Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News November 11, 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, 7:27 pm The Lamar News November 11, 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 11, 1886 VOL. IV. NO. 2 DEAR LITTLE SCHOOL MADAM – Poem – [Malcolm Douglas, in St. Nicholas] ONLY A YEAR AGO – Short Story GEN C. F. SMITH AT FORT DONELSON From General Lew Wallace’s illustrated account of the capture of Fort Donelson, in the December Century, we quote the following: “Taking Lauman’s brigade General Smith began the advance. They were under fire instantly. The guns in the fort joined in with the infantry who were at the time in the rifle- pits, the great body of the Confederate right wing being with General Buckner. The defense was greatly favored by the ground, which subjected the assailants to a double fire from the beginning of the abatis. The men have said that ‘it looked too thick for a rabbit to get through.” General smith, on his horse, took position in the front and center of the line. Occasionally he turned in his saddle to see how the alignment was kept. For the most part, however, he had his face steadily toward the enemy. He was, of course, a conspicuous object for the sharpshooters in the rifle-pits. The air around him twittered with minic-bullets. ----(can’t read)--------without hesitation, leaving a trail of dead and wounded behind. There the fire seemed to grow trebly hot, and there some of the men halted, whereupon, seeing the hesitation, General Smith put his cap on the point of his sword, held it aloft, and called out, “No flinching now, my lads!” – Here – this is the way! Come on!” He picked a path through the jagged limbs of the trees, holding his can all the time in sight and the effect was magical. The men swarmed in after hi, and got through in the best order they could – not all of them, alas! On the other side of the obstruction they took the semblance of re- formation and charged in after their chief, who found himself then between the two fires. Up the ascent he rode; up they followed. At the last moment the keepers of the rifle-pits clambered out and fled. The four regiments engaged in the feat – the Twenty-fifth Indiana, and the Second Seventh, and Fourteenth Iowa – planted their colors on the breastwork. And the gray-haired hero set his cap jauntily on his head, pulled his mustache, and rode along the front, chiding them awhile, then laughing at them. He had come to stay. Later in the day, Buckner came back with his division; but all his efforts to dislodge Smith were vain.” HE STOPPED THE CAR – Anecdote TENNYSON’S “YOU, YOU!” – Story about Tennyson’s poem A JUDGE’S LITTLE JOKE ON HIS FRIEND – Anecdote SURPLUS OF LAWYERS – Story of the overcrowding of the legal profession GRANT AT FORT DONELSON From an illustrated article on “The Battle of Fort Donelson: by General Lew Wallace, in the December Century, we take the following: ‘There were in attendance on the occasion some officers of great subsequent nobility. Of these Ulysses S. Grant was first. The world knows him now, then his fame was all before him. A singularity of the volunteer service in that day was that nobody took account of even a first-rate record in the Mexican War. The Battle of Belmont, though indecisive, was a much better reference. A story was abroad that Grant had been the last man to take boat at the end of that affair, and the addendum that he had lingered in the face of the enemy until he was hauled abroad with the last gang-plank, did him great good. From the first his silence was remarkable. He knew how to keep his temper. In battle, as in camp, he went about quietly, speaking in a conversational tone; yet he appeared to see everything that went on, and was always intent on business. He had a faithful assistant adjutant–general, and appreciated him; he preferred however, his own eyes, word, and hand. His aides were little more than messengers. In dress he was plain, even negligent; in partial amendment of that his horse was always a good one and well kept. At the council – calling it such grace – he smoked, but never said a word. In all probability he was from the orders of march which were issued that night.” SHODDY ARISTOCRACY If you will take a historical telescope and look over the social horizon for the past two centuries, you must observe that every decade brings the idea of aristocracy lower and lower every year. The statue and the idea are going very much the same, too, and the time must come when all the requi--- that dance attendance on social life in America under the name of aristocracy will be nationally recognized as shoddy. Martha Washington and the mothers of the republic were content to live plainly and respectably, and the disgusting practice of referring to women as the leading ladies of the land palls on the taste of sensible people. In the social circle, prescribe within the bounds of the home, a women’s sphere. In this country, we worship women because they are mothers and wives but the people do not believe in raising any special class to ---(CAN’T READ) PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY NOV. 11, 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. For Congress, 6th Dist J. H. Bankhead, of Fayette President Cleveland on the 1st issued his thanksgiving proclamation, and appointed Thursday, Nov. 25th as the day to be observed throughout the United States. The war-cloud is still hovering over Europe, and advises from that country state that beyond doubt war will be precipitated by Russia in the spring. Victory Hugo is an engraver, George Washington a bostler, Andrew Jackson a barber, John brow a policeman, Caesar a truck driver, and Brutus a laborer. At all events that is what the Chicago Directory says. The unveiling of Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor took place Oct. 28th, President Cleveland and other distinguished citizens of American and France assisting in the ceremonies. It is the most gigantic work of its kind in the world, the head alone will hold comfortably forty persons. It stands to quote the words of the great sculptor, an emblem of freedom and a monument of good will and friendship between France and America. Instead of the laws of Alabama encouraging capitol to be loaned in the state to develop its resources a prohibitory tax is imposed. The good sense and statesmanship embodied in this law is hard to find if any it contains. By reason of the enormous tax foreign loans are not made in the state, and of course no tax collected is the result. The people are denied the privilege to borrow the cheap money of the East and the progress and development of the state is retarded for that reason. It is not altogether a new constitution to need but some decided legislation different from much that is now is existence. THE BARTHOLDI STATUE It is said that history is constantly repeating itself; but the grand celebration had near New York on the 28th of Oct. is not a repetition of any like scene in the history of the world. The Statue of Liberty the joint production of the two greatest Republics the world ever saw bring to mind the days in our history when the noblest blood of France was freely shed to establish freedom in the western world. France ahs been the ally and friend of the United States from the foundation of the government and so strongly the people of France have been impressed with the Republican form of government that a monarchy has been turned into a grand Republic. The lasting good to be done by the Statue of Liberty is not to be estimated. It will perpetuate a cherished an d almost idolatrous veneration of the heroes of the Revolution and keep in constant memory the good will ever borne us by the French people. WHO WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT? The Congressional elections are over and the split on the tariff among democrats has been its cause of a pretty black eye to the democracy on the 2nd of Nov. The question next for discussion is who will be the next President? That Mr. Blaine will be the Republican nominee there is but little doubt, but as to who will be the Democratic nominee there is a wide field for speculation. President Cleveland has no great advantage in the contest. He does not appear before the people and office seekers as being entirely perfect. He has violated the rule of not appointing kins-people to office. The appointment of cousin Ben Folsom to a good place possible will go far to support and encourage the great opposition that now exists toward his administration. The recent political contest is quite likely to bring about a change of political prestige in the state of New York, and some man to carry the state is a matter of vital necessity to the Democratic Party and the better opinions are that stronger men than President Cleveland can be found in that state. ALABAMA ELECTS A SOLID DEMOCRATIC DELEGATION TO THE 50TH CONGRESS In the First District J. T. Jones, in the Second, H. A. Herbert, and in the Third, W. C. Oates had no opposition. In the Fourth District, Davidson, the Democratic nominee, was opposed by McDuffie, white Republican, of Lowndes, and Ben Turner, black Republican of Dallas, but leads them both by a majority of about 4,200. In the Fifth District Judge J. E. Cobb was opposed at the last moment by an Independent Republican, by the name of Edwards, Cobb is elected by a handsome majority. In this the Sixth District, Bankhead, Democrat, was opposed by Long, Independent Republican, Bankhead elected by a large majority. In the Seventh District Gen. W. H. Forney was opposed by J. D. Hardy, Independent Republican Forney was elected by a good majority. In the Eight District Gen. Wheeler is elected over James Jackson, Republican HOW IT LOOKS Tuesday’s election resulted anything but favorably to the democracy. The gloomy outlook indicated in the dispatches of yesterday is confirmed by later and more reliable news of this morning. There is but little cause for congratulations, but reason for great disappointment. The Democratic Party will have to awake from the thrall that a wide spread lethargy seems to have been thrown around it, and from now on present a bold front if it hopes to improve its victory of two years ago. The result of Thursday teaches us this much if nothing more. We have two years in which to ponder over causes of present defeat and it is time to prepare ourselves to profit from what we shall learn. The late contest has resulted in a series of Democratic surprises. First in order may be ranked our defeat in Virginia, where the Republicans have unexpectedly gained three congressmen in a southern state we had concluded once more safe in the Democratic column. In Indiana the Democrats lose three congressmen and Morrison is defeated in Illinois. Morrison’s defeat is a severe loss to the party in and out of Congress. His district, however ahs always been republican and he has carried it against all odds heretofore., but it was not to be expected that he would always be able to do so. His defeat therefore, while it is to be regretted, is not at all surprising. The Democrats have probably gained one congressman each in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Nebraska, and Tennessee, and one or tow in other states, but the Republican gains are very large, leaving the question as to which party has a majority in the house in doubt. The greatest surprise and the one least expected, is the defeat of Speaker Carlisle by Thocke, a knight of labor candidate. It was not generally known that Carlisle had any opposition in his district, and the announcement of his defeat has fallen upon the country like a thunder clap from a cloudless sky. Taking it all together, Tuesday was not a good day for the democracy. – [Montgomery Dispatch] ITEMS OF INTEREST The Rev. Sam Jones, the Georgia evangelist, is preaching to Canada. A young woman of Harrisburg, Pa., utilized her wire bustle the other day as a cage for a flying squirrel that she caught while in the country and wanted to carry home. Louisville, Ky., has forty thousand colored people. The eagle is a tough bird, but when it is put on the back of a dollar is a legal tender. California is 770 miles long. Its greatest width is 330 miles, and it contains 183,961 square miles, or 129,947,829 acres of land. Eight large cigar factories, which will give employment to two thousand operatives, are now in course of construction at Key West. The perfumery manufactories at Nice and Cannes annually crush and squeeze no less than one hundred and fifty-four thousand pounds of orange blossoms. Thirteen human beings were burned to death in the railroad disaster which took place on the 29th ult. On the St. Paul & Milwaukee R. R. Among other sad items, it is stated that Conductor Hankey has been wandering in the woods, a maniac. A citizen of Seattle, W. A. has this card standing in a newspaper there: “Whereas, I have left my wife and her board; whereas I have become attached to another and more attractive woman, I hereby give warning to the public that I will in future pay my own bills without any assistance from her whatever. Winnie Johnson, who is on exhibition in Cincinnati is probably the largest woman in the world. She is five feet eight and a half inches in height, measures three feet around the upper arm, four feet five inches around the thigh, eight feet nine inches around the bust, and is said to weigh 733 pounds. Winnie is a black woman. A Chicago expressman says that the oddest thing he ever received by express was a grave. It was in a box about four feet long, covered with a glass. Inside was the earth of a child’s grave – the turf, flowers, headstone, and all was going to California. Some man had moved out there and had the body of a dear child taken up hand shipped to him. The thought struck him that he would like to have a little of the sod from the old homestead, and so he sent for the top of the grave. Of eighty girls landed at Castle Garden, recently fifty-two were red-haired. As they all went west, scientists will, no doubt, soon begin to see and diagnose red sunsets again. It is not unusual to find eggs in fowls killed for the table; but it is unusual to find chickens. This is said on good authority, to have happened in Emmuleunce, Mo. When a fully developed chick, enclosed in a sort of pouch, was found inside a hen that was being prepared for the pot. Railroad trains running though woods are more or less delayed at this season of year by leaves that are drawn to the track by the suction of the trains. They are ground under the wheels, and the moisture thus pressed out makes the rails slippery. Sumac gathering is becoming a recognized industry in portions of Virginia. This year the quantity gathered is unusually large some gatherer having made $500 each by collecting the leaves and branches of the shrub, which they call “shoemake.” Two Chinamen imprisoned in the Joilet Penitentiary of Illinois have become insane. The warden says that he thinks it is because their queues were cut off. A third recently sent there from Wyoming will be permitted to wear his pig tail. Shubula, Miss, was the scene of a big burglary on last Saturday night . every safe in the town but one was broken open and sacked, and in addition to the money, a large amount of silverware was also taken. No clue to the burglars. It is said that the paper furnished under the new contracts, on which the silver certification are being printed, is of inferior quality. Instead of two, there is but one silk thread running the length of the bill, and there are no scattered silk thread to be seen. An expert says that it will not wear well. We would like to wear a few of them whether there is a thread in them or not. Near Valley Head lives a young lady who has not slept a wink since hearing of the suicide of Mr. Maxwell’s wife near that place two weeks ago. Her physician tried to put her to sleep by giving her 40 drops of laudanum, but it had no more effect than that much water. She is as jovial and hearty as ever and talks of her condition as though it was nothing unusual. She says she does not get sleepy. 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. Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, I hope to receive a liberal share in the future. 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). PAGE 3 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY NOV. 11, 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 Send in your “ads.” Still the white fleecy-fold passes by. Now is the time for our merchants to advertise. See Notice of Admr’s Sale in another column. Several persons are off for a job on the Kansas City R. R. Rev. Mr. BRINDLEY preached in town last Sunday night. Patronize the schools and encourage the teachers and pupils. Have you made anything to compete for a premium at the State Fair. You may safely read all contained in the Lamar News in the family circle. The red and yellow leaf is being raked up for the compost heap as well as poetry. Commissioner’s Court was in session Monday and Tuesday. A full board was in attendance. Subscribe for your county paper and get the late news. Never be discouraged young man look onward and upward. Raise more corn and hogs if you wish to see our county prosper. The workingman or woman of the present day has the fairest chance for recreation in the future. Misses HATTIE and LOCKIE DEARMAN two charming young ladies from the county were in town first of the week Messrs. J. GARRISON and LANGWORHTY Piano and Organ agents are in town if you wish to purchase or have work done on instruments, now is your time. We are glad to note the growing trade of Kennedy Station. It is said that six miles north of Fayette C. H. were sold in Kennedy one day not long since. Rev. W. C. WOODS preached in this place on last Sabbath 11 a. mm. Miss CARRIE TURNER of Lowndes County is visiting relatives in town. Miss MARRY COOK of Texas is visiting relatives in Vernon. Dr. J. D. RUSH and family left yesterday for their home in Apalachicola, Fla. Mr. TYLER GILLMORE has sold his place in town and has purchased the farm of Mr. ABNER PENNINGTON. Lawrence’s Beat polled 50 votes for Bankhead and 8 for Long instead of the figures given in last issue. If you wish a good article of Plug Tobacco ask your dealer for :Old Rip.” Jay Gould can afford the luxury of a strike – the strikers themselves can stand the want of employment temporarily -–the business world can recuperate from the losses incident to suspension of trade, but no one who suffers with cough, cold, or disease of throat and lungs can afford to be without Coussens’ Honey of Tar. It is a necessity to them. The Rev. JOEL SANDERS was in town Monday with a subscription to build bridges over the sloughs, on the road south from town. Every one that can should help in this good work. Reader have you ever used Tablers Buckeye Pile Ointment? If you have tried it for piles, we are sure you will heartily agree with us that this preparation although good for nothing else in the wide world is the best remedy ever offered the public for piles. In fact it is the only safe, simple, and effectual cure for that disease. The Meeting of those interested in the public school was well attended on Monday. Vernon ought to have a public school six months in the year with a hundred children in attendance with a small tax added to the public funds we could have such a school. Persons in ordinary circumstances cannot afford to e sick when a heavy bill from a doctor is the result. The latter can be obviated if you have a cough or cold, by the timely use of Coursseus’ Honey of Tar, which has long been in use, and is universally conceded to be only pure and simple remedy for a cough or cold. We are requested to inform the public that Messrs. J. GARRISON of Cullman, Ala., agent for the celebrated Wilcox & White Organ, and F. R. Langworthy of Rome Ga., will be in Vernon about Nov. 10th, prepared to do all kinds of piano and organ work. ROBT. RICHARDSON pastor of the Methodist church (col) wishes to return thanks through the News to the citizens of Vernon in behalf of his church, for aid to the amount of 11.50 to pay for sash for the windows of their church. 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. 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. 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. ALABAMA NEWS Lawrence County furnishes the only Republican member in the State Senator. (sic) There has been a newspaper startup at Centre – its title The Telephone. Senator Morgan made a speech to the citizens of Selma on Friday. Lowndes County gave Davidson for Congress, 589 votes against 2093 fir McDuffie. Chancellor McSpadden has appointed C. B. Brown Register in Chancery at Scottsboro. Livingston will soon have a large and commodious warehouse for the storing of cotton. Alabama will go up to the fiftieth Congress with her solid delegation. Nobody ever rationally thought otherwise. – [Dispatch] An amusing incident occurred at Epes on election day. A negro had an order for fifty pounds of meat in his pocket with his long ticket, and voted the order instead of the ticket. – [Gainsville Messenger] The Troy Messenger says that a lady in Coffee County gave birth to four fine babies about two weeks ago – two boys and two girls. The little fellows are all yet living and seem to be doing well. Since Etowah County was formed there have been 32 cases of manslaughter and murder on the docket, and but two convictions, and in those the penalty was light. This is a remarkable record. TOM MILLER, on trial in Choctaw County for murder was convicted and sentenced to be hung December 17. The elegant steamer R. C. Gunter has just been completed at Chattanooga, and as soon as the river rises will begin to make trips between the latter city and Decatur. Mr. D. C. Smith, who ahs the contract to build the first thirty miles of the mobile and West Alabama Railroad extension says that he has begun on it and is to have it finished by the first of next May. Some of our State Contemporaries are advocating the calling of a constitutional convention. What’s the use of putting the state to that expense? If the constitution needs amending let the Legislature submit amendments to the people to be voted on at the next election. Our state, through an economical administration of its government, is now in a thriving condition but it is too early yet to remember the safeguarded or to open the door to excessive taxation. – [Mobile Register] 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 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 ADMINISTRATOR’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. THE VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, Under the Principalship of J. R. BLACK, will open October 5, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of Tuition as follows: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Composition, and U. S. History; per month $2.00 ADVANCED: Embracing Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, and Latin, per month $3.00 Incidental fee 20 cts, per quarter. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention given to those who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7 per month. Tuition due at the end of each quarter. For further information, address: J. R. BLACK, Principal, Vernon, Ala KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL Located in the live and growing town of Kennedy on the Georgia Pacific Rail Road. The moral and religious influences surrounding this school are unsurpassed in any part of the state. Boarders can find pleasant homes in refined families at very reasonable rates. The first session will commence on Monday Nov. 1st, 1886, and continue for a term of ten scholastic months. TUITION PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Physiology, History of U. S., Practical Arithmetic, and Elementary Algebra, per month $2.00. ADVANCED GRADE: Embracing Higher Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Rhetoric, Elocution, and Latin per month, $2.50. An incidental fee of 25 cents, per session. Special attention will be given to those who expect to engage in teaching and preparing boys and girls to enter college. Tuition due at expiration of each quarter. For further particulars address J. C. JOHNSON, Principal, Kennedy, Ala. KINGVILLE HIGH SCHOOL will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of nine scholastic months. Rates of tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, and Primary Arithmetic, per month, $1.50 INTERMEDIATE: Embracing English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Practical Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra, and U. S. History, per month, $2.00 HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Higher Algebra, Geometry, Physiology, Rhetoric, Logic, Elocution, Latin, per month $3.00. No incidental fee. Board in best families from $1.00 to $2.00 per month. Tuition due every three months. Discipline will be mild but firm. Special attention will be given to those who wish to engage in teaching. For further information address B. H. WILKERSON, C. Supt., Principal. Kingville, Ala, Oct. 20, 1886 THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL under the Principalship of J. R. GUIN, will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of Ten Scholastic months Rates of Tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Grammar, Primary Geography and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.25. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing Brief English Grammar, Elementary Geography, Elementary Arithmetic, Letter Writing and Hygiene, per month, $1.50. PRACTICAL: Embracing English Grammar, Practical Arithmetic, Complete Geography, English Composition, U. S. History and Physiology, per month, $2.00. HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Rhetoric, Elocution, Algebra, Natural Philosophy, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Hygiene, Physiology, Latin, &c, per month $2.50. Discipline will be firm. Special attention will be given to young men and women who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7.00 per month. No incidental fees. Tuition due every five months. Correspondence solicited. Address J. R. GUIN Fernbank, Ala. Cheap Cash Store. Dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes. School books, &c. Coffee, sugar, tobacco snuff, crockery and tinware. All at bottom prices. Give us a call. Geo. W. Rush & Co, Ad for Collins Age Cure Ad for Ayer and Son Advertising Ad for Marriage Guide Ad for Pianos and Organs PAGE 4 WIT AND HUMOR - (jokes) THE FAIR OF IZAMAL On the 8th of December the festival of Our Lady of Izamel is celebrated with great pomp. A large fair is also held in the city during those days in her honor. Even merchants from neighboring states flock there, if not to kneel at the shrine of the Virgin, to worship at the altar of Mercury. Devotees on those occasions crowd the private apartment of the doll, which is also carried in solemn procession, decked in gorgeous array, and followed by a long train of worshippers. After church service is over, all leave in a hurry and rush to the bull-fight. Many of the Indians, who know absolutely nothing about tauromachy, enter the ring to fight the bull, exposing themselves to be injured for life, or die a painful death. In this we see an ancient custom yet prevalent. The ancients sacrificed their lives to deities for any benefit received. Today an Indian begs a favorite of his patron saint, and as a proof of his deep gratitude promises to fight a bull, keep drunk a certain number of days, or do some other rash thing. Bull-fighting in Yucatan is not like bull-fighting in Spain. The ring is a double palisade sustaining sheds covered with palm leaves, that are divided into boxes. Every one provides his own seat. The best and the worst, big and small all attend the bull-fight. Those who, on foot, merely play with the bull, only have a benequen sack to serve as shield. Others, also on foot, are provided with poles about three feet long, having a sharp iron head, like that of an arrow, called rejon. When the people are tired of seeing the bull played with, they call for the rejoneros. Those with the spears described then come forward. Their business is to strike the bull in the nape and kill it, but it is seldom done at once. The beast is chased by tow or three men, blow after blow is dealt, the blood gushing afresh each time. The first pain makes the animal furious, but the loss of blood soon weakens it, and it becomes almost harmless. Then the horsemen are called on to lasso it and drag it away. While another bull is being fetched rockets are fired, the people applaud, the band plays, a clown meanwhile doing his best to amuse the spectators. If a bull is disinclined to fight they gird his body with ropes in every possible way, fastening fire-crackers about his head and tail. Aggravated and tortured, the poor beast jumps about, and the crackers explode, to the great delight of all present, big and small. This renders it furious for a few minutes; but if it again refuses to fight it is taken away as a coward not worth killing. – [Alice D. in Plongeon, in Harper’s Magazine for Feb.] SWEET SIXTEEN OUT OF STYLE The reign of very young girls over the heart of man is ended. “Sweet sixteen” is insipid, fascinating eighteen tame. AT twenty-five the young lady of the present day may be said to be interesting, at thirty she is charming, and at thirty-three fascinating. But it is not until the woman gets well into the forties that she reaches the angelic period where temper no longer wields the mastery, and mature thought smooths out the rugged outlines of her mental life. If she understand the art of self-preservation she may also retain at this age the better part of her physical charms, and be pretty in spite of her years. Ninon de L’Kuclos was regarded as a belle and a beauty at sixty, and care and discretion are only necessary to carry the beauty of youth far into mature life. Another custom is coning into vogue which must lend hope to many a spinster and widow of uncertain age, and that is the fashion of women marrying men younger than themselves. Perhaps this can hardly be called a novel innovation, however, for it has been practiced in the older countries for many years, and in Ireland has long been the custom. Dr. Johnston married a woman old enough to be his mother; Disraeli was many years his wife’s junior, and Aaron Burr married a widow several years older than himself…..(TORN) THE DECLINE OF THE OYSTER – (Story about Economics About Oysters) AN AUSTRALIAN INTOXICANT – article about KAVE, the Australian stimulant. CHURCH MANNERS While we are upon this subject, we wish to call attention to two matters in which the majority of congregations might easily improve their manners and add to the impressiveness of the service. It is a common habit when the audience are to stand during the singing of a hymn, to wait until the first line is begun, and then ruin the verse by the confusion of the rising again during the latter part of the last verse the clattering of books into the pew-racks before the close of the song is a serious interference with all devotional effect, and especially so when that opportunity is seized for the putting on of wraps, rubbers, etc. No one would do this during the closing sentences of a prayer; why should it be done during the ascription of praise to God? Hundreds, yes, thousands of Christian people thus thoughtlessly mar the song worship in the sanctuary – [Musical Herald] A SCIENTIFIC BOY Sir David Brewater was born at Jodburgh Scotland, December 11, 1871. His father was rector of the grammar school, and a teacher of considerable reputation, whom neighborhood fame characterized as “the best Latin school and the quickest temper in Scotland.” But he was kindly withal. It was intended that David should become a minister, and he was sent to the University of Edinburgh to be educated with a view to that profession, when only twelve years old. His tastes had, however, even before this time, turned into another direction. It is recorded of his earlier school days that though he was never seen to pore over this books like the other boys, he always had his lessons, kept a preeminent place in his classes, and was frequently applied to by his fellow-pupils for assistance. And it was in the days of his childhood “that a dilapidated pane of glass in an upper window of his father’s house produced the inquiring thought which led him afterward to search into the mysteries of refracted light” He had become acquainted with Janes Velth, of Inchbonny, half a mile from Jedburgh, whom Sir Walter Scott had mentioned as a self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician. Velth was a plow-maker by trade, but was well versed in astronomical calculations and observations, having been the first discoverer of the great comet of 1811, and was in his most congenial pursuit when he was making telescopes, a work to which he brought much mechanical skill and scientific accuracy. His “scientific workshop” on the Jecdburgh turnpike, “became a gathering place for all the young men of intelligence in the neighborhood, most of them being in training for the ministry, for medicine, and the liberal pursuits. They had lessons in mathematics and mechanics, but especially in the favorite science of astronomy. The telescope were tested in the daytime by the eyes of the birds perching on the ----(CAN”T READ)----specula and lenses were considered fit to show the glories of the sky by night. David “was the very youngest,” says his daughter, Mrs. Gordon, from whose book we borrow our anecdotes, “of the quaint and varied group. When he began his visits I do not know, but we find that at the age of ten he finished the construction of a telescope at Inchbomy, which had engaged his attention at a very early period, and at which he worked indefatigably, visiting the workshop daily, and often remaining until the dark hours of midnight to see the starry wonders and test the power of the telescopes they had been making. – [From “Sketches of Sir David Brewster” in Popular Science Monthly for February] PANIC-STRICKEN TROOPS AT SHILOH From General Grant’s Illustrated account of the Battle of Shiloh in the February Century we quote the following: “The nature of his battle was such that cavalry could not be used in front; I therefore formed ours into line, in rear, to stop stragglers, of whom there were many. When there would be enough of them to make a show, and after they had recovered from their fright, they would be sent to reinforce some part of the line which needed support, without regard to their companies, regiments, or brigade. On one occasion during the day, I rode back as far as the river and met General Buell, who had just arrived. I do not remember the hour of the day, but at that time there probably ere as many as four or five thousand stragglers lying under cover of the river bluff, panic-stricken, most of whom would have been shot where they lay, without resistance, before they would have taken muskets and marched to the front to protect themselves. The meeting between General Buell and myself was on board the dispatch-boat used to run between the landing and Savanna. It was but brief, and related specially to his getting his troops over the river. As we left the boat together, Buell’s attention was attracted by the men lying under cover of the river bank. I saw him berating them and trying to shame them into joining their regiments. He even threatened them with shells from the gun-boats near by. But it was all to no effect. Most of these men afterward proved themselves as gallant as any of those who saved the battle from which they had deserted. I have no doubt that this sight impressed General Buell with the idea that a line of retreat would be a good thing just then. If he had come in by the front instead of through the stragglers in the rear, he would have thought and felt differently. Could he have come through the Confederate rear, he would have witnessed there a scene similar to that at our own. The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place form which to judge correctly what is going on in front. In fact, later in the war, while occupying the country between the Tennessee and the Mississippi, I learned that the panic in the Confederate liens had not differed much from that within our own. Some of the country people estimated the stragglers from Johnston’s army as high as 20,000. Of course, this was an exaggeration. PLANTATION PHILOSOPHY – (Sayings written in dialect) JAPANESE FOOD – Article about Japanese food and how it is eaten. THE SECRETS OF VENTRILOQUISM – Article about ventriloquism. Advertisements File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1082gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 52.2 Kb

Lamar County AlArchives News.....The Lamar News October 21, 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00016.html#0003775 September 4, 2006, 7:24 pm The Lamar News October 21, 1886 Microfilm Ref Call #373 Microfilm Order #M1992.4466 from The Alabama Department of Archives and History THE LAMAR NEWS E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, OCTOBER 21, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 51 BOYCOTT – Poem LOVE’S CHANGES – Short Story CHANGES IN THE SOUTH There is an impression in the north, says the Savannah (Ga.) News, that educated and cultivated southern women are less than able to take care of themselves when overtaken by misfortune than northern women of the same class are. The impression is not well founded, and those who have it know nothing about southern women; and have not had access to correct sources of information. There is another incorrect impression entertained at the north with respect to southern women. It is that they do not hold labor in as much esteem as northern women do, and are not so ready, therefore, to undertake to support themselves when thrown upon their own resources. It is doubtful if there are in any section of the country, in proportion to the number of the class to which they belong, so many refined and cultivated women who are earning their own support or helping to earn it as there are in the south. It is true, probably, that when slavery was an institution, and there was little poverty among educated people, southern women of the better class were not often found engaged in work of any kind that was not purely a matter of choice. There was no occasion for them to work. When misfortune came, however, they were not found wanting in any of the qualities which were necessary to meet the requirements of their changed condition. They faced the situation pluckily and hopefully and did willingly whatever they could find to do. Everywhere in the south, tin town and country, there are young women educated and cultivated, belonging to the best families and moving in the best circles, who are quietly earning their own support, and helping to support others dependent upon them. They make no parade of what they are doing, and those whose lot is exceptionally hard, seldom complain. The ----- made great progress in the -----. She is richer now -----. Her wealth is perhaps not so apparent as it was in slavery times, because it is much more generally distributed. If the truth could be known it would appear, doubtless, that the women of the south, by their example, self- reliance, readiness, and willingness to do with their own hands whatever became necessary for them to do, and by the encouragement they have given the men, have done their full share toward creating the wealth and making the comfortable homes that are now to be found in the south, and they are still working, and have as profound an appreciation of the dignity of labor as there is to be found anywhere in the world. They are not wasting any time in regretting the past or in envying their more prosperous sisters of the north. Their misfortunes and their struggles have not robbed them of their beauty, the sweetness of their natures, or made them less courteous or charitable. No, southern women are not helpless and dependent, and they are not wanting in esteem for labor. In all that is best and noblest in woman they have no superiors. A BUILDING WITH A HISTORY Among all the public buildings in New York City today there is not another that has so ancient and eventful a history as the Hall of Records or Register’s Office, in the City Hall Park. It was erected about the middle of the last century, when Broadway was a country road, when the only theater stood on the sight of the present World Establishment, when Conter Street was a lake, William Street a swamp, canal Street a river, and the Dowery a lonely lane, running up through huckleberry bushes. During the Revolutionary war this building was the chief British prison for distinguished patriots. Here Capt. Nathan Hale, the intrepid Yankee, was confined after his capture with a plan of the British defenses of Long Island in his shoes, and in the public common adjoining, exactly where the city hall now stands, he was hanged as a spy. Here that tough old rebel, Ethan Allen, of Thiconderogn fame was imprisoned after his capture while trying to take Montreal with thirty men; and his treatment and that of others caused the building which now stands near the city hall station of the elevated road, to be regarded by the patriots with about the same abhorrence as attached to Andersonville after the late war. When the British evacuated New York, in November 1788, the jailer, Cunningham, having won the same infamous reputation as the confederate jailer - -- was asked by his patriot prisoners, “What is to become of us?” “You can go to the devil” shouted Cunningham as the slang the keys into the middle of the floor and made off. It was forty or fifty years after that before the Bastille of the Revolution was remodeled and the bell transferred to the bridewell. It now sings prisoners to rations and prayers over on Blackwell’s Island. United Sates Senator Kenna of West Virginia is an excellent shot, and keeps the finest pack of deer-hounds and beagles owned by anybody, probably in the United States. He has bought down nine deer in one day’s hunt. He knows the best fishing streams in the Alleghenies, and likes nothing better than to set out for a day’s sport to see who of half-a-dozen fishermen, can bring the biggest string of trout. DISCOURAGING AN ARTIST – Story of Alex E. Sweet – [Ark-Traveler] THE DESTRUCTION OF THE HEMLOCK The last merchantable tree in the vast hemlock forests that have supplied the mills on the Dyberry Creek. One of the tributaries of the Lacawaxen River, for more than a quarter of a century was cut last week by “Bill” Kimble, who drove the first log down the stream that was out in that great forest in 1860. This tract of hemlock was nearly the last of any extent in Wayne County, whose forests ten years ago were yielding 100,000,000 feet of that lumber a year. Fifteen years ago more leather was tanned in Wayne County than in any other country in the union. The disappearance of the hemlock has caused all but two or three of the tanneries to be abandoned. All who were engaged in the business made large fortunes, and nearly all of them are now engaged in the same business to Elk, Forest, Warren, and other western counties, where the greatest hemlock forest in the world still densely cover the hills. The tanning industry of those counties now complain the entire sole-leather product of the world. The cutting away of the hemlock woods in Wayne County has had a disastrous effect on the water course, many large streams having becomes almost entirely dry within the past decade. – [Middleton Press] FOR WOMEN WHO RIDE – Describing how a woman should ride on horseback) AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE – Joke – [San Francisco Chronicle] The famous “Codex Argenteus” the four gospels translated by Bishop Ulphilas, is preserved in the University of Upsala. It is written on 132 leaves of parchment in letters of silver on a ground of faded purple. It is kept in a glass case and under lock and key. It dates back to the second half of the fourth century, and, besides being of value to the religious world, it gives the secular world all the knowledge it now possesses of the early Gothic, the parent of all the Germanic tongues. The latest eccentricity for a young and wealthy bachelor of Philadelphia, whose pranks have amused society for years, is that of going to a fashionable restaurant for a later supper, and insisting upon providing his own tablecloth. About three times a week he appears between midnight and 1 o’clock am and covers one of the tables in the man’s café with a more or less gorgeous table-cloth, generally made of some fancy shawl of Earn manufacture. On this he orders spread a little support for two or three, and appears to take delight in the sensation caused when a newcomer first sees the startling cloth. He has now kept this up for weeks and has nto used the same cloth twice. CHEAP WIVES Young men desiring inexpensive wives will do well to proceed immediately to Rochester, N. H., where they will find what a bagman would call a “full line” of marriageable girls at prices that defy competition. The young men of Rochester, like other New England young men, are not inclined to marry New England girls. Whatever may be the reason of this abstinence form marriage, the Rochester young men recently claimed exemption from matrimony on the ground that they could not afford to support wives. In so doing they did not remember that the New England girl is a reasoning being, endowed with a knowledge of arithmetic and capable of making estimates. The Rochester girls met together and drew up a scheme setting forth the proper household expenses of a family of six – this being, in their opinion, the very best family compatible with a domestic ---- order. They estimated that --- a family could be comfortable--- on $468 per annum, with ----additional allowance to the wife of $40 per annum for her wardrobe. Copies of this scheme were made and sent to all the unmarried young men of Rochester, and the later no longer pretend that they can not afford to marry. It is barely probable that the total sum of $448 would suffice to pay the personal expenses of a husband in addition to all the other family expenses. The Rochester young ladies have it is understood, estimated that a man’s clothing ought to cost him not more than $80 a year, and that $7.50 will supply him with all the cigars that he can possibly smoke. There is probably an error here. Only three hundred cigars at 2 ½ cents each could be bought for $7.50, and few men would be content with one cigar every week day. The average New Hampshire husband may be expected to smoke at least $14 worth of cigars annually, and in most cases $50 would not more than pay the cost of his clothes. If we increase the estimate in accordance with these figures we shall find that a family of six can live in Rochester, N. H. for about $575 a year. There can be no mistake about this, for the Rochester young ladies have demonstrated it on paper. If the Rochester young men know what is best for themselves they will marry Rochester girls without a moment’s delay, for as soon as it is know that desirable wives can be had in Rochester at such a ridiculous cheap --- the town will be invaded --- of appreciative men. ----to marry have ever ---- offered, and if the Rochester girls are made of good materials they ---- the cheapest investment ever offered to the public. – [New York Times] ACTRESSES LOVE BEER “People of the best society, when they come to dine with us, are as easy and careless as a lot of school-children; we get stiff and formal as we descend the social scale.” “Who are your best customers?” “Gamblers and their beautiful consorts are individually the best customers we have had this season. They spend their money like water, don’t care a rap for details, give liberal tips, and are almost constant customers. Most of them are exceedingly common beneath their good clothes and solemn manners, but they are invariably accompanied by handsome women, who know what they want in the way of wine and food, and don’t hesitate to ask for it. Politicians are occasionally good patrons. But perhaps the most utterly reckless of all our of all our customers is the man who is undergoing the first throes of the acquaintance of a popular actress. It makes no difference whether he is 20 or 60 years old. His actions are always the same. He comes here early in the day elaborately attired and noticeably nervous and remarks that he would like to have a little supper at 11:30 for two, never failing to mention incidentally the name of the stage divinity whom he is to bring to supper. Then he orders enough for eight people, with sufficient wine for as many more, has the room decorated with flowers, and subsequently drives around in great shape and ushers the lady in carelessly, trying to assume the air of a man who does that sort of thing every night. Both of them are more or less bored by the immense pretensions of it all, and most of us in the house are aware that the actress, in nine cases out of ten, prefers beer and Schwritzer kase with a man about town who knows how to talk and amuse her rather than the endless display of a set supper, with its carefully cooled champagne and accurately warmed red wines. By the way, there are half a dozen actresses who sap and dine out a great deal, and whom I know by observation and experience prefer cold tea to wine of any sort. But their preference generally runs in the direction of beer. If an actress drifts into our main restaurant after the play with a man whom she likes and who treats her with a measure amount of indifference the chances are that the will sit down and have a rattling good time over a place of oysters and a bottle of beer. She will talk cleverly, giggle happily, and enjoy herself thoroughly on a supper that costs less then $2. Take her the following night with an aspiring millionaire’s son and place her in a $5,000 dining room, with a $50 supper, and the chances are that she will assume preposterous airs and bore herself to death, while she signs for a bottle of beer and a bohemian companion.” - [New York Sun] Muller, A German chemist, has fed animals ten weeks with dry and with steeped unground Indian corn. The former showed an average increase in weight of nearly seven pounds more than the latter. PAGE 2 THE LAMAR NEWS THURSDAY OCT. 21, 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. For Congress, 6th Dist. J. H. Bankhead, of Fayette Some of our exchanges are saying “cotton coming in and business lively. “ While we can easily say “cotton passing the mills and business improving.” The General Assembly of Alabama will convene at the capitol in Montgomery on Tuesday, November 9th. Governor Seay and the state officers will be sworn into office, the Stare Fair will be in operation, and there is a strong probability that President Cleveland and some members of his cabinet may visit Alabama’s capital on that occasion. The editor, who is also the publisher of this paper, while thankful for advice as to how he should conduct the columns of this paper, must say that he can’t do as all his friends would have him do. And being responsible for EVERYTHING that appears in the columns of the News, we must insist on conducting it as is most congenial to our taste. We have our own views on the political issues of the day and as to whether we espouse the cause of one man above another, we beg leave to take into consideration the feelings and sentiments of our readers and not fill up with matter pleasing to some and obnoxious to others. Said a merchant yesterday: “Do you know that prohibition is changing the character of business in the interior towns? Wherever prohibition has been adopted the money formerly expended for whiskey is devoted to something else, and this has given rise to larger general business, and in some instances, new business. One country merchant told me this week that he sells fifty pairs of children’s shoes, where he formerly sold one. The fathers used to drink up the shoe money and the children went barefoot. He said also that he sells quantities of women’s hats and bonnets, and never sold anything of the kind before prohibition was adopted. The husbands had no money, so the wives made their own bonnets of calico and splints, now there is no gallon jug under the bed, and the women have decent headgear and even ribbons. That is a solid fact, and is a whole sermon if you choose to lengthen it out a bit. – [Mobile Register] MRS. CLEVELAND ON TEMPERANCE It rarely occurs that a woman needs for herself the restraining influences of a temperance pledge; but if by placing ourselves under the obligations of such an organization we can better help our fathers, brothers, lovers and friends, I think there should be no hesitation in the matter. I know something of the good Templars and that they do much good work. It is quite certain you can do no harm by casting your lot on the side of Temperance and may do much good. I do not consider it a small matter by any means, and I am glad you asked me the question. It is encouraging to know of every sister who wants to add her strength to the cause which, happily, some day will rid our land of ruined men and broken families. Very truly Frances Cleveland THE NEW SOUTH Baltimore, October 14 – The Baltimore Manufacturer’s Record, in its quarterly review of the south’s industrial growth to be published tomorrow its says that “even the west in the days of its greatest progress probably never saw such tremendous strides of progress as some portions of the south are making. The centre of interest for sometime has been in iron and steel industries, and in these the activity has been wonderful, though in other lines of diversified manufactories there is also remarkable progress. Among the principal iron and steel enterprises now underway are five new furnaces, basic steel works and 1,400 coke ovens, by the Tennessee and Pratt Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, who already have five furnaces in operation. This company has a capital of 10,000,000 and when the new furnaces are completed they will have a daily capacity of about 1,400 tons daily of pig iron. Two furnaces are now building by the DeBardeleden Coal and Iron Company, one by Mr. Samuel Thomas and associates of Pennsylvania; two under contract at Sheffield, Ala, two by Nashville and New York capitalists at South Pittsburg, Tenn., one by the coal and coke company of Birmingham, one at Ashland, KY, one at Aeta, Tenn., one at Calera, Ala, and $800,000 Iron company at Florence, Ala, Bessemer Steel works at Chattanooga, Tenn., and Richmond, Va, two stove works, each with a capitol of $200,000 at Birmingham. Two iron pine works, one the largest of the Untied States at Chattanooga and similar enterprise at Wheeling, Ala. a $600,000 company has been organized to build an iron manufacturing town at Bessemer, Ala. A $300,000 company, composed of northern and southern capitalists, has purchased a large portion of South Pittsburg, where two furnaces are in operation, and where three more are to be build, and also iron pipe works and other iron manufacturing enterprises, while other iron centres and enterprises are to be near Birmingham – one by the Birmingham Land Company and another by the Tennessee and Pratt Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company. During the last nine months there have been organized in the south forty-two ice factories, fifty foundries and machine shops, many of them of the large size, one Bessemer Steel rail mill, sixteen miscellaneous iron works including iron pipe works, bridge and bolt works, &c. five stove foundries, nine-gas works, twenty-three electric companies, eight agricultural implement factories, 144 mining and quarrying enterprises, twelve carriage and wagon factories, nine cotton mills, nineteen furniture factories, twenty-one water works, forty-four tobacco factories, seventy-one flour mills, three hundred and sixty-two lumber mills, not counting small, portable sawmills, including – and planning mills, stove, handle, shingle, hub and spoke , and small block factories, etc; in addition to which there was a large number of miscellaneous enterprises. The Manufacturers Record says during the first nine months of 1886, the amount of capital including the capital stock of the incorporated companies represented by new manufacturing and mining enterprises or chartered at the south and in enlargement of old plants, and rebuilding of mills that were destroyed by fire, aggregates about $---,834,000 against $52,396,300 for the corresponding period of ’85. The American Ga., Recorder says: “The most independent feature of earth is a farmer, a man who has one hundred and sixty acres of land, out of debt, with a little good stock, good health, a good wife, and sense enough to keep out of debt. The most dependent human being in the world is a farmer who is mortgaged, whose stock is of scrub order, who is too lazy to work, and who sits on a dry goods box talking politics when he ought to be at home attending to his won business.” This is “gospel truth.” Says the Mobile Register. FUN TO RUN A NEWSPAPER The people who really know how to run a newspaper right, you know, are as numerous as the sands on the seashore, but for some unaccountable reason they never get hold of a newspaper to run. It’s readily a great deal of fun to run a paper. The eyes of the whole community are watching the editor, and his actions, his business and his paper are criticized to an extent almost incredible. If he happens to be away from town on business he is accused of neglecting his business and “riding’ out his pass.” I f he ver goes away he is said to be too “close to go away to learn anything for the benefit of his town, because he might miss a nickle at his home.” If he works all day in his office and spends his evenings at his books and getting up his “copy” he is called “distant, cold and not in sympathy with the public interests of his town., because he is never around.” If he is “around” hunting locals and visiting business men, he is “lazy and shiftless and undeserving of support, because he can never be found in is office.” If he misses an item, the one interested in that particular item says his paper “never has anything in it.” If he has the courtesy to give the W. C. T U. or church and temperance people a small part of his space “he is a temperance crank and fanatic.” If he thinks it is better for the general welfare to license the liquor traffic instead of prohibiting it, “he is an odious whiskyite.” If he published impartially views on both sides of great questions, he is accused by each side with favoring the other and “stop my paper” is the nightmare of his dreams. Oh, yes, it’s lots of fun to run a paper. – [Juanita (Neb.) Herald] DO NOT SWEAR 1. It is mean. A boy of high moral standing would almost as soon steal a sheep as swear. 2. It is vulgar – altogether too low for a decent boy. 3. It is cowardly, implying a fear of not being believed or obeyed. 4. It is ungentlemanly. A gentleman, according to Webster, is a genteel man – well, refined. Such a one will no more swear than go into the streets and throw mud with a chimney sweep. 5. It is indecent – offensive to delicacy and extremely unfit for human ears. 6. It is foolish. “Want of decency is want of sense.” 7. It is abusive – to the mind that conceives the oath, to the tongue that utters it, and to the one at whom it is aimed. 8. It is venomous – showing a boy’s heart to be a nest of vipers, and every time he swears one of them sticks out his head. 9. It is contemptible – forfeiting the respect of all the wise and good. 10. It is wicked – violating the Divine law, and provoking the displeasure of Him guiltless who taketh His name in vain. – [Ex.] A writer in an exchange says: “in one gutter I saw a pig, in the other the semblance of a man. The pig was sober; the man was drunk. The pig had a ring in his nose; the man had one on his finger. The pig grunted; so did the man. And I said aloud, “we are known by the company we keep”, and the pig heard me and walked away, ashamed to be seem in the company of a drunken man.” It is estimated that a much larger proportion of the cotton crop this year is the product of white labor than ever before. This is an encouraging fact. The more of our young men who cultivate the soil the better for the future of the South. Birmingham, Ala. was considerably excited in the latter part of last week over the consolidation of the greatest coal and iron property in the world. It consists of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, the Pratt Coal and Iron Company, the Alice Furnace Company, and the Linn Iron Works. The three last names are in Birmingham and vicinity. This being under one management the entire property and puts a large capital into the treasury of the consolidated company. Five new furnaces of a daily capacity of 200 tons each, and 3,000 coke ovens re to be built at once. 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. Dr. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala. Thankful for patronage heretofore extended me, I hope to receive a liberal share in the future. 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 Barber Shop. For a clean shave or Shampoo call on G. W. BENSON, in rear Dr. Burn’s office. Vernon, Ala 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 -------Fine photographs for --- 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 OCT. 21, 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. 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 Still very dry and dusty. The Aberdeen Fair is in session this week. Cotton is still on the grove. Remember the printer. Call to see us when you come to town. Circuit Clerk BRADLEY has moved his interesting family to town. Orders received daily for the books on the “Wonderful girl.” Cotton wagons pass constantly these days. In these days there is no such word as “Fall” except for the man who does not advertise. Our energetic townsman, Mr. A. J. PARSONS is having an addition made to his house. Preaching in this place last Sunday at 11 am and at night, by Rev. J. E. COX. Mr. BUD POE made a business trip to Fayette C. H. latter part of last week. Mr. MURRY COBB of Columbus visited relatives in town first of the week. Miss BETTIE LARNELL one of Caledonia’s fair daughters is visiting relatives in this place. If you wish a good article of plug Tobacco ask your dealer for “old Rip.” Sheriff PENNINGTON and Dr. W. A. BROWN left first of the week taking two county convicts to Birmingham. Mr. E. W. BROCK joined the Missionary Baptist Church at this place by letter on Sunday night last. The leaves are turning from green to yellow and red, and the song of the katydid is heard no more in the land. Mrs. J. D. CAMERON of Starkville and daughter, Mrs. MARY WYATT and children of Vernon, Miss are visiting relatives in town. Mr. N. F. MORTON left Tuesday for Pickens County where he will spend two or three weeks repairing the mills of Dr. WILLIAMS. The price of cotton is looming up a little. Some sold at 8 ¾ in Columbus first of the week. We are pained to learn of the serious sickness of Rev. MR. FINCH of Luxapilia circuit. We are informed that Mr. PINK PENNINGTON Sr. has sold his farm and contemplates moving to Mississippi. Messrs. BUTLER & TOPP dealers in fine clothing and gents furnishing goods, inform their friends in this week’s issue that they are still in the lead. In this issue will be seen the card of the Kingville High School, under the principalship of our most worthy County Supt. Prof. B. H. WILKERSON. Mr. ROBERT LAWRENCE’S little boy was snake bitten a few days ago. It has not been long since his other little son met with the same misfortune. JAS. MIDDLETON, Esq. has moved down to the place lately bought of Mr. O. F. GUYTON. Mr. FRANK –ENMAN and wife will reside with Mr. MIDDLETON. 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 We call special attention to the card of the Columbus Art Studio. Those who desire artistic work of this kind would do well to call at the Art Studio. The Rev. GEO. B. TAYLOR with Messrs. WALKER & DONOBOO of Columbus Miss, will be pleased to have his friends call on him while in Columbus, --- and sell you anything --- as cheap as can be had here. (can’t read) We unintentionally neglected to credit the Tuskaloosa Gazette on the article commenting upon a piece credited to the Mobile Register in last week’s News. 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. The I. O. O. F. called a meeting on last Saturday for the purpose of reviving the organization of Rebeccas. Several members were added. They will meet again next Saturday at 9 o’clock p.m. The gin house of Mr. J. G. TRULL together with about thirty bales of cotton was burned on last Saturday night. The burning was the work of an incendiary, occurring late in the night. The burning created great indignation among the people, Mr. Trull being an honorable and inoffensive citizen. He has the sympathy of the entire community. Free to all. Our illustrated catalogue…. Ad for Hawley’s CORN SALVE STATE NEWS There are eight prisoners in the Morgan County jail at Somerville. Montgomery is making a big effort to get President Cleveland to visit the State Fair in November. Birmingham has forty-four lawyers and twenty-two doctors. Dr. John Little, Sr. died at his home in Tuskaloosa Oct the 1st, at the advanced age of 87 years. The Wetumpka Times is about right in its advocacy of paying circuit solicitors salaries instead of fees. Richard King, colored, made an attempt Tuesday night at Mobile, to assassinate his colored brother, Sam Jordan by shooting him in the abdomen. The governor has accepted the resignation of Judge Cobb, Judge of the fifth circuit. Who is the Democratic nominee of his district for Congress. Capt. W. H. Sheppard, who lives about five miles north of Tuscaloosa lost his gin and nine bales of cotton by fire on Friday last. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. It is reported that the Columbus Index is soon to move to Birmingham, leaving Columbus with but one newspaper, the Dispatch. Four hundred and fifty pounds is the amount of cotton picked by a white boy, near Greenville, Ala, one day recently. The Post office at Point Clear has been burglarized. The Mobile Gold Life Insurance co., has made an assignment. The Knights of Labor number nearly one thousand members in Selma. Martin Gately was killed by a train near Mobile, a few days ago. The ten prisoners in jail, at Hayneville tried to escape last week. A bag of counterfeit gold coin was found in the cellar of a vacant house in Cullman on the 9th inst. Some Montgomery ladies have ------the Southern ----for the county fair. George A. Joiner has been appointed commissioner of the Deaf and Dumb Institute Talladega, Vice Mr. Story deceased. (cut off) Coleman, the man who escaped jail at Tuskaloosa was re-arrested and carried back on the charge of carrying concealed weapons, committed suicide in the Tuskaloosa jail Saturday night last. His mind is believed to have been unsound. A curiosity in the shape of a full-grown white buzzard has been seen frequently of late on Capt. Troup Randall’s prairie plantation near Union Springs. The gentleman has given strict orders to his tenants that it shall not be killed. A United Press telegram from Selma says: There is on exhibition at the Uniontown fair a negro, seven years old, from the plantation of Hon. A. C. Davidson, near Uniontown, who moulds figures from mud that would do credit to a sculptor. He commenced attracting attention when but five years old. He then moulded wonderfully, and his power has increased very much since then. Through the influence of some gentleman his mother was induced to let the boy and the figures be placed on exhibition. This is quite an attraction, and no one visiting Uniontown should fail to see this curiosity. A society, composed of seventeen young ladies, ahs been organized in Greensboro, its principal feature being to prevent the members from speaking evil of anyone. They hold weekly meetings and collect a fine of one cent for every “mean thing” the members have said about people during the week. We did not learn how much had been paid into the treasury, but we are told that the amount was sufficient to buy all of the ladies a badge. One of the members informed us that they were liable to a fine if they said a boys was ugly, a dude conceited, stuck up, his clothes didn’t fit, or had big feet, etc. and we decided at once that the organization was a good one, and it has our best wishes for success. – [Greensboro Watchman] We stand in a good way of again being bored to death with a rehash of the Culling affair. ITEMS OF INTEREST There are 365 colleges in the U. S. Henry Ward Beecher will sail for home on Oct. 23rd. They say that Senator Pugh is really coming to Alabama. Ben Turner’s political circus is an attraction that must not be forgotten. Charles A. Dana’s salary as editor of the N. Y. Sun is $15,000. The consumption of lead pencils in the U. S. is at 250,000 a day. Daniel Webster’s living descendants are two granddaughters and one grand son. The cost of picking the southern cotton crop by hand is $40,000,000 a year. To extinguish kerosene flames, if no cloth is at hand, throw flour on the flames. Flour rapidly absorbs the fluid and deadens the flame. The Foreign Mission Board has appointed Nov. 7th as a day of special prayer for Missions. Powderly re-elected grand Master-workman of the K. of L. Charles L. Litchman, of Massachusetts, elected secretary, and Frederick Turner, treasurer. Mr. J. R. Boling living in Chickasaw County, Miss planted one acre in sorghum cane, upon land not fertilized which made 174 gallons. This beats cotton in time, labor, and profit. Lightning struck in the middle of a potato patch at Plattsville, Ulster County, during a recent thunderstorm, and scorched the vines in a circle of fifteen feet. Directly in the center of the circle the tubers were uncovered, and many of them were baked. – [New York Sun] Mr. Abram S. Hewitt of New York has agreed to accept the Tammany nomination for mayor and has written a letter announcing that fact. Mr. Hewitt stipulates however that ------ Shock of earthquake shortly after 4 o’clock am of the 15th inst. Which made windows rattle abut did no other harm. The same shock was felt at Summerville. The famous Oratory Church in Paris is being ----- In 1386 William Buckles, a Hollander first salted a barrel of herrings. His grateful countrymen will soon celebrate the fifth centennial of his spicy achievement. On the night of the 12th instant the town of Sabine Pass was visited by the severest cyclone ever known on this coast, causing the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and Sabine Lake to completely submerge the town and surrounding country, destroying every habitable house excepting two and --- away all household effect---- and causing the, loss of home, clothing, &c and leaving the reminder of----- homeless and ---- That is a wonderfully small baby, the latest blessing to David K. and Emily Peck Mix, who are now visiting the baby’s grandmother in New Haven. The infant is a little over two months old and weighs two and one-half pounds. She was born at Long Lake in the Adirondacks, where her parents have heretofore resided, is a well-formed child and healthy, and can eat, sleep and squally like a baby five times her size. She is thirteen inches in height, her wrist is seven-eighths of an inch in circumference, the back of the hand measures one inch across; her ankle is an inch and a quarter around, and her foot an inch and a quarter long. She ahs blue eyes and quite a thick growth of dark hair. NOTICE The Board of Education will henceforth meet on the first Saturday of each month for the examination of teachers, positively at no other time. Hence all teachers wishing certificates of qualification must apply on those days. Physiology and Hygiene are required by law to be taught in all public schools and no teacher need expect to receive any public funds for teaching any school in which these branches are not taught. Parties desiring to correspond with me can do so by addressing me at Fernbank, Ala. Respectfully, B. H. WILKERSON, Co. Supt. Ed. 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. 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 SALE OF LOTS By virtue of a mortgage executed in the undersigned by R. R. BAGLE and wife on the 23rd of August, 1886 to secure the sum of $500.00 due the 20th of August, 1886. I will sell for cash at Millport in Lamar county at the stat (sic) on house the following described lots situated in said place, to wit: Blocks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22,24, 26, 282, 60,33, 34,,37 39 and 40, and all blocks of lots numbered 39, 11, 21 and 31, lying west of lands owned by RANDOLPH in Section 23, Township 17, and Range 15 West, containing twenty-five acres of unsold lots, formerly the property of J. A. DARR, and of which the Georgia Pacific owns an undivided half interest, and situated in the town of Millport, Lamar County, Alabama embraced ins aid Mortgage to WM. V. EZELL, for cash to the highest bidder on Monday the 11th of October, 1886. Apply to D. C. HODO, Carrollton, Ala – WM. V. EZELL, Mortgagee NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Land Office at Huntsville, Ala, September 6, 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 October 27th, 1886, viz: No 10849, FRANCIS M. COOKEN, for the N ½ of S E ¼ Sec 8, T 12 and R 15 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: C. HARRIS, W. G. NORTON, WM. CORNET, AND C. H. NORTON, all of Detroit, Ala. WM. C. WELLS, Register 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 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 THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL under the Principalship of J. R. GUIN, will open Oct. 25, 1886 and continue for a term of Ten Scholastic months Rates of Tuition: PRIMARY: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Grammar, Primary Geography and Primary Arithmetic, per month $1.25. INTERMEDIATE: Embracing Brief English Grammar, Elementary Geography, Elementary Arithmetic, Letter Writing and Hygiene, per month, $1.50. PRACTICAL: Embracing English Grammar, Practical Arithmetic, Complete Geography, English Composition, U. S. History and Physiology, per month, $2.00. HIGH SCHOOL: Embracing Rhetoric, Elocution, Algebra, Natural Philosophy, Botany, Geology, Zoology, Hygiene, Physiology, Latin, &c, per month $2.50. Discipline will be firm. Special attention will be given to young men and women who wish to engage in teaching. Good board at $7.00 per month. No incidental fees. Tuition due every five months. Correspondence solicited. Address J. R. GUIN Fernbank, Ala. Ad for Ayer and Son Advertising Agents AD for Vick’s Floral Guide Ad for New hOme Sewing Machine Ad for Marriage Guide Ad for Collins Age Cure Ad for Pianos and Organs PAGE 4 WIT AND HUMOR - jokes THE MAN WHO ADVERTISES – Poem (jokes) BEING “TREATED AS ONE OF THE FAMILY” – (Article about being treated as one of the family) LAWYER AND CLIENT – joke The first proclamation for public fasting and prayer in New Hampshire published in a newspaper appeared in May 1704. MY FIRST LOVE-LETTER (story about first love letter) A GOOD SCHEME – Joke IMITATION GRANDFATHER CLOCKS The real grandfather clocks are still much sought after, not only by the nouvean riche, but b those whose aristocratic ancestors failed to hand down the tall timepiece which stood in their hallways in the days of yore. The word real is used advisedly, for the demand for these old-fashioned timepieces has given rise to the manufacture of imitation grandfather clocks. A year or two ago some were brought to this market from the New England states, but at present Baltimore is the only place where the imitation clocks are manufactured and sold as genuine. Many of our largest jewelers, however, are making clocks the cases of which are constructed of mahogany, walnut, rosewood, and cherry in imitation of the ancient timepieces, but those are invariably sold for just what they are. Indeed, the fact is that it has been found impossible to build an imitation grandfather’s clock so that the deception could not be detected by experts, the defects being found in small details. In New England a century ago a large number of these clocks were made, and while they are said to have been excellent timekeepers in their day, much of them as are in existence now have long since outlived their usefulness, except as ornaments or curiosities. The real antique grandfather clocks, with metal works, are dated from 1790 to 18100. The style known as the “Dutchman” represents by fat the finest of these antique clocks. These were made in Holland and some of them that are still in existence are dated as far back as 1700. Many of them are of exceedingly fine and intricate workmanship, chiming old Dutch airs, striking the hours and quarters, and showing the phases of the moon’s calendar. They are perfect timekeepers and are worth from $400 to $1,000 each. Early in the eighteenth century England also manufactures similar clocks and quite a number of them were incased in frames by Chippendale, the famous cabinet-maker of a century and a half ago, and those now command fancy figures. A clock made for a London firm, which is incased in a Chippendale case of rare beauty, but simple in design, is now exhibited in an establishment on Union Square. In addition to keeping correct time, it shows the motion of the planets, the calendar, many astronomical data, and plays thirteen……(rest of article is torn) HEN’S INFATUATION FOR A COW – Story of a cow and a hen MRS. CLEVELAND’S TITLE – story about Mrs. Cleveland Madison County, Ky. has within its boundaries sixty-seven brandy and two whisky distilleries. WHAT --------SURGERY – article about medicine and its risks RESPECT FOR THE GIANT – (article badly torn – can’t read) According to the calculations made by a scientific writer lately, it requires a prodigious amount of vegetable matter to form a layer of coal, the estimate being that it would really take a million years to form a coal bed 100 feet thick. The United States have an area of between 300,000 and 400,000 square miles of coal fields, 1000,000,000 tons of coal being mined from these fields in one year, or enough to run a ring around the earth at the equator five and one-half feet wide and five and one-half thick; the quantity being sufficient to supply the whole world for a period of 1,500 to 2,000 years. Ad for Iron roofing, siding, ceiling… ADVERTISEMENTS File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/newspapers/thelamar1081gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 53.6 Kb

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Jefferson-Statewide County AlArchives Wills.....Holtam, Thomas Jefferson October 26, 1884 ************************************************ 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: L. Hanke lhbham@yahoo.com August 30, 2006, 11:44 am Source: Loose Records, Birmingham City Court In Equity, Jefferson Co Al Written: October 26, 1884 Recorded: June 21, 1901 State of Alabama Jefferson County October the 26th A. D. 1884. I, Thomas Jefferson Holtam a citizen of the State and County above written. Being of sound mind and judgment. Make and declare this to be my last will, and testament and hereby revoking all others. I hereby nominate, and appoint my son Lewis Lee Holtam as my Executor to this my last will. I first will my soul to God and desire that my body be decently buried. I desire that all of my just debts be paid as ealy [sic] as may be practicable. I will here enumerated all the debts which I owe. Dr. Abanathy, a small amount, I think not exceeding five dollars. Mr. Shambly five, or six dollars And Doctor Douglass my present attending Physician for his attention. The aforesaid debts I will and desire paid as early as practicable. It is my will and desire that my Executor Lewis Lee Holtam Take a full and complete inventory of all my personal Property. and that he have the Deed which I hold against the Elyton Land Company dated January 17th 1882. for the Lots upon which I now reside, Recorded in the office of the Judge of Probate for Jefferson County Alabama, And that my wife Sarah Giles Holtam, shall have control of the same, as her property during her life, with authority to rent out any portion of the same upon such terms as may suit her, the proceeds however shall be hers, and used by her in any way she may desire And my Executor shall not be responsible for any rents which she may recieve [sic]. I also desire & will that my wife Sarah Giles Holtam shall have entire control of my personal property and use the same as she may desire, And my Executor shall only be responsible for the Personal property at the death of my wife. It is my will and desire that my property shall be sold at the death of my wife, and the proceeds be equally divided between my children, whose names are as follows: William America Holtam, Martha Jane Parr, Asa Holtam, Lewis L. Holtam, Frances Charlotte Kellum, Marinda Robinson, Robert Bennet Holtam, & Catharine Rebecca Holtam. I hold a note against my son William America Holtam for forty dollars, which he shall pay with out interest to my Executor, to be allowed in settlement of his interest in my Estate. I have a just account against my brother Abner S. Holtam of Clak [Clark?] County Alabama for Eighty nine & 19/100 dollars, which I wish secured by note for that amount to bear interest after my death, and the interest paid to my wife, and the note to be paid at her death, unless paid sooner. It is my will that what may be coming to each of my children shall not be subject to any of their debts or the debts of their husbands. In testimony whereof I subscribe my name in the presents [sic] of the following Witnesses (signed by each in his own hand): T. J. Holtam G. W. Marshall Wm Housten Additional Comments: The clerk who wrote the will for Mr. Holtam made the last name look like 'Haltam,' and spelled the executor's name as 'Lewis.' Mr. Holtam's signature, in his own hand, is very clearly 'Holtam.' On the 1900 Jefferson Co census, Louis L. Holtam and family is living in East Lake area of Jefferson Co. That area is now part of Birmingham City. With him was his mother Sarah G. Holtam. Louis L. Holtam wm Nov 1860 - 39 widower - bAL parents: AL Walter L. son wm Dec 1889 - 11 b.AL parents: AL Albert L. son wm Jan 1890 - 10 b.AL parents: AL Harry C. son wm Jan 1894 - 6 b.AL parents: AL Sarah G. mother wf Jan 1827 b.AL parents: GA Robert was also in East Lake: Robert Holtam 35 b.May 1865 AL Rosa E., wife 28 b.Oct 1871 Frank 10 b. Apr 1890 AL Robert 8 b. March 1892 AL Rosa 4 b.Oct 1895 AL Martha Jane was 48 b.Feb 852, widowed, keeping a boarding house daughter Queenie, 15 Jul 1884, and five boarders lived on Ave. D in Birmingham AL Frances Charlotte married John S. Kellum. In 1900 they lived in the 29th precinct of Jefferson Co AL; John 43 bMch 1857 MS parents: MS - carpenter Frances 41 b.Jan 1859 AL parents: AL Minnie 15 b. Aug 1884 AL Maudi 14 b.Mch 1886 AL Myrtle 10 b.June 1889 AL Rosser (son) 10 b.Feb 1890 AL Beta (looks like) dau 8 b.Jan 1892 AL Balen (looks like) dau 2 b.July 1897 AL Even though the will was written in Jefferson Co AL in 1884, I can find no Holtams, by any spelling, on the 1880 Jefferson Co census. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/jefferson/wills/holtam161gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 5.0 Kb

Madison County AlArchives Wills.....Rochell, John July 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: Peggy Hale Peggyhale@aol.com August 29, 2006, 12:07 pm Source: Judge Of Probate Madison County, Alabama Written: July 1849 Recorded: January 17, 1850 Last Will and Testament of of John, Rochelle, dieo, In the name of God Amen, I John Rochell of Madison County in the State of Alabama being frail of body but of sound mind and memory and being mindful of my mortality also, do this the same day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty Nine make this and publish as and for my last will & testament, 1st I desire to be decently buried by the side of my deceased wife's grave with as little expense as may be, 2nd I desire my real estate consisting of two hundred and forty acres of land be sold on a credit of twelve months and out of the proceeds my first debts be paid and the balance of the money be equally divided amongst my children, mainly Wm L., Thomas G., Judith Ann B. Hedrick, Cynthia B. Smith, Frances E., wife of G. A. Graham and the children of my son Hiriam S. also to take his share in equal proportion. 3rd In consideration of my daughter, Judith A. B. Kendrick having lived with me for many years and devoted her service to my support, interest, and comfort in my old age and afflicted situation and having by her own exertions and procurement therefore made the present growing crop on my premises that of right have no claim on the same wither in law or in equity and I hereby discharge her from paying said for the use of the land. I further give and bequeath unto my said daughter the roan mare, the black cow, one large kettle, the kitchen utensils, the corner cuboard, the tableware of every (ineligible), & ten head of black hogs. 4th I desire all the remains of my perishable Estate be sold and equally divided among my said children maned in the _ieons bequeaths. 5th Thereby constitute and appoint my son Thos G. Rochell executor to this my last will & testament, in witness whereof hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above mentioned, John (X his mark) Rochell Witness: W. Graves Bouldin Hammond Bouldin Green Bouldin I John Rochell do make this as a codicil to my last will & testament as this the seventeenth day of January eighteen hundred and fifty, 6th It is my will that my daughter Judith A. B. Kendrick shall have one hundred dollars paid her by said excutor of my estate and I hereby give & bequeath that sum to her above the legacy left her in my said will, my reason for caring my said daughter one hundred dollars more than my other children is that for nearly twelve months during my confinement and suffering she has attended me both day & night to the neglect of my her own busy life. The witness hwereunto, thereunto by my hand and seal the day and date above written, signed, sealed, and acknowledged in presence of W. Graves Bouldin William Dedman. John (X his mark) Rochell The Execution of the last will & testament, codicile of John Rochell late of said County deceased, having been this day duly proven by the oarths of @. Graves Bouldin, Hammond, Bouldin, Green Bouldin to the will and W. Graves Bouldin and William Dedman and James W. Goodwin to the Codicil the subscribing witnesses thereunto, it is ordered adjudged & decreed by the Court that said will & codicil be filed and recorded (see our book said page 265)Pursuant to said order said will was duly recorded on the 28th day of March 1850. Jno. W. Atey. cl Klele(?) Additional Comments: This was not a very good copy of the will there may be small errors. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/madison/wills/rochell160gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb

Madison County AlArchives Military Records.....Rochell, John August 5, 1815 Warof1812 Battalion 7 Perkins' Mississippi Militia ************************************************ 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: Peggy Hale Peggyhale@aol.com August 29, 2006, 11:12 am Power Of Attorney KNOW all men by these presents, that I John Rochell of Madison county Mississippi Territory for divers good causes and considerations, me hereunto moving, have made, ordained, authorized, nominated and appointed, and by these presents, do make, ordain, authorize, nominate and appoint Joshua Faleorsen of Madison county, Mississippi Territory my true and lawful Attorney for me, and in my name, and for my own proper use, to ask, demand, sue for, recover, and receive of the paymaster of the United States all such sum or sums of money, debts and demands, whatsoever, which are now due and owing unto me, the said Power of Attorney John Rochell by and from the United States and to have, use, and take all lawful ways and means, in my name, or otherwise, by appointing one or more attorneys as the case may be, for the recovery thereof; by attachment, arrest, dithrefs(?) or otherwise, and to compund and agree for the same; and acquittances or other sufficient discharges for the same, for me and in my name, to make seal and deliver; and to do all other lawful as and things whatsoever, concerning the premises, a fully, and in every respect as I myself might do, were I personally present at the doing thereof--in witness whereof, I have hereunto let my hand and seal this, 5th day of August 1815. Witness, Abner Tatom Jun.(?) A. Tatom Jur (?)John (X his mark) Rochell Additional Comments: Source NARA File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/madison/military/warof1812/other/rochell253gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb

Madison County AlArchives Military Records.....Rochell, John April 25, 1815 Warof1812 Battalion 7 (Perkins') Mississippi Militia ************************************************ 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: Peggy Hale Peggyhale@aol.com August 29, 2006, 10:42 am Military Record R Battalion 7 (Perkins') Mississippi Militia, John Rochell,pri. {Capt. William Johnston's Co. of Militia belonging to Battalion of Infantry of Mississippi Territory commanded by Lieut. Col. Peter Perkins.} (War of 1812.) Appears on Company Pay Roll for Sep. 29, 1814 to Apl 25, 1815. Roll dated not dated, 181_. Commencement of service or of this settlement, Sep. 29, 1814. Expiration of service or of this settlement, Apl 25, 1815. Term of service charged 6 months, 27 days. Pay per month, 8 dollars, ___cents. Total amount, 55 dollars, 20 cents. Remarks: Additional Comments: Source National Archives. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/madison/military/warof1812/other/rochell252gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb

Madison County AlArchives Military Records.....Rochell, John September 29, 1814 Warof1812 Battalion 7 (Perkins') Mississippi Militia ************************************************ 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: Peggy Hale Peggyhale@aol.com August 29, 2006, 10:39 am Military Record R Battalion 7 (Perkins') Mississippi Militia, John (X)Rochel,pri. {Capt. William Johnston's Co. of Militia belonging to Battalion of Infantry of Mississippi Territory commanded by Lieut. Col. Peter Perkins.} (War of 1812.) Appears on Company Muster Roll for Sep. 29, 1814 to Apl 25, 1815 when last mustered and discharged. Roll dated Huntsville, M. C. Apl 25, 181_. Date of appointment, Sep. 29, 1814. For what time engaged or enlisted, six months. Present or absent, present. Remarks and alterations since last muster: Additional Comments: Source National Archives. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/madison/military/warof1812/other/rochell251gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb

Madison County AlArchives Military Records.....Rochell, John September 29, 1814 Warof1812 Battalion 7 (Perkins') Mississippi Militia ************************************************ 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: Peggy Hale Peggyhale@aol.com August 29, 2006, 10:34 am Military Record R Battalion 7 (Perkins') Mississippi Militia, John (X)Rochel,pri. {Capt. William Johnston's Co. of Militia belonging to Battalion of Infantry of Mississippi Territory commanded by Lieut. Col. Peter Perkins.} (War of 1812.) Appears on Company Muster Roll for Sep. 29 to Dec. 31, 1814. Roll dated Lance Mandaville Dec. 31, 1814. Date of appointment, Sep. 29, 1814. Commencement of service or date of rendezvous, Sep. 29, 1814. Term of service, six months. Present or absent, present. Remarks: File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/madison/military/warof1812/other/rochell250gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb

Lamar-Marion County AlArchives Wills.....Stanford, George March 10, 1877 ************************************************ 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: Bill Hansford wchansford@aol.com August 28, 2006, 8:49 pm Source: Lamar County, Alabama Probate Office Written: March 10, 1877 Recorded: September 24, 1878 The State of Alabama, Sanford County [now Lamar County, Alabama] I George Stanford of said county and state being now of sound mind and memory and cosidering the uncertainllty of this earthly life make publish and declare this to be my last will and testament that is to say first I resign my soul to God who gave it to me my body I desire to be buried at the discretion of my relatives and friends then after my burial expenses and all my debts are fully paid and discharged the residue of my property I dispose of as follows to wit First I give and bequeath unto my wife Mary L and to my seven children by her to wit Mary Elizabeth Jane Savannah Davis McCullah William Elijah Virginia Ellen Tennesse Idella and, Carry [may be Cassy] Ann all of my estate of all sorts kinds and descriptions to have and to hold in equal parts that my said wife shall take charge and control of my estate and also to take charge of my said seven children and manage and control all my estate and children in her own way during her natural life or widowhood and in the event of her death or marriage then my will and wish is that my whole estate be equally divided between my said wife and said seven children in equal parts and portions either by selling the property and dividing the proceeds or otherwise a division in property to be made by some three disinterested persons it is also my will and wish that my said wife send my said children to school and have them educated as best she can out of the effects of my estate to my children by my first wife five in number three living and two dead. I bequeath one dollar each the heirs of Sarah Parthena and Eli Jackson are to sahre the dollar bequeathed to their parents and that the provision of this my last will and testament shall be fully carried out I do make constitute and appoint my said wife Mary L to be executrix and my friend William M Molloy executor of this my last will and testament and it is also my will that my said executrix and executors shall not be required to give any bond for the execution of the trust as confered on them by this my last will and testament and that I hereby revoke and set a side all other wills by me made Given under my hand and seal this the tenth day of march AD 1877 George Stanford LS seal Signed sealed and published and declared by the said George Stanford as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at the request of the said George Stanford and in his presence have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses thereto W.F. Elliott seal John. T. Armstrong seal J.D. Gann seal State of Alabama, Lamar County We Joseph D Gann and Wm. Elliott whose names are signed as witnesses to the foregoing will do solemly swear that George Stanford whose name is signed to the within will acknowleged before us that his signature to the will was put there at his special request and he requested at his special request and in his presence and I W.F. Elliott signed his name in the presence of John T Armstrong as one of the subscribing witness and said Johtn T. Amstrong signed his name as witnesses thereto in his presence and in the presence of the said George Stanford and we both signed our names as witnesses at his special request as or about 10 March 1877 W.F. Elliott J.D. Gann Sworn to and subscribed before me Sept 2nd, 1878 Alexander Cobb Judge of Probate The State of Alabama Lamar County I Alexander Cobb, Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said county and state do herby certify that the within will and testament of George Stanford deceased has been this day duly proven before me in said court and duly recorded with the proof thereof in my said office in Book of Wills No. 1 Pages 1 and 2 in witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 24th day of September A.D. 1878. Alexander Cobb, Judge of Probate. [There is no punctuation in the will and it appears each of the seven children has double names] Additional Comments: Sarah Etta Belle (Stanford) Casson, daughter of Joseph William E. Stanford, and granddauther of George Stanford reported that George Stanfore made settlements with all the chidren by his frist wife prior to writing this will. Bill Hansford (grandson of Sarah Etta Belle (Stanford) Casson File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/lamar/wills/stanford159gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 5.4 Kb

Sumter County AlArchives News.....FATAL RENCOUNTRE February 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: Joann T. Broadhead SL-Joann@Juno.com August 28, 2006, 9:13 am VOICE OF SUMTER, Livingston, Alabama February 28, 1837 A rencountre took place in the streets of our village on Friday last [Feb. 24, 1837] between Caster Green, of this place, and Dempsey Sturdivant, of this county in which the latter was killed by being shot with a pistol. As this has created much excitement and will have to undergo a judicial investigation [we will refrain] from giving any further particulars. Green has been committed to _______ his trial in April next. Additional Comments: Dempsey Sturdivant was in the 1830 Census of Marengo Co., Al. His known descendants lived in Choctaw County, Alabama. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/sumter/newspapers/fatalren1079gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb

Cullman County AlArchives Obituaries.....Bryam, M. M. March 1910 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net August 27, 2006, 3:40 pm "The Newnan Herald and Advertiser" Newnan, Coweta Co., Georgia NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, March 4, 1910 LOCAL News Mr. O.L. Byram of Roscoe received a telegram Tuesday bringing the news of the death of his father Mr. M.M. Bryam, which occurred Tuesday morning at the latter's home in Cullman county, Ala. The deceased was 60 years of age and was born and reared in this county [Coweta Co., Ga.], moving to Alabama ten or twelve years ago. The news of his death will be heard with deep regret by his many friends in Coweta, where he was held in high esteem by all who knew him. He is survived by four children, his wife having died several years ago. His other relatives are six brothers and four sisters, T.N. Byram, G.W. Byram, Wm. Byram, Mrs. Mollie Ferrell, Miss Emily Byram of Coweta county, J.K.Byram, J.F. Byram, Mrs. Hannah Sewell of Alabama, Mrs. Elizabeth Barfield of Arkansas and C.H. Byram of Carroll county. Mr. O.L. Byram left Tuesday to attend the funeral. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/cullman/obits/b/bryam668gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb

Shelby-Chambers County AlArchives Obituaries.....Davis, Mary Frances February 19, 1901 ************************************************ 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: Charmon Hale cbhale@bellsouth.net August 21, 2006, 9:48 am Peoples Advocate - February 28, 1901 Peoples Advocate Shelby County Mrs. Mary Frances Davis, wife of James Davis, died at their home six miles of this city, on February 19th. Mrs. Davis was born in Tel- fairro county, Ga., March 15, 1833. She emigrated from there to Cham- bers county, Ala. during the In- dian war. She lived in Chambers County until she was grown and was married to James Davis Sep- tember 16th, 1849. They lived to- gether until February 19, 1901, when death separated them. They raised a family of nine children, all living except two. They have fifty- one grand children. Mrs. Davis' maiden name was Mary Frances Vester. She joined the Baptist Church at Mt. Pleasant in Cham- bers County in 1852. She lived a devout Christian up to the hour of her death. Mrs. Davis was in her 69th year. Additional Comments: Mary Frances Davis' maiden name was Venters. She married James Davis September 16, 1851 in Chambers County. There is no "Telfairro" County in Georgia. It is my opinion that she was born in Telfair County, GA. http://www1.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=hale628&x=10&y=4&rand=657118364 File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/shelby/obits/d/davis667gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb

Coosa County AlArchives Obituaries.....Fulmer, J. W. October 21, 1909 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net August 20, 2006, 3:46 pm "The Herald & Advertiser" Newnan, Coweta Co., Georgia NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, October 29, 1909 LOCAL News Mr. J.W. Fulmer, who removed from this county to Memphis, Tenn. in the early '80's, afterwards going to Los Angeles, California, where he resided about fifteen years, died at the last named place on the 21st inst. The remains were carried to Goodwater, Ala., for interment. He was reared near Moreland, and at the outbreak of the Civil War, entered the Confederate service, being attached to Gen. N.B. Forrest's command. After the war he returned to his old home and remained until his removal to Memphis several years later. He was successful in business in his new home and amassed a considerable fortune. His numerous Coweta friends will be grieved to learn of his death. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/coosa/obits/f/fulmer666gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb

Cullman County AlArchives Obituaries.....Dial, Hubert June 1909 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net August 18, 2006, 12:21 am "The Herald & Advertiser" Newnan, Coweta Co., Georgia NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, June 11, 1909 Mr. Hubert Dial, a brother of Mr. J.F. Dial of the Hurricane district, became involved in an altercation with a man named Andrew Jack Taylor in Atlanta on Monday night last and was fatally shot twice through the body. All the evidence went to show that it was murder and Mr. Dial's assailant was subsequently arrested and lodged in jail. The body of the young man was carried Wednesday to Cullman, Ala., where interment was made. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/cullman/obits/d/dial665gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb

Cleburne County AlArchives Court.....Wheeler, John February 1910 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Hutchins Ezsolutions36264 August 17, 2006, 8:51 pm Source: Cleburne County Court House Written: February 1910 Estate of John Wheeler, deceased Petition for Letters of Administration State of Alabama Cleburne County Probate Court Special Term Feb'y 1910 In the matter of the estate of John Wheeler, Deceased To Honorable A. E. Carruth, Judge of Probate. The petition of the undersigned Emmett Wheeler, respectfully represents unto your Honor, that John Wheeler, departed this life at his home in Cleburne County Ala on or about _____ [there is blank here on original record] the day of February 1902, leaving no last will and testament, so far as your petitioner knows or believes, and that his death was known more than fifteen days befoe this day and this petition further shows that the said John Wheeler, was , at the time of his death, an inhabitant of said County and State and died seized and possessed of real estate in this estate consisting chiefly of farm lands 184 acres more or less, all of said real estate being estimated to be worth about one thousand dollars and probably not more; that the names, residences, ages and condition of heirs and distributees of the estate of said decedent, so far as your petitioner knows or believe are as follows: to wit: Emmett Wheeler, son of deceased, residing at Palestine, Ala; Jack Wheeler, a son of the deceased, residing at Gadsden, Ala; Mrs. S. M. Berry a daughter of deceased, residing at Farmersville, Texas; Elizabeth McCandles a daughter of deceased, residing at Farmersville Texas; V. W. Wheeler, a son of deceased, a non resident of this State and whose post office address is to petitioner unknown; J. M. Wheeler, a son of deceased, residing at Chattanooga, Tenn; Mrs. M. J. Henderson, a daughter of deceased, residing at Palestine, Ala; Mrs. Bettie Logan a daughter of deceased, residing at Esom Hill, Ga; Mrs. Mary E. Wheeler, widow of dec'd residing at Chattanooga, Tenn. Each of above named are over twenty one years of age and of sound mind. Maudie, Bessie, Bertie, Tea, Body, Ella, Neely and Lottie Isbell, who are the children of Mrs. Fannie Isbell, deceased, who was a daughter of John Wheeler, deceased, each of whom are under the age of twenty one year and reside in Grimes County Texas and Roy, Mary, Sue, Flora, and Gussie Roberts, who are the children of Mrs. Atha Roberts, deceased, who was a daughter of said John Wheeler, deceased each of whom are under the age of twenty one years and reside at Cedartown, GA. That your petitioner being a son of said deceased an inhabitant of this State above the age of twenty one years and in no respect disqualified under the law from serving as an administrator, believing that the said estate should be immediately administered, to the end that the said property may be collected and preserved for those who shall appear to have a legal right or interest therein, does therefore, by virtue of his right under the statute, pray that your Honor, will grant Letters of Administration on said estate to your petitioner Emmett Wheeler upon his entering bond in sum as is required by the statute, and with such security or securities as shall be approved by your Honor. Signed Your Petitioner Emmett Wheeler File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/cleburne/court/wheeler158gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb

Chambers-Tuscaloosa County AlArchives Biographies.....McGinty, Mollie Hinton Redd April 8, 1875 - October 31, 1931 ************************************************ 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: Gerald K. "Jerry" McGinty, Sr. mcgintyboy@aol.com August 16, 2006, 12:28 pm Author: Gerald "Jerry" McGinty, Sr. Mollie Hinton Redd, first wife of Wiley P. McGinty, Sr., and the mother of all their children, was born in Northport, Tuscaloosa Co., AL, April 8, 1875. She was the fifth of fourteen children, five of which did not survive infancy. Her parents were Henry Jackson Redd and Margaret “Maggie” Jane Taylor. Henry was born, November 17, 1848, near Tuscaloosa, AL. Maggie was born January 30, 1852, in Chambers Co. Henry and Maggie were married April 11, 1869, in Tuscaloosa Co., AL. Henry was a Primitive Baptist preacher and his early pastorates were in the area of Northport and Tuscaloosa. After 1889, he moved his family often, filling various preaching assignments. They lived in Taylors, MS (1890 census) and then Camp Hill and Opelika, AL. On April 25, 1892, their nineteen- year-old daughter, Jessie Duma Redd, was accidentally killed while walking near the tracks by a runaway railcar. In 1893, Henry moved the family to River View, AL. He served as pastor of the Ephesus Primitive Baptist church, of which several McGintys were founders and very active. The family rented space in the house owned by Wiley P. McGinty, Sr. It was then that Wiley met Mollie Redd. It is interesting to note that Wiley was a Missionary Baptist but Mollie had been raised as a Primitive Baptist. Ephesus Church membership records show that Mollie was a member but Wiley was not. No doubt, this difference sparked some lively debate between them! After Wiley and Mollie were married, Henry and the family moved to another residence in River View, and they show there in the 1900 census (page 318, ED 16, house 307). His name appears misspelled in this census as "Reedd." His occupation is listed as a carpenter. Henry became the local postmaster in 1900. In 1904, Henry moved back to Birmingham (Jefferson Co.) where as “Elder Redd” he operated a shoe repair shop and finished out his days. The family shows there in the 1910 census (page 110, ED 71, house 65), and he operated a shoe shop. His name appears misspelled in the census as "Reed." He died there, November 24, 1916. Maggie is shown in the 1920 census, living in Birmingham with daughter, Belle Redd Inscho. She then moved to Nashville, TN and was living with daughter Carrie Redd Lennard when she died January 31, 1925. Henry and Maggie are buried together at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Birmingham. Mollie’s paternal grandparents were Josiah Jackson Redd, Jr., and Narcissa McElroy. They were married January 21, 1848, in Bibb Co., AL and settled ten miles west of Tuscaloosa. They lived at what was called the “Jim Booth Place,” not far from the headwaters of Big Creek that empties into the Warrior River. Their house was built on a high hill. In 1855, Josiah purchased 120 acres of land about one mile south of the Booth place and built a small home there. It was in the forest, about one-mile from the public road. It was constructed of split logs and had one door and no windows. The floor was made of twelve-inch wide, undressed wooden planks. The chimney was made of rocks and clay. This house served the family well during the war years. On March 31, 1862, Josiah enlisted as a private in the 41st Reg., AL Inf., Army of TN (Sipsey Guards). He sustained a serious shoulder/back wound at Chickamauga on September 20, 1863. He recovered but was crippled for life. On February 5, 1894, then living in Tuscaloosa, he applied for and was granted a war relief pension (#6410). The war years were not good for Narcissa and she died December 26, 1865. She was buried at the old Bethany Missionary Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa. Around 1866, Josiah married a war widow, Mrs. Ellen Glover Savage. Later, his son, Henry Redd often credited her with the long life of his father. When Josiah was eighty years old, he attended a Confederate veteran’s picnic in Tuscaloosa (photo). For some reason, the horses pulling his wagon spooked, reared up and threw Josiah out of the wagon. He was injured and died of complications three weeks later, September 2, 1906. Mollie’s paternal great grandparents were Josiah Jackson Redd, Sr., and Elizabeth Woods. They were from GA and settled in Bibb Co., AL, ca. 1827. They moved to Tuscaloosa in 1838 and then returned to Bibb Co. in the 1860’s and died there. Mollie’s maternal grandparents were John Duke Taylor and Sarah Ann Burdett. They were married on January 2, 1851, in Chambers Co., AL. John was born in Covington, Newton Co., GA, January 21,1827. Sarah was born in Dekalb Co., GA in 1832. Margaret “Maggie” was their only child. Sometime before 1850, John Duke moved from Meriwether Co., GA to Randolph Co., AL with his father Thomas Taylor and mother Sarah Duke. They show there in the 1850 census. The marriage of John and Sarah was short lived. When Maggie was only seven, Sarah became blind and died in 1859. She is said to be buried near her mother, Isabel Davis Burdett, at the Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church near LaFayette, AL. In 2003, my brother Phil and I visited this cemetery and found the grave of Isabel Burdett. After searching the maintained portion of the cemetery, we found her gravesite, partially obscured by undergrowth. Her gravestone is a solid slab of grey slate, covered with moss. The inscription reads: “Here lays the body of Isabel Burdett. Was born on Feb the 11th 1791 and died Nov 25 1851.” This was quite a find for us as she is our great, great, great grandmother. After Sarah died, John sent Maggie to live with John T. and Margaret R. Amos in Randolph Co., AL (census of 1860). Margaret Amos might have been a sister of Sara Burdett. At this time, John lived with the family of Daniel and Nancy Coggins in Chambers Co., AL (census of 1860) . Nancy was the sister of Sara Ann Burdett. Sometime later, John and his brother, William (“Billie”) purchased a farm together in Coosa Co., AL. Maggie may have joined her father there. This farming venture ended when the war broke out. John Duke enlisted in March 1862, as a private in Co. G, 2nd AL Calvary and Maggie was sent to live with her grandparents, Thomas and Sarah Taylor, who were living in Cottondale, AL. During the war, it is said that John had his hat shot off and his horse shot out from under him, but he survived. His unit served as escort for Jefferson Davis from Greensboro, NC to GA. He surrendered with his unit at Forsyth, GA at the war’s end in 1865. Later in life, in 1904, he applied for and received a disability pension while then living in Jefferson Co., AL (#14175). After the war, ca. 1866, John Duke married Mrs. Martha “Martie” Elmore Morgan and moved to Northport, AL. It was there in Tuscaloosa Co. that Maggie met Henry Redd. John Duke Taylor was a member of the fraternal order, “Woodsmen of America,” and his gravestone is said to symbolize a tree stump. He was a butcher and sold meats for years in Tuscaloosa. His motto was “The best meats at the lowest prices.” He advertised regularly in the Tuscaloosa Times. John and Martha show in the 1900 census, living in Bessemer, AL, ED 121. At one time, he was in partnership with his son-in-law, Henry Jackson Redd who later became a minister. John Duke Taylor died September 11, 1904, and is buried, along with Martha, at the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Bessemer, AL. Mollie’s maternal great grandparents were Humphrey K (or M). Burdett and Isabella Davis who had moved from Dekalb Co., GA to Chambers Co., AL around 1837. Isabella died in 1851 and sometime after 1855, Humphrey moved to Randolph Co., AL (census of 1860). Isabella Davis was the daughter of Capt. Amos E. Davis of Union Co., SC. Amos served in the Revolutionary War and is DAR confirmed. Humphrey Burdett served in the War of 1812. He entered service as a private on January 1, 1815, in the Pendelton District of SC. He was discharged on March 10, 1815, at Sister Ferry, SC near Savannah, GA. Later, Belle Redd Inscho, sister of Mollie Redd McGinty, was accepted into the Daughters of the War of 1812 based on his service record. Mollie’s other maternal great grandparents were Thomas Taylor and Sarah Duke. Thomas was born ca. 1806 in SC. They were married in Covington, Newton Co., GA, November 7, 1824. By 1842, they were living in Newnan, Coweta Co., GA. By 1844, they had moved to Columbus, Muscogee Co., GA. They moved to Randolph Co., AL from GA sometime after 1849. Mollie’s maternal great, great grandfather was John P. Taylor. He was born ca. 1780 in NC. He moved his family to GA. He lived near Newnan, Coweta Co., GA and died there, ca. 1867. Mollie Redd McGinty died of a heart attack, October 31, 1931, at age fifty- eight. Her gravestone shows a death date of November 1, 1931, but the death certificate shows death occurring at 1:00am on October 31, 1931. She had suffered from high blood pressure for some time. She had been a beloved wife and companion, raising a large family who all turned out to be good citizens in their communities. Her epitaph was published in the LaFayette Sun and reproduced on the front page of the Chattahoochee Valley Times on November 11, 1931. It reads, " Mrs. W. P. McGinty Passes at Riverview Saturday, Oct. 31. Mrs. Mollie McGinty, age 58 years, died at her home in Riverview Saturday morning, October 31st, at 1 o'clock, following a heart attack early last Friday night. The beloved Riverview woman had been suffering for some time with high blood pressure which resulted in the attack last Friday. Funeral services were held from the family residence last Sunday afternoon at three o'clock…the deceased was a member of the Baptist church and had lived a useful life in that community…internment was in the McGinty cemetery." Wiley P. McGinty, Jr., recalls that as part of her funeral service, the pastor read from the last chapter of Proverbs, 31:10 - 31, “A good wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels….” She was buried next to her husband in the McGinty Plot at Fairview Cemetery in Valley, AL. Additional Comments: Here it is in Bio form File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/bios/mcginty34bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 10.7 Kb

Clarke County AlArchives Obituaries.....Ott, JoAnn July 19, 2006 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: David Wilson http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00018.html#0004391 August 12, 2006, 11:25 pm The Thomasville Times JoAnn Ott, a former mental health worker, died Wednesday at her home. She was 58. She was a native and resident of Thomasville. She attended Grove Hill Methodist Protestant Church. Survivors include one son, John A. Ott Jr. of Thomasville; one daughter, Faye Ann Ott of Charleston, S.C.; her mother, Gladys Carleton of Thomasville; two sisters, Ginger Weldy of Thomasville and Phyllis Stephens of Tyrone, Ga.; and one grandchild. Visitation is set for 9 to 10:30 a.m. Friday at O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home in Thomasville, followed by the 11 a.m. graveside service in Kelley Cemetery in Thomasville. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/clarke/obits/o/ott663gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb

Clarke County AlArchives Obituaries.....Kelley, Bobby Dean August 3, 2006 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: David Wilson http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00018.html#0004391 August 12, 2006, 11:22 pm The Thomasville Times Bobby Dean Kelley, 60, of Thomasville died Thursday, August 3, 2006 at Providence Hospital in Mobile. Funeral services were held at O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home on Sunday, August 6 at 3 p.m. with Rev. Benny Crawford and Rev. Mark Lambert officiating. Interment followed at Kelley Cemetery in Thomasville. Mr. Kelley was a member of Springfield Methodist Protestant Church. HE was a former deputy for the Clarke County Sheriff's Department and a lifetime member of the Faternal Order of Police. He was a member of the Oliver Lodge #334 F & AM. Survivors include his wife, Sandra Kelley of Thomasville; father, Gordon Kelley of Thomasville; one daughter, Nicole (Don) Young of Thomasville; three brothers, Boyce Kelley of Thomasville, Thomas Kelley of Mobile and Billy Kelley of Madison; two sisters, Audrey Beckner and Elaine Kelley, both of Madison; and two grandchildren. Active pallbearers were Billy Kelley, Thomas G. Kelley, Thomas M. Kelley, Scott Kelley, Gary Beckner and Micky Courtney. Honorary pallbearers were Oliver Lodge #334 F & AM. Funeral arrangements were directed by O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home in Thomasville. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/clarke/obits/k/kelley662gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb

Clarke County AlArchives Obituaries.....Baugh, Mack Lavaughn August 1, 2006 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: David Wilson http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00018.html#0004391 August 12, 2006, 11:21 pm The Thomasville Times Mack Lavaughn Baugh, 75, of Thomasville died Tuesday, August 1, 2006 at Southwest Alabama Medical Center in Thomasville. Funeral services were held at O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home on Friday, August 4 at 10 a.m. with Rev. Bill Faircloth officiating. Interment followed at Evergreen Memorial Gardens in Thomasville. Mr. Baugh was born in the Bassett Creek Community and was a member of Liberty Baptist Church in Thomasville. He was retired from Scotch Lumber Company where he worked as an Industrial Electrical Superintendent. Survivors include his wife, Myrtis Baugh of Thomasville; one son, Lynn L. (Mae Lynn) Baugh of Thomasville; one daughter, Marcia L. Baugh of Thomasville; one sister, Grace Baugh Martin of Fulton; two grandchildren, Felissa Baugh Boutwell of Jackson and Lee Baugh of Saraland; and two great-grandchildren, Lindsey Boutwell and Mallory Boutwell of Jackson. Active pallbearers were Gerald Newton, Jody Daniels, Jerry Gates, Fritz Bates, LaDon Harvell and Lamar Rutledge. Honorary pallbearers were the deacons of Liberty Baptist Church. Funeral arrangements were directed by O'Bryant Chapel Funeral Home in Thomasville. The Thomasville Times, 10 Aug 06. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/clarke/obits/b/baugh661gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb