Madison County AlArchives News.....Items from The Huntsville Weekly Democrat October 4, 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 8, 2007, 2:41 pm Microfilm At Huntsville Library October 4, 1882 PERSONAL MENTION Mr. Ed. I. Mastin returned from St. Louis last week. Mrs. and Miss Morrison, of New Orleans have gone home. Gen. L. P. Walker and wife, and Capt. Milton Humes and wife, have returned from New York. Gen. Wheeler was here on Sunday last, and Mr. Tom Jones here, today. Col. Lowe went to Scottsboro last week, without making speeches, and is, now, at Tuscumbia, we hear. Miss Gay Blackford, of Abingdon, Va., left today. Percy Gordon and R. Cayler Gordon left, yesterday, for the University of Virginia. LOCAL ITEMS Railroad Accident ---------------------- Monday night late, as the M. & C. Express train neared Indian Creek, 7 miles West of Huntsville, a broken rail threw the rear passenger and sleeping car off the track, over an embankment about 15 feet high. The passenger car turned over twice and landed, right side up, on the trucks, and the sleeping car turned topsy-turvey, both being badly wrecked. Out of 13 passengers and two employees on the cars, 13 were more or less injured. Among the injured, were John Tate Lowry and Dr. Sam. H. Lowry, the former cut severely on the head and otherwise cut and bruised, the latter injured in the back; Col. Sam. Tate, bruised and Mr. Sam Tate, with Conductor McAlister, cut and three ribs broken, and bruised badly and Conductor Mr. McAlister cut and bruised. Henry Bougham, of Lynchberg, Va., sleeping car conductor, who passed through Chattanooga, Monday night, still unconscious, more seriously hurt than anyone else. We are unable to give names of others hurt. Tom Green, of Huntsville, and a negro brakesman alone escaped injury, but Tom lost his watch. We are glad to hear that Mr. Tate Lowry, Dr. Sam Lowry, and Mr. McAlister have been brought home, and are getting on reasonably well. Samson --------- Samson on the fence, Samson at the breakfast table, Samson is the talk of the town. Who and what is “Samson?” Listen and we will tell you, Poetically: “Samson” is an elephant, From far across the sea; His back is strong, his trunk is long, And big as big can be. He falls in love with all the girls, And sets them all in a flutter, The ladies sigh, and say ,”Oh, my! He’s just too utterly utter.” In plain prose, “Samson” is the largest elephant that ever trod the green earth, and he is the only elephant upon whose broad back marriage ceremonies have been performed. “Samson” is the “big” feature in W. W. Cole’s big shows, which are to exhibit at Huntsville, Thursday, October 5. Amusements --------------- Mr. J. H. Huntley has engaged the Opera House for Fair Week, and will present some of the latest society and sensational plays. On Monday, Oct. 9th, he will present for the first time in this city the Sterling Drama Entitled “Destiny,” or the Courier of the Alps. Mr. Huntley’s Company is a new one, no member having traveled with him before. So, with a new company and new plays we may expect a treat in the way of amusement. The following is one of the many enthusiastic extracts clipped from our exchange: “Huntley’s Dramatic Company occupied Park Theatre five nights last week to crowded houses. The week was the most successful every played in Richmond. The plays were put on in a manner never before equaled here, and the company is the best setting and best dressed it has ever been our pleasure to meet. Bush Bros. brass band and orchestra and the electric light are an attraction in themselves, which we do not often have an opportunity to witness.”—Richmond Herald Notes on October -------------------- Editor Advertiser: The weather of the fall is becoming sufficiently marked to define its character with more clearness than could be done a few weeks since. I trust the present spell will pass without frost in Alabama. The paroxysm is early and shows what I intimated to a correspondent of Holly Springs, Miss., a few days since, that the cold curve is advancing rapidly Southward. October will be a cool, if not a cold, month, and, if we escape frost now, I do not think we will be disappointed, if we look for killing frosts between the 7th and 11th. I see no cause to change my former opinion in regard to favorable weather in this section until November for farm work. For the benefit of the greatest number of farmers, I take pleasure in furnishing the Advertiser, in advance, with the following notes: 1. The weather over the 8th district will be dry in October. I think the danger intervals are 10th to 12th, 18th to 19th, 26 to 29th, or a day or two earlier, each interval. 2. About the 21st to 24th, we will be apprised of the fact that an early cold winter is approaching. 3. The second week in the month will be stormy over the county. 4. Open cotton in great quantities should not be left in the boll. Corn has already stood too long in the field. Wheat cannot be planted too early this fall, and the soil should be prepared for sowing, as early as possible. 5. It will pay to put on all the extra help to get and keep up work on the farm. 6. What is not safe from frost before the first week of the month closes, in my judgment, will be lost. I will add that the weather for October and September, 1882, was made up in 1881, not from regular reports of the Signal Service but from newspaper data. The regular reports since received afford a safer and more comprehensive data. It must also be born in mind that New Orleans is the station for the 8th district. For 1883, Montgomery has been selected as more central, and the weather column for the 8th district, for each month in the year, will be tabulated from the data of your city, as well as from New Orleans, Shreveport and Memphis. I desire to say here that the work of tabulating the weather expected for 1883 is a great improvement on 1882. The notes are made more comprehensive and are more complete. I am anxious that the system be thoroughly tested. I am assured by those competent to judge that the system of forecasts a year in advance is working wonderfully. For the first year, the results have exceeded my expectations, and I have applied the most rigid tests to the system. I have the reports of the Signal Service for the same stations, and the data for each month this year, confirm the theory I advance throughout. I regard the yearly predictions as far more certain and exact than the monthly forecasts; but I wish to labor towards the end of the greatest good to agriculture and, if I find that monthly forecasts in advance give the greatest satisfaction I will return to my old system. It would however, not be doing justice to any theory or system of forecasts to abandon it with the best results simply because those for whose special benefit it is interested have not familiarized themselves with it, or have not fully realized its capabilities. The information I send you above are conclusion s drawn from the data o of the Signal Service reports for 1881, and is to be regarded as supplementary of the weather made up from newspaper data for October, 1882. GEO. R. CATHER. Ashville, Ala., Sept. 23, 1882. The false prophet at the helm of the Huntsville Advocate who can’t even tell a thing after it occurs, much less foretell it, is regardless of facts, descanting as to how Colonel Pryor’s audiences are dismissed.—Decatur News. ALABAMA ITEMS Mose Turner --------------- Mose Turner, brother of Jack Turner, who was executed recently in Choctaw county, has been in Mobile for some time. He is wanted in Choctaw county, and Sheriff Burke has a warrant for his arrest, but the Republican party, who manage the United States Court room and surroundings, is determined that Mose shall not answer for his crimes to the civil authorities of the State of Alabama. Yesterday, Sheriff Burke and his attorney, John Little Smith, Esq., visited the office of the United States District attorney, who pretends that Mose Turner is in custody of the United States for some offences against the timber laws. Mose has been at complete liberty since he came to Mobile. He was seen moving vigorously at the recent Republican Congressional Convention. Of course, his arrest by the United States authorities for timber depredation is simply a pretext to protect him from arrest by the State authorities, who wish him to answer for the highest crimes known to the State law. Mr. Attorney Duskin is no doubt simply holding Mose Turner under the forms of an arrest, to produce him hereafter as a witness against the people of Choctaw county. Sheriff Burke found that Mose Turner was held by a formal commitment from the United States Commissioner, and hence he had no power to execute the writ of the State. It is thus that the Representatives of the United States impede the execution of the State laws, for the purpose of preparing witnesses for the prosecution of citizens who are guilty of no further crime than that of defending their homes and families from rapine and slaughter.—Mobile Register. Hon. Luke Prior ------------------- The largest boom in the land, that which puts railroads, minerals, corps and all else in the background, is the Luke Pryor boom. He is the key-note of every joy and hope, and finds a space in every conversation. I am sure I never saw such earnest enthusiasm in the democratic ranks in this country. Many of Mr. Lowe’s former supporters have given him up for Pryor. Not even his garden seeds dodge can do him any good in this contest. I heard a man say the other day that he had sold his last vote for a paper of garden seed. Lowe’s sun has set to rise no more in this district. He had better save the salary of the present congress for “a rainy day,” for it is sure to come, and that right soon. The mountain counties may be depended on for a heavier democratic vote than ever polled before.—Traveling Editor of Tuscumbia Democrat. The Hon. Luke Pryor is sweeping every thing before him. A man from the people, and of the people, he will be elected by the people.—They are tired of the smooth-tongued William, who was born an aristocrat, and has no feeling in common with the working class of people.—Scottsboro Citizen. The “Grey Eagle” of Limestone will soon be seen among the mountains of “High Jackson.” Her citizens will extend him a glad welcome. Will “Sweet William” meet him, or has he learned that, “when the eagle is in the air, bats and owls should creep into their holes!”—Scottsboro Citizen. Another Negro Disturbance --------------------------------- Selma Times, Sept. 28 Parties in the city, yesterday, from near Benton, in Lowndes County, report that discovery has been made of an insurrectionary movement in that vicinity. A number of arrests were made, yesterday and the day before, by the Sheriff. Four negroes, Dank Wilson, Bill Maull, Willis Randolph and Richard Thomas, were carried before Mr. R. G. Dudley, a Justice of the Peace, on Tuesday, and at last accounts were still under arrest.—One of them, Bill Maul, told the whole story, but the others could not be induced to confess their knowledge of the suspicious movements of their gang. It has been evident for some months that something wrong has been going on among the negroes in that vicinity. They have had constant secret meetings with guards out, to which the older ones were admitted. Bill Maull states, that a plot, was on hand, which was, to have been consummated in a massacre, on June 26th, but it was not sufficiently arranged and was postponed, until sometime next winter. Full confessions had not been obtained, when our informant left Benton, but enough was known to alarm the entire vicinity. The leading white men of the neighborhood were all aroused and present at Esquire Dudley’s yesterday. It is evident that this is another outcropping of what seems to be a universal movement among the negroes in opposition to the whites.—The suspicious meetings in Lowndes date from the time of the passing through there of Monroe White, the Autauga “red negro” which was in April last. The whole trouble is evidently an outgrowth of that fiendish emissary’s incendiary counsels. Hatred of the whites, and political and social supremacy of the blacks, at any cost, are the key notes of the movement. After Col. Lowe got a seat in Congress, last Summer, by a solid Radical vote, over a solid Democratic vote, he paired off with Hon. John K. House, of Tenn., and Hon. Thomas B. Herndon, of Alabama, distinguished Democratic leaders, and left Washington. We understand that these gentlemen, successively, probably could not vote in Col. Lowe’s absence, unless they were in accord with George W. Jones, who, with the Radical party at his back, is now trying to beat Judge Ireland, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Texas. Would thee gentlemen have paired off with Col. Lowe, or Col. Lowe with them if all three belonged to the Democratic party?—Athens Courier. Hon. Thomas Williams --------------------------- This gentleman, the present able Representative in the 5th Distict of Alabama in Congress, who electrified a Huntsville audience by his logic and eloquence, having been renominated, is making a brilliant canvass. A Rev. Mr. McCoy started as his Independent opponent, but prominent Radical, returned to support him, saying they preferred Williams, an out-and-out Democrat. We copy the following passage from the Macon Mail’s synopsis of a recent speech of Col. Williams as good reading for the people of the 8th District: He then proceeded to show how by in?dicus advances the Republican party was progressing toward centralization of power, and sapping the foundation of free civil government depicted the scenes in the Halls of Congress, when with the license of unbridled might, they usurped control of the House, and one after another ejected from their seats without law or right, Democrats who stood in the way of their nefarious purposes. During this discourse he paid a high and merited compliment to the character, talents and patriotism of Gen. Joseph Wheeler. “Yet,” he said, “this gallant patriot, for the offence of being a Democrat, and to appease the maw of Republicanism, was shelled out of a seat in which he was as fairly entitled as I was to mine.” He warned the people that this same programme was to be repeated, and exhorted them to turn out to the polls and place upon the usurpers the seal of their stern condemnation, that danger was imminent and threatening, that the Republicans would use money and stratagem to give a specious plea for their outrages on the people’s rights. From Grave to Gay The people of Matamoras believe in a rapid passage from “grave to gay.” They celebrated yesterday with the banjo and the dance, fireworks and the fandango, the subsidence on the yellow-fever. The depressions incident to the plague were thrown off as the last case was announced; joy was turned loose, was unconfined, so to speak, and they went on with the giddy dance to the lascivious music of the lute. They were tired of prayers and appeals, tired of the muffled tread, the panoply of woe and the horrid accessories of a tragedy continued through many days, and eagerly surrendered themselves to comedy and roaring farce, as was the custom on the mimic stage under ante bellum management. Quaff a cup to the dead already, And hurrah for the next that dies! We remember how even the suggestion of Mardi Gras was frowned upon in Memphis after the dreadful holocaust of 1878. They seem to understand human nature better in Matamoras, and do not regard the rebound from the grave to life as at all detrimental in their faith. Theirs is an easy-going and self- satisfying method of life, and if their days are fewer than ours they are merrier.—Memphis Appeal. Young Ben Hill already has begun the work of compiling his father’s letters and speeches. The book will consist of two volumes and will be more than a mere compilation. It will give a history of the late Senator, garnished with such gossip and anecdotes as may be proper. U.S. NEWS Mr. Pinchback, of Louisiana, is a somewhat outspoken gentlemen. Listen to this recent utterance: “The offices are our sole great issue; in some places they try to disguise the real issue, be we don’t down South.” Mr. Pinchback is a Republican. Southern Independents also think offices the great issue. The Republican party in Alabama has been formally disbanded. So it has in Texas, in Virginia, in Missouri in Kentucky, while in almost every other Southern State its organization is merely nominal. How will delegations from these States be made up in 1884, and what will be the wording of the call for the National Convention? Are Phantom delegations to be evoked from among the Federal office holders? If so, what will their treason profit Mahone and Chalmers, and what reward will accrue to the Greenback leagues in Alabama, Texas and Missouri, who are now being put forward as “anti-Bourbon” buffers? Somebody is going to be cheated, and there will be a row, when the question comes up for final settlement, besides which the battle of Armageddon will show like one of Gen. Wolseley’s engagements.—New York World. Eliza Pinkston, who cut such a prominent figure before the committee of “visiting statesmen” with Radical proclivities, who were in New Orleans in the spring of 1876, for the purpose of making out a case against the people of Louisiana, has come to grief, as we learn from the Canton, Miss., papers that she was arraigned with a lot of other thieves on a charge of robbing, before Mayor Thomas, of that town, and placed in jail to await the meeting of the Circuit Court. “Mrs. Pinkston” is in a bad scrape and she wants her Republican friends to come to her relief immediately.—New Orleans Times- Democrat. The Eleventh Congressional district in Texas has eighty counties in it. This gives a hint of the political possibilities down that way as the counties develop and become populous. It is related that Michigan saloon keeper, who had combined to test the liquor law of that State, once sent a copy of the law and a check for $500 to the Hon. Mat Carpenter, of Wisconsin, and asked his opinion of the law: His answer was laconic: “The law is good and can’t be broken.” Negroes will tell the truth sometimes. On this fact the following paragraph from the Savannah Echo, published by colored men, is a proof. “Take the negro from the South and the Republican party will die out as the tide ebbs and flows. The negro is the backbone of the Republicanism in the South.” This truth cannot be denied by any white Republican candidate. A railroad car painted inside with phosphorescent paint, is being run through the Thames tunnel at London, and give sufficient light to see with considerable distinctness. Texas Marriage Association of Dallas, Texas ----------------------------------------------------- Only company that contracts to pay its members anything, and the oldest in the State. Has a monthly sworn statement showing $5,631 paid up to September 1, with an average of less than two assessments per month. Total membership 3,000 and rapidly increasing. Only two assessments for September, this being less than for the past two months. Active intelligent agents wanted in every town and city in the Union, with whom a reasonable business contract will be made. Address, T. S. Burnett, Secretary, Box 221, Dallas, Texas. LEGAL NOTICES Pleasant Hill Precinct Discontinued ------------------------------------------ It is ordered by the Court that the voting places at Pleasant Hill, known as Box No. 2, in Meridianville Precinct in Madison County, Alabama, be and the same is hereby discontinued. Elections will, hereafter, be held for said Meridianville Precinct, at the town of Meridianville, in the County of Madison, and heretofore known and designated as Box No. 1. Non-Resident Notice ------------------------- STATE OF ALABAMA, MADISON COUNTY, ------------------------- Court of Probate Regular September Term, Sept. 28, 1882. ------------------------- Estates of William Echols dec’d ------------------------- Petition to sell Real Estate for Distribution This day, came William H. Echols, administrator of the estate of William Echols deceased, and presented the Court his written petition duly verified by his oath asking and praying orders and proceedings from this court, authorizing him to sell certain real estate, in his said petition described, for the purpose of distribution among the heirs and distributes of said dependent, for the reason and upon the ground that said real estate cannot fairly and equitably be divided among said heirs and distributes; It is ordered by the Court that the 8th day of November, 1882, be and is appointed a day on which to hear, consider and determine said petition, together with the proof submitted in support of the same. It is, also, ordered by the Court that notice of the filing of the petition, the nature of the same, and the time appointed by the Court for the hearing thereof, be given to Mary Muse Lawson, who resides at Senatobia, in the State of Mississippi, Sallie S. Echols, who resides at Jackson, in the State of Mississippi, Ann Eliza Richardson, who resides in Nashville, in the State of Tennessee, Caroline Echols, who resides at Senatobia, in the State of Mississippi, Charles P. Echols, who resides at Jackson, in the State of Mississippi, Ellen R. Walker, who resides at Cape Colon?, South Africa, all of whom are of full age, and Daniel Echols and Mary Echols who are minors and reside at Dalton, in the State of Georgia, 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, oct4-3w. Judge of Probates Administrator’s Notice ---------------------------- Estate of Henry B. Graves Dec’d LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION on the Estate of said decedent having been granted to the undersigned on the 2nd day of October, A. D., 1882, by the Hon. William Richardson, Judge of the Probate Court of Madison County notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present the same within the time required by law, or the same will be barred. R. M. CHURCH oct4-3w. Administrator of Estate of Henry B. Graves, dec’d Administrator’s Sale of Four Madison County Farms ---------------------------------------------------------------- Pursuant to a decree of the Probate Court of Madison County, Alabama, and as the Administrator of THE ESTATE OF CHARLES P. CABANISS, DEC’D. I will sell, in front of the Court House of said County, in Huntsville to the highest bidder on Monday, the 13th day of November, next, on the terms hereinafter stated all the lands hereinafter described, comprising FOUR DESIRABLE FARMS, which will be sold separately—to-wit: NO. 1, THE EASON FARM, Domprising the N. W. ¼ of Sec. 16, and all of the S. W. ¼ of Section 9, except the N.E. ¼ thereof, containing together about 280 acres, of which about 160 acres are cleared, the balance in timber, including some valuable cedar. On this place is one dwelling-house, with kitchen attached, out-houses, and an abundant supply of well water, NO. 2, THE WILSON FARM, Comprises the N.E. ¼ and N. W. ¼ of Section 20, containing about 320 acres, of which about 200 acres are cleared, and the balance woodland, including some good cedar and other valuable timber. Between 40 and 50 acres of said N.E. ¼ lie within the fence inclosing the lands embraced in the Price farm, mentioned below. And on the East of the lane running, North and South, through the Eastern margin and South of said 50 acre tract, and about 12 or 14 acres, which may be sold separately, if desired, by bidders and deemed advantageous to the estate. There are on this place three tenant houses, some out-houses, and orchard of two or three acres and good water. NO. 3, THE PRICE PLACE, Comprises the East half of Section 17, containing about 320 acres, and, with it, will be sold about 100 acres of woodland, constituting the E ½ of S. W. ¼ of Section 7, and the W. ½ of the W. ½ of the N. W. ¼ of N.E. ¼ of Section 18. Of the 320 acre tract, about 280 acres are cleared, about 25 acres of rich bottom land, uncleared—balance in a limestone mountain, from which flows a cave spring of excellent water. The other improvements consist of five tenant, houses some stables, and one well of water. The lands, above described, are all in Township 3, of Range 1, West. The farms are about five miles North-west from the City of Huntsville, in a very desirable neighborhood. A part of the woodland of each extends into a mountain abounding in limestone rock. NO. 4, The other Farm, once known as THE TATE PLACE, is in the Hazel Green District, about one mile East of the Meridian Road, and withintwo miles of the Tennessee State line, and lies in compact form, consisting of the S.E.1-4 of Section 7, and the S.E. 1-4 of Section 8, of which between 250 and 280 acres are cleared, I will sell, with this farm a woodland tract, about 1 ½ miles distant containing about 80 acres, known as the N. ½ of the N. W. 1-4 of Sec. nine (9)—all of the said 400 acres being in T. 1, of R. 1, East. The family grave-yard, containing about one-fourth of an acre, and a right of way thereto, will be reserved from sale. There are upon the Farm several comfortable dwelling-houses, several out- houses, a never-failing spring of excellent water, with spring house and an orchard of 6 or 8 acres of fruit-bearing trees. The Barren Fork of Flint river runs through the western part of the plantation, upon which is a mill site. The outlet for stock very good. TERMS OF SALE. One-third of the purchase money to be paid in cash, balance in two equal annual instalments, payable in one and two years, with interest from date of sale, to be secured by bonds of purchasers, with two good sureties. But any purchaser, preferring it, may pay all cash. The rents on all lands for the present year are reserved to the Estate. The boundaries of the lands near Huntsville will be shown by Mr. D. M. Davis or C. White residing near them. Those of the other lands by Mr. Wm. Manly the present tenant. S. D. CABANISS, Adm’r of Oct.4-tds. C. P. CABANISS, Dec’d CLASSIFIEDS Half Wool Dress Goods at 10 cents a yard. Custom Made Shoes, all prices and qualities. Herstein & Lowenthal’s Lionel W. Day Attorney & Counselor at Law Huntsville, Ala. Wm. L. Clay Attorney at Law and Notary Public Huntsville, Ala. Will practice in the Courts of Madison and adjoining counties, and in the Supreme Court of Alabama. Special attention will be given to the collection of claims, taking of depositions, the authentication of deeds, &c. Office on West side of Franklin Street, in Beirne Building up stairs. New Firm! New Goods! ------------------------------ You will find it to your interest to call and examine my supply of Family Groceries before purchasing. Come One, Come All. and see for yourself. I am selling low down for cash. I will buy country produce for which I will exchange goods or pay cash. june7-3m E. F. FLAAKE. Louisville & Nashville Railroad --------------------------------------- The Great Through Trunk Line Between the North and South --------------------------------------- Runs Through Sleeping Cars from Decatur to Louisville, Cincinnati, Montgomery, Mobile, and New Orleans Without Change --------------------------------------- Connecting in Union Depot at New Orleans with Through Cars for Texas, & Montgomery for Florida Points. At Nashville for St. Louis and the West and at Louisville and Cincinnati for all Points in the North and East, Trains from Huntsville connect with these Through Cars at Decatur, Ala. For further information in regard to time, rates, etc., address Agent L. & N. R. R. Decatur, Ala., or C. P. ATMORE, G. P. & T. A., Aug.30, rf Louisville, Ky. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/madison/newspapers/itemsfro1249gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 28.9 Kb