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