Madison County AlArchives News.....Items from The Huntsville Weekly Democrat June 7, 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 December 13, 2006, 2:00 pm Microfilm At Huntsville Library June 7, 1882 PERSONAL MENTION Chief Justice Brickell left for Montgomery on Monday night last. George Steele, an employee of the Cincinnati Southern Road, at Chattanooga, is in town. William Banister, student at the Louisville Medical College, is at home for the summer. John D. Elliott, now in business at Birmingham, is visiting his mother and sisters here. J. Withers Clay, Jr., is taking a course of instruction at the Nashville Telegraph College. Gen. Ed. A. O’Neal, Col. R. K. Boyd, and Maj. E. C. Gordon were in Huntsville last week. Robert Wiggs, the civil and clever son of the late A. R. Wiggs, has a position on one of the M. & C. R. R. trains. Miss Lee Ida Gaines, the accomplished music instructor of the H. F. College, left, Friday night, for her home in Verona, Miss. She has made many friends here who reluctantly give her up. Messrs. L. P. Walker, D. P. Lewis, J. D. Brandon, Milton Humes, Daniel Coleman, Sam H. Moore, R. B. Rhett, Wm. Richardson, and Wm. L. Clay, are at Montgomery. The many Alabama relatives and friends of John P. Russell, son of the late Robert Russell, were grieved to hear that he died of malarial fever at his residence near Marianna, Ark., on Friday last. We are gratified to learn that L. Matthews Erskine, the very promising son of Dr. Albert R. Erskine, has been appointed to a very eligible clerkship for a Railroad at Richmond, Va. He left for Richmond last week. Misses Mary and Susie Clay, who went with “the Patience Amateurs” to Nashville, after a delightful sojourn with relatives there, reached home yesterday afternoon. MARRIED: WITHERS – BURKE. – Married, in Liberty, Va., on the 25th ult., Mr. Robert W. Withers, of this vicinity, to Mrs. Josephine Burke. – Greensboro Beacon. DIED: BIRMINGHAM, ALA., June 3. – Mr. George Allen, a machinist in the shops of the North & South Alabama Railroad, died yesterday about 2 o’clock in a dentist’s chair, in the office of Dr. Eubank, a dentist of this city, from the effect of chloroform, administered by two well known physicians of Birmingham, for the purpose of extracting a tooth. Mr. Allen had been suffering for some days from the effect of a previous attempt to draw the tooth, and, unknown to the physicians, had already taken several doses of morphine. He leaves a wife and several children. Mrs. Maggie Carter, wife of S. W. Carter, a mill engineer at Boyd’s Switch, and daughter of Mrs. Aaron Woosley, living near, while alone in her house, committed suicide by shooting herself, with a revolver, on Tuesday morning last. John A. Pearce held an inquest as Coroner, but nothing was elicited in the way of evidence to account for the act of self-destruction. It seems that she and her husband, to whom he had been married only ten months, were fond of each other and very affectionate. A lady was at her house not long before the deed was committed and found her crying and heard her remark that she could not endure the trouble that was upon her. And, although not explanatory or very clear, she left some writing of that import. – Scottsboro Herald, May 18. LOCAL ITEMS The Buckeye Tie Binder ----------------------------- The wheat harvest is progressing hereabout, and developing more than an average yield in quantity and quality. Some farmers expect to realize 20 to 25 bushels per acre – some more, some less. On Friday last, we went with about a dozen gentlemen to the fine plantation of Gen. Sam. H. Moore on the turnpike from Huntsville to Whitesburg, to witness the trial of Miller’s Buckeye Tie Binder, and were delighted to see it cut the wheat, gather it up into bundles, tie it with a strong twine, and throw it on the ground at the estimated rate of, at least, 15 acres per day, leaving scarcely a dozen cut stalks on the ground in 100 yards. All the gentlemen present, including practical farmers, such as Mayor Thomas W. White, Maj. J. R. Stevens, and Mr. John Hertzler pronounced the machine a decided success, and invaluable to farmers. Maj. Stevens said he had ten hands employed in cutting and blading his wheat, and regretted that he had not the Buckeye machine. We are indebted to Mr. Albert H. Jones, Agent for the Buckeye, for our pleasant trip. ALABAMA ITEMS Riot and Arson. --------------- DECATUR, ALA., June 6. – A riot between white and black men occurred at Eppes’ station last night. The negroes were driven from town, but returned about midnight and burned seven store-houses. Four of the negroes have been arrested and the others are being pursued. There are fears of Lynching. An Enormous Fowl Caught --------------------------------- PERKINS BEND, June 1st. Editor Guntersville Democrat: - John Reed and Joe Manning; June 1st, caught in the Tennessee river near my place, the monster fowl that has ever been seen in these parts. The fowl was caught by Red and Manning in a skiff and was unhurt by them. It is evidently a large water fowl of the goose kind, but no one who has yet seen it knows its name: From tip to tip of wings it measures 12 feet. Is five feet six inches high, has a bill thirty inches long with a pouch beneath that will hold a peck of fish. This monster sea fowl will be exhibited by Reed and Manning, Saturday night, at early candle lighting in Guntersville; admittance only 10 cts. I vouch for the truth of the foregoing. J. W. Perkins. U.S. NEWS Thirteen Years Without Sleep ---------------------------- Utica Herald “Thomas McElrath of Marlboro, whose case attracted wide attention three years ago, because he said he had not slept a wink in ten years, is still living without sleep. He says he has not closed his eyes in sleep for three years, and, indeed, that he has not slept at all for thirteen years. His neighbors say that they have been at his house at all hours of the day and night, and have invariably found him alert and wide awake. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church of the place, and his word is trusted by all who know him. He is in good health, and weights over 200 pounds. He is over seventy, and does not work, except on small jobs about his house. He says he takes “no comfort at all” in life, but he has “given up taking all medicine, and waits for the coming of the Lord.” Albert Young, who was recently arrested for writing a letter to Gen. Sir Henry Ponsouby, the Private Secretary to the Queen, threatening the life of her majesty, has been sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude. LEGAL NOTICES STATE OF ALABAMA, MADISON COUNTY, ---------- Regular May Term, Court of Probate, June 2, 1882. ---------- Estate of Margaret Brazleton, dec’d This day, came John H. McMullen, Administrator, de bonis non, of the Estate of Margaret Brazleton, deceased, and filed with the Court his account and vouchers for an annual settlement of his administration of said Estate: It is considered, ordered, adjudged and decreed by the Court that the 30th day of June, 1882, be and the same is hereby appointed a day on which to make said settlements. It is, also, ordered by the Court that due and legal notice of the filing of the accounts and vouchers, the nature of the same, and the time appointed by the Court for settlement, be given, by publication for three successive weeks, in the Huntsville Democrat, a newspaper published in the County of Madison, State of Alabama; at which time, all persons interested can appear and contest said settlements, if they see proper to do so. WILLIAM RICHARDSON, jun7-8w. Judge of Probate Application for Pardon Public notice is hereby given that the undersigned will apply to the Governor of Alabama for the pardon of Ed. Walker, colored, who was convicted of burglary at the February Term, 1881, of the County Court of Madison County, and State of Alabama, said application being based on the ground of said convicts bad health and physical inability to labor. Wm. B. Jones, jun7-3w W. J. Walker. 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