Marion County AlArchives News.....The Marion Herald February 9, 1888 ************************************************ 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 howven@sbclobal.net January 29, 2011, 3:15 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History February 9, 1888 Microfilm Ref Call #520 Microfilm Order #M1992.0964 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE MARION COUNTY HERALD “DIEU DEFEND LE DROIT” VOL. III HAMILTON, ALABAMA, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 9, 1888 NO. 44 The Marion Herald – Issued Every Thursday by the Herald Publishing Co Smalls, the negro contestant, did not get his set in Congress so the Republicans in the north can proceed with their howling. If Congress will take off the burden of surplus taxation Alabama will take care of her own common schools – Senator Morgan in the United States Senate. The Warrior Index is the name of a new paper published at Warrior. It is a well edited and nearly printed sheet. We bespeak for it a bright future. Who wants to represent Marion County in the next state Legislature? We take this method of informing the gentlemen that they need not come before the people unless they can come with a full determination to go “tooth and toe nail” for Senator Morgan’s re-election. I believe that education is safer in the hands of the fathers and mothers in the communities than in the hands of “patent outside” teachers, and that one of the defects of the common school system is the discouraging of the cooperation of parents – [Senator Morgan in the United States Senate] News reaches America every few days that Austria and Russia are going right into a bloody war the next week, that the war is inevitable, etc. The story has been told so often and yet no fighting, that we have come awfully tired of these cable letters. If Europe wants to fight we don’t care. It will not cheapen labor in this country, reduce the price of raw material or in any way injure our infant industries. Let ‘em fight or cease grumbling. Congressman BANKHEAD has introduced a bill to establish a land-office at Birmingham. It provides that the district shall be composed of the counties of Marion, Calhoun, Talladega, Shelby, St. Clair, Bibb, Jefferson, Elmore, Tuskaloosa, Walker, Fayette, Lamar, Green, and Sumpter. The head quarters of this land district is to be established at Birmingham. The president is empowered to appoint a Register and Receiver, who will receive the usual compensation paid to similar officers throughout the country. Evidently the colored man is meditating his early departure from the land where he has lived so long. The late movement looking to the colonization of colored people in South America is at present attracting considerable attention all over the country, particularly so in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina and Tennessee, from which most of the colonists would be drawn………………… BILL NYE ON THE TARIFF – A Suggestion or Two about the Best Way of Juggling the Surplus -------------------- Ad for The Birmingham Age Ad for Simmons Liver Regulator ALABAMA NEWS Troy wants electric lights. “Blind tigers” in Anniston. Ground will be broken for the Attalla furnace within the next few days. A negro named John Hallem, was killed by an express train near Tuskaloosa on 30th ult. Col. Daniel S. Troy has been elected president of the Montgomery Dispatch Publishing Company. The negro who killed Mr. MCKINNEY at Tuscaloosa on last September was captured on 28th ult. The Talladega Springs have been purchased by Mr. Samuel Noble who will have them improved for visitors by the next summer. Joe Myers, the villain who raped little Mary Jones, aged 11 years, a short time back, has been caught and lodged in jail at Jacksonville. Ad for Simmons Liver Regulator ------------ The Decatur Journal, a robber tariff organ, not long since had the cheek to stand up before the people of Alabama and call the able and honest John t. Morgan a “trickster.” the same paper took occasion recently to rise in its infancy and hatred and tell the people that the Senator is “unfortunately ignorant” and that his views are “utterly repugnant to the great and growing industrial sections of the state.” Does the Journal speak for the people of North Alabama? We answer, it does not. The Journal may cry “trickster” till the year 1909, but no man will be elected to the next state Legislature from Morgan County who opposed Senator Morgan. No, and if we know the dear old county correctly, and we think we do. EVERY FARMER HIS OWN CHEMIST PAGE 2 THE MARION HERALD Published Every Thursday Hamilton, Alabama BLUE-EYED BESSIE – (poem) BY THE WAYSIDE – How Bill Benson Kept the Oath He Sacredly Swore MEN OF MEMORIES – Wonderful Feats Performed by a Number of Historical Characters RELATIONS-IN-LAW – The Qualities Most Needed to Make Family Life Agreeable MISERY UNSPEAKABLE – A Glimpse at the Squalor and Want of Tenement House Inmates AN ANT FUNERAL – A strange Story Whose Truth Can Hardly be Doubted WRITING FOR CHILDREN – The Results of Investigations Made by a Noted Authority BITUMINOUS COAL – Some of the Wonderful Products Obtainable in a Gas Factory OUR COUTNRY’S WEALTH – The Inexhaustible Mineral Resources of the Various States of the Union PAGE 3 HOME AND FARM Be sure not to crowd your fowls. Hens must be kept warm and sheltered from the inclemency of the weather if expected to lay in winter. ----------------- VERONA CREAM: Soak half a box of gelatine in one cup of milk and add the juice of two lemons and one cup of sugar; heat until the sugar and gelatine are dissolved, then add one pint of cream, mix well and turn into cups to cool. – [Christian Union] PINE-APPLE CREAM: Dissolve one pint of gelatine in one pint of cold water. Put one pint of grated pine-apple with half a pint of sugar in a saucepan, and set on the stove to simmer. Add the gelatine, and stir five minutes. Turn into a pan and add a pint of whipped cream. Set on ice. – [Louisville Courier-Journal] ORANGE PIE: Take the juice and granted rind of one orange; one small cup of sugar; yolk of three eggs; one tablespoon of corn starch, make smooth with milk; piece of butter as large as a chestnut, and one cup of milk. Beat the whites of the three eggs with sugar and place on the top after the pie is baked, leaving in the oven until browned. – [Boston Budget] FRIED ONIONS: Having peeled the onions, cut them in rings and throw them into enough very hot fat in the ring pan to float them. If the fat is kept at the right heat the onions will not require much attention while cooking. As soon as they are golden brown take them out of the pan with a skimmer and throw them on to paper to absorb the grease – [Farmer and Manufacturer] ---------------------- POULET DE SWISS: Boil one cupful of rice in four cups of water. Stir gently when done, and set in the oven with the doors open half an hour until dry. Cut up some cold scraps of boiled or roast chicken and set it over the fire in a sauce pan with a little soup stock, add salt, pepper a tablespoonful of walnut catsup, and a teaspoon of extract of celery; rub a mump of butter in corn-starch to thicken. Let boil. Put the rice in a ring on a heated flat dish, pour the minced chicken over, and lay upon it lightly a dozen poached eggs. – [Good Cheer] BARN-YARD MANURE – Conditions Essential to the Saving of its Valuable Ingredients A UNIQUE PETITION – The Brilliant Effort of a Young Kansas City Attorney PHILOSOPHY FOR THE HOME Jokes Ad for Chickasaw Iron Works Ad for Pacific Liver Pills Ad for Queen of the South portable Mills – picture of mill Ad for Mikado Braided Wire Hair rolls Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ad for Ely’s Cream Balm Ad for Prickly Ash Bitters Ad for ST. Jacob’s Oil Small advertisements PAGE 4 THE HERALD 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 – February 9th, 1888 LOCAL DEPARTMENT Winfield is booming. Prepare for gardening. Candidates on our streets. Our Washington correspondet fails again this week. See new final proof notice in this issue. Mr. JOHN L. WHITE visited relatives at Detroit on last week. The prayer meeting on last Thursday night was well attended. Show a copy of the Herald to your neighbor and ask him to subscribe. The weather for the past few days has been warm and spring like. County Court convened on last Monday with the Hon. WALTER H. MATTHEWS in the chair. Messrs. T. J. FARRIS and PAUL BISHOP of Bexar were in town the first of the week. It is rumored that a class in instrumental music will be organized at this place soon. Success to the enterprise. Mr. W. T. GAST made a business trip to Winfield and returned on last week. He reports that little town as being in a prosperous condition. Mr. R. N. TERRELL returned to his home in the country on Monday last. He will engage in the farming business this year. We hope for him much success. Mr. MARTIN C. GANN was in town the first of the week. Before leaving, he ordered a copy of the Herald sent to his sister residing in Texas. The Herald office was honored by a visit from quite a number of Hamilton’s fairest flowers on last Saturday. We assure the young ladies that their visit was greatly appreciated, and hope they will call again. Mr. JOHN JAGERS of Fulton, Miss. spent part of last week in town. Mr. JAGERS is a painter by trade, and has taken the contract for painting the new Court House at this place. He returned to Fulton on Monday last. The mail carrier on the Aberdeen route failed to reach here on Saturday last. He came in the following morning, however, and said the bride was unsafe and he could not ford the stream. “Will you be so kind as to show me where the hotel is in this pace?” “Yes, sir, indeed I would with pleasure, but you see that gentleman left Hamilton several weeks ago, and at present we are not prepared to say where he is.” We call attention to the Tax Assessor’s notice in another column. Tax payers should meet him promptly at the times and places mentioned and make a correct return of their property, thereby saving cost and trouble. Mr. J. T. WHITE is putting up the pillars for the new court house this week. Mr. CAMP has found a suitable location for his mill about five miles from town, and will soon be cutting the lumber. There is no such thing as “dull times” hanging around the Herald office. No sir, we are blooming right along, and if you want to “joint eh procession” you had better subscribe and fall into ranks at once. LET THEM COME Governor Seay received a letter not long since from a prominent Dakota gentleman, who talks like quite a number of people from the region of blizzards, are contemplating the idea of coming to our Sunny South. We say let them come. There is plenty of room for all, either in our flourishing young cites or in the country. Those who wish to engage in Agricultural pursuits would do well to try North Alabama. WE have an abundance of good fertile lands lying uncleared that would produce almost any kind of products that can be bought very cheap. This thing of selling out and “going West” has been the run of many Alabamians, as well as of other Southern States, and nearly all those who went West a few years ago would gladly return if they were only able. But alas! They have to say. They are not prepared to come back, the fine span of mules or horses that hauled them there, have been sacrificed in order to raise money to procure food for the family. No doubt they often look back, and with deep regret upon the past days they spent so pleasantly in Alabama, when they could enjoy a good fire upon the open hearth, on a January night, and never dream of northers and blizzards. When almost every day of the year they could have worked out doors and been comfortable all the while. The day is near at hand, when these unfortunate people will awake to their interest and not only contemplate coming South, but will actually come by the hundreds. The thousand and one advantages held out by our noble old state, is producing a great impression on their minds. Here, they behold a country dotted all over with churches, school houses, furnaces, factories, etc. They know that employment of almost any kind can be here either in the manufacturing districts or the corn and cotton belt. They will come like all that is needed on our part is to tell them truthfully what can be done here, and let the owners of large tracts of land, sell them small homes at reasonable prices. Our farmers generally say: “Oh, this boom business does me no good. It will never be benefited by so many people coming South and engaging in various manufacturing enterprises.” Yes, but you will be ”better off.” The value of your land is enhanced thereby. Everything you can raise on the farm will meet with a ready purchaser. The best thing you can do is to try your best to “boom” the farm by repairing the fences, cleaning out corners of the same so you can drive a horse within thirty feet of the fence without getting his hid full of briers. Build some good stalls for your stock, clean out your ditches so your bottom lands will be thoroughly drained in time for planting a crop. Take the advice of a fool (if you are pleased to call us such and you will soon find that there are various ways by which the old farm can be “boomed.” The Anniston Hot Blast thinks that after its Uncle Sammy Randal and Pig Iron Kelley have gone “gunning” for a short time, there will not be any “free trade” Democrats going about the country with their coat pockets filled with tariff resolutions. The fact is, the above mentioned “gunners’ have been “gunning” and “sporting” with the better interests of our people too long already. Since the President trained his big gun in the direction of their happy hunting ground, sportsmen of their caliber have to be very cautious when they go out “gunning.” The shells heavily charged with protection, which they have been bursting in the faces of our people, no longer have the desired effect. THE LONG LOOKED FOR – Tom Ellis Shot and Killed by Detective Sullivan – Birmingham “Wm. Work hanged himself in Marion County, Ala. Melancholia, the cause.” – [Anniston Hot Blast” We would just like to know where the Hot Blast procured this bit of news. Did the hanging take place before or since the late war? MARION COUNTY WHEEL The Marion County Agricultural Wheel met at this place on last Saturday. Not being a member of the organization we are unprepared to tell our readers what took place during said meeting. There were several delegates present and of the right sort to prevent the wheel from going into politics. In conversations with some of the most prominent member, soon after the meeting closed, they told us that when the wheel went into politics they were no longer wheelers. We guess this ”no politics” movement on the part of the organization will have a wholesome affect on some of the more hot-headed members of the Order, who until recently were looking anxiously to the day when backed up by the wheel as a political hobby they would be driven to Congress at great speed. There they would soon teach the people how to run the government on a paying basis. The men who brought about this movement, and stood up for its adoption, and maybe styled the “preservers” of the organization. For had it been turned into a political hot-bed, right then its doom would have been sealed. ---------- The Anarchists of this country have evidently settled down for a quiet rest since Herr Most was ”herred” off to prison for a second term. There is not telling the amount of good it does some people to learn that they can’t run this country to suit themselves and never will be able to do so. The Moulton Advertiser has been talking about “the old flag and the Blair Bill” for some time, but our highly esteemed exchange might just as well wave the old flag alone. The two will never wave together under a free American breeze. While the political bosses of both parties are getting themselves ready in many parts of the state for the coming campaign, the people of Marion are marching on quietly but determinedly. Several have declared themselves in readiness to serve the dear people, but up to date, they have not announced themselves through the columns of the Herald. We think however by next week we can tell our readers who they are and what they want. Don’t be trying to get into office without letting the people know something about the matter. Strange as it may seem to some of our readers, there are men who will ride three miles every morning before breakfast to shake hands with a friend, and tell him they want his support in the coming election, and when told that it will cost them only three dollars to announce themselves through the columns of a newspaper, they just hump their backs and look as they were tired to death. You need’t think for once that there any officers in this county that you can slip up on without the people finding you out. So give us your name. REUBEN BURROW, the daring train robber, has not yet been captured. The man who he shot and dangerously wounded in Montgomery is recovering. Burglars made a successful raid on the town of Jasper some days ago, breaking into several houses. The exact amount of money taken is not known. NOTICE! NOTICE! I will attend at the following times and places for the purposes of assessing the State and County taxes for the year 1888. FRIST ROUND Rye’s Camps Bexar Shottsville Palmer Hamilton Pikeville Guin Vaughn’s Church Baccus’s Gin Burnett’s Pearce’s Mills Hackelburg Goddard’s Store Kimbrough Howell Tax Payers will please meet me promptly and make a list of their property. J. P. FORD, Tax Assessor Marion Co. NEWS IN GENERAL ----------------- ---------- They make policemen of Indians out in Dakota, but they are not allowed to arrest white men. --------------------- Eight convicts , two white men and six negroes, escaped from the Coalburg mines recently. They escaped by cutting the tunnel through the mountain. The vein of coal on that side ran near the surface, hence but little extra work was required to cut their way to liberty they were not missed until night, and the trail then being cold, the dogs could not follow them far. They did follow it, however, to Pratt Mines, where all trace of them were lost. Merchants who desire a good paying trade should advertise their business………….. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala January 28th, 1888 Notice is hereby given that the following named setter has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim; 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 March 16th, 1888, viz: Hd. No. 16208 GEORGE W. O’MARY for the W ½ of NW ¼ Sec 25 and N ¼ of NE ¼ Sec 26 T 12 R 11 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: JAMES K. STRICKLIN, AJMES W. WIDEMAN, THOMAS D. HALLMAN and F. M. CANTRELL, all of Goldmine, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register 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 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 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 MORTGAGEE’S SALE By virtue of and pursuant to the provisions of a certain mortgage executed on the 28th day of May 1884, by EDMON KNIGHT and his wife, E. K. KNIGHT, to ALVIN N. JONES to secure the payment of certain indebtedness therein mentioned, due and payable to the said ALVIN N. JONES on the 1st day of November, 1884, the undersigned will on Monday, February 6th, 1888, between the legal hours of sale, at Hamilton, 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 SW ¼ of SW ¼ of Sec 30 T 12 R 13 & the NE ¼ of NW ¼ of Sec 6 T 13 R 13. ALVIN N. JONES, Mortgagee 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 at the Probate court for said county, for the sale of the following described lands for delinquent taxes, to wit: SW ¼ of NE ¼ Sec 18 T 10 R 12, the original proceedings and decrees had on said lands which originally proceedings and decrees have been destroyed by fire, and that the 21st day of February 1888 be set to hear said motion at which time all parties in interest may appear and resist said motion if they think proper. Jan 20th, 1888 WALTER H. MATTHEWS, Judge of Probate SHERIFF’S SALE State of Alabama, Marion Co. To satisfy a fifa in my hands issued from the Circuit Court of Marion County against ALLEN BANISTER and in favor of M. M. FRAZIER, I will on the 6th day of Feb. 1888 at the court house door proceed to sell within legal hours of sale for cash the following property, viz: one mule & three head of horses, and one gun and ten head of cattle; also on the 20th day of Feb 1888 the following described real estate viz: S ½ of SW ¼ & SW ¼ of SE ¼ % NW ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 25 & N ½ of SW ¼ Sec 36 T 11 R 14 & 8 acres South Side of SE ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 26 T 11 R 14 285 more or less all as the property of ALLEN BANNISTER This January 10th 1888 W. R. H. LODEN, Sheriff Ad for The Southern Cultivator 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. 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