Madison County AlArchives News.....Items from The Huntsville Weekly Democrat March 22, 1882 ************************************************ 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 27, 2006, 12:34 pm Microfilm At Huntsville Library March 22, 1882 PERSONAL MENTION Miss Etta Baker, daughter of our esteemed townsman, A. A. Baker, left here, on Sunday nigh last, for Syracuse, N. Y., to attend school. DIED: BANISTER. – In Pulaski, Tenn., Monday, March 20, 1882, Mrs. Alice Banister, wife of Dr. J. Munro Banister, U. S. Army. Mrs. Banister had been ill for several weeks, if not months, yet her husband’s telegram, “Alice is dying,” to his father, Rev. Dr. Banister, of this city, on Sunday last, was a shock to family and friends. Rev. Dr. Banister and Mrs. Banister went to Pulaski, Sunday night. All, who remember the lovely, bright, accomplished Miss Alice, and the bride in her honeymoon, will lament her death, and sorrow with her husband and family. MARRIED: WHITE-SKELTON. – At Scottsboro, Ala., at 5 p. m., Thursday, March 16, 1882, by Rev. Dr. J. H. Bryson, Frank S. White, of Huntsville, to Miss Maud Skelton, daughter of Jas. T. Skelton, of Scottsboro. The happy pair came to Huntsville on Thursday nights train, and received a cordial greeting from the bridegroom’s family and other friends. Peace, prosperity, and unalloyed bliss be their portion in this life and the next. LOCAL ITEMS A Woman’s Gratitude --------------------------- We have received, too late for insertion in this issue of the Democrat, a card from Mrs. J. Y. Brystol, whose husband, after long confinement with typhoid fever, died, recently, at Stegall’s Hotel, in this city. She expresses deepest gratitude to citizens of Huntsville (to whom she and her husband came as strangers, in December last), for many kind offices, and especially, to Mr. J. R. Stegall and Mr. Spillman; to Drs. Dement and Lowry, for gratuitous services; to John L. Rison and L H. Wilson, druggists, for medicines without charge; to J. B. Laughlin, city undertaker, for his kindness; and to the good people who presented her $60. Municipal Ticket We are authorized to announce the following ticket for Mayor and Aldermen at the ensuing election on the first Tuesday in April: For Mayor: Thomas W. White. For Aldermen: 1st Ward – M. B. Wise, J. M. Hutchens. 2nd Ward – Geo. H. Warwick, James Conway. 3rd Ward – Alfred Moore, Thomas Townsend 4th Ward – J. H. Ewing, Daniel Brandon. ALABAMA ITEMS The Moulton Advertiser says: - We learn that a farmer of this county has had to cut his wheat to save it. Some of it had commenced heading. Bob. Nicholson celebrated his 83d birthday by splitting 150 rails. Had the timber been good he could have split 250. U.S. NEWS A McMinnville, Tenn., dispatch announces that Jim. Davis, the notorious raider on moonshiners, was way-layed and killed March 13th, and 20 men were in the gang that did the shooting. LEGAL NOTICES Administrator’s Notice ---------- State of Alabama | Madison County ---------- Estate of Charles Hobbs dec’d LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION on the estate of said decedent having been granted to the undersigned on the 21st day of March, 1882, by the Hon. William Richardson, Judge of the Probate Court of Madison County notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present the same within the time required by law, or the same will be barred; and all persons, indebted to said estate, are requested to settle with me without delay. AMANDA HOBBS Mar22-3w. Adm’r of Charles Hobbs dec’d Administrator’s Sale of Valuable Real Estate ------------------------------------------- State of Alabama | Madison County. BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE OF THE Honorable Court of Probate for the County of Madison, State of Alabama, rendered on the 22nd day of March, 1882, the undersigned as Administrator in his official capacity as Sheriff, of the estate of Susan Birchfield deceased, late a resident-citizen of the County of Madison, State of Alabama, will on Monday, the 17the day of April, 1882, at the front of the Court House in the City of Huntsville, County of Madison, offer for sale, to the highest bidder for cash, the following described Real Estate, situate and being in the corporate limits of the City of Huntsville, being the residence of the late Susan Birchfield, to wit: Bounded on the North by the Turnpike road, on the West by an alley, on the East by the lot owned by John T. Moore, and on the South by the property owned by Milton Humes – containing a half acre, more or less.” JOHN W. COOPER, Mar22-3w. Adm’r of Susan Birchfield dec’d File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/madison/newspapers/itemsfro1186gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 5.1 Kb