Marion County AlArchives News.....The Marion Herald April 19, 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, 3:30 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History April 19, 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. IV HAMILTON, ALABAMA, THURSDAY APRIL 19, 1888 NO. 2 NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT State of Alabama, Marion County Probate Court, 7th day of April 1888 SMITH GANN, Deceased, Estate of: This day came W. R. H. LODEN, the administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, vouchers, and evidences for a final settlement of his administration. It is therefore ordered that the 27th day of April 1888 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all parties interested can appear and contest the said settlement if they think proper WALTER H. MATTHEWS Judge of Probate, Marion County 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 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! 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 Subscribe for the Herald. 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 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT The Herald will not espouse the cause of any candidate for a county office until such candidate has been endorsed by the Democratic Party in convention assembled. This is simply saying that we will not endorse any of the candidates in the field, as we will have neither convention or primary. All political parties and non-partisan organizations are going to be represented in the approaching campaign. We distinctly see in the political firmament a sure token of the liveliest battle now approaching that has ever been fought by the Democracy of Marion County. Democrats, Republicans, and Wheelers are all in for the fight. The Wheel has no county ticket in the field, but by some accident there are candidates for the several county officers who are members of the organization. Some of them are Democrats and some are republicans, while others are simply Wheelers. This state of affairs may prove a blessing to the Democracy in as much as to teach us that without an acknowledged party to prevent half dozen Democrats from dividing the party’s strength and meeting in open fight but one of the enemy is in close proximity to inviting defeat itself. Jefferson County convicts sentenced to hard labor on the public road are, according to the report of Prison Inspectors, treated in a most shocking and cruel manner. The inspectors report the building wherein twenty-seven men are confined when off duty, as being 16 x 20 feet, without ventilation or any means of heating it in cold weather. The supply of beds and bed clothing is very limited, and the prisoners are reeking with filth and vermin, not having had opportunity of either washing or changing their apparel for two months. Black and white alike are chained together in this room, which at times is so densely crowded that they are forced to sleep one upon another. In connection with other punishment they have to go many of them without shoes, and constant moving about over the rough stones which they have to break, their feet often become bruised and lacerated in a way that render them unfit for actual labor. They are also reported as being shackled and made to war chains, which is in direct violation of the law. Four thousand Irish emigrants sailed for this country from Queenstown recently. -------------- ITS RACE ASPECT -------- Bismark will not resign his position as Chancellor of the German Empire. Press dispatches state that renewed efforts to obtain the consent of the Emperor to the marriage of his daughter, Princess Victoria, to Prince Alexander, of Battenburg, have not been successful. This seems to leave no grounds for a secret conflict between Bismark and the Emperor. All in harmony in Alabama. The differences in the Democratic ranks in Tuskaloosa, Lowndes, Macon and Chambers have all be settled and a united front is now presented to the common enemy. Mr. Arthur Bingham and his Republican followers can put out a ticket if they want to. It will add a little zeal to the campaign, but they will meet with a snowing under, even if the election does come off in August. – [Mont. Advertiser] LOAVES AND FISHES – The Girl Preacher Gets in Her Work It was on a certain hillside near Warrior. We were not present in person, but the devil was, and from him we have a full report of the sermon preached, and regret that we haven’t the space to publish it verbatim in these columns. If we could, the Index would live in the hearts of its countrymen as a humorous paper long after it is dead and buried. There were present several young ladies who were visible, and also the devil, who was invisible, and who is also something of a short hand reporter. He (the devil) tells it about this way: “I was sitting on the hillside when all at once I heard a noise like unto the rush of mighty waters. Casting my eyes eastward, I saw several young ladies. My first impression was that it was a Woman’s Rights meeting, and I prepared to scoop in the entire assemblage. But later developments proved that I was mistaken. One of the youngest ladies, with whose charms of person and voice I was forcibly struck, mounted a temporary pulpit with unfeminine alacrity, and announced her text to be “The Loaves and fishes.” She represented her text by a piece of bread and butter, and before breaking unto her hungry hearers, she would preach, she said, until the quantity increased to a sufficiently to feel the multitude and leave seven baskets of fragments……………[Warrior Index] Wilkesbarre, April 12 – The Hungarian League, a second Molly Maguire organization in the coal regions, have commenced hostilities in dead earnest against their enemies. ………………. BABY BUNTING AGAIN ALABAMA NEWS – Gathered from our Exchanges Decatur is infested with burglars. Limestone County has declared for Senator Morgan. Walker County real estate continues firm with an upward tendency. Bessemer celebrated her first anniversary on 12th inst. Reports from over the state are favorable for a splendid fruit crop. Several workmen were seriously injured by the falling of a scaffold at Anniston on last week. Mormon preachers have been getting in their work in portions of Sumpter County for the past few days. Sheffield has discarded the title of “The Bee Hive City’’ and now calls herself “The Iron City of Alabama.” The Birmingham tack and Small Nail Works, which have been shut down for some time, will not resume work before June 1st. The Eleyton Land Company is receiving from eight to ten car loads of machinery from the Nashville Rolling Mill Company daily. Hon. W. f. Foster of Macon County is prominently mentioned as a suitable man to represent the state at large in the National Democratic Convention. Lawrence County is reported as having 200 Wheeler candidates in the field. The advertiser says the time is near at hand when most of them will be choked off and create such a howl as was never before heard in old Lawrence. Hon. John M. Martin, of Birmingham, has accepted an invitation from the Society of Alumni of the University of Alabama to deliver the annual oration before the society at the approaching comment of that institution. A negro named Levi Perry had his neck broken by jumping from a hand car running at full speed on the Kansas City Railroad last week. He jumped it is said to recover his hat, which had been taken of by the wind, with the above named fatal result. Atlanta, Ga., April 12 – Editor Hudson, of the Lincolnton News, who visited Augusta about April 1, and disappeared from here so mysteriously, turned up here yesterday from Texarkana …………. Little Rhode Island, it seems after all, has given to all intents and purposes, another Democratic victory……………… PAGE 2 THE MARION HERALD Published Every Thursday Hamilton, Alabama HERCULES AT HOME – (poem) DIAMOND AND PASTE – Clarissa’s Trip to New York, and What Came of it WANTED SMUGGLED GOODS TALMAGE’S SERMON – Opening Discourse of the Series to the Women of America PAGE 3 PRINCESS DRESSES – How the Ideal Cloth Gowns for the Mid-winter Season Are Constructed THE UGLY GIRL – Some Advantages which She Has Over Her Pretty Sister THE EDITORIAL WE – Trials and Tribulations of the Quilldriver of the Arizona “Kicker” THE SIGN MANUAL OF POVERTY THE BRUISER KING – The Whole World Pays Homage to Sullivan, Our Sullivan NOT A WOMAN’S CALLING A FAIR DREAM OF WOMEN Small advertisements AD for Paine’s Celery Compound Ad for Ko-Ko Tulu Chewing Gum Ad for Pacific Liver Pills More 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 19, 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 ANNOUNCEMENTS I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Sheriff and Tax Collector of Marion County, election to be held on the first Monday in August 1888. MARTIN C. GANN I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Tax Assessor of Marion County, election to be held on the first Monday in August 1888. J. L. GILMORE We are authorized to announce J. M. COLEMAN as a candidate for the office of County Commissioner first district. Election first Monday in August 1888. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of County Treasurer of Marion County election to be held on the first Monday in August 1888. ROBERT I. CAMP Mr. and Mrs. L. J. CLARK paid Guin a short visit and returned on last week. Rev. JOHN W. WHITE and family of Russellville are visiting friends at this place. Capt. COOPER returned from Huntsville on last week. He says Decatur’s boom is marvelous. Chancery Court convenes today the Hon. THOMAS COBBS, Chancellor of the North western Division presiding. Rev. JOHN W. WHITE preached a short but excellent sermon to a large audience at this place on last Sunday night. We were pleased to meet and shake the hand of our friend W. W. OZBIRN at Hackelburg while in town on Tuesday last. An earnest effort will be made tonight to resurrect the prayer meeting. Let everybody attend and lend their aid in the good work. The Photographer, Mr. PLUMMER WILLIAMS, has his machinery in good running order and requests all who wish to have photos taken, to give him a call. Mr. W. OZBIRN, a clever young farmer, of near Hackelburg gave us a call the first of the week and added his name to our constantly increasing subscription list. One of our most enterprising and successful farmers, MR. R. E. DUNN, of near town, has corn now over six inches high and is giving it an excellent plowing. If our citizens will not become interested in the matter and build a church house, by all means they should furnish good lights for the present structure answering the place of a church. The weather for several days past has been all that could possibly be desired, and more clearly demonstrates the fact that our farmers are doing their duty than their conspicuous absence from town. But few of them have been seen on the streets during the week. BEXAR LETTER Bexar, Ala., April 8, 1888 Editor Herald: I will try to give you a few dots from this part of the world. First we will notice the candidate crop. We have a candidate for each of the county offices to be filled who belongs to the “Order” or better known as Agricultural Wheel. As yet there is but one wheeler candidate for each office in the field, though there is no politics in the ‘order’ – so said. They, the candidates claim that the Wheelers vote for the union of the body. Now I am a wheeler from principles but not so from practice. I have always been a Democrat, though I do not like some of their practices, yet I cannot support a wheeler simply because he belongs to the organization, and is naturally a broken down politician seeking political aid in the wheel. This class of office seekers are trying to keep the majority of the members from knowing their intended schemes, which are kept secret among the politicians, the members generally know nothing of it, while they being officers of the Order can play their secret work, etc. For fear this reaches the waste basket I will close with three cheers for the Herald. A Wheeler The Republicans of Clinton County in their late call for a meeting of the executive committee extended a cordial and brotherly love invitation to all Knights of Labor, Wheelers, Alliance members and all other laborers, to attend the meeting and participate with them in committee, saying that “some very important business will be brought before the committee” What is the meaning of all this concern being manifested for the laboring people by their old enemies, the Republicans? Are the party bosses of the old decrepit endeavoring by their persuasive powers to entrap the labor organizations and with their combine d forces defeat the democracy? If such be not the case why, then, were wheelers and other labor organizations included in the ‘call?’ The Montgomery Dispatch, one among the most true and tried Democratic journals in the state, commenting on this republican ’call’ says” “This document is neither strange nor interesting, beyond the fact that the factions which composed the late convention held in this city are enumerated in the “call”. The natural inquiry is, is there a “combine” in Alabama between the Republicans and the labor party? It is quite probable that there is at present no combine, but like the Dispatch we think the Democrats would do well to keep a sharp look out for the enemy regardless of the name it may assume. In another column may be found the announcement of ROBERT I. CAMP, as a candidate for the office of County Treasure. Mr. CAMP is a merchant of this pale and a man whose reputation for integrity, morality and industry is unsurpassed by that of any man in the county. He would no doubt, if elected, make an able and efficient officer. Work on the court house began last Monday morning, and the workmen as yet but two in number, are making good progress. More workmen will be employed and we hope for an early completion of the building. When that car load of “Jesse French” arrives you may either prepare to capitulate or move. It will capture the town beyond a reasonable doubt. Mr. ROBERT BOLIN, of near Crew’s Lamar County, is visiting his daughter, Mrs. R. W. CASHION, of this place. Mr. JOHN COCHRAN, of near Pearce’s Mill, has been in town this week. The Tax Collector of Jefferson Co. recently paid into the State Treasury $56,553.33 The largest amount every paid into the State Treasury at one time by any county in the State. The Herald, one year for one dollar. NOTICE OF LAND SALE The State of Alabama, Marion County Udner and by virtue of a decree rendered in the Probate Court of said county on the 9th day of April 1888, I will on 21 day of May 1888 in front of the Court House door, in Hamilton proceed to sell al the follwoign lands for the non- payment of txes, due and unpaid, for the years for which they were assessed. LEAK, HASE & CO., mineral interest----------(land description)------------ W. B. WOOD------------(land description) A. BABBIT Estate----“ RUDSEL Estate ---- “ A. J. DENNIS – “ SAM BRACEWELL – “ ELIZABETH RIED – “ C. H. RIED – “ J. B. HUCKABEE, Agent for Georgia Pacific R. R. – “ This April 13th, 1888 W. R. H. LODEN, T. C. BEAT MEETING Saturday April 21st is the day for holding the Beat Meetings of this county. These meetings should be generally attended by the voters of each Beat, and good men chosen as delegates to the County Convention Hon. THOS. J. CARLISLE, of Pike County, is a new aspirant for State Superintendent of Education Ad for Simmons Liver Regulator ALABAMA PRESS ASSOCIATION The seventeenth annual session of the Editor’s and Publisher’s Association will convene in the city of Selma, Alabama on Thursday, April 19, 1888 at 10 o’clock a.m. All members also 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. M. MEEKS, President, Gadsden, Ala If you want a paper that gives you all the news, both local and general, subscribe for the Herald. 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. 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. 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