Marion County AlArchives News.....The Marion Herald March 29, 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, 3:26 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History March 29, 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 29, 1888 NO. 51 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. GUYTON, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, Hamilton, Ala. Office at residence where he may be found when not professionally engaged. PATENTS Dr. B. W. RODEN, A Botanic Doctor. Will be at Allen’s Factory on Saturday before the first Sunday in each month for the purpose of treating Chronic Diseases. I practice for cash and cash only except in cash where my patients have been prompt in their payments in retofore. B. W. RODEN GEO. C. ALMON, W. L. BULLOCK. ALMON & BULLOCK, Attorneys at Law, Russellville, 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. $100 TO $300 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 Marion Herald – by the Herald Publishing Co JAMES. S. CLEMENTS, Editor J. P. JOHNSON, Associate Ed’r EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT The Blair Bill is in safe hands. The seventeenth annual session of the Alabama Press Association will convene in Selma on April 19. The State Convention of the Knights of Labor met in Montgomery on 22nd inst. Senator West denies the report that the will retire from public life at the close of his present term in the Senate. ------------------- CALL FOR A STATE CONVENTION – Issued by the State Democratic Executive Committee ---------------- SAYINGS OF THE GREAT CHURCHES IN THE UNITED STATES Aberdeen, Miss., March 20 – The rash act of Mr. JACOB GATMAN, who stands at the head of the banking house of Gatman & Co. in attempting on Sunday morning to commit suicide, was followed by depositors attaching the bank and all the property, real and personal, belonging to the members of the firm for more than once hundred thousand dollars. A large number of depositors, having faith in the solvency of the institution, refused to take attachments. The sheriff has been in charge since Sunday morning, but not having the combination to the vault, and being unable to get it, it is not known yet what it contains. From the best information the liabilities will reach $225,000. The situation assumed a new phase this evening when MR. GATMAN made a formal assignment, appointing B. C. SIMS assignee. Mr. MEYER GATMAN, the cashier, is and has been absent since Wednesday, his whereabouts being unknown. The embarrassment of the bank is the result of speculation in cotton. The firm has enjoyed the utmost confidence of the whole community and much sympathy has been felt and expressed for all connected with the bank, and especially for Mr. JACOB GATTMAN, who has for forty years been one of our most useful and trusted citizens. B. C. SIMS, a prominent grocery merchant, has just closed his doors, and Judge J. M. ACKER has been appointed receiver. New York, March 20 – Judge Barrett, of the Supreme Court, has ranted two attachments against property in this city of Gattman & Co., bankers of Aberdeen, Miss., one in favor of Lehaman, Stearn & Co., for $10,000 on a promissory note, and the other in favor of the Louisville Banking Company for a $20,000 bill of exchange. A woman of Portland, now 75 years of age, has read the Bible through eighty- five times. A bill making it a misdemeanor for a failure to pay poll tax, passed the Mississippi Legilsature. ---------- HARDSHIPS OF A WESTERN EDITOR Ad for Dr. Simmons Liver Regulator EXTRACT FROM AUDITOR BURKE’S OFFICIAL REPORT PAGE 2 THE MARION HERALD Published Every Thursday Hamilton, Alabama THE FUNNY MAN – (poem) MARRIAGE CUSTOMS – Strange Nuptial Ceremonies in Various Lands POMEROY’S PHILOSOPHY – Practical Lessons for Those in Search of Happiness and Content A REMARKABLE DISEASE TALMAGE’S SERMON – Second Discourse of the Series to the Women of America PAGE 3 WINTER FEEDING – How to Produce Beef, Butter and Milk in a Profitable Manner PARASITIC WORMS IN CALVES TO REMOVE COMMON WARTS THE FIRST KU-KLUX – Where and For What the Afterward Lawless Brotherhood was Organized SAVED BY PRESENCE OF MIND RATTLESNAKE NECKTIES THE MARKETS THROUGH THE FOREST – the Old and Young Danced All Nigh – Our Hardy Ancestors Ad for Paine’s Celery Compound Smaller advertisements Ad for Maule’s Seeds Ad for Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator Ad for Pacific Liver Pills Ad for Ely’s Cream Balm Ad for St. Jacob’s Oil Smaller 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 29, 1888 LOCAL DEPARTMENT The State of Alabama, Marion County To the Democratic Executive Committee of Marion County: You will hereby take notice that a meeting of the Committee will be held at Hamilton, Ala. on the 31st day of March 1888 for the transaction of important business. Every member is earnestly requested to attend. W. H. KEY, Secretary JOHN A. POPE, President Are you needing rain? Been on a boom – Buttahatchie Something doubtful – the peach crop. When, Oh, when, shall we have a daily mail? Lumber for the court house is being hauled in. Few people in town this week – can’t cross the river. Who said “Spring time has come, gentle Annie?” Mr. C. B. MORTON, of Detroit, was in to see us the first of the week. The executive Committee will meet next Saturday. Let all members attend. Straw hats were in brisk demand last week, now it is overcoats and umbrellas. Our farmers are evidently preparing for a grand effort toward successful farming this year – or at least we hope so. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. WEATHERLY, whose illness we failed to mention on last week, is very much much improved. Residences are being repaired, garden fences mended, and a general fixing up of things in and around town during the past few days. The Vernon Courier of last week contained twenty-two announcements of candidates for the different offices in that county. They mean business. Miss ANGIE BALDRIDGE in company with the associate editor of this paper, Mr. JOHNSON, left on last Friday morning for a visit to their friends and relatives at Fulton, Miss. Miss LENA MATTHEWS returned to her home in Hamilton last Saturday, much to the regret of her many friends in this place – [Vernon Courier] “It is a good sign to see our church crowded during service.” Indeed it is. But is it not a bad sign to have no church to “crowd.?’ “Y-E-S” “Then, build one. Rev. W. C. RICE preached an excellent sermon at this place on last Saturday night and again on Sunday at 11 o’clock. The congregation was rather small on Sunday, owing to the bad weather, we presume. Remember our town needs a good creditable church house, and do not stop after you have remembered it, either, but got to work with a full determination to build one and ere long your efforts will be crowned with success. Farmers! Look well to your corn planting and be sure to plant enough to run you through the year ’89. Then, if you so wish, plant as much cotton as you can successfully cultivate. We are not dictating but only make this suggestion with the hope that you may act accordingly and not be dependent upon Northern and Western markets for your corn and meat. THORN HILL ITEMS Thorn Hill, Ala., March 20th, 1888 Editor Herald: I will try by your permission to offer a few dots for your (or our) valuable paper. Some corn is being planted. Weather is fine for plowing. Chaps are beginning to cry: “Ma let me go barefooted, my feet are hot.” Health in our town is very good. We are informed that JOHN STAGNER, son of DANIEL STAGNER, who resides four miles northeast of this place, is very sick with pneumonia. Hope to hear of his recovery soon. Mrs. SUSAN MITCHELL has returned home. Capt. C. L. HALEY has just received a full and complete stock of goods. C. E. MITCHELL, who has been teaching in Winston County, has returned home. DAN DODD goes with the girls, and don’t you forget it. ROBERT SNOW and family are off on a visiting excursion to Winston County. Prof. W. T. MITCHELL left on 10th inst. for Florence. He spent Sunday evening before starting with his “best girl.” The Wheelers are getting very numerous here. They have hazy notions about politics. JIM Congressman BANKHEAD unexpectedly finds himself face to face with a difficulty which may cause him many sleepless nights. The people of Marion County have already notified him so the county paper states, that they don’t want any seed, and won’t plant them if he insists on sending a few papers. In the language of a correspondent they are “old seed and won’t sprout nohow.” This many seem a trivial matter to a Congressman, but it is not so. The people of that county want the internal revenue laws repealed. Some of them are free-traders, some protectionists, and seed would seem the only medium by which a Congressman could hope to win the votes of the honest farmers and have all the boy babies named for him. If the people of Marion County refuse to let Congressman BANKHEAD plant himself in the affections with Government seed, he is a goner, unless he send s them plenty of Congressional Records and Patent Office reports – [Birmingham Age] The Age need not trouble itself about Congressman BANKHEAD’S Marion County constituents. They are “solid” garden seed or no garden seed. Our correspondent writing from Detroit, Lamar County, who said that the people ‘did not want any more garden seed” was certainly not speaking for the people of Marion County. Our people do not object to the seed sent them by their representative in Congress, or to the “Patent Office reports” which the Age thinks is the only means left our worthy Congressman of “gaining the votes of our honest farmers.” Far from being so, our “honest farmers” know of a truth the position their Congressman occupies on the tariff question, and consequently they are resting easy about the “garden seed.” As to our people favoring a repeal of the internal revenue laws the majority of them favor no such thing. If they do why, then, did they not support Ben Long in place of Bankhead? The former was in great sympathy with the manufacturers of “moonshine” and so declared himself by promising, if elected, to do all in his power toward blotting out the internal revenue system. What our people want is cheaper food and clothing rather than have their county inundated with “free whisky” and Congressman Bankhead knows it too. Trusting to luck is only another name for trusting to laziness. BRIDGE WASHED AWAY The bridge across Buttahatchie River, one mile southeast of this place, was washed away by the heavy rain of last Sunday night, which is conceded to have been the heaviest known in this section for years, if, indeed, not the heaviest ever known here. The bridge was a wooden structure erected some three years ago at a cost of $2,100, and its loss will be sorely felt by our people from the fact that it cannot immediately be replaced, owing to the present depressed condition of finances arising from the late loss of the court house. GRAND JURORS J. R. PHILLIPS, W. L. HOLCOMB, BENNETTE CANTRELL, J. T. YOUNG, W. R. COOLE, JOHN STEDHAM, GEO. SMITH, M. K. WILLIAMS, W. M. FORD, LEVI NORTHINGTON, THOS. NIX, G. M. WOOD, BONY BROCK, C. L. HALEY, and JOHN MCWHIRTER PETIT JURORS ALLEN SCRUGGS, W. W. FREDERICK, S. A. REED, ALAC NELSON, MARSHAL JOHNSON, PETER TICE, D. S. ASTOR, W. B. BALLARD, H. P. ODEN, A. M. C. WHITWORTH, CURRY STONE, W. M. SHIREY, A. J. RYE, RILEY BREWER, J. B. SMITH, JESSE HENSON, CALHOUN SHOTTS, P. M. R. SPANN, W. W. WHITE, JAS. COATS, D. C. MARKHAM, J. H. FREDERICK, D. M. HALL, L. J. CRAFT, I. C. BEASLEY, J. C. BELK, MARTIN TURNER, S. R. JORDON, CON. LAWHORN and J. W. PALMER APPLICATION TO SELL LAND The State of Alabama, Marion County Probate Court of said County JOHN L. LOCHRIDGE, Deceased, Estate of To JOHN L. LOCHRIDGE, DELIA and ELIHU PICKLE, MARY F. LOCHRIDGE, JASPER LOCHRIDGE, ELMIRA and FAYETTE KENNEDY, and P. D. LOCHRIDGE. You will take notice that an application has been filed in my office by the administrator of said estate for the sale of the lands belonging to said estate, for distribution on the ground that the same cannot be equitably divided. You are therefore notified that the 25th day of April 1888 has been set for the hearing of said application at which time you may appear at my office in Hamilton in county and state aforesaid and contest the same if you think proper. Witness my hand this the 17th day of March, 1888. WALTER H. MATTHEWS, Judge of Probate 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 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. SECOND 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. LIMITED PARTNERSHIP The undersigned, residing in the town of Vernon have this 21st day of March 1888, in pursuance of the code of Alabama, formed a limited partnership for the transaction of a newspaper publishing and general job printing business in the town of Vernon, Alabama. R. J. YOUNG is the general partner, and MOLLIE C. YOUNG is the special partner; the latter having contributed to the common stock of the firm the sum of $266.00. The business will be transacted under the name of the Courier Publishing Company. Said partnership commences on the 21st day of March 1888 and is to continue for a term of six years. R. J. YOUNG MOLLIE C. YOUNG The State of Alabama, Lamar County Probate Court The terms of the above named co-partnership, together with the proper certificates and affidavits have this day been duly filed and recorded in my office. It is therefore ordered that the above notice thereof be published for six successive weeks in the Vernon Courier and the Marion County Herald. Given under my hand at office in Vernon, this 21st day of March 1888. W. A. YOUNG, Judge of Probate NOTICE The State of Alabama, Marion County To Leak, Hase & Co, and others The Tax Collector has filed in my office a list of delinquent tax payers and real estate upon which taxes are due. You are reported as delinquent and the Mineral interest in the following real estate is reported as assessed to you, to wit: ----------(land description follows)------ W. B. WOOD --------------(land description) W. J. MCDONALD ---------“ Alabama, Tennessee, Coal and Iron Company ------“ A. BABBIT Estate -------“ RUDSEL Estate ---------“ A. J. DENNIS SAM CRACEWELL W. F. WALKER O’DANIEL and GARDNER T. M. WALKER WILLIAM WAMSLEY ELIZABETH RIED C. H. RIED J. B. HUCKABEE, Agent for Georgia Pacific R. R. Co This is to notify you to appear before the Probate Court of said county at the next term thereof commencing on Monday, the 9th day of April 1888, then and there to show cause, if any you have, why a decree for the sale of said real estate should not be made for the payment of the taxes assessed against you, and fees and costs. WALTER H. MATTHEWS, Judge of Probate 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 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala. March 5th, 1888 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 the said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Marion County, Ala. at Hamilton, Ala on April 28th, 1888 viz: Hd. No. 4840 ANTHONY METCALF for the SE ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 25 T 12 R 14 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: GEORGE METCALF, MURRAL CRUMP, NANE METCALF, CRANFORD METCALF, all of Pikeville, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register 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 Ad for Birmingham Age 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. 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