Madison County AlArchives News.....Items from The Huntsville Weekly Democrat April 19, 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, 2:40 pm Microfilm At Huntsville Library April 19, 1882 PERSONAL MENTION Hon. H. C. Speake is at home for this week, and will go to Moulton, to hold the Lawrence Circuit Court, next Monday. Mrs. Wm. Barry is the guest of her sister, Mrs. M. W. Steele. John Phelan and C. P. Goree, attorneys of Chattanooga, are attending the U. S. Court here. J. H. Chandler, architect of Chattanooga, is in our city. L. B. Thornton, Esq., of Tuscumbia, J. H. Branch, Esq., of Courtland, and L. A. Sharpe, Esq., of Birmingham, are attending the U. S. Court. Jas. L. Watkins, of Birmingham, and Samuel Blackwell, of Danville, are here as defendants in election cases in the U. S. Court. We regret to hear that Col. Thos. H. Hewlett was taken ill at Walker’s mill, Jackson county, after exposure when fishing last Thursday, had congestion of the brain, and was brought to his home in this vicinity, on Monday last, in a very critical condition. Miss Belle Warren, an accomplished belle of Tuscumbia, who has been visiting the Misses Sloss, returned home last Saturday. Mr. Samuel Donegan has come home, after a long sojourn in Memphis. Mrs. Rice, of Athens, Ala., is a guest of Mrs. Mary Rice of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Pickard and their son, Eddie, started, yesterday, for Columbia, Tenn. Mr. Pickard is in bad health, and is seeking to restore it. We hope he will return in perfect health. Mr. Alfred Moore, one of our City Fathers, has gone to Montgomery on a business trip. The “Hazel Kirke” Company, from the Madison Square Theatre, New York, will perform this exceedingly popular play at the Huntsville Opera House on Tuesday night, April 25. The newspapers say the Company have produced this play, for hundreds of nights in New York, with brilliant success. LOCAL ITEMS Miss V. P. Carrington will begin a class in Elocution at The Huntsville Seminary, Monday, the 24th of April, at 3 1/2 P. M. Terms $3.00 for 10 lessons, one hour each. Accidental Shooting ------------------------ On Monday last, Ed. Acklen, of Jackson county, and John W. Hewlett, of this county, son of John R. F. Hewlett, went out turkey-hunting, about daybreak, near Gurleysville. Hewlett was “yelping” for a turkey, and Acklen, seeing him, about forty steps off, through the bushes in the dim light of early morn, mistook him for a gobbler, fired, and peppered min with squirrel shot in the right side of his face, right arm and side, and left arm. Hewlett cried out and Acklen ran to him, and was horrified to find that he had shot his friend. He helped Hewlett home, about three-quarters of a mile distant. Drs. Fleming Jordan and J. H. McLain were sent for, and, after examination pronounced his wounds not dangerous. They deemed it unnecessary to extract any of the shot. When Acklen was about to load his gun in the morning, he started to use buckshot, but change his mind and used squirrel shot. If he had used buckshot, Hewlett would, doubtless, have been killed. We congratulate him, Acklen, and all interested in them, that the result was no worse. Standing Municipal Committees The following is a list of the municipal committees as appointed by His Honor, Mayor White: Executive – Murphy, Conway, Ewin, Moore. Finance – Hutchens, Murphy, Conway. Water-works – Hutchens, Ewing, Townsend. Printing – Murphy, Hutchens, Erwin. Weights and Measures – Townsend, Moore, Ewin. Market – Hendley, Conway, Murphy. Fire Department – Conway, Hutchens, Townsend. Cemetery – Moore, Ewing, Erwin. Charity – Murphy, Conway, Ewing. Ordinances – Ewing, Hendley, Moore. Schools – Hutchens, Murphy, Townsend. Gas – Ewing, Conway, Erwin. Police – Hutchens, Moore, Erwin. Health – Conway, Moore, Murphy. ALABAMA ITEMS Gen. Rather Not a Candidate ----------------------------------- Tuscumbia North Alabamian. We are authorized to state to the many personal and political friends of Hon. John D. Rather, that for weighty private reasons which would prevent him from doing justice to their wishes or his interests, he has determined that he will not be a candidate before the next Democratic Convention for the office of Governor of this State. He and his friends feel a deep sense of obligation for the kindest and most flattering assurances of support from all parts of the State which he has been constantly receiving for months past, and, in response to these, he bids us express his gratification at the fact that there is no danger of making a mistake in the choice of our next Governor from the list of distinguished gentlemen who have been spoken of in that connection. We regret the adverse circumstances which have lost the State the opportunity of securing the services in its highest office of one so peculiarly fitted and qualified for the discharge of tits duties. The State has no abler or better citizen nor the Democratic party a truer or sounder member or wiser counselor that John D. Rather. Two Murderers Lynched ------------------------------ SELMA, ALABAMA, April 14. – Henry Ivy and Jim Acoff, negroes, who, it has transpired, were implicated in the killing of J. B. Weisenger, on December 19th last, were taken out and lynched by a body of forty masked men at 2 o’clock Tuesday morning, in the woods four miles South of Brown’s station, on the Alabama Central Railroad. Last Wednesday, Ivy who had been haunted by the thought of execution and was suffering from the pang of conscience, made a clear confession of the crime, pronouncing himself as the man who really did the killing, and implicated Jim Acoff, then at large of the plantation, The confession was made without fear or compulsion to seven intelligent white men. Ivy and Acoff were immediately arrested and held to await the action of the grand jury. When it became generally known on the neighboring plantation that Ivy had made a confession, the negroes became greatly excited, and it was only with great exertion of the part of the white people that they were kept from hanging the culprit then and there. Ivy and Acoff were confined in the school-house. Yesterday morning, while one of the guards were absent to get of drink of water forty masked men, thought to be all whites, rode up to the building, quickly overcame and bound and gagged the guards, and rode off with the negroes, who in vain pleaded for mercy and “just one more day” of life. Ivy’s body was found hanging to a tree near the school-house. Acoff’s body has not yet been discovered, but there can be no doubt he has been killed. LEGAL NOTICES Administrator’s Notice ---------- State of Alabama – Madison County ---------- Estate of Missouri W. McCalley deceased LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION, with will annexed, on the estate of said decedent having been granted to the undersigned on the 18th day of April, A. D. 1882, by Hon. Wm. 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. All, indebted to said estate, are requested to settle with me without delay. MARTHA T. RUSSELL April 19-3w. Administratix of Missouri W. McCalley, with will annexed. Guardians Sale of 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, made and entered on the 19th day of April, 1882 the undersigned, as the guardian of Annie and Bessie Mastin, infants, will offer for sale, to the highest bidder, for cash, in front of the court house, in the city of Huntsville, County of Madison, State of Alabama, on the 13th day of May, 1882, The one-half interest of the estate of Annie and Bessie Mastin, in the following described real estate, situated and being in the city of Huntsville, county of Madison, State of Alabama to wit: Lot No. 64 in the plan of said city, and bounded on the Norht by Gates street, on the East by Lincoln street, on the South by the lot of Susan C. Wilson, and on the West by the lot of the late Jane Weeden, ist being the same lot conveyed by Wm. J. McCalley, administrator, to Marcy C. Mastin. Said sale will be for cash. ED L MASTIN Apl19-3w Guardian Annie and Bessie Mastin. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/madison/newspapers/itemsfro1191gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 9.0 Kb