Marion County AlArchives News.....The Marion Herald August 16, 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, 3:53 pm Microfilm From AL Dept Of Archives And History August 16, 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 AUGUST 16, 1888 NO. 19 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 ADVERTISING RATES One square, first insertion $1.00 Each subsequent insertion $0.50 Liberal reductions on large advertisements The Marion Herald – by the Herald Publishing Co JAMES. S. CLEMENTS, Editor NATIONAL TICKET For President, Grover Cleveland of New York For Vice-President Allan G. Thurman, of Ohio For Congress, Sixth Congressional District – Hon. John H. Bankhead “If I have to vote that ticket I am no longer a Wheeler” said a Bexar Wheeler on election day. Tennessee papers say that the wheat yield in that state is the largest known for years. “WE will have to unite on our men or we can’t elect any of them,” said a leading Bexar Wheeler jus before the election. Did the newly elected Representative ever so much as once declare himself in favor of Senator Morgan’s re-election. Good county government is of the greatest importance to every citizen, no matter what his station or occupation may be. Crops are reported bountiful in Texas. Should the cotton crop prove as great as is now expected there will be much more grown then can be gathered. In Alabama the suffering from intense heat the present summer has not been half so great as in many Eastern and western states. But few cases of sun strokes have been reported in the South. -------------------- Failing to silence the Herald by boycotting it, the Wheel decided to run its ticket and elect a man to the Legislature who would have laws enacted that would starve it out. Here’s Democracy worthy the consideration of any Democratic caucus in the land. Democrats should not retire from the stage of action now that the State and county campaign is over, and victory has perched upon their banner. Remember there is yet plenty of work to be done, and if the present spirit of enthusiasm can be kept up until November a majority for Cleveland and Thurman may be rolled up that will make Alabama rank as the banner state of Democracy. What’s the difference between a Republican ticket and a political Wheel resolution? One is printed on a place of white paper and exhibited to the people that all who can may read. The other is a kind of dark room fabric that cannot bear exposure to daylight, and of necessity is never exposed until election day. From this one might suppose that there was a great contrast between the two evils, but such is not the case. You see by associating with the Republican ticket the resolution fabric becomes transformed and when taken from the ballot box for county you can’t distinguish one from the other. ------------- The Age’s 24-page special edition of Sunday, giving a complete history of Birmingham and many other booming towns in Alabama, with a full description of their numerous advantages and varied resource, was a credit to Alabama journalism. Every precaution known to the art of quarantine it is said is being taken by the authorities of Alabama cities, to prevent the introduction of yellow fever into the state, and there is not the least grounds for becoming alarmed. This dread disease has been more or less severe in South Florida towns for the past two years, and within the last few days a few isolated cases have been imported into Jacksonville, Fla. but with the proper enforcement of quarantine regulations Alabama may rest quite easy. PANIC CONTINUES – Jacksonville Is Quarantined Against on All Sides ------------------ Russellville will organize a land improvement company soon. Hon. Samuel Noble, one of the founders of Anniston and a great friend to Alabama industries, died at his home in the above named city on 13th inst. SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT M. M. FRAZIER, Treasurer In account with GENERAL FUND OF MARION COUNTY 1888 Jan. 2 To balance on hand at last report $1,233.82 Jan. 27 To amt from W. H. MATTHEWS, P. J. an Co. Ct. cost 4.00 Feb. 1 To amt from W. R. H. LODEN, T. C. Co taxes for 1887 295.68 Mar 3 To amt from W. R. H. LODEN, T. C. Co taxes for 1887 76.35 Mar 31 To amt from W. R. H. LODEN, T. C. Co taxes for 1887 10.01 Mar 31 W. H. MATTHEWS, P. J. on License 126.74 April 28 W. R. H. LODEN, T. C. on County taxes 106.65 May 31 W. R. H. LODEN, T. C. on County taxes 161.23 TOTAL $2,013.46 Amount paid out 1,756.95 Amount on hand July 1st, 1888 $256.51 Paid out on Inspectors, Returning officers, Clerk of election 15.90 Paid out on Pauper expenses 48.17 Paid out on Registering voters 1.60 Paid out on Commissioners claims 83.80 Paid out on Conveying lunatics to asylum, etc. 64.10 Paid out on Fuel for jail, work on jail, office rent to W. H. NEAL 33.75 Paid Sheriff for watting on Co. Court and making ballot boxes 35.00 Paid for recording and paid for stationery and for lumber and stamps furnished officers 88.98 Paid for L. J. CLARK, Clerk, Ex-officio services 75.00 Paid Safe and freight chg’s to ORZILL BROS & co. 288.45 Paid Field notes and Tract book 200.00 Paid Petit Jurors 218.45 Paid Stationery to W. D. BORWN 9.00 Paid Road services to Sheriff 50.00 Paid Ex-officio Services 150.00 Paid Erroneous tax sales and back taxes 88.21 Paid Bailiffs of Circuit Court 43.20 Paid Grand Jurors 129.00 Paid Cost to J. M. PEARCE 6.25 Paid Treasurer’s Commission on General Fund 82.34 Paid Treasurer’s commission on excess of lands 16.69 Paid Treasurer’s commission on Solicitor’s fees 2.62 Paid Treasurer’s commission on Redemption of lands 8.31 TOTAL $1,756.95 SPECIAL FUNDED INDEBTEDNESS Amount on hand at last report $352.97 Feb. 1 ’88 W. R. H. LODEN, T. C., Special taxes for the year 1887 230.74 Mar 3 W. R. H. LODEN, T. C., Special taxes for the year 1887 60.95 Mar 31 W. R. H. LODEN, T. C., Special taxes for the year 1887 8.05 Apr 28 W. R. H. LODEN, T. C., Special taxes for the year 1887 84.82 May 31 W. R. H. LODEN, T. C., Special taxes for the year 1887 129.27 TOTAL $1,466.80 BY CASH PAID OUT Inspectors, Clerks, and Returning officers of elections $151.65 For keeping paupers 36.50 Jury of inquest 4.00 Ex’cio services 820.00 Petit Jurors 6.65 J. D. TERRELL road services, and making abstract book 195.00 Guarding lunatic and jail 5.75 Settling with County Treasurer and for stationery 4.00 TOTAL $1,337.22 Balance on hand July 1st 1888 $129.58 SPECIAL COURT HOUSE FUND Amount on hand at last report $932.05 From Feb. 1st 1888 to May 31st, ’88 W. R. H. LODEN, T. C. 330.00 TOTAL $1262.70 By amt. paid out and to whom From Jan 10th, ’88 to May 156th, ’88 to J. C. CAMP $1,120.00 By commissions fo County Treasurer 56.00 TOTAL $1,176.00 Balance on hand July 1st, 1888 $86.70 REDEMPTION OF LANDS Jan. 1, 1888 Amount on hand at last Report $80.62 Jan. 11 W. H. MATTHEWS, P. J. of quarter ending Dec. 31 ’87 23.90 March 31 W. H. MATTHEWS, P. J. of quarter ending March 31, ’88 25.53 TOTAL $135.10 AMOUNT PAID OUT April 16, ’88 J. R. PHILLIPS $72.86 April 2, ’88 J. P. PEARCE 51.92 June 23 ’88 A. J. HAMILTON 9.61 TOTAL $134.42 Balance on hand $0.68 FINE AND FORFEITURE FUND Jan 1 1888 amount on hand $107.86 Jan. 27th W. R. H. LODEN, Sheriff fine v. W. H. MELTON 10.00 Mar 31 W. R. H. LODEN, Sheriff fine v. JOHN HALL, JR. 47.50 April 9 I. C. ELLIS J P. v. S. P. COPELAND 5.00 April 9 GEORGE ARNOLD J. P. v JACK HOLLEY 1.00 April 9 W. W. FREDERICK J. P. v. WM. J. TIDWELL 1.00 April 27 L. J. CLARK Clerk v. R. W. THOMPSON 47.90 TOTAL $220.26 Paid Out On State Witnesses $106.99 Balance on Hand $113.27 In account with sale fund Amount received from W. R. H. LODEN, Sheriff 30.00 Amount paid out to solicitors 30.00 By order of Commissioners’ Court WALTER H. MATTHEWS, Clerk NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala. June 11th, 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 that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge Marion County, at Hamilton, ala on August 2d, 1888 viz: Adjoining Farm Hd No. 13729 WILLIAM H. ESTES, for the N ½ of SW ¼ and SW ½ of NW ¼ Sec 4 T 12 R 13 W. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: JOHN W. HIGHTOWER, JAMES O. KING, EDWARD FLURRY, JOHN W. HOMER, all of Pikeville, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala. June 14th, 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 that said proof will be made before the Clerk Circuit Court Marion County, at Hamilton, ala on July 24th, 1888 viz: Preempt on No. 943, ELIAS HUDSONSON on NW ¼ of SE ¼ and NE ¼ of SW ¼ and SW ¼ of NE ¼ Sec 24 T 12 R 11 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: WOODRUFF MILES, WILLIAM WOFORD, R. J. MCGAUGH, T. R. O’MARY, all of Goldmine, Ala. FRANK COLEMAN, Register PAGE 2 THE HERALD Published Every Thursday by the Herald Publishing Company At $1.00 per Annum -----------(general news items)---------- A PHENOMENAL MEMORY HOW IT HAPPENED – (poem) MISS CLEO’S NEGATIVE – (short story) IN THE SHADOW OF A CRIME – the Strange Story of a man who recently Died in Hot Springs CHOOSING A TRADE CALMLY ROWING TO HIS DEATH MARRIED WHILE DYING PAGE 3 MYSTERIES OF A DAY - Notable Events Worthy of Newspaper Record A STRAY SHOT’S FATAL WORK – A War Episode which Showed the Better Part of Man THE LIGHTNING-ROD MYTH INVADED BY BEES Ad for Weber Piano Fortes Smaller advertisements PAGE 4 LOCAL DEPARTMENT WANTED! – A good printer at this office. The right man can find a pleasant and profitable position. Address The Herald, Hamilton, Ala. Exchanges will please notice. Cloudy weather. The new court house is completed. Hamilton is on a building boom Nothing surpasses the melon crop. A slight shower of rain on last Sunday evening. W. H. KEY, Esq. is off on a business trip to Bexar this week. Mr. W. O. GAITHER is visiting his home at Fulton, Miss. this week. Mr. L. D. LITTLETON, of Aberdeen, Miss was in town on Saturday last. The Herald sympathizes with Dr. MARTIN in the loss of a fine mare on last week. Messrs. J. T. COOLEY, R. P. SPANN, GEORGE ARNOLD have examined the Treasurer’s books and find them in perfect order. WALTER NESMITH, Esq. a rising young lawyer of Vernon, Lamar County, was in town on business the first of the week. Mr. J. L. WHITE, Guin’s clever young postmaster, was circulating among his Hamilton friends on last Sunday. A number of teachers in town on last Saturday, it being the day of them to draw their pay for the first months work. Mr. G. B. MIXON is having the paint brush applied to his store house. Others would do well to follow the example. Miss ELLA HAMILTON spent part of Saturday and Sunday last with Hamilton friends, all of whom were pleased to see her. The new court house is completed and is conceded by all as being quite a handsome structure and an ornament to the town. Mr. W. A. DUNN, who is teaching near Pine Springs, was up on a visit to his home near this place on last Saturday and Sunday. For want of space we have been forced to consign several communications to the waste basket within the past three weeks. Mrs. W. F. HAMILTON and her son, RICHARD, of Detroit, visited the family of Capt. HAMILTON at this place the first of the week. The contract to build a church and Masonic Hall at this place has been awarded to Mr. H T. CLARK, the newly elected Representative. Misses KATE and ITTIE FRAZIER, two charming young ladies of Pikeville, spent Saturday and Sunday last with relatives at this place. They returned home on Monday. JOHN COOK, the young man who was locked up on the day of the election, together with WEST, for engaged in a fistcuff, gave bond and was released on Saturday last. Our merchants are making grand preparations for a heavy fall trade, if one is to judge from the quantity of new goods that have been received during the past ten days. Commissioner’s court concerned here on Monday last, and remained in session until Wednesday. The newly elected body give promise of making the county a worthy and efficient set of officers. If the present chicken trade continues a few days longer there will not be chickens enough in this parts of the country to feed three Methodist preachers, much less run a protracted meeting. A good rain is badly needed in this section. Crops are looking remarkably well, and with a good season inside the next few days the yield of both corn and cotton will doubtless be the best for years. THE ELECTION The following shows the official vote for Marion County For Governor: Seay, 1316 Ewing, 299 For Treasurer – Cobbs, 1318, Fowler 299 For Auditor Hogue, 1318, Heflin 299 For Secretary of State – Langdon 1317, Baker 299 For Supt of Education – Palmer 1316, Standifer 298 For Attorney General – McClelland 1318, Mardis 299 COUNTY TICKET For Representative – CLARK 485, NELSON 454, WHITE 269, BROWN 152, AVERY 214, FREDERICK 114 For Sheriff – FRAZIER 407, OWEN 384, PEARCE 334, CLEMENT 260, GANN 207, HALL 113 For Assessor – FARIS 639, WEATHERLY 456, GILMORE 176, DONALDSON 171, CARPENTER 123, WILLIAMS 112 For Treasurer – FORD 796, PALMER 396, CAMP 266 For Supt. of Education BOTTOMS 694, ARNOLD 500, FITE 248, TAYLOR 159 Against Amendment – 668 For Amendment 23 For Coroner – J. A. SHAW – 83 The Moulton Advertiser, that old reliable Democratic newspaper, is yielding up some of its valuable space just now to pour hot shot into the Editor of the Alabama state Wheel. In it issue July 26th, the Advertiser proved the Wheel editor an Anarchist, Republican and Wheeler, all within the short space of four months, and its issue of last week nails him to the wall as the most stupendous fraud and grand-bounce flopper that ever disgraced Alabama journalism. Let up on him, Bro. advertiser, no sane man who has read a copy of the State Wheel during the past four months can fail to see that its editor can only be surpassed for rottenness by those schemers who drew up the plans and framed the organization the Alabama State Wheel represents. ----------------- NON-RESIDENT NOTICE The State of Alabama, Marion County IN Chancery at Hamilton JAMES P. PEARCE, Complt. MARY JOHNSTON, et al, Defts. In this cause it is made to appeal to the Register by the affidavit of Complainant, JAMES P. PEARCE that REUBEN H. JOHNSTON, in the belief of complainant is over the age of 21 years, a non-resident of this state, resides in Lee County, State of Mississippi, and Tupelo is his post office, and that MARY GRIFFIN and her husband, JAMES GRIFFIN are over the age of 21 years, and are non-residents of this state, reside in Montague County, State of Texas, and Forestburg is their post office. It is, therefore made in the Marion herald, a newspaper published in this county for four successive weeks, requiring said defendants to answer plead or demur to the bill of complaint in this cause by the 20th day of August, 1888, or in thirty days thereafter a decree pro confesso may be taken against them. Done at office, this 16th day of July 1888 B. R. FITE, Register 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. W. GUYTON, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, Hamilton, Ala. Office at residence where he may be found when not professionally engaged. 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 heretofore. 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. OAKLAND NORMAL INSTITUTE For young men and young ladies. The Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Latin, Book-Keeping, and all the lower branches, taught in a Natural and Practical manner. Board, Washing, Fuel, Coal oil and room well furnished at $7.00 per month, at Boarding House. For Catalogue or Information address G. A. or J. T. HOLLEY, Principals, Rara Avis, Miss 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 ……..The following parties in Hamilton have our organs and will testify to their merits: Miss ELLA HAMILTON, Miss EMMA CAMP, L. J. CAMP, W. T. GAST, and Dr. WARREN GUYTON……….. Ad for Dr. Taylor’s Sure Chill Cure Ad for Silver Cream Cleaning powder Ad for Simmons Liver Regulator 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. Ad for Sanitary Clothing – and Sanitary Food for Infants, Battle Creek, Mich. Ad for National wire and Iron Co. illustrated catalogue - fence – picture of fence Ad for the Smalley Ensilage and Fodder Cutter – picture of cutter Ad for Bryant & Stratton Business College, Louisville, Ky. 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