Madison County AlArchives News.....Items from The Huntsville Weekly Democrat May 17, 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, 3:29 pm Microfilm At Huntsville Library May 17, 1882 PERSONAL MENTION Mr. Jas. L. Watkins, sr., and wife, returned, last week, from a long trip to Mississippi. Maj. J. R. Stevens went to Mississippi last week. Miss Gibbons, daughter of the late Judge Gibbons, of Mobile, is sojourning at Mr. W. H. Donegan’s in this city. Rev. Dr. Bryson, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Mayhew, left, last night, for Atlanta, to attend the meeting of the Presbyterian General Assembly. Mrs. John E. Moore left, last Monday, on a visit to Richmond, Va. Rev. A. B. Jones, Dr. M. C. Baldridge, and John L. Rison, went, several days ago to Nashville to attend the Methodist General Conference. Mr. Jones and Dr. Baldridge have returned. Mr. Michael O’Shaughnessy has returned from New York, and he and his family, have removed from the McGee House to Gen. Sam. Moore’s dwelling on Adams Avenue. Hon. R. K. Boyd, of Guntersville, is at the Huntsville Hotel, to stay two or three days. We regret to hear that Tom McAlister, late telegraph operator here, now in Memphis, has the small pox. We hope he will recover without serious damage. Associate Justice W. B. Woods, of the U. S. Court, arrived yesterday, and opened the U. S. Circuit Court for civil business this morning, and adjourned until to-morrow, 10 a.m. MARRIED: At Cluttsville, Ala., May 3, 1882, Mr. Charley Word to Miss Estelle Rubicam, Rev. G. W. Hamilton officiating. Attendants: Mr. Joseph Jacks and Miss Josie Rubicam, Mr. O. B. Laxson and Miss Mallie Davis, This is the second time, lately, that one of Limestone’s thrifty sons has taken to himself one of Cluttsville’s fair daughters. Mr. Word, by his gentlemanly deportment, and jovial disposition, has gained many friends about Cluttsville. As young ladies are very scarce, and young men very plentiful, Miss Essie will be greatly missed in society’s circles. Young ladies, take notice. We learn that the happy pair will make their home, for the present, in Cluttsville. May that peaceful bliss and enjoyment, which so beautifully characterize the marital relations, emenate from these loving hearts, till swift-winged Time shall have borne them, happily through a long and useful life! P. S. LOCAL ITEMS The Mayor and Aldermen of Huntsville elected the following Teachers of the White Public School of Huntsville: Rev. J. A. B. Lovett, Principal; Mrs. Sam. Pleasants and Miss Florence Hardy, Assistants, Teachers of Colored Public School: Charles Hendley, Principal; Susie P. Mastin and Thos. S. Cooper, Assistants. U. S. NEWS The Confederate White House ------------------------------------ A Richmond correspondent of a Savannah exchange says: Looking out from my hotel window I see before me, not over one hundred yards, the once famous White House of the Confederacy—the Capitol of the State in which the Confederate Congress sat. There is not a room in that building but what has a history; a history which most of our young men learned, never to be forgotten, though buried in the past. In the rotunda of the Capitol is Houdon’s statue of General Washington; “a faimile of Washington’s person,” said LaFayette. To the left is a bust of LaFayette, which occupies the niche in the wall, near to the statue of Washington. The old stove in the rotunda is one of the most ancient things of the kind in existence. It was made in England in 1770 by one Buzoglo, and sent over to the Duke of Beaufort as a present to the colony of Virginia. A fine painting, storming of the redoubt of Yorktown, by Lami, presented by Mr. W. W. Corcoran, hangs on the wall opposite the President’s chair in the Senate chamber. An elegant picture of the honored and lamented General R. E. Lee hangs in a conspicuous place, the works of Elder, the talented Richmond artist. In the Capitol square is the great Washington monument, the finest piece of workmanship of its kind in this country. It consists of an imposing column of Richmond granite, rising from a star shaped base, surmounted by a gigantic equestrian statue of Washington, and, on the pedestal around, and beneath him, figures of Patrick Henry, Governor Mason, Thomas Jefferson, Governor Thomas Nelson, jr., Andrew Lewis and John Marshall. The entire cost of this monument was $259, 928.26. To the north of the Washington Monument is the bronze statue of Stonewall Jackson. It stands upon a pedestal of Virginia granite ten feet high. This statue of Jackson was ordered by Right Hon. A. Beresford Hope and other admirers of Stonewall Jackson, and by them presented to Virginia. LEGAL NOTICES Attachment Notice ---------- State of Alabama, Madison County ---------- Justice’s Court, Robert W. Figg, J. P., May Term, 1882 John J. Dement, vs. Attachment. Andrew Butterfield. Whereas, John J. Dement having applied to the undersigned Justice of the Peace, in due form of law, for an attachment against the property of Andrew Butterfield, and having obtained the same, returnable at the May Term of said Court; and whereas the same has been executed by levy upon land, and whereas it appears to me that the said Andrew Butterfield is a non-resident of the State of Alabama, and that he resides in the State of Tennessee; Now the said Andrew Butterfield is hereby notified of the pendency of said attachment and that if the said Andrew Butterfield does not appear before me at my office in the City of Huntsville, County of Madison, State of Alabama, on the 2nd Monday in June 1882, I will give judgment in said attachment (ex-parte) in the same manner as if said defendant, Andrew Butterfield, was present in answer and defend the same, and will, as the law directs, award execution, order of sale or other process as the case may require. Given under my hand this 8th day of May, A. D., 1882. ROBERT W. FIGG, Justice of the Peace J. J. McDavid Att’y for Plaintiff. may 17-3w File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/madison/newspapers/itemsfro1195gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 6.6 Kb