Madison County AlArchives News.....Items from The Huntsville Weekly Democrat January 3, 1883 ************************************************ 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 28, 2007, 3:29 pm Microfilm At Huntsville Library January 3, 1883 PERSONAL MENTION Col. R. B. Rhett got home, last week, after several weeks’ absence in Mississippi and New Orleans. Mr. W. W. Edwards, returned, yesterday, from a trip to Atlanta. Miss Elise Todd is visiting friends in Selma. Miss Susie Echols has gone to Montgomery on a visit. Mr. Chas. Cox, after spending Xmas with relatives here, has returned to Louisville, Ky. The following Huntsville attorneys are attending the Supreme Court at Montgomery this week: L. P. Walker, F. P. Ward, Geo. S. Gordon, John D. Brandon and D. P. Lewis. Mr. E. J. Hall, formerly of Huntsville, but lately of Decatur, was in the city, to-day. We regret to hear that our venerable friend, Mr. Samuel Matthews is very ill and not likely to recover. Miss Tunie A. Bolton, daughter of Mr. Sam. Bolton, formerly of this city, now of Memphis, Tenn., is visiting friends and is the guest of Miss Alice M. Glenn. Chancellor Graham arrived this morning, and opened the Chancery Court for this District. During his sojourn here, he will be the guest of Wm. P. Newman, Register. Prof. Cramer has renovated Mrs. Clay’s piano and put it in first rate condition. We cordially recommend him and think, as a citizen of Huntsville, he ought to receive a liberal support. DIED: CLARKE.—Died, at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Jos. C. Brailley, Huntsville, Ala., Jan’y 3, 1883, Capt. William Clare, in his 63rd year. Capt. Clarke was a native of Madison Co., Ala., and was our school-mate over 50 years ago. He was frank, generous, warm-hearted. He was a gallant, chivalrous Confederate soldier, and, for four years, served as captain in the 17th Tennessee regiment, commanded by Colonel (afterwards Governor) Marks. He was planting, last year, in the Mississippi bottoms below Memphis, was taken ill with malarial fever a few weeks ago, went to Memphis, and was so prostrated that his son, Richard Clarke, brought him to his sister’s last Saturday, where he died to-day. Tears to his memory and sincere sympathy for his relatives! Hon. S. Frank Lyon, one of the most distinguished men in Alabama, died, suddenly, at this residence in Demopolis, Alabama, last Friday night, aged 83. He was a devoted Christian, a useful citizen, an able lawyer and statesman. He faithfully served his people in the U. S. House of Representatives, and as Commissioner to wind up the State Banks, and in the State Legislature. Honor to his memory. MARRIED: JORDAN-DEASON.—Married, Dec. 21, 1882, at Belle Mina, at the residence of De. James Rankin, by rev. Mr. McDonald, Dr. WM F. JORDAN, of Maysville, Ala., to Miss M. A. DEASON, of Trenton, Tenn. We extend them our heartiest congratulations and good wishes. Mr. John McFarland, of Gurleysville, and Miss Laura J. Huey, daughter of the late John Huey, of this city, were united in marriage at the residence of the bride’s mother at 2 P. M., Wednesday, Jan. 3, 1883. We extend congratulations, and wish them a long, useful and happy life. LOCAL ITEMS Public Notice ------------- Notice is hereby given that the undersigned citizens of Madison County, Alabama, will apply to the Alabama Legislature for a special law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors within three miles of Liberty Church in said County of Madison. Nov. 9, 1882. Robert Nance, John W. Hereford, Oliver F. White, and others dec13-3w Dr. Dement’s block of three brick two-story storehouses are nearly completed. Mrs. Phillips is, now, moving her confectionary and bakery into one of them. VICK’S FLORAL GUIDE, for 1883, has been received. We publish its advertisement in our columns. Mr. James Vick, the veteran horticulturist, died some months ago. For more than 20 years, we had business relations, relations with him, and we always found him prompt and liberal, and his seeds, plants &c, always satisfactory. We doubt not that his son is a chip of the old block. The Negro Minstrel Show in the U. S. Court room, on Monday night, was, we hear a very creditable performance. They will appear, again, during this month. VALUABLE FARMS FOR SALE.—Public attention is called to the advertisement of sale of Valuable Farms by S. D. Cabaniss, Administrator of Cha’s. P. Cabaniss dec’d. Persons, wishing to buy, will have a fine opportunity to do so, on reasonable terms, on next Monday, Jan’y 15. R. E. Spragins, Esq., has his Law Card in this issue of The Democrat. He is a young man of intellect, integrity, and business energy and capacity, a promising son of his worthy father, the late Robert S. Spragins. We wish him abundant success in his chosen profession. The Dramatic treat of the season is to begin on Tuesday evening next, Jan. 9, when Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Chanfrau will make their re-appearance here in the same play. Too much of praise cannot be said of operatic artists, both of whom won from our people, the highest commendation when here last year. It is a rare occasion when two such stars can be presented in one night, and should not fail to draw a crowded house. The piece selected for the occasion will be Dion Boucicault’s fashionable comedy, “London Assurance.” This is one of the old school and one of Wallack’s standard productions at his theatre. Mr. Chanfrau ranks among the best of character comedians, and his performance of Sir Harcourt Courtley has been highly spoken of. Mrs. Chanfrau’s “Lady Gay Spanker” is as bright and finished a performance as has been given the part since the late Charlotte Cushman presented it. Mrs. Chanfrau’s rendering of the famous hunting speech has been proclaimed an artistic triumph. An important feature of this engagement is the price of tickets. The admission will be 75 cents. No extra for reserved seats, which can now be procured at A. F. Murray’s ALABAMA ITEMS Unofficial Returns for Congress ----------------- The election, yesterday, for a Representative of the 8th Congressional District in Congress for the unexpired term of the 47th Congress, was exceedingly quiet in this city, and in this County, as the small vote elsewhere indicates. At the Huntsville box, the vote fell off from the November vote 494. We append the unofficial returns as far as heard from: Wheeler McClellan Huntsville 476 364 New Market 101 74 Maysville 181 108 Collier’s 69 31 Vienna 113 13 Whitesburg 150 79 Triana 77 98 Madison 155 193 Cluttsville 128 117 Madison X Roads 30 49 Hazel Green 175 25 Meridianville 123 197 Poplar Ridge 73 17 Wells’s 28 3 Hays’s Store, No.1 79 25 Hays’s Store, No. 2 29 11 Gurleysville 86 17 Cloud’s Cove 26 10 Owen’s X Roads 60 9 Lanier’s 14 133 Plevna 43 25 ---- ---- Total 2,219 1,598 From this statement, Wheeler’s majority is 621. The whole vote does not amount to two thirds of the total vote in this County. Radicals felt little interest in McClellan, a number of them even voting for Wheeler; and many Democrats were so confident of this election that they didn’t go to the polls. From what we hear, Wheeler has, probably, carried every count in the District, and his majority is likely to go over 2,000—a just rebuke to the Radical House that turned him out of his seat, unjustly and arbitrarily. Alabama Tin Mines—The Ashland (Clay county, Ala) Banner gives the intelligence that Prof. George Crosier who has long devoted his talents as a mineralogist to the development of the mineral resources of the State, has discovered tin within two miles of Ashland in sufficient quantities to justify the erection of works for mining and smelting the newly-discovered metal. Mr. G. W. Gesner writes from Clay county, Alabama, giving details of his working of the tin deposits in that county. He shows that the formation where the tin ore is found is a gneiss resembling that of Zemwald in Saxony, but free from impurities. The gneiss is nearly vertical and is easily handled. The ores are quarried at low cost from the sides of steep hills, forty feet in height; Mr. Gesner is supplied with ample capital, and with sample experience in mining, metallurgy, and applied chemistry, he will soon demonstrate the richness of the tin deposits, as the works for stamping, dressing and smelting will soon be finished. This is a new industry and is big with promises of future good to this State and people. The Lebanon Tragedy ------------------- Chattanooga. Dec. 23.—The following particulars of the tragedy at Lebanon, Ala., yesterday:--Two brothers Dave and Henry Bullard, had a gambling saloon in town, and Thomas Jackoway desiring to establish a school undertook to compel them to close by instituting proceedings against them. This led to a quarrel, the Bullards attacking Jackaway. The best citizens of the town came to his rescue, and one of the Bullards was killed, and another wounded. Last night a brother of Jackoway went to his house and he mistaking him for a friend of the Bullards, shot and fatally wounded him. Attempt to Wreck a Train ------------------ Scottsboro Citizen A dastardly attempt was made to wreck a train between Bolivar and Bridgeport last Monday evening.—The men deliberately chained a cross tie over the track at the end of a curve, and then wrapped it with ropes. An old negro man saw the rascals and succeeded in removing the obstruction as the train was in sight. He succeeded in flagging down the train, which was approaching at a rapid rate, and thereby prevented a terrible wreck. As soon as information was given the train hands, the old negro was taken aboard to identify the miscreants in _ they were found. Very soon _ down _and were identified _. They have been _ [Note: Paper is torn and folded. Missing text is indicated by underlines.] Sad Result of a Deer Hunt ---------------------- On Monday last two brothers-in-law, James Roberts and William Capps, residents of Chunchula, started out from home on a short deer-hunt. Not far from the house they put the dogs in a branch swamp and each took opposite sides of the stream that they might have a better opportunity for a shot should the dogs jump deer. A deer was started, and Mr. Capps got the first shot and missed his mark. The deer then ram in sight of Mr. Roberts, and the intervening undergrowth hiding Mr. Capps, who was in direct range between Roberts and the deer, the latter fired. The deer reached the summit of a slight elevation and fell. Roberts ran up and was on his knees in the act of cutting the deer’s throat when Capps walked up. As he approached, Roberts said to him: “Well, Will, I’ve got him.” “Yes,” replied Capps, “and you’ve got me, too.” Roberts sprang up and looking at Capps saw blood trickling from a wound just under his left eye. Roberts cried: ”My God, Will, have I shot you? Are you hit anywhere else?” Capps replied: “Yes, here in the left side.” After this utterance he turned upon his heel and fell head first down the hill a dead man.—Mobile Register. U.S. NEWS An Incident in Payne’s Career -------------- A writer in the Southern World says that a warm friendship subsisted between John Ross, the celebrated chief of the Cherokees, and John Howard Payne. Payne was staying with Ross in a miserable cabin in Georgia where Ross had sought a refuge at a time when the Cherokees were ordered to quit Georgia. A militia party arrested them, and they started for Milledgeville one drenching night, Payne on a horse led by a soldier who presently began humming “Home Sweet Home.” “Well, I certainly never expected to hear that under such circumstances,” said Payne. “Do you know who wrote the words?” “No, do you?” quoth the militiaman. “I did.” “Oh, you did. Well, then, go ahead and repeat them, or I’ll bounce you off that horse and lead you instead of him.” Payne repeated them with feeling, and then sang them. The man in command was much impressed, and said the composer of such a song should if he could help it, never go to prison. Arrived at Milledgeville, they were, much to their surprise, discharge after examination and Ross said he entirely attributed this leniency to “Home Sweet Home." At a Bad Time Commander J. B. Coghlan, U. S. N., writes to us from the Navy Yard at Mare Island, Cal.: An enforced residence of two years in California made me the subject of most painful attacks of rheumatism. Consultation upon my case by eminent Naval and other surgeons failed to afford me the slightest relief. Dr. Hoyle recommended to me St. Jacobs Oil, the happy result of the use of which was my complete and wonderful cure.—Washington (D.C.) Army & Navy Register. A Medical Opinion on Kissing ---------------------------- Medical and Surgical Reporter; Promiscouous kissing has been infinitely more productive of diseases of various kinds than the public ever dream of, and it is a practice that should be discontinued. The people should confine their kissing propensities to their own families, and even then it is not always safe. LEGAL NOTICES STATE OF ALABAMA, MADISON COUNTY, -------------------- Regular December Term Court of Probate, January, 1883 -------------------- Estates of William Benson, Dec’d -------------------- Final Settlement -------------------- This day came G. W. Dilworth, Executor of the Estate of William Benson, dec’d, and filed with the Court his account and vouchers for a final settlement his administration of said Estate: It is considered, ordered, adjudged and decreed by the Court that the 25th day of January, 1883, be and the same hereby is appointed a day on which to make said settlement. It is, also, ordered by the Court that due and legal notice of the filing of the accounts and vouchers, the nature of the same, and the time appointed by the Court for settlement, be given, 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, Jan 3-3w. Judge of Probate STATE OF ALABAMA – MADISON COUNTY ------------- By virtue of a Decree of the Honorable Court of Probate for the County of Madison, State of Alabama, made and entered on the 2nd day of January 1883, The undersigned, as the guardian of the Estate of Virginia Hall Infant, will offer for sale at public outcry to the highest bidder, at New Market, in the County of Madison, State of Alabama, on the 17th day of February 1883, The following described Real Estate, situate and being in the County of Madison, State of Alabama, and described as follows, to wit: A two-thirds 2/3 undivided interest in the S.E. ¼ of the N. E. ¼ Sec. 12, the S. E. ¼ Sec. 12, Forty acres South pt. of E. ½ of N.. E. ¼ Sec. 13 township 5, R 2 East, the W. ½ of West ¼ Sec. 18 Township 5 R 3 E. containing 213 acres more of less, being same lands mortgaged to R. S. Spragins Guardian on Dec. 9th, 187? By W. N. & D. M. Douglass, known as Jack Douglass place; Also a parcel of land beginning at a stake on Wm. Browns line at the S. corner of widow Horner’s door, thence N.W. with said line 80 and 80-100 poles to Whitman’s corner, thence West 59 and 17- 100 poles to Laxson’s line to the corner of said line, thence N. E. 40 poles to Huricane road, thence with said road S. W. 90 poles to a stake thence S. W. 22 and 80-100 poles to beginning, excepting 2 1/2 acres sold to Mose Davis & M. F. Johnson, containing in all 39 acres one rod and 24 poles: all in Sec. 23 T, 1 R. 2 East. The terms of sale are: Cash. Said sale will be made for the purpose of reinvestment. P. M. HALL, Gd’n of VIRGINIA HALL. CLASSIFIEDS R. F. Spragins, Attorney-at-Law and Solicitor In Chancery, Huntsville, Ala., Office No. 3 Franklin St., two doors below Post Office. Collection of claims carefully and promptly attended to. Resprectfully solicits business. jan3-6m. For Sale ---------- A One-Story Framed Cottage on Meridianville Pike, near the Railroad crossing, fronting W. R. Patton’s residence. For terms, apply to John L. Rison. jan.3-2w J. J. CASEY Vick’s Floral Guide! For 1883, is an Elegant Book of 150 pages, 3 colored Plates of Flowers and Vegetables, and more than 1000 Illustrations of the choicest Flowers, Plants and Vegetables, and directions for growing. It is handsome enough for the Center Table, or a Holiday present. Send on your name and post office address, with 10 cents, and I will send you a copy, postage paid. This is not a quarter of its cost. It is printed in both English and German. If you afterwards order seeds, deduct the 10 cents. Vick’s Seed are the best in the World. The Floral Guide will tell how to get and grow them. Vick’s Flower and Vegetable Garden 175 pages, 6 colored Plates, 500 Engravings. For fifty cents in Paper Covers: $1.00 in elegant cloth. In German or English. Vick’s Illustrated Monthly Magazine 32 pages, a Colossal Plate in every number, and many fine engravings. Price $1.25 a year: Five copies for $5. Specimen number sent for 10 cents; 3 trial copies for 25 cents. JAMES VICK, Jan.3-tf Rochester, N. Y. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/madison/newspapers/itemsfro1297gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 18.0 Kb