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SUN DAT. OCTOBER 2 122 3 THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS Th South) Crtetttl NewapOptP i i at prhes far beyond their value, being bought up by person who were Ignorant of their va.u and who accordingly find that they have been swindled by enarpera. PLAQUE OP SNAKES. WILMINGTON. N.

Thousand of email snakes appeared suddenly in a village near here, entering many houses, and then disappeared as mysteriously as they came. RUSSIA STRIPPED OF DIAMONDS. Taking advantage of the jiovsrty strUken condition of the natives, bargain hunting tourU.s and dealers have scoured the country of Hues, In tnelr efforts to get diamonds and other previous stones at low rates. The country has been cleaned up of diamonds and. furthermore.

It Is said that great quantities of diamonds of an Interior character have been sent into the country ch.i that cause the Impairment of teeth, the real originators of toothache. The bacteria germs were located by applying to the enarnal of teeih tha aoid produced by tha various bad ill found In tha cavities of the mouth. Most of these could not live In acid wMcn were strong enough to affeot the enamel and finahy these two wars found taat possessed that capacity and may thereforo assumed to be the reason for decayed teeth. TOOTHACHE MAY BE ABOLISHED. Toothache may be abolished by ths investigations of three English physicians, Professor McIntosh.

Dr, Warwick James and Dr. P. L. Barlow, who have succeed la Identifying two special La- POACHING BY MOTOR, WIMBORN'E, Eng Poachers have abandoned the old-fashioned method of slinking through forests and now travel about Dorse'ihir in automobiles. Elmore County Seat Is Rich In History Of Early i Indian Days.

CoitUiwd Im rrooedisf tif. Alabama, having married one and been created grand chief of war. He waa sot for by the Corsican, who himself loved adventure and adventurers, and so the daring countryman a as reward' ad by an audience with the Man of the Hour." Napoleon, dreamer though he was, bad the practicality of the real states man in connection with his ability as a warrior. Mllfort was just the man to put through an alliance with Alabama and Mississippi Indians for the purpose of Strengthening his Louisiana posses sions. But in the chess game of era Pirea Louisiana was but a pawn in world politics snd passing out of Napoleon's hands, Le Clerq Mllfort missed his great chance to have loomed large In Indian history.

He was rewarded, however, by Napoleon with the rank and pay, of general of brigade, but with out active employment. The old bravery had not left him In aplte of the comforts of Paris, for in 1114 when his home was attacked by a party of Russians, who had heard of his daring exploits in assisting to repel the allied invaders, he barricaded It and defended himself with the desper. atlon he had learned in Indian warfare, and while he kept up a fire on the attackers, his wife stood coolly but busily by rsioadlng ths guns. At length he waa rescued by a troop of grenadiers. He died shortly after, but his wife lived to an advanced age, meeting, however, a horrible death, aa sh waa cremated In her own house at Rhelme when it waa burned.

In Demopolle we ran across the Napoleonic exilea, and here in Wetumpka wa find this chapter in which the emperor plays a part. A Triflle Chapter Now comes a tragic chapter, for the failure of the Royal Bank of France had its effect tn far-away Louisiana, and from thence reached out to Fort Tou-louae, some three or four miles away from Wetumpka. The soldiers were tortured with famine, and corrupted by some British traders, who Induced them to desert and fly to Charleston. The command consisted of a captain, a liec-tenant, an ensign, a corporal and 18 aoldlere. The mutineers, arising from breakfast at a signal, slew Captain Marchand, but Lieutenant Vlllemont find Ensign Faqua escaped through a porthole of one of the bastions and flea to Hickory Ground (Wetumpka).

where Vlllemont made Irresistible appeal to the Indian warrior to march against the fleeing deaertera. They had Intimidated the corporal, looted the fort, appropriated the officers' uniform, leaving only the sacred wardrobe of the priest, a Jesuit father, whom they did not roo-lest. Vlllemont. through the ensign whom he sent, persuaded the great chief, Big Mortar, of Coesawda, to take the aide of the king. Vlllemont with the force hurriedly assembled marched against ths mutineers, slaying 1.

capturing all the other save two, who escaped. Being wounded, he marched them hack to Fort Toulouse, where only the Jesuit father wee found. Believing that the soldiers and Indian under Vlllemont would be unable to return, ha had, with the help of nine of the Red Men, Interred the body of the unfortunate Marchand. Next day the deserters were placed In oanoes and sent to Mobile, In charge of an Indian guard, at the head of which was Ensign Paque. and getting them to the gulf port safely the de-serters were promptly The story of Alexander McGilllvray can only be touched on.

It Is worth a hook by Itself, for he wae the out standing figure of the Creek nation and waa able to enter the diplomatic arena The Womans Tonic long and tortuous journey from Natchea. for they had expected every moment to he tracked out and ell suddenly butchered. They dispatched three of the most plausible men as ambassadors into Hickory Ground to tmplors compassion and hospitality of the inhabitants. As they rode up the square the squaws were hoeing their green corn end the warriors reposed by the sides of their cabins. Colonel McGilllvray was unfortunately away from home, aa Hickory Ground wee one of his residences.

The Indians, all alert, scanned the saddles of the three men and spotted them as from Georgia, believing them to be Whigs. The ambassadors pleaded and explained that they were rosallsts and good friends of the Creeks, but about 70 savages encircled them. The expedition seemed to be mysterious, the motives Inexplicable and the saddle convicting. It looked as if the fate of the three couriers was sealed, as every warrior had seised hie knife and every face bore eigne that murder was in the heart and that death waa near for the travelers. It was Paro, Colonel McGllllvraye trusted body servant.

who, riding up, was appealed to and he expressed satisfaction and tried to quiet ths Indians, but they remained Inflexible, whan Paro. the negro, called them fool end madmen, but through fear of McQllllvrav they did not resent It. but were still resolved on the death of the white men. At thia point one of the Red Men said to ths three: It you tell the truth, make the paper talk." The Ingenious negro Paro caught the idea, and asked the men if they had not kept a Journal of their travels. They replied.

"No." He then asked Jf they had eny paper about them with writing upon it. One of them found an old letter, which, according to Paros Instructions, he pretended to read, slowly and solemnly, giving a complete history of their flight from Natchex, and the cause of it. Paro. interpreted It to the Indians with great animation. They gradually got over their anger, and smiles took ths place Of frowns, and the ferocity was succeeded by friendship.

Knives wers put up and a hand-shaking took place. The whole caravan was brought In, lodged and fed. Indian Attltuds To better understand the attitude of the Indians It should be recorded that the Creek Indian were relied upon by the British authorities to harass the Whig inhabitants of Georgia and Carolina, and hence the suspicion which attached to the trio coming in astride Georgia saddles. They had in 1781 stationed at Hickory Ground, the site of the lower suburb of Wetumpka, Colonel Talt, the English officer of captivating address, for the purpose of Influencing tha Creeks In behalf of the king. It waa here he got acquainted with the remarkable Alexander McGil-livray.

Colonel Marinue Willett, a natle of Long Island, N. and a distinguished officer In ths Canadian War and the American Revolution, was selected by George Washington as a secret agent to visit the Creek nation by a circuitous route and endeavor to return, with Mc-Gllltvray, to the seat of the federal government In Washington. No one was to know anything about It save General Fickens. to whom he bore a letter. The only part of the story to be used here relates to the fact that he did meet McGilllvray at the house of Mr.

Greison, In the Hillabees, end the party accompanied by him soon arrived at Hickory Oround, a large town and one of the residences of the great Indian chief. It Is Interesting to note that the coming together meant that at last McGilllvray was to set out for New York to see the Great White Chief. The great Tecumseh himself visited the Hickory Ground. After many conferences with the British, at Detroit, he left that country with a party of 30 warriors mounted on horses, and shaped hla course to the South. Passing through the Chickasaw and Choctaw country, he was unsuccessful In arraying these tribes against the Americans.

He went down to Florida and met the Seminoles. In October, 1812, he came up to the Alabama, crossed river at Autaugua, where he, for the first time appealed to the Creeks In a long speech. Continuing to Coosawda he had at this time collected many followers who went with him to see the Hickory Ground. Yes. Wetumpka In Its Indian days saw many of the great men who ruled among the Red Men.

If great Indian warriors lived at or visited Hickory Ground It must bs recalled that Old Hickory" the day after ths battle of Horseshoe Bend assumed the line of march and. reached Fort Williams on the sAond of April, 1814. but upon examination of the Coosa River it was found impracticable to transport the stores from Fort Williams to the termination of the ills by water, and the reduced condition of the horses and the roughness of the country rendered it impossible to transport them by land In any quantity. However, with such provisions as the men could carry upon their backs. Jack-son marched towards the Hickory Grounds, relying upon the eastern army whose advance guard was then under Milton, for supplies.

Heavy rains retarded this march, but he reached Foo-ehatchte, where he captured a few prisoners. The Red Stocks fled from the Hoithlewaule and other towns across the Tallapoosa. Prevented from made warden and W. 8. Kjle, F.

f. Mc-Lemore and R. J. Harrison Inspectors (In January, 1144). But In February, 1148, an act was passed authorising the lease of the Institution, by ths terma of which the lessee became warden; so that when J.

G. Graham leased ths penitentiary, during the earn month, Cargill went out of office and Graham became warden and continued to be up to the expiration of hie legse In 1181. From llol to 1688 Moor and Jordan were lessees, with Dr. Moore a warden; but In 1(38 Dr. Ambrose Burrows became leasee and warden.

They were engaged largely In the manufacture of bagging and rope, which proved a failure. Involving the lessees In heavy loss It also was an exceedingly unhealthy employment, causing much and fatal sickness. A Tragic Occurrence Now comes a tragic occurrence as Dr. Burrows waa killed In 1182 by a convict named Karminsky, who was tried at Rockford for the murder, found gu.l-ty and wae executed In the prison ard in ths presence of the prisoners. On his death, the state took over the control.

with Dr. G. M. Moor as warden, and dur.ng the war he manufactured many articles for the Confederacy paying Into the treasury about 880,000 in Confederate money. It le well known that many convict were pardoned during the war on the condition that they join the army.

At the request of the State of Mississippi, the convicts of that state were received into the Alabama penitentiary, and remained In it until the Spring of 1888, hen the Federal forces. In their aal for liberty, threw open the doors of the prison and out went all of tli convicts. Among the convict was a men named Maroney. whoee wonderful feat In robbing an express company at Montgomery, before the war, Is one of the most romantic chapters In criminal annals, end furnished the material for one of Pinkerton's sensational hooka Now comes ths strange sequel, for when the Federals let tha convicts loose Maroney refused to leave and remained alone In "The Walla" faithfully guarding the place wherein he had been incarcerated, doing everything In hla pow. er to preserve the property of the state until he waa relieved by those having authority.

Dr. Moore continued to act as warden up to June. 1866, when Governor Patton made another lease to Smith end McMillan, with whom various partlee appear to have been Interested. This was the last lease made under the old 1866, when the federal forces, in their business transactions the state ever made. In 1866, a new leas wae made under which Smith end McMillan were allowed to sub-let the convicts to work outside the penitentiary.

This wee the beginning of the present lees system, which waa the cause of changing the character of the state penitentiary at Wetumpka, which, after 1885, became 1 more of a place fox the yhronlo sick end those broken down In the mines, camps or otherwise became unfit for labor. But this is not to be a history of the state penitentiary at Wetumpka. and yet It was thought best to glvs a short sketch, as It has played a great part In the story of the town. The names of all the wardens and Inspsctors have not been preserved, and even 0 years ago R. II.

Dawson, then president of the board of Inspectors of convicts, from whom these facta have been taken, was unable to get the list from 1848 up to 1868. It Is Interesting, howsver. to know that when the radicals got In control during reconstruction that two negroes were Inspectors, Baker Kle, In 1871. and H. C.

Bryan, In 1873. The writer was Interested to go through ths rooms In the main building occupied by the let Senator John H. Bankhead, when he In 1818 became warden. He held the place untl March, 1886, during the most trying period of the institution. He found the convict leased out to contractors over whom the law gave him little control, end, as Colonel Dawson said: It Is not strange that Mr.

Bank-heads administration should have been the subject of criticisms; but any one who will read the plan propoaed by him to the Legislature In 1882 can but feel that he was deeply Interested In Ills work, and that no more humane system for the management of convicts was ever proposed by any one." Many Noted Prleoners The Walls" have enclosed many noted prisoners, and it Is easy for one passing by or through the Institution to think on the career which ended In the cells. The writer not very long ego went through the prison with his namesake. and being Interested In the finger print" method of thumb Indexing the Inmate, he asked to be ahown how It wa done and then how the print were filed. Frank, had hi Imprint made, but after It was done picked up the sheet of paper and was careful to destroy the record. Theodors Lacey was In charge of thg work and waa most obliging in giving all the Information desired.

Without trying to name some of the noted characters In public ee well as In private life who have been confined In the penitentiary at Wetumpka. or even to eelxa upon a few of the more noted criminals and desperadoes; yet It may bs of Interest to record the fact that the first one to occupy "The Welle" after It wae built was George Garrett. CENTURIES Tlie principal medicinal plant ingredient, to which much of the therapeutic value of CARDUI is due, was first introduced into medicinal use by Amoldus Villanovanus. about 1 A ft os (TV) iuom I- 1 1 enn O- .7 vuioiiuvauua, flUUUl 1350 A. 600 or nearly years ago.

Since then, many medical text books have mentioned its SiriA Asm Anrif aIsasu a qi rs se use, among others, the following: Dr. P. A. Matthiolus, of Frankfort, in 1583, wrote: The plant is greatly esteemed among all nations. Dr.

John Hill, of London, in 1751, wrote: The great demand for It, on account of its medicinal virtues, occasions Its being propagated in all the Gardens about London where medicinal herbs are raised. min Durant, a man of Huguenot blood, came from South Carolina. Hie reputation as as athlete had preceded him, end when informed by tbs trader! that a man in the Creek nation was a bettor man than ha was, ha wanted to bo shown the men. And so the two were brought together at Hickory Ground, and along with Benjamin Durant, with skin aa brown as a berry, cam dark eyed Sophia. The fight took place, and from tha accounts it wee no glove affair and no holds barred; just a good old rough and tumble affair whore fellow was allowed to use anything he had to damage his opponent.

Du ent wae victorious end wae proclaimed the champion of the Creek nation, and soon married Sophia. Her husband be' came a wealthy man. and Durant' Bend" and other placet on the Alabama River still preserve hie memory. The tale of Sophia Durant must be told hers, for ehe was tha heroin of Little River. Sh had an air of au thority about her, equal to If not aupe rlor to that of Alexander, her famous brother; and ha had an exalted opinion of hi sister's ability and often called upon her to make speeches to the chiefs gathered In council.

It will be seen from this that our cultured and charm lng Twentieth Century women who are taking auch an aettva part In Alabama politics are not the first who over In fluenced matters of state, as Sophia Durant always felt competent to enter ths council of chiefs and speak her mind, as will be seen liter. Sophia waa much better acquainted with tha Indian tongue than waa her more celebrated brother, Alexander Me Glllivray, for he had spent much time out of the nation aqd came more often in contact with the whites. She fre quently acted aa his spokesmen in the councils snd the chief listened to her with delight. After marrj lng the distinguished Hu guenot Benjamin Durant, she moved to her father's plantations on the Savannah River, but later came back with her and settled on a large tract of land between 8tlma and Montgom ery, named Durant's Bend, on the Ala bama River. It wae while living here that her brother, Alexander, went with Colonel Willett to New Yrk in the Sum mar of 1780 to make a treaty of peace at tha suggestion of Washington.

So p(iia well knew the treacherous charac ter of the and was on her guard, and so when a half-dead messenger sta gored into her home, whispering, An attack, the Indians are planning to fall on the Tensaw settlers and put them all to death, without waiting an hour mounted her horse, ordering a ne gro woman to get another one, and without further protection, set out on a long ride to Hickory Ground, where all the councils were held. It waa perilous ride by day and one of horror at night, but ehe bravely went on, this woman whose mother was beautiful Se hoy Marchand McGilllvray. whose grandfather wa Captain Marchand-She wa feerlesa, having In her veins Scotch, French and Indian blood. Arriving at Hickory Ground on the fourth day out from her home, ehe as sembled the chiefs, and in ringing words denounced their act and threatened them with the vengeance of lisr mighty brother, Alexander, upon hie return. Then with her magnetic eloquence which had eo often swaved them be-fore, she poured out to them in burning words how destruction would come upon their hesds If th'y moved ngalnst the helpless whites.

But she did not stop at mere words but had the ringleaders arrested, thereby putting a com plet atop to their murderous plan" Two weeks after this energetic and gifted woman was delivered of twins at the Hickory Oround. One of them married James Ballev, who was killed at the fall of Fort Mims In 1813, and tha other lived to be an old woman. Romance Now enters romance, for It wee at the Hickory Ground, her In Wetumpka, that Alexander McQllllvray, the Talleyrand, not only of the Creek nation, but of America, met his fate, Search where you will end It will be hard to find a character paralleling that of the eon of Lachlan McGilllvray, the red-haired Scotch lad. who landed In Charleston with the suit on his back and a shilling In hts pocket as the sum total of his wealth so far as money and goods went, but, my! wnat a stout, healthy body and a disposition, which knew neither fear nor unhappiness. He wae a born trader, and when a chance came to him to Join himself with keen-eyed trader on hi way to the Chattahoochee, young Lachlan jumped at the chance.

A pocket knife was hi reward, end In those days a real sure enough one wa something worth while, end so the keen Scotch lad swapped It off to an Indian, carrying back to Charleston several skins, which he sold. This wee the beginning of his career as one of the shrewdest Indian factors of hts time. His trade with ths Red Man brought him to Alabama, and he was often seen at Fort Toulouse, which was only a short distance from ths Indian village of Hickory Ground. One day on riding into this town looking for barter he saw something which took his mind off of goods for the moment, as beautiful Sehoy Marchand. whose father was the French captain, who was slain at Fort Toulouse In 1732 by his own soldiers, as we have seen, and whose mother was an Intdan princess, a full-blooded Creek woman of the Tribe of the Wind, the most aristocratic and powerful family in the Creek nation.

Sehoy wa an Indian name which had attached to many person of the family, time out of mind, Sehoy Marchand, when firet seen by yound Lachlan McGilllvray, was only 16 years old, cheerful of countenance, bewitching in looks and graceful in form. Her unfortunate father. Captain Marchand, waa a Frenchman of dark complexion, and consequently, this beautiful girl In the first flush of her maidenly beauty scarcely looked light enough for a half-breed; but then her slightly curled hair, her vivacity and peculiar gesticulation, according to Pickett, unmistakably exposed her origin. Before she waa 17 she had become the wife of Lachlan McGilllvray. He built a home for her at Little Tallas-see, four miles above Wetumpka, and took hla young wife there to live, establishing a trading house on the Coosa River which, through the help of his wife's influential friends, was a most successful mercantile venture.

But to keep the record straight, it must be set down that before Sehoy Marchand met Lachlan McGilllvray, she had married a chief and was the mother of little girl named Sehoy. Three Sehoye also helped to make Alabama history, for they belonged to the Tribe of the Wind and wielded much influence over the people. The first Sehoy married Captain Marchand; her daughter married Lachlan McGil-tivray, and the granddaughter, Sehoy, waa the mother of William Weatherford, the famous Red Eagle, immortalised In Alexander Meek's poem of the Creek War. Back, however, to the Sehov. the wife of Lachlan McGilllvray.

The Indian tradition ran that while ehe wee awaiting the birth of her first-born son ehe repeatedly dreamed of pile of manuscript. of Ink end paper, and heaps of books, more then her eyes bad ever beheld In the tort when ehe was a child and waa accustomed to visiting her father. If there Is anything In prenatal influence, it is email wonder that Alexander, with such mother, became a scholar, for. according to the custom of her people, her consent had to he given before he could be sent away to Charleston to school, and yet she readily gave It Her brilliant son not only mastered English, but acquired Greek and Latin. There something strange in the fact that the son reared half in the whit man's civilisation and half In the customs of the Red Man, should have become such a past master in the art of diplomacy, for he was truly a man of 111 and great acumen.

A Negroa Ruse It wa a forlorn party of refugees who after Indescribable suffering In an effort to get back from Natehet to Georgia In 1711 arrived at Hickory Ground. The Intrepid bravery of Mrs. Dwight, the wife of Dr. Dwight, who as the arfl" of the despairing ones, read Ilk ths wiliest frt'oa. Hickory Ormand was ths first town the rtfoseas bad dared to enter la ttielr Dr.

Johann Schroeder, of Nuremberg, in 1693, wrote: The herb, when boiled in water or wine and taken, overcomes dizziness, Is useful in severe debility, promotes appetite and brings on Dr. Lobach, Member of the Physico-Medical Society, Wuerzburg, in a report to his society, in 1858, wrote about the wonderful results which have made this remedy famous. Dr. John M. Scudder, of Cincinnati.

Ohio, in 1898, wrote: It will be found valuable in cases of sudden suppression, due to colds It promotes the appetite and gives energy to the digestive organs. Kings American Dispensatory published in Cincinnati, in 1909. yrs: It acts well in suppression from colds. Potters Cyclopedia of Botanical Drugs, London, 1911, says: It acts well la 4 derangements due to colds, etc." The above quotations from scientific medical writers, show the high opinion held by them as to just one of the Ingredients of Cardui, the womans tonic. First introduced into common use in this country as a proprietary medicine nearly half a century ago, CARDUI has attained the position of a leading remedy In female ailments and is Indicated In many cases of female trouble and for such symptoms as pains, cramps, spasms and other signs of derangement In cases of this kind, when not due Unconstitutional deformity or that do not require surgical treatment Its general action on the system is that of a mild tonic and it Is, therefore, also Indicated for a run-down condition in general, to assist in promoting appetite, stimulating digestion and toning up the system.

Most druggists carry Cardui in stock, in $1.00 bottles, with full directions for use printed on the label; and every woman who suffers from female ailments, or requires the aid of a good, general, systemic tonic, should try this well-known remedy. Write for Book or Circular A Book, In simple language, giving full par- ticulars of the uses of Cardui, with instructions on diet baths, and other i with tha Americans, Spaniards. English French and Indians and more than hold his own In statecraft, even though he Is known not only as the Talleyrand but the Machlavelll of American diplomacy. Something for a half-breed to be able muster unto himself the names of the two great European diplomats, the one of France and the other of Italy. From the union of Lachlan McGill! vray and Rehoy Marchand not only sprang Alexander, hut Sophia and Jean netr Sophia married Benjamin Du rant, the noted athlete; wllle Jeannet married, as we have seen, Le Clerc Mllfort, who, after the death of Jeannet, returned to France to be placed under Napoleon.

Wetumpka has reason to bs congratulated on having at one time been the home of Sehoy Marchand. Benjamin Durant. As mention has been made of Jean-nets husband, Le Clero Mllfort, It is but right that gome notice be given, to Benjamin Durant, who evidently was the Jack Dempsey of his time. Benja- pursuing the enemy by a flood In the cf Autaugua, who wae sentenced to con- New System of Fat Reduction kx. 1C k'X'V health hints, will be sent to any woman on request A Special Circular, for physicians only, giving the formula and describing Its Ingredients, therapeutic effects and clinical results, will be sent to any physician writing us on his printed letterhead or prescription blank.

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Adv. Ok river and the ecarclty of provisions, Jackson marched to the head of the peninsular formed bv the confluence of the Coosa and the Tallapoosa, and planted his colors upon the spot where Bienville, 100 years before, had erected Fort Toulouse, garrisoned by French troops for a half century. Here the rivers approach within 600 yards of one another, an? diverging, unite four miles below. le Is a verbatim report taken from IiisuVical Collections of Georgia: Treaty with the Creeks at the Creek Agency on the 15th day- of November, 1827. Ratified March 4.

1828. The object of this treaty wee to receive from the Creeke a cession of all the lands owned by them in the State of Georgia. In consideration of this cession, the 'nited States agreed to pay the Indians 27.491. etc. Signed by Thomas L.

Mc-Ksnney, John Crowell, on the part of the United States, and six Creek warriors, and afterward signed by 84 head men In general council, assembled, at Wetumpka, January 3, 1828. Penitentiary An act of the Legislature was passod In January, 1839, to establish a "penitentiary and state prison for the reformation of criminal. William Hogan. A. A.

McWhorter and Alexander Smith were appointed building commissioners and ths Institution was located In the suburbs of Wetumpka on the east bank of the Coosa. The location is flat and low. and In 1888 It waa Inundated by the overflow of the river In the great freshets. When viewed from the public road the front of the building presents a handsome and pleasing appearance and looks mors like a f-bllc building than a prison. It's the tell-tale bars across the windows which give It sway as a penal Institution.

About three acres are enclosed by a brick wall 25 feet high, from hich the place takes the name of The Walls." The trees In front and within the walls were set out under ths direction of Colonel Bass. It was In October, 1139, that the cornerstone was laid by Governor A. P. Bagby, and In October. 1841, the butld-inga were completed at a cost of 114.

-000. If one wishes to trace the growth of Alabama It could be done by a visit to the old penitentiary here at Wetumpka. which In Its early day wee considered to be too fine for the keep-g of convicts, to the handsome new Kilby prison, which In some respects la palatial and Is being criticised by some as having cost too much, just as was the old Institution which Is being superseded. In November, 1841, William Hogan was appointed warden and J. M.

Armstrong, S. S. Simmon and John Watson. Inspector. They served until January, 1644, when Achilles Bradley became warden, with W.

8. Kyle, L. P. Saxon and John Watson, Inspector. At some time during the rear 1144 the wooden workshop in the yard war burned, and when tha Legialatura met In 1145 the condition of tha Institution wa unsatisfactory, especially as to money matters, Thomas Cargill waa flnement for 20 year for harboring runaway slave, but was pardoned a few years afterwards.

The writer celled at the Methodist parsonage on Rev. H. M. Andrews, the pastor, seeking Information about the history of the Methodist Church In Wetumpka, but being only acquainted with the more recent incidents of Its story he referred the writer to M.ss Mollie Bradford, but unfortunately the manuscript of William Penick. deceased, which she found among hla papers was some years back turned over to one of the preachers and was either lost or misplaced.

This, In connection with the fact that the church records wers not available, having bean poorly kept, and not preserved. It was Impossible to get any data save that the church building, a striking structure of the old ante-bellum type, was erected in 1853. During the pastorate ef the Bev. C. 8.

Tallry It was remodelled, and on the Inside one finds a classic auditorium. The etalned glass window are quite effective. The men Bible claea hea built a substantial annex In the rear of the church. The writer is indebted to C. C.

Cante-lou for a glimpse at the old church hook of the Presbyterians here. It shows that the church wee organised here on January 10. 1836, the Reve. Alex Cunningham and Fields Bradshaw meeting with the local members to perfect an organization, which resulted In the ordaining of Isaac Lyon aa ruling elder. The charter members were Isaac Lyon.

Francis Lyon, Lydal Saxon. Mary E. Saxon, Mrs. Martha DuBose, Miss Marla Taylor. Mrs Jan Hannon, Mrs.

Mary Flemming, James Buchanan. Mr Eve Buchanan, Thomas B. Walden, Daniel Graham, Mrs. Elvira C. Lyle.

William C. Penick, Mr. Elisabeth A. Penick, Miss Ellen Pond, John W. Byers, Robert Sampson and Mrs.

Harriot Wit-kins. These names ere given to show some of the leading families beck In the 30's. Rev. A. Grigsby we the first preacher.

Later cam Hev. R- Nall and tha oldest one remembered by Mr. Can-telou. himself, was Rev. O.

R. Foster. William L. Ta'ncey Joined this church on profession of faith. Dr Theron H.

Rice, the brilliant Prebytrian dlvln who 'recently died In Rirhmond, was born here. The Presbyterians, though without a pastor at present, have a long and honorable record behind them in this community. The Harrogate Graveyard, 24 mls south of Wetumpka, ha the famous tombstone on which the following Is carved "Henry Ritter. Em Ritter Dema Ritter. Sweet Pntatoe Cream Tarter Caroline Bostwlik, Daughter of Bob and Burk.

Cstien. Born at Social Circle, 1I4J; D'ad at Wetumpka, 1153." A 'Js- In Rash. Scratched All The Time. Could Not Best. Cuticura Heals.

43.5 mwmJS "When my little boy wae eighteen month old ecsetna broke out on hie la 4 nuh. It grew eteadlly worse end facbed end burned, end he eentebed ell the titxn. He wee vary frwtfal end could no rest day or night. teed ea ed vertlastnent for Ctxti-cam Soap end Ointment end sent for free ea tuple. I bought more, end after Using one eeka of Luttcura Soap end one boa i Cubcura Ota, meat he wee (Signed) Mrs.

J. MeCrey, t- 4, Philippi, W. V. Cutlets Scop, Ointment end TeL as ere sQ yo need far eU toil a fl, THE nOfJAirs TQIJIG Bathe with Bom, sooths wb fchTal dost wfth Talons. Ointment, frir few Ip Pm a tHHiW bi Jwfc tWPMMP'i TdiCtM.