Marion County AlArchives News.....The Marion Herald April 5, 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, 3:28 pm Microfilm From Dept Of Archives And History April 5, 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 APRIL 5, 1888 NO. 52 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 At a ball given at the Mormon Theater in Salt Lake City not long since quite a number of the Gentiles present accepted invitation to dance with the Mormon maidens. Polygamy may be considered on the down grade. Paper doors are now coming into use and it is claimed by those who have tested them that hey are superior to those made of wood, as they neither warp, swell, or shrink. Two thick paper boards form the door, they are stamped and moulded into panels, after which they are glazed together with glue and potash, then rolled through heavy rollers. Republican newspapers are busily engaged just now in proclaiming to the world how that a sweeping tide of immigration will turn toward the South if the Republican Party is victorious this year. There is one sure thing, our people do not care for a return of “immigration” similar to that which floated down and over our sunny land during the days of reconstruction and carpet baggery, hence their wish and determination to maintain the present decent administration and by so doing invite immigrants who will come not with false promise, but who have their own interests and the interests of the South at heart. --------------- Capt. Absalom W Bailey, of Hillsboro, Lawrence County, is a candidate for the office of State Treasurer. We would say to our readers that he is a man whose reputation for integrity, morality and industry in unsurpassed by that of any other man in the state. Born in Russell County in 1841, he is an Alabamian in every sense of the word. Only nineteen years of age when the war broke out between the states, he espouses the southern cause and followed the fortunes of the Virginia army through victory and defeat from the beginning of the war to that memorable day of April 1865. Returning to his native state he settled at Hillsboro, where as a businessman he has been very successful, amassing considerable wrath. We hazard nothing in saying that Mr. Bailey has all the requisite qualifications for making a reliable and efficient officer. He is a true and tired democrat, having taken an active part in all political conflicts in behalf of the Democratic Party since the war, and this, together with the fact that he is the only candidate from North Alabama for any of the state officers makes his prospects for the nomination, indeed bright. WASHINGTON NEWS – DEATH OF CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE The German population of New York is estimated at 350,000. THE GRAB-BAG – The Bad Boy at a Sociable Out West COTTON PLANTING The Insane Hospital at Tuskaloosa contains 821 inmates. --------------- INTENSIVE FARMING Kansas City, March 29 – The following dispatch has just been received from Rich Hill – (train wreck in Kansas) The Gordon City (Kan.) Daily Herald says……… PAGE 2 THE MARION HERALD Published Every Thursday Hamilton, Alabama AN OLD-TIME HUSKING BEE – (poem) PRESENCE OF MIND – Determined By What We Actually Do In Time Of Peril INFLUENCED THE CASE – a Colored Solomon Completely Paralyzes a Reckless Editor TALMAGE’S SERMON – A Christmastide Discourse in the Brooklyn Tabernacle PAGE 3 EFFECTS OF DRAINAGE – An Illinois Farmer Discusses the Relation of Tile Draining to Drought CHRONIC DYSPEPSIA – Why Indigestion Does Not Necessarily Have its Seat in the Stomach Buckwheat Cakes: One quart of buckwheat flour, three heaping teaspoons of baking powder, a little salt, mix to a batter with water, or milk if you prefer, but water is best. Bake on a griddle well greased. As the batter is thin more baking powder is required than for dough. – [Detroit Free Press] A FORGOTTEN CONVICT – Story of a Criminal Who has not had a Visitor in Many Years HALF BIRD, HALF FISH LIFE AND WEIGHT OF AMERICANS WOMAN SUCCEEDS – One of the Successful Ones Tells How it is Done A GENERAL TIE-UP A DESPERATE FIGHT AN ANTI-FAT RESTAURANT WOMAN’S WORK Ad for Pacific Liver Pills Ad for Mexican Mustang Liniment Ad for Prickly Ash Bitters Ad for Dr. Safe’s Catarrh Remedy Ad for Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets 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 – April 5, 1888 LOCAL DEPARTMENT DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF MARION COUNTY, ALA. W. R. WHITE A. J. RYE GEO. MAXWELL THOS. YOUNG I. J. LOYD W. W. OZBIRN Dr. WHITE C. F. DONALDSON JIM WEATHERLY MARION HOWELL T. E. CADDLE JIM SMITH VAUGHN E. VICKERY JOHN HUGHES M. M. FRAZIER W. H. KEY, Secretary JOHN A. POPE, Chairman Boom your town. Isn’t this lovely weather? Revive the prayer meeting. County court on last Monday. Farmers are busy planting corn. Circuit Court convenes on next Monday. Commissioners Court on last Monday. MR. FRANK ALLEN was in to see us on last Monday. “Gentle Spring is here again, With its birds and flowers” Mr. G. B. MIXON is at Huntsville this week, looking after the U. S. C. When you come to court, don’t’ forget the little amount you are due the Herald. That progressive farmer, R. I. WILLETT, informs us that he has corn now up and looking well. Com. D. N. COOPER and Deputy Marshal WHITE are attending U. S. Court at Huntsville this week. Miss ROSA METCALF, who has been visiting relatives near Detroit, returned home on last Saturday. After a week’s absence, caused by being water-bound in Miss. we are again at home and all “O. K.” We were pleased to meet and shake the hand of our worthy friend, I. J. LOYD, of Bull Mountain, on Saturday last. Recent heavy rains have so damaged the public roads in many parts of the county as to call for a second working. Dr. A. L. MOORMAN, of Bexar, honored our sanctum with his cheering presence while in town on last week. Call again. Miss MAZIE BALDRIDGE, a beautiful and intelligent young lady, late of Fulton, Miss. is now instructing an instrumental music class at this place. We learn that Mr. W. R. WHTIE is almost giving away goods this week. We can see but one cause for this unusual cleverness – It’s a g-i-r-l. It is rumored that we are to have a photographer and watchmaker in our city soon. We should think a man of that profession would do a good business here. We learn that citizens of one town have been losing their meat in a mysterious way. The guilty parties would do well to hold up as a good charge of buck-shot administered at close range in warranted to cure all manner of sickness, arising from thieving proclivities. While visiting in Miss. we had the pleasure of meeting several people, who were born and raised in Marion County; among whom was Judge B. B. MCFADDEN, who was born and raise d a few miles below this place. His many friends of this county will be proud to know he is in excellent health. PROCEEDINGS OF THE DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF MARION COUNTY Hamilton, Ala., March 31st, 1888 Pursuant to a call for a meeting of the Democratic Executive Committee for Marion County, the Committee met and was called to order by the Chairman, and the following are the proceedings to wit: On motion the 31st day of April 1888, was set as a time for holding elections at the different precincts in the county for delegates to the County Convention. Moved and carried that the basis of representation from the different beats in the county Convention be at least one from every beat, and in those beats polling more than fifty Democratic votes, the representation of one for every fifty Democratic voters, and one for every fraction over twenty-five and under such prorating, that the representative beats be entitled to representation in the County Convention as follows:…………….. …………….(gives beat and number of representatives of each beat)------------- On motion the 28th day of April, 1888, was set for holding the County convention, to elect delegates to the State Convention, also to set a time for calling a County Convention to elect delegates to the Congressional Convention, and to transact any other business that comes up before the County Convention. There being no further business before the Committee, it is ordered that the Committee stand adjourned. W. H. KEY, Secretary JOHN A. POPE, Chairman Board Tree, Ala., April 2, 1888 Dear Editor: As I have not seen anything in your valuable paper from this section, I will endeavor to send you a few items. The farmers are wide awake this week; planting corn and bedding their cotton land; preparatory to planting. They were injured to some extent on this creek by the recent heavy rain which washed their lands considerably. Singing at Camp’s school House on last Sunday, led by Mr. JOHN NIX, was well attended, and doubtless the girls know what GUS NORTHAM and CALVIN WIGINTON have to say about it from the way they “sided” them. Candidates of alls orts are coming into the field; some for office and some for matrimony. Those who want a good paper, subscribe for the Herald. A. S. N. The above letter was handed to us on last Tuesday, and not withstanding there is no post office in the county of the above name. We suppose our readers will understand it as the writer resides near a creek west of town, known as Board Tree. If you want a paper that gives you all the news, both local and general subscribe for the Herald. Mr. JOHN P. JOHNSON, of the Hamilton, Ala. Herald, has been visiting friends and relatives at this place for the past few days – [Fulton (Miss.) Reporter. A number of the practicing physicians of the county met at this place on last Saturday for the purpose of organizing a Medical Board, and of applying to the State Board of Health for a charter. On last Sunday, Deputy Sheriff WEATHERLY brought to town and lodged in our county jail a white woman named MARGRET GREEN, wife of JESSEE GREEN, who resides in the northern part of this county. She was indicted by the last Grand Jury for unlawful cohabitation with a man named MONROE MITCHELL. The woman is still in jail. MITCHELL has left the country. ALABAMA NEWS – Gathered from our Exchanges Alonzo S. Johnson, a maniac, died in the Birmingham jail on 25th ult. The Henderson Steel Works of Birmingham will commence the erection of a 190 ton furnace in the near future. Tuskaloosa wants a first-class opera house. Jasper Dixon has entered suit against the A. G. S. railroad for $50,000. William Edmonds, nephew of W. T. Callahan of the Eutaw Mirror, was run over and killed by a train at Blocton on last week. Sheffield and Florence are now lighted with electricity. “A big cotton crop” says the Franklin News” is being planted this year in this county.” Franklin County is coming to the front with the inexhaustible beds of iron ore. It is suggested that the Alabama a press gang meet at such time as to get up an excursion to St. Louis to see Cleveland re-nominated on June 5. Gov. Seay commuted the death sentence pronounced on the negro Tarleton Stelle to imprisonment for life. The Moulton Advertise declines publishing any more dreams. It says “The first one we admitted to our columns made all the small-fry, little souled Wheelers mad –a d nth last one has stirred up the bad blood of all the fool Democrats. We can’t publish any more dreams.” Sixteen prisoners in Huntsville jail. A Company is being organized at Anniston for the purpose of making steel car springs. Alabama is entitled to twenty delegates to the National Democratic Convention, four from the state at large and sixteen from the districts. Ten n----- were pulled by the sheriff of Tuscaloosa during one night and safely lodged in jail on a charge of gaming. Hon. William E. Johnson, member of the Legislature from Chilton county, died at his home in Clanton recently. The State Medical and Surgical Association will meet in Montgomery on 10th inst. “Cameron and Lincoln” is the latest Republican team mentioned for the race. Next. The Blount County Agricultural Wheel elected delegates to the Convention of the United Labor Party held in Montgomery recently. No politics in the organization. See? We learn that a most terrific hail storm visited the town of Moscow, Lamar County, on last Monday. It is said to have covered the ground to a depth of five inches. Ike Vincent says he is well treated at the mines, and notwithstanding his health is by no means good, he is not overly anxious to be pardoned. On the contrary, he simply wants to be “let alone.” A party of excursionists will leave Charleston, S. c. on the 10th inst for Bessemer, Alabama to take part in the first anniversary celebration as quite a number of Charlestonians are interested in property there. The decision by the United States Supreme Court in the Iowa Prohibition case will necessarily make high license more poplar. It declares that a state cannot enact a law preventing the importation of whisky from another state. Mr. J H. Nunnerlee, late of the Tuskaloosa Gazette, has purchased the Montgomery Evening Star. The Capitol City may lookout for a splendid evening journal, and one that will be worthy of their liberal support and encouragement. The name of Senator Morgan is being widely suggested as a suitable successor to the late Chief Justice Waite. If a Southern man is to fill the vacancy, President Cleveland could not possibly make a better selection than our “Senior Senator” From every neighborhood we hear of great damage having been done by the recent immense flood. The loss of rails has been considerable; but perhaps the greatest damage ha been in the loss of soil by the washing rain, which came in torrents, and in sheets of water as if poured from vessels. Bear River, we understand, was higher than it has been for 16 years. – [Franklin News} ALABAMA PRESS ASSOCIATION The seventeenth annual session of the Editor’s and Publishers Association will convene in the city of Selma, Alabama on Thursday, April 18, 1888 at 10 o’clock a.m. All members who expect to attend should notify me at once, and state if they will be accompanied by ladies, and over what railroads they will want transportation. All applications must be made for transportation by the 10th of April. The prompt attention of members will be appreciated W. H. MEEKS, President, Gadsden, Ala. --------------- Ad for Simmon’s Liver Regulator 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 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! 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. 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. Liberal advances to merchants and farmers. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/themario150nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 22.9 Kb