Madison County AlArchives News.....Items from The Huntsville Weekly Democrat, 28 Dec 1881 December 28, 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, 7:57 pm The Huntsville Weekly Democrat December 28, 1881 PERSONALS John G. Taylor, Esq., of Silverton, Colorado, his wife and child, reached Huntsville last week, to spend the Christmas holiday with relatives. J. W. Clay, Jr. has been appointed Assistant Freight Agent of the M. & C. R. R. at the Huntsville Depot, in place of Willie Smith, who has gone back to Tuscumbia. Col. R. B. Rhett returned from Mississippi last week. We regret to chronicle the serious illness, with typhoid fever, of John Johnson, a clerk of Duncan & Rand. He is a clever young man, and we hope he will speedily recover. All the Huntsville lawyers, who attended the Alabama Supreme Court at Montgomery, last week, have returned. We are glad to learn that the promising young typo of the Independent, Johnnie Hay, has recovered sufficiently from the typhoid fever to admit of his being out on the streets. Our rollicking and energetic young friend, Harry G. Coltart, who now holds the responsible position of Train Dispatcher of the Memphis & Tennessee R. R. at Memphis, spent last Sunday with relatives and friends in this city. We regret very much to state that his grandmother, Mrs. Carothers, and her estimable family, who are so well and favorably known here, have decided to locate in Chattanooga, Tenn., and will leave for that city next week. Robert Steele, son of our friend, Matthew W. Steele, is spending the Christmas holiday with Huntsville friends. Mrs. Wm. H. Echols and daughter left here, on Friday last, on a visit to New York. Mayor Thos. W. White is in Southwest Virginia, on private business, we hear. In the meantime, Alderman Murphy discharges the Mayor’s functions. Miss Mattie Gill, daughter of Mr. Charles A. Gill, formerly of this city, now residing at Dallas, Texas, left for that place on Tuesday last. Dr. Samuel J. Withers, of Mooresville is in town. Miss Annie Banister left, last night, to take a position in an Episcopal Church school at Seguin, Texas. Our best wishes and prayers attend her. We are glad to see Capt. John T. Patterson, who has been sick a week or more, again at his post of duty. We congratulate our fellow-citizen Capt. John F. Steele, on his appointment as Chief Engineer to survey the section of the proposed Evansville, Ind., and New Orleans, R. R., embraced between Tuscumbia and Tuskaloosa. He has a corps of assistants at Tuscumbia, and has, already, begun the survey. Success to him! Our accomplished friend, Mrs. John E. Moore, is sojourning with her sister, Mrs. Dr. Alfred Moore. The last excursion train for the Atlanta Exposition went down yesterday. The following persons availed themselves of it: Mr. Rob’t E. Coxe, Gen. Sam H. Moore, Misses Mattie and Katie Barnard, E. R. Matthews, Chas. S. McCalley, Rob’t L. O’Neal, Major J. R. Stevens, Arthur Kincaid, Jeff D. Thompson, Master Irvine Patton, Dr. Geo. M. Harris, and, perhaps others. We are sorry to learn from our good Postmaster, John S. Reed, that his brother Henry died recently in Texas. He receiving the news by telegram on Christmas day. Mr. Jas. H. Mayhew is up from the Muscle Shoals Canal, to spend Christmas week with his family. LOCAL NEWS Madison Chancery Court begins on Monday next, in this city. A rumor has been prevalent that Chancellor Graham had resigned; but, we learn that although he contemplated resignation, on account of inadequate salary, he purposes to hold the Madison Chancery Court, and has postponed resignation to a future day, if, indeed, he has decided to resign at all. ALABAMA NEWS Large Steam Tannery ---------- It gives us great pleasure to announce all new and valuable enterprises in the South, especially when they occur in our vicinity, or anywhere in North Alabama. It is our pleasure, now, to announce the establishment of a large steam tannery at Boyd’s Switch, in Jackson Co., Ala. The capital is furnished by Gov. Colquitt, of Ga., and the Gordon brothers – Gen. John B. Gordon, Major Eugene C. Gordon, and Capt. Walter M. Gordon, who have employed our clever fellow-citizens, Co. Jas. Hamilton as General Superintendent, and John W. Walls, as Assistant. Col. Hamilton had, during and before the war between the States, about six years’ experience in tanning, and well understands the process, and, as we understand, Mr. Walls is to attend to the other business of the tannery. – The Company starts out with a capital of $20,000, to be increased to $100,000, if necessary and proper. The Company begins with 90 vats, to be increased, if the profits or prospect of profits justify it. They purpose to get their hides from Texas, and to make sole leather alone. The calculation is that the tannery will turn out, annually, from 90 vats, between 223,000 and 250,000 pounds of good sole leather, which, at the lowest wholesale price, 36 cents per pound, will yield a handsome profit, after deducting expenses. We extend all concerned in the enterprise our heartiest wishes for richest rewards for the labors U.S. NEWS Colonel Eugene C. Gordon, president of the Georgia Pacific R. R., about a month ago, bought 500,000 acres of Mississippi land, known as overflowed lands, for eight cents an acre, and has, since, sold them to an English company for fourteen cents an acre, which gives him a profit of about $30,000. The English company intends to reclaim the lands at once, and colonize or cultivate them. - N. Y. Evening Post. CLASSIFIEDS Dissolution of Partnership ------------------------------------ The partnership, heretofore existing under the name of Winston & Sullivan, is, this day, dissolved by limitation and mutual consent. Those indebted to the firm of Nevill & Winston will please settle with L. P. Sullivan immediately. L. P. Sullivan, J. W. Winston, Huntsville, Dec. 28, 1881. 4w File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/madison/newspapers/itemsfro1172gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 6.5 Kb