Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for JUNE 1879 June 1879 ************************************************ 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 September 11, 2006, 5:48 pm The Jacksonville Republican June 1879 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN", Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama for JUNE 1879 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, June 7, 1879 STATE OF ALABAMA Calhoun County Probate Court Special Term, June 3nd, 1879 This day came R.T. Johnston, C.G. Morgan and J.J. Young and filed in court their petition in writing under oath; and also a paper purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of William Johnston, deceased, and moves the court to admit said Will to probate and to grant to the said R.T. Johnston, C.G. Morgan and J.J. Young letters testamentary under said Will. It is thereupon ordered that the 1st day of July 1879 be set for hearing the said application and that notice be given in the Jacksonville Republican, a newspaper published in said county for three successive weeks prior to said day as a notice to: Wm. E. Edwards Mary E. Hill Carrie Compton Inis Compton Elizabeth J. Cooper Carrie R. McGee; who are heirs- at- law and next of kin of the deceased and who are non- residents of the state of Alabama, to be and appear at a special term of said court to be held at the court house of said county on said 1st day of July 1879 and show if any thing they have to allege why said Will should not be admitted to probate. L.W. Cannon, Judge of Probate --- LOCAL News Married, at the residence of the bride's father, Tuesday, the 3rd inst., by Rev. E.T. Read, Mr. Joe Nisbet and Mrs. Flora Spivy. --- Mrs. Cobb, wife of Mr. Nattie Cobb, died at her home in Choccolocco Valley, Sunday, June 1st. Her disease baffled the skill of her physicians, and after a brief illness she passed from the sorrows of this world to the joys of another better and brighter. --- Robt. Martin, one of the oldest settlers of this county, died at his home near Peeks Hill, Wednesday the 21st ult. Mr. Martin was a good man in all the relations of life and leaves behind many sorrowing friends to mourn his loss. Thus has passed away another of the old landmarks of Calhoun, a representative of her earlier history. --- Died at his home near White Plains, Wednesday the 28th ult., Wm. Johnston. Mr. Johnston was one of the oldest settlers of this county, a man of unsullied character and of great worth. He was very old and his death was more the result of failing powers than any specific disease. He was buried by the masonic fraternity and the people of his section attested their love and respect for him an unusually large attendance at his funeral. One by one the old pioneers are passing away. It will be hard to find men who can well fill their place. --- Died at his home near Oxford of typhoid pneumonia, Sunday, June 1st, John Yoe, one of the first settlers of Calhoun. In the earliest recollections of the writer, Mr. Yoe was a citizen of Jacksonville. Here he married and remained until he moved to his place near Oxford, which he has since occupied. With him passes away another one of the links that connects the earlier history of our county with the present. During life Mr. Yoe was regarded as a substantial citizen and a good man, thoroughly reliable in all his financial transactions, and his death is a loss to the county and community in which he lived. His afflicted family have the deepest sympathy of many relatives and friends in this place. --- The venerable Allen Elston is no more! He died at his home in Choccolocco Valley, Wednesday the 21st, from the effects of old age rather than any specific disease. At the time of his death he was in the 76th year of his age. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Calhoun county and for over forty-two years occupied one place of residence. Mr. Elston was one of the substantial men of the county, beloved for amiable qualities of head and heart by all who knew him, and universally respected throughout the county. Peace to his ashes. --- The obituary of Rufus Burns and resolutions of Oxford Lodge on the death of John Yoe will appear next week. --- The aged grandmother of Rufus Burns, whose tragic death by a fall from his buggy we noticed last week, was stricken with paralysis when viewing the corpse of the loved one, and has since died. --- Uncle Jimmy Mohon has got five hundred dollars in money that says he can beat any man in this congressional district in a fifty yard foot race, one dash. He is seventy-one years old and will admit parties to the race from seventy years up. --- We received a pleasant visit from our little friend Nora Wyly who has recently returned from Selma where she has been attending school. Nora won the high distinction of being one of four in a class of forty who received the highest honors for scholarship and deportment. --- RUN AWAY - - - Tommy Coggins, a lad of about ten or eleven years of age, blue eyes, light hair, sallow complexion and rather heavy set, has run away from his home. He was bound to Col. Sheid of this county about four years ago in middle Tennessee and may be making his way back there. Col. Sheid requests all persons who may know of his whereabout to write to him (Sheid) at Alexandria or Jacksonville, Ala. --- ALABAMA News A Mr. Fritts who was moving from Loudon, Tenn. to MIssissippi, while passing through Marshall county, attempted to pull his gun from the wagon when it exploded and killed him instantly. His family sorrowfull returned to their old home. --- An Indian recently came to Guntersville from the Cherokee Nation and informed Mr. Patterson that some Indian mounds on his place contained deposits of silver and lead. One of the mounds was opened and the Indian's story was verified. There is great excitement. --- Cicero D. Hudson, an able lawyer of Randolph county, and a very old man, died in that county May 24th. --- Wm. Wagnon who was tried with his brother Ham Wagnon, for the murder of Smallwood in Etowah county at the late term of the circuit court is now a raving maniac. Ham Wagnon was sentenced to the penitentiary for one year but Wm. Wagnon, the one who has lost his mind, was acquitted. The mental anxiety endured during the trial is supposed to be the cause of his misfortune. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, June 14, 1879 LOCAL News We learn that Mr. William Weir is rapidly improving in health since going to Cleburne county and breathing that pure air and drinking that wholesome water. --- Died, last Friday night, Mrs. George Williams, living three miles south of this place of dropsy of the heart. The stricken husband, father, mother and sisters have the sympathy of our community. --- RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT IN THE DEATH OF JNO. YOE, by Hartwell Lodge No. 101, Oxford, Ala. Whereas, God has called from our midst Bro. Jno. Yoe, who was a member of this Lodge; and whereas another link in our mystic chain has been broken, and whereas another home was been made desolate, and a wife's and children's hearts have been stricken with sorrow, it is becoming in us to give expression to our feeling, therefore; Resolved, that while we cannot fathom the depths of that Providence which cut down our Bro. in his strength and bereft his family of his persence, support and counsel, we know that what He doeth is right. He is too wise to err and too good to do wrong. We therefore bow in meek submission to his will. 2nd; that in the death of our brother, Hartwell Lodge has lost a faithful and honored Mason, the community a worthy citizen, his family and kind husband and father. 3rd; that his famiy are entitled to to the sympathy of the Lodge which is hereby extended them in the spirit of the principles of our institution. 4th; that we wil emulate the virtues of our deceased brother and throw over his faults the mantle of charity. 5th; that we will wear the usual badge of mourning for 30 days. 6th; that a copy of this preamble and resolutions be furnished the family of the deceased and the Oxford Record and Jacksonville Republican with the request that they be published. 7th; that this preamble and resolutions be spread upon the Minutes of this Lodge and that a blank page be dedicated to the memory of Bro. Yoe. Thos. H. Barry Jno. F. Graham T.L. Robertson, Com., Hartwell Lodge No. 101, Oxford, Ala., June 3rd, 1879. ---- OBITUARY OF RUFUS BURNS Rufus Burns was born Dec. 11, 1863 and was killed May 25, 1879. Only sixteen, in the bright beautiful morn of youth, before he had reached the full fruition of physical and intellectual manhood, leaving only the memory of his noble virtues, and high natural abilities to illustrate the splendor of those accomplishments, which promised to crown his life in the future. Intelligent, manly brave, just as his feet were approaching the threshold of useful citizenship, the reaper death struck him down and a representative boy of Calhoun was no more. Above his mangled remains bent an aged grandmother, upon whose head the winds of eighty winters had silvered the golden hues of youth, and where the scalding tears were dried upon her furrowed cheek, her spirit, too, has left its decayed tenement to join the loved one in its flight beyond the unclaimed continents to the undiscovered bowers of the summer land above. "Age and beauty unite in realms of eternal love, Years, months and days are but one in that life above." W.W.W. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, June 21, 1879 LOCAL News Miss Genie Lockett, daughter of our former townsman Col. S.H. Lockett who has won high distinction in the service of the Khedive of Eygpt, is the guest of Mrs. B.F. Wyly. --- Dr. Burke who is a fine chemist and has had considerable experience with mineral waters, says that the medicinal properties of our Sulphur Springs are superior to any in the state and their mineral strength equal to any of his knowledge. This could be made a most delightful watering place. --- OBITUARY OF MRS. E.A. TAYLOR Died, at Concho mail station, Tom Green county, Texas on Thursday morning, May 15, 1879, Mrs. E.A., wife of Col. F.C. Taylor, aged 54 years. Thus unexpectedly has passed a most estimable lady; one who was beloved by all who had ever met her and probably no lady in west Texas had so large a circle of acquaintances and friends as she. The remains were followed to their last resting place by a large concourse of relatives and friends. The bereaved husband and relatives have the heartfelt sympathy of all who know them. Mrs. Taylor was a sister of Dr. B.S. Evans of of White Plains, Ala. --- IN MEMORIAM OF JOHN WRIGHT EVANS John Wright Evans, son of Dr. B.S. and Emma C. Evans was born June 26, 1877 and died at their residence in White Plains, Ala., April 15, 1879 aged 1 year, nine months and 15 days... --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, June 28, 1879 LOCAL News Mr. F.C. Taylor of Concho Mail Station, Texas, one of the largest mail contracters in the United States, died recently at that place. His devoted wife had died just but a short while previous. We published her obituary last week. --- Died, on the 26th inst., after an illness of but four days of congestion of stomach and lungs, Kiziah, relict of Samuel B. Hudson, deceased. The sudden death of this good woman has cast a gloom over our entire community. Her Christian virtues, her sorrows under the Providence of God begat for her a sympathetic friendship in every heart. She was a most devoted mother and lived in and for her children alone, and her last prayer was to be spared, God willing, to live for them longer. They have lost in her the best friend they will ever look upon again this side the grave. But a few days ago she was in the bloom of health to all appearance. Now she is dead. What a lesson to the living, to remind them of the uncertainty of life! Let us all so live, that when your summons comes, we may, like her, be fully prepared to meet it calmly and with perfect trust. --- DEATH OF MAJ. WIGGS We are pained to announce the death of Maj. A.R. Wiggs of Huntsville who died in that city last week of consumption. He established the Huntsville Independent before the war but retired from that journal before the breaking out of the war and made a tour of Europe and Asia. On his return he published a book known as "Hal's Travels" which gave him reputation as a writer of more than ordinary ability. He was again on the editorial staff of the Independent a few years ago and later on the staff of the Huntsville Advocate, which termininated his brilliant newspaper career. Maj. Wiggs was a graceful writer and was an honor to journalism. He was a particular friend to the writer and often gave us words of cheer through his paper. He was a friend to the young men and they held him in high estimation for his sterling qualities of head and heart. He was buried by the Knights of Honor, to which organization he was a member and his wife will get two thousand dollars from that order. His bereaved family have our heartfelt sympathy in their sore affliction. He is quietly sleeping that "sleep that knows no waking" in the "silent city of the dead", but we will revere his memory and drop a tear of sorrow. Requiecsat in peace. Scottsboro Citizen. (Maj. Wiggs was an uncle of Mrs. Otterson Smith and Miss Alice Wiggs of this city.) --- File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/calhoun/newspapers/newspape1092gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 13.9 Kb

Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for MAY 1879 May 1879 ************************************************ 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 September 10, 2006, 9:57 pm The Jacksonville Republican May 1879 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN", Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama for MAY 1879 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, May 3, 1879 LOCAL News Jerry Gladden, an industrious negro man, lately living in Jacksonville, died last week of that species of consumption so fatal to the blacks in this section. --- Since the absence of Mr. Lafayette Mattison, Mr. Seab Cook has been performing the duties of town Marshall and he fills the place worthily and well. --- Mrs. Sarah Stewart has returned from Arkansas after an absence of many years. She still thinks her old home about Ball Play the garden spot of the world. --- Married, on the 21st of April by the Rev. J. Walker, J.W. McDaniel of Calhoun county to Miss Lucinda Denman of Cleburne county. --- Mr. R.D. Williams has gone to Louisville and Cloverport, Ky., for a few week stay. He will bring back a very fine Percheron horse with him when he comes. The Percheron breed are the best draught horses in the world. They are large and have muscle. --- Mr. Isaac Frank of Gadsden is in town for a few days visiting his worthy family. Mr. Frank is in business in Gadsden. --- Mr. W.P. Hollingsworth who died in Gadsden recently was one of the foremost citizens of that town. His loss is a loss to this whole section of country. The editor of this paper lost in him one of the best friends he ever had. He was a noble man. --- ALABAMA News A man by the name of Cleveland was shot and killed in Birmingham ten days ago. --- Jack Overstreet killed Chas. Wells near Coffeeville lately. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, May 10, 1879 The trial of Cox for killing Alston in Atlanta some time since has just been concluded, the jury bringing in a verdict of "guilty of murder" with a recommendation that he be imprisoned for life, and the sentence was passed accordingly. The scene at the close of the trial was highly dramatic. The wife of the prisoner, when she realized the verdict, so fatal to her hopes, sprang to a window nearby and attempted to throw herself to the ground below. Her husband sprang to her and attempted to soothe her, when she threw her arms around him, wildly exclaiming, "Oh, my God, oh, my poor darling." Her shrieks were heart rendering and drew tears to the eyes in the crowded court room. Who can measure the depth of the devoted wife! God pity her! --- THE FISH ON TALLAPOOSA We went about two weeks too soon and consequently caught but few fish but we had a most enjoyable time and made many acquaintances and we hope, friends. At least we on our part shall never forget the courteous, kind treatment that we received on every hand from the people whom we met on this delightful trip. All these things aside, though, it is worth the expense incurred, any time, to go to that region, if only to breathe the pure air and drink the ice fold freestone water of the country. During our stay we were with the interesting family of Mr. R.F. Pounds, a very extensive farmer and mill owner on the Tallapoosa. Mr. Pounds owns twelve hundred acres of land on the Tallapoosa and the creeks flowing into it, in great part rich bottom land, and supports thirteen families on his place, but he is richest in children. Of these he has ten, seven of whom are boys. God willing that they should all live, what a staff he has in those sturdy, honest hearted boys, to lean on in his declining years! The oldest, Newman, is a farmer and a good one, married. The second is unmarried and fitting himself for a mercantile life or a profession. He is quite handsome, and a good catch for the girls, and therefore we shall not tell his name, lest they trouble him with bouquets and billetdoux. Mrs. Pounds is one of the most motherly and kind hearted ladies we ever met. Mr. Pounds himself is a prominent citizen of Cleburne county, a just man, very highly respected. As proof of his sense of justice and fair dealing with his fellow man, we have only to state the fact that in all his dealings with the gentlemen living and working his lands on shares, he has never had any difficulty in his settlements with any of them. He says these constant difficulties and misunderstandings between landlord and tenant is perhaps as often the fault of one as the other. Where a landlord gives a tenant a living chance, he is generally satisfied. ---- ALABAMA News A difficulty occurred near Carrolton, Pickens county between Hood Taylor and Jos. Sturdevant in which the latter was stabbed to death. Taylor was arrested and committed to jail. --- On Wednesday night last, Mr. J.L. Lofton of Eutaw was assaulted while on his way home by a negro, and severaly bitten on the hand and knocked down with a club. --- Thursday night April 24th the following prisoners escaped from the Huntsville jail: James Caperton, Will O'Keefe and James Lemly, charged with larceny; Dudley Warton of Franklin, Jno. Evens of Jackson and Thos. Robertson of DeKalb, all under sentence for thirty days imprisonment, and Thos. C. Wilkerson of Cleburne who was held by the government on a charge of perjury. Caperton and O'Keefe were recaptured. --- CLEBURNE News We regret to announce the death of John Buttram, who came to his death a few days ago by falling from a tree. Our information is that he had climbed a tree for the purpose of destroying a hawk's nest and by some means lost his hold and fell about forty feet, causing death instantly. He leaves a young family to mourn his loss. He is a son of Rev. Jeff Buttram of Oak Level, Ala. His bereaved family and friends have our sympathy. --- LOCAL News Mr. J.D. Hammond, Mayor, has had the streets put in good condition. --- Mr. R.H. Couper is having a tram road bult from the depot to the ore bed. The prospects are that it will be completed in a few days. --- Mr. J.J.B. McElrath has cotton with 7 leaves. He also has corn 3 or 4 feet high. He says that corn and cotton both look better than it has for years. He also states that the wheat is extra. It is all nicely headed out and looks as if it would make 25 bushels to the acre. --- Mr. John Vessel, we are informed, died last Monday week. --- Jos. H. Francis Jr., son of Dr. J.C. Francis of this place and who is traveling for a large New York house, has been visiting here the past week. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, May 17, 1879 OXFORD News Items Green Striplin, a worthy colored man living about three miles from town, lost his wife on the night of the 5th inst. She died of gastric and intestinal congestion. --- MARTIN'S CROSS ROADS News Rev. T.P. Gwin preached the funeral of the late Aaron Wilkins at Post Oak Baptist church last Sabbath, to a very large audience. --- ALABAMA News A son of Col. Thos. Smith of Coosa county joined the Confederate Army in 1861 and has not been heard of since that time until last week, when he returned to his father's home. --- LOCAL News Si Crow, an old negro man, formerly belonging to Mr. James Crow, died last week. Si, in slavery time, was a blacksmith and very valuable to his master. --- With pain, we learn of the death of Mrs. Clark, mother of Mrs. A. Woods of this place, after a brief illness. She was quite an old lady. Mrs. Clark was a thorough Christian woman, greatly beloved in her circle of acquaintance; and she leaves many sorrowing friends behind. The aged partner of her life and other relatives have our deepest sympathy. --- Some days ago during a rainstorm, lightning struck two china trees in the yard of Mr. Warren Harris and completely shattered them. One large piece was thrown fifty yards and splinters were driven through the heavy plank of a corn crib near. He was sitting within two feet of the window, near the trees, and the lightning passed directly through it, making a hole in a pane of glass as if a rifle ball had passed through, yet he did not in the least feel the shock. He says it made the loudest noise he ever heard. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, May 24, 1879 IN MEMORIAM OF CATHERINE C. (ECHOLS) McPHERSON Catherine C. (Echols) McPherson was born in Jasper county, Ga., April 4, 1816; was married to John McPherson Esq. April 1, 1857 ; was baptized unto the fellowship of the Christian church Nov. 9, 1875 and died May 17, 1879. Few persons possessed in so eminent a degree as the deceased, all those excellencies of head and heart which compose and color the noblest character. Mrs. M. was endowed with a strong well balanced intellect, superior judgment, warm affections and happiest social qualities. She was a lady of great energy, industry, firmness of purpose and decision of character.... It takes no extended eulogy to perpetuate the memory of this excellent Christian lady in the hearts of the virtuous. The memory of her presence will linger long in our midst, like the soft summer twilight of some bright departed day. Loving brothers and sisters, several step-children, one devoted and promising grandson whom she raised from infancy, the devoted husband and many friends, mourn her loss. J.C.W., Oxford, Ala. --- ALABAMA News Another homicide has been committed in Wayne County, Miss. On the evening of the 11th, Mr. James Sullivan and a young man named Steward were riding along when several shots were fired at them, killing Sullivan dead and wounding Steward, but the latter made his escape; both of their horses were killed. The young man that was wounded did not see the parties sufficiently to recognize them. Sullivan was a citizen of Washington county, Ala., and after the inquest, was taken home by his family and friends for burial, which was but a few miles from where the murder was committed. He was a man about sixty years old. --- A lad by the name of Boyd was shot last week by John Henon of Marshall county. The ball passed through the lungs and will probably prove fatal. --- Mr. Walter Bruce of DeKalb who was hurt some time ago since by a moving train, has since died. --- A man by the name of Foundren in Marshall county shot at a Mr. Skillman while plowing, a distance of 252 yards and broke his leg. --- Mr. Decatur Davis of this county, raises a kind of cabbage collard that is fine flavored and grows to enormous proportions. He has one now four feet across. The leaves are mostly white but sometimes many colored. He plants seed in September and the plant grows throughout the winter. He got the seed from Mrs. Dr. Pelham of Alexandria. --- CLEBURNE News We learn there was a squad of Revenue men in the upper part of the county last week and that they had some trouble in the neighborhood of James L. Roberts. Some shots were fired but no one hurt. --- OBITUARY OF Mrs. Mary A. Williams Died, at Oxford, Ala., the 16th. inst., Mrs. Mary A., wife of Dr. S.C. Williams. She was born in Ruthford, North Carolina, Aug. 6, 1828; was married to Dr. S.C. Williams at Rabbit Town, Ala., Tuesday, Jan. 1st, 1850. She joined the Baptist church Aug. 15, 1849 and lived a consistent and zealous member to her death. She leaves a husband and seven children, together with her aged parents and three brothers to mourn her loss. She was perfectly resigned to death; and a short while previous to her departure, called her children one by one to her; embraced, counselled and blessed them, then kissed them and said "goodbye". In like manner she did her parents, relatives who were in the room, impressed upon the latter the counseling and instructions of her children. Then folding her arms across her heaving breast, she said "blessed Jesus" and in a few moments was dead. Thus, a dutiful, affectionate daughter, an only sister, gentle and pure; a devoted wife, a dear, sweet darling mother has gone to her reward beyond the river; gone to be robed and crowned a princess of heaven. " The night she left us weeping round her bed, so loving, mild, She prayed His mercies on each throbbing head, "God bless my child!" And then she kissed me, oh! that last sweet kiss, This side the deep, "Goodbye!" she struggling said, blest Jesus this! And fell asleep. Oh! t' was hard to kiss thee darling one, and say goodbye, To see thee journey through the vale alone, To see thee die. No, not alone, O blessed Word of God, Jesus was there. How oft the path of shadows he had trod, To soothe despair. Sad heart week not the patient sufferer, Hath gone to rest, Gone hence to greet her great Deliverer, Among the blest. Tis not for e'er we'll meet again, again, Yes, meet again. Where Benlah hill smiles on the Olympic plain We'll meet again. Oh! Sainted spirit of our mother dear, We long to be free, >From these blinding tears, these heartaches here, With thee, with thee. Dudley. --- LOCAL News A dreadful and fatal affray is reported at Clark's mill near Deatsville and about 18 miles from this city on the S & N Raolroad yesterday. It seems that Mr. John Clark, a young man, son of Mr. H.W. Clark of this city, is in charge of his father's mill at the point above mentioned. About 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon a man named Tatum attempted to strike him with an axe or hatchet. Mr. Clark quickly fired upon him with a pistol. The ball struck him in the head causing death. Very soon after this Mr. Clark was fired upon by a brother of Tatum with a shot gun and wounded. This, however did not thoroughly disable young Clark, for he fired upon Tatum and wounded him twice; the balls entering the stomach and it was reported yesterday that the wounds would probably prove fatal. We have no further particulars of the dreadful affray and cannot state any of the causes leading to the bloody tragedy. The Tatums involved are no relations of Mr. Berry Tatum and family of this city. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, May 31, 1879 LOCAL News To come nearer home, such a state of things partially existed in St. Clair county, next door to us. We remember poor Frank Harrison, a gallant soldier of the Tenth Alaama regiment who survived the perils of a hundred battles to fall at last at the hands of a vile tory assasin in the suburbs of Ashville. The murderer is still at large, his whereabouts is known, and yet the Governor of Alabama, a fellow soldier of the slain man, moved by a consideration we cannot conceive, offers no reward fo his apprehension, upon application. The Jacksonville Republican " The spirit of fault finding is not to be discouraged, at least as to men in public service. It is well enough for those in official station to understand that every act they do is subjected to scrutiny and criticism. It is far better they should be unjustly critisised than not criticised at all. In this sense, the Jacksonville Republican has perhaps done better than it intended. In the case to which the Republican alludes, the Governor, in the exercise of the discretion vested in him by law, did, on the 27th of January last, offer a reward of $200. for the apprehension and delivery to the sheriff of St. Clair county of each or either of the persons indicted for the murder, not, we presume because the assasins were "tories" nor because the victim of their crime was an ex-Confederate soldier, but because it seemed the ends of justice could not be reached without this pecuniary appeal to those whose patriotism was not intense enough to prompt them to the discharge of their duty. Rewards for the arrests of criminals have heretofore we think been too highly and too liberally offered and the good people of the state have been taxed from $8000. to $12000. a year to pay for services that should have been rendered without other compensation than official fees or the consciousness of duty discharged. We have an army of sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables and police officers armed with the power and charged with the duty of arresting felons and crime doers, and these prohibited by law from receiving extra pay in the shape of rewards should be sufficient to bring offenders to the bar of justice. In addition, every citizen owes it to the state, to the community and to his family, to assist int he enforcement of the criminal laws, at least so far as he can so do without cost or serious inconvenience to himself. It is the duty, for instance of anyone having the knowledge of the whereabouts of B.F. Springfield or Thomas Springfield, the murderers of Harrison, to communicate the information in his possession to the sheriff of any county in the state where they may be, and then it will be the duty of the sheriff to make the arrest without either cost to the state than his fees therefor.... ---- LOCAL News Seab Crook is the champion marble shooter of the state. We challenge the entire state. --- Mr. John M. Caldwell is visiting relatives in Memphis. --- The little daughter of Mr. Kennedy on Sand Mountain was attacked by an enraged jack, and had her arm broken besides being badly bitten. --- Billie Dean, after a violent attack of billious fever has again resumed his position behind the counter. Billie is one of our most popular salesmen and was sadly missed during his illness. --- A splendid bridge has lately been constructed over the Choccolocco Creek beyond White Plains. Mr. J. Floyd Smith was largely instrumental in the prosecution of this work. The bridge was constructed by Mr. Anthony Dickerson and is a model of workmanship, as to finish, strength and durability. --- Mrs. A.W. Cawthorn, nee Laura Keith, chaperoned by our genial friend Mrs. John Wyly, paid our sanctum a pleasant visit Monday evening. Mrs. Cawthorn spent the days of her girlhood here and will be remembered as one of the most accomplished young ladies of that period. --- Our young townsman Walter E. Hammond, who is absent on a business trip through south Ala., met with a serious and well nigh fatal accident some days since. In crossing a very deep and dangerous ford through a creek with which he was totally unacquainted, his horse stumbled and threw him headlong into the water. Encumbered with clothes, he sank to the bottom. With admirable presence of mind he rapidly disengaged himself from his heavier garments and as he arose to the surface in a half drowned condition, grasped with the energy of despair, a piece of drift wood and clung to it until he weas thrown upon a bank, at a considerable distance down the creek, in a state of complete physical prostration. We heartily congratulate him upon his fortunate escape. --- On last Monday, a most terrible accident happened to the son of Mr. G.W. Burns of this county, by which he was instantaneously killed. While returning from Oxford in a buggy, the horse ran away and struck the wheels against a stump, throwing the lad with such violence against a tree as to fracture the skull and dislocate the neck, causing death instantly. He was a bright intelligent boy of sixteen and possessed all those noble traits of character for which his half-brother Frank Maddox who recently died in this place, was so esteemed. An aged grandmother upon viewing his mangled remains was hopelessly stricken down at his bedside by paralysis. We tender our deepest sympathy to the grief stricken relatives in this sad hour of a double bereavement. --- Our townsman Mr. J.L. Mattison has been appointed Southern Passenger Agent at the Blue Mountain Route, Selma, Rome & Dalton Railroad, at Montgomery, Ala. We hope to see again, throught he efforts of Mr. Mattison, this old and favorite route crowded with summer travels or the various summer resorts East and North; but at the same time we would not have our friends more from Southern latitudes forget that immediately on the line of this Road are many pleasant and economical summer retreats just as healthy as those in Virginia and Tennessee and very convenient for our Montgomery and Mobile friends. Send them here to us friend Mattison and we will extend to them the hearty hand of welcome. Here in the Blue mountains at a very great elevation we have a cool atmosphere, many mineral springs and beautiful mountain scenery... --- File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/calhoun/newspapers/newspape1091gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 20.7 Kb

Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for APRIL 1879 April 1879 ************************************************ 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 September 9, 2006, 10:29 pm The Jacksonville Republican April 1879 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN", Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama for APRIL 1879 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, April 5, 1879 LOCAL News A letter has been addressed to the Montgomery Advertiser by Mr. James J.M. Smith of Burnet, Texas, asking for information concerning the heirs of Mr. A.B. Brown who is supposed to have once resided in Randolph or Chambers county in this state. Mr. Smith states that there is a large estate, principally in lands in Florida belonging to the heirs of the late Mr. Brown and it is desired that all the heirs make themselves known. One or more of the heirs may have formerly lived in Barbour county. It is suggested that a Mr. James Gay who is believed to have resided in Randolph county may be able to give some information in this matter. Mr. Smith states that a missing child of Mr. Brown is the principal party whose whereabouts is desirable to be ascertained as this child will be entitled to the major portion of the estate left by the deceased. A request is made that the exchanges of the Advertiser be kind enough to copy the above or make such reference as they may see proper to the subject. Mr. Brown was a Confederate soldier and his family became scattered during the war which accounts for the request. Montgomery Advertiser. --- MARTIN'S CROSS ROADS, Ala. Mr. Bazil Calvert died on the 28th inst. after a long illness at a very mature old age. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, April 12, 1879 LOCAL News The return of Mr. Vestal to this county, after some twenty years absence, a wealthy man, bounteous to every relative he left behind, reads like an Arabian Night's story. His old mother had long mourned him dead. He came to her like one risen from the grave and gladdened her old eyes with the blessed sight of him once more, before she died. He was lavish in his gifts to those who had taken care of her during all those weary twenty years and provided for her amply during the remainder of her days. To one who had fought the wolf that comes to the poor man's door for many years, he brought teams of fine mules, wagons, a horse and buggy and gave money enough to start him comfortably in life and to use his word, "make him independent for the rest of his days, without another lick of work." Other relatives were the recipients of like favors at his hands. All were happy and glad of the wanderer's return. Marlon McCullers, the recipient of the four mule team says that he would have been glad to have seen him come as he went, a poor man, but that he is powerful glad to see him as he came, wealthy and fat with fortune. Marion further says that it seems to him now that his step is more elastic than it used to be, that the birds sing sweeter, the sun shines brighter, the breeze blows cooler, the grass looks greener than before, and that all nature wears a comlier aspect. --- ALABAMA News The Athens Post reports that the venerable Thos. Getty, aged 86 years, died at the home of his son, three miles south of this place on last Saturday and was buried here on Sunday evening. --- The following card is published in the Tuscumbia Alabamian: Tuscumbia, Ala., March 31st Editor Democrat: Having been convicted and doomed to State prison for life, I feel like I ought to say something to my fellow men in warning to the cause of my being in such a dreadful scrape. I will first say, all who heard the evidence learned that whiskey, yes, whiskey, was the man who killed the deceased Mr. George Devaney, and locked me into the State prison for life. And now you dram drinkers and whiskey heads, should not this serve to be a warning to you? You know not how soon this essence of hell may derange you and place you and your precious family in the very same condition that myself, wife and six little children are in today. J.M. King --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, April 26, 1879 ALABAMA News Mrs. T.A. Scales of Sumter county fell from a gallery and broke her collar bone. --- E. Owen was killed at Claiborne last Saturday night by a man named Johnson. --- The Tuskegee news reports that Samuel Showers, aged 89 years, recently walked from Livingston to York. --- A MAN 136 YEARS OLD DIED IN JACKSON COUNTY According to the Sand Mountain correspondent of the Citizen, Capt. John Hannah died on the mountain and had reached the wonderful age of 136 years, 1 months and 6 days. He was born Feb. 12, 1743 and died March 20, 1879. He served under Gen. Washington during the French war and obtained the rank of Captain. He knew the great Irish-American orator, Patrick Henry when he was but a mere boy in Virginia. Capt. Hannah had never been ill until he was a century old and his eye sight was perfect at the time of his death. --- File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/calhoun/newspapers/newspape1090gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 5.4 Kb

Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for MARCH 1879 March 1879 ************************************************ 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 September 9, 2006, 8:06 pm The Jacksonville Republican March 1879 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN", Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama for MARCH 1879 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, March 1, 1879 STATE OF ALABAMA, Calhoun County Probate Court, Special Term, February 22, 1879 This day came Charles Martin, administrator of the estate of Loving Martin, deceased and filed his accounts and vouchers for an annual settlement of said estate. It is ordered that the 22nd day of March 1879 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement. At which time all persons interested can appear and contest said settlement if they think proper. L.W. Cannon, Judge of Probate --- LOCAL News Died, at the residence of her husband in this place, of paralysis, on Saturday the 22nd inst., Mrs. Johns. The deceased was a most exemplary christian lady, beloved by a large circle fo friends and her death is sincerely mourned by all who knew her. Her aged partner in life and her children have our heartfelt sympathy. --- (For the Jacksonville Republican) Died at the residence of his parents near Weeberville, Travis County, Texas on the 13th of Feb. 1879, Pinck E. Garrett, second son of Patillo and Susannah Garrett of South Carolina, aged 20 years last Jan. After a brief and painful illness his immortal spirit took its flight to its home in paradise with God. He bore his afflictions as a soldier of the cross. Praying constantly to his maker he vanished from our sight like a fleeting sunbeam and did not fear death; but oh, how sad to realize that his sweet smile will no more shed its light in the home circle, no more will he fill the vacant seat around the fire- side, but calmly and peacefully he fell asleep in Jesus, and his spirit has been wafted to the golden wings of immortal love from earth to the bosom of the Good Shepherd. Ella Avaline Garrett. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, March 8, 1879 LOCAL News In company with Mr. J.J. Wilson of this place, we visited last Sabbath, Mrs. Ables, the victim of the brutal assaunt of Albert Ragan, the negro who paid the penalty of his crime with his life in the same place some weeks ago. We found her still living, through hanging on the very borders of death. She was delirious as she has been almost constantly since the assault. Her face presented a shocking appearance and the indendations in her forehead plainly told where the cruel rock in the hands of the fiend had done it's work. The cottage or rather hut in which she lives presents an appearance of extreme poverty, as we learned from some kind neighbors who were present, that she and her little family had been entirely dependent on the bounty of the charitable since her terrible misfortune. Before she was stricken Mrs. Ables was poor in this world's goods but was an honest, self reliant and industrious woman. She cultivated a little patch of ground and on it raised a sufficiency of food to supply her modest wants. The animal she used for plowing her land was a milch cow, whichs he worked through the day and milked in the evening. We were shown the animal, a meek, gentle looking creature, bearing the marks of the yoke plainly on its neck. The lady was in search of food for this mainstay of her little family when she was attacked and reduced to her present pitiful condition. From this it will be seen that before her misfortune she and her family were poor indeed; but since the dreadful assault that deprived her of at once of use and strength of arms, they are doubly poor and their conditon appeals most strongly to the sympathies of the charitable. So far the needs of the family have been suplied by kidn neighbors with some outside help from this place and in Gadsden; but this has not been more than sufficient to supply their immediate wants. Until the death or recovery of this lady, the family will be dependent on outside help. She cannot be moved and therefore cannot be taken under the care of the county, we learn. We would therefore suggest to the ministers of the various churches throughout the county to take up a charitable subscription in their churches for the relief of this stricken household and to send the amounts give to Judge Cannon who will see that it reaches the object for which it is designed. This case is one that should appeal in a special manner, most powerfully to the sympathies of women and we trust that the women of Calhoun county will see to it that this deserving but unfortunate family does not suffer. In the absence of church subscriptions, any party, who may feel so disposed, can make contributions either in money or provisions and as we have said before, Judge Cannon will see to it that everything so contributed reaches the object for which it is designed. --- LOCAL News Married, at the residence of Mrs. Phillips of this place on the 6th iinst. by Rev. T.P. Gwin, Mr. H.H. Boozer and Miss Sophie C. Phillips. --- CHOCCOLOCCO News Items Married, near Davisville, Ala., Jeffie Smith to Miss Mary A. Pendergrass, by J.F. M. Davis. --- Married at Choccolocco, Ala., on March 2nd, Dr. G.W. Sorrell of Alexandria City to Miss Mollie A. Bentley, by J.F.M. Davis. --- FATAL SHOOTING SCRAPE On the 3rd inst., a recontre occurred between Charles Curtis and Join Poindexter which resulted in the fatal shooting of the former. It appears that on Saturday a young lady went to the store where Curtis was employed to purchase a pair of shoes and as she alleges she was insulted by Curtis. This was made known to Poindexter who was the lady's fiance. Monday morning, Poindexter went to the store after Curtis and proceeded to cowhide him. After striking him a few blows he was stopped by persons who were present. About noon, Curtis with a friend, went to Poindexter's place of business and demanded an apology and public explanation which was refused. Curtis thereupon assaulted Poindexter with a cane. Poindexter warned his assailant not to stroke or he would shoot him but Curtis continued the assault. Poindexter commenced and continued firing and Curtis fell with three balls in his breast and one in his head. Curtis is not dead but no hopes for his recovery are entertained. Both are respectably connected and of excellent reputation. --- ALABAMA News Died, near Bennettsville in Etowah county, Ala., on the morning of Feb. 19th, Wm. C. Smith, son of John M. Smith, formerly of Choccolocco Valley. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, March 15, 1879 LOCAL News We are glad to note the fact that the ladies of Jacksonville are responding to our appeal in behalf of Mrs. Ables. Mr. Hammonds has kindly tendered a conveyance by which everything subscribed can be sent out next Monday. Blessed charity! Thank God it still has a home in the breast of gentle women. Let the ladies include in their donation some delicacies suited to a sick person. --- CHOCCOLOCCO News Items Died, at Davisville on March 10th, Rev. Elijah Teague. --- Died, at Holly Springs, Miss., on Feb. 28th, 1879, Mrs. C.M. Wallace, daughter of Mrs. E.J. Mallory , formerly of this county. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, March 22, 1879 MRS. ABLES Friday, a hack went from this place to the home of Mrs. Ables carrying a load of clothing and provisions to the unfortunate family. Judge Cannon has received some monetary contributions. The following from Louisiana on this subject explains itself: To Editor of the Jacksonville Republican, Your appeal through the Jacksonville Republican asking for aid to the unfortunate woman Mrs. Ables is before me. Although many miles away, I feel as though I would like to be among those who contribute to the relief of this poor woman and helpless family. I feel that it is really a privilege and offers an opportunity, that all should embrace, of doing the most good, in a charitable point of view. I firmly believe that God loves a cheerful giver. Enclosed find a small contribution of five dollars in bank check. Please hand it to Judge Cannon. The writer happened to be at the wedding of this unfortunate woman about twenty years ago. Acknowledge receipt and oblige, Wiley P. Mangham, Rayville, Louisiana --- COLONEL ROBERT A. ALSTON Atlanta, Ga., March 12, 1879 It is with faltering pen and uncertain fingers that I come to write of "Bob" Alston, dead! For ten years he was my friend, knit to my heart by a thousand ties. To write of him or talk of him is to give the public many things that shuld be cherished in the privacy that makes them sacred. For four years we were bound together with the sympathy that men feel for each other when they stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart to fight against odds; and in the extremities of that struggle I learned to know him, I believe better than any living man ever knew him. I shall write of him, then as if he was before me tonight, and with his blue eyes looking into mine, and my hand within his kindly grasps. If I should be betrayed into writing anything that would have been better unwritten, I shall remember that none but his friends have read it, for I do not believe that the state of Georgia holds today a single man or woman who was aught but regretful tenderness for the dead man that lies in that coffin yonder. Bob Alton came of a princely stock. His ancestors settled in Halifax, North Carolina, nearly a century ago. They were imperious, dauntless people, of enormous wealth, lavish habits and stirring traditions. They were of a stubborn strain of fighters, dominating over everything and brooking no contention. They were known over the country as a gentle but reckless race and came to be called the "Halifax" Alstons. Many a time I heard Alston tell, in his frank and bright way, of the traditions of these people, how they traveled from one of their estates to another in almost regal state, with the old King George coach and four and an army of sable attendants; his his grandmother used to carry her own sheets and pillows and loaf sugar with her everywhere she went; and how, in her mettlesome days, racing with her husband over the countryside, she would put $100. on a cockfight and follow the fox hounds where none but the Alstons dare ride. Or how his grandfahter offered his estates to Jefferson when war was declared and drank rye coffee to his death because he drank it during the war; of how honest Willis Alston, his grand uncle, had to confront the whole state of Carolina because of his assault upon a defaulting state treasurer; and of the lordly way in which these two brothers fought and frollicked alternately with the gentry from Virginia to Georgia. This is a point upon which Bob Alston has become more misunderstood than upon his alleged proclivity for fighting. The bravery and dash of the old Alston blood was there, but the passion fever had been cooled out of it and amost genial essence sent through it, col and sparkling. His mother was a gentle woman, and gave to her sons a most admirable sweetness of disposition. Whenever the Alston fire flashed in the veins, this delicious coolness put it down. I never saw Alston angry five minutes at any time in my life. It was a flash, a frown, a smile. Why does not John Nelms say that in the crisis of that murderous fight, while the messenger of death was already winged, the pale, stern face turned towards him and lighted with a smile? And does not the poor clay coffin silenced and stilled in that room, yet wear a smile that tells the passion roused in that forebearing frame died away before the smoke had cleared from his face? There was a touching thing done by Ed Mercer who always loved Alson well. He knew of Alston's fear that he would die a violent death; he said with tears in his eyes, "Poor Bob, he shall not die in his boots". And he tenderly pulled them off. At the bedside the scene was heart rendering. The poor wife, holding her husband's hand and calling on him in the most piteous tones. Near her, kneeled Gov. Colquitt, praying aloud and his voice so broken that he could not syllable his words. Around the bed stood friends with uncovered heads and streaming eyes, while the crowd thronged outside the door for the slightest bit of news. On the bed peaceful and resigned, his eyes resting fondly on his wife or lifted now and then to some friend, lay the sufferer. Ah, surely, in God's mercy, here was the peaceful death that he had prayed for. Surely here was a peace that mocked all earthly storms, a peace that smiled at the ghastly hole in the temple and the blood stains, a legacy of peace that would enrich his sons beyond all measure; a peace that passeth understanding. He was true to his friends to the last degree; he never failed to help them when chance offered and never deserted them when they were in trouble. Lovable, sympathetic and frank, he was wonderfully magnetic. Every man that worked on the old Herald with him loved him. Yesterdays dispatches were received from all over the state and today a half hundred of them will be in Decatur to see him buried. His love for his wife was marvelous in its freshness and strength. It was the passion of his life. The last letter he ever wrote was addressed to her as if he was suing for her hand in marriage. The morning that he left her he kissed her at the door. She followed him to the steps and there stopped. "What, no further than the steps with me?" he said. And laughingly she went to the gate with him. Ah, the poor woman spoke the secrets of her heart and the glory of her life when she rubbed his chilled hands and said..."speak to me, look at me". She was all to him, and nobly did she fill his life with her sweet and loyal love. May God in His infinite gentleness bathe her heart with mercy. I might write forever about him. About his home life, so soft and loving and gentle, about the kindliness with which he placed his arm about me when I came to this city a friendless youngster, about the charming surprises that his life developed day after day, about the half-sad, half-tender talks that we used to have about his life and the hopes and loves he had centered in his children; about his wonderful adventures and exploits, so full of that bright audacity that sat him so well. Today we bury him, tomorrow we shrine his memory in our hearts and turn our faces to the future. Tears are idle and no cry can bring back that bright presence and that winsome face. Nothing can light those darkened eyes, nothing thrill that confined heart, nothing quicken that tired brain. God's will be done, and God rest thee in peace, thou honest friend, thou golden-hearted gentleman. H.W.G. --- PETITION FOR PROBATE OF WILL State of Alabama, Calhoun County Probate Court, March 17, 1879 This day came Elijah W. Teague and produced and filed in court a paper in writing purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Elijah Teague, deceased, and moves to court to admit said Will to probate. It is therefore ordered that the 14th day of April 1879 be set for hearing the said application; and that notice be given by publication in the Jacksonville Republican, a newspaper published in said county, for three successive weeks prior to said day as a notice to: Lidie M. Evans Sarah A. Kelley Lurana J. Brock; who are nieces at law and next of kin to the deceased; and who are non- residents of the state of Alabama, to be and appear at a regular term of said court to be held at the courthouse of said county on said 14th day of April 1879 and show if anything they have to allege why said Will should not be admitted to probate. L.W. Cannon, Judge of Probate --- FINAL SETTLEMENT NOTICE State of Alabama, Calhoun County Probate Court, March 15, 1879 This day came A.J. Bowls, administrator with Will annexed of the estate of P.D. Bowls, deceased and filed his statement, accounts and vouchers for a final settlement of his administration thereof. It is ordered by the court that the 5th day of May 1879 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement. At which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement if they think proper. L.W. Cannon, Judge of Probate --- ANNUAL SETTLEMENT NOTICE State of Alabama, Calhoun county Probate Court, March 10, 1879 This day came John F. Walker, administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Walker, deceased, and filed his statement, accounts and vouchers for an annual settlement of his administration. It is ordered that the 17th day of April 1879 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement. At which time all persons interested can appear and contest said settlement if they think proper. L.W. Cannon, Judge of Probate --- LOCAL News W.A. Brown and Miss Mattie Collins were recently married in Morgan county. --- Miss Minnie Alexander of Tenn., sister of our townsman Mr. J.M. Alexander, is attending Calhoun college. --- We were pleased to receive a visit on Tuesday from Mr. N.S. Vestal, formerly of tis county but now of Helena Montana Territory. Mr. Vestal left his home more than a score of years since, a poor boy, to seek his fortune in the far west and having made a marvelous success of life, he now returns to the place of his youth, immensely rich, the object of his visit being to administer comfort and provide well for those whom he left long ago. --- Mr. Elijah Teague, an old and estimable citizen die at his home in Davisville on the 10th inst. --- We regret to learn of the death of Mr. A.D. Wilkins which occurred at his residence in this county on Friday the 14th. Mr. Wilkins was highly respected and esteemed and his loss is greatly deplored. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, March 29, 1879 LOCAL News Mrs. Ables, the unfortunate lady whose condition we noticed two weeks ago, died last Friday. The clothing, etc. sent from this place by our charitable ladies reached the unfortunate family in good time, we heard, for she had not a garment suitable to be buried in. Charitable and responsible parties stand ready to take the youngest children and care for them. ---- We regret very much to learn of the death of Mrs. Wesley Neal of Ball Play in this county, last Saturday. She died of typhoid pneumonia after an illness of two weeks. The deceased was about twenty-nine years of age at the time of her death. The stricken husband has our heartfelt sympathy. --- ALABAMA News Some errors appearing in the following obituary as published last week, we publish this week in corrected form: Died, at his residence in Gadsden, Ala., on the 13th day of March 1879, after a lingering illness, Rev. Theophilus Moody, in the 72nd year of his age. Deceased had been a travelling Methodist preacher for about forty-nine years, and was a member of the first Alabama conference, held in the city of Tuscaloosa in 1832. During his ministry he traveled pretty much all over Alabama, and was, perhaps, as extensively kown as any preacher in the State; his field of labor being co-extensive with its limits. During his long service he filled many important charges with acceptability, proving himself a "workman that needeth not to be ashamed." In the private walks of life he was quiet and unostentatious, and esteemed by all as a humble, conscientious christian. In his ministrial character he was above reproach, and ever enjoyed the respect and confidence of his brethren. It was his highest aim, his greatest happiness, to do his whole duty as a minister of the New Testament, esteeming the promotion of the kingdom of Christ, paramount to everything else, "counting all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ". He loved the church, was devoted to her interests and during his long and faithful service in the ranks of the ministry, made many sacrifices and endured hardships and privations to further the great cause of the gospel. At home, in his family, he was known as a kind, affectionate parent, ever watchful and considerate, endeavoring to promote the welfare and happiness of each member. In all the relations of life, he was faithful and true, and left the impress of his godly character wherever he went. God, in His providence, permitted him to do a large work for the church while he had the strength. He lived out his three score years and ten and when the Master called him he was ready to go. His record is on high. May the Lord grant consolation to his bereaved relatives. "Servant of God, well done! Rest from thy loved employ; The battle fought, the victory won, Enter thy Master's joy." M.T.M. --- File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/calhoun/newspapers/newspape1089gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 21.2 Kb

Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for FEB 1879 February 1879 ************************************************ 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 September 8, 2006, 11:58 pm The Jacksonville Republican February 1879 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN", Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama for FEBRUARY 1879 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, February 1, 1879 J.W. BRADLEY AS A MODEL FARMER AND NURSERYMAN Some nine miles north of Jacksonville in the valley of Ohatchee in the county of Calhoun, lives our model farmer and young nurseryman. We say young because he has not been in the nursery business. The land upon which Mr. J.W. Bradley lives was settled in or near 1850 and was many years after that abandoned as wholly worn out, consequently non-paying to its occupant. So said lands were as wild lands after that, presenting the unsightly appearance of old sedge fields, partially overgrown with pine, common to our oat lands of this section of country. About six years ago, Mr. Bradley bought forty acres of said worn out lands and paid twenty-five dollars for the same, not being able to buy any better or more expensive lands. Mr. Bradley being very poor, his operations as a farmer are as yet small; but success has been his all the while. He, with the aid of his children and good wife, have taken in from time to time, the sedge lands of his place until now he operates about four-fifths of his forty acres. His lands are two kinds; the lower portion are of a whilte, sandy loam with red clay subsoil, while the higher portion is of a red sandy character with the same kind of subsoil. Mr. Bradley has been making all the manure he can every year and applying the same as judiciously as he could, he says, and to which, in a large degree owes to his success. He has brought up his lands from year to year in this way until he gathers from fifteen to twenty-five bushels of corn per acre and near the same amount of wheat and oats, and this past year his cotton made him fifteen hundred pounds of seed cotton per acre. He says he has given his whole time to the farm, both summer and winter, cultivating his crop or gathering the same and otherwise improving his farm. Five or six years ago he obtained from the original Shockly apple orchard of Georgia some cuttings of the Shockly apples. From said cuttings he grafted and planted thirty trees. Since that time he has extended that number to three hundred and his Shockly apples have for three years in succession taken the premium at the fairs at which they were exhibited. He has just sold the last of his last year's crop of apples and that was at two dollars per bushel. Mr. Bradley has built a very comfortable residence, very expensive under all the circumstances. The first story or base story, being brick and the second frame works with a large roomy cellar, equal to his good lady's wants, for her culinary purposes, and all that is his and about him, is directly from the income of this little nursery farm. This is no exaggeration, as all who have visited Mr. Bradley's will attest. It only shows what energy and economy will do. Many farms like this might be made to bloom lke the rose, as it were. ---- NEGRO LYNCHED On Monday evening last, at 1 o'clock, at Jacksonville, Ala., in broad open daylight, by about three hundred respectable citizens of both black and white people, a negro man was taken from the jail by force and hung. The negro had outraged the person of a widow woman, Mrs. (Moses) Ables, a daughter of Mr. James Beard of Cove Creek in Etowah county, Ala. The posse that lynched the negro was from the same neighborhood of the latter named place. The negro had been previously arrested and carried to Jacksonville jail. The citizens of Cove Creek, both white and black, became so indignant at the act that they arose enmasse, went to Jacksonville, took out the negro and hung him. The negro made a full confession before he was executed. The woman's skull was broken in several placed and her person was outraged and she is not expected to live. Mrs. Ables was of a good family. Her husband was a soldier of the Lost Cause, passed through safe and was killed at a log camp near Gadsden some time since. Coosa River News --- FROM THE GADSDEN TIMES Dear Editor of the Times, In your issue of the 3rd inst. I noticed an extract from the Jacksonville Republican that in a casual conversation as to what constitutes a good neighbor, some one remarked that one who would dismount and loan his horse to a friend to carry his grist to mill and return home himself on foot was a good neighbor, and that Col. Wm. C. Lee was the man who performed that neighborly act. The Col. Wm. C. Lee alluded to our "Uncle Billy" a valued citizen of Etowah county. Those who know him will be not surprised at the allusion made to him as it is characteristic of the man. This same Wm. C. Lee, on a certain wedding occasion in Shelby county, when he was the owner of 18 horses, loaned to his neighbors every horse he had except one, which his wife and daughter rode to a wedding, himself walking a distance of four miles. Columns of your paper coujld be filled with such similar acts of kindnessed extended by this good old man, which his friends and neighbors would readily verify. Col. Lee is a native of Tennessee. He first emigrated to Shelby county in this state, then to Calhoun county, and thence to St. Clair and at the formation of Etowah county, he lived at his presence residence in the St. Clair cut-off. He is now living with his third wife and his twentieth and twenty-first children are with him. He served in the War of 1812 and is now nearly eighty- four years of age. Any one calling on "Uncle Billy" will meet with his cordial reception. His home is a home for ministers of all denominations and nothing affords him more pleasure than to have them partake of his hospitality. He serves God faithfully and his chief object in life is to "make his calling and election sure." Consquently Mr. Editor, Col. Wm. C. Lee is a good neighbor. A citizen. --- ALABAMA News The Rockford Enterprise reports that Rev. John McKenzie of Shelby county, father of Mr. Jeff. McKinzie of Goodwater, and for many years a minister of the gospel, was killed by a kick from a mule a few days since. He was 82 years old. His remains were interred at Socopatoy Cemetery. --- The Evergreen Star reports that Mr. T. Dorsey Higdon of Burnt Corn neighborhood had his hand terribly mangled by a cotton gin recently. His arm was amputated about two inches below his elbow. --- The Cherokee Advertiser reports the deaths of Wm. James Sr. aged 70 years and George Bell Sr. aged about 70 years. --- Mrs. Lawrence Sherrod of Colbert county was recently fatally burned by her dress catching fire. Mrs. Elizabeth Drake of the same county was burned to death a few days ago. --- Mrs. Nannie Dill died recently near Ashville, aged 82 years. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, February 8, 1879 PETITION FOR PROBATE OF WILL State of Alabama, Calhoun County Probate Court, Special Term Feb. 1, 1879 This day came W.B. Green and produced in court a paper purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Eliza A. Prater, deceased, and moves the court to admit the said Will to probate and to issue letters testamentary under said Will to the said W.B. Green, executor. It is therefore ordered that Monday the 31st of March 1879 be set for the hearing of said petition and that notice thereof be given by publication in the Jacksonville Republican for three successive weeks from said date as a notice to Richard W. Prater and John M. McCain who are heirs at law and next of kin to the deceased, and who are now residents of the state of Alabma, to be and appear at a special term of said court to be held at the courthouse of said county on the 3rd day of March 1879, and show anything they have to allege why said WIll should not be admittted to probate and letters thereunto issued to the said W.B. Green. L.W. Cannon, Judge of Probate --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, February 15, 1879 LOCAL News Thursday morning, between six and seven o'clock, Gen. W. O. Hutchinson, an old and honored citizen of this place, breathed his last, after an illness of some weeks. He leaves a wife and four children to mourn his loss. His loss in this community will be severely felt and his death universally mourned. --- We have just learned of the death of Mr. J.W. Lee of this county who departed this life the 4th inst., after an illness of several weeks. Mr. Lee was one of the oldest citizens of the county and was much respected and beloved by all who knew him. He was 78 years of age at the time of his death. --- Married near Alexandria on Sunday the 9th inst., Mr. Robert Gullege and Miss Rebecca Cupp, by W.S. Neel Esq. --- CHOCCOLOCCO News Items Married at Kelley's Hotel in Oxford Ala., on the 30th of January, W.H. Davis to Miss Nati? Wright by the Rev. E.T. Smythe. --- Married in Oxford, Ala., on the 30th of January, John T. Falkner to Miss Sallie Bowling, by the Rev. E.T. Smythe. --- Died, near DeArmanville, George Wright on Feb. 3rd. --- Died, near DeArmanville on Feb. 8th, Henry Thompson from typhoid fever, after an illness of forth-eight days. --- Died, near DeArmansville from typhoid fever, Taylor Currier. --- ALABAMA News The Talladega Reporter reports that a few evenings since, a difficulty occurred between James Cargile and Calhoun Willis who met near where the Chandler Springs road leaves the Socapatory road about nine miles southeast of here. When Willis made an effort to shoot Cargile, James H. Willis the father, undertook to stop his son and prevent the shooting, and interposing, received a shot which resulted in his death Wednesday morning. It seems there has been some ill feeling between Calhoun Willis and Cargile growing out of some family matter and hence the difficulty when they met. A warrant was issued by Justice Lawson of this city for the arrest of Willis but he had not been arrested up to the time we go to press. --- The Evergreen Star reports that Mrs. Gracie Page of Conecuh county is the mother, grandmother and great grandmother of 85 children. --- The Evergreen Star reports that a son of Mr. J.R. Etheridge of Mixon's beat was burned to death on the 1st inst. The little fellow was about five years of age. His clothing caught fire while playing in the yard with other children. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, February 22, 1879 ALABAMA News In a shooting affray at LaFayette on the 10th, Mr. J.M. Driver killed Wm. Finley in self defense. --- LOCAL News The dwelling house of Mr. David Atkins, two miles from here, came near being burned down on Thursday. A passing negro who once belonged to Mr. Atkins, discovered the roof to be on fire and at once gave the alarm and went to the assistance of the inmates. By almost superhuman efforts the house was saved. Mr. Atkins desires us to return thanks to his neighbors for their timely assistance. --- A horrible accident occurred on the S.R. & D.R.R. the morning of the 18th. The passenger train went through a rotten bridge on Mulberry creek, a few miles this side of Selma and one white man and three negroes were killed, and several passengers including ladies were wounded. Among the wounded are M. Stanton, Superintendent of the Road and Capt. White, conductor. Mr. White's jaw bone was broken but it is thought he will recover. Mr. Stanton has been unconscious since the accident and at last accounts, was slowly sinking. --- Died, at the residence of her husband in Plainville, Ga., on the evening of the 4th inst., Mrs. Kate Henderson Brownlee in the 26th year of her age. --- CHOCCOLOCCO News Items Newton Milligan recently purchased some Choccolocco bottom land from his brother-in-law A.B. Scarbrough. --- Died, near Davisville on the 13th inst., James Davies Jr. --- A letter from Fayette Court House to the Jasper Eagle reports that Sam Potter and Green Patton, between whom there was an old grudge, met there last Wednesday and both having been drinking, their old difficulty was revived, when Patton shot Porter about the right nipple, the ball striking a rib, ranged around and lodge in his side. It is also reported from the same source that on Thursday evening, Glen Thornton who was acting as deputy sheriff in the county, carried a Mr. Killgore, who had been indicted for selling liquor without a license, into town and put him up at the hotel. Mr. James and Jack Files were also staying at the hotel and spent a great portion of the night in Olive's grocery. About 5 p.m. they went to the hotel and by some means or another got Glen Thornton down the stairs, when trouble ensued and they fought around the streets from Olive's grocery to Clifton's, the hotel and back to Olive's. Glen was cut from ear to ear on the back of his neck and one gash across the chin and lip to the bone, once in the temple and a gash in the side three or four inches long and was left for dead. It cannot be ascertained what damage was done to Files except that Jack was knocked limber with a stick of wood. It is thought they have left the country. Glen was in his night clothes and nothing with which to defend himself against the two Files, both of whom are at large and about. We learn since that Glen is dead. We regret very much to hear that he came to such a sad end, for he was quite a genteel and promising young man. --- File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/calhoun/newspapers/newspape1088gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 14.0 Kb

Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for JANUARY 1879 January 1879 ************************************************ 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 September 8, 2006, 6:57 pm The Jacksonville Republican January 1879 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN", Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama for JANUARY 1879 (NOTE: There are several missing issues of this newspaper for January 1879 on the microfilm roll.) NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, January 4, 1879 SHERIFF'S SALE By virtue of one fifa issued from the Circuit Court of Calhoun county, Ala., in favor of C.J. Cooper against Wm. Hames as administrator of A.J. Turnipseed, deceased, I will sell to the highest bidder for cash, before the court house door, in the town of Jacksonville, Calhoun county, Ala., within the legal hours of sale, on the first Monday in February 1879, the following described property to wit: north half of northwest quarter, Sec. 23, Twp. 15, Range 7; also ten acres off northwest quarter of northeast quarter Sec. 23, Twp. 15, Range 7. Levied upon as the interest of the estate of Abe Turnipseed, deceased, to satisfy said fifa. This January 4, 1879. D.Z. Goodlett, Sheriff Calhoun county. --- STATE OF ALABAMA, CALHOUN COUNTY PROBATE COURT Special Term Jan 1st, 1879 This day came C.W. Brewton, administrator of the estate of Jesse Love, deceased, and filed in court his account and vouchers for a final settlement of his administration thereof. It is ordered by the court that the 27th day of January 1879 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement. At which time all persons interested can appear and contest said settlement if they think proper. L.W. Cannon, Judge of Probate --- SHERIFF'S SALE By virtue of one fifa issued from the Circuit Court of Calhoun county, Ala., in favor of John R. Graham and against Nathaniel Cobb, I will sell to the highest bidder for cash, before the court house door in the town of Jacksonville, Calhoun county, Ala., within the legal hours of sale on the first Monday in February 1879 the following described property to wit: North half of Section 4, Township 16, Range 9. Levied upon as the property of the said Nathaniel Cobb to satisfy said fifa. D.Z. Goodlett, Sheriff, Calhoun county. --- STATE OF ALABAMA, CALHOUN COUNTY PROBATE COURT Special Term, December 13, 1878 This day came R.S. Stephenson, guardian of J.W. Stephenson, a minor, and filed his accounts and vouchers for a final settlement of his said guardianship. It is ordered by the court that the 15th day of January 1879 be appointed a day on which to make such settlements, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest said settlement if they think proper. L.W. Cannon, Judge of Probate --- ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE Under and by virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Calhoun county, Alabama made on the 24th day of December 1878, I will, as the administrator of the estate of William Scott deceased, late of said county, sell to the highest bidder on Monday the 20th day of January 1879, between the usual hours of sale, the following personal property: One horse Two Mules Buggy Two Wagons Some Cattle Corn and Fodder Farming Tools Household furniture Said sale will be had on the premises of the deceased. W.J. Scott, administrator ---- LOCAL News Married, on Dec. 26, 1878 by Rev. S. Russell, Mr. J.J.B. McElrath of Calhoun county to Miss L.E. Lee of Cherokee county, Ala. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, January 11, 1879 ALABAMA News A Mr. Hoge was recently killed in Clarke county by being thrown from a wagon, the mules attached to which were running away. --- Thomas Hinchcliffe mysteriously disappeared from the residence of Jack Tompkins a few days ago in Clarke county. --- Mrs. Powell of Cleburne county froze to death one day last week while returning to her home from a neighbors. --- One day last week a difficulty occurred in the lower end of Randolph county between two brothers John and William Ponder resulting in a very serious wound to the latter from which it is thought he will not recover. --- Mr. Micajah Davis, an old man living about eight miles north of Wedowee, was found dead in the woods, about 35 yards from the road one day last week. It is not known what caused his death but it is thought he froze. --- The Ozark Star says that a very serious difficulty occurred at Newton on Christmas day between Mr. William Giles and Mr. Henry Judah which resulted in Mr. Judah receiving a severe wound in the forehead by a four pound weight in the hands of Mr. Giles. While Mr. Judah's wound is very painful it is not thought to be dangerous. --- Henry Norwood stabbed and killed Dick Pogue a few days ago in Clarke county, both colored. Whiskey involved. --- A negro named Henry Thomas fell from the steamer Jordan on the Chattahoochee river last week and was drowned. --- J.R. McGehee was dangerously stabbed in Centre on Christmas night by Wm. Wimpel and Joseph Leath. --- Mr. James Sermon, son of Mr. Ranse ? Sermon, was found dead on the Monterey road about six miles from Greenville on Christmas eve. It is supposed that he died of heart disease. Mr. Sermon leaves a wife and one child besides parents and many friends to mourn his untimely end. --- An unfortunate difficulty occurred in LaFayette on the morning before Christmas. A man by the name of Tucker resisted the town authorties who were trying to arrest his son for violating a town ordinance. One of the posse summoned by the Mayor to make the arrest had to strike Tucker over the head to prevent him from cutting the Mayor. Mr. Tucker died on the morning after the difficulty. --- The Jasper Eagle says that the revenue officers were close after Mr. Joe Bennefield the other day in Winston and came so near killing him, they thought they had. He was running from them on foot and they shooting at him every jump, and while going through a thicket he stumbled and fell and as he struck the ground, a ball passed under his body, knocking up the dirt but not touching him. The officers however thought he was shot down and so reported; but they are mistaken this time, so we are informed by one that ought to know. Bennefield is a little too sharp for them and is still on the breeze. --- OBITUARY Death has again been among us and borne away in his arms, Mrs. Jamina Parmelee. This estimable lady was born in Lincoln County, N.C. on Dec. 30, 1828 and died in Oxford, Ala. Dec, 31, 1878. She united with the Episcopal church in Greenville, in 1850 and lived a consistent member with that church until her death. She suffered much during the last years of her life but without a murmur. We deeply sympathize with the family in their sad bereavment and would commend them to Almight God who alone is able to heal their broken heart. A friend. --- ALABAMA News Mrs. M. Anna Cranston of Rome, Ga., wishes to learn the address of her father J.C. Allen. When last heard from he was living six miles from Jacksonville, Ala., at Wragg's mills. Other papers please copy and do a favor for a lone woman and child. The Rome Courier --- Gen. Alfred Tyler, president of the fine iron works at Anniston, Calhoun County, is in the city. He came to spend yesterday with his father Gen. Dan's Tyler, it being the latter's 80th birthday. For one of that age, Gen. Tyler is a wonderfully, well preserved, vigorous and active man. We hope for him many years more of health and prosperity. Mont. Advertiser --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, January 18, 1879 BRUTAL MURDER Thursday night, Bailiff Thos. Gault and posse brought to Jacksonville and lodged in jail, a negro boy some 13 or 14 years of age, charged with the murder of Mrs. Moses Ables, the wife of the man who was killed some time ago by Metcalf. The negro made a clean confession and stated that he first knocked the unfortunate woman down with a rock and then crushed her skull in with other rocks. He described the scene of the murder with a particularity that leaves little room to doubt the genuiness of the confession. When discovered the lady was not dead but was insensible and rapidly sinking when the Bailiff's posse left with the prisoner. The position of the lady and all the surroundings point to a darker and more hellish crime than that of murder. It occurred on Calvin's Mountain between Mr. Griffin's and Reaves Walker's place. There was some talk of lynching the negro but better counsels prevailed and the law will be allowed to take its course. --- ALABAMA News Gov. Cobb offers a reward of $250. for the arrest and conviction of Charlie Potter, murderer of L.D. Rumsey of Etowah county. --- FINAL SETTLEMENT NOTICE State of Alabama, Calhoun County Probate Court Regular Term, January 13, 1879 This day came J.D. Bryant, administrator of the estate of Benjamin F. Brown, deceased, and filed his statement, account and vouchers for a final settlement of his administration. It is ordered that the 10th day of February 1879 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement if they think proper. L.W. Cannon, Judge of Probate --- File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/calhoun/newspapers/newspape1087gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 9.7 Kb

Dallas County AlArchives Wills.....Olds, William W. June 1, 1849 ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00012.html#0002972 September 8, 2006, 2:06 pm Source: Dallas County Will Book B, Pagers 85-87 Written: June 1, 1849 Recorded: August 11, 1853 In the name of God, Amen. I William W. Olds of the State of Alabama and County of Dallas, being of sound mind and feable health and mindful of my mortality, do this the first day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine, make and publish this my last will and testament in manner following: First I desire to be decently buried in the family graveyard by the side of my deceased wife with the usual funeral sceremonies [sic] Also I desire all my property of every description and quality to be kept together upon the plantation until all my just debts are fully paid. Also I desire that property I have heretofore given to each of my children should remain theirs as I intended at the time when given, that is to say: to my son William H. Olds I have heretofore given title to a certain parcel of land intersecting the late residence of my said son. Also a negro by the name of Ben, and a negro girl by the name of Louisa. And to my daughter, Lucy S. Hatcher, wife of John Hatcher, the following negroes viz.: a girl named Mary Ann, a boy named Jack and a girl named Hanna (?) and to my son James W. Olds the following named negroes viz.: a boy by the name of Benny, his wife, Nancy, and her children Haret (Hanet?_ Millie and Jim, and a boy by the name of Sandy. And to my son John J. Olds, the following named negroes, viz>: a boy by the name of Wiley, a girl named Marjarette, a boy named Louis, a boy named Harrison and a girl named Caulice (?). And to my daughter, Martha E. Trayler, wife of Champion T. Trayler, the following named negroes viz.: a negro man named Jess, his wife, Sarah, and her child named Henderson and a girl named Sophia, and in addition, I desire that the sum of two hundred dollars shall be given to my said daughter, Martha E. to make her lot of negroes equal to any of the balance of my said children. And to my daughter Sarah Ann Rainey, wife of William M. Rainey, the following named negroes heretofore given in ____ ___ her sole and _____ use viz.: a woman by the name of Susa and her four children, a boy named Edmund, a boy named Bob, a boy Armitesa and a boy named Ahum, a girl named Rachel, also a girl named Letha, in the event of the death of my grandson Carl Rainey before he arrives to the age of twenty-one years. And to my daughter Elizabeth W. Olds, the following named negroes viz.: a woman by the name of Charlette and her two children, a boy by the name of Prince and a girl named Lizza, a boy named Reubin, a girl named Betsey and a boy named William. And to my son, Stanton D. Olds, the following named negroes, viz.: a man by the name of George, a boy named Tom & a girl named Ginny. Al the rest and residue of my real and personal Estate whatever and wherever of what ____ kind or quality that some may be, and not herein before given and disposed of, after the payment of my just debts and funeral expenses, I desire shall be equally divided amongst my children. And for the purpose of ____ ___ full effect my foregoing desires and having full confidence in the honest integrity and ability of my sons William H. Olds and John J. Olds, I do hereby appoint them as Executors of this my last will and testament and desire that the Executors shall agree between themselves as to the compensation that my son John H. Olds shall receive for attending to the of settling all my debts. Wm. W. Olds (SEAL) Signed, Sealed published and declared by the said testator as ___ for his last will and testament in our presence who at his request in his presence have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto. Henry Averyt (Seal) John J. Day (Seal) Wm H. Norris (Seal) The State of Alabama, Dallas County Personally came into open court Henry Averyt, on of the subscribing witnesses to the forgoing will who first being duly sworn saith on both that he was present and saw William W. Olds, the testator, sign the same as and for his last will and testament and that the said testator was of sound mind and disposing memory at the time of signing the same and that he de____ to ____ with John J. Day and Wm. H. Norris at the request of and in the presence of the said testator signed the same as witnesses in the presence of said testator and in the presence of each other on the day and date therein written. H. Averyt Sworn to and subscribed in open court before me this 8th day of August AD 1853. Thomas G. Rowin Judge of Probate Recorded this 11th day of August 1853 Thomas G. Rowin, Judge File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/dallas/wills/olds35nwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 5.3 Kb

Dallas County AlArchives Wills.....Olds, Charlotte December 9, 1870 ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00012.html#0002972 September 7, 2006, 10:25 pm Source: Dallas County Will Book C, Pages 9-10 Written: December 9, 1870 Recorded: January 13, 1871 In the name of God, Amen. First I will that my body be buried in the graveyard in Benton, Ala. Near my dear son Chester A. Olds. Second I will that after paying my burial expenses that my dear grandchild James Old, to have all my real estate, and personal property. Third I will that the amount which John Curry owes me (one hundred and fifty dollars) be the interest of Ella Curry in said Estate, she being my granddaughter. Fourth I will that Wm. H. May be the Executor of this my last will and testament, this the ninth (9th) day of December in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Seventy at my home. Witnesses Charlotte Olds Elizabeth R. May her Martha A. X Palmo mark State of Alabama Dallas County Probate Court of said County In the matter of the Probate of the last will and testament of Charlotte Olds deceased, before me J. F. Cousley Judge of the said Court personally appeared Elizabeth R. May, who having been by me first duly sworn and examined, did and does depose and say under oath that she is a subscribing witness to the above instrument of writing now shown to her, and which purports to be the last will and testament of Charlotte Olds deceased late an inhabitant of this County. That said Charlotte Olds, decd., signed and executed said instrument in the presence of affiant and the other subscribing witness on the day the same bears date and declared the same to be her last will and testament, and that affiant together with Martha Ann Palmo, set her signature unto on the day the same bears date as subscribing witnesses to the same, in the presence o said testatrix and of each other. That said testatrix was of sound mind and disposing memory and in the opinion of the deponent, fully capable of making her will, at the time the same was so made as aforesaid. Affiant further states that said testatrix was on the day of the date of said will of the fill age of twenty one years and upwards. Subscribed and sworn E. R. May This 12th day of Jan (June?) 1871 J. F. Cousley Judge of Probate File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/dallas/wills/olds34nwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb

Lowndes County AlArchives Wills.....Webb, Elisha February 22, 1843 ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00012.html#0002972 September 7, 2006, 9:29 pm Source: Lowndes County Will Book B, Pages134-135 Written: February 22, 1843 Recorded: November 20, 1843 The State of Alabama Lowndes County This the last Will and Testament of Elisha Webb I Elisha Webb of the County and state afore said being in my proper mind and good health but knowing that all men must die. I therefore do make this may last Will and testament revoking all others of the same nature, made at any time heretofore by me. 1st It is my wish and desire that after my decease that my body be decently entered and all expenses attending the same be paid. 2nd It is my Will and do request my Executrix and Executors, Administrator and Administrators to pay all my just debts out of any money belonging to me or that may arise out of my crops. 3rd It is also my Will that all my property both real and personal, be and remain in the possession of my dearly beloved wife Matilda Webb, during her natural life to hold use and enjoy the same so long as she may live. 4th It is also my Will that after the decease of my wife, that all my property of every description be equally divided into two equal parts. One part given unto my beloved wife (Matilda Webb) to have and to hold forever, and for her to dispose of as she may see proper at her death, the other part give and bequeath to my beloved Brothers and sisters and to their Bodily Heirs to have and to hold forever with the following exceptions that is as follows, viz: 5th I givd and bequeath unto my beloved sister Diadema ____ and to her bodily heirs the following named Negroes: Caroline & Sarah to have and to hold forever. 6th I t is my desire and do request that my beloved wife (Matilda Webb) and Jeremiah Webb act as Executrix and Executor to t his my last Will and testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affirmed my seal this (22) twenty second day of February 1843 James O. Miller Elisha Webb (SEAL) A. B. Manning The State of Alabama Lowndes County This day appeared in Open Court James O. Miller in his own proper person who after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was present and saw Elisha Webb deceased in his lifetime sign seal publish and declare the within instrument of writing as his last will and testament, and that said Elisha Webb was at the time of executing said instrument of writing aforesaid purporting as aforesaid to be his last will and testament, was of sound disposing mind and memory and that he ____ deponent at the instance of the said Elisha Webb deceased did with A. B. Manning sign and subscribe the same as witnesses thereto in the presence of the said Elisha Webb in his lifetime, and in the presence of each other. Sworn to and subscribed James O. Miller In Open Court Nov 20, 1843 Thomas M. Williams J.C.C.L.C. The foregoing will is a true copy of the original Registered this 20th Nov 1843 M. B. Hinkle, Clk By W. Rice D. C. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lowndes/wills/webb33nwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb

Dallas County AlArchives Wills.....Parnall, Jesse January 18, 1837 ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00012.html#0002972 September 7, 2006, 9:27 pm Source: Dallas County Will Book A, Page 127 Written: January 18, 1837 Recorded: August 24, 1837 In the name of God Amen I Jesse Parnall of the State of Alabama and county of Dallas, being sick and weak in body but sound in mind and memory and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, and as to thins such worldly estate of where with it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give and dispose of the same in the following manner and for___ viz.: I will that my wife Nancy Parnall remain in peaceable possession of the land and plantation whereon I am now living during her natural life, also the two old negroes Jack and Lucy and all the household and kitchen furniture two cows & calves and one young horse called Mark and spotted sow and nine pigs & one ____ sow and all the plantation tools and plenty of provision to last the present year. I will that all the rest of my property not here named be sold at the discretion of my executors and that the reserve in their hands the amount due William J. Updike when he comes of age, and the balance of the money be equally divided amongst all my children. All the property given to my wife Nancy Parnall that may remain at her death, is to be equally divided amongst my children as above directed. I do appoint Lewis B. Mosley Executor of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand an affixed my seal this 18th January 1837 D. Westbrook Jesse Parnall (Seal) W. J. Ottlaw Jeptha Parnall The forgoing will was admitted to Probate and ordered to be recorded – See Minutes D page 114 Recorded 24th August 1837 File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/dallas/wills/parnall32nwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb

Dallas County AlArchives Wills.....Sorrell, John June 2, 1841 ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00012.html#0002972 September 6, 2006, 9:53 pm Source: Dallas County Will Book A, Pages 194-195 Written: June 2, 1841 Recorded: December 16, 1841 John Sorell’s Will In the name of God Amen, I John Sorell of the County of Dallas and State of Alabama do make and declare this my last will and testament in manner and form following, viz: 1st After the payment of all my just debts and funeral expenses, I desire bequeath and direct as follows 2nd I give and bequeath my daughter Celia Cooper and her bodily heirs for their own use and benefit all the property heretofore loaned to her to wit two negroes, a boy and a girl known by the name of Sant and Caroline; a horse, two cows and calves and two beds and furniture which brings her upon a level with what my other children have heretofore had. 3rd I give and bequeath all the remaining part of my estate, real, personal and perishable to my children, namely my sons Wiley J. Sorell Seaborne J. Sorell John M. Sorell, James M. Sorell and Thomas B. Sorell and to my Matilda Webb Nancy Browning Rebecca Adams Mary Webb Celia Margaret Pylant and the bodily heirs of Catherine Barnes, late the wife of John C. Barnes and now deceased to be divided among them equally. Subject however, to the restrictions and conditions following: as regards my sons – Wiley J. and Seaborne J. Sorell viz: Wiley J. Sorell to have an equal share after deducting what I have paid for him, to wit two thousand eight hundred and fourteen dollars [$2814.00] paid in the Gantley case and others. Seaborne J. Sorell to have an equal share after deducting the amount I have paid for him to wit about five thousand dollars [$5000.00]. The shares of my daughters to go to them and the heirs of their bodies and shall either of them die without bodily heirs then her or their share to descend and be equally divided amongst her brothers and sisters or their legal heirs. I hereby revoke all other former wills by me hereto fore made. Lastly I nominate, constitute and appoint my son James M. Sorell and my son-in-law Henry Adams executors of this my last will and testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this second day of June AD 1841 John Sorell (seal) Signed, sealed and executed in presence of G.R. Evans Nicholas Baggett, James D. Craig The State of Alabama Dallas County ____ & Orphan’s Court Dec 2nd, 1841 This day personally appeared James D. Craig ___ of the ____ witness to the foregoing will, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he saw John Sorell, the testator, sign, seal and execute said will as and for his last Will and testament that said Testator was of sound mind and disposing memory at the time of executing the same and that this deponent and George R. Evans and Nicholas Baggett signed the same as witnesses at the request of and in the presence of said Testator and of said other on the day and year therein _______ __ sworn to and subscribed in open court this 3rd day of Dec. 1841. James C. Criag Recorded 16th day of December 1841 File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/dallas/wills/sorrell31nwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 3.7 Kb

Lowndes County AlArchives Court.....Browning, Albert Gallatin January 1857 ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00012.html#0002972 September 6, 2006, 2:17 pm Source: Lowndes County Court House, Loose Papers (on Microfilm From The Lds Family History Library) Written: January 1857 State of Alabama Lowndes County In the Probate Court Lowndes County Ala. In the matter of sale of Land of the estate of Albert G. Browning, decd. In the application of George Walker Administrator of said Estate preparatory to making final settlement. Inventories to be propounded to A. B. Howard & Robert Rives, of Lowndes County, material witnesses for the said Administrator, in the matter above. To both witnesses, ______ ______ Interrogatory. 1st: Do you Know George Walker \& did you know Albert G. Browning, decd, in his lifetime. And do you Know Emily, wife of Jno D. F. Williams, formerly Emily Browning, and Eliza Walker, wife of Geo Walker, formerly Eliza Browning and John J. Steel a minor living with David A Steel. And Alonzo L. Haralson. If you know all the above persons herein state the ages of all or near as you can except George Walker, and say which are minors. Interrogatory 1st Do you Know the West ½ of northeast ¼ of section 21, Township 15 of Range 13, lands of the estate of said Albert G. Browning, and are you well acquainted with said Lands if so please state whether in your opinion said lands can be equally & beneficially divided or distributed without a sale of the same, state their value & _____ character. And state also who are the heirs & distributes of said A. G. Browning Estate, if you Know them and if not state who they are on informative & belief & state if it would not be best for said _____ to be _____ it. George Walker by Cook Gilchrist & Fox, his attorneys The State of Alabama Lowndes County To: Emily & John D. F. Williams, her husband, Alonzo L. Haralson, the age of twenty one years, and John J. Street a minor, under lawful age, James F. Clements his Guardian Ad Litem duly appointed by the said Probate court _____ take notice that the foregoing Interrogatives to said witnesses are on file with the proper office & that where you have had due & lawful notice there of a _______ will ____ to take the testimony of said witnesses. Geo Walker by Cook, Gilchrist & Fox, his attorneys January 14th, 1857. Crop (?) Interrogatories to be propounded to said witnesses on the part of the minors 1..State anything you Know who will benefit the minor heirs in this proceeding J. F. Clements, Guardian Other papers: Received of George Walker, Adm. Of A. G. Browning, decd four hundred and four 15/100 dollars in part of Alonzo L. Haralson’s interest in said A. G. Browning’s estate, a balance still remaining of said estate consisting of Lands undividable 1st January 1838. W. B. Haralson, Guardian of Alonzo L. Haralson $27 Hayneville 12nd April 1834 On day after date I promise to pay to Joel Tatum or bearer the sum of twenty seven dollars for value recd. A. Gallatin Browning On or before the first day of January next I promise to pay John L. Bickley or bearer Thirty four Dollars & 21 cents for value received ________----- church file 13th Febrary 1834 A Gallatin Browning Additional Comments: Albert Gallatin Browning was a son of William & Elizabeth Atkinson Browning. According to his tombstone, he was born November 22, 1807 (in Greene County, Georgia) and died October 24, 1834, the same day as his sister, Henrietta. He was also a brother of Emily Browning Williams, wife of John D. F. WIlliams, Eliza Browning Walker, wife of George Walker, and Julia Ann Browning Steel, wife of David A. Steel and mother of John James Steel (Albert's nephew). Albert was also the uncle of Alonzo L. Haralson, son of William Browning Haralson (Albert's first cousin and brother-in-law, and son of Jonathan & Clara Browning Haralson) and Pemelia Browning (Albert's sister). File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lowndes/court/browning30nwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb

Lowndes County AlArchives Court.....Browning, Egbert October 28, 1837 ************************************************ 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: Carolyn Golowka http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00012.html#0002972 September 6, 2006, 2:04 pm Source: Lowndes County Court House, Loose Papers (on Microfilm From The Lds Family History Library) Written: October 28, 1837 Received 28th October 1837 - of David A. Steel Administrator of the Estate of Egbert Browning decd - Fifteen hundred & sixty six 02/100 dollars in part of my son Alonzo's share of his Estate, there being a balance of said Estate consisting of Lands, and proceeds of cotton sold in Mobile, yet undivided which is not included in the settlement made this day between said D. A. Steel & myself. $1566.02 Wm B. Haralson, Guardian of Alonzo L. Haralson Additional Comments: Egbert Browning was a son of William & Elizabeth Atkinson Browning. According to his tombstone in the Mt. Gilead Cemetery in Lowndes County, he was born November 11, 1822 and died September 5, 1836. Alonzo Lafayette Haralson was the son of William Browning Haralson & his wife, Pemelia Browning. She was a daughter of William & Elizabeth Atkinson Browning, making Egbert Alonzo's uncle. William Browning Haralson was a son of Clara Browning and Jonathan Haralson. Clara was William Browning's sister and Egbert's aunt, making William Browning Haralson Egbert's first cousin as well as his brother-in-law. Ah, the tangle web they wove. See Egbert's tombstone at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/lowndes/photos/tombstones/mtgilead/browning 1942gph.jpg File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lowndes/court/browning29nwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News December 2, 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 September 4, 2006, 7:52 pm Microfilm - AL Dept Of Archives And History December 2, 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 28, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 52 (sic) – (This is the date on the paper, real date is Dec 2 as it states on the 2nd page) SOME DAY – Poem THE UNDERTAKER’S STORY – Short Story – [London Truth] DOES GOLD GROW? Years ago I wrote and published in a London magazine an article in which I undertook to prove that gold grows – grows the same as grain or potatoes, or anything else. I reckon I did my work crudely, not knowing anything about chemistry or even the ordinary terms of expression about such matters, and so my earnest and entirely correct sketch was torn all to pieces and laughed to scorn. Well, I have at last found positive proof of my general statement right here in these mountains by the Pacific Sea. Briefly and simply, I have found a piece of petrified wood with a little vein or thread of gold in it. How did that gold get into this piece of wood? Was it placed there by the finger of God on the morning of creation, as men have claimed was the case with the gold found in the veins of the mountains? Nonsense! Gold grows! Certain conditions of the air, or certain combinations of earth and air and water, and whatever chemicals may be required, and then a rock, a piece of quartz, or petrified tree, for the gold to growing and there is your gold crop! Of course, gold grows slowly. Centuries upon centuries, it may be, are required to make the least sign of growth. But it grows just as I asserted years ago; and here at last I hold in my hand such testimony as no man in this world will be rash enough to question; a portion of a petrified tree with a thread of gold in it. – [Jauquin Miller] PETRIFYING HUMAN BODIES A New York undertaker and embalmer said to a Mail and Express reporter that he believed the time was not far distant when the lost art of mummifying bodies would be discovered. “What struck me with that idea was the great state of preservation the body of Prellier, killed by Maxwell in St. Louis, was found when exhumed to undergo an examination by the physicians. The body had been buried some time, and the lawyers for the defense imagined that it would be so decayed no post mortem examination could be made in a scientific way to discover the traces of disease such as Maxwell said he had. The embalmer had done his work well and the body was in a fine state of preservation. I think some fluid will be discovered that will petrify flesh, and thus the ancient Egyptians will be outdone. That is my great hobby - to petrify the human body after death. It will hand down to ages yet unknown the exact features and proportions of the present race. Our skilled chemists who dream their lives away over the retort, it looks to me, should turn their attention in this direction. The bones of mastodons have been preserved for thousands of years and why not humans. Anything the brain can conceive of It think can in a measure, be accomplished in time.” Joke QUEER RESTAURANTS – Two of New York’s Odd Eating Houses Described Places with a National Reputation Whose Surroundings are Unsavory. A New York letter to the Troy Times says: Moretti’s is a restaurant that has achieved a national reputation, although as unpretentious as Oliver Hitchcocks’ beanery. It is on Fourteenth Street, near Third Avenue. You enter a narrow and dirty hallway, ascend a dusty light of stairs and are ushered into a dining room filled with tables covered with linen anything but snowy in color. The chairs are rickety, there is little ventilation and the rooms are usually filled with the fumes of garlic, coffee, and tobacco. The walls are line with pictures of illustrious Italians, from Caveur down to Campanini and Cristadoro. The portraits are rusty and musty, the restaurant is stuffy, the plates and cups are nicked and cracked, the waiters are sloppy and outward appearances are far from appetizing. Yet some of the most noted men and women of New York dine there. Moretti himself does the cooking, and everybody praises and apparently enjoys it. The proprietor frequently leaves his stew pans and chafing dishes and wanders out among his guests in his shirt sleeves. He usually has a cigar in his mouth. He always wears a soiled apron and invariably looks as though he had just come out of a stable. Yet millionaires and literati press his hand with delight, and the ladies of the haut ton greet him with their sweetest smiles. He has been the rage for years. The artist Page first discovered him nearly thirty years ago. William Henry Fry, Charles A. Dana, William Stuart, George Arnold, Fitz Greene Halleck, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Ward Beecher, William Henry Hurlbet, Joseph Howard, Jr., and me of that ilk quickly recognized the importance of the discovery and the cook began to get on his feet. Politicians, merchants, brokers, and men about-town took the cue and followed suit, and Moretti became famous. His place has been thronged for years. It is almost impossible to secure a seat at a table at the 6 o’clock dinner hour. All the dishes are Italian in connection and description. To the uneducated American palate, they are simply nauseating; yet bon vivents revel in them. You get soup, fish, meats, game, macaroni, salads, and desserts, all flavored with oil and garlic, and to a farmer’s boy all tasting alike. Half the native Americans who drop in there masticate the food with an imaginative relish, and are sick for days afterward. Yet all vie with the bon vivants in praising Moretti’s provender. Each man wants to be though an expert in tasting cookery, and therefore eats and commends everything set before him. Men eat cheese and game birds at Moretti’s table who would pitch them out of the window if they were served at home. Moretti is as shrewd in a business way as he is in the gastronomic line. He makes no effort to branch out in gorgeous magnificent like Martinelli and Morelli. He sticks to his original plant and lets his cooking speak for itself. He enjoys his squalid surroundings, and makes no effort to gild them. He takes no vacations. He spends no money in pleasure. His life is bounded by his cookshop; beyond its confines there is no happiness for him. Morning, noon and night, both summer and winter, you will find him stewing and sweating in his Italian kitchen and lading out his dollar meals. How much he is worth is a secret known only to himself. The figures must run up among the hundred thousands. Lately, however, competition has reared its head. A beetle-browed little Spaniard of the name of Pedro, some years ago started a small restaurant on Duane Street. It is in a little squatty wooden building within a stone’s throw of O’Donovan Rossa’s den on one side, and of the Five Points on the other. Pedro devotes his attention to Spanish dishes. His table linen is rarely clean, and his crockery looks as though it had just come out of a tenement house. Untutored stomachs would declare the cooking to be execrable. The smell of garlic is about suffocating, the bread is the color of mahogany, and the wine as sour as cider vinegar; yet William Stuart, Charles Gaylor, and other veteran gourmands assert that the cooking is perfection itself, and go into ecstasies over his dinners. Stockbrokers give select dinner parties in his shanty, and armies of flies welcome them. Tom- cats scattered among them come littering the yards near by furnishing class music, and Pedro himself, arrayed in badly soiled garments, dishes oils podrida and other choice Spanish dishes, streaming with onions and garlic. Ladies frequently grace the swarthy Spaniard’s gastronomic sanctum, and Pedro is on the highway of fame, gathering in a fortune. He already sells more champagne than Moretti, but whether this is owing to the digestible or indigestible asture of his dinners in a question. One thing is certain. It takes a well trained stomach to appreciate his cooking. A thorough Western cowboy would probably shoot him on sight if confronted by one of his dishes. MAKING BASEBALLS The interesting fact was learned by a New York Mail and Express reporter that the hides of about 1020 horses and the skins of at least ten times as many sheep are cut up into coverings for baseballs in this city every season. By one manufacturer alone three tons of yarn are used a year for the inside of baseballs. The hide and skin used in perfectly white, being alum tanned, and comes from Philadelphia. Out of one horse’s hide the coverings for twelve dozen balls are cut, and out of one sheepskin three dozen. Two strips of the leather are required for each ball, cut wide at the rounded ends so that they fit into each other when put around the yarn ball. Each piece, for a League ball, is seven inches long, by two inches wide at the rounded ends. The pieces are cut with a die. Old fashioned blue Shaker yarn is used for the inside of a League ball, which is wound tightly around a small rubber ball, weighing exactly one ounce. The improved League ball ahs now double coverings of horsehide, which is regarded as a great improvement. It is also stitched with gut. The balls are made entirely by hand and it requires no little skill to shape them perfectly round. This is done by placing them in an iron cup about the size of the ball and striking it with a mallet at different stages of the winding. Men do this work; they easily make ten dozen League balls in a day and from forty to fifty dozen ordinary baseballs in the same length of time. Their wages are $2.50 a day. Women saw the coverings together on the ball; this requires considerable skill and strong finger muscle; they can sew from two and a half to three dozen League balls a day, and from 14 to 16 dozen of the cheaper grades; they are paid by the piece, ninety cents a dozen for the League work and ten cents a dozen for the others. They earn about $12 a week. The balls are sewed with that is known as Barker’s flax, which comes in red, blue, orange, and pink colors. The finest balls are sewed with pink. Horsehide covered balls are made in fourteen different varieties. DOCTORING AN AFRICAN KING Dr. R. W. Felkin says in the Scottish Geographical Magazine: It is no joke to be a doctor to the King of Uganda, for whenever I took him a new supply of medicine I had always to take a dose myself, and to administer one to seven of the persons who might happen to be present. Should one of these seven unfortunates die within a week it would be considered that I had attempted to poison the King. If the King had to take a pill, I had always to hold two in my hand; he chose one and I had to swallow the other I had a friend with me who kindly undertook the office. I soon noticed, however, that Mtesa always chose the smallest, and so I arranged accordingly. One day, Mtesa played me a nice trick. I had been to the palace to take him a lotion, and had waned him particularly not to drink it. After I had left he sent a page after me with a gourd of mwengi, asking me to taste it, and say if he might have some. I did so, and said “Yes”. It being a very hot afternoon, my friend drank the remainder; but it soon became evident that the King had doctored the wine, for my friend became violently sick. It turned out afterward that Mtesa wished to see what effect the lotion would have upon me. CARRIED OFF BY AN EAGLE The Greenville (Ill) Sun contains the particulars of an attack by a bald eagle upon the 7-year-old son of Washburn Wright, near mulberry Grove. As the boy was on his way to the pasture the bird swooped down on him, and fastening its talons in his clothes, raised him in the air, soaring several feet with him, when this clothing parted and the child dropped to the ground. The youth’s screams brought to him his father, who was fortunately near-by and his presence frightened the eagle away. JOKE AT NIGHTFALL – Poem HUMOROUS – jokes PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY DEC. 2, 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 rapidity and excellence with which the work of construction of the Memphis & Birmingham Railroad has rarely ever been equaled anywhere. The Alabama Fairs seem to have proven more successful this year than at any time since the war. The Huntsville, and the State Fair at Montgomery have, we believe, given a healthful impetus to Alabama husbandry. In memory of the Confederate dead of Alabama, a Bazaar will be held in Montgomery this week and next for the purpose of raising funds for the completion of the Confederate Monument on Capitol Hill. Col. Will S. Hays, the sweet singer of Louisville, who has had the honor of having a steamboat named after him, still has the negro minstrel fever, strong. He says that he has been offered $100 a week and expenses for a six months engagement to take the tamponrine end in the first part of a performance and do his old plantation negro act. But Col. Will, it is said, has more ambitious ideas. He hopes to be a the head of a big company of his own, and thinks he can furnish the originally lacking in the average minstrel company. THE WHIPPING POST The Legislature has actually gone so far as to seriously vote on a whipping post bill for brutal husbands. Why the bill doesn’t reach women who whip their husbands is a little strange. But seriously who suffers under such laws? The wretch who is tied and lashed in the presence of a shouting mob suffers indeed, but it does not stop here, when the little son or daughter of such a man walks the streets or highways they are known as the children of the man who was whipped at the public post. They are better known by this name than their real, and when grown they are the children of the same man. They may change their home a thousand miles an d in less than six months the fact that the father has been whipped under sentence will be known. It is the wife and children for generations even that suffer. Disgrace a man in his own eyes publicly and what has he to be a better man for society forever shuts him off and a life of sin and hate will be the result. This law is now being tried in other states and the results are bad. The effect of this law is just opposite to the spirit of the law that forbids the circulation of things in the past to the damage of a man’s character. Our legislature will be pressed for time, but if such measures as this consume their time it would be better that the session was one day in place of fifty. Society will not be helped by the passage of such a law and now where there is one neglected and ill treated wife, pass the law and you will have ten hearts that will ache and disgrace, will cut off every incentive to rise higher and be useful members of society. We will in all probability have a constitutional convention next year. The majority of the Legislature favor it and nobody opposes ; so let’s have it. Much good will may be done by constitutional changes, and as well. When the present session of the legislature is over there will be but little left of the present code that the constitution being changed. If we had a new constitution with a hundred day session of the legislature. (sic) WHAT A WIFE OUGHT TO KNOW Very few men have the time or the patience to make a shilling go as far as it can – women have. Especially a woman whose one thought is to save her husband from having burdens greater than he can bear; to help him by that quiet carefulness in money matters which alone gives an easy mind and a real enjoyment of life; to take care of the pennies, in short, that he may have the pounds free for all his lawful needs, and lawful pleasures, too. Surely there can be no sharper pang to a loving wife than to see her husband staggering under the weight of family life; worked almost to death in order to dodge “the wolf at the door,” joyless in the present, terrified at the future; and yet all this might have been averted if the wife had known the value and use of money, and been able to keep what her husband earned; to “cut her cost according to her cloth: every income is limited unless you can teach yourself to live within it; to “waste not: and therefore to :want not.” But this is not always the woman’s fault. Many men insist blindly on a style of living which their means will not allow; and many a wife has been cruelly blamed for living at a rate of expenditure unwarranted by her husband’s means, and which his pecuniary condition made absolutely dishonest had she known it. But she did not know it, he being too careless or too cowardly to tell her, and she had not the sense to inquire or to find out. Every mistress of a household especially every mother ought to find what the family income is, and where it comes from, and thereby prevent all needless extravagance. Half the miserable or disgraceful bankruptcies never would happen if the wives had the sense and the courage to stand firm and insist on knowing enough about the family income to expend it proportionately; to restrain, as every wife should, at too lavish husband,; or failing that, to stop herself out of all luxuries which she cannot righteous afford. Above all, to bring up her children in a tender carefulness that refuses to mulet “the governor” out of one unnecessary half- penny, or to waste the money he works so hard for in their own thoughtless amusements – [Review] The “Kansas City” has brought men of every clime, to Walker. The Italians, especially seem to make glad the hearts of our merchants. – [The Citizen] Two negroes have a store at the junction of the railroads in this place. They carry a very small stock of merchandise, but among it they had some tobacco. A festive tramp recently stepped into the establishment, and after a few minutes conversation he “sized up” the merchants, represented himself as a revenue collector, and told them that the would have to arrest them because they had no tobacco license. The negroes were alarmed, and finally the tramp agreed to take a dollar and a quarter cash, and a cheap watch, promising to soon return with a tobacco license properly made out. The negroes have been waiting for him ever since. - [Union Spring Herald] ALABAMA NEWS Eufala wants the next state fair. A young man named Crowley living several miles from Greenville, accidentally shot himself several days ago. There was a fourteen-year-old boy at the State Fair weighing 186 lbs. The ladies of Montgomery will hold a bazaar during the 1st week in December for completing the monument. The burning of gins grow common. A child was recently scalded to death in Clay County from pouring a pot of coffee on himself. A ten-year-old boy in Henry County found and drank a quart of whiskey. He died next day from the effects of it. Decatur was incorporated in 1838. The State Treasury has a pleasant balance of $340,727.94 on hand. 100 fine hogs have died at Paine Rock from Cholera. There are at present 733 patients in the Insane Hospital; 350 men and 383 women. Of this number 99 are colored. The Sloss Furnace Co have sold out to some New York men at two and a half millions of dollars. The Times of Eufala is urging Hon. Reuben F. Kolb for State Commissioner of Agriculture. His appointment would certainly give very general satisfaction. A Memphis syndicate and J. E. Brown, of Scottsboro, have bought about fifteen thousand acres of ore and coal lands on and near the Cumberland Mountain in Jackson County. The 26th gin house destroyed by fire in this state this fall, was that of W. T. Heston of Tuscaloosa County. Ten bales of cotton were also burned. The fire was the work of an incendiary. Two white men, with blackened faces, entered the dwelling of Mr. Bryant, near Kansas, Walker County, a few nights ago and robbed him of $275 in money. The Bibb Blade, speaking of the Dispatch’s proposition to amend the present law on the subject of concealed weapons, says The suggestion of the Dispatch is a good one, as aside from the very good reason given, such a law would be more sacredly kept than the present one. Men will go armed, and they will carry their arms concealed. There are thousands of cases that are never prosecuted and the present law is worthless because it cannot be enforced. On the other hand, men would pay a moderate license to legalize the carrying their arms, and the state would realize a much larger revenue than under the present law. Men who feel that they need to go armed would not object to wearing a license where it could be seen, and prove a source of much revenue to the counties. Then make it a felony to carry a pistol without license, and the law could be rigidly enforced, and would fall equally upon rich and poor. Dr. J. B. Luckie, the laboring man, candidate for the Birmingham mayoralty, in his announcement card says: “Deeming, on general principle that after a certain time a change is always desirable, I therefore put myself for ward. It will be remembered that this was the identical argument used by the present incumbent in the late contest between himself and Mr. Jeffers.” The doctor ought to be an old enough politician to know that it ain’t fair to hold Mayor Lane to account for what he said when a candidate. Whoever heard of a candidate remembering what he said before election? ITEMS OF INTEREST The Italian colony in New Orleans is said to number some 10,000 people. Ex-President Arthur was a native of Vermont, and in his 57th year. Cincinnati had a $700,000 fire on the 29th ult. The biscuit is here to stay. The wheat crop of the world for 1886 is estimated at 2,122,583,665 bushels. The crop of 1885 was 2,114,568,752 bushels. The growth of the personal character is largely molded by the gradual recognition of moral laws, by the sense of the mystery involved in the inevitable struggle between duty and pleasure. Don’t waste life in doubts and fears, spend yourself on the work before you, well assured the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. “Really the young ladies seem to prefer the company of the worst young men in town.” Remarked a most exemplary young fellow who is striving successfully to make a man of himself,. He Be that as it may the day is almost here when social ostracism will be so inexorable that a pure, deserving girl will not dare receive the attentions of an immoral man. Every mother ought to hurry to the support of the social purity movement. It is the Christliest aspiration of all. It means clean hearts clean and lives (sic). – [Ex] 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. 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 2, 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 What about the Christmas tree? Now its winter, pay the printer. Chimney building is the go in Vernon this week. TYLER GILLMORE is moving out of town this week. Rev. G. B. TAYLOR while felling a tree had his arm broken last week. Miss ELIZA MORTON is teaching again in the Thomas neighborhood. A fault once denied is thrice committed. The greatest wealth is contentment with a little. Reflection is the satisfaction of the spright, the enemy of rouges. Steel rails are on the way for the Kansas City road’s Memphis & Birmingham division. Sheriff PENNINGTON made a business trip to Columbus, Miss. first of the week. Don’t forget to save two dollars to pay for the supper of yourself and sweetheart at the church festival. Mrs. G. L. HEWITT is spending the time that Mr. HEWITT is absent at conferences with the family of Mr. N. F. MORTON. No trouble to price and show goods, walk in. Most anything you want as low as it can be bought at Geo. W. RUSE & CO. The Municipal election on Monday resulted in the election of L. M. WIMBERLEY, Mayor, W. L. MORTON, T. B. NESMITH, R. W. COBB, JAS MIDDLTON, and W. G. MIDDLTON Councilors. About half of the voters failed to vote. Down south where playful breezes stay among perpetual flowers the good people do not enjoy an immunity from coughs, colds, and diseases of throat and lungs for which they find relief by using Cousens Honey of Tar. This is the family remedy in that section as well as in the north, because of the undoubted virtues as a cough medicine. Just try it. Special bargains in clothing, buttons, and shoes. GEO W. RUSH & CO. Mrs. W. S. METCALFE of Henson Springs, was in town first of the week, and brought her daughter to attend the high school. Have just priced our goods lower than ever before. Call and see for yourself. Geo. W. Rush & Co. Sickness the common fate of all, is not regarded as an angel visitant in whatever from it comes. An efficient remedy for a cough, cold or diseased of throat and lungs can be found in Consens Honey of Tar, which is known throughout our broad land as the only effectual cure for a cough. Use Cousens Honey of Tar. Messrs. J. L. MILLER and D. B. ROBERTSON of Gentry, were in town yesterday. Mr. J. E. SANDERS has sold his interest in the mill south of town to his brother-in-law, Mr. SAWNZEY, and will move down near his father’s, L. H. SANDERS. People who find it hard to wake up in the morning, and accomplish it only after much struggling, yawning, and partial relapses, will find the difficulty disappear upon having their room well ventilated during the night. If you wish a good article of plug tobacco ask your dealer for “Old Rip.” Notice. persons indebted to me will do well to call at once and settle up. I am bound to collect and will commence at once to enforce payment if you would save cost and trouble come at once. Respectfully, E. W. BROCK MARRIED: Mr. H. B. HILL and Miss ELLA HILL at the residence of the bride’s parents, on the 25th of Nov., Hon. Alexr. Cobb officiating. Mr. W. J. HANKINS and Miss L. M. NEWELL, at the residence of the bride’s parents, on the 25th ult., by Rev. T. W. Springfield. 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. The ordinary routine of life is often up hill work, and at our best we need all our health and strength to meet our daily trials. No one likes to be relegated to the circumscribed space of an invalids chair and to a person afflicted with piles, such a remedy as Tabler’s Buckeye Pile Ointment is invaluable. The location of depots on the Kansas City road has been a source of great anxiety by individual property owners. The depot that will be most accessible to Vernon is at Crews Mill. Houses are being erected at this place and the present indications are that the town will precede the railroad. This is very gratifying to the people of Vernon. This place is the natural and proper place for the largest town between Jasper and Holly Springs and we predict that in five years there will be a town of one thousand inhabitants. The large scope of country from Luxapalilla to the Military road and south to Yellow Creek and the entire Northern portion of Lamar and to Hamilton in Marion county will trade at this place. There is no need of any further (---)avil over the place for it is fixed and the natural advantages of the place can’t be surpassed in the world. WATCH THE MAN WHO Is on the fence. Has no opinion. Takes no papers. Has the big head. Sneers at religion. Is cruel to animals. Frowns on charity. Lies about everybody. Goes back on a friend. Is jealous and spiteful. Is spasmodically moral. Won’t pay when he can. Does not favor enterprise. Favors corruption in office. Is afraid to speak his own mind. Hides behind a non de plume. Won’t patronize home industries. Talks about you behind your back. Thinks he is bigger than his party. Knows more than the rest of mankind. Thinks what he don’t know is not worth knowing. Only twenty–three days until Xmas. (sic) 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 A NEW STYLE IN HAIR DRESSING There is no use in denying it; a new grief is added to the formidable sum total of hum woe by the style of female hair dressing that has suddenly come late vogue – that indescribable, intangible illimitable sort of roll at the back of the head which starting with a wild torrent of short and scattered hair at the level of the collar, is presently concentrated into a ridgepole that goes soaring up toward the top of the head until, at the point of junction with the bonnet, it reaches a very considerable degree of altitude above the sea-level of the head, still maintaining its ridgepole character. It is a perfectly exasperating way of dressing the hair; without a suggestion of grace or beauty; but on the contrary with a large number of suggestions of ungratefulness and a generally hideous effect. – [Boston Record] HIRED SEASIDE FINERY While chatting with the proprietor of a well-known Long Branch Hotel the other day, he said; “I have just dropped on to one or tow of the latest wrinkles of those people who pose as swell summer tourists on excessively small incomes. A dressmaker whom my wife went to see today told her that she had a great variety of dresses for the summer season which she would hire out on reasonable terms, and change for others once every week. Now, ain’t that an idea! You see, Miss De Smith can go to Long Branch with seven morning and seven evening dresses, and after a week she secures another fourteen, and can bloom out in an entirely new set for the following week. All these costumes are made upon a sliding scale basis, with big seams and wide flounces, which facilitate their being changed to fit many sizes. You see that with four sets of dresses the customer can change them from one watering place to another, and thus serve four people simultaneously, giving each a constant succession of new toilets. For about $25 a week the girls can have the use of a wardrobe that couldn’t be duplicated under $2,000. Think of that for American enterprise.” - [Baltimore American] THE PURSUIT OF COMFORT The main purpose of a summer vacation is comfort, but comfort cannot be secured by several trunkfuls of new dresses and new millinery. Inordinate dressing may gratify a foolish vanity, but it will not secure physical pleasure or contentment. Of later years the best people have shown a wise determination to stop this silly display of fashion at summer resorts. The butterflies of fashion may still attempt to rival the lilies of the field and the rainbows of the sky in colors and combination of color, but the people of common sense, of culture and of refinement, dress plainly and comfortably. When people go away on their annual holidays, therefore, they should take only what clothes they will need. Novices in travel are always known by the large amount of unnecessary baggage with which they burden themselves. Plain dressing has so many benefits that it is useless to mention them. Without it, that free abandon, that careless, happy-go-lucky feeling, which every summer health-seeker likes to experiences, cannot exist. To a person dressed up like a fashion plate, or to those who change their costumes three or four times a day – especially a hot day – complete happiness or comfort is out of the question. If you want to enjoy your vacation, be sure not to overdress yourself. – [Baltimore American] LENA LITTLE LIFE Lena Little, who is singing herself into so much fame in London as the purest and most classical contralto now living, is a New Orleans girl and still a very young one. All her early days were passed in the quaint, dim old “French Town,” as the lower part of that city is called, and developed while still a mere child a voice of most exquisite purity and timbre. It was in the second decade succeeding the civil war when money was scarce in the Crescent City and her parents could only by mush self-denial succeed in paying for her lessons. Van Huffien taught her and said she must go abroad and study, and at the objection that she could not afford it cried enthusiastically that any one would teach such a voice for mere delight in it and demand no money. She finally succeeded in raising the money to make the journey, not hoping to do more than perfect herself, in order to be able to give singing lessons in New Orleans and perhaps sing in a church choir. Whether she found teachers willing to give her instruction for the evanescent reward of listening to her sing is doubtful, but her ideas of her powers and future enlarged, and now, after six years, her voice, originally a mezzo, has deepened into a perfect contralto, and she is flattered and feted in London as only a singer who has captured her audiences ever is. She is much lie a Creole in appearance, which is frequently the case with girls of Anglo-Saxon descent whose families have lived for several generations in Louisiana,. Kiss Little is tall and slender, with a soft dead-white skin, and big dark eyes shadowed by clearly penciled brow. Her hair is dark, and she has a fine air of dignity and grave serenity. - [New York World] RICE AT WEDDINGS As to rice throwing the custom cannot be earlier than the use of rice in this country. Now, the author of a French work on “The Kingdom of Macassar,” published at the end of the seventeenth century, found that rice was thrown out of the back windows of the house all day during a marriage in Macassar. The bride and bridegroom were not pelted, the object was to distract the attention of the envious evil spirits. Left to their own devices the evil spirits might have played all sorts of practical jokes, might have carried the bridegroom off bodily to the chamber of the princess of Persia, or conveyed the bride to the arms of the Prince of Baghdad, or a humpbacked groom. How the rice affected the demons is not very obvious. An acute observer has divided the practices of savage religion into “spirit scaring” and “spirit squaring.” Were the Macassar bogies scared or squared, frightened or bribed by the showers of rice? That is a question for Herbert Spencer; but either hypothesis is more plausible than the common idea that rice is an emblem of fruitfulness and secures an abundant crop of olive branches. Symbols and ceremonies are apt to glide into realties, and realities into symbols. The symbolic rice in Bethnal Green was lately thrown with such hearty good will that it nearly put out the eye of one of the bridegrooms. He was led to a surgery adjacent, and will now have to pass in the ward of a hospital what would otherwise have been his honeymoon,. Perhaps the well directed and galling fire of rice was kept up by an unsuccessful rival, who may be congratulated on the ingenuity of a device which has hitherto escaped even the villain of fiction. It is curios to read how the bride escapes from the worst of the missiles – thanks to the protection of her veil. The veil is as old as part of the marriage as any known to civilization’ but its origin is obscure. According to one theory, the veil, like other female head coverings, is worn “because of the angels;” according to another, it survives from the age when a husband was forbidden to see the face of his bride – an odd state of affairs. Perhaps bridegrooms will now take to wearing veils as they come from the altar of Hymen in Bethnal Green. – [Saturday Review] FASHION NOTES Cotton etamine comes in all the fashionable shades. Silver wedding presents in handsome cases are having a great run. Spanish lace is still worn, but has a powerful rival in Chantilly lace. The groom is expected to make his bride a gift of jewelry or silver, usually the former. Biscuit colored batiste, embroidered in white, with long red bows, is in favor for little girls. Biscuit color is the most popular color for children’s suits, of the shade which resembles dirt. Kensington crape is a yellow-white material, about three quarters of a yard wide, suitable for bureau covers. The season requires but little trimming on dress skirts, and the handsomer the material the less trimming is used. Bread white ties of mull or French lawn, daintily embroidered on the ends, are again very fashionable for neckwear. Tightness seems to be the aim of manufacturers of undergarments, and elaboration and elegance is the order of the day. An English writer says children’s bonnets are of the granny order, made in satin, with plenty of lace and corded ribbon. Bonnets grow smaller and hats are spreading and enlarging, and the trimming of both are towering as high as possible. Flower bonnets are still extensively worn. Clusters of bright red pepper pods are seen upon gay bonnets fresh from Paris. Wedding dresses are now made of light silks with stripes and brilliant floral bouquets. These draped with white lace are especially beautiful. Black lace mitts coming far up on the arm, and terminating in scalloped tops in open-work meshes, are run through with narrow colored velvet ribbon. Many new dress goods patterns, both in silk and woolen, and extremely inharmonious contrasts in ---; some are pronounced hideous in discordant hues, but they will all be worn. With the fashion of wearing caps at breakfast, the hair is dressed again to accommodate the hat or bonnet, which are often cut away at the back to show plaits, curls cascades, etc. A silk canvas, much lighter and prettier than the woolen sort, has appeared in London;’ but it is nothing more imposing than grenadine. It comes in all colors and has to be made up in the same fashions employed for the woolen canvas. They have curious burial customs in Greece. At Athens a son is dropped into the coffin. The greatest attention is given to this point. In removing the body, the feet always go first, and priest sprinkle perfumes in the room where the corpse lies. A TEST CASE – Regarding Legal Advertisements and --- Using Ready Print Sheets (article) FAIRIES – Commentary about belief in fairies ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1085gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 62.0 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives Marriages.....Newell, L. M. - Hankins, W. J. 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 September 4, 2006, 7:48 pm Lamar News, Dec 2, 1886 Lamar News, Dec 2, 1886 Mr. W. J. HANKINS and Miss L. M. NEWELL, at the residence of the bride’s parents, on the 25th ult., by Rev. T. W. Springfield. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/vitals/marriages/newell259gmr.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 0.8 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives Marriages.....Hill, Ella - Hill, H. 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 September 4, 2006, 7:45 pm Lamar News, Dec 2, 1886 Lamar News, Dec 2, 1886 - pg 3 MARRIED: Mr. H. B. HILL and Miss ELLA HILL at the residence of the bride’s parents, on the 25th of Nov., Hon. Alexr. Cobb officiating. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/vitals/marriages/hill258gmr.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 0.8 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News 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 September 4, 2006, 7:40 pm Microfilm - AL Dept Of Archives And History November 25, 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, NOVEMBER 4, 1886 VOL. IV. NO. 1 (sic) – (This is the date on the paper, real date is Nov 25) JUDGE NOT – Poem – [Mrs. Hattie Couch Foster] THE HIRED GIRL – Short Story – [Helen Forrest Graves] BEAUTIFUL AUSTRALIAN CAVES A number of large and beautiful stalactite caverns have been discovered near Queensland, Australia. In one, the walls, according to an exploring party, were beautifully white while the stalactites and stalagmites joined in exquisite tracery, reminding them of Chinese carved ivory. Another, fifty feet by thirty feet, with plain walls broken only y niches, and meeting in a vaulted roof of immense height, they called the cathedral. In some of the dark passages their candles were extinguished by the host of bats. From others they descended sixty feet into lower caverns, but everywhere the ground sounded hollow beneath their feet, so that the whole mountain appears to be traversed by subterranean passages and caves in every direction excavated in the limestone rock by the action of hot springs. Our Indians are up to the times. A leading chief of the Ogalalla Sioux is named “Two Strikes”. He is not a Knight of Labor, however. – [Alta California.] Perhaps he belongs to a base ball nine. THE CATERER – How Some Entertainments Are Supplied With Food. Caterers Of Every Grade Who Carry Eatables To City Households The caterer, says a correspondent of the Troy Times, is now a power in New York. A few years ago a well-stocked household was considered sufficient unto itself, but now the caterer and his assistants are called in for anything out of the regular order of things, from a luncheon of six people to supper for five hundred guests. There are caterers of every grade, from good-natured and hard-working negroes who serve meals to bachelors living in cheap rooms, at prices ranging from thirty to seventy cents a meal, up to the Pinards, who pretend to be a peg higher even than Delmonico. The humbler caterers may be seen trudging along in the morning from their homes in the poorer quarters of the city, lugging oblong tin boxes that have been jam-panned a seal-brown at a date more or less remote, and wending their way toward sleeping bachelors all over town. The tin boxes are about a foot square and two feet and a half high, with a big handle on the top. Within are tin shelves,. Under the bottom shelf are alcoholic lamps. On the shelf is a platter with chops, steak or ham. The space between that shelf and the next is only three inches, but the shelves above it are about five inches apart to give room for the cups, saucers, coffee and milk pots and sugar bowl. All of these things have their slots, into which they fit closely. The top shelf is used for the table cloth and napkins. The front of the box is a door. It swings open and exhibits the breakfast to the hungry lodger when the caterer bustles into his room. More pretentious kits than this are sent out by the hotels and restaurants. A breakfast may be carried miles through the snowy streets and laid on the table hot and inviting. The catering department of the big restaurant is a very important one. There is a prejudice against boarding houses in New York. At all events, it is exceedingly unfashionable to live in one, and the people who are not supplied by caterers from choice are from awe of the form of fashion. Contracts to serve meals may be made with the big restaurants at rates far below the regular figures on the bill of fare. But perhaps the caterer is most highly appreciated by people who entertain. Instead of bulldozing the regulation cook into preparing a dinner for a number of guests, a note to the caterer settles it all. There is then no hurry, no delay, no wrangles with servants, and the surety of a good dinner well and promptly served. Half an hour before it is time for the guests to arrive a wagon of the hearse pattern with a chimney through the roof drives up. Nimble assistants carry in the wine from the refrigerator in one end of the wagon and the edibles from the hot compartment in the other end. Everything is there, from the flowers to the salt. The regular servants retire and the caterer takes possession of the kitchen, pantry, and dining room until the guests have gone. Then the wagon drives up again, and in twenty minutes all traces of the dinner party, whether to six or a hundred guests, have disappeared. This plan of giving dinners grow more and more popular every year. The extent to which the fashionable New York housewife depends on the caterer, not only for food but for nearly everything else in the way of entertaining, is growing more and more noticeable. These useful servants take all the details of the work of party-giving off the hands of the hostess. They lay the dancing cloth, provide musicians, have the dancing orders composed and printed, decorate the rooms, put up the storm awnings, number the carriages, provide extra chairs, coat checks, supper and help, and virtually gives the entertainment. All the lady of the house has to do is to walk down to her parlors and receive their guests when they begin to arrive. The coast of all this is very much less than one would imagine, and the relief from the din, hubbub and annoyances that prevail when the house servants undertake the work is decided. FREAKS OF NATURE Old Mr. Bentley (who is very much interested in anything of a curios nature) – Here’s a curios thing, wife. A farmer in Iowa cut down a maple tree one hundred years old, and found imbedded in the center a live toad. Old Mrs. Bentley (who is more interested in darning socks) – Well, well, is that so? A maple tree a hundred years old imbedded in the center of a live toad. That is curious, Joshua, Read surthin’ more. A CAPE BRETON PARSON He was a tall, angular parson of the old severe Presbyterian type. As the local idiom has it, “You would know by his English that he had the Gaelic,” He was preaching in a brother parson’s pulpit to a congregation who were strangers to him. Descanting on the lamb as a type of gentleness, meekness, etc., he said: The lamb is quaite and kind. The lamb is not like the other beasts, the lion and the tiger and the wolf. Ye swill not be runnin’ away form the lamb. No. The lamb is kaind; the lamb will not eat ye, whatever. “And there is food in the lamb, too. Oh, yes, you will be killin’ the lamb and the sheep when the cold weather will come in the winter. You will be wantin’ some good strong food in the winter, and it is then you will be killin’ the lamb. “And there is clothing in the lamb – he is good for nothing. You will tek the wool off him, and you will mek clothes for yourselves. And how would you and I look without clothing?” etc. At the close of the exercises he gave out the following very particular notice, to explain which I must state that ravages had been made among the Presbyterian flock by the influence of a divine of a different persuasion: “And there will most likely be a family from N. that will be baptized here after meeting on Friday night, but here he leaned forward, and added, in a loud stage whisper – “ye’ll no be saying a word about it, dear brethern, as I do not think they want it known.” – [Harper’s Magazine] WHERE IS HE – Joke RUSSIAN PEASANT COURTSHIP When once a parobok (young Russian peasant) with his parent’s consent, of course, has made up his mind to marry a certain girl, nothing can make him go back on his decision. Disregarding any obstacles that may happen to be in his way, he is as firm as a rock in carrying out his purpose. Whenever an opportunity of seeing the sweet object offers itself to him it is generally taken advantaged of, and thus something like a courtship springs up between the young lovers. This, however, is of no long duration and is of the simplest character. The parobok frequently visits his dyevka, but this is generally done when the parents of the latter are in the land of dreams. A stable or a pig shed, a corner of which is often found to be occupied by a peasant girl as a summer residence, answers the purpose of a reception room or a parlor. It is there, in that improvised parlor, where young lovers reveal their hearts to each other. EASY WAY TO ESCAPE SUFFOCATION A correspondent of the New York Times notes a most important means of escape from suffocation by smoke, a strange fatality by which many lives are lost annually. He points out that if the handkerchief be placed beneath the pillow on retiring to rest, as to be within easy reach of the hand, it can, in case of an alarm of fire, be readily dipped in water and tied over the mouth and nostrils. As an amateur fireman, he ahs gone through the densest smoke protected in that manner, and he alleges that such a respirator will enable its wearer to breathe freely in an otherwise irrespiriable atmosphere. TO LEARN THE COLORS In the course of a trial of an engineer at the Gloucester, England, assizes , on a charge of manslaughter, of which he was acquitted, the counsel for the defense incidentally gave an easy rule for remembering and distinguishing railway signals: “White for “right,” red for “wrong” and green for “gently go along.” LIFE’S BITTERNESS – [George Barlow} HUMOROUS – Jokes PATRIOTISM AND RUM – Anecdote SETTLING OLD ----- - Joke PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY NOV. 25, 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. Congress re-assembles on Monday, 6th December. The bill giving employees a lien for their wages is a good one and will become a law. The Department of the Interior has our thanks for a comprehensive annual report of the commissioner of pensions. Ex-President Arthur died at his home in New York, Lexington Avenue, No. 123, on the 18th inst. Thos. W. Ellis, of the Birmingham Hornet fame, who has been confined in the insane hospital at Tuscaloosa was discharged from the custody of that institution on a writ of Habeas Corpus on the 13th inst. President Cleveland has issued a proclamation setting aside the 25 of November as a day of which to return thanks to the Beneficent Father of all for his mercies during the last year Gov. O’Neil has also designated the same day on which to offer praise to the all wise Ruler of the Universe. The Supreme Court Judges have recommended that the Governor call the attention of the Legislature to the fact of the accumulation of books useless to the court and suggest that a law be passed empowering the court to give to the Law Department to the State University these books. Gov. O’Neal has supplemented the president’s thanksgiving proclamation with his own in fitting words. There are few indeed, if any, in our land of peace and plenty but what have abundant blessings to be thankful for, and let us all refrain from our usual avocations, rest, divide our bounty with the poor, eat turkey, be thoughtfully thankful and really happy for one day at least – the 25th day of November. TWO GOOD BILLS Two bills introduced in the House by Representative J. W. Foster, of Henry County, will, if they become laws, work considerable change in existing remedies of those who hold liens and equitable titles to personal property. The bill to amend the act of 1878 – 9, p. 76, which is the law providing for the trial of the right of property, authorizes the holders of lien or equitable title to personal property to interfere and try the right of property the same as nay other claimant. The other bill, which is short, provides that the holders of liens or equitable titles to personal property shall have the right to maintain the actions of detinue and trover . Under the first bill landlords who have a lien for rent and advances, and mortgagees whose mortgages are on crops unplanted at the execution of the mortgage, can maintain a claim on trial of the right of property, whole under the present law their remedy would be an action on the case or a resort to chancery court. The last bill enables all persons who hold liens or equit-atitles on personal property to maintain the actions of detinue and trover, which, under the present law, as a rule, cannot be done. While these bills practically abolish some nice distinctions which have been beautifully drawn by our able jurists they will tend to cheapen and simplify the remedies of all who hold such liens or titles. – [Montgomery Dispatch] OUR EXEMPTION LAWS If a constitutional convention would abolish the present exemption laws another step toward prosperity and thrift would be made by the entire state. That this will be done if a constitution convention is called is by no means certain. The dead head and non debt paying class have too many votes in this state with which to threaten law makers to allow this good word to be done. The effect of our present exemption laws is simply to enable one half of the people to live on the labor and productions of the other; and just so long as our present laws remain in force, we will have a class of thriftless and indolent citizens; so more hardships would result without exemption laws than result by them. With the abolition of the exemption laws a new system of business would come about, trade would be invigorated and reckless buying on credit would cease and things would get on a more solid basis. The oppressive mortgage system which is one of the fruits of the exemption laws would cease. It would put men to work and to earning an honest living who now procure their goods and provisions on credit and pay their creditors by “scheduling.” To favor the total abolition of the exemption laws will meet with much disapproval by some who constantly brood over the illustration of taking the last mouthful of provisions from women and children, not regarding the illustration on the other side that the exemption laws allow the property and earnings of others to be purchased and paid for by claiming our exemption and hereby cheat the creditor and producing class out of their money. ITEMS OF INTEREST Choctaw County only polled 05 votes. They need darkeys down there. There is nothing like a large and energetic army of colored voters to make white folks appreciate their suffrage rights. A colored woman of Montgomery is suing the M & E P. R. because she was insulted while riding in a car on that road. She claims to have been compelled to listen to outrageous language and to submit to other indignities. She wants $25,000. Out of 2,490 patients bitten by animals, who have been treated by Pasteur only ten have died. A. Goshen, N. Y. electrician, has invented a machine by which the temperature of the atmosphere can be foretold at any and all parts of the country. A Tennessee farmer made an application of one handful of ground sulphur and the same of salt to about a peck of ashes, mixed together thoroughly, then applied to the collars of apple trees that were badly infested with the borer. He says the remedy killed the worms and saved the trees. – Southern Cultivator. The manufacture of a keyless lock which any one may fit on a chest is one of the latest advances in the line of the lock-making industry. Queen Victoria’s new carriage is said to be a gorgeous affair. The principal feature of the interior decoration of the vehicle is a design in which the rose shamrock and thistle are interwoven. Mrs. Fleming of Wood County, Ohio, lighted an extra candle the other night when the preacher and his wife called and after they had gone away her husband Josiah boxed her ears for the display of extravagance. Although they have been married forty-two years she has sued for a divorce. A young woman has been arrested in Chicago for begging while arrayed in a “lightning-change” costume, by some means of which she could transform herself in an instant if necessary. An old maid has been found in Auch, France, who is now a 109 years old. It is not stated how old her cat is, nor how many good offers of marriage she has had to decline. The nurse of the baby Alphonso XIII of Spain is said to be a famous girl now. When the royal youngster received the decorations from the King of Portugal she exclaimed, “Now I trust his little Majesty, will keep his nose clean.” AT THE CAPITAL – (list of solicitors for each county, provisions in the legislature, state Democratic caucus notes, etc. If interested, I can transcribe it for you.) 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, intrusted 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. 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 NOV. 25, 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 BREVITIES Hope for the best. Business must be advertised. Advertise if you’d be wise. The newspaper is a safe friend. Only one month till Christmas. Let’s have a real nice Christmas tree. The dust has subsided for a time. Sunday Schools are doing very well. We are having foretastes of winter weather. The High School is being well attended. New pews are being placed in the Baptist Church. Santa Claus is already counted on as “the coming man.” The long winter evenings are nigh – have a good paper to read. The school children already count the weeks until Christmas. See administrator’s ale in another column of N. S. PARTIAN. (cut out) Drs. W. A. BROWN and E. L. MORTON are off for the Kansas City this week. The legislature will probably adjourn tomorrow until after the holidays. Mrs. J. E. MORTON left on Saturday last to visit her sister Mrs. MARLER in Apalachicola, Fla. Dr. W. L. and EDDY MORTON made a business trip to Columbus first of the week. Mr. N. F. MORTON has returned from a trip to Pickens County where he has been building a mill. The red crepe myrtle leaf and yellow china-tree foliage add pleasant bits of color to the landscape. Mrs. BRADLEY of Birmingham mother of our worthy Circuit Clerk, is with her relatives in town. W. A. YOUNG, Esq. went up on the Kansas road to attend a court last Friday and returned Sunday night. Rev. G. L. HEWITT will leave for conference Saturday. The conference convenes in Florence this year. There seems to be a perfect exodus of laborers from every neighborhood to the Kansas City Road this week. The grade on the Kansas City road has been raised so that very little dirt work is to do. Much dissatisfaction on this score is heard from contractors. The season of the year for sausage meat, spare-ribs, and backbone is rapidly drawing near, and he who has a pen of fat porkers is the happiest man in the land. The good Methodist ladies are thinking of having a church festival during the Christmas holidays for the benefit of the church. No doubt the attendance would be large and a great deal of innocent amusement afforded. If you wish a good article of Plug Tobacco ask your dealer for “old Rip” Mr. D. W. SMITH, who moved to Texas twelve years ago has returned with his family to his native home, Alabama. He is stopping in Vernon at present. Owing to the delay in our paper reaching us we are compelled to use old numbers on the outside. The editor has made three trips to the Kansas City Road since our last issue and has taken on a full share of railroad excitement, and has accepted a contract of grading. The school teachers will doubtless rejoice on the passage of Senator Almon’s bill authorizing County Supt’s of Education to pay teachers at the expiration of each month. This is a good bill and should be made a law. Men who engage in other work are paid off at the close of the week, or month. Let us discard a beginning and begin by a conclusion on the whole matter which is that Cousen’s Honey of Tar, for coughs, colds, and diseases of the throat and lungs are unequaled. There are numberless imitations of this excellent remedy, but only one Coussan’s Honey of Tar, a positive cure for coughs, colds and diseased of throat and lungs. NOTICE. Persons indebted to me will do well to call at once and settle up. I am bound to collect and will commence t once to enforce payment. If you would save cost and trouble come at once. Respectfully, E. W. Brock White’s Cream Vermifuge is good for the chaps certain, when the chaps are troubled with worms. When their presence is indicated in the stomach by the usual unmistakable symptoms, only give the boys and girls a dose of White’ Cream Vermifuge and worms will as surely as nigh does the day. Remember White’s Cream Vermifuge will expel worms. Vernon’s boom still continues. There is but one vacant house in town and that is the calaboose, it not having had an occupant since the sale of whiskey was prohibited here nearly --- years ago. Before that time, some unfortunate victim of intemperance made the night hideous within its walls almost every week. Where is the man who is acquainted with the town of Vernon and its immediate surrounding, who can say that there is no good in prohibition? Who steals my purse steals trash, but he who deprives me of the use of Cousson’s Honey of Tar, makes me poor in health. When I have a cough, cold or disease of throat or lungs, I want Coussan’s Honey of Tar, because I have seen it trick for those ills with unvarying success and know its virtues. 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. ALABAMA NEWS There are only 129 prisoners in the Nevada State Penitentiary. Montgomery’s police force costs her $27,000 annually. Huntsville receives 20,090 bales of cotton annually. Corn is selling at fifty cents per bushel at Greensboro. A colored woman died in Barbour County the other day at the reputed age of 116. The public schools of Talladega have 135 pupils. There are 60,190 acres of government land in Franklin County. Franklin County has 78,018 acres of land in cultivation. It is said that 3,000 negroes went to see the circus at Greensboro the other day. The Brierfield Nail Factory ships 400 kegs daily. Montgomery has a steam sausage factory in full blast. A Marengo man who works some of the best land in the “cane brake” country with eight mules and twenty hands, made five bales of cotton. The churches and schools of Tuscaloosa are prospering. J. H. Watts escaped from the Somerville jail last week. He locked the jailer in and carried the key with him. The Age says that Birmingham is infested with burglars and warns the citizens to look out for them. Double Springs, Winston County has U. S. Commissioner and a U. S. Deputy Marshal located there. J. V. Kersey died in Birmingham from an overdose of morphine but whether taken accidentally or otherwise is a mystery. The wife of Henry Johnson colored who is 42 years, gave birth to her first child on the 1st Nov. 1886. 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 FOR THE FARM AND HOME KEEPING PEAFOWLS Peafowls are not only ornamental but excellent for the table. They are slow in reaching maturity, and the hen seldom lays before she is two years old. The chicks, however, grow very rapidly at first, but as they begin to feather almost at the start of life they require frequent feeding or they will perish. They soon begin to fly, and roost on the highest positions they can find. The hen lays from ten to twenty eggs, according to age and treatment. The young chicks should be fed the same as young turkeys, but meat, finely chopped, should be given three times a week after the first week. The male is a quarrelsome bird in the barnyard, and often makes short work of young chicks. They are more ornamental than profitable, though the tail feathers may be pulled for sale as soon as the molting season begins. SUMMER CARE OF WORK HORSES The grooming – as it is called – of horses, is quite as important as the feeding, and in summer time when the teams are worked hard, it is indispensable to their welfare. When a horse is working, the exertion from the skin is profuse, and pours from it in the form of perspiration. When this dries on the skin it leaves a quantity of impure matter adhering to it, which is apt to close the pores and prevent the escape of the perspiration. This produces disorder, in the form of congestion of the myriad’s of capillary vessels which form a close network near the surface of the body, and the excretion and secretions being stopped, the skin becomes harsh, dry, contracted and diseased. The impure matter – being unable to escape – gathered in places and forms pimples, blotches or tumors, and if it is not removed, there is danger of poisoning the blood, and with the appearance of farcy and glanders, finally death. All this may be prevented by careful attention to the skin, by occasional washing, regular currying and brushing, and proper care to avoid galling by the rubbing of ill-fitting harness. As prevention is the best cure, it is well that owners of horses would exercise all possible precautions to avoid the frequent disorders which result from neglect in the direction pointed out, and thus save much annoyance and loss. HINTS ON HAYING In general says a Cultivator contributor, it is a good practice to keep close up with the scythe while haying. Or in other words to stop the mower, and proceed to getting in as soon as the hay is made enough for the purpose. Much unnecessary labor is often saved by so doing. Especially is this so late in the season, when the weather is likely to be showery. One need not fear to get hay in quite green rather than to have it wet with rain. The real juices of the grass will not be of much injury to the hay. Water is a great damage to hay or grass after it is cut. When there is no water on the hay it will not be injured so much by three weeks heating in the snow as by lying three days in hot, rainy weather upon the ground. The heating in the mow injures only a small portion, that being the top, where the vapor collects and cools, while that out in the rain is damaged all alike. A good practice in haying is to mow in the morning what can be readily handled during the day. Early in the day air that which was out over night, and haul in before the dew falls. Rake and bunch the hay cut in the fore part of the day, during the hottest part of the afternoon. This will make very much during the night, and only needs turning up from the bottom to be in condition to get in early the next day. When the indications are for a dully day on the morrow, it is advisable to get in as much of the present day’s mowing as possible. In bunching hay in good weather the horse rake will answer every purpose. SAVING LIQUID MANURE The convenience of being able to buy and use artificial fertilizers when it is desired to put in crops at a time when one has no barnyard manure ready to use, or when he does not want to leave other work long enough to draw manure, should not lead to the neglecting to try to make all that it is possible to make upon the farm or to the allowing of any waste thereof. As the liquid excrements from a full grown horse or cow in each year are said by chemists to contain from $12 to $14 worth of fertilizing elements at the rate they are sold in artificial fertilizers, it is very important that they should not be wasted. The plan of conducting them from pipes in the barn to a cistern and then distributing from a tank on wheels, like a city watering carat, has never become popular, and it has certain serous objections, not the least of which is the highly concentrated character of this fertilizer. Where this is not done there should be a sufficient quantity of dry earth or peat to absorb them. Just how much to use for this purpose would be a difficult problem to solve, as much of the liquid would be absorbed by the solid excrements, and much of the water might be evaporated with loss of but little, if any, of the valuable salts which are principally nitrates and potash. One good load for each animal would not seem to be too much, and it might be safer to double that amount, if the two loads would add $12 value to the manure heap, or even half the amount as there would be some loss by the amount voided in the pasture or on the road. PROTECTING YOUNG TREES Mr. W. D. Boynton, of Wisconsin, writes to the Indiana Farmer: Young trees need protection the first summer. It is, in fact, the most critical time with them. The winters are bad enough, but the summers are often worse. The sun and drying winds are fully as fatal in summer as the alternate freezing and thawing of winter. Mulching is a great thing for the roots, but the tops and the trunks of young trees taken from the thickly planted nursery are in no way protected, and they miss such protection very much. The greatly reduced root can not supply the top with the requisite moisture or sap, while the sun and wind make constant and heavy drafts upon it. I find that planting corn among young newly set trees is a great help to them the first summer. Trees four or five feet high will be well shaded by corn growth during the driest, hottest weather of summer. Growing corn also breaks the force of the wind. It prevents the stems from being wrenched about in the usual way of exposed trees. It may always be noticed, too, that thick corn growth gathers and retains moisture. The air is more vaporous and cool near the ground, which is a desirable condition for tree-growth. I think this is an excellent way to shelter a hedge-row of young evergreen or other trees. Any plant with a mutilated root needs protection from the sun and wind’ some need it much more than others; some for but a few days, as they quickly establish vigorous roots, while others need a whole season or more to recuperate in. To this latter class belong young trees. We may be sure that we have not done our part until all newly set trees are in some manner protected form the scorching sun and drying winds of our intense midsummer. The young orchard may be regularly planted to corn and cultivated as any other field, omitting the horse cultivation in those spaces in which the roots of trees are located. HOUSEHOLD HINTS A well-ventilated bedroom will prevent morning headache and lassitude. To remove mildew, soak in buttermilk and spread on the grass in the sun. If the oven is too hot when baking, place a small dish of cold water in it. To prevent flat-irons from scorching, wipe them on a cloth wet with kerosene. Sal volatille or hartshorn will restore colors taken out by acids. It may be dropped upon any garment without doing harm. To cleanse spots from broadcloth or woolen goods take half an ounce each of glycerine, alcohol and sulphuric acid, two ounces of aqua ammonia, half an ounce of powdered castile soap and add water enough to make one quart of the mixture. Use with brush or sponge and rinse with pure water. To clean marble the following is recommend: Common soda, two pounds, powdered pumicestone and finely-powdered chalk one pound each. Pass through a fine sieve and mix to a thin paste with water. Rub it well over the marble and the stains will be removed, then wash the marble over with soap and water and it will be as clean as it was at first. RECIPES STEWED LAMB AND PEAS – Have the bones taken out of the under side of a shoulder and bind into a good shape with tape. Cover the bottom of a pout with chopped salt pork, stew with minced young onion, lay in the meat and pour in a quart of weak broth made from the extracted bones and other trimmings. Cover closely and stew tender. Take out the lamb, unbind it, and keep it hot, covered, over b oiling water. Strain the gravy left in the pot, return to the fire with two quarts of green peas and cook until they are done. Strain and lay about the meat. POTATOES CREAMED WITH PARSLEY - Peel the potatoes, cut them into dice and lay in cold water for half an hour or more. Put over the fire in cold salted water and stew tender; drain out the water and supply its place with a cup of hot milk in which has been stirred a tablespoonful of butter rolled in flour. Then, for each cupful of potato, allow two tablespoonfuls of green parsley, very finely minded. Bring to a hasty boil, pepper and salt to liking, and dish. LEMON CAKE – One and one-half cups of sugar, one-half cup of butter, three eggs, one-half teaspoon of soda dissolved in milk, two heaping cups of sifter flour, a little salt, the grated peel and juice of one lemon; bake in two shallow pans and cut into squares. STEWED APPLES WITH RICE. – Scoop out the cores and peel some fine russet apples, and stew them in clarified sugar. Boil some rice in milk with a pinch of salt, a few strips of lemon peel and sugar enough to sweeten it. Leave on the fire until the rice is quite soft and has absorbed nearly all the milk, remove the lemon peel and place in a dish; arrange the stewed apples on the rice and put it in the oven until it is of a pretty golden color. A FORTUEN IN A HORSE. – Anecdote TRAMP ARISTOCRACY – Anecdote IN THEIR PRISON - A Glimpse at the Indian Captives at St. Augustine {Letter in Boston Transcript] I sit on the glacis, musing, and I am startled by a sudden genuine Apache war-cry on the ramparts over my head, and here, behind me come two braves in war paint or dress, bearing on their heads a fantastic wood arrangement resembling horns, their faces covered a la kuklux, with a yellow veil and dress of same stuff, slashed with dark red, belted with gleaming metal. They trot along, and suddenly wheeling around several times and shaking a noise of bells, they give the war cry, which is taken up by their friends inside the walls, and the shrilling yell floats over in strange contrast to the quiet scene. These Apaches were only captured a few weeks ago and brought direct to this place of imprisonment. They are a part of Geronimo’s band, who is now raiding in Mexico and the Arizona border in revenge for their supposed death. The oldest chief, Nana, is apparently seventy years of age, a villainous- featured old wretch; but owing to his good conduct and sense of honor in keeping his word, the government substituted Chihuahua. He is about forty- five or fifty years old, and has a – well, for an Indian, a good face. Already he has learned to politely doff his slouch hat, and adopted arm uniform. The squaws are the jolliest set imaginable; they come to get water from the well outside the fort, and I noticed one’s perplexity early one morning, and went and made signs and showed her how to work the handle. They all have money, and most of them wear rosaries as necklaces. It was interesting when the tide went out to see how soon the squaws and girls set about hunting shells, which duly appeared as necklaces. Nana has two wives but excuses himself on the ground that he only likes one. The squaws carry the babies, or papooses, strapped in wooden frames, taking them out occasionally to pull the limbs straight. A baby is a helpless enough object in a cradle, but in this impromptu cage on its mother’s back it is simply ludicrous. I noticed jars of clay for carrying water. These are attached to straps and borne on the back, the strap or band stretched across the forehead. My gracious! But for pure, simple filth and vermin, commend me to an Indian. The squaws perform the friendly office of carbolic soap for one another, sitting on the side of the moat in early morning. The reputed murderer of Judge McComa’s family has one of the most villainous families imaginable. The physical average of the Apache is far below that of the northern Crow or Sioux. Their stolid indifference was indicated when Lieutenant Richards took out a gang of them in a tug over the bar. They were apparently unmoved, except one who was sea sick, although it was their first experience in any sort of craft on any water. HE WANTED TO EXCHANGE – Joke ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1084gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 57.5 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News November 18, 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 September 4, 2006, 7:37 pm The Lamar News November 18, 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 28, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 52 (This date is wrong. Inside issue date is Nov. 18, 1886) TO MORROW – Poem A PIOUS FRAUD – Short Story WIT AND HUMOR – Jokes MISSING LINKS Artificial human ears are made of celluloid, a recent invention. Scientific inquiry is being made into the medical virtues of dog’s tongues. Amethysts and pink cameos are the fashionable fine stones of the season. China has 3,500 miles of telegraph line, and only seven miles of railroad. Salida, Col. is said to have sixteen saloons and “not one church spire insight.” Wild woodco ck have been seen lately in the parks in the very heart of London. Elizabeth Hickman, of Xenia, Ill. has a son seventy-four years old , who is a great-grandfather. Edward Everett Hale says three hours of daily brain-work will get out all of the best there is in a man. Ewing Watterson, Col. Henry Waterson’s eldest son works on his father’s paper and exhibits special aptitude for the business. Is it true that, when washing their faces, men always rub up and down and snort, while women apply the water and then stroke gently downward? Out of 56,000 prosecutions by the English society for the prevention of cruelty to animals during the last twenty-five years 55,000 have been successful. Since Alma-Tadema’s engagement to design a set of furniture for a New York banker another metropolitan millionaire has employed Sir Frederick Leighton to paint three ceiling panels for him. Said Pasha, the Grand Vizier of Turkey, is a man of exalted private character. He was a devoted husband, was prostrated with grief at the death of his wife, and is now giving the best of his life to his young children. Edwin Booth and his daughter have just placed in the Episcopal church at Middletown, R. I, a window in memory of the actor’s deceased wife. It is 13 x 9 feet and is pronounced admirable both in design and color. Dr. Wadsworth, the new Bishop of Salisbury, England, once had a piece bitten from the calf of his leg by a savage dog, and would have bled to death had not the lady with whom he was walking improvised a tourniquet from a couple of handkerchiefs. A Frenchman has constructed a six-chambered revolver an inch and a half long, the smallest fire-arm in the world. It is complete in all respects, fires cartridges with fulminate, and has power enough to send one of them through an ordinary pan of glass at four paces. A young gentleman of 8 years, on the Back Bay, who had already five brothers, was told one day last week that he had a sister. As the news seemed to affect him rather badly he was finally prevailed upon to tell what the trouble was. Sobbing he told his mother that he wanted all brothers, as he was in hopes of having a base-ball nine. The phrase “a wheel within a wheel” undoubtedly had its origin in the Bible. In Ezek.---- we find the expression, “a wheel in the middle of a wheel.” The revisers of the Bible have adopted the popular phrase “a wheel within a wheel” whether as a more correct transcript of the original or in deference to the common phrase is known only to themselves. A man in a lonely part of Iowa had brain fever in consequence of the death of his wife, and on recovering could not remember where he had buried her. During the interval the three persons who had assisted in the interment became scattered. Very desirous of locating the grave, the widower dug over most of a ten-acre field before finding the remains. A Michigan girl outdid her companions in a craze for autographic albums by having about a hundred letters from the same number of men bound in a volume for her parlor table. As the missives represented her extensive and usually sentimental correspondence she had arrived at the age of chirography the collection proved very interesting to callers. – [Boston Journal] The death occurred lately at Oxford Neck, Del of Nathan Mills, colored, at the age of 107. He always wore his shirt-bosom open in winter and summer for fear of taking cold if he fastened it. He was much respected by the white people of Oxford Neck. Of all his children only two survive him – Levin and Nero – both of whom are great-grandfathers. Nathan lived to see five generations of his children and grandchildren. The neighborhood of Oxford Neck is people with his descendants. A correspondent of a Boston newspapers says that Mr. Nast’s wife is the original of Columbia, the tall, beautiful woman with the classic face who has been so prominent in the allegorical pictures during and since the war. These pictures first gave Nast his national fame. In beauty of conception and execution they have never been excelled, and are chapters of the history of the nation’s mind – photographed moods, as it were. Columbia, let it be noticed, is altogether a different figure from the Goddess of Liberty. She is Nast’s special creation in the world of ---- The sea-shell business of California is little know n to the public. The product consists of mother-of-pearls, pear oyster, brilliant or curious shells from Japan, China, and the South sea, and the several varieties of abalone. PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY NOV. 18, 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 vote in New York was in favor of calling a constitutional convention. Bob Taylor beats his republican brother Alf by from 25,000 to 40,000 majority. The prophets announced this result just about sixty days ago. The citizens of Montgomery are expecting the legislature to answer their prayerful request to make the keeping of gaming houses in Alabama a felony. If reports are true about the condition of Justice Woods, of the Supreme bench, he cannot live very long. It is said he is suffering from rapid consumption, and is unfit for work. In fact, it is doubtful if he will ever recover. The white rose is the insignia of the Democratic ladies of Tennessee, while the Republicans wear a red rose. The Taylor brothers have instituted the war of the roses and are fighting again the Battle of the feudal houses of Lancaster, and York. Montgomery, Nov. 9 – The Alabama Legislature convened today and perfected temporary organization. There was a Democratic caucus of the Senate and House tonight to select permanent officers and dispose of the so-called Democratic Independents as to their admission in the caucus. It looks as though they were going to be left out. Col. Thomas G. Jones will be speaker of the House, and Samford, of Opelika, President of the Senate. Governor-elect Seay, President of the last Senate, presided today. There are an unusual number of young legislators this session. The state fair opened yesterday. There are a larger number of exhibits, especially of stock, than ever before. The main building and annex, agricultural and machinery hall, are crowded with splendid exhibits. Every department is well represented. WHEN YOU STUDY, STUDY Lord Macaulay, the celebrated English historian, was a great student, and when he studied, he STUDIED. He used to get up at five o’clock and study till nine or ten. He got so he could read Latin and Greek right off hand the same as you can this. He had the power of putting his whole mind on his books. Many people put part of the mind on their work, and the rest on something else. But all this is wrong. Play study, study. Kin study all the facultion are needed; reason, to judge of what you read, memory, to recollect it, and so with all the rest. Macaulay became one of the most distinguished writers of his times, and it was mainly by dint of this early habit of his, of putting his entire mind at the disposal of the work before him. All cannot study alike, but we can all be deeply in earnest in whatever it is what we do, and only downright earnestness will cause us to succeed in life. MINUTES OF THE SECOND ANNUAL SESSION HOPEWELL OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST ASSOCIATION (Concluded) Articles of Faith with Scriptural Proofs………..(NOT TRANSCRIBED. If interested let me know) Corresponding Letter The Hopewell Old School Baptist Association, in her 2nd annual session with Nazareth Church: To the several Association with whom she corresponds, sendth Christian love, Greetings; Very dear brethren we are passing through the present session in peace and harmony. The correspondence has not been as full as we desire but was received with that Christian affection, to characteristic of the children of God, and we sincerely desire a continuation of the same. The next session of our body, will convene with Emmaus Church, 4 miles north of Vernon, Lamar County, Ala on Friday before the 3rd Sunday in October 1887 were we hope to set your messenger again. Dear Brethren, pray for us that God in his goodness would guide us through life, and give us grace to sustain us in death, for Christ’s sake, Amen. L. M. WIMBERLY, Clerk T. J. NORRIS, Moderator CHURCHES PASTORS DELEGATE’S NAMES 1ST DISTRICT Nazareth T. J. NORRIS, Benton’s Creek T. J. NORRIS, W. S. NORTH, G. W. NORTH Liberty Hill A. J. GIBSON, Aragonia W. R. BROWN, M. F. PATTON, JOSIAH EVANS Pleasant Ridge D. T. MOORE, Moore’s Bridge T. H. JONES, J. M. MCDANIELS, D. T. MOORE Zion J. W. NORTH, Labub I. FREEMAN, H. M. BANKSTON, D. SPINER Mt. Pleasant Not Represented Harmony D. T. MOORE, Cave Springs DAVID MOORE, W. A. VICE, G. B. MOORE 2nd DISTRICT Hopewell G. W. NORTH, Fayette C. H. J. R. WIMBERLEY, R. L. WHITE, G. W. BERRY New River ------Doublin----- J. D. CROW, J. W. PARKER Union T. J. NORTH, Wayside HORACE DODSON, J. W. SOUTH, E. F. SOUTH Little Hope J. W. BROCK, Brockton J. W. BROCK, H. A. ROCK Emmaus L. M. WIMBERLEY, Vernon L. M. WIMBERLY, J. C. CHANDLER, W. A. CHANDLER Table also includes numbers for Restored, Dead, Contributions, Excluded, etc… 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, intrusted 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 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. 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 RESTAURANT, Aberdeen, Mississippi. Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to call on Mrs. L. M. KUPFER, who keeps Restaurant, Family Groceries, Bakery and Confectionery, toys, tobacco, and cigars. Also coffee and sugar. Special attention paid to ladies 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. 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. 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 NOV. 18, 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 JAMES MIDDLETON Circuit Clerk S. F. PENNINGTON Sheriff L. M. WIMBERLEY Treasurer W. Y. ALLEN Tax Assessor D. J. LACY Tax Collector B. F. REED 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 Heavy rain yesterday morning. Next Thursday will be Thanksgiving Day. Improvements in Vernon are still going on. Yesterday was trial day in the Justice Court. See two notices of U. S. Marshal’s sale of real estate. Hard times is still the cry, with a great many. See three notices of Administrators sales of land. Colds are epidemic and they are bad ones too – there is no good ones. Rev. G. L. HEWITT preaches in town next Sunday night. Lookout for the locomotive when you hear the whistle going. Mr. J. N. MCNEILL’S new residence is nearing completion. In another column will be seen notice for publication by WM V. RUSSELL. Grow in health, wealth, and wisdom by subscribing for your county newspaper. Some person unknown cut down a beautiful shade on Main Street last Friday night. JAMES MIDDLETON Esq. and Mr. FRANK DENMAN are making some necessary improvements on their place. Railroads are having projected through Alabama in almost every conceivable direction and with all our advantages lightning will surely strike our town from some where. Large number of bales of cotton have placed through for Columbus this week. Why don’t Vernon merchants buy it all? “Uncle” ANDY WHEELER advertises his entire tract of land to be sold at auction on 15th day of December next. See “ad” in another column. We were pleased to receive a call from Mr. J. E. MCDANIEL of Columbus, Miss, on Tuesday. Sheriff PENNINGTON made a business trip to the Kansas City Road first of the week. A large crowd of citizens met at the Court House last Friday night and decided to connect the public school with the high school. If you wish a good article of Plug Tobacco ask your dealer for “old Rip.” Disease is no respecter of persons, and there is something about an effectual remedy for it that appeals to humanity characterized by the higher intellect, or ------ (can’t read) The question of forming a new county out of Walker, Winston, Fayette, and Marion is still agitated. Eighteen hundred and eighty-six began on a Friday, will end on a Friday and contains fifty-three Fridays. Four months in the year have five Fridays. Five changes of the moon occur on a Friday, and both the longest and shortest days in the twelve months are on Fridays. This might, indeed be termed a Friday year. We are sure that the sufferer with Piles who give Tallers Buckeye Ointment a trial will experience a complete cure, and go on his way rejoicing that there is a remedy for Piles, composed of simple ingredients which fulfill the purpose of this excellent preparation more completely than all the so called Pile remedies in existence. Since the strike in Chicago the dealers in dressed beef are having their cattle killed in Philadelphia at the barrack abattoir at the stock yards of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Forty men are engaged in transferring beef on the hoof to dressed beef ready for the retail market. “Ring out the old, ring in the new” has no reference to medicine. The --- novelties in that line which have only an -----in the same category as that old reliable remedy known as Coussans Honey of Tar. Which our grandfathers used when the boys and girls had coughs, colds and diseases f the throat and lungs. MARRIED: Mr. DUKE WILLIAMS and Miss ALICE NOBLES, At Mr. L. NOBLES, Nov. 14th, 1886, by J. H. CALDWELL J. P. There have been children born to the following named families recently: WM PETERS, ROBT MAHAN, and A. W. LOGAN. 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. NOTICE Persons indebted to me will do well to call at once and settle up. I am bound to collect and will commence at once to enforce payment . If you would save cost and trouble come at once. Respectfully, E. W. BROCK 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. 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. MRS. CLEVELAND’S LIVE TRINKET It is said that among the many odd trinkets that formed part of Mrs. Cleveland’s trousseau at a reception has a live bug about an inch and a half in length, looking like a bit of light speckled-----. Around the insect’s body is a tiny golden harness, to which is attached a fine ----. The lady fastens a thin chain to her left shoulder, and the bug wanders at its sweet will. This species of bug is called the “machette.” And is imported from Yucatan. They were a fashionable ornament some twenty or thirty years ago, and now that Mrs. Cleveland wears one they have once more sprung into popularity. Several of our leading jewelers are selling the “machetts” as fast as they can import them at the rate of $6 a piece. Madame Judie has just started the same fashion in Paris – [New York Commercial] BURLINGTON, IA., Nov. 9 – Prof. Foster, the meteorologist, will publish in the Burlington Hawkeye tomorrow his prediction of the great storm period, extending from Dec. 4 to 17, during which will occur some of the most destructive winter storms of recent years. These storms will be much of the nature as the great blizzard of last January. Heavy snow and high winds will greatly impede railway travel, and he advises the railways to prepare for blockades that will occur in the Western states about Dec. 5 and reaching the Eastern States Dec 9. These storms will break up the drouth (sic) in the Southeastern states. There will be energetic electrical disturbances that will affect telegraph and telephone lines and much property can be saved from loss by making preparation for severe weather of the storm period. 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. 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 G. W. RUSH, B. F. REED - 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 WIT AND HUMOR - (Not transcribing) THE SHORT HAIR CRAZE The craze among the ladies for wearing the hair short is becoming general and spreading all the country over. It has already become very popular , among other places in Rochester, N. R. where the most stylish young ladies are parting with their raven and golden tresses. There was a time when it was considered somewhat “fast” for a lady to wear her hair short, but since Miss Cleveland, the President’s sister, the present mistress of the White House, and, but common courtesy, the “first lady in the Land,” wears her locks shorn quite short and advocates the custom on the ground of comfort, convenience and health, it has become the style. Time was, too, when a short- haired lady was so rare that her appearance in public places attracted general attention. But that was a good while ago. The prominent hair-cutter are becoming quite proficient in cutting the hair of the rapidly increasing lady patrons. Some interesting and strange scenes are now seen in the hairdresser’s establishments and barber shops. “A handsome young lady just from boarding school came into my shop Tuesday and said she wanted her hair cut like Miss Cleveland’s” said a prominent barber. She had a picture of the President’s sister for me to look at; and with the suggestion given by her companion, who had seen Miss Cleveland, and with the aid of the photograph, I cut and trimmed her hair to her complete satisfaction. O, I don’t know who or what started the style. Perhaps Miss Cleveland had something to do with it, but I am inclined to believe that Miss Maud Granger, Miss Dora Wiley, and other actresses and singers who are great favorite s with women, started the style here. Of course it helps our business; but, leaving all selfish reasons aside, it sit not the most reasonable craze that has recently come into style? Why you have no idea what a constant trouble a heavy head of hair is to a woman. It has to be dressed two or three times a day, and this takes up a great deal of a woman’s time. With long and heavy hair, it is difficult for a lady to keep her scalp clean and healthy. “What do ladies do with their shorn tresses?” “They take them away with them. Some of them bring old corset-boxes for this purpose, and when no box of this shape is handy I do up the hair in a paper.” “Do they sell it?” “I don’t know. I don’t believe many of my customers have, for they invariably exhibited more of a fondness for the hair than for the money they would receive from the sale of it. No, I think they take it home and keep it. When it becomes stylish to wear the hair long again they will have switches made of it. “Yes, we have some queer senses in our shops now,” continued the hair- cutter. “A young lady who comes to have her locks cut off always brings a lady companion with her, and sometimes they bring two or three. Their conversation while I am at work would make you laugh. A girl was in here with her mother the other day and had her hair cut quite short. It was the first time the shears had ever touched the girl’s hair, and she shook with fear when I began and she felt the cold steel on her neck,. Two sisters were here one day last week and when I cut the hair of one the tears ran down the cheeks of the other like raindrops. Queer creatures, these women, aren’t they?” “Is there any particular style in cutting ladies hair now?” “Well, the most of those who have been here have had their hair cut very short on the back of the head – indeed almost as close as young men wear their hair –and moderately good length on top. They want it long enough on top to frizz, or curl, or to wear bands.” Any one who ever visited Kingston, Canada, will recall the round towers which form a part of its extensive fortifications. These, it is supposed, were copied from the similar structures on the coast of Ireland, which are about to be demolished. The Irish towers were built at the time when Lord Cornwallis was Viceroy of Ireland, at the suggestion of the Duke of Richmond, who had heard that the town of Martelio, in Corsica, had by means of similar defense successfully resisted the attack of a fleet. This Duke of Richmond afterward became Governor General of Canada, and it was during his career that these Martelio towers were built for Kingston, than the capital of the united provinces of Upper and Lower Canada. His death occurred in 1819 from hydrophobia, produced by the bite for a fox. SEA MONSTERS A School of Monstrous Fish Create Excitement in Galveston Brief mention, says the Galveston News, has already made of a school of enormous and curious fish that were imprisoned off the gulf shore between the bars in front of the Beach hotel, and the attempt that was made to secure them by a detachment of Sealy rifles, doing their first active service with musketry. What effect the battery of the Sealys many have had upon the sea monsters in not known, save that it was not effectual in bringing the enemy to any terms of capitulation or capture. In defiance of the citizen soldiery the mammoth monsters of the deep were seen disporting themselves again in the gulf once more and another bombardment was commanded with every conceivable appliance of firearms, save that the artillery were not called out with their big guns. A party was organized by Mr. S. P. Blunt, of the quarantine station to carry the war into the enemy’s camp and fight them in their own element with harpoons. For this purpose a whaling yawl and several harpoons were secured, and Mr. Joe Williams an expert harpooner and an old whaler was introduced to make one of the party, owning to his experience in battling with such adversaries. The party had not been out long before they sighted one of the monsters about the foot of 29th street, and proceeded to give chase. The fish, to use Mr. Blunt’s description, had the appearance of the upper portion of a street car passing though the water, its superficial dimensions appearing to be sixteen by eighteen feet, or at least this much of the surface was shown above water. The party rowed within one hundred yards of the monster, and from its appearance at that distance, and from two horns protruding from the head about two and a half feet in length, Mr. Joe Williams, relying upon his long experience as a whaler, pronounced it at once to be what is commonly known as a devil fish. Only one, however of the several that were previously seen , was discovered by the harpooning party, and he was swimming in an easterly direction in about seven feet of water, the maximum depth inside the inner bar, where the monster had got by some unaccountable means and was unable to get out again, as in this depth he left a wake of much and sand behind him in swimming, and the water on the inner bar over which he would have to pass to get again into the water was only a depth of about four and a half or five feet with the then prevailing tide. It was swimming about two hundred yards from shore, and was sagacious enough to keep at the maximum depth between the bar and shore. Wile the party were giving these the squall came up, causing them to abandon the chase and look to their own safety in getting to shore, thus breaking into a fair prospect of capturing the sea monster, as he could not have gotten over the bar with the tide in the condition in which it them was. From a description of the cephalopter a vampyrus (devil fish) in the American Encyclopedia, which tallies very much with the description given by Mr. Blunt of what he saw, it appears that Mr. Williams may have been correct in naming the rare visitor. The devil fish, as described in the encyclopedia, has what is known as pectorals, making the transverse diameter fo the fish greater than the longitudinal thus accounting for the peculiar dimensions given – 16 by 18 feet. A specimen of this fish, caught in the Atlantic, near the entrance of Delaware bay, in 1823, weighted about five tons, and was 17 ½ feet long by 18 feet wide; the skin on the back was blackish brown, and on the belly black and white; the mouth was 2 ½ feet wide, the greatest breadth of the skull 5 feet, and the distance between the eyes 1 1-9 feet. The cranial appendages, or horns were 2 ¼ feet long and a foot wide. The description of the color and the size of the mouth above given also corresponds in detail with the description given of the monster, the subject of yesterday’s search. The same authority also states that the devil fish is occasionally seen on the coast of the southern states in summer and autumn and wonderful stories are told of its strength and ferocity, its extraordinary shape and size having transformed a powerful but inoffensive animal into a terrible monster. Other epodes are met with in the tropical parts, both in mid-ocean and on sandy coasts, which they approach to bring forth their young…….The truth appears to be that the devil fish, though powerful and hideous, is a timid and harmless creature, avoiding rather than attacking a man, but when attacked and defending itself is dangerous. CHARITY – joke IN A CYCLONE – Rocked and Wrecked By the Charleston Gale – (Relating the story of a tornado) COURTESY IN MEXICO – article about courtesy in Mexico among the ladies THE MEXICAN CONGRESS – Article about the Mexican Congress ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1083gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 48.3 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives Marriages.....Nobles , Alice - Williams , Duke November 14, 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 September 4, 2006, 7:36 pm Lamar News Nov 18, 1886 pg 3 Lamar News - Nov 18, 1886 - pg 3 MARRIED: Mr. DUKE WILLIAMS and Miss ALICE NOBLES, At Mr. L. NOBLES, Nov. 14th, 1886, by J. H. CALDWELL J. P. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/vitals/marriages/nobles257gmr.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 0.8 Kb

Lamar-Tuscaloosa County AlArchives Church Records.....Hopewell Old School Baptist Association - Minutes of Copyright Date October 15, 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 September 4, 2006, 7:32 pm Taken from The Lamar News - Nov 11, 1886 MINUTES OF The Second Annual Session Of The Hopewell Old School Baptist Association, Held with NAZARETH Church, Tuskaloosa County, Alabama, October 15th, 16th, and 17th, 1886 MINUTES – Friday, Oct. 15th, 1886 1. The Introductory Sermon was delivered by ELDER S. C. JOHNSON, from Matt. 16th, middle clause of 18th verse: “Upon this Rock I will build my church.” 2. After an intermission of one hour, the delegation re-assembled in the meeting house, called the names of the churches and enrolled the names of the delegates. (See Table) 3. Elected T. J. NORRIS, Moderator, and L. M. WIMBERLY, Clerk. 4. Appointed a committee of arrangements, viz: J. W. BROCK, D. T. MOORE, and G. W. NORRIS, with the Moderator and Clerk. 5. Appointed a committee on Finance, viz: J. C. CHANDLER and J. R. WIMBERLY. 6. Appointed a committee on preaching: W. P. WILLIAMSON, W. R. BROWN, T. H. JONES, H. M. BANKSTON, DAVIS MOORE, R. L. WHITE, J. D. CROW, H. DODSON, H. A. BROCK and J. C. CHANDLER. 7. Appointed J. C. CHANDLER to write a letter of correspondence to sister Association. 8. Called for correspondence from sister Association, which was responded to as follows: From Buttahatchie, a letter and bundle of minutes by her messengers, Elds S. C. JOHNSON, J. B. DEAN and C. NANCE; From Lost Creek by her messengers, Elds. A RABORN and A. J. GIBSON. From Little Hope, by her messengers Eld. G. W. STEWART. From Pilgrim’s Rest, Eld. R. L. ELLIS and brethren J. E. LANCASTER, E. J. LANCASTER and GEO. MILLER. 9. Opened the door of the Association for the reception of churches. None offered. 10. Arranged Union Meetings as follows: 1st Dist. Convene with Pleasant Ridge church on Friday before the 4th Monday in Sept. 1887. 2nd Dist. With Little Hope Church on Friday before the 2nd Sunday in Aug 1887. 11. Adjourned to 9 o’clock tomorrow morning, Prayer by Eld. A. RABORN. SATURDAY, OCT. 16TH, 1886 Met pursuant to adjournment. Prayer by Eld. R. F. ELLIS. Called the roll, and found a quorum present. 12. Called for the Bill of Arrangement. Read, received, and the committee discharged. 13. Read the Constitution, Articles of Faith and Rules of Decorum of the Association. 14. Invited brethren from sister Associations to seats with us. 15. Called on the committee on preaching, who reported as follows: G. W. STEWART and A. RABORN to preach in the forenoon, and J. B. DEAN and A. J. GIBEON in the afternoon. 16. Agreed that we only have our Articles of Faith with the scriptural proofs therefore, printed in lieu of a circular letter. 17. Appointed correspondence to sister Association, viz: To Buttahatchie – T. J. NORRIS, G. W. NORRIS, J. W. BROCK, D. T. MOORE, D. MOORE, H. DODSON, WM. VICE, L. M. WIMBERLY, G. B. MOORE and J. R. WIMBERLEY. To Five Mile -–J. D. CREW, R. L. WHITE, J. R. BROWN and W. G. NORRIS. To Pilgrim’s Rest – H. M. BANKSTON, J. D. SPRINGER, M. J. MCDANIEL, G. W. NORRIS and D. T. MOORE. To Little Hope – T. H. JAMES, G. W. BERRY, D. T. MOORE,W. R. BROWN and W. R. NORRIS. To Lost Creek – W. R. BROWN, M. F. PATTON and --- Evans, ----J. R. WIMBERLEY AND L. M.. WIMBERLEY. 18. ---can’t read 19. Appointed (can’t read) 20. Called on the financial committee (can’t read) 21. Appointed the Clerk to superintend the printing of the ----- have 300 copies printed and reserved for correspondence. 22. Compensated the Clerk ten dollars for big envelopes. 23. Requested the Moderator to tender the --- of this body ----and friends of this vicinity for their kindness----- 24. Called for the corresponding letters ---- received and ordered to be inserted in the minutes 25. Appointed brethren to fill the stand--- D. R. MOORE in the forenoon and L. M. WIMBERELY --- afternoon. 26. Granted Harmony Church a letter of dismissal ------ 27. Opened the door for promiscuous business. 28. Read and corrected the Minutes 29. Adjourned in the time and place of our next session . L. M. WIMBERELY, Clerk File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/churches/hopewell104gbb.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb