Madison County AlArchives News.....Items from The Huntsville Weekly Democrat July 12, 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 14, 2006, 10:38 am Microfilm At Huntsville Library July 12, 1882 PERSONAL MENTION We note recent arrivals in our city, some of which ought to have appeared in our last week’s issue: Miss Anna Banister, after a sojourn many Months in Seguin, Texas; Miss Susie Echols, from school in Baltimore, Miss Sue Harrison; from Paducah, Ky.; Beirn Gordan, from Savannah, Ga.; Wm. Echols, from University of Va.; Fariss Smith, from Chattanooga; James Mayhew, form the U. S. Survey of Clinch river, Tenn. Y. P. Newman and family are up from Birmingham, for a week or so. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Ross have gone on a visit to Columbus, Miss. Mrs. E. A. Blount, of Selma, is a guest of Mrs. M. M. Blount. Col. R. B. Rhett is back from Blount Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts are visiting Mr. S. D. Cabaniss and family. Mrs. Wm. M. Erskine and children are at Mrs. Erskine’s. Allen C. Green is here from Mississippi. We are glad to see Mr. J. H. Landman on the street, after a serious bilious attack. Misses Susie Matthews and Mary Lou Banister, are, still, at Birmingham, guests of Mr. J. L. Watkens. Our accomplished friend Mrs. Kate D. Thompson, has been, for more than a week, a guest at her brother, Dr. Dement. Geo. B. Vandeventer, late Foreman of this office, left, Friday last for “a sit” in the Observer office, Birmingham. He is a clever fellow, and we wish him well. Dr. Wm. P. Watkins, of New York, is here to see his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Watkins, Sr., before setting out for Europe. Misses Sarah and Woola, bright little daughters of L. B. Thornton, Esq., of Tuscumbia, are guests of Miss Lou Winston Cooper. Rob’t L. Gardner, a native of this County, now Commonwealth’s attorney for Pulaski Co., Va., and Editor of The People, a spirited Democratic journal at New Berne, is visiting old friends here. LOCAL ITEMS The Alabama Baptist Convention, consisting of 160 delegates, met in the Baptist Church in this city, at 10:30 a.m., to-day, and organized by the election of Hon. Jona. Haralson, of Selma, President; Rev. Dr. J. J. Renfroe, of Talladega, and Rev. Dr. W. C. Cleveland, of Selma, Vice Presidents, and B. B. Davis, of Montgomery, Secretary. Able and eloquent reception speeches were made by rev. Mr. Kone, Pastor of the Church here and, by invitation, Hon. Wm. Richardson, of this city, to which Rev. E. J. Foster, by appointment of the President, gracefully responded. The Convention contains many able men, clerical and lay, and will continue its business session till Saturday night, and finally adjourn next Sunday night. Yesterday, Richmond and Charles Bradford, negroes, were brought before Tho’s C. Barclay, Notary Public and, ex-officio, Justice of the Peace, on a warrant charging said defendants with grand larceny in breaking open a bonnet box, and feloniously taking therefrom a sum of money, not less that $50 in gold. After preliminary investigation, Justice Barclay required defendants to give bond in $500, each, for their appearance before the next Circuit Court of Madison County, to answer the charge. In default of bail, they were sent to jail. The members of the Baptist and Cumberland Presbyterian Churches are making efforts to finish the repairs on their Church edifices. An Ice Cream Supper will be given by Mrs. India Teague and Mrs. A. A. Baker, at the residence of the latter, on Monday night next, July, 17th. They urgently request the public to attend, and thereby aid a good cause. I. B. Gill has, at his store, three Irish potatoes, grown by “Shanks” Taylor, which, together, weigh 4 ½ lbs. The Irish potato crop, this year, is the best we have ever known. By the way, now is said to be a good time for replanting with this year’s potatoes for a second crop. ALABAMA ITEMS We very much regret to hear of the painful and serious hurt sustained by Mr. J. L. Watkins, Sunday night. While about to lower a window sash he protruded his arm through a broken pane, the sash fell and jagged points of the broken pane struck him on the wrist, severeing the radial or pulse artery. Considerable hemorrhage ensued, but Dr. Jordon was called in and tied the artery which completely controlled the flow, and Mr. Watkins is now doing well.—Birmingham Iron Age. Eight years ago Mr. James Cunningham left Pickens county, Ala., to seek a soft place in Florida. The first two years of his stay there, he taught school at a salary of $700 per year, he invested what money he had saved from this amount, in land, and started an orange grove. He then came back to his former home in Pickens county, Ala., married, and went back to Florida. Last summer he paid a visit to his friends in Alabama. While here he got returns from New York for the sale of that year’s crop of oranges, which netted him over $10,000. We give this on the authority of a gentleman who has known Mr. Cunningham for years, and we are satisfied that it is in no detail exaggerated.—Gainesville Reporter. The telephone is indispensable to Birmingham—almost every business man in town now talks through an instrument and transacts a great deal of business by the “word of mouth,” When Mr. Turner was nominated for chairman of the Radical Executive Committee yesterday, Mr. Sheets and Mr. Turner sends up, in place of a speech, a picture of the next Governor of Alabama. Many darkeys rushed up crying, “Whar’s dat pictur of Gen. O’Neal.” Somebody informed them that it was a picture of Mr. Sheffield. The Federal office seekers of the colored persuasion had never heard of Sheffield. He was a great Democrat until beaten by Caldwell for Congress. Gen. O’Neal’s great county of Lauderdale had no representative, either in person or by proxy in the piebald convention yesterday.—Montgomery Advertiser. U.S. NEWS From the Mobile Register The following special to the New Orleans Picuyune gives the tragic end of a once brilliant man one who was once Sheriff of Sumter county, and who will be remembered as having been tried here before the United States Court, on the charge of being concerned in alleged political outrages, in 1874: SUMMITT, MISS., June 24. Mrs. John Harrison, mother, of Ben and Robert Harrison, of the gang of murderers and robbers, confessed, to-day, to Powhattan Causey, who has been very active in ferreting them out, that the man Renfro, alias Smith, was buried to-day by the gang, that others were wounded, and such notorious characters as Thad Fornham and Bill King, including those enumerated in former dispatches, numbering in all fifteen confederates, are camped some fifteen miles from this city, that your correspondent was correct in stating that it was the intention to wreck the train, pillage the passengers and leave for greener fields. A party returned from a hunt for them to-day without success, save the above information. The search will be continued with special diligence exerted to recover the body of Renfro, the escaped murderer and defaulting sheriff, for whom heavy rewards have been offered. Alligator hides have become in such demand that many alligator farms are being started in Louisiana and Florida. Vicksburg girls have organized a band of “sweet sweepers.” This is the latest Southern craze. Polygamous New England -------------------------------- The Rev. Dr. Leonard W. Bacon, of Connecticut, alleges that there is as much polygamy in New England as there is in Utah, and that it is more open and shameless. It originates, we are told, in the licentious impulses of a large portion of the New England people, and as promoted through the assistance anti- connivance of the divorce laws and judicial tribunals. Even the clergy participates in the wickedness. A professor in a theological seminary of the dominant orthodox sect of New England, who was a polygamist, long occupied his chair without scandal or objection, and he is still in good standing with the clergy of the Congregational churches. These polygamist practices, Dr. Bacon says are peculiar to the native population, and foreign-born citizens do not share in them; but we are bound to add that they seem to prevail more extensively in Connecticut than in the other States. It is a sad picture, and taken together with the other evidence of moral and religious decline in that part of the county, it is well calculated to provoke serious anxiety concerning the future.—New York Sun. LEGAL NOTICES Sale of City Property --------------------- The undersigned, owners, in fee simple, under the will of Geo. P. Beirne deceased, of the following described property, will sell, for purposes of division, in front of the Court House door in Huntsville, on Monday July 17, 1882, At public auction, to the highest bidder, the house and lot fronting on Williams Street in Huntsville, known as the family residence, and lot connected therewith, of the late George P. Beirne. Sale within legal hours, and terms strictly cash down. July 12-1t. E. 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