Madison County AlArchives News.....Items from The Huntsville Weekly Democrat September 20, 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, 12:03 pm Microfilm At Huntsville LIbrary September 20, 1882 PERSONAL MENTION Rev. Dr. R. C. Kelly, of Nashville, preached to large congregations at the Methodist Church, in this city, Sunday last, morning and night. Hon. Wm. Richardson returned from New York last Saturday. Col. Wm. M. Lowe got back from Colorado yesterday. His friends say his health is much improved and his voice restored, but his physicians advise him not to run any risk by public speaking. We hope he will be able to meet Hon. Luke Pryor at his appointments, to which he has invited all opposing candidates. We want an open field and a fair fight, a free ballot and a fair count. Mr. Henry B. Dillard has gone to the Virginia Springs for recreation. The friends of the Rev. Dr. F. A. Ross are sorry to know that he is still seriously ill, with little prospect of recovery. While physically failing, however, his strong mind and spirit are said to be unfailing. Mr. Niles Merriwether, his wife, and their daughter, Mrs. Lowe Davis, left Rhea Springs several days ago, and passed down the M. & C. R. R. to Memphis on Monday last. DIED: The body of the late Lowe Davis accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Nich. Davis, and his cousin, Nich. Davis, Esq., arrived from Rhea Springs, Tenn., last Friday night. The funeral attended by many mourning relatives and friends, took place in the Church of the Nativity at 10 a.m. Saturday, and his remains were deposited in the City Cemetery. The sorrowing sympathies of this whole community seem to have been elicited, by his sad death, in behalf of all who were most aggrieved, by reason of their intimate relationship to him by consanguinity or affinity, and in behalf of the Merriwether family. LOCAL ITEMS At nearly every place where W. W. Cole’s great shows have exhibited this season, thousands of people have been turned away unable to gain admission. This is the result of having the “Best show on earth.” It will be in Huntsville, Thursday, October 5. Claude Duvol on Monday Next -------------------------------------- The first performance of Claude Duvol, which was announced for Friday the 22nd has been postponed until Monday next the 25th when it will positively be given. Box-sheet now open at A. F. Murray’s. Admission 50 cents. Arrest and Escape ---------------------- Friday last Sheriff Cooper and his deputy, Joe Cooper, arrested Joe Ellett at Bryant’s Salon, in this city under three indictments, one for assault with intent to kill, and two for gambling. Ellett had avoided arrest for about a year, we understand.—The Sheriff and deputy, learning his whereabouts, rushed in, presenting a revolver and ordering him to surrender. He did so, and, the Sheriff trying to return the pistol to his hip pocket, dropped it to the floor, and it exploded, the ball passing through his pants near one ankle. The powder burnt his ankle and he, at first, supposed he was shot. Ellett was lodged in jail. On Saturday, an appearance bond was signed for his release, and only awaited the approval of Judge Richardson who had gone to New York. Ellett was allowed the freedom of the passage between the cells during the day. He was in the passage, when the jailor, “Uncle Billy Winston,” let a boy in the outer door to give Joe his supper. Joe rushed at “Uncle Billy” like a battering ram at a Billy goat, butted his head, knocked him down, escaped, and has not been caught yet. He would probably have been released on bond on Monday. “Uncle Billy” says when Joe’s head struck his, he saw stars, felt fire, smelt brimstone, and became unconscious. He fears the widows won’t think as well of him after this downfall. All joking aside, he has proved a good jailor. He has served two years and this is the first escape. Mrs. Kate D. Thompson ----------------------------- This accomplished lady has gone to Birmingham to reside, and we understand, to instruct people in elocution and the art of painting. She was for a number of years an instructures in both branches in the Huntsville Female College, and for the last two years in the Methodist Conference Institute at Jackson, Tenn., and, we believe, gave entire satisfaction in both institutions. We believe that she did more than any one else to develop a taste for elocution in Huntsville, especially as the Founder and President of the Pierian Society in which there were, in social circles, exercise in elocution and discussions of the lives and writings of eminent authors. She is an elocutionist of more than ordinary merit. Since she left Huntsville two years ago, she has visited Northern cities to receive instruction in painting and to study and reproduce works of old master of the divine art. We have recently seen some of the productions of her skillful pencil at the residence of Dr. J. J. Dement and were greatly pleased with the life-like accuracy of her delineation, perspective and coloring in the portraiture of human faces and forms and of interior animals, and, also, in landscape painting. We regret that Huntsville has lost her agreeable society, high culture and valuable accomplishments, and congratulate Birmingham on her good fortune in securing them. Madison County Finances ------------------------------- We have heretofore state that Judge Richardson had gone to New York to attend to financial business of Madison county. He, on a previous visit, some time ago, had invested Madison county funds in U. S. bonds. The Secretary of the Treasury called these bonds in, necessitating investment in some other way, satisfactory to the creditors of Madison county. Judge Richardson, who returned from New York last Saturday, informed us that he purchased for the County forty three $1000 first mortgage bonds of the M. & C. R. R., bearing severn per cent interest, paying for them a premium of 15 per cent., making an aggregate payment of $49,450. These bonds are registered in the name of Madison county, and made a special deposit in the “Real Estate Trust Company of New Yor,” of which Col. V. K. Stevenson is President. The coupons, as they fall due, are to be collected and invested in like securities, to be registered and deposited in like manner. These bonds have to be deposited by the county to secure the endorsement, by the M. & C. R. R. Co., of $62,000 of Madison county bonds falling due January 1, 1889, and it seems, virtually cancels them; for the investment of the coupons, in like bonds with the original forty-three M. & C. bonds, will soon increase the number of bonds to sixty-two, the number endorsed by the M. & C. Co., and, thus, the County’s debt of $62,000 will be paid when it falls due. We congratulate Judge Richardson, the Commissioner’s Court, and the people of Madison on what appears to be a judicious financial arrangement. ALABAMA ITEMS Col. Pryor at Florence --------------------------- Last Monday being the first day of Criminal Court week in Lauderdale, and Col. Pryor’s appointment to speak at Florence, on that day having been duly advertised, a large crowd was present to hear him, and he never appeared in better advantage. He spoke four hours bolding his audience until the close with apparently no signs of weariness on their part. This speech, like all others we have ever heard from, was a constant succession of surprises, the most wonderful mixture of wit, humor, eloquence and profound argument. There is but one Pryor and he is without shadow. His canvass bids fair to be the most brilliant and successful ever known in this district. He leaves no lukewarm or disaffected Democrats where he speaks. People who hear him one day will go a long distance to hear him the next, and we hope he will meet the same enthusiastic reception in all the counties of the District that has been extended to him in Lauderdale.—North Alabamian. 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