Madison County AlArchives News.....Items from The Huntsville Weekly Democrat, 16 Nov 1881 November 16, 1881 ************************************************ 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: Kenneth Stacy klstacyfamily@aol.com November 10, 2006, 5:57 pm The Huntsville Weekly Democrat November 16, 1881 PERSONALS Hon. R. K. Boyd, of Guntersville, spent several days in Huntsville last week. We note the following gentlemen drawn hither by the M. & C. R. R. Convention: Ex-Gov. W. D. Porter, A. S. Collier, G. M. Fogg, Ed Baxter, W. M. Duncan, of Nashville; Chas. Y. Swan, of New York; D. H. Poston, Gen. W. Y. C. Humes, J. C. Neely, H. C. Wilton, S. R. Cruse, W. M. Farrington, R. D. Frayser, J. A. Hayes, Jr., Louis Hannour, Walter, A. Goodman, of Memphis; W. R. Boyd, of Ga.; W. J. Bullitt, of Phila.; W. B. Crosby, R. H. Richards, of Atlanta; Chas. H. Phinizy, C. W. Harris, of Augusta; E. W. Cole, Major J. F. O’Brien, W. W. McKeon, of Knoxville; Ex-Gov. Patton, W. B. Wood, of Florence; Gen. John D. Rather, of Tuscumbia; C. C. Harris, of Decatur; Gen. Jos. Wheeler, of Lawrence Co.; N . M. Falk, of Leighton; Hamlin Caldwell, of Bellefonte; Major Walter S. Gordon. E. P. Howell, of the Atlanta Constitution, and E. P. Caldwell, of the St. Louis and San Francisco R. R. Co., were in our city yesterday. MARRIED: HALSEY - LANDMAN. - In Fayetteville, Tenn., Sunday, Nov. 13, 1881, by Rev. Mr. Little, ROBERT S. HALSEY to MISS LILLIE B. LANDMAN, daughter of Geo. P. Landman – all of Huntsville, Ala. The course of their true love not running altogether smooth, this young couple fled to Fayetteville, and there consummated there plighted troths in the holy bonds of wedlock. May Love’s young dreams of bliss and prosperity be fully realized! WHITTEN – SALE. – At the Methodist Church, Huntsville, Ala., Nov 15, 1881, at 4 p. m., by Rev. John A. Thompson, Presiding Elder of the Huntsville District, Solon L. Whitten, of Florence, Ala., to Miss Charlie C. Sale, daughter of Mrs. Sallie P. Sale, of Huntsville. The bridegroom is a merchant of high standing for integrity and business capacity; the bride handsome and accomplished. We wish them all the blessings of married life. The marriage party left on the evening train for Florence, where, we hear, a brilliant reception, prepared by the young men of Florence, awaited them. LOCAL NEWS “THE DOCTRINE OF REPROBATION, BY REV. F. A. ROSS, D. D., late Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Huntsville, Ala.” – We are under obligations to the distinguished author for a book of about 80 pages, with the above title. We have read it with instruction and pleasure. It is a dissertation on the doctrine of predestination and election, as taught in the Westminster Confession of Faith, accepted as the creed of the Presbyterian Church. He dissents from the doctrine of reprobation announced in that Confession, and insists on a revision of the Westminster Confession, as he believes it repugnant to the teachings of the Bible. He argues the question with great clearness, precision, and logical force, with some incisiveness, but without acerbity. The Doctor, in reply to our inquiry, said, there was not truth in the rumor that he had been arraigned for heresy. Two or three weeks ago, he attended the Presbyterian Synod at Knoxville, Tenn., as a visiting clergyman, and offered, and supported in a speech, a resolution, recommending a revision of the Westminster Confession, but it was voted down. U.S. NEWS The trial of Lena Haynie, colored, who was convicted of manslaughter at the last term of the circuit court, but granted a new trial, occupied the court yesterday. The District Attorney was assisted by Malcolm Franklin, Esq. The defense was represented by Meek & Meek. The jury retired at seven o’clock, and agreed upon a verdict in a few minutes. Judge Arnold had gone to supper, and, by the time he returned, the court room had filled with spectators. When the verdict was read, “We the jury find the defendant not guilty,” there was quite a scene in the court room. The prisoner, by the verdict made free, pinioned our young friend W. C. Meek in close embrace, and having hugged him well, her eye fell of the portly form of Col. Meek; and he was seized in an enthusiastic and ecstatic embrace. Words were inadequate to express the feelings of the liberated woman, and only after some time was she able to speak, and then only to exclaim, with gladness in her voice, “Lena’s free!” The spectators generally joined in the noise, and the court was adjourned amid a din that would not down at the bidding of the Sheriff. – Columbus Dispatch MISSISSIPPI ---------- Particulars of the Late Election Riot. --------- MERIDIAN, Nov. 10 – In regard to the Marion trouble, no new developments have been made since Tuesday night, except the arrest of one negro. After the lapse of two days, and conversation with forty or fifty different participants, a recapitulation of the whole affair, in brief, is as follows: On Tuesday last, while the State election was progressing at Marion, in this county, Jos. Barret, an aged white man, having just voted, was insulted by a negro at the polls: Barret tried to resent it with a blow. Some say he drew a stick on the negro. Before he could strike, another negro, named Frank Johnson, shot him with a pistol in the neck, cutting the jugular vein and killing him almost instantly. George Johnson, colored, formerly a slave of Barrett, ran up to defend his old master, and was shot by a negro, from the effects of which he died to- day. A general shooting among the negroes then commenced. The whites were unarmed. Jeff. Segars, white, was killed by a negro named Sam. Gillespie. Alex. Harvey, Democratic candidate for County Assessor, fifty yards from the scene, was rushed on by negroes and killed by a shot through the head. He was shot in the face by Frank Johnson after he was dead. Jas. Hodges, white, was wounded seriously in the knee. Levi Moore, white, was wounded in the hand. Vince Segars was wounded and is expected to die. The negroes doing the shooting were Gillespie, Frank Johnson, Allen and Burwell, and Burwell Brown and Martin Malone. Marion was not their voting place. They were from another precinct. Will Vance (white), Republican, is said to have induced the negroes to begin firing. As soon as the news reached Meridian, six miles distant, Sheriff Henderson with a posse of seventy five men, repaired to the scene. The negroes had all left. A party of twenty men went to the house of Ed. Vance, (white) Republican, and approaching him with warrants of arrest, demanded his surrender, and were replied to by Vance telling them to “go to hell.” They were then fired on and repulsed. By five o’clock in the afternoon, relief came, and the Sheriff, with his men, surrounded the house. The Sheriff called out to those inside to surrender. A white flag was presented at the door. The Sheriff met the bearer on the half way ground, and on the promise that he would protect Vance and all in the house, a surrender was agreed on. The Sheriff drove his buggy up to the gate to take in the prisoner. – Will Vance and his men gathered about the yard, anticipating no danger. John Vance at this moment, was seen in a stooping attitude behind the corner of the stable near by, with a gun leveled on the posse, but, before he could fire, he was shot and killed. At the same instant, while A. G. Warren, of the posse, was pledging protection to the females of Vance’s family, he was shot through the head by some one from inside the house, and instantly killed. The Sheriff and Hardin Jones, of the posse, were slightly wounded. Ed. Vance escaped. Several negroes were seen to fire on the posse from the house and run off. No negroes are known to be killed. Four or five wounded. Will Vance was brought to Meridian by the sheriff in a buggy at night, and lodged in jail. No harm was offered him. Young Ed Vance, a boy of seventeen, was captured, but allowed to remain at home without molestation, Yesterday, a party of fifty men went under the direction of the Sheriff in search of Ed. Vance and others concerned in the riot. None were found, except a negro named Martin Malone, who took an active part in the riot. – He is now in jail. LEGAL NOTICES State of Alabama, | Court of Probate, Madison County, | Nov. 12, 1881. Regular October Term. ------------- Estate of Elizabeth Noblin dec’d. ------------- Petition to Sell Real Estate for Distribution. This day, came Daniel A. Mosley, Administrator of the estate of Elizabeth Noblin deceased, and filed with the Court his written petition, duly verified by his own oath, asking and praying an order and proceedings from this Court, authorizing and directing him to sell certain real estate, in his said petition described, belonging to said decedent, situated and being in the County of Madison, State of Alabama, for the purpose of distribution among the heirs of said decedent: It is ordered by the Court that the 23d day of December, 1881, be and is appointed a day on which to hear, consider, and determine said petition, together with the proof submitted in support of the same. It is, also, ordered that notice by publication for three successive weeks, be given in the Huntsville DEMOCRAT, a newspaper published in this county, to Martha Brown, who resides in Lonoke County, in the State of Arkansas; Minnie Rossell, who resides in Shelby County, State of Tennessee; Thomas Nobling, who resides in Shelby County, State of Tennessee; James Brister, William Brister, and Joseph Brister, who reside at Water Valley, in the State of Mississippi; at which time, all persons interested can appear and contest the same, if they see proper to do so. WILLIAM RICHARDSON Nov 16-3w. Judge of Probate. CLASSIFIEDS Farm for Sale. ---------- My Farm, nine miles Northeast of Huntsville, adjoining the Bell Factory, is for sale. It has first-class improvements – brick dwelling-house with six rooms, kitchen, smoke-house gin, press, ample cribs, stables, &c. Perpetual stream of water running through the entire farm. It is generally conceded to be a peculiarly desirable farm. 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