Cleburne County AlArchives Photo Group.....Pat&Genie Ayres 1915-1918 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Ayres wwlsarandolph@aol.com October 10, 2006, 2:50 pm Source: Linda Ayres Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/cleburne/photos/patgenie4084gph.jpg Image file size: 42.9 Kb Patrick Jeptha Ayres was born 10/10/1861, he died 4/28/1923 He married Martha Engenia Currie she was born 6/5/1858, she died 2/8/1948 both are buried at Hepsabah Cleburne County Additional Comments: Pat Ayres was born in Randolph County Alabama the son of John Patrick Ayres. He was the grandson of Dudley Ayres born in Ayresville Franklin County Georgia. His mother was Nancy Louisa Smith daughter of Jeptha V. Smith and Nancy Dickson. Nancy Dickson was the daughter of Georgia Militia General David Dickson. Martha Eugenia Currie was born in Randolph County Alabama the daughter of John Wilson Currie and Sarah Reynolds. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/cleburne/photos/patgenie4084gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb

Cleburne County AlArchives Photo Group.....Pat & Genie Ayres And Daughter Nan early 1920's ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Ayres wwlsarandolph@aol.com October 10, 2006, 1:52 pm Source: Linda Ayres Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/cleburne/photos/patgenie4078gph.jpg Image file size: 55.8 Kb Patrick Jeptha Ayres was born in Randolph County Alabama on Oct 10, 1865 the son of John Patrick Ayres and Nancy Louisa Smith. He was named after his grandfather one of Randolph County cofounders Jeptha V. Smith. Pat Ayres married Martha Eugenia Currie born Jun 5, 1858 in Randolph County Alabama daughter of John Wilson Currie and Sarah Reynolds. Their daughter Nancy Ayres later married Dewey Morrison and moved to Calhoun County. Additional Comments: My Greatgrandfather Pat Ayres was a very strong an proud man, but after the deaths of his two youngest sons in WWI in France, he was never the same. He died as a result of a car accident on Apr 23, 1923 File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/cleburne/photos/patgenie4078gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb

Cleburne County AlArchives Photo Group.....Jeptha & Montana Ayres 1930's ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Ayres wwlsarandolph@aol.com October 10, 2006, 12:18 pm Source: Linda S. Ayres Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/cleburne/photos/jepthamo4077gph.jpg Image file size: 65.8 Kb John Jeptha Ayres was born in Cleburne County on Aug 28, 1885 the son of Patrick Jeptha Ayres and Martha Eugenia Currie. My greatgrandfather Patrick Jeptha Ayres was a Republican. He took much pride in the fact his uncle William Hugh Smith was a Republican Governor from Randolph County Alabama. Pat Ayres met fellow Repubican Mason Gregg of Randolph County and the two formed a friendship, plus two marriages between the two families one being the marriage of my grandparents Jeptha Ayres and Martha Montana Gregg on Nov 26, 1915. When my father was about 8 years old my grandfather Jep Ayres moved his family to Randolph County Alabama were he died on Oct 10, 1955. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/cleburne/photos/jepthamo4077gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb

Calhoun County AlArchives Photo Place.....Memorial Plaque For The Whitesides 2006 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Hutchins Ezsolutions36264 October 10, 2006, 10:28 am Source: White Plains Cemetery Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/calhoun/photos/memorial4075gph.jpg Image file size: 170.5 Kb John General Jackson Whiteside b.c. 1815 Rutherford N.C. husband of Margaret McDowell File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/calhoun/photos/memorial4075gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 0.8 Kb

Macon-Statewide County AlArchives Military Records.....See List, March 5, 1887 Mexican - Rosters ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net October 9, 2006, 10:39 pm Mexican War Veterans - Macon Co., Alabama "The Jacksonville Republican" Jacksonville, Calhoun Co., Alabama NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, MARCH 5, 1887 ALABAMA State News MACON County News The following Mexican war veterans have been brought to light in Macon county by the recent passage of the Mexican War pension bill: Capt. R.F. Ligon A.F. Harper E. Roland John P. Wright Josiah Payne James M. Tarpley File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/macon/military/mexican/rosters/seelist266gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb

Cleburne County AlArchives Photo Group.....Heflin Garage Early 1900's ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Ayres wwlarandolph@aol October 9, 2006, 4:17 pm Source: Unavailable Photo can be seen at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/cleburne/photos/heflinga4071gph.jpg Image file size: 89.9 Kb On the back of this photo written in my grandfather Jeptha Ayres handwritting: ''Charlie'' at the New Heflin Garage. I am guessing this is Charles Ayres second from the right, he was the son of Jeptha Ayres and Martha Currie. I am also guessing the photo was taken between 1915-1917 since Charles Ayres was killed in WWI File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/cleburne/photos/heflinga4071gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb

Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for JAN., FEB., MAR., APR., MAY, JUNE 1887 1887 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: C Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net October 9, 2006, 2:43 pm The Jacksonville Republican 1887 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN", Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama for JANUARY 1887, FEBRUARY 1887, MARCH 1887, APRIL 1887, MAY 1887, JUNE 1887 (NOTE: There are many missing newspaper issues for 1887 which were not filmed for the microfilm roll.) NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JANUARY 15, 1887 CALHOUN County Local News Mr. James M. Bradshaw of Selma is quite sick at the residence of his father-in- law Mr. J.B. Porterfield in Cross Plains community. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JANUARY 22, 1887 CALHOUN County Local News Yesterday morning at 7 o'clock an awful explosion occurred at Skelton's Mill near Eularton in which Perry Ford and Charlie Dempsey were almost instantly killed and John D. Sheran seriously injured, his head fractured and a thigh broken. Will Haines and Buck Shirra were all wounded and scalded. The explosion of the boiler was so violent as to break it into hundreds of pieces, which were thrown with terrific violence in all directions, striking the men on all portions of the body. Mr. Ford, one of the men killed, was a most excellent citizen of our county. he had no connection with the mill at all and had just stepped up and was engaged in a business conversation when the awful explosion occurred which sent him into eternity. Charlie Dempsey was a young man, a good workman and a clever fellow. John D. Sheran lives in the vicinity of Atlanta and his father has been telegraphed for. His wounds are so serious that they may cause his death. Drs. Huger and Davis of our city repaired at once to the scene of the accident. The description given of mangled bodies, of lacerated limbs, of burned and scalded flesh, of pieces of boiler hurled hither and thither in every direction, were heart rending. They remarked that the scene reminded them of the horrors of the war. They did all in their power to allay the pangs of those still living and to assist in gathering up the bodies of the dead. This is one of the saddest events that ever occurred in our county and we hope never to hear of another such. The Anniston Watchman --- ALABAMA State News Mr. S.L. Ellis was killed at Ripton by Mr. John Posey on Christmas Day and it is claimed that the killing was accidental, but Mr. Posey has been sent to jail without bail. --- MARENGO County News Mr. John H. Love of the Demopolis police force was badly wounded in the head on Wednesday last by a brick thrown at him which was pressed into a snow ball. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JANUARY 29, 1887 ALABAMA State News LEE County News Mr. J. Roby and Miss Kate McNamee of Opelika eloped to LaGrange, Ga. and got married last Wednesday. --- ELMORE County News Mrs. E.D. Brown died at the resdience of Col. W.T. Long near Coosada on Friday last. She was a sister of Col. Bolling Hall and was eighty-two years old. --- CALHOUN County Local News Mr. B.F. Wyly Jr. was recently married to Miss Annie Peck of Atlanta. Several parties went from here to attend. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, FEBRUARY 5, 1887 ALABAMA State News JACKSON County News Mr. Tom Gullatt owns a silver mine in Jackson county from which he expects great things. --- SUMTER County News Susan Irvin, colored, was fatally shot by some unknown person last week at Livingston. --- PIKE County News W.P. Floyd fell dead while working in a new ground cutting in Pike county a few days ago. --- R.C. Freeman has been appointed tax assessor of Pike county to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father John Freeman. --- BARBOUR County News The Eufaula Times reports a serious difficulty which occurred on Mr. A.B. Bush's place near Cotton Hill, between Will Moore, colored and Mr. Charlie Stevenson, a young white man, employed by Mr. Bush, in which the latter was mortally wounded, being cut in eighteen or twenty places. The negro was arrested, brought to the city and sent to Clayton jail. --- CALHOUN County Local News A MOUNTAIN OF COAL DISCOVERED IN ALEXANDRIA VALLEY Mr. S.W. Crook of Alexandria Valley was in the city yesterday and caused a good deal of excitement by exhibiting a fine specimen of coal, taken from his place eleven miles from here in Alexandria Valley. Quite a number of years ago this coal bed, which is believed to be one of the richest in the county, was discovered by an old miner and eminent geologist. He went to Mississippi carrying the secret with him. Some few weeks since he wrote to Gen. Forney our congressman elect, disclosing the secret of his discovery. Gen. Forney immediately wrote to Mr. Crook about the matter and an investigation began. Going to the point on Tallasahatchie creek, pointed out in the description, a search was instituted and after digging off the surface of the earth, an immense deposit of coal was laid bare. Tests were made all over the mountain and it seems to be a solid bed of coal. The mountain is one mile from the East and West road and right along the line of the Anniston, Cincinnati and Chicago. If it is what it appears to be the find will be of immense benefit to our city and a fortune in the pocket of the owner. Mr. William Noble pronounced it to be a good quality of coal. Mr. Crook has invited several to go up and inspect the find. The Anniston Watchman ---- Wm. Laird, one time an old citizen of Jacksonville, died in California recently. His daughter, writing to a friend here about his death, says he never relinquished his desire to again live in Jacksonville and that his love for his old home was second alone to that for his children. He died a christian, resigned to his fate. He was a good and deserving man and had many friends here who will deeply regret to hear of his death. ---- Married, at the bride's residence of Sunday the 23rd ult., Mr. William Thompson and Mrs. C.L. Carr, all of Calhoun county, J.A. Graham officiating. --- Married, Jan. 13, 1887, Shelton Kanada and Miss Mollie Thompson of Peeks Hill, by J.W. Williams, J.P. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, FEBRUARY 12, 1887 ALABAMA State News CLAY County News Near Lineville in Clay county, a sixteen year old son of Jack Bruce shot and killed his father, who was on a spree, in self defense and was acquitted by a coroner's jury. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, MARCH 5, 1887 CALHOUN County Local News Mr. J.G. Bice of Choccolocco valley was seized with apoplexy on Wednesday evening while in his field and fell dead in his tracks. --- ALABAMA State News CHEROKEE County News John W. Ramsey, formerly of Centre, Ala., died at his home in Cleveland, Tennessee recently. --- LAWRENCE County News Hon. Thos. J. Foster, a distinguished citizen of Lawrence county died at his home a few days ago. --- MACON County News The following Mexican war veterans have been brought to light in Macon county by the recent passage of the Mexican War pension bill: Capt. R.F. Ligon A.F. Harper E. Roland John P. Wright Josiah Payne James M. Tarpley ---- COLBERT County News A stone cutter, Frank Orleans, while walking a railroad trestle near Tuscumbia a few night ago, accidentally stumbled and fell to the ground breaking his neck. --- BARBOUR County News Mr. Henry Bradley, a clerk of the circuit court of Barbour county, is lying critically ill at his home in Eufaula, with erisypelas, caused by a wound received during the war. --- SUMTER County News Recently, Mr. Dan Norville, formerly of Livingston, Ala., met with a painful accident while hunting. He had killed two birds and was looking for them, carrying his gun cocked, prepared to shoot should any other birds arise. While engaged in this, with his gun pointing downward, from some unknown cause it fired, bored a hole through his right foot and amputated two toes. He was carried to the office of Dr. Mart Thompson who dressed the wound. Mr. Norville is resting as easy as might be expected and hopes to be out at an early date. The Meridian News ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, MARCH 19, 1887 CALHOUN County Local News MORRISVILLE Community News Married, March 16, 1887, at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. A.J. Smith of Raleigh. N.C. and Miss Nellie Morris of Calhoun County, Ala. The happy couple started at once for their home in North Carolina. They have the good wishes of all their friends. --- ALABAMA State News MOBILE County News In Mobile on Tuesday morning, a switch engine on the Louisville & Nashville railroad ran over and killed Peter Schutt. The coroner's jury say that he was either drinking or asleep and so the railroad was exonerated from blame. --- MONROE County News Louise Henderson, a colored woman, was found dead near Harter's Mill about four miles from Monroeville last Saturday. She left home on some errand and not returning, the family became alarmed and started in search of her and found her sitting in a fence corner, dead. --- JACKSON County News James Carter was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of seven years last week for the killing of Mr. Smith some three years ago. The Scottsboro Herald --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, MARCH 26, 1887 ALABAMA State News TUSCALOOSA County News Mr. Robert R. Burdine of Louisville, Kentucky was married at Tuscaloosa last week to Miss Ruth Roddy. --- DALLAS County News Joe Carter who lives about 12 miles from Selma, killed his brother with a fence rail recently. He is now in jail. --- BUTLER County News Mrs. Susan Williamson, formerly Miss Rainer, of Oak Streak in Butler County was recently burned so badly that death ensued shortly afterward. --- MARENGO County News Mrs. Susie Rembert, wife of Mr. Jules P. Rembert, who was rescued from the burning steamer Gardner and who has been critically ill in Demopolis since, died in that city at 7 o'clock Monday morning. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, APRIL 2, 1887 CALHOUN County Local News Joseph Reidinger, an old citizen of this county who moved to Sand Mountain a short time ago, died February 28th. He was born May 2, 1811. He was greatly loved by everyone who knew him. He was a peaceful neighbor and a true christian. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, APRIL 9, 1887 CALHOUN County Local News A few night ago, some unknown party or parties set fire to the premises of Julia Buchanan, white, living a few miles west of this place and when the ppor woman rushed from her house with a little child clinging to her, she was shot down by some would be assassin in ambush. She now lies in a very critical condition and is suffering greatly. One load of shot penetrated her back and side and one in her right arm. The attempt at assassination is one of the most cold blooded and cowardly that has ever been perpetrated in this county and calls for the closest investigation on the part of law officers of the government. So far, no arrests have been made but footprints and other evidences may lead the detectives to the law breakers. ---- CROSS PLAINS Community News We regret to chronicle the death of Mr. John Stanley, which occurred at his residence two miles from this place, on the morning of the fifth inst. We tender our sympathies to the bereaved family. --- MURDER AT OXFORD in Calhoun County Charles St. Clair, a negro resident of Oxford was shot and instantly killed about 8 o'clock last night. A coroner's jury was empanelled soon after and reached the following verdict: From the best circumstantial evidence, it is agreed that the deceased came to his death from the effect of a pistol shot in the hands of R.H. Weaver. Weaver stays in the saloon of R.P. Everett. He was arrested under a warrant issued by Judge Elmore Garrett of Anniston and a preliminary trial before him has been delayed until tonight, waiting for the verdict of the coroner's jury. At this time it is impossible to get particulars of the affair, but it is learned that the difficulty grew out of some trivial matter. ----- ALABAMA State News RANDOLPH County News One of Andrew Jackson's veterans, John Rigsby, died at his home on the 22nd of March in Randolph county. The Wedowee Observer says: Mr. John Rigsby, one of our oldest and best citizens, passed from the stage of action at his home in this county on the 23rd inst. He joined the U.S. Army as a drummer boy at the age of nine years and was with the illustrious Andrew Jackson at the battle of New Orleans on the 8th day of January 1815. His was one of the drums to the sound of which those gallant heroes marched forth with patriotic pride to meet and conquer the forces of Edward Packenham, the British General then invading our shores. Mr. Rigsby has for several years drawn a pension from the United States for his services during that time. ---- LAMAR County News Mrs. Ned Lawrence who lived near Vernon, in Lamar county, met with a sad death last week. She was out in a field where some brush and leaves were being burned, when her clothing accidentally caught fire and she was so badly burned that she died in a few days thereafter. --- CHEROKEE County News A man named George Smith the other day at a coaling camp between Rock Run and Centre, cut Richard Allen on the arm with a knife. It is since reported that Mr. Allen bled to death a short time afterwards. --- TUSCALOOSA County News James Wilson, a young man who lived at Binion's Creek in Tuscaloosa county, committed suicide last week. --- BARBOUR County News The Rutledge Enterprise notes the death of Mr. Ezry Miller near Sal Soda in Barbour county, aged 65. He died of cancer. --- JACKSON County News The Scottsboro Citizen reports that David Willbanks of that vicinity who was a Federal soldier during the War, has named his new baby Joe Wheeler. If the boy takes after his illustrious namesake he'll make a "whizzer." ---- George Mooney, aged 18 years, who worked for Mr. Ben Phillips in Paint Rock valley, Jackson county, met with a horrible death last Saturday evening. The young man after finishing his day's work got on his mule to start to the house when the mule threw the boy, his feet becoming entangled in the gear as the mule ran away, and the unfortunate boy was dragged quite a distance and terribly mangled. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, APRIL 16, 1887 ALABAMA State News DEKALB County News Judge James Bradford, one of the leading and most highly esteemed citizen of Collingsville, died Tuesday night. Judge Bradford was about 71 years old. --- CHILTON County News Seaborn Jones of the river hills settlement east of Clanton was found dead recently near the roadside, in a sitting position, with his back against a log. He was 80 years of age and has a large family connection in that county. --- On last Saturday morning, Mr. J.B. McDaniel, who lives just across the creek east of Clanton, had the misfortune to have a tree fall on him, inflicting serious injuries. He is in a critical condition and his recovery is doubtful. He is very aged. ---- CHAMBERS County News Felix Walker, a sixteen year old son of Joel Walker of Chambers county, met with a severe accident last week. He attempted to blow up a large stump in the yard with powder and a premature explosion occurred, which resulted in a very serious injury to one if not both of his eyes. ---- BLOUNT County News John A. Bates was killed in Blount county last week by a falling tree and he died between the plow handles. --- JEFFERSON County News Dr. Alexander Lane, father of Mayor Lane of Birmingham, died in that city on the 27th ult. --- RUSSELL County News An old negro man named Ben Hawkins, aged 60 years, was murdered near Marvyn in Russell county. Ben was missed from his usual duties March 26th and on Saturday the 2nd inst., his body was found by a party which had been organized to search for him, at the bottom of the Ingram Mill creek. An axe was tied to his neck and subsequent investigation showed that his neck had been broken. The physician who examined the body was of the opinion that it had been in the water seven or eight days. Warrants were taken out for Adelaide Hawkins, wife of the murdered man and Green Ingram, his stepson. The evidence against them is principally circumstantial. The reporter talked with both of the accused who are now in the county jail and both deny knowing anything about the murder. ---- CALHOUN County Local News Married in Jacksonville at the residence of J.A. Graham on Sunday morning the 10th inst., L.M. Homesly to Miss Emma A. Carr, all of Calhoun county., J.A. Graham officiating. ---- Died, on the 25th of March near Cuero, DeWitt county, Texas, of congestion of the brain, Mrs. Mattie Phillips, wife of J.L. Phillips, in the 41st year of her age. Also died on the 31st, an infant daughter 10 days old. ---- Died, in this city at 8 p.m. on the 3rd inst., E.P. Davis, aged 59 years. The deceased came to Breham, Texas in 1867 from Jacksonville, Alabama and has resided here continually till the day of his death. He has been an invalid for the past three years and was confined to his house for the last twelve months. He leaves no family except his wife. He was a bricklayer by trade and a contractor, having built a large number of brick houses in Brenham. He was honest and upright in all his dealings and was universally respected by all who knew him. Brenham council of A.L. of H. of which organzation he was a member, conducted the funeral obsequies on Monday; the burial took place at the city cemetery. Brenham, Texas Banner ---- OBITUARY OF MATTIE A. RHODES Died, at her home in Talladega county, February 28, 1887, Mattie A. Rhodes. She professed religion in early youth and united with the Mt. Zion Baptist church. She was married to Dr. Rhodes in March __? Mrs. Rhodes was one of the purest and loviest christians I ever knew. As a daughter and sister she gave to the world a noble example that all may safely follow. She often spoke of her departed parents and delighted at all times to administer comfort to her friends. As a wife she was a helpmate in deed and in truth. She had been in declining health about a year but was always cheerful and looked on the bright side of everything. Although her afflictions were long and trying she never murmured. In the presence of husband, brothers, sisters and christian friends, she crossed over to the other shore. She left comforting messages for the absent relatives, spoke of dear ones who had gone before, and asked all present to meet her in the better land. To her almost broken hearted home circle and bereaved ones, may God give his grace and spirit in this dark hour of afflictions, and may all be gathered with his bright jewels in the Sweet Bye and Bye. E.T.S. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, APRIL 23, 1887 CALHOUN County Local News Uncle Jimmy Mohon, an old and well known citizen of this county, who formerly lived some miles above this place, died at his home after a long illness. He had many friends in Jacksonville. --- ALABAMA State News JACKSON County News Mr. Thomas Brown, aged seventy-six years, living near Stevenson in Jackson county, is the sixth of a family of fifteen children, all of whom are said to be living, and not one of them ever took a dose of medicine. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, MAY 7, 1887 ALABAMA State News MOBILE County News Dr. Joseph C. Hamilton of Mobile is dead. He was 62 years of age. --- JACKSON County News Mrs. Rufus Green of Scottsbor is forty-three years old, has no gray hairs on her head, and is the mother of fourteen children, seven boys and seven girls, eleven of whom are living. --- CHILTON County News Mr. Abe Littlejohn and wife, an aged couple, were burned with their dwelling, two and a half miles east of Lomax, recently. The two bodies were found on oppostive sides of the hearthstone, but had been too nearly consumed to afford any evidence as to whether murder had preceeded the burning. The coroner's jury decided that this was probably the case, as all the circumstances were suspicious. The sheriff and posse are out making observations but have not yet made any arrests. The citizens are greatly excited and lynching has been threatened in case the guilty party can be found. The old couple were poor but is thought that they were murdered for the purpose of robbery and then burned to conceal the crime. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, MAY 21, 1887 CALHOUN County Local News DEATH OF CAPT. THOMAS HAYDEN (from The Talladega Mountain Home) In the death of our fellow citizen, Capt. Thomas Hayden, Talladega appreciates the loss of one who has for many years, been a feature and factor in her history, military and civil community. He was born at Jacksonville, Ala., on the 21st day of March 1832; was married to Miss Fannie A. Gibson at Ashville in St. Clair county, Ala., by Rev. A.A. Porter on the 7th day of September 1856; and died at his home in this city at 9 o'clock on Sunday morning, the 15th inst. Of his immediate family, he leaves surviving him, his wife, two sons James and Thomas, and one daughter Nannie, the wife of our townsman Geo. B. Wood. All through the many years of his sojourn with us, his life has been marked by kind, generous words and deeds and happy social qualities. Except in the exercise of a wit, merciless and impartial as it was keen and natural, he never willfully wounded the feelings or marred any interest of a fellow being, but his sympathies and kind words and generous deeds never dishonored a draft made upon them by the suffering or sorrow of others. Captain Hayden made public confessions of his Christian faith and united himself on the 9th day of August 1884 with the Prebyterian church of this city in the faith and fellowship of which he died. Dr. J.J.D. Renfoe, being in the city in attendance upon the funeral of Mrs. Cecil Brown, was present at and took a prominent part in the obsequies of Captain Hayden. Services were had at the family residence and were begun with a most impressively rendered vocal by members of the Presybterian choir. This was followed by selections of scripture read by Rev. L.L. Overman of the Presbyterian church who in this connection gave touching expression of his sympathy with the bereaved family and made apt prelude to remarks from Dr. Renroe. Dr. Renfoe spoke of Captain Hayden as he knew him since 1857; of his bouyancy and life; intensely social, a keen appreciation of the ludicrous, his ready wit, scathing satire and with it, his ready, tender sympathies toward every form of suffering; and of these, the speaker gave some illustrations which came under his own observations. He enlarged upon his intimacy with and knowledge of Capt. Hayden during the war, Dr. Renfoe being Chaplain of the 10th Alabama Regiment of which Captain Hayden was a member, gave high compliment of his faithfulness and efficiency as quarter-master of his regiment and mentioned incidents illustrative of the character and bearing of the deceased, in that great crucible of character, the Army. Dr. Renfoe, in conclusion, bore testimony to the Christian profession of Capt. Hayden since 1884 and with an eloquence which can be born only of genuine sympathy and deep feeling, evoking comfort and consolation and blessing to come from this great occasion of sorrow, to the wife and children and friends, now so stricken and bowed. "Nearer my God to Thee" was then sung by the choir and audience after which Rev. L.L. Overman read a short biographical sketch of Capt. Hayden's life. This was followed by a prayer of peculiar pathos and power by Dr. G.A. Lofton. The choir sang "We're Going Home Tomorrow" and the body was taken charge of by the Masonic Fraternity, conveyed to the cemetery and buried with the honors of that order. Thus has passed from our community one whose place is a vacancy, for in his own peculiar, original, genial way, he has impressed himself on the memory and hearts of very many friends here and in the wife and children of his love, he left monuments to his memory, as husband and father. " And the Healer is here, and His arms around, And he lays them with tenderest care, He shows them a star in the bright upper world, Tis their star shining brilliantly there. They have each heard a voice, tis the voice of their God, " I love thee, I love thee, pass under the rod." ------ LOCAL News Mrs. L.W. Grant, Mrs. Ida Woodward and her son Eddie Woodward left for Red Sulphur Springs, West Virginia on Thursday last to spend a season for the benefit of the health of the last named. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, MAY 28, 1887 ALABAMA State News LEE County News Mr. Thomas Shealy of Lee county was recently attacked with hydrophobia and his physicians regard his case as hopeless. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JUNE 4, 1887 ALABAMA State News LAUDERDALE County News Miss Nellie Nixon walked eleven miles one night last week to Chattanooga, barefooted, with her lover to marry him, which she did, just a few minutes before her angry father arrived. The Florence Banner ---- CALHOUN County Local News MORRISVILLE Community News Rev. Mr. Lester of Ohatchie circuit is to preach Robert Setliff's funeral at Morrisville church the 1st Sunday in June. Also Rev. T.K. Trotter is to preach a sermon in memory of Reuben Nolen's daughter at Cane Creek church the 2nd Sunday in June. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JUNE 11, 1887 CALHOUN County Local News Simon Crow, a colored man who works at the livery stable of Martin & Wilkerson, while trying to drive a Jersey bull into an enclosure near the stable a few days ago, was attacked by the vicious animal and severely injured. He was tossed up three times and finally when he fell to the ground the bull placed its head upon his breat and bore its entire weight upon him and would have killed him, but for the timely arrival of some gentlemen who witnessed it. The man has been confined to his bed since and has suffered much. ---- Jeff Alford of Alford's Bend, in Etowah county, a prominent citizen and well known in this county also, died last week at his home. For nine years Mr. Alford has suffered with cancer of the face and it eventually terminated his life. He was a good neighbor and an honest man, one who will be missed in this section. He owned a valuable plantation on the river and was accounted "well-to- do." He leaves a widow and several children. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JUNE 18, 1887 CALHOUN County Local News Mr. Mat Price who lives a few miles south of this place and who has been sick for a few weeks, died at his home yesterday. He will be buried by the Alexandria Masonic Lodge today (Friday). ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JUNE 25, 1887 ALABAMA State News CRENSHAW County News A son of Mr. Wesley Potter, living three miles below Bullock in Crenshaw county, was killed by lightning a few days ago. The young fellow was about 13 years old. --- MORGAN County News Mr. Randolph Sandlin who lived five miles west of Hartselle, died at his home last Sunday night. He was about eighty years old. He had lived in that neighborhood for a number of years and was highly respected by all. The Huntsville Index ---- MARENGO County News The Linden Reporter says that on Monday last, the little six year old daughter of Mr. S.O. Elliott, who lives between this place and Dayton, was burned to death. The little girl and some small children were in the house alone. She was playing near the fire and her clothes were caught. A physician was sent for but she only lived a few hours. --- The Demopolis News reports that Isaac, a ten year old colored boy, son of Charlie Davis, on the Reid place near town, met with a fatal accident recently. He was trying to make a fire by pouring kerosene oil on it from the can. The flames ran up the stream from the spout and exploded the can, throwing oil all over Isaac and setting him afire. He ran into a field about a hundred yards away where his sister was working, and she threw water on him which extinguished the flames. He then ran to his father some distance off, who carried him to to the house and summoned Dr. Whitfield but the boy died in a few hours. ---- CHILTON County News A negro went to the house of Mr. John Traywick, three miles south of Clanton, exhibited a knife and threatened to cut Mrs. Traywick and her infant's heads off. With remarkable coolness she called for her husband. The negro, thinking him near, skipped. ---- It is reported in the neighborhood of Clanton that the negro Green Harrington who so brutally murdered the aged couple near there some weeks ago (the Littlejohn couple) has been captured and killed near the spot of the crime. The report also says that he confessed having committed the outrage on the lady nearby, shortly after murdering the Littlejohn couple. ---- A correspondent of the Clanton View reports that John Marcus who was cut by a knife in the hands of W.J. Lindsey, twelve miles east of Dixie, died from the wounds at 3 o'clock Tuesday morning. Lindsey was under the influence of whiskey at the time of the cutting and from all accounts the murder was unprovoked. ---- CHOCTAW County News A two year old child of Mr. W.F. McElroy, living seven miles west of Bladon, was drowned on Wednesday evening. It started to follow its mother to the spring and took a different path and was found about 9 o'clock at night in the creek nearby. --- COVINGTON County News The Andalusia Times says that the wife of Mr. James Wright, fifteen miles south of Andalusia, died very suddenly on Friday morning. She had carried some clothing to the spring and was preparing to wash them, when she fell to the ground and expired. --- File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/calhoun/newspapers/newspape1139gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 30.6 Kb

Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for NOV. and DEC 1886 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: C Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net October 8, 2006, 2:49 pm The Jacksonville Republican 1886 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN", Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama for NOVEMBER 1886 and DECEMBER 1886 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, NOVEMBER 6, 1886 ALABAMA State News CHOCTAW County News On last Saturday morning, Mr. Jack Thrash living near Tompkinsville in Choctaw county, went out just before daylight with his gun to shoot an owl in the yard, and attempting to get over the fence, the lock of his gun was discharged, the load taking effect in Mr. Thrash's eye, causing almost instant death. He leaves a fond wife and several children to mourn his untimely death. --- CALHOUN County Local News STATE OF ALABAMA, Calhoun County Probate Court, Special Term, Oct. 26, 1886 This day came John H. Caldwell and filed in court a paper in writing purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Mrs. Ellen Boozer, late of said county, deceased, and also, at the same time filed his petition in writing and under oath praying for an order and proceedings to probate and admit to record said Will. It is therefore ordered by the court that the 29th day of November 1886 be and is hereby appointed to hear said petition and for the probating of said Last Will and Testament of Mrs. Eliza Boozer, deceased, and that notice thereof be given by publication in the Jacksonville Republican, a newspaper printed and published in said county, as a notice to: Eliza Diamond, an adult heir of said decedent, residing in Ireland, post office unknown; and to all other persons interested to appear in said probate court at the court house in Jacksonville, Ala., on the 29th day of November 1886 and contest said application and Will if they think proper. A. Woods, Judge of Probate ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, NOVEMBER 13, 1886 ALABAMA State News CHOCTAW County News Tom Miller, on trial in Choctaw county for murder, was convicted and sentenced to be hung on December 17th. --- CALHOUN County Local News SKETCH OF CAPT. J.M. ANDERSON We clip the following sketch from the Montgomery Advertiser about a former Calhoun county, Ala., man: " John Monroe Anderson was born in Monroe county, Tennessee on March 3, 1834. His father was John Anderson of Virginia who removed to Tennessee where he was a thrifty farmer. His mother was Miss Mary Coker, a native of Tennessee. When he was an infant his parents moved to Benton, now Calhoun county, Alabama. He attended the county schools near Cross Plains, when not at work on the farm. He was appointed deputy sheriff in the county as soon as he arrived at age; and so administered his trust as to win the confidence of the people, with whom he became quite popular. His natural tastes, however, inclined him to farming and his integrity, business habits and skill as a farmer, caused him to be sought after to manage plantations. He was employed by Col. James B. Martin to superintend his estates, which were quite extensive for that county. When the war broke out he was engaged in these congenial pursuits; but hastily quit the plow to take up the sabre in defense of his country, and was the first man to enlist in 1861 in the Powell Dragoons, a Cavalry company, composed mainly of men from Calhoun and Cherokee counties. The company was ordered to Montgomery where with other companies it formed the famous First Regiment of Alabama Cavalry, under Col. James H. Clanton. The subject of this sketch was elected Junior Second Lieutantant. In the first engagement at Shiloh he behaved with great gallantry and was twice wounded. He rejoined his command in time to take part in the severe engagement at Guntown. The command accompanied Bragg on his march to Kentucky and participated in the engagements at Mumfordsville, Perryville and Green River and for weeks covered the retreat from Kentucky, being under fire day and night. The good qualities of the officers and men had not escaped Gen. Wheeler, who had the company detached as his escort. He was always at the front, and so was his escort; and it was very hard service under him, being constantly under fire. After the battle of Chicamauga, the subject of this sketch was promoted to the captainry of his company. He was constantly with Wheeler in all his operations until the end of the war, and was under fire probably as often as any member of the Army of the Tennessee. Though so much exposed, he escaped without further wounds than in his first fight and was never afterward absent, except for a few days, either on account of sickness or on leave. He was a thorough going soldier, and his men were greatly attached to him. After the war he returned to Calhoun county and at the first election under the Patton government, was elected sheriff of the county by a handsome vote. Office was not to his taste and he resigned before his term expired to engage in planting in Montgomery. In 1869 he married Miss Clementine J. Wells of Calhoun county and then settled down permanently in Montgomery, were he has ever since been engaged in managing large estates; having the care of as many as eight plantations at a time and cultivating several thousand acres of land. His management has been so skillful that, as a rule, his plantations prospered while others were less fortunate. His sterling qualities, rugged, honesty and hard "horse-sense", made the people of the county desirous of his services as a legislator and at the Democratic primary in 1886 he received a handsome vote for a seat in the House and was nominated by acclamation in the convention and elected at the August election. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, NOVEMBER 20, 1886 CALHOUN County Local News Married on the 14th of November 1886 at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. G.C. Gwin to Miss Mary Andrews, all of Calhoun county. --- Married, on the 7th inst., Mr. John P. Ward of Calhoun county and Mrs. Nancy White of Cleburne county, by Rev. H. Allen. The Edwardsville Standard ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, NOVEMBER 27, 1886 ALABAMA State News CLEBURNE County News Mr. Isham Bentley, living near Edwardsville, was caught on the trestle near that town the 19th and run over by a train. He was literally torn to pieces. This is the same spot where some ladies were killed in the same way a few months ago. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, DECEMBER 4, 1886 ALABAMA State News MORGAN County News J.H. Watts escaped from the Somerville jail last week. He locked the jailer in and carried the keys with him. --- BUTLER County News Mr. Sam Pinny of Greenville was killed accidentally while out logging last Friday week. --- JEFFERSON County News J.V. Kersey died in Birmingham from an overdose of morphine but whether taken accidentally or otherwise is a mystery. --- Yesterday, at Irondale, the most horrible tragedy occurred. Baldwin, an ex foreman of the bridge gang on the A.G.S. road, visited Irondale to get his wife to return to Mississippi . While there, he became engaged in a difficulty with his brother-in-law, Brevard Moore. Baldwin was shot twice on the face and leg. Moore was killed during the shooting. Baldwin's wife was shot in the neck. She is not expected to live. Baldwin is dangerously wounded and is in the Birmingham jail. Family troubles brought on the difficulty. All parties are well connected. ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE BALDWIN CASE Birmingham, Nov. 29th A murderous family fight occurred yesterday at Irondale, six miles east of the city. W.A. Baldwin, a bridge builder from Vicksburg, married a woman named Moore of that neighborhood. He had been living here but last week went to his old home and getting a job there decided to move back right away. Returning to his wife, he found that she had gone to her father's. He went out for her and according to his account, she was pleased when he told her of his intention of moving, but while he weas gone to get a wagon to bring her to town, three men of the neighborhood came in to see her and when he came back she said that as far from going, she meant to leave him. This provoked a row in which her brother A.B. Moore took her side, pulling a pistol out and shooting Baldwin in the cheek, the ball gracing her neck. Baldwin caught his wife as she fell and returned the fire almost simultaneously. After several shots on each side, Moore fell dead and Baldwin was taken into the house with a bullet in his leg. Baldwin had a hearing before a justice of the peace and was brought to town and jailed. His wounds are not serious. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, DECEMBER 11, 1886 CALHOUN County Local News Jordan Whatley, an old negro man 72 years of age, froze to death last Saturday, four miles west of this place. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, DECEMBER 18, 1886 ALABAMA State News MONTGOMERY County News Mr. Harris Gunter of Montgomery who shot and killed policeman W.D. Montgomery has been sent to the Insane Asylum. --- LIMESTONE County News A beautiful monument has been erected over the grave of the Rev. C.N. Wood by the citizens of Athens, as evidence of the esteem in which they hold the memory of that good man. --- CONECUH County News During the recent wind storm in Conecuh county, a tree was blown down on Mr. William Chancellor, who was riding along the road, killing him and his horse instantly. --- JEFFERSON County News Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 11th Walter Ryals, a brilliant young lawyer of twenty-six years of age, who came here from Anniston some four months ago and was well known throughout the eastern part of this state as well as north Georgia where he was reared, accidentally killed himself with an overdose of morphine, taken about 5 o'clock this afternoon, to cure insomnia, with which he had been suffering for several days. The doctors were called to him about 6 o'clock but too late, as he died an hour later. His father is president of the Mercer University of Macon. A telegram has been sent to him asking what shall be done with the remains. --- ETOWAH County News Gadsden, Ala., Dec. 14th Early last night while Mr. John Wilson, who is an assistant to our efficient jailor Mr. Charlie M. Mitchell, was feeding the prisoners, two of the prisoners made their escape under the following circumstances: Mr. Wilson went upstairs with the supper for the prisoners, when Jake Powers clasped him around the back and arms and Henry Phillips and Henry Bradford came to Powers assistance. Mr. Wilson was then struggling for his life and managed to release one of his arms and drew his pistol, but it was seized by one of the negroes and all three of them began to rush down the steps still holding on to Mr. Wilson and his pistol. Mr. Wilson called to Mrs. Mary Mitchell; she ran out into the hall and took hold of one of the negroes and just as he was going through the door, Mr. Wilson shot, but unfortunately shot Mrs. Mitchell in the right hand, the ball lodging in her wrist. Though not a serious wound, it is very painful. Phillips and Powers went out the front door and Bradford made for the back door with Wilson right after him, shooting at him one time. They ran around the kitchen when Wilson caught him and a fierce struggle ensued, in which Wilson was badly scratched up and his fore finger on the right hand was badly bitten, but he soon got Bradford to the jail. Mrs. Mitchell manifested a bravery that is seldom equaled in her sex. Parties are already on the track of the others. ---- ST. CLAIR County News Mrs. Hettie Harris, nee Patterson, died in St. Clair county on the 11th inst. and was buried at Lebanon, three miles below town on the 13th inst. She was for about forty years a consistent member of the Methodist church. The Talladega Home ---- TALLADEGA County News Mr. Hick Tarver of Macon, Ga., died at the residence of his sister Mrs. S.Y. Boyd in this city last Sunday evening and his remains were carried to Montgomery for interment. The Talladega Home --- File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/calhoun/newspapers/newspape1138gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 12.6 Kb

Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for JULY, AUG., SEPT., OCT. 1886 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: C Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net October 7, 2006, 11:16 pm The Jacksonville Republican 1886 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN", Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama for JULY 1886, AUGUST 1886, SEPTEMBER 1886, OCTOBER 1886 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JULY 3, 1886 ALABAMA State News CHEROKEE County News D.C. Russell, well known in Cherokee county, is dead. --- ETOWAH County News Hosea Griffin was killed by James Mehler near Attalla one night recently at a house of bad repute. Mehler was firing his pistol indiscriminately in the house when Griffin passed by. A ball pierced a looking glass and passing through a crack in the wall, buried itself in the head of Griffin. He was found dead a few moments afterwards. Mehler fled. --- Mr. Wm. C. Mayo and Miss Alice Fullenwider were recently married. --- Mr. W.P. Brock and Miss Dollie Gladden were maried in Gadsden on the 13th inst. --- Mr. A.W. Moore of Attalla was recently bitten by a rattlesnake. Copious draughts of whiskey soon set him right. --- Mr. John G. Means, aged 72 years, is dead. --- Mrs. Margaret Richards of Etowah is dead. --- TALLADEGA County News John Williams, colored, of near Childersburg, shot Amy Esseck last Thursday evening because she didn't spell "eggs" to suit him. Amy is lying at the point of death and Johnnie is boarding with Sheriff Wood. --- ST. CLAIR County News Dr. W.F. Vandergrift of Branchville shot and slightly wounded a negro at that place on Saturday. We learn the shooting was done in self defense. The negro was endeavoring to cut him with a knife and the doctor shot him, the ball hitting him near the eye and glancing around the skull bone and coming our near the ear. --- CLEBURNE County News S.C. Harris of Cicero had his house burned recently. --- Mr. Silas Pritchard of Stone Hill had his house burned recently. --- MOBILE County News John Mitchell Taylor who died a few days ago, was one of the best known and most highly respected citizens of Mobile. --- MARENGO County News Joe Mason, a colored man living on the Beverly place near Arcola, in Marengo county, while plowing in the field Monday morning, suddenly dropped dead between the plow handles, from heart disease. --- ST. CLAIR County News Mr. Ober, who lives near Branchville, was killed by a falling tree one day last week. He was in the wood alone cutting cord wood. A tree lodged and in his attempt to get it down, it fell on his head. His body was not found until twenty four hours after the accident. --- JEFFERSON County News I.C. Turner, arrested as a counterfeiter in Birmingham last week, has been put under a bond of $300. by U.S. Commissioner Samuel Thompson. --- At Coalburg, near Birmingham on the 16th, two negro women, Mandy Jackson and Adelaide Coleman, quarreled and fought. Mandy drew a knife with which she inflicted deadly wounds upon the person of Adelaide. The murderess has been jailed in Birmingham. --- LOWNDES County News Mr. James Meadows Sr. met with a very serious accident Monday night. In walking across the floor, he stumbled and fell across a chair, one of the posts of which penetrated his right side, breaking two of his ribs and producing internal injuries. Though in a critical condition, his friends hope that he may speedily recover. --- CALHOUN County Local News GRAYTON Community News A very serious difficulty occurred in our neighborhood last Saturday between R.M. Ingram and Geo. Countryman. After a slight tussell about who should work a certain mule, Countryman seized a pitch fork and coming up behind struck Ingram on the back of the head, inflicting a serious wound. A preliminary trial was held before Esq. M.N. Coker but not knowing how the wound would terminate, Countryman was sent to jail. ---- Mr. James Nunnelley and Miss Mary Plummer were married last Sunday. --- Robt. Ellis died of Consumption on the 15th inst. He leaves a wife to mourn his death. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday JULY 10, 1886 AFFRAY BETWEEN YOUNG MEN IN CALHOUN COUNTY Jacksonville, Ala., June 29th G.W. Countryman, a white man twenty-one years of age was brought here last Saturday and lodged in jail for assault and battery upon Richard M. Ingram. The defendant was working as a farm laborer on Ingram's plantation in the western part of the county and he and Ingram became involved in a quarrel about the stock with which Countryman was working the crop, and a fight ensued. It seems that in the fight which was "fist and skull", Ingram got the better of Countryman. At any rate they fought this kind of a fight until both parties seemed satisfied and Ingram was walking away, when Countryman struck him unawares on the back of the head with a pitchfork, using it as a club, and felled Ingram to the ground. Countryman had a preliminary trial before Justice Coker yesterday morning and was committed to jail to await the result, as Ingram's condition is most critical. Dr. Brothers was the first physician to visit Ingram and pronounced his condition serious. Maj. D.F. Constant who is Ingram's father-in-law, and John B. Ingram who is his brother, went from Oxford in company with Dr. A.F. Bullard to attend Mr. Ingram in his affliction. Ingram is a most excellent young man about thirty years old; sober, industrious and well connected. It would be most sad if his wound should terminate fatally and it is to be sincerely hoped that such will not be the case. ---- ALABAMA State News PIKE County News J.B. Jones of near Brundidge, Pike county, was severely cut by a negro on Saturday night in an affray about feeding stock. He is in a dying condition. --- MOBILE County News Freeman Lewis recently killed Joseph Fields at Mobile by stabbing him. --- ELMORE County News Jim Graham, colored, was shot and thrown into the river near Wetumpka last week. --- Bob Davis and B.C. Watson, convicts at the Pratt Mines, made their escape last week. --- DEKALB County News On Wednesday, a flash of lightning entered the chimney of the house of Walter Sears on Sand Mountain, crossing the room and killing two children, aged three and five years. Their mother nearby was knocked insensible. A child in her arms escaped unhurt. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JULY 17, 1886 ALABAMA State News MARION County News During the severe storm on Monday afternoon, Bill Heard, a negro boy about 16 years old, took refuge under an elm tree on the street near Mr. Davidson's residence and was immediately killed by lightning. His death was instantaneous. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JULY 24, 1886 ALABAMA State News RUSSELL County News Henry Green, colored, a plantation hand on John McGough's place in Russell county, was struck by lightning last Saturday and killed while he was asleep in a cotton house. --- (NOTE: about half of JULY 1886 and most of AUGUST 1886 newspaper issues were nearly all political debates and ads for the elections for Calhoun county; also many pages poorly scanned and illegible. ) NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, AUGUST 21, 1886 ALABAMA State News CHILTON County News Mr. Frank Higgins, who had a difficulty with a negro just over the river in Coosa county last week, is getting better. Mr. Higgins was struck on the head with an axe by the negro and his life was almost despaired of for a time. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, AUGUST 28, 1886 ALABAMA State News BIBB County News Edgar Cottingham of Bibb county is seventeen years old and is six feet nine inches high. --- CALHOUN County Local News DEATH OF W.W. WOODWARD After a long illness, Mr. Wallace W. Woodward died at this place Thursday morning and was laid to rest on Friday. His death, though not unexpected, saddened our entire community. Rare mental gifts, open and generous nature, fidelity to friends and an affectionate and social disposition distinguished him as one among the many and would have secured high distinction, had it not been for the insidious and fatal malady which struck him down in the flush of his young manhood and frustrated every hope born of high and noble ambition. Realizing God's dispensation to cut short the career he had marked out for himself on earth, he turned his thoughts toward God and died in the full hope of a blessed immortality. --- DEATH OF AUNT DOCIA ESTILL We have received a late copy of the Belton Texas Journal newspaper, containing the following obituary notice of a lady well known to all the old citizens of Jacksonville, Calhoun county, Ala: ESTILL - - - At the residence of her son W.H. Estill in this city, Tuesday, August 17, 1886, Mrs. Eudocia Estill died. The deceased was born in Rockingham county, North Carolina, September 7, 1794. She went to Tennessee at an early age and was married to James Estill in Franklin county, that state in 1812. They moved to Alabama in 1822 and aferwards resided in Calhoun and Talladega counties in Ala. Mrs. Estill came to Belton, Texas in 1883 and has since resided here. Her husband died in 1826. To them were born five children, three sons and two daughters, and all survive but one daughter, Col. W. H. Estill of this city, being the eldest child. Mrs. Estill joined the Methodist church in 1824 and has been a consistent member to the day of her death, being noted for her marked Christian zeal and benevolence. Her home was a great resort for christian ministers. Presidents Monroe and Jackson were warm personal friends of Mrs. Estill and they had the honor to be entertained by her on more than one occasion. Her life is so interwoven with the early history of North Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee that a recital of the one would involve the other, and when Aunt Docia died, a remarkable character in many respects quit this world. Peace to her ashes and a blessed immortaility to her freed spirit. ----- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, SEPTEMBER 4, 1886 ALABAMA State News DALLAS County News Col. Ben. Woolsey, a prominent citizen of Selma died on the 19th inst. --- WALKER County News Mrs. Pleas. Stone committed suicide by hanging near Jasper last week. --- COLBERT County News Maj. McClesky shot Jesse Simpson in the neck at Tuscumbia last week. --- MACON County News It now appears that the shooting of Sheriff Armstrong by Ben. Thompson at Tuskegee, was justifiable. --- Gov. O'Neal has appointed Lucius Pinkard as sheriff of Macon county, filling the vacancy caused by the killing of Sheriff Armstrong. The appointee was Colonel of the Fourteenth Regiment, Gen. Jackson's brigade and was known as the "boy Colonel." ---- DEKALB County News Wm. Fuller of DeKalb county has a hatchet which he brought home on his return from the Mexican War, nearly forty years ago. --- ST. CLAIR County News James Keith, living six miles southwest of Springville, is seventy-nine years old and shoots a rifle accurately without glasses. --- DALE County News "Uncle" Luke Thomas of Dale county, who will be a hundred years old on the 6th of October, rode horseback nine miles to vote on the 2nd. --- MONTGOMERY County News A white man in Montgomery is infatuated with a mulatto woman named Daisy Harris. She fled to Birmingham and he had her arrested on some trumped up charges. --- SHELBY County News Mr. Sol A Lyons, a much respected citizen of Calera, died last Friday from injuries received on Tuesday in a playful, scuffle with a friend across his counter. He leaves a wife and five children. --- ETOWAH County News Saturday night, Messrs. R.F. Strother and H.R. Campbell became involved in a difficulty in which Mr. Campbell received a severe flesh wound in his right hip. The difficulty arose about a debt Mr. Campbell owed Mr. Strother. The case will be tried on Friday. The defendant is under a three hundred dollar bond. ---- BUTLER County News The Atlanta Journal says: Judge John K. Henry who recently died in Greenville, Ala., at the ripe age of seventy-two years, was from Hancock county, Ga., and was one of several hundred talented young men that our state furnished to Alabama many years ago, who have won fame and fortune in their adopted state. ---- CALHOUN County Local News DEATH OF Mr. ROBT. ALEXANDER Mr. Robt. Alexander, one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of Calhoun county, died at his home in Jacksonville, Wednesday, after a long illness incident to his extreme age. His funeral occurred Thursday morning and was very largely attended by our people who wished thus to testify their respect for a man who had lived among them for half a century and who, by his deportment in life, had won not only the respect but the friendship of his fellow men. Mr. Alexander was at one time Sheriff of Calhoun county and discharged the duties of the office faithfully and well. He was a consistent christian, an honest man, a loyal friend, a kind and loving parent and husband. WIth him has passed away another of the old land marks. --- OBITUARY OF ELIZABETH ANN SPRINKLE Elizabeth Ann Sprinkle died in Calhoun county, Ala., June 14, 1886. She was born Jan. 17, 1808 in Spartanburg, Dist., South Carolina and moved from there to Calhoun County, Ala.. in October 1858. She joined the Baptist church in 1833 and lived a consistent member until her death. Her age was 78 years, 4 months, and for fifty-three years of that time, she was engaged in the service of her Lord, in which she delighted and found much happiness. The last year of her life she was a great sufferer, but she bore her afflictions with the meekness and patience of a saint of the most high God and was victorious in death. She leaves a devoted husband and two daughters to mourn her loss. May the God of all grace guide and comfort them that they may not sorrow as those that have no hope. J.F. Potter. ---- EARTHQUAKE AT JACKSONVILLE Tuesday night about ten minutes before nine o'clock, an earthquake shock was distinctly felt at this place, lasting some ten or fifteen seconds. It was accompanied by a faint rumbling sound. The vibration was both a swinging and rising and falling one, and quick and distinct, sufficient to rattle the glass in the windows. Those asleep in houses covered by tin roofs were awakened by the cracking sound and rattle of the roof. At the time of the shock a great many ladies and gentlemen were attending a night meeting at Mrs. Edwards'. The conversation was quite general at the time and the party was very animated. In a moment, a dead hush occurred and lasted until the shock ceased. Instantly, "earthquake" was shouted from all parts of the room. A few ladies left for their homes but the greater number remained. No one seemed to be frightened and thus the terrors of the earthquake are disproved. We guess it would have been different however if it had been sufficient to have toppled chimneys and shook houses from their foundations, as has been the case at other points on this continent in recent years. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, SEPTEMBER 11, 1886 CALHOUN County Local News DEATH OF MR. J.H. PRIVETT Calhoun has lost another of her pioneers int he death of Mr. J.H. Privett, two miles south of Jacksonville. He died after a short illness Sunday last and was buried the following Monday morning, a very large number of people attending to testify their respect for the good man. Mr. Privett was a man of firm principles, an exceptionally pure life and of deep religious convictions. He was very highly respected in this community and elsewhere in the county where he was known. With him passes away another of the old landmarks, and his place will be hard to fill. --- ALABAMA State News TALLADEGA County Dispatches on Thursday brought the mournful intelligence of the death of Hon. F.W. Bowdon, one of the most prominent men in the state, at his home in Talladega, after an illness of some weeks. The immediate cause of his death was from blood poisoning, it is said, following a surgical operation. His untimely death will be mourned throughout the state. He was state senator elect from Talladega and Clay counties. --- FAYETTE County News Mr. Miles Harris was murdered in the southern part of Fayette last week while at work in his field. The murderer is unknown. --- DEKALB County News The Fort Payne Journal says that William Bynum died last week in his one hundredth year. He was not the victim of disease, but died simply of old age, the vital forces of nature having been exhausted. He was conscious to his death and just before it occurred he asked a visitor how the election had resulted. Five persons belonging to the fourth generation of his descendants witnessed his burial. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, SEPTEMBER 18, 1886 ALABAMA State News JEFFERSON County News P. Nolen of Birmingham has patented a new railroad switch. --- RANDOLPH County News Theodore Norris was accidentally shot in Randolph county recently, while out hunting. --- PERRY County News J.M. Farrell shot and fatally wounded Mr. Freeman at Girhan's mill in Perry county a few days ago. --- CHILTON County News An old lady named Nelson endeavored to hang herself at Verbena a few night ago. Her son cut her down before life was extinct. --- ST. CLAIR County News In an altercation at Springville, Frank Osborn struck a man named Butler with a rock, inflicting a dangerous and fatal wound. --- BULLOCK County News Burrell Jane, colored, killed his brother in Bullock county on Monday last and fled to Montgomery where he has since been arrested. --- BARBOUR County News Mr. Ambrose J. Wellbour of Barbour county, rising from his bed on Monday, fell to the floor and died instantly. --- HENRY County News Isam G. Jones, has been convicted of manslaughter in Henry county for the murder of Peter F. Thomas, and sentenced to the penitentiary for one year. --- ETOWAH County News Sept. 7th Gabe Watts, colored, has just been jailed for the commission of a horrible crime. He lived ten miles from town with his three small children, the oldest ten years of age. Recently he expressed a desire to get rid of his children and one night last week, just before day, he knocked all of them in the head with a strick, connected them with the fire by old quilts and left the house. The fire was soon discovered and the children saved. The oldest one is dead and the other two barely alive, as their skulls are seriously fractured. He confessed everything and says he killed them because he did not want the white people to have them. He talks insanely and he is believed to have been crazy. ---- TALLADEGA County News Col. A.G. Storey, one of the oldest and most successful merchants of Talladega, died on Sunday. --- CALHOUN County Local News SUDDEN DEATH OF MRS. FOSTER Friday night when the family of Mr. G.W. Foster were through with supper, they assembled in the sitting room. Mrs. Foster arose and went into an adjoining room for a book to read, returning almost immediately. On entering the door, she stopped, seemed to gasp for breath, staggered into the arms of her affectionate husband, who had been attracted by her strange actions. He placed her gently on the bed and ran hastily for Dr. Huger. On his return,she had breathed her last, she was dead. Thus, died one of the most estimable women. She was a most affectionate wife and tender mother, highly esteemed by all who knew her. She was a shining light in Anniston society circles and her death is greatly deplored. Her remains were carried to Tuscaloosa last night for interment, accompanied by her husband and children and several of our citizens. Our sympathies are with the bereaved ones. The Anniston Watchman. ---- Mrs. Fannie Williams, wife of Mr. James E. Williams, an estimable gentleman of Alexandria valley, died on Friday night. The Anniston Watchman. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, SEPTEMBER 25, 1886 ALABAMA State News ETOWAH County News H.R. Campbell, painter, who was stabbed by Robt. Strother recently for refusing to pay 75 cents which he borrowed, is able to be up again. --- Mrs. Mary Evans, formerly Mrs. Salvo, died in Texas on Aug. 19th. --- Mrs. Ellis of Attalla, mother of T.J. Watkins is quite sick. --- Mrs. Nannie Edwards, daughter of P.J. Smith, of Attalla died recently. --- Recently, Sam West, a hand at the Gadsden Iron Company's iron mine, had a difficulty with Mr. Day, the superintendant and shot and killed him. He made his escape. --- Miss Jessie Thomas of Alexander city who is visiting her brother in Gadsden, while at the well, felt the curbing give way beneath her feet, and she was plunged head foremost into a well thirty feet deep and was rescued with much difficulty. --- TALLADEGA County News Mr. E.J. Swan of Plantersville died recently. --- Mr. J.A. Blackburn and Miss Nona Burr of Talladega were married recently. --- Rev. A.B. McCorkle of Talladega died recently. He was one of the oldest Presbyterian preachers in this state. --- Jim Blackburn in a row with a man named Morgan at Ironten, whipped out his knife and killed him. --- On Saturday the 4th inst., Mr. J.A. Morgan, a traveling painter who has been at Talladega for some time, mysteriously disappeared and since has not been heard from. He was known to have a large amount of money in his room and it is feared that there has been foul play somewhere. --- CHEROKEE County News At Rush's mill on the Cattooga river near Gaylesville, Cherokee county on Thursday, the 9th inst., three brothers by the name of Morgan were drowned, aged from ten to fifteen years. They were all in bathing and one of them got into deep water and was drowned when the other two attempted to rescue him. All three were drowned at once. Their bodies were covered and all buried in the same grave. --- Mr. T.C. Hampton, living near Thomas' mills died the 16th of measles. Henry WIlson and an infant of Mrs. Lou Wilson also died of the same disease at the same place. --- Mrs. J.W. Henderson of Cherokee county died suddenly recently of heart disease. --- Wm. Anderson of Pollard's Bend has found rocks on his place containing gold, silver and copper. William is about to strike it rich. --- ST. CLAIR County News Mrs. Duncan, aged 65, died near Ashville on Sept. 14th. --- Mrs. John Pearson of Branchville dropped dead recently. --- MARENGO County News Olla Washington, a negro woman said to be 115 years old, died in the Barton's Hills neighborhood, five miles below Old Spring Hill on the 8th. She had sixteen children, the youngest of whom a son is known to be fifty- six years old. The Marengo News --- MADISON County News Theo. Roach who was shot by Tom Mason in a difficulty at the Depot, died this morning between two and three o'clock. The preliminary trial of Mason is set for tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock before Judge William Richardson. --- COLBERT County News Mr. Robert Goodloe, Mr. R.M. Halsey and Mrs. Lester Walker, three highly respected residents of Tuscumbia, died in that city last week. --- MOBILE County News Wm. V. Hazen, an old citizen of Mobile, died recently at Houston, Texas. --- CHAMBERS County News Mrs. C.A. Hodnet of Chambers county died from apoplexy on Sunday last at her home near LaFayette. --- BARBOUR County News Four hundred and sixty Apache and Sioux Indians, a part of Geronimo's band, passed through Eufaula last week in the charge of two companies of U.S. Infantry on their way to the government reservation in Florida. --- A crazy white man named Jos. Dudley, who came here about a week ago, spends most of his time on Cotton avenue and over the Chewalia creek in Hoboken. He sleeps in out houses and begs for his food. He doffed all his clothing the other day and waded up and down the creek near the Chewalia bridge and seemed to greatly enjoy the sport. The Eufalia Mail. ---- LEE County News A negro woman about fifty years old, named Lennie Fight, dropped dead in the yard of Mr. H.M. Bush's residence on Savre street in Opelika on the 6th. She was in charge of the place during the absence of Mr. Bush's family. She was an unusually large woman weighing 300 pounds. --- WILCOX County News A white man by the name of Thos. H. Madden was arrested a few days ago at Selma on a warrant issued by J.W. Votz, justice of the peace, at Camden, which warrant charged Madden with living in adultery with a negro woman to which charge he was called to answer at the next regular term of Court of Wilcox County. Madden was returned to custody at once by Chief Rosser to Camden at which place he awaits trial. ---- MORGAN County News Monday evening, the 6th inst., an unknown negro went to Sam Oaks' dwelling, twelve miles southeast of Hartselle and demanded of Mrs. Oaks, who was alone, her money. On being refused, he knocked her down with a stick and beat her most cruelly, stopping now and then demanding the money, but she did not tell him where the money was. Fears are entertained that she will not recover. The entire neighborhood turned out in search of the negro, who was seen in the mountains in the evening and several shots were fired at him, but failed to get him. The men are pursuing him with great eagerness. ---- CALHOUN County Local News Notice of the death of Annie Hodges, on the 25th ult. at the home of her parents near Gadsden was crowded out last month. She was the daughter of Saml. Hodges and wife, formerly Kate Young. At the time of her death she was 9 years and 3 months old and was an exceptionally bright and promising child. Friends of the parents in this and Etowah counties will sympathize with them in their great loss. ---- MORRISVILLE Community News Mr. James Wingo died last Saturday with flux and there are others bad off with the same disease. --- Mr. H.P. Costly went out hunting a few mornings ago; he started about three o'clock and caught 28 possums before daylight. --- Reports say that Mr. T.J. Loyd has sold all his land to the Woodstock Iron Co. and that he will move to Arkansas some time next month. Mr. Loyd is one of our oldest men in this part of the county. He has been here a long time and will be badly missed when he is gone. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, OCTOBER 2, 1886 ALABAMA State News CHEROKEE County News A man named Rucker induced Miss Sallie Ogles of Tifton, Ga., a very popular young lady of the village, to elope with him. He carried her to various places, always making some excuse for not fulfulling his promise of marriage. He at last deserted her near Centre, where her father found her and took her home. She is a sadder but a much wiser young woman now. --- Pink Webster stabbed John Morrison twenty-one times near Key recently and strange to say inflicted no mortal wound. --- ST. CLAIR County News Mr. Dennis Trammel, aged 68, died in Ashville on the 19th. --- Mrs. John Pearson, residing at Branchville, dropped dead in her yard on Sept. 9th. Apoplexy is supposed to be the cause. ---- TALLADEGA County News On last Wednesday, three negro men, Henry Barclay, Robt. McCalister and Chambers Baker were engaged in digging a well on Chambers Baker's place in the western part of the city. Henry Barclay and Chambers Baker were drawing at the windlass while Robt. McAlister was going down into the well in a bucket, and when about 20 feet from the bottom, the windlass split and the handles flew loose from the hands of the two men who were using them, striking both of them on the head, killing Henry Barclay instantly, and seriously injuring Chambers Baker. Robert McAlister who was 20 feet from the bottom of the well in a bucket, had a quick journey down and the sudden jar received by him striking the botton considerably disabled him. Chambers Baker is in a very dangerous condition from the two wounds received on the head. ---- John R. Sampey of Louisville and Miss Annie E. Renfroe of Talladega were recently married. --- ETOWAH County News Mr. James Haines of near Gadsden died on the 22nd inst. --- The young man who killed Jack Day is still at large. The Gadsden Iron Company offers $100. for his arrest. --- Mr. Litner Littlefield and Miss Lou Burton were married the 16th. --- Mrs. Mary Patterson of Gadsden died in east Tennessee recently. --- CLEBURNE County News Mr. O.L. Rush of Chulafinnee has moved to Kissemmer, Florida. --- Mr. J.J. Alexander and Miss Susie E. Alexander of Borden Springs were married recently. --- JEFFERSON County News A BOY'S NERVE; Rather Than Lose his Life, James Eldridge tries to cut foot off Mr. Jonathan Eldridge, who lives near Oxmoor, brought to the city late yesterday afternoon his son James, aged fourteen years, to have a physician treat his right foot, which had been nearly severed from the ankle with a pocket knife in his own hands, the cause of which was a remarkable display of bravery and nerve on the part of the boy, who caught his foot between a rail and cross-tie, before a train passed and he deliberately took out his pocket knife and attempted to cut off his foot at the ankle. The boy was crossing the track when his foot became entangled in the place mentioned. He heard the train at Oxmoor, a mile off. He tried to get his shoe off, but could not and before being reached, he cut through the leather into his foot, making an incision nearly to the bone, when he fainted from the loss of blood after having nearly severed the skin from the bone. The engineer saw the boy soon after he fainted and stopped the train engine before he was run over. The young fellow lay in a pool of blood which had run from the severed veins of his ankle. His foot was extricated and he was revived and taken to his parents. The boy said he had no idea of dying, and rather than run the risk of being run over, he tried to cut his foot off. It is thought his foot can be saved. The Birmingham Chronicle ---- Devina Lovett was shot and mortally wounded by Jas. Head, an ex-convict, at Birmingham last week. --- Mr. Wm. Kirkland of Birmingham who was recently shot by a negro burglar, has sufficiently recovered to be out again, though his wound is still painful. --- MOBILE County News A colored woman named Bella Harris dropped dead in the streets of Mobile on Wednesday last. --- SHELBY County News On Tuesday last, Mr. Miller Faust, a promising young man of Shelby county died at his father's residence. --- LOWNDES County News Mr. Adolph Adams, a deaf mute employed on Mr. W.P. Thigpen's place in Lowndes county, had his right hand cut off in a gin on Tuesday of last week. --- LIMESTONE County News The people of Limestone county are excited over a report that several of the Apache Indians escaped from their guards when passing through that section recently and are now roaming at large over the country. --- WALKER County News Stephen Jenkins and wife were tried in Walker county last week for passing counterfeit nickles that they moulded. They confessed to $400 of them being in circulation. --- CRENSHAW County News James D. Stallings, 17 years old, of Honorville, Ala., recently picked 453 pounds of cotton from daylight to dark. --- LAUDERDALE County News Frank Walker was shot and dangerously hurt near Florence recently while resisting arrest and his horse was also killed under him. --- ELMORE County News Mr. Gilbert Yarbrough of Elmore county mysteriously disappeared from his home last Saturday and has not been heard of since. --- ESCAMBIA County News W.J. Jernigan of Brewton, accidentally discharged his gun and emptied 24 buckshot into his left leg. --- LEE County News A child sprang from the arms of his father into a well in Loachapoka and was drowned. The father Mr. Hagerman is nearly crazed with grief. --- CHAMBERS County News The LaFayette Democrat reports that Mrs. C.A. Hodnett died at her home a few miles east of LaFayette last Sunday morning about nine o'clock. She got up as usual and prepared breakfast and a short while afterwards complained of not feeling well and lay down and began reading a paper. Noticing that she was very quiet, her husband went to the bed and found her gasping. The neighbors were immediately notified and Dr. Davis of this place summoned, but she expired before the doctor arrived. Apoplexy is thought to have been the cause of her death. ---- PIKE County News The Troy Messenger reports that Uncle Billy Green who lives about six miles west of Perote is still very sanguine about the "mine" that he has discovered on his place. He thinks there is gold and silver in abundance and wants some good miner to visit him and inspect his rock and sand. He will board anybody as long as they wish to stay, that will get out and examine it. His address is Wm. E. Green, Troy, Ala., and says that he would be glad to hear from any miner on the subject. ---- BLOUNT County News Mr. John Brown, son of Mr. Wiley Brown, residing near Liberty in Blount county, while on his way to attend religious services at Antioch was taken with a fit and fell into Grave's Creek and was drowned. He was not discovered until Monday morning in the creek where he had fallen. He was about 21 years old and had been subject to fits for a long time. --- CALHOUN County Local News LETTER FROM J.V. JOLLY FROM STATE OF TEXAS To Editor of Republican, I think I promised to give your readers a few items from Texas. We boarded the cars at Cross Plains on the night of the 8th inst. and came via Montgomery, Mobile and New Orleans to Houston, Texas; there we boarded the Texas Central and traveled north through the center of the state, arriving at McKinney on Friday night having been on the road 48 hours and 8 minutes and traveled over one thousand miles without a single "stopover". Around Millwood, Collins county, is the richest country I ever saw, and the road, when I arrived, were as hard as a plank floor; but it rained the next day and I got "stuck" in Texas, or rather in the mud. I did not make a track, for the mud "sticketh closer than a brother". There is, however, one good thing about it; twenty four hours of sunshine and wind and the mud is all gone. It very rarely gets dry enough to injure crops to any great extent. The dry weather will cause cracks in the ground, over which it is absolutely dangerous to ride horseback, but I have seen cotton stalks, perfectly green, standing at the edge of these cracks. There is a greater stir among the people here than any place I ever saw. Everybody has something to do and does it in a hurry. Wages are good and no trouble to find work to do. Dry goods and groceries here are about the same as in Alabama. I am now at Winsborough in Wood county. This is a very pretty sandy country. It is what you might call a border prairie country, having the advantages of rich prairies near by and also having plenty of wood and good water. I say good water, it has generally a kind of acid taste but you soon get accustomed to it and you think it is good; it is very healthy. The water on the prairies is warm and not very good but with a little labor and care they can have good cistern water which is the best. I have not been here long enough for my opinions to be worth much; you may hear from me in the future. Now for fear I may incur the displeasure of the editor, I subscribe myself yours most obediently, J.V. Jolly, Winsborough, Wood Co. Texas, Sept. 27, 1886. ---- STATE OF ALABAMA, Calhoun County Probate Court, Special Term, Sept. 23, 1886 Estate of W.J. Casey, deceased Notice if hereby given that Mrs. M.E. Casey, (now Mrs. M.E. Witt) who heretofore failed to execute and file a new bond, and was therefore removed as Administratrix of the estate of W.J. Casey, deceased, and failing to appear and file her statement for settlement as required to law, the court makes up from the records and papers in court pertaining to her said administration of said estate an account against her for a settlement of her administration thereof. It is ordered that the 1st day of November 1886 be appointed the day on which to pass upon said account and to make such settlement and that notice thereof be given for three successive weeks in the Jacksonville Republican, a newspaper published in said county, as a notice to: Mrs. M.E. Witt, formerly Mrs. M.E. Casey J.L. Dodson And other persons interested in said estate; to appear in said court on the 1st day of November 1886 and contest said account and settlement if they think proper. A. Woods, Judge of Probate ---- LOCAL News A daughter of Mr. Jno. B. McCain of Oxford, a bright and lovely young lady, died at the home of her grandfather Mr. R. McCain, three miles north of Jacksonville last week. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, OCTOBER 9, 1886 ALABAMA State News MADISON County News Judge Thos. C. Barclay died in Huntsville, Ala., a few days since. --- HALE County News Phillipa Patton, colored, died in Hale county a few days ago at age 101. She had over one hundred descendants. --- CHAMBERS County News Jessie Witchell of Chambers county was dangerously hurt last week. His team ran away while he was hauling cotton. --- FAYETTE County News Wm. Sanders was arrested in Fayette county a few days ago, charged with the murder of Miles Harris. --- DEKALB County News Marion Noogan, the notorious wildcatter distiller of Sand Mountain is in meshes of the law and has been found guilty in the U.S. Court in Birmingham. --- LOWNDES County News C.L. Russell, a brakeman on the L. & N. was killed in Lowndes county on Sunday morning by his head striking a bridge and knocked him off the top of the car. --- MONTGOMERY County News Andrew Jones, colored, has just returned with his family to Mongtomery after a years stay in Liberia. He says it rains in that country six months out of the year and it is no place for an American negro. --- ELMORE County News Mr. Gilbert Yarbrough of Elmore county left his home last Saturday and has not been heard from since. Fears are entertained that some evil may have happened to him. He is thirty years old, has a family and is said to be an estimable man. --- BLOUNT County News While Mr. E.K. Head and his son-in-law Mr. Pass were going home from Blountsville on Saturday afternoon, the weagon turned over, throwing both out and a 750 pound sugar mill fell upon Mr. Pass, injuring him so severely that he is still confined to his bed. --- ETOWAH County News On Tuesday night the 28th ult., poor old Gabe Watts, the colored man who attempted to kill all of his children in Phillips' beat a few weeks ago, died at the jail at this place. He was insane and was greatly emaciated, having eaten nothing for several days. Poor old fellow, we trust he is at rest. The Gadsden News --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, OCTOBER 16, 1886 ALABAMA State News ETOWAH County News On last Saturday morning, Mr. J.S. Odum got his left hand mangled in the machinery at Gwin & Hix's planing mills. He is fearful that his fingers will have to be amputated. We sympathize very much with him. ---- Mrs. C. Dunn, formerly of Gadsden, died recently at Windsor, Florida. --- Will Denson, son of Col. W.H. Denson, was struck in the eye with a piece of wood that he was chopping with an axe one day last week, which came very near causing him to lose his sight. --- Milas Kyle, colored, came back from Birmingham last Friday with his head and shoulder fearfully bruised, which was caused by an explosion of rock on the Kansas City road, where he was working. --- HALE County News Mr. Stith Evans, a prominent citizen and wealthy planter who lives about eight miles from Greensboro, died very suddenly on Monday while sitting in his chair reading. --- MARION County News The accidental discharge of a pistol in the hands of Edwin Goree, came near costing the life of one of our most highly honored citizens, Judge Porter King last week. The ball passed through Judge King's vest and the waistband of his pants. --- SUMTER County News STEVE RENFROE, Noted Desperado and Jail Braker of Sumter County Hanged Steve Renfroe was born about 1839 in Sumter county and was the son of wealthy parents. At the beginning of the war he was just entering manhood and in common with all the men of the south, he took up arms in defense of its cause. After his return from the war he settled down in Sumter county as a farmer and was lost to sight until the dark days of radical rule when deputy marshalls rode around the state arresting citizens and parading them through the streets of Alabama cities handcuffed and loaded with chains, for the purpose of terrifying the people. Renfroe was arrested and with some others was brought from Livingston to this city enroute to Mobile. His firmness and fearlesness while under arrest caused him to be idolized by the peopole of his county and in 1880 they elected him as their sheriff. Shortly after his election, to this position he began a system of robbing the county and to destroy evidence he set fire to the clerk's office. He was indicted and lodged in jail but managed to escape. He was captured and lodged in the Tuscaloosa jail from which he escaped by burning a hole through the floor. After those escapes he was recaptured, tried and sentenced to Pratt Mines but he boasted that he would not remain there. After about five weeks confinement he managed to escape and for some time was hid out in western Alabama and eastern Mississippi. He preyed on the people about his old home, stealing horses and valuables of every description. Early in July he was located near Enterprise, Miss., and captured by two young men from whom he had stolen a mule. They notified the Pratt mines and authorities and Mr. Julius Collins went to Mississippi after him. On Collins return, Renfroe was taken from him at Livingston by the Sumter county sheriff on a warrant charging him with horse stealing. He was lodged in jail at Livingston and was on the evening of July 13th, taken out and hung by a mob. The scene of the hanging is thus described in a special to the Dispatch of July 16th: "When asked if he wanted to pray, he said he did not know a prayer but wished someone would pray for him. Then came a scene of picturesque solemnity. In a beautiful field, on the banks of a peaceful river, in the soft light of a brilliant moon, a disguised figure drew near him and raising his hands above the pale face of the doomed man, and lifting his face heavenward, said "Almighty Father have mercy on this miserable wretch." Thus ended the life of Steve Renfoe, the most noted desperado in Alabama. ---- MONTGOMERY County News John Howard Payne, the author of "Home Sweet Home", was a great friend of Major S.F. Belton who fought so gallantly in the Mexican War. The Major died and left among his many letters from distinguished men, one from John Howard Payne. The documents are in possession of the Major's granddaughter Mrs. Sallie Evans, wife of the humorist, Leo C. Evans. The handwriting of Payne is small but well rounded and beautiful. The letter is given in full as it is punctuated and spelled: " Montgomery, Ala., July 25, 1835 Maj. F.S. Belton, Fort Morgan, Mobile, Ala; My dear Belton, I can as well explain why your valued note of May 28th has so long remained unanswered, as I apologize for the omission. Both are to me equally impossible. I have sinned past forgiveness unless you have more mercy than justice. The fact is, the book and letter did not reach me till just as I was on the eve of quitting New Orleans. Then all was flurry and hurry. Every day that I remained in Mobile, I intended to visit your "Tartar Home" on the day following, and to thank you for the elegant contribution to my album and still more for your endearing recollections of "auld lang syne." Circumstances delayed me longer than I expected and circumstances hurried me off, with a party, sooner than I expected, after that, I thought I must not write until I could write a long letter, and I have put the long letter off so long that I am compelled now to throw myself upon your generosity by a frank confession in a short one. I have been very desirous here of seeing an Indian festival, and this has kept me some days. But so vague and contradictory is all the information I get upon the subject, that I must depart tomorrow and take my chance in the Nation, and if nothing is going on there, go on myself, so as to get to Athens for the commencement and thence to Charleston, S.C. Did you not say you might aid my views there? If you can give me any letters, either there or on my route, I shall feel much indebted to you, and the more the better. The establishment of my work is of great interest and importance to me; so is the knowledge which an extensive may give me of our country. Do not forget such notes and sketches as from all you have heard me explain, you must be aware it will be awful. The Indian sketches and descriptions you mentioned, the Havana sketches with such comments as may explain them; indeed, anything and everything of the nature which has engaged your lecture will be to me most acceptable material. Could you not put your New York Bay Panorama into form? I mean into such form as would give you little trouble and enable me readily to get it finished up to the time present? Let me not alarm you with my catalogue of my wishes. In return, wherever I may be, always command me for whatever I can do, or rather tell me what you wish from any point where I may chance be, and it can be done by me, it shall. I am very mad; no opportunity of seeing Mrs. Belton, but that must not exclude me from the pleasure of requesting my compliments to my friend's wife, even though to me an "invisible lady". Packaged or letters sent to the care of my brother Matthew T. Payne, Esq., Councellor, New York, will always reach me. Letters to Charleston, S.C. will hit me within three weeks or a month. Adieu, mon ami, and believe me faithfully yours, John Howard Payne. " ----- BIBB County News The state has lost another of its brilliant and promising young men by the death of Hon. N.J. Suttle. He died a few days ago at his home in Bibb county of yellow disease, said to be very fatal. --- CALHOUN County Local News Col. John B. Peck and wife and Mr. E. Peck their son of Charleston, and Miss Maggie Lawshe of Atlanta were visiting friends here several days this week. Col. Peck was some years ago a citizen of Jacksonville and both he and his estimable family made a great many friends during the time of their residence in the town. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, OCTOBER 23, 1886 ALABAMA State News CLEBURNE County News Mr. W.W. Holmes and Miss Ella Hardin were married in Cleburne county the 6th. --- Mr. J.W.M. Teague and Mrs. E.C. Johnson were married on the 3rd. --- Mr. L.N. Wood and Miss E.C. Watkins were married the 28th of last month. --- Mr. W.G. Williams and Miss M.L. Wilkes were married recently. --- The youngest child of A.J. Wright died recently. --- The youngest child of Wm. Petty died recently. --- James H. Ray died of measles recently. --- ETOWAH County News Dr. Thos. Edward died at Attalla on the 7th inst. --- Geo. Tucker, son of C.W.C. Tucker, died of typhoid fever in Littlte Wills Valley the 7th inst. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, OCTOBER 30, 1886 ALABAMA State News PICKENS County News Mr. Elijah Whatley of Reform is perhaps the oldest white man in Pickins county. If he lives till next April he will be 93 years of age. He is the hero of three wars, viz: War of 1812, The Seminole and Mexican Wars. He is a pensioner of the War of 1812. ---- ETOWAH County News On Saturday night, Euclid Able, in company with a friend John Henry, visited the widow Cannon's house and when they arrived Mrs. Cannon informed Able, who had been drinking, that if he could not come there sober he had better stay away, and he was put out of the house. He returned through the window and while Mrs. Cannon was kindling a fire, he pulled out his pistol and shot her in the back of the head and then turned upon her daughter and told her if she did not hush, he would shoot her. His friend caught the pistol and Able made his escape. Mrs. Cannon died instantly. She lived about eight miles from town. Euclid is the son of Mr. Bill Able, one of the best and most highly respected citizens of Etowah. ---- On Friday last, an altercation occurred at Bristo's Cove in Etowah county between J.H. Waits and R.G. Gilbert about a small amount of money claimed by one of the parties during which the latter was cut, causing his death almost instantly. --- BARBOUR County News Mrs. Flora McNeil, an aged lady in Barbour county, died on Tuesday last near White Oak. --- Robert Alston who recently committed suicide in Washington city was a nephew of Judge Alston of Barbour county. --- LEE County News Mrs. Dan Frazer, daughter of Hon. W.A. Barnes, died at her father's residence in Opelika on Thursday night last. --- The Opelika Times chronicles the deaths of Maj. H.H. Armstrong and also of Mrs. W.A. Shaw, both of Notasulga on Friday last. --- CHEROKEE County News Abram West of Cherokee county has been sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for bigamy and has been carried to the Pratt Coal Mines. --- JEFFERSON County News Harry Stokes, alias Harry Watkins, alias Henry Woods, who pretended to hire a horse and buggy in Birmingham and sold them afterward, has been captured by Detective Sullivan in Washington county, Miss., and brought back to Birmingham. --- MONTGOMERY County News Sunday last, the body of a dead woman was found on the Harrison plantation near Montgomery whose appearance indicated that she had been strangled to death by violent means. The woman's name was Sallie Haines and she is supposed to have been murdered by her stepdaughter Fannie Haines who is now under arrest. ---- Mrs. R.G. Burnett of Montgomery, aged forty-three years, died in that city Sunday last. --- Mrs. M.A. Dulaney died very suddenly from apoplexy at the Exchange Hotel in Montgomery on Monday evening last. The remains were carried to Benton for interment. --- PIKE County News Mrs. McLendon, an aged lady of Pike county, and wife of Rev. G.C. McLendon, died on Saturday last. --- MOBILE County News Rev. Father John B. Serra, a Catholic priest of the Jesuit order died at Spring Hill college, in Mobile, on Friday night last, aged 70 years. --- MADISON County News William Hussey who shot his brother-in-law Matt Strong near Huntsville recently had a preliminary hearing last week and was held for murder without bail. --- File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/calhoun/newspapers/newspape1137gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 51.6 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives News.....Lamar News January 13, 1887 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00016.html#0003775 October 6, 2006, 10:01 am Microfilm - AL Dept Of Archives And History January 13, 1887 Microfilm Ref Call #373 Microfilm Order #M1992.4466 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, JANUARY 13, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 11 GARDEN OF POSIES – Poem I CAN BE HAPPY – Short Story POLITENESS REWARDED “Will you be kind enough sire to hold this ram for me while I open this gate? It is fastened on the inside and I must climb over.” This modest remark was made by a man who was standing at a gate of a lonely road running out of New Dorp, Staten Island, and it was addressed to a stalwart sailor who had just come up. The only other object visible on the long, straight road was the large black ran, whose massive crooked horns were being held by the man as the two stood quite still in front of the gate. “Why, sartinly, shipmate,” said the obliging tar, as he seized thebig horns and relived the first holder. The latter climbed quickly over the gate. “I think you very much,” he said politely when he got to the other side. “You will be surprised to hear that I never saw that ram before today. The brute attached me about half an hour ago., and we have been tussling together ever since. As long as you stand before him holding his horns firmly he can’t hurt you much. Good-by. I hope you will be as lucky in getting away from him as I have been.” The New Dorp man, when telling this story last night, neglected to repeat the sailor’s reply. He did not know what became of him. – [N. Y. Sun] THE VALUE OF SHADE TREES That our ancestors emanated from the shades of a tree land is one of the few points on which Moses and Darwin agree, and it seems hardly probable that the descendants of a forest race should be damaged by a little tree shade, especially where that shade is confined to the six warmest months in the year. After October, when sunshine becomes preferable to the shade, trees do not obstruct the rays of the sun. They merely moderate its summer glare, and at noon, offer the best possible refuge from the brooding heat. No human contrivance can rival the anti-caloric arrangements of a leafy canopy – free access to all the winds of heaven, and a roof impervious not only to the direct light of the sun’s rays, but also to their warmth, which is felt through a single roof as plainly as through a flimsy sunshade. But a shade tree, with its hundred straits of light-absorbing leaves, interposes an effectual barrier to the hottest sun; and, moreover, plants have a direct refrigerating influence, analogous to that of animal bodies in generating warmth. Even under the blazing sun the juice of oranges, watermelons, apples, etc is from ten to fifteen degrees colder than that of stagnant water, and on cloudy summer days the air of a treeless district is considerably warmer than the atmosphere of a shady forest on sunny days. - [Dr. Feliz Oswald in Lippincott’s Magazine] WIT AND HUMOR – jokes SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON The writer of an illustrated article on “The New Washington” in the March Century, characterizes Washington society thus: “Leaving aside the question of political morality, few people who have passed a winter in Washington will deny the charm of its society. Acknowledging all its faults, its crudeness narrowness perhaps and its lack of form, it must yet be acknowledged that it differs from all other American society from the fact that it is not founded on wealth. It is the only society which is rally republican., though it has little resemblance to the “republican court” of the first administration – the only one in America which has a well defined basis. And that basis is public station, temporarily conferred whether directly or indirectly, by the expressed wishes of fellowmen. The holding of such public station necessarily implies intelligence, and such it is intelligence, as distinguished from lineage or wealth, which is the fundamental basis in Washington society. Such Society does not feel obliged to adopt certain customs because it is reported second hand that they are good form in London. Its opinions are robustly independent, its information is extensive, and its subjects of conversation are many and varied. It is not to be imagined that such a society is well defined, or that its rules are clearly establish – though it is true that the “Etiquette of Social Life in Washington” has been most elaborately formulated in a little pamphlet, a fresh edition of which is perennially produced, and which is said to sell in great numbers. It is, undoubtedly, open to the criticism of being raw, to the same extent – but no more –that society in London is subservient and snobbish, and in New York illiterate and commercial. Nothing can be more ridiculous than the public levees of the President, where the doors are thrown open that every person in the street may enter them in a crash, and stand in a slowly moving procession for two hours, in order that during half a minute of the time the President may be seen and his arm may be wrenched. But this is not peculiar to Washington alone. Such “public receptions” are inflicted upon presidents in all cities which they visit. Hardly less incongruous are the Wednesday afternoon receptions of the wives of the cabinet officers, when their doors are thrown open and hundreds of strangers tramp through their parlors to “pay their respects.” The wives of Judges, Senators, and Representatives have to endure the same thing on other afternoons of the week. It has come to be considered as part of the price of public station. But no matter what office a man may hold, no one may come to his dinner table without an invitation. And it is in dinners that Washington society excels. Diplomats and travelers from every part of the worlds, men distinguished in political life, on the bench and in war; men of science and men of letters; women of intelligence and culture, with the native grave and beauty for which American women are justly celebrated – there is no such a wealth of choice in any other American city, and there are no other dinner parties so entertaining as those of Washington.” SOAPING A GEYSER – A SLUMBERING FOUNTAIN SET TO WORK BY A DISH OF SOAP – I learned of a curious circumstance while at the Upper Geyser Basin which is not generally known to the public and which is unquestionably true. Many of the geysers are inactive, others merely bubble and steam without erupting, while others again spout with clock-like regularity. I held the watch on Old Faithful again, and again, but this beautiful geyser, true to its name, sent up a magnificent stream nearly two hundred feet high, every fifty- five minutes. Not once was there a failure or the slightest variation in the time. I saw it in the moonlight, and no spectacle on earth can compare with this sublime spectacle. The Castle Geyser also treated me to a rare exhibition, but I was informed by the proprietor of the hotel that the “Splendid”, on of the finest geysers in the basin, and which once had a record almost as good as Old Faithful, had completely failed, and had lain dormant for nearly six months. I strolled over to the Splendid and saw a man busily at work dropping bars of soap into the crater. “What in the world are you doing that for?” I inquired, totally unable to restrain my curiosity. “Just wait and see,” replied the stranger. He kept steadily at work, dropping bar after bar down the yellow- coated throat, until the monster began to rumble and sputter, and finally behaved in a very boisterous manner. Eleven, twelve, thirteen, and as the fourteenth bar was swallowed up, away went the Splendid 150 feet in o the air, as magnificent and as grand as I had ever seen him. “There!” exclaimed the experimental stranger. “I reckon I have made as big a discovery as either of those scientific cusses, Wiggins or Proctor, ever did in their lives. It was an odd way of setting geysers to work and no doubt strictly original with the gentleman whom I saw trying it. He set the Fan going and started the lion, lioness, and cubs to growling. The Bee-Hive, once the most beautiful of them all, is rapidly sinking into decay. The handsome cone still remains, but the geyser is no longer active. The dropped a half a box of soap down the chimney of the Bee- Hive, which certainly started it rumbling and grumbling, and actually brought the scalding half-way up the cone; but it came no further, and gradually sunk away into the depths of the earth from which it had been unwillingly forced. - [Yellowstone Park Letter] FIFTY-THREE PAMPERED PETS – [Chicago Inter-Ocean] THE CLERK SAW THE POINT On one of the excursion steamers running out of Detroit the other day the clerk found a passenger who had neither ticket nor money. He began to berate the man for a dead-bat, telling him he ought to be ashamed of himself, etc but the strapped passenger held up his finger and said: “Have I been among the passengers and thrown out hints that the boilers of this boat were rather old and liable to explode?” “Not that I know of.” “Have I been around predicting a storm, and thus distracting from the pleasure of the trip” “Haven’t heard of your doing so.” “Have I slipped up to this one and that one to slur your boat for being slow, and have I said that you were carrying at least ninety more passengers than your license allowed. Twice thus far this boat has neglected to answer signals of vessels coming down. Have I said I would make complaint under the law? Have I counted the life preservers, and found the complement short? Have I overhauled the small boats and found that none of them could be launched?” “Oh, I see!” An old steamboat man – shake?” stammered the clerk. “Excuse me for not identifying you. Just make yourself at home and ride as far as you please. If you happen down stairs come into the office and try some of my cigars.” – [Detroit Free Press] PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY JANUARY 13, 1887 RATES OF ADVERTISING One inch, one insertion $1.00 One inch, each subsequent insertion .50 One inch, twelve months 10.00 One inch, six months 7.00 One inch, three months 5.00 Two inches twelve months 15.00 Two inches, six months 10.00 Quarter column 12 months 35.00 Half Column 12 months 60.00 One column 12 months 100.00 Professional card $10. Special advertisements in local columns will be charged double rates. All advertisements collectable after first insertion. Local notices 10 cents per line. Congress is further improving our postal system. The Senate has passed a bill reducing the cost of money orders to three cents. An enterprising young woman has a farm in Asthon, Dakota, which she runs without assistance, and last year she raised 1200 bushels of grain. She is regarded as a first class prize and gets about one offer of marriage a month. It is said by some of the knowing ones, that the population of Birmingham will be increased 25,000 within the next year, if houses can be built for them to live in. About 1,500 carpenters are employed in that city at the present time and the papers say they need more. Col. A C. Hargrave of Tuscaloosa, commissioner of the University Gland Grant, one day last week paid into the State Treasury about $19,000 of funds arising from the sale of lands granted the University by the act of Congress to increase the endowment of the University of Alabama from the public lands of this state. The Secretary of the treasury has issued the one hundred and forty-fifth call of the redemption of bonds. The call is for ten million dollars of the three per cent loan of 1882. It matures February 1st. The bonds called can be redeemed upon presentation at option of holder. We clip the following from a fairly reliable exchange: It is reported by a fairly reliable newspaper that a widow in Oakland, Cal. Has sued a newspaper for libel because in its obituary notice of her husband it spoke of his having “gone to a happier home.” That widow evidently ahs her eye on a fellow who believes in domestic tranquility. ALABAMA’S BOOM The well informed people of the globe know something of Alabama, the wonderful boom in the mineral regions is now the wonder of the world. Skeptics from remote places of the earth’s surface occasionally come to see what it is that is raising an uproar and when they come and see the grandest country in the world, they too, will begin to spread the news of the inexhaustible riches of the state. Transactions in the local stocks in the vicinity of Birmingham one day last week beats anything on record, Wall street not excepted. The money of the East is coming and will continue to come. There is something for it to come for and rest assured that money always takes car of itself. It is said that a great deal of the new railroads now being built from this direction into Birmingham cost over one hundred thousand dollars per mile, and that shrewd men in financial world say that these roads are splendid investments. The half of this state’s wealth has not been told and all that is needed to get a man to put his money in Alabama enterprise’s top get him to come and see. Emperor William, of Germany on Jan. 1st, celebrated the eightieth anniversary of his entrance into the Prussian army. He received in person the congratulations of all his commanding generals, the Crown Prince Frederic William acting as spokesman for the army, certainly it must have been a touching spectacle. The noble old Emperor listening to his son begin: “The army celebrates with our Majesty the day upon which eighty years ago, you entered the army.” Then followed a glowing speech on his active and competent leadership, closing with. “May O. then, again, tell Your Majesty, that our strong and united nation, in grateful love and faithfulness, always ready for sacrifice, trusts in its Emperor and leader in war, looks with joyful countenance upon him as their preserver of the peace, and cherishes the wish that God’s blessing in fullness may dwell upon him.’ The Emperor embraced his son and Count Von Moltke, whom he thanked for unparalleled services. THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW A new page has been turned and still may we not gather something from the old year with which we may profit ourselves amid those around us? Memory still lingers to solace and to comfort, still hovers to avenge the injuries of the past year, still points to it as a landmark for guidance with words of admonition. Memory’s endearing tablet passes not away with the year’s flight; it skulks not behind some darkened screen but stands boldly forth a testimonial of praise and reward to the just and innocent, and scourge to the conscience of the evil and guilty. The dying year has been one of desolation to many happy homes for not a whole month in any of the twelve, buy has seen cold and stormy days. And yet the mist and shadows of the darkest hours, are now silently passing away,. The ice fetters have been broken and the furious storm loses its power to harm. Kind readers, as we begin a new year, let us begin it with a true spirit, the proper motives and the unrealizing energy worthy of moral creatures. Are we not more fortunate thus to have some opportunity to atone for our many omissions, to make amends for the many misdeeds we have committed, and retrace our steps from every evil and unsightly walk we have so blindly entered? There is an “all seeing eye,” a God from whom we cannot hide, whose judgement is sure and might. Let us not forget that we still exercise an influence to a great extent by our exmple and by our precept. Let us work and wit, with brave and patient hearts hopeful withal, until by and by, amid the joyous throng, we press forward, and around the Supreme Ruler’s throne receive the victor’s palm. – [H. W. in Alabama Baptist.] Ad for Tabler’s Buckeye A BRITISH RURAL OFFICIAL. – Anecdote COLORADO’S BRIGHTEST GEM Green Lake has been fitly called the brightest gem in Colorado’s diadem. It is situated three miles from Georgetown and is 10,000 feet above the level of the sea. The road to the lake at first winds along the brow of Leavenworth Mountain, and in the fair sunlight the mines, cabins, flowers, Clear Creek, Georgetown, and the many peaks of the surrounding mountains made a pleasing picture as we rode along. After going almost straight up the mountain for a short distance Green Lake burst upon our sight, and amid rugged gorges, large boulders and lofty pines lay spread before us a scene of exquisite loveliness. It is almost a mile long, and just half as wide, and the water from the shore looks deeply tinged with dark green; but get into a boat and glide over it and your find the water clear and transparent. The rocks on the bottom are covered with a mossy deposit. The marvel is, how did such a lake get here, and another wonder is the greenness from which the lake takes its name. The basin that holds it is green, the sand is green, the moss on the rocks is green, and even the tiny drops that fall from the oar bear the same unexplainable tine, but the water is clear, and in its wondrous depths can be seen a buried forest, with its trees still erect, but petrified, and instead of swaying to the mountain breeze, stand silent and cold, as in the embrace of death. – [Detroit Free Press] THE DISTANCE OF THE STARS The distance of the stars from the earth is so vast, even when compared with the distance of the various members of the solar system from the sun, that the ordinary unit of computation of mile or meter is by far too small to be available. Therefore, in these computations, as a basis of comparison, the distance of the earth from the sun, about 93,000,000 miles, is the unit, and stand s for one. Alpha Centaura, the leading star in the constellation of the Centaur, is the nearest star to the earth, so far as known. Its distance is usually placed at from 20,000,000,000,000 to 29,000,000,000,000 miles from the earth. A stare called Sixty-One Cygel is classed as second in distance, being put at 54,780,999,000,000 miles distance from our globe. Most of the stars, however, are millions of times farther away from us than these. Light travels about 186,000 miles in every second of time, and yet with this inconceivably rapid velocity it would take light about twelve years to traverse the space separating us from that star. From the greater portion of the stars light would be many centuries in reaching us. That is to say in these particular instances, the stars which we see are not the stars as they exists tonight, but as they existed before Columbus sailed on his voyage of discovery, or even before the creation of Adam. – [Globe-Democrat] THE GULF-STRAM’S INFLUENCES It is well understood that Great Britain and other parts of northern Europe owe much to the warming influence of the gulf stream. The extent of the effect has been given in the calculations of Dr. James Croll, who has found that the amount of heat conveyed northward in the Atlantic by this steam is equivalent to 77,479,550,000,000,000,000 foot-pounds of energy a day, which is equal to all the heat received by 1,560,935 square miles at the equator, and more heat than is conveyed --- the air currents the heat of the --- seas and north Atlantic would be diminished that much by the stoppage or division of the great ocean river. – [Boston Budget] WHEN ENGLAND HELD SLAVES A thousand years ago nearly all the working people of England, plowmen, carpenters, shepherds, cooks and dairymaids were slaves. There was a regular slave market in Bristol which went on for hundreds of years. – [Boston Budget] GROWTH OF THE WHITE RACE Only two centuries ago the white race were estimated to be one-tenth of the world’s population. Now it is claimed they are fully one-third. ATTORNEYS SMITH & YOUNG, Attorneys-At-Law Vernon, Alabama– W. R. SMITH, Fayette, C. H., Ala. W. A. YOUNG, Vernon, Ala. We have this day, entered into a partnership for the purpose of doing a general law practice in the county of Lamar, and to any business, entrusted to us we will both give our earnest personal attention. – Oct. 13, 1884. S. J. SHIELDS – Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in Chancery. Vernon, Alabama. Will practice in the Courts of Lamar and the counties of the District. Special attention given to collection of claims. PHYSICIANS – DENTISTS M. W. MORTON. W. L. MORTON. DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons. Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala. Tender their professional services to the citizens of Lamar and adjacent country. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we hope to merit a respectable share in the future. Drug Store. FARMER’S INDEPENDENT WAREHOUSE. We have again rented the Whitfield Stables, opposite the Court house, for the purpose of continuing the Warehouse and Cotton Storage business, and we say to our friends and farmers of West Alabama and East Mississippi, that we will not be surpassed by any others in looking after the wants of our customers to make them conformable while in Columbus. We will have fire places instead of stoves for both white and colored; separate houses fitted up for each. We will have also good shed room for 100 head of stock more than we had last year; also a convenient and comfortable room for our friends who may come to Columbus. We do not hesitate to say that we can and will give you better camping accommodations than any other house in the house in the place. Mr. J. L. MARCHBANKS of Lamar County, Ala., and MILIAS MOORHEAD, of Pickens County, Ala., will be at the stable and will be glad to see their friends and attend to their wants, both day and night. Out Mr. FELIX GUNTER will be at the cotton she where he will be glad to see his old friends and as many new ones as well come. All cotton shipped to us by railroad of river will be received free of drayage to warehouse and have our personal attention. Thanking you for your patronage last season, and we remain the farmer’s friends. Yours Respectfully, J. G. SHULL & CO, Columbus, Miss. PHOTOGRAPHS – R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss. Price list: Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00 Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00 Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00 Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00 Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00 Satisfaction given or money returned. Restaurant, Aberdeen Mississippi – Kupper Ad for Ayer & Sons Advertising Agents Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ J. B. MACE, Jeweler, Vernon, Alabama. (PICTURE OF LOT OF CLOCKS) Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry and spectacles. Makes a specialty of repairing. Will furnish any style of timepiece, on short notice, and at the very lowest price. Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, I hope to receive a liberal share in the future. LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE. J. D. GUYTON, Prop’r., Columbus, Mississippi. (picture of horse and buggy) Our stock of Furnishing is full and complete in every respect. (Elaborate drawing of goods sold) Largest Cheapest best stock of dress goods, dress trimmings, ladies & misses jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, boots, shoes, & hats, tin ware, etc., etc., at rock bottom figures at A. COBB & SONS’S The Coleman House (Formerly West House). W. S. COLEMAN, Pro. Main St. Columbus, Miss. Is now open for the entertainment of guests, and will be kept clean and comfortable, the table being supplied with the best the market affords. Rates per day…$1.50, Rates for lodging and 2 meals….$1.25, Rates for single meals…...$0.50, Rates for single lodging…..$0.50. call and try us. COLUMBUS ART STUDIO Over W. F. Munroe & Co’s Book Store, Columbus, Mississippi. Fine photographs of all sizes at very reasonable prices. Pictures copied and enlarged. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Call in and examine samples. FRANK A. COE, Photographer WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama. Board and Lodging can be had at the above House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor. ERVIN & BILLUPS, Columbus, Miss. Wholesale and retail dealers in pure drugs, paints, oils, paten Medicines, tobacco & cigars. Pure goods! Low prices! Call and examine our large stock. Ad for the American Agriculturist PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY JAN 13, 1887 (Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, Alabama, as second-class matter.) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One copy one year $1.00 One copy six months .60 All subscriptions payable in advance. LOCAL DIRECTORY CHANCERY COURT THOMAS COBBS Chancellor JAS. M. MORTON Register CIRCUIT COURT S. H. SPROTT Circuit Judge THOS. W. COLEMAN Solicitor COUNTY OFFICERS ALEX. COBB Probate Judge R E BRADLEY Circuit Clerk S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor D. J. LACY Tax Collector B H WILKERSON Co. Supt. of Education Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALBERT WILSON CITY OFFICERS L. M. WIMBERLY – Mayor and Treasurer G. W. BENSON – Marshall Board of Aldermen – T. B. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS MIDDLETON, W A BROWN, R. W. COBB RELIGIOUS FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each month, 7 p.m. MISSIONARY BAPTIST – Pastor J. E. COX. Services second Sabbath in each month at 11 am. METHODIST – Pastor – G. L. HEWITT. Services fourth Sabbath in each month. 11 a.m. SABBATH SCHOOLS UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m. JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt. METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 9 o’clock a.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt. MASONIC: Vernon Lodge, No. 588, A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 p.m. each month. – T.W. SPRINGFIELD, W. M. W. L. MORTON, S. W. JNO. ROBERTSON, J. W. R. W. COBB, Treasurer, M. W. MORTON, Secretary Vernon Lodge, NO 45, I. O. G. F. Meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. each month. J. D. MCCLUCKEY, N. G. R. L. BRADLEY, V. G. E. J. MCNATT, Treas’r M. W. MORTON, Sec. MAIL DIRECTORY VERNON AND COLUMBUS - Arrives every evening and leaves ever morning except Sunday, by way of Caledonia. VERNON AND BROCKTON – Arrives and departs every Saturday by way of Jewell. VERNON AND MONTCALM – Arrives and departs every Friday. VERNON AND PIKEVILLE – Arrives and (sic) Pikeville every Tuesday and Friday by way of Moscow and Beaverton. VERNON AND KENNEDY – Arrives and departs every Wednesday and Saturday. VERNON AND ANRO – Leaves Vernon every Tuesday and Friday and returns every Wednesday and Saturday. LOCAL BREVITIES The News was printed in its new home this week. Mrs. J. E. MORTON spent last Saturday in Columbus. The moving in town will soon be over. Mr. WILDER MORTON of Fayette C. H. is in town again. If you wish a good article of Plug Tobacco ask your dealer for “Old Rip.” See the notice of mortgage sale in another column. Saturday will be Rev. W. C. WOODS regular appointment to preach in this town. We are informed that Dr. EMMET MORTON will move up on the Kansas Road near Cansler, and when he --- he will carry with him the best wishes of a host of friends. Quite a number of patrons of the News have come forward and settled their indebtedness, for which they have our thanks. MARRIED: Mr. J. W. PRESLEY of Arkansas, and Miss MARY E. JACKSON, of this county, --2nd January, at Mr. J. E. JACKSON, by Mr. J. W. PETERS. Mr. J. Y. LING and Miss L. J. SAND---, on 2nd inst., at bride’s residence, by Rev. J. C. KEMP. Mr. J. B. SIZEMORE and Miss VIRGIE -----, at bride’s father, on 18th inst. Grandfather Clock, is an object of –evrnce among the modern things beauty and are in every complete --, and a house is scarcely deemed complete without a bottle of Consans Honey of Tar to use when any of the house circle are afflicted with coughs ---- (can’t read) Ad for Cream Vermifuge (can’t read well – very light) The News is unavoidably late this week, in consequence of repairing our office. GENERAL NEWS James G. Blaine is suffering from a severe attack of gout. Gold is reported to have been discovered in McCraken County, Ky., at a depth of 81 feet. Alabama’s output of iron in 1880 was 130,000 tons, and in 1886 her output was 386,000 tons. An increase of 2586,000 tons. An ax and toll factory is one of the enterprises to be started in Birmingham soon. The plant will be worth $500,000 and will be located at East End. A. B. Flowers of Montgomery has invented a cotton press. Having killed all the sheep in Limestone County, the dogs are now slaying the goats. The ladies of the Livingston Methodist Church gave a supper last week and realized $75. A manufacturing company, with $2,000,000 has purchased 4,000 acres of land in and near Florence. Revenue officers recently captured 2 stills, 2 moonshiners and 400 gallons of beer in Marion County. Work is progressing on the Edwards Furnace at Woodstock, and it is expected to make iron there again by May. A gynecological and surgical association for the state has been organized at Birmingham, with Dr. H. N. Raesera President. The year 1887 will be the most eventful one in history of Alabama’s Industrial Development. The discovery of more gold in Morgan County in this state has had the effect of increasing the value of land up there and prospectors are flocking to that locality. Sad news of distress and famine comes from Texas; 30,000 people, in 21 counties, are crying for food, fuel and clothing. It is said that 23 years ago a man of Griffin, Ga., borrowed $1 of his neighbor. The other day a son of the lender received a postal note for $325, explaining that it was in payment of principal and interest. Honest man. Powderly, is to be the name of a new town on North Mineral and A. G. Sweet of Birmingham. The lots cover 30 acres, and are to be sold only to employees of the Company, who are to pay $1 per week, and is to build and live on his property. The public debt was reduced eight millions of dollars in December. A fifty-year old horse is advertised for sale in Gadsden. The printers on the Birmingham papers struck on the 2nd and the editors had to take the cares, but the paper came out on time all the same. Poll tax now becomes delinquent on the 1st day of December whereas it heretofore became delinquent on the 1st day of July 1887. The Baptist of Troy are preparing to erect an $8,000 church, and the Methodist of the same place one to cost $7,000. Both are to be of brick. The Tuskegee post office has been raised to a third class one. Citizens of Greensboro are moving numerously to Birmingham and Sheffield. The state has increased her manufacturing properties in 1886 from $7,841,000 to $19,848,000. Sheffield is now known in financial circles as “the great to be.” Parties who have visited there are enthused, and say it is a delightful location. THE VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, Under the Principalship of J. R. BLACK, will open October 5, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of Tuition as follows: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Composition, and U. S. History; per month $2.00 ADVANCED: Embracing Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, and Latin, per month $3.00 Incidental fee 20 cts, per quarter. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention given to those who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7 per month. Tuition due at the end of each quarter. For further information, address: J. R. BLACK, Principal, Vernon, Ala Barber Shop – GEO. W. BENSON has run over his Barber Shop in the rear of the store of Haley & Denman, where will be please to serve his many customers E. W. BROCK’S Cash store. Prices away down from what you paid before, and prices that knock out all competition. Am too busy to writ new advertisements every week, so just come on and get what you want at prices to suit yourself. E. W. BROCK. Persons visiting Columbus desiring anything in the Millinery line, will do well to call on Miss TILLIE BAILEY (Below Morgan, Robertson, & Co) Miss Tillie’s taste, together with her experience, cannot be surpassed in Columbus or elsewhere. ADMINISTATOR’S SALE The State of Alabama, Lamar County Under and by virtue of an order of the Probate Court of the State and County aforesaid made and directed to J. F. FERGUSON Admr. De Bonis Non of estate of A. T. YOUNG, and W. A. YOUNG Admr. Of estate of S. G. YOUNG from the Probate Court of said county the undersigned will sell at Young’s Mills in said county on the 14th day January 1887 within the legal hours of sale on credit of twelve months the following described real estate to wit: N W ¼ of N W qr and S ½ of N W qr and E ½ of S W qr and E ½ of N W ¼ of S W qr Sec 1 and S E ¼ of N E ¼ and 4 acres off of N E. qr of N E ¼ Sec 2 T 15 R 16 containing 264 acres. A large farm is cleared on some and land is well situated as to local advantages. Purchases giving the requisite security. This Dec. 22nd, 1886. J. F. FERGUSON, Admr. W. A. YOUNG Admr. MORTGAGE SALE The State of Alabama, Lamar County Under and by Virtue of a mortgage made and executed to the undersigned by P. E. and E. D. WRIGHT, on the 7th day of January 1887, to secure certain indebtedness therein mentioned and recorded in Volume 10 page 121, of the record of deeds in office Judge of Probate of said county, I will on Tuesday the 8th day of February 1887 in front of the court house door of said county during the legal hours of sale, sell for cash to the highest bidder to satisfy said indebted the following real estate, to wit: S. N. ½ of S. E. qr. And S E qr of S E qr less 8 acres of cotton 30 acres more or less. This Jan 6th, 1887. E. W. BROCK, Mortgagee KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL Located in the live and growing town of Kennedy on the Georgia Pacific Rail Road. The moral and religious influences surrounding this school are unsurpassed in any part of the state. Boarders can find pleasant homes in refined families at very reasonable rates. The first session will commence on Monday Nov. 1st, 1886, and continue for a term of ten scholastic months. TUITION PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Physiology, History of U. S., Practical Arithmetic, and Elementary Algebra, per month $2.00. ADVANCED GRADE: Embracing Higher Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Rhetoric, Elocution, and Latin per month, $2.50. An incidental fee of 25 cents, per session. Special attention will be given to those who expect to engage in teaching and preparing boys and girls to enter college. Tuition due at expiration of each quarter. For further particulars address J. C. JOHNSON, Principal, Kennedy, Ala. KINGVILLE HIGH SCHOOL will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra, and U. S. History, per month, $2.00 HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Higher Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, Latin, per month $3.00. No incidental fee. Board in best families from $1.00 to $2.00 per month. Tuition due every three months. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention will be given to those who wish to engage in teaching. For further information address B. H. WILKERSON, C. Supt., Principal. Kingville, Ala, Oct. 20, 1886 THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL under the Principalship of J. R. GUIN, will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of Ten Scholastic months Rates of Tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Grammar, Primary Geography and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.25. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing Brief English Grammar, Elementary Geography, Elementary Arithmetic, Letter Writing and Hygiene, per month, $1.50. PRACTICAL: Embracing English Grammar, Practical Arithmetic, Complete Geography, English Composition, U. S. History and Physiology, per month, $2.00. HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Rhetoric, Elocution, Algebra, Natural Philosophy, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Hygiene, Physiology, Latin, &c, per month $2.50. Discipline will be firm. Special attention will be given to young men and women who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7.00 per month. No incidental fees. Tuition due every five months. Correspondence solicited. Address J. R. GUIN Fernbank, Ala. RUSH & REED. Cheap Cash Store, Dry goods, Clothing, boots & shoes, school books, &c. Coffee, sugar, tobacco snuff crockery and tinware All at Bottom prices. Give us a call. RUSH & REED. Remember This. (picture of boy in clothing) when you want clothing, hats, underwear, that BUTLER & TOPP deal only in these goods. You can get a better selection and a great variety to select from than is kept in any house in Columbus. We carry suits from $6 to $30, and hats from 50 c to $10. Call and see us. BUTLER & TOPP Ad for Pianos and Organs Ad for Peruna Ad for Collins Ague Cure Ad for Marriage Guide Ad for Peruna Ad for Stratton Accordeons (picture) Ad for New Home Sewing Machine (picture) PAGE 4 MISSING LINKS Belle A. Donough is the name of a drug clerk in a New Jersey town. Churches in this country are estimated to use 60,000 gallons of wine every year for sacramental purposes. A German entomologist declares that spiders destroy more insect enemies of trees than do all the insect-eating birds. The conscience fund in the treasury at Washington is approaching the round sum of a quarter of a million of dollars. Philadelphia housekeepers, tired of vain efforts to get good servants, are now experimenting with colored help from the south. A wealthy New York physician declares it as his belief that “the oyster is the most healthy article of food known to man.” There is an artesian well 1,000 feet deep in Aberdeen, Neb. that throws out numbers of fish that look like the ordinary brook minnow. A soldier who ascended the Pyramid of Cheops recently, without a guide, slipped and fell to the base. He was picked up a shapeless mass. The Crown Prince of Germany is a thrifty person and not ashamed to turn an honest penny by selling milk from his dairy farm near Berlin. Capt. Eads, the improver of the Mississippi delta, has bought a large tract of land at Bar Harbor, Ms with the intention of building a residence there. In climates where the variation in temperature is 70 degrees, 400 miles of railroad track will change over 300 yards in length – nearly a yard to a mile. An oak that was cut before Shakespeare’s day furnished a bit of timber now to use as a bench in an English farmer’s kitchen. The timer did duty as a roof beam in a church for 364 years. It is still as sound as sound can be. A boy in Runnells County, Louisiana, captured a small animal known to naturalists as a stoat, a species of ermine. Its fur is white, and it is remarkable for its length, being able to enter a rat hole and is fourteen inches long. The Shasta County (California) Indians have a superstition that cat-fish were put into the river for the special purpose of killing off the Indians. They ear most other kinds, but throw back into the river all the cat-fish they catch. Bonvin, the painter arose at his marriage banquet and, addressing his wife in an inflated style, remarked: "Never forget, my wife, that you have entered a family of the gown and sword. Was not my mother a seamstress and my father in the rural police?” A Paterson, N. J. justice, after repeating the formula of an oath to a young woman, ended as usual by saying “Kiss the book.” “I will not.” Was the unexpected reply. “The last witness that was sworn was chewing tobacco and one before him had fever blisters on his lips.” She was permitted to affirm. An old Mississippi pilot tells the St. Louis Globe-Democrat that the affection exhibited by Mark Twain and his venerable mother, now a resident of Knokuk, Iowa, is very refreshing. She always had firm faith in her son, Samuel, and always said of him: “He was always a good boy, Samuel was, though prone to be mischievous. He’s always the same to me – the best son a mother ever had.” A Piute Indian in Virginia City furnishes the following local price list for game: “Whitney man pay um two bills for teal duck and four bit for mallard, maybe Piute being um. White woman kick like a mule; no want to pay um Piute only one bit for mallard and four bit for goosen. Injun no sell um goosen less than one dollar quarter. Piute want um four bits, one for big jack labitty and two bits for little.” Among old papers recently found in Kingstown, N. Y. was a letter written in 1776 by James Hasbrouck to his friend Peter Von Gassbeck, of Europe. In the letter he writes that Gen. Les has erected a battery in “The Broad Way, near the Bolding Green.” Is it possible, says the New York Sun, that our historic bowling green was not a bowling green after all, or was Jas. Hasbrouck simply a poor speller. An Albany, N. Y. lady suspected that her cook was playing sweet with the grocer’s clerk. A maid who played spy reported that the clerk brought the cook French candy every day, wrapped in tin foil. The maid procured two specimens of the “French candy” and the maid and mistress each ate one. Within half an hour they were well repaid for their curiosity, for the supposed candies proved to be yeast cakes. A very old Indian relates that about forty years ago a battle extending over several days, each having about one thousand lodges, was fought in the vicinity of Portland, in Triall. Remains are still visible of trenches sunk by Chippewas, who were victorious, but the Sioux took in their retreat to Devil’s Lake. They had flint-lock muskets and the number killed was large on both sides. The Sultan of Morocco is fond of tricycling, but too lazy to work the pedals himself; so he has had a gorgeous machine constructed, propelled by slave labor. He sits cross-legged upon an embossed couch, curtained and canopied with silk and silver and gold. At his right hand is a clock, and at his left a compass, in order than when beyond the reach of the muezzin’s call the faithful Mohammedan may observe the exact hour of prayer and the exact direction in which this orisons are to be addressed. Mme. Nilson’s reported marriage to Count Miranda is off, if the New York Times Topics is correctly informed. It seems the prima donna preferred to remain fist lady to playing second violin to an adventurer, though he had a charming daughter. At the same time, as she is not adverse to a little gamble now and then, she thinks it better to pay for her own chips than to province them for her partner, who, it is well known in Paris, has mixed much with the kings and queens of Baccarat. An imposing person answered an advertisement for a cook published in a Buffalo newspaper, and, when the mistress of the house asked if she had references, presented the following document: “This is to certify that --- is a fine cook and a perfect lady, fit to associate with the most refined society as her numerous friends will testify.” This first-class endorsement was not argued. But a postscript said “I hereby certify that --- is a perfect lady. I have known her several years. Richard Roe.” A recent issue of the Electrical Review gives the details of an invention that is destined to work a radical change in the hotel system of waking guests. It is an electrical enunciator, working both ways, from rooms to office as well as office to rooms, and is particularly acceptable, as by its means one guest may be awakened in the morning without arousing everyone else on the floor. An instantaneous alarm can also be sounded by it in every room in the hotel. El Cronista de Morelos, a paper published in Mexico, avers that it is customary among the Indians of the Jonacatpec district of that country to exchange wives. Occasionally these trades are permanent, but more often they are for a stipulated length of time, at the expiration of which each woman returns to her former husband, and the even is celebrated in each family by a feast, at which the pulque flows freely. Where the wives cannot be traded even a dog, cat, or pig is added on one side to make the barter fair. In the district of Tumango, at Tescalliacac, the still more novel custom exists of selling or trading off mothers-in-laws. A very fair article of mother-in-law can be bought for a lamb or suckling pig. THE CHINESE MONKS LACONIES Brief was an epistle of Emile de Girardin to his second wife, with whom he lived on most unfriendly terms. The house was large enough to permit them to dwell entirely separate from one another. One day Mme. Girardin had an important communication to make to her husband. Taking a small sheet of paper she wrote “The Boudoir to the Library: Would like to go to Switzerland."” M. de Girardin, imitating her conelse style, responded: "The Library to the Boudoir, Go.” That was all. One of the most laconic wills on record ran thus: “I have nothing, I owe a great deal –the rest I give to the poor.” A similar terse epitaph to the following would have suited that will maker: “Died of thin shoes, January 1829” – [Chamber’s Journal] John Jones, of New Hampshire, saw pensions going rather freely, and concluded that he might as well capture one. Having had the good luck to run his thumb against a burlow some years before, he applied for a pension upon the ground that he had lost his thumb in the service during the war. He is to be tried soon. BRIC-A-BRAC – [poems] THE HABITS OR A CENTENARIAN In Wurtemberg girls under sixteen years of age are not allowed to dance round dances. THE FIRST DEER – A Severe Attack Of Buck Ague That Strange To Say, Resulted Fatally DOING VANDERBILT IN WAX The Eden Musee, which is a wax-works exhibition building lately erected in Twenty-third street by a company of French capitalists, and intended to rival me. Tussauds’ exhibition in London, is to be under the management of young Mr. Weinschenchk. This young man is the nephew of the late manger of the port St. Martin Theatre in Paris, and has Parisian ideas of great men. He was easily convinced a couple of days ago that Mr. Vanderbilt is a truly great man, and that we were all languishing to see him done in wax. Mr. Weinshcenkck jumped at the proposition. He had got models of all the crowned heads and all the great thieves and murderers. Now he must have Vanderbilt. He called at the palace and was admitted. He entered the potentate’s presence all smiles and shrugs. “Well,” said Mr. Vanderbilt, gruffly, “what do you want?’ “Monsieur, your pardon cef you please,” began the waxworks man, “I myself zo honor do to give our some wax.” “Give me some whacks?” repeated Vanderbilt, suddenly turning pale and measuring his distance from the button of the electric bell. “Yes, sare – to do you up in wax. I find you a good subject and just fit for zo wax, and I want to take you from life.” “Do me up? Fit for whacks? This is a crank slugger.” Said the railroad king, and he touched the button. “I will place you in a leetle hole in ze wall all by yourself – right next zo Chambair of Horreur. I will layt you out like fire wiz my wax.” A tall footman in red pluck kneebreeches, silk stockings , pumps, and a gift laden cutaway coat entered at this moment. It was the bouncer of the palace. “Algerman,” said the noble lord of themaro, “bounce me this fellow who takls of laying me out with whacks.” Algernon measured little Weinscheneck, who began to grin like a tiger, and hesitated. The delay saved him. The waxworks man hit on the happy idea of expressing himself in French. He only wanted to model Vanderbilt for his collection. He was understood and got permission. The monopolist has been “done up” in whacks, and rather likes it. – [New York Star] WHAT THEY CARRIED Curious and Cumbrous Articles Picked Up by Soldiers on the line of March “They were lots of funny things about the war,” said Colonel Fredrick Martin, of the Brooklyn Elevated, the other day, “now that you think of them when the tears are dried away, and about the funniest things I recall were the queer articles the boys used to pick up on the march and the eccentric way in which they’d tote ‘em along to finally adorn some ditch by the wayside. Stragglers were the worst at this, but all the fellows were bad enough. Whenever the army went through a first family residence the boys would capture what struck each as most attractive, and some of their tastes were peculiar. They had a great weakness for cradles. You may ask me what a man treading his way to the front wanted with a mahogany cradle, and I’m blest if I know, but they took ‘em. First one man would back a cradle and carry it a dozen miles; then he’d begin to cuss and finally drop it. “Now, you’d suppose that any ordinary idiot would just look at a cradle as it lay in the road and pass on, but they wouldn’t. Some one would be certain to pick it up and lug it a few miles farther into the Confederacy. ‘I recall one cradle that traveled 100 miles on blue backs before it went to increase the blaze of a mess fire. Somehow they seemed to think vaguely that there was a chance of getting the infant soother home, but they never succeeded. “The funniest thing I ever saw carried was a looking-glass as high as your head and two feet wide. I saw it first in the parlor of a Central Virginian mansion, and next on a soldier’s back, headed for Petersburg. Then I lost sight of it for two days, and found it again propped up against a tree forty miles further along. The next day I saw it traveling tenderly on a straggler’s back. He had his gun in one hand, and had somehow strapped the glass so he could get along without holding fast to it. “Well, this fellow must have got tired, for the next day a third man had it, and on the next a fourth. This chap toted it into the lines at Petersburg. He set it up against a tree, took a long, regretful look at full length of his shabby self, and turned away with a sigh. “It was just as well that he did. The next minute along came a mimic bullet, buzzing like a hornet, and hit the glass square in the center and smashed it into a fame full of cracks radiating from around the hold. “The heavier and the more useless things were, the more they clung to them, even combing to escort pianos into untimely graves in mudholes; but the man who could steal a rocking chair was a white-robed angel in his won mind and the object of universal envy. “Another funny thing was to have the sutler strike camp loaded with condensed milk. I’ve seen a whole regiment sitting on a fence, each man with a milk-can in one hand, dipping out the sweet, thick stuff with his forefinger and licking it off with an expression of beatitude that would make a Raphealite saint look sick in comparison.” – [New York Sun] A FALSE SUSPICION – Anecdote ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/newspapers/lamarnew1136gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 52.2 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives Marriages.....SAND----, L. J. - LING, J. . January 2, 1887 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00016.html#0003775 October 6, 2006, 9:59 am Lamar News, Jan 13, 1887 Lamar News, Jan 13, 1887 - pg 3 Mr. J. Y. LING and Miss L. J. SAND---, on 2nd inst., at bride’s residence, by Rev. J. C. KEMP. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/vitals/marriages/sand265gmr.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 0.8 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives Marriages.....Jackson, Mary - PRESLEY, J. W. January 1887 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00016.html#0003775 October 6, 2006, 9:58 am Lamar News, Jan 13, 1887 Lamar News, Jan. 13, 1887 - pg 3 MARRIED: Mr. J. W. PRESLEY of Arkansas, and Miss MARY E. JACKSON, of this county, --2nd January, at Mr. J. E. JACKSON, by Mr. J. W. PETERS. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/vitals/marriages/jackson264gmr.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 0.8 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives News.....Lamar News January 6, 1887 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00016.html#0003775 October 6, 2006, 9:55 am Microfilm - AL Dept Of Archives And History January 6, 1887 Microfilm Ref Call #373 Microfilm Order #M1992.4466 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, JANUARY 6, 1887 VOL. IV. NO. 10 SEE BREEZE – Poem – [The Week} WHAT HE BELIEVED IN – Short Story – [Cleveland Leader] LUCKY CHANCES – anecdote – [Cassell’s Family Magazine] A BOY’S ESSAY ON CATS – story in dialect of boy and his cats AN INFALLIBLE INDICATION When Mr. Cammock got ready to be married there were few of his friends that placed much faith in the stories of his intentions, and one day last summer up at Saratoga some of the chief men of Wall Street were on the piazza of the United States Hotel discussing the gossip about Mr. Cammack, when of a sudden the bear leader loomed up in person before then. He wasn’t alone. A handsome lady was by his side. But even this innovation in Mr. Cammack’s promenading habits didn’t go far toward convincing anybody that Addison was on the verge of being a benedict till William H,. Vanderbilt, bringing his easy chair’s legs down with a thump said this: “Cammack is going to be married. I’ll wager 100 to 1 on it. Do you notice that he is carrying the lady’s shawl on his arm. That is a sure sign, an unerring sign. When a man gets that far he’s gone. I’ve noticed it a hundred times. It never fails – never!” William H. Vanderbilt was an observer and a philosopher. – [New York Times] REMINISCIENCE – A RUSSIAN VETERAN’S RECOLLECTION OF NAPOLEON ON A BATTLE FIELD Maj.-Gen Yadovitch of the Russian army is one of the few men now living who saw the great Napoleon on a battle field. The old General saw the French Emperor at Borodino. At that battle Yakovitch, then a mere boy, served with a battery in the grand redoubt which was the centre of the Russian line. He gives a vivid description of the battle. When morning broke a sea of gray mist shut out the field from view. The voices of the enemy were heard, the neighing of their horses, and the rambling of artillery wheels. Then came the thunder of cannon, making the very earth tremble. Three times all the Russian gunners were killed, and three times new men took their places. Bullets flew thick as hail, and men dropped dead of mangled every moment. At last a strange sound was heard in the distance, like rain pattering on withered leaves. It grew louder and louder until it filled the air like the roar of a story sea. All at once a great wave of bright swords and helmets and horses’ heads came surging up over the breastworks. It was the Imperial Guard. Before the shock of that mighty wave the Russian centre crumbled away, a shattered wreck. When Yakovitch came to his senses and opened his eyes he saw around him the corpses of his father and comrades. Suddenly the tramping of hoofs called his attention to a group of gayly- dressed officers, and Napoleon’s staff came ring over the field. The young Russian peered anxiously into their faces. In his graphic language he thus describes them. There were the hard faces of Rapp and Darn, and broad-chested Sebastian and Nansouty, with the saber-scar across his cheek, and the low, broad forehead and bull-dog jaw of grim old Ney, the bravest of them all. There, too, was Murat, with his white plumes and his braided jacket, his long, dark curls hanging down his neck and his riding whip in his hand, just like a circus- rider. And then the group parted suddenly and there was the man himself in the midst of them, with his face hard and immovable as marble amid all that blood and agony, and a far away look in those cold gray eyes of his, as if he saw Moscow somewhere up in the sky, but could see nothing between. “A glorious victory!” cried Murat, waving his hand. “What a stir there’ll be among the good folks in Pairs when the bulletin arrives!” `”We’ve lost half our army in doing it, though,” growled Ney, “Hadn’t we better fall back a little and wait for the reinforcements?” “Then Napoleon turned his head slowly, just as a state might do, and looking him full in the face said: “Thou advising a retreat, Michel? That is something new, indeed? No? – No falling back now? I must date my bulletin from Moscow. As for the army, you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.” “Yakovitch says that when he heard this he knew that Napoleon’s day was past, for no man save one doomed to destruction could have spoken so lightly of the slaughter of thousands of brave men. In three months from that day the French Emperor was flying for his life across the border, with the Cossacks at his heels like hungry wolves.” - [Foreign Ex.] WHAT FAST HORSES COST A correspondent writes to the New York Tribune: On a railroad train far up in Vermont I fell in with J. P. Atkinson, a wealthy farmer of that state. Inquiring the price of improved farm land, I was surprised to hear him quote such low figures as $15 to $20 per acre. He told me that the same land that could now be bought for this price formerly brought as high as $70. His explanation of this reduction in value was given in this language: “The young fellows won’t work, the old men can’t. Those who will work have gone off to the West. Those who remain car more about fast horses and other fast things than about farming. Look about at any of the railroad stations and you will see scores of sulkies standing around. When a farmer or a farmer’s boy gets a fast horse the farm goes to doge pretty quick. You can’t hire farm help even at big prices. Men have got above it, want to live by their wits of on what their fathers accumulated. When David Hill took the famous old county he caused a loss in the value of farm property there equal to a million dollars. He found Black in a dray at Lowell, Mass. It would have been better for the state of Vermont if he had never found him. Why, it literally demoralized the farmers all over the state. THE SCOTCH GIRLS These Scotch people are very fine looking and their faces have great strength of feature and at the same time much refinement. The Scotch girls are exceptionally fine looking, and even among the lower classes you see very many refined faces. In the stores there are lady clerks who would pass muster as well-bred girls anywhere, and many of the bar-maids in the whisky-shops are beauties. The women of Scotland do a great deal of work. A white-capped, middle-aged rosy-cheeked lady usually presides over each of the largest hotels, and nearly all of the railway restaurants are managed by women. Both sexes in Scotland have, as a rule, good, healthy physiques. There are more tall men and women than in America. They have better complexions, a more active walk, and are, as a rule, stronger and healthier. – [Edinburg Letter in Cleveland Leader] BOY IDEA OF BOY – Description of the Animal By One of His Own Kind. – [Providence Journal] A GREAT CATTLE RANGE The great plateau between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierras, comprising the territory of Utah and the state of Nevada, is apparently destined to become the greatest cattle range in the country. Already immense tracts of land, some embracing nearly two hundred and fifty thousand acres, have been purchased, and owners of large herds in Texas and other southwestern states are looking for ranges in this wide section of natural pasture land. The pressure of settlers who wish to engage in agriculture and found homes upon the lands in the great fertile plains of the west and south has been to crowd out the cattle kings who have for years monopolized the largest part of the states which by nature are better fitted for the raising of crops than for the pasturage of herds. Thus there has begun a hegira of cattlemen toward the west, which bids fair to aid materially in the development of those great sections of our country that have hitherto been left almost exclusively in the hands of Indians and peripatetic gold hunters. This movement of stockmen toward the west is a matter of considerable importance to the people of this coast, for the region that will be appropriated by them is by nature tributary to California, which should be benefited by the establishment of great moneyed interests in a locality from which up to this time little benefit compared with the extent of country has been derived. The cattlemen also are the precursors of the husbandman, who, when a country has become to some extend settled, would readily seek in it opportunities for agriculture; and it may confidently be expected that there will, before many years are passed, be more agricultural land discovered in Utah and Nevada than has been believed to exist there. – [San Francisco Bulletin] In a French paper there is a matrimonial advertisement from a widow with 200,000 francs, who seeks a husband in one who must, at least, have a like sum of money, with other equally pleasant recommendations. Her postscript is empathic. She says, if a negro, he must have double the sum also required. MEN OF MILLIONS How The People Talk of Millionaires Behind Their Backs I enjoyed the distinction, one day this week, of riding in a smoking car from Menlo with $230,0000,000 – at least, so a statistical friend of mine computed it. We had Mr. Flood, and D. O. Mills, and Mr. Stanford, and Mr. Crocker, with a number of minor millionaires. “Jim” Flood seems to have taken a new lease of life. He looks rosy and youthful, and is beginning to resemble the granger in gait, costume, and manner. Mr. Mills had the gout and is about to fly to New York to get rid of it. Mr. Mills loves champagne. He cannot resist the temptation to quaff his favorite wine by the bumper, and the result is that, a few days after the booze, the gout grips him by the toes and makes him long for death as a release from this sufferings. Think of this, ye poor devils, who only know champagne by the label, and then reflect upon the miseries of a millionaires existence. At Milbrae, half a dozen of Mr. Mills’ paintings were put in the baggage car on route to his New York house. They were masterpieces, and at a rough guess I should say the six cost not less than $50,000, a nice nucleus for a gallery. Among them was the celebrated painting “Anthony and Cleopatra” a colossal canvas, and a marvelous work of art. The pictures were not covered, so the plebeians had a chance to examine then while the baggagemen, assisted by a corps of Mills’ servants, were handling them with care. “Why the dickens don’t he remain, and spend his money in the country he made it in?” growled one of my fellow passengers. “Ay, see what Stanford is doing for the state; think of that university grant.” Echoed another. “I never see Mills that I am not reminded of the bursting up of the Bank of California,” added a third, “and that he was one of the main causes of Ralston’s despair and suicide.” Indeed, I was surprised to hear from nearly ever one in that smoking car a dig at Mr. Mills, and when that capitalist strode haughtily in, after having looked at the disposition of his pictures in person, the vindictive scowls with which he was met made me feel positively uncomfortable. Mr. Flood scratch his mosquito scars, and looked quizzically at his brother capitalist, wondering, I could not help thinking what people said of him behind his back. Flood is the main cause of so many wealthy people building along the line of the Santa Clara Valley Railroad. If those really fine houses were not back on the foothills there would be no cause for complaint; but lying near the salt marshes, as so many of them do, the mosquitoes have it all their own way. And they do scarify some of those bloated bondholders in good shape. They feed on their champagne and burgundy nourished bodies every night, and send them to town in, the morning looking as if they were about entering upon a severe and well-distributed case of confluent small-pox. – [San Francisco Letter] THE CRAZY KING’S VALET The Daily News of Muncih tells a story illustrative of the queer freaks of the late mad King of Bavaria. He had an excellent valet de chambre, whose services he pried greatly, but who one day committed some petty fault that threw the quick-tempered monarch into such a tempest of fury that the beat him with his fists and said: “Get out! I do not want ever to see our face again.” The man went as rapidly as he could. Then the King had a succession of valets, each one of whom seemed worse, more stupid, and incompetent than his predecessor, until the King was frantic all the time. The Baron Scheider, chief of the palace, urged him to take his old valet back again, but he refused on the ground that his dignity would not permit him to do so, when he had said he wished never to see the man’s face again. Then the Baron had a happy idea. “Very well, your Majesty,’ he said, “you need not see his face again. We will make a blackamoor of him.” To that the king assented cheerfully, and thereafter, until his death, he was faithfully served by an apparent negro, who was, however, in reality a native of Munich, his old white valet. CHLORAL AND ITS EFFECTS The action of chloral hydrates is very similar to that of opium, but it does not lessen pain nor contract the pupils of the eyes to the same extent. It does weaken the action of the heart and lessen the portion of heat in the body to a far greater degree than opium. It induces sleep in does that are not dangerous, and the unpleasant effects of moderate doses of opium are avoided by its use. The fatal dose is a very large one. Its taste and odor are alike unpleasant to most people; hence the risk of acquiring an appetite for it are not so great as with the later drug. The habit, once formed, is much easier to give up than that of opium-eating. The treatment of a case of chloral poisoning is almost exactly the same as is an overdose of opium. One important fact to be remembered in such a case is to scrupulously avoid the loss of animal heat. Not attending to this point has cost many lives. The patient should be kept warm; the stomach must be emptied of its contents, and stimulants should be given to keep up the action of the heart until the poison has a chance to escape by the lungs and kidneys. – [St. Louis Globe-Democrat] To make orange jelly, cut holes in the stem side, take out the pulp, steep the skins two hours in cold water, strain and scrape carefully, range them on broken ice and fill with the French jelly. When cold, cut in halves. PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY JANUARY 6, 1887 RATES OF ADVERTISING One inch, one insertion $1.00 One inch, each subsequent insertion .50 One inch, twelve months 10.00 One inch, six months 7.00 One inch, three months 5.00 Two inches twelve months 15.00 Two inches, six months 10.00 Quarter column 12 months 35.00 Half Column 12 months 60.00 One column 12 months 100.00 Professional card $10. Special advertisements in local columns will be charged double rates. All advertisements collectable after first insertion. Local notices 10 cents per line. OUTLINE (Note: This article is written as one long paragraph. I am dividing it out to make it easier to read) The President’s condition is very much improved. Secretary Whiney desires application for an office sent to him. Speaker Carlise doesn’t think there will be any legislation this winter to reduce the surplus in the treasury. Father McGlynn can not officiate at mass and can not preachy nor perform any of the functions of a priest. The K. of L. District assemblies of ten states, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Texas, Missouri, Colorado, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New York, will send to Mr. Powderly a request to call a special session of the general assembly to consider certain acts done by the late convention at Richmond. The keepers of gambling dens in Decatur, Ills, have been indicted. The prohibition congressional convention which met at Eau Claire, Wis., Tuesday nominated Hugh Price, son of the deceased congressman, for the unexpired term, and Peter Truax for the term commencing March 4th. Jefferson Long, convicted at North Platte, Neb., of inciting murder, was refused a new trial and sentenced to be hanged May 20. Lord Harrington was expected to arrive in London last night. Queen Victoria is at Osborne. The executive committee of the Freedman’s Aid Society of the Methodist Church North, in session at Cincinnati, have examined the charges preferred against Prof. Calkins of the Chattanooga University and requested the trustees of that institution to ask Calkins’ resignation. Lewis F. smith, master workman of Kings of Labor Assembly No. 17 Philadelphia, received a letter from a member of Assembly No. 17 to delay action on a proposition to withdraw from the Knights of Labor organization. R. L. Miller and son, of Taswell, Va have been indicted for setting fire to their hotel at Pocahontas during last October. Two men perished in the building when it was burned. The stock market on Wall street was active yesterday and at the closing hour the advance ranged from one fourth to four and three fourths cents, the greatest advance being in Nashville and Chattanooga stock, with Richmond and West Point stock following a close second. The Bell telephone company has sued out an injunction against the Emmer Telephone company to prevent the latter from operating telephones in Charlestown, W. Va, and other Virginia, West Virginia cities. John Grady, of Chicago, came home intoxicated Tuesday night and sank down in his backyard where he froze to death. Justice Tenney, of Inglewood, Ill, has been collecting finds which he has pocketed. His action is styled judicial larceny. London rumors say that the Abysianian General Rassaloula has captured Karsala, while other rumors are that the Abyssinisan army has been defeated at Labderait by the Dervisches. Col. J. C. Wirt, a manager of the western division of the Adams Company states that all parties connected with the big robbery of October, six in number, have been arrested and are in custody. The total loss was $32,700 of which $12,000 will be recovered. The robbery was planned by Haight and executed by Whittrock. The others were accessories after the act. Mrs. Haight has been arrested. – [English Politics] THE TARIFF The present session of Congress has again given the black eye to the tariff resolution; but the prospect for something reasonable and conservative to be done is better than heretofore. The wild free trade and horizontal ideas of some are beginning to soften and the rigid views of the protectionists are making in the same direction. To great changes one way or the other would be a public calamity and result in ruin. It is gratifying to note that there is an element in the democratic party that are ruled by their best judgement and not by the circumstances that would make them succeed themselves. To great amount of protection and indiscriminately laid is bad in morals and in sight; but many enterprise have been fostered and built up and honest citizens have invested their means and labor and to strike down that protection all at once is neither good morals or just legislation. The tariff is a great big question with almost as many exceptions and complications as there are business interests in this government, and the statesman who can take in the whole situation at once has not yet appeared on the public arena. And the bitter caustic epithets applied by some time serving politicians toward the sensible and conservative faction o the democratic party is censurable if not to say contemptible. If the thieving and robber tariff is more than one can stand if has not too great conscientious scruples let him go into that filed, thieve, rob and get rich, otherwise let time work out the reform needed. Ad for Peruna Ad for Accordeons Ad for Harris Remedy Co Ad for Collins Ague Cure ATTORNEYS SMITH & YOUNG, Attorneys-At-Law Vernon, Alabama– W. R. SMITH, Fayette, C. H., Ala. W. A. YOUNG, Vernon, Ala. We have this day, entered into a partnership for the purpose of doing a general law practice in the county of Lamar, and to any business, entrusted to us we will both give our earnest personal attention. – Oct. 13, 1884. S. J. SHIELDS – Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in Chancery. Vernon, Alabama. Will practice in the Courts of Lamar and the counties of the District. Special attention given to collection of claims. PHYSICIANS – DENTISTS M. W. MORTON. W. L. MORTON. DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons. Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala. Tender their professional services to the citizens of Lamar and adjacent country. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we hope to merit a respectable share in the future. Drug Store. FARMER’S INDEPENDENT WAREHOUSE. We have again rented the Whitfield Stables, opposite the Court house, for the purpose of continuing the Warehouse and Cotton Storage business, and we say to our friends and farmers of West Alabama and East Mississippi, that we will not be surpassed by any others in looking after the wants of our customers to make them conformable while in Columbus. We will have fire places instead of stoves for both white and colored; separate houses fitted up for each. We will have also good shed room for 100 head of stock more than we had last year; also a convenient and comfortable room for our friends who may come to Columbus. We do not hesitate to say that we can and will give you better camping accommodations than any other house in the house in the place. Mr. J. L. MARCHBANKS of Lamar County, Ala., and MILIAS MOORHEAD, of Pickens County, Ala., will be at the stable and will be glad to see their friends and attend to their wants, both day and night. Out Mr. FELIX GUNTER will be at the cotton she where he will be glad to see his old friends and as many new ones as well come. All cotton shipped to us by railroad of river will be received free of drayage to warehouse and have our personal attention. Thanking you for your patronage last season, and we remain the farmer’s friends. Yours Respectfully, J. G. SHULL & CO, Columbus, Miss. PHOTOGRAPHS – R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss. Price list: Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00 Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00 Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00 Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00 Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00 Satisfaction given or money returned. Restaurant, Aberdeen Mississippi – Kupper Ad for Ayer & Sons Advertising Agents Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ J. B. MACE, Jeweler, Vernon, Alabama. (PICTURE OF LOT OF CLOCKS) Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry and spectacles. Makes a specialty of repairing. Will furnish any style of timepiece, on short notice, and at the very lowest price. Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, I hope to receive a liberal share in the future. LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE. J. D. GUYTON, Prop’r., Columbus, Mississippi. (picture of horse and buggy) Our stock of Furnishing is full and complete in every respect. (Elaborate drawing of goods sold) Largest Cheapest best stock of dress goods, dress trimmings, ladies & misses jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, boots, shoes, & hats, tin ware, etc., etc., at rock bottom figures at A. COBB & SONS’S The Coleman House (Formerly West House). W. S. COLEMAN, Pro. Main St. Columbus, Miss. Is now open for the entertainment of guests, and will be kept clean and comfortable, the table being supplied with the best the market affords. Rates per day…$1.50, Rates for lodging and 2 meals….$1.25, Rates for single meals…...$0.50, Rates for single lodging…..$0.50. call and try us. COLUMBUS ART STUDIO Over W. F. Munroe & Co’s Book Store, Columbus, Mississippi. Fine photographs of all sizes at very reasonable prices. Pictures copied and enlarged. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Call in and examine samples. FRANK A. COE, Photographer WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama. Board and Lodging can be had at the above House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor. ERVIN & BILLUPS, Columbus, Miss. Wholesale and retail dealers in pure drugs, paints, oils, paten Medicines, tobacco & cigars. Pure goods! Low prices! Call and examine our large stock. Ad for the American Agriculturist PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY JAN 6, 1887 (Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, Alabama, as second-class matter.) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One copy one year $1.00 One copy six months .60 All subscriptions payable in advance. LOCAL DIRECTORY CHANCERY COURT THOMAS COBBS Chancellor JAS. M. MORTON Register CIRCUIT COURT S. H. SPROTT Circuit Judge THOS. W. COLEMAN Solicitor COUNTY OFFICERS ALEX. COBB Probate Judge R E BRADLEY Circuit Clerk S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor D. J. LACY Tax Collector B H WILKERSON Co. Supt. of Education Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALBERT WILSON CITY OFFICERS L. M. WIMBERLY – Mayor and Treasurer G. W. BENSON – Marshall Board of Aldermen – T. B. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS MIDDLETON, W A BROWN, R. W. COBB RELIGIOUS FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each month, 7 p.m. MISSIONARY BAPTIST – Pastor J. E. COX. Services second Sabbath in each month at 11 am. METHODIST – Pastor – G. L. HEWITT. Services fourth Sabbath in each month. 11 a.m. SABBATH SCHOOLS UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m. JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt. METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 9 o’clock a.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt. MASONIC: Vernon Lodge, No. 588, A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 p.m. each month. – T.W. SPRINGFIELD, W. M. W. L. MORTON, S. W. JNO. ROBERTSON, J. W. R. W. COBB, Treasurer, M. W. MORTON, Secretary Vernon Lodge, NO 45, I. O. G. F. Meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. each month. J. D. MCCLUCKEY, N. G. R. L. BRADLEY, V. G. E. J. MCNATT, Treas’r M. W. MORTON, Sec. MAIL DIRECTORY VERNON AND COLUMBUS - Arrives every evening and leaves ever morning except Sunday, by way of Caledonia. VERNON AND BROCKTON – Arrives and departs every Saturday by way of Jewell. VERNON AND MONTCALM – Arrives and departs every Friday. VERNON AND PIKEVILLE – Arrives and (sic) Pikeville every Tuesday and Friday by way of Moscow and Beaverton. VERNON AND KENNEDY – Arrives and departs every Wednesday and Saturday. VERNON AND ANRO – Leaves Vernon every Tuesday and Friday and returns every Wednesday and Saturday. LOCAL BREVITIES The Judicial court is full of businesses these days. Wanted at once, 4000 oak or cypress boards. Apply at this office. CAPT. W. G. RICHARDS of Fernbank was in town first of the week. For Sale – A heavy wagon. Easy terms. W. A. YOUNG The High School is in session again and the fun of the holidays are over. Mr. ROBERT J. YOUNG is with his brother in town for some days. If you wish a good article of plug tobacco ask your dealer for “Old Rip.” Men with bundles on their back can be seen every day going to the Kansas City Road to procure work. Some considerable moving to town and the parties should advertise to let their friends know whey they are located. The News will move to its new home, just opposite its old, tomorrow where its readers are cordially invited to call. Ex-Sheriff J. W. WHITE and family have moved up to Miller’s mills on the Kansas City road. Capt. WHITE still operate a tanyard at that place. Red liquor will down the best man in the world if he only sticks to it. This hint may be pasted in the hat of a good many gentlemen who are monkeying with this buzz-saw. Commissioner’s court was in session Monday. The business was disposed and the court adjourned about 3 o’clock. For economy and dispatch, the present court cannot be excelled. NOTICE. On the 15th day of January we expect to place in the hands of Mr. JERRY PENNINGTON for collection, all notes and accounts for subscriptions and advertising due and unpaid to be undersigned amounting to $1 and upward. E. J. McNATT. The land sales came off on Monday as advertised by the U. S. Marshal, apt. A. B. HAMLET. Dep’ty making the sale. Capt. HAMLET has the reputation of being one of the best Deputies in the South. Cards are out to the reception of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. YOUNG soon after their marriage the last week in January. The reception is to be at the new house in town and the young folks anticipate a nice time. The prospect of a railroad by Vernon is brightening now and the real estate of the town is being marked up. Mark what we say- Two years from today a lot will be worth more than an acre now. WHY NOT! “On last Friday evening on the Tuskaloosa road five miles from Columbus, a man by the name of JOHN BRASWELL, citizen Fayette County, without any provocation deliberately shot and killed a negro man.” – Vernon Courier. Why not that? Why, the fellow was drunk, says the Courier, and why not kill a negro, or any body else without provocation; and, why may not you or I, if drunk, do likewise? Drunkenness relieves a man’s brute nature of all the restraints of humanity, morality, religion, decency – why may he not, when drunk, perchance, commit murder, or other, heinous crime? MORAL: Fortify yourself in personal individual, prohibitions. Don’t get drunk, or drunkish, nor tempt, advice, induce, add or abet others to be come so. – [Jasper True Citizen] GENERAL NEWS One more $1,000,000 furnace to go up at Birmingham. Georgia has put out her ticket for 1888 – Cleveland and Grady. A telephone line is to connect Florence, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia. There are 53,614 post offices in the United States. Montgomery has secured the monopoly of the State Fair for five years. The hogs in Jacksonville, Ala. are dying of quinay. President Cleveland’s share in his Baltimore Uncle’s estate amounted to $170. A lady in Montgomery, while working over a package of sausage found a heavy gold ring in it. Gov. Alger of Michigan, gave each of the 437 newsboys of Detroit, a new sit of clothes as a Christmas present. Anniston, Oxford, and Oxanna, heretofore three imposing towns, are to be incorporated into one city. B. S. Evans, a farmer of Hale, made 72 bales of cotton and 1,000 bushels of corn with 8 mules. This is good. The total receipts for the relief of the Charleston earthquake sufferers are reported at $20,000. Subscription to the Mrs. Logan fund have reached over one hundred thousand dollars, and still growing. Of the four candidates for President and Vice President in 1880, all are dead except English. Mr. Chas. Stewart Parnell is said to receive more letters and to answer less than any other man in Europe. Geronimo enjoys health in Florida but half a dozen of his uncivilized associates have died in spite of the climate. Logan had one virtue, that of inveterate hatred of the south, yet he was bold and frank to a degree, and had the courage that made him a lender. The Montgomery syndicate purchased a few days a few days ago 12,000 acres of choice Walker County lands. The enterprise was started by Mr. J. C. Hass, a successful business man in Montgomery. A plan was started in Chicago Wednesday by which it is hoped to raise a fund in Chicago large enough to pay off Gen. Logan’s debts. This fund will be in addition to the general subscriptions that are being made for Mrs. Logan’s benefit. Jay Gould now attends church regularly, and intends so his friends say, to lay up treasures above. He has spent the greater portion of his life laying them up below, and he no doubt thinks it about time to get ready to swiddle the devil out of what justly belongs to him. The foster daughter-in-law of Andrew Jackson, who did the honors of the White House during his Presidential term, is living at the Hermitage. She is 82 years old, and is failing mentally as well as physically. She lately said to a friend: “You know, honey, I am 127 years old, and am growing very feeble.” Subscribe for your county paper. Birmingham, Dec 29 – Considerable indignation is felt here over the Chattanooga Tradesman’s report of Alabama’s share in the number of new enterprises in process of construction. Activity in real estate is assuming wonderful proportions. Many thousand dollars worth of city and suburban property is being bought by visitors. Another of the ringleaders of the negro band of robbers who Christmas day murdered two men on the Georgia Pacific Railroad, near the Warrior River, was captured here early this morning. His name is Willis Brinkley, alias Jack the Rabbit. A posse from walker came after the fugitive today, but the local authorities declined to turn him over, being apprehensive of lynching in Walker. Two more highway robberies were committed last night, through with little results, except going through the pockets and getting the small change of Edward Trask, one of the City Court and George Ivy, suburban resident. GREAT CLOSING OUT Sale of Horses and Mules at public outcry in Vernon on Friday Dec. 31, 1886. Terms one half cash and balance payable Nov. 1st, 1887. Waive-right notes and approved security required. E. W. BROCK E. W. BROCK’S Cash store. Prices away down from what you paid before, and prices that knock out all competition. Am too busy to writ new advertisements every week, so just come on and get what you want at prices to suit yourself. E. W. BROCK. Persons visiting Columbus desiring anything in the Millinery line, will do well to call on Miss TILLIE BAILEY (Below Morgan, Robertson, & Co) Miss Tillie’s taste, together with her experience, cannot be surpassed in Columbus or elsewhere. ADMINISTATOR’S SALE The State of Alabama, Lamar County Under and by virtue of an order of the Probate Court of the State and County aforesaid made and directed to J. F. FERGUSON Admr. De Bonis Non of estate of A. T. YOUNG, and W. A. YOUNG Admr. Of estate of S. G. YOUNG from the Probate Court of said county the undersigned will sell at Young’s Mills in said county on the 14th day January 1887 within the legal hours of sale on credit of twelve months the following described real estate to wit: N W ¼ of N W qr and S ½ of N W qr and E ½ of S W qr and E ½ of N W ¼ of S W qr Sec 1 and S E ¼ of N E ¼ and 4 acres off of N E. qr of N E ¼ Sec 2 T 15 R 16 containing 264 acres. A large farm is cleared on some and land is well situated as to local advantages. Purchases giving the requisite security. This Dec. 22nd, 1886. J. F. FERGUSON, Admr. W. A. YOUNG Admr. ADMR’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County Alabama we will offer for sale on the premises on the 3rd day of January 1887 all the lands remaining unsold that belong to the estate of T. W. WOODS late of said county deceased. Terms of payment will be made known on day of sale. The sale will be at the late residence of said deceased., this 13th day of December, 1886. T. M. WOODS & G. W. WOODS, Admr ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County Alabama, made on the 20th day of November 1886, I as Administrator of the Estate of H. C. MCNEES late of said county, deceased, will on the 20th day of December next offer for sale at public outcry at the town of Fernbank, in said county, the following tract of land, to wit; N E ¼ Sec 7, E ½ of N W ¼ Sec 8, E ½ of E ½ Sec 18, N ½ of N E ¼ Sec 19, N W ¼ of N E ¼ Sec 20, S E ¼ of S E ¼ E ½ of N E ¼ less 2 acres, 25 acres off of North end of S W ¼ of N E ¼ and 17 acres off of the south end of N W ¼ of N E ¼ and 15 acres off of the south end of N E ¼ of N W ¼ and a ½ of S W q Sec 17, all in T 17 R 15, said lands will be sold for one fifth in cash the remainder on credit of one and two years from day of sale, the purchaser giving note with approved securities, said land lies in and around the town of Vernon, and will be sold in lots to suit the purchasers this 22nd day of November, 1889. N. S. PARTIAN, Admr. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION – Land Office At Montgomery, Ala. Nov 11, 1886 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed his notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judge or in his absence before the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, Ala at Vernon on January the 8th, 1887, viz: WILLIAM V. RUSSELL Homestead application No. 11218 for the S E ¼ Sec 13 T 15 S R 14 W. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: SAUL H. JACKSON, JOHN B. WHEELER, A. J. RECTOR, JAMES T. LAWRENCE, all of Vernon, Ala. J. G. HARRIS, Register U. S. MARSHAL’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE RANKIN & CO. VS. M. E. STANLEY CO. In the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of an Execution, placed in my hands to be executed, issued by the Clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama at Birmingham in favor of the plaintiffs in eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-three cents (824.23) debt, and fifty-two dollars and thirty-five cents (52.35) costs, on the 19th day of October 1886 and this day levied by me upon the property herein described. I will offer sale at the door of the Court House of Lamar County Alabama on Monday the 3rd day of January 1887 during the legal hours of sale to the highest and best bidder for cash as the property of said defendants, to satisfy and damages and costs in said Execution mentioned, the following real estate situated in said county of Lamar, viz: One lot 36 x 84 feet on which was located the store house of M. E. STANLEY & Co which burned; one house and lot 25 x 50 feet known as the GREEN RAY SALOON and now used as a shoe ship; one acre of land embracing the DETROIT TAN YARD, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the spring known as the TAN YARD SPRING, and from said spring southwest to the west boundary of the southwest to the west boundary of the N E ¼ of the N W ¼ of Section 13 Township 12 Range 16; thence along said line to the ABERDEEN AND TUSCUMBIA ROAD; thence along said road Easterly to the branch known as the TAN YARD BRANCH, then south to the place of beginning at the spring. Lot No. 5, one hundred yards square on which is located a one room frame dwelling; one lot 30 x 60 feet on which stood the JOHN RAY BLACKSMITH SHOP lying between MANLEY’S DRUG STORE and the store of F. W. WORTHINGTON and fronting on the Aberdeen and Tuscumbia Road all of the above property is situated in the town of DETROIT, Lamar County, Alabama; also the S W ¼ of Section 13 Township 11 Range 16 containing 160 acres; all located in the county of Lamar and state of Alabama. This the 13th day of November, 1886 A. H. KELLER, U. S. Marshal, by A. B. HAMLEY, Deputy ADM’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County Alabama made and entered in the premises on the 2nd day of November I will offer for sale for cash on the premises known as the HENSON SPRINGS Place on the 4th day of December 1886 the following lands as belong to the estate of H. K. HENSON Deceased to wit; N. W. ¼ of N. E. ½ except 2 acres in S. W. Corner of same and two in N. E. end of S. E. ¼ of N E ¼ Sec 13 T 12 R 15. Sale will be made within the usual hours of sale the title to said land is good and one of the best mineral springs on it than there is in the state. This 12 of November 1886. E. J. HENSON, Administrator of H. K. HENSON, Estate U. S. MARSHAL’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE H. B. BUCKNER & CO. VS. M. E. STANLEY & CO. In the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of an Execution, placed in my hands to be executed, issued by the Clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama at Birmingham in favor of the plaintiffs in the above sstyled cause for the sum of nine hundred and seventy-four dollars and thirty cents ($974.30) debt and forty-two dollars and ninety-six cents ($42.96) as the 19th day of October 1886 and this day levied by me upon the property herein described. I will offer sale at the door of the Court House of Lamar County Alabama on Monday the 3rd day of January 1887 during the legal hours of sale to the highest and best bidder for cash as the property of said defendants, to satisfy and damages and costs in said Execution mentioned, the following real estate situated in said county of Lamar, viz: One lot 36 x 84 feet on which was located the store house of M. E. STANLEY & Co which burned; one house and lot 25 x 50 feet known as the GREEN RAY SALOON and now used as a shoe ship; one acre of land embracing the DETROIT TAN YARD, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the spring known as the TAN YARD SPRING, and from said spring southwest to the west boundary of the southwest to the west boundary of the N E ¼ of the N W ¼ of Section 13 Township 12 Range 16; thence along said line to the ABERDEEN AND TUSCUMBIA ROAD; thence along said road Easterly to the branch known as the TAN YARD BRANCH, then south to the place of beginning at the spring. Lot No. 5, one hundred yards square on which is located a one room frame dwelling; one lot 30 x 60 feet on which stood the JOHN RAY BLACKSMITH SHOP lying between MANLEY’S DRUG STORE and the store of F. W. WORTHINGTON and fronting on the Aberdeen and Tuscumbia Road all of the above property is situated in the town of DETROIT, Lamar County, Alabama; also the S W ¼ of Section 13 Township 11 Range 16 containing 160 acres; all located in the county of Lamar and state of Alabama. This the 13th day of November, 1886 A. H. KELLER, U. S. Marshal, by A. B. HAMLEY, Deputy THE VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, Under the Principalship of J. R. BLACK, will open October 5, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of Tuition as follows: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Composition, and U. S. History; per month $2.00 ADVANCED: Embracing Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, and Latin, per month $3.00 Incidental fee 20 cts, per quarter. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention given to those who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7 per month. Tuition due at the end of each quarter. For further information, address: J. R. BLACK, Principal, Vernon, Ala Barber Shop – GEO. W. BENSON has run over his Barber Shop in the rear of the store of Haley & Denman, where will be please to serve his many customers KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL Located in the live and growing town of Kennedy on the Georgia Pacific Rail Road. The moral and religious influences surrounding this school are unsurpassed in any part of the state. Boarders can find pleasant homes in refined families at very reasonable rates. The first session will commence on Monday Nov. 1st, 1886, and continue for a term of ten scholastic months. TUITION PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Physiology, History of U. S., Practical Arithmetic, and Elementary Algebra, per month $2.00. ADVANCED GRADE: Embracing Higher Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Rhetoric, Elocution, and Latin per month, $2.50. An incidental fee of 25 cents, per session. Special attention will be given to those who expect to engage in teaching and preparing boys and girls to enter college. Tuition due at expiration of each quarter. For further particulars address J. C. JOHNSON, Principal, Kennedy, Ala. KINGVILLE HIGH SCHOOL will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra, and U. S. History, per month, $2.00 HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Higher Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, Latin, per month $3.00. No incidental fee. Board in best families from $1.00 to $2.00 per month. Tuition due every three months. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention will be given to those who wish to engage in teaching. For further information address B. H. WILKERSON, C. Supt., Principal. Kingville, Ala, Oct. 20, 1886 THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL under the Principalship of J. R. GUIN, will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of Ten Scholastic months Rates of Tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Grammar, Primary Geography and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.25. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing Brief English Grammar, Elementary Geography, Elementary Arithmetic, Letter Writing and Hygiene, per month, $1.50. PRACTICAL: Embracing English Grammar, Practical Arithmetic, Complete Geography, English Composition, U. S. History and Physiology, per month, $2.00. HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Rhetoric, Elocution, Algebra, Natural Philosophy, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Hygiene, Physiology, Latin, &c, per month $2.50. Discipline will be firm. Special attention will be given to young men and women who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7.00 per month. No incidental fees. Tuition due every five months. Correspondence solicited. Address J. R. GUIN Fernbank, Ala. Ad for New Home Sewing Machine RUSH & REED. Cheap Cash Store, Dry goods, Clothing, boots & shoes, school books, &c. Coffee, sugar, tobacco snuff crockery and tinware All at Bottom prices. Give us a call. RUSH & REED. Ad for Collins Age Cure Remember This. (picture of boy in clothing) when you want clothing, hats, underwear, that BUTLER & TOPP deal only in these goods. You can get a better selection and a great variety to select from than is kept in any house in Columbus. We carry suits from $6 to $30, and hats from 50 c to $10. Call and see us. BUTLER & TOPP Ad for Marriage Guide Ad for Pianos and Organs PAGE 4 MISSING LINKS Forty-two new chemical elements have been discovered in the past ten years. The schools of Reading, Pa, have adopted shorthand as an optional study. Every able-bodied Indian in Maine has a dog and every Indian who is not able- bodied has two. In Washington Territory a Chinaman has been made a school teacher for the benefit of his countryman. The letter-sheet is seen but little of ordinary correspondence. About 10,000 are paid every day in New York. A twelve-pounder brass cannon that saw service in 1776 is part of the armament of the new Canadian cruiser Arcadia. The newest weapon of war is an electric sword. Run a foreman through with it and death comes from the shock. A Vermont marble company has a contract for furnishing $75,000 worth of marble for the capitol at Washington. It will require 150 cars to transport the marble. George Dolby, who managed Dickens while in America and drank the wine which his principal was obliged to decline, is in Charing Ross Hospital. He is now old and very poor. A Presbyterian church, built from petrified wood found in Allen’s Creek, is one of the curiosities of Mumford, Monroe County, N. W. Leaf and moss fossils are to be plainly seen in the stone. Emperor William has again got off his death-bed to go to Baden for a three week’s vacation. When the old man is particularly feeble he takes to his death-bed, gets a good night’s rest, and is all right again. While excavating for a new bridge under the old canal aqueduct at Fort Wayne, Ind. Workmen found a Mexican silver coin of the date of 1782 and a horseshoe of primitive construction. They laid ten feet below the bottom of the river. George L. Perkins, of Norwich, Ct. is undoubtedly the oldest railroad man in active service in the country. He began his 99th year in August, and is the active financial head of the Norwich & Worcester Railroad , working as regularly now as he did twenty-five years ago. Lumberman get 90 cents a log at Wausau, Wis., for raising “dead” or water- soaked logs from the bottom of the Wisconsin River. They have already raised about 600,000 feet, and logs that have been dead for twenty years are said to be as sound as the day on which they were cut. A woman entered a crowded horse-car in Bridgeport, t., one day recently, and immediately two or three gentlemen sprang to their feet. The lady at once dropped into a seat, remarking as she did so, “It’s a great thing to be a woman, for a woman is always sure to get a seat if the car is full.” A shell of a large mollusk was found in the bottom of a well near Albany, Ga. A few days go. This fossil shell, says the News, discovered at such a depth below the surface, is another link in the chain of indisputable evidence that this section of the American continent was atone time the bed of the ocean. The New York Mail and Express mentions a pair of ladies shoes on exhibition in a Broadway window that are worth $100. They were made for a Murray Hill belle, who has a pretty foot and an equally attractive pocketbook. They are made, save the soles of plain lack satin. Rhinestones set in solid silver form the buttons. Louisville is taking great advancing strides socially. The Post says that the gentlemen to escort the ladies to parties, but for the ladies to go accompanies by chaperons and meet the gentlemen at the house of their host.” A club has been formed for promoting this innovation in southwestern society ways. An eyewitness to the hanging of thirty-eight Sioux Indians at Mankato says the copper-colored murderers came from their prison, danced across the street and capered up the stairway of the platform like a heard of wild animals. Each bore between his bronze lips a cigar, at which he puffed as the rope was placed around his neck and the knot adjusted under his ear. One of the rich men of Glasgow is Thomas Lupton, an American who went there poor, started a meat market, made a specialty of hams, and by shrewd and thoroughly Yankee methods of advertising has made much money. One of this advertising dodges was the driving through the Glasgow streets hogs clothed in canvas, on which was painted, “Tom Lupton’s Infants.” At the Mechernich Lead Works in Germany the tallest chimney in the world has recently been completed. It is 440 feet high, six feet more than the famous chimney of the St. Bollox Chemical Works, Glasgow, Scotland, which, until the German one was built, was without a rival. The fine of the Mechernich chimney is 11 ½ feet in diameter at the bottom and 10 feet at the top. A young Dakotian who lives near the Manitoba line, wanted to marry a girl that lived on the other side of the line, but her parents objected and forbade her leaving town. So she stood on the Manitoba side, her lover stood in Dakota, they joined hands, and a preacher with one foot on British soil and one foot in the United states married them, and they are now keeping house in Dakota. Andrew Carnegie is building on the summit of the Alleghenies, near Cresson Springs, a house, or castle, which will cost $1,000,000. The entire walls will be built up altogether of the undressed surface stone which is to be found on the place, and they are not to show in any place a single mark of the chisel or hammer. Mr. Carnegie’s orders are positive on this point, he having expressed a wish to have as far as possible even the mess on the rocks used in the walls undisturbed. The old shingles on the Unitarian church at Brooklyn, Ct. were recently approved to make room for new and better ones. One of the first pastors of the church nailed them with big-headed wrought-iron mails to the steeple in 1771, and under then Gen. Israel Putnam often has sat and listened to the discourses – rare in those days – giving liberal interpretations of the scriptures. It is stated that the shingles were “rived” by men who afterward fought with Old Put at Bunker Hill. The shingles are remarkably well preserved. Dr. Evans, the famous American dentist of Paris, who is now worth $10,000,000 is said by the Galena (Ill.) Gazette to have been a resident of that city, and from there he used to visit Hazel Green, Benton, New Diggings, Shullsurg, and other mining towns to yak out the teeth of the miners, and he will be remembered by many of the early settlers. He left Galena about thirty-five years ago. From yanking the teeth of miners he got to tinkering the teeth of royalty and became the bosom friend of Emperor Napoleon. A carpet merchant in Vienna has a curious collection of ancient woolen and line cloths, including more than three hundred specimens. Many of them have been taken from tombs, and are stretched on folios of cardboard to preserve them. Some of the fragments are only a foot square, but the large ones make up an entire Roman toga, which is said to be the only one the world. There are a great many embroidered dresses and a deal of knitting and jewel work. Double-chain stitch seem to have been as familiar to the Egyptian seamstresses, sewing with bone needles, as it is to modern women. There are some very quaint and unusually designs in the old collection of cloths, but there are also some very common things. It is curious to find that a common blue check patterns of our --- and work house aprons was in general use among the Egyptians more than a thousand years ago. MEDICAL INSTINCT – Ways animals heal themselves TWO FAMOUS JUMPS – HUSBANDRY – The Farmers Lot, Fast and Present – No Ground for Grumblers to Stand On. HOW TO DO UP SHIRT BOSOMS Take two tablespoons of best starch, add a very little water to it, rub and stir with a spoon into a thick paste, carefully breaking all the lumps and particles. Add a pint of boiling water, stirring at the same time; boil half an hour, stirring occasionally to keep it from burning. Add a piece enamel the size of a pea; if this is not at hand use a tablespoonful of gum-arabc solution (made by pouring boiling water upon gum-arabic and standing until clear and transparent), or a piece of clean mutton-tallow half the size of a nutmeg and a teaspoon of salt will do, but is not as good. Strain the starch through a strainer or a piece of thin muslin Have the shirt turned wrong side out; dip the bosoms carefully in the starch and squeeze it out, repeating the operation until the bosoms are thoroughly and evenly saturated with starch proceed to dry. Three hours before ironing dip the bosoms in clean water, wring out and roll up tightly. First iron the back by folding it lengthwise through the center; next iron the wrist-bands and both sides of the sleeves, then the collar-band. Now place the bosom-board under the boson., and with a dampened napkin rub the bosom from the top toward the bottom, smoothing and arranging each plait neatly. With smooth, moderately hot flat-iron being at the top and iron downward, and continue the operation until the bosom is perfectly dry and shining. Remove the bosom-board and iron the front of the shirt. The bosom and cuffs of shirts – indeed, of all nice, fine work – will look clearer and better if they are first ironed under a piece of thin, old muslin. It takes off the first heat of the iron, and removes any lumps of starch. It is said Queen Victoria can wash and dress a baby with any woman, and can generally diagnose the trouble when a child cries. The Queen’s skill in baby nursing was acquired from the famous Mrs. Lilley, who attended her Majesty at the birth of the nine royal children. This excellent person was a great favorite with the Queen, who honored her with her confidence upon the most delicate matters. When Mrs. Lilley died, in her ninety-second year, her Majesty was unaffectedly grieved, feeling she had lost a true friend. The old nurse to the last proved worthy of her mistress’ confidence. HOW BOOKS ARE WRITTEN Mr. W. D. Howells works from 9 am to 1 p.m. dining at 2 p.m. and is a man of leisure for the rest of the day. He writes about a half-column of the World per diem. With this stint he can turn out two novels and a great deal of miscellaneous matter in the course of the year. He is not satisfied without a great deal of revising and sometimes rewrites a whole chapter. The manuscript of “A Foregone Conclusion,” one of his earlier books, was entirely rewritten. Mr. Henry James, immediately after a breakfast of coffee and rolls in his room, sits down to his literary work, generally writing by the light of two candles, the London mornings being so dark. He composes slowly and painfully, rewriting and retouching his work continually, his artistic style being attained only at the expense of real toil. He works until noon, and then goes to his club for lunch. By regular application he manages to produce a great deal of manuscript. Mr. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) does not write in his library. His humorous fancies are evolved with more ease in the seclusion of his private billiard room. He makes it an invariable rule to do a certain amount of literary work each day, and his working hours are made continuous by omitting the formality of lunch. He is merciless to his own productions, and often destroys a whole day's writing without compunction. In this way he sometimes does a piece of work over and over again, but at other times the first draft is satisfactory. He is very industrious, but the mountain sometimes labors to bring forth a mouse. Mr. Edward Fawcett, who writes for fame and not for brad, has been won’t to do his literary work in the fourth story of a cheap tenement house some distance from his residence in the fashionable section of the city. He evidently believes in the practical application of Aldrich’s verses about the goddess and the garret. He is more painstaking about style than about subject matter. Mr. J. T. Trowbridge never composes his poems with pen in hand or his prose without it. The former takes shape in his mind during strolls across country and along the banks of the Hudson or while floating in his boat on the river. He often carries fifty or one hundred lines in his mind in this way. His verses are revised a great deal. In his earlier days he was always methodical, but of his years works according to inclination. Mr. George W. Cable is a very slow writer. He averages perhaps one thousand words per day, about half a column of the Word, and some days he does nothing but revise and perfect his work. He goes to his desk at 9 a.m. and writes until 4 p.m. with only a slight break for a light lunch. The poet Whittier confesses to never having had nay literary methods. He writes when he feels like it, and has neither the health nor the patience to work his copy over afterward, usually sending it to the publisher as originally completed. Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps believes in the value of a workshop outside of the house, and has an old barn near her father’s residence at Andover, Mass., whither she often retires when tint he mood for writing. Being an invalid she is unable to maintain any regular system of work. Miss Louisa May Alcott never had a study; any cozy corner answers to write in. She is not particular as to pens and paper, and an old atlas on her knee is all the desk she cares for. She has the power to carry a dozen plots in her head at a time, elaborating them whenever she is in the mood. Sometimes she keeps a plot by her in this way for years before it is put on paper. AT times she lies awake at night and plans whole chapters, word for word, and when daylight comes she has only to write them off as if she were copying. In her hardest working days she used to write fourteen hours in the twenty-four, sitting steadily at her work and scarcely tasting food until the task was done. Very few of her stories have been written in Concord. She goes to Boston, hires a quiet room, shuts herself up and waits for “an east wind of inspiration, which never fails.” In a month or so the book is done. She never copies and seldom corrects. Mrs. Frances H. Burnett writes in a “den” at her Washington house. Early in the morning she seats herself at the table and writes until noon. The morning stint of pen labor is rigorously insisted on, mood and ill-health not being consulted. If she is in a happy mental frame the hours are not heeded and the sentences flow freely from her pen, dusk sometimes coming before her manuscript is laid aside. If, however, the spirit does not exert itself in a particularly prolific fashion she devotes the afternoon to recreation, drives, walks, and social engagements. “The Lass o’ Lowrie’s”. “Pretty Polly Pemberton,” “The Fire at Grantley Mills” and “The Fortunes of Phillipa Fairfax” were all written in about fifteen months. – [N.Y. World] NO LUCK IN MONEY WON IN BETS – (CUT OUT) EUROPEAN ARMIES All Europe Breaking Down Under the Weight of Her Standing Armies TRAVELING IN JAPAN – [Bakow (Japan) Cor. N . Commercial Advertiser] OUR POTTERY INDUSTRY The best American pottery manufacture are practically the growth of the past quarter of a century. In 1860 pottery was in a miserable condition, but in the present year, according to the report of the Potters association, there are about 275 kilns in operation in the Unites States, not including the large number employed by decorated pottery makers. The total capital engaged in the industry is about $3,000,000. The amount of wages paid to the thousands of pottery hands is placed at from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 per annum and the annual value of the American pottery product is upward of $8,000,000. The best American makes include the opaque china of Trenton, made up after the models of the delicate French shapes; the Royal Worcester, also made at Trenton; the decorated tableware, which is admitted to equal much of the better French goods in design, tint and color; the hard French porcelain of Green Point, N.Y. The “Barboline” and “Limoges” made at Tarrytown, and the tiles of Chelsea, Trenton, and Pittsburg. Ad for Brown’s Iron Bitters Ad for Globe Cotton and Corn and Fertilizer Distributors (picture) Ad for Steel Pens Ad for Publishers -The Plowboys File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/newspapers/lamarnew1135gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 63.5 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives News.....Lamar News December 23, 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00016.html#0003775 October 6, 2006, 9:47 am Microfilm - AL Dept Of Archives And History December 23, 1886 Microfilm Ref Call #373 Microfilm Order #M1992.4466 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, DECEMBER 23, 1886 VOL. IV. NO. 82 WELCOME HOME - Poem – [J. Hooker Harsersley] THE LOST RING – Short Story HORACE GREELEY - A BROOKLYNITE TELLS OF A NOVEL EXPERIENCE WITH THE PHILOSOPHER – Anecdote about Mr. Greeley CARE OF THE SICK A feeding cup is useful when the sufferer is not too ill to drink, as liquids can be given without the head being raised from the pillow. When there is unwillingness to take food a little gentle persuasion will sometimes overcome the difficulty. It is useless to say in an authoritative tone “You must take this,” that instantly rouses every spark of self assertion in the unwakened mind and the sick person immediately determines that he will do nothing of the kind and no power on earth shall make him swallow it. When the drink is refused and the nurse finds that persuasion is of no avail, if she takes it away for a few moments and then offers it again with no allusion to the past refusal, it will sometimes be taken without any objection. A spoonful may be taken when a drink from a cup is indignantly rejected or vice versa. When food is persistently refused, as in some forms of mania, and it becomes necessary to administer it by force, the hands should be held by one person while the nurse holding the spoon full of liquid in her right hand, with her left gently compress the nostrils of the patient. This compels him to open his mouth to breathe and then the fluid can be poured in. It should be given just after the sufferer has exhaled a breathe, or it will be sputtered out, and as he inhales the air the food will slip down without his being able to prevent it. In feeding an unconscious or insensible person put the top of the spoon between the teeth and try to separate then, the action will sometimes rouse the sufferer sufficiently to induce him to open them. When this cannot be done insert the tip of the finger at the corner of the mouth and draw it away from the gum sufficiently to pour in a little liquid. It will trickle in between the insertions of the teeth and find its way down the throat unless all power of swallowing is gone. Feed very slowly and be sure that one spoonful has been absorbed before giving another. Never allow any food, especially milk, to stand in the sick room. It should be kept on a shelf outside a window in an adjoining apartment. – [Elisabeth Robinson Sewell, in Good Housekeeping] DOG-DAYS “The application of dog-days as applied to August’s heated form,” said a prominent dog-fancier yesterday, “probably originated hundreds of years ago, when droves of dogs were kept in oriental cages, with the idea that the animals were a sanitary necessity, as they consumed a large portion of the household refuse. These dogs being unsheltered during midsummer were subject to intense heat, which affects a canine’s brain very quickly, and sends him off into a mild sort of fit. The animal then dashes around frantically, making a great deal of noise, and attracting considerable attention, but usually no harm whatever. In years past it was no uncommon sight in Philadelphia for a dog to dart through the city, alarming the residents on every side; but now it is a very rare thing, as all superfluous dogflesh is disposed of by the dog-catchers, and those puppies that are unmolested are generally thought something of and well cared for. “A man who knows anything about dogs can doubt one of these spells and can check it quickly. The animal will tick his tail between his legs, whine piteously and act as if stated. The only remedy is to hold him under a hydrant, allowing the stress to flow over the head, thereby cooling the brain. All dogs are unable to be attacked, particularly fine-bred dogs which have been overexerted and overcoated. - [Philadelphia Record] AN OUTLAW BEAUTY – THE INTEREST CAUSED IN SOUTHERN COLORADO BY THE APPEARANCE OF A DASHING FEMALE News has been received in Denver, says the News of that city, of the presence of the noted Texas female bandit in Colorado. She and her male companions, with a complete camp outfit, are camped within four miles of Monte Vista, near Del Norte, in the southern part of the state. She and her gang made their appearance there about two weeks ago, and so far have resisted all attempts at interview, and many efforts have made to ascertain their business in that locality. The citizens were naturally curios about their presence, and when all advances were repelled by the woman and her companions, the citizens came to the conclusion that they were there for no good, probably robbery. Not wanting them in their midst, and not knowing exactly how to get rid of then, a meeting was held and a man commissioned to come to Denver to consult Gen. D. J. Cook. The gentleman arrived in Denver, and held a long conversation with the general, but what plan, if any, was agreed upon to rid the neighborhood of the suspicious characters, is not known. Through the courtesy of Gen. Cook a reporter had an interview with the gentleman from Monte Vista. “Everybody in our neighborhood,” he said, “don’t take much stock in the woman, believing her to be a man or a boy who has assumed the female garb for a purpose, and that purpose is robbery. She (I’ll call her a she) and her companions went into camp, I think, about two weeks ago. Monday morning two hunters truck the camp, and were going forward to it, when they were stopped by a girlish voice commanding them to halt. When they recovered from their surprise they noticed a slim, girlish figure calmly seated on a thoroughbred horse, a revolver in each hand, seemingly awaiting their approach. “They halloed that they were friends and meant no incivility in attempting to approach the camp. “She made no reply but waved them off with her pistol. No sooner had they turned their backs on the hospitable newcomer than she put her horse into a gallop and circled around then, riding with such skill and grace as to elicit the admiration of the bunters. When they came to Monte Vista and told their story it was discredited, but since then everyone in the place has had a glimpse of her and several of her male companions, and two or three have had a few moments conversation with her. I am one of the favored few in the latter respect.” “What is she like?” “I should judge him or her to be about 18 or 19 years old, long blackhair that is allowed to float down her back, black eyes, a thin, brown, attractive face, white teeth, and rather thin lips. She is not over 5 feet 6 inches in height, ahs a slim but well-rounded figure, and her whole make-up reminded me of a wild cat. She had on when I saw her a tight fitting gray dress, short enough to disclose her buckskin moccasins and leggings. Around her waist was a white leather belt supporting two scabbards, in which were two large ivory-handled revolvers. On her head she wore a white sombrero or cowboys hat, one side of which was pinned up with a silver bridle bit. She was mounted on a thoroughbred gray stallion, and was one of the prettiest pictures I have seen for a good while. “I asked her who she was, and she replied in a not unmusical voice, but with a decided southern accent, that she was the ‘Texas Queen.” I further asked her what her business was and she replied that it consisted in attending to her own business. I then asked her why she would allow no one to enter her camp, and she replied that she would allow no one to interview her, and if she allowed one person to come into her camp everybody else would want to do the sane thing, and she wasn’t going to allow anyone to meddle with her surroundings. “While talking to her I had gradually approached, but she took in my every movement, and when I was within about ten feet of her she wheeled her horse and was off like an arrow. She circled around me for several minutes, gradually narrowing the circle until she was in about twenty feet, probably of where I stood, and suddenly reined her horse back on its haunches. Placing the bridle-reins in her teeth she drew her revolvers, and motioning with her left hand to two small trees which stood on either side, and about the same distance from the trail, probably about fifty yards head, she surged her horse to full speed, and when what seemed to me directly between the trees she fired both revolvers, and without turning to look around rode on in the direction of her camp. “I was curious to see the result of her marksmanship, and on going to the trees found a bullet in each one about the same distance from the ground. She ahs also displayed her wonderful marksmanship to several others in our place, and all of them assert that they have never seen any one, even in this land of good shots, so remarkable skillful with the pistol. “Has anyone else found out any more about her than you have?” “I think not. She ahs been seen several times mounted on a superb bay horse, which is as well trained as her gray and probably as fleet. To tell you the truth, we don’t know what to make of her. She won’t allow anyone to get near enough to capture her, and as she hasn’t done anything to warrant us in using force to arrest her, we don’t know what to do. There is one thing more, however, we don’t want her in our neighborhood and for that reason I came to Denver to consult with Gen. Cook. We are not scared, but we are naturally curious, and want the mystery explained. Not one among us who has seen the ‘queen’ but believes it is a man masquerading in female attire.’ “Did you ever hear of the female outlaw of Texas, who was chased into Arkansas and then into Indian Territory, where she was at last accounts?’ “No, I never heard of her.” The gentleman was shown a slip from a St. Louis paper giving a description of the beautiful outlaw and an interview with her, in which she said that she had never been interviewed, and declaring her intention of killing the first reporter that attempted to interview her. “That settles it,” he said, “That is the identical girl. I was under the impression that the ‘queen’ was a man, but the fellow who wrote that certainly had better opportunities to know who and what she is than I have had or anybody in our community. He has described her characterization exactly and especially her aversion to being interviewed. What he said about her fancy shooting is true, as I and others can swear to.” “Will Gen. Cook go to Monte Vista?” “I suppose he will. He says if we want him to go and arrest her and her companions, he’d do it. I will have to consult with the boys when I get back and if we agree in having the party run in, we’ll telegraph the general and he’ll come. Strange to say, Gen. Cook had never heard of the Texas female outlaw. After reading her description and characteristics he is incline to the belief that the strange character camped near Monte Vista is one and the same person. When asked if he were going to attempt her arrest he said he hadn’t heard anything about it, but if he attempted to interview her he would do so. He says he is satisfied that she and her male companions are horse thieves, and the sooner they are run out of the country the better off the country will be. Whether she is a horse thief or not he thinks Colorado can get along very well without any of her class. IN AN OLD ENGLISH KITCHEN Just outside the gate and across the way from the shop of the potato and pork merchant’s there stands, as it has stood for a couple of centuries, the old Falstaft Inn. We went in under the sign through a low doorway, overgrown with ivy. At the end of the hall was a lovely old kitchen with a floor of cool tiles and a gorgeous dinner service of purple, red, blue, and gold displayed in ---(CAN’T READ)—bustling about to get things ready for her good man and the children. A leg of lamb was roasting before the fire. A string, or thin iron chain, I believe it was, was fastened from the mantle shelf, and from the other end hung the meat, dangling directly in front of the grate bars. A plate was set underneath to catch the drippings. I had a bit of that lamb with some mint sauce for my dinner, and I can attest that it was most excellent eating. I wish I had some of it at this moment. A trim young woman, wearing the whitest of mob caps, the cleanest of white aprons, stood before the – broiling a chop. She had a long-handled, double tin broiler or gridiron. In her hands. The chop was shut up in this, and she patiently held it before the fire as we would hold up a wet towel to dry, turning it round now and then and what with the tea-kettle, the bursting of the skin of the leg of the lamb, the sizzling of the savory chop, most comforting, if deafening, noise filled the cozy room. The girl turned a rosy face at us and smiled comfortably. The smile, the goodly old kitchen, the rows of delf on the wall, the nodding red hollyhocks out in the garden, the recollecting of that swinging jolly old Falstaff, of the charming windows and deep window seats warmed me to the heart with enthusiasm. – [Catherine Oaks, in New Orleans Picayune] CHARACTER IN CURL PAPERS Curl papers show character. Subtle distinctions of personality, based on the curl papers of a young woman, may be as positive as they are intricate and interesting. Your creature of principle, who eschews curl papers as deceptive in results must of course be left out of this category. And the fortunate feminine whose hair kinks and curls better on a rainy day, or in a sea breeze, or on a melting summer afternoon then at any other time, cannot be counted either. But among the devotees of the curl paper, variations of character may be safely and successfully catalogued by a study of the times and the manner of its use. Of course a society belle never uses paper for her friend. It is done up on a pretty patented arrangement of – or something else, and this genus of curl paper is never seen outside of its wearer’s own private apartment. But in the ordinary heme paper is usually – to curl the front half. And it may be set down as an infallible rain, that the young person who appears at the breakfast table with her forehead adorned by frizzes, in proposed ----(CAN’T READ) PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY DEC. 23, 1886 RATES OF ADVERTISING One inch, one insertion $1.00 One inch, each subsequent insertion .50 One inch, twelve months 10.00 One inch, six months 7.00 One inch, three months 5.00 Two inches twelve months 15.00 Two inches, six months 10.00 Quarter column 12 months 35.00 Half Column 12 months 60.00 One column 12 months 100.00 Professional card $10. Special advertisements in local columns will be charged double rates. All advertisements collectable after first insertion. Local notices 10 cents per line. Praeto, a Sioux Indian, connected with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, had his neck broken yesterday in Madison Square Garden, New York, while trying to stop a runaway horse. Praeto only arrived from Dakota Friday night. Talk about hard times in Alabama what do you think of this from the Wilmington (N. C.) Star: “A Wilmington merchant, who reveals a good deal, said on Saturday that he did not know of a single township in North Carolina that could pay its debts if all the land and crops were sold. The choice of an ancient Athenian citizen was limited to Athenian women. Only when thus married could his children possess the right of citizens. An Athenian woman was likewise not allowed to marry a foreigner. The penalties for seeking a spouse beyond the national boundaries were severe. – [Boston Budget] Hon. Leopold Morse, in a Liverpool hotel the other day, was advised in a offensive tone by an Englishman of whom he asked a question, to address such inquiries in future to the ----(CAN”T READ) “and furthermore, “ added our ex- Congressman, “since you say my addressing you was a rudeness, let me give you a lesson in manners. In America a gentleman thinks it only decent to answer if he can, a decent question. The rudeness was yours, sir, whoever you may be.” The Eutaw Mirror makes it out the following lecture on the virtue of economy: “The position of legislator seems to make one feel very rich, for with a few exception they vote away money as though it grew on trees. It occurs to us that if they had a more intimate knowledge of the struggles our people are making for a bare living, and the payment of honest debts, they would be in favor of bringing things down to hardpan. Public workers are no better than private citizens and when times are hard should share hardships. How few of us are paid the worth of our labor? There’s no use talking about increasing taxation, we can’t stand it.” Gov. Seay, in his recent message gave the Legislature and people of Alabama these golden pregnant sentences: "“e will out of our savings, continue to nurture our public schools. War has been the bloody and expensive arbitrament of the past; the advance of true enlightenment, the triumphs of mind are daily binding in a closer brotherhood the great family of man. Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage; a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The school-master is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.” PROHIBITION EXCITEMENT Montgomery, December 14 – A special to the Advertiser from Greenville says: The local election for prohibition in Greenville yesterday resulted in a victory for liquor. For a week or more Messrs. Cheves and Beauchamp, temperance lecturers from Kentucky, were engaged in the campaign. This morning as they alighted from a hack at the depot to take the north-bound train, J. D. Perry, mayor of the city assaulted him, beating him violently over the head. Cheves was finally rescued and is now in the care of physicians. His skull has two holes in it and there are bruises on his person. Mayor Perry was on the liquor side in the contest and claims that Cheves insulted him in some speeches made last week. The mayor has not been arrested. AN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR WOMEN Hon. S. W. John has introduced a bill to establish as Industrial Educational College in Alabama. The college is to have four departments: - the collegiate, Normal, Industrial, Music, and the Fine Arts. Preference is to be given to the Industrial, if the State cannot equip all. The subjects to be taught are book- keeping, type-writing, shorthand-reporting, industrial drawing, designing, engraving, telegraphy, printing, and the minor but very important arts of cutting, fitting, and making garments, cookery, etc. these industries can all be well-filled by woman and a knowledge of them will by no means impair her usefulness nor her fitness for any sphere. Let us have such an institution. $50,000 could not be better appropriated. It might soon maintain itself and an honor to the State and her daughters. When I consider the temptations amid which we now live, the probation which we now have to face, and the difficulties with which we now have to content, it seems to me that there is a great tribulation coming upon the faithful in the form not so much unbelief as of wordiness, because the world is becoming more and more full of interest, of brilliancy, of life, of vitality. We must always remember that it is God’s world not the devil’s world’ that all the manifestation of life and beauty come from the germ which God himself has planted in society and in human nature. We are not to treat the world as if it were a creation of the evil one. Nevertheless it is becoming more and more – for those who have money – a distracting world, an absorbing world, exacting more and more of our time, and of the labor of our brain. Hence it is becoming a world that shuts out God from too many of us. To take in all facts of life, all the realities of life, visible and invisible, this is our business and this will be our best safeguard against worldliness. – [Allen Beecher Webb, D. D.] Washington, Dec. 13 – F. B. Genover and B. Genover, St. Augustine, Fla, C. J. James Florida, and Hon Willett, Austin, Tex. are at the National ---. Attorney General Garland received a telegram this morning announcing the death of his brother, Rufus K. Garland, at his home near Prescott, Ark. Miss Nellie Nevada Moore is the chief architect and builder of a charming house in which she lives near Pittsburg. She wears trousers when doing man’s work, but, when that is over she dons skirts again. A wall of brownstone, topped with a bronze fence, keeps stray kine off the $2,500,000 promises of James C. Flood on Nob Hill, Frisco. The Moulton Advertiser says that “the great and good Montgomery Advertiser, to our surprise, is opposed to taxing gambling in futures and bucket shops $5,000 each; but the Dispatch, true to its platform of principles and true to the people, warmly supports the bill.” Two more Congressmen are added to the death-toll, Messrs. Dowdney, Democrat, of New York, and Price, Republican of Wisconsin; the former dying with apoplexy, and the latte with cancer of the stomach. Since the present, the 49th Congress, was elected, there have died Vice President Hendricks, two members of the Senate, and nine members of the House. It is too sickly a place, this place they called Washington City. Ad for Peruna Ad for Chicago Cottage Organ ATTORNEYS SMITH & YOUNG, Attorneys-At-Law Vernon, Alabama– W. R. SMITH, Fayette, C. H., Ala. W. A. YOUNG, Vernon, Ala. We have this day, entered into a partnership for the purpose of doing a general law practice in the county of Lamar, and to any business, entrusted to us we will both give our earnest personal attention. – Oct. 13, 1884. S. J. SHIELDS – Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in Chancery. Vernon, Alabama. Will practice in the Courts of Lamar and the counties of the District. Special attention given to collection of claims. PHYSICIANS – DENTISTS M. W. MORTON. W. L. MORTON. DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons. Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala. Tender their professional services to the citizens of Lamar and adjacent country. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we hope to merit a respectable share in the future. Drug Store. FARMER’S INDEPENDENT WAREHOUSE. We have again rented the Whitfield Stables, opposite the Court house, for the purpose of continuing the Warehouse and Cotton Storage business, and we say to our friends and farmers of West Alabama and East Mississippi, that we will not be surpassed by any others in looking after the wants of our customers to make them conformable while in Columbus. We will have fire places instead of stoves for both white and colored; separate houses fitted up for each. We will have also good shed room for 100 head of stock more than we had last year; also a convenient and comfortable room for our friends who may come to Columbus. We do not hesitate to say that we can and will give you better camping accommodations than any other house in the house in the place. Mr. J. L. MARCHBANKS of Lamar County, Ala., and MILIAS MOORHEAD, of Pickens County, Ala., will be at the stable and will be glad to see their friends and attend to their wants, both day and night. Out Mr. FELIX GUNTER will be at the cotton she where he will be glad to see his old friends and as many new ones as well come. All cotton shipped to us by railroad of river will be received free of drayage to warehouse and have our personal attention. Thanking you for your patronage last season, and we remain the farmer’s friends. Yours Respectfully, J. G. SHULL & CO, Columbus, Miss. PHOTOGRAPHS – R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss. Price list: Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00 Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00 Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00 Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00 Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00 Satisfaction given or money returned. Restaurant, Aberdeen Mississippi – Kupper Ad for Peruna J. B. MACE, Jeweler, Vernon, Alabama. (PICTURE OF LOT OF CLOCKS) Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry and spectacles. Makes a specialty of repairing. Will furnish any style of timepiece, on short notice, and at the very lowest price. Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, I hope to receive a liberal share in the future. LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE. J. D. GUYTON, Prop’r., Columbus, Mississippi. (picture of horse and buggy) Our stock of Furnishing is full and complete in every respect. (Elaborate drawing of goods sold) Largest Cheapest best stock of dress goods, dress trimmings, ladies & misses jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, boots, shoes, & hats, tin ware, etc., etc., at rock bottom figures at A. COBB & SONS’S The Coleman House (Formerly West House). W. S. COLEMAN, Pro. Main St. Columbus, Miss. Is now open for the entertainment of guests, and will be kept clean and comfortable, the table being supplied with the best the market affords. Rates per day…$1.50, Rates for lodging and 2 meals….$1.25, Rates for single meals…...$0.50, Rates for single lodging…..$0.50. call and try us. COLUMBUS ART STUDIO Over W. F. Munroe & Co’s Book Store, Columbus, Mississippi. Fine photographs of all sizes at very reasonable prices. Pictures copied and enlarged. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Call in and examine samples. FRANK A. COE, Photographer WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama. Board and Lodging can be had at the above House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor. ERVIN & BILLUPS, Columbus, Miss. Wholesale and retail dealers in pure drugs, paints, oils, paten Medicines, tobacco & cigars. Pure goods! Low prices! Call and examine our large stock. Ad for the American Agriculturist PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY DEC 23, 1886 (Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, Alabama, as second-class matter.) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One copy one year $1.00 One copy six months .60 All subscriptions payable in advance. LOCAL DIRECTORY CHANCERY COURT THOMAS COBBS Chancellor JAS. M. MORTON Register CIRCUIT COURT S. H. SPROTT Circuit Judge THOS. W. COLEMAN Solicitor COUNTY OFFICERS ALEX. COBB Probate Judge R E BRADLEY Circuit Clerk S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor D. J. LACY Tax Collector B H WILKERSON Co. Supt. of Education Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALBERT WILSON CITY OFFICERS L. M. WIMBERLY – Mayor and Treasurer G. W. BENSON – Marshall Board of Aldermen – T. B. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS MIDDLETON, W A BROWN, R. W. COBB RELIGIOUS FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each month, 7 p.m. MISSIONARY BAPTIST – Pastor J. E. COX. Services second Sabbath in each month at 11 am. METHODIST – Pastor – G. L. HEWITT. Services fourth Sabbath in each month. 11 a.m. SABBATH SCHOOLS UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m. JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt. METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 9 o’clock a.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt. MASONIC: Vernon Lodge, No. 588, A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 pm each month. – T.W. SPRINGFIELD, W. M. W. L. MORTON, S. W. JNO. ROBERTSON, J. W. R. W. COBB, Treasurer, M. W. MORTON, Secretary Vernon Lodge, NO 45, I. O. G. F. Meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. each month. J. D. MCCLUCKEY, N. G. R. L. BRADLEY, V. G. E. J. MCNATT, Treas’r M. W. MORTON, Sec. MAIL DIRECTORY VERNON AND COLUMBUS - Arrives every evening and leaves ever morning except Sunday, by way of Caledonia. VERNON AND BROCKTON – Arrives and departs every Saturday by way of Jewell. VERNON AND MONTCALM – Arrives and departs every Friday. VERNON AND PIKEVILLE – Arrives and (sic) Pikeville every Tuesday and Friday by way of Moscow and Beaverton. VERNON AND KENNEDY – Arrives and departs every Wednesday and Saturday. VERNON AND ANRO – Leaves Vernon every Tuesday and Friday and returns every Wednesday and Saturday. LOCAL BREVITIES County Court today. Xmas is coming. The young folks are anticipating a gay time Christmas. The paying is now going on in earnest. The Rev. W.. C. WOODS preached in town Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. E. W. BROCK made a trip to Fayette County this week. We have only 100 mortgages at this office. Let everyone put something on the Christmas tree for Santa Claus to deliver to the little ones tomorrow night. The little ones are anxiously to see what Santa Claus will bring them tomorrow night. If you wish a good article of Plug Tobacco ask your dealer for “Old Rip.” Mr. W. R. GUIN, who has been attending college at Buena Vista, Miss. gave us a pleasant visit Friday. Extensive preparations are being made for the Christmas tree Friday night. About the happiest man we have seen in some time was that of our friend Gen. RUSH at the post office Monday evening on relating that it was "another boy.” When the railroad is finished from Birmingham to Memphis; and the Vernon --- must put on and off at Crew’s Mill we will be in thirty-six hours closer communications with the outside world. We hope old Santa will not forget a single little as well as the grown up readers of the News the coming Christmas and that every heart be made glad. Let each one try to do and say something that will gladden some other. To each reader we say a merry Christmas. Representative BRADLEY paid the News a pleasant visit Monday. Pictures taken in cloudy as well as in fair weather at Sander’s Art Gallery. It is whispered that the wedding won’t be until late in January. Santa Claus will find a big lot of Candles, apples, oranges, nuts, popcorn, trumpets, roman candles, fire crackers, & c, at HALEY & DENMAN’S. The young folks had a nice time at Esq. BRADLEY’S one evening in the first of the week. Two more counties have been added to the prohibition list - Bullock and Hale. A. H. SANDERS, the photographer, is in town according to his announcements. A large number of railroad hands have passed through town the past few days – off to take Christmas. We are pained to hear that MR. MURRAY COBB has been seriously sick in Columbus and hope that his recovery will be speedy. Sheriff PENNINGTON is off in a hurry this week to Aberdeen, there being some objection to some citizen of Lamar changing his residence from this state to Texas. Mr. L. T. STEED of Detroit, the boss brick mason who can lay more brick and plane them better, is working in town and has the help of “Uncle” JOE BANKHEAD. The citizens of Vernon were some what alarmed yesterday when they saw something looking like a railroad ---(CAN’T READ) Strong efforts are being made to get a depot established on the Kansas City at Angora, and doubtless the efforts will be successful being about proper distance from Crew’s Mills on the east and Quincy Miss on the west. The land on which it is asked to be located belongs to D. W. R. HOLLIS Esq. NEW ARRIVALS Since our last issue Vernon hs had four new arrivals, and are distributited as follows: To Mr. and Mrs. C. L. GUYTON, a girl; to Mr. and Mrs. T. C. SMITH, a boy; to Mr. and Mrs. G. W. RUSH, a boy; to Dr. and Mrs. M.ORTON, a girl. As far as we are informed, the mothers and children are doing well. “Peace hath her victories as well as war.” And among them we note the triumphs of Coussens Honey of Tar, over all re-called remedies for colds, coughs, or disease of throat and lungs. Having tried it we know this is the best preparation ever made for a deep-seated cough, and will never fail when used according to directions. GREAT CLOSING OUT Sale of Horses and Mules at public outcry in Vernon on Friday Dec. 31, 1886. Terms one half cash and --- payable Nov. 1st, 1887. Waive right notes and approved security required. E. W. BROCK Our thanks are due the Hon. Secretary of the Treasury of the United States for a copy of his annual report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. No woman can have her patience more severely taxed, then by a fretful child, whom nothing can please, and a dose of White’s Cream Vermifuge will relieve the child if it is troubled with worms. Therefore do no allow your child to be tormented further when such a remedy is at hand. Hoarseness is very annoying to the sufferer as well as those compelled in endure his attempts at conversation. But no one need suffer now that or more serious rest of a cold who will use Coussen’s Honey of Tar the best remedy ever offered the public for coughs, colds and diseased of throat and lungs. Try it and be convinced Jailer HURBERT, of Montgomery is going to feed his prisoners on turkey and all sorts of dainties on Christmas. The Sheffield Clarion says: The boom continues, real estate is changing hands at an astonishingly rapid rate, and every third man in town wants to be a real estate agent. Mayor REESE, of Montgomery, is doing his level best to keep Birmingham from getting the state fair. Capt. B. H. SCREWS wants to know hwy the general assembly have ignored his claim to a set in the house for Montgomery County. He says that his opponent foots up several hundred votes in beats where no election was held, and the other beats sent up four hundred votes where there were only a dozen or so votes. If Capt. Ben doesn’t sit down and stop talking, the presiding officer will hit him on the head with his gavel. – [Mobile Register] SCHOOL NOTICE. On the first Monday in Nov. next the undersigned will open a school at Molloy, for a term of six months. Tuition from one to two dollars per month, good school-house – good board from five to seven dollars per month. For particulars, address, W. J. MOLLOY, Molloy, Ala. E. W. BROCK’S CASH STORE Prices away down from what you paid before, and prices that knock out all competition. Are too busy to writ (sic) new advertisements every week, so just come on and get what you want at prices to suit yourself. E. W. BROCK Persons visiting Columbus desiring anything in the Millinery line, will do well to call on Miss TILLIE BAILEY (Below Morgan, Robertson, & Co) Miss Tillie’s taste, together with her experience, cannot be surpassed in Columbus or elsewhere. ADMINISTATOR’S SALE The State of Alabama, Lamar County Under and by virtue of an order of the Probate Court of the State and County aforesaid made and directed to the undersigned as Admir. De Bonnis Non of the Estate of A. T. YOUNG. I will offer for sale at public auction at the Mill of J. P. & R.W. YOUNG on Saturday the 4th day of December 1886 on a credit of twelve months the following real estate to wit: S E ¼ of S E ¼ and to the creek of S W ¼ of S E ¼ and one acre more or less in S E corner of N W ¼ of S E ¼ to the creek on the West and to the public road on the north Sec 33 and 25 acres more or less off of south side S W ¼ of S W ¼ Sec 34, T 14 R 16 West. Also 5 acres off of N side N E ¼ Sec 4 and 15 acres of N W ½ of N W ¼ Sec 3 T 15 R 16. The purchaser executing note with two approved sureties. This Nov 10th, 1886 J. F. FERGUSON, Admr. ADMR’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County Alabama we will offer for sale on the premises on the 3rd day of January 1887 all the lands remaining unsold that belong to the estate of T. W. WOODS late of said county deceased. Terms of payment will be made known on day of sale. The sale will be at the late residence of said deceased., this 13th day of December, 1886. T. M. WOODS & G. W. WOODS, Admr ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County Alabama, made on the 20th day of November 1886, I as Administrator of the Estate of H. C. MCNEES late of said county, deceased, will on the 20th day of December next offer for sale at public outcry at the town of Fernbank, in said county, the following tract of land, to wit; N E ¼ Sec 7, E ½ of N W ¼ Sec 8, E ½ of E ½ Sec 18, N ½ of N E ¼ Sec 19, N W ¼ of N E ¼ Sec 20, S E ¼ of S E ¼ E ½ of N E ¼ less 2 acres, 25 acres off of North end of S W ¼ of N E ¼ and 17 acres off of the south end of N W ¼ of N E ¼ and 15 acres off of the south end of N E ¼ of N W ¼ and a ½ of S W q Sec 17, all in T 17 R 15, said lands will be sold for one fifth in cash the remainder on credit of one and two years from day of sale, the purchaser giving note with approved securities, said land lies in and around the town of Vernon, and will be sold in lots to suit the purchasers this 22nd day of November, 1889. N. S. PARTIAN, Admr. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION – Land Office At Montgomery, Ala. Nov 11, 1886 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed his notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judge or in his absence before the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, Ala at Vernon on January the 8th, 1887, viz: WILLIAM V. RUSSELL Homestead application No. 11218 for the S E ¼ Sec 13 T 15 S R 14 W. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: SAUL H. JACKSON, JOHN B. WHEELER, A. J. RECTOR, JAMES T. LAWRENCE, all of Vernon, Ala. J. G. HARRIS, Register U. S. MARSHAL’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE RANKIN & CO. VS. M. E. STANLEY CO. In the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of an Execution, placed in my hands to be executed, issued by the Clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama at Birmingham in favor of the plaintiffs in eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-three cents (824.23) debt, and fifty-two dollars and thirty-five cents (52.35) costs, on the 19th day of October 1886 and this day levied by me upon the property herein described. I will offer sale at the door of the Court House of Lamar County Alabama on Monday the 3rd day of January 1887 during the legal hours of sale to the highest and best bidder for cash as the property of said defendants, to satisfy and damages and costs in said Execution mentioned, the following real estate situated in said county of Lamar, viz: One lot 36 x 84 feet on which was located the store house of M. E. STANLEY & Co which burned; one house and lot 25 x 50 feet known as the GREEN RAY SALOON and now used as a shoe ship; one acre of land embracing the DETROIT TAN YARD, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the spring known as the TAN YARD SPRING, and from said spring southwest to the west boundary of the southwest to the west boundary of the N E ¼ of the N W ¼ of Section 13 Township 12 Range 16; thence along said line to the ABERDEEN AND TUSCUMBIA ROAD; thence along said road Easterly to the branch known as the TAN YARD BRANCH, then south to the place of beginning at the spring. Lot No. 5, one hundred yards square on which is located a one room frame dwelling; one lot 30 x 60 feet on which stood the JOHN RAY BLACKSMITH SHOP lying between MANLEY’S DRUG STORE and the store of F. W. WORTHINGTON and fronting on the Aberdeen and Tuscumbia Road all of the above property is situated in the town of DETROIT, Lamar County, Alabama; also the S W ¼ of Section 13 Township 11 Range 16 containing 160 acres; all located in the county of Lamar and state of Alabama. This the 13th day of November, 1886 A. H. KELLER, U. S. Marshal, by A. B. HAMLEY, Deputy ADM’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County Alabama made and entered in the premises on the 2nd day of November I will offer for sale for cash on the premises known as the HENSON SPRINGS Place on the 4th day of December 1886 the following lands as belong to the estate of H. K. HENSON Deceased to wit; N. W. ¼ of N. E. ½ except 2 acres in S. W. Corner of same and two in N. E. end of S. E. ¼ of N E ¼ Sec 13 T 12 R 15. Sale will be made within the usual hours of sale the title to said land is good and one of the best mineral springs on it than there is in the state. This 12 of November 1886. E. J. HENSON, Administrator of H. K. HENSON, Estate U. S. MARSHAL’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE H. B. BUCKNER & CO. VS. M. E. STANLEY & CO. In the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of an Execution, placed in my hands to be executed, issued by the Clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama at Birmingham in favor of the plaintiffs in the above sstyled cause for the sum of nine hundred and seventy-four dollars and thirty cents ($974.30) debt and forty-two dollars and ninety-six cents ($42.96) as the 19th day of October 1886 and this day levied by me upon the property herein described. I will offer sale at the door of the Court House of Lamar County Alabama on Monday the 3rd day of January 1887 during the legal hours of sale to the highest and best bidder for cash as the property of said defendants, to satisfy and damages and costs in said Execution mentioned, the following real estate situated in said county of Lamar, viz: One lot 36 x 84 feet on which was located the store house of M. E. STANLEY & Co which burned; one house and lot 25 x 50 feet known as the GREEN RAY SALOON and now used as a shoe ship; one acre of land embracing the DETROIT TAN YARD, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the spring known as the TAN YARD SPRING, and from said spring southwest to the west boundary of the southwest to the west boundary of the N E ¼ of the N W ¼ of Section 13 Township 12 Range 16; thence along said line to the ABERDEEN AND TUSCUMBIA ROAD; thence along said road Easterly to the branch known as the TAN YARD BRANCH, then south to the place of beginning at the spring. Lot No. 5, one hundred yards square on which is located a one room frame dwelling; one lot 30 x 60 feet on which stood the JOHN RAY BLACKSMITH SHOP lying between MANLEY’S DRUG STORE and the store of F. W. WORTHINGTON and fronting on the Aberdeen and Tuscumbia Road all of the above property is situated in the town of DETROIT, Lamar County, Alabama; also the S W ¼ of Section 13 Township 11 Range 16 containing 160 acres; all located in the county of Lamar and state of Alabama. This the 13th day of November, 1886 A. H. KELLER, U. S. Marshal, by A. B. HAMLEY, Deputy THE VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, Under the Principalship of J. R. BLACK, will open October 5, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of Tuition as follows: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Composition, and U. S. History; per month $2.00 ADVANCED: Embracing Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, and Latin, per month $3.00 Incidental fee 20 cts, per quarter. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention given to those who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7 per month. Tuition due at the end of each quarter. For further information, address: J. R. BLACK, Principal, Vernon, Ala KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL Located in the live and growing town of Kennedy on the Georgia Pacific Rail Road. The moral and religious influences surrounding this school are unsurpassed in any part of the state. Boarders can find pleasant homes in refined families at very reasonable rates. The first session will commence on Monday Nov. 1st, 1886, and continue for a term of ten scholastic months. TUITION PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Physiology, History of U. S., Practical Arithmetic, and Elementary Algebra, per month $2.00. ADVANCED GRADE: Embracing Higher Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Rhetoric, Elocution, and Latin per month, $2.50. An incidental fee of 25 cents, per session. Special attention will be given to those who expect to engage in teaching and preparing boys and girls to enter college. Tuition due at expiration of each quarter. For further particulars address J. C. JOHNSON, Principal, Kennedy, Ala. KINGVILLE HIGH SCHOOL will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra, and U. S. History, per month, $2.00 HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Higher Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, Latin, per month $3.00. No incidental fee. Board in best families from $1.00 to $2.00 per month. Tuition due every three months. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention will be given to those who wish to engage in teaching. For further information address B. H. WILKERSON, C. Supt., Principal. Kingville, Ala, Oct. 20, 1886 THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL under the Principalship of J. R. GUIN, will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of Ten Scholastic months Rates of Tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Grammar, Primary Geography and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.25. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing Brief English Grammar, Elementary Geography, Elementary Arithmetic, Letter Writing and Hygiene, per month, $1.50. PRACTICAL: Embracing English Grammar, Practical Arithmetic, Complete Geography, English Composition, U. S. History and Physiology, per month, $2.00. HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Rhetoric, Elocution, Algebra, Natural Philosophy, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Hygiene, Physiology, Latin, &c, per month $2.50. Discipline will be firm. Special attention will be given to young men and women who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7.00 per month. No incidental fees. Tuition due every five months. Correspondence solicited. Address J. R. GUIN Fernbank, Ala. Ad for Ayer & Sons Advertising Agents Ad for New Home Sewing Machine RUSH & REED. Cheap Cash Store, Dry goods, Clothing, boots & shoes, school books, &c. Coffee, sugar, tobacco snuff crockery and tinware All at Bottom prices. Give us a call. RUSH & REED. Ad for Collins Age Cure Remember This. (picture of boy in clothing) when you want clothing, hats, underwear, that BUTLER & TOPP deal only in these goods. You can get a better selection and a great variety to select from than is kept in any house in Columbus. We carry suits from $6 to $30, and hats from 50 c to $10. Call and see us. BUTLER & TOPP Ad for Marriage Guide Ad for Pianos and Organs PAGE 4 PRISON PHOTOGRAPHY (CAN’T READ FIRST PARAGRAPH) This building contains two rooms, the front one being used as a loading place for extra guards while off duty. Its walls are completely covered with a --- of illustrations, thousands of them, that have been cut from such papers and periodicals as Puck, The Budge, Harper’s and Leslie’s, and other journals. The clippings are neatly cut and pasted to the wall, by an ingenious little negro convict who has charge of the place in “treaty.” A door in one corner leads to another room on the north – this room has high, bare, white walls, excepting an immense skylight, which covers one-half of the ceiling. This is the prison photographic studio, wherein are registered the form and features of every prisoner that is sent to the Joliet prison, no matter what be his degree of crime. In this room he must take his place before the lightning camera of the prison artist. The room is fitted up with screens and curtains for reflecting the light down upon a chair, which is fastened solidly to the floor directly beneath the skylight. The rays of light are so strong that should a prisoner prove unruly during the operation of having his picture taken, the artist, at a favorable moment, can catch the truthful expression of the man’s features in the hundredth part of a second by simply pressing a button attached to the camera, which loosens the drop- shutter, causing it to flash across the lens. The result is an instantaneous portrait. S. W. Wetmore, assistant clerk of the prison, is the photographer who takes the convict pictures, and so far as can be ascertained he enjoys the distinction of being the only exclusive prison photographer in the world. The authorities of several other prisons in this country have recently commenced photographing their prisoners, but call in an outside photographer to take the pictures. On Jan. 1, 1894, Warden McClaughbry commenced having the pictures of all new arrivals taken, in order to make the prison records more complete, and to furnish a reliable method for the future identification of professional criminals and escaped convicts. The process in use at the prison is the best that science has yet invented in modern photography. The wet-plate process is too slow and a thing of the past, and so are dry-plates, so far as prison photography is concerned. The Eastman paper negative and roller-holder process is used exclusively at the prison. The roll of paper is prepared in the same manner as a glass dry-plate – i.e. the gelatine silver emulsion is spread on the paper. The roll is then placed in a holder with a winding key at one end and an empty spool to receive the exposed paper at the other end of the holder, the paper first passing behind the lens, and, as each picture is taken, is wound on the empty spool. In this way one roll of Eastman’s paper answers the purpose of ninety-eight glass dry-plates, 4 x 5 inches in size, for making cabinet pictures -–or, in other words, the artist can make the negatives of ninety-eight people in succession without once leaving the side of his camera. The paper is then cut into the right lengths, developed, fixed, and printed from, just the same as a dry plate, but the paper is oiled after development, to render it transparent. The photographic dark room at the prison is situated in the warden’s house, where the convict negatives are carefully filed away, and indexed. Before filing two prints are made from each negative. One copy is given to the receiving and discharging officer of the prison for the purpose of identification, and the other is placed in the photograph cabinet in the warden’s office, which already contains nearly two thousand convict’s portraits. In case of an escape the negative of the fugitive is at once hunted up, and in a few hours time several hundred copies of the man’s photograph will be sent broadcast through the mails for his recapture. A quick way of duplicating the photographs now in use at the prison is by the bromide of silver paper process. No sunlight is needed –the printing is done by a gas-jet in the dark room – the print is then developed and fixed. In this manner five hundred copies can be made from a single negative in one day. William Pile escaped from prison two years ago. He kept in the country, shunning towns and highways until he had been gone for several weeks, finally hiring out as a farm hand way down in Central Illinois. One day, soon after his employer sent him to town after a load of drain tile, giving him an order on the station agent for the tile. Pile went to the station and presented his order, cut the moment the station agent laid his eyes upon the man, he thought of a photograph of an escaped convict he had received several weeks before. He took the picture from his pocket and it fitted Pile exactly. The agent had Pile arrested and returned to Joliet, receiving the reward offered for his recapture. This was the first town Pile had entered since his flight from the prison. It was your correspondent’s good fortune to visit the prison on a recent date while the prison artist was engaged in taking the pictures of 152 new arrivals – convicts who had arrived during July and August – and of witnessing the modus operandi of reproducing their “mugs” on paper. Everything was in readiness at 9:30 am. The artist handed a list of names to a guard and requested him to bring in a gang of thirty or forty new convicts from the chair-shop. The officer soon had the raw recruits in line and marched them across the yard to the gallery, where they were seated on a bench along the wall in the outer room. Capt. Luke, the receiving officer, then took the list of names, and entering the operating room – where all was ready, the camera and chair in position – called out the name of the first man on the list, and the guard picking out that man hustled him into the room. “I’m right down here. What’s yer name? What’s yer register number? See that little red star on the wall? Place yer eyes on that and don’t move till I tell yer - hold up that head a little.” While this volley was being fired into the ears of the trembling convict, the captain grabbed the man by the shoulders, squared him back in the chair, yanked his head around in the direction of the star on the wall, chucked him under the chin to elevate his head, and then pulling around a wooded arm attached to the head-rest, and containing a place in which to put some pasteboard figures to represent the prison number of the convict, pushed it against the man’s chest, so that the number would show in the resulting picture. All these manipulations were gone through with in a moment’s time, and then came the ominous ”click” of the instantaneous shutter on the camera – the exposure was completed. A second later and the captain yells: “Next.” And in comes another victim. They follow each other in rapid succession like sheep coming to a shearing. The faces that came before the camera during the few hours your corespondent was present would have been a study for the student of human nature, especially if he had a penchant for physiognomy. Criminals of all ages from the boy of 15 to the gray-haired old offender of 80, the sly pickpocket, the dangerous burglar, the scientific safe- blower, the adroit sneak-thief, the clever confidence bilk, the embezzling clerk, the man of too many wives, and the red-handed murderer, all were there, with sentences ranging from one year to the life term. They all had to face the camera – though much against their will – and leave their features recorded there. THE GLOUCHESTER FISHING FLEET ANATOMICALLY A FAILURE – joke WIT AND HUMOR – jokes EVERY DAY APPLE PIES – article about liking apples MIKE WAS BAD – joke THE PRINCE OF WALES – The extraordinary Power in Racial Circles – (This article is very light and very hard to read) FEAR DOES NOT REASON – article about fear ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/newspapers/lamarnew1133gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 55.9 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives News.....Lamar News December 9, 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00016.html#0003775 October 6, 2006, 9:44 am Microfilm - AL Dept Of Arcives And History December 9, 1886 Microfilm Ref Call #373 Microfilm Order #M1992.4466 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, OCTOBER 21, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 51 (sic) – (This is the date on the paper, real date is Dec 9 as it states on the 2nd page) THE HIGHWAY COW (poem) – [Chicago Ledger] GLORY OF SILENT JOE – Story of Joe Miller – [New York Sun] THE FIRST TURNPIKE In the time of Charles II, restrictions were laid on the weight of carriages and their contents by limiting the number of cattle by which they might be drawn; power has given to raise an assessment for the repairs of the roads, and the plan of imposing tolls began to be adopted. From this time we begin to hear of turnpikes, and as time went on turnpike acts were passed and turnpike roads began to be talked about. With increased traffic and better roads the stage wagon replaced the packhorse in the conveyance of merchandise – the huge tilted wagon that survived till railway times, with its six or eight sleek horses, the smart wagoner riding his cob by the side of it, flourishing his long cartwhip, as the road wound through undulating ground with cornfields and pastures, still mostly unenclosed, and by ways branching off with way posts, t the junction pointing to some village whose spire shows over the hillside. In the year 1767 the system of collecting tolls was extended to the great roads in all directions, and the customary statue labor was appropriated entirely to the cross or country roads. This date marks the beginning of the era of stage coaches, and the full development of an organized system of posting from stage to stage along the public roads. From this time the roads of England began to rouse the wonder and envy of other nations. In France especially, just before the Revolutionary era, the roads were execrable, and the few public conveyances clumsy and badly horsed. Everything had to give way to equipages of the grand seigneurs, and the starving peasantry were dragged from their sloppy fields to draw the gilded coach of the Marquis or Count out of the quagmire of the public road. – [All The Year Round] AN AMERICAN ARMY IN 1777 Here is a picture of one of the men of Valley Forge: “His bare feet peep through his wornout shoes, his legs nearly naked from the tattered remains of an only pair of stockings, his breeches not enough to cover his nakedness, his shirt hanging in strings, his hair disheveled, his face wan and thin, his look hungry, his whole appearance that of a man forsaken and neglected.” And the snow was falling! This was one of the privates. The officers were scarcely better off. One was wrapped “in a sort of dressing gown made of an old blanket or woolen bed-cover.” The uniforms were torn and ragged; the guns were rusty; a few only had bayonets; the soldiers carried their powder in tin boxes and cowhorns. The horses died of starvation, and the men harnessed themselves to trucks and sleds, hauling woods and provisions from storehouse to hut. At one time there was not a ration in camp. Washington seized the peril with a strong hand and compelled the people in the country about, who had been selling to the British army at Philadelphia, to give up their stores to the patriots at Valley Forge. – [St. Nicholas] TOO RISKY – joke KEEPING ABREAST OF THE MARKET – joke PLANTS THAT EAT. SOME FORMS OF VEGETATION WITH AN APPETITE. – article A TRAIN’S FAST TRIP – story of a fast train BEARS IN MAINE – story about bear cubs in Maine THE EAGLE AND THE TORTOISE – [Life] - story about an eagle and a tortoise LIFE’S MAGNET – Poem – [Tudor Williams in the Current] HUMOROUS – jokes CHOOSING BETWEEN TWO EVILS – Joke ITS VARIOUS USES – joke PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY DEC. 9, 1886 RATES OF ADVERTISING One inch, one insertion $1.00 One inch, each subsequent insertion .50 One inch, twelve months 10.00 One inch, six months 7.00 One inch, three months 5.00 Two inches twelve months 15.00 Two inches, six months 10.00 Quarter column 12 months 35.00 Half Column 12 months 60.00 One column 12 months 100.00 Professional card $10. Special advertisements in local columns will be charged double rates. All advertisements collectable after first insertion. Local notices 10 cents per line. Obituaries, tributes of respect, etc. making over ten lines, 5 cents per line. The free schools of the state will receive over $650,000 from the state treasury during the present scholastic year. It is said that Miss Rose Cleveland has written a poem of 400 lines, for which she has been paid the sum of $500 by the publisher of a magazine. The title of the poem is “The Dilemma of the Nineteenth Century.” Practice to make God thy last thought at night when thou sleepest and thy first thought when thou wakest; so shall thy fancy be sanctified in the night, and they understanding be rectified in the day; so shall thy rest be peaceful and thy labors prosperous – Quarless An Indiana editor now in Washington, says of the very much mixed political situation in the Hoosier state: “The Democrats do not intend to permit any trifling business in the legislature, and in the even that the Republicans win a majority on joint ballot by playing with loaded dice, the Democrats will blow out the lights, break up the game, go home –and a senator will not be elected.” The Montgomery Dispatch keeps up its war on the gambling bells of that city. A bill has been introduced in the Legislature which declares that any person who keeps, exhibits, or is interesting or concerned in keeping or exhibiting any table for gamin of whatsoever name, kind, or description, not regularly licensed under the laws of the state, must, on conviction, be deemed guilty of a felony, and fixed adequate punishment for the offense. It is the same as the law now in force with reference to the keepers of gaming tables, (and refers alone to the class of gamblers) excepting that it makes it a felony. We would like to see a similar change made in the Georgia law. – [Atlanta Capital] SOUTHERN GIRLS The election of Miss Jem Weakly, as one of the Secretary of the Alabama State Senate, suggests the mention of the fact that Southern women, especially the younger ones, are gradually falling into the habits of their Northern sisters. They are seeking and assuming business positions in order to make themselves independent. We are no advocate of woman’s rights, falsely so- called; we are not in sympathy with the Phoebe Cousens and Mary Walker sort of women habits, but will be glad when the day comes that the women of the South, so long kept back by the conventionalities of society, assume their role in the various business departments of life, develop their mental and physical faculties and organs, and at the same time make themselves independent and contribute to the support of these near to them. It is a false idea of prosperity and a misconception of woman’s proper sphere that keeps her out of the telegraph and printing offices, the counting rooms and from behind the counter and other places where light and tidy work is performed. But by all means keep her off the forum, out of the pulpit and from astride of a horse practicing medicine. Such women, we don’t think will do to tie to. – [Decatur News] WANTED, SENSIBLE WOMEN Specialized education does not necessarily create companionable nor even sensible women; else by parity of reasoning, would all professional men be personally charming and delightful which undoubtedly they are not. A girl may be a sound Grecian, a brilliant mathematician, a sharp critic, a faultless grammarian, yet be wanting in all that personal tact and temper, clear observation, ready sympathy and noble self-control which makes a companionable wife and a valuable mother. Nor is unprofessional or unspecialized instruction necessarily synonymous with idleness and ignorance; while a good all around education is likely to prove more serviceable in the house and in society than one or two supreme accomplishments. Many of us make the mistake of confounding education with acquirements, and of running together mental development and intellectual specialization. The women of whom we are most proud in our own history were not remarkable for special intellectual acquirements so much as for general character, and the harmonious working of will and morality. The Lady Fashawee and Elizabeth Frys, the Mary Carpenters, and Florence Nightingales, whose names are practically immortal, were not noted for their learning, but they were none the less women whose mark in history is intelligible, and the good they did lives after them and will never die. And taking one of the at-least partially learned ladies of the past – is it her Latinity and her bookishness that we admire so much in Lady Jane gray, or is it her modesty, her gentleness, her saintly patience, her devotion – in a word, is it her education or her character –the intellectual philosopher, or the sweet and lovely and noble woman? – [Fortnight Review] Sheffield, Ala., December 3 – The matter of locating the principal shops of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad and of running their line through Sheffield, which was referred to the board of directors has been settled, the proposition being accepted, and it is now a question of a short time when trains on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad will run through this city, and the sound of the hammer will be heard in their shops to be erected. The company was formed last night to erect a large cast iron pipe works, nail works, etc. The corporation is to be known as the Sheffield Pipe and Nail Company, to be organized for the purpose of making cast, wrought iron piping, bolts, nuts, nails, screws, and other articles made of iron and steel. The company is a strong one, consisting of such men as the Hon. Henry G. Tompkins, of Atlanta, Ga., Moses Brown, of Montgomery, Ala; W. L. Champers, J. R. Adams, and Hon. David Clopton, of Montgomery, and others. The capital stock is $100,000 and every dollar taken, Hon. H. B. Tompkins is at the head of the enterprise, and that is enough to insure its success. The company has sold in the last few days, about $200,000 worth of lots. Now that the success of Sheffield is assured beyond all reasonable doubt, it is but justice to say that much is due to Capt. Alfred H. Moses, the manager and Col. E. W. Cole or the great interest they have taken in Sheffield’s process. Ad for PERUNA AD for Munn Patents ATTORNEYS SMITH & YOUNG, Attorneys-At-Law Vernon, Alabama– W. R. SMITH, Fayette, C. H., Ala. W. A. YOUNG, Vernon, Ala. We have this day, entered into a partnership for the purpose of doing a general law practice in the county of Lamar, and to any business, entrusted to us we will both give our earnest personal attention. – Oct. 13, 1884. S. J. SHIELDS – Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in Chancery. Vernon, Alabama. Will practice in the Courts of Lamar and the counties of the District. Special attention given to collection of claims. PHYSICIANS – DENTISTS M. W. MORTON. W. L. MORTON. DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons. Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala. Tender their professional services to the citizens of Lamar and adjacent country. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we hope to merit a respectable share in the future. Drug Store. FARMER’S INDEPENDENT WAREHOUSE. We have again rented the Whitfield Stables, opposite the Court house, for the purpose of continuing the Warehouse and Cotton Storage business, and we say to our friends and farmers of West Alabama and East Mississippi, that we will not be surpassed by any others in looking after the wants of our customers to make them conformable while in Columbus. We will have fire places instead of stoves for both white and colored; separate houses fitted up for each. We will have also good shed room for 100 head of stock more than we had last year; also a convenient and comfortable room for our friends who may come to Columbus. We do not hesitate to say that we can and will give you better camping accommodations than any other house in the house in the place. Mr. J. L. MARCHBANKS of Lamar County, Ala., and MILIAS MOORHEAD, of Pickens County, Ala., will be at the stable and will be glad to see their friends and attend to their wants, both day and night. Out Mr. FELIX GUNTER will be at the cotton she where he will be glad to see his old friends and as many new ones as well come. All cotton shipped to us by railroad of river will be received free of drayage to warehouse and have our personal attention. Thanking you for your patronage last season, and we remain the farmer’s friends. Yours Respectfully, J. G. SHULL & CO, Columbus, Miss. PHOTOGRAPHS – R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss. Price list: Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00 Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00 Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00 Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00 Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00 Satisfaction given or money returned. Restaurant, Aberdeen Mississippi – Kupper Ad for Peruna J. B. MACE, Jeweler, Vernon, Alabama. (PICTURE OF LOT OF CLOCKS) Dealer in watches, clocks, jewelry and spectacles. Makes a specialty of repairing. Will furnish any style of timepiece, on short notice, and at the very lowest price. Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, I hope to receive a liberal share in the future. LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE. J. D. GUYTON, Prop’r., Columbus, Mississippi. (picture of horse and buggy) Our stock of Furnishing is full and complete in every respect. (Elaborate drawing of goods sold) Largest Cheapest best stock of dress goods, dress trimmings, ladies & misses jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, boots, shoes, & hats, tin ware, etc., etc., at rock bottom figures at A. COBB & SONS’S The Coleman House (Formerly West House). W. S. COLEMAN, Pro. Main St. Columbus, Miss. Is now open for the entertainment of guests, and will be kept clean and comfortable, the table being supplied with the best the market affords. Rates per day…$1.50, Rates for lodging and 2 meals….$1.25, Rates for single meals…...$0.50, Rates for single lodging…..$0.50. call and try us. COLUMBUS ART STUDIO Over W. F. Munroe & Co’s Book Store, Columbus, Mississippi. Fine photographs of all sizes at very reasonable prices. Pictures copied and enlarged. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Call in and examine samples. FRANK A. COE, Photographer WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama. Board and Lodging can be had at the above House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor. ERVIN & BILLUPS, Columbus, Miss. Wholesale and retail dealers in pure drugs, paints, oils, paten Medicines, tobacco & cigars. Pure goods! Low prices! Call and examine our large stock. Go to ECHARD’S PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY, Columbus, Mississippi, when you want a fine photograph or ferrotype of any size or style. No extra charge made for persons standing. Family group and old pictures enlarged to any size. All the work is done in his gallery and not sent North to be done. Has a handsome and cheap line of Picture Frames on hand. Call at his Gallery and see his work when in Columbus. MORGAN, ROBERTSON & CO., Columbus, Mississippi. General dealers in staple dry goods, boots, & shoes, groceries, bagging, ties, etc. etc. Always a full stock of goods on hand at Bottom prices. Don’t fail to call on them when you go to Columbus. Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment…(too small to read). B. A. Fahnestock’s Vermifuge….(too small to read) PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY DEC 9, 1886 (Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, Alabama, as second-class matter.) TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One copy one year $1.00 One copy six months .60 All subscriptions payable in advance. LOCAL DIRECTORY CHANCERY COURT THOMAS COBBS Chancellor JAS. M. MORTON Register CIRCUIT COURT S. H. SPROTT Circuit Judge THOS. W. COLEMAN Solicitor COUNTY OFFICERS ALEX. COBB Probate Judge R E BRADLEY Circuit Clerk S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor D. J. LACY Tax Collector B H WILKERSON Co. Supt. of Education Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALBERT WILSON CITY OFFICERS L. M. WIMBERLY – Mayor and Treasurer G. W. BENSON – Marshall Board of Aldermen – T. B. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS MIDDLETON, W A BROWN, R. W. COBB RELIGIOUS FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each month, 7 p.m. MISSIONARY BAPTIST – Pastor J. E. COX. Services second Sabbath in each month at 11 am. METHODIST – Pastor – G. L. HEWITT. Services fourth Sabbath in each month. 11 a.m. SABBATH SCHOOLS UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m. JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt. METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 9 o’clock a.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt. MASONIC: Vernon Lodge, No. 588, A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 pm each month. – T.W. SPRINGFIELD, W. M. W. L. MORTON, S. W. JNO. ROBERTSON, J. W. R. W. COBB, Treasurer, M. W. MORTON, Secretary Vernon Lodge, NO 45, I. O. G. F. Meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. each month. J. D. MCCLUCKEY, N. G. R. L. BRADLEY, V. G. E. J. MCNATT, Treas’r M. W. MORTON, Sec. MAIL DIRECTORY VERNON AND COLUMBUS - Arrives every evening and leaves ever morning except Sunday, by way of Caledonia. VERNON AND BROCKTON – Arrives and departs every Saturday by way of Jewell. VERNON AND MONTCALM – Arrives and departs every Friday. VERNON AND PIKEVILLE – Arrives and (sic) Pikeville every Tuesday and Friday by way of Moscow and Beaverton. VERNON AND KENNEDY – Arrives and departs every Wednesday and Saturday. VERNON AND ANRO – Leaves Vernon every Tuesday and Friday and returns every Wednesday and Saturday. LOCAL BREVITIES During the past week we have had Ice Frost Rain Sleet Snow Wind Frozen Thawing Weather Slopslosh And sunshine. Christmas is near at hand. The year is growing old. The wise will advertise, Read everything in this paper. Very little sickness in town now. Sunday was one of the coldest of days. Subscriptions always in order and acceptable. The late cold spell blighted the beautiful chrysanthemums. Farmers have their cotton about all marketed. Who will bring us a Christmas turkey? Don’t all speak at once. The fireside has been the most popular resort to be found for the past week. Little MURRAY LEE RECTOR is blessed with grandparents – he having eight in number living. All of whom we have spoken to on the subject say, yes, by all means let’s have a Christmas tree. The High School will close for the Xmas (sic) holidays with an examination on the 22nd last. The children are anticipating a merry Christmas. Happy children, may they never be disappointed in the happiness expected for them in the great store house of the future. If a cold wave rudely crosses your path you can say, “Blow winds, and crack your checks!” If you have a bottle of Coussen’s Honey of Tar, which will cure all the bad colds, coughs, and diseased of throat and lungs that ever rode on the back of a blizzard. Try Coussen’s Honey of Tar for your cough. If you wish a good article of Plug Tobacco ask your dealer for “Old Rig” Christmas slippeth along, and already, we imagine, the little girls and boys are thinking of a merry time and lots of toys, to brighten life and increase their joy, and in their glee, they only pause, to complete their draft on Santa Claus. NOTICE. Persons indebted to me will do well to call at once and settle up. I am bound to collect and will commence to enforce ----. If you would ----and trouble come at once. Respectfully, E. W. Brock All those indebted to the News as subscribers or otherwise, are very respectfully requested to come forward without delay and settle. The year is crawling to a close and we wish to receive a little pay for that which we have done. In a recent letter from our friend JOHNNIE GUIN, Principal of the Fernbank High School, he informs us that he had enrolled 85 pupils up to Nov. 22nd, and expected to reach 100 by Xmas. Johnnie is a worthy young man and we wish him much success. Free to all. Our illustrated Catalogue, containing description and price of the best varieties of Dutch bulbs, also hyacinths, tulips, narcissus, &c. as Rushes, Small Fruits, Grape Vines, Trees, Shrubs, &c. all suitable for Fall Planting. Satisfaction guaranteed. Write for a copy. Nane & Neyuner, Louisville, Ky. Tell me not in mournful numbers that piles cannot be cured. Use Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment and experience the permanent cure which is always effected by this preparation. There are numerous so called remedies, only one Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment good for piles only, but so good for that disease that all sufferers with it need only use the great remedy. MARRIED Mr. R. B. JONES and DORA BRAZIL on the 25th of Nov. at the residence of Mr. MIKE HOWELL, by Rev. J. R. ROBERTSON. Mr. J. A. SHAW and Miss M. D. ROBBITT, on the 25th Nov. at Mrs. CAROLINE BOBBITT’S, by Rev. J. R. ROBERTSON. Mr. S. J. MORDICAI and Miss PARILLEE MCNEES on 21st Mrs. MARTHA MCNEES, by Rev. M. R. SEAY. E. W. BROCK’S Cash Store. Prices away down from what you paid before, and prices that knock out all competition. Are too busy to writ (sic) new advertisements every week, so just come on and get what you want at prices to suit yourself. E. W. BROCK If we had a whole dictionary of adjectives at our tongues and to use in recommendation of Coussens Honey of Tar, as a cure for coughs, colds, and diseases of throat and lungs, we would simply pick out the little “best” and apply it sincerely to Coussens Honey of Tar, because it is the only permanent cure for a deep seated cough or cold upon the lungs. CAPTIVE – Poem – [V. L.] SCHOOL NOTICE. On the first Monday in Nov. next the undersigned will open a school at Molloy, for a term of six months. Tuition from one to two dollars per month, good school-house – good board from five to seven dollars per month. For particulars, address, W. J. MOLLOY, Molloy, Ala. ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County Alabama, made on the 20th day of November 1886, I as Administrator of the Estate of H. C. MCNEES late of said county, deceased, will on the 20th day of December next offer for sale at public outcry at the town of Fernbank, in said county, the following tract of land, to wit; N E ¼ Sec 7, E ½ of N W ¼ Sec 8, E ½ of E ½ Sec 18, N ½ of N E ¼ Sec 19, N W ¼ of N E ¼ Sec 20, S E ¼ of S E ¼ E ½ of N E ¼ less 2 acres, 25 acres off of North end of S W ¼ of N E ¼ and 17 acres off of the south end of N W ¼ of N E ¼ and 15 acres off of the south end of N E ¼ of N W ¼ and a ½ of S W q Sec 17, all in T 17 R 15, said lands will be sold for one fifth in cash the remainder on credit of one and two years from day of sale, the purchaser giving note with approved securities, said land lies in and around the town of Vernon, and will be sold in lots to suit the purchasers this 22nd day of November, 1889. N. S. PARTIAN, Admr. VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALE On Wednesday the 15th day of December next, in front of the court house door of Lamar County, I will offer for sale at public auction my entire tract of land; also half interest in my Mill and the land on which it is situated. Also some desirable town property. Lands will be sold in lots to suit purchasers. One half cash and balance on credit of twelve months from sale with approved sureties. Persons indebted to me will please call and settle. This Nov. 14th, 1886 ANDREW J. WHEELER, Vernon, Ala. ADM’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County Alabama made and entered in the premises on the 2nd day of November I will offer for sale for cash on the premises known as the HENSON SPRINGS Place on the 4th day of December 1886 the following lands as belong to the estate of H. K. HENSON Deceased to wit; N. W. ¼ of N. E. ½ except 2 acres in S. W. Corner of same and two in N. E. end of S. E. ¼ of N E ¼ Sec 13 T 12 R 15. Sale will be made within the usual hours of sale the title to said land is good and one of the best mineral springs on it than there is in the state. This 12 of November 1886. E. J. HENSON, Administrator of H. K. HENSON, Estate ADMRS SALE OF VALUABLE LANDS Under and by virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Pickens County Alabama, the Court having jurisdiction of the Estate of SARAH SHIRLEY deceased. We the undersigned Admr’s of said estate, will sell the lands of said estate lying in Lamar County, Alabama, at Kennedy Station in Lamar County between the legal hours of sale on Wednesday the 1st day of December 1886, at public outcry for ½ cash and ½ on credit of twelve months with security as required by law. The lands known as the JOHN F. HUDSON place and described as follows, to wit: N W ¼ and W ½ of N E ¼ and N E ¼ of S W ½. Most of said lands are sold by order of said Court distribution amongst the heirs at law of said Estate. November the 8th, 1886. THOMAS JOYNER & T. T. JOYNER, Admr’s of said estate. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION – Land Office At Montgomery, Ala. Nov 11, 1886 Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed his notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judge or in his absence before the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Lamar County, Ala at Vernon on January the 8th, 1887, viz: WILLIAM V. RUSSELL Homestead application No. 11218 for the S E ¼ Sec 13 T 15 S R 14 W. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: SAUL H. JACKSON, JOHN B. WHEELER, A. J. RECTOR, JAMES T. LAWRENCE, all of Vernon, Ala. J. G. HARRIS, Register ADMINISTER’S SALE The State of Alabama, Lamar County Under and by virtue of an order of the Probate Court of the State and County aforesaid made and directed to the undersigned as Admir. De Bonnis Non of the Estate of A. T. YOUNG. I will offer for sale at public auction at the Mill of J. P. & R.W. YOUNG on Saturday the 4th day of December 1886 on a credit of twelve months the following real estate to wit: S E ¼ of S E ¼ and to the creek of S W ¼ of S E ¼ and one acre more or less in S E corner of N W ¼ of S E ¼ to the creek on the West and to the public road on the north Sec 33 and 25 acres more or less off of south side S W ¼ of S W ¼ Sec 34, T 14 R 16 West. Also 5 acres off of N side N E ¼ Sec 4 and 15 acres of N W ½ of N W ¼ Sec 3 T 15 R 16. The purchaser executing note with two approved sureties. This Nov 10th, 1886 J. F. FERGUSON, Admr. Ad for Ayer & Sons. U. S. MARSHAL’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE RANKIN & CO. VS. M. E. STANLEY CO. In the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of an Execution, placed in my hands to be executed, issued by the Clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama at Birmingham in favor of the plaintiffs in eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-three cents (824.23) debt, and fifty-two dollars and thirty-five cents (52.35) costs, on the 19th day of October 1886 and this day levied by me upon the property herein described. I will offer sale at the door of the Court House of Lamar County Alabama on Monday the 3rd day of January 1887 during the legal hours of sale to the highest and best bidder for cash as the property of said defendants, to satisfy and damages and costs in said Execution mentioned, the following real estate situated in said county of Lamar, viz: One lot 36 x 84 feet on which was located the store house of M. E. STANLEY & Co which burned; one house and lot 25 x 50 feet known as the GREEN RAY SALOON and now used as a shoe ship; one acre of land embracing the DETROIT TAN YARD, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the spring known as the TAN YARD SPRING, and from said spring southwest to the west boundary of the southwest to the west boundary of the N E ¼ of the N W ¼ of Section 13 Township 12 Range 16; thence along said line to the ABERDEEN AND TUSCUMBIA ROAD; thence along said road Easterly to the branch known as the TAN YARD BRANCH, then south to the place of beginning at the spring. Lot No. 5, one hundred yards square on which is located a one room frame dwelling; one lot 30 x 60 feet on which stood the JOHN RAY BLACKSMITH SHOP lying between MANLEY’S DRUG STORE and the store of F. W. WORTHINGTON and fronting on the Aberdeen and Tuscumbia Road all of the above property is situated in the town of DETROIT, Lamar County, Alabama; also the S W ¼ of Section 13 Township 11 Range 16 containing 160 acres; all located in the county of Lamar and state of Alabama. This the 13th day of November, 1886 A. H. KELLER, U. S. Marshal, by A. B. HAMLEY, Deputy ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County Alabama made and entered in the premises on the 1st day of November 1886, I will offer for sale on the premises at my residence on the 11th day of December 1886 the following tract of land to wit: N E ¼ of S W ¼ Sec 11 S ½ of S E ¼ of N E ¼ and N ½ of S E ¼ Sec 10 and N W ¼ Sec 14 and E ½ of N E ¼ Sec 15 all in T 15 R 16 lands belonging to the estate of S M PROTHRO deceased of whom I am administrator. Said sale will be made for one half cash the remainder on credit of twelve months from day of sale. This the 15th day of November 1886. W. S. PROTHRO, Admr. U. S. MARSHAL’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE H. B. BUCKNER & CO. VS. M. E. STANLEY & CO. In the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of an Execution, placed in my hands to be executed, issued by the Clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama at Birmingham in favor of the plaintiffs in the above sstyled cause for the sum of nine hundred and seventy-four dollars and thirty cents ($974.30) debt and forty-two dollars and ninety-six cents ($42.96) as the 19th day of October 1886 and this day levied by me upon the property herein described. I will offer sale at the door of the Court House of Lamar County Alabama on Monday the 3rd day of January 1887 during the legal hours of sale to the highest and best bidder for cash as the property of said defendants, to satisfy and damages and costs in said Execution mentioned, the following real estate situated in said county of Lamar, viz: One lot 36 x 84 feet on which was located the store house of M. E. STANLEY & Co which burned; one house and lot 25 x 50 feet known as the GREEN RAY SALOON and now used as a shoe ship; one acre of land embracing the DETROIT TAN YARD, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the spring known as the TAN YARD SPRING, and from said spring southwest to the west boundary of the southwest to the west boundary of the N E ¼ of the N W ¼ of Section 13 Township 12 Range 16; thence along said line to the ABERDEEN AND TUSCUMBIA ROAD; thence along said road Easterly to the branch known as the TAN YARD BRANCH, then south to the place of beginning at the spring. Lot No. 5, one hundred yards square on which is located a one room frame dwelling; one lot 30 x 60 feet on which stood the JOHN RAY BLACKSMITH SHOP lying between MANLEY’S DRUG STORE and the store of F. W. WORTHINGTON and fronting on the Aberdeen and Tuscumbia Road all of the above property is situated in the town of DETROIT, Lamar County, Alabama; also the S W ¼ of Section 13 Township 11 Range 16 containing 160 acres; all located in the county of Lamar and state of Alabama. This the 13th day of November, 1886 A. H. KELLER, U. S. Marshal, by A. B. HAMLEY, Deputy THE VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, Under the Principalship of J. R. BLACK, will open October 5, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of Tuition as follows: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Composition, and U. S. History; per month $2.00 ADVANCED: Embracing Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, and Latin, per month $3.00 Incidental fee 20 cts, per quarter. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention given to those who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7 per month. Tuition due at the end of each quarter. For further information, address: J. R. BLACK, Principal, Vernon, Ala Barber Shop. GEO. W. BENSON has removed his Barber Shop in the rear of the store of HALEY & DENMAN, where he will be pleased to serve his many customers. APPLICATION TO SELL LAND The State of Alabama, Lamar County Probate Court, September 18, 1886 This day came W. S. PROTHRO Administrator, and filed his application in writing and under oath praying for an order and proceeding to sell certain lands in said application described, for the purpose of paying the debts due and owing from said estate and the 1st day of November 1886 being a day set for hearing and passing upon said application, this is to notify all persons interested to appear on that day and contest the same if they see proper. ALEXANDER COBB, judge of Probate KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL Located in the live and growing town of Kennedy on the Georgia Pacific Rail Road. The moral and religious influences surrounding this school are unsurpassed in any part of the state. Boarders can find pleasant homes in refined families at very reasonable rates. The first session will commence on Monday Nov. 1st, 1886, and continue for a term of ten scholastic months. TUITION PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Physiology, History of U. S., Practical Arithmetic, and Elementary Algebra, per month $2.00. ADVANCED GRADE: Embracing Higher Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Rhetoric, Elocution, and Latin per month, $2.50. An incidental fee of 25 cents, per session. Special attention will be given to those who expect to engage in teaching and preparing boys and girls to enter college. Tuition due at expiration of each quarter. For further particulars address J. C. JOHNSON, Principal, Kennedy, Ala. KINGVILLE HIGH SCHOOL will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra, and U. S. History, per month, $2.00 HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Higher Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, Latin, per month $3.00. No incidental fee. Board in best families from $1.00 to $2.00 per month. Tuition due every three months. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention will be given to those who wish to engage in teaching. For further information address B. H. WILKERSON, C. Supt., Principal. Kingville, Ala, Oct. 20, 1886 THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL under the Principalship of J. R. GUIN, will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of Ten Scholastic months Rates of Tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Grammar, Primary Geography and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.25. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing Brief English Grammar, Elementary Geography, Elementary Arithmetic, Letter Writing and Hygiene, per month, $1.50. PRACTICAL: Embracing English Grammar, Practical Arithmetic, Complete Geography, English Composition, U. S. History and Physiology, per month, $2.00. HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Rhetoric, Elocution, Algebra, Natural Philosophy, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Hygiene, Physiology, Latin, &c, per month $2.50. Discipline will be firm. Special attention will be given to young men and women who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7.00 per month. No incidental fees. Tuition due every five months. Correspondence solicited. Address J. R. GUIN Fernbank, Ala. Ad for New Home Sewing Machine RUSH & REED. Cheap Cash Store, Dry goods, Clothing, boots & shoes, school books, &c. Coffee, sugar, tobacco snuff crockery and tinware All at Bottom prices. Give us a call. RUSH & REED. Ad for Collins Age Cure Remember This. (picture of boy in clothing) when you want clothing, hats, underwear, that BUTLER & TOPP deal only in these goods. You can get a better selection and a great variety to select from than is kept in any house in Columbus. We carry suits from $6 to $30, and hats from 50 c to $10. Call and see us. BUTLER & TOPP Ad for Marriage Guide Ad for Pianos and Organs PAGE 4 LADIES DEPARTMENT THEIR START IN LIFE The original occupations of prominent actresses have been curious and diverse, says the New York World. Maud Granger, who was as fond of rolling up her pretty eyes as Mary Anderson now is, earned her first money by going out by the day as a sewing woman. Jenny Lind used to help her mother to keep a boardinghouse in Sweden. Clara Louise Kellogg’s mother used to give Spiritualistic seances to raise the money to train her daughter’s voice. Sarah Bernhardt made buttonholes for a little, unfashionable dressmaker in Paris. Rhea was a harum-scarum French holden of 14 when she went on the stage in the provinces, and was continually in disgrace and down for fines because of her lively behavior at rehearsals. There was a stuffed tiger used in the play, a French farrage of oriental impossibilities, and one day at the rehearsal she stole behind the leading gentleman with the tiger in her arms and clapped it on his back in the midst of his most impassioned love scene. He was so startled he fainted, and on the books of the Lyons theatre is still to be seen this entry under the head of “fine:” “Mille, Rhea, for frightening M. Blank with a tiger, 5 francs.” A MEXICAN CUSTOM When a Mexican lady is widowed (says a correspondent of the Kansas City Journal) a family council is immediately called, her male relatives and those of her husband charging themselves with the education of her sons and the care of herself and daughters quite as a matter of course. Though the widow and her grown-up daughters may be accomplished as well as poor, nobody dreams of the possibility of their doing anything toward supporting themselves, and the proffered aid is calmly accepted as an hereditary right. Even if the widowed mother is healthy she can be no means be independent. Custom, which here rules with iron hand, prescribes that the entire superintendence of her property and the education of her children shall be delegated to her male kindred, and what she is really an aged woman she must reside with her relatives. So thoroughly are Mexican gentlemen imbued with this idea of womanly dependence that they do not regard the care of any number of bereaved families as an just burden, but, on the contrary, when a man married he virtually contracts to befriend all the female kindred of his lady love and to province for then, if need be. This sort of knightly courtesy makes matrimony a serous matter, and perhaps accounts for the number of eligible bachelors with which Mexico abounds; but, bandiage apart, it is a beautiful custom, and a strong proof of the innate chivalry of Mexican gentleman is found in the fact that the estates of widows and orphans are invariably administered with scrupulous honesty. WOMEN WHO DOCTOR THEIR HAIR A fashionable New York modiste ahs given a Mail and Express reporter some points on women doctoring their hair to obtain certain effects in color. Said she: “Women are blessed with such luxuriant hirsute adornments they rarely ever become bald. If they did not attempt to doctor their hair it would never fall out, unless some scalp disease caused it. In nearly every hair store you visit will be found a hair lotion specially prepared to do something wonderful either in the way of producing extraordinary growth or changing the color from a sand to a golden, or as desired. Women have a fondness for experimenting with their hair, and cannot resist the temptation to try all the nostrums offered. I say nostrums; some of the stuff may be good, used in moderation, but moderation is rarely observed. Women are all allopthetic (sic) in hair remedies. I have seen many a beautiful suit of hair ruined by applications of lotions. I know a young married lady who moves in the highest circles. She had long, wavy blonde hair, the envy of nine-tenths of her friends. She concluded that she wanted it a shade lighter –some one had told her that it would add to its beauty. She began by using borax and a lot or prepared stuff, guaranteed by each person who sold it to do tits work effectually and without harm. Her hair is now an ugley shade of sorrel and completely dead. It is also much thinner, and will al come out, I think, in a few years. Her case is but one of many. If women would only take into consideration the fact that health as a rule, gives vitality to hair they would not use so many ineffectual remedies. It is enough to have a race of baldheaded men – may the females be spared.” THE DEPARTMENT WOMEN There are 4000 women in the government departments at Washington, and among them are some of the best-looking and most intelligent ladies of the capital. They come, as a rule, from good families. Many of them are the widows of noted generals, the daughters of ex-Governors, and ex-Congressmen, and now and then you will find the relative of a President or a Cabinet Minister. May of these have traveled widely and the great majority are educated and refined ladies. They do all kinds of work and ---- salaries ranging from $700 to $1800 a year. As money counters they are much more expert than the men, and the rapidity with which they can count thousands upon thousands of dollars without making a mistake makes your brain whirl as you watch them. These money counters get about $75 a month, and they count millions of dollars every month. At one side of each one on the table life great piles of greenbacks, done into packages as they come from the press. I am speaking now of the redemption bureau of the Treasury. These bills are old and dirty. The strip of paper around each package of 100 bills states where they came from and who counted them in the country. The young lady takes this off, and, moistening her fingers with a wet sponge in front of her, she counts the bills like lightning, and if the package is not right she reports to the chief, and the banks from which the bills come must stand the loss. The girls seldom make a mistake, and if they do so or pass a counterfeit without noting it they must make the mistake good, and the amount if taken out of their salary. They can tell, however, a bad bill simply by feeling it, and a bank cashier will make a hundred mistakes where they make one. – [Washington Letter] MAKING HER THINGS LAST Every housekeeper knows how careful treatment keeps table linen and household furniture. Girls do not always know or remember that great care of their own little possessions will often enable them to dress nicely on very little money. A lady says, ”When I was a girl there was one of my young friends who was distinguished for ‘making her things last,.” Her dress, hats, gloves and ribbons were a marvel of durability. I used to wonder how she managed to make them last so without their looking shabby, but I ceased to do so after I had visited her at her own home. The reason why her clothes wore so long was that she took such care of them. Her dresses were brushed and folded away carefully, and the slightest spot on them was removed as soon as it was discovered. Her hat was wrapped in an old pocket handkerchief, and put away in a box as soon as done with, the strings and laces being straightened and rolled out most symmetrically each time. Her gloves were never folded together, but were pulled out straight and laid flat in a box, one upon the other, each time they were used, the tiniest hole being mended almost before it had time to show itself. But the thing that impressed me most was the care she bestowed on her ribbons. When making up bows she used to line the upper part of the ribbon with white paper, and this not only prevented the ribbon from becoming limp and creased by kept it clean, so that when the bow was soiled on one side she could turn the ribbon, and the part that had been covered came out looking new and fresh. That girl married and brought up a large family. Her husband had to fight his way, and did no bravely, and was unusually successful, for he became wealthy. But his prosperity was due quite as much to his wife’s care and economy in saving money as was to his in making it. FASHION NOTES Lace mitts are again worn. Striped and checked materials are all the rage. Lace mantles are profusely trimmed with beads. Egyptian and Oriental lace are used for flounce over colored and white dresses. Satin duchess skirts are worn with bodices and draperies of escurial (sic) grenadine. Cashmere and camel’s hair serge are serviceable materials for traveling costumes. Batiste and zephyr dresses are trimmed with bands of white or colored embroidery. Matinees of lace, lined with colored silk, are worn with dark silk skirts with a demi-train. Lustrous silk wrap white materials are employed for mourning dresses for informal occasions. Embroidered crape, gauze, and muslin are shown in most elaborate designs and beautiful coloring. Large buttons are used to trim dress panels. The rosary beads, now what passe, are utilized as buttons. Brocaded sateen, in light colors and white, have delicate vine, bud and fern designs in the same color as the ground. Beaded bodices glistening like Lohengrin’s armor, and made in cuirass form, are charmingly becoming to divinely tall beauties. Lawn and cambric dresses have skirts made with narrow flounces, with short drapery in front, that at the back being puffed. Coarse meshed nets have large or small polka dots. They are to be found in all the fashionable colors. They are made up over silk. Thin black tissues richly embroidered with get and lined with some color, as lilac, mauve, gray or red, are among the latest Parisian novelties for mantles. Poulards are now shown in so great a variety of coloring and designs that they commend themselves to every person of taste. Their extreme lightness renders them especially attractive for midsummer wear. FACTS ABOUT BELLS - Article about bells and a short history of the bell. HOGS THAT DISTINGUISH A TUNE – [Lyons (N. Y.) Republican] – article about a hog that can come to a tune A NEW WAY TO FIND GOLD A private letter published in the Kansas City Times tells of a party of geologists who were camped in Southern Kansas one night when a meteor fell near them. In the morning they found a huge mass buried in the ground, and still quite warm. They managed to break off a chunk of about a pound and a half weight carried it to Denver and had it assayed. It panned out about 20 per cent of gold, 64 percent of iron and 11 percent nickle, with copper and other metals. The party are going back with dynamite and tools to get the rest of the meteor, which they calculate weighs five tons. If the assay holds out they’ll get a ton of gold. POPULAR SCIENCE Does the sunlight falling upon an ordinary wood fire have any effect upon its burning? It is a popular notion that the fire buns more feebly when the sun shines full upon it. It is now alleged by scientific men that there any be some such influence produced by the action of the sun. An English statistical writer says that while population in Europe and the United States has risen thirty-four percent, since 1850, working power has increased 105 percent, and as a consequence of this vie men can now accomplish as mush as six in 1870 or eight in 1850. The world’s steam power is now five and one-half times what was in 1850. The motto of science is still excelsior. Held by wire ropes to the tip-top point of Sonbliff Mountain, a peak 10,000 feet high in the Tyroiese Alps, is a new blockhouse. A wire ropeway 8,000 feet long leads down the mountain. In this block-house is to dwell a meteorologist, and his observatory is higher than any other meteorologists in Europe. A paradoxical observation is that while menthol, a remedy for neuralgia, imparts a sensation of coldness, the parts rubbed with it are rally hotter than the surrounding skin. This confirms the newly-advanced theory that sensations of heat and of cold are conveyed by two distinct sets of nerves, the menthol seeming to powerfully stimulate nerves of cold. Rev. F. Howlett, of the London Astronomical Society, has confirmed long entertained doubts concerning the correctness of the generally accepted theory that sunspots are depressions in the solar surface. Though himself an observer of the sun for many years, neither he nor friends requested to verify his results have been able to see any spot as a notch when at the sun’s edge. In Germany, Strasburger has successfully grafted stramonium species, common tobacco, henbane, strops belladonna, and petunia upon the common potato plant. The most remarkable result is that when datma stramonimun was grated upon a potato plant, the normal appearing potatoes borne by the latter were found to be impregnated with stropine. It is not stated, however, whether the tobacco plants infested the tubers with nicotine. Tschudy had already grafted the tomato upon the potato, producing potatoes from the bottom and tomatoes from the top of the same plant. IN A DOLL FACTORY – [Caswell] – Description of a doll factory In Europe cocaine has been found efficient in the treatment of asthma. ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/newspapers/lamarnew1132gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 51.1 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives Marriages.....MCNEES, Parilee - MORDICAI, S. J. November 21, 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00016.html#0003775 October 6, 2006, 9:42 am Lamar News, Dec 9, 1886 Lamar News, Dec 9, 1886 - pg 3 Mr. S. J. MORDICAI and Miss PARILLEE MCNEES on 21st Mrs. MARTHA MCNEES, by Rev. M. R. SEAY. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/vitals/marriages/mcnees263gmr.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 0.8 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives Marriages.....ROBBITT, M. B. - SHAW, J. A. November 25, 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00016.html#0003775 October 6, 2006, 9:39 am Lamar News, Dec 9, 1886 Lamar News, Dec 9, 1886 - pg 3 Mr. J. A. SHAW and Miss M. D. ROBBITT, on the 25th Nov. at Mrs. CAROLINE BOBBITT’S, by Rev. J. R. ROBERTSON. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/vitals/marriages/robbitt262gmr.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 0.8 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives Marriages.....BRAZIL, Dora - JONES, R. B. November 25, 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00016.html#0003775 October 6, 2006, 9:37 am Lamar News, Dec 9, 1886 Lamar News, Dec 9, 1886 - pg 3 Mr. R. B. JONES and DORA BRAZIL on the 25th of Nov. at the residence of Mr. MIKE HOWELL, by Rev. J. R. ROBERTSON. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/vitals/marriages/brazil261gmr.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 0.8 Kb

Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for JAN., FEB., MARCH 1886 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: C Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net October 4, 2006, 10:13 pm The Jacksonville Republican 1886 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN", Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama for JANUARY 1886 , FEBRUARY 1886, MARCH 1886 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JANUARY 9, 1886 ALABAMA State News ETOWAH County News Married, in Etowah county a few days ago by the Rev. Jas. B. Mashburn, Mr. Jesse L. Murphree to Miss Julia E. Nix of Etowah. ---- ST. CLAIR County News Circuit Clerk Frank Dillon of St. Clair died recently. He was a good man. --- DEKALB County News The Fort Payne Journal newspaper reports: At a Christmas night party at the house of Joe Smith near Valley Head, a difficulty occurred between Ben Hammon and Isaac Chadwick in which the latter was severely cut by Hammon. At first it was thought his wounds fatal, but is now believed that he will recover. As far as learned, no arrests have been made and we have not been able to secure any particulars as to the origin of the difficulty. ---- CALHOUN County Local News Felix Rawls, a worthy old colored man, died suddenly in his shop out beyond Messrs. Bagley and Co.'s store on Wednesday afternoon. Felix had been a resident of Anniston for several years and leaves three orphan boys, but they are all about old enough to provide a livelihood. The Anniston Watchman ---- Duffie, the son of G. McPhillips, living near Mount Polk, was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun at Mrs. Lee's, a neighbors, on New Years Day. He was passing through the gate and in closing it, struck his gun and discharged it, the contents going into his mouth and lodging in the brain. He lived only a few minutes. He was age about 14 or 15 years. He was a quiet, well behaved young man. ---- On Tallasahatchie creek, near Phillips' mill on the 31st of December, Joe Simpson and Jim McLean started hunting, both having guns. Two younger brothers of each, Frank Simpson and Dock McLean followed them. The older boys were in front. The gun of Joe Simpson was accidentally discharged, the ball passing through Frank Simpson's left arm, striking Dock McLean in the bowels, fatally wounding him. The youth lived about eighteen hours, suffering great agony. Young Simpson was not very seriously shot. ---- OTTERY Community News Jan. 5th Mr. Robert Aderhold and Miss Ary Burgess married recently. --- Mr. Grant of Ohatchie died Friday with pneumonia. He was quite an old man. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JANUARY 16, 1886 ALABAMA State News ETOWAH County News Jesse Hendricks of Gadsden fell from a house and broke his collar bone. --- Died, near Attalla on the 1st inst., Mrs. Nannie Lankford. --- Died, in Etowah county on the 3rd inst., after an illness of several months, R. Boyd Read. --- C. Goldstein has left Gadsden and will make his future home in Chattanooga. --- Marion Noogin, the moonshiner, came into Gadsden and went before a United States Commissioner and was bound over to Court. --- CLEBURNE County News Hardy Jones, a lad of sixteen or eighteen years of age, who lives near Cicero post office in Cleburne county, accompanied by several other boys on Christmas night, went to a party. They got a jug of whiskey and drank themselves drunk. Several of them were picked up in an insensible condition and carried home. Hardy Jones never awakened from the stupor produced by the whiskey and on Saturday last, he died. It is not positively known whether or not his death was caused by the whiskey. ---- Married in Edwardsville the 31st ult., Mr. M.D. Brasher and Miss Francis J. Ferguson. --- Married at Abernathy, Cleburne county, the 27th ult., Mr. W.T. Norton and Miss Lou Groover. --- Married at Oak Level the 27th ult., Mr. J.T. Britts and Miss N.D. Cook. --- ST. CLAIR County News Died, near Springville on Dec. 28th, Mr. John Hooper, a good citizen, who leaves a large family who were dependent upon him for support. --- Mr. W.H. Cather has commenced the publication of the history of St. Clair county in the Aegis. --- TALLADEGA County News Mr. Samuel Clabaugh, for 25 years a citizen of Talladega, has left that town to reside in Birmingham. --- Crazy Jim Linton who has wandered through Talladega county for the last thirty years, is dead. --- CALHOUN County Local News Thursday night a telegram was received here, calling on the Sheriff to go at once to Oxford, as Bud Knighton, the bailiff of Oxford beat had been killed by H.C. Evans. Particulars were inquired after but none has been received up to the time of going to press Friday morning. LATER; a man who came up from Oxford Friday morning reports that the killing occurred at a house of bad repute about sundown Thursday evening; that Knighton was shot three times, twice through the head and once through the thigh, and lived but a few moments. Evans left at once and is still at large. ---- CROSS Plains Community News Jan. 13th Mr. Wiley Garrett who lives five miles below Cross Plains, happened to a very serious if not fatal accident last Wednesday. He left home on foot for town and was walking on the track of the East and West railroad, the two being only about seventy-five feet apart. It so happened that a train was also coming up on the latter road and was nearby, but Mr. Garrett did not see it, his attention being directed to the first train. The engineer seeing him on the track commenced blowing the danger alarm at the same time putting on the brakes and reversing the engine, but it was too late, Mr. Garrett was struck by the engine and knocked off the track, receiving very serious injuries. He was brought on to town and carried to the residence of Capt. S.D. McClelan and medical aid was immediately procured. Dr. Kinabrew, the attending physician, thinks his back and hips are broken and that his recovery is very doubtful. ---- CHOCCOLOCCO Community News Jan. 12th Another good old saintly mother in Israel has fallen. Mrs. E.J. Mallory, consort of William Mallory, deceased, aged nearly 73 years, died Dec. 29, 1885, and was placed to rest by the side of her husband in Oxford cemetery, who had preceded her nearly 30 years. She leaves one son, Lowry Mallory of Arkansas and five daughters; respectively, Mrs. Lucy Davis of Jacksonville, Ala., Mrs. Carrie M. Campbell of Texas, Mrs. Mary V. Miller of Holly Springs, Miss., Mrs. Alice Davis of Choccolocco, Ala. ---- (Note from transcriber: although says she left five daughters, only four of the daughters were named.) NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JANUARY 23, 1886 ALABAMA State News CHEROKEE County News A sensation has been created in Cherokee county by the elopement of Mr. Mark Shearl with Eliza Burt. Shearl is about 40 years old and has a wife and eight or nine children. The woman is about 17 years of age. They were not pursued. The Gadsden News ---- TALLADEGA County News Mrs. J.W. Kilpatrick of Talladega died recently. --- CLEBURNE County News Mr. John Webb and Miss Sarah Langley were married in Edwardsville on the 13th. --- LAWRENCE County News W.J. Privett, an old citizen of this county, had his right arm crushed to a jelly by the car wheels near Hillsboro on Thursday last. The Moulton Advertiser --- R.H. Peebles, who shot and killed Kennard Barnes at Hillsboro a few weeks ago, was tried before Judge Foster at Moulton on a writ of habeas corpus and discharged. A large crowd of the county people attended the trial. ---- CULLMAN County News We regret to annouce to our readers that Rev. J.M. Wheat died at his residence here at 12 midnight on Friday last, in consequence of the injuries he received while in the revenue service in Jackson county on the 24th of December. The Cullman Progress ---- COLBERT County News A colored woman named Berta Walker and her two children were drowned last Saturday in Colbert county near Barton depot. They were moving and, on attempting to cross Mulberry the wagon was upset and driven downstream by the strong current, caused by recent heavy rains. The driver and a colored woman, Berta's mother, barely escaped with their lives. The Florence Gazette ---- CALHOUN County Local News CROSS Plains Community News Mr. Joe McElrath of Lincoln, North Carolina is visiting the family of Maj. J.F. Dailey. --- We are glad to learn that Mr. Wiley Garrett who was so badly hurt last week, appears to be improving. --- LOCAL News Mrs. L.C. Bledsoe and daughter Miss Cora of Syllacauga, Talladega county, the mother and sister of Mrs. R.B. Kelly of this place, are visiting in Jacksonville. --- Mr. Sargeant Griffin, a prominent gentleman of the southwestern part of the county was in town Thursday. --- Mr. James Henderson of Tyler, Texas is visiting his brother John Y. Henderson in this place. --- Died, near Hico, Hamilton county, Texas on the 16th inst., Ella J., wife of T.C. Patterson, formerly of Calhoun county. She left four children, among them an infant only thirty-two hours old. She was the only daughter of the late Dr. Mann and granddaughter of Bayliss Prator of this county. She moved with her husband to Texas in November of last year. She was a most estimable lady and her death is a very sad affliction to her young husband and children, who have the deepest sympathy of many friends here in Calhoun county. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, FEBRUARY 6, 1886 ALABAMA State News TALLADEGA County Mrs. Elizabeth Nall of Talladega died in the 67th year of her age recently. --- DEKALB County News News was received in the city last night of the shocking death which befell Col. Vance Larmer, a prominent citizen of DeKalb county, Ala., yesterday morning. He resided with his family near Prices switch, just below Valley Head on the Alabama Great Southern railroad. Yesterday morning, Col. Larmer was superintending a force of hands who were clearing a woodland. He was accompanied by his son Oscar. A huge oak tree was being hewn down and as it toppled, he saw it fall toward him; he attempted to escape, but stumbled and fell and the huge tree struck him in the head, breaking his neck. He was about 65 years of age and very prominent in that locality. ---- The dwelling of J.H. Presswood, three miles from Lebanon on Sand Mountain, DeKalb county, together with all its contents, was burned Monday night. The family were spending the night at the house of a neighbors only a short distance away, and saw the flames, but not in time to save anything except some cotton which was stored in one end of the house. --- MADISON County News The Huntsville Independent newspaper reports: We learn of a horrible death a few days ago from hydrophobia of Mrs. Lee, wife of Miles Lee in Sharp's Cove near Maysville in this county. She was ill for six days from a bite by a mad dog. ---- George Foote, who undertook to commit suicide by cutting his throat, while confined in the Huntsville jail on the charge of being an accessory to the murder and burning of an old man near that city, has been released. The grand jury was convinced he had nothing to do with it. A man named Seward, now in jail, is charged with the crime, and has been indicted for murder. ---- CALHOUN County Local News LOCAL News As we go to press, the trial of Entriken for the killing of Leatherwood near Anniston about a year ago, is progressing. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, FEBRUARY 13, 1886 ALABAMA State News ETOWAH County News Mrs. E.H. Simpson, formerly of Gadsden, died in Birmingham the 29th ult. --- John Waters of Etowah, aged 78, died the 28th ult. --- DEKALB County News A very distressing affair occurred on Sand Mountain in DeKalb county, the 4th inst. A man by the name of Fuller was assaulted by three brothers named Amos, and although Fuller was a powerful man, he was immediately overcome by his assailants, one of whom had an axe and the other two knives. The first stroke with the axe struck Fuller in the back of the head, and then he was mangled in the most brutal manner. There were one hundred and five wounds inflicted with the axe and knives. Two of the brothers have been arrested and are now in jail and a posse is in pursuit of the third. ---- BIBB County News J.M. Moore of Bibb county made seven hundred dollars on his little rice patch last year. --- FAYETTE County News Only a few days ago Mr. Samuel Appling who lives a few miles from town found two large pieces of silver ore on his premises, one of which weighed a quarter of a pound, and the other was not so large. This ore was shown to competent judges and pronounced by them to be the finest quality of ore. A party of northern and Mobile men are prospecting above Coal valley. They are going to extend the Coal valley road four miles farther. The Fayette Journal ---- LAUDERDALE County News Florence, Ala., Feb. 8th Hon. Neander H. Rice, ex-secretary of state of Alabama, died at his residence here last evening, aged about seventy-five years. The deceased had been failing in health for several months and his death was not unexpected. His remains were interred in the Florence cemetery this afternoon with Masonic honors. He leaves no family, his wife and children having preceded him to the grave several years. ---- CALHOUN County Local News MORRISVILLE News Mr. Dodge Young died with fever a few days ago. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, FEBRUARY 20, 1886 ALABAMA STATE News CLEBURNE County News Mrs. Murrell of near Abernathy, on Tuesday evening went out to milk her cows, and was soon after found dead in the cow pen. --- ST. CLAIR County News Mrs. Burnes, one of the oldest citizens of Ashville, died in Blount county on January 5th. --- Mr. Sam Eubanks and Mrs. Mary Campbell were married recently. --- CHEROKEE County News Thos. Holcomb died at his residence near New Moon in Cherokee county on Jan. 30th of heart disease. For thirty years he had been a universalist and before his death said he died in the faith. --- Both Maj. Jno. T. Stocks and his wife have been quite low with the fever but are now recovering. --- ETOWAH County News Mr. Gabriel Hughes, one of the oldest citizens of Etowah county died the 2nd inst. --- CALHOUN County Local News The jury in the case of Mr. P.H. Evans charged with the killing of Mr. Knighton, returned a verdict of "not guilty" Saturday morning, the jury being out all night. --- CROSS PLAINS Community News We regret to hear of the critical illness of Mrs. W. H. Croft who resides in the Bethel neighborhood. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, FEBRUARY 27, 1886 ALABAMA State News TALLADEGA County News Frank McCain of Renfro, accidentally fell on the cut off saw at the Renfro Saw Mill and his right hand was severely cut. --- The family of the late Taul Bradford of Talladega have broken up, the children going to relatives of the family. It is remembered that Mrs. Bradford did not survive her husband long and the children were left fatherless and motherless. ---- CLEBURNE County News Cleburne county sends her convicts to the convict farm at Dadeville. If this is the Smith farm where recent events show that convicts are badly treated, the county commissioners of Cleburne should take the county convicts away. --- Mr. Rolly Williams of Cleburne raised last year 1,063 pounds of tobacco on less than an acre of land. --- Mrs. Murrell of Lecta dropped dead recently. --- Mr. Wm. Sudderth Sr. and Mrs. J.A. Mitchell of Lecta were married recently. --- Mrs. Cook of Cleburne who was reported as dead, is improving and likely to get well. --- Mr. and Mrs. D.G. Ligon of Heflin lost a fifteen months old child by death recently. --- Married near Heflin on the 14th inst., Mr. J.T. Heath and Miss Hollie Hardy. --- Married on the 11th inst. near Heflin, Mr. D.G. Blackwell and Miss N.A. Fox, by J.R. Davies, J.P. --- Married near Edwardsville on the 11th inst., Mr. C.J. Easterwood and Miss Rena Cheatwood, by J.M. Hogan, Esq. --- Married near Muscadone on the 5th inst., Mr. T.M. Barker and Miss L.D. Anderson, by Rev. J.M. Boman. --- Married near Bells Mills on the 7th inst., Mr. W.P. Sudderth and Miss J.A. Mitchell, by J.W. Cox, J.P. --- ETOWAH County News Coon Penn, a young man formerly of Gadsden, was recently poisoned by a man named Shackleford at Green Pond on the Alabama Great Southern railroad. Coon Penn took the strychnine in the whiskey offered him by Shackleford. A woman was at the bottom of it. ---- Mrs. Bettie Coats of Coat's Bend died the 13th. --- Deputy U.S. Marshall Williford captured a copper still of 100 gallons capacity and a large quantity of beer and other materials a few days ago near Coxville in Etowah county. The still was an illicit one. John W. Ellis, F.W. Webster, W.P. Whitt and A.H. Cox were captured while operating the still and acknowledged that they were the owners of it. ---- Capt. J.J. Seay of the White Star line of steamers on the Coosa river will make an effort to develop the Coosa river country and will run excursions and largely advertise it. --- ST. CLAIR County News Mrs. S.P. Cobb of Canoe Creek died recently. --- CHEROKEE County News Robert Easom died yesterday of pneumonia. He leaves a wife and two children and many friends to mourn, for whom sympathy and grief know no bounds. He was a kind, loving husband, an indulgent father and was much beloved by all who knew him. --- Mrs. J.W. Ivey died today, after being married only thirteen months. ---- CALHOUN County Local News MORRISVILLE Community News Mr. Elbert Laney and family who have been spending several weeks visiting their kindred and friends in this county, started back to Texas today. --- DeARMANVILLE Community News Feb. 22nd Mrs. Allen, the wife of the late Hudson Allen, died at her home near this place the night of the 20th. She was a very estimable christian lady and her death is deplored by a large circle of friends, kindred and acquaintances here. ---- CROSS Plains Community News Feb. 25th The wife of Mr. Thomas Stewart of Goshen Valley died very suddenly of a congestive chill. --- Miss Ocie Clements of Rome, Ga., is visiting her sister Mrs. Dr. Hughes. --- OBITUARY OF MRS. G.M. COLE Shoal Creek, Ala. Josie Cole, wife of G.M. Cole, departed this life Nov. 22, 1885, aged 28 years, 2 months and 11 days, after an illness of two weeks. She lived a consistent christian for a number of years in the Missionary Baptist church. She passed through the dark valley of death with hope on the distant shore, where there is no night, where there is no leaving of friends. There seemed to be but one trouble on her mind and that was leaving her children. She left a husband and four children to mourn her loss on earth. Their loss is her eternal gain. She left a babe, aged 2 weeks. We tender our sympathies to the bereaved husband and children that she has left behind to await the summons to meet her where parting is no more, where the angels sing redeeming love to their God and King. On the morning of the 14th of January 1886, the lovely babe she left behind was called up meet her. The double loss was a sad trial to the already heart broken father, brothers and sister. Weep not, for as earth is made poor, heaven is made rich, but be ready to meet them where there will be a happy reuniting of the family on the sunny banks of sweet deliverance, where there will be no more saying the sad word farewell. "None but the saints are fit to die, And leave the walks of men, To paradise they all will fly, Eternity to spend. O, God prepares us all to die, And fill our hearts with love, Then home to heaven we will fly, to dwell with thee above. A friend. ------ NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC My wife Susan Wells, having left my bed and board without my consent, notice is hereby given that I will not become responsible for any debts she may contract on my account. W.F. Wells ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, MARCH 6, 1886 ALABAMA STATE News LOWNDES County News The Will of Arthur Bell, made in 1819, is to be contested in Lowndes county. --- BULLOCK County News Joe Anderson who killed Ike Pickett near Fitzpatrick and Bragg Boddy who killed Dennis Hynes near Thompson, were found guilty of murder at the recent session of the circuit court and both sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The Union Springs Herald newspaper. ---- CALHOUN County Local News MORRISVILLE Community News Mrs. Clark, mother of E.T. Clark, died last Friday. Her death cast a gloom over the settlement in which she lived, and her place at the church, at the fireside and among her neighbors will be hard to fill. --- LOCAL News Mrs. Katie Clerk, wife of the late John R. Clark of Jacksonville, died at her home in Alexandria Valley of pneumonia on Friday, being buried in Jacksonville on Sunday. "Aunt Katie" as she was affectionately called, spent most of a life long here and it was fitting that her body be buried here and laid to rest among relatives and friends who had preceded her to the better world. A quiet, gentle, sweet christian life has left its impression for good upon two communities in which it was spent, and a pure spirit is gone to its reward in the bosom of its God. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, MARCH 13, 1886 ALABAMA State News CLEBURNE County News Mr. John Price of Cleburne county died recently. --- Mrs. I.L. Stephens and infant of Cleburne county died recently and are buried in the same coffins. --- Mr. Henson of Cleburne was recently run over by a steam wagon and severely hurt. --- There is a man in this county whose wife died one Tuesday and he got his papers and got married again the next Tuesday. --- Mr. G.V. Barlow and Miss Adly Crawford were married in Edwardsville recently. --- Mr. J.P. Boozer and Miss C.A. Anderson of Heflin were married recently. --- Mr. Wm. Garner and Miss Victoria Tumblin were married recently. --- CHEROKEE County News Mrs. Ewing of Cherokee, aged 85 years, died recently. --- RANDOLPH County News Mr. James Lynch was drowned in the Tallapoosa river near Louina on the 24th ult., while crossing the river in a ferry boat with two mules. --- TUSCALOOSA News A party of Choctaw Indians from Mississippi were camped out near Tuscaloosa last week. --- WALKER County News Dr. T.C. Miller, one of the most prominent citizens of Walker county, died a few days ago. He served in the Legislature one term. --- DALE County News Wm. Ward who killed J.J. Parmer in Dale county will be hanged at Ozark on the 19th of March. --- DALLAS County News Jack Grayson, one of the most worthy colored men in Alabama and a consistent Democrat, was way-laid and shot last week near Pleasant Hill in Dallas County. The citizens both white and black are very indignant and will hand the assasin roughly if captured. --- CALHOUN County Local News WHITE PLAINS Community News Mr. Mat LeGrand with his family is on a visit to Dr. B.S. Evins, his father-in- law. --- CROSS PLAINS Community News Dr. J.L. Hughes has been in Cedartown, Ga., for several days where he was called to see his nephew Mr. Prior who is dangerously ill. --- Mr. R.A. Swearinger of Ohio is visiting relatives in town. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, MARCH 20, 1886 ALABAMA STATE News ETOWAH County News Mr. John May (Uncle Johnnie) and Mrs. Eliza Smith were married recently near Attalla. --- The widow Driggers, a very old and decrepid lady, was burned to death at her home in Phillips' beat recently. When found she was kneeling by her bedside with her clothing burned off of her. --- CLEBURNE County News Mrs. Cook of Cleburne, aged 80 years, died recently. --- J.W. Steen and Miss Cordelia Martin of Heflin were married recently. --- MADISON County News Joshua Underwood of Brownsboro, died of hydrophobia a few days ago. --- MOBILE County News Mrs. J.H. Matthews was burned to death at Grand Bay in Mobile County a few days ago. She was fighting a fire near her residence when her clothing caught fire. --- A terrible affrair occurred about 3 o'clock Monday morning near Mobile, caused by the depredations of chicken thieves. Mrs. Martin who lives on the north side of Springhill Shell road, the ninth house west of Broad street, awakened her son Amos B. Martin and told him that there was a chicken thief in the yard back of the house. Young Martin salied out with a pistol but failed to find any person. As he was re-entering the house, he fired his pistol in the air to scare any evil disposed person. Just at this moment, Peter Joiner, the brother-in-law of Martin who occupies a room in the same house, came into the yard, having heard a noise. He saw the flash of Martin's pistol and thought a thief was firing upon him. He fired in the direction of the flash. Martin, thinking he was being attacked by a depredator, returned the fire, and both men emptied their pistols with telling effect. Joiner was wounded in the left arm near the elbow and Martin was hit in the lift side and also in the right breast. Then a brother of Martin came out, and the mistake was discovered. Martin died almost instantly. The two families are overwhelmed with grief at the fatal consequences of this terrible recounter in the dark. ---- CALHOUN County Local News Mr. Charles J. Cooper, a prominent merchant of Oxford, died at his home Wednesday after a long illness. He was highly esteemed throughout the county. --- DUKE STATION Community News Uncle Henry Gaines is very ill. It is very doubtful whether he will recover. --- Married on the 12th inst. near the county line of Calhoun and Etowah, Mr. William N. Hughes and Miss Geneva Frizell. --- CROSS PLAINS Community News Mr. Ira Estes and family of Ball Play community left for Texas last Tuesday. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, MARCH 27, 1886 ALABAMA State News CHEROKEE County News Mr. Jno. T. Stokes, a citizen of Cherokee was stricken with paralysis a few days ago. --- ST. CLAIR County News Nathaniel Hawkins of Fairview was found dead at his stable door while feeding his stock. He was ninety-one years old. ---- Mrs. R.B. Davis died on the 7th inst. --- CLEBURNE County News "Old man" Johnson near Cedar Creek was found dead in his bed a few mornings since. --- John Henderson, near Borden's Springs, was recently badly hurt by the caving in of an ore bank. --- A child of Tom Higgins near Borden Springs, fell from a chair into the fire a few days ago and was badly burned. --- John Hogue, a mute, near Borden Springs, became discouraged because he could not collect what was due him and has been trying to kill himself. A shot in the night glanced over his scalp. --- Jimmie Richardson, a lad of fifteen, ran away from home about the 16th of February and has not been heard of since, much to the grief of his mother. --- ETOWAH County News Henderson Wood of Attalla while trying to board a train a few days ago fell beneath it and had one of his feet crushed. --- Geo. G. Crump of Leesburg has moved to Texas. --- The famous case of Turnley vs. Hanna, involving the title to the Alabama White Sulphur Springs, which has been in the courts since the War, has been decided against Judge Turnley. He will appeal it to the Supreme Court. --- Mr. A.W. Watson of Gadsden died the 15th inst. --- TALLADEGA County News Wm. H. Wyatt of Talladega recently celebrated his 87th birthday by a dinner with his friends. --- COFFEE County News Mr. James Newman and his son Thomas of Coffee county were bitten by a mad dog some twenty days ago and both of them died of hydrophobia one day last week. --- SUMTER County News Amos Washington, colored, who killed the peddler Teddy Meehan in Livingston, was sentenced to be hung. --- JEFFERSON County News Nancy and Josephine Parsons, charged with killing Brewnett Parsons, husband and father of the accused, near Birmingham, were sentenced to the penitentiary for 21 years. --- CALHOUN County Local News MORRISVILLE Community News Mrs. Juliet Wood who lived near Weaver's Station died the 19th inst. She leaves a husband and several little children to sorrow for their loss. The grief stricken family have the heart felt sympathy of the entire community. --- Mr. J. Mich Moore is just as happy as a big sunflower; it is a boy. --- CROSS PLAINS News We regret to hear of the critical illness of Mrs. James Harbour of Goshen Valley. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Byrd of Rome were summoned by telegraph last Monday and are now with her. --- LOCAL News James Poole, a young man of about 16 years of age, a relative of Nathan Clark, died at the home of Mr. Clark on Wednesday of pneumonia. --- Mrs. Wm. Wood of Weaver's Station died a few days ago. She was a most estimable lady and her death is deeply deplored by a very large circle of friends. --- Mrs. Joseph H. Forney has gone to Illinois to visit her mother. --- File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/calhoun/newspapers/newspape1130gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 29.7 Kb

Henry County AlArchives Court.....Holland, Thomas B September 19, 1887 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ned Ellsworth RnbwEnd@aol.com October 4, 2006, 3:00 pm Source: Orphan's Book Henry County Written: September 19, 1887 Page 13 Exerpt from intestate Estate of Thomas B. Holland Deceased. Honorable Dan Gordon Judge of Probate of Henry County, Alabama. The undersigned James Jones respectfully represents unto your Honor that Thomas B Holland departed this life in said county on the 5th day of September 1887 being at time of his death and a resident citizen of said county and leaving at the time of his death a resident citizen of said county and leaving assets there in consisting of real and personal estate of about the value of 8000 dollars. That the widow of said decedent resides in said county and has no minor child or adult child living with her, and she desires that your petitioner become administrator of said estate. Your petitioner represents that he is the husband of the only adult heir of the said estate--is over twenty-one years of age and a resident citizen of said county, wherefore he asks your honor to grant administration of said estate to him and issue letters accordingly. James Jones Signed and Sworn to the 19th day of September 1887 Dan Gordon Probate Judge Filed in office Additional Comments: Interestingly there was another daughter in Abbeville and several grandchildren of another daughter that were adult heirs. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/henry/court/holland164gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb