Marion County AlArchives News.....The Marion Herald March 8, 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, 3:19 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History March 8, 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 MARCH 8, 1888 NO. 48 $100 to $300 ad 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 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 The Birmingham Age The Marion Herald – Issued Every Thursday by the Herald Publishing Co JAMES. S. CLEMENTS, Editor J. P. JOHNSON, Associate Ed’r EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Some of our exchanges can no more resist the temptation to “clip” an article from one newspaper and credit it to another, than others can to “clip” and give no credit. The working men of the United States spent more than $180,000,000 last year for whisky and beer. When one figures up the number of $800 cottages that could have been erected with this money, he can’t help from feeling solemn. The Henderson process for making steel from Alabama iron ores has been tested in Birmingham and the result is complete success. The test was made from the cheapest iron, out of our commonest ore, but this only raise the voice of our notable old state as she rises up and proclaims to the world that she has steel at $17 a ton. ------------ THE TARIFF BILL Elsewhere in today’s Herald can be found a spirited letter from the progressive young city of Sheffield. The writer, who by the way is well known to the readers of the Herald, seems deeply impressed with the city, its many advantages and surroundings as he thinks it will ere long become the leading city of the South, “Guin, of our county, not excepted.” We assure our friend and correspondent that we are not envious toward Sheffield, but if she can beat our booming town on her merits, let ‘er rip. It will not decrease our love for Sheffield, but only make us love Guin more. There is one thing in “G’s” letter, however that we hardly understand, we refer to the “faucet business.” When our people want a drink, they generally have recourse to a big brown jug, with a corn cob for a cork, and as they have become accustomed to such, would most likely object to exchange it for any of our friends “faucets” with which he says the city is well supplied. As to sending us the paper “blank” we protest against such course. “Our girl” has long since gone back on us, and though we were to write to her five times a day for thirty-nine consecutive day’s she would never be induced to believe we were other than a printer and as such, unworthy by of her love and affections. Write again, Bro. “G” but for heaven’s sake do not say anything more about these “faucets”. Our average man can get on the outside of a quart, according to the old method long before he can make enough money to purchase another. ---------(CAN’T READ)------------ OUR WASHINGTON LETTER ---------(CAN’T READ)----------- ALABAMA NEWS The Mobile Register thinks the anti-third term campaign is about over. Cullman County Circuit Court convenes on May 21st. The Farmer’s Alliance of Clay County has boycotted the Alabama Fertilizer Company. Shang Gamble was knocked in the head and badly hurt at Cullman recently by a man named Hudson. The Loan and Building Association of Cullman has ninety-seven members. Evergreen is to have a cotton factory at a cost of $100,000. Oxmoor and Helena are to be connected by telephone. Anniston has a new daily paper called the Picayune. Clanton is to have a Knights of Honor Lodge. The Supreme Court of Alabama has decided the law requiring fruit tree peddlers to take out a license unconstitutional. W. B. Moore formerly business manager of the Hornet, has assumed editorial control of that paper. Whopping cough and mumps are prevalent at York. Gainesville has a Young Men’s Social Club recently organized. Birmingham is to have a new daily paper called the Evening Sunshine. ARRESTED FOR BIGAMY – Talladega, Feb. 27 – W. F. CLAY, an old and respected citizen was arrested and lodged in jail at this place today on a charge of bigamy, preferred against him by city Marshal Williams. The above item is clipped from the Birmingham Age of 28th inst. and our readers will be surprised to learn that the parties therein mentioned were at one time residents of this county. CLAY lived a few miles north of this place for several years and was a highly respected citizen of the county. About six years ago, he deserted his wife and children, and taking with him a young woman named MCKINDLEY, went to Talladega and there passed themselves off as man and wife. A short time back some parties passed through this county who knew CLAY at Talladega and learning of the way he had treated his family, returned to Talladega and informed the authorities of his perfidy, and caused the arrest to be made. The woman was also arrested but not confined in jail, owing to illness. ------------ B. D. WILLIAMS was shot and killed by a man named J. L. BOBO, about seven miles south of Fayette C. H. on 28th ult. BOBO was section master on the G. P. R. R. and the difficulty arose by him ordering the workmen to get dirt out of WILLIAMS’ field. It has been rumored that the Wheelers will put a full ticket in the field this year. No politics in the dear old thing. – [Franklin News] FARMING A GOOD OCCUPATION – [Southern Cultivator] Ad for Simmons Liver Regulator If you want a paper that gives you all the news, both local and general, subscribe for the Herald. Miss Loudie Heustis, an Alabama girl now studying in Paris, stands first in a class of 300. – [Ex.] PAGE 2 THE MARION HERALD Published Every Thursday Hamilton, Alabama FROM CRADLE TO COFFIN – (poem) A LITTLE HEROINE – “jack’s Venture” and How it was Doubly Blessed TALMAGE’S SERMON – King David’s Thirst During a Battle With the Philistines PAGE 3 WATCH-CASE SOUVENIRS – a Jeweler’s Mistake Results in Serious Domestic Trouble ATTACKED BY MONKEYS – a Company of Men Chased by a Pack of Enraged Apes A HUNDRED YEARS A HERO – How Seth Warner Won a Wife and Became Famous A DSIH OF NEW P’S THE MARKETS Ad for Ely’s Cream Balm Ad for Mexican Mustang Liniment Ad for Pacific Liver Pills Ad for L’art Do La Mode catalogue AD for Floyd’s Candies Ad for Prickly Ash Bitters Ad for St. Jacob’s Oil Ad for Chickasaw Iron Works Ad for Little Rock Commercial College and Telegraph Institute AD for Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets Ad for Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy 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 – March 8, 1888 LOCAL DEPARTMENT Cold. Colder. Freezing. Be consistent. Who turned ‘em out? Mr. L. J. CLARK visited Guin this week. Mr. MARION PEARCE of Bexar was in town on last week. Com. D. N. COPPER paid Birmingham a visit on last week. IRA GUIN, a clever young gentleman of Guin was in town on last week. MR. J. R. PEARCE and wife of Bexar, are visiting friends and relatives in this city. Mr. J. C. CAMP has added a new appearance to his residence by erecting a neat fence around it. Mr. J. C. BELK, of near town, has been quite sick for the past few days, but we learn that he is improving. The prisoners, WISHIM and BOZEMAN appeared for trial before Judge MATTHEWS on Monday last and were released. Tax Assessor J. P. FORD, is out making his first round this week. Meet him and make a return of your property. Mrs. A. J. HAMILTON, accompanied y her accomplished daughter, Miss ELLA, paid Aberdeen a visit on last week. “Clip” has a communication in this issue in which he gives the local dots from Detroit in his usual clean and pointed way. Write again. Mr. T. E. LAWLER, a courteous young gentleman of near Hodge’s was in town on last week and before leaving, subscribed for the Herald. The croaking of the frog in our ponds could be heard on last week, but now all is quiet and still. Suppose the cold wave put a “quiatus on ‘em.” Dr. A. L. MOORMAN, of Bexar, visited our town this week and extended his courtesy to the Herald, in the shape of a “great big, fine large silver dollar: for year subscription. We failed to mention last week the appearance of a Deputy Tax Assessor at the residence of our worthy Assessor, J. P. FORD. The little fellow seems to be getting along splendidly. Married – near Hamilton, on 1st inst., Mr. WESLEY RYE and Miss ELISA BELK, Rev. THOMST HARRIS officiating. The Herald congratulates the happy couple, and trusts that their lives may be one of perpetual sunshine and bliss. We have been reliably informed that Mr. WESLEY CLARK, an intelligent young man of near this place, will open a stock of general merchandise in the Hamilton building on North Street, ere long. WESLEY possesses superior business qualifications, which in connection with this morality and strict attentiveness to business leads us not only to hope, but to feel certain of his success. We received a communication from Texas, Ala this week, but as the writer failed to give his name, we consigned it to the waste basket. Please remember this, and when you write anything for publication, sign your true name. Not that we want to publish your name, when you desire to withhold it, but one as an act of your faith on your part. SHEFFIELD LETTER – Tells of the Marvelous Growth of a Young Southern City – What Progress She has Made and is now Making – Her Chance for Becoming the Leading Manufacturing and Commercial Center Sheffield, Ala. Feb. 21, 1888 Dear Herald: I have been rather slow in redeeming my promise to write you a letter from this place, but acting upon the old adage of “better late than never,” I send this , which if you think it would be of interest to your readers, you are welcome to use. There are so many things being done here that the difficulty in writing a letter of this kind is not the scarcity of subjects, but of choosing from so many. Let’s see, there is the cotton compress, which is rapidly nearing completion and will be finished in ample time for handling this year’s crop. There is hardly room for over-estimating the importance of this enterprise to our city. It will be the means of making it a cotton market, with all that the name implies, and any well-posted man knows the effect that it will have upon the business of a city. The press is a 90-inch Morse, the largest and best made. Some idea of its great power can be obtained from the fact that the steam cylinder is seven and one-half feet in diameter – large enough to drive a wagon and team through. The pressure by which the bale is compressed is 1,200 tons, capacity 80 bales per hour. Mr. C. D. Woodson, president of the First National bank of this city, is the principal promoter and owner of this enterprise. The plant will cost about $40,000 and will give employment to about one hundred men when completed. Another industry that deserves more than a passing notice is the Stove Works, the building for which is now nearly completed. Its’ location is, figuratively speaking, the very shadow of the furnaces, insures cheap pig iron from which to make castings; and at the head of navigation on the Tennessee River, low rates of transportation is assured. It is safe to say that no city in the Union offers more advantages for the manufacture of iron goods than Sheffield, and the success of the stove works is as sure as anything in the future can be. In a few days more, everything will be ready for turning on the electric light, and then we will be fully abreast of the times in possessing all that goes to make a city a desirable place to live in. We already have water works. A large reservoir stands at the head of Montgomery avenue (the principle business street), from whence the water is conducted through pipes to the top of the tallest buildings thought the city. Just think of it, ye denizens of “the grand old county of Marion” what a nice thing it is to have to turn a little faucet in your room and get all the water you want, without having to hustle off several hundred yards to a spring for it (or make your “old woman” hustle as the case may be). Besides the industries mentioned above the five mammoth blast furnaces which rear their tall stacks skyward, we have already in operation planning mills, a sash, door and blind factory, furniture manufactory, brick works, bakery and bottling works, agricultural and mechanical implement works, stone quarries, flouring mills, street railway, three banks, galvanized iron cornice factory, a daily paper, a large hotel, two free public schools which run ten months in the year, telegraph, express and post offices, and other things which I cannot now call to mind. Besides what we already have we are soon to have pipe and nail works, ice works, other brick works, planning mills, mineral paint works, a factory for the manufacture of cotton gins and the celebrated Colman Cotton Cleaners, another street railway, which will run on all the principal streets, a $120,000 hotel, principal shops of the Memphis & Charleston, Sheffield, & Birmingham and Nashville, Florence and Sheffield Railroads, together with a round house for the Sheffield and Birmingham road, and an elegant Union passenger depot, a weekly newspaper and a steam laundry. These industries are bound to make Sheffield what nature and the Sheffield Land Company have all along intended she should be, the leading iron manufacturing city and commercial center of the South, not even excepting Guin, of your county. If you so desire, I will write you another letter at some future date, but I am not going to make any promises about “cutting it short” for, like my friend and fellow mortal, Mr. William Nye, when I begin writing, my thoughts rush through my brain like – like – like – an old sow throw a corn patch with a stump-tailed bull dog following close in her rear, and are waited gently but with burning eloquence and clear cut expression, (as clear as John White’s guileless expression of countenance) to a resting place upon the pure white paper in front of me. It is however, safe (for me) to say that the paper is never who as much after I get through with it as before, and if I had had only a little more love for you and a higher regard for the rights and privileges of your readers, I would have sent you this paper blank, and then you could have used it in writing to your girl. G. FROM DETROIT Mr. Editor: Perhaps a few lines from Detroit would not be amiss as she has not been represented in some time, except in Capt. COOPER’S Revenue Court. The farmers in this vicinity are badly behind with their work – some of them are not through sowing oats yet. Detroit has a big trade, notwithstanding the completion of the new railroad, which runs in a half circle around us, and the erection of many stores along its line, our live and enterprising merchants are holding their own in a way that would seem marvelous to a stranger. Mr. J. F. WHITE is the happiest man in town – it’s a fine girl. We presume our Congressman, Hon. J. H. BANKHEAD has become fully initiated, as he has begun to monopolize our mails with garden seeds. We need something very bad but don’t think its garden seeds. Our women folks raise their own garden seeds and you couldn’t make one of them believe but that “these foreign seeds were raised year before last and wouldn’t come up.” Any merchant will corroborate this statement. Our Congressman is a wise and worthy man, as his past record and present position stand as proof, and we do not propose to dictate to him his duty. He ought to know best what we need and we only wanted to give him a hint of the intensity of our necessity that he may stop this garden seed business and give us something we need and will appreciate – or rather turn his attention to the abolishment of a “legal curse” that has been an impediment to our nation’s well doing for many years. I dare not say more. CLIP Mr. W. T. GAST, whose illness we mentioned on last week, is yet very sick but with careful treatment it is thought that he may soon be restored to his former good health. Miss LENA, a beautiful and intelligent daughter of Judge WALTER MATTHEWS of Hamilton, Marion County, arrived in town on Wednesday evening, accompanied by Mr. M. A. COBB, of Sulligent. Miss MATTHEWS will take music lessons under Mrs. SHIELDS – [Vernon courier] Mr. J. A. CAUDLE, of Pearce’s Mills called to see us on last week and renewed his subscription to the Herald. 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, JAMES W. WIDEMAN, THOMAS D. HALLMAN and F. M. CANTRELL, all of Goldmine, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register CONSOLIDATED NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land office at Huntsville, Ala. February 16th, 1888 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 Probate Judge of Marion County, Ala. at Hamilton, Ala. on April 10th, 1888. Hd. No. 12682 JACOB S. CARR, for the SW ¼ of NW ¼ and W ½ of SW ¼ Sec 8; and NW ¼ of NW ¼ of Sec 17 T 10 R 12 West. Hd. No. 12694 JAMES E. CARR for the NE ¼ of Sec 12 T 10 R 12 West. They name the following witnesses to prove their continuous residence upon and cultivate of said land, viz: SETH BOTTOMS, WILLIAM WYLIE, JOSEPH STANFORD, S. N. HOWELL, A. M. DICKINSON, C. F. DONALDSON, and WILLIAM N. DONALDSON, all of Ireland Hill, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register PATENTS 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. NON-RESIDENT NOTICE State of Alabama, Marion County In Chancery at Hamilton LULA STREETY Vs JOHN STREETY In this cause it is made to appear to the Register by affidavit of the complainants solicitor that the said JOHN H. STREETY is a non-resident of this state, and that his particular place of residence is unknown to affiant, and further that in the 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 for fur successive weeks requiring him, the said JOHN H. STREETY, to answer or demur to the bill of complaint in this cause by the 8th day of March, 1888, or in 30 days thereafter a decree pro confesso may be taken against. him. Done at office this Feb. 15th, 1888 A. J. STANFORD, Solicitor for compl’t NON-RESIDENT NOTICE State of Alabama, Marion County In Chancery at Hamilton SARAH E. COON Vs JAMES COON In this cause it is made to appear to the Register by affidavit of the complainants solicitor that the said JAMES COON is a non-resident of this state, and that his particular place of residence is unknown to affiant, and further that in the 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 for fur successive weeks requiring him, the said JAMES COON to answer or demur to the bill of complaint in this cause by the 8th day of March, 1888, or in 30 days thereafter a decree pro confesso may be taken against. him. Done at office this Feb. 15th, 1888 B. R. FITE, Register A. J. STANFORD, Solicitor for Complaint R. I. CAMP, Dealer in Dry Goods, groceries, clothing, Queensware, Drugs, Medicines, Notions. I buy for Cash, sell only cash, have but one price and that is the Very Lowest. I respectfully ask a share of public patronage and promise on my past Fair and Honorable dealing. R. I. CAP, Hamilton, Alabama. 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. 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. 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 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 Comfort Corset File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/themario146nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 25.6 Kb