Perry County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts May 11, 1871 ************************************************ 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: J. Hugh LeBaron hlebaron@ms.metrocast.net March 26, 2005, 9:34 am Marion Commonwealth May 11, 1871 MARION COMMONWEALTH Marion, Alabama Perry County, Alabama Thursday Morning, May 11th, 1871 High Tribute To One of Marion’s Noble DAUGHTERS.—A few days ago, we received from one of the noblest and most talented ladies of the South, a neat little programme of Soiree Musicale, given on the 4th, by her music pupils. The lady to whom we refer, is Miss Zitella Cocke, late of Marion, Alabama, now chief of the music department of Ward’s Female Seminary, at Nashville, Tenn. Miss C. is not only unexcelled as a skillful and scientific musician, but she possesses a mind well stored with rare and varied learning, that we doubt her having a superior in the ___in all the higher and more elegant remnants of tema e character. Born and reared in the lap of wealth and luxury, every wish of her young life met a speedy fulfillment from the hands of indulgent parents, as soon as it was expressed. She wanted literally nothing, because the want was always supplied by the time it had existence. But the war came and swept everything away. Undismayed, however, by the wreck that rain around her, Miss C. hesitated not a moment to put her own hands to the wheel; and as the above programme shows, she pilots her own barque to-day, and pilots it ably and nobly too. The profession she follows has enlisted both her attention and her time for the past five years, and with so much effect that she stands in it, today, second to no regular professor of music in the country. And all, is the result of her untiring energy and ___ determination. In view of these facts, therefore, said we not well that she was one of the noblest women in all our noble South? At any rate, whether through partiality or not we think so; and with all our heart congratulate Mr. Ward on having secured the services of one so well qualified by education as well as nature, to be at once both guide and example to the pupils of his Seminary Ex Confederates In CONGRESS—The following is a complete list of the ex Confederate officers in the present House of Representatives, with their rank. There are seventeen in all—fifteen are Democrats and the last two (Whitely and Hays) are Republicans: P. M. B. Young, Georgia, major-general; Jas Lewis, Kentucky, brigadier general; D. M. DuBose, Georgia, brigadier general; Wm Perry, Virginia, brigadier general; A. M. Waddell, North Carolina, brigadier general; J. M. Leech, North Carolina, colonel; R. T. W. Duke, Virginia, colonel; E. M. Braxton, Virginia, major; A. T. McIntyre, Georgia, colonel; W. P. Price, Georgia, captain; W. A. Handley, Alabama, captain; Jos. H. Sloss, Alabama, major; Edw. Crossland, Kentucky, colonel; E. I. Golladay, Tennessee, colonel; R. P. Caldwell, Tennessee, colonel; R. H. Whitely, Georgia, major; Chas. Hays, Alabama, captain. “MERCHANT” in this Issue, makes some important suggestions, which the business men, and all others interested in the prosperity of Marion, would do well to act upon at once. We shall have something to say on this matter next week. Marion, Ala., May __, 1871 Powhatan Lockett, Esq. Sir: I am instructed by the members of the Ladies Memorial Association to request for publication, a copy of your address delivered before the Association, April 26th, 1871 Julia Connella, Sec’y. Marion, Ala., May 5, 1871 Miss Julia Connella. Sec’y Ladies Memorial Association. Gratefully appreciating the honor conferred by the ladies of the Memorial Association in placing their commands upon me—and recognizing the fact that whatever of interest attached to my remarks, was due to the inspiration of the occasion, the result of their labors—I cheerfully place the enclosed MS at their disposal. With great respect, your ob’t serv’t, Powhatan Lockett. ADDRESS Ladies, Friends, Comrades-- Among the marble temples and sacred fanes of ancient Athens, there stood an altar with this strange inscription: “To the Unknown God” and we are told that this beautiful instance of Pagan piety was due to a superstitious fear with that polished people lest in their devotions to their numerous divinities there might be some Benign Being yet unsung by their poets and unknown to their traditions who would otherwise pass neglected, and unhonored. So when we come to erect the monuments of a nation’s gratitude to our patriot heroes, let us not forget to rear a shrine in our hearts To The Unknown Dead!— the name less heroes of our mortal struggle. The historian, when he shall come to write the annals of the times, will illustrate his glowing pages with well merited eulogies of our noble and heroic Lee, our brave and chivalrous Beauregard, our cool and sagacious Johnson, our “Stonewall” Jackson and a host of others, whose names are familiar as household words, but that there were any private soldier, in their armies will be revealed alone by the sad columns of figures that make up the number of killed and wounded of their battles. Yet, to these brave men are we indebted for whatever our glory and honor attaches to the Southern name; they have achieved for us the glorious position that has been assigned us in the world’s history. The names of our officers, glorious and honored as they should be, are but the ornamental scroll-work, the sculptured wreaths of the entablature of the monument, the capstone of the pyramid; the substance of the structure is due to the rank and file. These we have repaired to this spot of holy ground to honor; these, their humble graves, we are about to deck with flowers. Who can sufficiently honor the heroic devotion of the private soldier? His patriotism is unalloyed with the slightest tincture of selfishness. No bright goal of ambition lured him onward in the path of danger and of duty; no pleasing hope whispered that perhaps his name might be mentioned in his country’s history that future generations might reward his posterity for the unpaid debt of gratitude due him, should he fall. He knew that he was plucking fresh laurels from the hand of Death that would deck other brows; he felt that his pathway led but to a nameless grave; and yet some of them leaped unbidden out of the lap of luxury, ease and wealth, and went forth to endure every privation, while thousands of others left behind them helpless families, in homes of penury, to fight for other’s property, and all stood, for four long years, a living wall of valor against the encroaching flood of numbers that finally overwhelmed us. They spent sleepless nights, and marched and toted, endured heat, and cold, and hunger and thirst fought, and bled, and died; and even the sweet smiles of sacrificing duty played around their lips unmarked and unseen. Their only reward they bore with them in their hearts, the joy of the patriot martyr’s hope; and whether they fell as a soldier loves to die—in the shock of battle, his comrades shotied batteries firing his funeral salute, or in the white-washed walls of the hospital by the slow subsidence of disease— they died for us—in vain for us. Shoulder to shoulder as they stood in life, in serried ranks here, or scattered all over our land in the long skirmish line of Death, which bounds a nation’s battlefield for existence, they sleep sweetly sleep. Their hour of duty ended forever. “The muffled drum’s sad roll has beat, The soldier’s last tattoo, No more on life’s parade to meet Those brave and fallen few On Fame’s eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards who solemn round, The bivouac of the dead.” In vain did I say? Have they died in vain? Ah no! their sacred dust has become the cement of a closer union among our people, their graves the ____ from which distills a purer patriotism—the bond of sympathy—which makes us all feel as one great people—the living and the dead. From the bloody heights of Gettysburg to the sandy shores of the Rio Grande; from the city by the sea, to the uttermost haunts of the Trans Mississippi; wherever a Southern Soldier sleeps and Southern woman breathes with the visual fire of patriotism burning in her heart, as it surely does, and will eternally; there through all the length and breath of our stricken land—from these humble mounds on this bright April day, rises borne on the fragrance of flowers, incense of a nation’s gratitude, to Heaven, pleading for a nation’s woes. Is it nothing for us to feel today, dear ladies that while you are decking the graves of “Somebody’s Darlings” here, their sisters and daughters perhaps at the same time, on hills around Fredericksburg, in the trenches at Richmond, on the Tennessee, the Mississippi, and the Gulf, are performing the same sad, offices of love for your “un-returning dead”? And oh! If it is permitted to the shade of the departed, to behold the scenes of Earth, how friendly must they bend over these annually recurring ceremonies! Let us keep the day throughout our generation. “Yes, through all the coming years, Which shall enshrine your storied tombs, Behold! Your sisters bring their tears, And these memorial blooms. Small tribute—but your shades shall smile, More proudly on these wreaths today; Than when some cannon moulded pile, Shall overtop your clay. Stoop, angels, hither from the skies; There is no holier spot of ground; Than where defeated valor lies, By mourning Beauty crowned. And yon Cenotaph: To those bound to us by tenderer ties, how thickly thronging come the memories, those names embalm. Their familiar forms, their social qualities, their noble natures, their daring deeds; how tenderly they melt away the mists of years that separate us from them! How plainly we see the scene when they marched forth to battle: proud and confident in hope; cheered in their high resolves by beauty’s smile, and shielded by faithful prayers of love! And to you, their surviving comrades, how vividly come the memories of those long years of war. The divided blanket; the scant meal shared between you; the common hope that cheered you through them all, that some day the war would be ended, and when the battle torn banners, wrought by fair hands, should be furled for the long march homeward, and your shattered ranks should march again through these streets, greeted by white waving handkerchiefs wet with tears, but now with tears of joy; and when the ever welcome words of command “Break ranks, march, “ should be given for the last time, and each veteran should at a double quick keeping time to the wild throbbing of his heart, seek his own home. Oh! You thought, “one such hour of joy as this were worth a whole eternity of base inglorious ease.” How different your return! One by one, foot sore and weary—heart crushed and desperate, you sought your desolated homes, and live (alas that I should say it!) to see some of your comrades, for a consideration willing to write felon brand upon your scars and traitor on those graves. And here bear with me while I pay one tribute of respect to two of the noblest spirits that ever poured their blood a rich libation on their country’s altar. The one sleeps scarce a stone’s throw from this spot, the other reposes on the banks of the Mississippi. Col. Robert T. Jones, my beloved commander whom to have followed in his career of Glory, was my fondest hope and proudest ambition, fell on the 31st day of May 1862, while gallantly leading his men in a charge at the battle of Seven Pines, and more than half of his men lay scattered around him, bleeding witnesses of their heroic prowess. Gen. I. W. Garrott was killed while using a musket at Vicksburg, on the 17th of June, 1863. Both were the noblest types of their respective characters. The one reared to the profession of arms, was in all the attributes of his nature the exemplar of the Regular officer; the other, from the front ranks of civil life, the head of his profession, the large-hearted statesman and scholar, was the model of the Volunteer commander. Both were men of the largest mold, great- hearted and noble, in intellect, culture and conduct. In the severe, chiseling of his features, in his erect form, his strength of will, and stern integrity, Col. Jones was a man of Iron. Yet his heart was touched with that magnetism, which made him kind and gentle to his family, and true as the needle to the pole, to his friends. Gen. Garrott was, in the massive dignity of his person and character, the broad and comprehensive scope of his patriotism, his noble ambition and generous impulses, cast in the mould of the historic Roman of Consular Dignity. Both were remarkably indifferent to public applause. Duty, not glory, was the watch word of their lives, and both were promoted to higher commands after their fall. It was even as they would have had it. Their proud spirits could ill have brooked the slow subsidence of disease. They were spared what others have endured. Death found them with all their brightness and power about them; there was no waning of fire, no quenching of ray; like the arrow that is met by its prize in the air; like the wave that breaks on a rock in mid ocean, they fell in the midst of their career of usefulness, bathed in light. The shaft to their memory still sleeps in the marble quarry, but the memory of their noble deeds is embalmed in our hearts. Let us emulate their example; let us cherish their children, and when the fear of their names shall have passed from the hearts of our rulers, we may yet be permitted to pay a fitting tribute to their memories. In conclusion, let me congratulate you on having this sacred spot to which to repair to render tribute to departed worth. It shall not be without its fruits; for though we are as yet forbidden to erect statutes where their images shall live in sculptured marble or lasting brass, lest our children should gaze on their features, and, glowing on them, shall hope that they too may live so as to be gazed on by future generations as a race of heroes; still we can take them by the hand and lead them hither and tell them these are the graves of the Confederate Dead. Their mothers know the rest. For the Commonwealth. Marion---What She Can Be. Why do we, the people of Marion, go about idle, all the day long, with our houses unpainted and our faces looking sad? There is a bright future before us. The advantages which we already possess in the way of colleges cl______y, ought to give us a population of from eight to ten thousand inhabitants. What advantages will Selma have, as a commercial city, over Marion when Gen. Forest completes his road to Eutaw? Marion will be the terminus of the S.M. & M. Road for several years to come. Freights on produce from St. Louis and Louisville, will be as cheap to us in a few months as they now are from those cities to Selma. The Selma and Meridian Road may then run or not run, it will be no question with us, for its monopoly will cease to hurt us. We have a trade with Bibb and Hale counties, the extent of which if known would be a surprise to our own citizens. In the months of December and January, planters from the Warrior river and from Tuskaloosa county are going to and from Marion, bringing in their cotton and taking our supplies for the year. We have a rich and a large area of country to supply. There is much to encourage us and nothing to depress us. If the property holder in Marion, who has a house and lot worth $4,000, and wants to know how to make it worth $6,000 in two years, why just have him go to work, and get others to work, to have a bridge put across the Cahaba river at the most accessible point to this place. A large and heavy trade which naturally belongs to us goes unwillingly to Selma, every year, for the want of this bridge. The writer moves, if he can get a second, that a meeting of the citizens of Marion be called at an early day to talk about this bridge, and not only talk about it, but to take steps to build it this summer. With Forest’s road finished to Eutaw, and East and West Perry united by a fine bridge, we know of some merchants in town who will prepare for the sale of a quarter of a million dollars of merchandise annually. The Grand Trunk Road is coming, too; 20 miles are already completed, and the engines are on it. Mobile and New Orleans will then be open to us. Where then, in all the land, will there be a more desirable place to live than Marion? Where live fairer women or braver men? Where is there better society? Where will you go to find a healthier climate? There is no male college in the South superior to the Howard, under its present management. There is no female college in the State equal to the Judson and Seminary. There is not in all the “Commonwealth” a more talented editor than H. C. Cooke, who, since his connection with our paper, has given it a new impulse, and it will soon be again in the “Heidt” of its prosperity. Wake up Citizens! We will soon have trains from the North, East, South and west, arriving and leaving daily. Gas lights and thousands of population Merchant State of Alabama—Perry County Probate Court, May 4th 1871 This day came Elizabeth Griffin, as the widow of Hardy Griffin, dec’d, and filed her petition in writing and under oath, praying that Dower be assigned her in certain Lands therein described and belonging to the Estate of said decedent: It is ordered that the 10th day of June, 1871, be appointed a day for hearing such petition, at which time all persons in interest can appear and contest the same if they think proper. A. C. HOWZE Judge of Probate State of Alabama—Perry County Probate Court, May 4th, 1871 This day came Newton M. Griffin, as administrator of the Estate of Hardy Griffin, dec’d, and filed his petition in writing and under oath, praying an order of sale of certain Lands therein described and belonging to said estate, for the purpose of paying debts, upon the ground that the Personal Property is insufficient therefore: It is ordered that the 20th day of June, 1871, be appointed a day for hearing such petition, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the same, if they think proper. A. C. HOWZE Judge of Probate Tax Collector’s Sale! I will offer for sale before the Court House door of Perry County, Ala., On the Second Monday in June, 1871!the following described Real Property, or so much thereof as will satisfy the State and County Taxes for the year 1870. Assessed to William Griffin, the n w q east of Cahaba River, in Section 1., Township21, and Range 8: the w h of n e q Section 18, Township 21, and Range 9; the e h n w q, Section 18, Township 21, Range 9. Taxes and fees $18.38. Assessed to Solon Neal, the w h of w h of Section 33, Township 18, Range 9; Lot A e h of n w q, west of Cahaba River, in Section 11, Township 18, Range 9. Taxes and fees $43.15 Assessed to F. B. Tarrant, 10 acres off the south side of n e q of s w q, Section 23, Township20, Range 7; the s h of s w q, Section 23, Township 29, Range 7; the e h, Section 26, Township 20, Range 7; the e h of n w q, Section 26, Township 29, Range 7. Taxes and fees $17.64. Assessed to Mrs. S R. Cureton, the w h of s e q Section 9, Township 19, Range 8; the e h of n w q and n e h of s w q, Section 9, Township 19, Range 8; 10 acres off e side of s w q of n w q, Section 9, Township 19, Range 8. Taxes and fees $10.34. Assessed to Wm. Bell, the w h of s e q, Section 35, Township 18, Range 6; the w h of n e q and w h of s e q, Section 2, Township 17, Range 6; s e end of e h of s e q, Section 2, Township 17, Range 6; the w h of n e q Section 11, Township 17, Range 6; 20 acres on south side of s w q, Section 1, Township 17, Range 6; the e h of n w q and e h of s e q except 30 acres off the south end of Section 11, Township 17, Range 6. Taxes and fees $125.64. Assessed to V. G. Weaver, the w h of s e q, of Section 26, Township 20, Range 10; the n w q of n e q, Section 26, Township 20, Range 10 and 38 Lots in Uniontown. Taxes and fees @29.48. Assessed to Mrs. Ann P. Weaver, 24 Lots in Uniontown. Nos. 145 ½, 146, 162 ½, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 72, 73, 77, 77 ½, 78, 36, 35 ½, 31, 31 ½, 96 ½, 124 ½, 125, 112, 112 ½, 125, 112, 112 ½, 106, 106 ½. Taxes and fees $22.55. Assessed to Mrs. M. A. Tarrant, the w h of s e q, Section 33, Township 18, Range 8; the s e q, Section 33, Township 18, Range 8; the south end of s e q of s w q, Section 34, Township 18, Range 8, and one House and Lot in Marion, bounded North by Clay Street, East by Washington street, West by Harrison street, S by Alley. Taxes and fees $70.05. Assessed to E. Tarrant, one House and Lot inn Marion, bounded North by Clay street, East by Averyt Lot, West by Miss Cocke’s Lot, South by Kelly Lot, Taxes and fees $45.38. Assessed to John C. Williams, one House and Lot in Marion, bounded North by Early street, East by Bibb street and South by Troup street, West by Washington street—Taxes and fees $61.50. Assessed to Mrs. C. M. Jemison, one House and Lot in Marion, bounded by Malley’s Lot, East by Love’s and Johnston’s Lots, South by Nave’s Lot, West by Carroll’s Lot. Taxes and fees $46.13. J. T. Harris Tax Collector, P. C. The dashing editor of the Tuskaloosa Monitor was thrown from his buggy on the 22d ult., and severely bruised. We are glad his injuries are not serious. Moral—dashing, spirited editors ought not to drive dashing, spirited horses. The Monitor says: “We congratulate our friends of Perry county upon their redemption from local Radical rule. The rascally Sheriff, Probate Judge and Circuit Court Clerk of that county---all wretched carpet-baggers have resigned, and true white men appointed by the Governor to fill their long disgraced places. The people of Perry are, to a great extent, indebted to that able and fearless journal—the Commonwealth for this glorious transition from Radical to Democratic rule.” ANNOUNCEMENTS We are authorized to announce S. H. FORD as a candidate for the office of Tax Collector of Perry county, at the election to be held on the Second Monday in November, next. We are authorized to announce the name of J. C. MOORE as a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Perry County at the election to be held on the Second Monday in November next, 1871. We are authorized to announce GEORGE P. WHITE as a candidate for the office of Tax Collector of Perry County, at the election to be held on the Second Monday in November, next, 1871. We are authorized to announce WM. P. WALTON as a candidate for the office of Tax Collector of Perry County, at the election to be held on the 2ND Monday in November, next. We are authorized to announce JAMES W. HORNBUCKLE as a candidate for the office of Tax Collector of Perry County, at the election to be held on the 2ND Monday in November, next. We are authorized to announce H. H. MOSELEY as a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Perry County at the election to be held on the 2ND Monday in November next, 1871. We are authorized to announce FRANK J. LeVERT as a candidate for the office of Tax Collector of Perry County, at the election to be held on the 2ND Monday in November, next. We are authorized to announce THOS. G. CLANCEY as a candidate for the office of Tax Collector of Perry County, at the election to be held on the 2ND Monday in November, next. We are authorized to announce JOSEPH McGHEE as a candidate for the office of Tax Collector of Perry County, at the election to be held on the 2ND Monday in November, next. An Ordinance, Adopting the Ordinances of July 1st 1858 Be it Ordained by the Mayor and Council of the Town of Marion, and the same is here to be ordained. Sec. 1. That the Code of Ordinances of the Town of Marion adopted by the Intendent and Council of the Town of Marion, July 1st 1858, be and the same are hereby adopted as far as the same are not in conflict with the Constitution and laws of the State and the present Charter of the Town of Marion and the Ordinances now in force, and that from and after the date of the passage of this Ordinance and said Code of Ordinances so far as the same are hereby adopted shall have full force and effect within the Corporate limits. Sec. 2. Be it further Ordained, That wherever the word “Intendent” occurs in said Ordinances, the word “Mayor” shall be substituted, and the same shall be read as though the said word was substituted in said Ordinances. J. B. SHIVERS, Mayor I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinances was regularly adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Town of Marion, at meeting thereof held at the Mayor’s office in said Town, on the 15th day of April, A. D. 1871; that the same was read to the Council and signed by the Mayor, and that the foregoing is a true copy of said Ordinances and appears upon the records of the Minutes of said meeting. WM. H. MASON May 4 ’71 Clerk of the Council THE STATE OF ALABAMA—PERRY COUNTY Eliza Patrick, dec’d Estate of Letters testamentary upon the last Will and Testament of said dece’d, having been granted to the undersigned on the 17th day of April 1871, by the Honorable B. __. Williams, Judge of the Probate Court of Perry county; Notice is hereby given, that all persons having claims against said decedent are required to present the same within the time prescribed by law, or that the same will be barred. April 27, ’71 AMZI GODDEN GUARDIAN’S SALE OF DRY GOODS, & C., By virtue of a Decree of the Probate Court of Perry county, I, as Guardian of James Rankin, a person non comyos meatis, will proceed to sell in front of the Court House door in the Town of Marion, Alabama, the remnants of Stocks of Goods formerly owned by Rankin & Sherrand, on Thursday, 11th day of May, 1871 Terms of Sale—On a credit of twelve months, with interest from day of sale. AMZI GODDEN April 17, ’71 Guardian SHERIFF’S SALE E. Y. Nelms, vs. Fi Fa} I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for CASH, on Monday, the 22d day of May, A. D. 1871, At Ford’s Mill, East Cahaba River, THIRTY SIX BUSHELS OF CORN, more or less, levied on by me as Sheriff, to satisfy the above Execution. H. H. MOSELEY May 11’71 Sheriff ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Abner E. Benson, dec’d, Estate of Letters of Administration upon the Eatate of said decedent, having been granted to the undersigned on the 25th day of April, 1871, by the Hon. A. C. Howe, Judge of the Probate Court of Perry county: Notice is hereby given, that all persons having claims against said Estate to present the same within the time allowed by law, or that the same will be barred. ELIAS B. THOMPSON, Administrator W. B. LAWSON, Offers his services as Purchasing Agent to persons needing such articles as a not to be had in home markets. Address letters, W. B. Lawson Care of D. Valentine & Co. 356 Broadway, New York DR. CARLOS JOHNSTON DENTIST, Offers his Professional services to the public, Office Up Stairs, over Fiquet’s store Terms Cash KNOX LEE A T T O R N E Y AT L A W UNIONTOWN, Alabama Will practice in the Courts of Perry, Hale Marengo and Dallas A. C. HOWZE A T T O R N E Y AT L A W MARION, ALABAMA Office, for the present, with Moore & Lockett JONES & BUSH A T T O R N E Y S AT L A W UNIONTOWN, ALA VARY & BROWNE, A T T O R N E Y S AT L A W Will practice in the Courts of Perry and adjoining Counties BAILEY & BRAGG, A T T O R N E Y S AT L A W And SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY Will practice in the Counties of Perry, Bibb, Dallas and Hale, in the Supreme Court of the State, and the United States District Court at Montgomery. Office—East side Public Square JOHN H. CHAPMAN, A T T O R N E Y AT L A W And SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY Marion, Perry County, Ala. Will practice in all the Courts of Perry, Bibb, Dallas, Hale, Greene and Marengo Coun- ties, and in the Supreme Court of Alabama, and the Federal Courts at Montgomery, Ala- bama. MOORE & LOCKETT, A T T O R N E Y S AT L A W And SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY, MARION, ALA Special attention paid to all business in bankruptcy. JOHN WALTHALL A T T O R N E Y S AT L A W MARION, ALA. Office—West side of the Square, over Brown and Bernard’s old stand. W. B. MODAWELL, A T T O R N E Y AT L A W MARION, ALA OFFICE North of the Court House OAK COOKING STOVES—All sizes for ___ the New Carriage Shop, South side of the Square Pity for the Horse—A gentleman, the other day, while galloping to get under shelter from the driving rain, ran his horse over a hog in the streets, and snapped his horse’s leg below the shoulder. Cannot the hog and ____ nuisance be remedied by our Council? Our staunch old friend, J. H. Chapman, tells us that he intends spending the Summer in St. Louis. We are sorry to lose him but we wish him health and pleasure wherever he goes. He is one of those true, ___ democrats who show their faith by good works as the Commonwealth can attest. Cinderella’s Slipper Found—At the popular store of Moore & Firzgerald may be seen ___ Slippers and Shoes, neat, tiny, delicate, beautiful and fairy-like, as the lost slipper of the fair and fabled Cinderella. There, too, are Gents’ Shoes and Boots, the ___ and neatest assortment yet offered. Young men and old take notice. Burglary—The house of Mr. S. Lowery was entered and robbed of nearly $100 on the day of the 8th. Three or four Negroes were seen on the following day playing cards in the Episcopal Cemetery, and some of the money, we believe, was found in their possession. When seen, they made a break, but an exciting race, and a few pistol shots, were overtaken by the young men who had unceremoniously interrupted their little game. Aching Void the World can never fill—The poet who penned the foregoing phrase, of an aching, hollow tooth, he was hasty in his conclusions. Dr. Johnston, whose ad is seen elsewhere, is prepared to ____ such “aching voids” –the poet’s assertions to the contrary notwithstanding. He has bought the entire set of dental tools and implement of the late Dr. J. F. Knight, which, combined with his own, make up the finest and most complete set in the State; and none know how to handle them better than Dr. Johnson. He had us up and showed us a thousand and one light, crooked, twisted, round, flat, ugly, ___inous looking pinchers, bores, flies, forceps and gouges, until our teeth chattered through fear. Call on him at Dr. Knight’s old stand, __________________________________. Editor Commonwealth: A certain paragraph in a recent issue of your paper, may have lead some persons to suppose that Messrs. A. P. Hatch, R. L. Bennett and myself are not bona fide Democrats. I beg to correct this apprehension, and assure you that those gentlemen are perfect types of the Southern gentleman—true in every thought word and deed, to the great principles of white supremacy; and I know they scorn any affiliation with that political parasite, known as the Radical party in this country. On several occasions I have headed tickets for local purposes, and have selected those two gentlemen simply on account of their staunch, consistent, uncompromising, antagonism to the “rule or ruin” opposition, with an avowed declaration that I would hold no council with any person the least tainted with Radicalism. As for myself, my political record dates in 1854: and in each successive year since then, the present inclusive, by public speeches newspaper communications, “private and public” council, I have proclaimed State Sovereignty, and State-Rights, the only Safe-Guard of American Liberty: and by votes and deeds proven myself to be in perfect concert with the Democratic party of Alabama. I wish it distinctly expressed here, however, as a matter of record that I pin my faith to no party merely for party triumphs. Nor do I wish to be understood to say that the Democratic party, as it now exists, is what I would have it; far from it; yet I readily admit that more of the original principles of the old national Constitution are preserved in tact by so-called Conservative-Democratic party of to-day, while not one single feature of that grand old Palladium of civil liberty exists, in its original virtue and force, in the Radical or Republican party. And, further, please permit me to repeat here, as matter of record the conviction I have so repeatedly announced in private conversation, that before the going out of the next National Administration, the Democratic party will be thoroughly purged of its heterogeneous elements, and will stand flat-footed upon its old ante bellum platform! The people of the Southern and Western States have but to comprehend the true motives of the New England Democracy, and they will demand, and at once obtain, equal immunities, privileges and powers, or tear the fulsome ensign from their political creed and run up the true standard of State sovereignty, and their voice will be the voice of the nation. Very truly, &c, J. G. Spann Newberne, Ala., April 30, 1871 We learn with pleasure that Mr. John P. Tillman of this city, was admitted to the bar yesterday. We hear that Mr. Tillman stood a very creditable and excellent examination, showing that he was thoroughly qualified to discharge the duties of his profession—Selma Times Allow us to congratulate you, John, upon entering a field so promising— a field where rich harvests await the sharp scythe of the reaper-minded. We know you have the energy, the mind and the ambition necessary to succeed, but remember that brass, as it is called, is an indispensable element of legal character and in value is second only to gold. We wish you all success in your chosen profession, and, we don’t wish to make you blush, but may your first suit in Cupid’s court foreshadow a brilliant future in the duller courts of Law and Equity. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/perry/newspapers/newspape366gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 34.7 Kb