Madison County AlArchives News.....Items from The Huntsville Weekly Democrat July 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 December 14, 2006, 10:41 am Microfilm At Huntsville Library July 19, 1882 PERSONAL MENTION Miss S. Jimmie Jones, one of the heads of Chatham Academy, Savannah, Ga., is visiting friends here, who will give this cultured lady a hearty welcome. We had a call, last week, from Mr. A. McHan, traveling Editor of the American Baptist at Chattanooga. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Speak ear visiting the family of their son, Hon. H. C. Speake. Mrs. Mary Miller Harrison of Louisiana, is the guest of her relative, Mrs. Erskine. Hon. R. K. Boyd has been in our city several days. Miss Virginia C. Clay returned last Saturday, from a visit of several months to Texas, and a week’s trip to Mexico. Mr. Jas. H. Young and our old editorial confrere, John W. Young, are at their brother’s, Mr. D. H. Young. C. C. Ross is back from Columbus, Mississippi. Hon. P. M. Dox left last week, for a ten days’ trip to Washington, D. C. MARRIED: DICKSON – REEDY. – At the residence of the bride’s mother, Mrs. James W. Reedy , Huntsville, Alabama, July 13, 1882, by Rev. A. B. Jones, Mr. Robert F. Dickson, to Miss Sallie M. Reedy. The bridegroom is the foreman of the Independent Office; the bride was a teacher in the Huntsville Female College last session. May their married life be a type of the ineffable bliss of paradise. LOCAL ITEMS Public Speaking ------------------- Gen. Edward A. O’Neal the Democratic candidate for Governor, and other distinguished speakers, will address the people of Madison County, at Huntsville on Thursday, July 27, 1882. L. H. Scruggs, Chairman Democratic Executive Com. A Democratic Meeting --------------------------- HAZEL GREEN, July 18, 1882. Editor Democrat: There was a large and enthusiastic meeting of citizens at Hazel Green on yesterday. The Democratic yeomanry were aroused and wide awaked to their duty. Speeches were made by Capt. J. D. Brandon, nominee for the Senate, and Messrs, Kelly and Rowe for the House. Great interest was taken in Capt. Brandon’s speech, which was able, eloquent and exposed the cloven foot of the Republican party, in trying to deceive the people and Mahoneize Alabama. He explained the election law to the satisfaction of all thinking men. His speech had a telling affect upon his hearers. Capt. Brandon is an able expounder of Democratic principles. He contrasted vividly the difference between the present election law and that of the Republican party during their control of the State of Ala. Kelly and Rowe, who are practical farmers own many friends here. They are men of sound judgment, and wisdom, and the Democracy of Madison have made a good selection in choosing them as standard bearers of the County. Dr. Jordan was detained at home by a sick patient. You may expect to hear a good result on the 7th day of August next, by a rousing Democratic majority. The Democracy of Hazel Green Precinct are aroused to their duty, and are acting in concert for the accomplishment of good. Voter ALABAMA ITEMS Mr. George Turner, Chairman of the Republican executive committee, has issued an address to be found in another column. The name of Mr. Charles P. Lane, of Limestone, has been substituted for that of Paul Jones, of Madison, as a candidate for Attorney General on the coalition ticket. The Republican convention endorsed Mr. Jones and not Mr. Lane, and the latter, thus goes before the people, without any backing, unless, perhaps, a conference of two or three North Alabama Greenbackers, with ex-Gov. Smith, as advisory counsel.— Montgomery Advertiser. The Republican election law, made it a crime to challenge illegal voters. It gave every encouragement to fraud, and protected boys, convicts, and aliens, in illegal voting. Under it, men could vote wherever, and as often, as they pleased, and under it, at an election in Mobile, the Republicans counted up a larger majority than there were legal voters, in the county. How is that for fraud?—With such a record, it ill becomes the same men, who made the law, and carried it out, to denounce a law, under which countless frauds have been charge, and none proven.—Montgomery Advertiser. U.S. ITEMS Our Postal Department does quite a large business. An official statement, just completed, shows, that during the past year, over one billion three cent stamps, and $350,000,000 postal cards, were sold.—With these figures before them, the officials feel warranted in asserting that when the business of the year has been completed, it will be found, that the postal service is self- sustaining. Not a cent of the deficiency appropriation of $2,152,258 has been drawn from the Treasury. With the exception of one year during the war, this is the first, since 1851, in which the receipts of the Post Office Department have balanced its expenditures. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/madison/newspapers/itemsfro1223gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 5.5 Kb