Madison County AlArchives News.....Items from The Huntsville Weekly Democrat March 10, 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, 3:15 pm Microfilm At Huntsville Library March 10, 1882 PERSONAL MENTION Robert Evans, of Chattanooga, spent Saturday and Sunday in Huntsville. Miss Berenice Fearn returned, last week, from an extended trip to New Orleans, Mobile and Montgomery. Gen. E. A. O’Neal reached our city yesterday, and is now at the Huntsville Hotel. Mrs. Antony, the venerable widow of the late Dr. E. I. Antony, has returned to her home in Huntsville, after long absence in Memphis. Mr. Tom. Trotman and family, of Dallas, Texas, reached Huntsville Saturday last, and expect to remain about one month. They are visiting his father-in- law, Mr. John W. Cooper, and his family. Rev. Dr. Tudor, a distinguished delegate from St. Louis, Mo., to the Methodist General Conference, now in session at Nashville, is expected to preach in the Methodist church in Huntsville, Sunday next, at 11 a.m. Dr. Tudor has been prominently mentioned for election as a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at this session of the Conference. Capt. Jos. T. McGehee and Mr. Samuels, partners of Capt. Curry in the manufacture and sale of his Cotton Choppers, have gone, the former to Mississippi and Louisiana, the latter to Georgia, to introduce thee invaluable agricultural machines amongst the cotton planters. Success to them. Mrs. Mary P. Rice has gone to Philadelphia, Pa. Last week we had a most agreeable visit from Miss Nellie Byrd, agent for that excellent literary weekly journal, the Sunny South, published at Atlanta, Ga. Her beauty, modesty, intelligence, and captivating manners, must make her a most efficient canvasser for the Sunny South. They, certainly, out to do so. DIED: ESSLINGER.-On Wednesday, April 26, 1882, after six weeks’ illness with typhoid fever, Olla May, daughter of Levi W. and Mattie Esslinger, aged ten years and two days. We sympathize deeply with the family in their bereavement. MARRIED: SHELTON - FIGURES. - At the residence of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Wm. B. Figures, in Huntsville, Ala., on Monday, 11 a.m., May 8, 1882, by Rev. Dr. J. M. Banister, MR. JOHN S. SHELTON to MISS NELLIE FIGURES. The bridegroom has been, for many months, the justly popular Express Agent in this city, and the bride has many admirers of her personal charms, intelligence and lovable character. We wish them a long and married life. They left on the 12:25 p.m. train, for an extensive bridal trip to the North and East. LOCAL ITEMS: Tom Mason is, all the time increasing his popularity as a bus driver, by his politeness, liberality, accommodating disposition, and punctuality. BEAUTIFUL INCIDENT. – A precious little two year old baby girl, whose crib clings as closely to her mother’s bed as her arms to her neck, was lifted into it last night and her three doll babies, Nona, Louise and Sally Winters, arranged side by side in her arms. Her mama, reminding her to say her prayers, went to the bed to find not only Baby but her entire family flat on their little faces, seemingly in deep devotion, the tiny mother reverentially murmuring, “Now I lay me down to seep.” It was a spectacle for Cherbim and Seraphim to behold, and shout yet another “Halleluia!” In Memoriam ---------------- With feelings of no ordinary sorrow, we chronicle the death of our esteemed friend and former room-mate, while at college, J. D. Battle, who died at Dr. Hampton’s, his brother-in-law’s, Saturday night, May 29, 1882. Deceased had been in bad health for several years; though, toward the last, his sufferings were intense, he bore them with great fortitude. Just as his noble life was budding into that of useful manhood, he was taken from the walks of men. Though he made no public profession of religion, from his conduct and conversation we feel satisfied that such a pure, stainless soul has been summoned from this mode of existence to enjoy the sweets of a brighter and more glorious abode. Pure and high-minded in his own life, he could not tolerate anything mean or degrading in others. Having been deprived of a mother’s care and training in early life, he found in his sister, not only a maternal love, but the affections of mother and sister beautifully combined. Being devoted to her, he ever regarded her counsel with brotherly tenderness. While at school and through his course at college, he was highly esteemed by all who knew him best. Being a close student and having a bright, clear mind, his recitations were every concise and accurate, giving him a standing at college surpassed by but few. After his graduation in 1877, at our State University, he attended the Infirmary at Baltimore, Md., where he took one course in Dentistry, but bad health prevented the completion of his course. While there he displayed a decided talent for his chosen profession. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. W. F. Kone, whose remarks were solemnly impressive and consoling. After the interment, we found mournful pleasure in seeing the grave beautifully decorated, with the fairest of Spring floral offerings, by the young ladies, friends of deceased. Thus he lived and died. Requiescat in pace! A Friend [Transcription note: Date of death is shown as May 29, but should read April 29 as this paper was published on May 10. April 29 was a Saturday.] Capture of an Alleged Man Slayer. ------------------------------------------ We have heretofore, chronicled the killing in this county, of a negro, Ned Williams, as charged, by a negro, Sandy Beasley, his wife and two daughters, the arrest and committal to our county jail, of the wife and daughter, and the failure to arrest Sandy. We hear that many negroes were greatly incensed at the killing, and that Henderson Brandon, a respectable colored man of this city, a brother-in-law of the man killed, offered $20 reward for Sandy’s arrest. On Thursday last, a negro man was walking rapidly past the blacksmith shop of Bill Sanderson, negro, four miles West of Triana, on the county line road between Madison and Limestone counties. Sanderson hailed him and asked him to stop and talk a while. He replied that he couldn’t, he had to get on to Fletcher’s ferry [on the Tennessee river], or words to that effect. Sanderson, immediately, notified Mr. Harris Toney, who had a store near the shop that from a description, he had received, he believed that the passing negro was Sandy Beasley. Thereupon, Mr. Toney, Mr. Parr, and 6 or 8 negroes, started in pursuit, Mr. Toney taking a double barreled shot gun with him. Mr. Toney started first, and ordered the man to halt, but he ran and jumped over a fence into a thicket, one or two hundred yards from the store. His pursuers surrounded the thicket, and, soon, found the man lying down in a brier thicket. Mr. Toney, presenting his gun, ordered him to lie still, and he was captured. He was found to be wounded in the left side of the neck severely, and less seriously in his breast, under his chin. When asked, he said he had no knife, and his wounds were caused by jumping over the fence and falling on “a stob” in newly cleared ground, next the thicket. But a pocket knife, shut, but bloody, was found near, which caused suspicion of attempted suicide. Dr. DeLony was sent for, went, and dressed the wounds, and Mr. Toney and Moses Ward, a negro man, brought him to Sheriff Cooper, and he was jailed. When captured, he admitted he was Sandy Beasley, and expressed a wish to be killed, we are told. ALABAMA ITEMS Hon. J. M. Crook has shown us a stalk of his Bill Dallis Wheat which measures six feet in length, with 6 inch head. The seed was procured from Middle Georgia, and he has three acres in it. It is said to be rust proof. – Jacksonville, Ala., Republican. Mr. Sorrel, who lives near Oxford, has laid upon our table an Irish Bean plant. It grows straight from the root like a weed, does not branch, and bears its pods all along the parent stem. It is very prolific. Can be planted in the fall. Cold weather does not hurt it. It comes very early in the spring. The bean is larger than the butter bean, and has flavor between that of the butter and snap bean. –Jacksonville, Ala., Republican. Blount Springs Mr. Robert L. Watt, formerly of the Exchange Hotel, Montgomery, recently of the Stanton House, Chattanooga, has taken charge of the Jackson House, Blount Springs, Ala. We understand that he is making extensive improvements. We doubt not that his urbane manners and style of keeping a hotel will add greatly to the popularity of this almost unrivalled watering place. U.S. NEWS Rev. Dr. Thomas O. Summers, the distinguished Methodist and Secretary of the General Conference, now in session at Nashville, Tenn., died Friday. Hon. Horace Maynard died, suddenly, at his home in Knoxville, Tenn., last Wednesday. LAKE CITY, COL., Aprl, 27. – At one o’clock this morning, one hundred masked men overpowered the guard and took from jail George Betts and Jim Brown, who shot and killed Sheriff Campbell yesterday morning while attempting to arrest them. The mob then hung the two men from the bridge. Both died game, Betts asking for a chew of tobacco just before the rope was placed around his neck, File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/madison/newspapers/itemsfro1194gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 9.9 Kb