Marion County AlArchives News.....The Marion Herald May 17, 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, 3:38 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History May 17, 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 17, 1888 NO. 6 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 the Palmer Boss Church – picture of churn – Largest barrel church factory in the world. It makes more butter, a superior quality of butter, a harder, better grained butter, than any other churn sold. No Church works so easily. No Churn cleans so easily. It keeps out cold air; it keeps out hot air; it is perfect so they all say. Ask your dealer for the “Palmer Boss Church.” And if he does not keep it, send to us for circular and testimonial letters. H. H. palmer & Co. Rockford, Ill. Ad for Palmer Washer – picture of washing machine – ladies and laundries should investigate this machine at once. It will save you time, labor and money. The only washer built on the true principle. Will save its cost in three months. You have same control of clothes as with your hands and wash board and will wash them in half the time, as you can use hot suds while rubbing them, without putting your hands in the water. Don’t spoil your hands and temper or allow your laundries to ruin your clothes with acids. Ask your dealer for “The Best Washer” or send of circular to H. H. Palmer & Co., Rockford, Ill. Ad for Comfort Corset – (picture of lady with corset) The Marion Herald – by the Herald Publishing Co JAMES. S. CLEMENTS, Editor THE STATE TICKET Col. Robert Ingersoll delivered a memorial address on the late Roscoe Conkling before the New York Legislature, at Albany, on 9th inst………………. A strange atmospherical phenomenon was witnessed at Maize, Kansas recently. A storm cloud burst and extended over a space, parallel in form of 100 yards wide and one mile in length. …………… The Congressional Convention for the Sixth district is called to meet at Jasper on Wednesday May 23rd. The difference between the United States and the Moorish Government have been finally settled. The president has approved the bid for the relief off the A. & M. college of Alabama. ALABAMA NEWS GATHERED FROM OUT EXCHANGES Mad dogs are numerous. Marion wants water works. Athens has too many tramps. Boys and girls around Tuscumbia go fox hunting together. The Republicans of Walker County held their pow wow meeting on 5th inst. Six car loads of steele blooms were shipped from the Anniston bloomer on 10th inst. Huntsville is to have a large tobacco manufactory erected in the near future. Hon. John T. Morgan will deliver the address at Oxford, Ala. College in June next. It is rumored that the Anniston Hot Blast has purchased the Watchman and will continue its publican. Haynesville n---- are troubled about the ghost of Theo. Calloway and are afraid to pass near the tree on which he was hung. A Livingston correspondent of the Montgomery Advertiser says much fruit has been destroyed in that locality by the late frosts. Difference between the Tennessee Coal & Iron Company and the striking miners promises to be adjusted soon and the men return to their work. A man named Raider, residing with his family near Wetumka, outraged his sixteen year-old daughter on last week. He skipped out but a posse of armed citizens are in pursuit, and should he be captured Judge L. will probably preside over his case. The Florida papers generally deny the correctness of the reports made by medical officers of the United States Senate to the Surgeon General as to the existence of yellow fever in nay part of that state………………. We have received the Donnelly cipher book, and will have time to play mumblety peg – [Birm. Age] Governor Seay has appointed Mr. B. D. Mitchell of Seale, Tax Assessor of Russell County to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late assessor, Mr. --- N. Owens. AN IMPORTANT INVENTION A gentleman from Georgia whose name we did not learn, exhibited here last week a cotton gin with a brush attachment designed as a protection against fire. Fire was communicated to cotton saturated with kerosene oil, placed on the saws of the gin, which, so soon as the gin was started, was put out by the motion of the brush. The brush can be conveniently attached to any gin. Mr. W. P. Walton, of Marion, is interested in this patent, in Hale, and probably in other counties. Cotton planters in this section would do well to correspond with Mr. Walton on the subject. – [Alabama Beacon] Hannibal Hamlin is the only surviving candidate on the presidential ticket of 1860. GETTING THINGS MIXED While in name there is but one Democratic Party, there are in fact two kinds of Democracy. The Northern and Southern wings of that party stand in sharp contrast to each other. These differences are irreconcilable – [Protectionist] The way to find out whether there are “two kinds of Democracy” is to wait till midnight of the first Tuesday in November next. Democrats may and do differ in abstract principles and concrete polices, but there is only one Democracy after all, and its’ against Republicanism and all newfangled factions that seek to break its solidarity. – [Birm. Herald] Atlanta, Ga., May 10 – The State Conference Convention before adjourning, passed resolutions to make a general prohibition contest in the elections for the Legislature this fall. Prohibition candidates will be nominated in every county, pledged to vote for a statutory prohibition law, instead of leaving the question to a vote of the people. Greenville, Ala., May 10 – J. H. McCue was called from his field this evening and fired upon with a short gun, the load entered his abdomen. He is considered mortally wounded. No particulars, and the guilty person or persons not known. Washington, May 9 – The President today nominated Robert B. Roosevelt, of New York, to be Minister resident of the United States to the Netherlands. Atlanta, May 10 – Wm. Hopkins, who was to have been hanged in Rabun county tomorrow was respited today by Gov. Gordon. Alabama has 2,860 miles of railway, and several hundred miles are projected for this year. The Sheffield furnace is now in blast and doing good work. A WHEELER REPLIES TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTY WHEEL Bexar, Ala., May 9, 1888 Mr. Editor: We ask for space in your paper that we may say a few words to the President of the County Wheel, P. M. WIGINTON, who took occasion to give us a lecture through the columns of the Herald not long since. In the first place there seems to be a want of congruity somewhere in MR. WIGINTON’S make up. He is a zealous worker for the laboring class, but did he so act through the days of reconstruction in the South? Does he not prove that the Wheel is strongly tinctured with political essence when he admits that there are candidates for the various county offices who are members of the Order? However, we will let that pas and turn our attention to the political ground on which the president of this “let the office seek the man’ organization stands. Does he claim to be a Democrat? Can anybody remember when he did a thing so naughty as to affiliate with the Democratic and Conservative party of Alabama? Is he not a broken down politician, trying to lead a hopeless cause for a still worse broken down political organization? We ask of those best qualified to answer the above questions at a convenient season, and by so doing oblige many wheelers. Why, Mr. President, you talk as though there never was such thing as a political bee buzzing round your bonnet, and we know it wouldn’t work. When you “Big ‘uns” make a pas at the small fry you seem as regardless of consequences as you are of a wheeler’s past party affiliations, and with one fell swoop try to wipe up a whole quarter section of uncleared ground with him. That is very wrong. You may at once prepare your affairs to let the “ignoramuses” do a little thing while they have opportunity to do so. There is one other thing that I wish to call your attention to. You think the ‘A’ in my non de plume stands for anti. So it does, but I belong to the order by a large majority. I have a remedy for your case, not like that prescribed for the “non political” brother, who yelled “no politics” until the foxes in their highest element of cunning, would have hastened to their dens green with envy. Here it is. When you become so grieved owing to the oppression of the laboring people that you can’t sit still in the shade on a July day, just go off alone and ask of him whose eye seeth all things to forgive you for the part you took in bringing about this “oppression” by not voting a straight Democratic ticket. If this will not cure you, then, yours must be one of those old chronic case of sepublican rheumatism, and your only hope rests in the old party again coming into power and electing you to Constable of Beat No. 1. Most wheelers of this section, that is, the more intelligent members, have quit the Order, and say that it is “a huge fraud,” and ask the people to forgive them. This lodge, Bexar, has a membership of seventy, and at the last meeting there were not more than twelve or fifteen members present. On a (?) boom, don’t you see? A WHEELER ----------------- MEN AND WOMEN- (the loss of manners between men and women) PAGE 2 NOT AS I WILL – (POEM) MYSTERY OF CECIL DACRE - (story) AFTER A LONG TIME CHASKA, THE SIOUX BRIDEGROOM OUR SOUTHLAND – news from Southern states PAGE 3 NATIVES OF CAPE TOWN 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 Blood Purifer Heart Remedy Ad for Mason & Hamlin organs Ad for Hughes’ Tonic for Chills and Fever 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 “All is quiet along the Potomac” this week. Organize, arm and equip that Literary Club. Mr. CAL BEASLEY, of Glen Allen spent Sunday night last in town. Messrs. J. M. and A. A. PEARCE of Texas, Ala. were in town on Monday last. The Bexar Wheeler talks quite impudent to the President of the County Wheel. Better keep an eye on that church house question, or the thing will be stone dead in sixty days. We welcome BETSY TROTWOOD to a place in our columns this week and hope she may write again soon. What’s the matter with “clip” that he can’t tell us how our Detroit neighbors are getting on? Come, let us hear from you. There must be something dead up the branch when a subscriber, after taking a paper three years, orders it discontinued without paying up arrears. We learn that Mr. CAMP has been put to a deal of trouble in getting his planer from the railroad and ready for business. While on the road the wagon was overturned and the planer broken but no serious damage done. It will be running in a few days and plenty of lumber will then be furnished the hands, who owing to the scarcity of that article have been on a strike during the past week. BEAR CREEK SIFTINGS Editor Herald: Some very prominent gentlemen from Nashville, Tenn. and Russellville, Ala. came out yesterday to buy up the remaining ale of cotton left in the hands of the planters and country merchants. To avoid the excessive freight charges on the S. & B. Railroad they undertook to navigate Bear Creek, and launched three boats in the Big Bear at the railroad crossing, and all the citizens and country merchants turned out and sold their cotton and other produce. They sailed out on the 1st day of May, with all three of the boats well loaded with cotton, beef, cattle, goats, sheep, chickens, eggs a large quantity of tan bark, hoop poles, stoves, beeswax, tallow and everything of any commercial value they could get. They were a jolly crowd of good fellows, and seemed to be in good cheer. They were well supplied on said bots with eatables, kept fine tables and a splendid bar room, and had a prominent physician from Russellville on board. The citizens of this vicinity are in excellent spirits as the captain of said boats promised to make regular trips provided they got through all right. But alas for the sad fate. They were seen rowing through the shoals near Allen’s factory on the evening of 1st inst., and about 9 o’clock at night the boats capsized over what is known as the Falls. The harboard of the foremost boat caught in the stern whell of the second, and the boiler of the hindmost boat burst about the same time and all the valuable lading was lost, a number of the crew injured but no lives were lost. The good people of the Falls Mtg. Co. turned out en masse to do all they could toward relieving the suffering and terrified crew. Ambulances were prepared and the wounded removed to the hospital where they will be well cared for. The losses are terrible and the people seem discouraged as this is the first attempt at boat navigation that has ever been made in this water, and they fear the disaster may dissuade others from trying similar voyages. Our report was unable to get the names of the sufferers but a late telegraphic dispatch reports the wounded all doing well. The Russellville doctor, as also Dr. WHITE, of this city, are doing very efficient service. Many articles of value are being recovered below the Falls, such as barrels of flour, bales of cotton, etc. A telegram has been sent to Sheffield for a special train to be sent out immediately to convey those of the wounded able to stand the trip back to the city. The boats were all new, having been built at Russellville especially for this trade, to ply between Allen’s Factory and Cincinnati, and up and down Big bear Creek to the S. & B. railroad crossing. We extend to this unfortunate crew our sympathies, trusting they may not become discouraged but make another voyage soon. The prospects are very flourishing for a new town at the R. r. crossing near Bear Creek. The country surrounding this place is very beautiful and is well supplied with coal of the finest quality. Mr. J. R. PHILLIPS is having more building done. Mr. L. M. ALLEN will commence building here soon. The Falls Manufacturing Company will have a large cotton shed erected there by the time cotton is gathered. Mr. JACK DOWNEY will have a gin in readiness at this place by the next ginning season. Mr. J. Y. BOND, our distinguished house carpenter, is very busy at his trade We learn that Mr. J. C. SRYGLEY has a very badly sprained ankle. Mr. W. T. LINDSEY is very busy repairing broken watches, jewelry, & c. No more at this time, but will write again if this is published. BETSY TROTWOOD Work is progressing rapidly on the court house this week. A few days rest seems to have inspired the workmen with new courage and zeal, and the sound of hammers and saws make things have a lively and business like appearance. “Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast,’ etc. To which may be added its power to make the night hideous, when half dozen amateur performers on as many organs simultaneously break forth from the ranks of law abiding citizens and by their continued thumping silence even the croaking of the frogs in the pond on the common. A move is on foot to organize a stock company for the purpose of running a newspaper and job printing establishment at this place. We learn that such paper is to be non-political, devoted to the dissemination of news, and especially to the development of the county’s vast resources. May success crown the effort. Come out to prayer meeting tonight. County Convention on Saturday next. Several cases of mumps in town this week. The Herald, one year for one dollar. Delegates should remember the County Convention. See advertisement for CLARK, WHITE, & CO. in another column. Quarterly meeting at this place on Saturday and Sunday next. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. ALLEN of Allen’s Factory were in town the first of the week. MR. J. A. DAVIDSON, a prominent businessman of Detroit, was in our town on Sunday last. Mr. I. C. ELLIS, of near Pearce’s Mills was in town the first of the week and called on the Herald. Miss LUTIE WATKINS, a charming and accomplished young lady of Russellville is visiting in our town this week. Rev. J. B. HUCKABEE, agent for the G. P. R. R. Company, was in town this week in the interest of that company. Mr. W. F. GREEN, the young and talented local editor of the Sheffield Daily Enterprise, is circulating among his friends in town this week. Mr. J. F. WHITE and family and Mrs. J. A. DAVIDSON, after spending a few days with friends and relatives at this place returned to their homes at Detroit on Monday last. Commissioner’s Court convened on last Monday and after disposing of other business proceeded to dispose of some in a way not satisfactory to the people and not prescribed by law. Parties whose lands had been assessed by the Assessor at their market value were given a reduction of from seventy-five cents to two dollars per acre on their assessment, while others in the same neighborhood and likewise assessed were allowed no reduction. The law says that Commissioner’s Court is prohibited by law from reducing any assessment below the market value of the property, and said Court is also prohibited by law from allowing any exemption, credit or reductions to any taxpayer, unless such taxpayer has rendered to the Assessor all of his property, exempt as well as taxable. Some of the lands on which a reduction was allowed had prior to the assessment, been sold for three dollars per acre, or rather the mineral interest of such lands, and consequently we think the Court had no right to allow a reduction on the lands after being assessed at their market value. 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 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. CLARK, WHITE & CO., Dealers in dry goods, notions, ladies dress goods, clothing, hats, caps, boots and shoes. A full and complete line of Family Groceries kept in stock, together with different brands of flour, which we buy under Special Contract directly from the Mills at such prices as to enable us to compete with any house in the south, as to prices and grades. Drugs and Medicines, hardware, glassware, cigars, chairs, tinware, tobacco, candies, mattresses, queensware, snuff, bed steads, bed springs. Give us a trial and be convinced that in prices we are as low as the lowest, and for quality and style of goods, are unsurpassed. Guin, Ala. 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. 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. The State of Alabama, Marion County Probate Court, May 15th 1888 A. A. PEARCE, Agt for G. S. TUCKER Vs. J. B. PHILLIPS This day came A. A. PEARCE, Agt. For G. S. TUCKER, and filed his application in writing and made oath praying for an order to substitute upon the Records of this court the Tax Sale of June 7th 1886 for the SW ¼ of SW ¼ Sec 15 and N ½ of NW ¼ and NW ¼ of NE ¼ Sec 22 T 12 R 11 West. It is ordered that the 2nd day of June 1888 be set for the hearing of said application. All parties interested will take notice and appear and contest the same if they think proper. Given under my hand at office, May 15th 1888. W. H. MATTHEWS, Judge of Probate If you want a paper that gives you all the news, both local and general, subscribe for the Herald. 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 The Southern Cultivator If you are not already a subscriber to the Herald you should be. Send in your $ at once, that we may place your name on our list. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marion/newspapers/themario157nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 26.8 Kb