Marion County AlArchives News.....The Marion Herald May 10, 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, 3:36 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History May 10, 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 MAY 10, 1888 NO. 5 THE HERALD SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year in advance $1.00 Six Months in advance $0.50 Three months in advance $0.25 In club of ten or more, $0.80 each Ad for Simmons Liver Regulator Ad for F. Hammar Paint Company Ad for Comfort Corset – (picture of lady with corset) 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. The Marion Herald – by the Herald Publishing Co JAMES. S. CLEMENTS, Editor Congress is still discussing and re-cussing the tariff. Will anti-third termers now let the people have some rest? Gen. Gordon’s speech at Jasper seems to have attracted considerable attention to the mineral belt of Alabama, and especially to Walker County. Jasper is bound to “get there.” Mellville W. Fuller, of Illinois, has been nominated by President Cleveland as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The appointment is thought to be a good one. The State Convention has met, and there is in all probability an excellent ticket now in the field with which the democracy may march forward to another grand and decisive victory. Sam Small and his third party movement are exciting our Georgia friends somewhat just now. There is no occasion for undue alarm. Sam may draw a few recruits from the democratic party of Georgia but they are apt to be of that contingent who are better out then in the democratic ranks. Like Samuel himself for instance. – [Mont. Dispatch] The Mormon missionaries must go. – [Anniston Hot Blast] Yes, they must go, but where in the nation would the Hot Blast have them locate? The South does not want them, and some people actually say that hey are so tricky the d-l will have nothing to do with them. It is fast becoming a matter of deep concern and the sooner steps are taken to suppress Mormonism the better it will be for our people. Somebody is actually talking about running John L. Sullivan for Congress in the place of Hon. Patrick Collins, who is averse to being a candidate again………….. As a probable result of Captain Kolb’s visit to the north and west we may look for such an overwhelming tide of immigration and capital toward the South as has never before been seen…………. MINERS STRIKE Learning that there was a strike in progress or in contemplation at Pratt Mines, a Herald reporter was dispatched thither to obtain, if possible, the facts in the premises. Upon his arrival at Pratt Mines he at once proceeded to the office of the company, and meeting Col. Jackson Secretary of the Ensley division of the Pratt Coal, Iron and Railway Company, the reporter proceeded to interview him on the situation, electing the following information………………. Last Friday morning Sheriff Barton received a dispatch asking him to come to Carbon Hill for the purpose of arresting certain desperate characters. Accompanied by Capt. Branford and Mr. Sam Lavette, the sheriff went up, fully prepared to assert the supremacy. On arrival, however, the party found the town in its usual quiet and orderly state, an being unable to find the man wanted, they returned home. We have received a lengthy communication from C. P METCALF, in which he seems to convey the idea that Carbon Hill is about to be turned into a graveyard, and her citizens provided with wood on overcoats. We trust he is unnecessarily alarmed, an in any event the people of Carbon Hill can rest assured that the officers of Walker County are amply able to enforce the law and protect all good citizens. – [Jasper Protectionist.] That Atlanta Constitution is a good paper, enterprising and able, but it is becoming like the flea – you don’t know where to find it. A year of so ago it slipped from the free trade platform to a high tariff plank, and has been capering thereon quite nimbly ever since, until Sunday last, when suddenly and without warning it executed a double somersault and flopped, and proposes to ride the free trade mag. – [Anniston Hot Blast] He who says what he likes must hear what he does not like. ALABAMA NEWS – Gathered from our Exchanges Lots of politics. Plenty of lynching. Fine crop prospects all over the state. The State Treasury contains $687,920.32. Bud worms are destroying corn in St. Clair County. A Catholic female college is to be built at Tuscumbia. The oat crop is said to be good throughout eh state. The new union depot at Anniston is nearing completion. The Supreme Court of Alabama will remain in session until the 1st of August. Pickens County farmers are jubilant over the prospect of a good stand of cotton. The Farmers Alliance store at Guntersville was broken into by a burglar on last week. The Birmingham Herald say two thousand men are mining coal within two miles of Bessemer. The Moulton Advertiser reckons the number of candidates now in the field in this state at 10,000. Calhoun, Morgan, Blount, and St. Clair counties are troubled about the location of their respective county sites. Henry W. Grady will deliver the baccalaureate address at the commencement of the Southern University, Greensboro, on June 13th. Mr. J. W. Steele, a prominent citizen of Huntsville, was thrown from a buggy recently and received injuries from which he died on 2nd inst. For a little minting town Warrior is hard to get by on her criminal record. She can now claim two murders and one lynching inside of two weeks. John T. Morrow, who has been engaged in the lumber business at Birmingham, secretly removed the furniture and office effects on last week and mysteriously disappeared. The Herald says: “Birmingham eats Tennessee chickens at 35 cents a piece, and Tennessee eggs at 20 cents per dozen. Alabama hens have been on a strike for twenty years.” William Dodd, the young man who recently killed one man and dangerously wounded another at Warrior, has been arrested in Knoxville, Tenn. and is now held for a requisition from Gov. Seay. Fred W. Watkins, the pious young blood of Birmingham, who fleeced a number of the magic City people some months ago and skipped the country, was arrested not long since in Arkansas, and now peeps though the bars of the Birmingham jail. A call for a mass meeting to be held at Belgreen, Franklin County, for the purpose of organizing a labor party in that county has been made. This call says that the Labor party is “a grand political union of the knights of Labor, Farmers Alliance, Wheelers and all other labor organizations.” The noted Ben. Allen, whose communistic teachings while editor of the Alabama State Wheel caused many of the more intelligent members to silently and disgustedly leave the Order, is at the head of this labor party movement. A Montgomery special to the Age says there is considerable excitement there over a reported riot in Lowndes County. Gov. Seay received a telegram from the citizens of Sandy Ridge, Lowndes County, asking for troops to prevent a threatened riot. The latest report from Sandy Ridge says that a posse of white men and about 150 armed and mounted negroes came in conflict on 4th last. Several white men were slightly wounded, and some of the negroes were killed and others wounded. The latter were at last driven of. ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN The world is older than you by several years; for thousands of years it has been full of better and smarter young men than yourself, when they died the gobble went whirling on, and not one man in a hundred million went to the funeral or heard of their death. Be as smart as you can, of course; know as much as you can. Shed the light of your wisdom abroad to the world, but don’t try to dazzle or astonish anybody with it, and don’t imagine a thing is simple because you think it is……………………. Jackson, Miss., May 2 – Gen. Wirt Adams and John W. Martin, prominent citizens of this city, met on the street yesterday and shot each other dead……………. Terrance Mullen, the man who served eighteen months in the penitentiary for trying to steal the body of Abraham Lincoln, was recently sent up at Santa Fe, New Mexico, for trying to rob the government. CULTIVATION OF CORN A correspondent of the London Standard says that the Russian Nihilists, having failed to make the desired impression upon the peasant have for the past few years devoted their attention chiefly to the army and navy, and with starling success. It is suspected hat if Russia become engaged in another war the Revolutionists will not permit her triumph. “If our armies emerge victorious from a coming war, says the Liberals, “the abomination of desolutation will be inaugurated in our country, and will last indefinitely. – [Hot Blast] Praise borrowed from ancestry is but very sorry praise. It is hard to track the path the ship follows in the ocean. - Ex PAGE 2 THE MARION HERALD Published Every Thursday Hamilton, Alabama NOT AS I WILL – (poem) MYSTERY OF CECIL DACRE – (story with pictures) AFTER A LONG TIME CHASKA, THE SIOUX BRIDEGROOM OUR SOUTHLAND – Condensed Items of News from our Correspondents – Alabama It is rumored that Anniston is to have another daily paper. There are already three dailies and two weeklies published here. The big vote polled by Decatur in its recent city election shows the town has a population of over 8,000. Decatur had only about 1200 in 1880. The Anniston locomotive works will occupy their building may 1st. The foundry of the United States Rolling Stock Company is nearly complete. The construction of the stove works is to begin early next month. A special to Anniston, April 29, says: In making an excavation at the Barbour Machine Works Saturday, a remarkably rich vein of silver, six feet thick was discovered. The New York Water Construction Company have petitioned the Council for a franchise to erect water works in this city. On May 2nd, between 2 and 3 o’clock, Mr. Montgomery Jones house near Guntersville was burned. It was situated on the banks of the river one mile from the town. Before assistance arrived, the house was enveloped in flames. Everything was lost. The fire is supposed to have caught from a match which was lying on the floor near some cotton. Mr. Jones stepped on the match but did not pay any attention to it and left the house. He returned in half an hour and found the house on fire. The loss amount of $500 or $600. -------------------------------- PAGE 3 NATIVES OF CAPE TOWN – Kaffirs on Shopping Excursions in South Africa SMALLEST PLANT IN THE WORLD “PNEUMONIA” THE LIME-KILN CLUB STOPPED A RATHOLE WOULD NOT CROSS Ad for Paine’s Celery Compound Ad for Hood’s Sarsaparilla Ad for St. Jacob’s Oil Ad for Dr. Kilmer’s Ocean Weed Heart Remedy – (picture of a heart) Ad for “Rough on Rats” – picture of dead rat Ad for Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets Smaller advertisements PAGE 4 LOCAL DEPARTMENT DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF MARION COUNTY, ALA. W. R. WHITE A. J. RYE M. D. SHELTON A. L. MOORMAN J. T. YOUNG I. J. LOYD J. B. WOOD W. W. WHITE JACOB SHAMLIN THOS. BURLASON J. P. PEARCE W. F. HANEY S. A. REED E. VICKERY M. T. AKERS W. J. MARTIN J. T. YOUNG, Chairman ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR REPRESENTATIVE We are authorized to announce the name of W. W. WHITE as a candidate to represent Marion County in the next General Assembly of Alabama, Election first Monday in August 1888. FOR SHERIFF – TAX COLLECTOR 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 FOR TREASURER 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 FOR ASSESSOR 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 I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Tax Assessor of Marion County, election to be held the first Monday in August 1888. C. F. DONALDSON I respectfully announce myself a candidate for the office of Tax Assessor of Marion County, election first Monday in August 1888. J. C. WEATHERLY. I respectfully announce myself as a candidate for the office of Tax Assessor of Marion County. Election to be held first Monday in August 1888. T. J. FARIS FOR COMMISSIONER 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. CALL FOR BEAT MEETING A call is hereby given for a beat meeting to be held at the several beats in Marion County on the 12th day of May 1888 for the purpose of electing delegates to the County Convention, which will convene in Hamilton, on 19th of May for the purpose of electing delegates to the Congressional Convention. THOS. YOUNG, Chairman W. R. WHITE, Secretary Read notice of land sale in another column. Mr. W. T. GAST made a business trip to Guin the first of the week. Mr. J. F. WHITE and family of Detroit are visiting relatives in town this week. Dr. B. P. IVEY, of Winfield spent part of Saturday and Sunday last in town. Mr. J. C. CAMP made a business trip to Guin this week. Misses KATIE and ITTIE FRAZIER paid a visit to their home at Pikeville on last week. Dr. W. W. WHITE, the clever young candidate for Representative was in town on Saturday last. No, there will not be any picnic, and the reasons why, is – well spring chickens are not yet ripe. W. H. MATTHEWS and W. R. H. LODEN are off for Montgomery to attend the State Convention which convened there on yesterday. We received a communication from “A Wheeler” this week wherein he speaks to the President of the County Wheel, but too late for publication. It will appear in our next issue. Candidates were numerous on our streets last Saturday and each one seemed determined at all hazards to shake hands with more people than any of his competitors. Well enough, boys, to get as much fun out of the race as you can. The time is not far distant when you will have to submit to a thinning out. Our friend Dr. MOORMAN, of Bexar, was in town on Saturday last, but seemed to ignore the existence of the Herald office. We are not angry, Dr. but remember in the future when visiting our town that the latch sting to the door of our sanctum is always suspended on the outside while within you will find the office cat and a hearty welcome. Mrs. ---- DAVIDSON, of Detroit, is visiting friends in town this week. Your special attention is directed to the “ad” of the Jesse French Piano and Organ Company in this week’s Herald. Messrs. JOHN L. WHITE and JULE POPE, two of Guin’s most prominent business young men, were in town on Sunday last. Call again, boys, your many friends here are always pleased to see you. Owing to the delay in getting our paper this week we are a little late. As such things will happen in the best regulated offices, and the Herald being no exception to the rule, we deem it unnecessary to offer our readers an apology. We learn that some of the boys while out fishing this week became so enthused over the irregular biting of the finy tribe, that they just threw down their tackle and went for ‘em – heels over head into the river – catching we know not how many. The Herald - one year for one dollar. Editor Herald: We notice an article in the last issue of the Herald headed “A wheeler replies to a wheeler”. Now this wheeler failed to give any clue to his identity and judging from the tone of his article we can’t well say that we blame him. However, it strikes us that he is one of the many loyal republican members with which the wheel is almost weighted down. He says wheelers of my sort do the wheel more harm than good. Guess he thinks none are good who are not willing to dance every time the wheel bosses make music, and if need be vote for a Republican if one enters the field. Well, we will say to our Bro. that if it takes this sort of timber to constitute a loyal wheeler guess we are not very loyal. The wheel was gotten up in the North and slowly rolled down here for no other purpose than that of breaking a solid south. Who has been benefited by the wheel”? Do wheelers buy their goods cheaper than other people? I remember of one wheeler who did get goods very cheap, the fact is he got them so infernal cheap that he had to leave the state. This member who produced goods at such reduced prices resided at or near Shottsville, and was considered one of the “Big ‘uns.” Bro. Wheeler, are you a better farmer now than you were before you joined the wheel? Did you ever hear anything that sounded like agriculture discussed in the wheel? Have you yet learned how a farmer can sell his cotton for ten cents a pound and buy domestic for three cents a yard? Do you know that like the Prohibition Party your advanced ideas of governmental form bodes no good to the democracy and honest government? Do you know that wheeler tickets bearing alike both democrats and republicans have been in the field in other state s and are now trying to do so in Alabama? You may style me a lunatic for asking these questions. So be it, since being a member of the one concern which alone promises such changes and having on account of ignorance been unable to see through the mist. I ask you for information, for being an experienced member probably you may open your big heart and tell me how a fifty dollar saddle would look on a ten dollar horse. Or in other words how a four-by-six wheeler would grace the President’s chair? These things are not impossible with the Order. It boasts of being able in a few years to run this government from the most remote island on the eastern cost of Maine to the Pacific slope on the west and by putting the “right man in the right place begin about such times of plenty and prosperity as have never before been seen since the discovery of the continent nearly four hundred years ago. All this may seem quite strange to the more hard-headed class of people say it should be borne in mind that the wheel has spoken it, and that it never retracts, especially on the eve of a great political contest. The wheeler, who claims “no politics in the order” should be treated with that respect due vendors of hoary chestnuts and should not be noticed, while the chestnut would be all the better if pickled well in brine. Now, Bro Wheeler, we do not ask you to “crawl off and repent” but to walk as quickly as you can to some clear, running brook, and there in the cool shadow, surrounded by no wheel, save that of sober reflection the best companion of sturdy manhood, apply the mp and soap to your heated brow until not so much as a vestige of that present lurid imagination remains to cloud the more sensible ideas that will afterward spring up around you; pointing with the finger of knowledge to those things you should study; and by so doing become better equipped for life’s journey, and to ameliorate the condition of your fellow creatures. That you may do as requested and not longer stand like a puddle duck in the rain, waiting for the millennium is the wish of A WHEELER THEY DO SAY That Hamilton has a magnificent building and musical boom. That the Herald is booming a little too. That candidates are numerous but ‘nouncements scarce. That the court house will be completed by and by. That Judge MATTHEWS proposed to have an elegant residence erected in town That mumps are having it pretty much their own way in and around town at present. That one “General Green” will ere long have a lively warfare wages on his stronghold. That the Wheel was rolling, and the doctors talking very learnedly on our streets last Saturday. That we are to have a handsome church house and Masonic Hall erected in the not far distant sweet subsequently. That WIGGINS, the storm prophet is again bobbing up with the prediction that cyclones are going to work havoc in this country during the summer. That corn up and exposed to the cool nights and mornings of the past several days caught a severe cold that will make it look bilious for several weeks. That parties seeking investment for capital would do well to look after the lands of the LOCHRIDGE Estate which are advertised for sale elsewhere in this week’s Herald. That if you want to retire from business and have your customers cease trading with you withdraw your advertisement from the local paper and you will have no further trouble with patronage. That Hamilton is smiling as it were the breeze of progress from afar, and may yet come forward in a manner that will paralyze the old chronic croaker who thinks we are too far from headquarters to accomplish much. ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE By an order made in the Probate Court of Marion County, Alabama on the 25th day of April 1888, I will on the 28th day of May 1888, offer for sale all the following lands as the property of the estate of JOHN LOCCHERIDGE, deceased, Viz: …(long land description)……All of the above lands will be sold at Hamilton, marion county, Alabama on the day above stated. Terms of sale one-third cash, and balance divided into one and two years payment,, with note and at least two good sureties. All persons wishing to buy good homes, on good terms, and will attend the sale can be accommodated. Or any companies or persons wishing to buy minerals can buy on these lands coal, iron, or lead. All persons wishing to buy will do well to look before sale, this April 26th 1888. W. R. H. LODEN, Adm’r TAX SALE The State of Alabama, Marion County Under and by virtue of a decree rendered in the Probate Court of said county, I will on the 4th day of June 1888 offer for sale the following lands for the non- payment of taxes due for the year 1888 assessed to J. T. HOLCOMB viz: W ½ of NE ¼ Sec 27 T 12 R 11, and NW ¼ of SE ¼ Sec 27 T 12 R 11 and S ½ of SE ¼ Sec 27 T 12 R 11: State tax $5.50 County tax $11.50 Court cost $1.70 Printers fee $3.70 This May 1st, 1888 W. R. H. LODEN, T. C. 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 $100 TO $300 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. 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 Jesse French Piano and Organ, Birmingham, Ala. – picture of ornate organ If you want a paper that gives you all the news, both local and general, subscribe for the Herald. W. R. WHITE, Dealer in clothing and gents furnishing goods, hats, caps, boots, and shoes, dry goods, ladies dress goods, family groceries, drugs and medicines, hardware, glassware, cigars, tinware, tobacco, candies, queensware, snuff, canned goods, and the justly celebrated Mountain Mills Cotton Yarn. I have in stock many articles not enumerated in the above, and all will be sold at prices to suit the times. All I ask is a trial to convince you that I am in prices as low as anyone, and for quality and style of goods, I am surpassed by none. Hamilton, Ala. 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. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land office at Huntsville, Ala., April 27th, 1888 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler his filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Marion County, Ala.,, at Hamilton, Ala on June 15th, 1888, viz: Hd No. 6906 JOSHUA NICHOLS for the S ½ of SW ¼ and NW ¼ of SW ¼ Sec 24 T 9 R 13. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: JAMES COLE JR., WILLIAM J. COLE, SR. WILLIAM E. TYRE and JOHN COLE, all of Chalk Bluff, Ala. Frank Coleman, Register Ad for Simmons Liver Regulator Ad for The Birmingham Age and the Weekly Iron Age File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/themario156nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 27.5 Kb