Madison County AlArchives News.....Items from The Huntsville Weekly Democrat August 2, 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 January 2, 2007, 11:36 am Microfilm At Huntsville Library August 2, 1882 PERSONAL MENTION We are glad to hear Mac. Murray, son of Mr. A. F. Murray, and a child of Mr. Gus. Rogers are recovering from typhoid fever. Mrs. Claude Figures, of Tuscumbia, is in our city. Fariss Smith has left Chattanooga for Nashville, to travel for an extensive book house in the latter city. He is a worthy young man, and we with him success. We are pleased to see the venerable Gov. Patton in good health in our city. Hon. Jos. Wheeler has been at the McGee House for a day or two. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Watkins, Jr. and Mrs. Yancey Newman have returned to Birmingham. The present and future Democratic Attorney General, H. C. Thompson, reached Huntsville Monday and spoke with fine effect at Hay’s Store yesterday. President A. B. Jones, of the Huntsville Female College, sends us, from Fort Smith, Ark., an advertisement of the next session of the College, which appears in our columns. He writes under date of July 27, “I am on my way to Texas, and shall leave, to-day, by stage, for Muscogee, Indian Territory, 80 miles, and thence, into Texas. Have had a successful trip.” Capt. Dan. Coleman is doing yeoman’s work in canvassing South Alabama with Gen. O’Neal. Gen. Walker is speaking at various points in Madison, with characteristic ability, for the Democratic State and County Tickets. LOCAL ITEMS Messrs Forster & Harris, gunsmiths in our city, have invented a seed planter, which is highly commended by planters and farmers. It is a sort of two-wheeled wheelbarrow, with a hopper to hold the see, which are conveyed from the hopper by a thick leather band, with metal cups attached to it at intervals, to a funnel, from which they are dropped into the furrow. It is exceedingly simple and economical, and will serve to plant or sow large and small grains and seed, and, also, to distribute fertilizers. We have no doubt it will prove a great labor-saver. The Inventors propose to have it patented. Call and see the model. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Stockholders of the Monte Sano Turnpike Company will be held at Court House in the City of Huntsville, Alabama, on Monday, the 28th day of August, 1882, for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors to serve for the ensuing year. JOS. H. MARTIN, aug2-3w Secretary The Democrats of Madison had a glorious ovation, on Thursday last, in our Court House. Hons. W. W. Screws, Jere. N. Williams, and Geo. P. Harrison, made exceedingly able and effective speeches to a crowded house, and infuse renewed confidence in our principles and enthusiasm in their support, among our people. The general verdict was that we had never heard three better campaign speeches. They made the Democratic shield strong as triple steel to resist the assaults of our piebald enemies. Paul L. Jones (the Advocate says) introduced Mr. W. P. Williams, colored candidate of the Mongrel party, at Moore’s Mills, “with the same courtesy that Gen. L. P. Walker, the most distinguished Democrat in Alabama, extended to Mr. Wm. H. Council, colored. I (Jones) have, therefore, memorized the speech made by Gen. Walker, when he introduced Mr. Council to the Democratic Convention.” Thereupon Capt. Jones, with a change of names, introduced Williams in the so- called words of Gen. Walker, as “our distinguished fellow-citizen.” Unfortunately for Capt. Jones’s memory and the truth of history, Gen. Walker never introduced Mr. Council to any Convention. At the Democratic Convention, in 1880, Mr. Council was introduced by a gentleman not in political life. What words he used, we can’t recall. But Mr. Council made a speech, which for ability, truth and patriotism, would cast Capt. Jones in the shade. ALABAMA ITEMS J. M. Hinds, of Decatur, was nominated by President Arthur, last week, for U. S. Marshal for the Northern District of Alabama, in place of the present incumbent, Jos. H. Sloss. He is a full-blooded Republican and, as such, we and true Democrats generally, hereabout, prefer him to any Independent Half-Breed who will change his political coat, any day, for office. Has Lowe lost his grip on government patronage in Alabama? Hon. R. K. Boyd. Senator Morgan has given notice of a proposed amendment providing that the special license tax of a dealer in manufactured tobacco shall not be required from any farmer, planter or lumberman who furnishes not more than 100 pounds of tobacco only as rations to his laborers or employees in any special tax year. U.S. NEWS BEN HILL ------------- WASHINGTON, July 28.—An Atlanta dispatch says: In modern annals there has not a death so full of horrors as that which Benjamin Harvey Hill is now suffering, nor has the resignation and Christian philosophy exhibited been excelled, slowly dying of one of the most loathsome of illnesses, he is yet cheerful, patient and resigned. The patient is put to sleep every night about eight o’clock with hypodermic injection of morphine and does not awake until 11 o’clock the following morning. Three grains of morphine are administered daily, the patient never being allowed to come thoroughly from under its influence. His food consists of milk, into which yolks of eggs have been beaten and a little whisky added. About three quarts of this mixture are passed into the patient’s stomach every day through a tube, no portion of the fluid touching his palate. The cancer, for such it is acknowledged to be by all but those who have not had any connection with the case, have destroyed all the tissues of his throat and mouth on the left side, as well as the lower jaw or submaxillary bone. The opening is so large that two or three fingers pass freely up into the mouth from below, and the palate can be seen when the patient is lying down and one approaches min from the feet. The outer carotid artery is exposed, and the pulsation is plainly seen. The soft or connective tissues have been eaten away, and only such tough elastic substances as compose the walls of the artery are left intact. What is left of the tongue is attached to the right side by a very slender ligament, and constant fear is felt that it will become detached and fall into the victim’s throat when sleep, and thus end his suffering while yet sufficient strength exists for a further continuation of the contest with the dread destroyer. His mouth is kept filled with absorbent and antiseptic cotton, which is frequently changed, as is the dressing on the outside. No internal remedy is now given, nor has any been administered since the abandonment of the French cancer cure, which consisted in the injection into the blood of purified carbolic acid, the object being to destroy cancerous germs in the blood. The final change, it is now thought, will come from sheer exhaustion. If morphine treatment was suspended he would soon sink from the effects of pain. Now all that can be done is to alleviated his suffering and prolong the few days, which in spite of his terrible condition, he seems to prize more than those upon which he gained his glory. CLASSIFIEDS Huntsville Female College, Huntsville, Alabama --------------------------------- The next Session begins August 30th, 1882. Full and experienced Faculty engaged for all Departments. Miss Fannie Patteson takes charge of the Preparatory Department. The music Department, with Prof. Henri Paling, of Germany, as a member thereof, was never better. Charges as heretofore. Send for Catalogues. REV. A. B. JONES, A. M., aug2-1mo President. [Transcription Note: Editions of this newspaper for 9 and 16 August are not available.] File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/madison/newspapers/itemsfro1232gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 8.3 Kb