Calhoun County AlArchives News.....Newspaper abstracts for JULY 1879 July 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 11, 2006, 7:48 pm The Jacksonville Republican July 1879 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE JACKSONVILLE REPUBLICAN", Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama for JULY 1879 NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, July 5, 1879 LOCAL News We received a pleasant call Wednesday from Mr. Joe Montgomery, formerly of this place, now of Texas. Joe has a host of friends here who are glad to see him among them again, if only a brief time. --- A horse attached to a wagon containing Mr. Cobb and two ladies ran away on the hill near the Methodist church on Wednesday and smashed up things. Mr. Cobb was thrown from the wagon and had his collar bone fractured. The ladies were unhurt. --- We return thanks to Mr. Dan Aderholt for a bucket of the largest Irish potatoes we have seen this season. --- ALABAMA News Jefferson Davis was seventy-one years old on the 3rd of July. --- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, July 12, 1879 LOCAL News Joe H. Privett is now doing some very fine buggy painting. He is thoroughly prepared for the work and can make an old buggy look like a new one. --- While in Anniston, Saturday last, we learned from Mr. John Loyd of the death of a white man named Garret, on the R.R. track the night bfore. He had lain down on the track and, it is supposed, fell asleep. A passing train ran over him and killed him instantly. His body was horribly mangled. He was said to have been a man who drank very hard at times and it is thought he was drunk when he lay down on the track to sleep. At first there was suspicion of foul play but on a thorough investigation of the matter by a coroner's jury, such suspicion was dismissed and a verdict rendered in accordance with the facts set forth above. --- Mr. Peace's school on Cane Creek opens next Monday. Mr. Peace has been teaching a long time in the county and with uniform success. We hope that his school may open Monday with a large number of pupils. --- Judge Walker has been at Bufordville, Va., some weeks for his health. We are glad to learn by postal card that his health is somewhat improved. The many inquiries we receive every day as to the state of his health, attest the high regard the people of Calhoun have for him. --- Mr. Tobe Weir, formerly of this county, now of Tyler, Smith county, Texas, has been paying his old friends in Calhoun a visit. He was Clerk of the Texas Legislature last session. --- OXFORD News The excursion train of the 4th on its return from Rome about 10 o'clock at night, when about one mile from Anniston, ran over and frightfully mutilated a man by the name of Sam Garret. The unfortunate man was seen just before dark the same evening badly intoxicated, in company with several other men in like condition. It is said that Garret had a difficult with one or two of these, and they were rather suspected of having killed him and placed his body on the track. The more plausible supposition however is that in his beastly drunken condition he lay down on the track and fell into a profound sleep, from which he awoke in eternity. The accident was not discovered until the next morning when the mangled body and limbs were found scattered in all directions. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, July 19, 1879 OXFORD News Items Oxford has been so fortunate as not to lose a single life by the measles, nothwithstanding there have been over one hundred cases, until the 14th inst., when Miss Bettie Hays, a young lady 24 years old, died with them. --- We return thanks to Mr. Isaac Frank for a basket of vegetables, some consisting of a new and very prolific bean, mammoth Irish potatoes of three varieties and very large tomatoes of several varieties. Mr. Frank is the most scientific gardener in town. --- Mrs. E.L. Woodward Sr. of this place has been dangerously ill this week. At one time it was thought she would not live many hours. Thanks to devoted nursing and skillful treatment she is now much better and her speedy recovery is hoped for. --- File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/calhoun/newspapers/newspape1093gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb