Madison County AlArchives News.....Items from The Huntsville Weekly Democrat October 11, 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, 2:44 pm Microfilm At Huntsville Library October 11, 1882 PERSONAL MENTION Sam. Blackwell, the Democrat wheel horse of Morgan County, was here on Monday, to respond to an indictment of the U. S. Court for violation of the election laws in 1880.—This case is to be taken up next week, we hear, and he has gone to Jackson County, to speak for the Democracy at several places. Gen. Jos. Wheeler was here yesterday, on his way to speak in Jackson County. We hear that Col. Lowe returned, Sunday last, from his trip down the Tennessee Valley, and is confined to his room by sickness. The following persons were registered at the Huntsville Hotel, on Monday: Ed. Baxter, Nashville, Tenn., J. M. Dunn, Washington, D. C., U. S. Timber Agent, George Turner. Mr. E. Spot McClung and wife, of Knoxville, Tenn., are the guests of Mrs. John Matthews, having come down to attend the Fair. We welcome him and his good wife to his old home. Mrs. Jas. L. Watkins and sons, of Birmingham, are here. Mr. Jas. T. Burton has gone to Birmingham to live. Capt. L. W. Day went last week, to Illinois, summoned by the illness of his father, over 80 years old. We hear that before leaving, he tendered his resignation as Assistant U. S. District Attorney. Mr. Charles Echols, of Miss., is visiting his brother, Maj. Wm. H. Echols, in this city. Capt. Bogardus and his son, a small lad, by invitation of the N. Ala. Sportsman’s Association; exhibited their wonderful marksmanship at the Association’s grounds, last Tuesday. John Terrell, the guitarist of the colored Terrell band, died of hemorrhage of the lungs, in this city, last Thursday. Our charming friend, Miss Bere Fearn, returned from Blount Springs, last Saturday. Dr. H. W. Bassett, also, returned thence last week. Dr. L. P. Walker, Jr., of New York, is in the city. Mr. Thomas J. Humphrey and family have settled in St. Louis, Mo., instead of Texas. We regret to lose them as residents of Huntsville, and with them prosperity in their new home. We regret to learn the death, Oct. 6, of Jefferson Davis Darwin, an excellent young man, aged 21, near Meridianville, of inflammation from vaccination, causing lockjaw. MARRIED: HOXTER-MURRELL.—At the Easley House, Huntsville, Ala., Sept. 26, 1882, by Rev. John A. Thompson, A. P. HOXTER, ESQ., of Decatur, Ala., to MRS. PAMELIA MURRELL, of Huntsville, Ala. BEACH-SNODGRASS.—At St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, in Scottsboro, Ala., on Tuesday evening, Oct. 3d, by the Rev. Dr. J. M. Banister, of Huntsville, DR. C. Q. BEACH and MISS ALEXANDER (Lexie) SNODGRASS, daughter of the editor of the Herald. The church was beautifully decorated and densely crowded. BOWEN-MORROW.—On the 22d, of August, by rev. C. B. Sanders, at Brownsboro, Alabama, MR. J. L. BOWEN to MISS FIDELLA MORROW, both of Madison County, Alabama. These hearts by love together knit, Cemented, joined in one, One hope, one joy, unto the end, Till all life’s duties done, Then, in Heaven’s wide domain, May these two meet to love again. ADAMS-LUMSDEN.—On the evening of the 3d inst., at the residence of her relative, J. J. B. Hilliard, by the Rev. Dr. Tscheffely, of Grace Church, to MR. FRANK A. ADAMS, of this city, MISS VIRGINIA E., daughter of the late Alex. and Lucy Lumsden, of New Orleans, and a cousin of Mrs. C. C. Clay of Alabama. Mobile, New Orleans and Huntsville, Ala., papers please copy. We copy the above marriage announcement from the Louisville Courier Journal, and wish the newly married ineffable bliss and prosperity. LOCAL ITEMS Dr. Mec. Robinson was thrown from his buggy last week, by his horse’s running between two other vehicles, and one of his ribs was broken. We are glad, however, to see him on our streets, almost as lively as usual. Judge Barclay’s Court Elsewhere, we chronicle Justice Barclay’s discharge of Fuston, arraigned for killing a negro for brutal assault on his wife. On Saturday last, Charles Jones, Dennis Donegan and Ed. Anderson, all negro employees of the M. & C. R. R. Co., were arraigned before Justice Barclay, charged with burglary of the cars, wrecked near Indian Creek last week and stealing a gold watch and chain of Mrs. Sam Tate, of Memphis, and a watch and chain of Tom Green, of this city— Messrs. Humes & Gordon prosecuting, and D. D. Shelby and Paul L. Jones defending. After examination of witnesses, Justice Barclay discharged Dennis Donegan and Ed. Anderson, and required Charles Jones to give bail in the sum of $500, to answer before the Circuit Court. On Monday last, four negroes, Dallas Carter, Alexander Fitz, Rodney Fletcher, and Land Patton, were before Justice Barclay, charged with burglary of the storehouse of Hopkins & Bro., at Madison, and stealing meat. After hearing witnesses, the Justice required Carter, Fitz, and Fletcher to give bond in $500 to answer before the Circuit Court, for the burglary, and Land Patton to give a $250 bond to answer before him (Justice Barclay) for concealing stolen goods. The defendants, in all the above cases, went to jail, in default of bail. Federal Court ----------------- Judge Bruce opened the Federal Court yesterday morning, organized the grand and petit juries, and proceeded to sound the docket. District Attorney Smith is on hand. The criminal docket is pretty heavy, 18 new prisoners, for alleged violations of revenue and timber law, having been brought in last week. Negro Killed for Assaulting a Wife ------------------------------------------ Thursday evening last, Henderson T. Fuston, a respectable house-carpenter in this city, shot and killed a negro, George Steele, about 20 years old. After the shooting, Fuston, under the consciousness of having done his duty, promptly went and surrendered himself to the custody of Sheriff Cooper and went to jail. Friday afternoon, he was brought before Hon. Thos. C. Barclay, Notary Public and ex officio Justice of the Peace, for preliminary examination. Nich. Davis, Esq., represented the State, D. D. Shelby, Esq., the defendant. We learn that the evidence was, substantially, that the negro, George Steele, went into Fuston’s Lunch House, in this city, and asked for something to eat. Mrs. Fuston, who was behind the counter, refused him credit, until he should pay a previous bill. George used vulgarly abusive language, heard by Isaac N. Hamaker, a witness, who was in a room near by, and, shortly after Mrs. Fuston screamed for help, and Hamaker, who was lying down with a severe headache, went to her assistance, and saw George behind the counter, pressing Mrs. Fuston over the counter. When Hamaker appeared, George ran out. Shortly after, Mr. Fuston, the husband, came in, was told what had happened, and, arming himself with a pistol, pursued George, overtook him near Mrs. Schoenberger’s on the Meridian pike, half a mile from the Court House, and asked him what he meant by insulting his wife. George made no reply, but put his hand behind him, as if to draw a weapon, when Fuston fired, shooting him in the left side, causing death in a short time. Justice Barclay, after hearing the evidence, spoke appropriately of the moral obligation of a husband to protect his wife from brutal assaults, and discharged the prisoner, and the crowd present applauded. Twice before, in the last week, the telegraph reported the hanging of negroes, by outraged people, for brutal outrages on females. One hanging occurred at Prospect, Giles Co., Tenn., where a married woman was the victim, the other at Jacksonville, Calhoun Co., Ala., where a girl, 14 years old, was the victim. Such offences were exceedingly rare before the war. Negroes were under better discipline, and rarely dared to commit them. Now, since Radical rule prevails, and negroes are taught to believe that freedom and liberty mean license to do as they please, and negroes are as good as whites, and can take as many liberties with whites as they take with each other, negro outrages on white females, and outrages of all sorts, have increased alarmingly. Swift retributive justice, with or without trial by law, is right in such cases. ALABAMA ITEMS Alabama Doctors in New York ------------------------------------- Alabama has reason to be proud of her sons who have achieved distinction in the Medical Profession in the City of New York, where they have had sectional hostilities to contend with, and have been dependent on their pre eminent merits to rise above a vulgar obscenity. First on the list of Alabama Doctors, who have attained such eminence, stands Dr. J. Marion Sims, a native of South Carolina, but a long time, a resident physician in Montgomery, who is Princeps inter pares in the medical profession, not only in the United States, but in the world. Next comes Dr. Bozeman, who, we believe is a native Alabamian, next Dr. John Wyeth (son of our excellent friend, Judge Louis Wyeth of Marshall Co., Ala.), next Dr. Henry Goldthwaite, next Dr. Henry S. Shorter— all of distinguished Alabama families, who stand at the head of their profession in the City of New York. Huntsville, too, has occasion for pride in placing young men in the list of rising stars in the Medical World. During the last Summer, Death put its black pall over one of these—Dr. Wm. P. Watkins. A new one has risen to lighten the medical flrmament. Dr. Leory P. Walker, Jr., son of the Ex-Confederate Secretary of War, our distinguished citizen, Hon. L.P. Walker, having selected the treatment of the eye and the ear as his specialty, and practiced in a New York Infirmary, after a competitive examination with many other contestants, was recently, appointed House Surgeon of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. We are happy to hear that, before entering upon his duties as Surgeon, he expects to spend a short vacation with his parents in Huntsville. We congratulate him, his parents, and our city on the distinction he has won. U.S. NEWS An Ex-Slave Worth $100,000 ------------------------------------ Savannah News. Henry Todd, who lives in Darien, is the wealthiest colored man in Georgia. When a youth his master died and left him freedom. When the Confederacy fell he lost twenty slaves and some confederate bonds. After the war he continued farming operations and engaged in the lumber business. He is now sixty-five years old and is worth $100,000 in good investments. His example is a healthy one every way for the colored people of Georgia. Elections ----------- Alex’r H. Stephens and the whole Democratic State ticket were elected in Georgia, last week, by about 60,000 majority, with less than 50 per cent of the popular vote cast. A death blow to Independentism there. Gen. Gartrell, Ind., for Governor, talks of contesting on ground of fraud and intimidation. Bah! Delaware went Democratic by a small majority. Oct. 10, Ohio and West Va., voted. The news is that Hamilton county, embracing Cincinnati, which went Radical by over 4,000 at last Presidential election, has given a Democratic majority of 6,000, a gain of two Democratic Congressmen, and the State a Democratic majority of, at least, 20,000. West Va., is, also, reported Democratic. LEGAL NOTICES Administrator’s Notice ---------------------------- Estate of Tulley Nance Deceased ---------------------------- LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION on the Estate of said decedent having been granted to the undersigned on the 7th 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. CHARLES R. DONEGAN oct11-3w. Administrator of Tulley Nance dec’d Administrator’s Notice ---------------------------- Estate of James Johnson, Deceased ----------------------------- LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION on the Estates of said decedents having been granted to the undersigned on the 5th 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. THOMAS O. LOVE oct11-3w. Administrator of James Johnson Dec’d Sheriff’s Sale ----------------- To satisfy an execution and order of sale from the Circuit Court of Madison County and State of Alabama, in favor of J. J. Dement, against Andrew Butterfield, defendant, I will offer for sale at public outcry, to the highest bidder for cash at the Court House in the City of Huntsville, Alabama, on the First Monday in November, 1882, the following described real estate, to-wit: “The North-west quarter of the South-west of section thirty-three (33), township three (3), range one (1) East. Levied on as the property of the said Andrew Butterfield, and will be sold to satisfy said execution and order of sale. JOHN W. COOPER, Oct5-30d Sheriff of Madison County. Pr’s fee $9. Sheriff’s Sale of Valuable City Property ----------------- To satisfy an execution and order of sale in my hands, from the Circuit Court of Madison County and State of Alabama, in favor of J. J. Dement, plaintiff, against Mary E. Otto, defendant, I will offer for sale at public outcry, to the highest bidder for cash at the Court House in the City of Huntsville, Alabama, on the First Monday in November, 1882, the following described City property, to-wit: “A house and lot, situated in the City of Huntsville, County of Madison and State of Alabama, and known as Lot No. 15 in a plan of lots sold by the Memphis & Charleston Railroad Company which is recorded in the Probate Court office of Madison County, Alabama, in Deed Book TT, page 413. Levied on as the property of Mary E. Otto, and will be sold to satisfy said execution and order of sale. JOHN W. COOPER, Oct5-30d Sheriff of Madison County. Pr’s fee $9. CLASSIFIEDS Public Speaking ------------------- Senator James L. Pugh and Gov-Elect E. A. O’Neal Will speak at Millhouse’s (Wooley’s) Spring, Saturday, October 14 Dinner will be provided, And the Public Respectfully Invited to Attend J. J. TURRENTINE, Ch’m’n Dis. Dem. Ex. Com. T. N. McCLELLAN, Sec’ty. Spring and Summer Goods New Spring and Summer samples just received by D. A. Brown, for 1882, suitable for Gent’s Youth’s, and Children’s Clothing, made to order, by measure, on short notice. He insures good fits, or money refunded. Call and examine samples and prices, and have your orders filled. D. A. BROWN. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/madison/newspapers/itemsfro1250gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 15.3 Kb