Marion County AlArchives News.....THE MARION HERALD November 24, 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, 3:55 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archvies And History November 24, 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 NOVEMBER 24, 1887 NO. 33 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. PATENTS 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 “REDUCE THE TAXES” The general assembly at the last session reduced the rate of taxation for state purposes from six mills on the dollar to five an a half mills for the present year, and to five mills for next year, the assessment for which will begin on the 1st of January next…………………… Alabamians have been favored or not favored just as you please to style it for some time by the daily papers of the state with interviews with Senator Morgan and other state notables. While these interviews show the real enterprising spit of the state press and the willingness of our public officials to make known their ideas and views to the people, there seems to be a mistake somewhere. Or in other words these enterprising dailies have so mixed n d tangled things that it is really impossible for the people to decide what the Senator did say or what he didn’t say……………. We are indebted to some friend for a copy of the San Diegan, published at San Diegan, California. Mr. J. M. Julian, brother of Mr. Wash Julian, of this county is its editor. We make the following extract from an editorial on Alabama and her boom: We have walked the mountain road from Moulton to Tuscaloosa, and drank from the cool, blue springs which have no bottom, and trotted over the beautiful little pebbly rivers of the section on no better bridges than a common log. Lived a short time at Fayette Court House, when Mr. WORLEY was building the first temple of justice, and old JOHNNY MORRROW, WILLIS BRYANT, and their friends, drank the grog shops dry of rum; when coffee was four bits a pound, and only to be had at Tuscaloosa. We have followed our trade in that section when A. MCCARTY edited the Moulton Advertiser, and before SAM PETERS was born, almost; while WILEY CONNER told the people news in his Courtland Herald. Worked on the Flag of the Union at Tuscaloosa, when the talented A. B. MEEK was its editor; and for a day or two in the Montgomery officer where WILLIAM L. YANCY did up the Mail. Yes, we have been all over there, and we should like to have a look at you now, after an absence of a little over half a century, with only one visit, four years ago, to the scenes of our childhood, but some of them dwell with us yet, still linger in memory’s chamber. We have shot wild chickens and caught possums on the Luxapalila while old Judge SHORTRIDGE dealt out Justice at Fayette, and bathed time and again in North River. Have, through the researches of our dead father in those then apparent mountain wastes, known of your coal and iron for more than sixty years, and had hints of more valuable metals hid away in mountains, caves, valleys and water courses. Alabama is not older than the writer. In fact, not so old by four years. We lived and breathed there when the state was thought to be the graveyard of the Union, as it is now a safe sanitarium for the consumptive. We were there before some of the fine old pines grew, whose leaves moan out a wail as the breeze touches them as though angels were really coming. – [Fayette Journal] TRANSPLANTING SKIN FROM A FROG A most disastrous fire at Decatur on last week; about $100,000 worth of property destroyed. The ex-Confederate surgeons of South Carolina have formed a State Association. A DETECTIVE VICAR – by Miss M. F. Braddon – (short story – to be continued) Ad for Simmons Liver Regulator PAGE 2 THE MARION HERALD Published Every Thursday Hamilton, Alabama A NAME FOR THE BABY – (poem) MIND YOUR BUSINESS – If you Don’t Know How, Read this Sketch ABOUT QUICKSILVER – Where this Valuable Mineral is Found in Large Quantities A GOOD BUSINESS EYE TALMAGE’S SERMON – A Discourse on the Secret of Success in Life PAGE 3 HINTS ON FALL SOWING – The Advantages Incident to a Thorough Preparation of the Soil HOW TO SHOCK CORN – A Method That Recommends Itself by its Simplicity Dominoes is (sic) a favorite fame with the blind. The dominoes are made the same as usual, except that the disks on them are sunken further into the ivory or wood. Euchre is often played with the dominoes by the blind. Why the blind are particularly partial to dominoes is because of the quickness with which the game can be played and the ease in distinguishing the different blocks. HONESTY OF WOMEN – A Writer Claims that It is Due to Their Inexperience in Money Matters GENERAL A GRANT ANECDOTE – How the Silent General was Amused by an Iowa Toper Ad for Prickly Ash Bitters Ad for Kress Fever Tonic 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 – November 24, 1887 U. S. Deputy Marshall WHITE of this place left for Huntsville on last week. Mr. J. C. WEATHELRLY made a trip to Tuskaloosa on last week for the purpose of placing one ALFRED THOMPSON in the cure of Dr. BRYCE. A. J. STANFORD and B. R. FITE Esqrs. have established their headquarters in the office formerly occupied by the Probate Judge, the latter having moved to the court house. Married – Near this place on 22nd inst, at the residence of the bride’s father, Mrs. ELBERT BELK to Miss CLEMENTINE LEWIS. The Herald extends congratulations to the happy couple trusting that the brilliant future now before them may never be darkened by clouds of adversity. D. P. VICKERY Esq. of Double Springs, Winston County, was in town the first of the week. HEOSA LEWIS, an old man probably fifty years of age living about six miles from Hamilton, was cruelly whipped by a party of masked men on last Friday night 18th past. The men went to the house and upon LEWIS refusing to open the door forced it open, seized the victim and after securing him by means of a rope drawn about his neck dragged him off a short distance from the house where they tied him fast to a sapling and proceeded to administer a severe thrashing. When it was thought enough had been given him the parties left him telling him that they would give him twenty four hours in which to leave the country or they would finish him. LEWIS says he knows who the parties are and instead of leaving as directed will refer the matter to the law. LETTER FROM ARKANSAS Charleston, Arkansas, November 16th 1887 Editor Herald: Allow me space in your excellent paper and I will give you a few dots from Arkansas. The farmers have been toiling all the year in their cotton and corn, and now gathering time has come and almost past, and they find themselves amid very short crops. This has been a very healthy year, excepting a few cases of slow fever in the surrounding country. But the gins and saw mills are still running, and the steam boats are playing up and down the rivers. The public schools are now in session. There is a good school at this place, the regular attendance being about one hundred and sixty. We have a good teacher, about 21 years of sage, and a more dignified gentleman like man, I guess you could not find, and who is rapidly gaining in reputation which points to grand possibilities. Our merchants are doing very well considering the short corps. The excitement over the Fair association of Western Arkansas has about died out. One gentleman received as a premium on his apples, $100. He went to Little Rock exposition. We have a splendid county paper at this place, the Charleston Vindicator. Charleston is a thriving little city of about one thousand inhabitants, and is the county seat of Franklin County, their court house is being built now. The citizens here are building a good rock court house and will finish it some time next year. Charleston is well located, it being level and beautiful scenery in surrounding country, as it is mostly prairie land is moderately fertile. Stock grow very large in some portions of our country, there was stock exhibited at the Ft. Smith fair, some as fine stock as had been seen in surrounding states. Business is rushing in Ft. Smith now, which is the market of Western Arkansas, it having about 15,000 inhabitants. Now Mr. Editor, fearing the waste basket, and much criticism, I will close. C. H. CAPITAL CITY’S CHEERFUL CHAT – [By our regular correspondent] Washington, D. C. November 14, 1887 General Sparks, Commissioner of the General Land Office, has at last been called upon to resign after receiving the severest reprimand ever administered by a superior officer to a subordinate. ………. “The Marion Co. Wheel has boycotted the Marion Herald. The Wheelers are Rads under a new name” – [Gainesville Messenger.] The Messenger isn’t far from correct. On the one hand you will find a few good democratic members, while on the other it would be a hard matter to find a Rad who does not belong, or wishes he did belong to the non-partisan grass-growing machine. The Montgomery Dispatch of 15th inst, preferred a wholesale indictment against the tax assessors of the state by saying that “not a single tax assessor in the state of Alabama has complied with the law except the assessor of Jefferson County,” This is, indeed, a sweeping assertion, and as the work of all tax assessors is reviewed by the County Commissioners or Boards of Revenue as the case maybe we suppose that these gentlemen were particeps criminis with the assessors who have failed to discharge their duty as required by law. The assessor of Montgomery County, Mr. Dickerson, who is regarded as a faithful official, resents the imputation so far as he is concerned. NOTICE! NOTICE! Notice is hereby given that books for subscription to the capital stock of the Padachua Chickasaw and Birmingham Rail Road Company will be opened at the office of the Judge of Probate of Marion County, Alabama, in the town of Hamilton, in said county on the 5th day of January 1888. Subscriptions for stock in said Company will be taken payable in money, labor, or property at their money value. November 21, 1887. WILLIAM A. JOHNSON, GEORGE T. MCWHORTER JAMES JACKSON, Corporators The State of Alabama, Marion County Probate Court, Special term, Nov. 19th, 1887 To the heirs and distributees of the estate of THOMAS ROBERTS deceased. You will take notice that W. R. H. LODEN, administrator of the estate of THOMAS ROBERTS decd., has filed his application in my office for an order to substitution upon the records of the Probate Court for said county, all the papers, records, and proceedings, for the originals heretofore had, and filed in said administration, of said estate, and which have been lost or destroyed. This is therefore to notify, and that the 30th day of Dec. 1887 is the day set for the hearing of said application at which time you may appear and contest the same if you think proper. Witness my hand, this Nov. 19th, 1887. W. H. MATTHEWS, Probate Judge LETTING OF THE COURT HOUSE TO BE BUILT AT HAMILTON Notice is hereby given that the Plan and Specifications of the Court House to be built at Hamilton, Marion County, Ala. is on file in the Probate Judge’s office of said county for the inspection of anyone wishing to see it. The bids for the building of said Court House will be received by the Probate Judge at any time from this date until the 9th day of January 1888. The bids accompanied with a bond double the amount of the bid with good and sufficient security, with all rights of exemption waived, shall be sealed up in an envelope and delivered to the Probate Judge and on the 9th day of January 1888 the Court of County Commissioners will meet and break the seals and award the contract to the lowest bidder with approved bond. Said Court House to be completed by the 10th day of November 1888. Done by order of the Court of County Commissioners, this Nov. 14th 18870. WALTER H. MATTHEWS, Clerk ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Letters of administration has been granted to W. R. H. LODEN, in the estate of JOHN D. TERRELL deceased that all persons having claims against said estate will present the same with in the time prescribed by law or they will be barred. This Nov. 19th 1887. W. R. H. LODEN, Administrator ADMINISTORATOR’S NOTICE Notice is hereby given that Letters of administration has been granted to W. R. H. LODEN in the estate of GEORGE T. EMERSON deceased and that all persons having claims against said estate will present the same with in the time prescribed by law or they will be barred. This Nov. 19th 1887 W. R. H. LODEN, Administrator NOTICE OF PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala. November 3rd, 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 December 22nd, 1887, adjoining Farm, Hd No. 10955, MARY E. LOGAN, widow of ROBERT E. LOGAN deceased for the SE ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 30 T 10 R 11 West. She names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: JACOB L. SHAMLIN, VARDAMAN HALEY, HENDERSON CADDELL, and J. W. HEARD, all of Haley’s Alabama. 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. 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 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala. October 14th, 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 December 29th, 1887, A. V. viz: Hd No. 11802 WILLIAM M. WEEKS for the S ½ of NW ¼ and SW ¼ of NE ¼ Sec 8 T 13 R 13 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: P. M. CAUDLE, JOSHUA W. GANN, JOSEPH A. WYLIE, and ROBERT A CAUDLE, all of Caudle, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register NON-RESIDENT NOTICE The State of Alabama, Marion County JOHN A. POPE, agent for JAMES P. PEARCE, Plaintiff Vs. DOW & DECY LITTLETON, Def’nts BENJAMIN HESTER, Garnishee Before me as Justice of the peace this the 12th day of October 1887, came the plaintiff in the above entitle cause and it appearing that property belonging to defendants, has been levied on by virtue of a garnishment issued from my office and the garnishee has answered indebtedness, and that the said defendants are non-residents of the this state. It is therefore ordered that notice of said garnishment by attachment be given to said DOW & DECY LITTLETON once a week for three successive weeks before the 19th day of November 1887 in the Marion Herald, a weekly newspaper published in said county on which day they must attend or judgment may be rendered against them. JOHN F. COLLEY, Justice of the Peace, Beat No. 1 The State of Alabama, Marion County To owner unknown and all other parties in interest: You will take notice that a motion has been made in the Probate Court of said county praying for an order to substitute upon the records of said court, decrees rendered and proceedings had at the April Term 1885 of the Probate Court of said county for the sale of the following described lands for delinquent taxes, to wit--------- for the original proceedings and decrees had on said lands, which original proceedings and decrees have been destroyed by fire, and that the 12th day of December 1887 is set to hear said motion at which time all parties interested may appear and resist said motion if they think proper. October 28th, 1887 WALTER H. MATTHEWS, Probate Judge Judge John M. Berry, of the Supreme Court of Minnesota, died at Minneapolis on 8th inst. 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 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 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 Comfort Corset – picture of girl in corset 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 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/themario134nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 23.8 Kb