Moulton Advertiser after having gained a splendid victory over the State Wheel organ now expresses a desire to have a “friendly bout” with the Russellville Idea on the robber tariff question. The Alabama State Bar Association will meet in its annual session at Montgomery on December 14th………. ----------- PARTIES WHOSE LANDS HAVE BEEN SOLD FOR TAXES I wish to say to all whom it may concern that on the 27th day of February 1887 the Legislature passed an act for the relief of parties whose land have been sold for taxes and bid in by the state. Said act provides that said land may be redeemed with a twelve months from the passage of said act, by those to whom it belonged. Below is a list of lands sold for the non-payment of taxes in Marion County, and bid in by the state….(list follows of land descriptions – no names – of lands sold in 1885-83 (sic), Sold in 1879, Sold in 1876,) All of the above lands can be redeemed by parties who are interested if applicants be made at my office by the 27th day of February 1888. This Oct. 26th 1887 J. P. FORD, T. A. Marion Co. The following resolution adopted by the Lawrence County Wheel at its last meeting of that county endorses the sentiments of the State Wheel organ. Note the following resolution: Resolved further, that we do not endorse in full the sentiments and teachings of the Alabama State Wheel, which is the acknowledged organ of the order.” After passing the above resolution as committee composed of T. J. MITCHELL, JAS. W. SANDLIN, and W. J. WASSON recommended that the Subordinate Wheel of which JOURD WHITE is a member be requested to discipline Bro. JOURD WHTIE for his conduct. We suppose the conduct referred to is the hot shot JOURD has been throwing into some of the Bro. members. A dozen Sub. Wheels may discipline the Advertiser man but so long as he see anything in the Wheel that is in any way detrimental to the welfare of the people the wheel may listen for the report of his big gun, which never fires but with telling effect. OUR TEXAS LETTER The following letter was written for the Herald several weeks ago but by some means was mis-sent and consequently failed to reach us. We publish it however, as the writer was once a citizen of Marion, and has many friends in the county who will doubtless be glad to hear from him. HILL COUNTY, TEXAS Mr. Editor: As I have been a subscriber to your paper for some time and have never written to you before, I now wish to say through your columns that I have many friends in and around Hamilton that I would like very much to shake hands with. I have been in Hill County for some time and I think it is a good farming country. The range however is about gone in this section and I have just returned from looking out a new country. I traveled about three weeks looking at some of the northwest Texas soil, also six days in the Indian Territory, in some places there were hardly any roads, but deer and turkey were abundant. In my travels I journeyed over into Green County, which is a new county not long since established, and people are just beginning to settle it up. It is situated about 300 miles northwest of Hill County, and I have decided to settle in green. I have a small bunch of cattle I aim to carry there, it is a good stock country and the land is very fine. The nearest railroad to where I am going is 37 miles, but a road is now being built which when finished will run within fifteen miles of where I proposed locating. Well, as I do not wish to occupy too much space in your valuable paper I will close by sending best respects to all and hoping that my few scattering remarks may be of some interest to my friends in Old Marion, and that great success may attend the Herald. J. Q. W. HAMILTON Male and Female School. The next session of this school will commence on Monday October 24th, 1887 and continue five months. Second session will commence on Monday following the close of First session. Rates of Tuition: First grade, per month $1.25 Sec. grade, per month $1.50 Third grade, per month $2.00 Fourth grade, per month $2.75 ELLIOTT KEY, Princ’l Dr. M. H. KEY, Ass’t NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, ala. September 28th, 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 November 21st, 1887. Hd. No. 12319 HENRY W. HUGHES for the NE ¼ Sec 3 T 12 R 14 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: ROBERT C. PAUL, WILLIAM A. CANTRELL, JAMES B. CANTRELL, and J. N. CANTRELL, all of Pikeville, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, ala. September 28th, 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 November 21st, 1887. Hd. No. 7018 JOHN PARKER, for the N ½ of NE ¼ Sec 17 T 10 R 14 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: JOHN M. MITCHELL, JAMES TAYLOR, JOSEPH W. PALMER, and JAMES W. COOPER, all of Hamilton, Alabama. FRANK COLEMAN, Register NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, ala. June 10th, 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 November 14th, 1887. Adjoining Farm Hd. No. 9953 ANDREW J. KELLY for the NW ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 1 T 11 R 13 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: ANDERSON H. BURLASON of Hamilton, ROBERT S. MOBLEY, EPHRAM F. THOMPSON and JAMES P. PEARCE, all of Pearce’s Mills, Alabama FRANK COLEMAN, Register MORTGAGEE’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to the provisos of a certain mortgage executed on the 8th day of February 1886 by J. C. CAMP and his wife R. E. CAMP to WM. EVANS, to secure the payment of certain indebtedness therein mentioned, due and payable to WM. EVANS on the 1st day of January 1887; and of record on pages 220 and 221 of Volume A of the land record of Marion County, Alabama the undersigned as such mortgagee will on Tuesday November 1st 1887 between the hours of 11 o’clock a.m. and 3 p.m. at Cap’s Mill in Marion County, Alabama offer for sale at public venue for cash to the highest bidder the following described property conveyed in said mortgage, situated in Marion County, Alabama, viz: The W ½ of Sec 23 T 11 R 16 and NE ¼ of Sec 2 T 11 R 16 and NW ¼ of Sec 24 T 11 R 16 and W ½ of the NE ¼ Sec 24 T 11 R 16 and NE ¼ of he SW ¼ Sec 24 T 11 R 16 and N ½ of the SE ¼ Sec 24 T 11 R 16 and S ½ of NE ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 24 T 11 R 16. Also one 12 H. P. Lane & Bodly engine and boiler, one Queen of the South Grist Mill, one Balb & Co. Saw Mill and fixtures, one Brown Cotton Gin and Feeder, one Southern Standard Cotton Press with fixtures, one Thresher, one log cart, one Log Wagon and belting, tools and implements belonging to above machinery. WM. EVANS, Mortgagee HACKLEBURG LOCALS Hackelburg, Ala., Oct. 23, 1887 Considered sickness in this neighborhood. Miss A. E. MIXON is very sick with fever. Mr. LEVI FREDERICK, Mr. W. L. JACKSON, his wife and three children are all sick with fever. We hope they may all recover soon. Mrs. MARGRET GREEN’S child died on last night, aged about one year. Rev. KAISEY will preach at the residence of B. L. LINDSEY, on the 1st Sunday in November and Saturday before. Rev. MAYS preached a 3 hours sermon at New Prospect church on last Sunday concerning the Devil’s table which is always set with a tainted shoat upon it. The moonshiners of Franklin Co. are not all dead yet, we saw ore of them the other day reeling on his horse and enquiring for some one to whom he could sell two gallons of “good corn liquor” but failed to find a purchaser in this town. GLEANER 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. Ad for The Ithaca Gun – Damascus Steel Barrels – Best English Twist Barrels - $35 –picture of gun TAX COLLECTOR’S NOTICE Notice is hereby given that I will attend at the different precincts in Marion County at the times advertised by my postal in each beat for the purpose of collecting the state and County tax for the year 1887. All tax payers are by law required to meet me and pay their tax at once. All tax payers will please meet me and pay their tax, as I will be compelled to strictly collect as the law directs. This October 5th 1887 W. R. H. LODEN, Tax Collector 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 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. Ad for Champion Lamp 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. 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 advances to merchants and farmers. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/themario130nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 24.5 Kb