Madison County AlArchives News.....Items from The Huntsville Weekly Democrat April 5, 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, 12:55 pm Microfilm At Huntsville Library April 5, 1882 PERSONAL MENTION Gen. Dabney H. Maury, of Richmond, Va., a hero of the Mexican War, and a Confederate hero, is spending a week or two in our city. Gen. Ed. A. O’Neal, a prominent candidate for Governor of Ala., has been attending the Federal Court two days, and left for home to-day. Oliver B. Warwick, a worthy son of Geo. H. Warwick, of this city, we are glad to learn, has been promoted from a second to a first lieutenancy in the U. S. Army. Capt. J. H. Savage, who served gallantly in the Confederate Army from start to pole, is attending the Federal Court in the interest of clients. Mr. Branch, a promising young lawyer of Courtland, Ala., is representing clients in the Federal Court. The Scottsboro Citizen tells us that Mr. Frank White, of this city, recently married, will make Stevenson his home for the present. This is, doubtless, due to the fact that he is a conductor on the M. & C. R. R., and Stevenson is his most convenient stopping-place. Our worthy friend, Wm. R. Larkin, the leading stock-raiser of Jackson Co., is a juror in the Federal Court. Clint Lanier has returned from South Ala., whither he has been as an agent for the sale of some newly-invented agricultural implements. Judge John Bruce and District Attorney Wm. H. Smith are stepping at the Huntsville Hotel. Prof. Rov West, the popular teacher of the polite art of dancing, is in our city. Chas. A. Fariss, who has been night clerk at the Stanton House, Chattanooga, for several months past, has returned to this city. We were glad to learn that Rev. Dr. Bryson has decided to remain here, as Pastor of the Presbyterian Church. R. Elias Spragins, who has been attending lectures in the Law School at St. Louis, Mo., is spending his vacation here, at home. Chief Justice Brickell arrived from Montgomery on Saturday, and expects to return to-night. Paul L. Jones, Esq., made the closing speech for Lowe on Monday last, and returned from Washington, to-day. Of course, he thinks the prospect lovely for Lowe in his contest for Wheeler’s seat. LOCAL ITEMS Municipal Elections ------------------------ The election for Mayor and Aldermen of Huntsville, for the ensuing year, was held yesterday, and was unusually quiet. Two tickets for Alderman were present, both headed by Thos. W. White for Mayor. We hear that the total vote was 774. For Mayor: THOMAS W. WHITE, 729 For Aldermaen; 1st Ward – Jas. M. Hutchens,* 423; Robert E. Murphy,* 410; M. B. Wise, 373, John Lambert, 278. 2nd Ward – James Conway,* 745, J. S. Erwin,* 388; Geo. H. Warwick, 278. 3rd Ward – Thomas W. Townsend* (col’d), 541; Alfred Moore*, 422; Jas. E. Seat, 388. 4th Ward – Nelson Hendley* (col’d), 647; Jos. H. Ewing*, 422; Daniel Schiffman, 378. The candidates for Aldermen, marked thus *, are elected. The colored candidates for Aldermen were on both tickets; hence, the large vote they received. James Conway was, also, on both tickets. The ticket opposed to five of the old Board elected two of their candidates: Alfred Moore and Jos. H. Ewing. No politics were involved in the election. ALABAMA ITEMS Federal Courts ------------------ The U. S. Circuit and District Courts, for this District, were opened, yesterday, by Judge Bruce. The grand and petit juries were organized, the former charged, and, them, the criminal docket was called, and a few small cases disposed of. Capt. Frank Gurley and W. T. Bennett, charged with cutting public timber, were discharged. The election cases were set for Monday next. In the equity case of Everhart vs. Huntsville Female College, the complainant’s bill and defendant’s cross bill were, both, dismissed. A Compliment. – Col. Steele honors us in naming his quarters on Little Bear Creek “Camp Keller,” We appreciate the compliment and are glad to learn that the Colonel finds his present line on survey, in the direction of Belgreen, a very good one, with a comparatively light grade up the mountain near this place. We hope his lines may fall in pleasant places all among his life’s survey, with easy grades up to the grand plateau where the line of all good Engineers converge. It affords us pleasure to copy from the Tuscumbia North Alabamian the above compliment to our townsman, Col. John F. Steel, the engineer in charge of the railroad survey from Tuscumbia toward Tuskaloosa. Fire at Athens ----------------- Last Tuesday morning, at about 2 o’clock, a fire broke out in the North side of the Public Square in Athens, Ala., destroying the following property: Four store houses of Robert B. Mason, $12,700, no insurance; law office of Robert B. Mason, insured for $1500; dry goods house of D. Hayman & Co., (where the fire began), $2,000, insured; store house of J. P. Coman, $1,000, no insurance; drug store of Coman & Davis, $4,500, insurance $2,000; store house of Mrs. C. W. Donnell, $12,000, no insurance; house and stock of marble work of A. A. & J. G. Baker, of Hunssville, $2,500; J. J. Turrentine’s law office, $653, no insurance; store and auction stock of “Boss” Woods, $2,000, insurance $500. The above facts we get from a letter from Athens. A. A. Baker and John G. Baker are citizens of Huntsville, and Waiter F. Davis, of the drug firm of Coman & Davis, was, formerly, of Huntsville. The town and the individual sufferers have our deep sympathy in their losses. U.S. NEWS Little Rock, April 2. – To-night’s Texas special to the Gazette says that Hon. L. H. Billinger, a prominent politician of Galveston, died to-day from the effects of vaccination. New York, April 1. – The police were notified to night that Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, brother of W. H. Vanderbilt, who contested a probate of the will of the late Commodore Vanderbilt, had committed suicide by shooting himself through the head at the Glenham Hotel. The coroner was notified and gave a permit for the removal of the body. Awful Steamboat Disaster. ------------------------------- Just as the Steamer, Golden City, reached the Memphis, Tenn., wharf last Friday before day, it caught fire, and was destroyed. The hulk drifted down the river, some distance, and sunk. The papers tell us that, of 23 women on board, 21 lost their lives, and, also, mend and children, how many not yet ascertained. There were, according to testimony before a magistrate, 20 to 25 deck passengers, 6 wagons of Stowe’s circus company, containing live animals, a cargo, consisting of 100 barrels of coal oil, 108 bales of jute, 600 sacks of oil meal, and other ignitable material, molasses, sugar, lumber &c. The fire is said to have been caused by the bottom of a lamp falling from the hand of Wash. Smith, a colored night watchman, and setting fire to the jute. The watchman, Wash. Smith, and the mate, J. N. Bondurant, have been arrested, to answer the charge of criminal carelessness. Caught at His Own Game ------------------------------- DANVILLE, Va., April 1. – Information has just been received here that Sheriff William Estes, of Stokes county, North Carolina, was shot on the 30th ult., while robbing his office. He left home to be absent some days, and directed his wife, not to allow any one to stay all night, and, at the same time, gave her the safe key. About dark, one of the neighbors came to his house, and, Mrs. F. having raised no objection, he went off to a room to spend the night. After he had retired, two men came to the house and asked leave to stay, and Mrs. Estes objected. They, however, went in and demanded the key, threatening to kill her if she refused it, and she ran up stairs and informed her guest, and was told by him to go down, deliver the key, and say nothing of his presence. The men then proceeded to rob the safe, and, while thus engage, Mrs. Estes’s friend came down and killed both of the men. Upon examination, it was found that one of the men was the Sheriff, who had disguised himself, and the other was one of his neighbors. Arrested for Swindling ------------------------------------ Moses, Radical Ex-Governor of South Carolina, Jailed in New York List of the Swindler’s Victims ------------------------------------ New York, March 29. – Franklin J. Moses, ex-Governor of South Carolina, and, for years, a professional swindler, was a prisoner, to-day, at police headquarters, on the charge of swindling Freeborn J. Smith, a Brooklyn piano manufacturer, out of $175. There are quite a number of similar charges against him, and, during the day, he was identified by a number of his victims, who will appear against him to-morrow, at the Tombs Police Court. He was arrested at Broadway ant Twenty-second street, to-day, by detectives who had been searching for him. On March 11, Moses called on Mr. Smith, and representing himself as Richard H. Colquitt, brother of Governor Colquitt, of Georgia, succeeded in inducing Smith to cash a check for $175. The check, which was drawn on the Southern Bank, was returned protested. E. W. Crowell, of the Phoenix Insurance Company, also entertained Moses under the name of Anthony White, of Greenville, S. C., and cashed his check of $150. Howard H. Stewart, of 61 Wall Street, also cashed two $50 checks for Moses, who represented himself to be Gen. Curtis, State Commissioner of North Carolina, who was accidently left without money in this city after banking hours. Stewart also informed the police of a number of Wall Street men who had been similarly victimized by the ex-Governor, and he promised to produce the victims in court to-morrow. B. I. Hazell, of the Charleston Steamship Company, of Boston, also writes that he lost $320 by the check operations of the prisoner. Charles R. Flint, partner of Mayor Grace, wisely declined to cash the checks presented. Moses’s biography, for the last five years, as written up to-night, connects him with continuous crimes of swindles mentioned from time to time, with the names of his victims and the amounts, but none of which were, at the time, accredited to Moses. One of these is a swindle perpetrated upon a trans- Atlantic steamship company by a man who pretended to have discovered a Fenian plot to blow up the steamers, and, for his information, received a reward, stated at $10,000. LEGAL NOTICES Madison Turnpike Company ---------------------------------- A stockholders’ meeting will be held at the National Bank of Huntsville, Ala., on the 12th day of May, 1882, for the purpose of electing nine Directors to serve for the ensuing year, and until their successors are chosen. JOSPEH MARTIN, april 5-30d. Secretary, Huntsville, Ala., April 5, 1882. CLASSIFIEDS New Millinery Store ------------------------- Miss Mary S. Neely has opened a Millinery Store next door to Dr. W. J. Barron’s Dentistry Office, opposite the Market House. She has on hand a general assortment of millinery goods, selected in person in Nashville, and solicits a fair share of public patronage. She also cuts and fits dresses, and guarantees satisfaction. 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