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THE LAMAR NEWS

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, JANUARY 7, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 10

A QUARREL – By Mary E. Van Dyke in Young People
There’s a knowing little proverb,
From the sunny land of Spain;
But in Northland, as in Southland,
Is its meaning clear and plain,
Look it up within your heart
Neither lose nor lend it –
Two it takes to make a quarrel
One can always end it.

Try it well in every way,
Still you’ll find it true
In a fight without a foe,
Pray what could you do?
If the wrath is your alone,
Soon you will expend it.
Two it takes to make a quarrel
One can always end it.

Let’s suppose that both are wroth,
And the strife begun,
If one voice shall cry for “Peace,”
Soon it will be done;
If but one shall span the breach,
He will quickly mend it.
Two it takes to make a quarrel;
One can always end it.

BROUGHT TO LIFE
A STORY OF OLD PLANTATION DAYS IN A CREOLE COLONY
Fifty dollars a month is not much of a salary, but I had arrived only a fortnight before, and had no acquaintances in the country; therefore I could not presume to ask for better terms. My two pupils, M. Rabut assured me, were very well-behaved children; the girl was just fifteen, already a young lady, and the ten-year boy was equally apt at study. After all I was only required to give five hours a day to –ing; the rest of my time was altogether my own, to be devoted either at work or sleep, as I pleased.
“And remember,” he said “your pa---lion is at such a distance from the family residence that you can feel perfectly at home there and perfectly quiet. Of course everybody will treat you with the consideration due to your position in the household. You will observe that my poor old mother’s hand is a little weak, but she is the modest of souls.”
I accepted the situation.
Ombreville is situated on the heights of Moka. The mule itself walked quite cautiously up the ascents, and as I was careful to keep the animal at a walk on the descent also, I came to the conclusion that I might as well walk. I got down, without troubling himself further –cut my wishes, my black who guided the vehicle soon begun to urge his animal rapidly along the road, which made a sharp turn at the bottom of the a big steep slope. When I reached the turn both vehicle and negro had disappeared. I was all alone. I reckoned that there was scarcely another league of travel, and as it was not quite seven o’clock, I would be able to be on time for breakfast.
It was in April. A threatening storm had been growling all the day before on the other side of the Le Ponce Summit; on either side of the road the ---w drenched in torrential rain, shook ---showers of water from the leaves with every breath of wind; the water --- the ditches to right and left ran with a loud murmur under the shadow of the high grass; the air was fresh of all impregnated with sweet smells; the sun still hung at the edge of ---st curtain; it was a delight to see. From the bottom of my heart I thanked the intelligent black who had imposed this pleasure upon me, as I continued on my way.
As I walked on. I began to dream. What future did this new land hold in serve for me? I had not come to it with any idea of making a fortune although a young man of twenty----, I had acquired enough common ----, to save me from such allusions)----only to earn a good living, and -------enough to enable me, when an -----, to return to France and sleep ----- under the shadow of my own -----spire.
Meanwhile, after half-an-hour walk, I reached a point at which tree ---- roads forked off from the ----one. One of them, I knew must ----to Ombreville – but which? I ---the Triple Hecate, sat down----rock, and waited.
A negro passing on the run, pointed --- me which road to take. Soon I ---sight of the lofty chimney of ---sugar mill – then the house itself. ----in a thick grove of mango ---and, as I feared being late, I ----my step. Under the veranda ----ready crowded, I saw people ----back and forward – running, ----one noticed me as I ascended ----steps except a big fat negress crouching at the entrance, who sobbed and cried with renewed despair at my coming. There was on the sofa at full length, lay a young girl – almost a child! Her long, bright hair, all streaming with water, fell over the back of the sofa, and had dripped upon the verandah until a little pool had formed upon the flags. She was whiter than a piece of marble; the violets of death were on her compressed lips; her lifeless arm lay rigidly straight by her side, and M. Rabut, on his knees beside her, was kissing one of her hands.
“Drowned, my dear sir, she got drowned!” said a good old lady of about sixty years of age, who came to me, holding out her hand in the friendliest manner imaginable. “But you have walked here,” she continued; “you must be tiered. Of course, you will take something? Myrtil!”
“Mamma! Oh, Mamma!” exclaimed M. Rabut, raising his head. “You see,” he said to me with a sob, “you see she was out bathing; the river suddenly rose, and---“
His head fell forward again over the little white hand, to which his lips clung.
“Myrtil! Myrtil!| again cried the good lady, “bring a glass of Madeira to the gentleman. Or perhaps you would prefer something else?”
I questioned the family. The girl had not been twenty minutes under water. And yet they had done nothing – had not even tried to do anything.
I gave my orders briefly – they were obeyed.
They had laid her on her back. I lifted her head so that it leaned sideways on the left. her teeth were clenched. How cold her lips seemed when I pressed my own upon them! The poor father, senseless with grief, allowed us to do as we thought best, and the grandmother walked hurriedly to and from, busy, fussy, always calling Myrtil, and declaring “the breakfast will never be ready, and here are all the people coming!”
And a carriage in fact suddenly drew up before the front door steps. Two young girls descended with a happy burst of laughter. I can see them even now as they stopped, looked, turned pale, and stood there with arms twined about each other'’ waist, and eyes big with terror – silent and motionless.
Half an hour had passed. What! Was not that a flush we saw, mounting to the colorless cheeks. O! How fervent a prayer I uttered that moment to the good God! And it seemed to me the arm I held had become less rigid.
At that moment a horseman came up at full gallop.
“Myrtil! Myrtil! – Take the doctor’s horse to the stable!” cried the good lady, descending the steps to meet the physician. “Ah, doctor, I knew it! Your powder could not do me any good. the whole night, doctor, I was in pain. Ah! How badly I slept!”
The doctor came directly to us.
“Good! Young man! Very good indeed! That is just what should have been done.”
“Come, come!” he cried in a joyous tone, after a few moments had passed. “We are all right now – we shall get off with nothing worse that a fright! Why you old coward, have I not already told you so. Here! Let me see a happier face on you!” And he gave M. Rabut a vigorous slap on the shoulder.
Then, suddenly turning to me, he asked:
“But you – where are you from? I don’t remember ever seeing you here before.”
“I came from Brittany, doctor, by way of Paris and Port-Louis.”
“Look – Look!” he had already turned his back upon me – “she is opening her eyes!”
M. Rabut involuntarily seized my hand, and dragged me to the sofa.
She opened her eyes. They were blue – the eyes I always liked best.
“Helene! My own Helene!” murmured the poor father, stooping to kiss her forehead.
“Gentle! You!” exclaimed the doctor, pulling him back. “Let her have air, if you please.”
M. Rabut drew back, without letting go my hand.
Myrtil returned from the stable.
“Myrtil! Myrtil! – Wee, how about that breakfast! Is it going to be ready today, or tomorrow?”
“Ma foi! I’m ready for it!” cried the doctor. “That gallop gave me a ferocious appetite.”
“Why, Myrtil! Serve the Madeira to those gentlemen!”
This time Myrtil obeyed.
It was four in the afternoon when I left my pavilion to return to the house. M. Rabut came to look for me on the verandah. "Come," he said, "you can see her now.” He brought me close to her bed. Her dear blue eyes still had dark circles about them; but the blood was circulating under the clear skin; for she blushed at my approach.
“This is he, my Helene; if it hadn’t been for him” – and his voice choked.
“Don’t fret any more, papa. I am only sorry about my locket. Do you think they will ever be able to find it?”
The locket contained her mother’s hair.
It was barely daylight when I reached the river. The negro who had taken her out of the water had shown me the evening before the precise spot where the current had carried her away, and also the place where he had found her – about fifty yards further down. It was a long narrow basin, shut in by great jamroses, whose turfted branches met above and stretched from one bank to the other. The pale light, flickering through he leaves, made gleams here and there upon the water like the reflection of molten lead; beyond the darkness was complete; it looked perfectly black there.
I dived and brought up three flat pebbles! But breakfast would not be ready until ten o’clock; I had plenty of time.
By eight o’clock the bottom of the basin had no mysteries for me. There was not a single cabot-fish that I had not disturbed beneath his rock – not a single camaron that I had not compelled to crawl backward into his hold. But the locket was not there….(BIG CHUNK CUT OUT)………
But the astonished look of M. Rabut must have convinced her more than his denial.
She opened the little box.
“My locket! My locket!” she cried, putting it to her lips and kissing it over and over again. I watched every kiss – I looked at her out of the corner of my eye. Finally, her eyes met my own – she understood. But the little mysterious beauty did not even say “Thank you.”
And the long and short of it is dear sir, that I never gave Helene, who became my wife, a single lesson.
Ah, yes, parbleu! I taught her how to swim.

A GENEROUS LITTLE BOY
“Bobby,” said his mother, “there are two pieces of cake in the closet one for you and one for Gracie. The one on the lower shelf is for you.”
Bobby broke for the closet and presently returned.
“You said that the piece on the upper shelf was for me, didn’t you?” he asked of his mother.
“No,” she replied, “that is Gracie’s. The piece on the lower shelf is your.”
“Well, I’m very sorry mamma, but I ate Gracie’s’. But I’ll tell you what I’ll do.” and a generous light shone in the clear little boy’s eyes, “as soon as Gracie comes home I’ll giver her a part of mine.” – [New York Times]

HE MEANT “GEE”
A Western man who was touring through the East, in passing a meadow heard the driver say:
“Abandon the direct progression to the straight thitherward, and deviate by inclinary and aberrant dextro gyration into a dextral incidence.’
It was an amateur Boston farmer saying “Gee Buck” to his yoke of oxen. – [Chicago Inter-Ocean]

A FORTUNE IN OSTRICHES
DESCRIPTION OF AN INTERESTING CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY
How The Big Birds Are Raised, And The Profit They Bring.
“Hello! What are you doing?” was asked yesterday of an old Cincinnatian who was on ‘Change, but who for several years ahs been a resident of Lower California.
“Got a new business. Lots of money in it. I am running an ostrich farm and have done so well that I’m thinking of importing a couple of hundred more birds from Cape Town.”
“Where’s the money?”
“Why, in the feathers, man. They retail at several dollars apiece, and the demand for them is continually increasing, and will so long as women possess vanity.”
“How many feathers will an ostrich yield?”
“That depends. Some of them as much as fifteen pounds at a clipping; others not more than three. The long, white plumes that the ladies all over the world prize so highly grow on the ends of the wings of the males. A good bird in his prime will yield from twenty to forty of these feathers, besides a few black feathers, from the wings. The tail feathers are not so valuable or beautiful. The hen yields fine plumes from her wings tips, and they are generally spotted and flecked with gray, and are called feminines. Those which in the male birds are black are gray with her.”
“They are sorted, I suppose?”
‘Oh, yes, according to their quality and purity of color. The pure whites from the wings are called ‘bloods’, the next quality ‘prime whites’, ‘firsts,’ ‘seconds’ and so on. ‘Bloods’ bring from $200 to $250 a pound in the wholesale market, and then from this figure run down as low as a few dollars to the pound.”
“What are the birds worth?”
“A healthy bird a week old is worth $50, at three months, $75; at six months, $150. You can begin to pluck the feathers when the bird is a year old and they will yield about $35 worth a piece.”
“When do you pair them?”
“Not until they are about five years old; then each pair yields about eighteen to twenty-four eggs each season. These pairs are kept in inclosures by themselves, because the males are very zealous and they take sudden fits and fight ferociously, frequently tearing each other’s eyes out, pulling out feathers and sometimes breaking eggs.”
“Do they kick hard?”
“Why, a blow from one of their legs has been known to break a man’s leg, while the claw, above an inch long, of the front tow will tear the flesh from head to foot. The wound from this is said to be poisonous.”
“How about raising young ostriches?”
“That’s done by hatching the eggs with an incubator. The chicks thrive and do well. Ostriches pair about the beginning of March and the female lays her eggs toward the end of April. Her nest is a hollow basin that she scrapes out of the sand. She lays about two dozen eggs and arranges them in the nest in the form of a triangle, with the point in front of her. Some of the eggs do not get hatched, and these she breaks to feed to the young ones that are hatched for the first few weeks they are out of their shell. It takes six weeks to hatch the young birds and in three years they attain their full size. They live a great deal together, and it is not uncommon to see the nest of a large family together, the grandfather and grandmother in the middle and the younger generations gathered round about.”
“What do you feed these young ostriches hatched out by the incubators?’
“The principal food is Lucerne and thistles and herbs that grow in the country. Old birds will feed on matured shrubs and plants, the leaves of which they will strip off with their beaks. They are also fed on Indian corn, of which they are very fond.”
“Are they vicious when breeding?”
“Yes, especially the male, which has been known to attack and kill a man. They are a fearless animal at such times. When the females leaves the nest the male sits upon the eggs and while she is sitting he walks about in a lordly manner in order than no harm may come.” – [Cincinnati Enquirer]

TACKLING A DEVIL FISH
Some years ago some devil fish appeared in a harbor where several schooners were lying, and the sailors, who were Swedes and had never seen one of the fish before, saw them playing around in the harbor, and thought it would be a good joke to spear one. So they took a light skiff and a pair of old whale harpoons and roped that belonged to schooner and started out, and were joined by the other boats. In a short time one of the boats got alongside of a sea-bat, and a rouser it was, too. When they struck it you’d have thought the whole bottom had been hit, and a second later that boat was rushing up the harbor at a rate she had never went before. It was a blind lead, though, and the fish had to turn, and the skiff was jerked around so quickly that she half filled, and one man was tumbled overboard.
Up the channel they went, some yelling for the boat and others to cut the line as it was evident that she would fill in a moment; but it happened that the only man who had a knife had been dropped overboard, and as they couldn’t get the line untied, they had to let it go. They said afterward they were about to jump overboard and let everything go, when the fish changed its course and headed right for one of the schooners. They had to jump then, anyhow, and as they went overboard, the fish dived under the vessel, and the skiff struck her side with a crash, ad was knocked all to pieces. The end plank, as they found out later, to which the line was made fat, went off with the fish. The men were picked up, and two days later the devil fish floated ashore. It measured eighteen feet across, and was estimated to weigh a ton – [New York Sun]

A lawyer who climbs up on a chair after a law book gets a little higher in order that he may get a little lore.

Boy (who does not appreciate sermons): “Well, I’d just like to know what preaching’s for, anyway?” Small sister: “Why, its to give the singers a rest.”

THE CHINESE AT TABLE
Chinamen consider the stomach the source of intellectual life, and therefore the fattest man goes for the wisest one. They affect to believe that foreigners come to China to eat because they have not enough to eat at home. It is considered a mark of refined politeness to treat a guest or a visitor to a meal at any time of the day. Only those chinamen who have families take their meals at home; the rest eat at hotels. They usually have two substantial meals a day – one an hour after getting up in the morning, the other between three and four o’clock in the afternoon. The well-to-do class take three or four meals a day. Often the father alone eats meat, while the rest of the family have to be satisfied with rice. Poor families usually get their meals from street vendors. The well-to-do ones employ cooks, the latter getting their degrees and diplomas like men of science. The Celestials use no tablecloths, napkins, knives, forks, spoons, dishes, plates, or glassware. Instead of napkins they use packages of thin soft paper, which also serve them for handkerchiefs. After using they throw them away. Each quest has a saucer, a pair of sticks, a package of paper and a minute cup with salt saucer. The Chinese women never dine with the men. Everybody smokes during the eating of a formal dinner, and the dinner is crowned by story or legend narrated by some more or less know orator. No topic of general interest is discussed at such dinners; abut a gastronomist who knows all about the preparing of food receives attention.

THE QUICKSILVER SUPPLY
Up to the present time the Rothschilds have controlled the quicksilver supply of the world, but the discovery of a new mine at Schuppiatena, near Belgrade, in Servia, will probably break up the monopoly. There are but few quicksilver mines in the world, the only two of any importance being located severally in Spain and California. Both these mines are owned by the Rothschild family and only a limited amount is permitted to be put out every year, so as to prevent a glut of the market. The yearly consumption of quicksilver is cut down to 100,000 bottles, the largest part of which comes from California, while Spain furnished about 10,000 bottles.

PEARLS OF THOUGHT
Wisdom is knowledge applied.

Goodness is better than knowledge.

It is the great at whom envy shoots her darts.

Caution is consistent with the highest bravery.

The hammer of custom forges the link of habit.

Any man who puts is life in peril in a cause which is esteemed, becomes the darling of all men.

There is nothing so sweet as duty, and all the best pleasures of life come in the wake of duties done.

Man is borne along on the tide of life like a straw, and, considering all things, is not of much more account.

A tender conscience is an inestimable blessing; that is, a conscience not only quick to discern what is evil, but instantly to shun it, as the eyelid closes itself against the mote.

If, by instructing a child, you are vexed with it for the want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried it before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand.

How can a man learn to know himself? By reflection never – only by action. in the measure in which he seeks to do his duty shall he know what is in him. But what is his duty? The demand of the hour.

THE REMEDY IN VEGETABLES
Vegetables, says an exchange, are not only delicious articles of food, but are really health-preserving, for often a slight indisposition of children, or older persons, can be readily cured by the free use of these culinary remedies. Spinach has a direct effect upon complaints of the kidneys; the common dandelion, used as greens, is excellent for the same trouble; asparagus purifies the blood; celery acts admirably upon the nervous system and is a sure cure for rheumatism and neuralgia; tomatoes act upon the liver; beets and turnips are excellent appetizers, lettuce and cucumbers are cooling in their effects upon the system; beans are a very nutritious and strengthening vegetable; while onions, garlic, leeks, chives, and shallots, all of which are similar, possess medical virtues of a marked character, stimulating the circulatory system and the consequent increase of the saliva and the gastric juices promoting digestion. Red onions are an excellent diuretic and the white ones are recommended eaten raw as a remedy for insomnia. They are tonic and nutritious. A soup made form onions is regarded by the French as an excellent restorative in debility of the digestive organs. We might go through the entire list and find each vegetable possessing its especial mission of cure, and it will be plain to every housekeeper that a vegetable diet should be partly adopted at this period of the year, and will prove of great advantage to the health of the family.

HAILSTONES AND TORNADOES
Lieutenant Finley, an officer of the United States Signal Service, says: “Every hailstorm would be a tornado if it reached the ground. The atmospheric conditions producing hail are precisely similar to those generating tornado clouds. Prof. King, the aeronaut, announced that discovery after passing through a hail cloud and noting the phenomenon. Tornadoes have always been a feature of the Mississippi and Missouri valleys and will continue as long as the world lasts. Though the vast forest of Minnesota and Wisconsin tracks are visible where the tempest of wind hewed its clear-cut path a century ago. Even the traditions of Indians are full of accounts of the might storms which truck terror to the hearts of the aborigines and leveled their forests. The Signal Service at Washington is in constant receipt of letters from Canadians and Eastern people desirous of going West inquiring the portions of country unvisited by tornadoes. In 1879 tornado insurance was not thought of. Last year over $28,000,000 was written.”
Speaking of hurricanes, Lieut. Finley said that they were merely straight winds moving at a velocity of between 80 and 150 miles and hour. The Texas “norther” is a cold trade wind, the Montana “chinook” is a warm current, and the “blizzard” a hurricane with particles of ice and snow in its teeth. Tornadoes are known as “wind falls” in the West.

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY, JAN. 7, 1886

ANNOUNCEMENT

For Circuit Clerk. We are authorized to announce S. M. SPRUILL, as a candidate for the office of Circuit Clerk of Lamar County. Subject to the Democratic Party. Election in August, 1886.

Temperance is a good thing, and none but temperate men should be elected to office.

The State Normal Female Academy, at Livingston, presided over by Dr. CARLOS SMITH, and MISS JULIA TUTWILER had 128 pupils.

HON. J. M. MARTIN has introduced a bill in Congress to appropriate $200,000 to erect a much needed public building at Birmingham. Also a bill to make certain lands subject to entry.

The Times says: Selma will present a candidate to the Democratic Convention for Governor whom we are willing to set measure inches and try conclusions with any candidate in the field.

Much uneasiness is felt by executive appointees in regard to their confirmation by the U. S. Senate. Republican Senators being on the lookout for any pretext to reuse confirmation. Doubtless many appointments will be to make again.

The prohibitionists of North Carolinians have formed themselves into a political party, and resolved that they will not support the candidates of either of the old parties unless they favor prohibition. That’s us, exactly.

A number of State papers are suggesting that the next Democratic State Convention be held in Mobile next summer. The reasons given for the wished for change, seems to be an ill will entertained for Montgomery by her sister cities. The NEWS does not favor going a hundred miles farther by more than half of the delegates for no perceivable good.

Montgomery Adviser:
The Opelika Times says that Colonel LANGDON announces himself for Secretary of State. It is our understanding that when he was appointed to fill the vacancy of ELLIS PHELAN that he would not be a candidate for the office – if that be true he is showing rather bad faith in popping up in the contrast. We know of several gentlemen who offered for the vacancy with a promise that they would not be candidates in the race. That is all right, the more the merrier. The same paper says it is preparing to say authoritatively that HON. JESSE. M. CARMICHAEL, of Dale, is a candidate for Circuit Judge of the Third Judicial officer as he made an Auditor, the voters will have no fault to find.

DISTINGUISHED DEAD
A long list of distinguished dead appears on the death roll of the year just passed. Among the number are philanthropists, scholars, statesmen, divines, soldiers, and millionaires. In our own country, among the distinguished soldiers are Gen. GRANT, MCCLELLAND and MCDOWELL; statesmen, Vice-President HENDRICKS, ROBT. TOOMS and ex-Secretary FREYLIN-HUYSEN; millionaires and merchants, WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT, HORACE B. CLAFFIN and PETER CONAHUE; divines CARDINAL MCLOSKEY, DR. IRENAESUS PRIMIE and STEPHEN H. TYNG, scholars, Dr. DRAPER, RICHARD G. WHITE, HENET H. JACKESON, the poetess, Dr. DAMROSH, the musician; JOHN MCCULLOUGH, the actor, and Commander GORRINGE, who brought over the Egyptian obelisk and planted it in Central Park, New York. Among the distinguished dead of foreign countries are KING ALFONSO and MARSHAL SERRANO of Spain; PRINCE FREDERICK CHARLES, of Prussia; FIELD MARSHAL VON MANTEUFISL, the great German soldier; Gen. GORDAN, EL MAHDI, the false prophet; ADMIRAL COURBET, SIR EDWARD SULLIVAN, Lord Chancellor of Ireland; FRANX ABT, the German song writer; SIR MOSES MONTEFLORE the Hebrew philanthropist; Dr. CARPENTER, the scientist; EDMUND ABOUT, the French novelist, and finally VICTOR HUGO, the most splendid genius in modern letters.

Dr. J. J. DEMONT, of Huntsville, says he visited, professionally, the other day a negro family living in a room 10 x 12 feet in which five generations were represented, and all females. There were two little girls, their mother, their mother’s mother, their mother’s mother’s mother’s mother, and their mother’s mother’s mother’s mother, or their great, great grandmother.

The friends of the cat family, and there are a host of them, will rejoice to hear that the cat charged with the murder of a baby, at Philadelphia, has been exonerated by the coroner. The baby was found dead in bed with its throat cut. Mrs. Gaskins insisted that the cat did it, but the coroner has decided the cat did not stoop to commit so foul a deed, it was some degraded human being who did it.

STATE AND GENERAL NEWS

Burglars are raiding Tuscaloosa.

Birmingham has a new laundry.

Mrs. GEN. GRANT has been pensioned - $5,000 a year.

Greenville Miss., has a destructive fire on the 24th ult. Loss $300,000.

The city bank of Houston, Texas, failed for over one million dollars.

Mobile is shipping large quantities of cotton direct to Europe.

A fire destroyed the principal portion of Collinsville last week.

Gadsden received nearly one thousand bales of cotton in two days last week.

More marriages in Alabama during the month of December than ever before known in one month.

Hydrophobia is prevalent still in some sections of Alabama. Beware of dogs, and kill all that you can.

There are 135,000 farms in Alabama upon which there are not less than 150,000 heads of families.

A large portion of Collinsville was destroyed by fire on Christmas night. Thirteen houses were burned.

The mineral lands in the gap of the Georgia Pacific are now worth $20 per acre, and still increasing in value.

Congressman HONK, of Tennessee educated himself while working at the cabinet maker’s trade, and any reading by firelight at night.

Mr. GEORGE W. FORWOOD, of Lee County, announces himself as a candidate for Probate Judge upon the whisky platform.

Parties who owe $2 and only have $1 should pay the $1 out and then they will stand a chance to get it back again to pay the other $1 with. – [Eutaw Mirror]

LEGAL ADVERTISING
For the benefit of those who are not acquainted with the law regulating legal advertisements in Lamar County we publish the following sections from the code of Alabama, under which we are governed.
Section 3971, PUBLICATION, HOW MADE: AND NOTICE REQUIRED. – In all cases where the Publications of any notice is required by law to be made in this State, it shall be made by publication in some newspaper published in the county in which the notice is ordered.
Section 3972, LENGTH OF TIME NOTICE MUST BE GIVEN – Notice of the sale of real estate under executions at law, of under decrees of the Chancery Court, shall be given by advertisements, as herein before directed, for thirty days before the sale, and notices of the sale of personal property under execution shall be given by publication for at least ten days before the sale; all other notices shall be published for not less than three successive weeks.
Section 3973, HAVE PUBLISHED IN A WEEKLY – In each successive issue of the newspaper each successive weeks before the sale.
Section 3974, COPY OF PAPER TO BE FURNISHED; PRIMA FACA EVIDENCE – The editor, publisher, or manager of any newspaper in this state, which contains an advertisement required by law shall send to the officer ordering such advertisement, or to the person making the same, if not ordered by an officer, a copy of each issue of the paper containing such advertisement and the newspaper containing such advertisement shall be PRIMA FACIE evidence of the publication of the notice.
Section 3975, FEES FOR PUBLISHING FIXED – No proprietor nor manager of any newspaper shall be allowed to charge more than one dollar per square for first insertion, nor more than fifty cents per square for each subsequent insertion of any advertisement which may be made in accordance with the preceding sections of this chapter.

THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL now under the Principalship of JNO. R. GUIN, will open Nov. 2, 1885, and continue ten scholastic months. Able assistants will be employed when needed. Said school offers great advantages. Tuition as follows:
Primary: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, Primary Arithmetic, per month………….$1.25
Intermediate: Embracing Practical Arithmetic, English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Higher Reading, English, Composition, and U. S. History, per month………..$2.00
High School: Embracing Botany, Physiology, Elementary Algebra, Physical Geography, Rhetoric, Natural Philosophy, Elocution, and Latin, per month……..$3.00
A reasonable incidental fee will be charged. Board can be had at $7 per month. Tuition accounts are due at the end of every two months. For further particulars, address.
- JNO. R. GUIN, Principal, Fernbank, Ala. – October 28, 1885.

MILLINERY NOTICE
I am just in receipt of an excellent stock of hats and school bonnets for students of the Industrial College. While in the eastern cities I had the opportunity of acquainting myself with the most fashionable and popular styles of millinery goods. My stock comprises the latest prevailing fashions I will be pleased to see my former customers, together with those who desire the latest styles in millinery at the least cost. Morgan’s building, former stand of Mr. Prescott. – MISS MATTIE WOOD, Columbus, Miss.

E. W. BROCK, Vernon C.H. & Crew’s Mill: Cheap dealer in boots, shoes, hats, clothing, dry good, & notions; hardware, cutlery, Queensware, Glassware, Inks, Pat. Medicines, Oils, Dyestuffs, Perfumery, Extracts, and groceries of all kind. Real estate in various parts of the county. My motto is “Quick sales and small profits.” I request all persons to call and price my large and well-selected stock, before purchasing elsewhere. I will sell as low or lower than any other house in the county.

NEW MUSIC BOOKS – “GOOD TIDINGS COMBINES” By A. J. Showalter. This is the latest and best of all the Sunday School books for popular use. It contains 36 pages, and on ever page there is a gem of sacred song. Bound in substantial boards. Price 25 cents per copy; $2.50 per dozen. THE NATIONAL SINGER. By A. J. Showalter & J. H. Teaney. This book is the result of much careful work by the most experience musicians who write for character notes. It is the bet of all the singing school books, as it contains enough new music of every grade and variety to interest and instruct any school or convention, and also all of the more popular standard hymn tunes of the church. This is a feature that is wanting in every other popular character notebook. The National Singer supplies this and every other want to make an ideal signing schoolbook. Price 75 cents; $7.50 per dozen. THE MUSIC TEACHER. A new monthly musical Journal edited by A. J. Showalter. Every student of music, chorister and teacher should read good musical journals. The Music Teacher aims to instruct as well as entertain. Price 50 cents per year. Specimen copies free. Agents wanted. We can furnish any other music or music book no matter where published. It would also be in your interest to write us when you want to buy a piano or organ, or any thing else in the music line. – A. J. Showalter & Co., Dalton, Ga.

Barber Shop – For a clean shave or shampoo, call on G. W. BENSON, in rear of Dr. BURN’S office, Vernon, Ala.

For a complete stock of clothing, hats, shirts, &c., &c. go to BUTLER & TOPPS Columbus, Miss.

Masonic. Vernon Lodge., NO. 289 A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 p.m. each month.
J. D. MCCLUSKEY, W.M.
M. W. MORTON, Sec.
Vernon Lodge., No. 45, I. O. O. F. meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7 ½ p.m. each month.
W. G. MIDDLETON, N. G.
M. W. MORTON, sect’y

ATTORNEYS
NESMITH & SANFORD THOS. B. NESMITH, Vernon, Ala. J. B. SANFORD, Fayette C. H., Ala. Attorneys-at-Law. Will practice as partners in the counties of Lamar and Fayette, and separately in adjoining counties, and will give prompt attention to all legal business intrused to them or either of them.

JOHN D. MCCLUSKEY, Attorney at Law & Solicitor in Chancery, Vernon, Ala. Will practice in Lamar and adjoining counties, and in the Supreme and Federal courts of Alabama. Prompt attention given to collection of all claims, and to the sale of mineral, -----, and agricultural lands.

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.

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.

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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.

CADY’S LIVERY FEED AND SALE STABLE Columbus, Mississippi. stock fed and cared for at moderate charges.

New goods, new prices. W. L. JOBE’S, the jeweler. Columbus, Mississippi. I have just returned from the North with a large and well selected stock of watches, clocks, jewelry, and silver plated ware which I will sell as low as the quality of the goods permit. When in Columbus don’t fail to call and examine my goods and prices. Cash orders will receive prompt attention. – W. L. JOBE.

WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama. Board and Lodging can be had at the above House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor.

The Great Bazaar! Aberdeen, Mississippi. S W Corner, Commerce and Meridian Streets. Crockery, china, glassware, tin ware, fancy goods, stationery, jewelry, notions, candies, toys and Holiday goods of all kinds at wholesale or retail. Special attention given to the wholesale department. Trial orders solicited and prices guaranteed. Terms: Thirty days, net, 2 percent off for cash. No charge for package. THOS. A. SALE & CO.

New Store! M. H. HODGE, Kennedy, Alabama. Has a large and well selected stock of general merchandise consisting in part of dry goods, groceries, notions, hardware, Queensware, boots, and shoes, Highest Market Price paid for cotton.

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.

STAR STABLE – Aberdeen, Mississippi. A. A. POSEY & BRO., having consolidated their two Livery Stables, are now offering many additional advantages at this well-known and conveniently located Livery Stable. Owing to their consolidation, they have on hand a number of good second-hand buggies which they are selling cheap.

COTTON STORAGE WAREHOUSE, E. C. LEECH, Columbus, Miss. I take this method of informing the public that I have rented the splendid Brick Warehouse (formerly occupied by Turner & Sons) with all the appointments complete. Every facility is here presented for the accommodation of the farmer; Good camping arrangements, with polite, competent clerks. We are desirably located, being situated in the business center of town. We have in our employ for the coming season, MR. D. H. MONTGOMERY, late of Oktibbeha, and MR. J. M. KNAPP, who will be glad to meet their many friends at this house. Give us a call, and we will give satisfaction. Fifteen years experience is a sufficient guarantee for a prompt discharge of the duties incumbent upon a warehouseman. – E. C. LEECH.

We are now open and ready for business. If you want a fine photograph, ferrotype, or any other kind a picture, from the size of a locket up to life size, the place to visit is at the COLUMBUS ART STUDIO, over W. M. MUNROE & CO’S Book Store. We have the best facilities in the south for making fine work. Everything in our Gallery is new and of the latest improvement. We pay special attention to taking Children’s pictures. Give us a call. Don’t forget the place, COLUMBUS ART STUDIO. Over door to the Post Office.

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. The most wonderful family remedy ever known. For internal and external use. Parson’s pills make new, rich blood. Make hens lay….(to small to read)

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY DEC. 31, 1885 (TRANSCRIBERS NOTE: DATE IS WRONG WITHIN THE ISSUE. THIS IS THE DATE THAT IT SAYS)

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.

STATE OFFICERS
Governor E. A. O’NEAL
Auditor M. C. BARKLEY
Treasurer FRED --------
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Supt. of Public Education S. PALMER
Secretary of State ------------

JUDICIARY
B. O. BRISKELL Chief Justice Supreme Court
G. W. STONE Associate Justice Supreme Court
R. M. SOMERVILLE Associate Justice Supreme Court
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CHANCERY COURT
THOMAS COBBS Chancellor

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
JAMES M. MORTON Register
B. F. REED Co. Supt. of Education
Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALVERT WILSON

CITY OFFICERS
L. M. WIMBERLEY Mayor and Treasurer
G. W. BENSON Marshall
Board of Aldermen – T. R. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS. MIDDLETON, W. A. BROWN, R. W. COBB

RELIGIOUS
METHODIST – Pastor – D. W. WARD. Services fourth Sabbath in each month. 11 a.m.
FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each month, 7 p.m.
CHRISTIANS – Pastor - G. A. WHEELER. Services, second Sabbath in each month at 7 p.m.

SABBATH SCHOOLS
UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m. JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt.
METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt.

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 30.00
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, 2 ½ cents per line.

Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, Alabama, as second-class matter.

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
One copy one year $1.00
One copy, six months .60
All subscriptions payable in advance

LOCAL BREVITIES
The building boom still increases.

Vernon is to have two new stores right away.

The high school is flourishing since the holidays.

Hon. THOS. B. NESMITH is off to Huntsville this week.

A new supply of best factory thread at J. & W. G. MIDDLETON’S.

Commissioner’s Court was in session Monday.

The REV. J. E. COX will preach in this place next Sunday at 11 o’clock a.m.

Mr. O. F. HALEY is making an addition to his livery stable.

W. A. YOUNG Esq. is just back from a trip to Marion County.

The holidays are over and every body is again at business.

Mr. DAVE RECTOR who had spent some time in Columbus, as salesman, has returned home.

Mr. N. S. FERGUSON of Memphis, Tenn., is visiting his mother-in-law MRS. M. A. YOUNG, of this county.

Dr. EMMETT MORTON left on Sunday last for Mobile, where he resumes his Medical studies.

Prof. JOHN and Miss JALA GUIN of the Fernbank High School returned to Fernbank on last Sunday.

Since our last issue we have formed the acquaintance of our new circuit rider, Rev. D. W. WARD and find him a most elegant, companionable, intelligent and Christian gentleman. – [True Citizen]

Rev. THOS. W. SPRINGFIELD preached an interesting sermon in town last Sunday.

Parson NATHAN DAVIS, colored, was lodged in jail yesterday on charge of Larceny.

Mr. MURRAY COBB of Columbus, Miss. is visiting his father, Hon. ALEXANDER COBB.

WALTER NESMITH Esq. and Miss DELIA WHITE of Corona, are the guests of Hon. THOS. B. NESMITH.

We are pained to note the death of a little son of J. T. THOMPSON Esq. who had its skull crushed by a falling tree on Saturday last.

We hear of the sudden death of Mrs. GIBBS an aged lady in the northern portion of the county on Saturday night last.

The Commissioner’s Court let out the county paupers to the lowest bidders on Monday. Esquire PURNELL getting them at $4.70 each, per month.

The mail pouch between this place and Caledonia was so worn that a few days ago a large rent was made by the weight of the mails and there were several registered packages in the pouch, but the negro boy that was riding, brought them through all right.

JAMES T. ALLEN, Vernon, Ala., having recently attended the Alabama Normal Music School is prepared to teach classes in Lamar and adjoining counties. Write him for terms and have a class this winter.

FERNBANK, ALA. – Jan. 4, 1886
Mr. Editor:
As we have an opportunity we will again attempt to give you the dots from Fernbank, but before we proceed we beg leave to refer pleasantly to your Correspondent away down in Dixie. In his first article which appeared in the LAMAR NEWS grievous words had a tendency to stir up anger; but in the second which appeared in the issue of Dec. the 24th, a soft answer turneth away wrath. So far as tallent (sic) and gentlemanly principles are concerned we have an exceedingly favorable opinion of our brother correspondent in Dixie, but experience has shown as that all talented, high toned gentlemen are at times likely to get an erroneous idea implanted in their minds, and we conscientiously thought that the “Backwoodsman” in Dixie let his influence go in the wrong direction in his first article which appeared in the Lamar News. Therefore, we were free to express our sentiments and were really anxious to have JOHN MOLLOY help us convince our brother that he did actually have a wrong idea implanted in his mind, but from the tone of his last article we conclude that he is about straight and needs no props or assistance in staying so. Now to the dots. Our School has been vacated for more than a week, but it will commence again this morning. Dr. M. R. SEAY who has been attending Lectures at the Mobile Medical College came home a day or two before Christmas and spent the holidays among relatives and friends. He in company with Dr. E. L. MORTON of Vernon boarded the Georgia Pacific Passenger yesterday evening for the purpose of going back to College. It seems that the young Doctors have advanced rapidly in their medical pursuits since their departure from our midst in November last;’ and they carry with them the good wishes of our entire community. They expect to return to our county again in the spring. Our genial townsmen CAPT. R. T. VERKINE and CAPT. H. M. EDNEY who have been employed on the Georgia Pacific Railroad ever since the road was built through our county, recently heard from the railroad “boss” the welcome applauit, “Well done thou good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many.” Capt. VERKINE was called from a Section Master’s position to that of a Conductor’s position on the Construction train; and Capt. ETNEY was called from the position of a laborer on the road to that of a section Master. It is sometimes better to be born lucky than wealthy.
Since giving the last dots from Fernbank a matrimonial knot was tied in Capt. RICHARDS store by Rev. PETER MCGEE. The names of the parties thus tied were GIRLEY HOOTS and CANDIE SCOTT both of this county. A very nice deer made its appearance in our town last Saturday but from all accounts it, like all industrious people, did not believe in idleness in a case of emergency and consequently it delayed no time in making good its escape.
Mr. Ed., it may be that some of your readers would like to read something about the probabilities and ------- of the Judgeship, Clerkship, Representativeship and County Superintendentship in our county in the coming August election. At present we can do no more than give you and your readers the names of men whom we have heard mentioned in connection with the different offices to be filled in August next.
The names mentioned up to date in connection with the Judgeship commencing in the northern portion of the county are Hon. M. L. DAVIS, Colonel GEORGE E. BROWN, Prof. C. C. HOLLADAY, Capt. J. E. PENNINGTON, Judge ALEX. COBB, and ex-Judge B. L. FALKNER.
The names mentioned up to date in connection with the Clerkship commencing north are R. E. BRADLEY, Capt. S. M. S. SPRUILL, Co. Supt., B. F. REED, W. G. MIDDLETON, Esq., Capt. FORBES COLLINS and Capt. R. N. WALDROP.
The names mentioned up to date in connection with the Representativeship commencing north, are Capt. MARK STONE, Esq., JOBE S. GUYTON, “Uncle” TOMMIE SPRINGFIELD, Dr. W. A. BROWN, Hon. W. A. YOUNG, Capt. JOHN D. MCCLUSKEY, Dr. M. R. SEAY, Esq., W. W. WELCH, and Capt. MOSES TAGGART.
The names mentioned up to date in connection with the County Superintendentship commencing north, are Colonel J. C. JOHNSON, Colonel W. J. MOLLOY, and Colonel BURDUS MCADAMS. So we see that no people ever had a better chance to select good officers than the people of Lamar County will have in the coming August election.
Mr. Ed. perhaps we have been a little too tedious for you this time, but we hope not.
With many desire for the happiness of our Dixie and Crossville Brethren and for the success of the Lamar News, we subscribe ourself faithfully,
- WARWICK

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Liver – Wright’s Indian Vegetable Pill….(can’t read)

ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County, Alabama, I will offer for sale at Kennedy on the 6th day of February next the following lands Sec 15 T 17 R14, as the lands belonging to the estate of C. K. COOK, deceased. Said sale will be made for one-0sixth in cash and the remainder on a credit of twelve (12) months from day of sale. The purchaser will be required to give note with at least two good securities for purchase money. This the 4th day of January 1886.
- J. G. TRULL, Administrator of the estate of C. K. COOK

FINAL SETTLEMENT
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, January 2nd, AD 1886
Estate of JAMES B. BANKHEAD, deceased, this day came JOHN B. ABERNATHY administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts, and vouchers for final settlement of his administration. It is ordered that the 30th day of January, AD 1886, be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement, if they think proper.
- ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate of said county.

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Land Office at Huntsville, Ala., Nov. 13, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar County at Vernon, Ala., on the 12tjh day of February, 1886, viz: No. 9862 ALFRED N. FRANKLIN, for the N ½ of N W ¼ Sec 19 T 12 and R 15 West. He names the following witnessed to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: J. W. PAUL, JOHN R. EVANS, JOHN H. RAY and S. M. LEE, all of Detroit, Lamar County, Alabama.
- WM. C. WELLS, Register

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (NOTICE NO. 4643)
Land Office at Montgomery, Ala. December 21st, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before Judge of the Probate Court at Vernon, Ala. on February 12th, 1885 (sic), viz: JEFFERSON G. SANDERS homestead, 10087 for the N W ¼ N W ¼ Section 8 T 15 R 15 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: J. E. PENNINGTON, HIRAM HOLLIS, JAMES W. TAYLOR, WILLIAM AUSTIN, all of Vernon, Ala.
- THOS. SCOTT, Register

ADMR’S NOTICE
Letters of administration over the estate of S. M. PROTHO deceased, was by the Hon. ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate of Lamar County, Alabama, granted the undersigned on the 17th day of December 1885 This is therefore to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them for payment properly authenticated within the time prescribed by law or they will be bared, all persons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment to me. This the 17th day of December 1885.
- W. A. PROTHO, Adm’r

APPLICATION TO REMIT A FINE
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will make application to the Governor of the State of Alabama, to have remitted a fine of any dollars assessed against him in the Circuit Court of said county, at the fall term, 1885, for the offense of giving away spirituous liquors in a prohibited district in said county, Dec. 23rd, 1885.
- SAMP LOLLAR

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Land Office at Huntsville, Ala., December 9th, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar County, Ala, at Vernon, on January 29, 1886, viz: No. 8740 ISAAC METCALFE for the S ½ of S E ¼, and N E ¼ of S E ¼ and S E ¼ of S W ¼ Sec. 21 T 12 R 14 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: ZACK SWERNIGER, GEORGE W. METCALFE, MONROE CRUMP, and FILLMON TRULOVE, all of Pikeville, Ala.
- W. C. WELLS, Register

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, November 1885
Estate of B. J. GUIN, deceased, this day came P. C. GUIN, administrator of said estate and filed his statement accounts, and vouchers for final settlement of his administration. It is ordered the 11th day of January AD 1886, be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement, if they think proper.
- ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate of said county

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Harris Remedy Co, St. Louis……(Too small to read)

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Down With High Prices. CHICAGO SCALE CO. 151 S. Jefferson St., Chicago.
(Picture of small scale) - The “Little Detective” ¼ oz. to 25 lbs., $3. Should be in every house and office.
(Picture of scale) - 240-lbs Family or Farm Scale, $3. Special prices to agents and dealers. 300 different sizes and varieties, including Counter, Platform, Hay, Coal, Grain, Stock and Mill Scales. 2-ton wagon scale, 6x12, $40. 4-ton, 8x14, $60. Beam box and brass beam included.
(Picture of scale) – Farmer’s Portable Forgo, $10. Forge and kit of tools $25. All tools needed for repairs. Anvils, vises, hammers, tongs, drills, bellows and all kinds of Blacksmith’s Tools. And hundred of useful articles retailed less than wholesale prices. Forges for all kinds of shops. Foot-power lathes and tools for doing papers in small shops.
(Picture of corn sheller) – Improved Iron Corn-Sheller. Weight, 130 lbs. Price $6.50. Shells a bushel a minute; fanning mills, feed mills, farmer’s feed cooker, &c. Save money and send for circular.
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TOPICS OF THE DAY
It is Allegheny in Pennsylvania, Alleghany in Virginia, and Allegany in New York. Recently the Post Office Department, being in doubt as to how the name should be spelled in Mary land, applied to the Historical Society of that state, which recommended Allegany, because that spelling accorded with the statue creating Allegany County, Maryland.

No less than 1000 humming birds were put to death that their fine feathers might beautify the gorgeous ballroom gown of a London belle. In the same great vanity fair 500 canary birds shed their blood the other day that another woman might outshine the other fair and fine sinners of her set. So runs the world away.

A new case of fraud in preserved food has been disclosed by a French paper. A sample of preserved tomatoes when examined differed from a normal specimen by containing much less dry extract, potassium bitartrate, and total phosphoric acid. The inference is that the sample in question contained but little tomato and was chiefly composed of carrots and pumpkins, the whole being colored with some aniline dye.

A well-known physician in British India wants to make criminals who have been sentenced to death useful as subjects of experiment for the purpose of ascertaining how to treat cholera successfully. He would take any prisoner under sentence of death who gave his consent, experiment upon him, and if the experiment itself did not result fatally, spare the prisoner’s life. As the number of capital convictions in British India is between 300 and 400 a year, there would probably be plenty of candidates for the chance of escape thus afforded.

Recent statistics show that in 1884 the number of boiler explosions in the United States was 152, being less than in the previous year. There were 254 persons killed and 261 injured in them, however, and the number is much larger than it should be. Fifty-six of the explosions took place in sawmills, where the so-called engineer finds a too facile fuel in shavings. Men chosen for such position should have the gumption to perceive that such firing generates steam too rapidly for safety. These people can reduce the general death rate if they wish, and can especially reduce the present high percentage of mortality among sawmill engineers.

Florida is the land of fruit as well as flowers. A paper of that state says: Commencing with January, we have strawberries then and until late in June. Japan plums from February. Mulberries are ripe in April and last until August. Pineapples ripen in June and last nearly all the year. We have guavas from June until late the next spring. Of the various berries – dewberries, blackberries, and huckleberries – almost any quantity. Peaches from May 1 until July. Melons from June until late in the fall. Oranges – the best of the kind – from October until the next June, with lemons and limes, persimmons, pomegranates, grapefruit, grapes, and shaddocks.

Carlsbad, the great German resort for invalids, was very full the past season, and there were many American visitors. The population proper numbers 12,000. Till the year 1852 visitors were welcomed with a flourish of trumpets from the top of the tower of the Town Hall; now they receive a demand on arrival to pay a tax of 15 florins for the privilege of drinking the waters and listening to the bands which play in the morning. The principal industry of Carlsbad is that of housing, feeding, and curing invalids. Though the place is small, as many as 10,000 strangers can be accommodated at a time. During the season, which begins on the 1st of May and closes on the 1st of October, nearly 30,000 persons spend not less than three weeks in Carlsbad. There is a great industry there in needles and pins, which are hand made. When Goethe was here in 1808 he sent a pound of pins as a present to his Fran Von Stein.

A correspondent to the Philadelphia Press says: “The postal service of Japan is always pointed at as a model in its way – one of the foremost departments of the Europeanized government. And, indeed, it must in all fairness be acknowledged that much credit belongs to Japan for swiftness in the dispatch of mails, while fettered with a lack of railroads. In the first place every train carries a mail and in Japan, be it known, the imperial railroads run through passenger trains every two hours, and on the Yokohauma railroad nearly every hour. Thus, while in America three mails each way, daily, would be esteemed the climax of facilities, the minimum between the various cities here is about ten each way, daily. This applied merely to the railroads, of course. The delivery of mails is also very prompt, and takes place a good many times a day. A person may mail a letter in Yokohama for Tokio (sic), one hour’s ride to the north, as late as dusk, and yet receive an answer the same evening.

THE REMEDIES IN VEGETABLES
Vegetables, says an exchange, are not only delicious articles of food, but are really health-preserving, for often a slight indisposition of children, or older persons, can be readily cured by the free use of these culinary remedies. Spinach has a direct effect upon complaints of the kidneys; the common dandelion, used as greens, is excellent for the same trouble; asparagus purifies the blood; celery acts admirably upon the nervous system and is a sure cure for rheumatism and neuralgia; tomatoes act upon the liver; beets and turnips are excellent appetizers, lettuce and cucumbers are cooling in their effects upon the system; beans are a very nutritious and strengthening vegetable; while onions, garlic, leeks, chives, and shallots, all of which are similar, possess medical virtues of a marked character, stimulating the circulatory system and the consequent increase of the saliva and the gastric juices promoting digestion. Red onions are an excellent diuretic and the white ones are recommended eaten raw as a remedy for insomnia. They are tonic and nutritious. A soup made from onions is regarded by the French as an excellent restorative in debility of the digestive organs. We might go through the entire list and find each vegetable possessing its especial mission of cure, and it will be plain to every housekeeper that a vegetable diet should be partly adopted at this period of the year, and will prove of great advantage to the health of the family.

HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY
Mr. Blacke, the eminent and wealthy coal dealer, called one of his oldest drivers into the office and tendered him quite a large sum of money.
“What is this for?” asked the astonished driver.
“Merely a token of appreciation for services rendered” replied Mr. Blacke, kindly.
“But, sir, you’ve always paid me well for my services, and that was appreciation enough”
“There is really more than that in it, John.” continued the gentleman, “I really owe you the money.”
“I don’t understand.”
“Let me tell you,” and he dropped his voice to a whisper. “you have been with me for twenty years, working 300 days every year, and averaging three loads a day; that makes 18,000 loads. You weigh about 120 pounds John, and we have never failed to weigh you in every load of our superior coal; that makes 2,7000,000 pounds, or 1,350 tons. This at $3.50 per ton, John represents $4,725. The package you hold in your hand contains $472.50 or 10 percent, which we think is yours by right. We are honest men, John, and don’t desire to defraud any man our of what is justly his.”
John bowed in humble submission, and is now waiting for the next dividend. – [Merchant Traveler]

HE LIKED IT
“Samuel,” said Mrs. Tolbitter, as they were walking home from church, “How did you like the preacher’s description of Heaven?”
“First rate, my dear,” said he with energy.
“If what he said is all true, and of course it is, what do you think you will like best when you get there, Samuel?”
“The arrangements for securing peace,” said he, with glibness.
‘Now, Samuel, what do you mean by that?”
“They don’t’ have any marrying there, me dear?” said he, edging off a little.
The discussion took a warmer turn at once. – [Chicago Ledger]

A “CROOKED” NOISE
Lou is a wee lassie of four summers, with a quaint use of English. The intermittent tooting of a locomotive caused her to clap her chubby hands to her ears, with a funny little frown expressive of disgust.
“What is the matter, Lou?” her mother asked.
“Oh, I’m fastening out that crooked noise.”
The other day she was asked whether she would rather go boat riding to the island or spend the afternoon with grandmamma.
“I want to go to both wheres,” was the prompt reply. – [Razor]

PRAIRIE DOGS
In an article about a colony of prairie dogs which has been added to the Central Park Zoological Collection, the New York Tribune says: When the dogs were turned into the inclosure (sic) they frisked about the space a few moments in evident surprise. Then they gathered in a knot for consultation, in which one fat old patriarch seemed to assume the leadership. They grasped the situation and determined to make the best of it. The old dog followed by six other stout dogs, selected a central spot in the inclosure and began to dig with his forepaws until in a minute or two his head was out of sight. He then stepped aside and gravely sat on his haunches while another dog began digging in the hole thus started. The remaining five dogs stood in a row behind the one that was digging while the unoccupied dogs kept together a short distance away. As the dirt was thrown up from the hole the dog that was next to the one digging gathered it in his paws and threw it back further to those behind. In a short time the first dog was out of sight. He then stopped and took his position last in the row and the next one began digging. The foreman continued to watch the operations quietly or to inspect the progress of the work at short intervals. It did not take long before the whole six were down into the ground. Then the workmen were reinforced by another detachment until finally the forty dogs disappeared with the exceptions of the old one who stood outside. Presently there was a movement of the earth at a distance of fifteen feet. A dog’s head appeared and the subterranean workmen all file out of the gallery, which they had made.
The dogs seemed highly pleased with the result of their work, and after the foreman of the work had inspected the tunnel several times the colony then divided into groups, each group selecting a spot and going to work to burrow on its own account. Five of them with the old dog continued to work at t the first burrow. During the afternoon each of the groups made its own home underground, and they all went to rest in these holes at night. The animals are slightly smaller than the woodchuck. They live socially together and never yelp. It is said that on the prairies owls and rattlesnakes often make quarters in their burrows.
“They are intelligent, interesting little creatures, and quite harmless,” said Dr. Conklin. “That old gray fellow seems to be a kind of leader among them. The first hole that they dug, in which he lives is the largest and seems to be a sort of city hall where they all assemble at times. The holes probably go down about fifteen feet where they are stopped by the concrete. They dogs will live out here comfortably all winter. Their holes will be snug and warm and they are not troubled with malaria.”

A QUEER COLONY
A correspondent says that nine miles from Walla Walla, Washington Territory, is situated a colony of Davisite Mormons. They call their organization The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. They believe that spirits return and take upon themselves new bodies, and that the spirits of Jesus Christ, John the Revelator, John the Baptist, St. Peter, and about half the other apostles, King David, Moses the Lawgiver, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob have returned, been born over again, and that they now have those sacred children in that colony, and are only waiting for them to grow up, when they shall conquer the whole world. They have a sacred corral in which these children play, which none can enter without taking off their shoes. Davis has a daughter about nine years old, who, it is claimed, is the great eternal mother of spirits, and is to be mated, by her father, to her brother in flesh. Davis claims to have the powers over life and death; that he and all who believe faithfully in his doctrine may live as long as they please. Members of this colony do not shave or cut their hair, and seldom comb it. They hold their property in common, but Davis holds the deeds, titles, etc. They do not believe in marriage, but are to be mated by Davis to suit himself. Davis is a Welshman, and the rest of the colony are English, Irish, Scotch, Scandinavians, and a few backwoods Americans.

HOW TO EAT AN ORANGE
To receive a basket of sweet oranges, or yal-la-ba, as the Indians call the fruit, is to most people a real pleasure, and to the superstitious a forerunner of Gluck; but the one great trouble about the golden fruit is how to eat it without making a spectacle of one’s self. This difficulty may be overcome in many ways. Cut the orange in two without paring; quarter cut again, and ear from the skin’ another – cut in even halves and eat from the golden cup with a spoon; a third – pare (but do not skin) the orange around as you would an apple, leaving a finger hold at both ends, and eat from the cup; a fourth – cut in quarters and squeeze the juice into a glass, drinking it therefrom. We have seen an orange eaten with a knife and fork. But the pleasantest way of all is to prepare the fruit before sending it to the table by removing the outside skin, dividing in sections, and then with a sharp knife detaching the pulp from the inside lining of each part, sprinkling with sugar, and placing on or near the ice for full half an hour before using; in this way it becomes not only a delicious but comfortable dish, for which your friends will thank you, although oranges are not near so healthful when sugared; and the old saying hat an orange is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and only an orange at night is not far out of the way as to its usefulness for all kinds of “de miseries,” as old Aunt Clo would say – [Bazar]

THREE QUOTATIONS
When a man is hanging, cut his down, then go through his pockets. – [Texas Post]
When a man is coughing give him Red Star Cough Cure – [Baltimore News]
When you want to conquer pain, use St. Jacob’s Oil. – [Philadelphia News]

There are about 6,377,000 Jews in the world, of whom 5,407,000 are in Europe, and 300,000 in America. Russia has 2,552,000, Germany 561,000, England 60,000 and Spain only 1,000.

SOME FRANK CONFESSIONS!
“Our remedies are unreliable.” Dr. Valetine Mott.
“We have multiplied diseases.” – Dr. Rush, Philadelphia.
“Thousands are annually slaughtered in the sick room.” – Dr. Frank.
“The science of medicine is founded on conjecture, improved by murder,” – Sir Astley Cooper, M. D.
“The medial practice of the present day is neither philosophical nor common sense.” – Dr. Evans, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Dr. Dio Lewis, who abhors drugs as a rule and practices hygiene, is frank enough, however, to say over his signature, “If I found myself the victim of a serious kidney trouble, I should use Warner’s safe cure because I am satisfied it is not injurious. The medical profession stands helpless in the presence of more than one such malady.”
An old proverb says: If a person dies without the services of a doctor, then a coroner must be called in and a jury empanelled to inquire and determine upon the cause of death; but if a doctor attended the case, then no coroner and jury are needed as everybody knows why the person died! – [Medical Herald]

If a German account is to be believed the plant world has its living electrical generators as well as the animal kingdom. It is stated that on breaking a stem of the Phytolacca electrica the hand receives a shock like that given by an induction coil, and that the magnetic needle is affected to a distance of twenty feet. This energy of the plant is greatest at 9 p.m. and almost disappears at nightfall.

It is a fact, well established that consumption if attended to in its first stages, can be cured. There is, however, no true and rational way to cure this disease, which is really scrofulous ulceration of the lungs, except through purifying the blood. Keep the liver in perfect order and pure blood will be the result. Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery” a purely vegetable compound does all this and more; while it purifies the blood it also builds up the system, strengthening it against future attacks of disease. Ask for Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery” Take no other. Of druggists.

The Caroline Islands number five hundred, big and little.

The best ankle, boot and collar pads are made of zinc and leather. Try them.

Your character cannot be essentially injured except by your own acts.

MENSMAN’S PEPONIZED BEST TONIC, THE ONLY PREPARATION OF BEEF CONTAINING ITS ENTIRE NUTRIOUS PROPERTIES. It contains blood-making force, generating and life-sustaining properties; invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility; also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork or acute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard, & Co., Proprietors, New York. Sold by druggist.

The winters in Iceland are milder than those in Iowa. This is due to the Gulf Stream.

Some Folks have much difficulty in swallowing the huge, old-fashioned pill, but anyone can take Dr. Pierce’s “Pleasant Purgative Pellets” which are composed of highly concentrated vegetable extracts. For diseases of the liver and stomach, sick and bilious headache, etc. they have no equal. Their operation is attended with no discomfort whatever. They are sugar-coated and put up in glass vials.

A declaration of war – Throwing old tin cans and other refuse in our neighbor’s yard.

The habit of running over boots or shoes corrected with Lyon’s Patent Heel Stiffeners.

A polite way of dunning a delinquent is to send him a bouquet of forget-me-nots.

Satisfactory evidence. J. W. Graham, Wholesale druggist, of Austin, Tex. writes – I have been handling Dr. Wm. Hall’s Balsam For The Lungs for the past year, and have found it one of the most salable medicines I have ever had in my house for coughs, colds and even consumption, always giving entire satisfaction. Please send me another gross.

Only three years during the last fifty have the revenues of Brazil exceeded the expenditures.

Decline of man. Mental or organic weakness, nervous debility and kindred delicate diseases, however induced, speedily and permanently cured. For large illustrated book of particulars enclose 10 cents in stamps and address, World’s Dispensary Medical Association, 563 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.

It is said that more money is needed to put Bartholdi’s statue on her last legs.

Bronchitis is cured by frequent small doses of Piso’s Cure for Consumption.

Lighting struck a California pear tree and cooked the fruit brown.

Red Star Cough Cure - trademark - absolutely free from opiates, emetics, and poison. Safe, sure, prompt. 25 cts. at druggists and dealers. The Charles A. Vogeler Co., Baltimore, Md.

St. Jacob’s Oil trademark 0 The great German remedy for pain. Great rheumatism, neuralgia, headache, backache, toothache, sprains, bruises, etc. etc., Price, fifty cents at druggists and dealers. The Charles A. Vogeler Co., Baltimore Md.

Ely’s Catarrh Cream Balm cleanses the head, allays inflammation, heals the sores, restores the senses of taste, smells, hearing. A positive cure. Cream Balm has gained an enviable reputation wherever know, displacing all other preparations. A particle is applied into each nostril; no pain; agreeable to use. Price 50 cts., by mail or at druggist. Send for circular. Ely Brothers, Druggists, Owego, N. Y.

The Mirror is no flatterer. Would you make it tell a sweeter tale? Magnolia Balm is the charmer that almost cheats the looking-glass.

Epithelioma or skin cancer. For seven years I suffered with a cancer on my face. Eight months ago a friend recommended the use of Swift’s Specific and I determined to make an effort to procure it. In this I was successful and began its use. The influence of the medicine at first was to somewhat aggravate the sore; but soon the inflammation was allayed, and I began to improve after the first few bottles. My general health has greatly improved. I am stronger, and am able to do any kind of work. The cancer on my face began to decrease and the ulcer to heal, until there is not a vestige of it left – only a little scar marks the place. – Mrs. Jorge A. McDonald, Atlanta, Ga., August 11, 1885. Treatise on blood and skin Diseases mailed free. The Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. N. Y., 157 W. 23rd St.

The New Game – Lawson’s Patent BASEBALL WITH CARDS by Mail 50 c. Lawson Card Co. Boston, Mass. For sale by all. stationers, Newsmen, Fancy goods Dealers.

60,000 Presents have been given away during the past twelve months to those who have aided in extending the circulation of the American Agriculturist. Fifty thousand more are to be presented to those who subscribe before December 25tjh. For example if, on seeing this, you immediately forward us the subscription price, $1.50 in all, we will send you the American Agriculturist for the rest of this year and 1886, and also our American Agriculturist Law Book, Just out, a large volume, elegantly bound in cloth, and gold, weighs one pound and a hair, and is a complete compendium of every day law for all classes of people. Unparalleled inducements to canvassers. Send 5 cents for mailing you grand double November number of the American Agriculturist, sample pages of the Law Book, and complete Canvasser’s Outfit. With the commissions given by us, every canvasser ought to be able to readily make $10.00 a day. Address Publishers of American Agriculturist, 751 Broadway, New York.

Prize Holly Scroll Saw (picture of saw) All iron and steel, price, $3.00. Good for business, good for amusement, good for adults, good for youth. Send for catalogue to Shipman Engine Mfg. Co., Rochester, N. Y.

The Happy Hour Chair Hammock (picture of hammock) The most delightful hammock ever invented for sitting or reclining. In fancy colors and ornamental. Our customers are rapturous over it. Says one: “$50 would not buy mine if I could not get another.” Agents wanted. Ask your dealer for it. Sample shipped to any address on recapped of $2. Write for circular. C. Arnold & Son, Honeoye.

Consumption. I have a positive remedy for the above disease by its use, thousands of cases of the worst kind and of long standing have been cured; indeed, so strong is my faith in its efficacy, that I will send two bottles free together with a valuable treatise on this disease to any sufferer. Give express and PO address: Dr. T. A. Slocum, 151 Pear St., New York.

R. U. AWARE that Lorillard’s Climax Plug, bearing a red tin tag, that Lorillard’s Rose Leaf fine cut; that Lorillar’s Navy Clippings and that Lorillar’s Snuffs are the best and cheapest, quality considered.

Grind Your Own Bones meal, oyster shells, graham flour and corn in the $5 Hand Mill (F. Wilson’s Patent). 100 per cent more made in keeping poultry. Also power mills and farm feed mills. Circulars and Testimonials sent on application. Wilson Bros. Easton, Pa.

Morphine, chloral and opium habits easily cured. Book Free. Dr. J. C. Hoffman, Jefferson, Wisconsin.

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A big offer to introduce them, we will give away 1,000 salt-operating washing machines. If you want one send us your name, PO, and express office at once. The National Co.,25 Dey St., N. Y.

Blair’s Pills, great English gout and rheumatic remedy. Oval box, $1.00; round, 50 cts.

Opium and whisky habits cured at home without pain. Book of particulars are sent free. D. B. Woolley, M. D., Atlanta, Ga.

Agents, we have the best selling gooks and Bibles. Family Bibles a specialty. Very low prices. B. F. Johnson & Co., Pubs. 1013 Main Street, Richmond, Ga.

Agents, Harvest, 376,250 sold. Last 60 days. Sales are unprecedented; thousands of testimonials representing the Nations prominent men. Circulars free. U. S. Art Co., 171 Broadway, N. Y.

Insure your horses an cattle in the Aetna Mutual Livestock Co,., Address W. A. Van Bramer, Man’gr. Valentine, N. Y. Agt’s wanted.

“Maryland, My Maryland”
“Pretty wives”. Lovely daughters and noble men “My farm lies in a rather low and misernatic situation and My wife! Who! Was a very pretty blonde?” Twenty years ago became “Sallow”, “Hollow-eyed” , “Withered and aged!” Before her time, from “Malarial vapors, though she made no particular complaint, not being of the grumbling kind, yet causing me great uneasiness.
“A short time ago I purchased your remedy for one of the children, who had a very severe attack of biliousness, and it occurred to me that the remedy might help my wife as I found that our little girl upon recovery Had lost her sallowness, and looked as fresh as a new-blown daisy. Well, the story is soon told. My wife, today, has gained her old time beauty with compound interest and is now as handsome a matron (if I do say so myself) as can be found in this county which is noted for pretty women. And I have only Hop Bitters to thank for it. The dear creature just looked over my shoulder, and says I can flatter equal to the days of our courtship, and that reminds me there might be more pretty wives if my brother farmers would do as I have done.” Hoping you may long be spared to do good, I thankfully remain, C. L. James, Seltsville, Prince George Co., Md. May 26th, 1883. None genuine without a bunch of great Hops on the white label. Shun all the vile poisonous stuff with “Hop” or “Hops” in their name.

Catarrh….(Too small to read)

Cure fits! When I say cure I do not mean merely to stop them for a time and then have them return again. I mean a radical cure. I have made the disease of fits, epilepsy or falling sickness a life-long study. I warranty my remedy to cure the worst cases. Because others have failed is no reason for not now receiving a cure. Send at once for a treatise and a free bottle of my infallible remedy. Give express and post office. It cost you nothing for a trial, and I will cure you. Address, Dr. H. G. Root, 103 Pearl St., New York.

Saw Mills and engines – portable and stationery. Illustrated price list free. Lane & Bodley Co., Cincinnati, O.

Face, hands, feet, and all their imperfections, including facial developments, superfluous hair, moles, warts, moth, freckles, red nose, acne, black heads, scars, pitting and their treatment. Dr. John Woodbury, 57 N. Pearl St., Albany, N. Y., Established 1870. Send 10c for book.

Wanted an active man or woman in every county to sell our goods. Salary $75 per month and expenses. Expenses in advance. Canvassing outfit free. Particulars free. Standard Silver-ware Co., Boston, Mass.

Thurston’s Ivory Pearl Tooth Powder keeping teeth perfect and gums healthy.

Pensions to Soldiers and Heirs. Send stamp for circulars. Col. L. Siongham, Att’y., Washington, D. C.

Sample Free – Ten Days – For ten days after the date of this paper a copy of THE GREAT STORY PAPER OF THE WEST will be mailed free to any one sending their name and address plainly written upon a postal card. This opportunity to obtain a specimen of the only five-cent story paper in the United States will last but ten days. Send in your name before it is too late. Address, The Chicago Ledger, Chicago, Ill.

All sorts of hurts and many sorts of ails of man and beast need a cooling lotion. Mustang Liniment.


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THE LAMAR NEWS

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, JANUARY 14, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 11

A RIVER DREAM – [R. E. BOULTON, in Cassell’s Magazine]
The blue, blue sky above,
The blue, blue water under,
Two eyes more blue, and a heart that’s true,
And a boat to hear me with my love
To lands of light and wonder.

The sunny fields around,
The river rippling by us,
A smile more bright than noonday light,
Our brows with meadow garlands crowned,
And never a care to try us.

A drifting with the tide,
A wind that whispers greeting
An isle of rest in the faded west,
With only the waves on the shore beside
--------------------fondly treating.

THE PRINCESS PHILIPPINE – by Mrs. ANNIE A. PRESTON
The Princess Philippine dwelt in an ancient, gray, stone castle standing on the banks of a small river that divided a beautiful green valley in northern Germany. Broad, fertile fields and green pastures, dotted by herds of the famous black cattle and by flocks of snowy sheep, with her and there a peasant’s or a herdsman’s cot, lay each side the stream. On either hand deep forests stretched up the sides of the high mountains that sheltered this fine estate, of which the Princess Philippine was sole heir, from the rough blasts of winter. The Princess Philippine had neither father, mother, brother nor sister, but she had an indulgent guardian and when a mere child had been bethroed by her parents to his son, the brave, young Prince Basil who lived just on the other side the high sheltering mountains.
With such charming surroundings it would seem as if the young princess ought to have been a very happy little maiden, but I am very sorry to relate that she allowed her life to be made miserable by her uncontrollable and unreasonable fear of spiders. Spiders love the dust-filled crannies of a vast old castle like that of Castle Philippi, and why should the spiders that had held possession for more than 700 years be put to rout on account of the whim of a chit of a girl?
The Prince Basil asked the princess something of the kind on the occasion of one of the frequent calls he made at the castle, accompanied by his lady mother. The Princess Philippine was exceedingly angry at this question, saying that he had no regard whatever for her fine sensibilities, and she was surprised to see that his mother sat by and smiled at him instead of culding him for his rudeness. So, sad to say, the young couple had their first quarrel, and the young prince rode home in high dudgeon, declaring there was no reason in a spirited young fellow being tied to a girl who would not walk in the park, sail on the river or ride in the forest on account of her silly dread of spiders, who even would not walk about the ------of her own fine east ------- she was enveloped from him ------in a sheet-like wrap of glazed white linen.
“I have danced attendance upon a ghost as long as I can endure it,” he said, “and now I am going away to see the world.” And so he went.
The parents of the young Prince Basil were greatly chagrined at this estrangement , for in Germany betrothal has always been held almost as sacred as a marriage, and they said: “We will leave her entirely to herself for a season and see. Perhaps she will come to her sense enough to realize how foolish it is for her to set herself up as being different from all the rest of the world.” So with one accord all her neighbors and friends declared, “We will leave her alone with her morbid fears.”
Philippine now shut herself up with her attendants in her own apartments, that were all hung with pale blue satin, and passed her time in making sure no spiders of any kind invaded her ----(TOO LIGHT – CAN’T READ)
One morning there came riding up to the castle drawbridge a knight in armor, mounted upon am mild white charger and followed by an attendant whose steed was as black as coal. The knight demanded to see the Princess Philippine and when after much delay he was shown to her presence he informed her he was her cousin, six times removed, had proposed paying her a long visit.
“Very well,” she said, “I never have heard of you, but that may not be strange. Pray make yourself comfortable and give orders that the rooms you may choose for your own may be thoroughly swept and dusted and made free from spiders, for I suppose there is not in the world such another spider-invaded place as this same old Castle Philippi.”
Day by day the knight made himself at home about the premises, giving orders to the servants and managing as if the estate was his own, but when he began to make free with all the secret drawers and papers in the great library, sitting over them until far into the night, the old servants shook their heads and said, one to another, “Ah, his presence here bodes no good.”
After some weeks he demanded another audience with the princess, who by this time had almost forgotten his existence, so taken up was she in watching to ascertain if indeed a spider had taken a tenement under the embrasure outside her bedroom window. When shown into her presence the knight informed her in a stately way that he had found papers that established his claim as rightful heir to the estate, that he had already taken possession and would like her to deliver the keys immediately.
The princess’s manner was as formal as his own, and her tone as haughty, when, after a little pause, she replied:
“Sir Knight, doubtless thou art not aware that in the possession of the crown prince are papers showing that with this estate goes a signet ring. The ring is always in possession of the rightful heir and that ring I have.”
The knight was exceedingly angry, but he brought all his arts of fascination to bear upon the princess, thinking to induce her to show him the ring, but all in vain. Quite out of patience, at length he told her is she did not give up the ring immediately he would set every person on the estate to gathering spiders from field, forest, river, and castle and would fill her apartments, her clothing, nay even her couch with them. The princess quaked with fear at even the thought of this, and enveloping herself in her linen wrap precede the knight to the arsenal that was high up in one of the western towers. Here behind a coat of mail that was hanging upon the wall she touched a spring that opened a secret drawer within which was a small golden key. With this key closely clenched in her hand, and the wily knight close at her side, she proceeded to the great picture gallery. There behind the life-size portrait of her own beautiful mother she found another secret drawer, and taking therefrom an ivory casket she unlocked it with the golden key, disclosing the coveted prize.
“Let me examine it, please,” entreated the knight.
“Never,” cried the princess, now that the ring was in her hand, impressed by the instructions regarding it she had received from her parents, and dismayed at her own weakness in being frightened in her own castle, amid her own people by a stranger.
The knight, quite forgetting all his assumed courtly ways, sprang to take it from her, when, quick as thought, she threw it out of one of the deep narrow windows that the knight had opened on account of the closeness of the air, in the long disused gallery. It flashed like a coal or fire in the sunlight and was gone.
“Mad girl!” shouted the knight, angrily. “It has fallen into the moat!” and leaving the princess he rushed down the stairs.
With her heart beating wildly, and her eyes sparkling with excitement, the young girl leaned out the narrow window and looked far below to where the gray walls of the strong square tower were reflected in the still black waters of the moat.
“Ah! What is that?” she cried, for just below her, even within reach of her hand the signet ring hung securely caught in the meshes of an ancient, closely woven spider’s web. Although the spider was close by, curiously regarding this singular prey, the princess did not mind, but reached down and secured the ring without fear. As she did so, standing there in front of the portraits of her parents, she seemed to hear their voices, explaining once more the significance of the ring, and setting forth her duty to all the dependent people living on her estate.
“To whom much is given much shall be required,” she said half aloud. “Dear me! How selfish I have been.” – and securing the ring to a chain fastened about her neck, she, too, ran down the winding stairs, quite regardless of her linen wrap that lay forgotten on the dusty oaken floor of the gallery, and astonished her servants by dispatching a courier with a letter to the crown prince.
The knight meanwhile had set all the laborers about the estate to draw the water off from the moat and search the muddy bottom for the ring. While they were thus engaged, with the knight in the greatest excitement and followed by his servant, pacing back and forth across the drawbridge, a company of horsemen arrived who had been sent from court. The Princess Philippine met them in the garments, laces and jewels of her beautiful mother and on one dimpled finer sparkled the signet ring.
The grand old courtier who bowed over her proffered hand, said “Your face and your bearing establish your identity for I knew your parents and grandparents, but this signet ring substantiates your rightful ownership to the estates beyond a doubt.”
The designing knight and his servant were banished from the country. Young Prince Basil was sent for and most gladly returned home. The crown prince and princess and a great retinue for court came to the wedding and the feast surpassed anything that had been in the castle for hundreds of years.
At the wedding dinner the Princess Philippine found an almond with two kernels.
“These stands for you and me,” she said to her husband, “you shall have one kernel and I will have the other.”
“Thanks, my love,” said the prince. “Let me have the kernel that represents yourself and I will wear it, that you may never again be lost away from me.”
“Here is your Philippine,” said the princess,” and with it I give my signet ring, that stands for all my possessions, for since I threw it away and it was saved for me by a spider, against all whose kind I have all my life waged war, it humiliates me every time my eyes falls upon it, and I think I ought to pay some penalty for my foolishness and for my ill-treatment of yourself.”
“But did I not cry ‘Philippine” my dearest one the moment my eye fell upon you on my return,” said the prince – “to show you that I never held anger against you in my heart.”
At this all the young people who found double almonds began to eat them with some chosen friend, and since they all had not signet rings to bestow, it came to be a custom that the one who should cry “Philippine” after an absence should receive a gift, and the custom continues among young people in all countries to this day. – [Springfield Republican]

SOUTH CAROLINA’S PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS
A member of a New York firm who has received an order for dredges for use in excavating phosphate in South Carolina reports that industry as especially prosperous, and that 500,000 tons of this material is now being dug up as against 350,000 tons in 1883. The phosphate rock bed of South Carolina now supplies the world with the chief part of all the phosphate of ----used in the manufacture of commercial fertilizers, and this industry was unknown there until 1868. The greatest length of this phosphate bed is about seventy miles, the city of Charleston being about the center of the most accessible deposits. It crops out at the surface in many places and is found distributed over large areas at the bottom of many of the rivers. It is mined in three ways – by open quarrying and digging in the land; by drudging and grappling with powerful steam machines in deep water; by hand picking and with tongs in shallow streams. Its average price is about $6 a ton, and the state levies a tax of one dollar a ton on all that is shipped, making it an important item of revenue. These phosphates are the remains of ancient animal life, and fragments are brought up not only representing the tapir, horse, elephant, and mastodon, but amphibious ones, such as the seal, dugong, walrus, etc.

Sea weed paper is a late Japanese invention. It is made sufficiently transparent to use for window panes and colored to vie with stained glass.

COUNTERFEIT EXPERTS
WOMEN WHOSE SENSE OF FEELING IS MARVELOUS
ABLE TO PICK OUT SPURIOUS MONEY AS THOUGH BY INSTINCT
There is a very large amount of counterfeit paper afloat, and some of it finds its way to the Treasury, when it is discovered in the redemption division, says a Washington letter to the Pittsburg Post. It is here that all the money sent in from outside sources is counted and examined. The counting and sorting is done by ladies, and they are the most expert in the country. They can tell a counterfeit instinctively, with eyes open or shut, and there is not a bank cashier in the United states, or even among the large contingent now sojourning in Canada, who could compete with them in the matter of determining counterfeits. They can tell a spurious bill as far as they can see it, and the mere handling of the paper is enough for them to decide upon its genuineness. The silk paper upon which Treasury notes are printed can only be made by expensive machinery, and it is a felony to even manufacture the blank paper without due authority. Under the circumstances all counterfeits are printed upon inferior paper, which lends this great facility in the matter of detection. A guide was once taking a party of visitors through the redemption division, and was expatiating upon the expertness of the fair money handlers in this respect. He solemnly assured the party that one of the girls had detected a counterfeit in the middle of a pile of money six inches thick by merely seeing the thin edge of it. To a stranger it seems more like diablerie than the possession of trained vision and a delicate sense of touch in the detection of counterfeits.
These female experts receive $75 a month for their services. They do nothing until 4 in the afternoon, and their hands move with a rapidity seldom acquired by the most expert bank clerks. But they make no mistakes. A miscount or a counterfeit overlooked comes out of the wages of the one making the error, and two or three mistakes a month would wipe out a girl’s salary, as some of the bills handled are very large. The great drawback of the position is the poison absorbed by the continuous handling of money. The backs of all Treasury notes are printed with a pigment which consists chiefly of Paris green. Small particles of this substance are absorbed, and in a year of two the girl who may have entered the Treasury smooth skinned and healthy finds herself a victim of lassitude, and with her hands and face broken out in malignant sore. Each employee is furnished with a sponge to moisten the fingers while counting. A new one is supplied every morning, and by evening its color will have changed to a dull black by the action of the poison. Notwithstanding this drawback there is never any difficulty in filling vacancies.

“CHURNING” FOR CLAMS
Two-thirds of the clams are got by “churning.” The clam gang wades out over the bed and shovels up mud and clams and everything that comes along into big wire baskets, which, when about full, are lifted out of the water, and a rinsing and shaking washes out the mud and leaves the clams. Two men and a boy attend to each basket, one man shoveling in the mud, the second getting out the clams, and the boy “culling” them. Churning can only be done at about halftide, when the water is two or three ------, as by the time the workman has to put his head under water, when he bends over at shoveling. He soon has to give up the job. The suction on the shovels is tremendous, and they are made exceptionally strong. When there are good tides, on the full and change of the moon, the clams may be -----the manner of the non-professional digger; a shovelful of mud is turned up at a time, and the clams it contains are staked out with a clam hoe. Consideration of either of the above methods is sufficient for a true understanding of the happiness of the clam at high water. The clam ordinarily lies in the mud from two to eighteen inches; a clam that would bury itself much deeper than eighteen inches is not to be looked up with favor. – [Providence Journal]

A GOOD PLACE FOR DENTISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS
Throughout South America all the dentists and nearly all the photographers are immigrants from the United Sates, and if there is any one among them who isn’t getting rich he has nobody but himself to find fault with, because the natives give both professions plenty to do.
Nowhere in the world is so large an amount of confectionery consumed in proportion to the population as in South America, and as a natural consequence, the teeth of the people require a great deal of attention. As a usual thing Spaniards have good teeth, as they always have beautiful eyes, and are very particular in keeping them in condition. Hence the dentists are kept busy, and as they do in the United States, the profits are very large. In these countries it is the custom to serve sweetmeats at every meal – dulces, as they are called – preserved fruits of the richest sort, jellies, and confections of every variety and description. Many of these are made by the nuns in the convents, and are sold to the public either through the confectionery stores or by private application. A South American housewife, instead of ordering jams and preserving up a supply in her own kitchen during the fruit season, patronized the nuns, and gets a better article at a lower price. The nuns are very ingenious in this work, and prepare forms of delicacies which are unknown to our table.
The photographers as well as the dentists are Americans, and have all they can do. The Spanish-American belle has her photograph taken every time she gets a new dress, and that is very often. The Paris styles reach here as soon as they do the North American cities, and where the national costumes are not still worn there is a great deal of elaborate dressing. The Argentine Republic is the only country in which photographs of the ladies are not sold in the shops. Elsewhere there is a craze for portraits of reigning beauties, and the young men have their rooms filled with photographs of the girls they admire, taken in all sorts of costumes and attitudes. – [New York Sun]

HOW COCOA IS GROWN
United States Consul Bird, in a report from La Guayra, Venezuela, thus describes the cultivation of cocoa in that country:
“Cocoa, or cacco, as it is termed in Spanish, from which the chocolate of commerce is made, is the fruit of a tree indigenous to the soil of Venezuela and within this country is comprehended a large part of the choicest cocoa zone. The tree grows to the average height of thirteen feet and from five to eight inches in diameter is of spreading habit and healthy growth.
“A cocoa plantation is set in quite the same manner as an apple orchard except that the young stocks may be transplanted from the nursery after two months growth. No preparation of the soil is deemed necessary and no manures are applied. The young trees are planted about 105 feet equidistant, which will accommodate 200 trees to the acre. Between the rows and at like spaces are planted rows of the Bucare, a tree of rapid growth, that serves to shade the soil as well as to shield the young tree from the torrid sun. Small permanent trenches must be maintained from tree to tree throughout the entire length of the rows, so that, at least once in each week, the stream descending from the mountains may be turned into these little channels and bear needful moisture to trees and soil. At the age of five years the plantation begins to bear fruit and annually yields two crops, that ripening in June being termed the crop of San Juan and that maturing at Christmas being known as the crop of La Navidad. The average age to which the tree attains under proper care may be estimated at forty years, during which period it will give fair to full crops on fruit; but, of course, it must be understood that, as in our fruit orchards a new tree must be set from time to time to replace once that may be decayed or blighted. After careful inquiry, it may be safely stated that the average crop of the cocoa plantation of ten years of age, and under a proper state of cultivation will amount in 500 or 600 pounds per acre.

WHEN DAY MEETS NIGHT – [by CHARLES W. COLEMAN, in HARPER’S]
Out to the west the spent day kisses night,
And with one parting glow of passion dies
In gold and red; a woman’s wistful eyes
Look out across the hills, a band of light
Plays on her parted hair, there softly dwells,
And throws a glory o’er her girlish dream!
The sheep slow nestle down beside the stream,
And cattle wander with their tinkling bells.

The clouds, sun-flushed, cling /round the day’s decline;
The woman’s eyes grow tender; shadows creep,
Gold turns to gray; a sharp dividing line
Parts earth and heaven, Adown the western height
The calm cold dark has kissed the day to sleep;
The wistful eyes look out across the night.

HUMOROUS
“ If the heart of a man is opprest with care, it won’t help him any to go on a tear.”

Proud flesh – The haughty aristocrat.

The bird for literary men – The reed bird

One of the starting points – The point of a bent pin.

All communications with spirits ought to be sent through the dead-letter office.

The woman question: “Now isn’t this a pretty time of night for you to get home?”

“Good gracious!” said the hen, when she discovered porcelain eggs in her nest, “I shall be a bricklayer next.”

“The battle is not always to the strong.” said the judge as he awarded the butter premium at a county fair.

An organist who advertised for vocalists for a church choir, headed his advertisement: Good chants for the right parties.

She was plump and beautiful and he was wildly fond of her. She hated him, but, woman-like, she strove to catch him. He was a fly.

The forty-two inmates of the Clark County, Ind. poorhouse are fed at a cost of two cents a meal. There is very little inducement offered to a man to become an Indiana pauper.

Gay old gentleman to boy on twelfth birthday: “I hope you will improve in wisdom, knowledge and virtue.” Boy, politely returning compliment, totally unconscious of sarcasm: “The same to you sir!”

Mrs. Montague: “Do you sing, Mr. De Lyle?” Mr. De Lyle (with a superior smile): “I belong to the college glee club.” Mrs. Montague (disappointed): “Oh, I’m so sorry. I hoped that you sang.”

“They have discovered footprints three feet long in the sands of Oregon, supposed to belong to a lost race.” It is impossible to conceive how a race that made footprints three feet long could get lost.

Dude – “You love me, then, Miss Lydia?” Lydia – “Love is perhaps somewhat too much to say. At least I have sympathy for you, because your face resembles so much that of my poor dead Fido."

“He’s not what you call strictly handsome,” said the major, beaming through his glasses on a homely baby that lay howling in his mother’s arms, “but it’s the kind of face that grows on you.” “It’s not the kind of face that ever grew on you,” was the indignant and unexpected reply of the maternal being: “you’d be better looking if it had!”

“Julia, I don’t see why you are going to marry Harry Bascomb. He hasn’t any money, and it is not likely that he’ll ever have any.” “Fanny, I’d soon to marry for money. Harry is handsome and a fine athlete. He would bring to me a sense of protection – “O, that’s all right, Julia! Everyone to their mind. You may marry for protection; I intend to marry for revenue.”

A MIGHTY SENTENCE
The opening sentence of the Bible, “In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth,” contains five great universal terms, and speaks of as many boundless totalities – God, Heaven, earth, creation, and the beginning. It is, perhaps, the most weighty sentence ever uttered, having the most gigantic members. In its comprehensive sweep it takes in all past time, all conceivable space, all known things, all power and intelligence, and the most comprehensive act of that intelligence and power. This sentence is a declaration on nearly all the great problems now exercising scientists and philosophers. – [The Independent]

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY JAN 14, 1886

ANNOUNCEMENT

For Circuit Clerk – We are authorized to announce S. M. SPRUILL as a candidate for the office of Circuit Clerk of Lamar County, subject to the Democratic Party. Election in August, 1886.

Alabama will be well represented at the National Press Association in May.

Montgomery’s Mayor says that he was misunderstood in his invitation to the liquor dealers of Atlanta to come to Montgomery.

It is time for the young democracy to prepare for organization. The plot of the boldhends (sic) to siege all the offices in the state thickens and grows space. – [Birmingham Age]

It is now “the thing” among country editors to have dreams about the gubernational candidates. Of course the editor always dreams that his man gets there. No fellow has yet dreamed about a dark horse winning. – [Age]

The Democratic executive committee of Lowndes County have gotten together and decided to stir up things, politically. A county convention has been called for February 8th, when candidates for the legislature and county offices will be nominated. This is the first political wave made in state politics. The candidates for governor may now find something to do in Lowndes.

TROY, ALA. – Jan. 4 – The anti-liquor men of Troy have fought a good fight. Whisky is downed. But one saloon keeper has made the effort to procure license for a month past. He has left no stone unturned to procure the requisite number of names to his recommendation. He lacks now more than one hundred and his list is being hourly scratched, growing small by degrees and beautifully less. Troy is now and will continue to be a dry city.

Alabama makes poor show in point of nativity in her Representatives and Senators in Congress. OATES, SALDER and MARTIN were born in the state, FORNEY and DAVIDSON were born in North Carolina; PUGH and WHEELER were born in Georgia, MORGAN in Tennessee, HERBERT in South Carolina, and JONES in Virginia. Their average age is fifty-four years. Altogether the Representatives and Senators from Alabama are high above the average representation of the States in point of ability and experience in Congress.

The high license law in Eufaula has closed five saloons in that city. The number of liquor dealers there now stands five retail and one wholesale. The number has been reduced in Tuskegee, Gadsden, and Tuscaloosa. Reports from the country are to the effect that great many retail dealers will have to shut up shop for failure to obtain the recommendation of twenty free holders. It is highly probable that fully half the saloons outside the incorporated towns will be closed. – [Montgomery Advertiser]

We never read of so many weddings before in all our life. The whole state blazes with matrimonial fires. They light up the hill tops as well as the valleys – the cottage and the palace. Well it is good. Let the young folks pair off judiciously and live soberly and uprightly, and be happy and prosperous – [Selma Mail]

The editor of the LaFayette Sun says he can’t run a newspaper on “rotten potatoes” and all those subscribers who have been bringing him in “rotten potatoes in payment for subscription may as well consider their names dropped from the list.”

The face of the average darkey who has heretofore been farming on his own account, wears a gloomy aspect, because the repeal of the crop lien law interferes somewhat with his getting “vances” from the merchants. – [Greensboro Watchman]

The Macon Telegraph says : “In the South white and black carpenters work side by side. I never saw this in the North and yet we are charged with discriminating against the negro.” There are some places North and West where the negro is practically forbidden to settle – he gets no work to do.

“This beats the devil!” said a liquor shop proprietor in Illinois to a lady who followed a drinking man into the liquor shop and persuaded him to come out without patronizing the bar. “Yes, sir,” responded the enterprising lady, “and it was my intention to beat the devil.”

ALABAMA NEWS

The Warrior River rose sixty feet at Tuscaloosa on the 4th.

Georgians continue to settle in Cullman County in great numbers.

Sheffield now has a regularly organized city government.

Alabama has fewer Christmas causalities than any other state.

The mad dog scare is reducing the number of worthless dogs.

Montreal is to have a large ice palace this winter than ever.

The Warrior River rose sixty feet at Tuscaloosa on the 4th. (sic)

There has been 232 shade trees, principally elms, planted on the streets of Montgomery city this season.

The boys of Eufala are putting up $50 forfeits not to take any drinks during ’86 and to be better boys generally.

A bull dog jumped on a little boy a few days ago at Mobile and chewed off both of his hands.

A twelve pound turnip, measuring 27 inches in circumference has been presented to the Selma Times.

The best paying subscriber the West Alabamian (of Carrollton) has, is a man named Turnipseed.

A Birmingham mechanic gets a fair and wealthy bride in response to advertising for a wife.

The Moulton Advertiser has just completed its 37th year and is still in vigorous health.

Mrs. LOGAN of Mobile is in charge of the colored Exhibition for Alabama at New Orleans.

The Decatur News proposed that the Alabama Press Association visit Washington next Spring.

The cotton receipts at Montgomery since Sept. 1st amount to 104,701 bales, being 12,609 bales less than at this time last year.

The Florence Gazette in a recent issue speaking of a “dry” ordinance in that town, adds: “the pigs are penned, the horses stabled and the whiskey “bottled,” now “muzzle” the dogs.”

The Birmingham Age says twelve recent babies at Pratt Mines! The dialect of the town is now strictly confined to Ootsie-tootsie, itsy bitsy and keechee-weechee.

Editor SNODGRASS of the Scottboro Herald, is confined to his bed from an attack of pneumonia. However, the Herald goes on all the same, for he has a daughter or two capable of running a newspaper.

COLONEL HARVEY says he will have the trains running on the B&T R. R. to Russellville by the 15th inst. The road is graded beyond that point now, and when it reaches the coal fields we will expect a boom at Sheffield. – Ex.

A man who was said to be drunk and lying with an arm on one of the rails of the Memphis & Charleston rail road, near Hillsboro, had the arm cut off by a passing train going west one day last week.

It is believed about Montgomery that Major J. G. HARRIS, one of the editors of the Alabama Baptist, will be appointed register of the United States land office, in place of THOMAS J. SCOTT who has just resigned.

The Alabama railroads sustained some damage from the recent heavy rains. A number of washouts caused some delay of trains, but all damage was quickly repaired and the roads are all in good condition again.

A difficulty at Corona, in Walker County, occurred between a negro whose name is unknown, and a white man named NORVILLE, in which the latter was seriously hurt. A young man named CUNNINGHAM , Sunday night, attempted to arrest the negro and was killed by him. The murderer is still at large.

GENERAL NEWS

A war on Sunday amusements has been begun at Cincinnati.

Prohibition is rapidly advancing in favor over the country.

The majority in Congress favors the discontinuance of the coins of silver.

A terrific snowstorm has wrapped old Scotland from border to border line.

JAS. C. FLOOD of San Francisco made the princely Christmas gift of $6,000 to charitable institutions.

Three gentleman in Choctaw county have already announced themselves as candidates for probate judgeship.

Ten persons are missing from the ill-fated steamer, Chipley, which met with disaster on the Chattahoochee, below Eufala, a few days ago.

The probate court records show that 361 marriage licenses were issued last year in Lowndes county; 322 to colored and 30 to white persons.

Governor Forskor, of Ohio, has been appointed fraternal delegate to the General conference of the M. E. Church, South, by the Board of Bishops of the Northern Church.

A dreadful list of fires, casualties, and horrors from all over the world crowed the Press Dispatches.

Chicago has now a population of 758,000 and expects to outstrip London – some day.

Mr. Blaine’s second volume of “Twenty Years in Congress” is nearly finished.

A Chinese syndicate recently offered $2,000,000 for Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

E. W. BROCK, Vernon C.H. & Crew’s Mill: Cheap dealer in boots, shoes, hats, clothing, dry good, & notions; hardware, cutlery, Queensware, Glassware, Inks, Pat. Medicines, Oils, Dyestuffs, Perfumery, Extracts, and groceries of all kind. Real estate in various parts of the county. My motto is “Quick sales and small profits.” I request all persons to call and price my large and well-selected stock, before purchasing elsewhere. I will sell as low or lower than any other house in the county.

NEW MUSIC BOOKS – “GOOD TIDINGS COMBINES” By A. J. Showalter. This is the latest and best of all the Sunday School books for popular use. It contains 36 pages, and on ever page there is a gem of sacred song. Bound in substantial boards. Price 25 cents per copy; $2.50 per dozen. THE NATIONAL SINGER. By A. J. Showalter & J. H. Teaney. This book is the result of much careful work by the most experience musicians who write for character notes. It is the bet of all the singing school books, as it contains enough new music of every grade and variety to interest and instruct any school or convention, and also all of the more popular standard hymn tunes of the church. This is a feature that is wanting in every other popular character notebook. The National Singer supplies this and every other want to make an ideal signing schoolbook. Price 75 cents; $7.50 per dozen. THE MUSIC TEACHER. A new monthly musical Journal edited by A. J. Showalter. Every student of music, chorister and teacher should read good musical journals. The Music Teacher aims to instruct as well as entertain. Price 50 cents per year. Specimen copies free. Agents wanted. We can furnish any other music or music book no matter where published. It would also be in your interest to write us when you want to buy a piano or organ, or any thing else in the music line. – A. J. Showalter & Co., Dalton, Ga.

Barber Shop – For a clean shave or shampoo, call on G. W. BENSON, in rear of Dr. BURN’S office, Vernon, Ala.

For a complete stock of clothing, hats, shirts, &c., &c. go to BUTLER & TOPPS Columbus, Miss.

Masonic. Vernon Lodge., NO. 289 A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 p.m. each month.
J. D. MCCLUSKEY, W.M.
M. W. MORTON, Sec.
Vernon Lodge., No. 45, I. O. O. F. meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7 ½ p.m. each month.
W. G. MIDDLETON, N. G.
M. W. MORTON, sect’y

ATTORNEYS
NESMITH & SANFORD THOS. B. NESMITH, Vernon, Ala. J. B. SANFORD, Fayette C. H., Ala. Attorneys-at-Law. Will practice as partners in the counties of Lamar and Fayette, and separately in adjoining counties, and will give prompt attention to all legal business intrused to them or either of them.

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.

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.

PHOTOGRAPHS – A. R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss. Price list:
Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00
Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00
Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00
Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00
Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00
Satisfaction given or money returned.

RESTAURANT. Aberdeen, Mississippi. Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to call on MRS. L. M. KUPPER, who keeps Restaurant, Family Groceries, Bakery, and Confectionery, Toys, Tobacco, and Cigars. Also Coffee and sugar. Special attention paid to ladies.

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.

CADY’S LIVERY FEED AND SALE STABLE Columbus, Mississippi. stock fed and cared for at moderate charges.

New goods, new prices. W. L. JOBE’S, the jeweler. Columbus, Mississippi. I have just returned from the North with a large and well selected stock of watches, clocks, jewelry, and silver plated ware which I will sell as low as the quality of the goods permit. When in Columbus don’t fail to call and examine my goods and prices. Cash orders will receive prompt attention. – W. L. JOBE.

WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama. Board and Lodging can be had at the above House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor.

The Great Bazaar! Aberdeen, Mississippi. S W Corner, Commerce and Meridian Streets. Crockery, china, glassware, tin ware, fancy goods, stationery, jewelry, notions, candies, toys and Holiday goods of all kinds at wholesale or retail. Special attention given to the wholesale department. Trial orders solicited and prices guaranteed. Terms: Thirty days, net, 2 percent off for cash. No charge for package. THOS. A. SALE & CO.

New Store! M. H. HODGE, Kennedy, Alabama. Has a large and well selected stock of general merchandise consisting in part of dry goods, groceries, notions, hardware, Queensware, boots, and shoes, Highest Market Price paid for cotton.

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.

STAR STABLE – Aberdeen, Mississippi. A. A. POSEY & BRO., having consolidated their two Livery Stables, are now offering many additional advantages at this well-known and conveniently located Livery Stable. Owing to their consolidation, they have on hand a number of good second-hand buggies which they are selling cheap.

COTTON STORAGE WAREHOUSE, E. C. LEECH, Columbus, Miss. I take this method of informing the public that I have rented the splendid Brick Warehouse (formerly occupied by Turner & Sons) with all the appointments complete. Every facility is here presented for the accommodation of the farmer; Good camping arrangements, with polite, competent clerks. We are desirably located, being situated in the business center of town. We have in our employ for the coming season, MR. D. H. MONTGOMERY, late of Oktibbeha, and MR. J. M. KNAPP, who will be glad to meet their many friends at this house. Give us a call, and we will give satisfaction. Fifteen years experience is a sufficient guarantee for a prompt discharge of the duties incumbent upon a warehouseman. – E. C. LEECH.

We are now open and ready for business. If you want a fine photograph, ferrotype, or any other kind a picture, from the size of a locket up to life size, the place to visit is at the COLUMBUS ART STUDIO, over W. M. MUNROE & CO’S Book Store. We have the best facilities in the south for making fine work. Everything in our Gallery is new and of the latest improvement. We pay special attention to taking Children’s pictures. Give us a call. Don’t forget the place, COLUMBUS ART STUDIO. Over door to the Post Office.

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. The most wonderful family remedy ever known. For internal and external use. Parson’s pills make new, rich blood. Make hens lay….(to small to read)

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY JA. 14, 1886

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.

STATE OFFICERS
Governor E. A. O’NEAL
Auditor M. C. BARKLEY
Treasurer FRED H. SMITH
Alternate ------ T. N. MCCLELLAN
Supt. of Public Education S. PALMER
Secretary of State ELLIS PHELAN

JUDICIARY
B. O. BRISKELL Chief Justice Supreme Court
G. W. STONE Associate Justice Supreme Court
R. M. SOMERVILLE Associate Justice Supreme Court
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CHANCERY COURT
THOMAS COBBS Chancellor

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
JAMES M. MORTON Register
B. F. REED Co. Supt. of Education
Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALVERT WILSON

CITY OFFICERS
L. M. WIMBERLEY Mayor and Treasurer
G. W. BENSON Marshall
Board of Aldermen – T. R. NESMITH, W. L. MORTON, JAS. MIDDLETON, W. A. BROWN, R. W. COBB

RELIGIOUS
METHODIST – Pastor – D. W. WARD. Services fourth Sabbath in each month. 11 a.m.
FREEWILL BAPTIST – Pastor –T. W. SPRINGFIELD. Services, first Sabbath in each month, 7 p.m.
CHRISTIANS – Pastor - G. A. WHEELER. Services, second Sabbath in each month at 7 p.m.

SABBATH SCHOOLS
UNION – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m. JAMES MIDDLETON, Supt.
METHODIST – Meets every Sabbath at 3 o’clock p.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt.

RATES OF ADVERTISING
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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 30.00
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, 2 ½ cents per line.

Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, Alabama, as second-class matter.

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
One copy one year $1.00
One copy, six months .60
All subscriptions payable in advance

LOCAL BREVITIES

Candidates more plentiful.

Spring drummers are again on hand.

Commissioner YOUNG was in town this morning.

The boys are bringing in wild ducks nowadays.

A Literary Society was organized on last Friday night.

Uncle ANDY WHEELER and wife are off on a visit to relatives in the county.

The High School will be a free ------for the next three months.

The NEWS is two days late this week owing to failure to get paper from Express office.

We will publish a list of the Grand and Petit Jurors drawn for the Spring term of Circuit Court in next issue.

Rev. G. L. HEWITT and family have arrived and are warmly welcomed in our midst.

No religious services in town on last Sunday on account of the extreme weather.

MULES FOR SALE. F. W. BROCK has a lot of mules and horses for sale – stock of all grades and at giving away prices.

Water has been very scarce for some days, all the pumps in town being chuck full of ice, and their owners have had to call on their more fortunate neighbors who had well buckets.

The cold weather stopped all communication and business for several days, and like all other cold snaps is well to have been the “coldest ever seen.”

After the Christmas goodies comes the doctor with his pretty little powders and sugar plums.

In another column will be found the card of the Montgomery Advertiser. The Weekly Advertiser has twelve pages and contains the cream of the daily. It is one f the best papers in the South.

Died of pneumonia Wednesday night, Mr. BEN SMITH, seven or eight miles west of this place. The deceased received a severe wound during the war, which was thought to have caused his death.

In announcing candidates for the last election, several announcements were sent in without the cash accompanying them, a few which are still unpaid, consequently we have decided not to insert anyone’s announcement this year without cash in advance for the same.

We call special attention to the advertisement of Messrs. Rush & C., which appears in this week’s paper. The business is under management of the popular business man, Mr. RUSH & Co., which appears in this week’s paper. The business is under management of the popular business man, Mr. GEO. W. RUSH. We predict large sales cheap goods by this firm.

JAMES T. ALLEN Vernon Ala., having recently attended the Alabama Normal Music School is prepared to teach classes in Lamar and adjoining counties. Write him for terms and have a class this winter.

MARRIED – On 31st ult., at W. R. PALMER by Rev. JOS. BALDWIN, Mr. JEREMIAH LUCAS and Miss VIRGINIA B. PALMER.

Dec. 30th, at M. E. BRYAANT’S by Rev. G. M. G. DUNCAN, Mr. F. T. SCRUGGS and Miss VIRA BRYANT.

WILSON CREEK, ALA. - Wilson Creek, Jan 13, 1886.
Editor NEWS:
As Warwick has put the ball in motion, I will give it a push – Down here we talk of WILSON P. KEMP Esq. for Representative and JOURD LAMPKINS for Judge of Probate, JOHN MOLLOY for Co. Supt. Ed, for Circuit Clerk G. W. SPRINGFIELD, the last named is a bad criple and charity says give it to him. And if old man JOURD will not have the Judge’s office, we would love to try old “Uncle MOSES DENMAN. However we are in favor of new officers, if not better ones. We also want a first class road from Vernon to the R. R. - $1,000 will do the work. It will beat buying iron safes.
Yours truly,
A VOTER

THE AUDITOR’S REPORT
State Auditor BURKE makes an interesting report to the Governor, relative tot he taxes for the year 1885.
Lamar County paid but $24 license tax last year. It appears the State taxes were $5,016.10 in this county, and that the people paid taxes on 432,932 acres of land valued at $422,432 or about $1.20 per acre; and on 1548 horses valued at $76,548, or little more than $48 per head; and on 840 mules valued at $43,468, or little over $54 per head. Lamar County pays on $30 worth of paintings, while Montgomery County assesses $2,605. Lamar pays on $4,310 worth of guns and revolvers, and on $28,789.50 worth of cattle. There were assessed 23 miles of railroad in Lamar County, which with the rolling stock, was valued at $188,730.

BLOWHORN ALABAMA – Jan. 12, 1886
Mr. Ed. of the NEWS
By your permission, I will reply to Warwick of Fernbank, by adding to the lust for Judgeships, &c. We hear H. S. HANKINS and the Rev. ELIAS CHAFFIN spoken of as candidates for Representatives – both farmers and competent good men. We also want W. P. HUGHEY for Co. Supt. of Ed. Simply because a man is not a lawyer or doctor, to say he is not competent to fill an office of honor. It is talked up here to fill our various offices by good old Farmers of the right stripe, and they will look after the interest of the farmer – who is the back-bone of the whole world. JUDGE BEDFORD WILLIAMS of Fayette County was a miller and a farmer. The old farmers of the county called him to the front as a candidate for Judge of Probate. I remember there was much fun made of him at the start, but alas! See the Judge he made, the best ever up to that time. Now has Lamar no BEDFORD WILLIAMS in it. Is there not some worthy and competent old farmer that will let us hear of them through the NEWS. We up here would love to see JAMES COLLINS name announced in the NEWS for Judge of Probate, or JOHN W. SIZEMORE Esq. Put some good fellow in who never thought of an office.
The above is not mine. It is the talk that is going the rounds, but it corresponds with the writer’s feelings.
PE. DE.

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MILLINERY NOTICE
I am just in receipt of an excellent stock of hats and school bonnets for students of the Industrial College. While in the eastern cities I had the opportunity of acquainting myself with the most fashionable and popular styles of millinery goods. My stock comprises the latest prevailing fashions I will be pleased to see my former customers, together with those who desire the latest styles in millinery at the least cost. Morgan’s building, former stand of Mr. Prescott. – MISS MATTIE WOOD, Columbus, Miss.

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THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL now under the Principalship of JNO. R. GUIN, will open Nov. 2, 1885, and continue ten scholastic months. Able assistants will be employed when needed. Said school offers great advantages. Tuition as follows:
Primary: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, Primary Arithmetic, per month………….$1.25
Intermediate: Embracing Practical Arithmetic, English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Higher Reading, English, Composition, and U. S. History, per month………..$2.00
High School: Embracing Botany, Physiology, Elementary Algebra, Physical Geography, Rhetoric, Natural Philosophy, Elocution, and Latin, per month……..$3.00
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ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County, Alabama, I will offer for sale at Kennedy on the 6th day of February next the following lands N W ¼ of S W ¼ and S ½ of S W ¼ Sec 10 N W ¼ and N W ¼ of S W ¼ and S E ¼ of S W ¼ and S W ¼ of N E ¼ and N E ¼ of S E ½ Sec 15 T 17 R14, as the lands belonging to the estate of C. K. COOK, deceased. Said sale will be made for one-0sixth in cash and the remainder on a credit of twelve (12) months from day of sale. The purchaser will be required to give note with at least two good securities for purchase money. This the 4th day of January 1886.
- J. G. TRULL, Administrator of the estate of C. K. COOK

FINAL SETTLEMENT
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, January 2nd, AD 1886
Estate of JAMES B. BANKHEAD, deceased, this day came JOHN B. ABERNATHY administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts, and vouchers for final settlement of his administration. It is ordered that the 30th day of January, AD 1886, be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement, if they think proper.
- ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate of said county.

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Land Office at Huntsville, Ala., Nov. 13, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar County at Vernon, Ala., on the 12tjh day of February, 1886, viz: No. 9862 ALFRED N. FRANKLIN, for the N ½ of N W ¼ Sec 19 T 12 and R 15 West. He names the following witnessed to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: J. W. PAUL, JOHN R. EVANS, JOHN H. RAY and S. M. LEE, all of Detroit, Lamar County, Alabama.
- WM. C. WELLS, Register

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (NOTICE NO. 4643)
Land Office at Montgomery, Ala. December 21st, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before Judge of the Probate Court at Vernon, Ala. on February 12th, 1885 (sic), viz: JEFFERSON G. SANDERS homestead, 10087 for the N W ¼ N W ¼ Section 8 T 15 R 15 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: J. E. PENNINGTON, HIRAM HOLLIS, JAMES W. TAYLOR, WILLIAM AUSTIN, all of Vernon, Ala.
- THOS. SCOTT, Register

ADMR’S NOTICE
Letters of administration over the estate of S. M. PROTHO deceased, was by the Hon. ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate of Lamar County, Alabama, granted the undersigned on the 17th day of December 1885 This is therefore to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them for payment properly authenticated within the time prescribed by law or they will be bared, all persons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment to me. This the 17th day of December 1885.
- W. A. PROTHO, Adm’r

APPLICATION TO REMIT A FINE
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will make application to the Governor of the State of Alabama, to have remitted a fine of any dollars assessed against him in the Circuit Court of said county, at the fall term, 1885, for the offense of giving away spirituous liquors in a prohibited district in said county, Dec. 23rd, 1885.
- SAMP LOLLAR

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Land Office at Huntsville, Ala., December 9th, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar County, Ala, at Vernon, on January 29, 1886, viz: No. 8740 ISAAC METCALFE for the S ½ of S E ¼, and N E ¼ of S E ¼ and S E ¼ of S W ¼ Sec. 21 T 12 R 14 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: ZACK SWERNIGER, GEORGE W. METCALFE, MONROE CRUMP, and FILLMON TRULOVE, all of Pikeville, Ala.
- W. C. WELLS, Register

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, November 1885
Estate of B. J. GUIN, deceased, this day came P. C. GUIN, administrator of said estate and filed his statement accounts, and vouchers for final settlement of his administration. It is ordered the 11th day of January AD 1886, be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement, if they think proper.
- ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate of said county

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SONG AND FANCY BIRDS

A LOOK AROUND A NEW YORK BIRD FANCIER’S STORE

SOMETHING ABOUT THE PRICE PAID FOR CANARIES AND OTHER BIRDS
In an interview with a New York Sun reporter, a bird fancier said: “Of course we do far more business in canaries than in all the other birds put together. They range I price from the cheap German canary at $2.50 and the Hartz Mountain bird at $3.50 to the fine Andreasburg canaries at from $7.50 to $10 each. These last are of a peculiar breed which is raised only in Andreasburg. They are very hardy, and are the best singers in the world. They are sold only once a year at bird market held in December, and at other times tit would be almost impossible to procure one. They are bred in the spring and are kept until winter before they are sold, in order that they may be taught to sing well. Tunes are taught to them by grinding an organ near them.
“These gray back birds are gold and silver-spangled lizards or English canaries. They are a hardy bird, and are bred in Norwich and Manchester. They sing very sweetly.”
“The ordinary American robin sells for $2. He is not much of a singer, but some people like to have him about the house. This red-breasted English robin, not much larger than a canary, is worth $3. A mocking bird from Virginia is worth $10 when in good voice, and the imported nightingale is worth $15. English or German blackbirds and thrushes are worth $6 each.
“Here is a little gray bird that doesn’t look very valuable, but his price is $25. He is a bullfinch, and he can sing “Polly Perkins.”
Mr. Reiche ducked his head in little nods from side to side before the bird, and said very softly, “Come, Hans,” and whistled a few noted. Hans ruffled up his feathers and sang “Polly Perkins” very sweetly.
“An untaught bullfinch” said Mr. Reiche, “is only worth $2.50. It takes months to train one, and it is necessary that the bird should be exceedingly tame. It is taken from its nest in February, as soon as it is able to eat, and is kept separate from other birds. The teacher sings to it every day for three or four months until it learns the tune.”
“Here is a cage of African and Australian finches. They are named according to the coloring of their feathers. There are black head and white head nuns, nutmegs, tigers, and cut-throats. The latter are so-called from the crimson band under the throat. Tigers are worth $4 and the others $3 a pair. These Spanish finches from Cuba bring $5 a pair. German skylarks sell for $4. Parroquets (sic) bring $5, $10 and $15 each, the last being the very rare Madagascar variety. Australian shell parroquets(sic) are $5 a pair. They are these little green birds, and they become very tame.
“Cockatoos vary according to their abilities. This yellow-crested fellow is worth $35, as he is a good talker.”
Mr. Reiche tapped on the cage and said: “Hello cockatoo.” “Hello yourself” replied the bird.
“This rosehead Molucca bird is worth $25. It doesn’t talk. Parrots vary according to their scarcity and their ability to talk, good talkers being worth form $30 upward. Other parrots are: Blue Amazon $10; Cuban, $5; Maracaibo, $8; common Amazon, $9; double yellowhead, $15, and gray parrot, $15.
“This is hardly a bird,” said Mr. Reiche, as he tapped a tank containing a good-sized alligator. “That fellow is from Florida, and we have a demand for them from zoological gardens in Europe. Salable ones are from five to ten feet in length, and the price is from $1.50 to $3 a foot, the longest being worth the most. I sell two or three hundred a year.”

WHY THE VASE LOOKED SMALL
Bromley – That is a beautiful vase you have in your hall, DeBagg. Is it a new purchase?
LeBagg – yes, my wife bought it last Tuesday.
“ I admired it very much. Quite a work of art, and so large!”
“ Very. But there was an attachment came with it that made the vase seem very small.”
“ Indeed! What was it?”
“ The bill”. – [Call]

ACCOMODATEING A LANDLORD
“I like the house,” he said, “but it is too large for my family, and I would want to rent it in conjunction with another party.”
“I don’t know about that,” replied the landlord, dubiously. “I would much prefer that the house be let alone.”
“Very well then, I will let it alone.” and a little later he was looking at another house. – [Life]

MANAGING A PIG
Every farmer’s boy who has ever attempted to lead or drive, coax or force a hog, knows the meaning of the proverb, “AS obstinate as a pig.” That Irishman has become famous who so thoroughly understood porcine nature as to drive his pig to Dublin by pretending that he was going to Cork.
If there is one thing in which the hog is more stubborn than in another, it is in the matter of locomotion. If he is wanted to move, he stands still, and a push forward causes him to retreat double the distance of his involuntary advance. He is stiff-necked in doing the very opposite of what he is coaxed to do.
A pig just taken out of the stye was surrounded by three Scotchmen, who were trying their best to get it into a roomier place, sixty yards distant, that it might be killed. The pig would not budge an inch towards the open door of the slaughter pen.
Then the Scotchmen became angry. One laid hold of the pig’s ears, the other seized a foreleg, and both pulled, while the third man twisted the tail. The pig squealed and gained several inches skyward. The man at the tail, maddened at the pig’s stubbornness, belabored it with a stout stick.
“What in the world are you doing with the pig?” shouted a stranger, coming up. “What are we doing with the pig, is it? It is nothing we are doing with it, but we’ve been trying to get this perverse daughter of an ugly father into yonder shed. And we are likely to be beaten.”
“Leave her to me,” said the stranger, “and I’ll put her in, unaided.”
“There’s not a man in Lochaber can do it,” growled one f the pig fighters.
“ Perhaps not,” replied the stranger, smiling. “I am not a Lochaber man, but a Lesiune Man, and I think I can manage the pig, if you will let me try.”
“Try away; let us see what you can do!”
“Keep away, then!” said the stranger, slipping up behind the pig; and catching her by the hind legs, he lifted her up as though she were a wheelbarrow. The pig, resting on her forefeet with her snout close to the ground, remained quiet. The stranger, giving her a slight push, and trundling her backwards and forwards once or twice, to see if he had command of the animal barrow, steered her right into the shed, and at its furthest corner let the hog go.
A clergyman who had seem the stranger’s triumphant wheeling, studied out the philosophy of the feat. When caught up by the hind legs, the weight of the animal was thrown almost wholly upon the fore-feet. The slightest impulse moved it forward, as it had no “purchase” by which to stand still, or to move backward.
Its quietness was partly due to the brute’s astonishment, and to a sense of its utter helplessness, and partly to the weight of the viscera thrown forward into the thorax, interfering with the use of the vocal organs. As soon, however, as it was let go, the hog yelled lustily.

SCHOOLS AND PRESS OF MEXICO
It is a lamentable fact that but a small portion of the Mexican people are able to read and write. The total number of illiterate persons is not definitely known, there being no accurate census returns to which references can be made. The most reliable estimate that can be arrived at places the number at 7,000,000 or fully two-thirds of the entire population.
It is safe to say that of all the daily papers published in the City of Mexico, no one of them has a circulation of 500 copies outside of the city of publication, while it is more than probable that the combined outside circulation of all the dailies will not exceed that number. I have been in a Mexican city of 12,000 inhabitants, where not a single copy of a daily newspaper was subscribed for by the entire native population, and where not fifty newspapers of an kind were received at the post-office, except those addressed to residents and visitors of foreign birth. – [Indianapolis Times]

WHAT MAKES COMPLEXION
A pigment under the epidermis makes the complexion. The colored person has a black pigment, and the blonde a still lighter pigment. When there is not pigment in the skin, an Albino is the result, with pink eyes, white hair, and white skin. When there is an excess of pigment, freckles, moles and birth-marks appear. Freckles are not alone due to the action of the sun. Some people have them in abundance on the parts of the body not exposed to the sun. The hairs are hollow tubes, and have a supply of pigment sent into them which determine the color of the hair. The pigment comes from the blood. White hair may be from absence of pigment or from the presence of air in the tubes.

THE TALK OF A DENTIST

HOW ALL WORK ON THE TEETH HAS BEEN PERFECTED

Nearly A Ton Of Gold Annually Buried With Dead People

“A ton of gold goes under the ground nearly every year.” said a prominent Philadelphia dentist, “buried in the teeth and plates of people who have at one time or another been in the dental chair. The repair and refurbishment of the teeth has got to be a profession of the highest skill and proficiency. High standing in the profession is repaid with richest rewards. The establishment of the university department of dentistry has given a great impetus to the study. Scores of able and expert young men matriculate annually. They come from all parts of the world – South America, Cuba, Mexico, the continent and Japan. This city is foremost in dental operations and dental surgery. Some of the work turned out here is wonderfully perfect. Many men and women prefer false teeth to the natural ones, if the latter are the least bit defective, and few people have a perfect set of teeth.
“Instruments?” Why, yes, the instrumentation of a first0class dentist is comprised in several large cases, like that,” pointing to a series of handsome rosewood cases, and pulling out drawer after drawer, filled with delicate steel p[robes, chisels, borers, and forceps. The manufacture of these is a great trade in itself. There is the dental engine, one of the greatest inventions in the profession, indispensable now, with its flexible screw. The electric mallet, another modern invention unknown to the old-fashioned tooth-carpenters, is used by nearly all dentists and requiring a battery to run it. The rubber dam or appliance placed over the tooth and mouth of a patient to prevent moisture and saliva reaching the part operated on is the greatest of the modern discoveries. Anyone who has been in the dentist’s chair under the old plan, which necessitated packing the mouth of the patient with napkins, and since under the rubber dam, can see what infinite torture this scientific adaptation has relieved him from.
“Twenty thousand dollars a year. Yes, there are dental surgeons in this city who make that much by their profession. A clientage very often includes a whole family and the care of the teeth of each from infancy until adolescence and beyond. American dentists have the highest repute abroad – Dr. Evans, for instance, whose patients in Paris and elsewhere were empresses, kings, queens, and princes of the blood.
“Gold is the best material yet found for filling teeth. Silver and composition of various kinds, being cheaper, are used, but the royal metal is the only one which ought to be used. The manufacture of gold foil or leaf for our business is immense, and hundred of thousands of dollars worth are consumed every year.
“The teeth should be looked to often by a good dentist. Individual care early in life saves much dental work and expense. It used to be the idea that the deciduous teeth, as they were temporary affairs, needed no attention. They should be treated with greater attention than the second set. They are not filled now as much as formerly, but extracted when caries attacks them. The biblical expression, ‘skin of the teeth’ is true. There is a delicate enamel, resembling epidermis in its microscopic delicacy, and covers the teeth with a beautiful mosaic, which is susceptible of a perfect polish, which you may see glistening on the teeth of some young people and Africans. Acids go for this and once broken in upon caries ensues. Good and bad teeth are hereditary; but early care and professional skill will do much with even a bad natural set of teeth. A Philadelphia father I know – client of mine – has in each of his children’s rooms over the lavatory the following motto: “Say your prayers; wash your face; comb your hair; brush your teeth.” It is a good one. – [Philadelphia Times]

A POETIC TAIL
A thoughtless boy with a shining pail went singing gaily down the dale, to where a sad-eyed cow with a brindle tail on clover sweet did herself regale. A bumble bee did gaily sail over the soft and shadowed vale, to where the boy with the shining pail was milking the cow with the brindle tail. The bee lit down on the cow’s right ear, her heels flew up through the atmosphere – and through the leaves of a big oak tree the boy sailed into eternity. – [Oregon Reporter]

The Japanese rake is formed of wood or bamboo, the teeth being made by splitting the end into the requisite number of prongs and bending them in an arc.

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THE LAMAR NEWS

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, JANUARY 21, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 12

CHRISTMAS CHIMES
The meadows are brown, the hills are all bare,
And up through the valley the clear, crisp air
Is singing a Christmas song.
Like the song of the sea in the purple shell,
If we list to its notes it will sweetly tell
The secret it’s kept so long.

It tells of a time so sunny and fair
When we watched the clouds of the snowy air
For the reindeer’s tiny form.
And saw in our dreams such pictures of light,
As we lay through the hours of the long, dark night,
Away from the clouds and storm.

Such pictures as glow in fairy tales
Then told at the hour that daylight
And the crimson west grows gray,
When we list for the chime of tiny bells
That are hung in the shade of haunted dells
And are rung by goblins and fay.

It rings on the heart a tearful change
Of a darkened time, so sad, so strange,
When our dreams had lost their light.
Its whispers and sings to the leafless trees
Our secret that sighs in every breeze
Till the day wears into the night.

O, Christmas chines! Ye are merry and sad,
We wound the heart and ye make it glad.
With the music your ringing makes;
And the weary heart that has dreamed so long
Takes up the thread of the broken song
And sings till it, quivering, breaks.

THE RED LIGHT – A CHRISTMAS STORY – [by Amy Randolph]
It was Christmas Eve.
Not one of the ideal Christmas Eves of poets and romance writers, wherein the moon is always at the full, the snow always a-sparkle like pulverized diamonds, and the air always still and bold and clear, but a story twilight, with the snow driving steadily from the east, the wind raw and biting, and the sky – what you could see of it – black as ink.
But it was Christmas Ever, all the same, and Bertha Hooper’s cheeks were as red as the bitter-sweet berries in the woods as she sat, all wrapped up, in the train that was steaming northward, on her way to spend Christmas with her Aunt Almira Higgins.
Christmas in the country! To Bertha, who had lived all her life in the brick walls and stone pavements of a city, the very words seemed to convey somewhat of cheer and joyousness. And Bertha, as she sat with her eyes closed and her little gloved hands safely nestled into a gray squirrel muff, beheld in her mind’s eyes great fires of logs roaring up wide-throated chimneys, walls festooned with hemlock boughs and black green tufts of mistletoe; and she had half composed a poem on Christmas and its cherished associations when the ruthless conductor came along for her ticket.
“How far are we from Montcourt station?” she inquired, as she gave up the bit of pasteboard.
“Next but one, Miss,” said the man, as he hurried on, with his lantern under his arm. “Half an hour yet.”
She had never been so far from New York in all her life before. The driving rain in which she had left her home had changed as they progressed northward into the steady fall of snow, which fluttered around them like a white waving shroud. But Bertha Hooper cared little for this. Had not Aunt Almira promised to send Zebedee, her youngest son, to the station with the pony to meet her on the arrival of the six-forty train from New York? And was not Zebedee to have a lantern with a red glass door to it, so she could identify him at once?
She was very pretty as she sat in little black velvet toque, with its cur ling plume of cardinal red and the wine-red ribbon bow at her throat – pretty with the bloom and freshness of eighteen. She was dark, with large hazel eyes, almond-shaped and long-lashed, a clear, rosy bloom on either check, and wavy dark hair hanging in silken fringe over her broad, low forehead.
“Mont – Court – station!” bawled the breakman, putting in a snow-powdered fur cap, and withdrawing it again as quickly as if he had been a magnified edition of the Jack-in-the-box, which children much rejoices at in holiday time. And Bertha Hooper knew that she had reached her destination.
Stiff and cramped from the length of time in which she had been sitting in one position she rose up, with a little steel clasped traveling bag in one hand and a dainty silk umbrella in the other, and made her way to the door.
All she could see when she stepped out upon the wet and slippery platform was a blur of driving snow, through which the lights of the solitary little country depot gleamed fitfully’ but the next instant something flashed athwart her vision like a friendly red eye – and beneath the reflector over the station door she saw a tall fine-looking young man, in a fur trimmed overcoat, a seal-skin cap set jauntily on one side of a crop of chestnut cu rls, and a red-lighted lantern swinging from his left hand, as he stood straining his eyes in the stormy darkness, as if to catch sight of some familiar face in the little crowd.
“Cousin Zebedee!” cried Bertha, aloud, and she made one spring into the arms of this blonde-whiskered young giant. For had not she and Zebedee played dominoes and fox-and-geese together, in the days when she wore blue ribbon sashes, and his hair was a closely-shorn mat of carroty-red?
“Oh, Cousin Zebedee, I’m so glad to see you; and I hadn’t any idea you had grown half so handsome!”
And she gave him a great hug, at the same time holding up her rosebud lips for a kiss.
But, to her infinite amazement, the hero of the sealskin cap seemed a little backward in responding to her cousinly advances.
“I – I beg your pardon,” said he, slightly receding, “but I’m afraid there is some mistake. My name is not Zebedee and the lady for whom I am looking is some years older than you.”
Bertha Hooper started back coloring and confused, and as she did so, a fat comfortable looking old lady came trundling along the platform in an India shawl and a boa of Russia sable worth its worth in greenbacks.
“Charlie!” she cried, “I thought I never should find you. Is the carriage here?”
“All here and waiting, Aunt Effie,” responded the young man; but her still hesitated a second as Bertha Hooper stood with averted face and motionless figure in the shadow of the building.
“Can I be of any service to you?” he asked. “If you are expecting friends who have failed to meet you - .”
“Anybody here by the name of Bertha Hoo-ooper?” shouted a stentorian voice, and a tall, raw-looking lad with a lantern – also lighted with red glass – rushed shuffling around the corner.
Zebedee himself! Red-haired and shambling and awkward as he had been in the old fox-and-geese days.
“Oh!” said he, catching up his lantern so that the scarlet bird’s wings flashed out like a spit of flame – scarcely more scarlet, alas, than Bertha’s own face. “Here you be! I’m a little late, for the roads is so all-fired bad, and I couldn’t start the pony out of a walk. Come on. how de do? Be you very cold?”
“Zebedee” said Bertha, clinging almost hysterically to her cousin’s arm, “who’s that young gentleman with – with the other lantern?”
“Eh!” said Zebedee. “That feller with the old lady in a patchwork shawl?”
“Yes”
“Its Charlie Harcourt, the squire’s son,” said Zebedee. “Just come from furrin parts!”
“Zebedee,” said Bertha, with a curious little sound between a laugh and a sob, “put me into the cutter, quick, and drive me somewhere. I don’t care where! Because –“
“Eh!” said Zebedee, staring hard at his cousin, as he packed the buffalo robe around her before touching up the laggard old pony.
“Because,” added Bertha, in a species of desperation, “I took Mr. Harcourt for you; and I hugged him and kissed him.”
“Is that all?” said philosophical Zebedee. “He won’t care.”
“No!” said Bertha, “but I shall.”
“You ain’t crying, be you?” said Zebedee, noting the quiver in his cousin’s voice.
“How can I help it?” wailed poor Bertha.
“Twarn’t no fault o’yours,” said Zebedee, consolingly.
“Of course it warn’t,” said Bertha, impatiently. “How was I to know that every lantern at Montcourt had a red glass door to it?”
And poor little Bertha cried herself to sleep that night.
The next morning – Christmas Day, all showed up into glorious drifts everywhere – Mr. Harcourt drove over to the Higgins farm-house. The young lady had dropped a fur glove on the platform, and Mr. Harcourt felt it his duty to restore it to her. And, moreover, here Mr. Charley Harcourt hesitated a little – he hoped Miss Hooper would excuse him for being so stupid as to allow her to fancy him her cousin.
“I ought to have explained sooner,” said he.
“No, you out not,” said Bertha. “The fault was all mine.”
“I don’t recognize a fault any where,” said he. And if I am pardoned—“
“Of course you are!” said Bertha rosier and prettier than ever.
“In that case I am commissioned by my mother to ask your aunt’s permission to take you over to help us finish deessing (sic) the church in time for morning service. My horse is waiting.”
“May I go, Aunt Almira?” said Bertha with sparkling eyes.
“Of course you may go,” said Aunt Almira.
What was the end of it all? There is but one sequel to stories like this when youth and bright eyes and human hearts are concerned. The next Christmas Eve Bertha Hooper and Charley Harcourt were married. But the bridegroom persists in declaring that Bertha did the first of the lovemaking.
And Bertha only laughs.

SHYING HORSES NEAR-SIGHTED
“Why is it that shying in horses should be set down to an ugly disposition I don’t know,” said a prominent veterinary surgeon to a New York Sun reporter. “It must be because horsemen don’t know what else to lay it to. The fact is that it seldom is met with unless the horse is near-sighted. I have tested scores of shying horses for near-sightedness, and in nearly all cases found what I expected. And now, when I am asked to give points on buying horses, I give this as one of the requisites: Never buy a horse which is near-sighted. There are, however, two exceptions to this rule. If the horse is to have a mate, then it doesn’t make any difference about the sight. One horse can go blind if the other is clear-sighted. If the horse is to be used for riding to saddle be careful that he is not near-sighted, for he will throw you sooner or later.
“The reason why a near-sighted horse shies is very simply,” the surgeon continued. “Of all animals the horse is the most gentle and even timid. He sees a strange object and his susceptible mind magnifies it into a monster that is going to destroy him. A piece of white paper at the roadside in the night is a ghost and an old wagon in the ditch is a dragon. Every horseman knows that if you drive the animal close to the dreadful object the horse cools down at once. It is supposed that it is because the horse makes a closer acquaintance with the object. That is true, but not in the sense in which it is generally understood. The animal has not been able to see it from a distance. He is near-sighted.

BOOKS FOR THE INDIANS
The only written language of the American Indians was in the form of hieroglyphics, but this plan of picture-writing was not much used among the tribes of North America. As the spoken languages of the tribes, however, have such a complete dialectic structure it was not difficult to give this a written form by means of the Roman alphabet. This has been done in many instances and a number of grammars and dictionaries have been printed in different Indian dialects, besides many other books. Several newspapers are at this time printed among the civilized Indians of the West, and at mission stations, in the Indian language. The Aztecs and Toltecs kept their historical and other records by means of hieroglyphics in a very systematic manner.

AN ODD PUBLIC HOUSE
A curious public house is among the latest attractions in Paris. It is called La Taverne da Bagne. The walls are hung with paintings representing the horrors of convict life, interspersed with portraits of notorious Communists. All the waiters are dressed in convict uniform and wear the chains and boulets of the regular forcut. The landlord is Citoyen Maxime Lisbonne, one of the leaders of the insurrection of 1871 – [London Truth]

EXPLORERS IN A PLIGHT

UNEXPECTED ADVENTURES IN LITTLE-KNOWN REGIONS

Dilemmas Some Of The Ridiculous And Others Dangerous

It often happens, says the New York Sun, that explorers find themselves in some unexpected dilemma, and, unless they are quick enough to immediately extricate themselves, the results are sometimes serious. Lieut. Cheyne’s adventure with a polar bear in the arctic regions shows the advantage of keeping one’s wits about him in an emergency.
Lieut. Cheyne was an English officer in one of the Franklin search expeditions. Early one spring he was sent with a couple of sledgemen to examine the condition of some provision depots that had been laid down the previous fall. They took nothing with them but a tent and sleeping bags, rations of pemmican and hard tack, and a small supply of tallow to be used as fuel in thawing their pemmican and boiling their tea. One morning, after they had traveled about 150 miles from the ship, Lieut. Cheyne was awakened by something pulling at the corner of the tent. He lifted the tent flap just in time to frighten a big white bear, and the animal was in full retreat over the ice before Cheyne had extricated himself from his sleeping bag. The party had more serious work on hand than bear hunting, and they would have let the animal go if it had not been suddenly discovered that his bearship had torn open the tallow bag and eaten every ounce of fuel. Here was a predicament. The men were five days journey from the ship, the weather was terribly cold, and they could not eat the solidly frozen pemmican. It was necessary to get that tallow back, and so Cheyne, shouting to his comrades to follow, set out after the bear. The chase was an exciting and anxious one, but the animal was at last overhauled and killed. No time was lost in opening the creature’s stomach, and the men returned to camp in triumph with all the tallow of which the unfortunate brute had robbed them.
During last winter the James brothers succeeded in exploring a part of Somauli, in East Africa, where several explorers had been killed. The region has remained almost wholly unknown on account of the hostility of the natives. The bravery of the Messrs. James’ escort rapidly oozed out as they advanced into the hostile country. They refused once or twice to go any further, and finally the brothers hit upon this expedient for infusing them with a little courage. A great noise in their own camp generally has an inspiring effect on the natives of Africa. The Jameses had their sentinels fire their guns at frequent intervals during the night. They report that this practice greatly pleased and inspired their people, who always felt more secure when firing.
The young explorer, Thompson, two years ago, was considerably nonplussed by a lot of smart and suspicious natives whom he encountered near Mount Kenia in East Africa. He had a few tricks which he very impressively performed when the inhabitants were unfriendly, and it was necessary to exhibit his great power as a wizard to induce them to see him food. He had two artificial teeth on a plate, and the feat that usually overcame all opposition when everything else failed was to extract these teeth. These Mount Kenia natives were very much pleased with this feat, but they said that if he could take out two teeth he could removed the others also, and they insisted upon seeing the entire show. Finally they not only refused to sell him food, but threatened to attack him unless he took his teeth out, and he thought best to make a forced march one night to escape his too exacting acquaintances.
Mr. Thompson’s white comrade, Martin, had a more serious experience with some suspicious natives, and perhaps it served him right. He was telling a crowd of Wakwati girls that he could do even more wonderful things than the leader had shown them. Holding out his hand he said he could cut his fingers off and put them on again. One of the girls suddenly sprang forward, seized one of the extended fingers and cut it to the bone with a native knife. She had taken Martin at his word, and was determined to see the feat performed.
Dr. Hayes stole a march on the Esquimaux (sic) who refused to take him and his comrades back to Dr. Kane in Smith sound after the failure of Hayes’ attempt to return to Upernavik in small boats. Hayes and his men fully expected to die of starvation unless the Esquimaux, with their dog sledges, assisted them to return north. The Esquimaux declined to make the long journey in the growing darkness of the winter. One day two natives drove up to Dr. Haye’s hut with a sledge load of walrus meat. They were on their way home after a long journey, and they accepted the doctor’s invitation to tarry a while. Everybody ate heartily of the walrus meat, and then the natives, overcome with fatigue, laid down for a nap. Hayes and his men stole to the hut, barricaded the entrance, and then drove off with the dogs and walrus meat. They had gone several miles before they saw the Exquimaux in full pursuit. The party waited for the thoroughly angry natives to come up, and then told them plainly that they would never see their dogs and sledges again unless they agreed to go with them to Kane’s ship. Finally a bargain was made, good feeling reestablished, and the poor fellows, together with some of their friends for a neighboring village, never rested until Hayes was back on the ship again.

NUMBER SEVEN
The mystic power supposed by the credulous to belong to the number seven is due to the ancient belief that it is a holy number. The sanctity was no doubt given to it primarily by the Mosaic narratives of the division of the week into seven days, the last of which was a day of rest, set apart and chosen for that purpose by Deity itself. That the ancient Hebrews regarded the number as possessed of some mysterious, sacred quality is plain from its use as recorded in the Scripture narrative. There were seven days in creation, seven weeks between the Passover and Pentecost, seven days allowed to feasts, and the same number to the ceremonies of purification; seven victims were offered as sacrifices on special occasions, the seventh was the sabbatical year, and seven times seven was the year preceding the year of Jubilee. The use of the symbolic number in the Apocalypse is something remarkable, the seven churches of Asia, the seven golden candlesticks, the seven stars, seven spirits before the throne, the book with seven seals, etc. The mystical meaning ascribed to this number was not peculiar to the Hebrews, however; it also prevailed, among the Persians, the ancient Hindoos, the Greeks, and the Romans. Thence the superstition filtered down through the ages to the present time. Thus there was seven wise men of Greece, seven wonders of the world, seven graces, and so on. Ancient astrology had seven planets, the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus, and the seven metals of alchemy were supposed to corresponding with these, gold, silver, iron, quicksilver, lead, time, and copper, but modern discoveries in astronomy and chemistry interfered rather awkwardly with this very effective combination. In fact, the enlightenment of modern times has shown so plainly the absurdity of superstitions concerning numbers that none but the credulous are now influenced by them – [Inter-Ocean]

A PISCOTORIAN HOWLER
One of the most remarkable sound-making or musical fishes, is the great drum fish, or pogonias chromos, common on our western coast, and more than once the crews of vessels have been astonished at the curios sounds that come up from the sea. A vessel that was lying off the coast becalmed some years ago was surrounded by a regular band of fishes that uttered the most remarkable sounds – now a shriek would rise, then a groan, followed by numerous grunts; the rushing of steam, the hiss of boiling water, muffled tones of a drum, and even the clanging of a deep-toned bell, were some of the remarkable sounds that rose from this musical school of finny singers. Humboldt, the great observer of natural phenomena, dwells upon the remarkable sounds that came from a school of fish that surrounded the vessel. One of the most remarkable sounded like the twanging of a gigantic harp, while others were so loud and startling that the men were alarmed, fearing that an explosion was about to occur from some submarine volcano – [Atlanta Constitution]

GENTIANS

Shivering like children with their garments torn,
All the comely leaves of their roundness shorn,
Crouched in the bleached and shudd’ring grass
I find them today as I idly pass,
Blue gentians.

Children of frost – of winds snow-kissed,
Nurtured in travail – in sleet and mist,
Budding and blowing in the chilling rain,
With little of gladness and much of pain,
Poor gentians!

In pity I bend and gather each one,
And hold them up to the pitying sun,
To give them a glimpse of a fairer day,
Before they shall droop in their quick way,
Sad gentians.

And I hold them close to my eager face,
And the tender lines of their being trace,
And I count their goodness to come so late,
When no flower is left to be their mate,
Lorn gentians.

Though the year of my life wane drear and cold,
May this kindness be left, its hands to hold,
That some flower of love as a tender sign
May bloom as a token of summer time,
Sweet gentians – [S. B. McManus in the Current]

HUMOROUS

All the rage – A mad dog.

An open question – Are you going to let me in.

As a general thing, what a man sews he rips.

The thermometer gains notoriety by degrees, so to speak.

A new and precious sardine – The Prince of Wales in oil.

The way some farmers treat their land is really harrowing.

The man who is opposed to vaccination is probably to be pitted.

Even the most inveterate toper objects to taking a horn with a bull.

A young lady asks “How can I remove superfluous hair?” Comb the butter.

The telephone is an arrangement by which two men can lie to each other without becoming confused.

The king of Sweden and Norway is a poet. The dictum that the king can do no wrong appears to be exploded.

“Round again?” he asked, as the dun put his head in at the door. “Yes, and I’ll stay ‘round until I get square.”

Hayti (sic) has had 179 revolutions in 85 years. The first thing a Haytien (sic) does in the morning is to consult the newspaper to see under what government he is living.

Prisoner (desirous of flattering the court) – I think there is a fine expression in your honor’s face. Judge – (urbanely) – So there is, and the fine is $10 and costs.

“Using tobacco in one form,” says a hater of the weed, “usually leads to the use of it in another.” This is doubtless true, for when a man first takes snuff he must et-chew!

“Why Johnny,” exclaimed mamma, “Aren’t you ashamed of yourself, going about with such a dirty face?” “No, I ain’t” replied Johnny, with a conscious pride in the integrity of his intentions, “You’d like to have me taken for a dude, wouldn’t you?”

“I was never exactly buried alive” said an old clerk, recounting his experience, “but I once worked a week in a store that did not advertise. When I cam out my head was almost as white as you see it now. Solitary confinement did it.”

A MACHINE THAT CALCULATES
The calculating machine invented by Prof. THOMSON appears to excel, in its ingenious adaptation to a variety of results, even Babbage’s wonderful apparatus. By means of the mere friction of a disk, a cylinder and a ball, the machine is capable of effecting numerous complicated calculations which occur in the highest application of mathematics to physical problems, and by its aid an unskilled person may, in a given time, perform the work of ten expert mathematicians. The machine is applicable alike to the calculating of tidal, magnetic, meteorological and other periodic phenomena; it will solve differential equations of the second, or even higher powers or orders; and through this same wonderful arrangement of mechanical parts, the problem of finding the three motions of any number of mutually attracting particles, unrestricted by any of the approximate suppositions required in the treatment of the lunar and planetary theories, is done by simply turning a handle – [New York Sun]

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY JAN. 21, 1886

ANNOUNCEMENT

For Circuit Clerk. We are authorized to announce S. M. SPRUILL as a candidate for the office of Circuit Clerk of Lamar County. Subject to the Democratic Party. Election in August, 1886.

A colored man, SAM ANDERSON, filed papers in a case for damages against Sheriff BECK, of Vicksburg, on the 29th ult. for $10,000 for false imprisonment.

Alabama Senators in Congress stand up like men on the silver resolution. Senator PUGH made the best speech of his life on the resolution a few days ago.

HON. JOHN M. MARTIN appears on the committees of Elections and Patents. The Democrats of the District will not depart from the old time custom of endorsing faithful servants at the next congressional convention.

The LaFayette Sun thinks that the race of little darkies now growing up without any home training, fearing no one, neither the law nor man nor God, are bound to be a source of much future trouble.

THE NEXT GOVERNOR – [Florence Banner]

As some few papers in the State accuse North Alabama of wanting the next Governor, we make a short extract from an article in a late issue of the Montgomery Advertiser from “Populus” which we think, with but little exception, voices the sentiment of a large proportion of North Alabama, and which we hope will set at rest the acquisition that “North Alabama wants the next Governor,” “Populus” says:
Whilst the friends of each candidate for Gubernatorial honors are asserting claims to popularity in favor of their respective choice, permit an Across the Mountains to express himself in favor of COL. N. H. R. DAWSON, of Dallas. His ability as a statesman and lawyer, and his purity as a patriot are facts recognized and appreciated by his numerous friends and acquaintances in North Alabama as will be forcibly illustrated in the coming campaign. I have no axe to grind, and therefore may be allowed to express an unbiased and impartial opinion that Col. DAWSON will poll more strength from Colbert and Lauderdale than any other candidate proposed. His unselfish action in withdrawing in his first candidacy, and his consistency in the continued withholding of his name entirely during the last campaign without feeling his way for the possibility of a success antagonism, illustrated liberality and unselfishness which popularized him more with his own friends and acquaintances, and won the hearty good will and esteem of Gov. O’NEAL’S constituency at the same time. One thing certain, that when the time comes COLBERT will roll up heavily and overwhelming for N. H. R. DAWSON for next Governor, and will be backed by Lauderdale in force. Such is the feeling of the people, and they will so express in convention if not through the press. So score largely for DAWSIOB in our north west corner. – Yours respectfully, etc. – POPULUS.

OUR RAILROAD OUTLOOK – [From (Miss) Free South of Jan. 8th]
We commend the following letter from the Hon. H. K. MARTIN, one of the incorporators of the Helens, Water Valley, Aberdeen, and Birmingham Railroad Co., of Water Valley, to Judge W. S. Bates, as full of practical suggestions worthy of consideration.
JUDGE W. S. BATES: Great events never happen by chance, there is always a moving cause underlying the rise and progress of every locality. The statistics of the country clearly shows that Meridian, Columbus, and Holly Springs are growing into prominence and assuming the proportions of cities more rapidly than any other towns in the State. Not because they have superior natural advantages over many other towns in the state, but its because of the liberality, the zeal and enterprise of their citizens. While other localities having vastly superior natural advantages over these, approaching to be railroad centers, have slept the sleep of local destruction. Brandon, Kosciusko, Houston, and Ripley was designed by nature to be the grand railroad centers in Mississippi, and would have been so today, if the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad had been built when it ought to have been done, using Columbus as a centering outlet to the coal and iron regions in Alabama. The resources and commercial advantages in Mississippi will never be fully developed until this road is built, tapping Brandon, Kosciusko, Houston, and Ripley. It behooves this center belt of country to wake up. They should remember that Meridian two years ago come a spot of moving the Capitol of the state, because of her railroad facilities, realizing the fact that should this grand central trunk be from Ship Island to the Tennessee line, all eyes and hearts will be turned towards Kosciusko, the beautiful little city and geographical center of the state. I have lived on this line since 1838 and think I know whereof I speak. It runs through a belt of country from one end of the state to the other, seemingly designed by nature for a road bed, and would open up a market for more exhaustible forests of pine, post oak, and white oak timbers than any other road of the same length in the United State. But as this road is not yet built, the next best thing in sight is the construction of a road from Helena, Ark., to Birmingham, Ala. Two years ago, I drafted a charter, went to Jackson and procured its passage. Granting the right of way from Helena via Water Valley and Aberdeen to the Alabama line upon as liberal terms as any charter which has been passed in a number of years. At that time I entertained the belief that the Illinois Central road would realize the advantages accruing to them from the construction of this road, that they would either build it or lend a helping hand in that direction; but to this hour such has not been the case. Recent developments however have satisfied my mind that the Iron Mountain road would realize more benefits from the construction of this enterprise than any other road. This extension of the Iron Mountain from Helena to Birmingham would open up a direct communication between the coal and iron regions in Alabama and the Mississippi River, St. Louis, and the entire northwest. Besides, this road would pass through belts of the best lands and timber in the South. The resources of Calhoun county is bound to have transportation, with her productive soil, energetic people and her abundance of the very best of timer and stone she cannot longer say out in the cold and haul her produce 20 to 40 miles to market. Her inducements are too great, her hither-to hidden treasures are too powerful, to remain in the background much longer. The time is not far off when commerce and transportation will hunt out such localities as Calhoun County, and the question is: From what point shall it start? Accepting this as a fixed fact than what say the people of Water Valley? Would it be best for her for the branch roads traversing Calhoun to diverge from the main liens of the Illinois Central and the Mobile and Ohio at Oxford, Coffeeville, Grenada, West Point or Okolona, or would it be vest to have the junction at Water Valley? Let the prosperity of the city of Meridian and the adversity of Marion Station and Quitman answer the question. Calhoun County will be blessed with railroad transportation within the next decade of years, and when ever the junctions of these roads are located at places other tan Water Valley. Then regret will take the place of peace and quietude’s, indulged in now by our citizens. One go around with a railroad is worse on any town than three scourges with yellow fever. It is truthfully said that “competition is the life of trade,” and it is equally true that without railroads we are without competition. The road from Helena to Birmingham can ought to be built, and the people of Water Valley ought to favor it, in self defense, but space will not allow me to give further reason why. I have expressed these views for what they are worth, inviting the people to take due notice thereof and govern themselves accordingly.
HUGH K. MARTIN

WHO OUGHT TO SUPPORT PROHIBITION
The young man who is in danger.
The patriot who loves his country.
The women who suffer most from rum.
The total abstainer who does not need saloons.
The father whose example will be followed by the son.
The drinking man who feels the power of tempting saloons.
The minister whose flock is ravaged by the wolf of strong drink.
The Christian who like a good Samaritan loves his neighbor.
The rich man whose taxes are greatly increased by the saloons.
The business man, because the liquor traffic injures his business.
The moderate drinker who may become a drunkard if the saloons continue.
Travelers, because their lives are imperiled by being in the hands of intemperate men.
The landlord, because the rumseller often gets much of the money that ought to be paid for rent.
The father who wants to protect his daughter from the curse of being married to a drunken man.
The poor man who is compelled to support an army of worthless men because they are rumsellers. – [Ex]

It is said that the sale of Bibles is now forbidden in Rio Janeiro.

E. W. BROCK, Vernon C.H. & Crew’s Mill: Cheap dealer in boots, shoes, hats, clothing, dry good, & notions; hardware, cutlery, Queensware, Glassware, Inks, Pat. Medicines, Oils, Dyestuffs, Perfumery, Extracts, and groceries of all kind. Real estate in various parts of the county. My motto is “Quick sales and small profits.” I request all persons to call and price my large and well-selected stock, before purchasing elsewhere. I will sell as low or lower than any other house in the county.

NEW MUSIC BOOKS – “GOOD TIDINGS COMBINES” By A. J. Showalter. This is the latest and best of all the Sunday School books for popular use. It contains 36 pages, and on ever page there is a gem of sacred song. Bound in substantial boards. Price 25 cents per copy; $2.50 per dozen. THE NATIONAL SINGER. By A. J. Showalter & J. H. Teaney. This book is the result of much careful work by the most experience musicians who write for character notes. It is the bet of all the singing school books, as it contains enough new music of every grade and variety to interest and instruct any school or convention, and also all of the more popular standard hymn tunes of the church. This is a feature that is wanting in every other popular character notebook. The National Singer supplies this and every other want to make an ideal signing schoolbook. Price 75 cents; $7.50 per dozen. THE MUSIC TEACHER. A new monthly musical Journal edited by A. J. Showalter. Every student of music, chorister and teacher should read good musical journals. The Music Teacher aims to instruct as well as entertain. Price 50 cents per year. Specimen copies free. Agents wanted. We can furnish any other music or music book no matter where published. It would also be in your interest to write us when you want to buy a piano or organ, or any thing else in the music line. – A. J. Showalter & Co., Dalton, Ga.

Barber Shop – For a clean shave or shampoo, call on G. W. BENSON, in rear of Dr. BURN’S office, Vernon, Ala.

For a complete stock of clothing, hats, shirts, &c., &c. go to BUTLER & TOPPS Columbus, Miss.

Masonic. Vernon Lodge., NO. 289 A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 p.m. each month.
J. D. MCCLUSKEY, W.M.
M. W. MORTON, Sec.
Vernon Lodge., No. 45, I. O. O. F. meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7 ½ p.m. each month.
W. G. MIDDLETON, N. G.
M. W. MORTON, sect’y

ATTORNEYS
NESMITH & SANFORD THOS. B. NESMITH, Vernon, Ala. J. B. SANFORD, Fayette C. H., Ala. Attorneys-at-Law. Will practice as partners in the counties of Lamar and Fayette, and separately in adjoining counties, and will give prompt attention to all legal business intrused to them or either of them.

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.

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.

PHOTOGRAPHS – A. R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss. Price list:
Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00
Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00
Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00
Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00
Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00
Satisfaction given or money returned.

RESTAURANT. Aberdeen, Mississippi. Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to call on MRS. L. M. KUPPER, who keeps Restaurant, Family Groceries, Bakery, and Confectionery, Toys, Tobacco, and Cigars. Also Coffee and sugar. Special attention paid to ladies.

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.

CADY’S LIVERY FEED AND SALE STABLE Columbus, Mississippi. stock fed and cared for at moderate charges.

New goods, new prices. W. L. JOBE’S, the jeweler. Columbus, Mississippi. I have just returned from the North with a large and well selected stock of watches, clocks, jewelry, and silver plated ware which I will sell as low as the quality of the goods permit. When in Columbus don’t fail to call and examine my goods and prices. Cash orders will receive prompt attention. – W. L. JOBE.

WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama. Board and Lodging can be had at the above House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor.

New Cash Store, Vernon – Alabama. We have just opened a large, fresh, and well selected stock of General Merchandise, consisting of dry goods, notions, family groceries, &c. We have on hand also, a large and well selected stock of School Books. The bottom knocked out in prices. We only ask a trial. Chickens, eggs, butter, and all kinds of country produce wanted, and on hand. – GEO. W. RUSH & Co.

The Great Bazaar! Aberdeen, Mississippi. S W Corner, Commerce and Meridian Streets. Crockery, china, glassware, tin ware, fancy goods, stationery, jewelry, notions, candies, toys and Holiday goods of all kinds at wholesale or retail. Special attention given to the wholesale department. Trial orders solicited and prices guaranteed. Terms: Thirty days, net, 2 percent off for cash. No charge for package. THOS. A. SALE & CO.

New Store! M. H. HODGE, Kennedy, Alabama. Has a large and well selected stock of general merchandise consisting in part of dry goods, groceries, notions, hardware, Queensware, boots, and shoes, Highest Market Price paid for cotton.

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.

STAR STABLE – Aberdeen, Mississippi. A. A. POSEY & BRO., having consolidated their two Livery Stables, are now offering many additional advantages at this well-known and conveniently located Livery Stable. Owing to their consolidation, they have on hand a number of good second-hand buggies which they are selling cheap.

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. The most wonderful family remedy ever known. For internal and external use. Parson’s pills make new, rich blood. Make hens lay….(to small to read)

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY JA. 14, 1886

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.

STATE OFFICERS
Governor E. A. O’NEAL
Auditor M. C. BARKLEY
Treasurer FRED H. SMITH
Alternate ------ T. N. MCCLELLAN
Supt. of Public Education S. PALMER
Secretary of State ELLIS PHELAN

JUDICIARY
B. O. BRISKELL Chief Justice Supreme Court
G. W. STONE Associate Justice Supreme Court
R. M. SOMERVILLE Associate Justice Supreme Court
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CHANCERY COURT
THOMAS COBBS Chancellor

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
JAMES M. MORTON Register
B. F. REED Co. Supt. of Education
Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALVERT WILSON

CITY OFFICERS
L. M. WIMBERLEY Mayor and Treasurer
G. W. BENSON Marshall
Board of Aldermen – T. R. 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 3 o’clock p.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt.

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 30.00
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, 2 ½ cents per line.

Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, Alabama, as second-class matter.

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
One copy one year $1.00
One copy, six months .60
All subscriptions payable in advance

LOCAL BREVITIES

Call on J. & W. G. MIDDLETON for the best factory thread.

Mr. J. F. FERGUSON of Bedford was in town Tuesday.

Judge COBB issued 122 marriage license last year.

Five inmates in the new cell in the county jail, all colored.

The prisoners that broke jail some time since have been recaptured.

Capt. W. G. RICHARDS of Fernbank spent last Monday in our midst.

Miss MOLLIE CREW after spending some time in town, returned home Tuesday.

Uncle TOMMY SPRINGFIELD is not able to come to the Post Office yet.

Taxes are all delinquent now, and those who have not yet paid will be charged an additional fee of 50 cents when they come to settle.

Stock for Sale. E. W. BROCK has a lot of mules and horses for sale – Stock of all grades and at giving away prices.

Two of our popular merchants have been selling goods so cheap that the boys have named them “Cheap Joe” and “Cheap John”.

Parties who owe $2 and only have $1 should pay the $1 out and then they will stand a chance to get it back again to pay the other $1 with – Eutaw Mirror.

JAMES T. ALLEN, Vernon, Ala, having recently attended the Alabama Normal Music School is prepared to teach classes in Lamar and adjoining counties. Write him for terms and have a class this winter.

We were pleased to meet Esq. JOHN E. GRAVES in town yesterday.

The bottom has fallen out of the roads is the talks everywhere.

Capt. JAS. M. WILSON of Fernbank spent Monday in town.

Sustain the churches, the schools and – the county paper.

We have excellent pastors – let them know that you appreciate them.

In another column will be found a list of the Grand and Petit Jurors.

We are now ready to supply demands for waive notes.

The weather is milder just now, but it is impossible to say how long it will continue so.

The business of collection seems quite brisk – at least duns are in active circulations.

Mr. R. W. COBB left with a large drove of cattle for New Orleans yesterday morning.

The lawyers are beginning to move about in a hurry saying “Court is coming on.”

JOHN W. MORTON will open a Blacksmith shop in town in a few days. Terms cash or its equivalent.

Dr. W. A. BROWN’S horse mired up in the south part of town last Saturday and gave the Dr. a serious fall.

The Birmingham Age issues the jolliest and prettiest little Carrier of the season.

Schools appear to be prosperous throughout the country, which shows a tendency to appreciation of the importance of education.

The usual number of drummers visit our town, as jolly and active and as courteous as ever. The presence of the drummer denotes prosperity in business circles.

If you like this paper, give it a kind word once in awhile – it helps all hands – and if you like it very much, remember that actions speak even louder than words.

Does the shepherd go back to his ninety-nine? Ah, no, he must continue to seek. How long? Until he finds. The work of Christ must go on till at the last ever tongue shall confess and claim him as its Lord – Rev. D. M. HODGE

TOM SMITH, colored, was up before Esq. W. G. MIDDLETON on Monday, on charge of stealing a mule from Mr. GREEN JORDAN. Evidence tended to show that the def’t was caught with the mule before he left the farm of Mr. JORDAN. The def’t was committed to jail being unable to make bond for his appearance at Circuit Court.

LAMAR COUNTY, ALA., Jan 18th, 1886
Editor of NEWS:
Your correspondents from various parts of the county have been writing of the election of their men and expressing their wishes about the same. I beg leave to give some views that are common in the community, and in this community I will first say that we pluck no grapes but those that grow on the real Democratic vine.
First, we believe that the Democratic party ought to manage and control this government from Constable to President, and we do this because we believe that its principles tend to the perpetuation of a free government and vouching safe to us the greatest personal liberty.
Second, we believe that every office should be filled by a man who is affiliated with some political party and that the party be held to a strict account for the acts of the official.
Third, we are in favor of an organized Democratic party, and that the party in convention assembled composed of our best and most honorable men, representing without strangulating a single voter of Democratic principles, such men as in point of integrity, ability and political sentiments as are in harmony with the national democracy.
Fourth, if those holding to such political opinion and sentiments are not in the majority and can not put in office such men as would be faithful to trusts imposed in them as being of sound Democratic politics; then, we are in favor of men who are Republicans and the conduct of whom the Republican party is responsible holding offices.
- DEMOCRAT

MARRIED: Mr. WM. EDGEWORTH and Miss M. E. COOK, at residence of bride’s father, on 29th of Dec., by Rev. S. J. GIVENS.

We have received Vick’s Floral Guide for 1886, published by JAMES VICK, of Rochester, N. Y. It is full of valuable information concerning fruits flowers and vegetables, and is no beautifully gotten up as to be in truth and indeed a fitting subject for a parlor table.

Candidates are coming out freely in our neighboring counties, but they are rather backward in Lamar. Only one has announced as yet, but they will come out at court. That is their favorite time for blossoming. They can see representatives from the different sections of the county and calculate their chances.

The mammoth seed house of D. M. Ferry & Co., of Detroit, probably the largest establishment of the kind in the world, was destroyed by fire a few days ago. Loss, about $1,250,000 with light insurance.

OBITUARY: Died: On the night of the 13th inst. at his home eight miles west of town, BENJAMIN F. SMITH, in his fifty-fifth year. The deceased bore seven scars received while trying to uphold the lost cause. One of the wounds received hastened his death. He died expressing full faith in the Christian religion, giving his friends positive assurance that all was well with him.
- FRIEND

ALABAMA NEWS

Ozark, Dale County, has gone dry.

Chickens and hogs froze to death at Gadsden during the recent cold snap.

The Birmingham Fire Brick Works lost over $1,000 by the late cold spell.

The matter of Senator Morgan’s successor is engaging public attention.

Mr. R. H. Wynne, of Etowah county, recently killed a sixteen months old Polard China pig which weighed 453 pounds.

Rev. H. STRINGFELLOW, of Montgomery, is after the mayor, chief of police and board of aldermen of that city for not making more vigorous efforts to suppress gambling.

There is a preacher over at LaFayette who has married 45 couples for which he only received $5.00 or 11.19 cents for each couple. Cheap enough!

A negro woman living 4 miles from Montgomery recently gave birth to 4 babies. They were all doing well at last accounts.

GRAND AND PETIT JURORS

Below we give a list of Grand and Petit Jurors drawn for the Spring term of the Circuit Court.

GRAND JURORS

R. C. RECTOR Town Beat Farmer
H. A. BROCK Lawrence “
D. H. SIZEMORE Sizemore “
W. T. STANFORD Brown’s “
A. P. COOPER Henson’s “
W. L. YOUNG Milleville “
W. M. STONE Pine Springs “
G. W. WOODS Moscow “
GEO. W. BETTS Betts “
F. M. RICHARDS Trull’s “
T. J. DUNCAN Vail’s “
J. J. HEMPHILL Millport “
ELIJAH HOWELL Steen’s “
J. J. BRANYAN Stricland “
A. P. ODOM Wilson’s “

PETIT JURORS FOR FIRST WEEK

AARON PENNINGTON Town Beat Farmer
JOHN WARD “ “
JOHN S. WOFFORD “ “
J. T. MCMANUS “ “
J. F. COLLINS Lawrence “
R. S. WILSON Sizemore “
R. E. BRADLEY Brown’s “
W. W. PURNELL Good “
J. V. CRUMP Henson’s “
J. B. BERRYHILL Millville “
O. M. THOMPSON “ “
W. L. SANDLIN Pine Springs “
MARVEL THOMPSON Moscow “
J. R. BANKHEAD “ “
C. C. WATSON “ “
J. A. YOUNG Military Springs “
A. L. HARRINGTON Betts “
W. P. FALKNER Trull’s “
A. J. ATKINS Vail’s “
J. N. PROPST Millport “
G. B. MOORE Steen’s “
WILEY RAWLAND Strickland “
JAS M. WILSON Wilson’s “
S. M. CURRY “ “

PETIT JURORS FOR SECOND WEEK

T. N. LOGAN Town Beat Farmer
O. L. GUYTON “ “
JOEL F. SANDERS “ “
HIRAM HOLLIS, JR. “ “
J. M. OAKS Lawrence “
J. F. KIRK Sizemore “
JNO. T. HILL Brown’s “
F. M. LACEY Good “
H. C. ELLIOTT Henson’s “
J. A. DAVIDSON Millville “
JAMES RIGGAN Millville “
G. W. BLACK Pine Springs “
GEO. E. BROWN Moscow “
T. M. WOODS Moscow “
R. P. HANKINS Moscow “
J. H. JORDAN Military Springs “
S. P. KEMP Betts “
FRANK BREWER Trull’s “
A. J. VAIL Vail’s “
W. H. CONNER Millport “
J. W. RICHARDSON Steen’s “
J. N. COLLINS Strickland “
J. H. CASH Wilson’s “
T. J. YARBROUGH Wilson’s “

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THE FERNBANK HIGH SCHOOL now under the Principalship of JNO. R. GUIN, will open Nov. 2, 1885, and continue ten scholastic months. Able assistants will be employed when needed. Said school offers great advantages. Tuition as follows:
Primary: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, Primary Arithmetic, per month………….$1.25
Intermediate: Embracing Practical Arithmetic, English Grammar, Intermediate Geography, Higher Reading, English, Composition, and U. S. History, per month………..$2.00
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- JNO. R. GUIN, Principal, Fernbank, Ala. – October 28, 1885.

ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County, Alabama, I will offer for sale at Kennedy on the 6th day of February next the following lands N W ¼ of S W ¼ and S ½ of S W ¼ Sec 10 N W ¼ and N W ¼ of S W ¼ and S E ¼ of S W ¼ and S W ¼ of N E ¼ and N E ¼ of S E ½ Sec 15 T 17 R14, as the lands belonging to the estate of C. K. COOK, deceased. Said sale will be made for one-0sixth in cash and the remainder on a credit of twelve (12) months from day of sale. The purchaser will be required to give note with at least two good securities for purchase money. This the 4th day of January 1886.
- J. G. TRULL, Administrator of the estate of C. K. COOK

FINAL SETTLEMENT
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, January 2nd, AD 1886
Estate of JAMES B. BANKHEAD, deceased, this day came JOHN B. ABERNATHY administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts, and vouchers for final settlement of his administration. It is ordered that the 30th day of January, AD 1886, be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement, if they think proper.
- ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate of said county.

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Land Office at Huntsville, Ala., Nov. 13, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar County at Vernon, Ala., on the 12tjh day of February, 1886, viz: No. 9862 ALFRED N. FRANKLIN, for the N ½ of N W ¼ Sec 19 T 12 and R 15 West. He names the following witnessed to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: J. W. PAUL, JOHN R. EVANS, JOHN H. RAY and S. M. LEE, all of Detroit, Lamar County, Alabama.
- WM. C. WELLS, Register

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (NOTICE NO. 4643)
Land Office at Montgomery, Ala. December 21st, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before Judge of the Probate Court at Vernon, Ala. on February 12th, 1885 (sic), viz: JEFFERSON G. SANDERS homestead, 10087 for the N W ¼ N W ¼ Section 8 T 15 R 15 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: J. E. PENNINGTON, HIRAM HOLLIS, JAMES W. TAYLOR, WILLIAM AUSTIN, all of Vernon, Ala.
- THOS. SCOTT, Register

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Land Office at Huntsville, Ala, December 9th, 1885.
Notice is hereby given that the following named petitioner has filed notice of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar County, Ala, at Vernon, on January 29, 1886, viz: No. 8740, ISAAC METCALFE for the S ½ of S E ¼, and N E ¼ or S E ¼ and S E (?) of S W ¼ Sec 21, T 12 R14 West.
He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz:
ZACK SWERNIGER, GEORGE W. METCALFE, MONROE CRUMP, and FILLIMON TRULOVE, all of Pikeville, Ala.
- W. G. WELLS, Register

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FOR THE FARM AND HOME

THE APPLE ORCHARD
Josiah Hoopes says in the New York Tribune: One may apply fertilizers to the soil and yet neglect the trimming, washing the bark, and destruction of injurious insects. I consider all of very nearly equal importance. A top-dressing of any good, rich compost during autumn will pay the owner of an old orchard as surely as if applied to his wheat field or potato-patch. And yet the farmers allow the trees to “run out” to use a common expression, from ignorance or parsimony. As to breaking up the tough sod of an old orchard to infuse health in the trees, some difference in judgement exists, but I never could see the use of destroying the roots, when equally good results may be gained by simply scattering manure over the surface. Let farmers try the latter and mark the result; then follow up the good work next spring by heading back the tops of all old mossy trees, and apply a coat of alkali in weak solution to the bark of the body and larger branches. I like whitewash for this purpose.

GREED OF COWS
It is hardly necessary to tell any one, says the Livestock Journal, that the domestic cow is a great feeder, and that this is especially true of cows that are great milkers. The appetites of domestic animals are largely wheat years of feeding for certain ends has made them, and they may, therefore, be regarded as in a measure abnormal. This is shown clearly enough by the great milk and butter tests, which have shown that cows can by systematically overfed up to a point where death quickly follows. This being the case, it is necessary in feeding cows to be careful that feed of a assimilating, concentrated character be administered regularly and judiciously. The over-indulgence which a cow will practice at times, when allowed unrestricted access to grain or apples, is usually due not only to the greatly developed active udder, but far more to a want of regularity in feeding and the neglect of the feeder to meet the demands of such an appetite as they develop. With proper feeding, cows can be trained to take care of themselves with any kind of food before them. Even with apples, than which no kind of food is more dangerous to cows when indulged in to excess, this statement holds good, and when properly trained, being fed at first moderately and the quantity gradually increased, they seem to learn to measure the quantity their stomachs can managed, and may be as safely trusted in the orchard as nay other animal. In the case of bovines the trouble arises from the unnatural distension of the rumen by habitually overcrowding it with coarse food in an effort to satisfy the appetite induced by any great draft upon the system. Thus stretched, it will hold more of a concentrated food than the animal can digest before fermentation becomes active enough to be injurious. It may be stated here that, fed judiciously, apples are a healthful, safe, and an excellent milk producing food.

CARE OF CELLARS
A great mistake is sometimes made in ventilating cellars and milk houses. The object of ventilation is to keep the cellars cool and dry, but this object often fails of being accomplished by a common mistake, and instead, the cellar is made both warm and damp. A cool place should never be ventilated, unless the air admitted is cooler than the air within, or is at least as cool as that, or a very little warmer. The warmer the air, the more moisture it holds in suspension. Necessarily, the cooler the air, the more this moisture is condensed and precipitated. When a cool cellar is aired on a warm day, the entering air being in motion appears cool; but as it fills the cellar, the cooler air with which it becomes mixed chills it, the moisture is condensed, and dew is deposited on the cold walls, and may often be seen running down them in steams. Then the cellar is damp, and soon becomes mouldy. To avoid this, the windows should only be opened at night, and late – the last thing before retiring. There is no need to fear that that the night air is unhealthful – it is as pure as the air of midday, and is really drier. The cool air enters the apartment during the night, and circulated through it. The windows should be closed before sunrise in the morning, and kept closed and shaded through the day. If the air of a cellar is damp, it may be thoroughly dried by placing in it a peck of fresh lime in an open box. A peck of lime will absorb about seven pounds, or more than three quarts of water, and in this way a cellar of a milk room may soon be dried, even in the hottest weather. A bushel of lime absorbs twenty-seven pounds of water, and still appears as a dry powder. In this condition it will be very useful to spread over the garden or lawn, or around fruit trees, or it may be used for whitewash. This precaution is often necessary in the dairy, because of the prevalence, where air is damp, of milder, and the various forms of mould. The orange and red kinds of mould especially, which sometimes form upon the cream, have a most injurious effect upon the butter. – [American Agriculturist]

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES

Lack of comfort in animals hinders fattening.

If shade is excessive about the house thin out some trees.

It’s the sickly plants that are the most troubled by insects.

Many primroses are killed every year by over-watering.

Shearing lambs in midsummer is claimed by English farmers to greatly increase the growth of the carcass.

To prevent drain pipes from stopping up, pour a hot solution of potash into the pipes every month or two.

Many horses have a habit of sleeping standing. It is not a good one, and horses should be broken of it if possible.

Trees on the outside of an orchard are usually more prolific. There is more sunlight and air, and the roots have a freer range.

Churning sweet cream is not considered a good method by many leading authorities – the better plan being to allow the cream to ripen somewhat.

Potatoes dug in clear weather and thoroughly dried in the sun will keep in much better condition in the bins than those that have not been sun-dried.

Several years since a gardener discovered that by planting his squash seeds in earth that had a layer of coal ashes above and below it the vines were not molested by cutworms.

A cool, deep and rich soil is indispensable to success in the culture of herbaceous plants and bulbs. Especially is this true of lilies and other bulbs that are usually set out at this season of the year.

Don’t put rotten potatoes into the cellar. Don’t put so much corn into one bin that it can’t dry thoroughly. Don’t put uncured cornstalks into the barn unless you want a fire. Don’t try to feed a bull that you don’t need.

An Ohio farmer says he killed every potato beetle in a field “alive with them,” by sprinkling once with a mixture made in proportion of 5 pounds each of “slacked lime” and copperas, and 20 gallons of water. “Beside, it benefits the plants.”

Plantain, dandelion and other weeds in a lawn may be destroyed by placing a little sulfuric acid with a stick in the crown of each plant. The acid should be carried in an open-mouthed bottle with a long handle, so that fingers and clothes are protected.

Salt is often largely used in the food of pigeons, and should also be given fowls, especially during the molting season. The proper way to feed it is to add it to the soft food in quantity sufficient to season the food to suit the taste, but should never be used in excess.

Dahlia roots in small quantities can be safely wintered when placed in a single layer and closely together, in a shallow box. Put sifted sand over and around them, covering the crowns but not the stems. Thus treated and placed in a frost-proof cellar, they will keep fresh and plump until spring.

RECIPES

APPLE CHARLOTTE – Line a buttered loaf tin with thin slices of home-made bread, dip the edges of the bread in white of egg and fill the space with a smooth apple sauce seasoned with lemon rind and nutmeg, or cinnamon; cover the top with strips of bread, put a small quantity of butter on top and bake one hour.

BROILED SWEET PTOATOES – Raw and boiled potatoes are served in this manner: Cut the raw potatoes in thin slices, brush melted butter over them and also over the wire broiler to prevent their sticking to it. Broil them a dark brown. Boiled sweet potatoes need to be but slightly broiled, just enough to warm through and at the same time to show the marks of the broiler.

PANCAKES – Whisk the yolks of five eggs thoroughly and add to them four ounces of flour, half a teaspoonful of salt and a tablespoonful of sugar. Stir in half a teaspoonful of salt and a tablespoonful of sugar. Stir in half a pinto of lukewarm milk and the whites of the eggs well beaten. Grease a small pan slightly and fry the cakes very thin, shake the pan to prevent burning, and when they are a delicate brown on the under side turn them as artistically as possible. When done put them on a hot plate with sugar and a dash of cinnamon on each and strew over the top one a quantity of fine sugar. Hold over it a shovelful of live coals to melt the sugar.

SHREDDED CODFISH CAKES – The shredded codfish put up in tin cans is a blessing to those who dislike the annoyance of preparing the fish in the old-fashioned manner. Open a one pound can of the shredded fish and wash it in two water, then cover with a liberal quantity of warm water and let stand half an hour. Squeeze out the water, separate the particles of fish and add to it half a pound of warm mashed potatoes. Whip these together lightly, add a saltspoonful of white pepper, two ounces of butter and the yolks of two eggs well beaten. Work all together and with floured hands shape the mixture into dainty little cakes. Drop them in smoking hot fat and fry to a golden color. – [New York Cook]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

If nutmegs are good, when pricked with a pin, oil will instantly ooze out.

When sponge cake becomes dry it is nice to cut in thin slices and toast.

To remove mildew, soak in buttermilk and spread on the grass in the sun.

The warmth of floors is generally increased by having carpet ling of layers of paper under the carpet.

Milk, if put in an earthen jar, or even a tin can will keep sweet for a long time, if well wrapped in a wet cloth.

Never put salt into soup when cooking till it has been thoroughly skimmed, as salt prevents the scum from rising.

If sassafras bark is sprinkled among dried fruit and vegetables, it will keep insects from getting in, and will not injure their flavor.

STILL UNKNOWN

Notwithstanding the activity of the civilized races in securing a knowledge of distant countries, there are as yet many serious unsolved geographical problems. It is not know, for instance, what are the sources of the great Irawaddy River. It pours into the Bay of Bengal within one-fifth as much water a s the Mississippi empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Steamboats ascend it for 800 miles, and yet geographers do not know where are its head water. There is a river called Sanpo, which flows through Thibet north of the Himalyas. This may be the beginning of the Irawaddy, yet on many maps it pours into the Brahmapootra, which makes its way into India. Then there are enormous stretches of South America which are blank on the amp. We know the Orinoco River has a delta, but we are entirely unacquainted with its upper waters. Only two of the twelve channels that pour into the Atlantic have been explored. The native Indians, a ferocious race, said to be cannibals, will not permit the exploration of that river. In the vast forest are some very peculiar but degrades races of men. One-third of Australia and three-fourths of New Guinea are practically unknown. In Hindostan, there is a rich and populous state called Nepaul, which was never visited except by one white man. It is only the other day that Lieutenant Wissman discovered that the Kasai, one of the greatest tributaries of the Congo, was one hundred miles west of the place assigned to it on Stanley’s latest maps. Then there are parts of the Dominion to the north of us that are absolutely unknown to the white races. The Arctic and Antarctic circles are, and will long remain, a terra incognitate - [Demorest’s]

THE ANCIENT AND MODERN ARK
The following figures concerning the Great Eastern and the Ark are of interest. Somebody is comparing the size and cost of the Great Eastern and Noah’s Ark. The cost of building and launching the Great Eastern was $3,650,000, and this broke the original company. A new company was formed, which spent $600,000 in fitting and furnishing her. Then this company failed, and a new company was organized, with a capital of $500,000. At the close of 1880 this company sank £ 86,715 upon the vessel, thus making her total cost $4,708,575. Nothing built can stand comparison with the Great Eastern, excepting Noah’s Ark, and even this vessel could not match her. The length of the Ark was 300 cubits, her breadth 50 cubits, and her height 30 cubits. The cubit of the Scriptures, according to Bishop Wilkins, was 3165 inc. and computed into English measurements, the Ark 547 ft. long, 91 ft. beam, 54.7 ft. depth, and 20,762 tons. The Great Eastern is 680 ft. long, 83 ft. beam, 56 ft. depth, and 28,093 tons measurement. So Noah’s Ark is quite over shadowed by the Great Eastern. – [Scientific American]

PRESIDENT’S LINCOLN’S PHILOSOPHY
Ben. Perley Poore, in the Boston Budget, says: Some Western gentlemen called at the White House and harangued Mr. Lincoln in an excited manner about the omissions and commissions of the administration. He heard them with his usual patience, and finally said: “Gentlemen, suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had put it in the hands of Blondin to carry it across the Niagara Falls on a tight rope, would you shake the rope while he was passing over it, or keep shouting to him, ‘Blondin, stoop a little more,’ ‘Go a little faster?’ No, I am sure you would not. You would hold your breath as well as your tongue, and keep your hands off until he was safely over. Now, the government is in the same situation, and is carrying weight; untold treasures are in its hands; it is doing the best it can’ don’t badger it; keep silence, and it will get safely over.

WITCHCRAFT IN JAMAICA
Obeshism, a species of witchcraft, is said to be the curse of Jamaica. A recent traveller was struck by the extraordinary actions of a colored servant, who, instead of entering through the middle of the open door, slunk close to the posts and along the wall of the room, continually looking over his shoulder, as though in dread of some unseen but formidable power. This man, a professed Christian of good education and fair attainments, believed himself to be the victim of obeshism, and was pining away in sheer fright. Although obeshism is punishable with five years’ penal servitude it is widely practiced throughout Jamaica, and numbers among its believers many people otherwise intelligent.

MOORISH DRESSES
The better class of Moors, writes a correspondent from Algiers, wear trousers confined below the knee, with European stockings and shoes. The chest is covered with a gayly-colored vest, a jacket slightly European, and a turban of many folds, and often of costly material. Rings, set with diamonds or other precious stones, are much worn by persons of this class. The richer Arabs and Kabyles wear a long robe of white cotton, over which is the woolen burous so familiar to those who have seen Screyeer’s pictures. The head dress is a sort of turban, with a cape covering the nape of the neck and touching the shoulders.

A SINGULAR PRACTICE
“All souls day” a very singular practice was resumed, after many years discontinuance at a church called La Madonna della morte in Via Giulla, on the “yellow Tiber’s banks” near Ponte Santa Angelo. A large subterranean cemetery is located here, part of which is decorated with skeletons and human bones and skulls arranged in every conceivable grotesque fashion, and the day mentioned it was brilliantly lighted and thrown open to the public. Many skeletons, with some wax figures, furnished a representation of the vision of Ezekiel.

EGGS – Ireland is making an effort to regain her old fame as an egg-producing country. A poultry farm has been established in County Meath and stocked with Houdon fowl and Rouen duck, and the cottagemen in the neighborhood have been encouraged to raise poultry by the gift of setting eggs, to which the condition is attached that one-half the brood is to be returned to the farm. The experiment has so far worked well.


A STRANGE RITE – The heavy consumption of copper in India is largely due to a religious rite of the natives. At certain seasons of the year small cups of sheet-copper about an inch in diameter and an inch and a half deep are filled with rice, and are thrown into the rivers as an offering, with religious ceremonies. The quantity of copper thus annually consumed is very heavy.

WAX – The wax-plant, indigenous in Carolina and Pennsylvania, is now being cultivated in Algeria. The fruit, inclosed in a bag of coarse cloth, is plunged into boiling water, and in a few seconds the liquid wax floats on the surface. This is skimmed off and dried, and forms a good substitute for beeswax.

Laconic patient to physician: Caught cold. Physician: Take Red Star Cure: no morphine, no poisons. Only twenty-five cents. St. Jacob’s cures pain.

The Japanese persimmon is to be cultivated in the south for commercial purposes. The fruit, which is seedless, resembles the sweet orange in color and shape, rivals it in size, is exceedingly prolific, and is of a most delicious flavor. It is believed it will grow rapidly in favor in this country.

HOW TO GET STRONG. Dumb-bells and horizontal bars, Indian clubs and the trapose are valuable under certain conditions, but they are detrimental rather than beneficial if the blood is poor and thin and poisoned with bile. Use of the muscles necessitates waste as well as induces growth. If the blood does not carry sufficient nutritive material to repair the waste, loss of strength, necessarily follows, and growth is out of the question. Purify and enrich your blood with Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery” and then exercise will develop and not consume your physique.

It is said that more money is needed to put Bartholdt’s statue on her last legs.

The purest, sweetest and best Cod Liver Oil in the world, manufactured from fresh, healthy livers, upon the seashore. It is absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians have decided it superior to any of the other oils in market. Made by Caswell, Hastard & Co., New York.

Chapped hands, face, pimples, and rough skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by Caswell, Hasard & Co., New York.

The winters in Iceland are milder than those in Iowa. This is due to the Gulf Stream.

Ask you shoe and hardware dealers for Lyon’s Heel Stiffeners, they keep boots and shoes straight.

The Caroline Islands number five hundred, big and little.

A PECK OF PEAS (P’S)
Here are a peck of peas, sweet peas, if you will. Perseverance, patience, promptness, proficiency, push and politeness. Add to those Dr. Pierce’s “Pleasant Purgative Pellets” and you will get well through the world without much trouble. The pellets prevent constipation and surplus of bile which lead to many different complainants. Enclosed in glass, always fresh, entirely vegetable, prompt, and perfectly harmless. Any druggist.

The best cough medicine is Piso’s Cure for Consumption. Sold everywhere.

Your character cannot be essentially injured except by your own acts.

A “MADMAN’S” LEGACY
“Sirs!” exclaimed a man in the homely garb of a mechanic to Richelieu, the prime minister of France, as he was entering his palace. “Sire, I have made a discovery which shall make rich and great the nation which shall develop it. Sire, will you give me an audience!”
Richelieu, constantly importuned, finally ordered the “madman” imprisoned. Even in jail he did not desist from declaring his “delusion” which one day attracted the attention of a British nobleman, who heard De Cause’s story, and developed his discovery of steam power!
All great discoveries ar at first derided.
Seven years ago a man yet under middle age, enriched by a business which covered the continent, found himself suddenly stricken down. When his physicians said recover was impossible, he used a new discovery, which, like all advances in science, had been opposed bitterly by the school men. Nevertheless, it cured him, and out of gratitude to the spreading of its merits before the world. Such in brief is the history of Warner’s safe cure, which was won, according to the testimony of eminent persons, the most deserved reputation ever accorded to any known compound, and which is finally wining on its merits alone the approval of the most conservative practitioners. Its fame now belts the globe. [The Herald]

Lightning struck a California pear tree and cooked the fruit brown.

RESCUED FROM DEATH. William J. Coughlin, of Somersville, Mass. says: In the fall of 1876 I was taken with Bleeding of lungs followed by a severe cough. I lost my appetite and flesh, and was confined to my bed. In 1877 I was admitted to the Hospital. The doctors said I had a hole in my lung as big as a half dollar. At one time a report went around that I was dead. I gave up hope, but a friend told me of Dr. William Hall’s Balsam for the lungs. I got a bottle, when to my surprise, I commenced to feel better, and today I feel better than for three years past.

A declaration of war – Throwing old tin cans and other refuse in our neighbor’s yard.

The best Ankle Boot, and collar pads are made of zinc and leather. Try them.

Only three years during the last fifty have the revenues of Brazil exceeded the expenditures.

Dr. Sage’s Catarrah Remedy surpasses all others.

Small and steady gains give competency a tranquil mind.

Red Star Trade Mark Cough Cure. Absolutely free from opiates, emotes and poison. Safe, sure, prompt. 25 cts. At druggists and dealers. The Charles A. Vogeler Co., Baltimore, Md.

St. Jacob’s Oil. Trade mark. The Great German Remedy For pain. Cures rheumatism, neuralgia, backache, headache, toothache, sprains, bruises, etc. Price, fifty cents. At druggists and dealer. The Charles A. Vogeler Co., Baltimore Md.

Catarrh in the head is a disease of the mucous membrane. It generally originates in the nasal passages and maintains its stronghold in the head. From this point is sends forth a poisonous virus along the membranous linings and through the digestive organs, corrupting the blood and producing other troublesome and dangerous symptoms. Cream Balm. Hay fever is a remedy based upon a correct diagnosis of this disease and can be depended upon. 50 cts. at druggists or by mail. Ely Brothers, Druggists, Owego, N. Y.

Pills Free! 5,000 boxes only. In order to convince the most skeptical of the excellence of Dr. O’Phelps brown’s renovating pills we will send a box free to any address on receipt of 10 cts in postage stamps to pay postage and packing. Address J. Gibson Brown, 45 and 47 Grand Street, Jersey City, N. J.

Salvo Cures Drunkenness and intemperance, not instantly, but effectually. The only scientific antidote for the Alcohol habit and the only remedy that dares to send trial bottles. Highly endorsed by the medical profession and prepared by well known New York physician. Send stamps for circulars and references. Address “Halvo Remedy” No. 3 West 14th St., New York

The Happy Hour Chair Hammock. The most delightful hammock ever invented for sitting or reclining In fancy colors and ornamental. Our customers are rapturous over it. Says one: “$50 could not get another. Agents wanted. Ask your dealer for it. Sample shipped to any address on receipt of $2. Write for circular. C. Arnold & Sons, Honeoue, N. Y.

WILL COME BACK LATER AND FINISH ADS

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The Alabama Department of Archives and History

THE LAMAR NEWS

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, JANUARY 28, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 13

SONG OF THE SOUTH WIND
Through fragrant pines I sweep along,
And chant for the mighty song,
Grand and triumphant, sweet and strong,
Like organ notes heard far away,
In some cathedral old and gray,
When vespers tells the close of day.
I stir the ripples on the lake;
The dancing wavelets softly break
Against the cool white sand, and make
A broken melody that seems
Like birdlings, chirping in their dreams,
Ere lights the east with dawn’s faint gleams.
I bring the rain clouds from the sea –
The shadows fall on lake and lea;
The thirsty plants nod thanks to me,
And yield me treasures of perfume,
The sweet mementos of their bloom
To bear away to climes of gloom,
To tell the Northland’s prisoned flowers –
Biding the slow, dark winter hours,
While chill and gray the dull sky flowers
“ Long though your time of waiting be
And firm the chains that fetter ye,
Lose not your hope – ye shall be free!”
- [Augusta D. Dunn]

A TIGHT SQUEEZE – By an Ex-Confederate
When General Meade fell back from Min Run, in the fall of 1863, he went into winter quarters between the Rapidan and the Rappahannock, on his old grounds. This was about December 1. On the 15th of the month I received orders to cross the river, penetrate his camp and pick up all possible information.
It was understood that he was sending troops off west, and I was particularly charged to discover if there was any foundation in the report.
I left the rebel cavalry outpost at 10 o’clock one night, being on foot and wearing a blue uniform throughout. There was about a mile of neutral ground between outposts, and when I had crept down the highway almost to the Union videttes I took to the fields and flanked ‘em. I knew every rod of that country, and passing the vidette was a matter of no trouble.
It was when I reached the first line of sentinels that I had to go keerful. It was now midnight, and winter had set in. There was no snow, but the wind was cold and the ground frozen. It so happened that I struck a part of French’s corps. Knowing that Lee was going into winter quarters, and knowing that a strong picket was out, the sentinels were not over watchful. I crept up until I located two, and both were muffled up against the cold and thinking more of keeping warm than of looking for spies. While I was waiting for a chance to skulk in, the two came together and stood talking, and this gin me the show I wanted. I riz up from the cold ground, bore off a little to the right, and entered the gap without being seen. In ten minutes more I was among the tents and shanties.
I must find a place to pass the night. It was too cold to go prowling ‘round saying nothing of the danger to be incurred. I walked up one street and down another, looking for a place to stow myself away; and by and by I saw a soldier come out of a tent and go off. I reasoned that he was on guard, and had come to his tent on some errand, and I was probably right.
It was half-tent, half-shanty, with a fire place in it. I crept in at the door and found a fire going, and there three men asleep under the blanket. There was a heap of wood at hand, and the best I could do was to stir up the fire and hover over it. I didn’t mean to fall asleep; that is I was bound and determined to keep awake, but I had no sooner got fairly warmed through than I went off to the land of Nod, and the net thing I knew it was daylight.
None of the chaps under the blankets were awake, and I slipped out without disturbing them. Everything would have been all right ‘cept for a man in a tent across the street. He had come out after wood, and was standing there as I appeared. As both tents belonged to same company, and as all the men in each company knew each other, it was only natural that I, a perfect stranger should attract his attention. Further, it was jest as natural that he should suspect me of being a thief. He was a sour-faced, beetle-browed chap, and the minit I looked into his eyes I knew we should have a row.
“Ah, I caught you!” he growled as I faced him.
“At what?” I coolly -----------
“Stealing, of course!”
“You are wrong. I went in there to get warm.”
“Who be you?”
“George Smith.”
“What regiment?”
“Sixth Maine.”
I wasn’t answering at random. I knew that the Sixth Maine was in the fight at Rappahannock Station, about a month before, because I had talked with some prisoners.
“Where’s your regiment?” he asked.
“That’s what I’m looking for,” I replied. “I was took by the rebs fifteen days ago, and have just escaped and come in.”
I answered him so promptly, and told such a straight story, that he could have no suspicions, and I might have got away but for an accident. He had brought out his coffee-pot, and in moving away I fell over it. He was aching for a fuss with somebody, and that was a good excuse. He jumped for me without a word. I returned the blow, and then we clinched and fought up and down the street.
I was getting the best of him, when we fell upon and wrecked a tent and began to draw a crowd. In five minutes there were fifty men around us, and pretty soon an officer comes up, and separates us and asks?
“What is this row about?”
“I caught that chap stealing,” sings out my opponent.
“He lies!”
“Who are you?” asks the officer.
“Private George Smith, of the Sixth Maine.”
“Where’s your regiment?”
“Don’t know, sir. I was captured by the rebs, got away and am looking for my regiment.
“When did you come in?”
“Last night.”
“How did you pass all the outposts and sentinels?”
He had me there. I had as good as betrayed myself by that one answer.
“I’ll see to your case!” he growled, and he called the guard and had me marched off. The guard house was a log stable, and as soon as he reached it I was stripped and searched. The next move was to hunt up the Sixth Maine and discover that I did not belong to that regiment. I was then taken to corps headquarters and questioned.
I changed my line of defense, claiming to be a deserter from the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth New York, who was voluntarily coming back to his regiment, but the next day the Colonel of that regiment came to look at me, and pronounced me a liar and an imposter.
Next day, when a court martial was convened, I had no defense to offer. They tried me as a spy, and while nothing could be proved, I was condemned and sentenced to be shot. I was given to understand that, but I reckoned that some of the officers were not quite satisfied. Instead of carrying out the sentence right away, the findings were sent to a higher court for approval.
What I am telling you in a minute consumed about two weeks. I was pretty comfortably fixed in the barn, but so zealously guarded that there was no possible show for escape. The papers had been sent off, and I was daily expecting to hear their approval, when, one night just before dusk, the chaplain of a Pennsylvania regiment came in to console me. He was about my size and age with the same colored hair, and the minit I saw him I grasped at a plan. When we had talked a little I asked him:
“How did you get in?”
“Why, I showed my pass to the guard,” he answered.
That was all I desired to know. He talked for about an hour, and I made him promise to come and see me the next evening at the same hour. He advised me to give up all hope and make my peace with God, and I gave him to understand that I might be more contrite on his next visit.
I tell you, that next day seemed a week long. I had a plan, and it promised success. When the day did begin to fade away I was so nervous and excited that I could not keep still. The chaplain came in just at dark, and, as he grasped my hand, he said:
“The papers have come back, and you must prepare to die!”
“Pray for me!” says I.
He knelt right down, and he had skeercely uttered a word when I had him by the throat. It was so sudden, and I had sich a grip on him, that he skeercely kicked. I didn’t’ want to kill him, but I choked him until he was like a rag. Then I off with his coat, vest and pants, and was into ‘em before he showed signs of coming to. It was too soon to go out, and I choked him some more.
Poor man! I felt sorry to do him sich injury, but my life was at stake. In about twenty minutes I felt it was safe to go out. I dragged him into a corner, sat him up on end, and then knocked on the door. It was opened at once, and as I squeezed out the guard shut it without even glancing in.
“How is he, chaplain?” asks the guard as he locks the door.
“Resigned, poor man,” I answered, and off I goes.
As I afterwards learned, I had a good hours’ start. I didn’t head for the river, as might be expected, but for the north, and it was over a month before I saw Lee’s lines again. A Washington paper had a long story about my escape, and it said I would have bin shot next day, and that the chaplain would be laid up for a month. – [Detroit Free Press]

A NEW NARCOTIC
Something worse than opium or chloral is reported to the New York Medical Society. Several city practitioners found out that a few persons were using hyoscine to produce a sort of intoxication that resulted in profound slumber. The drug is a hydrobromate, and has to a limited extent been used in medicine in lieu of atrophine for relief in epilepsy and other diseases of the nerves. It is obtained from a German plant, and is usually on sale by German apothecaries in this city. The supply has been small, and the price about seventy-five cents a grain; but a suddenly increased demand nearly exhausted the stocks and sent the price to a dollar. The doses must be infinitesimal in order not to be dangerous, and the peril of self-dosing lies in the liability to kill by carelessly swallowing or hypodermically injecting too much. The experimenters with it proved chiefly to be medical students, drug clerks and other acquainted with its soporific qualities. Hard drinkers employed it to force sleep, and very nervous persons drove off insomnia with it. In order to test its effects, it has been systematically administered to thirty-six insane patients in the State hospital for the Insane, by Drs. Langdon and Peterson, who say that the effects prove the very great danger of hyoscine eating. They found that it would indeed compel sleep in most cases, but that its habitual use would surely bring muscular paralysis and delirium of a particularly violent sort. The society will ask the Legislature to forbid the sale except on prescription. – [Cincinnati Enquirer]

BATHING IN INDIA
The gospel of cleanliness is not for India. Do I begin to argue? I am told that “a virtue of Gautama Buddha was his dirty face!” And yet a bath is a Hindoo’s frequent practice. But the use of mustard oil overbalances all ablutions. A native always polishes his skin with mustard oil before bathing. “It prevents the water from entering the blood through the skin,” Gauga tells me. It makes the presence of a native anything but agreeable, for the anointing having greatly diminished the power of the water, the sun’s action upon the cutaneous surface is such that the smell has actually the effect of ruining the health of Europeans who have to inhale it for many hours daily in the katcherries and courts of law.
If you say to one of these objectionable smelling parties: “You would do well to take a bath!” he will answer, spitefully: “I am a Hindoo!” This, being interpreted, means that the man scrupulously observes the many washings that the law enjoins. But those washings are something like the mumbling of a formal prayer. Indeed, the high-caste Hindoo may not, like the Pharisee of old, eat except he wash.

SOMETHING HOT FOR A COLD
Doctor to lady patient – “You should take something hot for your cold.”
Indolent patient – “Well, in what form shall I take it, doctor?”
Doctor – “Considering you have so little exercise, I should say you would derive the most good from it if you took it in the shape of a flatiron.” – [Boston Budget]

GIANTS OF THE FOREST - SOMETHING ABOUT THE CALIFORNIA REDWOOD TREE
Twenty-Five Thousand Feet Of Lumber From A Single Specimen
The Redwood of California is the second largest and third loftiest tree of the known world. It reaches its greatest perfection upon the seaward slopes and along the transverse ravines of the Coast Mountains of the northern and central parts of the state. It is occasionally found scattered or clumped among other growths, but is generally massed in dense forests. It grows so high, branches so thickly and stands so close as to darken even noonday brightness into shadowy evening twilight among the huge, monumental trunks below.
Fog seems its favorite food. The lofty, thick and spreading tops form vast and swift condensers of the heavy fogs which descend in local daily rains, forming pools which often remain till high noon even in hottest days of the dryest season. Where the trees have been cut away, with no provision for regrowth, springs have dried up and streams have failed.
The name is one of those simple, obvious, Saxon christenings which every spectator understands the moment he sees the color of the wood. Its hue show all varieties of red, from the most delicate pink of the finest cedar to the deepest and darkest shades of the richest mahogany. In some cases its reddish-browns rival those of black walnut, while under long exposure to the weather it takes on a blackness equal to that of ebony. In texture and appearance the wood is occasionally waved, cur led, flecked, veined, nottled, twisted and interwoven in the most varied, intricate and beautiful manner. Indeed, some specimens show all these varieties of formation combined. Its knots, roots and bu rls furnish veneers as exquisitely beautiful as those of the most costly imported woods. If they came from some distant foreign land, fairly staggering under some polysyllable, unpronounceable name, our cabinetmakers, artists in carving, and their wealthy patrons would esteem them almost priceless. Its grain and density vary from those of the softest pine to those of the densest beech. When wet or unseasoned the wood is often enormously heavy. Specimens have been known to sink instantly. The thickness of the bark varies from four to twelve inches. Its textures resembles that of the famous Sequoias, or big tress, which are but a gigantic species of the Redwood.
In height the California Redwood allows but two other vegetable growths to look down upon it. Those are its lofty relative above alluded to and the Australian Eucalyptus. It has been known to reach 320 feet; quite often 250; very commonly 200 to 225. In diameter specimens reaching twenty feet have been authentically measured. Thousands of trees now standing in the newly opened Loma Prieta and others districts girt from thirty to forty feet. The logs from these trees are often so large that they have to be blasted into halves and even quarters before the wood-teams and sawmills can handle them. One tree yielded seventeen logs each twelve feet long, and the upper one six feet through at the smaller end. It is true that these stories may seem incredibly “big” to the Eastern reader, but the trees themselves are very much bigger, as the incredulous may easily satisfy themselves by visiting the localities already named.
Twenty-five thousand feet of lumber from a single tree is very common. In the foggier and moister northern counties the average from each tree is fully one half greater.
For posts, sills, ties, flumes, aqueducts, and sewers the wood is the best known. It is also admirably adapted to the inside finish of halls, dining rooms, billiard rooms, music-rooms, libraries, churches, cars and steamships, as well as for many forms of cabinet-making.
When exposed to the weather without paint or oil, it turns nearly black. It has also the remarkable quality of shrinking cutwise, and , what is still more remarkable in the same log different year’s growths sometimes shrink un-equally. Sparks and cinders of burning redwood, falling upon flat or sloping surfaces, even shingle roofs, go out at once. Shingles of it ignite with great difficulty from sparks of other wood. It seems to be naturally fireproof in the midst of exposure which would quickly kindle other woods.
The beautiful redwood is already annually supplying a constantly increasing demand in our Easter cities, while a new and wealthy syndicate is exporting millions of feet to Europe. To her already vast income from the great staples, wheat, wine and wool, the Golden State now adds a new source of wealth in the regular and increasing export of the valuable and beautiful timber and lumber of this queen of the vegetable kingdom, the California Redwood. – [San Francisco Call]

EGGS IN IRELAND
Seeing that some three-fourths of the whole population of Ireland are more or less connected with or engaged in agricultural pursuits, there is probably no question more often asked daily by at least 1,000,000 of the population of Ireland than, “What is the price of eggs?” From the moment the well-known “Cluck, cluck” is heard from the hen announcing the production of an egg there is a rush made for it, which never ceases until the empty shell is thrown into the ash-bin. That egg is bartered and rebartered, sold and sold again, many times before it is introduced to the breakfast table. Many lies are told about its age, some about its size, many more about its price. Eggs are bought by the dozen and by the hundred of a score. In some parts of Ireland, notably in Dublin market, the hundred counts one hundred and twenty-four. The trade is divided mainly into two classes – buyers and shippers or exporters. The former are again subdivided into two other classes – dealers and shopkeepers. Buyers sell direct to the shippers; shippers export direct either to customers in Scotland, England, or Wales, or to an agent or broker there, who sells for him on commission. The buyer is a man or woman owning, or in many cases hieing, a donkey, mule, or horse, and going from one farmer’s house to another buying their eggs for money; or, in many cases, giving foods, such as groceries, needles, thread, and other like useful articles, in barter for eggs. Dealers are a smaller class of buyers. They are mostly old women who have what is called a “dealing,” that is a small shop, which from ten to thirty shillings would stock, their husbands or children being of the laboring class. These poor dealers buy up from 300 to 400 eggs weekly, mostly obtaining the same by barter. These they usually send in by a donkey cart in a basket resembling a fish-woman’s creel, once a week, to the town where the nearest shipper resides; or sometimes, if needy, will sell for a less price than would be had from the shipper to a well-to-do buyer. Even in the humblest walks of life there is pride, and the poorest dealers will not sell to any one but a shipper, unless they are very badly off for ready money. – [Chambers’ Journal]

THE VITALITY OF SEEDS
The seeds of the willow will not germinate after having been once dry. The seeds of coffee and various other plants do not germinate after having been kept for any considerable time. Wheat over two centuries old has been found quite fit for food, but the grains usually lost their power of growth after a lapse of seven years. Specimens of rye and what known to be 185 years old could not be induced to germinate. “The stories of ‘mummy wheat’ sprouting after having lain dormant in Egyptian tombs for thousands of years are, to say the least of them, very dubious,” declared Dr. Robert Brown, F. L. S. “No well-authenticated instances of such finds are extant, while among other articles sold by the Arabs to credulous travelers, as coming out of the same tomb as the ancient wheat, have been dahlia bulbs and maize, the deposition of which in the receptacle from which they were said to be extracted necessitates the belief that 3000 years ago the subjects of the Pharaohs were engaged in commerce with America.” When kept dry and protected from light and air, however, seeds have been known to retain their vitality from some lengthened periods. Seeds of the bean and pea order have sprouted after 100 years storage in an herbarium, and many similar instances – most of them somewhat doubtful – have been recorded.

GOOD NIGHT – [Thomas Hatley Aldrich]
Good night? I have to say good night!
To such a host of peerless things!
Good night unto that fragile band
All queenly with its weight of rings
Good night to fond uplifted eyes.
Good night to chestnut braids of hair,
Good night unto the perfect mouth
And all the sweetness nestled there!
The snowy hand detains me – then
I’ll have to say good night again.

But there will come a time, my love!
When, if I read our stars aright,
I shall not linger by this porch
With my adieus. “Till then, good night!
You wish the time were now? And I,
You do not blush to wish it so?
You would have blushed yourself to death
To own so much a year ago.
What! Both these snowy hands? Ah! Then
I’ll have to say good night again.

HUMOROUS

Waiter – “Will you have some salt with your eggs?” Guest – No thanks; they ain’t at all fresh.”

German photographers are now making photographs of lightning. They are said to be striking likenesses.

A Western poet, it is said, thinks more of his wife than he does of his poems. So does every one that ever read his poems.

A philosopher who had married an ignorant girl used to call her “brown sugar,” because, he said, she was sweet and unrefined.

Girls in search of material for crazy quilts should apply to the railroad companies. They throw away thousands of old ties every year.

A subscriber asks: “When is the best time to marry?” Mr. Enpeque says the best time for such a ceremony is the 31st of February.

Its many years ago since the poet wrote that “beauty draws us with a single hair.” It generally takes a forty-five dollar switch to do it now.

Why the engagement was broken: “And dearest Augustus, when we are married you will give me al the pin money I want, won’t you, darling?” “Yes, duckie, you shall buy all the pins you can use.” “Oh, deary, that’s so nice of you. There’s a beautiful diamond pin down at the jeweler’s that I’ve wanted for ever so long.”

ECLIPSES OF THE SUN
The eclipses of the sun, says the Chicago Inter-Ocean, are caused by the moon’s passing between the earth and the sun. If the two bodies followed the same track in the heavens there would be an eclipse every new moon, but as the orbits are inclined, the moon generally passes above or below the sun, and there is no eclipse. Occasionally the sun is near one of the moon’s nodes – the points where the planes of the orbits intersect – when it passes, and then an eclipse occurs. If the sun and the moon were always at the same position with regard to the earth, and always the same distance from it, the eclipses would always be of the same size. But as the se conditions vary, so do the appearances of the eclipse. For instance, let us suppose that tat the time of an eclipse the center of the moon happens to pass direct over the center of the sun. If the moon is near the point in the orbit which is at the least distance from the earth her apparent diameter will exceed that of the sun, and the latter will be quite hidden from view, and we have what is known as a total eclipse. Of course, even in this case, the eclipse will only appear total to the observers near the line joining the centers of the sun and moon. If, however, the three bodies occupy similar positions, but the distance between the earth and moon is greater, the whole of the sun is not covered by the moon, and the eclipse is annular. If the moon, however, does not pas centrally over the sun, it can only hide a part of the later on one side or other, and the eclipse is said to be particular. As the moon’s orbit is quite elliptical, the distance of that body from the earth varies greatly. Its least distance is 221,000 miles, its greatest 259,600 miles.

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THE LAMAR NEWS

Thursday Jan. 28, 1886
ANNOUNCEMENT – For Circuit Clerk
We are authorized to announce S. M. SPRUILL as a candidate for the office of Circuit Clerk of Lamar County. Subject to the Democratic Party. Election in August 1886.

The Anniston Hot Blast favors taxing dogs and bachelors.

For the first time in sixty years the whisky saloons are closed up at Decatur, awaiting the action of the people in the election soon to be held.

The Gainsville Messenger wants a prohibition law passed by the next legislature which will apply to the whole of Sumter County.

COUNTY CONVENTIONS
In some counties in the state the people are holding conventions at this early day for the purpose of nominating county officers and electing delegates to the state convention, which meets about the first of June.
This movement is not premature for the reason of the many responsible officers to fill. Besides the usual election of state officers, the Supreme bench is to fill this year. This year we elect a Senator, Representative, Judge of Probate, Clerk of the Circuit Court and County Supt. of Ed. Chancellors and Circuit Judges are to elect also.

The Gadsden News is not much in love with President Cleveland. The News says: Every rose has its thorn and every sweet its bitter. Cleveland has treated the south with respect, made the cattle kings turn loose the public lands which they had unlawfully grabbed, scared the Mormons out of their boots, protected American interests in Central America, put a crimp in the chronic office-seekers, and done many other things; but he is using his influence to depress the value of silver, and he also allows Fred Douglas, a high-toned negro with a white wife, to remain in a public office.”

WILSON CANDIESS, one of the most poverty-stricken young men of Galveston, applied to Col. Richley for the hand of his daughter. “In the first place I’ve sent in my application to President Cleveland for a position in one of the departments.” “Have you any other resources?” asked the prospective father-in-law. “You bet I have. I’m seriously thinking about giving up smoking.” “Pal” exclaimed the young lad,” that’s enough for us to begin with, ain’t it?” – [Texas Siftings]

THE TAX ON MARRYING
A young friend hands us the following article clipped from the Baltimore Sun with the assurance that it speaks his sentiments. It is better comment on the laws of Maryland than on those of Alabama, the marriage license tax being 4.50, nevertheless he says this sacred and commendable relation is taxed just double in the State of Alabama.
“Our tax upon marriage license is heavier than is imposed anywhere else in the country. Yet marriage is a thing which ought not to be taxed at all. Whatever may be the case in the older and more crowded countries of the world, the doctrines of Malthus would be out of place among us who have still vacant lands to settle. Increase of population is still to be wished for, and especially that increase which is due to births on our own soil in the interest of good morals and public order it is well that as large a proportion as possible should marry. What right has the state to tax marriages? In marrying a man simply exercises one of those rights to which, in virtue of his being a man and independent of laws and states, he is entitled. He pays his taxes upon his property as do his fellow citizens, and as a tax that is all he owes the state. As a license, the present marriage license fee is equally indefensible. A man carrying on business requires more protection from the state and greater privileges, which it alone can give or withhold, and if the state wishes to make him pay for it has the right to do so. Whether or not it is good policy to do so is another question. But when a man marries he imposes no new burdens on the state. On the other hand, nine times in ten he feels more than ever he did before his responsibly as a citizen, and therefore becomes a better one. Upon what ground, then is the tax defended? The argument which is most frequently advanced by its defenders is that a man who cannot raise four dollars and a half has no business to marry; which may be true or may not, but which, true or not, has nothing to do with the question. The point is not whether he ought to be able to raise it, but whether he ought to be required to pay it.”
Since the house has passed the Hoar presidential bill, it now goes to President, who with a stroke of his pen makes Secretary Bayard the next present of the United States in case anything happens to Mr. Cleveland.

BRAVERY
Says the Memphis Avalanche with force: “When two respectable citizens meet on the street and pop at each other with pistols, that is folly. I may be bravery, but half the time it isn’t. When an humble railroad man, like the North Alabama hero, swims a freezing river with the thermometer down to zero to flag a coming passenger train and save the lives of men, women and children, that is chivalry. That man is the very pink of chivalry.

THE SUCCESSION BILL.
On yesterday the President approved the bill providing for the presidential succession, known as the Hoar bill. The bill is therefore law, and the matter is probably now settled for many years to come. The main provision of the bill is that in case the President and Vice-President both shall die, resign or become disabled, the duties of the office shall devolve on the Secretary of State. In case the Secretary of State shall die, resign or become disabled, then the Secretary of the Treasury shall be next in line of succession and so on through the entire cabinet. This removes the Presidency from all but the barest possibility of becoming vacant without an incumbent ready provided by law, and we shall at least have no fears of an interregnum. By the new law Mr. Bayard steps into Mr. Sherman’s shoes and Mr. Manning into those of Mr. Carlisle, so far as the Presidency is concerned.
One of the principal merits of the law is that it keeps the line of succession in the party last successful at the polls. We shall have no such thing as a Democratic President and Vice President dying and bequeathing the office to a Republican President pro tem of the Senate or a Republican Speaker of the House, or vice versa, the danger being one never encountered but frequently staring us in the face during nearly a century. Altogether, the law, though open to objections, is decidedly better than the one whose place it takes, and which has been acknowledged bad since its enactment. – [Montgomery Advertiser]

GRAND AND PETIT JURORS

Below we give a list of Grand and Petit Jurors drawn for the Spring term of the Circuit Court.

GRAND JURORS

R. C. RECTOR Town Beat Farmer
H. A. BROCK Lawrence “
D. H. SIZEMORE Sizemore “
W. T. STANFORD Brown’s “
A. P. COOPER Henson’s “
W. L. YOUNG Millville “
W. M. STONE Pine Springs “
G. W. WOODS Moscow “
GEO. W. BETTS Betts “
F. M. RICHARDS Trull’s “
T. J. DUNCAN Vail’s “
J. J. HEMPHILL Millport “
ELIJAH HOWELL Steen’s “
J. J. BRANYAN Strickland “
A. P. ODOM Wilson’s “

PETIT JURORS FOR FIRST WEEK

AARON PENNINGTON Town Beat Farmer
JOHN WARD “ “
JOHN S. WOFFORD “ “
J. T. MCMANUS “ “
J. F. COLLINS Lawrence “
R. S. WILSON Sizemore “
R. E. BRADLEY Brown’s “
W. W. PURNELL Good “
J. V. CRUMP Henson’s “
J. B. BERRYHILL Millville “
O. M. THOMPSON “ “
W. L. SANDLIN Pine Springs “
MARVEL THOMPSON Moscow “
J. R. BANKHEAD “ “
C. C. WATSON “ “
J. A. YOUNG Military Springs “
A. L. HARRINGTON Betts “
W. P. FALKNER Trull’s “
A. J. ATKINS Vail’s “
J. N. PROPST Millport “
G. B. MOORE Steen’s “
WILEY RAWLAND Strickland “
JAS M. WILSON Wilson’s “
S. M. CURRY “ “

PETIT JURORS FOR SECOND WEEK

T. N. LOGAN Town Beat Farmer
O. L. GUYTON “ “
JOEL F. SANDERS “ “
HIRAM HOLLIS, JR. “ “
J. M. OAKS Lawrence “
J. F. KIRK Sizemore “
JNO. T. HILL Brown’s “
F. M. LACEY Good “
H. C. ELLIOTT Henson’s “
J. A. DAVIDSON Millville “
JAMES RIGGAN Millville “
G. W. BLACK Pine Springs “
GEO. E. BROWN Moscow “
T. M. WOODS Moscow “
R. P. HANKINS Moscow “
J. H. JORDAN Military Springs “
S. P. KEMP Betts “
FRANK BREWER Trull’s “
A. J. VAIL Vail’s “
W. H. CONNER Millport “
J. W. RICHARDSON Steen’s “
J. N. COLLINS Strickland “
J. H. CASH Wilson’s “
T. J. YARBROUGH Wilson’s “

BARBER SHOP. For a clean shave or shampoo call on G. W. BENSON, in rear of Dr. Burn’s office, Vernon Ala.

Masonic. Vernon Lodge., NO. 289 A. F. and A. M. Regular Communications at Lodge Hall 1st Saturday, 7 p.m. each month.
J. D. MCCLUSKEY, W.M.
M. W. MORTON, Sec.
Vernon Lodge., No. 45, I. O. O. F. meets at Lodge Hall the 2d and 4th Saturdays at 7 ½ p.m. each month.
W. G. MIDDLETON, N. G.
M. W. MORTON, sect’y

Largest Cheapest Best stock of dress goods, dress trimmings, ladies and misses jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, boots, shoes, and hats, tin ware, etc. etc. at rock-bottom figures at A. COBB & SONS.

NEW MUSIC BOOKS – “GOOD TIDINGS COMBINES” By A. J. Showalter. This is the latest and best of all the Sunday School books for popular use. It contains 36 pages, and on ever page there is a gem of sacred song. Bound in substantial boards. Price 25 cents per copy; $2.50 per dozen. THE NATIONAL SINGER. By A. J. Showalter & J. H. Teaney. This book is the result of much careful work by the most experience musicians who write for character notes. It is the bet of all the singing school books, as it contains enough new music of every grade and variety to interest and instruct any school or convention, and also all of the more popular standard hymn tunes of the church. This is a feature that is wanting in every other popular character notebook. The National Singer supplies this and every other want to make an ideal signing schoolbook. Price 75 cents; $7.50 per dozen. THE MUSIC TEACHER. A new monthly musical Journal edited by A. J. Showalter. Every student of music, chorister and teacher should read good musical journals. The Music Teacher aims to instruct as well as entertain. Price 50 cents per year. Specimen copies free. Agents wanted. We can furnish any other music or music book no matter where published. It would also be in your interest to write us when you want to buy a piano or organ, or any thing else in the music line. – A. J. Showalter & Co., Dalton, Ga.

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Mr. G. A., Prochl, New Portage, Summit County, Ohio, writes: “My wife has been sick for about five years. In the first place the doctor called it leucorrhaea, and treated it about one year, and she grew worse, and turned to ulceration of the womb, and was treated for that tow years, but she grew worse and the doctor gave her up. Then I employed Dr. Underwood, one of the best doctors of Akron, but under his treatment she grew worse. She was paralyzed; she had lost all of the sense of feeling and her eyesight. She could not walk for nearly two years. About six months ago Underwood gave her up. She tried your Peruna. She has taken three bottles, and it did more good than any other medicine. The paralysis has about left her; her eyesight is getting better. We will continue the use of Peruna until she is well.”
Mr. Isaac Nicodemus, Schellsburg, Bedford County, Pa., writes: “I am induced, by a sense of duty to the suffering, to make a brief statement of your remarkable help, as a sufferer of catarrh in my head and throat. I doctored with one of the best physicians in our place for that dreaded disease, catarrh, and found no relief. But in 1883, I lost my speech, and was not able to do any kind of work for near three months. I could neither eat nor sleep. Peruna and Manalin did wonders for me. I used three bottles of Peruna and one of Manalin, and now I am in better health than I have been for ten years, and I can heartily recommend your medicine to all suffering from that dread disease, catarrh.
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ATTORNEYS
NESMITH & SANFORD THOS. B. NESMITH, Vernon, Ala. J. B. SANFORD, Fayette C. H., Ala. Attorneys-at-Law. Will practice as partners in the counties of Lamar and Fayette, and separately in adjoining counties, and will give prompt attention to all legal business intrused to them or either of them.

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.

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.

PHOTOGRAPHS – A. R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss. Price list:
Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00
Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00
Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00
Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00
Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00
Satisfaction given or money returned.

RESTAURANT. Aberdeen, Mississippi. Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to call on MRS. L. M. KUPPER, who keeps Restaurant, Family Groceries, Bakery, and Confectionery, Toys, Tobacco, and Cigars. Also Coffee and sugar. Special attention paid to ladies.

E. W. BROCK, Vernon C.H. & Crew’s Mill: Cheap dealer in boots, shoes, hats, clothing, dry good, & notions; hardware, cutlery, Queensware, Glassware, Inks, Pat. Medicines, Oils, Dyestuffs, Perfumery, Extracts, and groceries of all kind. Real estate in various parts of the county. My motto is “Quick sales and small profits.” I request all persons to call and price my large and well-selected stock, before purchasing elsewhere. I will sell as low or lower than any other house in the county.

Newspaper Advertising. A book of 100 pages. The best book for an advertiser to consult, be he experienced or otherwise. It contains lists of newspapers and estimates of the cost of advertising. The advertiser who wants to spend one dollar, finds in it the information he requires, while for him who will invest one hundred thousand dollars in advertising, a scheme is indicated which will meet his every requirement, or can be made to do so by slight changes easily arrived at by correspondence. 149 editions have been issued. Sent, post-paid, to any address for 10 cents. Write to Geo. P. Rowell & Co., Newspaper Advertising Bureau. 10 Spruce St. Printing House Squ. New York.

CADY’S LIVERY FEED AND SALE STABLE Columbus, Mississippi. stock fed and cared for at moderate charges.

New goods, new prices. W. L. JOBE’S, the jeweler. Columbus, Mississippi. I have just returned from the North with a large and well selected stock of watches, clocks, jewelry, and silver plated ware which I will sell as low as the quality of the goods permit. When in Columbus don’t fail to call and examine my goods and prices. Cash orders will receive prompt attention. – W. L. JOBE.

WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama. Board and Lodging can be had at the above House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor.

New Cash Store, Vernon – Alabama. We have just opened a large, fresh, and well selected stock of General Merchandise, consisting of dry goods, notions, family groceries, &c. We have on hand also, a large and well selected stock of School Books. The bottom knocked out in prices. We only ask a trial. Chickens, eggs, butter, and all kinds of country produce wanted, and on hand. – GEO. W. RUSH & Co.

The Great Bazaar! Aberdeen, Mississippi. S W Corner, Commerce and Meridian Streets. Crockery, china, glassware, tin ware, fancy goods, stationery, jewelry, notions, candies, toys and Holiday goods of all kinds at wholesale or retail. Special attention given to the wholesale department. Trial orders solicited and prices guaranteed. Terms: Thirty days, net, 2 percent off for cash. No charge for package. THOS. A. SALE & CO.

New Store! M. H. HODGE, Kennedy, Alabama. Has a large and well selected stock of general merchandise consisting in part of dry goods, groceries, notions, hardware, Queensware, boots, and shoes, Highest Market Price paid for cotton.

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.

STAR STABLE – Aberdeen, Mississippi. A. A. POSEY & BRO., having consolidated their two Livery Stables, are now offering many additional advantages at this well-known and conveniently located Livery Stable. Owing to their consolidation, they have on hand a number of good second-hand buggies which they are selling cheap.

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. The most wonderful family remedy ever known. For internal and external use. Parson’s pills make new, rich blood. Make hens lay….(to small to read)

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY JAN. 28, 1886

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.

STATE OFFICERS
Governor E. A. O’NEAL
Auditor M. C. BARKLEY
Treasurer FRED H. SMITH
Alternate ------ T. N. MCCLELLAN
Supt. of Public Education S. PALMER
Secretary of State ELLIS PHELAN

JUDICIARY
B. O. BRISKELL Chief Justice Supreme Court
G. W. STONE Associate Justice Supreme Court
R. M. SOMERVILLE Associate Justice Supreme Court
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

CHANCERY COURT
THOMAS COBBS Chancellor

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
JAMES M. MORTON Register
B. F. REED Co. Supt. of Education
Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALVERT WILSON

CITY OFFICERS
L. M. WIMBERLEY Mayor and Treasurer
G. W. BENSON Marshall
Board of Aldermen – T. R. 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 3 o’clock p.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt.

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 30.00
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, 2 ½ cents per line.

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

We wish it distinctly understood that in no case does the mere publication of a communication commit this paper to an endorsement thereof.

LOCAL BREVITIES

Advertising is the key to success.

The high school, we are glad to learn is receiving large accessions.

Justice’s court is doing a rushing business these days.

The rain prevented preaching Sunday.

Despite the bad weather the hammer and saw is still heard.

The REV. G. L. HEWITT and family have moved into the parsonage.

The roads are almost impassible in many places in the county.

JOHN W. SIZEMORE Esq. gave us a pleasant call a few days ago.

A large number of Vernonites went out in the country on Monday to attend a Sheriff’s sale but the matter was settled and no sale made.

We are requested by our postmaster to say that several letters and postal cards have been received here addressed to MRS. MINNITE GREY, remain uncalled for.

GEO. W. RUSH & CO. pays highest market price for barter and sell you groceries and dry goods at astonishing low prices.

The News is under lasting obligations to the Times Democrat, the most enterprising paper in the South, for an illustrated and unabridged statistical Almanac for 1886. But few things in the southern state but have received attention.

Circuit Court will convene on first Monday and first day of March.

Read three new legal ads in today’s paper.

DIED: On Sunday last, after a long and painful illness, little son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. CORBELL.

Thanks to the Pope Mfg. Co., of Boston, for the handsomest Calendar of the season.

The roads in this vicinity are in a condition that can be fitly described only by the term awful.

The literary society in connection with the high school was formerly organized last Friday night.

PETER BROCK, colored, was lodged in jail Tuesday. Charged of larceny and two cases of carrying concealed pistols.

We extend thanks to the HON. E. C. BETTS, Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture of Alabama for Bulletins Nos. 2 and 3 of second series.

W. A. YOUNG Esq. was prevented from attending church last Sunday morning by his shoes being mysteriously gone.

The circulation of the News is steadily growing and will go to almost every home in the county before the close of the year.

Mr. R. W. COBB has returned from his trip to New Orleans, where he took a large drove of cattle last week, and is well pleased with his trip.

ROBERT J. YOUNG has been appointed Storekeeper and Gauger for the Dist. of Alabama. No better appointment could have been made.

Some of our citizens have had their new shoes stored away until friend Y’s could be found. We take pleasure in notifying such parties that they can now wear new shoes with impunity as the lost are found.

JAMES A. ALLEN, Vernon, Ala having recently attended the Alabama Normal Music School is prepared to teach classes in Lamar and adjoining counties. Write him for terms and have a class this winter.

We have received an interesting communication from Moscow, but as the writer failed to furnish his genuine name in connection with the fictitious signature, we necessarily decline its publication.

Rev. T.W. SPRINGFIELD is again at his post, after a couple of weeks absence on account of sever burns on the hands, received during the late cold snap in rescuing his daughter from being burned, her dress having caught on fire and was rapidly enveloping her in flames.

There are eight announcements for county officers in Franklin county. Three for Judge of Probate, four for Clerk of the Circuit Court and one for Co. Sup of Ed. Why are Lamar candidates so behind our neighboring counties?

We are in receipt of the proceedings of the River and Harbor convention held in the city of Tuskaloosa on the 17th of Nov. 1885. The book contains sixty-eight pages besides maps of the coal fields. This book should be extensively circulated containing as it does such an amount of valuable information about Alabama.

On Tuesday Mr. ROBERT J. YOUNG received new of his appointment to the office of Storekeeper and Gauger for the District of Alabama. Yesterday he was in town executing his bond. The amount that his sureties justified in on the bond was eighteen thousand and five hundred dollars, the amount of the bond being five thousand dollars.

The first warm day hatched out a new candidate who was traveling with the Assessor and Collector, ascertaining facts as to whether he can handle the public funds. More good news for our welcome visitor – [Fayette Journal]

A Special from Tuscumbia to the Advertiser, says WILLIAM COOPER Esq. celebrated the 84th anniversary of his birthday yesterday. He is one of the most remarkable men in the world. Although 84 years old he is as quick and vigorous seemingly as a boy. He mounted his “gray pony” one morning not long since and rode to Belgreen, a distance of twenty-five miles, over a very bad road, and attended to a law suit, and returned to Tuscumbia same day; rose early next morning and went to Moulton. He is said to be the oldest practicing lawyer in the State.

MARRIED: At the residence of JOHN BIRMINGHAM, on the 21st Jan. 1886, Mr. FLEX F. GODFREY and Miss MARY L. BIRMINGHAM, by Rev. AARON PENNINGTON.

On the 14th inst. at the residence of M. W. LOYD, by Rev. G. M. G. DUNCAN, Mr. MAJOR C. LOGGAIN and Miss DORA E. LOYD.

[Birmingham Age]
Candidates are coming out thick and fast in Lamar County, but the NEWS notifies them that they must pay in advance for their announcements. The News head is level enough to know that you can’t credit a candidate, because all of his bills are made with the idea of paying when he gets the office, and the NEWS knows that by t one man can occupy an office at a time.

There was a man once on a time who thought him wondr’ous wise,
He swore by all the fabled gods he’d never advertise.
But the goods were advertised ere long, and thereby hands a tale,
The ads was set in nonparell, and headed “Sheriff’s Sale” – Ex.

Alabama is becoming more and more prominent in the general congress. This is the result of her policy of retaining men with experience in her congressional service. She begins each new term where she left off the last term.

EDITING A NEWSPAPER
From the Louisville Courier-Journal
Some people estimate the ability of a periodical and the talent of its original matter. It is comparatively an easy task for a frothy writer to string out a column of words upon any and all subjects. His ideas may flow in one weak, washy, everlasting flood, and the command of his language may enable him to string them together like bunches of onions, and yet his paper may be but a meager and poor concern. Indeed, the mere writing part of editing a paper is but a small portion of the work. The care, the time employed in selecting is far more important, and the fact of a good editor is better shown by his selections than anything else and that, we know, is half the battle. But we have said, and editor ought to be estimated, his labor understood and appreciated, by the general conduct of his paper – its tone, its uniform, consistent course, aims manliness, dignity, and its prosperity.

ALABAMA NEWS

Epizootic is raging among the horses in Montgomery.

The State of Alabama has 6,000 more females than males.

It is reported that the Talladega Mountain home is to publish a daily edition.

Gainsville ahs a new paper called the Messenger and a very creditable sheet it is tool.

A fire at Opelika, last Friday morning, destroyed the Times office, with all its outfit, with no insurance.

A convention of postmasters will be held in Gadsden on the first Tuesday in February.

Maj. J. G.HARRIS, of Livingston has been appointed Register of the Land Office at Montgomery Alabama.
The salary of the mayor of Attalia, Ala. has been reduced from $300 to $100 and the marshal’s from $500 to $300. Cause – Attala has gone dry.

The Times of Eufala says: The old negro man, riding a large white steer, saddled and bridled, with saddle bags under him and an old blue umbrella tied on behind, passed through the streets again yesterday, to the amusement of all who saw him. He was evidently on his way to some distant point westward.

Some five or six weeks before Christmas Hon. D. A. ADERHOLD, of Springville, had some cattle sent to his stock farm on Blount Mountain. One of the cows escaped with a plow line tied to her and dragging on the ground. After getting off in the woods, and the parties losing sight of her, the line became entangles and fastened her to a tree. On Christmas day Mr. Aderhold, in passing through the woods, happened to come upon her. She was still alive and had lived there without food or water for thirty or forty days. He says she was a perfect skeleton, but was fat when he lost her. He approached her to untie her and she was perfectly wild. He cut the rope and she ran off a bluff some twenty feet high. He had no idea but that she was dead, but when he got to her found her alive. She is doing well. – [Birmingham Age]

It is now said Mr. Tilden put up the money for the canvass that made Hill Governor of New York.

For a compete stock of clothing, hats, shirts, &c., &c., go to Butler & Topps Columbus, Miss.

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Primary: Embracing Orthography, Reading, Writing, Primary Geography, Primary Arithmetic, per month………….$1.25
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SHERIFF’S SALE
Within legal hours on Monday, February 8th, 1886, as Sheriff of Lamar County Alabama, I will sell at the court house door of said county to the highest bidder for cash, 2 gray mules, 1 bay mule, 1 gray pided mule as the property of G. W. METCALFE, and 1 clay-back horse the property W. R. METCALFE, to satisfy 2 executions, the first in favor of S. E. MINGA and against W. S. METCALFE, and others and the second in favor of the Bodine Manufacturing Co. and against G. W. METCALFE, and W. R. METCALFE issued from the circuit court of said county.
This January 27, 1886.
- S. F. PENNINGTON, Sheriff

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT
The State of Alabama – Probate Court – Lamar county
27th day of January, 1886
Estate of CHARLES C. LOYD, this day came THOMAS B. NESMITH, administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts and vouchers for final settlement of his administration. It is ordered that the 15th day of February A. D. 1886 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement, if they think proper.
- ALEXANDER COBB
- Judge of Probate of said County

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Land Office at Huntsville Ala. – January 23d, 1886
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar County, Ala at Vernon, on March 13th, 1886; viz: No. 11476 AARON C. WILEMON, for the N ½ of NW ¼ Sec 28 T 12 R 15 W.
He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz:
J. R. RAY, WILLIAM WHITE, C. V. JOHNSON and JOHN W. JOHNSON, all of Detroit, Lamar County, Ala.
- W. C. WELLS, Register

ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County, Alabama, I will offer for sale at Kennedy on the 6th day of February next the following lands N W ¼ of S W ¼ and S ½ of S W ¼ Sec 10 N W ¼ and N W ¼ of S W ¼ and S E ¼ of S W ¼ and S W ¼ of N E ¼ and N E ¼ of S E ½ Sec 15 T 17 R14, as the lands belonging to the estate of C. K. COOK, deceased. Said sale will be made for one-0sixth in cash and the remainder on a credit of twelve (12) months from day of sale. The purchaser will be required to give note with at least two good securities for purchase money. This the 4th day of January 1886.
- J. G. TRULL, Administrator of the estate of C. K. COOK

FINAL SETTLEMENT
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, January 2nd, AD 1886
Estate of JAMES B. BANKHEAD, deceased, this day came JOHN B. ABERNATHY administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts, and vouchers for final settlement of his administration. It is ordered that the 30th day of January, AD 1886, be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement, if they think proper.
- ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate of said county.

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Land Office at Huntsville, Ala., Nov. 13, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar County at Vernon, Ala., on the 12tjh day of February, 1886, viz: No. 9862 ALFRED N. FRANKLIN, for the N ½ of N W ¼ Sec 19 T 12 and R 15 West. He names the following witnessed to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: J. W. PAUL, JOHN R. EVANS, JOHN H. RAY and S. M. LEE, all of Detroit, Lamar County, Alabama.
- WM. C. WELLS, Register

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (NOTICE NO. 4643)
Land Office at Montgomery, Ala. December 21st, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before Judge of the Probate Court at Vernon, Ala. on February 12th, 1885 (sic), viz: JEFFERSON G. SANDERS homestead, 10087 for the N W ¼ N W ¼ Section 8 T 15 R 15 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: J. E. PENNINGTON, HIRAM HOLLIS, JAMES W. TAYLOR, WILLIAM AUSTIN, all of Vernon, Ala.
- THOS. SCOTT, Register

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FOR THE FARM AND HOME

HOW TO LIFT PLANTS
Get some good rotted manure from the barnyard and mix it with equal parts of sandy loam. Then of the plants you are about to dig up, cut off all the longest branches and time very close. Don’t be afraid to cut it, as the more you cut off the sooner it will commence to grow again. Now dig it up, being careful not to break off any of the tender roots, as it is those that will supply the plant with the strength to start again. Get a pail of water and wash the soil completely off, dipping the plant up and down until all the soil has left the roots. This will remove all worms and ever rootlet touching the new soil will be ready to start. Then pot and water it, and stand it in the shade for at least three days. Ina short time the plant will commence to show signs of new life. – [Our Country Home]

CUTTING AND CURING CLOVER
Prof. S. A. Knapp gives the following directions for cutting and curing clover: Start the mower at 3 o’clock p. m. and cut until 8 in the evening. If it should rain the following day the clover would not be wilted enough to receive any great damage; should the weather be fair use the tedder from 10 to 12 the morning after the clover is cut; immediately after dinner rake into smah (sic) win-rows; place in shock before the dew falls; on the following day air and draw to barn. We have in red clover one of the most valuable fodder plants in the world, but our present method of curing by exposure for a long time to a hot sun reduces the crop in value to pod hay and in flavor to an insipid weed. A ton of the best clover hay costs the farmer less than one-third that of a ton of corn, and all things considered, its food value is about the same.

SAVE THE CORN STALKS
Of the many things I admire in my German neighbor, none excite my respect more than the very successful way in which he manages his corn stalks.
His plan does not differ from that generally adopted. He husks his corn in the field, ties the stalks into bundles, stands these bundles into stocks, and when dry, draws them into the barn, or makes them into a high, narrow stack, that is pretty much all roof. The Deacon and I do the same thin. The only difference is, that we propose to draw them in tomorrow, or the net day, or as soon as convenient, and the result is that something happens to postpone the work, and before we know it the stalks are wet, and we must wait until they get dry again. And sometimes we repeat this process of waiting for a convenient time, and November snow finds the stalks still in the field. Not so Mr. Jacobs. He does not wait. His stalks are frequently secure in the bar or stack before some of us commence to husk. His cows and young stock are in the field, picking up the stray ears and scattered fodder, before they are injured by the rain, and before we realize what has been done, the field is harrowed to level down the stubbs, and the next day the boys are ploughing a dn getting the land ready to sow barley next spring. – [Joseph Harris in Agriculturist]

“SWILL PORK”
There is in some localities a growing sentiment to the effect that producers of pork by wholesome processes should not be compelled to compete with the degraded product from city swill. Those who supply grass and corn cannot realize the profit gained by personas who, within easy reach of large towns, are enabled to secure garbage or hotel refuse at low rates or even for the hauling. The Massachusetts Ploughman considers this subject at length, intelligently, and shows that it touches not only producers, but consumers and the general welfare, and has even a bearing upon our export trade. First the passing swill-cart is “an indescribable stench” and a menace to health, as are also, to an aggravated degree, the hog-pens where this fermented or rotting slip is shoveled to the abused swine, amid “sickening odors” against which longsuffering, peace-loving neighbors hesitate to make complaint. Again, its use promotes disease – as hog-cholera and possible trichina – and the average housekeeper is not able to detect by appearance the difference between this meant and that fattened by decent methods. Moreover the swine maladies, spread from herd to heard, down stream or by other means of transit, cause the innocent to suffer, and millirate, withal, against the reputation of American pork products abroad. Our contemporary finds in these suggestive facts warrant for legislative restrictions upon sale, if not upon production; at least the objectionable product should be labeled “Swill pork,” so that buyers averse to taking risks may avoid it, and raiser s of grain-fed pigs be relieved from the unfair competition. – [New York Tribune]

TO THROW PLANTS FROM CUTTINGS
The old way of rooting cuttings in a small glass bottle filled with water is a good method when a hotbed cannot be used; but the bottle should not stand so close to the window as to become hot, and thus scald the rootlets. A little cotton wool within the rim of the bottle will prevent evaporation. In two or three weeks the roots will be plentiful, and then the cuttings may be transferred to thumb pots, or, if the season suits, into the beds. As each cutting is taken from the bottle, dip the roots into a little warm sand until each fiber is coated; this will keep them apart and prevent wilting. If pots are used, nearly fill them with a rich sandy compost, and press it to the sides, so as to leave room in the center. Put the roots in gently, and give the plant a little twist to spread the roots, or separate them with a hairpin. Then put in more soil, and press it about the roots. Tight pressing is one of the secrets of success in raising plants from cuttings. Water the young plants well, and shade them at first from the sun.
Cuttings can be also started in pots of sand compost, with a glass tumbler placed over them to confine the moisture, and keep from the sun for two or three days; then place the pots in the warmest window exposed to the southeast. Wet sand is also good for growing cuttings, and they will start quicker than in compost. A shallow pan is preferable; fill it up with sand (not sea sand) sopping wet, then press in the cuttings tightly, and keep them wet. When new leaves show themselves, in two or three days transplant into pots filled with light sandy loam. After shading a day or two, they may have ample sunshine and sufficient water to keep them moist. Cuttings taken from the fresh growth of a plant strike best. It is better to break off a branch of a geranium or verbena than to cut it (if it breaks readily). Cuttings of roses, heliotrope, etc., will grow better if taken off at the junction of the old and new wood, and should be cut off just below a joint or bud, as the roots start from that point; and if a bud is not left near or close to the base, the cutting is liable to decay in the soil. – [Scientific American]

HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Bake crackers until crisp to be eaten with oysters.

Corned beef and ham should be put in boiling water.

The luster of morocco is restored by varnishing it with the white of an egg. Apply with a sponge.

Stovepipes can be cleaned by putting a piece of zinc on the coals of a hot fire. The vapor produced carried off the soot by chemical decomposition.

By rubbing with a damp flannel dipped in the best whiting, the brown discoloration may be taken off cups in which custards have been baked.

Tar stains should be rubbed with lard or butter, and then be washed in warm suds. If you rub soap directly on any stain it will tend to set it.

RECIPES

SALMON SALAD – One cup canned salmon, one cup crackers broken into bits, one large onion chopped fine; salt and pepper. Moisten with vinegar. Stir all together lightly and serve.

INDIAN MEAL GRUEL – Boil one pint of water in a sauce pan, put one-half teaspoon salt in it. Mix two even tablespoons meal with enough cold water to smooth and thin it. Stir this into the boiling water. Boil gently, stir carefully half an hour, and add teaspoon or so of cream or milk if liked. Boil up after milk is added.

STUFFED EGGS – this is a good breakfast dish. Cut some hard-boiled eggs in halves. Take out the yolk and mash it smoothly with an equal quantity of granted ham, a little parsley, pepper and salt to taste, and a small lump of fresh butter. Fill the cup-like whites of the eggs with this mixture, pour over them a little melted butter and heat in the oven. Serve with each half egg placed on a neat square of bread nicely fired in butter.

TEA CAKES – Rub one heaped teaspoonful of baking powder into a pound of flour. Add two ounces of butter also rubbed in, a quarter of a pound of sugar and two ounces of currants. Mix it with two eggs well beaten and stirred into half a pint of buttermilk or new milk. Roll out and make of the quantity six tea cakes. Bake in a moderate oven, and when half done wash over with the yolk of an egg beaten up with a teaspoonful of milk. These tea cakes are very nice cut in slices and buttered cold for tea.

PEARLS OF THOUGHT
Wound no man’s feelings unnecessarily. There are thorns enough in the path of human life.

It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring.

Recollect what disorder hasty or imperious words from parents or teachers have caused in our thoughts.

Nothing is easier than fault finding. No talent, no self denial, no character is required to set up in the grumbling business.

A man who puts aside his religion because he is going into society is like one taking off his shoes because he is about to walk upon thorns.

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still night is full of magnificence, and for many it is more brilliant than day.

Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear as the bitter thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts that work no harm do terrify us more than men in steel with bloody purposes.

A good man is the best friend, and therefore is first to be chosen, longest to be retained and indeed never to be parted with, unless he ceases to be that for which he was chosen.

Life should be our only and great regard; for the first office of wisdom is to give things their due valuation, to estimate aright how much they are worth; and the second is to treat them according to their worthiness.

HE SAW HIS FATHER
“Father” he began, after taking the old man out back of the barn, “your years are many.”
“Yes, my son.”
“You have toiled early and late, and by the sweat of your brow you have amassed this big farm.”
“That’s so, William”
“It has pained me more than I can tell to see you, at your age, troubling yourself with the cares of life. Father, your declining days should be spent in the old arm-chair in the chimneys corner.”
‘Yes, William, they should.”
“Now, father, being you are old and feeble and helpless, give me a deed of the farm and you and mother live out your few remaining days with me and Sally.”
“William,” said the old man, as he pushed back his sleeves, “I think I see the drift of them remarks. When I’m ready to start for the poor house I’ll play fool and hand over the deed! William.”
“Yes, sir.”
“In order to dispel any delusion on your part that I’m old and feeble and helpless, I’m going to knock down half an acre of corn-stalks with your heels!”
And when the convention finally adjourned, William crawled to his nearest hay stack and cautiously whispered to himself:
“And Sally was to broach the same thing to ma at the same time! I wonder if she’s mortally injured or only crippled for life?” – [New York Sun]

FABLE OF THE RABBIT AND THE GOAT
A goat once approached a peanut stand kept by a rabbit, purchased five cents worth of peanuts, laid down a dime, and received a punched nickel in change. In a few days the goat came back, called for another pint of peanuts, and offered the same nickel in payment; but in the meantime had stopped the hole in it with a peg.
“I can’t take that nickel,” said the rabbit.
“This is the very nickel you gave me in change a few days ago,” replied the goat.
“I know it is,” continued the rabbit, “but I made no attempt to deceive you about it. When you took the coin the hole was wide open, and you could see it for yourself. In working that mutilated coin off on you I simply showed my business sagacity. But now you bring it back with the hole stopped up and try to pass it, with a clear intent to deceive. That is fraud. My dear goat, I’m afraid the grand jury will get after you if you are not more careful about little things of this sort.”
MORAL: This fable teaches that the moral quality of a business traction often depends upon the view you take of it. – [Life]

HER SORT OF A DOCTOR
“George, who is your family physician?”
“Dr. Smoothman.”
“What, that numbskull? How does it happen you employ him?”
“Oh, it’s some of my wife’s doings. She went to see him about a cold in her head, and he recommended that she wear another style of bonnet. Since then she won’t have any other doctor.” – [Chicago News]

GHASTLY RELICS – NOVEL COLLECTIONS INT EH ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM AT WASHINGTON
There is one place in Washington that very few sight-seers visit. It is a museum with a very extensive and novel collection, composed entirely of fragments of dead people, and it occupied the old Ford’s theatre, on Tenth street, in which Lincoln met his tragic death. The once gay theatre is now associated with skeletons and death. The first floor, where the pit was, is occupied by the clerical force of the medical department of the army. The dress circle contains the library and a few articulated skeletons, while the peanut gallery, where the street arabs (sic) used to assemble at night to applaud the acting and drop peanut hulls and orange peelings on the bald heads in the pit, is given up exclusively to the collection of fragments of dead men. There is seldom anybody in the museum except the attendant. At the entrance of the library a group of skeletons stand grinning a sepulchral welcome, those in front standing in a careless attitude, “too naked to be ashamed,” while those behind leer over their shoulders with an air of familiarity that is offensive to a person of delicate sensibilities.
Near the door is a sign and an index finger, which tells the visitor that the museum is upstairs, and these grinning, gibbering skeletons seem to feel a cynical satisfaction in directing the way to the upper room where are collected the relics of ruined men. One tall, fine-looking fellow stands with his foot on a skull. The rest stand with their toes turned in and their long, bony fingers spread out at their sides or twisted together. Some fo them are young, spry, dandified skeletons, with head erect and polished white foreheads and a full set of pure white teeth, while others are hollow-chested, snaggle-toothed, old creatures, and others again are black and shriveled up, like witch’s imps. They all have that offensive familiar grin, which seems to say that they hope to know you better later on.
Upstairs there are rows of glass cases all the way around the wall, and close together from east to west around the room, there are large glass bottles, like preserving jars. Some have human hearts in them; some hold the lungs and liver. Others hold kidneys, spleen, eyes, noses, ears of fingers of men who have been a long time dead. Among the spleens is that of Guiteau, which is a third larger than any of the rest. One case is devoted to arms and legs that have been amputated, and show how nice and slick the surgeon’s knife and saw went through. Some of them are all lacerated and torn to pieces by gunshot wounds – most of the exhibits are the scraps of men picked up off the battlefield. One heart has two big ounce bullets imbedded in it. Another ahs a deep gash in it and near by is a dirk knife. Another case is devoted to horrible looking hands and feet put up in glass jars. All are swelled up and lacerated. Some have the flesh torn away and the bone and sinews left bare. A solitary thumb reposes in a small bottle, while a little finger is crooked up in another. An eye torn from its socket by a musket ball is soaked in alcohol. Odds and ends and all sorts of fragments of dead people are collected there like the scraps for a crazy quilt.
But the chief part of the collection consists of small fragments of bones. There is the section of the backbone of Booth in a glass case not many feet from the spot where he shot Lincoln. There are all sorts of human bones shattered by shot and shell. Skulls with great big lead balls sticking in them; big bones with fragments of iron shells crushing them into powder; joints broken apart by musket balls. There are skulls, ribs, legs, and arms shattered and shivered by all sorts of missiles of war, and in some cases the lead and the bone have become welded together. There are over 9,000 specimens of bones fractured in curious ways by shot. There are plaster casts of different cuts of the human body that make the cases look like a butcher’s stall. Then there are more articulated skeletons. There is the great French skeleton, a giant in proportions, every bone as white as ivory, teeth all perfect like pearls, toes turned out, and palms of the hands extended with all the grace of a dancing master.
“Look at those teeth,” said one of the attendants to the reporter. “He is proud of those teeth. None but a French skeleton could have teeth like that. You can always tell a Frenchman by that. There’s a Yankee. None at all! Only one canine and half the jaw rotted away. That’s because they use too much tobacco. If Americans knew how it ruined their skeletons they wound; chew so much. A Frenchman has a right to be proud of his skeleton. I should be ashamed to be a skeleton without teeth. That’s a mighty fine looking woman there,” and he dusted the glass case that protected a set of delicately fashioned bones. “She’s French. See her teeth; like pearls. If you want to make a good skeleton take care of your teeth."
These articulated skeletons are the only actors now on the stage that used to afford amusement to Abraham Lincoln, and their bony fingers point out the spot where he met his death. – [Washington Star]

We often hear of goats eating circus posters and other luxuries, but they have one in Dracut that chewed up a horse’s tail. A sort of a swallow-tail goat, we should say. – [Lowell Citizen]

New York dudes now have their complexion touched up buy a cosmetic artist, their eyebrows penciled, their eyes brightened, and their moustaches dyed of blacked.

Well-drilled – A schoolhouse containing four hundred and eighty children was emptied in a minute and a halt, without the least disorder, in Springfield recently after an alarm of fire; but the pupils had often been drilled for it.

Best, easiest in use and cheapest. Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 50 cts.

The crop of northerners in Florida this winter is placed at 200,000 by the hotel keepers.

A Help to Good Digestion. – In the British Medical Journal Dr. W. Roberts, of England discusses the effect of liquor, tea, coffee and cocoa on digestion. All of them retard the chemical processes, but most of them stimulate the glandular activity and muscular contractions. Distilled spirits retard the salivary or peptic digestion but slightly when sparingly used.
Wines were found to be highly injurious to salivary digestion. On peptic digestion all wines exert a retarding influence. They stimulate the glandular and muscular activity on the stomach. Effervescent wines exert the greatest amount of good with the least harm to digestion. When one’s digestion is out of order everything goes awry, unless, as in the case of T. T. Seals, of Belaire, Ohio, who had bad dyspepsia for seven years the digestive apparatus is kept in apple-pie eating order by Warner’s Tippecanoe, the best appetite producer and regulator in the world.
Tea, even in minute quantities, completely paralyses the action of the saliva. The tannin in strong tea is injurious. Weak tea should be used, if at all. Strong coffee and coca are also injurious if used in excess. – [The Cosmopolitan]

OLD CLOTHES – A Georgia lady has a suit of clothes in her possession that is one hundred and three years old. Her grandfather cut out and made the suit with his own hands. The suit is mad eof flax, and the buttons are but from a gourd and covered with cloth. The trousers are of the old flap, knee-breeches style, and the coat is an old fashioned saque. A pair of flax stockings made at the same time completed a wedding suit one hundred and three years old.

The Difference – Singular, is—that when a man gives his wife a d---buy a box of hair-pins or a gum ri---the baby, it looks about seven times as big as it does when he planks it ----the counter in exchange for a ----bitters for the stomach’s sake – [C----Ledger]

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Mr. Cleveland at church always puts a $1 greenback in the contribution box.

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Never be discouraged by trifles. When your credit runs out at one story, try another.

Five dollars can be saved every year in boots and shoes by using Lyon’s Heel Stiffeners, cost only 25 cts.

Cheerfulness has been called the bright and sunny weather of the heart.

If afflicted with sore yes use Dr. Isaac Thompsons’ Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25 cts.

Question for debaters – “Can a man, while asleep in the daytime, have the nightmare?”

Messman’s Peptonized Beef tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire nutritious properties. It contains blood-making force generating and life-sustaining properties, invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility; also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, ever work or acute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Haranrd & Co., Proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.

The huge, drastic, griping, sickening pills are fast being superseded by Dr. Pierce’s Purgative Pellets. Sold by druggists.

Judic’s husband was a Hebrew, but the actress herself belongs to the Catholic Church.

A Quick Recovery – It gives us great pleasure to state that the merchant who was reported to be at the point of death from an attack of pneumonia has entirely recovered by the use of Dr. Wm. Hall’s Balsam for the Lungs. Naturally he feels grateful for the benefits derived from using this remedy for the lungs and throat, and in giving publicity to this statement we are actuated by motives of public benefaction, trusting that others may be benefited in a similar manner.

The crown prince of Germany has just celebrated his fifty-fourth birth in Potsdam.

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Thurston’s Ivory Peal Toothpowder. Keeping teeth perfect and Gum Healthy.

Pensions to soldiers and heirs. Send stamp for circulars. Col. L. Bingham, Att’y. Washington, D.C.

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THE LAMAR NEWS

E. J. MCNATT, Editor and Proprietor VERNON, ALABAMA, FEBRUARY 4, 1886 VOL. III. NO. 14

THE BORES – [by EUGENE FIELD]
There’s the man who lets you shake his limpy hand –
He’s a bore
He’s the man who leans against you when you stand –
God his gore
There’s a man who has a fear
That the world is, year by year,
Growing worse – perhaps he’s near
Bolt the door.

There’s the fellow with conundrums quite antique
He’s a bore
There’s the man who ask you “What?” when e’er you speak
Though you roar.
There’s the man who slaps your back,
With a button-bursting whack –
If you think he’s on your track,
Bolt the door.

There’s the punster with this everlasting pun
He’s a bore
If the man who makes alliterative “fun”
Worse and more
There’s the man who tells the tale
That a year ago was stale
Like as not he’s out of jail –
Bolt the door.

MY PROPERTY
Aunt Fanny had just come to make a usual summer visit and I had proudly taken her through the house to have her admire the improvements made since her last visit.
“It is very nice and convenient, dear,” she said, as she seated herself in the easy-chair I offered her, “but did --- never regret giving those bonds to ---- husband, May?”
“Most assuredly not, auntie. Why?”
“Because I thought it very unwise that some day you would bitterly regret it. It was your poor father’s property and should have been retained in your own name I am sure.”
“Now, don’t worry, auntie, please. You came to have a pleasant visit with us. Ella has been dearly frantic with delight since I told her your were coming.”
“The child, yes. She is a dear little thing, to be sure! But do you know that if your husband should die today --- would inherit the property you ----him. If she were your own child it would be different.”
“But she is mine, all I have, certainly. I love her dearly, and I hope to be a good mother to her, notwithstanding all the bitter things written and said against step-mothers.”
“Yes, and you are a good mother to her. But to suppose still farther. If ---, too, should be taken away then ---property would not revert to you, but go to her relatives, of whom you know nothing. Would that be right?”
“Perhaps not. But why do you say such dreadful things? She and her father are as likely to live as I. And the wife is entitle to dower.”
“Yes, the interest from one-third of what her husband leaves. Just the interest, mind you. And you gave him the means to go into business. You know he failed once, and may, possibly again.”
“But he paid up every penny” I ---back, proudly.
“I know, and it was right; but, consequently you married a poor man with a child as well as a wife to support on a clerk’s salary.”
“You forget, auntie, that he still ---this beautiful home when all his creditors had been fully paid; the ---in which Ella was born and there his poor wife died."
“I forgot nothing and what I remember with the greatest bitterness is ---unadvised set of yielding up your ----patrimony, intrusted to me by your dying father for you, and that you took no obligation for it whatever.”
“But, I replied, “he invested it in business which supports us nicely. Besides, it was not his fault. He trusted me to have interest beating ----, or to be the company in the -----, as if I would! And I told him never t mention the subject to me again, and he never has.”
“Then all I have to say is you were very sill as well as imprudent.”
But it was not all she had to say. ----to telling me that a certain match making mother had said that my husband would have preferred one of her daughters if she had held property in her own right as I did. That he needed the money and married me simply to obtain it.
“Don’t, aunty, please.” I said with a little shiver.
“Nor would I, but to convince you that he should have secured your little property to you, if only for the opinion of others.”
“It is all right just as it is. Ah! Here comes Ella,” and my dear old worldly wise aunt forgot to lecture in her delight at seeing the little fairy who nearly smothered her with kisses.
But I had received a hurt that rankled like a thorn in the flesh. And so Mrs. Jones thought he married em for my money? And perhaps others have the same opinion? Of course I knew he did not, and said it over and over again to myself as I helped our one servant to prepare the evening meal.
And when my husband came with his hearty, cheery welcome for Aunt Fanny I looked wistfully in his face for an answer to my mental question, for question it would become in spite of my firm determination to ignore it as such.
Once more during Aunt Fanny’s stay did she attempt to renew the conversation, interrupted by Ella’s entrance. But I only said; “If you please, auntie, I would rather not say anything more about that.”
And she who thought she was only striving for my interest, replied coldly: “Pardon me May, I shall not offend again.”
“Offend you, who have been father, mother and auntie all in one” And I kissed her as I had ever done since she drew me away from her only brother’s coffin, hiding her own grief to assuage mine.
“Do you remember, auntie, dear, when I used to have sulks and you would take me out hunting – hunting sunshine, you called it?” I often think of it when things go wrong, as they must occasionally, and wish you with me to go hunting sunshine.”
“Yes, I remember. You were a great comfort to me, and I am afraid I have never quite forgotten the man who coaxed my brother’s only child away from the lonely old maid.”
“And the best friend a wayward girl ever had,” I replied.
But somehow, after Aunt Fanny’s visit my thoughts and feelings were not the same. Had I been unwise, as she said, in giving up everything to my husband? And had he been too eager to accept it? I was fearful it was even so. He should have made me understand that I had reserved rights and not taken my property to control unadvisedly, especially to invest in a business subject to all the fluctuations of the market. And now he never spoke of it only as his own and I had helped him to it all, and he had forgotten it.
In my morbid state of feeling I found so many bitter things of which to complain to myself. We had been married four years and during that time many improvements had been made in the house and around it, incurring an expense of some thousands of dollars. My slightest wish in regard to a convenience or modern change was satisfied almost as soon as expressed. And it was, as I said to my aunt: “a beautiful home.”
But what if it was? It was with my money it had been embellished and made more valuable, and he could easily afford to be lavish in expenditure.
“My money used to beautify his home,” I said bitterly, glancing at my handsome surroundings.
When mine and thine are having a battle, love and tenderness flee from the contest. And at times I was frightened at the hard, bitter thoughts I was hiding from my husband, or fancied I was hiding from him.
“What is it May?” he once said with a look of wistful tenderness. “Are you quite well?”
“Never better” I replied, lightly, too thoroughly ashamed of the imp I was harboring to give it a name.
It was just a month since Aunt Fanny left us – a wretched month to me- when one evening my husband came in and gave me a folded paper. “Look dear, and see if it is all right?”
It was a certificate of deposit in the bank for just the amount of the bonds I had given him four years ago.
“If you prefer the bonds I can obtain them for you, but the interest is very low now, and that reminds me, you will have to trust me awhile for your accumulated interest. This is all I have saved from my business, but you are to have the interest, every penny.”
“But whatever am I to do with it?” I asked, in amazed bewilderment.
“Why, keep a check book and spend your own money as you please.” he replied laughing heartily. “And no is the embargo removed, and may I tell you how grateful I am for the use of the money, and how much more for the loving confidence displayed in tending it?”
I could not reply, for the little good left in me was groping, dismally, in the valley of humiliation.
“I will consider silence consent, then. Have you never suspected how I secured your patrimony to you in case anything happened to me before I could repay you?”
“But I would not have any security, you know that!” I said, eagerly snatching at the last ray of self-respect.
“But you did all the same. This house with its two lots was deeded to you and the deed recorded the same day I received your bonds. So you see I have not only been using your money, but living in your house – Etta and I – for the past four years.”
“Oh, Why did you?” I asked.
“Why did I live in your house? Because I had nowhere else to live, and besides, I rather liked it.”
“You know what I mean. Why did you deed the place to me?”
“Because it was right to do so. I was acting as your guardian, and had no right to use your property without giving security. Don’t you see?”
“Yes, and now I am to deed it back to you?”
“No, I like it just as it is.”
“I must write to Aunt Fanny, tonight,” I said more to myself than him.
He indulged in a low whistle. I had unwittingly betrayed myself, and compromised with a full confession, even to the grievous report that he had only married me for my little fortune.
“Did you believe that?” he asked gravely.
“I tried hard not to believe it, but just now I seem to myself such a perfect type of total depravity that I wonder you took me under any circumstances.”

ORCHIDS
The orchid family of plants is peculiarly interesting on account of the strange forms assumed by its flowers. Many of them imitate in perfection the butterflies and bees and the curious winged insects that inhabit the tropics. The plants themselves in tropical climates are frequently dry stems, parasitic upon the trunks of trees; but in the flowering season they burst out into the most superb and gorgeous blossoms, that set a whole forest aflame with their colors. For these reasons they are most highly prized by the florists, and a fine group of orchids is considered one of the choicest treasures of great botanical collections. In our own country we have about seventy-five species, some of which are very showy and handsome. But the orchid fancier goes farther afield for his beauties. He must have them from the wilds of Australia or Van Dieman’s Land, or from the jungles of India, from the banks of the Amazon or from the Islands of tropic seas. Linnaeus knew only 100 species of orchids; Persoon, in 1806, knew 477; Sprengel, in 1830, had enumerated about 800; and in more recent times the number has risen to nearly 3,000. The genera, also, are very many in number, but those which are most popular with cultivators are comparatively few, although they contain a great number of species. – [Utica Herald]

THE CROW AND THE RAM
An old Crow was watching a flock of sheep grazing in a valley when a large eagle suddenly flew among them and carried off a young lamb.
“It seems to me that I ought to be able to do that” remarked the crow. “I’ll try it at any rate.”
With those words the Crow flew down, lit on the back of a large Ram, and after violent exertions succeeded in flying away with him to the top of a neighboring mountain four miles high. After being deposited, the ram remarked in a tone of playful nonchalance:
“Well, having gotten me up here, what do you propose to do with me, you black pirate? If you don’t get down this mountain in a hurry, I’ll butt you into mince meat.” The poor crow, accepting the situation, fluttered sorrowfully down the mountainside and supped in the valley on a belated fishing worm.
MORAL: Don’t’ undertake an army contract before carefully estimating the probable net profits. – [Life]

MAKING EFFIGIES OF WAX – A QUEER BUSINESS THAT IS CARRIED ON IN PHILADELPHIA.
Reproducing the Faces and Figures of Celebrities for Exhibition.
Of all queer businesses carried on in this city that of manufacturing wax figures takes the honors. It has only been started lately and but few people know that it exists at all. The first room in the factory is where the modeling in clay is done. Here is the sculptor who makes the busts of noted men from photographs. He uses the ordinary modeling clay common to all sculptors and does not differ very materially from them in his methods, except that he rarely has the good fortune to have a living model sit for him. He relies solely upon photographs, and if he is making a bust of Cleveland or Grand or any prominent man he obtains all the photographs he can, full face, three-quarter and profile.
After he has finished a bust and caught a likeness he forthwith destroys all semblance to the man he intends to produce by removing whatever beard or moustache he may have and by taking all the fair off the head. This leaves the bust as the original would appear if he was perfectly bald and clean shaved. The effect is startling, particularly in the case of full-bearded men like Blaine or Roscoe Conkling, and Cleveland or General Custer are hardly recognizable without their moustaches and hair. It is necessary, however, to do this in order that the effigy in wax may be made. The next process is that of taking a plaster cast of the head after it is sufficiently dried. This is done by covering the face with a thick coating of plaster of Paris, waiting until it dried and then removing it and proceeding in like manner with the rest of the head. The plaster mould is next taken into the wax-boiling room, where it is treated inside with a preparation to keep the wax from sticking to it. Melted wax is then poured into the mould. Before the wax has quite cooled the plaster is broken away from it, leaving the head ready for the fair workers and finishers. The hands of the figures are made by coating a real hand and wrist with plaster of Pairs and cutting the mould off with a piece of string before it has quite dried. To prevent the plaster from pulling out the little hairs on the back of the hand and wrist they are carefully shaved off. But few Temple Theatre people have any hair on the backs of their hands.
The process of putting in the hair is very tedious. Each hair is pricked separately with a needle. Yesterday one of the hair-workers was just beginning on Adelina Patti’s head. It was bald, except for a narrow fringe of long hair at the base of the neck. The eyes had not been put in and the face looked like anything but the countenance of the lovely diva. Edwin Booth’s head was in a further state of completion and with the exception of a large bald spot over the left ear, had its quota of wavy ringlets. The bodies of the figures are made of papier-mache and are manufactured in this room from plaster casts taken from living models. They are dressed in the room by expert seamstresses and tailors. The finishing touches to the heads are given by J. G. Sarter, the originator of the Eden Musee in New York. Mr. Sarter is a portrait painter and has a good eye for a likeness. He puts in the eyes and teeth and paints the faces. When they pass out of his hands they almost look as if they could speak. – [Philadelphia Times]

THE RETORT COURTEOUS
“My dear fellow,” says an Indiana sheriff to his prisoner, “I must apologize to you for the sanitary condition of this jail. Several of the prisoners are down with the measles, but I assure you that it is not my fault.”
“Oh, no excuses,” replied the prisoner. “I t was my intention to break out as soon as possible anyway.” – [ New York Sun]

EXPLAINING A PROVERB
“Papa, what does this mean: “It is better to give than to receive?” asked a Harlean boy of his fond parent.
“It means, my son, that your mother finds more pleasure in lecturing me than I do in hearing her.” – [New York Journal]

A LONG YEAR
It is over twenty-nine years since we were able to view Saturn in perihelion before and that is the length of a Saturnian year. While in perihelion he is under certain conditions nearest the earth, and under circumstances most favorable to scientific observation. His journey around the sun of 9,000,000,000 miles covers almost a generation of the lives of the men and women of this planet, and when he makes each fresh appearance with his present distinctness, it is an event indeed. The science of astronomy is enlarging as constantly and as rapidly as any other science, and the observations that astronomers will now be able t take of the splendid planet under its present favorable conditions, ought to add much to the information concerning it, and certainly none of the heavenly bodies has inspired more eager or intelligent research than the one whose return we celebrate. But what a journey is made by this luminary, whose mean distance from the sun is 881,000,000 miles or more than nine times the distance of the earth. If it has a race of beings fitted to exist at such a distance from the source of heat and light, wheat lengthy seasons they must enjoy. Under such conditions there would be some satisfaction in having a seaside cottage or a mountain chalet, for what they would call their heated term would extend over a number of years. Bu the fact is a hundred millions of miles or so make very little difference in those almost unimaginable distances. Probably distance lends enchantment to the view. But when our earth is dead the Saturn and the other great planets in the course of some millions of years will take their turn in physical development, and perhaps in some countless ages hence the wandering ghosts that have vanished from the earth will reappear in new forms of life upon the yet imperfect, but magnificent world rolling in space and waiting for its day to dawn. – [Providence Journal]

A KIND VOICE
There is no power of love so hard to get and keep as a kind voice. A kind hand is deaf and dumb. It may be rough in flesh and blood, yet do the work of a soft heart, and do it with a soft touch. But there is no one thing that love so much needs as a sweet voice to tell what it means and feels; and it is hard to get and keep it in the right tone. One must start in youth, and be on the watch night and day, at work and play, to get and keep a voice that shall speaks at all times the thoughts of a kind heart. But this is the time when a sharp voice is apt to be got. You often hear boys and girls say words at play with a sharp, quick tone as if it were the snap of a whip. When one of them gets vexed, you will hear a voice that sounds as if it were made up of a snarl, a whine, and a bark. It is often in mirth that one gets a voice or tone that is sharp, and sticks to him through life, and stirs up ill-will and grief, and falls like a drop of gall on the sweet joys of home. Watch it day by day, as a pearl of great price, for it will be worth more to you in days to come than the best pearl hid in the sea. A kind voice is to the heart what light is to the eye. It is a light that sings as well as shines. Train it to sweet tones now, and it will keep in tone through life. – [Elihu Burritt]

BRINGING THE DEAD TO LIFE
Some facts mentioned by Dr. Richardson, the English physiologist, suggest the possibility of restoring persons to life after actual death. By combining artificial circulation with artificial respiration, a dog was restored to life sixty-five minutes after having been killed by an overdoes of chloroform, the heart having become perfectly still and cold; and frogs poisoned by nitrate of amuyl were restored after nine days of apparent death, signs of putrefactive change having appeared in one case. A quite startling effect is produced by peroxide of hydrogen in reanimating the blood and restoring heat to a really dead body. These observations, in the opinion of Mr. W. Matteau Williams, justify the conclusion that a drowned or suffocated man is not hopelessly dead as long as the bodily organs remain uninjured by violence or disease, and the blood remains sufficiently liquid to be set in motion artificially and supplied with a little oxygen to start the chemical movements of life.

SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS
The use of electricity as a motor is a coming fact. The University College of London has already founded a department of electrical engineering.

By carefully conducted experiments, Mr. J. C. Arthur has demonstrated that bacteria are the direct cause of the disease known as pear blight. Sap from an affected tree invariably produced the disease when inoculated into a healthy tree.

According to a German histologist, there are in the cerebral mass over 900,000,000 nerve cells, each an independent organism and microscopic brain. Of these nerve cells he estimates that 5,000,000 die every day and that every sixty days the brain is replaced.

In countries having marked winter seasons, earthquakes are found to be more frequent in winter than in summer. Dr. Knott, of the Seismological Society of Japan, finds only two possible meteorological reasons for this – one being the stress of accumulated snow, and the other that of high barometric pressure during the cold season.

The use of nitroglycerine as a substitute for alcohol for stimulating the action of the heart has been recommended by Dr. J. B. Burroughs. The advantages claimed are, that only a minute quantity is required, that the nitroglycerine is practically free from taste and odor, that it acts immediately and that it is not likely to induce a craving for alcoholic stimulants.

A French chemist proposed coating the bodies of the dead with a skin of copper, which is readily effected by the well-known process of electro-plating. A second plating of gold or silver could be added if desired. The treatment permanently preserves the corpses from chemical change, and has already been applied to several human subjects and to many animals.

A recent interesting exhibition of apparatus in Paris by Dr. Boudet, included modifications of the telephone adapting the instrument to a variety of medical uses. In one form the pulsations of blood vessels and all sorts of internal operations were very strikingly made audible, the observer being able to hear at will the movements in any part of the body. Dr. Boudet also employs the telephone as a measuring instrument for accurately estimating the nervous and muscular excitement in the different phases of a disease.

ITS ONLY DEFECT
“ I’m an artist,” explained a young man, with an easel and palette under his arm, to a well-top-do farmer at the front gate. “I was admiring the architecture of your new house.”
“Yes,” replied the farmer. “It’s about the finest building in these parts. It cost enough to be. Kin ye paint, stranger.”
“Oh, yes,”
“D’ye see than chimly on the northwest corner?”
“Yes,” it’s a false chimney, is it not?”
“Yes,” assented the farmer impatiently, “that’s what everybody says. Now, I’ll tell you what I’ll do, stranger. If ye’ll paint some smoke comin’ out o’ that chimley, I’ll pay ye well for the job.” – [New York Times]

HIS MOTHER’S PIE
Mrs. Jones (newly married) – How did you like that pie we had for dinner today?
Mrs. Jones (who recollects his childhood) – It was rather good, but not such a pie as my mother used to bake. Why don’t you call over and get her recipe? Did you bake it?
Mrs. Jones – No
Mr. Jones – Ah! Who did then?”
Mrs. Jones (triumphantly) – Your mother baked it and sent it over. She thought you would like it. – [New York Graphic]

It is predicted that in the course of the next five years, the steel nail will have as completely supplemented the iron nail as the steel rail has its iron predecessor. Already one-half of the nails manufactured in Wheeling are made of steel, and the machinery and plant necessary for their manufacture are being set up in every nail center and at nearly every nail found foundry. It is said that steel nails can be made about ten cents per keg cheaper than those made of iron, even where the manufacturer has to purchase his ingots.

A Baltimore negro has literally worn two fingers off in many years of shoveling coal. The case is reported by a physician as a curiosity. There is no apparent disease and no inconvenience.

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY FEB. 4, 1886

ANNOUNCEMENT - FOR CIRCUIT CLERK - We are authorized to announce S. M. SPRUILL as a candidate for the office of Circuit Clerk of Lamar County. Subject to the Democratic Party. Election in August 1886.

Ex-President Arthur is not in good health.

The Presidential Succession Bill has become a law.

The expenses for the funeral of Gen. Grant were a little over $14,000. The bill has been paid by the Government.

It is stated that the English Government, if defeated on the Irish Question, will not resign, but will appeal to the country.

The President has nominated Chas. J. Canda, of New York, to be Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York City.

And now it is alleged that Gladstone will soon deny that he ever intended to propose the restoration of the Irish Parliament.

The decision of the Attorney-General that druggists must have state and county license to sell whiskey, even on a doctor’s prescription, has stirred up the pharmacists.

Queen Victoria prorogued parliament on the 21st and in a short speech on the condition and relation of the government used the words “My” and “I” thirty-nine times. So much for a government ruled by a woman.

OUR LAW MAKERS
Of our eight representatives and two senators, neither of the latter and only three of the former were born in Alabama.
John T. Morgan hails from Tennessee, and Pugh from Georgia. Morgan is serving out his third term as Senator which will not expire until March 1889. Pugh was elected to succeed Houston, and then chosen for a full term and will hold until 1891.
Jas. T. Jones of the first district comes from Virginia, and is now serving out his second term in Congress.
H. A. Herbert of the second district is a South Carolinian, and has represented his people for the past ten years in Congress.
Wm. C. Oates is an Alabamian by birth, and has thrice been elected from the third district.
A. C. Davidson of the fourth district is a North Carolinian, and this is his first term.
The fifth district is represented by T. W. Sadler, who was born near Russelville in this state. This is his first term.
John M. Martin of the sixth district is also an Alabamian by birth and was born at Athens. This is his first term.
Wm. H. Forney of the seventh district is the oldest member from Alabama. He was born in North Carolina, and is now serving out his sixth term.
The eighth district is represented by Jos. Wheeler, who is Georgian by birth and is now serving out his second term.
Only one of them was born in the hot month of June, and he is the greatest of them all, one in March, one in April, one in January, one in September, two in December, and two in November. One does not know or does not say when he was born.
All were soldiers in the late war except one, all are lawyers except one and he is a farmer. All were born Democrats and have never departed from the faith.
Morgan is 62 years old, Pugh 64, Jones 54, Herbert 52, Oates 51, Davidson 60, Sadler 55, Martin 49, Forney 63, Wheeler 50.
Nearly every nation on earth has a member of one or other house. Senator Beck, of Kentucky, came from old Scotland, and Senator Jones, of Florida, was born on the Emerald Isle beneath the beautiful Sam Rock.
Africa, Germany, Italy, and England have recruited our ranks with their choice men, and who are now thoroughly Americanized.
It is proper to state that J. H. Berry, a Senator from Arkansas, is an Alabamian by birth and was born up in Jackson County.

AN ADDRESS
BY THE SOLDIER’S MOUNMENT COMMITTEE
To the People of Alabama:
It is proposed to erect in the city of Montgomery, the capital of the State, and on the public grounds, a fitting monument to the memory of the gallant sons of Alabama who gave their lives to the cause of constitutional government in the late war between the states. These were our fathers and our brothers. From every county in the state, from every township of every county, they came at the state'’ call to do its bidding. Duty summoned them, and they did not stop to count the cost, but casting one last lingering look of wife and child, on mother and sister and sweetheart, they turned their backs on the happy homes, the green fields, and the peaceful pursuits so dear to them, and went out to all the dread circumstances of war – the weary march, hunger and thirst, the dreary bivouac, cheerless camp, sickness and privation, the horrors of the hospital, the battle’s pitiless rage and unmarked graves.
The story of their achievement will emblazon history’s brightest pages until those shall be no more. We can add nothing to their fame, which will outlast granite or bronze. They have bequeathed to us and to all the generations of Alabamians a precious and priceless heritage of renown. Their deeds on the battlefields, hallowed by their blood, glorify Alabama among the sons of men. It is becoming that we, their neighbors and kinsmen while they were of us, joint heirs of their glory now they are gone, should lift up before the world a testimonial of our appreciation of what they dared, endured and suffered, that all mankind may know they did not live and die in vain, but left their unequaled example of patriotism, of fortitude and of valor to survivors worthy of their great sacrifice, and to descendents worthy to have sprung from their loins. These men did not hesitate when the State called them into the service in which they fell. There should be no difficulty in securing the necessary contributions for the proposed monument. Every Alabamian must feel it a privilege to aid in this memorial. Only opportunity is needed. Contributors are ready. The money is awaiting call. The officers of the several counties and of the respective towns and cities have only to form themselves into committees and ask, to receive. The work is for the State, not for Montgomery. It is for us, not for our children. It is for this year, not for the next. It is to be done now. Indifference would reproach us. Delay would shame us. Failure would humiliate us. Now is the accepted time – the only time. The duty is on each man in the State; and the measure of each man’s duty is his influence and importance in his community.
W. S. REEESE, Ch’m’n
E. A. O’NEAL
W. L. BRAGG
W. W. ALLEN
JOSIAH MORRIS
W. W. SCREWS
W. B. JONES

Mrs. LOUISA LEE BAYARD, the wife of the Secretary of State, died on last Sunday morning, the 31st ult, at her residence in Washington, of congestion of the brain. She had been in bad health for several years and, it is thought, the death of her daughter two weeks ago hastened her own death.

SAM JONES COMPARISON – [Cincinnati Enquirer]
A railroad man never fires up his engine unless he intends that engine to go out on duty, and the Lord never fires up a Christian that is going to stand in the round house. There are different kinds of Christians. Just as there are different kinds of engines. There are engines in this town that haven’t been out in ten months, and there are others that go out every day in all their power and glory toward Chattanooga. There is your regular road engine, and your little switch-engine, and that engine there in the roundhouse that seems to be a matter of show. I have often thought these nice preachers in the city – I don’t know whether you ever saw one or not, but when you do you will know him – kid-gloved fellows, white-cravated, and they are the nicest things you every saw in the world, more elegant than anything except their sermons – resemble a locomotive. It hurts a man to get up; Sunday and preach himself twice, but when he preaches Christ twice a day it doesn’t hurt him. I never tried to preach but one big sermon and then I burst wide open. If you were to say “Hell” right here in that way to one of those preachers you would shock him nearly to death. I have been criticized by these nice preachers, these elegant preachers, and I have said to them: “Brother, I was in this round house the other day, and as I stood there there came in a locomotive all soiled, and black, and greasy, and dusty, and I asked, “What is the matter with that engine?” ‘O,” he said, “that grand engine has just pulled in from Chattanooga with ten heavily-freighted passenger cars.’ I turned around to another bright, beautiful engine – its brasses shining, its machinery glistening. It had not been out of the round house for six months.” We can excuse dirt and dust if something has been done. And then there are those little switch-engines running in and out, blowing whistles and frightening horses. They remind me of those Christians you never see except at revivals, where they go shouting around. Let us go out today and couple on to something.

An exchange chronicles the virtues of a Lowndes county hen, Biddy. A colored man in the county owns a hen that, last year, by her own exertions, hatched and raised six broods of chickens. At a low estimate Biddy brought her own $12. We print this item for the purpose of encouraging other hens to follow the good example of their enterprising sister.

GENERAL NEWS

Turkey is making great naval preparations, fearing action by Greece.

The North Carolina gold mines are paying better than for twenty years.

Chaucey DEPEW says that Mr. VANDERBILT was often in need of small change.

Twenty-six Senators keep house in Washington; the others live in hotels and boarding houses.

New Years Day three years hence will begin the year 1889 with a total eclipse of the sun.

The Queen’s speech says there will be a vigorous enforcement of the laws in Ireland.

A widower and widow, recently married in Niles, Michigan, start out with twenty-six children.

There have recently passed over the Georgia-pacific Road 1,500 colored laborers from North and South Carolina en route to Mississippi and Louisiana.
Mr. T. C. LEAKE, JR., Vice-President of the Memphis & Atlantic Railroad, states that the contract will be let by the 15th of February for the building of sixty-six miles of the road, starting from Holly Springs in the direction of Birmingham. This will put the road six miles this side of the Mobile & Ohio road.

DAVID R. ATCHISON died at his home in Clinton Co., Mo., on the 26th ult aged seventy-nine. The deceased, was United States Senator from this state from 1843 till 1855, and was Vice-President of that body. He also bears the singular distinction of having been President of the Untied States for one day. He was born ion Fayette County, Kentucky, and early in life removed to this state, settling in Platte County.

Lists of Patents granted to citizens of Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi, for the week ending Tuesday, January 26, 1889, compiled from the Official Records of the United States Patent Office, expressly for the Lamar News, by W. A. REDMOND, Solicitor of Patents, No. 637 F. Street, N. W. ,Washington, D. C., of whom information may be had.
FLORIDA – JNO. W. EMERSON, Opopka, Rotary Engine; L. S. LINGINGSTON and A. MCBRIDE, Orange Springs, Cotton gin.
GEORGIA – CHARLES C. PINKNEY, Valdosta, Fifth Wheel for vehicles; P. M. TAYLOR, Atlanta, Platform for railway track scales.
MISSISSIPPI – JAMES A. RODEN and N. C. MORGAN, Doerbrook, Seed planter.

NEW MUSIC BOOKS – “GOOD TIDINGS COMBINES” By A. J. Showalter. This is the latest and best of all the Sunday School books for popular use. It contains 36 pages, and on ever page there is a gem of sacred song. Bound in substantial boards. Price 25 cents per copy; $2.50 per dozen. THE NATIONAL SINGER. By A. J. Showalter & J. H. Teaney. This book is the result of much careful work by the most experience musicians who write for character notes. It is the bet of all the singing school books, as it contains enough new music of every grade and variety to interest and instruct any school or convention, and also all of the more popular standard hymn tunes of the church. This is a feature that is wanting in every other popular character notebook. The National Singer supplies this and every other want to make an ideal signing schoolbook. Price 75 cents; $7.50 per dozen. THE MUSIC TEACHER. A new monthly musical Journal edited by A. J. Showalter. Every student of music, chorister and teacher should read good musical journals. The Music Teacher aims to instruct as well as entertain. Price 50 cents per year. Specimen copies free. Agents wanted. We can furnish any other music or music book no matter where published. It would also be in your interest to write us when you want to buy a piano or organ, or any thing else in the music line. – A. J. Showalter & Co., Dalton, Ga.

Largest Cheapest Best stock of dress goods, dress trimmings, ladies and misses jerseys clothing, furnishing goods, knit underwear, boots, shoes, and hats, tin ware, etc. etc. at rock-bottom figures at A. COBB & SONS.

ATTORNEYS
NESMITH & SANFORD THOS. B. NESMITH, Vernon, Ala. J. B. SANFORD, Fayette C. H., Ala. Attorneys-at-Law. Will practice as partners in the counties of Lamar and Fayette, and separately in adjoining counties, and will give prompt attention to all legal business intrused to them or either of them.

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.

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.

PHOTOGRAPHS – A. R. HENWOOD, Photographer, Aberdeen, Miss. Price list:
Cards de visite, per doz………$2.00
Cards Cabinet, per doz……….$4.00
Cards Panel, per doz………….$5.00
Cards Boudoir, per doz………$5.00
Cards, 8 x 10, per doz……….. $8.00
Satisfaction given or money returned.

RESTAURANT. Aberdeen, Mississippi. Those visiting Aberdeen would do well to call on MRS. L. M. KUPPER, 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 of Dr. BURN’S office, Vernon, Ala.

CADY’S LIVERY FEED AND SALE STABLE Columbus, Mississippi. stock fed and cared for at moderate charges.

New goods, new prices. W. L. JOBE’S, the jeweler. Columbus, Mississippi. I have just returned from the North with a large and well selected stock of watches, clocks, jewelry, and silver plated ware which I will sell as low as the quality of the goods permit. When in Columbus don’t fail to call and examine my goods and prices. Cash orders will receive prompt attention. – W. L. JOBE.

WIMBERELY HOUSE Vernon, Alabama. Board and Lodging can be had at the above House on living terms L. M. WIMBERLEY, Proprietor.

New Cash Store, Vernon – Alabama. We have just opened a large, fresh, and well selected stock of General Merchandise, consisting of dry goods, notions, family groceries, &c. We have on hand also, a large and well selected stock of School Books. The bottom knocked out in prices. We only ask a trial. Chickens, eggs, butter, and all kinds of country produce wanted, and on hand. – GEO. W. RUSH & Co.

The Great Bazaar! Aberdeen, Mississippi. S W Corner, Commerce and Meridian Streets. Crockery, china, glassware, tin ware, fancy goods, stationery, jewelry, notions, candies, toys and Holiday goods of all kinds at wholesale or retail. Special attention given to the wholesale department. Trial orders solicited and prices guaranteed. Terms: Thirty days, net, 2 percent off for cash. No charge for package. THOS. A. SALE & CO.

New Store! M. H. HODGE, Kennedy, Alabama. Has a large and well selected stock of general merchandise consisting in part of dry goods, groceries, notions, hardware, Queensware, boots, and shoes, Highest Market Price paid for cotton.

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.

STAR STABLE – Aberdeen, Mississippi. A. A. POSEY & BRO., having consolidated their two Livery Stables, are now offering many additional advantages at this well-known and conveniently located Livery Stable. Owing to their consolidation, they have on hand a number of good second-hand buggies which they are selling cheap.

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. The most wonderful family remedy ever known. For internal and external use. Parson’s pills make new, rich blood. Make hens lay….(to small to read)

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THE LAMAR NEWS
THURSDAY FEB. 4, 1886

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.

STATE OFFICERS
Governor E. A. O’NEAL
Auditor M. C. BARKLEY
Treasurer FRED H. SMITH
Alternate ------ T. N. MCCLELLAN
Supt. of Public Education S. PALMER
Secretary of State ELLIS PHELAN

JUDICIARY
B. O. BRISKELL Chief Justice Supreme Court
G. W. STONE Associate Justice Supreme Court
R. M. SOMERVILLE Associate Justice Supreme Court
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CHANCERY COURT
THOMAS COBBS Chancellor

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
JAMES M. MORTON Register
B. F. REED Co. Supt. of Education
Commissioners – W. M. MOLLOY, SAMUEL LOGGAINS, R. W. YOUNG, ALVERT WILSON

CITY OFFICERS
L. M. WIMBERLEY Mayor and Treasurer
G. W. BENSON Marshall
Board of Aldermen – T. R. 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 3 o’clock p.m. G. W. RUSH, Supt.

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Entered according to an act of Congress at the post office at Vernon, Alabama, as second-class matter.

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All subscriptions payable in advance.

We wish it distinctly understood that in no case does the mere publication of a communication commit this paper to an endorsement thereof.

LOCAL BREVITIES

Sow oats.

Trade good.

The weather is better.

Keep the golden rule this year.

Advertising is the best thing you can do.

The time for gardening will soon be here.

Industry blended with economy is indispensable to success.

This is a good year for the practice of economy.

Teach your children to respect their seniors.

Circuit Court convenes on Tuesday, 1st day of March.

A good number of suits have commenced in the circuit court this week.

Eggs are a scarce commodity in this market.

When a man advertises he means business.

Every carpenter is pushed up to all he can do.

Educate your children, and don’t forget their moral training.

Sow your oats as soon as possible, but don’t sow any wild oats.

Mr. JAS. R. MACE, the Jeweler, can now be found a the stand formerly occupied by S. F. PENNINGTON & Bro.

We ask the public to please excuse our mistake, we are trying to do better.

Several Drummers were in town last week.

We were pleased to meet our old friend GEORGE GRISSOM, of Franklin County, in our town last week.

All kind of country produce will be taken at it s cash value for subscription to the News.

Lean pocket books and the brevity of credit makes economy as convenient as slipping up on the ice.

The Tax Assessor will commence his rounds in a few weeks, as will be seen from his advertisement in this paper.

RUSH & Co. are moving into the home formerly occupied by Messrs. A. COBB & Son.

The News will move last of this week into the house recently occupied by J. B. MACE, Jeweler.

The Probate Court was in session Saturday and Monday last, some large estates being settled.

JAS. B. MACE has on hand a few Christmas toys, which he will sell at a great sacrifice.

We regret to learn that Mrs. D. J. LACY is quite sick at her home five miles South of this place.

Mr. J. L. TACKETT, of Mountain Glenn, Ark., is visiting parents Mr. and Mrs. LANK TACKETT of near Vernon.

Mr. W. F. GREEN, of Pikeville, is now connected with the News. Mr. GREEN is an experienced printer and his skillful work, we predict, will be appreciated by the readers of the News.

We were pleased to meet Mr. JAS. G. YOUNG of Detroit in town Monday. Mr. YOUNG shows his appreciation of the News by having several copies sent to his friends.

New stores and new goods are the topics of the conversation on our streets, and from the appearance it would seem that hard times are getting on the background.

Vernon contains sixteen business houses now in which some business is carried on, two hotels and three livery stables. Since Prohibition went into effect the business interests of the town have doubled.

NOTICE – GEORGE W. RUSH & Co have recently moved to the corner house next to A. COBB & Son’s mammoth store, where they will be pleased to have their friends and customers call and examine their well selected stock of goods.

JAMES T. ALLEN, Vernon Ala, having recently attended the Alabama Normal Music School is prepared to teach classes in Lamar and adjoining counties. Write him for terms and have a class this winter.

Complaint is made quite often of the length of time it requires main matter to go from Vernon to Detroit. The schedule from Moscow to Detroit does not seem to work well with the others to that place.

The mails to this place last week were exceedingly light. Scarcely any papers come during the week being piled up in some office through carelessness or on account of the carriers being unable to carry them on the heavy roads.

Circuit Clerk MIDDLETON requests that we announce that the Circuit Court will not open until Tuesday morning, March 2nd, and that parties, witnesses and jurors will not be expected to attend on Monday. The State Docket will not be taken up until the 8th of March. Parties and witnesses in State cases need not attend until the second week.

The News expects to reach every family in Lamar County within the next six months, and we would call special attention of advertiser to this statement. Arrangements have been made by the editor for improving the paper in many respects. Being satisfied from past support by the people of the county that they appreciate a county paper we feel no hesitancy in spending money to improve the News. We propose to make a personal canvass in each neighborhood in the county at an early day with the expectation of adding the names of those who are not subscribers to our subscription list.

ALABAMA NEWS

Property is going up in St. Clair County.

Tennessee mules are full sale in Eutaw.

Opelika seems inevitably doomed to be a constant prey to the fiery demon.

The taxable city property of Birmingham has increased in valuable about $200,000 over last year’s assessment.

The Birmingham Age predicts that a political blizzard wills weep over the United States Senate Chamber within thirty days.

The city council of Huntsville passed an ordinance making it a misdemeanor for a minor to enter a saloon or house of ill fame.

The State Colored Normal School at Tuskegee has received a gift of $7,000 from two Boston ladies – Misses MASON.

The Sumter County convicts have been hired to the Warrior Coal & Coke Co. at $12,15 per month each.

Mayor JEMISON says the population of Tuskaloosa has increased 100 since the establishment of public schools in that city.

A good many families have left Alabama recently for Texas. It is a notable fact, however, that about as many have returned from Texas.

Mrs. GEORGE L. ALLEN, of Eufaula, aged 75 years, was burned to death, buy her clothing taking fire from the grate while her back was turned to the fire.

The receipts of the Tuskaloosa toll bridge over the Warrior were $4,600 during 1885.

Col. VANCE LARMORE, a prominent citizen of DeKalb County, was killed near Valley Head on the 28th ult by a tree which fell on him and broke his neck.

There are said to be eight hundred colored preachers within eight miles of Morgansville, in Lowndes and Montgomery Counties.

Editor WHITE of the Moulton Advertiser, says he will pay any woman who has intelligence and beauty combined, a handsome salary to edit his paper for him.

The Haynesville Examiner records the death of an old negro woman who had passed her 130th year, and up to a few years ago was hale and hearty. She was a great, great, great grandmother. Her youngest son died some months ago aged 85.

A correspondent of the Bibb Blade furnishes that paper with the following letter from a teacher to the County Superintendent of Education:
“ Prof. Smith, Dear Sir
Will you pleas send mee woord when the bord meat I started on Saturday an on asertaning of by warters I could not get therr pleas answer soon.
from yors
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pleas excuse paper.

It is states on good authority that most of the ailments and diseases of cattle, sheep and horses at this season are due to impropriety in the water supply; either it is impure or scant, or is too cold. Owners of stock would do well to look after, and guard against these defects in the water supply – [Ex.]

There were several applicants for the vacancy in the office of treasurer for Pike County. The Governor has very properly given the position to the editor of the Troy Messenger, Mr. W. J. BLAN. Mr. BLAN it will be remembered, had both hands blown off last year by a premature explosion of a cannon.

Rev. RED D. HALE, who was at one time pastor of the Northport, Ala Baptist Church and well known throughout this section of the state has become famous in Louisville, Ky as an evangelist. A late issue of the Courier-Journal gives a biographical sketch of his life, which is very interesting, and alludes to Mr. HALE as the “Baptist Moody.”

TAX ASSESSOR’S NOTICE
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
I will attend at the Precincts in the various beats of said county, for the purpose of assessing the State and County Taxes for the fiscal year 1886 as follows:
FIRST ROUND
Lawrence’s Monday February 22 1886
Sizemore’s Tuesday February 23 1886
Brown’s Wednesday February 24 1886
Good’s Thursday February 25 1886
Moscow Friday February 26 1886
Trull’s Monday March 8 1886
Vail’s Tuesday March 9 1886
Millport Wednesday March 10 1886
Stein’s Thursday march 11 1886
Strickland Friday March 12 1886
Wilson’s Saturday March 13 1886
Town Tuesday march 16 1886
Bett’s Wednesday March 17 1886
Military Springs Thursday March 18 1886
Pine Springs April 13 and 19
Millville April 14 and 17

SECOND ROUND
Lawrence’s Monday March 22
Sizemore’s Tuesday 23
Brown’s Wednesday 24
Goode Thursday 25
Moscow Friday 26
Cansler Saturday 27
Military Springs Tuesday 30
Bett’s Wednesday 31
Trull’s Monday April 5
Vail’s Tuesday 6
Millport Wednesday 7
Stein’s Thursday 8
Stricklnad’s Friday 9
Wilson’s Saturday 10
Henson Springs April 15 and 16
Will also be at Town during Court, March 1st to 8th.
W. Y. ALLEN, Tax Assessor


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SHERIFF’S SALE
Within legal hours on Monday, February 8th, 1886, as Sheriff of Lamar County Alabama, I will sell at the court house door of said county to the highest bidder for cash, 2 gray mules, 1 bay mule, 1 gray pided mule as the property of G. W. METCALFE, and 1 clay-back horse the property W. R. METCALFE, to satisfy 2 executions, the first in favor of S. E. MINGA and against W. S. METCALFE, and others and the second in favor of the Bodine Manufacturing Co. and against G. W. METCALFE, and W. R. METCALFE issued from the circuit court of said county.
This January 27, 1886.
- S. F. PENNINGTON, Sheriff

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT
The State of Alabama – Probate Court – Lamar county
27th day of January, 1886
Estate of CHARLES C. LOYD, this day came THOMAS B. NESMITH, administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts and vouchers for final settlement of his administration. It is ordered that the 15th day of February A. D. 1886 be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement, if they think proper.
- ALEXANDER COBB
- Judge of Probate of said County

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Land Office at Huntsville Ala. – January 23d, 1886
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar County, Ala at Vernon, on March 13th, 1886; viz: No. 11476 AARON C. WILEMON, for the N ½ of NW ¼ Sec 28 T 12 R 15 W.
He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz:
J. R. RAY, WILLIAM WHITE, C. V. JOHNSON and JOHN W. JOHNSON, all of Detroit, Lamar County, Ala.
- W. C. WELLS, Register

ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
By virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Lamar County, Alabama, I will offer for sale at Kennedy on the 6th day of February next the following lands N W ¼ of S W ¼ and S ½ of S W ¼ Sec 10 N W ¼ and N W ¼ of S W ¼ and S E ¼ of S W ¼ and S W ¼ of N E ¼ and N E ¼ of S E ½ Sec 15 T 17 R14, as the lands belonging to the estate of C. K. COOK, deceased. Said sale will be made for one-0sixth in cash and the remainder on a credit of twelve (12) months from day of sale. The purchaser will be required to give note with at least two good securities for purchase money. This the 4th day of January 1886.
- J. G. TRULL, Administrator of the estate of C. K. COOK

FINAL SETTLEMENT
The State of Alabama, Lamar County
Probate Court, January 2nd, AD 1886
Estate of JAMES B. BANKHEAD, deceased, this day came JOHN B. ABERNATHY administrator of said estate, and filed his statement, accounts, and vouchers for final settlement of his administration. It is ordered that the 30th day of January, AD 1886, be appointed a day on which to make such settlement, at which time all persons interested can appear and contest the said settlement, if they think proper.
- ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate of said county.

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Land Office at Huntsville, Ala., Nov. 13, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Lamar County at Vernon, Ala., on the 12tjh day of February, 1886, viz: No. 9862 ALFRED N. FRANKLIN, for the N ½ of N W ¼ Sec 19 T 12 and R 15 West. He names the following witnessed to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: J. W. PAUL, JOHN R. EVANS, JOHN H. RAY and S. M. LEE, all of Detroit, Lamar County, Alabama.
- WM. C. WELLS, Register

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION (NOTICE NO. 4643)
Land Office at Montgomery, Ala. December 21st, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before Judge of the Probate Court at Vernon, Ala. on February 12th, 1885 (sic), viz: JEFFERSON G. SANDERS homestead, 10087 for the N W ¼ N W ¼ Section 8 T 15 R 15 West. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of said land, viz: J. E. PENNINGTON, HIRAM HOLLIS, JAMES W. TAYLOR, WILLIAM AUSTIN, all of Vernon, Ala.
- THOS. SCOTT, Register

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FOR THE FARM AND HOME

AN EXPERIMENT IN POTATO CULTURE
A Massachusetts gardener last spring tried the following experiment in potato culture. One hill was planted with one good-sized tuber whole, another was given half of a potato as near like the first as possible, the third had an under-sized whole potato, and the fourth hill half of one similar in size to the third. The results are as follows: The first hill yielded 4 10-16 pounds; the second smaller sized ones and only 1 14-16 pounds; the third proved almost identical with the second, the weight of the yield being exactly the same, and the fourth produced 10 ounces of small potatoes. The hills were near together and their treatment was the same.

THE QUESTION OF MANURE
This is a specially good time to think and study upon this question of manure. A southern farmer whose land is exceedingly rich and whose corn crop the present year yields 80 bushels per acre, remarked to the writer, who recently visited his farm: “I am busy gathering everything I can to make manure of. I am raking the woods for decayed leaves, mowing down weeds from the stubble fields and the creek bottom, and putting them in pens under the cows and horses. My corn makes a good crop but with a little manure I can get 100 bushels per acre, and that is what I am aiming at. Good culture, the best I can give, brings me 80 bushels, and I can go on doing as well as that, but by and by it will be hard work to keep it up. I find it is better and easier to improve good land than to bring up poor land, and I am going to manure the best land I have. Many a northern farmer will think this strange talk and work for a farmer and a tobacco grower in the south. – [New York Tribune]

STOCK SHELTERS
The Breeder’s Gazette earnestly advocates the building of shelters for stock, even in the sections where the winters are open and mild. Figures show that the loses in stock from exposure are not always largest in the coldest countries; but in those sections where cattle receive little attention, and where chilling rains take the place of severe cold weather. In the New England states the annual losses of cattle from disease, stress of weather and other like causes, amount to but two per cent, according to the Department of Agriculture. In the Gulf States where very little provision is made for animal comfort, the loss amounts to eight per cent. After all it is not against the “cold snaps” that cattle need protection, so much as against the ordinary storm weather that comes along almost at any time. The cold and drizzling rains that make the winters in some parts of the south so unpleasant, even for human beings, are very discomforting to stock. When the skin is continually wet, there is a constant loss of heat that tells rapidly upon animal vitality. A healthy man can stay out in cold weather and enjoy the clear, crisp air, but a dull, eating rain fills him with discomfort an is sure to drive him under cover. – [Rural New Yorker]

TAKE CARE OF YOUR IMPLEMENTS
Cultivators, mowing and harvesting machines and all summer implements are never past the season of use. How many remain in the fields or yards exposed to the weather? More than one-half, it is estimated. How many are partially taken apart to be stored, and all bright surfaces properly protected immediately after the season of use? The estimate is only one machine in ten. Are you one of the great army who wholly abuse or imperfectly care for your machines? If so, and your other farm operations are after the same slipshod manner, you are doing what would swamp any man who so neglected his business in any other calling in one year.
The average life of a mower or reaper is three years. Properly cared for it will be a good machine at the end of ten years, and with less cost for repairs during that time that illy-cared for machines will have cost in a single year. Water quickly rots woodwork. The sun shrinks the joints, iron and steel quickly corrode if left in the dew, rain, and sun. Hence you lose not only in the decay, but such machines never do good work. You cannot afford to allow this. The remedy is a cover where they may be carefully stored away and protected. The farmer who before using an instrument is obliged to spend half a day or more cutting the rust with oil of vitriol, washing it off with water and then scouring it bright, does not understand his business. Such an implement never thereafter does perfect work. Every farmer should be able to take apart and properly put together every implement he uses. It is one of the first lessons he should learn, after the machine is brought at least so far as the working parts to be protected are concerned. The gummed portions should be cleaned with kerosene or turpentine, dried, and these and all bright surfaces painted with kerosene and lampblack of the consistency of paint. Then if carefully laid away where the covering will not be brushed or washed off, the whole will come out perfect and ready for use when wanted. No gummy substance like linseed oil paint should be used. It takes time to clean when the implement is wanted.
For plows, hoes, rakes, or other bright surfaces an ounce of camphor dissolved in turpentine or alcohol, four ounces of lard oil, and one ounce of black lead stove polish, intimately mixed, make in this preparation one of the best and cheapest perfect preservatives, which is quickly removed by simple use, but it is no better than the kerosene and lamp black paint. Some very careful farmers have a can of the lamp black and kerosene mixture in the field, and every plow share and mold-board is painted with it every night, and then turned upside down. The first furrow in the morning cleans it perfectly. The same is true of cultivators. If this pays, and it does, it certainly will pay with more costly machinery. – [Chicago Tribunes]

SHEEP AND THEIR COMFORT
It is held to be a cardinal principle with the English shepherds that sheep achieve the best results under tolerably moist skied, where there is at least enough timely precipitation to soften and nourish the fleece to keep it pliable. They want frequent, gentle showers to keep the fibers from becoming harsh. But the British sheep are naturally a rather dry topped race. Their wool is stiff and wiry and needs occasional lubrication from the clouds, just as an unhealthy head of hair requires wetting with cold water, cold tea or the like to enable the owner to extricate it from a tangle.
But the merino has an extreme dislike for water touching its skin, and that dislike is founded on instinct, and ought to be respected. There is hardly a more pitiable spectacle on the farm than a lot of lambs wading about in high ragweed; and clover, with only their heads in sight above the tops, seeking in vain near the ground for a bite of that fine and tender herbage which they delight in, and forced to content themselves by cropping indifferently the topmost leaves; their wool a much of macerated yolk….(LARGE CHUNK CUT OUT)

RECIPES

ROLL JELLY CAKE – Four eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup of flour, one teaspoonful baking powder, a pinch of salt. Mix all together and pour into a large tin. When baked spread jelly on and roll up.

LAMB CHOPS - Trim carefully. Lay in a little warm butter for an hour, turning several times. Then boil on a greased gridiron, taking care they do not drip. Butter, pepper and salt each, lay in circle on plate and serve.

COCOANUT AND TAPIOCA PUDDING – One cup tapioca soaked over night; one quart milk, yolks of four eggs, whites of two, one cupful sugar, two tablespoonfuls grated cocoanut, bake one-half hour. Make frosting of whites of two eggs, three tablespoonfuls sugar, two tablespoonfuls of grated cocoaut; spread over pudding when baked. Set in oven until a light brown.

LIVER AND BACON – Soak liver in cold water twenty minutes, wipe dry and cut in medium strips. Cut as many very thin strips of bacon and fry the bacon three minutes in its own fat. Salt, pepper, and dredge the liver in flour before it goes in. When it is done lay in two rows the length of dish, with a strip of bacon between each piece of liver. Strain the fat, and return to the pan with a cupful of hot water, the butter rubbed into the flour, and when it has boiled pour over the liver.

PEARLS OF THOUGHT

Want of prudence is too frequently want of virtue.

Three things to avoid – idleness, loquacity and flippant jesting.

A man’s own good breeding is the best security against other people’s ill manners.

The seeds of love can never grow but under the warm and genial influence of kind feelings and affectionate manners.

Keep your conduct abreast of your conscience, and very soon your conscience will be illuminate by the radiance of God.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, a charming human being; it refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of day. Still night is full of magnificence, and for many it is more brilliant than day.

Stories heard at mother’s knee are never wholly forgotten. They form a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.

The man who is jealous and envious of his neighbor’s success has foes in his heart who can bring more bitterness into his life than can any outside enemy.

Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, tough in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.

WHAT TIN FOIL IS
It may not be generally known that tin foil, as now so widely know to the trade, is not a foil of tin alone, but composed mainly of lead, with but a slight alloy of tin. The manifold appliance of tin foil to articles of consumption and medicine is not regulated with any law such as exist in European countries, forbidding the use of lead or composition, or otherwise impure tin foil, in all cases where it may, through oxidation or contact with the goods, become poisonous and injurious to the health of the consumer. Too little attention has been paid to his subject thus far. It is hoped that that ignorance and not willful oversight of the fact that led many manufactures and dealers to use an article accompanied with such risks for the sake of saving a trifle in the cost. Beside this saving it, in most instances, imaginary, as the German pure tin…(LARGE CHUNK CUT OUT)

WHERE BEARS ABOUND
(LARGE CHUNK CUT OUT)…arly snowfall on the summit of…Creek mountains has started…down to the lower levels. …will have their bear steaks….skin caps or overcoats, or the …ill have lodgings furnished for….ter in the tunnels and prospect.
Bears have increased greatly in number in this state since the great wind storm of January 1880, which threw down so much timber and rendered the woods almost impassable in some parts of the state, and preventing the hunting of bears with dogs. In some parts of Southern Oregon “the woods are full of ‘em.” A gentleman who has lately been out to Coos County says there are more bears than hogs in that county. He saw a “neck of woods” out there called Packard’s Home Market. It appears that a settler named Packard had a lot of hogs running in the woods which get fat on mast. He was asked what he going to do with them, and said he had a “home market’ for them, meaning a gang of Chinamen working close by. Just at this juncture the bears found the fat hogs and killed and ate them all, and since that time the place, which is littered with ham bones, and short ribs, has been called Packard’s Home Market. – [Portland Oregonian]

AN UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION
A young countryman gave a graphic description of a narrow escape that he had recently from an enraged bull:
“I seized him by the tail,” he explained, “an’ there I was. I was afraid to hold on, an’ I dassn’t let go.”
“Between the horns of a dilemma as it were” ventured a young lady, very much interested.
“No, ma’am,” replied the countryman. “I wasn’t between the horns at all, an’ besides, he wasn’t a dilemma. He was a Jersey” – [Puck]

WISE WORDS

The best mind cure is to make up one’s mind to be contented.

Many people mistake stubbornness for bravery, meanness for economy, and vileness for wit.

The harvest gathered in the fields of the past is to be brought home for the use of the present.

The misery of illness is nearly manifest in high life as in the rags and filth of extreme poverty.

Promises made in the time of affliction require a better memory than people commonly possess.

History that is good, faithful and true will survive for ages; but should it have none of these qualities, its passage will be shed between the cradle and the grave.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy – their own self-love.

Depression of spirits, when it is real and when people cannot help it, is not the result of circumstances, but, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred from dyspepsia, or from a discordant liver – in short, from bodily causes.

To tell what a man says, pay attention to the tongue. To ascertain what he means, pay attention to the eye. To talk in opposition to the heart is one of the easiest things in the world; to look this opposition is more difficult than algebra.

We may be pretty certain that persons whom all the world treat ill entirely to serve the treatment they get. The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of is own face; frown on it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly companion; and so let young people take their choice.

Suspension of judgement at certain times should be sedulously cultivated. When we remember how frequently complex conditions are involved, and how difficult it is to understand and appreciate those conditions and to accord to each its proportionate value, we may well pause and reflect before committing ourselves to judgements which may prove to be wrong.

MARINE MARVELS
“In eastern waters,” says Charles F. Holder in his work, “Marvels of Animal Life,” is found a giant clam (Fridacau) that often weighs five hundred pounds, the animal alone thirty. The largest shell’s are nearly five feet in length, and are often used for ornamental purposes or as a playhouse for native children. When alive the great clam gives shelter in its folds to a number of crabs, one especially, known to naturalists as the Ostracotheres tridaenae, nearly always being found in the huge mollusk. In the pearl mussels, common on the coasts of Mozambique, these crabs are found. In the Atlantic waters a large acephalous mollusk affords protection to a number of crabs, and in the Pinna marina, a beautiful fan shell, a crustacean, of a pale rose color, lives.”
“One of the most interesting exhibitions of the jelly fish,” Mr. Hottler says, “was witnessed by Mr. Telfair in 1840, near Bombay. The natives had reported at various times that a gigantic flaming monster had been seen in the sea, and some said they had observed it in the sky many years before, evidently meaning the comet. Finally Mr. Telfair himself saw the monster, that proved to be a jelly fish of enormous dimensions. Its tentacles at night seemed a fiery train over three hundred feet in length, presenting a dazzling spectacle to those who rowed ver it. Each tentacle appeared like a red-hot wire, gleaming with a brilliant light, while the body resembled an enormous incandescent sphere, throwing out a light for many feet about it. The jelly finally ran ashore upon the beach or was washed in. For several days after it stranded it was visible for a great distance, and illuminated the forms of those who stood about it with great brilliancy. It was estimated to weigh including all the tentacles, two tons, and was the largest invertebrate animal ever seen.

A BEAR RIDDEN LIKE A HORSE
People living in the neighborhood of New Chinatown witnessed a novel sight yesterday, when a Chinaman went galloping along the streets on the back of a monster bear, which was going at a pretty lively rate. Old Bruin was bridled and saddled in regular fashion, and his slant-eyed rider wore a heavy pair of spurs. The rider and his steed halted in the main street of the Chinese quarters, and the bear was led through one of the stores back into a little shed. Learning of the curious riding animal, a Chronicle representative went to new Chinatown to see it and the rider. The bear was found to be of the black species, and was a regular Jumbo in size, standing nearly as high as a cow. In conversation with the owner, it was learned that he had captured his bear when it was a small cub; that he carried it to his cabin, cared for it tenderly, and when it grew large enough he trained it to draw a small wagon and to perform numerous tricks. The bear has always been well treated, and runs about as it pleases; but always returns to its master when called, just as an intelligent dog would. When the bear became strong, the Chinaman began riding him, and never had any trouble. He now riders him whenever he goes hunting and fishing, and finds the brute a better companion than a dog, for he will go into water and bring out game, or carry to his owner ducks or quails he had killed. The Chinaman lives near the Ten-mile House, on the Humboldt road, and yesterday was his first trip to Chico with his trick bear. – [Ohio (Cal.) Chronicle]

First Scotch boatman – “Weel, Geordie, hoo got ye on the day?” Second ditto (drouthy, he had been out with a Free Kirk minister, a stickt abstainer) – “Nae ava. The auld carie had nae whusky, sae I took him whaur there was nae fush!” – [Punch]

Many hospitals and curative institutions use only Red Star Cough Cure for throats and lung troubles. It cures. Price twenty-five cents. St. Jacobs Oil cures rheumatism.

A man in Chicago advertises 500 rheumatic plasters for sale – achers of ‘em, as it were – [Current]

IS EVERY BODY DRUNK
Among the many stories Lincoln used to resists was the following: Trudging along a lonely road one morning on my way to the county seat, Judge—overtook me, with his wagon, and invited me to a -----.
We had not gone far before the wagon began to wobble. Said I “Judge, I think your coachman has taken a drop too much.”
Putting his head out of the window, the judge shouted: “Why, you infernal scoundrel, you are drunk!”
Turning around with great gravity, the coachman said: “Be dad! But that’s the firs’ rightful s’cision your Honor’s giv’n ‘n twel’ mont!”
If people knew the facts today they would be surprised to learn how many people real in the streets who never “drink a drop.” They are the victims of sleeplessness, of drowsy days, of apoplectic tendencies, whose blood is set on fire by uric acid. Some day they will reel no more – they will drop dead, just because they haven’t the moral courage to defy useless professional attendance, and by use of the wonderful Warner’s safe cure neutralize of the “drunkenness in the blood.” – [The American Rural Home]

CUT HIS OWN LEG OFF
A good number of years ago people were startled by a report respecting a young man in the western part of what was then Upper Canada. He went to the woods one winter morning to fell timber. During the day he felled a tree which lodged. He attempted to fell another on the first one to bring it down, but did not succeed. He went up to one of the leaning trees to attempt to dislodge them, when suddenly the upper tree fell and caught the young man’s foot between the two, at the same time throwing him over backward so that his shoulders just touched the snow. He was alone, for in the bush his voice could not reach his friends, and it being a cold day he soon must perish. But he was a man of strong will and was equal to the occasion. He took his knife from his pocket and cut the flesh around the bone of the imprisoned leg. As he came to an artery he held it until the cold congealed the blood and then proceeded. If he felt his strength beginning to fail he bathed his face with snow. When he had the bone bared he reached his axe, and with one blow severed it and was free. He crawled out of the woods and across a field to the road, where a passing team took him home. That young man, said Mr. Dougall Q. C., of this city, was afterward a member of the Dominion Cabinet, a Cabinet minister, and is now know as Mr. Justice O’Connor, who is on the bench at the Belleville assizes. – [Belleville Ontario]

The late Dowager Lady Chesterfield’s husband was so hard up that he was obliged to let Chesterfield House, and was unable to finish Bretby, his country seat, and his son had to sell Chesterfield House; but Lady Chesterfield, who had a life interest in the property after he son’s death, finished Bretby and left $590,000 besides clearing the estate.

“Miss Little is very slight, aint’ she!” asked Jaimson. “Yes,” said Johnston, who had been jilted by her the evening before; “Yes, and she is not satisfied with being slight herself, but would slight me, also.” – [Stockton Maverick]

The mule has one more leg than a miling-0stool, and he can stand on one and wave the other three round in as many different direction. – [Goodall’s Sun]

Said Aaron to Moses “Let’s cut off our noses.” Aaron must have been a sufferer from catarrh. The desperation which catarrh produces is often sufficient to make people say and do many rash things and many continue suffering just as if no such cure as Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy existed. It cures every case from the simplest to the most complicated, and all the consequences of catarrh. A person once cured by Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy will not be apt to take cold again, as it leaves the mucous membranes healthy and strong. By druggists.

The man who rises by his profession – A builder of elevators.

For dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of spirits, general debility in their various forms, also a s a preventive against fever and ague and other intermittent fevers, the “Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisays “made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York and sold by all Druggists is the best tonic; and for patients recovering from fever or other sickness it has not equal.

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